"You have a point...."
On the drive back to the dormitory, Momo agreed with the reason given by Master Fuli.
Having spent four years with her roommates, Momo knew all too well their tricks. The little fox being too scared to speak was perfectly understandable.
"However, I have one more question. Since Ah Qing can understand animal speech, why does she know nothing about Spirit Beasts?"
Momo, puzzled, asked the little fox.
"Hmm...." Hearing this, Ansheng paused in thought and asked Momo, "Then... let me ask you, am I a fox?"
"Yeah!" Although Momo found the little fox's question a bit strange, she gave a firm answer.
"There you go. The term 'Spirit Beast' is quite recent. Although I am a Spirit Beast, I always introduce myself as Huhu. At most, when you check my registered residence, I add North China Red Fox."
Ansheng waved his hand, explaining to Momo why Ah Qing was unaware of the existence of Spirit Beasts.
Spirit Beasts are rough around the edges, only a few who have studied actually use terms from Spirit Particle Science.
What's a Spirit Beast? What kind of gibberish are you speaking? When are we eating, buddy?
Those who are educated, cultured, and ambitious end up with their faces colliding with Master Fuli's fist the moment they meet Ah Qing.
"Hmm..."
Hearing this, Momo cleared her throat gently and said, "I roughly understand what you mean, so I'll need you to keep my matters a secret."
"You knowing is fine, I don't mind, but please don't spread it..."
The secret Momo was referring to was about [Weixin file transfer being a boyfriend].
She chatted on Weixin without hiding from Huhu, jokingly addressing the file transfer assistant as her boyfriend, and at night, put on Bluetooth headphones to listen to her sweet whispers.
"What happened between the two of you?" Lingren leaned towards the driver's seat, full of curiosity.
"Yeah!" Yuyu leaned forward from the back seat, gazing at Momo and the little fox with a curious expression.
"If you can say it, can it still be called a secret?" Momo rolled her eyes, raised her hand to push Lingren's head away, and didn't want to dwell on the topic anymore, stepping on the accelerator and driving straight to the college parking lot.
"Let's go! Time to go back to the dorm and sleep." Momo got out of the car, stretched, lifted the little fox out, and placed it on her shoulder, saying:
"I'll talk to Ah Qing for you, especially since your birthday is coming up in a couple of days. Since you can talk now, tell me what gift you want, and I'll get it for you then."
Momo asked the little fox.
It's past midnight, into the 13th; Xiaolan's birthday is on the 15th.
Thinking about it, the gift they prepared before might not be suitable for the little fox anymore.
"Gift? What did you prepare for me?" Ansheng asked, stunned by the question.
From Momo's words, she seemed to have prepared a gift for him, but after tonight's experience, Momo wasn't planning to give the previous gift.
"Yuyu and I, we always thought your actions were very humane and you're often out wandering, so we asked a professor from the School of Animal Science to buy two sets of the fox eight-in-one vaccines."
"Which is eight needles in one, to be injected into your rear end. Now that we know you're not out fooling around, it's unnecessary." Momo looked at the little fox and chuckled.
Though it felt odd to say, they had just seen a monkey driving a taxi and paying off a car loan.
A fox becoming a spokesperson for a government department didn't seem that outrageous either.
"......." Ansheng was left speechless, his face darkening as he looked at the delicate face close by. In a young voice filled with difficulty, he asked, "Is that what you call a birthday gift?"
"I ask you, is that polite? What kind of birthday gift for a fox is a set of vaccines? It's hard to judge."
"That's why I said it was inappropriate and suggested you choose a gift yourself as my apology." Momo said as if it was the most natural thing.
Giving a fox a vaccine for its birthday may not seem reasonable to the fox, but from an owner's perspective, it makes perfect sense.
Giving health for a birthday so the pet can live longer and accompany them further is just perfect.
Vaccines aren't cheap; vaccines for exotic pets like a fox can cost over four thousand per set.
"Thank you!" Ansheng's face was full of dark lines, but since there was nothing wrong with Momo's words, he could only say thank you.
While walking back to the dorm.
Because more people were around, Momo and the others didn't chat boldly about Spirit Beasts like before.
However.
At the cafeteria, they happened to see a fat cat riding an electric scooter, ready to go home and sleep.
Seeing the fat cat, Ansheng lay on Momo's shoulder, suddenly thinking of something, and said to the fat cat:
"Oi! Tonight you can sleep in the small shack; the panda den in the ecological base just had a big fight and was razed to the ground, hasn't been fixed yet...."
"Meow?"
The fat cat let out a "meow," its face full of daze, staring blankly at Master Fuli speaking human words.
Bro... you forgot to switch your language system!
"Bang—"
The incident was so shocking that the fat cat didn't notice the road ahead; riding the electric scooter, it dazedly flew into the lake.
"Meow!!!"
The fat cat's pitiful scream echoed across the campus. Ansheng, perched on Momo's shoulder, twitched his mouth, never imagining the fat cat could fly so high.
"That panda just now, it's called the fat cat. The bear race around Qinling all rely on it. Speaking of which, Momo, your environmental class has deep ties with them."
"Like when the resources bureau receives a report, after you finish your on-site survey, and if the perpetrator insists on not mending their ways, the bears will go and demolish it."
"Generally speaking, no one can stand firm surrounded by a giant panda and a dozen black bears."
"Though the fat cat is a giant panda, it prefers being called 'cat cat.' It reigns supreme at the Agricultural Research Institute, acts as a gatekeeper for the ecological base. If you encounter trouble at the Agricultural Research Institute, you can have the fat cat handle it; it's got connections in both worlds."
"??? "
Momo, Lingren, and Yuyu stood there in a daze, watching the panda ride the scooter and take off, then hesitantly gazed at the little fox speaking human words, wholly stunned.
"Shouldn't we do something? A national treasure panda has fallen into the lake," Momo asked.
"The electric scooter isn't even his; he borrowed it from the duty room. Old Yang will cover it for him." Ansheng said nonchalantly:
"Reckless driving ends in tears for the family; it's a rule, you know! You don't see me flipping a car? Earlier when I was on the grasslands, I could speed at 300 and even drift!"
"No... give me some time to digest this." Momo raised her hand and pinched the little fox's mouth; the colossal information in his brief words was too much to process.
A fox speeding on the grasslands at 300, capable of drifting through corners...
Is this something people can envision?
Momo's CPU nearly burnt out again.
Back in the dormitory.
Momo glanced around, pushed herself on the chair to slide over to Ah Qing's desk, and quietly asked: "By the way..... I just saw a panda fall into the lake and called for help, loudly almost meowing 'mom,' and suddenly thought of something."
"Tell me, if the little fox can talk and falls into the lake, what would he shout?"
"Can't the little fox speak?" Ah Qing looked at Momo peculiarly:
"Isn't he on the balcony humming a tune right now?"
Ah Qing pointed to the balcony, and Momo looked to see the little fox, facing the dorm, lifting his hind leg, humming contentedly and peeing into the flower bed.
Momo: "......"
No, seriously, Ah Qing's logic is entirely sensible, no doubt about it.