Chapter 2: Rare Plant

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The owner of the small store was tall and strong, and he was standing next to the seated Xie Sen. It put great pressure on Xie Sen. Xie Sen waved his hands. “No, no. Big brother, I am honest. Absolutely will not seek others. Happy?!”

The boss looked him up and down once, and frowned. “Are you live?”

“Huh?” Xie Sen was stunned by his sudden question, and realized the boss’s thought process was too strange. “No, I was just passing by to have lunch.”

“I think he’s live-streaming. Wasn’t that video on Trill very hot earlier?”

“I think so!”

Xie Sen was dumbfounded, the diners pointed at him and discussed it vigorously. He strained his ears to listen to a few sentences, and finally understood why they suspected him of live streaming.

It turned out that two days ago, a small anchor of the famous live-streaming platform, Trill in Star City, in order to attract attention, found a small store for lunch. After they ate, they shouted to the boss – “Boss, give me a plate of after-dinner fruit.” This sentence not only stunned the boss, but also made the audience laugh out loud.

Xie Sen understood the reason, but only became more puzzled. What was funny about that?

“Let me see your personal bracelet to check if you’re on air!” The boss reached towards him.

Xie Sen opened the bracelet with his fingerprint, and raised his hand generously. “Feel free to check.”

The boss moved nimbly and checked his bracelet at once to make sure he hadn’t opened any software and wasn’t live. His face looked better, and he put a palm on Xie Sen’s shoulder. “Young man, I won’t ask for money, but don’t joke. If you want to eat rice, a hundred meters ahead, there is an expensive restaurant that sells it. If you go early, you may be able to grab some.”

The corners of Xie Sen’s mouth twitched. Was it necessary to connect rice and an expensive restaurant? He increased his smile and nodded his head. Then he grunted, “Mmn. Big brother, I’ve learned my lesson. You should go. You must be busy,” he said, then pointed to the meat in the lunch box, and gave a thumbs up. “It was super delicious!”

The boss smiled anew, told him to come back often and went to work again.

Xie Sen didn’t dare to ask why there was only meat and no vegetables, so he finished the meat, drank a glass of water and left the store.

He checked his residence through his personal bracelet, and took the shuttle back to the original owner’s apartment. The apartment was in a relatively remote neighborhood. A detached two-story building with about seventy square meters on each floor. He used his fingerprints to enter smoothly.

After he looked around, he sat on the couch and began to catch up on information about this world.

The planet he was on was called Brandt Star, a Beast Star with three main cities, Sun City, Moon City, and Star City. The ancestors of the beast stars were beasts, which later evolved so they could transform into humans. The beasts created a splendid civilization, and the predecessors of the three main cities were the three tribes of the beast era. With the passage of time, beasts could only exist in human form and couldn’t be bestialized.

Even if they couldn’t bestialize, they were still not the same as Earthlings.

The Beastmen were fully grown by sixteen and a half years old and reached adulthood by eighteen. Generally speaking, before the age of sixteen, they would awaken a contract beast. The history books said that the contract beast was a gift from the Beast God to his people.

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