As a mentally mature adult, Zhang Ping naturally wouldn’t react like a fool when encountering such a situation.

He calmly entered the teaching building and found the faculty room. However, when he saw that one of the teachers outside was also a fox with human skin on its forehead, he walked past without a change in expression, not bothering to go inside and seek help.

It seemed that the teachers weren’t necessarily reliable.

These foxes were clearly a type of Mutated Beast, and their combat strength was still unknown.

If he exposed them, these Mutated Beasts might not stop and could start a massacre right in the school. If the teachers were unreliable, he would definitely be in trouble.

Moreover, he had no evidence. Words alone wouldn’t suffice.

If the teachers didn’t believe him, it could backfire and put him in an even more dangerous position.

“What a surprise!”

Zhang Ping entered the restroom, his mood somewhat complicated. He stood for a while before walking back out and heading toward the classroom.

This was troublesome.

Not only did the school have two Mutated Beasts, but was the entire city also infiltrated with them?

Thinking further, who truly controlled the city?

Zhang Ping lay on his desk, squinting one eye open as he gazed out the window, silently thinking, “It seems my abilities still have a lot I don’t understand.”

The human skin on the two Mutated Beasts was extremely old, clearly showing that they had been hiding in the school for quite a while.

But before swallowing the Greed Gem, like most of his classmates, he hadn’t realized that Luo Shiyu and the unknown teacher were Mutated Beasts.

So this change must have come from the Greed Gem he swallowed.

Zhang Ping opened his hand and soon condensed another Greed Gem. He squinted at the gem for a moment before opening his mouth and swallowing it.

After all, there were no rules saying one couldn’t eat more than one Greed Gem. Since this transformation came from the one he ate yesterday, what would happen if he consumed another?

After swallowing the gem, Zhang Ping suddenly felt a surge of inspiration. Unlike yesterday’s “Sword and Man Unification,” this time he felt something like “Heaven and Man Communication,” as though he had been elevated.

A few minutes later, he opened his eyes, feeling as though the entire world had become brighter and more vivid.

He looked at the desk nearby, keenly detecting a faint smell of blood. His eyes then naturally began to picture a horrifying scene: the teacher in the front of the classroom was lecturing, while a giant fox stood in the classroom, gnawing on a student’s head. Neither the teacher nor the students seemed to notice.

【Identification Complete】

【Blood-soaked Desk: Once, a diligent student was secretly harmed by a Mutated Beast, and this Blood-soaked Desk faithfully recorded it all.】

Suddenly, two lines of text appeared before Zhang Ping’s eyes. He was momentarily stunned but quickly looked at the other desks, noticing that none of them triggered the strange ability that had appeared.

He thought for a moment, then lowered his head and stared at himself. After about a minute, text began to materialize before his eyes.

【Identification Complete】

【Summoned Beast: Zhang Ping】

【Master: Zhang Ping】

【Race: Human】

【Potential: ⭐⭐⭐】

【Lifespan: 89】

【Talent】

【Contract Gem: Consuming physical and mental energy to condense a Contract Gem. Once the target voluntarily accepts, their life, soul, and consciousness will be controlled by the Summoner, but they will also gain the Summoner's potential and luck. After the first use, subsequent uses will slightly enhance the user’s potential and have a 1% chance of awakening a new talent. PS. The talent abilities gained by Summoner Zhang Ping, derived from overdrawn intelligence, potential, and luck, are extremely powerful, but they also carry a great flaw—ambition may not always be a good thing.】

【Absolute Command: You have absolute control over Summoned Beasts. Your orders are unconditionally obeyed.】

【Absolute Obedience: You must obey the Summoner's orders without question.】

【Unstable Identification Skill: You can identify targets with a very small chance of obtaining their information. The closer the power gap between you and the target, the higher the success rate. PS. This is a talent ability born from the curiosity of both Summoned Beast Zhang Ping and Summoner Zhang Ping.】

It really worked!

Zhang Ping’s eyes brightened. He hadn’t expected to be able to identify information.

However, when he saw that the Summoned Beast was himself and the Summoner was also himself, he couldn’t help but chuckle.

Does this mean he was both his own father and son now?

At least, this gave him a new benefit: he now had absolute dominion over his own consciousness, meaning no other being could influence his subjective mind.

Next, he carefully reviewed all the identified information. Even though he was usually calm, he couldn’t help but grin slightly at this moment.

It turned out that his ability wasn’t called Greed Gem, but rather Contract Gem.

The power of the Contract Gem was far greater than he had imagined.

Awakening new talents meant he could awaken a second, third, or even fourth superpower, which opened up infinite possibilities.

Typically, each person only had one ability.

Though that ability could grow stronger with practice and new ways of using it, it was still essentially just one power.

But Contract Gem could continuously enhance the Summoned Beast’s potential and even trigger new abilities. This was terrifying.

After understanding his own information, Zhang Ping had a general sense of his situation.

