【Interstellar Contract Magician】Ruyuanke

Chapter 182 [Empire] Koi Skin Crocodile

It's not about love, it's just pure excitement. I know, it's gross.

I wanted to eat him. I had no idea I had such a strong appetite! I realized it was all about grief and anger. Those were images I dared not even contemplate... images that haunted me.

Those wolf ears, those gray-blue ones. Just the slightest thought of them makes my brain buzz. Right now, I just want to frown. I just want to push it all out of my mind. I want to scratch my scalp furiously until my hair is a mess. How long will this overwhelming, face-distorting, overwhelming sadness continue to overwhelm me? I can't discard, I can't let go of these longings that torment me, and even more than that, there's a uneasiness and uncertainty that's even more intense.

Fortunately, when I open my eyes tomorrow morning, all of this will disappear.

Because there is still a long way to go.

I finally kissed those lips.

I don’t remember what happened after that.

The bright red mask climbed over my eyes, clouding my thoughts. Everything that happened after that was no longer relevant to my consciousness.

How awful... I thought.

It's another early morning.

The straw curtains and door curtains jingled in the wind.

Eh? Tinkling?

Someone tied a small shell bell to my window. A slender, cylindrical shell hangs from a large, round, shiny shell. When the wind blows, the shell is blown to its fullest extent, hitting the inner wall of the shell and producing a pleasant sound. Of course, this pleasant sound only requires that it doesn't disturb my sleep.

The dark-skinned boy was still tinkering with breakfast. The skewered, fragrant, unknown meat, adorned with green, red, and yellow vegetables, was particularly eye-catching. There were also bread-shaped rings, toasted over a fire, smeared with dried golden honey and black, white, and white sesame seeds.

It's breakfast time for the family. They've specially prepared a coarse linen jacket and pants with drawstrings for me, along with thick, laced boots. Today is my first day of learning to tame beasts. It's the tame of this era. Tame exotic beasts.

I'd seen before that there was a chain of contempt among the kids in this area whose families worked in this field. Back then, I was at the very bottom of that chain, and the only one I could ride was a white ball, which could be bought off with a thin carrot.

Today, I'm learning to ride a massive, ground-crawling, armored creature. Overall, it resembles a crocodile, but it possesses a pair of compound eyes. They're pitch black, and a closer look reveals densely packed eyes—truly... breathtaking. As instructed by Qin Annan and his wife, the giant crocodile has been given an eyepatch. While the beast is formidable, its eyes are a vulnerable point, especially for creatures with compound eyes. Losing one or two of these tiny eyes would limit overall vision, a fact that even glasses can't replace.

This crocodile possesses a skin effect similar to that of a koi fish. Each skin shimmers to varying degrees, revealing subtle color shifts depending on the angle. Walking in the sunlight, its entire body appears coated in a vibrant, eye-catching, and ostentatious halo. Yet, its cold, glaring mouth and double rows of sharp fangs make it a formidable sight.

It was like a giant gem running around on the ground, and this gem had a mouth and could bite people.