I became Superman

Zhou Ming followed suit, burning a straight line in the sky, leading towards the Pet Home.

Sunlight streams down from this straight line, creating a sunlit strip several hundred meters wide.

Zhou Ming followed the ribbon toward the Pet Home.

He saw many people excitedly gathered on the road, looking up at the sky and taking pictures.

A straight line runs through the dark clouds, as if someone had swung a sword in the sky—a rare spectacle indeed.

Some people stood at the boundary between light and shadow, holding hands and taking photos together.

Zhou Ming silently walked through the excited crowd and arrived at Nanhu Wetland Park.

The door to the Pet Home was still locked. He heard a commotion in the courtyard and, confirming that someone was inside, knocked on the door a few times.

A short while later, Yi Jiahui opened the door and saw Zhou Ming standing outside. She exclaimed with delight, "Ah, you've come!"

As Zhou Ming stepped over the threshold, he said, "I need Falcon Girl's help with something."

Yi Jiahui said, "Sister Falcon just went out with the people from headquarters. She should be back soon. Please wait here for a moment."

"From headquarters?"

Zhou Ming asked curiously, "What are they here for?"

Yi Jiahui said, "Regarding the previous incident, Sister Falcon had requested assistance from headquarters. Although headquarters immediately dispatched personnel, A-level experts are not to be trifled with. It wasn't until today that the personnel dispatched by headquarters arrived."

Zhou Ming said, "Your actions are quite slow. If you really encounter an emergency and wait for headquarters to rescue you, it will probably be too late."

Yi Jiahui said helplessly, "There's nothing we can do. Pet Home isn't known for its combat prowess, and even the headquarters can't always have a suitable A-level expert to dispatch."

As they spoke, the two walked to the backyard.

Several people were marveling at the straight line in the sky from their backyard.

One of the little girls sitting in a wheelchair caught Zhou Ming's attention.

The girl looked only thirteen or fourteen years old. Both her legs had been amputated at the knees and were now wrapped in tight bandages. Her eyes were also bandaged.

The wound looks very fresh.

The girl was accompanied by two people, one of whom was a man nearly two meters tall with ram's horns on his head. He had a handsome and sunny face, a robust build, broad shoulders and a thick back, and had the appearance of an ancient Greek statue.

The other one was a chubby boy with shifty eyes, who was constantly feeding himself snacks.

"Sister Cat, who's here?"

Kusaka asked.

Yi Jiahui said, "It's Senior Zhou Ming, the most recent member of our association."

"Senior Zhou Ming, this is Cao Ying, my new friend. She may be staying at the clubhouse from now on."

Kusaka interjected, "It's not a possibility. Unless Hayabusa-neechan is unhappy, or Neko-neechan finds me annoying, I'm not leaving here."

It took her a lot of effort to convince the people at the alien center to let her be discharged immediately and move here.

Anyway, there are other people here who are good at healing, so there's no need to worry about her injuries worsening.

Zhou Ming asked, "How did she get injured like this?"

Yi Jiahui looked dejected and said, "Yesterday, the Alien Center was on a mission and encountered a formidable opponent. Cao Ying was injured by the opponent, and another person from the center was even more seriously injured and passed away this morning."

"Oh, this seems to be a very troublesome enemy."

Zhou Ming exclaimed in surprise, "But this little girl is only a teenager, right? Is it really necessary for her to participate in dangerous missions at such a young age? The Alien Center is going too far."

That would be extremely excessive...

Yi Jiahui shared the same thought, but she couldn't openly speak ill of the center.

Cao Ying said, "We can't blame them. There are too few Qi Observers in this world, so once a Qi Observer is discovered, they will do their best to train them so that the Qi Observer can be put into missions as soon as possible."

"With the Observer, the Alien Center is like having an extra pair of eyes in the sky, able to detect threats in time and stop them before disaster strikes."

"Don't let my young age fool you, I've been working at the Alien Center for three years now. In those three years, I've helped the center discover many dangerous aliens, and indirectly saved quite a few lives."

Kusa Sakura wore a smug expression, as if her painful injuries could not diminish her pride in the slightest.

Zhou Ming said with a smile, "You're really amazing. I hope you have a great time here. Cat and I are neighbors. Feel free to come visit me when you have time."

Kusaka smiled and said, "I'll definitely go and bother you."

"Oh right, I haven't introduced you yet."

Yi Jiahui said, "These two are also members of the association. This is Bai Yang."

She pointed to the man with ram's horns.

Aries?

That's certainly true to its name.

Zhou Ming asked curiously, "Could it be a sheep-like anomaly? I wonder what abilities sheep-like anomalies possess?"

Bai Yang paused for a moment, then asked, "Does eating grass count?"

It seems he was quite embarrassed by this.

Zhou Ming noticed his embarrassment and laughed, "This is quite a skill. At least you don't have to struggle for a living. As long as you go out into the wild, there's delicious food everywhere."

Bai Yang smiled wryly and said, "You really know how to comfort people."

He sighed and said, "Not all outcasts have strong combat abilities. Someone like me, whose only abilities are eating grass and goring people with the horns on my head, is considered to be at the bottom of the outcasts."

"My abilities not only fail to give me an advantage, but also prevent me from integrating into human society. If it weren't for the Pet Home taking me in, we would probably have been wiped out, either by those madmen Blood Eaters or by humans."

Those who were different from the crowd felt a sense of empathy.

None of them are powerful outcasts. Even Yi Jiahui, although she has combat abilities, is still considered to have a very low potential compared to the powerful races among the beast-transformed outcasts, such as lions, tigers, bears, and elephants.

If it weren't for organizations like Pet Home, which allowed them to unite and barely survive, their lives in the alien world would have been incredibly miserable.

The world of the supernatural is truly hierarchical.

Zhou Ming thought to himself silently.

Yi Jiahui then introduced Zhou Ming to the chubby boy who kept snacking. He was a rat-like anomaly with a keen sense of smell and a knack for digging holes. He was somewhat similar to the mole-man that Zhou Ming had previously sealed underground, but his abilities were far inferior to the mole-man's.

These two are permanent members of the guild. The others can maintain their identities in human society, so they don't need to stay in the guild all the time. Instead, they continue to hide their identities and live their ordinary human lives.

They only seek help from the association when they encounter trouble.

After listening to Yi Jiahui's explanation, Zhou Ming finally understood that the so-called "Cute Pet Home" was a mutual aid group composed of the weakest among the beast-like aliens.

Of course, not everyone here is weak. There are also some powerful outliers who do not think that the weak are unworthy of living or only worthy of being enslaved by the strong just because they have great power.

They volunteered to join the Pet Home, acting as protectors of these vulnerable and unusual creatures.

Zhou Ming strongly suspected that a significant proportion of these people were simply people who enjoyed petting cats and dogs.

Overall, however, it is still a relatively friendly group.