Yesterday, when school was over, after the tiger cub sent Zhao Xixi away, he went back to the basement. However, when he got to the basement, his round ears moved. He already sensed the danger. Relying on this ability, he—a cub—can grow to such a big age without any guardians.
The tiger cub didn't hesitate to turn around and run away!
And the next moment, the sound of chasing came from behind, along with the muffled sound of communication:
“It's a miracle we found him. He's still alive!”
“Don't hurt him! Bring him back!”
The tiger cub could feel the monsters chasing him. One was a pangolin monster, and the other was a rabbit monster, both of which were adults.
And the distance is getting closer.
The tiger cub made a sharp turn and plunged headlong into the large pool in the community.
The two chasers at the back stopped abruptly!
Neither pangolins nor rabbits can swim.
The pangolin reported the situation to the boss over there: “He jumped into the water!”
The man on the other end gritted his teeth and said, “Find him! He is our last hope!”
The last hope—this is not an exaggeration at all. In order to study the transforming method on the monster cubs, they used the saber-toothed tiger gene to breed a hundred experimental subjects, and only one survived in the end. They threw all the other failed experiments’ bodies into the waste factory for disposal.
The surviving experimental subject has been doing well all the time and, at one point, even made all the participants see the hope of success. The upper echelons of the company were too proud, and they even accidentally leaked during the interview. But this is not a big deal. After all, when they have finished developing the potion, they will definitely tell the world.
However, just a few days ago, the only surviving experimental subject tried to transform itself forcibly under the nose of the staff. By the time the staff reacted, it had already failed to transform and completely lost its mind. At the same time, it also announced that their three-year experiment had failed, shattering their ten-year plan overnight.
The key person in charge of the experiment turned gray overnight. However, currently, the machine that was originally used to monitor the only experimental subject’s physiological functions, which had stopped for a while, has started to send out violent fluctuations once again.
But the fluctuation did not show in the laboratory area; rather, it showed in another community.
The fluctuation showed up in the nearby area of the factory where they once processed other failed experimental bodies. It turns out that those thrown-out experimental bodies also had a survivor. Not only that, but the other one also had life functions that were even stronger.
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Zhao Xixi has never encountered such a situation. She usually comes to school happily, and then she sees the little tiger sitting on the table waiting for her. Although he didn't speak, he still wagged his tail.
After coming to school today, Zhao Xixi waited left and right, but she didn't see the little tiger. She wanted to tell him about the 30,000-point thing.
Zhao Xixi actually wanted to give 30,000 points to the tiger cub so that he would be the best cub in the world.
But it's almost time for class, and the tiger cub hasn't come yet.
Zhao Xixi went out to find the teacher.
When she got to the door of the office, she found that Teacher Tao Hua also hadn't come yet.
A small head protruded from the door of the office, and the other teacher immediately saw her, then asked, “Xixi, what's the matter? Do you want to come in?”
“No need, no need. I'm looking for Teacher Tao Hua. I'm still a little busy,” said Zhao Xixi, who ran away after she finished talking.
The bearded teacher felt a bit strange; he stroked his beard while looking at the other teachers and then said, “We are all teachers too. Why didn't she come to us?”
The other teacher said, “It's probably because Teacher Tao Hua is pretty. Today, children are all face-controlling, and they like teachers who are pretty.”
The somewhat chubby, bearded teacher looked at himself and said, “It didn't comfort me. You better shut up.”
After Zhao Xixi on the other side came out, she looked around, but she still didn't see the tiger cub. She thought about it. Was the tiger cub sick?
In Zhao Xixi's limited student career, there were only two times she didn't come to school while the other children had to go to school. One time because she was sick, and the other time because her father was sick.
Zhao Xixi imitated how she went out with the tiger cub before and sneaked out from the corner next door.
The kindergarten's security management is not too complicated. Probably because the monster cubs are so durable and have strong resistance.
After Zhao Xixi came out, she ran towards the tiger cub's house.
The tiger cub's home was still the same place as before, and Zhao Xixi was already very familiar with it. However, as soon as she entered the house, Zhao Xixi saw several adults in front of her.
They have long guns in their hands! Zhao Xixi had seen it on TV! Bald Qiang (Guāngtóu Qiáng) used a gun like that to beat Big Bear (Xióngdà) and Second Bear (Xióngèr).
Bald Qiang (Guāngtóu Qiáng), Big Bear (Xióngdà), and Second Bear (Xióngèr) are characters in "Boonie Bears", a Chinese 3D animated cartoon TV series.
Zhao Xixi: “...” The bad guys from the management bureau are here to catch the tiger cub!!
When they went out before, the tiger cub had told Zhao Xixi that the people from the administration bureau would catch him and send him to the zoo if they saw him!
The bad guy: “Who are you? Have you ever seen a tiger?”
Zhao Xixi shook her head, jiggled her two soaring high braids, and said, “I've never seen a little tiger before.”
Another tall man said, “Then what are you doing here?”
Before Zhao Xixi could think of a reason, a monster next to him said, “I know this human cub. She is the very popular human cub on the forum!”
The big monster suddenly opened his eyes wide and said, “Then the tiger cub she had mentioned every day is the experimental subject we are looking for!”
Zhao Xixi couldn't understand what the experimental subject meant, but she felt that it must be a group of bad people. Zhao Xixi said angrily, “That's not true! Tiger Cub is not an experimental question!”
The monster who pointed the gun at Zhao Xixi squinted his eyes. He didn't know what forum that was, but he still knew that there was a textbook recently praised for the friendship between a human cub and a little tiger. He suddenly put away his gun and said, “Then let's see what a friend is.”
