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"Taming - Modified": You can administer mental punishment and reward through contact with successfully tamed species.
Tao Yu sensed the changes in his newly Deified Skill, not as stunningly transformative as "Riding", but still satisfactory as a bonus gain.
This ability couldn't help with things like passively increasing loyalty or add any taming experience.
The bonus can be described as simple and crude.
But animal training always relied on measures of reward and punishment.
This was a great convenience for the implementation of 'reward and punishment'.
Combined with the 'shared emotions' of "Riding", these two bargain Skills actually made a decent pair.
"What a pity, though, it would be overwhelming in large numbers, and the prerequisite is a successful taming. It seems I can only tame creatures I'm capable of defeating and not too many at once."
Because both 'reward and punishment' required physical contact and consumed mental power to execute, this had always been a drawback of Deification Skills.
Without hesitation, he reached out and touched the Alien's massive head.
This time, Tao Yu didn't strike or use Fist Intention to reinforce the attack.
Yet, the Alien suddenly lay on the ground, screeching; through 'shared emotions', Tao Yu continually felt its fear, pain, and submission, which pleased him.
"Good. Understand who your master is. If you behave well, there's no reason you can't receive some reward. From now on, your name is Little Black."
Tao Yu petted the Alien's head like one would stroke a cat, and the comforting mental power from the reward made the Alien lie down again, seemingly with limp muscles and drooling disgusting saliva.
This made Tao Yu feel somewhat disgusted and stop his action. What on earth? How powerful is this?
As the Alien slowly came back to its senses, Tao Yu finally felt its previously rebellious attitude improve significantly; it even affectionately rubbed its exoskeleton head against his trouser leg.
Then, due to some acid blood still leaking, it corroded a few holes in Tao Yu's trousers, prompting him to kick the Alien once more and apply partial punishment, causing the Alien to roll on the ground in pain.
"Brother Tao has great techniques..."
Lin Chao, who had just dealt with the injured Alien on the other side, had a somewhat strange expression on his face.
Looking at the Alien that was once again prostrating at Tao Yu's feet, daring not to make any moves, he asked curiously,
"Is this some kind of enslavement skill? Are there any risks?"
Upon Lin Chao's words, the originally prostrating Alien immediately turned its head and bared its teeth at Lin Chao, dribbling clear, viscous saliva continuously, looking quite fierce.
It wasn't until Tao Yu kicked it again that it settled down.
"Animals will be animals. Consider it preliminarily tamed."
Tao Yu glanced at the Alien, then motioned with his mouth towards the edge of the roof,
"Go down and catch Zombies for yourself to eat. Don't you dare eat live humans, you know you can't hide it from me."
The Alien, upon hearing this, didn't hesitate and immediately lept out, scaling the side of the building like it was flat ground and plunging into the Zombie horde below. Its long tail skewered a Zombie, hauling it to a room nearby for its meal.
Because of the Alien's exoskeleton, Tao Yu wasn't worried that the Zombies could harm it.
With the 'reward' mark from earlier, he believed it wouldn't leave easily; if it really were to run off, he'd consider it a test of his Skills...
"Let's go, let's head back. Since five Aliens appeared, there could be more."
Tao Yu could gather some information from the Alien through the ability of "Riding."
At this point, Jack looked gravely at Tao Yu and spoke in a deep voice,
"Is the threat really that great?"
Tao Yu, feeling his 'Riding' creature coming within range, nodded and said,
"See for yourself."
No sooner had he spoken than the Alien, following the scent, climbed swiftly up the wall and directly onto the rooftop.
Suddenly leaping from the eaves, it landed on the ground!
It then started to bare its ferocious steel teeth at Jack and Lin Chao, grimacing menacingly.
The sight of this creature with its dark exoskeleton and those grotesque teeth put Jack immediately on guard.
Fuck!
You're keeping this thing as a pet?
Looking at the Alien's cherry-sized mouth, Jack thought back to Tao Yu's mention of not biting, and couldn't help but think that a bite from it would hurt a lot...
The next moment, he saw Tao Yu kick the Alien, causing it to shrink away and lie down sullenly on one side.
"Behave."
Tao Yu issued a 'punishing' kick to the Alien and then turned to a gaping Jack,
"This thing is still somewhat dangerous. It really will bite people when I'm not around, and we're not yet certain of their numbers."
While saying this, Tao Yu pointed to the eaves next to him and commanded the Alien,
"Flick your tail."
The next moment, the Alien's slender tail whipped out like a steel whip against the eaves, making a loud bang.
The outer layer of concrete cracked open, and debris flew, leaving behind a deep mark!
Previously, Tao Yu had arm-wrestled with the Alien. If it weren't for his 'Fist Intention' skill, Tao Yu wouldn't have been able to overcome the pure strength of the Alien!
"See why I'm telling you to speed things up?"
After speaking, he pulled out an ordinary handgun and fired a shot at the Alien's leg.
Although it whined pitifully, the bullet seemed to bounce off the shot area, merely splitting open and oozing some green blood. As the blood hit the ground, it emitted corrosive white smoke.
A regular handgun bullet was almost useless against it!
"Let's go down. I'll explain in detail all of its characteristics in front of everyone. Then, you all need to make a decision fast..."
Seeing that even the creature's blood was highly corrosive, Jack's face turned ashen.
When Tao Yu had said Aliens were more troublesome than zombies, Jack didn't quite grasp the concept.
The creature had just appeared looking hideous and frightening, but Jack had managed to stay calm.
After all, in terms of size, it was only slightly larger than a human. As long as there weren't too many, firearms should have been sufficient to handle them.
But now that Tao Yu had demonstrated just a few of the Alien's abilities, he understood that even a single one of these creatures could take him out if he was caught off guard.
If he felt this way, the others in the settlement would be even less able to defend themselves!
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