"Just as expected of Brother Zheng. You're a great judge of character."
Ace laughed.
"Don't say anything yet. Let me talk first."
Liu Zheng said.
"Go ahead, go ahead."
"I have a friend from the Hundred Thousand Mountains. I want to help it get citizenship."
He said.
"Do its parents have citizenship?"
Ace asked.
"I don't know. It's an orphan and only has a master. Its master is basically dead now too."
Liu Zheng replied.
"That'll be difficult. At least one parent needs to be a Second-Class Citizen or above for this to be easy to handle."
Ace said.
Citizen rank was one of Metropolis's most fundamental systems. Even someone with Ace's status couldn't be too outrageous; there had to be a plausible reason.
"Oh, right. Its species is an Iron-Eating Beast."
Liu Zheng added.
"Iron-Eating Beast? Never heard of it."
Ace shook his head.
"What about a panda?"
"Never heard of that either."
Ace still shook his head.
"If even you haven't heard of it, doesn't that mean its species is really rare? Could we work from that angle?"
He employed reverse thinking.
"You're not wrong. I've heard colleagues at the Household Registration Office mention that there seemed to be preferential policies for rare species. Wait a moment, I'll ask someone from the Household Registration Office."
Ace hung up after saying that.
After a while, he called back.
"I asked. They said you can get the Biological Management Bureau to issue a rare species certificate. Then you can bring that certificate to us to register its household status. Depending on how rare it is, it can be registered as high as a First-Class Citizen, and at worst, a Third-Class Citizen."
Ace said.
In Metropolis, species and race were not the same thing.
Only species whose vast majority of members