"Ah Xiu!"
Seeing the cashier faint from fright, the nearby waitress instinctively gasped, but she quickly covered her mouth, crouched down, and cautiously made her way to the cash register.
Then, the real show began with the official army entering—two Xiabei Tigers that had escaped from the zoo.
The two cats, standing on all fours with shoulders 1.2 meters high, let out a series of tiger roars, but when they reached the restaurant's floor-to-ceiling window, they sat directly on the ground, rubbing their heads against the glass, making a "gurgling" sound.
After rubbing, they rolled over, exposing their snow-white bellies with stripes, and began to roll around.
As tigers escaped from the zoo, although they weren't well-versed in human nature, they knew humans liked certain poses.
Previously, when they fell onto the ground and exposed their bellies to roll around, visitors outside would start buying chicken legs to throw into the cage.
Every time they showed their bellies or tilted their heads, they could scam three to five hundred pounds of chilled chicken.
"Aowoo—"
The tigers rolled back and forth on the ground, meowing.
"???
Yu Xueqing was stunned, instinctively pulling out her phone to take a picture through the floor-to-ceiling window.
She snapped a photo of a brown bear rolling into a ball and then took a picture of three leopards forming a ring, then immediately switched to video mode, pointing at the tigers.
Mo Yiqing and Qiu Lingling watched in shock, observing the fierce beasts pacing at the door.
"Damn! Come help!"
Mo Yiqing ran briskly to the cashier, giving the half-conscious cashier a kick, urgently urging the waitstaff to help move the cash register in front of the glass door.
The cash register, 1.2 meters high, was horizontally placed in front of the glass door by Mo Yiqing and the combined efforts of the waitress and cashier, blocking any possibility of opening the door.
"Ah Qing! What are they saying?"
Relaxing a bit after pushing a table against the door, Mo Yiqing asked Yu Xueqing.
Outside, the fierce beasts were all squealing incoherently, but Mo Yiqing couldn't understand what they were saying.
"They're calling for their mom..." Yu Xueqing replied, giving Mo Yiqing a strange look.
Master Fox had instructed them to pull out all the stops to act cute in front of the restaurant door.
The cutest and softest moment of their lives was right after they were born.
To act cute and adorable,
they mimicked behaviors from their early childhood, with milk-voiced cries of 'mom'.
Their cute performance wasn't over yet.
A male lion led three lionesses, striding proudly to the restaurant's floor-to-ceiling window.
The lions were seasoned performers at the zoo, well aware of what two-legged beasts liked to watch.
Reaching the glass, the three lionesses suddenly attacked the male lion in front, biting its tail.
The male lion appeared startled, its rear tightening as it quickly turned to look at the lionesses.
The lionesses issued low roars to the male lion, as if urging.
The male lion looked reluctant, as if being tormented by the pride.
Shortly, the male lion flopped onto the ground, displaying an expression of defeat.
However,
the lionesses weren't buying it, with one headbutting his side. The male lion showed a face full of grievance, turning to face its pride with a sigh.
The truth was, it wasn't really tired.
But zoo visitors seemed to love seeing the lionesses tormenting the male lion scene.
The male lion was adept at scams too.
Whenever he put on a face of grievance and fatigue, it could trick visitors into tossing lots of treats, with chilled chickens thrown into the yard to bolster his strength.
The pride hunted collaboratively, and the lionesses were happy to have an extra meal, so they cooperated with the male lion's act.
Yu Xueqing blushed, spitting quietly, yet secretly eavesdropping on the lion's whispers.
And then,
A stiff-bodied leopard cat walked in front, with a rattlesnake wrapped around it. The rattlesnake was giving it its all, shaking its tail with all its strength, producing a "rustle" sound around.
A nearly four-meter-long python followed closely behind, occasionally nudging the leopard cat's head, indicating it to move faster.
Two penguins lounged on the python cooling off.
In the 38-degree afternoon, only the slight coolness on the python could give the penguins some comfort.
[Street Zoo Wish Fulfilled, Yu Xueqing glanced at the lion pride with a blush, holding up her phone, murmuring inwardly: 'Is this something you can see without buying tickets and showing your ID? Whoa!']
[Wish Power +2]
"Huh?"
Seeing a prompt pop up in the wish list, Ansheng's cheeks showed slight surprise, having not expected a +2 increase.
"Hey...looks like within these guys, there's a strong possibility of a Lu Bu in the future."
"But...it doesn't matter, after all, soon they'll all be heading to the zoo to sleep in the big bunk beds."
Ansheng now had some grasp on the patterns of Wish Power from the wish list.
Wish Power wasn't necessarily tied to the difficulty of the wish.
Wish Power had a minimum of 1 point.
And if the wish was related to protecting a party, you could gain extra Wish Power, the more influential, the more Wish Power was awarded.
Spirit Beasts had enormous destructive power, so anything involving them typically earned a +3 Wish Power reward.
......
The animal circus performance didn't last long.
During their escape, law enforcement and the forestry department were already en route.
When Ansheng was capturing the beasts, security and forestry were already searching the area, so after the cashier called the police, security arrived at the restaurant intersection in less than five minutes. They stayed in their cars, tranquilizing all the beasts with rifles.
But the zoo staff looked utterly baffled at the sight of brown bears, pythons, penguins, and rattlesnakes.
'Do we even have these at our zoo?' the zoo staff wondered, dazed.
"Meow meow meow!"
Seeing the staff caging the beasts, the leopard cat quickly crawled into the iron cage, not wanting to stay here for long.
"Thank you."
As they placed the beasts back into the iron cage, the forestry staff smiled broadly, thanking everyone in the restaurant, saying that if it weren't for their timely report, allowing these beasts to gather for a brawl, who knows what might have happened.
After the forestry staff spoke, they naturally reached in front of Yu Xueqing, inserting both arms under the little fox's forearms to pick it up, preparing to pack it up for transport.
"???"
Yu Xueqing slowly raised a question mark, grabbed the two tufts of fur on the little fox's chest, yanking it back from the forestry staff's embrace.
"???"
The forestry employee also raised a question mark.
Both stood silent for a moment.
"Comrade, wild animals are very..."
"Xiaolan, it's a pet fox."
"Sorry for the disturbance."