This call of “senior” immediately brought them closer, hoping there might be a discount later.

James Harper: “You flatter me. Anyone can try this method. After you receive your pet beast, I can give you a discount on two sets of mascot costumes.”

William Carter: ???

A discount is a discount, but it’s not a full discount.

Are you the business genius here?

I don’t want it!

William Carter didn’t say it out loud for now, planning to refuse after picking out his pet beast...

Bundling food sales is one thing, but selling COS costumes together too—is that reasonable?

Next, the staff member named James Harper led William Carter into the pavilion next door.

She began to take off the mascot costume.

At this moment, William Carter finally saw what the person inside the costume looked like.

Underneath the costume was a woman about twenty-four or twenty-five, with a mature and elegant air.

Her features were delicate, her figure tall, and she had long, beautiful black hair. However, because she had just been wearing the mascot costume, her hair was a bit messy.

But she didn’t seem to mind, her expression was very casual.

Right now, William Carter really wanted to ask, just how much do you like giant pandas?

Because even under the mascot costume, her clothes were panda-themed.

She wore white shorts with black spots, a loose but slightly puffed black-and-white hoodie, and a hat with panda ears hanging at the back.

Are you going to try to sell me a set of these clothes too?

“Let’s register first. By the way, did you bring all the documents?” she exhaled deeply and said to William Carter.

The procedures for buying and receiving a pet beast from the breeding base are quite complicated.

Especially for someone like William Carter who needed a loan to buy a pet beast.

The breeding base must have all the proper certification documents.

This whole process would take quite a while.

Fortunately, William Carter had already prepared all the documents back in Bingyuan City, so everything should be in order now.

“I have everything.”

Next, with James Harper’s help, William Carter completed the registration, and the two of them verified all the relevant documents one by one.

After checking, James Harper nodded and said, “Then you should be able to receive your pet beast today.”

“Today?”

“So I can go pick one out now?” William Carter was very surprised.

The previous reservation deposit didn’t specify an individual.

So, which panda cub to choose still had to be decided by the beastmaster in person—the connection between the two was important.

James Harper shook her head and said, “You came too late. If you had come earlier, you might have been able to choose.”

“The situation now is that there’s only one panda cub left from this batch.”

“And this one has some issues with its constitution and temperament...”

“...” William Carter was stunned. What’s going on? Is this a plot twist... Am I the Ash Ketchum of this story?

Chapter 7: The Panda Will Never Be a Slave

The environment at the Iron Bamboo Breeding Base is different from the Bingyuan City base—here, there’s only a high mountain bamboo forest area.

In this world, William Carter often encountered many things that defied common sense.

For example, three or four types of environments that could never be adjacent on Earth could easily blend together here.

But if you look closely, you’ll find it’s all due to the special powers of extraordinary creatures affecting the outside world.

The environment at the Iron Bamboo Breeding Base is relatively normal, at least more so than the Bingyuan City base.

The soil is rich, the forest lush, iron bamboo grows well, and there’s plenty of water with clear springs flowing—exactly the kind of environment pandas love.

At this moment, William Carter and breeder James Harper had already entered the breeding area.

Even though there was only one cub left, he still had to take a look. He couldn’t just wait another year for a new batch of panda cubs to grow up.

Life isn’t easy, William Carter sighed...

At the Iron Bamboo Breeding Base, there weren’t just panda cubs—there were also many adult pandas. It’s just that William Carter had reserved a cub.

For a rookie beastmaster like him, forming a contract with a pet beast cub was already his limit.

While adult pandas could also be contracted, William Carter clearly couldn’t handle them.

“Pandas... really are homebodies.”

Along the way, William Carter saw many pandas lounging around nearby, all of them just lazing and sleeping.

Some slept in grass nests, some hugged tree trunks, some slept on branches—all surprisingly quiet.

“It’s not their active season yet. At this time, the bigger pandas are usually pretty quiet, but the younger ones are more lively.”

James Harper walked ahead and said. Sure enough, under her guidance, it wasn’t long before William Carter saw a much smaller panda.

It was less than a meter long, not very big, about a year old—just at the stage of leaving its mother and living independently.

The panda cubs reserved by beastmasters were basically all at this age, since younger cubs were too hard to care for.

“Is it this one?”

When William Carter saw this little panda, he was instantly overjoyed, feeling that his three months of waiting hadn’t been in vain.

This panda cub had soft black-and-white fur, a short wagging tail, and was incredibly cute.