"Brother, it's time to get up."
Hmm?
Who's calling me handsome?
Wait a minute.
Haven't I always been sleeping alone? Who's talking to me?!
Su Ping quickly opened his eyes and turned around. What he saw almost scared him out of his wits!
Next to his pillow, there was a ghostly face bleeding from all seven orifices. The corners of its mouth cracked into a twisted smile, revealing its white teeth.
"F * ck!!"
Su Ping's hand trembled as he slapped her in the face.
His palm went straight through the ghostly face and landed on the soft pillow. He missed!
The ghostly face opened its mouth slightly, revealing its scarlet tongue.
Su Ping was terrified. He quickly turned around and ran. However, in his panic, he didn't notice that his palm missed and fell directly off the bed, landing face first on the ground.
Pain!
Su Ping felt like his nose was about to break. It was burning with pain.
However, when he thought of the terrifying female ghost on the bed behind him, Su Ping felt a chill run down his spine.
"Oh, pfft …"
He seemed to be holding it in, but he couldn't hold it in. Suddenly, there was a burst of laughter.
Su Ping trembled in fear. A ghost was laughing?!
"Hahaha … Su Ping, are you trying to make me laugh to death? You're too cowardly!"
The laughter came from the side of the room.
Su Ping was stunned.
He turned around to look.
He saw a pretty girl standing at the end of the bed. She was wearing orange cartoon pajamas. She had bright eyes and white teeth. She could be considered a little beauty. However, she was laughing so hard that she didn't care about her image at all.
What's going on?
Su Ping was a little confused. At this moment, he suddenly noticed that the surrounding environment was a little different.
The most obvious thing was the wall behind the girl. There was a huge monster poster there. It should be a poster for a movie.
Obviously, this wasn't his room!
Su Ping didn't have the habit of putting up posters in his room.
Where's the female ghost?
Su Ping thought of the terrifying female ghost that he had left aside. He was shocked and quickly turned around.
When he looked, he found that the bed was empty. The female ghost was gone!
She left?
Su Ping was stunned for a moment before he heaved a sigh of relief.
Suddenly, a black shadow jumped out from under the blanket. It was a black cat.
Rather than 'leaping' out, it was better to say that it rolled out. Its body was too fat, almost like a round ball.
"Snowball, come here." The girl called out to the black cat.
Hearing that, the black cat flapped its short limbs and finally flipped its body over. It shook its body a few times and glanced at Su Ping who was frightened on the ground. Then, it walked gracefully towards the girl.
Perhaps it was an illusion, but Su Ping felt that he was being despised by a cat.
At this moment, Su Ping suddenly noticed that there were two sharp black horns on the top of the black cat's head, and there were a few strands of dark red hair in the pattern of the fur on its forehead, like a flame circuit.
Above his head, a … "?"
Weng!
All of a sudden, it was as if time and space were trembling.
Su Ping's vision was blurred. He felt that countless pieces of information were surging into his head from all directions like a torrent.
Su Ping? Su Lingyue?
Astral Pet?
Another world?
There was a huge amount of information. Su Ping felt his head was about to explode. The pain was unbearable. He clenched his teeth and forced himself not to make a sound.
After a long time, the chaotic storm in his mind gradually calmed down. Pieces of memories gradually emerged in an orderly manner along with the timeline.
He had traveled to another world …
Su Ping understood. No wonder he was in this strange room and met this strange girl and this strange cat.
But, I was just sleeping at home. How could I wear this?!
Was it because of the hand exercises I did before going to bed?
Su Ping forced a bitter smile. He began to organize the memories in his mind.
"This is a world similar to Earth, but the technology is more advanced. This world has gone beyond Earth and entered the interstellar era. However, technology is not the main focus of this world. Rather, it is the special Astral Pets!"
"There are many kinds of Astral Pets, which are closely related to human society. Astral Pets are responsible for infrastructure, transportation, daily life, and even research! Astral Pets are responsible for exploration and war. Even the wars and status of the major countries are decided by the strength of the astral pets! "
"Astral Pets …"
Su Ping gradually immersed himself in the memories. The more he learned, the more shocked he was. He also learned about the female ghost he had seen.
