My beast can't be a demon.

Xu Dalong stood on the sand dunes of the desert, looking at the rolling smoke and dust in the distance, frowning slightly.

"Has the logistics department not sent the new wrong-toothed dog yet?" Xu Dalong asked the adjutant behind him.

The adjutant looked at Xu Dalong with a tired face and said, "Our consumption is too great. The wrong-toothed dog is not a spiritual beast that can be artificially cultivated. The logistics department can only send people to capture it in the A2511 secret realm. I heard that in order to catch more wrong-toothed dogs, they even sent tasks to various beast control academies."

Hearing the adjutant's words, Xu Dalong also smiled helplessly: "This group of logistics is also, how could they think of sending students to the A-level secret realm."

"Without the wrong-toothed dog, I'm afraid we can't continue to advance." At this time, a young beast control master came over.

He has a handsome face and a tall figure.

His dark skin exposed to the wind and sun for many years makes him have a trace of the iron-blooded aura unique to soldiers.

Link, one of the most talented beastmasters in history, had a fourth-level quasi-god spirit beast the year he graduated from the Beastmaster Academy, and it was a quasi-god he cultivated himself.

After graduation, he directly joined the pioneer army and started his frontline exploration.

Now, he has grown from a young boy to a determined soldier.

However, even such a powerful beastmaster was embarrassed when facing the sand and dust in this unknown secret realm.

The sand and dust in this secret realm seemed to have some special intelligence, and would cause the greatest harm to humans and spirit pets who entered it in different ways.

So far, the power it has demonstrated includes strong winds, sandstorms, sandman legions, quicksand traps, and mirages.

"If it is really a spirit beast, it is at least a quasi-god-level spirit beast." Link frowned as he looked at the sand and dust in the distance.

So far, only the crooked-toothed dog can avoid the sneak attack of the sand and dust through its innate keen sense of perception.

So the pioneer army urgently recruited crooked-toothed dogs from the rear.

After sacrificing a large number of fang dogs, they finally advanced to the current position.

It was this advancement that made them more convinced that this piece of sand and dust was intelligent.

It seemed to know that Xu Dalong and Linking were not easy to mess with, so it never had any direct conflict with them, but constantly used the environment to cause any trouble to the pioneers.

The sand and dust were indeed very smart. Faced with such tactics, even if they were all fourth-level beast masters and had quasi-gods to help them, Xu and Lin had no good solution and could only bite the bullet and continue to advance.

If it were usual, facing such a dilemma, the pioneers would generally choose to temporarily give up exploration and let the research and development team in the real world behind develop new solutions to deal with the existing dilemma.

There is no need to increase casualties for things that can be solved with science and technology. This is the main concept of modern pioneers exploring new secrets.

You can say that this lacks a bit of the passion and fearlessness of the ancestors, but it is indeed the most effective way.

And you really can't say which is more cost-effective, giving subsidies to sacrificed beast masters or developing new technologies.

Just based on the existing information and data, since six years ago, R\u0026D expenditures have begun to decline rapidly, and the R\u0026D personnel in the rear can always find various strange angles to solve the various difficulties faced by the pioneering army.

The only problem is...

"General, we have eaten all the supplies we brought." The adjutant shouted at Xu Dalong with despair.

Xu Dalong's face changed drastically: "What did you say? All?"

The adjutant swallowed his saliva, and then took out a bag of powdered things: "These are the only ones left."

Seeing the things in the adjutant's hand, Xu Dalong, who rarely had emotional fluctuations even when facing the attacks of wild beasts, shouted angrily: "Why haven't you thrown this thing away for me!"

"But... it is indeed food." The adjutant murmured.

Yes, it is indeed food.

Food that is more unpalatable than shit.

This is the latest emergency food that the logistics department gave them not long ago.

A kind of mushroom.

It is obviously called delicious mushrooms, but it has a desperate taste.

The wrong-toothed dogs in the army will show a horrified expression when they see them eating this kind of thing.

And this is just a microcosm of countless outrageous scientific research in the real world over the years.

In the front-line troops of the pioneering army, many people are discussing whether there is a mushroom fairy in the real world, and why so many research and development products appear in the form of mushrooms or fungi.

Xu Dalong sighed and said, "Let's retreat to the initial camp first."

