"Woof~"
Come on, Ah Huang, show us a backflip, and I'll perform a bum wipe on the ground.
Having eaten Momo's sausages, the doggies eagerly started performing their talents. One doggy took a running start, jumped, and flipped in the air, while another doggy sat heavily on the ground, lifted both hind legs, and dragged its butt across the ground with its front paws.
"Woof——"
After performing, the doggies ran back to a position half a meter in front of Momo, maintaining a good social distance, and looked expectantly at the sausages in her hand.
"Okay, okay, you can all have them. I'll buy two boxes of coconut water for you at the supermarket. Take your time eating..."
Momo's expression grew increasingly quirky and subtle as she turned to buy a basin and three liters of coconut water, and returned to her spot.
Even though the doggies' conversation wasn't entirely clear, Momo bizarrely discovered something.
Everything she said seemed to be clearly understood by the doggies, including some common human hints and expressions.
They even pretended to be clueless in front of her.
Momo asked them if they'd like to meet tomorrow night, offering to bring them delicious roast chicken, to which both doggies replied in unison that they had already made plans with Xiaohua to have pups tomorrow night, and suggesting Momo could treat them to roast chicken tonight instead.
But just ten minutes earlier, Momo had clearly heard the doggies say they were going to the back mountain to attend the spirit dog conference tomorrow night.
Momo felt she might have awakened some incredible ability, somewhat like Ah Qing, although she could seemingly only communicate with doggies.
Whereas Ah Qing's ability was a universal translator.
"Woof——"
Ah Huang, do you think sis is so nice to us because she wants to give us a warm home? One doggy asked Ah Huang while drinking pure coconut water.
"Woof..."
Having a home sounds nice, but aren't we doing pretty well now? Fifteen meals every three days, with occasional snacks thrown in by big brothers and sisters. Sis seems nice enough, but... we are all doggies with dreams of being Overlords, Ah Huang said to its companion.
As if no one was there, the two doggies shared their impressions of Momo with each other.
The impression score was quite high; sis is beautiful and kind, but unfortunately, we are doggies with dreams. We can't succumb to the warmth of a home... We aim to wander the jianghu.
Momo looked speechlessly at the doggies whispering among themselves.
"I think I understand a little bit now, why Ah Qing liked squatting in the grass in our freshman year, and why she was busy with studies yet knew all the school's gossip, including when the underwear thief would appear."
"Where can you find reason in such tales? The entire college is full of eyes and ears!"
"Woof..."
After eating and drinking their fill, the two doggies politely stretched as if to say farewell to Momo and then wagged their tails as they left the supermarket doorstep.
"Two scoundrel dogs....."
Momo rolled her eyes. Even though the doggies were very polite and aware of personal space, after flaunting the sausages and four infinite chicken legs, they didn't say a word about Ah Qing or the spirit dog conference.
"Squeak～"
Following behind Ah Qing as they left the dormitory for the canteen, Ansheng saw Momo after she finished shopping, sitting in front of the supermarket dazed. He approached and gave a greeting.
"...Little fox!"
Momo snapped out of her daze and saw the little fox and Ah Qing had already come before her.
"Momo, why are you sitting here, not going inside? Your body hasn't fully recovered yet." Ah Qing grabbed Momo's hand with a cheerful smile and led her towards the warm indoor area.
"Don't mention it. I encountered two scoundrel dogs. They showed off their backflip before eating the sausages, and once they were done, they just waltzed away like that..."
Momo spoke with a face of exasperation about her encounter with the scoundrel dogs but didn't mention anything about the spirit dog conference.
The little fox, the shed behind the canteen, the jellyfish, this series of events concerning the spirit dog conference.
Momo felt that it shouldn't have anything to do with the little fox, as he was an outsider fox.
Having just arrived in Chang'an City, how could he have accumulated such a massive force to build a secret base under Xinxing Agricultural Science College?
While it seemed unrelated to the little fox, he must have participated in some events.
Momo didn't want to alert anyone prematurely because what was happening clearly defied common sense and was bizarre.
"Xiaolan..." Ah Qing looked expectantly at the little fox and asked: "Can we borrow your little tummy for a bit to help warm Momo Auntie's hands?"
"....No way, she'll pinch my double buttons." Ansheng promptly refused.
Though Ansheng didn't mind being a hand warmer fox too much, foxes' winter fur has two layers, and when touched, one's hand only touches the windproof long hair, not the insulating fleece nor the skin beneath.
But Momo was different. She had a bad habit of pinching stress balls in the dormitory, subconsciously learning to use her hands adeptly.
Her hands were as cunning as a spirit snake.
Momo's signed guarantees were as hard as wiping a floor; Ansheng wouldn't trust any of Momo's tricks, not even from the Fox Lady.
"Hey... is the refusal so adamant?"
"Ah Qing, what did the little fox say?"
"He said you would pinch his buttons, and the guarantee you signed isn't even as useful as the dumb toilet seat."
"...the little fox curses so crudely." Momo remarked with a face of exasperation, looking at the little fox as she complained.
...
After eating at the canteen, Ah Qing helped Tang You pack a chicken fast-food meal to take back.
And as they approached the dormitory entrance, Tang You's angry scolding could already be heard from afar.
"Bag! Teammates took all the bag spots, and here you are holding your *** sniper, give me your bag, damn it!"
"I've been shaking for so long out of anger, and cursed for ages only to find out you weren't even on the channel. And the damn simp over there, I didn't curse spirit fox enough, did I? Yell your mom all the way."
YoYo's angry scolding echoed endlessly, even surprising Ah Qing as she reached the door.
"That's quite a mouthful....."
As Ah Qing opened the dormitory door, she saw Tang You fiercely arguing with teammates.
"Ah Qing, you're back!"
Tang You removed her headphones, took a drink of water to calm her anger, and pointed towards the balcony:
"Miaomiao came looking for you. She went to the bathroom, brought a peregrine falcon, but that bird is so strange..."
"Miaomiao and a peregrine falcon?"
Ah Qing was taken aback at hearing this, feeling confused. Are there still birds in the Northern areas now?
Haven't they all migrated south with the cold weather?
"Whirr——"
Looking towards the balcony, Ah Qing saw an unusually huge peregrine falcon, its beak crooked as if just punched, sprawled out on the air conditioner, displaying a dazed expression.
The black-chest pest looked coldly detached, standing upright at the top of a small tea tree while scanning the defeated bird.
"What did you do, stealing leaves....."
Ansheng peered out, quirking an odd look at the peregrine falcon with the crooked mouth and asked.
"I don't know! I just got on the balcony, blacked out, and next thing I knew, I was lying on the air conditioner," the falcon jerked its head, reporting to the leader.
"I feel like I was slammed..."
"Ah Qing, you're back? Quick, help me translate what this peregrine falcon is saying. It's been following me all day, so creepy..."
Miaomiao came out of the bathroom and, upon seeing Ah Qing, pleaded for help with a pitiful face.
The peregrine falcon was truly creepy.....
She walked like a chicken, stuck its head out, and kept following me like some sort of creep.