287: Zhulong appears

“It’s not like the combat skill is perfect, what’s so great about it!” You Ni gritted her teeth, saying with a look of resentment.

Her fiancé was in another competition group, and his Pet was only at the late eighth stage of maturity, so his score might not even be as good as Chu Li’s Fire Phoenix.

How could this not make her furious with jealousy?!

You Ni thought that such provocative words could anger Gu Xiaoyue and the others, and even if they came over to argue with her, she could collapse to the ground and claim they had initiated the fight.

Unexpectedly, these few players from Dragon Country completely ignored them, holding the paper version of the Pet scores provided by the officials, treating them as if they were invisible.

Gu Xiaoyue picked up Shui Lingyu’s paper document and examined it.

The officials were quite interesting, making it look like a postcard.

On the left was a picture of the Pet, taken from a very good angle.

On the right was the Pet’s score, but no other information was listed, which was very considerate.

It was also pleasing to the eye when printed out.

“If Xiao Yue likes it, I’ll give it to you!” Shui Lingyu said, and Gu Xiaoyue happily put these documents into her Yu Beast Space.

“And mine, I’ll give it to you too!” Chu Li, with a slight blush, handed her Pet’s document into Gu Xiaoyue’s hand.

She glanced at Fire Phoenix’s handsome photo, put it into her Yu Beast Space, secretly gave it to Qingqing, and then prepared to leave the evaluation area.

The two female players hadn’t even been evaluated yet, and they were already leaving?

You Ni and Kelo then realized that Gu Xiaoyue and Duan Yao had come to accompany Chu Li and Shui Lingyu.

“What good luck, they’ll only be evaluated in a few days, so their scores will definitely be much higher!” Kelo also said sourly, and when these words reached Duan Yao’s ears, she finally couldn’t help but turn back and retort.

“It’s just a two-day difference, how many points can it be?

If it were you, could your toad even fly to the sky?”

“But there will be a numerical difference, you can’t deny that, right?!” You Ni also took a step forward, her beautiful face flushed with anger and somewhat distorted.

Duan Yao was about to rush over to argue with her properly, but Gu Xiaoyue pulled her back with one hand.

“The day after tomorrow is the time for our Pet evaluation, you can come and watch, or—apply to the World Championships officials to cancel today’s evaluation results and re-evaluate in a few days!” Gu Xiaoyue left with a cold and distant smile, pulling Duan Yao away.

“Those two women are clearly looking for trouble!” Duan Yao said angrily after being pulled back to the dormitory.

“They’ve been targeting us since before the competition, there are thousands of players globally, how is it such a coincidence that they find us displeasing?

Let them be, don’t let someone with ulterior motives set a trap!” Gu Xiaoyue shook her head gently, she didn’t believe that You Ni and Kelo’s persistent haunting was a coincidence, how could there be so many coincidences in this world!

Duan Yao hadn’t considered this possibility, but when her temper flared up, all these thoughts were thrown to the back of her mind.

“Then why did you tell them to come see our Pet data in two days?”

“Anyway, our Pet information can’t be scanned by the brain, only the score data is displayed—first, it can deter them, and second—I want to see if they will jump the gun and reveal the person behind them!” Gu Xiaoyue knew that the instrument only provided data based on the Pet’s various attributes and would not expose the Pet’s own attributes.

As long as the brain couldn’t scan it, her and Duan Yao’s God-Rank Pets would only have good-looking data.

If someone truly wanted to scheme against them, they would have to see if they had the ability to move them!

You Ni and Kelo, the two blonde girls, seemed to have no schemes, yet they repeatedly provoked her.

It was hard not to suspect that someone was instructing them.

“Hmm, we’ll deal with it as it comes then!” Duan Yao’s small pink fists were also tightly clenched.

For the next two days of the competition, first was Gu Xiaoyue, Lv Hao, and Su Anxi’s three-person group, battling a small country from another hemisphere.

Gu Xiaoyue and Su Anxi munched on potato chips in the corner of the arena, watching Lv Hao easily win 1v3 by himself.

The four-person group’s match was also against a small country, Shui Lingyu won 1v4, still without any suspense.

Some countries had few people and even fewer strong individuals, their players’ strength was even inferior to some intermediate academy students in Dragon Country’s National Competition.

Compared to the boring matches, Gu Xiaoyue was even more looking forward to her Pet’s evaluation score, which should be very exciting.

She felt that it should not be too different from Chu Li’s Fire Phoenix’s score.

Xiao Qi’s level was already Lord-level, and she also wore an attribute necklace and Pet weapon.

Going for the evaluation in the evening meant no match the next day, allowing for a day of rest.

