When the sewers of Encircle Town were first built, they only connected the first two districts that were built, the central and eastern districts.
The wastewater from the central district was discharged out of the city through the sewers in the eastern district.
The sewers in the south, north, and west of the city were originally completely independent.
The sewage in each area was thus discharged out of the city through independent sewer systems.
But later on, due to the existence of the gray-spotted rats and other Transcendent rats, the sewers of the five areas in Encircle Town were connected.
The rats that entered the city from the sewer pipes outside the city did not just treat the sewer as their habitat.
They would destroy the sewers.
The sewer system in Encircle Town was destroyed, or rather, excavated by the rats all year round.
It had long become an underground maze, an underground world that was completely different from the original sewer system.
Even the designers who were most familiar with the original sewer structure might get lost.
The sewers of the town had thus become the most dangerous place in the entire city.
In the five main districts of Encircle Town, manhole covers that led to the sewers were everywhere.
After the rats had started flooding the sewers, the higher-ups of the town had given the order to seal the manholes completely with thick concrete to prevent the rats from rushing out of the sewers and attacking the residents.
Now, there were only two places in Encircle Town that could lead to the sewers.
One was in the eastern district, with a squad from the beastmaster army guarding the exit. Apart from official personnel, not even non-official beastmasters were not allowed to enter, let alone ordinary people.
The beastmaster army would clean the rats up regularly.
The other entrance was located in the western district.
The entrance to the western district was jointly guarded by people from the Beastmaster Association and the Management Council's bounty department.
Beastmasters who had accepted the bounty department or Beastmaster Association's mission to clear out the rats were able to enter and leave freely through that entrance.
Ji An, who had lived in Encircle Town for more than ten years in both his past and present lives, could be said to be very familiar with every brick and tile of the town.
According to his memory, he easily found the entrance to the sewer in the western district of town.
It was said to be the entrance to the sewer, but in fact, it was not the typical narrow manhole that could only accommodate one person.
Instead, it had been expanded to a large passage that could accommodate two military vehicles side by side.
The passage was surrounded by a layer of electric barbed wire where several teams of armed guards were constantly patrolling.
The guards checked Ji An's beastmaster ID and the mission information that the Beastmaster Association had sent to his communication device after he had accepted the mission.
Then, they pulled open a wire mesh door and let Ji An in.
After entering the barbed wire encirclement, only then did Ji An pass through the first security check that led to the sewers.
Behind the steel wire fence, three to four wind-chasing dogs the size of ordinary tigers were constantly on guard of their surroundings, led by their respective beastmasters.
The wind-chasing dog was also a lower-class Extraordinary-level race, similar to the winter bear.
However, compared to the winter bear, wind-chasing dogs were much more common in Encircle Town.
This was because they were a kind of familiar with an extremely developed sense of smell, thus the standard familiar for beastmasters in the garrison.
Not only did they have a strong sense of smell, but they also had the skill "Wind Smell" that allowed them to pursue their target through air currents. They were definitely experts at capturing hidden criminals. Their ability to sense danger was also far stronger than ordinary familiars.
If one wanted to become a beastmaster in the garrison, reaching the Extraordinary level was the minimum requirement.
Military organizations with extremely high benefits, like the garrison and the beastmaster army, had strict standards when recruiting beastmasters. One of the requirements was that they only recruited beastmasters above the Extraordinary level.
The garrison and the beastmaster army valued elites more than numbers.
A single Extraordinary-level beastmaster was often more useful than ten Entry-level beastmasters.
This was also the reason why the two large organizations only recruited Extraordinary-level beastmasters.
Investing their limited resources into Extraordinary-level beastmasters was undoubtedly more in line with their original intentions.
Even though the two large organizations had thus cut off the opportunity for the many Entry-level beastmasters to join them, it was even more attractive to those beastmasters who had hopes of breaking through to the Extraordinary level.
Even Ma Qinghe, a rank 10 Entry-level beastmaster who was quite familiar with Ji An, had his goal of breaking through to the Extraordinary-level and joining the garrison or the beastmaster army.
