I dreamed of returning to ancient times, and I became a beast tamer

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My father’s WeChat avatar is flashing.

When I opened it, I saw that he had sent three messages.

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An 11-digit mobile phone number.

"Go home for the New Year. Add this number. She is your aunt's female colleague in the factory. She has a two-star fire dragon rabbit. She is one year younger than you. The factory is on New Year's Day now. Invite her out for dinner when you are free..."

From the failure of the first blind date to talking about marriage after the eighth blind date.

The 23-year-old Lu Yuan's ideas have changed from being shy to being proactive, from being proactive to being confused, and then from being confused to being awakened.

"No time."

Lu Yuan typed two words and when he saw the three words "Fire Dragon Rabbit", it was like seeing a stressor, bringing back bad memories.

The reason why she refused so firmly, without even considering her father's face, was because of the last blind date she had dated for the longest time.

When he decided to date, he asked the other party what she thought about the bride price.

She said it only costs 50,000. She has savings and a two-star pet, and you have a house and a three-star pet. After we get married, we will work hard together.

That year, it was a sunny day by the lake in the park, the lake surface was shimmering, and Lu Yuan's love was flying like the willow branches on the shore.

The young Lu Yuan felt the light in the other person's eyes and immediately fell in love.

The Nian beast at her feet also stuck close to her fire dragon rabbit to show their friendship.

After three months of dating, when she first met her parents, her mother offered a dowry of 888,000 yuan, plus materials to upgrade her daughter's pet, the Fire Dragon Rabbit, from level 2 to level 3.

Because Lu Yuan's pet is a three-star grade Nian beast, but her daughter's is not.

Only if the couple's pets are of the same star level can their family status be equal, otherwise her mother is afraid that Lu Yuan will bully her daughter.

And ordinary evolution is not enough, the best is the special evolution route of Flame Dragon Rabbit.

When this reason was put forward, Lu Yuan was stunned.

The amount of the betrothal gift was different from what was originally agreed upon. He glanced at the object, but she turned her head away and did not criticize her mother at all, as if she tacitly agreed with her mother's opinion.

Lu Yuan just felt a headache and did not refute on the spot.

But he knew that the 888,000 yuan betrothal gift was the fortune his father had saved for half his life, not to mention the materials for upgrading the Fire Dragon Rabbit, which would be a real headache, and he could not agree to it immediately.

You should know that upgrading a two-star pet to three stars is not as cheap as upgrading a one-star pet to two stars.

The dragon rabbit itself is an ordinary civilian pet. To upgrade from a one-star dragon rabbit to a two-star fire dragon rabbit, the materials used are mostly upgrade materials that can be purchased everywhere in the market, and the total price is around several thousand yuan.

However, the materials used for the Flame Dragon Rabbit that is upgraded from two stars to three stars are completely different. The quality of various materials has been upgraded by an average of one level. Compared with the three-star Dragon Rabbits of other evolutionary routes, its combat capability is stronger and the overall cost is also higher.

To be specific, it is not an exaggeration to say that this price is a hundred times more expensive than other dragon rabbit evolution routes.

Lu Yuan wanted to question it and said it was too high, but the girl's mother said jokingly:

“How is this betrothal gift so high?

"It has been this price for years. I am not making this up. If you don't believe me, go ask around and see which family doesn't marry off their daughters at this price.

"If my family is low, where will I put my face in the future?

"Besides, my daughter will also bring a dowry into your house. It's not just your family that is paying the bride price. Don't you think this makes sense?"

Lu Yuan subconsciously felt that something was wrong, but he was not good at talking and couldn't win the argument with the old lady, so he tactfully said that they could talk about it later.

After returning home, I thought my father also opposed it.

Unexpectedly, Dad Lu called a few relatives and came back to tell Lu Yuan that the matter could be agreed to, and the material gap for the upgrade from level 2 to level 3 was barely solved.

"Times are different now. It's not like the old days when the elders introduced each other and two people with similar conditions could just make do with each other...

"It's rare for you to find a girlfriend. Your mother in heaven will definitely agree when she knows about it."

My father, who is nearly fifty years old and has white hair, sighed and compromised.

At that time, Lu Yuan looked at his father's expression, which showed that he was willing to sell everything he had to support his son.

He really wanted to ask his father what the price was.

But looking at the expectation on his father's face and remembering his mother's expectation before she died, he couldn't ask.

Wait until the other party receives the money, sets a date, and prepares to get the marriage certificate.

The other mother said:

"The house in your hometown is unoccupied, so why not transfer it to your younger brother's name to prepare for his future marriage.

"We are all a family from now on, you won't not help your brother, right?"

After hearing this, Lu Yuan instantly got furious.

The 880,000 yuan dowry and special star-upgrading materials already sounded outrageous.

You even dare to set your sights on your ancestral home?

How can you say this is a daughter's wedding?

It's obvious that they want to suck the blood of the Lu family and dig up their roots!

He had originally disagreed with the previous conditions, and now that the other party had crossed his bottom line, he was completely annoyed.

Do you really think he is willing to compromise on anything just to get a wife?

"Give me back the money, I won't get married!"

Afterwards, the woman kept calling to apologize, her pleas mixed with all kinds of mumbling.

She said that this was just her mother's test to see if he really loved her, and it was not her intention, so she asked him not to be angry...

If it were the Lu Yuan of the past, who was so overwhelmed by love, he would definitely not be able to see through the other party's words.

After rejecting the blind date, Lu Yuan’s mind suddenly became clear.

He looked back through the chat records and transfer records and found that the woman had used a lot of rhetoric during the relationship, PUAing him overtly and covertly.

