"I guess... I came at the wrong time, didn't I?"
The room was brightly lit, and Ansheng even saw that Mo Yiqing had brought the fill light used during Yu Xueqing's live broadcasts into the room, raising the temperature of the air-conditioned room, which was already quite warm, even higher when combined with the fill light and the heat emanating from Mo Yiqing.
When Mo Yiqing opened the door, Ansheng clearly felt a wave of heat rush out at him.
Mo Yiqing's footsteps left mist-like footprints on the cold tiled floor, her snow-white skin glowed with a rosy hue, elegant and sensual.
Under the professional fill light, there were two phones arranged on a low table next to a yoga mat, along with a DSLR camera of a brand Ansheng didn't recognize.
"Something's off... nine out of ten things are suspicious!" Although Ansheng hadn't yet entered the room, his keen fox nose vaguely detected a sense of foreboding:
"I feel like sleeping under the bed tonight is fine. A bath isn't absolutely necessary. I'll take my leave, sorry for bothering you!"
First the fill light, then the DSLR, combined with Mo Yiqing's inherent Water Nymph aura, allowed Ansheng to deduce a general plot.
Roughly speaking, Mo Yiqing had just finished exercising, saw her rosy white skin, felt her smoothness increase rapidly, and then fell in love with herself once more, wanting to arrange a date.
The little fox wanted to leave, but Mo Yiqing grabbed his small paw.
"Since you're here, why not come in and sit for a while? Aunt Momo has lots of delicious food inside."
Even though the little fox's face showed disdain, and even as his two hind legs and one small paw subtly retreated, digging into the floor, Mo Yiqing still held the little fox's paw and patted his backside, inviting him inside.
"... Just to be clear, photos are fine, but I refuse to participate in any filming of an avi with integrity as a fox."
The little fox's face was full of righteous indignation, yet his gaze involuntarily drifted toward the two phones on the table.
Mo Yiqing had two phones, one for daily use, and another used as an offline storage device, in which she kept her pictures and some sensual photos.
The little fox peeked over.
[Album]: Sixty thousand photos, one thousand videos.
Mo Yiqing didn't notice, as she put on the fox ears headband that Ah Qing had left behind, leaned on the yoga mat with one hand near the little fox, and held the DSLR with the other hand.
"Come on! Give us a smile, little fox."
"Aw...," the little fox's face drooped.
"Aren't you on your period? Aren't you afraid of leaks with such large movements?"
The little fox muttered in his mind.
.........
After Mo Yiqing finished taking pictures, she took the little fox to bathe in the bathroom, bringing Ansheng's day to a close.
Meanwhile, in another location.
Ah Bai was speeding across the sea on the Big Flyer, with four or five tons of frozen meat and over 300 pounds of various vegetables and fruits in the cabin along with the dogs.
Lin Hao was also in the cabin, with a black cloth covering his eyes, holding a small velvet nest with a hedgehog clad in a nightgown unconscious inside.
The nightgown on Granny Hedgehog could hardly be called a nightgown, as it was essentially two scarves stapled together with tape, used temporarily for warmth.
"Awoooo—"
Ah Bai stood up and howled, the sound from the installed speakers amplifying the wolves' howls, which began to echo over the empty sea at night.
A moment later.
Lin Hao, blindfolded by the dogs, arrived before a sea view villa jutting from the sea. The golden-maned lion had already led the monkey group and other beasts there, waiting.
Under the golden-maned lion's strange gaze, Ah Bai pushed the blindfolded Lin Hao into the villa.
The sea view villa looked unremarkable on the outside, but its highlight was the underground room.
The entire basement was submerged underwater, made entirely of high-strength glass, equipped with spotlights outside to attract phototactic fish, providing close encounters with natural marine life for visitors.
Ah Bai turned on the spotlights, illuminating the pitch-black sea floor, attracting the orca just done with its transaction.
"Awoooo—"
Ah Bai removed Lin Hao's blindfold. With the strong light striking him, Lin Hao instinctively raised his hands to shield himself; once his eyes, used to the darkness, adjusted to the strong light of the oceanview villa's spotlights, he finally saw the surrounding scene.
However, once he saw it clearly, this heir of the amusement city couldn't help being filled with dread.
On his left was Ah Bai, a white wolf the size of a compact car, and on his right was a golden-maned lion the size of a full-size SUV. Outside the completely transparent glass room, large numbers of six or seven meters long killer whales swam about, and one of them, estimated to be over a dozen meters, was larger than the entire undersea villa's viewing room.
"Awoooo—"
Ah Bai said something facing Lin Hao.
It was clear Lin Hao couldn't understand, but Ah Bai wasn't actually speaking to Lin Hao.
"Zzz zzz zzz..."
The golden-bordered hedgehog, who had been playing dead, suddenly opened its eyes wide and surveyed the undersea villa, showing a hint of amazement, sitting up straight and holding its forehead as it spoke:
"... If you want the territory in the city, go ahead, but aren't you worried about attracting trouble expanding and garrisoning so openly?"
During the time the golden-bordered hedgehog pretended to be unconscious,
it had pretty much figured out why Master Fox and the dogs were causing trouble.
As the ruler of the city center, even if it normally wouldn't interfere, all animals living in that vast area looked up to the golden-bordered hedgehog as a leader.
Neither Master Fox nor the golden-maned lion, not even Ah Bai, could command the city's animals.
This went against Master Fox's plan to build an intelligence network in Jiule City, where Spirit Beasts emerged, so Master Fox could go over, use brute force, gain some Wish Power, and leave.
Similarly, it prevented Ah Bai from leading his stray dogs to scavenge for food in the city, starving the dogs.
The golden-bordered hedgehog didn't care about those animals; its approach was entirely different from Ansheng's.
It collected mounts and little brothers.
It remotely controlled its little brothers from behind the scenes, building its entertainment business empire in the human city and starting to enjoy its time in the spotlight, with human subordinates even rolling cigarettes and lighting them for it.
"Your territory is now ours," Ah Bai conveyed Master Fox's message in a "woof" to the golden hamster, "If you want to make trouble, just try. We can even flip your boats over at sea..."
You don't need to say things I don't understand. In short, we're taking your territory, and for the hungry brothers on Qingao Island, you need to help with the supplies too.
Finding frozen pig trotters and chicken feet, chicken giblets is easy, but these monkeys' vegetarian food is beyond us.
"What a righteous robber, this Master Fox!" The golden-border hedgehog "chirped" with its face darkening, exclaiming, "You calculated we can't win, don't dare to report to the police, and have exposed our home, right?"
Ah Bai nodded as a matter of course.
Fox Brother says the money they make is all unconscionable.
Now we're acting as agents of justice; as long as we don't hurt people during operations, the law we're subject to is the Wildlife Protection Act, whereas if they report to the police, they'd be under the Criminal Code. We're not afraid of trouble!
The ones truly afraid are them!