Xie Sen ran out as fast as he could, but Maine was nowhere to be seen. He ran all the way through the hallway, and out of the Cox house. The parking lot to the right of Cox’s house suddenly lit up with a beam of light, the bright light of the shuttle starting up at night. He looked over to see Maine’s shuttle taking off.
He rushed to the curb and stopped a public shuttle. He pointed at the shuttle that was about to disappear from view. “Mister, catch up with it as fast as you can.”
The driver drove as fast as he could, while he glanced in the rearview mirror. “Why are you chasing him?”
Xie Sen guessed that the driver was worried that he was following someone to do something bad, and simply replied, “He’s hurt and angry.”
The driver saw Xie Sen’s anxious eyes, then his thin body, and he joked, “Had a fight with your boyfriend?”
Xie Sen wasn’t in a joking mood at all. He was thinking about Maine’s injuries and his last expression. His heart ached, and he couldn’t help but worry. He urged, “Can you go any faster?”
“I’m already going the speed limit. Don’t worry, we can’t lose him. He can only go so fast.”
Xie Sen opened the bracelet to contact Maine, but all the communications and messages were lost in the sea. He got no response, and the speed of the shuttle ahead didn’t slow down at all. The two shuttles were one after the other, overtaking countless shuttles along the way. Twenty minutes later, the driver frowned. “Where does your friend live? If we keep driving, we’ll be out of town, and public shuttles can’t get out of town.”
Xie Sen was even more worried. He hoped Maine would stop in time. Outside the city was a continuous forest of rogues. It was too dangerous to go into the forest at night. His hopes were dashed as Maine drove the shuttle, stopped briefly at the city gates, then went straight out of town, while his shuttle was forced to park in a parking lot at the Star City border.
Xie Sen paid and got out of the shuttle in a hurry. He didn’t care at all about the driver who was yelling behind him that it was dangerous to leave the city at night. He ran to the city gate, and was stopped. “You can’t go out there.”
“I have a permit to leave the city!” Xie Sen looked anxiously out of the city, and showed his proof.
“You’re a junior, right? In addition to the permission to leave the city alone, you must also be able to meet the conditions of the ability charm. For three, they must be D class or above contract beast masters.” The officer who was checking the documents looked at him. “To go out alone, the minimum is a B class contract beast master.”
Xie Sen thought it was a close call, and pulled up his identity information. “I’m a B class!”
The inspector looked surprised. After he read his information, he looked at him again. “Are you sure you want to go out alone? It’s dangerous at night, and you are entirely responsible for your own safety outside of the city.”
Xie Sen’s patience was almost exhausted. “I’m sure. Can I go out now?”
“Yes.” He met the conditions, and was so determined, that the inspector had no reason to stop him and just nodded.
Xie Sen took two steps outside, turned back and asked, “I saw someone fly a shuttle in. Where would they park it?”
There must be a place to park the shuttle since it wasn’t allowed to fly in the forest at all.
“Go out and to the right. There’s a parking lot at the edge of the forest that the hunters use to park.”
“Thanks.” Xie Sen said. He switched on the light in his bracelet, turned and ran to the right.
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The Interstellar's Expert Plant Tamer
FantasyIn the post-apocalyptic world, Xie Sen was bitten to death by a zombie and woke up again as Xie Sen, the famous wastrel of Beast Star City - a child abandoned by the Beast God. After his 18th birthday, the contract beast did not awaken. This world d...