Unfortunately, these were all just Gu Xiaoyue’s fantasies; as soon as Duan Yao and their five-person group’s match ended, they came to the dormitory and dragged her to watch Duan Zhuochen’s four-person group match.

Originally, she wanted to decline, but Duan Yao secretly told her that Duan Zhuochen also had a God-Rank Pet and was very likely to summon it today.

Gu Xiaoyue opened her brain, pulled up the schedule, and saw that today, Dragon Country’s other group, the four-person group, was battling Xia Yan Country.

“The opponent is Xia Yan Country, you’re saying he’ll summon a God-Rank Pet?” She couldn’t help but suspect that this was Duan Yao’s way of tricking her.

Xia Yan Country was a subsidiary of Lijian Country.

It was unknown how their ancestors divided the territory; the entire country was surrounded by Lijian Country, and its people all had black hair, black eyes, and yellow skin.

Compared to Lijian Country’s blonde hair and blue eyes, and brown hair and brown eyes, they looked more like Dragon Country bloodline.

It was said that Xia Yan Country’s leader intended to join Lijian Country, but this matter had been continuously discussed without a final decision.

Being a small country, surrounded by a large country but not incorporated into its territory, its strength was imaginable.

Duan Yao seemed to show no signs of shame, but rather some pride.

“He told me himself that he would summon a God-Rank Pet on the arena for me to see!”

“Alright, alright!” Since it was a personal promise, it must be true.

Otherwise, with Duan Yao’s personality, if she were tricked, she definitely wouldn’t give Duan Zhuochen a good look again.

The four-person group preliminary match was on an arena with a diameter of 180 meters, Gu Xiaoyue was even a little worried that he wouldn’t be able to fully display his abilities.

Upon arriving at the venue, there weren’t many spectators, probably because they trusted Duan Zhuochen’s strength too much, and the match against Xia Yan Country was without suspense.

Duan Zhuochen’s teammates looked a bit older, in their early thirties, none of them particularly handsome, but visibly more composed.

As soon as the referee’s whistle blew, before Duan Zhuochen even summoned his Pet, his teammates had already retreated to the edge of the arena.

Without seeing Duan Zhuochen summon his Pet, a Pet with a human face and dragon body instantly appeared beside him.

[Name]: Candle Dragon (Zhu You) [Rank]: God Rank [Attributes]: Wind Attribute, Water Attribute, Space Attribute [Skills]: Wind Mastery (Proficient), Wind Blade (Perfect), Tornado (Proficient), Water Mastery (Perfect), Rainfall (Proficient), Time Control (Perfect) [Level]: Lord-level Gu Xiaoyue was still studying the Candle Dragon’s attributes and skills when the final whistle of the match had already blown.

With a perfect Wind Blade, a casual sweep, how could the players from Xia Yan Country possibly resist!

His Time Control skill alone was already extremely heaven-defying; Dragon Country’s chances of winning the World Championships this year should be very high.

Gu Xiaoyue saw Duan Zhuochen turn around and wave to Duan Yao, his teammates could hardly hide the smiles on their lips.

It seemed this match was a pre-arranged exhibition match by Duan Zhuochen.

The audience was just Duan Yao.

Duan Yao returned the greeting politely and reservedly, showing none of the enthusiasm she had when she dragged Gu Xiaoyue to watch the match.

Gu Xiaoyue lightly nudged Duan Yao with her elbow, “Your attitude isn’t right, why are you so indifferent?”

“I didn’t see how powerful his God-Rank Pet was, it ended right after it began.” Duan Yao’s attitude was calm, as if stating a fact but actually complaining.

What else could be done, the opponent was Xia Yan Country!

“There will be many more matches in the future, aren’t you afraid you won’t get to see it many more times?” Gu Xiaoyue was now finally sure that Duan Yao was a genuine native, not a transmigrator with a system.

She also wondered how powerful the Candle Dragon from the Classic of Mountains and Seas was.

“But we also have many matches in the future, not only might they clash, but I just tried to scan his Pet with my brain and didn’t get any information.” Duan Yao knew that God-Rank Pet information was generally not recorded by the brain, but she still couldn’t give up trying.

The conclusion was as expected—none.

Gu Xiaoyue shrugged, Duan Yao had just killed the conversation, and she couldn’t tell her that she had a system and could see the Pet information panel, could she.

She could only drag her to the cafeteria to eat something.

Their preliminary matches were all against small countries.

Their strength was almost always one-sidedly crushing, so there was nothing to prepare for.

However, after eating, they had to prepare for the Pet evaluation, and Gu Xiaoyue was also a little excited about Xiao Qi’s stats.