If this thing is really to be distributed as food, Xu Dalong is really worried that there will be a mutiny in the army.

When Xu Dalong led the troops to retreat to the camp, he happened to catch up with the logistics troops coming to deliver supplies.

Everyone showed a look of being saved.

Looking at the various canned foods that were originally vomiting, they all showed their desire.

Compared with those damn mushrooms, these luncheon meat cans full of starch and offal fragments are simply TM delicious food!

Along with these supplies, there are batches of misshapen dogs.

Looking at the cages of misshapen dogs that were constantly taken down from the pack pets, Link Xing said in a bit of surprise: "So many this time?"

"We didn't expect it." The beastmaster in charge of the escort also smiled helplessly.

"It seems that you are really working hard for our needs." Linking Xing said with emotion.

"No... In fact, the logistics department has almost forgotten that you have this need." The escorting beast master had a good relationship with Lin Kexing, so he told the truth.

Lin Kexing was slightly startled when he heard this, and then said helplessly: "Okay, I don't seem to be surprised at all. Our logistics masters are like this."

"So, where did so many cross-toothed dogs come from?" At this moment, Xu Dalong asked.

"A student took over this task and handed it over to us."

"Students?!" Lin Kexing, who was organizing the reception of crooked-toothed dogs, opened his eyes wide when he heard this. He pointed at the thousands of crooked-toothed dogs in front of him, "You said this was caused by students? Could it be that it was caused by students? All the students from the Beast Mastering Academy are mobilized, right? Ordinary students are not qualified to enter the A-level secret realm."

"It's a student." The escort said, "It seems to be from the New Guangdong Beast Control Academy, called Zhou Lu. Because this kind of thing is really unbelievable, so I went to find out more about it."

"Zhou Lu?" Xu Dalong was stunned for a moment when he heard the name.

Lin Kexing also noticed something strange about his boss and asked, "Old Xu, do you know him?"

"It seems that he is my brother's classmate." Xu Dalong recalled, "I saw his performance in the first beast control exam last time. He is indeed very talented as a beast control master."

"Didn't your brother just take the exam for the first time last year?" Linking said, "What? This boy named Zhou Lu has the strength to enter the A-level secret realm in just one year? And isn't your brother from Xin'an Beast Control Academy? I guess they have the same name?"

Lin Kexing's words made sense, but Xu Dalong felt that there shouldn't be so many coincidences in the world, so he silently wrote down the name in his heart, planning to ask Xu Wuhu when he went back this time. If it is really the Zhou Lu he knows, then this talented young man must win over him.

It would be a pity if such talents were wasted on the field.

"By the way." Xu Dalong suddenly looked at the escort officer and said, "We have new needs here."

"Are there new demands? Come on, you are really my uncle." The escort officer showed a desperate expression.

"Then you can ask the logistics to reject our request." Xu Dalong said with a cold face, "It's nothing more than losing the mineral deposits under this desert."

This sentence made the escort officer's expression change.

Isn't the reason why Xu Dalong led the pioneering army to confront an unknown sand and dust spirit beast of at least the fourth level here because there are various non-renewable energy sources under this desert that are urgently needed in the real world?

According to official calculations, as long as the resources under this desert are fully developed, the pace of human modern technology replacing spiritual pets will be greatly accelerated.

Is this a good thing for beast masters? No one knows.

But it is a good thing for the officials.

As long as this mineral deposit is mastered, the official will at least have a card in their hands to "comprehensively implement the plan to replace spiritual pets with technology." Whether it will be used depends on the performance of the major beast-controlling families that have been constraining the official in the past. .

These beast-controlling families relied on their early monopoly on the cultivation methods of some special spiritual pets, and used their spiritual pets to monopolize many industries. Therefore, official reforms and management were often affected by them.

Xu Dalong is a soldier and he resolutely carries out any orders issued by the official.

If there really is a wave of technology replacing spiritual pets in the real world in the future, he doesn't see any problem with this.

This is the necessity of the times.

Someone once said that there are only two paths for future beast masters.

One is to become a competitive player, become a star of the competition that attracts much attention, and drive your spiritual pets to compete in various competitions to gain popularity and bonuses.

