At the beginning, I traveled through the wilderness, and I controlled the beasts to survive...

After all, it is a small snake with the soul of a giant dragon living inside its body.

The body of the egg pancake was more or less affected by the dragon soul and began to transform into a dragon.

The bloodline of ancient dragons possesses the characteristics of giant dragons and flooded dragons.

Amid the cold fog, the azure light faded.

A sturdy creature was perched above the bathtub covered with solid ice.

The diameter of its body was longer than his calf, and it coiled around the bathtub. A pair of frosty white snake pupils appeared from the mist.

"His ha..."

The pancake opened his mouth slightly and exhaled a breath of cold air.

The cold mist that filled the surroundings was instantly like meeting a monarch and was absorbed into its scales.

"Gu!!"

The little fat silkworm flapped its black wings and circled around the bathroom door.

It also wants to see what the Egg Pancake Gege looks like now!

But the bathroom door was relatively small, causing the little fat silkworm to keep flying left and right around the door frame, peeking its head out, trying to see what was going on inside.

At this time, the egg pancake was covered with pure ice-blue scales like those of polar glaciers.

Piece by piece, stacked tightly together, they look like top-notch works of art, giving people a pleasing sense of exquisiteness.

On the top of its head, there was a pair of thumb-long, frosty-white horns that looked like deer antlers.

The snake's head grew larger, and a circle of white hair resembling a mane appeared at the back of its head.

A light cold mist diffused among the hairs.

There is a row of white bone spurs along the midline of the back from the back of the head to the tail.

There are four small bulges on the abdomen, but the contents of the bulges have not yet completely broken through the skin and come out.

"Sigh~"

The egg pancake swayed its more than 10-meter-long body, climbed down the bathtub, and wrapped itself around Han Ning's body like climbing a tree. It rested its head under his jaw and gently stroked Han Ning's chin with its little horns.

"It's quite beautiful. Before you traveled through time, you were fire, but now you have turned into ice. It means you have control over both fire and ice."

Han Ning smiled and stroked the smooth and cold scales of the pancake.

"Gummy!!"

A round owl head squeezed in from behind the door frame, looking up and down at the changes in the omelet.

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Race: Frost Mist Dragon

Gender: male

Qualification: C

Level: Awakening Awakening Level I (1/2000)

Talents: Rapid Cooling, Ancient Ice (weakened), Lower Dragon Power

Soul Skills: Demonic Dragon Cold Breath I (1/2000), Dragon Combat Skill (Perfect)...

Domain: Ancient Dragon Domain

Force: 34

Body: 31

Min: 32

Psionics: 36

Elemental Affinity (Water): 42

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[Rapid Cooling]: The Frost Mist Dragon rapidly cools water vapor within a certain range, forming magical ice crystals. This effect ignores the rules of physics.

The body, mind, and flow of spiritual energy of other attributes around the creatures wrapped in the magic ice crystals will become sluggish, and the cold air will continue to destroy the vitality of the creatures until they are completely assimilated into the ice crystals.

[Demon Dragon's Cold Breath]: The ancient dragon's soul gives the Cold Mist Jiao the ability to master the dragon's breath. With the blessing of the rapid cooling talent, whether it is boiling water or burning flames, they can all be turned into solid ice that will take ten thousand years to melt in an instant.

"Oh? It has just evolved and it has shown some ancient dragon characteristics. It seems that the soul of the egg pancake boss has reincarnated and brought different changes to this body."

The egg pancake evolved, directly from F qualification to C qualification. At the same time, a familiar heat flow emerged from the body, nourishing Han Ning's body.

Han Ning waved his hand and used his borrowed ability to condense water elements and quickly cool them into ice.

Suddenly, there were densely packed palm-sized sharp ice spikes around him, floating in the air.

This borrowed ability is rarely useful when the soul beast is higher level than the beastmaster.

But in this special situation, it is extremely useful.

The attributes that several soul beasts do not have give him many different abilities in the Novice Village, comparable to that of a magician.

"Jiwu!!"

The snake's skeleton changed, and the egg pancake finally made that familiar "jiwu" sound!

Its body trembled with excitement, and it flew past Han Ning and got close to the little fat silkworm brother.

"Chi, chi, chi~"

In order to show the little fat silkworm the capabilities of his body, Egg Pancake radiated a faint icy mist from his body.

The mist with blue ice crystals in the haze dragged its body, floating in the air and drifting out of the bathroom door.