The money transferred to her bit by bit amounted to tens of thousands.

Poor myself, I thought those were insignificant little things, and I gave in, compromised, and tried to please step by step, and ended up living like a dog.

In fact, this is wrong and incorrect. Men and women should be equal and care and understand each other.

After realizing the other person's true face, Lu Yuan made a decision in his heart after that blind date:

I will never be a bootlicker again!

Instead of thinking about dating a girlfriend, you might as well spend time on yourself and your pet, improve their abilities, and become stronger together.

……

Drop drop drop.

After rejecting his father's ninth introduction, his cell phone vibrated again.

When I opened the profile picture, it was a greeting from my sister-in-law.

"Are you going home for the New Year?" my aunt typed.

Before Lu Yuan could reply, the aunt said:

"Auntie has found a well-behaved girl for you. I know her family inside and out. Her conditions are better than the previous one. Let's meet and chat during the New Year."

Another blind date?

Lu Yuan had just rejected his father when his aunt came.

In addition to his aunt, his uncle and eldest uncle also said in the family group a while ago that they would help him find a suitable person.

It’s not easy to go home during the Chinese New Year.

In the past, when I saw others busy going on blind dates during the Chinese New Year, I laughed at them in my heart, but I never expected that I would follow in the footsteps of my predecessors.

When he thought about not having any free time when he went home for the New Year, he frowned and thought negatively: "Why don't I just not go back?"

When people live in society, they cannot avoid dealing with others. Especially after starting to work, blind dates gradually become a mental burden for them.

I didn't meet many good girls, but I saw many girls with weird tempers and PUA.

Lu Yuan took a deep breath.

Since going home for the New Year is so annoying, it’s better not to go back. It would be quiet and peaceful to spend the New Year alone at school with my pet.

"No, if I have that time, I'd better improve myself," he replied to his aunt.

"Why do you talk like that? If you don't look for a partner in the future, what will happen to your dad? What will you do when you get old?"

Seeing this, Lu Yuan felt a wave of pressure coming over him. It was a classic PUA tactic, using elders to pressure others.

"We'll talk about it later. If things don't work out, there are still pets to take care of us in our old age. Aunt, please stop nagging me."

"Ah, living with a pet for the rest of your life? That won't do. I'm going to tell your dad and ask him to persuade you."

Lu Yuan shook his head, turned off his phone, walked out of the teacher's dormitory, and stretched.

Outside the dormitory, there are beautiful mountains and clear waters. The sunlight shines through the blue sky onto Lu Yuan, making him feel warm and comfortable.

“Ahhh!”

Suddenly, the voice of the Nian beast was heard beside me. It sounded very excited, as if it had discovered something surprising.

The Nian Beast is named Dabai, with red eyes and fur as white as snow. Its four paws and tail are pure black.

It has a single black horn on its head, looks like a dog but isn't, and has sharp claws on its paws.

The fur on its body has light gray flowing cloud patterns, and the big black tail behind it shakes back and forth, which is very cute.

Generally speaking, the Nian beast is ferocious.

In ancient times, when the Nian monster appeared, it was always accompanied by bloody disasters. Ancient people usually used pets such as "firecrackers" and "fireworks" to drive away the Nian monster.

With the change of eras and the progress of the times, the concept of scientific pet raising has been deeply rooted in people's hearts. The Nian beast is no longer an enemy of mankind. Beast masters have turned the Nian beast into a friend of mankind by raising it from a young age.

He touched Dabai and saw that Dabai had brought a strange thing from outside, which was a small glass bead.

This looks like a child's toy, but the structure inside is exquisite. The colorful sand is crystal clear, like a nebula formed by starlight, slowly rotating inside the glass bead.

Dabai loves to pick up things, especially some strange little objects that have some kind of power.

Every few days, it would bring something to Lu Yuan for identification, so that he could see if it was something special.

Lu Yuan did not criticize the habit of picking up random things, because Dabai understood him. Dabai was not picking up random things, these things were all small objects with extraordinary powers, it was just that his talent for taming beasts hindered him.

"Ah... Dabai."

As he spoke, he slowly bent down, ready to take the small object from its mouth.

Lu Yuan’s beast taming talent is a life-type ability called “Simulation Hand”, which can identify special items and simulate their effects.

This ability is actually of no use. From childhood to adulthood, he has never identified any object that can be called "special".

This resulted in Lu Yuan being born lacking in the talent for beast taming compared to other beast tamers, which led to Lu Yuan's unsatisfactory beast taming performance in high school and he was admitted to an ordinary university.

Thanks to this talent, he is one step slower, and every step is slower. He gets fewer development resources than others, and cannot compare to others in combat.

Beastmasters of the same age were moving further and further away, but Lu Yuan stayed where he was, making slow progress and feeling mixed emotions.

During his senior year, he applied to teach in a remote mountain village to calm his mind and try out some distant energy, as he thought there might be special items in the mountains.

At this moment, the pearl glass touched his hand, and his fingertips felt slightly cool. A strange ripple spread from his fingers to Lu Yuan's right hand, causing goose bumps on his palm.

The innate ability "Simulated Hand" that had never reacted in the past twenty-three years suddenly reacted, and naturally some pieces of information remained in his mind.

"You have obtained a dream core bead, which can simulate the initial era after falling asleep and bring the contracted beast into the dream to train."

In the blink of an eye, the dream core bead between his fingers disappeared, as if it merged into the palm of his hand, flowed into his body, and became a part of his power.

Lu Yuan's body froze in place, staring at the Nian beast Dabai with eyes wide open.

"Wait?"

"My innate ability just took effect?"