Beast Taming: I'm Really Just a Forest Ranger

When Chen Yuan was leaving the field with Cola, they were surrounded by a group of reporters, bombarding them with questions one after another:

"Advisor Chen, how do you feel about winning the first match?"

"Happy."

"Advisor Chen, we heard your Gale Hunting Dog got its driver’s license yesterday. What inspired it to start driving?"

"It likes to drive."

"Advisor Chen, could you share your experience in becoming an excellent Beastmaster?"

"Learn and practice more."

Overwhelmed by the endless questions, Chen Yuan was about to squeeze through the crowd to leave when a familiar figure appeared before him.

"Advisor Chen, sorry to bother you again." Song Wei smiled slightly.

Seeing the Phoenix City Daily logo on the microphone, Chen Yuan had to stop.

Song Wei first expressed an apology: "Sorry Advisor Chen, due to a mistake in our work, we didn’t get to know you in detail beforehand."

Chen Yuan waved his hand: "It’s alright."

Song Wei quickly got to the point: "Advisor Chen, your Gale Hunting Dog not only passed the exam with full marks but easily won the battle just now."

"Whether it’s driving or training, both take a lot of time. How do you manage to balance these two things?"

Hearing this question, Chen Yuan looked at Cola lying by his side and pondered: "It mainly works hard on its own, gets up early every day, and doesn’t neglect either driving or training."

"Your Gale Hunting Dog is indeed diligent and hardworking." Song Wei sincerely exclaimed.

"Woof?"

Cola blinked its eyes.

Diligent and hardworking?

Me?

Watching the interview on TV, Duck laughed heartily: "Quack, quack, quack!"

Cola being diligent and hardworking?

Does that mean following me every morning to soak up the sun, chasing butterflies without a care, or wandering around the village, leading the Puppy Team on wild runs?

If this counts, then my daily insistence on watering the Spirit Plant would also mean being diligent and hardworking, right?

"Dian Dian!"

The Electric Flying Cat also laughed. As Cola’s good friend, it knew exactly what Cola was like every day.

If there were a ranking of diligence among the farm members, the top spot would undoubtedly go to the Big Sister.

The Big Sister is always training or on her way to training, so she rules the farm.

Second place should be the Twin Flower Concubine and Iron Head. The Twin Flower Concubine practices various Skills every day by following along with a cellphone.

To practice both Wood Skills and Poison Skills at the same time, it often uses the farm’s flowers and plants as test subjects, first tormenting them with Poison Skills to test the toxicity, then using Wood Skills to catalyze life and revive them.

Compared to the Twin Flower Concubine, Iron Head’s training is very monotonous and singular; it always practices just one Skill, which is Steel Blade.

In its words, a skill should be mastered rather than learned in quantity. Mastering one skill to the extreme can cause the greatest damage to opponents.

So it swings Steel Blade at the big stones in the yard every day and has now split several into pieces.

Its goal is simple: to split a mountain in one strike one day and have the confidence to leave the farm and explore the outside world.

The Cold-Biting Ox’s level of effort is similar to theirs, training every day under Chen Weiyi’s watchful eye. Although the results are minimal, the emitted cold air is becoming increasingly terrifying. One day, it may freeze the entire farm.

Below them is the Fallen Meteor Horned Beast, which has been running around the nearby mountains from dawn to dusk to get a good ranking in the riding competition, even jogging in the yard at night.

Run Run Duck and Electric Flying Cat unsurprisingly rank at the bottom.

The most diligent training period for Run Run Duck was when the farm was in danger. The threat of the Snow Cloud Wolf made it practice Skills diligently every day, just to protect the old man and the farm.

But once the threat of the Snow Cloud Wolf disappeared, Run Run Duck naturally became lazy, with its only daily training being to irrigate the Spirit Plant.

As for the Electric Flying Cat, the most diligent times were when it got fat and was under Chen Yuan’s supervision to lose weight, and when it was trying to impress the Ice Crystal Illusion Cat by pretending to be diligent for a few days.

Now both the Electric Flying Cat and Run Run Duck are lazy together, not training unless supervised by Chen Yuan.

However, once Chen Yuan returns, the two little ones will undergo the most rigorous training.

The Wood Spirit Rat family need not be mentioned, as they do not seek great power, preferring instead to live peacefully and leisurely on the farm.

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After shaking off the group of reporters and media, Chen Yuan entered the audience seating inside the venue through another passage and sat down next to Zhang Hao.

"Yuan, you’re awesome." Zhang Hao, his extroverted nature evident, gave Chen Yuan a thumbs up in front of the surrounding spectators.

The other spectators, upon seeing Chen Yuan, all became excited, asking for autographs or inviting him for photos.

After a commotion, Chen Yuan finally sat down quietly.

The next match was Nie Li against another captain from the Investigation Department.

It’s amusing, but even though he’s known Nie Li for some time, Chen Yuan isn’t familiar with Nie Li’s Pet Beast.

Every time Nie Li appeared, Chen Yuan had already resolved the issue with Spark and Cola, making Nie Li’s intervention unnecessary.

But as a female captain, and responsible for the Qinling area, Nie Li’s strength is naturally beyond doubt.

The first Pet Beast she sent out was the Fire Dog, and Chen Yuan was no stranger to this "Three Royal Families of the Donghuang," frequently seeing its presence all over.

As soon as it appeared, Nie Li’s Fire Dog showed terrifying dominance throughout, suppressing the opponent’s Pet Beast and eventually winning easily.

Watching Chen Yuan gaze intently at Nie Li, Zhang Hao leaned over, winking: "What do you think?"