"Holy crap!"
Seeing the updated wish, Ansheng’s pupils dilated in shock, and the whole fox went rigid in the courtyard.
Even his expression turned apprehensive.
Yu Xueqing’s house... is having a cockroach problem!
Ordinary cockroaches, like small roaches and large roaches, wouldn’t scare Ansheng.
But this is the Xia Dong Region!
Wild cockroaches live in sewage pipes, where there’s food residue, various oils, and even common waste material.
The common cockroaches here, besides large roaches, include a terrifying one known as the ’flying head roach.’
The flying head roach, scientifically known as the black-chest roach, is covered with beetle-like armor, and its most fearsome trait is the black chest muscles under that armor.
Because of its strong chest and back muscles, the flying head roach can fly extremely fast, and when it takes off, it sounds like a bomber passing by.
The black-chest roach’s defense tactic is face-charging takeoff.
Coated with sewage filth, it charges at faces!
The people of the Xia Dong Region change color at the sight of the so-called ’flying head roach.’
The black-chest roach’s presence is like fighting with a broom wrapped in dirt.
It’s practically a modern-day Lu Bu, unrivaled in mowing down fields.
"This house... no way!"
After much consideration, the wish was tempting, but the little fox had things it would and wouldn’t do.
Cuteness and acting adorable are methods to tame poop shovelers.
This is the wisdom of a fox.
But being cute doesn’t include directly confronting the human embodiment of filth demons.
"Xiaolan?"
Yu Xueqing, having evacuated from the dorm room, saw the fox in the courtyard, contemplating a strategy.
Her eyes lit up, and she quickly ran from the living room to the courtyard, hugging the slightly dirty little fox, her face full of joy as she said:
"You’re back just in time. Let me give Xiaolan a bath, okay?"
"Ying—"
The little fox looked at Yu Xueqing blankly.
"But before the bath, can you help me in the bedroom with a..."
Before Yu Xueqing could finish her sentence, Ansheng seemed to know what she was going to say and started struggling immediately.
Nonsense! My return is definitely not timely!
"Ying ying ying—"
"Xiaolan, I know you’re the best. There’s a twin-tailed hottie in my bedroom, you’d like them... Xiaolan, can you help me take care of them?"
Yu Xueqing pushed the little fox towards the dorm room.
As they walked.
Walking down the hallway, the little fox pushed the completely confused Yu Xueqing to the dorm room door.
Ansheng and Yu Xueqing stared at each other, one person and one fox, neither willing to handle the flying head roaches.
"I’ll treat you to a midnight snack, okay?"
"Ying ying ying!"
After some arguing, the fox and human reached a mutual non-aggression peace agreement.
They closed all the doors and windows of the house, got into the Five Spirits Plate, and drove to the city to buy insecticide from a 24-hour convenience store.
Yu Xueqing, full of resolve, spent over a hundred yuan to buy five bottles of insecticide and placed them at home.
Then, also bought some snacks and the iced cola that the little fox kept mentioning at the convenience store.
Driving back home, Yu Xueqing donned a mask and went inside with a bottle of insecticide in each hand.
A moment later, she returned with two completely empty bottles of insecticide to the courtyard.
Yu Xueqing washed her hands.
At one in the morning, she cuddled the fox, ate snacks, and browsed tea-selling livestreams on Tune Platform in the courtyard.
Yu Xueqing gradually discovered that the later it got, the more revealing the tea-selling anchors in the live streams became.
The milk tea-selling anchors from before were nothing compared to these G-string clad presenters.
"Ying ying ying—"
Ansheng, lying in Yu Xueqing’s arms, found the muscle-bound thongs-wearing presenter in the stream a bit too much for the eyes and swiped to change the channel.
The next stream was also pushing goods and selling tea leaves.
"Wow—Xiaolan, look, a Douzong powerhouse!"
Yu Xueqing exclaimed, looking at the tall, long-legged presenter in the stream, whose strides caused frequent spatial ripples.
"Don’t mind if it’s distorted or not, love to watch." Ansheng chuckled at Yu Xueqing, commenting about the live broadcast.
Around two in the morning, ensuring all the cockroaches inside were dead, the sleepy Yu Xueqing turned on the air conditioning, rinsed her mouth, and collapsed on the sofa to sleep.
The bedroom was no good for now.
Upon waking tomorrow, she’ll wash everything in the bedroom along with the fox in the washing machine.
In dreamland, Yu Xueqing cradled the fox while mumbling incoherently.
After she fell asleep, the sneaky little fox squirmed out of her arms, looked at the sleeping Yu Xueqing with a face full of lines.
"So much for the promised bath! You scruffy person, choosing to sleep in the living room!"
The little fox whimpered a bit, then used all the wish power gains today on its body.
Give a drunken chicken bug a drink, wish power +1.
A youth from Changxi Town successfully made it to America for grad school without Ansheng’s help, thanked Master Fox, wish power +1.
Another one was for taking care of the plant growth hormone-eating wild boar in the Skinny Dog Creek, wish power +3.
Ansheng earned a total of 5 wish power points today.
Including the earlier 31 points, Ansheng has invested 36 wish power points in its fox body.
From now on, when Ansheng crosses the street, it only needs to watch out for overloaded trucks and hundred-ton kings, no more looking left and right.
After going all in with wish power, feeling great for a moment.
Ansheng ran out from the house to Lin Ying’s place, called her to a midnight snack, and took a bath as well.
Meanwhile, in the Skinny Dog Creek mountains, Old Chen watched in confusion at the forestry bureau people.
After concealing Master Fox’s involvement, Old Chen reported the Skinny Dog Creek issue to the forestry bureau with photos.
He claimed a wild boar had stolen tea farmers’ fertilizer and knocked itself out on the mountain stairs, asking the forestry bureau to come and handle the fierce boar.
Up to now, Old Chen thought he’d just wait for the forestry bureau people to take over, then he could go home, wash, sleep, and inform the village officials the boar infestation had been dealt with the next day.
However.
What Old Chen saw wasn’t the few veterinarians with tranquilizers in a rickety pickup truck he’d expected to take away the boar.
Instead, there was a helicopter, with a giant steel cage suspended beneath it.
The group of people descended from the helicopter, rushed to the strange boar, and injected it with something.
"Old Chen! We’re striking it rich!"
The forestry bureau guys, beaming with smiles, told Old Chen:
"From our experience, the wild boar we caught in Skinny Dog Creek could apply for a world record!"
"The heaviest wild boar recorded in the world before was 1,500 pounds from the Siberia region!"
"And this one from Skinny Dog Creek, by the looks of it, won’t weigh less than 1,500 pounds!"
"Awesome! We can apply for a world record!"
Lin Tongfu was overjoyed, chattering about wild boar knowledge with Old Chen, very thrilled.
But within this chatter, it seemed there was some psychological hinting aimed at Old Chen.
Though confused, Old Chen didn’t forget to ask:
"What about the crop damage compensation?"
"Submit the application immediately. If our boar hits the world record, you’ll also get a bonus...."
Old Chen: "???"
Bonus... bonus what?
Isn’t a wild boar a crop-damaging beast?