Chapter 42 (2/2)

Su Ping pulled a long face. “Why should I know?”

“You took care of them. Why don’t you know?” Lan Lele’s face was clouded with anger.

Su Ping put on a sarcastic grin. “So, if I take care of you for a couple of days, I should know all your emotions as well?”

“You!” Lan Lele stomped her feet in fury.

Su Yanying came back to her senses. She put herself between the two arguing people and apologized to Su Ping. “Sir, I am sorry. My friend has a short temper.”

“Yingying, something is wrong here,” Lan Lele cautioned her.

Su Yanying shook her head. “I just feel that they are unwilling to be parted from here. It means that they like the place. That is to say, instead of treating them unfairly, the owner is taking good care of them. I should thank the owner.”

“What?” Lan Lele did not understand. “Unwilling to leave? They are unwilling to leave here?”

This was hardly imaginable. How could the pets become emotionally attached to that place after a couple of days of boarding?

Su Ping did not enter into contracts with the pets. Even if they had emotional bonds built with the astral power contract, at the very beginning, the pets and their masters would not be close. The pets would only be following orders. Once the contract was removed, the pets and the masters would be completely unrelated.

“It’s true.”

Su Yanying forced a smile. She could not understand it, either. Only if Su Ping treated the pets extremely nicely would the pets become attached, which implied that this was a reputable pet store!

Lan Lele stood there, stunned. She believed that Su Yanying would not lie to her and would not defend the owner. Lan Lele knew that she must have misunderstood the owner.

Lan Lele cast a glance at Su Ping whose face was still grim. The apology stopped on the tip of her tongue. She pretended that nothing had happened and s.h.i.+fted her look toward the pets.

“Their wounds seemed to have healed.”

Lan Lele was sure that Su Yanying did not lie to her upon a closer check. Except for the fact that the pets were in a lousy mood, their wounds had recovered, and they seemed to be healthier than before. Their fur was in a brighter color and the flames on the feathers of the Fallen Phoenix were burning with more intensity. She could tell that the pets were taken good care of.

Su Yanying nodded. She had noticed this before. The healer told her that her pets would recover after three days. But she could tell that the pets had not just recovered. The pets were healed at the store. They weren’t just fed.

As for what Su Ping mentioned about improving their power of understanding and bettering their const.i.tution, for now, Su Yanying could not find out. She was satisfied with the fact that they had recovered.

“I wonder how the training went.”

Su Yanying cast her looks at the Lightning Rat by her foot. She crouched down to pet its head to comfort it.

While she was patting the Lightning Rat, she noticed that its fur’s color was deeper, having s.h.i.+fted to a blackish color from that dark purple.

Besides, maybe this was just in her mind, but she felt that her other pets were unwilling to come near the Lightning Rat who was the nearest to her. The other three pets were two to three meters away from her, unwilling to come close. They weren’t like this in the past.

“Sir, is it quite different from before?” Su Yanying lifted her eyes to him.

Su Ping answered coldly, “Its strength has been improved by several folds, at the very least.”

While the rating for combat strength was only doubled, that was a digit only, not the Lightning Rat’s true strength!

Improving from the third rank to the seventh rank represented an increase in strength of more than a dozen times. Not even a hundred third-rank pets or more could defeat a seventh-rank pet!

That was why he thought the system’s quests were unreasonable…

“Several times stronger?” Su Yanying did not believe this.

Lan Lele opened her eyes wide, wondering if Su Ping had chosen the wrong words.

The Lightning Rat was much stronger than before after merely three days of training?

Did Su Ping consider himself a master trainer?

Not even master trainers could boast such things, unless some secret ways were applied to the Lightning Rat. But who would make such a big fuss with a Lightning Rat? What they paid did not deserve that increase.

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