There is a beast in the bright morning.

Chapter 181 Lord Baling

The Bashe, with a body length of eight thousand feet, is a large white snake. Because its home is in Dongting Lake, it is also known as Balingjun.

Baling Jun was calm and composed, preferring stillness to movement. He lay on Dongting Lake for thousands of years, his head resting on the sandbar, drinking water and observing the world.

However, with the changes in the environment and the continuous development by humans, Dongting Lake has been shrinking, and Baling Jun has also shrunk significantly because he could not get enough water.

As Balingjun shrank in size, he had no choice but to leave his homeland and embark on a perilous journey to find a new habitat.

So Balingjun climbed and climbed, and before he knew it, he had climbed to the deer shop.

But because it hadn't drunk enough water for so long, it now looked like a black loach, which happened to be encountered by Walnut.

Walnut grabbed Balingjun by the tail and lifted him up: "So you're not your little mudskipper anymore?"

Upon hearing Walnut call him "Loach" again, Baling Jun became somewhat angry and said, "You brat, don't mention 'Loach' again! Call me Baling Jun!"

Soon, Balingjun learned from Walnut that the Deer Man Shop was dedicated to helping mythical beasts, so he begged Walnut to take him to find the Four-Unlikes for help.

Walnut agreed to the small favor and, together with Shota, took Baling-kun back to the Deer Man's shop, where they happened to run into the Four-Faced Beast returning from the Evergreen Tree.

“A four-legged creature, I found a little mud... Ba, Baling Jun, he said he has something to discuss with you.”

Walnut originally wanted to say loach, but seeing Balingjun's unfriendly look, he quickly changed his mind and handed Balingjun over to the Four-Unlikes.

"Lord Baling?" The four-legged creature examined the loach that Walnut was holding, but it looked exactly like a loach.

Fortunately, the four-legged creature didn't reveal its true feelings, otherwise Lord Baling, who was constantly mistaken for a mudfish, would have been so angry that he would have bitten it.

Although he knew that Lord Baling had come to him for help, out of habit, the Qilin still asked, "Lord Baling, why have you come all this way to see me? Is there something you need?"

Balingjun sighed: "I have heard that you can help divine beasts solve their problems. Now I want to find a spacious body of water to live in. I wonder if you have any recommendations for a place to stay?"

Then Balingjun started complaining to the Four-Faced Beast that due to environmental changes, his hometown, Dongting Lake, was shrinking, and with frequent human activity, he no longer had a place to live.

Upon hearing this, the Qilin felt great sympathy for Balingjun's plight. Nowadays, mythical beasts either live in deep mountains and seas or must integrate into human society.

Now that Lord Baling has asked for his help, the Four-Faced Beast will naturally not refuse, since it's a business opportunity after all.

"Oh, that's easy. The pond in my backyard is connected to rivers, lakes, and the sea. Feel free to lie down there."

As soon as he finished speaking, the four-legged creature regretted it. Thinking about how the number of people eating for free at his shop had recently exceeded the limit, he quickly added, "But how do you plan to pay the rent? Let's make it clear first, you can't eat and stay for free."

"Don't worry about that. I brought some old snake skins that I shed before, which I can use to pay the rent." Balingjun was also prepared for the rent, and took out several snake skins that he had shed before.

"Snake skin?!" The Qilin took the snake skin from Balingjun, tugged at it, and found that the quality was very good, so it should sell well.

So Baling Jun, led by the Qilin (a mythical creature), made his home in the pond in the backyard. As soon as he soaked in the water, Baling Jun couldn't wait to drink it in large gulps.

In the blink of an eye, its body transformed from a small loach into a large loach.

Because he was afraid of getting his white scales dirty when he came, Baling Jun turned his scales black.

Now that it's soaking in the water and basking in the warm sun, its scales have turned back to white, or even become a black and white panda snake.

Just as the Four-Unlikes finished dealing with the issue of Balingjun's settlement, Walnut hugged the Four-Unlikes' leg and said coquettishly, "Four-Unlikes, I'm hungry."

"Didn't we just have lunch?"

Si Bu Xiang frowned, but then he remembered that because of Hao Chen's matter, Pi Pi had eaten the rest of Walnut's rice, so he hadn't eaten his fill at lunch.

Seeing Walnut's pitiful appearance, the Four-Faced Beast's heart softened immediately, so it said, "Alright, Walnut Shota, let's go home. I'll go get some snacks for you."

"Okay!"

"Lord Baling, I'll take these two little ones back first, and I'll come see you again later."

"I'm fine, Fourth Boss, you can go ahead and get back to work."

After bidding farewell to the Qilin, Balingjun was clearly satisfied with his current residence. He leisurely lay on the water, basking in the sun, and with each ripple of the water, his mental state and physical strength seemed to have recovered somewhat.

After an unknown amount of time, Baling Jun vaguely heard the sound of a strange creature.

