Mysterious Star City Beast Tamer Association, the organizers' conference room for the Foster Care Experience Exhibition.
The conference room, usually filled with cheerful chatter and laughter, now held an atmosphere heavier than the gloomy sky outside.
The Beast Tamers of the twenty Contract Beast judges first made a thorough self-criticism over their failure to notice the problem, then silently stared at the eleven applications stacked on the table in the middle of the room.
"Let's hear it. How should we handle this?" One of the King-Rank chief judges spoke slowly, his expression grave. "These Boarding Shops are adamant about withdrawing from the Foster Care Experience Exhibition."
"Treat them as forfeits and skip them," one judge could not help suggesting. "Going by the order, tomorrow will be Fengyun Boarding Shop's turn."
"This isn't about the order..." Another judge rubbed his brow. "Of the seventeen participating shops, over half have withdrawn outright. Won't we look like a joke when we announce the final scores?"
"That's not what worries me." Another judge pondered for a moment before speaking slowly. "What worries me is the next Contract Beast Boarding Experience Exhibition."
The conference room fell silent again.
In previous Foster Care Experience Exhibitions, although Pingtian Boarding Shop had always taken first place, the gap between it and the other Boarding Shops had not been large. It had been a gap they could close.
At the very least, Wild Wolf Boarding Shop had nearly caught up with Pingtian Boarding Shop this year.
That had given the other Boarding Shops an incentive to participate.
But if an exceptional shop like Starfire Foster Shop appeared at the Foster Care Experience Exhibition, surpassing all the others so thoroughly that they could see no hope of catching up, the situation was bound to change.
The stubborn-as-a-mule owner of Yangguang