“Luo Ning!!”
Su Wanwan pushed off the ground with all her strength, ignoring the falling rubble and cracking walls as she sprinted toward the women’s restroom.
She was fast—her city-wide top-tier physique revealed itself in this desperate moment. In the blink of an eye, she had already covered several meters.
“Don’t go!! It’s dangerous!!”
Huang Tao broke out in a cold sweat. She lunged forward and grabbed Su Wanwan’s wrist with all her might, yanking her back hard!
“Are you crazy?! The rift is opening! Space is being replaced! It’s completely chaotic in there—going in means death!”
But Su Wanwan wouldn’t listen. She struggled fiercely. “Let me go! Luo Ning is still inside!”
“It’s too late!! Look!!”
Huang Tao’s trembling hand pointed ahead.
In the brief moment of their struggle, the terrifying space rift suddenly intensified!
BOOM!!
The pitch-black spatial fissures rampaged wildly before their eyes. The walls, door frames, tiles, and steel reinforcements of the entire washroom area began to blur, twist, and shatter at a visible rate!
In less than two seconds.
The restroom area Luo Ning had entered turned into a void—completely empty.
Su Wanwan’s body went rigid. All her struggles stopped instantly.
She stared blankly at the spot where the restroom had been—now gone without a trace. Her mind went blank, and her blood ran ice-cold.
The person who was just there… the restroom that was just there…
In the blink of an eye, completely gone.
Luo Ning… please, please don’t let anything happen to you…
…
…
“Whew… It’s really inconvenient not having a second head down there. Gotta use toilet paper.”
Luo Ning sighed in relief after finishing her business and pushed open the stall door, intending to wash her hands. But what greeted her eyes had completely changed.
The clean, bright workplace restroom with white tiles, mirror lights, and sinks was long gone.
What she saw now was a sky filled with rolling gray-black mist, and rough, cracked, dark red-veined wasteland rock and soil.
No sunlight overhead. Countless tiny, jagged spatial fissures crackled in midair. Gale winds howled, carrying sand and gravel.
The entire world was dead silent, desolate… and looked extremely dangerous.
“?” Luo Ning.
Holy shit (a plant attribute)!!
Where the hell did I get sent now?!
She blinked her pink-golden eyes, which had frozen into an expression of pure shock. The entire pink-haired little loli stood there, dumbfounded.
Finally, as if remembering something, her expression twisted!
Wait!
She… hadn’t washed her hands yet!
…
Of course, Luo Ning was just joking to lighten the tense atmosphere and mood.
Luo Ning looked around at the desolate expanse of fog, and her cute little face fell.
This must be that Mystic Realm Arrival Wanwan mentioned earlier, right?
What lousy luck!
She hadn’t even contracted her beast-eared girl yet, and she had to run into something like this…
The turbulent chaotic currents were still howling in her ears. Luo Ning felt the cracked ground beneath her feet begin to tremble faintly.
“!!!” Luo Ning.
From within the gray-black mist came faint rustling sounds. Several faint green gleams lit up from the fog.
Eight hunched Claw Beasts, their fur matted with blood and grime, slowly stepped forward. Their fangs were bared, and drool dripped from the corners of their mouths.
Their eyes glowed—they seemed to have caught the scent of extremely delicious prey on this desolate Gobi rock.
A foul, stinking odor hit her face.
Oh no!
I’ve become the food!
“Ahem, ahem. Honorable big brothers, big sisters, uncles, aunties, grandpas, grandmas… Look at me—skinny arms and legs, not much chest at all. Clearly no meat. I definitely don’t taste good. How about you go find something somewhere else?”
Even though Luo Ning was still cracking jokes, her heart was already pounding with terror.
She involuntarily swallowed and stepped back toward the toilet stall behind her.
Toilet-san… you can protect me, right?
“…” Toilet.
Was she about to restart her life right after transmigrating?
The lead Claw Beast didn’t bother replying to Luo Ning. It threw all martial honor out the window and let out a low, guttural roar.
“GROOOOAAAAR!!!”
Its thick limbs kicked off the ground, charging straight at her with a stench of blood. Its sharp claws glinted coldly in the dim light.
Luo Ning’s expression changed drastically. Her pink hair stood on end. She scrambled backward, hastily raising her hand to activate her Beast Taming Power from memory.
Screw this! Was she really going to get served as a monster’s meal right at the start?!
Without time to think, Luo Ning tried to deploy her Contract Array to block the incoming attack.
To put it in trash-talk terms, a Beast Tamer’s Contract Array was basically a Poké Ball.
So, to some extent, the Contract Array could also be used to temporarily restrict the enemy’s movement.
But Luo Ning wasn’t sure if her Contract Array would work at all—she hadn’t contracted any beasts yet.
Just as the claw was about to land on the Contract Array, Luo Ning abandoned all caution, shut her eyes, and performed a forward roll.
But at that very moment.
A clear wolf howl suddenly pierced the dead silence of the wasteland. A silvery-white blur, like a streak of moonlight, forcefully cut between Luo Ning and the Claw Beast.
Luo Ning tumbled to the ground, covered in dust. She snapped her eyes open and looked up in a daze.
It was a silver wolf with a long, lean figure. Its fur looked like crushed moonlight—silvery and smooth, glowing with a warm luster even under the dim, shattered light of the spatial fissures.
Its limbs were powerful, its ears erect, and its vertical pupils were clear yet sharp. Before it even landed, it raised its forepaw and struck hard.
BAM!!
The Claw Beast at the front was sent rolling back, crashing heavily onto the rocky ground with a pained whimper. It struggled a few times before managing to stand.
Yinyue Lang slowly retracted the paw that had just crushed the Claw Beast. Its silvery-white fur, as gentle as moonlight, was stained with a little dust but didn’t diminish its natural kingly aura in the slightest.
Its cold, amber vertical pupils swept dismissively over the seven or eight Claw Beasts poised to attack. An invisible pressure spread quietly.
The remaining Claw Beasts that had been ready to pounce froze in their tracks. Their emerald-green beastly eyes locked onto the suddenly appearing silver-white figure, instinctive wariness rising in them.
Slowly, the wolf turned its head. Those amber eyes, now stripped of all cold hostility, landed directly on the dust-covered Luo Ning.
Deep within its gaze churned complex emotions that no outsider could understand.
Was it ecstasy? Lingering fear? Bitterness? Or was it the obsession and longing accumulated since its rebirth?
Yinyue Lang walked forward with graceful, steady steps until it stood before Luo Ning. It lowered its proud head slightly.
The fierce vertical pupils that had just intimidated the beasts softened. It gently licked the dust off Luo Ning’s cheek, the gesture both affectionate and reverent.
“Finally… I’ve found you.”
“It seems your first time in this life belongs to Yinyue!”