From a distance, it looks no different from the legendary dragon.

"Goo~Goo~"

The little fat silkworm flapped its wings continuously around the cold fog.

It said it also wanted to become stronger!!

Even though it hadn't shown its strong side yet in protecting the Egg Pancake Prince, the Egg Pancake Prince became even more powerful than it.

This made the little fat silkworm feel a little disappointed.

"Wangwu?"

Shuangyu stared blankly at the beautiful omelet in the air. It was hard to imagine that this new companion was just a weak little snake the day before!

"Don't worry, little fat silkworm. In a few days, it will be your evolution ceremony. I will definitely bring each of you back to the peak."

Han Ning rubbed the round cheeks of the round-faced fat chicken and said with a smile.

"Gummi~"

The little fat silkworm nodded. Of course it trusted its owner.

……

The next day during the day, Han Ning went to the remaining market locations in the order of the form, just like the previous two days, to look for the other friends.

As a result, nothing was found.

"There is another possibility. The remaining three little guys may have traveled through time and space to become stray cats and dogs, domestic pets, or wild animals, animals in zoos, etc...."

"The area is too large. I can only try my best to search. Sigh..."

There is another way to expand the search range, which is to restore the level of mental strength.

With each level of recovery, the detection range can be expanded from several kilometers to dozens of kilometers.

Stages 2-3 and 3-4 are both qualitative changes.

As for levels 4-5, they are too difficult at the moment and are not within Han Ning's consideration in the short term.

Next, he took out the python skull given to him by Li Changxi and used the panel to absorb the energy inside.

[Energy +3.57]

Judging from past experience, the owner of the skull has at least extraordinary strength.

Because the residual energy of just a skull contains the spiritual power of an entire awakened soul beast.

This made Han Ning more determined to strengthen his strength and then enter the ruins.

As for the energy, he didn't use it immediately. Perhaps it would be useful when he visited Lu Da at night.

……

The night gradually deepens.

On the outer wall of Ludao University, Han Ning changed into a black outfit, and his face was wrapped in thick black fog. Behind the black fog there was a layer of scarf to cover his face, which could be described as layers of nesting dolls.

Dark clouds obscured the bright moon, making it a good night for action.

He carefully avoided any surveillance cameras that might appear in various places, and with a light leap of his legs, like a nimble cat, he jumped over the high wall and moved lightly between the houses and alleys under the cover of night.

The working hours of the plant laboratory were easy to obtain, and its location was public. In order to prevent Xie Mingke's identity as a traitor from being discovered, Han Ning did not ask for too much information.

But these two points alone are enough.

The scenery of the Luda campus is pleasant under the night sky.

Various decorative street lamps used for lighting cast a warm yellow halo.

Students were walking in groups of two or three on the roads between campuses, completely unaware that in some dark corner, there was a guy with bad intentions hiding.

The plant laboratory is located in the botanical garden in the west district. With almost no effort, he arrived in front of a five-story modern building according to his memory.

This is a botanical research institute that contains several different laboratories.

The lights cast around the building illuminate the surrounding roads clearly, and the densely packed cameras surround the white building without any blind spots.

Han Ning hid in the shadows outside the building and carefully observed the building structure.

All the windows have been specially modified so that not only a human but even a cat cannot get through them.

The only way to enter and exit is through the door on the first floor and perhaps some unknown fire escape.

This is the disadvantage of not having a floor plan.

You have to figure out everything inside the building on your own.

After roughly observing the appearance, Han Ning waited quietly outside the building.

This wait lasts for several hours.

When 80% of the lights were turned off, he checked his watch: 3.03am.

"There shouldn't be many people inside at this time. If it's a little later, some crazy scientific researchers will probably have to go to work again."

He made up his mind, and turned into a puff of black smoke, approaching quietly.

Whenever he passed the camera's illumination area, he would shoot out a wisp of black mist from the probe, briefly covering the probe's field of view to prevent his whereabouts from being quickly discovered by the security guards.

As long as he covers the probe for 1-2 seconds, he can quickly pass through the monitoring area.

In less than ten seconds, he walked quietly like a ghost from the green belt outside the building to the gate of the Botanical Research Institute.

The glass door made of explosion-proof glass was closed tightly, and the four probes remained motionless, locking the door area.

This did not bother Han Ning at all. He reached out and touched the door, muttering silently: "Analysis."

