Imperial Animal

Just as Lin Ying stood in front of the window fuming, a hot wind blew past, Lin Ying's nose twitched, then his face changed: 'No good, there's a bloody smell!'

　　This was the smell of fresh blood, it was very dangerous for this kind of bloody smell to appear in the post-apocalyptic world.

　　The sense of smell of zombies was very sensitive, as long as they smelled the smell of fresh blood, they would swarm to it. And there were quite a number of zombies in the warehouse and the surrounding factories, if they were all attracted over, the consequences would be simply unimaginable.

　　Lin Ying hurriedly grabbed his weapon and ran out through the side door of the warehouse, then followed the corners of the wall, using the mutated grass as a cover to look for the source of the blood odour.

　　Lin Ying scanned the surroundings and finally locked his eyes on an empty lot in front of the warehouse.

　　It was originally the warehouse's car park, and at this moment, there was a black cat on top of it; the black cat had hunted a hare from somewhere and was currently feeding.

　　From time to time, the black cat raised its head and glanced twice in Lin Ying's direction, it was obvious that the black cat had already spotted Lin Ying in the grass, but it paid no attention to it and continued to feast on itself.

　　'I have to chase away the black cat and then dispose of the dead rabbit, otherwise the smell of blood will attract the zombies, and if the zombies are attracted to this place, I'll be in a very dangerous situation.' Lin Ying stared at the black cat while nervously paying attention to his surroundings, fearing that the fresh blood odour emanating from the dead rabbit would attract zombies.

　　However, after observing the circle, Lin Ying found that there seemed to be no other creatures around other than the black cat.

　　Lin Ying, who was about to make a move, looked at the black cat, and suddenly his eyes flashed with a brilliant light: 'Maybe, I can try out the Imperial Beast Decree on the black cat's body.'

　　For the past three days, Lin Ying had been experimenting with the Imperial Beast Decree, but there were just too few animals around the warehouse, and Lin Ying had found far fewer of them.

　　Lin Ying knew that the smell of blood emanating from the dead rabbit was dangerous right now, but there didn't seem to be any zombies around that had been attracted to the area, even the zombie rats that were unusually sensitive to the smell of blood hadn't appeared, so Lin Ying was planning to try out his Imperial Beast Decree on the black cat before driving it away.

　　Lin Ying took a deep breath and quietly combined his hands together, a series of complex hand seals flew between his hands.

　　A second later, Lin Ying's hands violently pushed forward, a stream of Yuan Qi emanated out from his hands and swiftly floated towards the black cat.

　　As if sensing something, the black cat violently raised its head and looked towards Lin Ying, while its tail stood up, bowing its waist, and its mouth let out a series of whining low growls, as if it was on the verge of an enemy.

　　Right at this moment, the Yuan Qi struck the black cat, and the black cat's voice came to an abrupt end, its body lurched, as if it had been frozen in place.

　　However, this state only lasted for a fraction of a second before the black cat let out a roar from its mouth, and its entire body immediately struggled violently.

　　However, no matter how the black cat struggled, it was as if its body was being held in place by a large invisible hand, and it could not break free.

　　As the black cat struggled violently, Lin Ying's body trembled along with it.

　　To control a wild beast with the Beast Mastery Decree was for the controller to use Yuan Qi as a medium to suppress the beast and construct a talisman formation within the beast, allowing a connection to be established between themselves and the beast, this process was extremely difficult, the beasts tended to fiercely resist during the process of being controlled, and only by withstanding the beast's resistance during this process was the controller able to establish a connection.

　　The black cat's violent resistance greatly increased the difficulty of Lin Ying's control. However, Lin Ying still struggled to control his Yuan Qi, carefully constructing the control spell formation bit by bit, the countless times Lin Ying had failed to control the beast in the past, it was in the process of constructing the rune formation that things went wrong.

　　But this time, when Lin Ying cast the Imperial Beast Decree, the black cat was basically in a static state. Therefore, Lin Ying's Yuan Qi basically didn't have any waste and all of it was applied to the black cat.

　　In that case, the Yuan Qi to suppress the black cat and construct the talisman array should be enough, and now, although the black cat's resistance was a bit severe, judging by the current situation, it was only a matter of time before the talisman array was constructed successfully.

