The Treasure Tree has yet to arrive at Xinxing Agricultural Science College, but the teachers across the campus are already celebrating the news.
Master Fuli is playing at a higher level now.
The captured wild Spirit Beasts increasingly challenge the professors' perspectives, with hearts racing and hands trembling.
To determine the settling location for the Treasure Tree, the professors from the two colleges fiercely competed.
The School of Animal Science argues their land is richer with manure; its soil fertility is incomparable to the College of Agriculture.
The College of Agriculture retorts, your manure isn't fermented, and if your soil's heavy metals and nitrites aren't over the limit, I'll jump. Our soil is a meticulously blended fertile farming land!
The Treasure Tree must be planted at the College of Agriculture.
Among the professors, there are those at the academician level; they deserve respect in the research field, but in face-to-face confrontation with communication barriers, only fists can be trusted.
As the school day comes to an end.
The students, vaguely perceive something very peculiar.
That is... everyone is in self-study? Forget the specialized course professors, what about the big class lecturers? Why are all the classrooms empty of teachers?
"Ba Mountain Mosquito, take the Treasure Tree to the ecological conservation base and find a spot; don't mind the school's old pros, they're writing academic papers without shame."
"Wait until they settle who is right then... " Seeing the helicopter approaching Xinxing Agricultural Science College, Ansheng gets up directly, walks to the cabin door, and gives instructions to Ba Mountain Mosquito.
Ansheng is entirely confident that after seeing the Treasure Tree, they will surely offer promises of benefits.
But no professor is much better than another, the perks offered are not drastically different.
At the end, without much consideration, they'll surely come to invite me to judge their reasoning.
Instead of such hassle, why not have a brawl first — everyone believes they're right, let those truths gather in their fists to conquer the opponent's faulty logic.
"Alright, Father, I'll pick a good spot for the Tree Mother." Ba Mountain Mosquito confidently agrees.
"Hmm..."
Ansheng opens the cabin door and steps out, spreading his limbs to glide towards the girls' dormitory.
Having experienced numerous rounds of parachuting without umbrellas, Ansheng is very skilled at gliding, using his limbs and swinging his tail to control direction.
Ansheng lands steadily on the dormitory rooftop, running a few steps to offset the fall's impact when his limbs touch the ground.
"Ying~ yingying...."
Ansheng hums a joyful tune, jumps, presses the elevator button, and takes the lift back to the dormitory.
"This time, no matter how you say it, I'm early compared to Ah Qing..." Ansheng thinks to himself, leaping forward to the dormitory windowsill, ready to enter his dorm room.
A series of conversations emanates from inside.
"Ying?"
With a face full of curiosity, Ansheng uses his head to push the curtain aside, and sees Momo sitting at his spot in the dorm, wearing shorts, legs crossed, smiling as she talks on the phone.
"Huh? Weren't you supposed to be discharged tomorrow?"
Ansheng jumps off the windowsill, looking with surprise at Momo, letting out a string of confused sounds.
"Hmm? Better not say much now, your little fox has returned to seek attention after misbehaving; anyway, just come back soon! I promise, it'll be super fun....."
Seeing the little fox run to her, paws on her foot with an inquisitive look, Momo chuckles and tells Ah Qing on the other end.
"Hmm..."
"I feel like you're asking me why I'm at the dorm instead of at the hospital." Seeing the puzzled look on the little fox, Momo appears thoughtful as she vaguely understands the fox's words.
"The doctor said I was fine, so I went to the front desk to handle discharge procedures. I prepaid two thousand yuan for hospital fees, left with thirteen hundred after settling, just enough to take a cab back to school..."
"And I've got a little gift for you...."
Momo takes out a box of unique candied treats from her desk and places it in front of the little fox, unable to hide her mischievous grin.
Only to see.
In the box, wrapped in sugar syrup like a candied haws, is a turtle, staring in disbelief.
"Ying?" Ansheng eyes the turtle in the box, his eyes widen, staring at Momo in a stupefied manner.
"T... Turtle? Candied turtle? Is this a dish humans can imagine?"
The shock and daze on the fox's cheeks are undeniably visible; Momo doesn't need to feel it to see the very stirred emotions of the little fox.
"There's a formal product name, you see, because it uses turtle as the main ingredient, sweetened with honey, the shopkeeper proudly told me it's called 'Besties'....."
Momo gleefully explains, shaking the 'Besties' box in front of the little fox.
Had it been before, Momo upon seeing this 'Besties' would not think of purchasing, but frown and quietly grumble internally that the store owner needs medication.
After all...
Momo, though claiming poor culinary skills, has earned chef and nutritionist certifications. Cuisine, beyond satisfying cravings, is a very interesting extracurricular hobby in her life.
Glass syrup-covered turtle, even a dog wouldn't eat...
Yet for some reason, upon seeing this, Momo suddenly felt a surge of untamable mischievousness.
Momo spent a hundred and thirty.
Bought the 'Besties' home, intended solely to see her friends' expressions of utter disbelief.
"Haha....."
Momo chuckles lightly, puts away the 'Besties' on her desk, hides it, and takes out a normal strawberry candied haw: "This is for you."
"Here's how you eat it..."
Perhaps worrying the little fox hasn't seen candied haws, Momo personally demonstrates by biting one, putting it into her mouth.
"..... No need to demonstrate for that." Ansheng looks oddly at Momo.
In Momo, Ansheng vividly sees Lin Ying's figure.
Or rather, Lin Ying's image after receiving the Spirit Particle Potion when its effects haven't completely faded.
Momo's appearance might not have transformed into a Fox Lady, still her thinking and logic are lively and joyous.
"Here~ come."
Momo cheerfully offers the candied haw.
Ansheng squats on the ground, subtly shifting his rear backward, maintaining polite smile, raises his little fox paw, blocking his front.
"Thank you, but regarding feeding, I feel it's better to wait for Ah Qing to validate."
"Of course, it's not that I think you'd poison me like a druggie, I simply suspect, you'd poke me in the throat when I open my mouth...."
Momo advances the offer, the fox retreats.
Eventually.
The fox leaps to the top of the air-conditioner, leaving Momo staring in dumbfounded amazement.
"Ying——"
Ansheng stretches lazily, lets his little feet dangle in front of the air-conditioning vent to cool his running feet, and swings his fluffy tail before Momo.
"Hey!"
Feeling unwilling and indignant, Momo prepares to move a chair to take the teasing little fox down.
But then, Ah Qing's cry sounds from outside:
"Momo! The School of Animal Science is in a brawl again!"
"Heard a class raised a dog pack running into next class's pen, killed two sheep, slaughtered over thirty chickens and ducks in the chicken coop." Ah Qing pushes the dorm door open, peeks in, and calls out to Momo indoors: "Let's hurry over to help calm them down! Otherwise, it'll escalate into a huge mess..."
"Eh?"
As Ah Qing narrates, she pauses at the door, puzzled by the scene inside where Momo is disheveled, and the little fox hanging on the AC unit.
"Were you... fighting inside?"
Momo rolls her eyes, raises the strawberry candied haw high:
"I tried to feed the little fox, he saw me as if seeing a ghost, went directly up the walls to the rooftop!"