Now, the most important thing was to stay alive. As long as he lived, there was hope.

But that didn’t mean he would sit idly by. First, he needed to figure out the true state of the city. Even if he couldn’t understand everything, he at least needed to know whether Mingzhu city was under human control or Mutated Beast control.

He didn’t want his desk to become a Blood-soaked Desk.

At noon.

After class, Zhang Ping quickly ate lunch and left the school.

He had already come up with an excuse during class to go find Su Jingyao at the Patrol Squad, hoping to see how many Mutated Beasts were lurking in the city.

Walking down the street, he soon saw a shop selling melee weapons. Inside, a humanoid fox was munching on a human arm while reading a newspaper, possibly appearing to other people as just a middle-aged man eating chicken wings while reading the paper.

【Identification Complete】

【Mutated Beast: Skyborn Fox】

【Race: Mutated Fox】

【Potential: Unknown】

【Lifespan: Unknown】

【Talent】

【Cognitive Distortion: The ability to twist the biological cognition of others, altering their perceptions.】

【Common Sense Disruption: When performing abnormal actions, it can forcibly break the target’s common sense, making them unable to detect the anomaly.】

Zhang Ping kept walking, not pausing for a second.

As soon as he finished reading the identification results, he immediately realized that the Skyborn Fox had likely infiltrated the entire city of Mingzhu.

Thankfully, he hadn’t foolishly reported them; if he had, he would have been the one to die, not the Skyborn Fox.

Two hours later, he reached the Patrol Squad headquarters. He walked up to the consultation desk and asked, “Excuse me, I’m looking for someone.”

“Hello, who are you looking for?” A Skyborn Fox asked in a raspy voice from behind the counter.

Zhang Ping remained calm and replied, “Su Jingyao. She should have just reported here today.”

“I’ll check,” the Skyborn Fox nodded, then checked the records.

After a moment, it looked up at Zhang Ping and said, “Su Jingyao is still at headquarters. Do you need me to inform her to come over?”

“That would be great. Thanks,” Zhang Ping replied.

【Identification Complete】

【Mutated Beast: Skyborn Fox】

【Race: Mutated Fox】

【Potential: Unknown】

【Lifespan: Unknown】

【Talent】

【Cognitive Distortion: You have the ability to twist the biological cognition of others, altering their perceptions.】

【Common Sense Disruption: When performing abnormal actions, you can forcibly break the target’s common sense, making them unable to detect the anomaly.】

【Unexplained Trust: Most beings will instinctively trust you.】

This Skyborn Fox was much stronger than the previous ones!

Most humans only had one talent, but Mutated Beasts often had more than two. Some even had three, which explained why humans were so weak in comparison.

In this world, if humans didn’t have wisdom, didn’t know how to cooperate or use tools, they were at the bottom of the food chain.

After a while, Zhang Ping heard footsteps and looked up, a smile slowly spreading across his face.

Two Skyborn Foxes walked toward him. One of them had Su Jingyao’s human skin on its forehead, and the skin was blood-soaked, looking terrifying.

“Zhang Ping, what are you here for?” the Skyborn Fox with Su Jingyao’s skin asked in a raspy voice.

Zhang Ping smiled and said,

"I’m mainly worried that you won’t be able to adjust to the Patrol Squad. How do you feel about it? If you can't handle it, then how about going farm with me?"

"Who’s going farming with you? Only in the Patrol Squad can I get stronger, and eventually go out to kill Mutated Beasts to avenge my parents!" that Skyborn Fox said with an annoyed tone.

Zhang Ping sighed, "Alright, looks like you’re doing fine. I’ll stop worrying about you."

"Are you really planning to farm?" Skyborn Fox asked.

Zhang Ping shrugged helplessly, "What else can I do? My ability’s an Ineffective Rank. I’m leaving, and it might be a long time before we see each other again."

"Mm, next time we meet," Skyborn Fox nodded, then turned and left.

Zhang Ping walked out of the Patrol Squad headquarters, gazing up at the blue sky. After a long moment, he let out a deep sigh, looking like a heartbroken boy.

Next, he entered a nearby restaurant across the street.

The restaurant had a perfect view of the Patrol Squad headquarters’ entrance. He ordered a cup of tea and sat by the window.

Being brave doesn’t mean being reckless, and anger doesn’t mean you can lose control.

Zhang Ping, in his previous life, had been a member of a rescue team. Even though he was burning with anger, the more furious he felt, the calmer he became.

By the end of the afternoon, he had gathered all the information he needed and returned to the school.

There wasn’t a single living soul in the Patrol Squad, only Skyborn Fox.

This was the conclusion he reached after observing for the entire afternoon. In other words, anyone who joined the Patrol Squad had been sentenced to death.

The Patrol Squad had been completely taken over by Skyborn Fox. For them, Mingzhu city had become a hunting ground, with everyone else as their livestock.

No wonder even the school had Skyborn Fox—Mingzhu city had already fallen!