Bai Qiu was a little speechless.
Was it really this timid?
Even so, he still stayed highly alert.
After all, this was a lord-level creature.
He focused all his perception on the water serpent before him, not missing a single movement.
If it tried to attack, Bai Qiu would definitely land a punch before it could do anything!
Bai Qiu spoke again.
He put away the Stone Staff and took out the Contract Card, saying,
“I’ll ask you one last time!”
The moment he opened his mouth, the giant mutant water serpent—who had just peeked out—was so startled that it instantly shrank its head back into the mud.
A few seconds later, it cautiously poked its head out again.
Huh? How strange… He doesn’t seem to want to kill me?
The giant mutant water serpent curiously examined Bai Qiu.
It realized that this strange being had never shown any intention of harming it from the beginning.
“Last question: Are you willing to follow me?”
Bai Qiu held the Contract Card and waved it before the serpent.
The giant mutant water serpent stared curiously at the card in his hand.
It slowly lifted its head and gently tapped the card—then immediately pulled its head back.
In that instant, a rush of strange information flooded its mind, and it finally understood what the human had been saying.
So this human wants to take me in… He’s asking if I’m willing to go with him…
Which means—if I agree, he definitely won’t kill me!
Realizing everything, the water serpent poked its head out once more and gave Bai Qiu a small nod.
The card touched its head again, and as Bai Qiu shouted “Begin contract!” the card turned into a beam of white light that sank into the serpent’s head.
Time passed, minute by minute.
Bai Qiu waited quietly.
Whether it succeeded or not, he had no intention of harming this timid big fellow.
Still, a part of him truly hoped it would succeed.
The giant mutant water serpent felt a strange chain from Bai Qiu extend toward its soul, wrapping around it.
But the chain was extremely fragile—one slight resistance from the serpent, and the chain would immediately snap!
Don’t resist!
Don’t break it!
Don’t let it break!
The serpent shouted in its heart.
Its soul curled up just like its body did, not daring to move even a little, quietly waiting for the weak chain to finish binding it.
Ten minutes later…
Bai Qiu was confused.
Why is it taking so long without any reaction?
He checked the system prompt: “Contract in progress…”
Is it still hesitating?
Does this serpent really have such a complex mental struggle?
It’s been over ten minutes and it still hasn’t decided?
What Bai Qiu didn’t know was that at this very moment, if the serpent produced even the slightest thought of resistance, the contract would instantly fail.
For these long minutes, it had been completely motionless, terrified of accidentally breaking the fragile chain.
“What’s going on? Why isn’t that giant snake moving at all?” Ning Xingxue asked, puzzled.
After watching for over ten minutes, even her palms were sweating.
“Don’t tell me… Brother Bai actually managed to tame it?” Huang Qi said in shock.
“I doubt it,” Zhao Daqiang analyzed.
“Bai Qiu’s strength is unquestionable, but his Luck stat is way too low. Items based on probability like Contract Cards—even with a 99% success rate—can fail on him. And this is 0.05%! It’s harder than winning the lottery!”
“Let’s just keep watching.”
The three steadied their emotions, rubbing their wet clothes to distract themselves from their cold, clammy palms.
Finally, fifteen minutes later…
“Ding! Congratulations on successfully subduing the Giant Mutant Water Serpent!”
The system prompt sounded.
Bai Qiu’s expression lit up.
A wisp of white light shot out from the serpent’s head, and then all the surrounding mud, water, vegetation, and some of the black trees were absorbed into it.
This process lasted a full five minutes!
But Bai Qiu didn’t pay attention to any of that.
His full attention was on the Giant Mutant Water Serpent before him — for no other reason than that this big guy’s inner thoughts were extremely rich…
“Whew… I’m exhausted. If I had even secretly let out a fart just now, the contract chains would’ve snapped. Thank goodness I held it in!”
The Giant Mutant Water Serpent lay there like a tired dog, sprawled motionlessly in the mud.
“In that case… Master shouldn’t kill me now, right? I finally don’t have to die. I’m so happy!”
Thinking this, it happily wagged its tail.
“I’m a little hungry… I wonder where Master will take me? Is there any water to drink? If there are some aquatic plants to eat, that’d be even better!”
…
Listening to the serpent’s inner thoughts, Bai Qiu completely lost it.
He took out a bottle of mineral water, poured it over the serpent’s head to wash off the mud, then took out a few more bottles.
The serpent very cleverly opened its mouth.
“Heehee! I’m so happy! Master gave me water to drink! It tastes so good!”
Its thoughts were like those of a child — simple and easy to please.
Once the contract card finished absorbing an environment suitable for the Giant Mutant Water Serpent to live in, it turned back into a card.
The originally bright blue card had turned pale gold, with a tiny snake illustrated on it.
Looking at the description, everything had changed completely.
Contract Space Card — C-Rank
Description: The result of successfully contracting the Giant Mutant Water Serpent. You may store the contracted target inside this card at any time. Contract space: 103 meters.
Contract Space Functions:
• Physical recovery speed +10%
• Healing recovery speed +10%
• Mana recovery speed +10%
Additional Function 1: You can hear the contracted creature’s inner thoughts.
Additional Function 2: The contracted creature can understand your commands.
…
“He actually… succeeded!”
At this moment, the rafting trio’s jaws dropped wide enough to fit a whole egg.
They couldn’t believe Bai Qiu had used a mere E-rank contract card to subdue a C-rank, lord-class monster!
But all the evidence before them showed… he had succeeded!
A 0.05% chance, plus F- luck value — and it worked!
Was this the legendary negatives making a positive?!
“Hahahaha!”
Bai Qiu threw his head back and laughed.
He happily patted the Giant Mutant Water Serpent’s head.
He had originally been dissatisfied with its appearance, but after hearing its thoughts, he was delighted.
He had never been so firmly chosen before!
“Good! Since you’ve followed me, I definitely won’t treat you poorly!”
With his personality, he normally wouldn’t be so emotional.
After all, this pet he got for free wasn’t anywhere near as strong as its master.
But that didn’t matter — a mascot only needed to cheer him on.
As for galloping across the land and trampling the world… that was his job!
“Ha! Hahahahaha!”
Overjoyed, Bai Qiu didn’t notice that as he laughed boldly, a surge of magic burst from his body.
All the earth-element magic essence within the secret realm slowly began converging toward him.
The Giant Mutant Water Serpent saw this scene and admired Bai Qiu even more.
Its thoughts kept repeating: So strong, so amazing, Master is invincible…
“Haha, from now on, your name will be Ayuan!”
— The end of the Chapter–
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