"Yo ho ho—"
The golden-rimmed hedgehog burst into a series of chuckles after beating the fox upstairs and looked towards Abai in the parking lot. It raised its little paw holding a cigarette and said with a playful grin:
"Hey, puppy, come here. Let Granny give you a shot of energy with the big syringe right into your butt."
As the golden-rimmed hedgehog extended its little paw, the spikes on its shoulders moved towards Abai.
"Awoo—"
Upon seeing the hedgehog's movement, Abai was greatly shocked and dared not stay in place. It scrambled and rolled behind a luxury car, using a Mercedes as cover.
"Shoo shoo shoo—"
In the instant Abai started to run, three spikes silently embedded into the asphalt, and even the Mercedes, which Abai used as a shield, ended up covered with thumb-sized dents glittering white across its side and hood.
"Good grandson! Perform a duet for the doggy!"
Upon seeing Abai hide, the golden-rimmed hedgehog immediately used a built-in speaker translator to urge Lin Hao into action.
Lin Hao winked at Adu and Amao, signaling them to head upstairs and deal with the fox.
Carrying the cutting board in his hands, Lin Hao quickly ran in another direction in the parking lot.
As the perspective shifted, both the golden-rimmed hedgehog and Lin Hao spotted the hiding figure of Abai behind the car.
"Awoo—"
With more than a dozen spikes stuck in its butt, Abai and the other dogs clearly showed panic upon seeing the hedgehog granny and immediately scattered in all directions.
"Sweetie, isn't Granny here? Why are you turning away?"
"Could it be you're shunning Granny for being old and unable to give you the satisfying punch after punch?"
The golden-rimmed hedgehog's face was full of teasing laughter as it maneuvered its riding grandson to run circles in the parking lot, its gaze fixed on Tu Song Abai as one spike after another pierced into Abai's butt, making it yelp.
"Woof woof woof—"
While furiously running through vehicle gaps, Abai furiously side-eyed and let out a series of urgent barks.
However, the sounds of defeat from the dog only further fueled the golden-rimmed hedgehog's predatory desire to tease its prey.
Meanwhile, a loud fox's cry echoed through the empty parking lot.
"Ying—"
The pristine Three-tailed Fox stood upright, lifting a safe as tall as 1.8 meters.
Under the moonlight, the sight of a fox, standing no taller than 60 centimeters, raising a 1.8-meter-long, one-ton, bank-grade safe shocked both the golden-rimmed hedgehog and Lin Hao into a daze.
One was a chairman, the other a manager in big administration.
They knew all too well what was up with that safe.
"Hey hey hey... While Granny's always craved for a young and strong buck as a mount, isn't this a bit too strong?"
The golden-rimmed hedgehog was startled, sitting up from its velvet cocoon, looking towards the fox on the rooftop. Being a clever creature, it had already guessed what the fox intended to do.
And as expected, after its cry subsided, the Three-tailed Fox straightforwardly hurled the one-ton safe from the rooftop.
"Run!"
Though the safe didn't target the golden-rimmed hedgehog, the hedgehog granny still pushed Lin Hao aside, curling itself into a spiky ball and rolling across the parking lot swiftly.
"Boom—"
The safe crashed onto the ground, causing a resounding boom and tremor through the whole parking lot. The nearby glass curtain walls shattered under the aftermath, turning into a frosty pattern of cracked glass.
Following the safe's descent was the white fox.
The little fox landed, effortlessly lifting the safe before it, using it as its bulletproof vest, akin to a heavy bulldozer charging after the fleeing hedgehog.
"Ying ying ying!"
"Squeak squeak squeak!"
Without the speaker, the hedgehog granny couldn't produce human voices, but that didn't prevent it and Ansheng from yelling curses at each other in the parking lot.
Ansheng swung the safe to block the incoming spikes, leaned forward aggressively, wielding the safe in a sweeping motion that sent the parking lot flying with the crashes of steel onto asphalt.
"Boom—"
An even more substantial impact than before burst forth in the parking lot.
A car nearby was lifted off the ground with the shockwave, and a terrifying gale swept across the scene.
Weighing only a dozen kilograms, the fast-rolling golden-rimmed hedgehog couldn't withstand it. At the moment of impact between the safe and the asphalt, the resulting wind pressure sent the hedgehog granny flying.
"This thing... works really well. I'll weld a steel pipe to it later; it should work even better."
The little fox, wielding the safe with a single paw like a baseball bat, swung the hefty thing onto the hedgehog.
"Zz zz zz—"
In the midst of an ear-piercing metal scraping noise, Ansheng widened its eyes, trying to spot the hedgehog it had smacked.
But no matter how strong its night vision, it couldn't detect the golden-rimmed hedgehog that had been knocked away.
"No way, where did my big white and gold-rimmed baseball go?"
The little fox supported the safe with some bewilderment, scanning the ground and sniffing the air in an attempt to locate the mysteriously disappeared hedgehog.
"........"
With spikes stuck into the safe, the golden-rimmed hedgehog granny was hanging 1.7 meters above the ground, too afraid to speak, struggling to pull its spines out from the steel plate.
"Awoo—"
Due to its height, Ansheng couldn't see the hedgehog without tilting its head upwards.
However, just because Ansheng couldn't see it didn't mean Abai and the others, spectating from behind, couldn't see it.
Abai hopped with excitement, loudly reminding the fox brother that the hedgehog was hanging on the iron cabinet.
"R-report it! Report! We must report it!" For the first time witnessing Granny's defeat, Lin Hao, overwhelmed by confusion and panic, shakily took out his phone, intending to notify the Security Bureau and the Safety Bureau.
These two spirit beasts came with ill intentions to assault Granny, and the situation was already quite clear.
Granny going to jail would be better than falling into the hands of these two white canine fiends.
"Awoo—"
As Lin Hao prepared to call the authorities, he suddenly felt a weight on his shoulder, a big white paw resting on him. Lin Hao stiffened and turned to see an enormous wolf head, feeling the searing breath from its maw.
Abai, like a good buddy, threw an arm around Lin Hao's shoulder.
"Awoo…"
Abai lifted a paw to press the red hang-up button on Lin Hao's phone screen, gently guiding Lin Hao's finger to the lock screen button.
Lin Hao stared stiffly at Abai.
Abai grinned with a Shibe-like smile.
Lin Hao, with a sheepish face, slightly crouched, attempting to slowly escape the control of the large white wolf's paw.
Unfortunately, he failed. Abai clamped Lin Hao's shoulder, then turned around, pulling out the spikes stuck in its own butt and promptly stabbing them into Lin Hao's butt in return.
"Ah—"
Lin Hao's face reddened and twisted as he let out a cry of pain.
The golden-rimmed hedgehog wasn't toxic, but its spikes seemed to contain some substance that amplified pain.
That's why Abai feared the hedgehog as if seeing a ghost.