"Astral Pets of the demon family, Phantom Flame Beasts. Their main abilities are creating illusions and controlling the fire element …"
The Phantom Flame Beast was the strange cat, a ferocious Astral Pet of the demon family. It was a "rare" Astral Pet, which was extremely expensive!
Such a rare Astral Pet was used by "his" sister to frighten him on a daily basis …
After reading the memories of the original owner, Su Ping didn't know whether to laugh or cry. This brother and sister were really a pair of enemies. They had never liked each other since they were little. When they were little, Su Ping always liked to play pranks, bully, and scare his sister. However, when they grew up, it was the other way around. It was Su Ping's turn to be on tenterhooks all the time.
This change happened because they went to different schools when they were 12 years old.
One of them was a regular professional school.
The other was an Astral Pet Battle Master Academy!
In this world where Astral Pets were the most important, not everyone could become an Astral Pet Battle Master. Only those with the original core talent could form a contract with Astral Pets!
Obviously, this "Su Ping" didn't have such talent. This talent was determined at birth. In other words, he was destined to be an ordinary person from the moment he was born.
However, when they were little, neither of them had this concept. Therefore, Su Ping, who had the talent for Astral Pets, was always bullied by Su Ping, who didn't have the talent.
When they realized the difference between them, it was the beginning of Su Ping's disaster.
This sister wasn't someone to be trifled with. She remembered all the times when she was little. Over the years, she had gotten back at Su Ping in double.
Today, the gap between the brother and sister had widened. One of them was a genius girl who had been admitted to a famous Astral Pet Battle School and had a promising future. The other couldn't even get into a regular university. He had to drop out early to help his family run a business.
"Hey, what are you standing there for? Did you really lose your mind from the fall?"
Su Lingyue looked at Su Ping who was sitting on the ground in a daze. She frowned as she remembered that he had hit his head on the ground when he fell.
She wasn't worried about Su Ping's safety. She was afraid that her parents would blame her.
"What?"
Su Ping had come back to his senses. He looked at the proud girl with her arms crossed in front of her chest and said helplessly, "Don't make jokes like this in the future."
Since he had taken over the body, he didn't want to live in this sister's pranks and revenge.
Su Lingyue was taken aback.
Usually, in this kind of situation, wouldn't the other party immediately jump up and scold him like a shrew?
Why was she so quiet today?
Could it be …
Did he think that by swallowing his anger, she would be softhearted?
Hmm!
"As long as you're not stupid. But with your poor IQ, maybe you can become smarter after you hit your head!" Su Lingyue snorted and walked away. "Don't dawdle. Come down and eat. Don't let mom tell me to come up and tell you!"
Clang!
Su Lingyue closed the door behind her.
Su Ping produced a forced smile. Weren't other people's sisters cute and obedient? Why was his sister a violent girl?
Whoosh!
The door was pulled open again.
Su Ping was startled. Su Lingyue had come back. Her gloomy face said from behind the door, "Also, don't tell on me to mom. Or else …" She made a throat-slitting gesture.
Clang!
Before Su Ping could say anything, the poor door was hit again.
"…"
Su Ping sat there for a while until he heard no more noise outside. Finally, he got up from the ground.
He looked around the room and saw many Astral Pet figurines and posters. His former self was an ordinary person, but his research on Astral Pets was no less than that of the average Astral Pet Battle Warriors.
Of course, it wasn't because he loved Astral Pets. On the contrary, he hated Astral Pets. He studied Astral Pets because he wanted to find a way to defeat Astral Pets in an ordinary way!
To be exact, he wanted to find a way to defeat his sister's Astral Pet!
However, many years had passed and he was still bullied and despised every day. He was unable to fight back. That was to say, the progress of this research was difficult.
Su Ping recalled the eighteen years of his brother's life. Not only had this brother accomplished nothing, he had also offended the only person who could rely on him. He had been naughty since he was a kid and he had made his sister miserable. He would either put caterpillars in her lunch box or go to her house in the middle of the night to scare her while pretending to be a ghost. He had almost become a childhood shadow for her.
Now, the person who relied on him had become an enemy. His sister wasn't a good person either. She had become a childhood shadow for him.
Su Ping thought that he had to find a chance to reconcile with this sister of his. Otherwise, he would have a nervous breakdown, if not a psychological shadow, after a few more strange scares.
