
"My handsome brother, time to wake up."
Eh?
"Who called me handsome?"
"Wait a minute."
“Didn't I sleep alone? Who's talking?"
Surprised and confused, Su Ping quickly opened his eyes. He turned around to look. Just one glance almost scared him to death!
Leaning on his pillow was the bloody ghost of the seven openings of his face. A crooked smile tore his mouth open, revealing a monstrous white tooth.
“What the fuck!!”
Shakingly, Su Ping dealt a backhand blow to the ghost.
His hand directly pierced through the ghost's face and landed on the padded pillow. It was like fanning the air!
The ghost grinned slightly and stuck out its red tongue.
Su Ping was terrified. He immediately turned around and fled. However, he did not notice in panic; his hands were misplaced and he fell off the bed with his first face on the ground.
"That hurts!"
Su Ping felt his nose break and the pain caused a burning sensation.
Therefore, he then felt a chill all over his body as soon as he thought of that terrifying ghost again.
“Um, pff..”
It seems like someone tried to hold back but failed. There was laughter from the side.
Su Ping shivered in fear. Is the ghost laughing?!
“Ha, ha, ha... Su Ping, are you trying to kill me with laughter? How desperate you are, this kind of fear!”
The laughter came from the side of the room.
Su Ping was surprised.
He turned.
At the foot of the bed stood a soft and cute girl with bright eyes and white teeth, wearing orange pajamas with cartoon characters. She was beautiful, but at this moment she was laughing so loudly that the word beauty no longer had anything to do with her.
"What the hell is going on?"
Su Ping was confused. Then, he suddenly realized there was something different about the surroundings of the room.
The first thing that jumped out was a giant monster poster on the wall behind the girl. It must be a poster from some movie.
This is not his room!
Su Ping never had the habit of putting up posters in his room.
Where is the ghost girl?
After recalling the shock he gave her when he woke up, he quickly turned his head to look.
There was nothing in the bed. The ghost girl is gone!
"Did he leave?"
Su Ping was dazed. He was just about to breathe a sigh of relief.
However, suddenly, a black figure came out from under his blanket. It was a black cat.
It's more like "rolling" than "sighing". The cat was so fat that it was practically like a ball.
"Snowball, come here," the girl told the black cat.
Hearing his voice, the black cat tried hard with all four of his limbs to stand up, finally turning from his prone position. The cat wiggled its fur for a while, glancing at Su Ping who was still curled up on the ground and walking towards the girl with graceful little steps.
Maybe he was just imagining something, but Su Ping thought he was insulted by a cat.
At that moment Su Ping suddenly saw two sharp horns on the black cat's head. There were several strands of dark red hair on his forehead, forming something like a ring of fire.
Question marks slowly appeared above Su Ping's head.
Buzz!
Suddenly, it was as if space and time were shaking …
Su Ping's vision blurred. Like a flood current, countless information surged in his head from all sides.
“Su Ping? Su Lingyue?”
“Astral Pet Animals?”
"Another world?"
The information that comes in a continuous stream is confusing and overwhelming. Su Ping felt his head was about to explode, and the pain was unbearable. He had to clench his teeth to resist the urge to make a sound.
He had no idea how long it would be before the messy information storm in his head gradually subsided. Multiple memory clips appear regularly along the timeline.
He has been transferred to another world…
Su Ping realized it. No wonder he was in this foreign room with that strange girl and that strange cat.
“However, I just curled up at home to sleep! How can I be transferred to another world like this?”
"Is it because I use my hands for some exercise before bed?"
Inside, Su Ping smiled bitterly. He began to sort through the memories in his mind.
“This is a world similar to earth. But the technology is more advanced, already entering the era of interstellar travel, reaching far beyond the earth. At the same time, the focus here is not technology development, but the unique Astral Pets!”
“Astral pets come in a variety and have everything related to human society. There are Tool Bats in charge of infrastructure, transportation, and work in everyday life, even in scientific research! Fighting pets are responsible for pioneering new frontiers among the stars and they also offer support in war. When it came to fighting and the status classification of the major countries, the strength of the fighting pets was the decisive factor!
“Astral Pet Animals..”.
Su Ping pampered himself with that memory clip. The more he knew, the more surprised he was. He then understood what the ghost girl was about.
"Battle pet of the demon family, the Phantom Flame Beast's main ability is to construct illusions and manipulate fire elements ..."
