Astral Pet Store (WN)
chapter-296

Chapter 296 Stirring Up Trouble

While Tang Ruyan went to freshen herself up, Su Ping opened his door to the customers so that they didn’t have to wait any longer.

The crowd of customers waiting by the door finally saw it open and they swarmed over at once. Those that stood at the head of the line were generally recurring customers and some were students from Phoenix Peak Academy.

“Sir, I’m here to have my pets trained again.” The first in line was Zhang Baoxing. He smiled from ear to ear. Although Su Ping’s store had become more popular than ever, Zhang Baoxing had still managed to be the first to arrive.

Su Ping still remembered him. He nodded and went back to his counter as he asked, “Still the Pyro Canine?”

“Yes!” Zhang Baoxing nodded. Speaking of the Pyro Canine, he was emotionally riled up. He had made it to the Top 100 in a branch venue!

At the finals, as long as he could pass the test, he would become one of the Top 1000!

If he made the cut, his name would become known to the public. His name, as well as the names of other winners, would be released by the media and would travel across the entire Longjiang Base City.

As for whether people would actually remember one name out of one thousand… that was another story for another time.

At the very least, to make it to the Top 1000 was something to be proud of. In the future, whether Zhang Baoxing were to join an explorers’ team, or to find a job at a company in the base city, this experience would add brilliance to his resume and people would treat him with respect.

“General training or professional training?” Su Ping asked.

“Just the general one is fine…” Zhang Baoxing was a bit embarrassed. He had left an impression on Su Ping by being the first one in line every time and yet, he would only choose the general training, which had been a source of frustration for him.

He would certainly want the professional training. However, he could not afford to pay one million.

In Su Ping’s store, the pet training effects were stunning. At the same time, compared to the other pet stores, the charges were shockingly high.

Anyone with a couple of thousand or ten thousand could have purchased a service at any pet store. On the contrary, here at Su Ping’s store, the cheapest item would cost one hundred thousand.

Su Ping chatted with Zhang Baoxing a bit while he wrote down the latter’s information and collected the money. He was happy for Zhang Baoxing, to be one of the one hundred winners at a branch venue.

Su Ping received more customers after Zhang Baoxing left.

Those who had arrived at the store earlier were all familiar ones. Su Ping remembered some of their names but others, he could only remember their faces.

It seemed that the recurrent customers were aware of Su Ping’s habit of “sending away customers.” So, to get a spot, they had shown up rather early.

Over a dozen customers had left. All of a sudden, someone slammed his hand at Su Ping’s counter.

“You must compensate me!”

This angry shout startled the other customers that were waiting quietly. Surprised, they popped their heads in and looked.

Su Ping raised his eyebrows. Su Ping still remembered this young man a bit. He thought of a possibility. “Explain.” Su Ping frowned.

This young man didn’t expect that Su Ping would still be cool headed, which filled him with even more anger. “Sir, you have the Top 100 package and you promised me that I would make it to the Top 100 at the finals. But I didn’t even make it to the branch venue. What can you say about that?” As soon as the sound of his voice died down, the other customers could not help but turn their gaze to Su Ping. Almost everyone had learned about those services offered by the Pixie Pet Store.

The claim of the guaranteed championship had made the name Pixie Pet Store known across the Longjiang Base City in an instant.

However, since that promise was too outrageous, few believed and they only regarded it as a publicity stunt. As such, there had been people arguing that to gain fame and to market its services, the Pixie Pet Store had used all means, fair or foul, and didn’t have moral integrity whatsoever.

But people didn’t anticipate that the Top 100 package could go wrong either. This man didn’t make it to the Top 100 at the branch venue?

As people stared at them in astonishment, the young man fixed Su Ping with a furious glare as if he were going to eat the latter alive.

Su Ping darted another look at the young man and remembered that he did buy the package. Su Ping could still recall that for all the customers choosing this package, he would use professional training on their pets which all had seventh-rank abilities.

It was unlikely that those people would lose at the branch venues, unless they were extremely unfortunate.

“Sir, your name, please,” Su Ping said calmly. He thought this was possibly a Liu family’s attempt at sabotage. He had thought that the Liu family would target Ye Hao and Su Yanying who had bought the Top 10 package. As it turned out, the Liu family only went after this man. “Sun Qiu!” The young man sneered. “Do you want to deny it? I still have the contract we signed!”

“Hold your horses,” Su Ping said and then opened up the registration book. He found the information about this man and it was indeed him. Su Ping said nothing. He opened a webpage and searched for the video of “Sun Qiu’s battle.”

Soon, a bunch of videos popped out and some were shot by members of the audience.

Su Ping chose the ones with a higher view count. Those videos had high quality because they had been edited by the organizer.

For the next few minutes, Su Ping watched all the videos with a frown.

After he closed the last video, he loosened his frown and coldness overtook his face.

Sun Qiu noticed the change in Su Ping’s expressions. “That is ironclad evidence. Do you still want to deny it? You are running an unethical business. Refund me!” Sun Qiu shouted.

The customers that were queueing behind had stepped forward and they were watching, standing on tiptoes. Everyone was curious.

This situation had come as a surprise to Tang Ruyan as well. She stood on the side in a daze. Instead of taking pleasure in Su Ping’s misfortune, she was a bit worried.

If the store’s reputation was damaged, and then customers ran away, then the day when Mr. Right could come and recognize her… would be way into the future.

“You had a sixth-rank Aurora Fox in my store, right?” Su Ping looked straight into Sun Qiu’s eyes.

“Yes. What? You want to beat me?” Sun Qiu was a bit scared.

Su Ping answered coldly, “I trained your Aurora Fox so that it could easily defeat and kill seventh-rank beasts. Why didn’t you use it?!

Sun Qiu could not find any words.

The other customers found Su Ping’s answer hard to believe.

A pet with a bloodline of the lower position of the sixth rank could progress to a level where it could easily kill a seventh-rank beast?

That was beyond belief!

Some of the customers had trained their pets in Su Ping’s store. With the general training, their pets could either become stronger or learn a new skill. But none of the pets could have achieved such a level of progress!

Many people turned their doubtful gazes to the young man. Some of the more scheming ones had already thought of a possibility.

Sun Qiu must have heard the hushed whispers around him. He made up his mind. “That’s what you say. The seventh-rank? If my pet is that good, do you think I wouldn’t use it? How dare you mention my pet. See what you have done to my Aurora Fox!”

With that said, he opened up the contract space and from it fell out a fox.

The fox should have been covered with snow-white fur but at the moment, some dark dots had tainted its fur as if some sort of paint had been spilled over the fox.