Chapter 122: The First Ride, A Little Painful.
Looking at the Unicorn that walked in front of him, he quietly hid the hemp rope in his other hand behind his back.
Then, with the hand that had been maintaining the Beast Taming Technique, he gently stroked the Unicorn’s head.
After Lin Ye touched the Unicorn, the Unicorn comfortably tilted its head and rubbed against Lin Ye’s hand.
Lin Ye looked at the Unicorn’s appearance and felt that the time was almost right. His gaze sharpened, and the phantom image of the collar in his right palm instantly enlarged, directly encircling the Unicorn’s neck.
The Unicorn seemed to sense something and initially resisted slightly.
Seeing this, Lin Ye quickly continued to stroke the Unicorn, constantly soothing it.
The Unicorn, being stroked by Lin Ye, comfortably closed its eyes and no longer paid attention to the phantom collar around its neck.
Slowly, the phantom image gradually solidified, becoming less transparent until it looked like a real object.
As the collar’s solidification was completed, it suddenly exploded, transforming into ten thousand points of light that merged into the Unicorn’s body.
Lin Ye also revealed a happy smile upon seeing this scene.
With this, the Unicorn had been successfully tamed by him.
The Beast Taming Technique was divided into several stages. One was to enhance one’s affinity with beasts, allowing one to approach them.
Second, after approaching the beast, one must place a hand on it to activate the collar and begin taming.
The next stage was the third, which could lower the beast’s perception of danger to the minimum, allowing the collar to successfully solidify and explode, completing the taming.
After the light points from the collar merged into the Unicorn’s body, the Unicorn’s body stiffened slightly.
Then Lin Ye discovered a very faint connection had formed between him and the Unicorn.
From this faint connection, Lin Ye felt the Unicorn’s anxious mood trapped on the riverbed and its happiness from being stroked by Lin Ye.
Then, Lin Ye tried to transmit a trace of his desire to ride on its back to the Unicorn.
Next, he saw the Unicorn tilt its head and look at him, then snort.
It then shook its head backward at Lin Ye.
Its eyes also conveyed a clear message to Lin Ye: “Just get on!”
Lin Ye was also surprised by the Unicorn’s intelligent gaze.
Such spirited eyes were not something ordinary beasts possessed.
But then Lin Ye laughed again.
Since it was successfully tamed, having a higher intelligence was even better, making riding it even more effortless.
The Beast-eared Girls above watched as the Unicorn and Lin Ye stood still. Susu couldn’t suppress her inner doubt and asked the other Beast-eared Girls, “Has Ye already caught the Unicorn? Should we push the handcart and depart?” Xing, on the side, also looked confused and said uncertainly.
“Should we wait a bit longer? Ye is still holding the hemp rope.”
They had seen Lin Ye go down with the hemp rope. They thought that Lin Ye’s catching the Unicorn meant tying it up with the rope.
But now, the Unicorn and Lin Ye were intimately interacting below.
For a moment, they were unsure what to do.
They could only continue to wait and watch.
The few of them continued to watch the two below. Not long after, to the astonishment of the Beast-eared Girls, Lin Ye climbed onto the Unicorn’s back.
The hemp rope in his hand was also placed around the Unicorn, with the other end held by Lin Ye.
Then, the Beast-eared Girls watched as Lin Ye rode the Unicorn and began to run downstream.
The Beast-eared Girls were stunned in place for a while. Shi was the first to speak, asking the others, “Should we depart now? I suppose Lin Ye has caught the Unicorn, right?”
After Shi finished speaking, the seven Beast-eared Girls finally reacted, quickly pushing the handcart and running downstream.
Lin Ye rode the Unicorn and began to gallop along the riverbed.
However, after a while, Lin Ye quickly tugged on the hemp rope, making the Unicorn stop.
But the Unicorn was already frolicking, and Lin Ye’s tugs had no effect, nor did the connection established through Beast Taming.
Finally, when Lin Ye had no other choice, he pulled the hemp rope hard and shouted, “Whoa!”
This time, the Unicorn slowly stopped.
