“So this really is Doctor.”
Vivian pulled Li Chi to a spot where her best friend couldn’t see them and pointed at the dog as she explained.
“I had nothing to do today, so I brought him out for a walk. I didn’t expect to run into you here by chance.”
A smile appeared on Vivian’s face. She lowered her head in a rather reserved manner and secretly let out a “hehehe” strange laugh.
“But… but he…”
Li Chi looked awkwardly at his pant leg and shoes, which were still giving off a warm, faintly musky scent.
“Ahem, ahem, ahem…”
The Husky suddenly used its front paw to hold its chin and coughed several times in a very human-like way.
“Although it was a bit offensive, my eyesight really isn’t that great. I can only recognize people by smell. There were other unrelated people at the scene earlier, so I had no choice but to use this method to remember you.”
“First tell me how you managed to accurately pick me out from so many passersby?! You’ve never even seen me before!!!”
Li Chi shouted in collapse.
“It’s intuition. Animals’ intuition is always very accurate.”
The Husky turned its face away, refusing to look at Li Chi, who was on the verge of transforming to kill the dog.
“Wait… You can talk?”
Only after suppressing the anger in his heart did Li Chi finally notice something he had overlooked earlier.
The Husky could actually speak?! And it had a somewhat familiar youthful male voice.
But… why did this voice feel so familiar?
Seeing the confusion in Li Chi’s eyes, Vivian could no longer hold back and burst into loud laughter.
“Hahaha… Big Brother Li Chi, there’s something called bone conduction.”
Bone conduction simply meant that sound didn’t pass through the eardrum of the ear.
Instead, it traveled through the vibration of the skull directly to the inner ear, allowing you to hear the sound.
When you speak or sing yourself, most of the sound you hear is through bone conduction.
The voice you hear when speaking is completely different from what others hear.
In other words… this shameless Husky was currently speaking to him using his own voice!
At this moment, Li Chi experienced what ultimate humiliation felt like.
A dog was now conversing with him using his own voice.
The scene was both bizarre and ridiculous, and incredibly embarrassing.
If Vivian weren’t present and this dog wasn’t technically his colleague, Li Chi would have already transformed and called the original Omega hiding in the shadows to chop this stinky mutt into mincemeat.
“Aiyo~ Young man, don’t be so hot-tempered.”
“……”
“Hey hey hey, what are you trying to do?! I’m warning you! I have human rights! I’m a legally recognized magical creature!”
Li Chi silently put away the long spear that had transformed from the Fighter Grip he had pulled out from somewhere.
Yes, in Utopia society, intelligent creatures that were sensible, kind-hearted, and beneficial to humanity could obtain corresponding human rights after passing certain tests.
Of course, the prerequisite for maintaining these rights was that they must never cause any harm to human society.
Even having such thoughts was not allowed.
The Utopian government granted these intelligent creatures human rights so they could help develop human society, not to cause trouble.
And the dog in front of him was called “Doctor” by Vivian and White Lion.
There was no need to think about it — this dog’s status as a rights-bearing being had definitely received high-level recognition from the government.
Fine.
Today wasn’t a good day for killing anyway. He would spare its life for now.
Seeing Li Chi lower the spear, the Husky once again pressed its black-and-white dog face closer.
“Young man! Young man!”
Li Chi pushed the dog’s face away with one hand, speaking with clear disgust.
“Don’t use my voice to talk to me! It feels really creepy hearing my own voice coming out of a dog’s mouth!”
It was true.
The moment Li Chi heard his own voice coming from the dog’s mouth, he felt extremely uncomfortable.
“Oh come on, seriously. I’m a spirit after all. Hey, don’t treat me like an actual dog!”
“Spirit?”
“Strictly speaking, I’m a fantasy species.”
Vivian proudly paced back and forth, then picked up the Husky and made it stand up.
“Fantasy species? What’s that?”
Vivian turned her head, narrowed her peach blossom eyes, and said mysteriously.
“Want to know?”
“Of course.”
“Later—Daddy will tell you.”
“……”
Asking was the same as not asking.
“By the way, what are you doing here?”
Vivian forcefully changed the subject. She genuinely didn’t know why Li Chi had appeared here today.
She only knew that the guy clearly wasn’t here just for a casual stroll.
Vivian’s innate magic, “Magic Eye,” had already detected that he was using magic power to communicate with an extremely ordinary basic monster.
But if he was here to complete the weekly mission, why bring such an ordinary basic monster?
Those kinds of monsters had no combat power and no intelligence.
Other than being extremely loyal, they had no redeeming qualities at all.
What Vivian couldn’t detect was that Li Chi had placed his own cells into this extremely weak basic monster.
Its combat power was now enough to crush most ordinary advanced monsters.
In her eyes, the basic monster’s essence hadn’t changed at all, nor had it evolved into a higher-level monster.
Therefore, she found it even harder to understand why Li Chi would bring a mere minion to cause trouble.
If he really wanted to make a scene, bringing just one was far too few!
It wasn’t that Vivian looked down on basic monsters like cannon fodder, but their fighting strength was simply too weak.
Even a hundred of them together couldn’t beat a single advanced monster.
After Li Chi explained his plan to Vivian, she immediately understood. However, she was still somewhat worried.
“Are you sure your plan will succeed?”
“Of course. I have complete confidence in my creation!”
Li Chi proudly patted his chest.
He firmly believed that the original Omega he had shaped would definitely be able to defeat those magical girls.
It would also give him the perfect opportunity to appear as a hero, and finally establish friendly relations with the magical girls. His plan would then be perfectly completed.
He didn’t hide from Vivian the secret that he could greatly enhance a monster’s strength using his own cells.
After all, this girl was Black Dragon’s daughter. Black Dragon already knew him inside and out.
Perhaps she would learn about it from her father one day anyway.
“I see… Then good luck.”
Vivian turned to leave and go find her best friend, but then she turned back and said to Li Chi, “Oh right, let me warn you in advance. It’s a holiday right now. There are quite a few magical girls in the area where we were earlier. I might have to join the fight later too.”
“I see… Okay. Do you want me to tell him to go easy on you?”
“I am a genuine magical girl, you know? Isn’t it a bit too much to look down on me like that?”
Seeing Vivian so determined, Li Chi nodded to show he understood.
The reason Vivian wanted to fight the original Omega was simple.
First, she had just revealed her identity as a magical girl to her best friend.
If a fight really broke out, her friend would definitely be the first to charge in. It would look strange if she just stood there frozen.
Second, Vivian also wanted to test exactly what level the original Omega created by Li Chi was at.
And third, Canghai City was a key city in the surrounding area.
During holidays, many people came here to have fun, including many magical girls from other cities among the tourists.
Although Vivian had told Li Chi there were many magical girls here, she hadn’t specified exactly how many, because even she didn’t know the exact number of magical girls currently in this square.
But Li Chi completely failed to understand the deeper meaning in Vivian’s words.
He hadn’t considered that it was a holiday period.
All he was thinking about right now was: Let these magical girls witness the true power of basic monsters!