"Smack——"
"Rustle rustle..."
Wang Ya, hiding her head in the pit, was struck by Master Fox's stick on her behind. She was startled and quickly shrunk back into the pit, cautiously poking her head out.
Wang Ya's left face was already distorted enough, covered with layers upon layers of scales. Her neck even had some unknown swellings, but at least her right cheek still retained the appearance of a fashionable girl.
But after being hit by Master Fox's eighteen falls and a stick, her originally good face now became completely swollen like a pig's head.
However.
The initial phase of building relationships and friendships among spirit beasts is always this rough.
"Come out, or I'll hit you again!" Ansheng said to Wang Ya.
"......."
Wang Ya crawled out of the pit silently. Her original clothing had long disappeared, with only her long hair covered in dirt and dust providing some cover. She walked out of the pit, sat honestly squatting in front of Master Fox.
"Can you understand what I'm saying?" Ansheng asked.
Wang Ya nodded, then shook her head, not saying a word.
"How did you become like this?" Ansheng frowned and asked again.
Wang Ya's mental state was clearly somewhat abnormal. She should be able to understand spoken language, but seemed to have comprehension or reading difficulties, unable to grasp anything too complex.
Moreover, upon close observation, Ansheng could very clearly sense that Wang Ya's mutation vaguely resembled that of a woodcutter after injecting spirit particle potion, rather than a beast warrior.
"Rustle rustle....."
Wang Ya opened her mouth, revealing several antenna-like things rubbing against each other in her oral cavity, producing a series of "chatter chatter" sounds.
Ansheng couldn't understand her language, but he barely knew she was trying to speak.
After opening her mouth, Wang Ya lifted her human arms covered in scratches, pointing to the giant pincers on her left arm, then at her heart, making a vigorous grasping gesture.
"Too vague..."
After Ansheng voiced several guesses which were denied by Wang Ya, he didn't bother to continue guessing.
Initially.
Ansheng thought she was saying that her left hand touched something, and then her heart ached with pain, and she'd woken up in her current state.
But Wang Ya shook her head at the answer she gave.
Guessing back and forth, nothing was figured out, and Ansheng wasn't prepared to waste any more time here.
"I'm giving you a task now, understand?"
Wang Ya nodded.
"Hang up that fennec fox, then after you find your mother, make her trick your father to come over."
"By the way, later there will be a woman in a tuxedo arriving. Listen to her, can you lock down the entire Fox Kingdom?" Ansheng said.
Wang Ya pondered for a long time before she seemed to understand Master Fox's words, nodded seriously with a face like a pig's head.
"Go! I need to go home first..." After saying this, Ansheng hurriedly ran towards the hotel.
The commotion just caused was so loud, even if Ah Qing's sleep quality was superb, she's likely to wake up.
Unfortunately....
I can't take Ah Qing to participate in these matters, otherwise, with Ah Qing's Ten Thousand Races Translator, she could surely directly decode and translate Wang Ya's speech.
Ansheng made a phone call to Lin Bingyun, roughly informing her of the current situation and having her manage the scene.
He had to return to the hotel for a while, to coax Ah Qing and her roommates to sleep, and would be back around two or three.
......
Heading back to the hotel to change phones, Lin Bingyun drove into the Fox Kingdom to take charge of the scene.
When Ansheng came out of the hotel, the atmosphere inside the villa within the Fox Kingdom was exceptionally lively.
A fennec fox, tied by its hind legs with hemp rope, swayed back and forth hanging from the ceiling, loudly whining.
But Wang Ya kept shaking her head.
In her daily state, she'd listen to her friends.
But currently, her usage rights were transferred, and now what Master Fox said goes.
She couldn't follow the words of the Fox King.
And in the villa's second-floor living room, besides the incessantly whining fennec fox, there was also a man and a woman sitting on the sofa, looking nervously at Lin Bingyun.
"Housekeeper Lin! I'm back!"
Ansheng didn't enter through the villa's main entrance but flew into the room from the second-floor balcony, landing on the ground and raising a tree branch he just picked up along the way.
"Look, I found a super straight and smooth tree branch on my way here."
With a flick of the tree branch in his hand, Ansheng glanced around, his head held high, sporting a sly grin, and said: "Soon, Master Fox promises that you'll drop blood bars as long as this tree branch!"
"Earlier, I was so focused on hitting Wang Ya that I forgot to deal with you guys!"
A snow-white fox with four tails elegantly landed in the room from the balcony, standing upright and, with an expression of pride and arrogance, spoke person to unsettling Wang Lei and Qiao Yu, who were originally sitting dumbly on the sofa.
"Fox.....Fox Immortal, it's the Fox Immortal!"
Seeing Master Fox's entrance, Wang Lei, after a brief moment of bewilderment, his eyes turned red and slid directly from the couch to the carpet kneeling down, kowtowing heavily, his voice choking as he said:
"Fox Immortal, it's all my fault, being greedy and killing countless Hu Family children. If you want to punish, come punish me! My daughter Wang Ya is innocent..."
"Fox Immortal, have mercy! Please spare my daughter! We only have this one daughter, she never participated in the fox-killing events."
"I'm at fault in every way but truly, she is innocent...."
Coming to her senses from the shock, Qiao Yu hurriedly kneeled down, also kowtowing fervently with a crying voice asking Master Fox for mercy.
"Huh?"
Ansheng watched the two perform a prolonged set of kowtows, even making a creaking sound on the carpet, with a face full of fox confusion.
"Master Fox..."
Lin Bingyun walked to Ansheng's side, squatted down and whispered softly in his ear:
"While you were out earlier, I already asked about some related matters."
"Wang Lei and Qiao Yu are unaware of affairs related to spirit beasts. That fennec fox was Wang Ya's pet, using Wang Ya's mutation to spread rumors about Fox Immortals at Wang Lei's ear, saying he killed too many foxes, resulting in punishment from the Fox Immortal."
"Hmm...Wang Lei suffers from oligospermia, and was already forty-three when Wang Ya was born. Wang Ya is his sole heir and he's far more concerned about her than his own life."
Master Fox had left for over an hour, and Lin Bingyun, holding the control over Wang Ya, had already worked through all the entangled details in that time.
"Though that fennec fox is a spirit beast, its power seems very weak.... I feel that even I could easily use it as a bowling ball."
"You're spouting nonsense! If you have the guts, get me down; let's see if I can't punch you to death!" The fennec fox's large, sensitive ears clearly caught Lin Bingyun badmouthing them, and it angrily retorted with a series of high-pitched whining sounds.
Although not large in size, the fennec fox's speaking and whining volume was loud and piercing, akin to a walking air raid siren.
"You, big blabbermouth, deserve a beatdown!"
Ansheng looked at the chatty fennec fox, raising the branch in his hand and knocked its head with a stick.
"Woof——"
The fennec fox let out a dog-like yelp in pain, its face twisted in agony as it did a suspended sit-up, its arms as flexible as a human's clutching its head tightly.