The pangolin lifted Zhao Xixi up with one hand. His hand was icy when he touched Zhao Xixi's neck. Zhao Xixi felt so cold that her neck shrank a bit, and then the pangolin threw her to the monster behind. Afterwards, he said, “Leave a message for her best friend. I want to see if that experimental subject will come back to save her!”
The pangolin’s action had startled the rabbit who stood behind. He quickly caught Zhao Xixi and said, “This is not good. We have an agreement with humans. If we hurt this human cub, it will not look good by that time, and she is also very popular in the forum. If other monsters know we are doing this, we are likely to be...”
Before he finished speaking, he met the pangolin's eyes and felt the death gaze from the pangolin, and he couldn't continue.
The rabbit hugged Zhao Xixi, but she was not afraid at all!
Although she didn't understand the other words, she understood one sentence. In other words, they are not from the administration bureau! If they are not from the administration bureau, then she's not afraid!
The pangolin sneered: “Agreement? When our experiment is completely successful, do you think that group of stupid monsters will still favor humans?”
Then the pangolin added, “Cut off her fingers. If he doesn't come back, all the fingers of this so-called best friend will be gone. I want to see if their relationship is as good as the book says.”
When the rabbit was hugging her, Zhao Xixi tried hard to listen to every word they had said, but she still couldn't understand most of them.
However, Zhao Xixi understood one thing!
Zhao Xixi saw that the hand of the big monster who took the lead had turned into a sharp knife, trying to cut off her finger, so she shouted quickly, “Wait!!”
The pangolin: “What? Do you want to ask for mercy?”
He looked at this white, tender human cub and felt that with a light stab of his knife, he could stab this human cub to death.
Zhao Xixi didn't want to beg for mercy at first. Rather, she wanted to say something else, but when the other party asked, Zhao Xixi immediately asked, “If I beg for mercy, will you let me go?”
The pangolin: “No.”
Zhao Xixi: “Then I'm not asking for mercy. I just want to say that the tiger cub can't read. He can't understand what you write later. Let me draw for you. He can come to us based on my drawing.”
She felt that at this moment, she was super smart! Thirty thousand smart!
The pangolin sneered, “This is what humans call friends.”
But what Zhao Xixi said was indeed true, and the rabbit said weakly, “She's telling the truth. That experimental subject is still illiterate, and it's useless for us to leave him a threatening letter.”
Zhao Xixi said seriously, “I can draw! I can draw!”
The pangolin pointed at the rabbit, then said, “You draw!”
Before the rabbit said anything, Zhao Xixi immediately retorted, “No, no, the tiger cub can't understand other people's drawings. He can only understand my drawings.”
The rabbit felt the pangolin was on the verge of anger, just like the roc spreading its wings, so he hurriedly said, “They are good friends, and they must often draw a lot of pictures together, so they are not the same as us.”
The pangolin: “Then you draw!”
Zhao Xixi childishly said, “I don't have paper and a pen. You need to find paper and a pen for me.”
The rabbit was afraid that the pangolin would pierce her little head if he turned around, so he hurriedly said, “I have paper and pen here.”
The rabbit put Zhao Xixi down, and Zhao Xixi took the paper and pen. Originally, she squatted down and put the paper on her lap and then drew with a pen, but she found that the drawing was not good.
So Zhao Xixi lay on the ground.
The little human cub held a pen in her hand, spread the paper flat on the ground, and started drawing.
First she drew a circle, and then, while drawing, she said, “This is me; these are my fingers. Here is the nest of dead leaves. If the tiger cub doesn't come back, my fingers will be chopped off.”
The words are no problem, but what's going on with this thing that's full of earthworms?
Zhao Xixi pointed to the rabbit drawing and said, “This is you, the better uncle.”
Zhao Xixi pointed at the pangolin drawing and said, “This is you, the uncle with a bad temper!”
The pangolin has a grumpy temper. Looking at this human cub, he almost wants her to understand what is meant by bad!
Two bad uncles saw that she was still drawing and kept saying, “These were my fingers. If all my fingers have been chopped off, I cannot draw or study anymore. This is the teacher. When the teacher sees that I have no fingers, she will say, Zhao Xixi, you don't need to come to school anymore in the future because you can't write without fingers!”
The pangolin finally couldn't take it anymore. He knew human cubs were stupid fools, but this human cub is really so stupid!
He fiercely said, “Enough!”
Zhao Xixi raised her small face and looked at the bad-tempered uncle next to her, as if she didn't understand why he got angry at all. Zhao Xixi was still drawing the last stroke in her hand, and then she said, “Tiger Cub, Tiger Cub, you must listen to me. We are best friends, but if you don't listen to me, then we are not friends anymore!”
The pangolin: “...” What can this twisted line express?
Then Zhao Xixi got up from the ground, patted the ashes on her body, and handed the picture she drew to the bad-tempered uncle. Then she said, “The tiger cub will come here when he sees this drawing. Let's sit here and wait for him to come.”
The rabbit monster has a certain filter for Zhao Xixi. But looking at this drawing, he feels that even with the filter, he still doesn't know what sort of drawing this bunch of ghost symbols is.
If that experimental test subject can really understand what she drew in this drawing, then he is really admirable (鐵服)¹.
Really bow down to this admirable one! (五體投地的服)².
1. In the original text, the author wrote 鐵服 tiěfú, which literally means iron suit. This is an idiom used to express: I admire; I am very convinced.
2. In the original text, the author wrote 五體投地 wǔtǐtóudì, which literally means five-body cast. This is an idiom used to express: sincerely convinced; willing to bow down.
Now the experimental subject will definitely not come back, and the news from the laboratory is that the machine can no longer detect the fluctuations. So they must find the experimental subject by other means.
The pangolin: “Go print a few copies and post them!”
Only Zhao Xixi and this bad-tempered uncle remained in the entire basement after the rabbit had left.
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