Chapter 172 (1/2)
Upon hearing Hao Ren’s words, Lily immediately tucked her tail between her legs warily and asked, “…Landlord, are you going to play tricks on me again?”
Looking at the husky girl’s cautious face, Hao Ren was not sure how to respond and asked, “When did I play tricks on you?”
“Because people often fool me,” Lily said and pulled back. “And the last time you gave me a bottle, you lied that there was jam inside. Turns out, it was chili oil when I bit off the lid. You kept tricking me into opening the bottle. One time, you asked me to bite off a bottle of mustard and there was another time you let me bite off the beer bottle and the last time… You always take me for a bottle opener. This time you’re asking me about dentures. This must mean that you want me to open a bottle again!”
The rest of them immediately turned to Hao Ren with a fierce look but, he stared at Vivian and said, “Why are you looking at me?! You’re the one who suggested that Lily open the bottle of chili oil. You said the pupper has good teeth and it was too wasteful for her to just watch the door and we should let her work as a bottle opener in the kitchen…”
Lily immediately bared her teeth and glared at Vivian. Hao Ren hurriedly stood in the middle of them and explained, “Ehem, let’s stop talking about old things. I’ll go buy a can opener tomorrow, okay?Lily, I’m serious. Can you implant dentures on dogs? In fact…”
He told them how he met the wolves and accidentally broke their teeth. After listening to Hao Ren, Lily covered her mouth and gasped. “Ouch … Sounds like it really hurt! You’re so cruel, Landlord.”
“I was almost bitten as well, okay,” Hao Ren said, staring at Lily. “So honestly, do you have the skills for dog dentures?”
“Even if I have the relevant skills, there aren’t any materials to do it,” said Lily as she spread out her hands. “Have you ever seen a pet hospital that provides denture services? Normally, dogs don’t like the weird feeling of having a foreign body in their mouth. This doesn’t include how difficult it is to make one. No matter how exquisite the porcelain teeth are, they’re still fake. For canines that frequently use their claws and fangs to hunt, that thing will affect their judgment.”
Watching Lily explain everything logically, Hao Ren could not help but ask, “How do you know about this so clearly?”
“I lost my tooth once before.” Lily opened her mouth to show a row of white fangs which were neat and sharp like small knives. “I lost a tooth, fighting with a tiger when I was young but, I could regenerate my tooth. The tiger was so delicious by the way…”
Imagining the scene of such a seemingly harmless and beautiful girl squatting in the forest glade, tearing the tiger’s corpse with her claws and blood all around, Hao Ren had goose bumps at the back of his neck. It was better not to delve into the past of these aliens.
It appeared that Lily was unable to help him. However, while Hao Ren imagined those unlucky, black wolves having to eat porridge for the rest of their lives, Nangong Wuyue suddenly spoke, “Talking about treating injuries… maybe I could give it a try.”
Everybody looked at her. Nangong Wuyue smiled and said, “Sirens have the ability to heal wounds. Although it’s not as fast as a werewolf’s healing power, the key thing is that it can be used on other people. It should be able to help them grow a few teeth. But, I don’t know if the creatures in The Plane of Dreams and those of the real world are the same so, I’m not too sure if my healing power will work on them.”
Everyone unanimously decided: Forget about whether it works or not, just give it a try! From now on Nangong Wuyue was not just a humidifier, she had another role, as first aid kit…
With nothing else left, the last step was to enter The Plane of Dreams together. Hao Ren, assisted by the MDT, quickly adjusted the settings of several dormant cabins and registered everyone’s mental frequencies into the devices. With the input being the last parameter, the upper lids of the ‘coffins’ slid open quietly, exposing the empty, crystalline inner tanks. Faint fluorescence twinkled from inside the crystalline tanks, as if summoning the users to lie down in the ‘coffin’.
Hao Ren was unwilling to enter the ‘coffin’ but, Vivian already made the first move excitedly. She held a large pile of blankets and bedding, approached a dormant cabin and spread them out in the cabin smoothly. Soon, she made it a soft and comfy coffin bed. After she had finished, she looked at the MDT awkwardly and asked, “Ah, I forgot to ask, is it okay to put these things inside?”
“It’s okay. All of the cabin’s functions involve non-physical contact. It’s good to make it comfortable. You’re quite creative. Usually people never think of putting blankets into a dormant cabin.”
“I’ll take this as a bed.” Vivian happily lay into it and felt the touch. She then jumped out and called Lily, “Doggie, come with me. Let’s go upstairs and take those spare blankets. I’ll make the beds for you guys.”
The vampire girl was immersed in helping them prepare the dormancy cabins. Those metal boxes would have been able to look less like coffins with the touch of technology. However, they looked more like coffins after they were covered in quilts. Vivian came down to the basement holding a bunch of white candles. She wanted to light them up around the coffins according to a vampire’s sense of aesthetic. After Hao Ren threatened Vivian with his life, he finally crumbled the vampire’s excitement. However, when everybody was ready to enter the cabin, Hao Ren suddenly realised one more thing and asked, “We’re going to stay inside for a few days. What about Lil Pea?”