Su Ping tidied up a bit. He put on his slippers and went downstairs.
"What took you so long? The porridge is getting cold. Come and eat."
Li Qingru, his mother, said. She was in her forties, gentle and quiet.
At the dining table, Su Lingyue was already eating. She had put the Phantom Flame Beast named "Snowball" on the chair next to her. That chair belonged to Su Ping.
Su Ping curled his lips. How could he feel so much malice when he was eating breakfast …
"I'm here."
Su Ping went to the living room and found another chair to sit down. He was starving as he looked at the porridge, meat pancakes, and soy milk on the table.
Su Lingyue raised her eyebrows and darted a glance at Su Ping. She had purposely used Snowball to enrage Su Ping so that Su Ping would lose his temper. Then, he would yell and ask his mother to criticize him. How could he tolerate that?
Strange.
Su Lingyue was alarmed. This guy was acting out of character. Was he up to something again?
"Mom, I'm done. I'll go to the academy now." Su Lingyue was not in the mood to dawdle. She finished her food and said to her mother.
Seeing that Su Lingyue was about to leave, Li Qingru said, "Wait, Yue."
"What?" Su Lingyue turned around.
"Business at your brother's store hasn't been good lately. He's not very popular. How about you put Snowball in the store and make it look good?" Li Qingru asked tentatively.
Su Lingyue was surprised. She darted a look at Su Ping who was eating porridge. She rolled her eyes and said grumpily, "Mom, ever since you gave the store to this guy, business has been going downhill day by day. What's the reason? It's because this guy doesn't do his job properly. Do you remember how he was almost complained to the Astral Pet Association?
Someone came over to take care of a 'messenger bird', but in less than a week, when he brought it back, the bird would call everyone it met 'idiot is dead' and spout vulgarities. In the end, it was beaten to death a few days later, and the case remained unsolved until now!
"How dare you give my Snowball to someone who can't even take care of a Message Bird?" "Snowball is an advanced Astral Pet that has a chance to reach the eighth rank. If you're willing to give it up, I don't mind. “
Li Qingru opened her mouth but no words came out. She heaved a sigh.
If it weren't for the fact that she was in poor health and needed to rest, she wouldn't have asked Su Ping to take over the store so early.
Su Ping was speechless because of the unfriendly look she was giving him. He lowered his head and continued to eat his porridge, ignoring her.
"Hmm!" Su Lingyue snorted. She picked up Snowball who was still gnawing on the bone, went back to her room, changed her clothes, and left.
A moment later, Su Ping finished his breakfast. As usual, under Li Qingru's instructions, he rode his bike and went to the store.
The store was an Astral Pet store.
Su Ping was a half-baked Astral Pet trainer. Although he was called a trainer, he was actually a service provider for Astral Pets.
After all, a real master trainer could change the potential and rank of an Astral Pet. A master trainer's status was no less than that of an Astral Pet Battle Master, or even higher!
Along the way, Su Ping saw skyscrapers just like the ones on Earth. The only difference was that most of the pedestrians were accompanied by some strange-looking Astral Pets.
"This is indeed another world …"
Su Ping sighed. Everything felt like a dream, but it was real.
Soon, he arrived at his family's Astral Pet store.
The store was located at the end of a commercial street, in a remote location. That being said, the store used to be popular because Su Ping's mother, Li Qingru, was a certified Astral Pet trainer in the Federation. Even though she was only an elementary trainer, she was more than qualified to run a small pet store like this. Therefore, the store had many returning customers.
However, since the store fell into Su Ping's hands, the store's situation took a nosedive.
How could you expect someone who hated Astral Pets to take good care of them?
Whoosh ~!
Su Ping pulled up the shutter door. Sunlight poured into the store and he could see the dust in the air.
It seemed that the store hadn't been cleaned for a long time. There was a pungent smell of urine and pet feces.
Su Ping held his breath and frowned.
"Suitable soul detected in the target area. Checking for contract …"
"Contract completed. Binding in the system …"
"Binding complete … Ready to activate …"
All of a sudden, Su Ping heard a cold, mechanical voice in his head.
System?
Su Ping was stunned for a moment. Then, his eyes glowed.
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