　　'Roar! Roar! Roar!'

　　Suddenly, the black cat let out a series of roars, the whole body even let out a 'crackling' sound, and then the whole body instantly swelled up as if it had been blown up, what was even more surprising was that the black cat's claws and fangs lengthened at a speed that could be seen by the naked eye, and a few strands of white hair on the forehead vaguely formed the word 'king'. A few strands of white hair on its forehead vaguely formed the word 'king', and from its appearance, the black cat instantly turned into a smaller tiger.

　　Seeing the change in the black cat, a hint of panic appeared on Lin Ying's face: 'Evolved beast!'

　　Through these ten days of observation, Lin Ying found that after the end of the world, mutations had occurred amongst the animals, some of the animals had mutated into zombie beasts, these zombie beasts had completely lost their autonomous consciousness and only relied on their instincts, constantly killing.

　　And the rest of the animals, part of the animals have evolved, Lin Ying called evolutionary beasts, this type of evolutionary beasts of all aspects of the body's function has been exponentially increased, combat strength than the zombie beasts, but the main thing is that this type of animal still retains an autonomous consciousness, and those who only know how to kill the monster is completely different.

　　What Lin Ying never expected was that this black cat in front of him was actually an evolved beast.

　　With the change in size, although the black cat's body was still trembling, the amplitude of the trembling was slowly diminishing. The black cat's eyes revealed a burst of ferocious light, then stared dead on at Lin Ying, its limbs slightly bent down, ready to strike.

　　Lin Ying felt that the Yuan Qi he had applied to the black cat was being continuously expelled from his body, and the Rune Formation he had constructed was also showing signs of collapsing, if the black cat expelled this Yuan Qi from its body, Lin Ying's Rune Formation would completely collapse, completely losing control of the black cat.

　　At that time, the black cat that broke free of its control could possibly escape, or it could launch a fierce attack on Lin Ying. If it launched an attack, the attack would be even more powerful than even a zombie.

　　Looking at the black cat's reaction, Lin Ying was anxious in his heart.

　　Lin Ying kept his hand posture still, then worked hard to control his Yuan Qi to avoid being repelled out of his body by the black cat. At the same time, Lin Ying accelerated the construction of the runic formation, hoping to control the black cat quickly.

　　As the saying goes, blessings and misfortunes do not come singly, just as Lin Ying was struggling to control the black cat, a crippled zombie limped out from the corner of the warehouse, the zombie shrugged its nose as it walked.

　　Obviously, this zombie was attracted by the smell of blood.

　　Lin Ying's eyes swept the zombie with the rest of his eyes, and his face instantly became very ugly.

　　If the first zombie appeared, there was a possibility that the second and the third would appear as well, and Lin Ying wouldn't dare to think about it when the time came.

　　What's more, Lin Ying was now in a stalemate with the black cat, his body couldn't move at all, unless he gave up his control over the black cat.

　　Seeing the black cat's constantly lowering body, and the zombies that appeared, Lin Ying's heart was anxious, and his face was even whiter.

　　The black cat also noticed the zombies, and its eyes flashed with a brilliant light before it let out an excited roar.

　　Hearing the black cat's roar, the crippled zombie paused for a moment, then let out an excited 'ho-ho' sound from its mouth and limped towards Lin Ying's direction.

　　The limping zombie's running speed wasn't fast, it was only equivalent to the speed of a human's brisk walk, but he was only more than ten metres away from Lin Ying, and the limping zombie only took ten seconds to rush halfway across the road.

　　The rest of Lin Ying's eyes swept over the zombie, and a wave of resignation appeared on his pale face.

　　The black cat's resistance had always been violent, and it was difficult to control it in a short period of time.

　　But the zombie had appeared, and Lin Ying had to make a choice: either give up control of the black cat for the time being and meet the zombie, in which case there was a chance that the black cat would escape; or take a gamble and control the black cat before the zombie caught him.

　　'Fight!' Lin Ying took a deep breath, his eyes suddenly bursting into a blood red colour, clenching his teeth and changing his hand signals as if he was crazy.

　　The distance between the eight-metre, seven-metre, six-metre and three-metre zombies and Lin Ying continued to shorten.

