Why isn't what I command considered a beast?

*A Storage for Smart Brains*

With a plunger in her left hand and a dirty rag in her right, Mingxi was cornered in a women's restroom stall by a group of girls, her hands raised in surrender.

His expression shifted from bewilderment to confusion.

"I'm telling you, if you can't do this job, you should quit as soon as possible. Look how dirty this toilet is."

"It's already so late, and you haven't even done the basic cleaning. Are you sure you're even cleaning properly?"

"Sigh, the toilet used to be so clean with the cleaning plant. It always smelled so nice after it cleaned the toilet."

Now? Everywhere smells disgusting, and you often see squat toilets piled high with poop.

I almost threw up everything I ate this morning!

"That's right."

I really don't understand why the school would let this useless thing replace the water purifier? This extraordinary being is capable and useful; isn't it better than this lazy bum?

"I heard from our teacher that she seems to be an orphan, the kind who lost both her parents."

She has lived with her grandmother since she was a child. A while ago, her grandmother contracted a new genetic disease, a special disease that even healing pets couldn't cure. It could only be treated with rare and precious herbs. As a result, her family became so poor that they couldn't even afford to eat, let alone pay for her tuition.

The beautiful Jingjing took pity on her and let her clean the girls' restroom as a form of work-study until she graduated.

"...Hmph, isn't this just moral blackmail!"

There are countless people in the world who are more pitiful and miserable than her; how can we possibly sympathize with them all?

Why is it that she's poor while we suffer?

I'm definitely going to complain to the teacher about her today! Either she'll assign the cleaning duties of the girls' restroom to a water lily or some other supernatural creature with cleaning skills, or I'll transfer schools!

"You're right! I'm going too!"

"Let's go! Everyone together."

After venting their pent-up anger on Mingxi, the girls left in a flurry, leaving Mingxi alone, still lost in thought.

A long time passed.

Mingxi slowly lowered her aching hands, her expression a complex mix of emotions.

Good heavens, what kind of situation is this?

She actually transmigrated, and into an interstellar beast-taming world no less.

The original owner shared the same name as her, was 14 years old, from Haizhou City, Hujiang Province, Longhua Kingdom, and was a student in Class 26, Grade 8 at Haizhou Third Junior High School.

Family background can be simple or complex.

The group of girls just now said she was an orphan, but that's not quite right. Her biological father has indeed passed away, and she does live with her grandmother, but her biological mother is still alive. She just abandoned her and remarried, and has never paid any child support.

Even when she was so poor that she could only eat dry bread and steamed buns every day, and even when she was exhausted, the original owner never thought of contacting her mother to ask for the child support she was entitled to.

She would rather work herself to death than bend her spine.

"Ugh!"

Mingxi sighed softly, unsure whether to pity the original owner or be annoyed by her stubbornness and strong will.

She was only 14 years old, at the most crucial stage of her life, yet she worked three jobs.

In addition to cleaning all the girls' restrooms in the school building during her time at school, she also worked part-time at a steamed bun shop and a barbecue restaurant.

The former works from 3 a.m. to 6 a.m., responsible for making handmade dumplings and buns, while the latter works from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m., responsible for various odd jobs in the shop.

Working almost 24 hours a day without rest, I was as busy as a spinning top, exhausted and suffering, even falling behind in my studies, but the salary was very low, less than 200 Star Coins per day.

Because this is a society where pets replace human labor.

It's like a cleaning job.

Many people believe that with a super creature like the cleaning flower that can do cleaning work quickly and well, and also beautify the environment and purify the air, who would want to hire a slow-moving and unattractive old aunt?

If you go to any construction site now, you'll find that the people carrying bricks are either Mighty Bears or Stone Monkeys; you'll hardly find any humans.

Even professions like food delivery drivers and couriers have been largely replaced by flying pets.

To put it bluntly, apart from those with special skills, ordinary people have become the most unwanted and cheapest in the labor market. Only unscrupulous businessmen will hire ordinary people to work for extremely low wages.

In contrast to ordinary people, there are beast tamers.

Even if a beast tamer lies around doing nothing for the rest of their life, as long as the extraordinary creature they contract with is powerful enough, they can still have enough to eat and wear.

This is the cruelest and most realistic reality of this world: a beast-taming civilization that has existed for thousands of years and has become quite mature and complete.

"Jingle Bell!"

The school bell interrupted Mingxi's thoughts.

I almost forgot that the original owner cleaned the toilets during breaks between classes. At school, she was still a student, and her main job was to study.

Mingxi quickly gathered up the plunger and other cleaning tools and put them in the red plastic bucket in the corner. After washing her hands, she followed her memory to the original owner's classroom.

As soon as she entered the room, the previously noisy classroom fell silent, as if an old-fashioned Walkman had malfunctioned.

Mingxi blinked: ...

Isn't this right?

Although many of her classmates began to distance themselves from her because she started working part-time as a cleaning lady in the school's girls' restroom this semester, and her former close friends drifted further and further away, her appearance definitely did not have the effect of an emperor personally leading an expedition.

Mingxi turned around following everyone's gaze.

It turned out that the teacher who taught this class was following behind her.

"Hello, Teacher Zhang."

Feeling the oppressive force emanating from the teacher, Mingxi quickly greeted him politely.

The teacher, surnamed Zhang, merely glanced at her, then nodded perfunctorily and said, "Go back to your seat quickly."

"Ok."

Mingxi seemed oblivious to the other person's coldness. She calmly found the original owner's seat and sat down, ignoring the girl at the same table who was deliberately avoiding her. She pulled out a book from her desk and quickly flipped through it as if nothing had happened.

The History of Pet Culture (Volume 1)

What a great book!

She needed to solidify her knowledge of this world, since the original owner's memories were not based on her own experiences.

Receiving the memories of this body does not mean that she can empathize with the original owner's thoughts and feelings. It's more like watching a long, boring, and complicated TV series, but at a fast-forwarded pace.

Our knowledge and common sense about this world are very superficial and lack a sense of reality.

Mingxi considers herself to be just an ordinary girl, not someone with hyperthymesia, and therefore doesn't have the ability to remember everything she sees.

Therefore, she must thoroughly digest those memories before they fade from the original owner's memory, so that they truly belong to her.

She patted the book.

His expression was sacred and solemn.

To master the world of beast taming, start by studying hard and making progress every day.

Chapter 1 of "The History of Pet Beast Civilization (Volume 1)": Extraordinary Creatures (Pet Beasts), Soul Keys, and Spirit Contract Chambers.