Chapter 171 (1/2)

By the time Hao Ren finished his shopping binge, it was late in the evening.

The moment he stepped into the door, Lily was the first to pounce on him. The husky was so excited that her wagging tail was almost a blur. She even had a bulky duffel bag in hand. “Mr. Landlord, let’s go to bed now!”

Hao Ren did not have enough time to process what Lily said before she almost landed on him. With much effort, he held her at arm’s length as she looked the part of an excited dog that wanted to lick its master. “Calm down would you?! Remember, you’re still a girl!”

“So… can you bring others in?” Vivian questioned as she dragged Lily away by the collar. Her voice was composed but, one could clearly see the gleam of anticipation in her eyes.

“Yes, not a problem. I brought back five sleeping pods that will allow us all to access The Plane of Dreams. It will also prevent anyone of us from being accidentally ejected from the plane,” Hao Ren said as he looked about the living room for a place to put the pods. “…Not enough space…”

“Sleeping pods? Where?” Lily’s eyes widened as she circled around Hao Ren twice, looking for them.

Hao Ren simply grinned. “Come, let me show you some magic…”

As he said this, he extended his hand in front of Lily. A sudden glow of swirling light flashed by and a loaf of bread appeared on his hand. Lily jumped up almost instantaneously as the bread landed on Hao Ren’s hand. “Wahhh!! What is that?!”

“A Dimensional Pocket!” Hao Ren lobbed the bread at Lily and crossed his arms, feeling all high and mighty. “I finally have a set of abilities worthy of a main character! The Dimensional Pocket can even store a few thousand old coots if I need it to.”

Lily and Vivian gasped in amazement. The ruckus even drew the attention of Wuyue, who was playing with Lil Pea and she promptly brought the pot with her. Once again, Hao Ren, like a little child who just got a new toy performed his trick. Lily just slung her bag off and gave it to him. “Here, you’re in charge of our baggage from now on.”

Vivian ran towards the sofa like a gust of wind to pick her luggage up and passed it to him too. “Oh, here’s mine.”

Wuyue also put the pot down quickly and ran back upstairs to her room. She brought down two big bags. “And mine.”

Thankfully, Y’zaks was rather understanding as he smiled sympathetically at the forlorn look on the latter’s face. “I don’t have much baggage to speak of.”

Hao Ren was just about to nod and thank him before he saw the great demon pointing at the TV set.

“Bring that along would you. I’m afraid I’ll get bored.”

“There’s no bleeding signal in the dream plane!” Hao Ren exclaimed exasperatedly and pointed at himself resignedly. “This Dimensional Pocket is such an amazing ability… Yet, I’m relegated to being a bellboy? What happened to the main character’s signature ability?”

The four of them threw him a weird look and retorted in unison, “If it’s not for carrying stuff, what good is it for?”

He was speechless.

From that moment on, Hao Ren did not ever dream of a moment where he would really outshine others… At least, he would not with this bunch of people around. He reckoned if he brought Frostmourne back from the Space Administration’s office, having shaved ice for summer would probably be the first thing on the lot’s minds.

“Talking about space… why not put them in the basement?” As Hao Ren fretted about where he would put those five caskets, Vivian remembered that the basement she was sleeping in was pretty spacious. “The basement is rather big no? Aside from the small storeroom, it’s my sleeping space. I don’t have much furniture to begin with so, it’s pretty spacious.”

Due to the fact that they all wanted to see how the pods looked like, they quickly ran down to the basement. Thank god, Hao Senior had the foresight to have a big basement when he designed the house. The spaciousness was almost at the level of a warehouse and it could store lots of stuff. At that moment, it only housed Vivian’s bed, a short table, two chairs and a small cupboard. It almost fit her poor as hell image. Hao Ren actually thought about getting her some extra furniture like a sofa and a TV but, the vampire had politely declined as she was very satisfied with her living conditions. For her, being able to watch TV in the living room with the rest was a luxury that she would never have dreamed of. And so, the basement was still as empty as before.