Chapter 1: Traveling through the Beast World
With a toilet plunger in her right hand and a dirty rag in her left hand, Ming Yan and another girl in the right toilet cubicle next to her was blocked in by a group of girls unknowingly raising their hands up in surrender at the same time.
Ming Yan expression went from bewildered to lost.
"If you can't do this job, just quit as soon as possible. Look at how dirty this toilet is. It's already so late, and you both haven't even done the preliminary cleaning. Are you sure your cleaning seriously?"
"Oh, the toilet was cleaned so well in the past. Every time it cleaned the toilet, it smelled so good.Now? There is a disgusting stench everywhere, and squat toilets are often filled with feces.I'm going to throw up my breakfast, okay?"
"That's right. I really don't understand why the school would let these kind of rubbish replace Di Linhua? Aren't extraordinary creatures better than lazy rubbish who are both capable and useful? "
"I heard from our teacher that they seems to be orphans, with both parents gone. They have been living with their grandmother since they were children. A while ago, their grandmother was diagnosed with a new genetic disease, a special disease that even healing pets can't cure. It can only be treated with rare treasures. As a result, their family is so poor that they can't even pay their tuition.
Jingjing felt sorry for them and asked them to clean the women's toilets as a way of working until they graduate."
"…Humph, isn't this moral kidnapping? There are so many people in the world who are more pitiful and miserable than them. Can we sympathize with them enough?
Why is it that they are poor and we are the ones who suffer?Anyway, I must complain to the teacher today! Either the job of cleaning the women's restroom should be handed over to Di Linhua or other extraordinary creatures with cleaning skills, or I will transfer to another school!"
"That's right! I'll go too!"
"Let's go! Everyone, together."
After venting their long-pent-up anger at them, the girls left in a hurry, leaving MingYan and the Mingxi alone in their cubicles.
A long time passed.
Ming Yan slowly put down her aching hands, hee expression indescribable, unknowing Mingxi next to her was doing similar things.
Oh my god, how did these is happen?
She actually traveled through time, and the place she traveled to was an interstellar beast-taming world.
The original owner has the same name and surname as her. She is now 14 years old and from Haizhou City, Hujiang Province, Longhua Country. She is studying in Class 26, Grade 2, Haizhou No. 3 Junior High School with her identical twin sister Mingxi.
Their family background is simple and complex at the same time.
Just as group of girls had just said that she and her sister Mingxi are orphan, but that was actually not quite true. Their biological father was indeed dead, and they did live with their grandmother, but their biological mother was still alive. She just abandoned them and remarried, and never paid any children support.
Even though they were so poor that they could only eat dry bread and buns every day, and even though they were exhausted, the original owner and her sister never thought of contacting their mother to ask for the children support they deserved.
They would rather work themself to death than bend their back.
"Well!"
MingYan sighed softly, not knowing whether to pity the original owner and her sister or be amused at them for being too stubborn, strong-willed and stupid.
They had just turned 14, at the most crucial stage of their life, but they both managed to work three jobs each.
In addition to cleaning all the girls restrooms at school during school hours, they also worked part-time at a steamed bun shop and a barbecue restaurant.
The former works from 3am to 6am and is responsible for making handmade dumplings and buns, while the latter works from 6pm to 11pm and is responsible for various chores in the store.
They work almost 24 hours a day without a break, and was busy like a top. It's so tiring and hard that they even fall behind in their studies. But the salary is very low, and the total daily salary is less than 200 star coins each.
Because this is a society where pets replace human labor.
It's like cleaning work.
With extraordinary creatures like the showerhead that can do cleaning work quickly and well, and can also beautify the environment and purify the air, who would be willing to hire an human who is slow at work and not as effective?
If you take a look around any construction site now, you will find that the people moving bricks are either strong bears or stone monkeys, and you can hardly find any humans.
Even jobs like deliverymen and couriers have almost been replaced by flying pets.
To put it bluntly, except for those special talents with special skills, ordinary humans have become the most unwanted and cheapest existence in the labor market. Only those unscrupulous businessmen will hire ordinary people to work for super low wages.
The counterpart to ordinary people is the Beastmaster.
Even if a beastmaster lies down and does nothing all his life, as long as the extraordinary creature he contracts with is powerful enough, he can be guaranteed food and clothing.
This is the cruelest and truest reality of the world, a beast-taming civilization that has existed for thousands of years and has become mature and sound.
"Ding-ling-ling!"
The class bell interrupted Ming Yan thoughts.
She almost forgot that the original owner and her sister were cleaning the toilets during the break. They were still students in school and her main job was to study.
""Hurry up, we need to get to class." Her new sister Ming Xi said grabbing her cleaning equipment as well as her own and put it in the red plastic bucket in the corner.
After they washed their hands, they went to their classroom according to her memory.
As soon as they entered the room, the originally noisy classroom was silent.
Ming Yan blinked: ...
Isn't this right?
Although because the original owner and Mingxi started working part-time as a cleaning ladys in the school's female toilets this semester, many classmates began to distance themselves from them, and their former good friends also drifted further and further away, but their appearance definitely did not have these effect.
Ming Yan and Mingxi synchronicity turned around following the gazes of the crowd.
It turned out that the teacher of this class was following behind them.
"Hello, Teacher Zhang."
"Good afternoon, Teacher Zhang."
The Two sister greeted her at same time, just as they previous done ❄️
Teacher Zhang just glanced at them lightly, then nodded perfunctorily and said, "Go back to your seats quickly."
Mingxi seemed to be unaware of the other party's indifference replying "Okay." While Ming Yan nodded calming and found the original owner's seat and sat down. Lucky the sisters sit at the same table so Mingxi followed suit, she took out a book from her desk and quickly flipped through it.
"The History of Pet Beast Civilization (Volume 1)"
What a good book.
She just needs to consolidate the knowledge system of this world. The original owner's memory is not what she has experienced personally.
Receiving the memories of this body does not mean that she can empathize with the original owner's thoughts and feelings. It is more like watching a long, boring, and complicated TV series, and watching it at fast forward speed.
The knowledge and common sense of this world are very superficial and and lack much sense of reality.
Ming Yan believes that she just an ordinary little girl now, and doesn't have the ability to remember everything she sees.
Therefore, she must digest those memories thoroughly before the memories belonging to the original owner fade away, so that they can truly belong to her.
She open the book, her expression was very serious.
To survive in the world of beast control, you have to start by studying hard and making progress every day.
"The History of Pet Beast Civilization (Volume 1)" Chapter 1, Extraordinary Creatures (Pet Beasts), Soul Secret Keys and Spirit Contract Rooms.