Chapter 12 Practice with New Weapons

If Hao Ren remembered correctly, this was the third time Lily and Vivian had damaged the furniture since they’d moved into this house. The wolf girl was great at paying rent on time, and the vampire girl wasn’t bad as a cook, but could they please control their destructive power?

Lily picked up her claws, looking embarrassed as she curled up on the sofa again. Vivian sighed, "You pay for it yourself; I'm broke."

Lily, in a rare moment of clarity, immediately protested, "What about your vampire pride?"

Vivian spread her hands. "I have pride, but I just don't have money."

Hao Ren looked at his new table, which he'd only bought a few days ago, with a pained expression. Hearing the broke vampire's nonchalant words, he could only sigh weakly. "Forget it, I'll file a report with Raven 12345. Maybe I can get it reimbursed."

And so, the two superwomen were delighted. Vivian gave up trying to figure out what was going on with Lily's claws and went back to doing housework, while Lily enthusiastically began studying her new weapons.

A few days passed in the blink of an eye.

Lily adjusted quickly. The truth of her "husky heritage," which was enough to make anyone collapse, only bothered her for less than a day. The next morning, when Hao Ren saw the wolf girl come out of her room, full of energy and searching for food, he knew that the usual carefree and goofy beauty had returned.

From this, Hao Ren and the others learned a lesson: Lily was someone they didn't need to worry about at all. Look, even something as life-altering as this didn't have much of an impact on her. What else was there to worry about in the future? A toothless person won't have toothaches, and a carefree person probably won't suffer from mental illness... Worrying about a husky was just asking for trouble.

After confirming that Lily had recovered, the tenants of the apartment returned to their daily routines. Hao Ren lazed around as usual and was responsible for buying groceries every day. Izhaks continued to study the local customs, striving to integrate into the local environment as soon as possible (considering his face, this might be a bit difficult). Lily lived a regular life, writing at home on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and going out to treat stray dogs on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. In addition to housework, Vivian had another job: as someone who had "been there, done that," she began to guide Lily, helping the wolf girl discover her new powers, mainly to see if she could solve the problem of her clothes being destroyed when she transformed...

Hao Ren's opinion on this was: let them do whatever they want, as long as they don't tear down the house.

Today was the third day that Lily had happily welcomed her transformation. Hao Ren was going out to buy some things. The weather was getting colder every day, and the recent weather forecast said that there would be continuous rain, and the whole city would experience a large-scale drop in temperature. Hao Ren was going to buy some supplies to prepare at home.

This time, he didn't dare to take Izhaks with him. Although the Great Demon was very enthusiastic about helping, well... he would wait a few more days until the people on the nearby streets got used to Izhaks's face. Otherwise, when the two of them went out together, well-meaning citizens would always think that Hao Ren had been kidnapped by an escaped convict...

As he passed through the intersection, Hao Ren met a tall foreigner.

He was a burly man about six-foot-three, wearing a thick long trench coat, with black curly hair. Hao Ren couldn't tell what country he was from (Hao Ren hadn't seen enough foreigners in his life; he only knew British people), but his gray-blue eyes were very memorable. Hao Ren was originally going to pass him by, but because the other person looked so striking in every way, he subconsciously took a few more glances.

In this small place in the southern suburbs, foreigners were as rare as wild pandas. In fact, Hao Ren even suspected whether any foreign friends had ever appeared in this place since the founding of the country—the few in his house who didn't even have "human citizenship" didn't count. However, Hao Ren had even seen aliens, so he didn't pay too much attention to the tall, mighty foreigner in front of him. He just took a few more glances and was about to walk away, but just as he took a step, the other person took the initiative to speak, "Wait a moment."

It was Chinese with a slightly strange accent, but still quite clear.

"What, you want to ask for directions?" Hao Ren looked curiously at the foreigner who could speak Chinese.

"My name is Kasa Eben," the stranger seemed to be quite proactive and enthusiastic. He held out his hand to shake Hao Ren's hand. "A small businessman, coming here to do business. I would like to ask where the place to register foreigners is here?"

