In the following time, Mikaela took Qiao Sang for a tour of almost every home for rent that met training criteria nearby, looking at about ten rental villas. Unfortunately, none of them caught Mikaelaâs eye. Either they were too close to neighbors, which made sound insulation during training poor, or the villa owner was a Pet Beast that required cohabitation and didnât fully rent out the villa.
"Why are houses owned by Pet Beasts mostly shared rentals?" Qiao Sang finally couldnât help but complain: "And these Pet Beasts donât make it clear in their platform introduction."
Mikaela pondered for a few seconds, then said, "This kind of situation didnât exist when I rented a house on the Flame Sky Star, but Pet Beasts basically canât read. They usually just auto-generate the content after uploading photos of the house, probably just subconsciously defaulting to select âfor rentâ."
After a pause, she discreetly glanced at Qingbao, adding: "Actually, that house belonging to the Sheda Monster this morning was quite nice. The Sheda Monster doesnât like appearing in front of people, so if you rent its house, it surely wonât be a shared rental."
"Qingqing."
Qingbao blinked his innocent big eyes.
Qiao Sang coughed and steered the topic away from the Sheda Monster: "Why donât we go check the suburbs, the villas there are spaced farther apart, the sound insulation is better, training wonât disturb the neighbors, and since Little Treasure Hunter can conduct Spatial Movement, it doesnât really matter if we live a bit further away, itâs convenient to get anywhere."
Mikaela said in a deep voice:
"No, your purpose here is not just for training, nor for competition, but to seek the opportunity predicted by the Fate Spirit. There are fewer people and Pet Beasts in the suburbsâif you stay in such a place, you might spend the entire day just training, how would you find opportunities then?"
Qiao Sang was taken aback:
"Do opportunities need to be sought out oneself? Wonât they come to you on their own?"
Mikaela: "..."
"When you were in the Zhongkong Region, if you hadnât registered for the regionâs tournament, how would you have let Ice Emperor Ram and them evolve, and how would you have formed a contract with Qing Qingni?" Mikaela said.
Thatâs true... Qiao Sang was convinced.
Mikaela picked up her phone, glanced at the time on it, and said:
"Letâs eat first, find more afterwards."
Naturally, Qiao Sang had no objection.
The two of them came to a nearby restaurant.
Here, at this restaurant, people and Pet Beasts could order regardless of the style or flavor.
As soon as Qiao Sang entered, he saw many Pet Beasts sitting together, eating food.
They found a large table by the window to sit down, ordered, and the food was soon brought over by the waiter.
Yaobao, Little Treasure Hunter, and Little Ting Dragon were gobbling up their food.
Lubao, Gangbao, and Qingbao were eating in a much more refined manner.
Pen Jiami held a knife and fork, slowly cutting up the meat on her plate, very gracefully.
While eating, Mikaela was checking houses for rent nearby on the platform using her phone.
Qiao Sang took a sip of soup, then said:
"If we really canât find a place, letâs just share rent with Pet Beasts. I see they usually wear mini shrinking bracelets, so moving about shouldnât affect us much."
Mikaela refused without even thinking:
"Why would anyone who rents a house want to live with the landlord? Even though they are Pet Beasts, sometimes they can be more troublesome than people when they get rowdy. Plus, Iâve always found this trend of Pet Beasts looking for people to share rentals a bit off."
Upon hearing this, Qiao Sang said no more and focused on eating.
Mikaelaâs social experience far exceeded his, if she felt something was off, there must be a problem.
Suddenly, the conversation from the next table drifted over:
"I want to end the lease too, but if I do, that Gemstone Coral wonât return my deposit."
"Itâs just a monthâs deposit anyway, might as well forfeit it; why should you have to cook and clean for it every day? In my opinion, these wild Pet Beasts have been watching too much TV every day."
"Thatâs true, but if it werenât for those TV shows, these wild Pet Beasts wouldnât have even thought about renting out their living spaces. Speaking of which, itâs become much easier to find houses lately, anyway, Iâll just put up with it for a while, canât argue with cheap rent."
The topic about rent ended there, and the two switched to another topic.
Qiao Sangâs curiosity got the better of him. He leaned over and asked:
"Which television show?"
The people at the adjoining table looked over.
One of the men was confused: "Which television show?"
"The TV show you were just talking about; the one that led wild Pet Beasts to rent out their homes," Qiao Sang said.
"Itâs called âMy Tenant is a Human,â itâs quite popular among Pet Beasts recently," the man replied.