The next morning.
Qiao Sang and Ya Bao sat at the dining table with the others, enjoying the hotel breakfast.
Yellow arcs crackled nearby. Ting Bao used Lightning Power to strike the Object Identifier, feeding it until it was full before starting on its own Energy Meal.
Qiao Sang ate while replying to everyone's messages.
Her phone had been off yesterday. When she turned it on, she found more than 99 messages, all asking whether she had become an S-Class Beast Tamer and contracted Shalala. She turned it off again when she went to sleep, and by morning, the unread count was back over 99.
After a day, interest in the news had only grown.
"Xun Xun..."
Little Treasure ate its Energy Meal while looking at its phone, sighing now and then as though it had no appetite at all.
"Xia Xia?"
Xia Bao called out with concern, asking what was wrong. Was the food bad?
"Xun Xun..."
Little Treasure put down its phone and sighed.
No. It had tried to livestream that morning, only to fail again.
Little Treasure had gotten into the habit of streaming at night. Yesterday, it had tried three times in half a day, and each attempt had crashed the system. It had tried again this morning with the same result.
"Xia Xia..."
Xia Bao looked as though it wanted to offer comfort but didn't know how.
Qiao Sang put down her phone. "Everyone still seems focused on what you said in the stream. It's getting a lot of attention. Try streaming again in a couple of days."
"Xun Xun..."
Little Treasure sighed. That was all it could do.
Then it thought of something and sighed again.
"Xun Xun..."
It hadn't realized there were so many night owls. All three streams it had started in