This Phantom Flame Beast was that strange cat, a ferocious and formidable demon family pet. These are Astral Pets that are adept at both spirit control and element control, a "rare" type that can cost one arm and one leg!
Su Ping could not believe that his little sister, Su Lingyue, would use such a rare Astral Pet just to trick him every day…
As soon as he finished tracing the memories of the original owner of his body, Su Ping found this life funny and annoying. This brother and sister were a quarrelsome couple; they couldn't bear to see each other since young. At first, Su Ping was a person who often played jokes to bully and scare his younger sister. However, the tables have changed as they grow older. The turn of Su Ping who spent his days restlessly.
The trigger for such a change was because they had entered a different school when they were twelve years old.
One of them went to a public trading school.
The others went to the Astral Pet Warrior Academy!
In a world centered on Astral Pets, not everyone can become an Astral Pet Warrior. Only those endowed from birth could make a contract with the Astral Pets!
It was determined from birth that the former "Su Ping" did not have such a talent, meaning that he was destined to become a normal person.
But, in their childhood, this pair of sisters did not understand this concept. Hence, the talented Su Lingyue had always been a receptive party, constantly being bullied by Su Ping who had no talent for training Astral Pets.
Once they realized the difference between them, a life of disaster for Su Ping finally began.
This little sister is not someone to be taken lightly. He harbored a bitter grudge because all the times he had been bullied by his elder brother. He has returned his kindness several times over the years.
On this day, the gap between them was widening. One of them was a genius girl enrolled in a famous school, with a promising future in front of her, while the other couldn't even get into an ordinary university. He had to drop out of school to help the family in business.
“Well, what are you doing there? You didn't hurt your head from falling, did you?”
He was not worried about Su Ping's safety, but their parents might blame him for this.
“Eh?”
Su Ping regained consciousness. He threw a glance at the arrogant girl who was there holding her head high with her hands folded in front of her chest. He doesn't know what to do with it. "Don't joke like this anymore" Su Ping said.
Since he had taken over this body, he did not want to continue the practical life-joke-revenge arranged by his sister.
Su Lingyue was surprised.
“Didn't he usually jump straight in and vent a burst of abuse to call me a rat?
"Why is he so quiet today?
"Could possibly…
“He thinks I can be soft-hearted just because he wants to submit?
"Hm!"
“As long as you don't become stupid. Well, to be honest, maybe you can get smarter with a broken head, given your poor intelligence. ” Su Lingyue sneered. He turned around and left immediately. “Do not linger. Quickly come down for breakfast. Don't make mom tell me to come and pick you up again!”
Slam it!
He broke the door behind him.
Su Ping produced a forced smile. Why was her little sister so cruel when someone else's sister was a cute and playful girl?
Whooshing sound!
The door was pulled open again.
Su Ping was surprised. It was Su Lingyue who had returned. She hid her sinister face behind the door as she added, “Also, don't tell mom about me. Or else ..." Then he made a cruel move.
Slam it!
The poor door had to receive another attack before Su Ping could give an answer.
“…”
Su Ping sat there for a while and crawled back up after he was sure no more sounds were coming from outside.
He looked around the room and saw many action figures and posters from Astral Pets. While he was a normal person in this world, he was not inferior to the average Astral Pet Warrior in terms of studies on Astral Pets.
Of course, this did not stem from his great love for Astral Pets. This brother hates Astral Pets. He had only studied such studies to find out how to defeat Astral Pets as ordinary people!
More precisely, to find a way to defeat his sister's Astral Pet!
However, many years had passed; he still received ill-treatment and humiliation without the ability to resist. One could only imagine how difficult his life was, for him to research this much.
Su Ping had a wave of mixed feelings after she reviewed the 18-year-old life of this man. Not only was he useless, but he had also offended the only strong person he could relate to himself. He's been naughty since he was a kid. He created so many problems and deceived his sister many times. He would put caterpillars in his lunch box or scare him in the middle of the night by dressing up like ghosts. He was practically the cause of his childhood trauma.
See results. He had turned the girl whose coat tail he could ride into his enemy. Besides, this sister of his is not a good person. He has been traumatized by his adult life for a change.
Su Ping must definitely find an opportunity to reconcile with this powerful sister. Otherwise, he would have been traumatized or his nerves would have been shattered after a few strange rounds of fear.
