Chapter 26 - Shooting Themselves in the Foot

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

“Ah…”

Fang Ziyu stretched and yawned as he walked downstairs, preparing to clean up the shop and start a new day.

He took out his phone and looked at the news. There were two big pieces of news.

The first piece of news was that the government website had announced that the Summoner School would officially start recruiting students for all the communities on 1st September. The school would be divided into beginner classes, intermediate classes, and advanced classes, and would implement military management.

The admission criteria were based on individual talent and pet talent.

The second piece of news was that the pet detector had officially been launched. This detector could detect pets’ levels and potential, and could detect the levels of Chaotic Monsters.

Currently, it had only these three functions. More functions were to be developed. The price wasn’t expensive either. It could be bought for a few hundred yuan each.

Seeing this news, Fang Ziyu thought to himself that there would probably be a long queue of tens of meters in all the places that sold detectors right now. All the major shopping websites would probably be flooded with people as well.

“This is really good news.” Fang Ziyu’s originally good mood became even better.

With the detector, many people who were still hesitant before would definitely run out to the pet store to buy pets to prepare for the Summoner School’s admission.

Fang Ziyu felt that there was hope for him to sell 30 pets a month, and his enthusiasm instantly increased.

All of a sudden, he was no longer sleepy and he focused on cleaning up the shop.

At eight o’clock, Li Huiting arrived. She was still wearing the same clothes as yesterday. When she entered, she saw Fang Ziyu picking up litter and cleaning the display cabinets and cages. She was shocked.

“You still have the mood to clean up these things here? Didn’t you see what the situation is like outside?” Li Huiting was somewhat impressed by Fang Ziyu.

“I thought you would just slip away. Since you’re here, hurry up and tidy up the shop. No matter what happens outside, it won’t affect my business.” Fang Ziyu glanced at her and said.

“This matter outside can indeed affect your business.” Li Huiting realized that Fang Ziyu seemed to have misunderstood and she said as she pointed outside the door.

Fang Ziyu was stunned. He stopped what he was doing and walked out of the door.

He had been cleaning up the shop and hadn’t gone out ever since he saw the two big news.

After coming out, Fang Ziyu was stunned for a moment before he turned around and walked back into the shop. He frowned and said, “Aren’t they disrespecting me?”

On the opposite side of the shop, two new shops were opened. One of them had the signboard of Love Pets Chain Pet Store, and the other signboard said Love Pets Training Center.

These two shops had been renovating in the past, but they had never had a signboard. Fang Ziyu only found out that those were also pet stores after they put up the signboard today.

Fang Ziyu certainly knew about Love Pets. They were the ones who caused trouble on the forums before. However, Fang Ziyu did not want to provoke such a big company.

And yet, Love Pets directly opened a store in front of his store. This was a declaration of war.

Putting everything else aside, Fang Ziyu still had some confidence in making this shop’s business stagnant.

The restaurant owner who was selling breakfast outside the restaurant took a look at the furious Fang Ziyu and said rather sympathetically, “Fang Ziyu, you’d better open a new store somewhere else. That’s a big company. You can’t compete with them.”

Fang Ziyu glanced at the restaurant owner and shrugged his shoulders. “They’re shooting themselves in the foot by opening a shop here. It’s impossible for them to take my store down.”

Li Huiting was a little disappointed that she didn’t see Fang Ziyu fly into rage. However, this made sense. Otherwise, she wouldn’t be working here.

With Fang Ziyu’s awakened ability, there was no way other pet stores could compete with him.

The restaurant owner certainly didn’t believe him. He glanced at Fang Ziyu and said, “If your business is really better than theirs, you can come to eat at my restaurant for free in the future.”

At this moment, Xiao Bai, who had gone out to buy Level 2 cores, stopped the car. Hearing what the restaurant owner said, he shook his head and smiled.

“Old Zhang, if you’re making a bet, count me in. I bet that the business of that shop will definitely not surpass Fang Ziyu’s. If I lose, you can buy flowers from me for half the price. If you lose, you’ll have to let me eat at your place for free. How about that?”