Obviously, the beastmasters with the wind-chasing dogs were all Extraordinary-level as well.
Wind-chasing dogs the size of adult tigers were mature individuals that had evolved to the lower-class Extraordinary level.
A beastmaster wearing the garrison's dark green uniform with a wind-chasing dog slowly walked over after seeing Ji An.
"I'm Wang Yong, the captain of the garrison's 10th special forces squad. Please show me your identification," Wang Yong was a middle-aged man with a resolute face. At this moment, he stood in front of Ji An and looked at him with a serious expression.
Ji An obediently took out his beastmaster identification.
He felt a real threat from this man.
The threatening feeling was even stronger than the feeling the beastmasters around him gave off, who had all reached the Extraordinary level.
Even among the veteran beastmasters that Ji An had met at the Beastmaster Association, the sense of threat Wang Yong gave him was one of the strongest.
While the other party was looking through his identification, Ji An, driven by curiosity, used the Eye of Insight to take a look at the wind-chasing dog next to him.
Compared to the other wind-chasing dogs, this one was not much different.
However, its aura was more restrained and seemed to be more agile.
When Ji An looked at it, it also sized him up with curiosity.
Never mind if he hadn't looked, but the moment he did, he was shocked.
[Race]: Wind-chasing Dog
[Race Level]: Lower-class Extraordinary
[Evolution Level]: Intermediate-class Extraordinary
[Energy Level]: 690.7
[Acquired Skills]: Wind Smell (393/450), Wind Tooth (381/423), Berserk (209)
[Potential Skills]: None
Just from its stats alone, it could be seen that this wind-chasing dog was not simple, especially in its energy level.
Take the energy level of a Morphing-level familiar as an example.
The energy level of a Morphing-level familiar was usually between 1 to 99, and different energy levels corresponded to the first to tenth Morphing stages.
On the other hand, the energy level of an Extraordinary-level familiar was usually between 100 to 999.
Lower-class Extraordinary, 100 to 399.
Intermediate-class Extraordinary, 400 to 699.
Advanced-class Extraordinary, 700 to 999.
This wind-chasing dog, which race level was only at the lower-class Extraordinary level, had not only broken through the limits of its race but even reached the intermediate-class Extraordinary level.
Even its energy level was close to the limit of the intermediate-class Extraordinary level.
This meant that this was a wind-chasing dog that had broken through the limits of its energy level and race level, and had completed its own evolution.
It wasn't that such familiars didn't exist, but they were definitely rare.
They were often individuals with extremely solid foundations that had an extremely high success rate in completing their racial form evolution.
If it wasn't for the fact that it hadn't encountered an opportunity to evolve, this wind-chasing dog would probably have evolved to the form of a higher level.
Other than that, the wind-chasing dog's mastery of its skills was commendable, even with Ji An's increasingly picky standards as Ping An's mastery of skills improved.
The wind-chasing dog had one less racial skill than the winter bear race.
They only had two elementary skills, Wind Smell and Wind Tooth.
This wind-chasing dog had mastered both racial skills to the peak of the Mastery realm.
One more step and it would reach the Great Success realm.
This undoubtedly meant that the wind-chasing dog's combat strength was also outstanding.
Other than that, the wind-chasing dog had also mastered an intermediate skill, Berserk.
This was a skill that could force the wind-chasing dog into a frenzied battle state.
While lowering the wind-chasing dog's intelligence, the skill would greatly increase the wind-chasing dog's combat power and battle instincts.
It was considered a rather powerful intermediate skill.
However, this skill did not have a maximum potential value that the wind-chasing dog could grow to.
This meant that the wind-chasing dog did not have any natural potential in improving this skill.
In other words, this skill was acquired through training.
Improvement could only be achieved through human training.
For the wind-chasing dog's acquired skill to be trained to a skill mastery value of 209, which was the Proficient realm, it proved that the beastmaster before him was quite strong.