The other option is to join the pioneering army and various exploration organizations, go to endless unknown secrets to search for various mineral resources, and inject continuous power into the technological engine of human society.

In fact, officials have indeed begun to prepare for these two roads.

On the one hand, we vigorously promote various competitions, and on the other hand, we allow the pioneering army to step up their exploration of various mineral deposits.

This is also the main reason for the current manpower shortage of the logistics force.

At the same time as Xu Dalong, there were more than a dozen pioneering armies exploring different secret realms, and they needed to meet the supplies of these pioneering army troops at the same time.

"Tell me, what do you need?" the escort officer sighed and asked.

Xu Dalong said calmly: "We need helpers who can fight against large spiritual beasts, and who can also break up large unknown spiritual beasts into sandstorms, at least level four."

Hearing that they were not here to ask for supplies, the escort officer breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I will convey the message."

"There is no need to look for it in the Pioneer Army. Find the nursing team or the Invalids." Xu Dalong stopped the escort officer who was about to leave. "I know that no one in the Pioneer Army is suitable to fight against this spiritual beast."

"You want to use the divine beast? This is impossible." The escort officer shook his head and said.

Although in theory, the Pioneer Army still retains the opportunity to apply for assistance from mythical beasts, due to various events in the real world and the fact that several mythical beasts in the Invalides have entered the preliminary steps of hospice care, the official will not easily The one who sent the mythical beast to the secret realm.

Xu Dalong naturally knew this: "Ask more, maybe there will be a suitable candidate."

The escort officer said: "I can only help you convey it. As for whether you can find the person you need in the end, it depends on luck."

As he said that, he took his pet away.

"I say... what should we do with these crooked-toothed dogs?" Lin Kexing pointed at the crooked-toothed dogs piled up not far away and said with a wry smile, "There's not a lot of food for this day, right? Those damn logistics guys didn't give us enough dog food."

"Aren't there still a lot of delicious mushrooms? Just use them as dog food."

"Dogs won't eat this stuff!" Lin Kexing complained.

Xu Dalong had a blank expression: "I'll eat it when I'm hungry. Didn't you eat it like this at the beginning?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Kexing showed a desperate expression: "Can we not mention this? I feel desperate when I think about it now."

Xu Dalong finally couldn't hold it back: "Do you think I'm not desperate?"

It has to be said that the lethality of delicious mushrooms is indeed strong. As long as it is mentioned by the frontline members of the pioneering army, there will be a big change of face.

On the other side, Zhou Lu cleared all the immortal souls he could find in the secret realm and returned to Xinyue College.

As soon as he arrived at the temporary residence, he saw Ye Qingyu sitting in Wu Xiaoqing's laboratory.

"Sister Qingyu, why are you here?" Zhou Lu asked in surprise, "Are there any results for the investigation of the Immortal Kingdom?"

"No." Ye Qingyu smiled bitterly and shook her head, "It was taken over by someone else."

This point was not beyond Zhou Lu's expectations.

"So, you are taking a vacation directly?"

"It would be great if it could be so easy." Ye Qingyu said helplessly, pointing at Wu Xiaoqing and said, "Isn't there a new R\u0026D task for Xiaoqing?"

"New R\u0026D task?"

This time it was Wu Xiaoqing who answered him: "It was sent from the Pioneer Army, requesting the development of a product that can suppress sand and dust, and it is the kind of large-scale sandstorm."

"Suppress sandstorms? This is almost a weather weapon, right?" Zhou Lu said in surprise, "Is it really possible?"

"Is it impossible?" Wu Xiaoqing asked directly.

Um...if it's Sister Xiaoqing...

"Actually, Xiaoqing has already completed this task."

"Ah?" Zhou Lu was shocked, "Isn't it a task that has just been issued?"

"It's true that the task has just been issued." Wu Xiaoqing smiled, "But the product doesn't have to be newly developed. I looked for it in the previous research samples and found a suitable product."

"Mushrooms again?" Zhou Lu asked suddenly, and then felt that he had asked in vain.

But Wu Xiaoqing gave an answer that surprised Zhou Lu: "It's not mushrooms, it's moss."

As she said that, Wu Xiaoqing took a glass bottle and showed it to Zhou Lu: "A kind of moss that can reproduce quickly in the desert."