My Pet Beast is Super Awesome - Chapter 4
Chapter 4: Sucheng University
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The shimmering morning light shone through the half-drawn curtains on a sleeping Shao Zifeng.
His pale and sunken cheeks were bathed in the golden light, and even the tiny hairs on his face were visible.
It was just that he seemed to be having a nightmare. His brows were tightly furrowed, and his forehead was covered with cold sweat. Meanwhile, his black hair was drenched in sweat as it clung to his forehead.
The muscles on his handsome face kept twitching as he clenched his teeth, making him look rather menacing.
“Let me go… Let me go!”
Shao Zifeng’s breathing grew increasingly heavy, and he gripped the bedsheet tightly with both hands. Blue veins started to pop up all over as he looked like he was struggling to break free from something.
At that moment, the rushed noise of an alarm broke the tranquility in the room.
Shao Zifeng abruptly awakened from his dream and sat up. He held his forehead in one hand, while his chest heaved heavily.
As Shao Zifeng’s breathing calmed down, so did his emotions.
Although he had been comforting himself to accept everything, for an ordinary student, crossing-over still caused plenty of insecurity.
The uneasiness evoked childhood memories that he was unwilling to face again, and it tormented him repeatedly in his dreams.
Shao Zifeng subconsciously looked at the snake cabinet. When several familiar light spots formed into a light blue screen and the introduction reappeared before his eyes, he was sure that he had really crossed over into a parallel timeline.
“What a strange world.”
Shao Zifeng took a deep breath and did not want to dwell on the matter any longer because he had many things he needed to verify today.
Yesterday, after he had viewed the Daboia viper’s data, he was no longer in the mood to look at any of the other reptiles with the concerns about his kidney in mind.
Yeah…
Thinking about it that way, maybe it was his kidney that made him feel insecure?
Looking at the time, his first class was about to begin. He quickly changed and washed up before he rushed out of his rented room.
Klak.
As the door closed, the room returned to its quiet state. Apart from some slight hissing in the snake cabinet, there were no other sounds.
In the fish tank by the corner of the room, a pair of dark eyes stared quietly at the door.
Sucheng University.
This university did not have a long history or any particularly famous alumni. It did not even have any outstanding professional departments. It was just an ordinary university located in a Tier 18 city, and it was so ordinary that no one besides the locals had ever heard of it.
The distance from his rented place to his university took about ten minutes to cover.
Shao Zifeng would buy breakfast from a stall at the gate of the community, then eat while he walked to school. He would be done with breakfast by the time he arrived.
Perhaps he chose that path because there were few people on it, with only the occasional car whistling past. The quiet road allowed Shao Zifeng to quell his slightly agitated mood quite a bit, and he still kind of looked forward to this new beginning.
After he tossed the breakfast bag into the trash can by the road, Shao Zifeng looked up at the familiar university gate.
The golden words of Sucheng University glowed in the morning sun.
“Heh, it’s still tacky as always.”
Shao Zifeng observed it silently before his mouth twitched with disdain, but he felt much more relaxed because of the familiar sight.
In fact, aside from the rather tacky gold stamp signboard, the overall landscape of Sucheng University’s greenery was still wonderful. Beyond the entrance was a spacious slate road, with lush evergreen trees lining its sides.
At the end of the slate road was a beautiful man-made lake about the size of two football stadiums, and a wooden pavilion stood at the center of the lake.
The lake water sparkled under the morning light, and from time to time, fishes would leap out of the water.
Shao Zifeng wanted to check out the differences between the fishes here and the ones from the previous timeline, but the fishes fell back into the water too quickly, way too fast for him to see them properly.
The small light spots at the corner of his eyes had only started to turn before they awkwardly stopped again.
The lag was extremely high.
However, there were some differences in the university in this timeline.
Unlike the other timeline where there were various faculty buildings, the university in this timeline only had one main teaching building.
The C-shaped building wrapped around the man-made lake, leaving a large flat land around the building.
From his memory, Shao Zifeng knew that these grounds were used by students of various schools to battle or train, and they would occasionally hold some sports-like events there as well, involving mutant creatures.
“Morning, Shao Zifeng.”
While Shao Zifeng was carefully observing the school, an ordinary, almost featureless male voice rang out behind him.
Shao Zifeng broke into a smile and turned to look at the person who had come over.
Yeah…
It was a very ordinary person, the type that you would forget about soon after greeting them.
Shao Zifeng racked his brains and could not remember what the person was called, so he could just answer vaguely. “Morning.”
The person nodded slightly and did not seem to have the intention of stopping to talk, walking straight past Shao Zifeng.
He then stood still for a moment in the morning wind.
Hmm?
What did that person look like again?
No, was there someone earlier?
Shao Zifeng frowned and mused for a moment before he turned toward the faculty building.
Since it was a professional course, today’s program was a small class lecture.
Upon entering the classroom, Shao Zifeng bore a gentle smile on his face as he greeted a few of his classmates. Then, he found a spot to sit down by the window.
After he took a quick glance at the faces of the students in the classroom, Shao Zifeng sighed a little.
Sure enough, most of them were new faces.
It was not unexpected. After all, this timeline had suffered chaos from twenty years ago.
Even when China had tried its best to suppress the mutating animals, many people had still died during the initial devastation.
Shao Zifeng’s mother was also already pregnant with him during the incident of the Unknown Revival Event, and she survived the ordeal.
Otherwise, Shao Zifeng probably would not have appeared in this timeline.
Although he did not have any particularly good friends or classmates whom he was close with in the other timeline, there would always be a few classmates he was familiar with thanks to his gentle temperament.
However, when the possibility of some of these people never appearing in this timeline came to mind, he still felt a little regretful.
While Shao Zifeng was looking out of the window and getting lost in his thoughts, the lecturer had entered the class and started the lecture.
He was majoring in nurturing.
As the name implied, the major…
Yeah…
It was something to do with working behind the scenes.
From delivering babies to caring for young creatures to fur care, scale polishing, and even bone massages, as well as matchmaking pets of opposite genders; the scope was amazingly broad.
At that moment, the lecturer on the podium was spitting saliva everywhere as he gave his lecture passionately. He looked like a strong man based on his hairstyle.
From time to time, he would use his hand to fix his stubborn hair in an attempt to conceal the proof that he was a strong one.
Shao Zifeng was a little absentminded because insofar, he had not figured out how to choose his next path forward.
One of the reasons why his predecessor in this timeline had chosen this major was that he wanted to go home after graduation to help his mother take care of the little animals she had taken in.
As for the second reason, it had something to do with his childhood experience.
The Shao Zifeng who had crossed-over into this timeline was still in confusion. He did not want to follow the same path he had taken after he came back to life again. Yet, he had no idea what path he should choose next.
Rather, due to family-related reasons, he did not know if he had the luxury to choose.
When he thought about it, he could not help but feel a little irritated.
As time passed by, Shao Zifeng snapped out of his contemplations.
Looking at the cell phone next to him, he suddenly remembered that today, in the other timeline, someone would come and buy the Daboia viper from him.
In order to verify whether this would happen or not, Shao Zifeng waited silently.
Ding dong dong!
The recess bell rang outside the window, and after the lecturer left, the classroom suddenly became rowdy as the sound of tables, chairs, and benches rubbing against each other echoed.
Shao Zifeng unwittingly held his breath and looked at his phone intently.
Ding!
There was a pleasant-sounding prompt as a message appeared on the screen.
“Hello, do you have time to meet?”