Hao Ren shook the other person's hand, thinking that this "small businessman" had a lot of strength in his hands, and then thought about it, "Then you probably have to go to the police station... Go to the end of this street and turn left, and then go to the end. But they may not be able to do it; you may have to go to the city."

"Oh, thank you." The tall man who called himself Kasa Eben said with a smile, but continued to hold Hao Ren's hand, and when he spoke, he kept sniffing and inhaling as if he was smelling Hao Ren, Hao Ren immediately felt goosebumps on his back and shook off the other person with force, "Haha... You're welcome, you're welcome."

Kasa Eben smiled indifferently and walked towards another direction, brushing past Hao Ren's shoulder. At the moment of passing, he took another deep breath and finally dropped a puzzling sentence, "Good luck to you."

After the other person left his sight, Hao Ren breathed a long sigh of relief, feeling that the goosebumps on his back were rising one after another. His good mood when he went out was destroyed, and judging by his intuition, he thought the other person was gay...

This encounter in the morning made Hao Ren feel awkward, and he hurriedly bought his things and went straight home. As soon as he pushed open the door, he saw Vivian and Lily busy with "practicing new weapons": there was a lot of raw mutton on the table. Lily froze the mutton with her ice claws and then knocked it into small pieces, then roasted it on her fire claws. Vivian was responsible for sprinkling seasonings next to her...

This was obviously not easy to master, and there were many failures, but Vivian was still enthusiastic and confident, "Come on, as long as you are familiar with this process, you will definitely be faster than those selling lamb skewers on the street. When the time comes, we will go to the street to sell lamb skewers. You can bake in the house, and I will have money soon... Oh, landlord, you are back?"

"Can't you two do something worthy of your race!" Hao Ren stepped forward and rubbed Lily's head, adding the second half of the sentence, "Oh, Lily is very consistent with her identity, but can't you consider your dignity as a vampire?"

Lily didn't dodge when someone rubbed her head, but instead rubbed it with gusto, "I feel that the bat's idea is very good. Although she is annoying, she is very smart... But landlord, why do you always touch my head these days?"

Hao Ren quickly retracted his hand, thinking that since knowing Lily's identity, there were many new habits that he really couldn't stop!

"Hey, it's really unlucky today," Hao Ren found that Vivian's eyes were a little strange when she looked at him. In order not to let the other person continue to think in a strange direction, he quickly changed the subject, "I just met a foreign gay man who looks like a bear when I went out..."

It was fine if he didn't change the subject, but when he did, even Lily's eyes became subtle, "Landlord, have you decided to start a new life?"

Hao Ren was horrified to find that Lily's eyes were subtle and had some kind of suspicious fiery glow. He subconsciously distanced himself from the husky, "What kind of look is that... I'm telling you, my orientation is very normal..."

Lily sighed disappointedly, "Hiss—I thought there would be new material around me."

Hao Ren felt cold sweat breaking out: this literary girl's usual creative range seemed to be quite wide!

Fortunately, Vivian was a good girl with integrity and didn't continue Lily's topic in a strange direction. She was just a little curious, "Tell me about it; I really haven't seen any foreigners come to this place."

"Oh, that's how it is..." Hao Ren then told her about what happened when he went out in the morning, and finally he was a little strange, "Speaking of which, that person's Chinese is quite fluent. He should have stayed in China for a long time. How come he doesn't even know where to register as a foreigner?"

"Kasa Eben?" Vivian was a little concerned about this strange name. She seemed to remember something bad, and her brows furrowed slightly, but she quickly shook her head, "It's probably a coincidence."

Hao Ren looked at Vivian curiously, "Do you know this name?"

"I know there is an Eben family," Vivian shrugged, "But I only heard about them about a hundred years ago. They are a group of werewolves, who are secretly studying some kind of racial revival plan all day long. They are very troublesome guys. But their main area of ​​activity is Europe and Latin America. The number of werewolves in Asia is small, and they will not come."

Although Vivian's tone was very disapproving, Hao Ren immediately became concerned: based on his experience of constant trouble since meeting Raven 12345, he felt that he might be tricked again...