After the Unicorn stopped, Lin Ye quickly dismounted from its back and landed on the ground.
Then, Lin Ye’s legs turned into a bow-legged stance, and he clutched the inner part of his thighs with his hands, his face contorted in pain.
It was Lin Ye’s first time riding a horse, and the Unicorn’s first time being ridden. It was their first time cooperating.
The result was that for every step the Unicorn took, Lin Ye was squeezed. During the Unicorn’s gallop, Lin Ye endured unbearable pain for a man.
Through the connection of Beast Taming, the Unicorn sensed the pain Lin Ye was enduring.
It also lowered its head with a dejected mood, its ears drooping.
Lin Ye massaged his inner thighs for a long time before the muscle pain subsided.
Lin Ye hadn’t expected riding a horse to be this painful.
He wondered if the ancient people on Earth, who would often ride for hundreds of miles, didn’t have their hip joints shattered?
Then Lin Ye discovered a difference. It was precisely because riding horses was painful that they invented saddles.
Lin Ye looked at the Unicorn’s smooth back and secretly resolved that he must also create a saddle. “Ye~ where did you go?”
At this moment, the calls of the Beast-eared Girls came from ahead. Lin Ye quickly replied loudly.
“Wait a moment, I’ll be right there!”
The Beast-eared Girls arrived downstream and were about to reach the place where they had crossed the river before, but they still hadn’t seen Lin Ye.
Xing was a little worried, so she called out loudly.
Then, the Beast-eared Girls heard Lin Ye’s voice and all smiled with relief.
Lin Ye no longer rode the Unicorn and instead walked downstream along the riverbank.
The Unicorn followed Lin Ye without being led, walking slowly behind him.
After a while, Lin Ye saw the Beast-eared Girls standing on the riverbank waving at him.
Lin Ye also smiled and waved back at them.
Then the Beast-eared Girls saw the Unicorn obediently following behind Lin Ye.
Susu excitedly pointed at the Unicorn and said.
“Look, you guys, we really caught the Unicorn.”
The other Beast-eared Girls had also seen it, and they all showed expressions of surprise and joy.
As he approached the Beast-eared Girls, the Unicorn looked at the pure and cute group of Beast-eared Girls in front of him and a sense of closeness automatically arose.
The few Beast-eared Girls looked at it like a treasure, stroking its fur.
The Beast-eared Girls continued to pet the Unicorn with great affection. Lin Ye, somewhat impatient, urged them, “Let’s cross the river and return to the tribe first. You can pet it to your heart’s content once we’re back at the tribe.”
Hearing Lin Ye’s voice, the Beast-eared Girls reluctantly petted it a couple more times before turning and nodding to Lin Ye.
Then Lin Ye jumped down from the riverbank again and carried the Beast-eared Girls one by one from the riverbank into the riverbed.
Then Lin Ye shouldered the handcart again and began walking towards the opposite bank of the river.
The Unicorn followed Lin Ye the entire way, its head swaying with Lin Ye’s movements.
A day passed, and the water in the small river became shallower again. Now, standing in the water only reached their ankles.
This time, the Beast-eared Girls crossed the river hand in hand, walking through the water.
After reaching the shore, Lin Ye pushed the handcart again, and the Beast-eared Girls sat on it.
The Unicorn still followed behind Lin Ye. As if it were its first time in this place, it felt a slight fear of the unfamiliar environment, so it stayed close to Lin Ye.
As Lin Ye walked, he suddenly heard the topic of the Beast-eared Girls’ conversation on the handcart shift from the Unicorn to him.
Lin Ye perked up his ears and listened carefully.
He heard Shi speaking righteously to the other Beast-eared Girls, saying, “Last night at the Winged Tribe, it was because everyone was vying to sleep next to Lin Ye that he left with Mingyun. We cannot let such a thing happen again!” As soon as these words were spoken, the smiles disappeared from the faces of the other six Beast-eared Girls.
The six Beast-eared Girls looked at Shi, nodded seriously, and then said in unison,
“Yes, this cannot happen again!”