"Drip~"

A barely perceptible blue light flashed by.

The panel cracked the access control system with almost no computing power.

Compared with the complex psychic array circuits in the Amethyst World, this simple access control is even more kindergarten-like.

However, if one wants to go deeper into the control encryption system of the entire institute, the energy required will increase exponentially.

"It seems that they use cutting-edge encryption technology here. Really..."

Han Ning felt helpless as he looked at the energy that was comparable to that needed to unlock the Cosmic Light Tower.

He has to rely on himself to find the laboratory where the magic grass is located.

Fortunately, there was a guide map of the various areas on the floor hanging on the wall of the first floor lobby.

Roughly mark on the picture what laboratories are on each floor.

"Spore research? Probably not. Plant pathogen laboratory, either..."

"Ancient plants...Unknown plant laboratory...It's a bit possible."

Han Ning took a quick look and finally locked onto two laboratories, one on the 3rd floor and the other on the 4th floor.

He did not take the elevator, but walked up silently along the dark corridor.

The footsteps made almost no sound, and even the voice-activated lights were not triggered.

In a pitch-black environment, if someone walks up the stairs, they probably won't notice there's someone next to them.

The journey from the first floor to the third floor passed in a flash.

Just as Han Ning was about to follow the instructions and walk towards the ancient plant laboratory at the end of the floor corridor.

In the quiet and empty passage, there was a sudden knocking sound.

Da Da Da~

The blind stick hit the ground, making a crisp sound.

Han Ning frowned, hiding at the corner of the corridor on the left. With his head wrapped in black mist, he quickly glanced to the right.

A girl wearing a simple T-shirt, long pants, and cloth slippers appeared in the field of vision. She was holding a long metal stick in her hand and gently hitting the ground.

She had a pretty face, a slightly pale complexion, and wore a pair of plain glasses, but her eyes were tightly closed.

"How come there is a blind man here?"

"It's more likely that he's a teacher or student on duty. Judging from his face, he looks more like a student."

The probability of blind people appearing in scientific research institutions can be said to be extremely low, almost equivalent to 0, but it is not non-existent.

If he had not been in a modern city, he would have thought that he had encountered an invasion of relics and encountered strange things.

He leaned against the wall, waiting quietly for the blind girl to return to the room.

Ta da da~ da da da~

The sound of the blind stick hitting the ground echoed in the silent corridor.

It was not until the sound was close to my ears that the sound of the cane and the footsteps stopped at the same time.

Relying on mental perception, Han Ning imagined a figure standing at the door of a room at the corner.

She didn't push the door open, but just stood there quietly.

After a while, a pleasant and melodious voice suddenly sounded in the quiet environment: "Who? Is it the security guard?"

"He's talking about me?"

Han Ning glanced around.

It was dark all around.

Where does the security come from?

"And this voice... looks so familiar."

"Lu Da, blind man, this voice..."

A ray of light passed through Han Ning's mind, and his expression hidden in the black fog became a little surprised.

"The voice is so similar, could it be that... this girl is the online girlfriend of my previous life whom I have never met?"

It is said that if a person loses his eyesight, his hearing and his skin's sensitivity to air flow will become extremely sensitive.

Han Ning estimated that the distance between the two sides was at least 3 meters. Apart from his long breathing, he made almost no sound and did not move. Yet an ordinary person could sense his presence.

"Perhaps she is a transcendent, or at least an ordinary person with extremely high spiritual power talent, otherwise she would not be able to discover the abnormality."

He felt strange that even for extraordinary people, it was difficult to find his trace.

Faced with the girl's question, Han Ning did not answer.

After a few seconds, the girl saw that there was no sound coming from nearby and stopped talking.

Ta-da-da, knock-knock-knock.

Three meters, two meters.

When the two sides were close to 2 meters apart, Han Ning knew that he had to step away temporarily.

He took quiet steps and climbed the stairs to the next floor.

And the front foot has just taken a step forward.

That pleasant voice sounded again: "Don't move. If you don't answer, I will sound the alarm."

"hehe."

In the darkness, a helpless chuckle sounded, and a gentle male voice rang out.

"I'm curious, how did you find out about me?"

Helplessly, Han Ning stopped and watched the girl pass the corner and appear in his sight.

He stood on a few stairs, looking down at the girl.

“This voice, this voice…”

After Han Ning spoke, the blind girl seemed to be completely stunned and stood there.