"Trying to tail a fox, it's tough..."
Glancing at Yuyu who was happily following the little fox and leaving in high spirits, Momo couldn't help but comment.
Because... she too had once followed a fox out of curiosity during its night outings.
One time was intentional, but as soon as she got downstairs, she saw the fox riding away on an electric scooter.
The panda at the school personally driving the scooter was a sight that left Momo stunned before she returned to the dorm with a bewildered expression.
Another time was accidental. As she drove back to the dorm at night, she saw the fox in the canteen with pandas running around, a large group of bears.
With two failed attempts at tailing, and Ah Qing making foolish remarks nearby, Momo couldn't be bothered to be curious again. The Agricultural Research Institute's courses were quite physically demanding, and she didn't have the energy to follow the fox in doing parkour.
Momo just smiled silently, even anticipating Yuyu's possibly frustrated expression upon returning from being led around by the little fox.
Can't catch up; thinking about it is a waste of brain cells.
"Need to bait the fox first..."
Doubling back to the front of the stage, Yuyu didn't immediately go to capture the fox, nor did she pet its belly excessively. Instead, she went to the buffet area, picked up a tray intending to feed it first before proceeding with some dubious plans.
All the little fellows would enter a sage mode after being well-fed.
However.
Yuyu had just picked up her meal, intending to capture the little fox by the river when the following events made her stop in fear.
Lin Hao, dressed in burgundy shirt, led a group of suit-clad men, raising his arms forward, carrying a white rectangular board. Only at the edge grew gold-furred hedgehog, leisurely sitting on the board sofa, legs crossed.
Lin Hao glanced around the fishing ground, his entourage naturally forming a fan shape and began scanning the surroundings.
Yuyu, just leaving the restaurant, immediately shrank her head back, her heart racing in fear.
Although those people were dressed neatly in suits, they clearly exuded an unconventional, villainous vibe.
"Perhaps... should notify Ah Qing? Say the little fox is surrounded by murderers?"
Yuyu silently thought to herself, subconsciously glanced at the path by the lake, and saw a strong man running forward to light a smoke for that hedgehog.
Lin Hao crouched down, holding the strange smoking white hedgehog towards the little fox.
The hedgehog and fox seemed to be chatting, but because they were hundreds of meters apart, Yuyu could only see blurry outlines, let alone hear them.
But the hedgehog and fox didn't chat for long.
The hedgehog flicked the cigarette butt into the lake, and Lin Hao stood up, leading the group of thugs away quickly.
"......"
Yuyu showed a strange expression, watching Xiaolan dart into the grass from inside the restaurant, then ride a black python, racing towards the village.
Yuyu had a puzzled look throughout.
Especially seeing that big black snake, her expression was one of utter shock.
"Yuyu, weren't you going to follow the little fox?" Momo, along with Ah Qing and others, came laughing from behind the stage to the buffet area, seeing Yuyu frozen and questioned with a laugh.
"Ah Qing... there were murderers! I saw their menacing looks, almost taking my kidney from a distance." Yuyu said with lingering fear, explaining to Ah Qing about encountering Lin Hao, Grandma Hedgehog, and the black python.
"Oh! You're talking about Lin Hao. Their family is more superstitious than ours. The hedgehog saved their grandfather before, and seems to later be worshipped as a foster mother? Anyway, the hedgehog's seniority is like a great-grandmother..."
"Also, the big black one isn't a python! It's Xiaolan's village playmate, King Cobra." Ah Qing explained, as if reciting from memory, about the little fox's friends to Yuyu.
Xiaolan's friends outside were mostly seen or greeted by Ah Qing.
Lin Hao may dress like a villainous bully, but he actually speaks quite politely. His family used to fish, now they've shifted to bars, entertainment venues, and liquor agency, not really villains snatching kidneys remotely.
Lin Hao had given many bar vouchers to Ah Qing, but she didn't go to bars, so gave them to other friends.
"In your eyes, who is a villain..."
Yuyu held her forehead with a bewildered look, glanced at the steak and salmon on her tray, then at Momo, and joked: "For someone like Ah Qing, I could coax her into having three kids in ten minutes."
"But she could punch you to death five times, and after, you'd have to compensate her for two lifetimes." Momo shrugged.
"......" Yuyu was stumped by Momo's remark, spoke with dejection: "So, has the fox's business hours ended? I wanted to warm up my hands..."
"Xiaolan said she smelled a friend's scent, went to say hi, and will be back soon." Ah Qing reassured: "Xiaolan is very enthusiastic, will definitely give you hugs and kisses when she's back."
Yuyu had recently lost her boyfriend to becoming someone's mount, now even the fox rejecting Yuyu would be too tragic.
......
Changping Mountain·Old Village Committee Office.
"Old Li, why are you in such a hurry to see me?" Ansheng jumped off the King Cobra, flipped onto the window ledge outside the office, showing a curious expression inside.
Just now, he was asking Grandma Hedgehog to help throw those nurturing devils to Chen Nian, for him to release those strange things back to their original habitat.
But Grandma Hedgehog said Security Bureau's Li Xiao at the old village committee in Changping Mountain was waiting for him to come.
Ansheng hadn't even gone to Lin Ying's side, but came to the village committee first to see what Old Li had to say.
"You're here?"
Seeing Master Fuli arrive, Li Wenkang extinguished the cigarette in his hand, fanned some air, lazily stretched on the wooden chair and said:
"Nothing major, just prepared a new phone for you. Thanks to Professor Wang Ya's tireless efforts recently, a new ancient text translation software emerged in the Security Bureau server."
"From now on, at any site, just a scan to translate the Second Epoch texts into Xia Country's language."
Li Wenkang placed the new phone on the table, revealing a smile:
"And then... I scanned the meteorite piece retrieved from Peace Island last night, the translation software directly gave me the term 'Exile'."
"Then?" Ansheng looked at Old Li with a puzzled expression.
"Based on images transmitted by the celestial robbers and related information, we dismantled a cosmic prison from the Second Epoch used to exile vicious criminals."
"And the good news is... that prison was hit by a meteorite and wrecked hundreds of years ago, now there are some Dragon People corpses floating above."
Li Wenkang looked at Master Fuli and said:
"The universe space station is ready to receive them, in four days we'll fast freeze them and transport them back to Blue Star, but I'm worried the contact with Spiritual Particles might trigger a chemical reaction."
"I want you to check and ensure they're thoroughly dead, so we can comfortably conduct research."