"Lord Baling? Are you soaking in the water? How are you finding your stay here? Are you getting used to it... Ha!"

After making the dessert for Walnut, the Four-Unlikes decided to conduct a satisfaction survey with Balingjun to see if he needed anything else.

As the four-legged creature walked along, it suddenly felt as if it had stepped on something. But before it could see what it had stepped on, it felt a pain in its calf, its whole body felt dizzy, and it collapsed to the ground.

"Fourth Boss, are you alright? I'm so sorry, I didn't mean it."

Balingjun was a little confused when he saw the four-legged creature he had bitten. He was just sleeping when he was suddenly stepped on, so he subconsciously turned around and bit it, which resulted in biting the four-legged creature.

Walnut followed behind the four-legged creature. When it saw that the creature was poisoned, it was so frightened that it backed away repeatedly: "Shota, you stay here and watch the four-legged creature. I'll go find someone to help."

"Ah!" Shota was startled. Just as he was about to say that he was scared too, Walnut had already run far away. So he had to carefully move his feet to the side of the four-legged creature.

"Don't be afraid, I don't eat foxes." Balingjun was a little embarrassed. Was he really that scary? He had just accidentally bitten a fox.

On the other side, Rabbit Lord, who heard the screams of the Four-Faced Beast, rushed over, only to find it lying unconscious on the ground. He quickly stepped forward and picked it up.

"A strange creature?! What's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?!"

Balingjun and Shota explained what had just happened to Rabbit. Balingjun even made a point of explaining that it was an accident, a conditioned reflex after being stepped on, which is why he bit the Fourth Boss.

Rabbit carefully lifted the little leg of the four-legged creature, looking at the two bleeding teeth marks on it, his face slightly flushed: "This... if it's poisoned, you have to suck it out... right!"

Seeing that the Rabbit Lord was about to suck the poison out of the Qilin's body, Baling Jun quickly stopped him, saying, "Wait! If you suck like that, you'll be...poisoned too!!!"

But Rabbit Lord, too eager to save the deer, ignored Baling Jun's advice and opened his mouth to suck on the wound of the four-legged creature, successfully poisoning himself.

Seeing Rabbit Lord also poisoned and unconscious, Baling Jun was at his wits' end and even had the urge to run away.

"Oh no, I haven't recovered yet and I can't get rid of the poison. What should I do? If this drags on any longer, they'll be poisoned to death."

Just as Balingjun was at his wit's end, Walnut rushed over with Haochen.

Hao Chen looked at the rabbit next to the Qilin and asked in confusion, "Walnut, didn't you say the Qilin was poisoned? How come the rabbit is here too?"

"I don't know either!" Walnut shook his head.

Fortunately, Balingjun noticed that Haochen seemed to have been brought by Walnut, and took the initiative to step forward and explain.

After hearing this, Hao Chen glanced at Rabbit Lord speechlessly and thought to himself, "What a stupid rabbit."

Then Hao Chen extended his claws and placed them on the foreheads of Rabbit God and Qilin respectively. Green light emanated from between his claws, and a rich vitality flowed into Rabbit God and Qilin.

In an instant, their previously bloodless faces regained their color.

"Ugh, what's wrong with me?" The four-legged creature clutched its dizzy head.

Rabbit Lord, who had just woken up, immediately turned to look at the Four-Faced Beast. Seeing that the Four-Faced Beast had also woken up, he hugged it tightly and said, "Four-Faced Beast, I'm so glad you're alright."

The four-legged creature was suddenly hugged by Rabbit Lord, and looked at Hao Chen and Walnut with a somewhat unnatural expression: "Rabbit Lord, what are you doing? Let go quickly, there are people watching here."

Hao Chen covered Walnut and Xiang Tai's eyes with one paw each: "Rabbit Lord, Four-Faced Beast, you two continue, we didn't see anything."

Rabbit Lord: "..."

neither fish nor fowl:"……"

"You, Hao Chen, have the biggest eyes in the whole room, and you still dare to say you didn't see it? Where's your shame?!" The four-legged creature was a little annoyed.

However, after Hao Chen's actions, Rabbit reluctantly let go of its paws.

After Balingjun apologized and gave the Four-Faced Beast an extra snakeskin, the matter was dropped.

Seeing that the matter was resolved, Hao Chen instantly grew larger with a "bang" and lay down in front of the Qilin and Rabbit Lord.

"Come on up, I'll take you back to rest."

The four-legged creature and the rabbit master did not refuse, after all, they had just been detoxified and were indeed a little weak, so they climbed directly onto Hao Chen's back.

On the way back, Haochen suddenly said, "By the way, what day of the week is the Four-Unlikes today?"

"Sunday? What's wrong?"

"Sunday?!" Hao Chen suddenly remembered that, barring any unforeseen circumstances, Bi Xie should be out taking out the trash tonight.