Su Ping got ready, then he put on his sandals and went downstairs.
"What took you so long? The slurry's getting cold. Hurry up,” said his mother, Li Qingru. He looked to be in his forties, gentle and delicate.
Su Lingyue had already dug in and remained on the table. He had placed the Phantom Flame Beast named "Snow Ball" on the seat next to him, which should have been his place.
Su Ping curled his lips. Even at a simple breakfast, he could still feel such a vindictive nature …
"That's coming."
Su Ping went to the living room to pick up another chair. He saw a big breakfast with porridge, meat pie, and soy milk. He's getting hungry.
Su Lingyue raised her eyebrows and glanced at Su Ping. He deliberately used Snowball to occupy his chair to provoke him, so that he would get angry and shout and shout. That way he would tell his mother to scold him. Why did he endure that humiliation?
Curious.
There was some caution in Su Lingyue's appearance. Is this person planning something by acting out of character?
“Bu, I'm done. I'll head to the academy now.” As his plan failed, Su Lingyue no longer wanted to stay. He finished his breakfast quickly and said goodbye to his mother.
When he was about to leave, Li Qingru stopped him, "Xiao Yue, wait."
"Aah?" Su Lingyue turned around.
“Recently, your brother's store is not performing well, not popular enough. How about you put a Snowball in there just to wear the dog?” Li Qingru tried to get him out.
Su Lingyue was surprised. He glanced at Su Ping who was swallowing the porridge. He rolled his eyes and angrily reasoned with him, “Bu, his business is getting worse by the day since you let this guy take over. Why do you think so? The reason is that this person is not doing his job properly. Do you still remember when someone almost filed a complaint against us at the Astral Animal Association?
“Someone left 'Messenger Bird' there for boarding service. However, it started saying 'f*ck you dumb**s' to everyone it met, and it would catapult all kinds of curse words, all in less than a week. A few days later, the bird was beaten to death and the case remains unresolved!”
“Do you have the courage to have my Snowball raised by him when he can't even take care of the Messenger Bird? There was hope that Snowball could advance to the Astral Pet of the eighth rank. If you don't mind, I won't mind either. Besides, you're the one who bought me Snowball.”
Li Qingru was rendered speechless. He opened his mouth but finally breathed.
If not for him having to rest in peace to recuperate due to the bad weather, he would not have asked Su Ping to take over the store this early.
Su Ping could feel his sister's sharp gaze, but decided to remain silent. He lowered his head and continued to eat the porridge without noticing Su Lingyue.
"Hm!" he snorted, after sensing that Su Ping knew how to behave in a difficult situation. He picked up Snowball who was still eating bones and returned to his room to change clothes and get out.
A moment later, Su Ping had also finished his breakfast. As usual, after Li Qingru told him to be careful, he rode a bicycle to the shop.
It was an Astral Pet shop.
Su Ping was a dabbler trainer. His work is more related to the service of Astral Pets than actual training.
However, the real master trainer can change the potency and ranking of Astral Pets. The master trainers enjoyed positions similar, or even higher than Astral Pet Warriors!
Along the way, Su Ping saw tall buildings and large houses, just like on earth. The only thing that was different was the strange-looking Astral Pets walking beside most of the pedestrians.
“I am indeed in another world..” exclaimed Su Ping. It was all like a dream but it was the same.
Soon, he had arrived at his family's Astral Pet shop.
The store was at the end of a commercial street, a relatively remote location, but was once quite popular. Su Ping's mother, Li Qingru, was the official Astral Pet trainer of the Federation. While he was only a basic trainer, he was more than capable of opening a small shop like this. He has a lot of repeat customers.
But things changed quickly when Su Ping took over the store.
Can one hope that someone who does not like Astral Pets will take good care of them?
Crash~!
Su Ping opened the roller shutter door. He could see dust clashing in the air as sunlight reached the inside of the shop.
It seems that the shop has not been cleaned for a long time. There was a pungent smell of urine and animal feces from inside.
Su Ping frowned and held his breath for a while.
Suddenly, a cold mechanical voice appeared in Su Ping's mind.
“Matching soul detected in target range. Perform contract detection..”
“Contract completed. Add system..”
“Completed.. Ready to launch..”.
"System?"
Su Ping paused for a moment. Then, a light burst out from his eyes.
What should come will come…