　　The crippled zombie came to a place that was still two metres away from Lin Ying, then stretched out its claws and grabbed Lin Ying's arm. The zombie's open mouth was even spewing out gusts of putrid breath, and a bloodthirsty expression appeared on its distorted face.

　　Just when the zombie's claws were still three centimetres away from Lin Shadow, Lin Shadow's gesture was finally completed.

　　Then, Lin Ying's hands fiercely pushed out towards the black cat's body, and a low roar came out of his mouth:- 'Retract!'

　　The launched hands couldn't retract in time, and Lin Shadow's body twisted, then fell back violently.

　　'Pfft!' The zombie's claws brushed against Lin Ying's arm, its long nails taking away a large part of Lin Ying's clothing.

　　After falling to the ground, Lin Ying hurriedly rolled backwards, trying to avoid the zombie's next attack.

　　Lin Ying rolled twice on the ground, then he propped his left hand on the ground and used the force to jump up, at the same time, his right hand pulled down the weapon on his waist and swung it in the direction of the zombie with his hand.

　　'Ka-ching.'

　　The hammer in Lin Ying's hand struck the zombie's shoulder, and the zombie stumbled and fell to the side with its teeth and claws open.

　　Lin Ying avoided the other party's claws, then took a step forward and swung the hammer in his hand again, smashing it into the zombie's head.

　　'With a bang, the zombie was smashed to the ground, Lin Ying moved forward, stepped on the zombie's back with one foot, and swung the hammer at the zombie's head.

　　After a few hits, the zombie's brain burst out, dead beyond death.

　　After resolving the zombie, Lin Ying hurriedly began to check his arm.

　　The zombie's claw just now took away a large part of Lin Shadow's sleeve, Lin Shadow didn't know if he had injured his own arm, if he had been scratched, everything would be over.

　　Thinking of this, Lin Ying's face was even more deathly grey, and his body couldn't help but tremble, large sweat dripped down from his forehead.

　　Lin Ying struggled to control his body and tremblingly used his other hand to uncover the broken sleeve part.

　　'Still, luckily, it didn't hurt my arm!'

　　The zombie had scratched Lin Ying's outside coveralls, but the skin inside was intact, not even a mark.

　　Seeing the intact arm, Lin Ying's heart let out a sigh of relief.

　　Wiping off the sweat on his forehead, Lin Ying found that his whole body had long been drenched in sweat.

　　Just now, it was really too thrilling, if his movements were slower by a second, the claws of the zombie would have taken away not his clothes but his own flesh and blood.

　　Since the end of the world, Lin Ying had never been this close to death.

　　'Phew,' Lin Ying exhaled a mouthful of turbid air, calmed down a bit, and started looking for the black cat.

　　When the zombies were approaching just now, Lin Ying had forced the runic formation in the black cat's body to wind down without regard to his own safety, and Lin Ying didn't know if what he had done at that time had been successful.

　　After searching around, Lin Ying found that at this time, the black cat had returned to its normal size, and was standing next to the dead rabbit staring blankly at himself, a sense of confusion and struggle in his eyes.

　　It was also at this moment that Lin Ying felt that there was suddenly a very peculiar connection between himself and the black cat.

　　'This, this, this?' Lin Ying looked at the black cat incredulously, feeling the information that connection brought to him.

　　This was an esoteric spiritual connection that couldn't be seen, couldn't be touched, and yet actually existed.

　　It felt as if the black cat was a part of his own body, as long as he gave orders in his head, the black cat would naturally carry them out.

　　'Come here!'

　　Lin Ying's mind had just had this thought when the black cat swished and disappeared in place.

　　In the next moment, the black cat appeared at Lin Ying's side with a surprisingly fast speed, like a bolt of lightning.

　　'Haha, it worked! It worked, I actually succeeded!' Lin Ying clenched his fists in excitement and waved his hand vigorously.

　　The ecstatic Lin Ying looked at the black cat at his feet and let out a long sigh of relief, the unhappiness that had been pent up in his heart during this period of time also dissipated at this moment, 'The Imperial Beast Decree has finally succeeded, even though the process of controlling it was a bit perilous, it's still considered to be a good start. I wonder, what kind of surprises will the other secret arts bring me? It's really something to look forward to!'