He couldn’t miss the opportunity to get long-term free meals.

When Old Zhang’s wife saw how confident Xiao Bai was, she wanted to persuade Old Zhang not to bet. Old Zhang stood upright and banged on the table. “I’ll make a bet. I don’t believe it.”

Li Huiting was a little envious. It was a long-term free meal ticket. It was a pity that she wasn’t close to the restaurant owner. Otherwise, she would have taken a gamble no matter what.

Fang Ziyu’s eyelids twitched when he saw the plastic bag in Xiao Bai’s hand. That was definitely a bag of Level 2 cores.

He looked at Old Zhang and showed a confident look. “I want your long-term free meal ticket.”

Then, he rushed back to the store in a hurry. When he saw the bag of cores, his head hurt.

When he returned to the shop, Fang Ziyu put his hand on his forehead in frustration. He realized that he still had to go over to Xiao Bai’s place to take care of his pets.

Those pets were his sweethearts. He could only go over to look after them.

On the way, he heard people talking about how a gardener who was trimming the flowers on Yarn Hat Road had died a miserable death.

After the rise of Spiritual Energy, it was generally calm, but all kinds of incidents happened from time to time. It wasn’t rare that people died, so Fang Ziyu didn’t pay attention to it.

After cleaning the litter and feeding the cats and dogs, Fang Ziyu felt a bit bored when he returned to the store.

He was happy too early. Everyone was buying detectors today, so he reckoned that no one would come to the shop. Feeling bored, he laid on the chair, took out his phone, and read the novel, “Making Pets a World Phenomenon,” for a while.

He thought that the author had written quite well, but the new chapter was too short. He finished reading it very soon and he put down his phone after recommending it.

When he was bored, he found an Encyclopedia of Insects and started reading it. After the incident with the Double Sucker Worms, he felt that it was necessary to understand more about insects.

Li Huiting had nothing to do after finishing her work. She played with Mo Bao for a while, and ran out to ask around for news about the store of Love Pets after that. She found that all cats at Love Pets had a CFA certification.

She was even more anxious than Fang Ziyu.

Fang Ziyu said that if she had nothing to do, she could walk the dogs in the shop. These dogs couldn’t be locked up for too long.

As for Love Pets, Fang Ziyu wasn’t afraid of them at all.

…

Just as Fang Ziyu was lazing around in the shop, a group of people gathered at another place in the city.

A 1.7-meter tall man looked at everyone and said, “I’m Scapegoat, the organizer of the group. Everyone, please introduce yourselves.”

“I’m Daydreamer,” said a skinny man with a yellow dog.

“Daydreamer? I’m Princess Taiping.” A cute girl blinked and said. She didn’t seem to have a pet.

Daydreamer: “…”

Everyone: “…”

“I’m Third Wheel,” a skinny girl said. She was accompanied by a one-meter tall white rabbit. Its red eyes were very eye-catching.

“My name is Sad Grass,” a tall girl said. She had a green snake wrapped around her fair arm.

Scapegoat and Daydreamer looked at the three girls. “Are all girls so bold nowadays? Speaking of which, our goal this time is to save the lady from the evil hands of the obscene store owner. Is it really suitable for you three girls to come?”

Princess Taiping shrugged. “Why isn’t it suitable? I’m just here because I’m bored.”

Princess Taiping said as she ran over to Third Wheel and continued with a smile, “Your white rabbit is so big. Can I touch it?”

“Sure, it’s called Big White. It’s very obedient.” Third Wheel said with a smile.

The tall girl, Sad Grass, caressed the green snake on her arm sadly. She looked at Scapegoat and said, “Since those rookies in the group haven’t come yet, let’s hurry up and set off. Isn’t our goal to find out if the store owner can really help pets evolve?”

“Alright, we’ll take a cab there. Let’s set off now.” Scapegoat said as he laughed and nodded..