Chapter 37 - Escape From Danger


The lion cub’s father’s plan is not without evil.

The Anti-Monster Alliance had thought about causing injury and accident to the human child who was enrolling in the cub kindergarten and causing conflicts.

And the lion cub’s father’s plan is much more simple and crude. He will kill this human cub, then use Zhao Xixi’s parents’ identities as members of the Anti-Monster Alliance, turning the whole thing into the Anti-Monster Alliance’s madness: In order to provoke some conflict, they sent their daughter to enroll in the monster kindergarten and then killed their own daughter just to blame the monsters.

If he uses this trick well, the lethality is ten times that of the Anti-Monster Alliance, so the lion cub’s father feels it's necessary to do this.

The pangolin was full of contradictions when he looked at the human cub that he had anesthetized before, whose neck got strangled like that.

If he makes a move, it means that he wants to betray the Lion King.

All the monsters present did not notice the tiger cub. Although he was a saber-toothed tiger's descendant, he looked too inconspicuous. Not only did he lose his two iconic big teeth, but he was also still a cub. Whether it is a human cub or a monster cub, adult creatures will habitually ignore their abilities, as if this scene is their adult battlefield.

So when the Lion King pinched Zhao Xixi, a lightning bolt struck the Lion King. Although it wasn't as powerful as the lightning in nature, the pain it caused was enough for the Lion King to let go of his hand reflexively.

The Lion King originally lifted her up, so as soon as he reflexively let go of Zhao Xixi, who was nearly two meters away from the ground, she immediately fell down.

At this moment, an orange figure jumped up, bit the human cub's down jacket, jumped forward, and then rolled.

They only felt that the cub seemed to be a lot bigger. Originally, the tiger cub’s head was about the same size as Zhao Xixi's, but now that he opened his mouth, he could pick up Zhao Xixi.

The enlargement of a cub means processing the entire form to become an adult form, which takes time to change slowly under normal circumstances.

But at this moment, this little tiger has turned into a big tiger. The big one here does not refer to his adult form, but his size has enlarged directly.

The little tiger’s enlarged version was putting the human cub on the ground, and then he let out an angry howl. Although his body was magnified several times, his voice was still that of a juvenile tiger.

The Lion King looked at this scene in shock, and then he couldn't help but say, “Miracle! This is a miracle that belongs to the renewal of the world! I used to think that the saber-toothed tiger’s gene only contained the secret of the monster cub turning into a human.”

Indeed, there were legends in the history of monsters. Saying that there were monsters that could summon wind and rain, and there were also monsters that could summon thunder and lightning, but that's all just a legend. Monsters nowadays, after they sensed their own attributes, even if it was the rare lightning attribute, couldn't even use it to charge the phone.

But that blows just now! That was the hope of the monsters!

The other monsters took out the anesthesia needle guns and aimed at this enlarged version of the young saber-toothed tiger.

The Lion King ordered, “Catch him alive, but don't hurt him!”

Then a group of monsters started shooting, and at this moment, the little tiger's enlarged version was not easy to provoke. Once they got close, Tiger Cub's one foot was on the left and the other on the right, and he would attack the one who approached Zhao Xixi from any direction with lightning.

So in this way, he actually still has the upper hand.

At this moment, there were several cars driving in this direction, not far away. The tiger cub's golden eyes showed tension. Then he turned around, grabbed Zhao Xixi, and ran in the other direction.

The Lion King was watching from behind. He had been studying saber-toothed tigers for many years. Looking at this scene, he couldn’t help but smile and say, “After all, he is still a cub.”

Their expert researchers had revived the saber-toothed tigers through fossils. And at the same moment, they had speculated about the saber-toothed tigers’ extinction reasons: it was their short legs.

Because their legs were too short, they were not good at hunting for food. Their hunting targets were mainly large herbivores. At the end of the ice age period, the climate had warmed up, and the cold-tolerant large herbivores were extinct. Saber-toothed tigers did not have the agility to chase small animals. Back then, the animals had not thought about becoming humans, so a generation of overlords went extinct because of their short legs.

In this case, how could this saber-toothed tiger cub be able to outrun their car? Of course, they didn't need to change into their original form to chase after them.

The Lion King got into the car, full of confidence that he could catch up. Seeing the orange shadow that was getting closer and closer, the Lion King smiled more and more. And he said to the pangolin next to him, “They were extinct because their legs were not fast enough to sprint.”

The pangolin has been in a trance from earlier to the present. When he heard the Lion King’s words, he turned his head and saw the orange figure running wildly in front of him.

While sitting next to the Lion King, the pangolin didn't remind him that the tiger cub, whom he thought couldn't run fast with short legs, was, in fact, running almost as fast as their car.

The pangolin had a faint feeling that the saber-toothed tiger race might really not be able to run fast. But now the one running fast is Tiger Cub, who is the best friend of that human cub. Because he knew that if he didn't run faster, that human cub would die, and he would watch that human cub get killed.

His expression became more complicated. What on earth is he doing now?

He was catching an experimental product from the laboratory, but why were the two in front of him more like himself in his childhood?

One did nothing wrong, just like him. When he was a child, he even told his parents that humans also have good people.

The other group of people believed some monsters had been born as medicines, so they needed to dedicate their lives to helping that race.

Suddenly, at this moment, there was a dog barking from the distance. While they were hearing that barking sound in the distance, it wasn't long before they heard other dogs barking one after another, and it was becoming more and more clear, from far away to near.

The Lion King frowned and said, “What's going on? How can there be dogs in a place like this?”

As soon as he finished speaking, before his subordinates had time to answer him, he saw many dogs galloping towards this side, like thousands of troops in the distance.

The Lion King originally didn't have the slightest affection for this kind of creature that knelt and licked humans. And now, when seeing this scene, he directly ordered, “Don't avoid them.”

One can still see that these are all stray dogs. The reason they are stray dogs is nothing more than that humans have abandoned them and the authorities have not culled the dogs.

In the view of the Lion King, humans have directly killed these dogs, which is the best outcome for them. He doesn't know if these dogs will regret it before they die—regret that they once chose to kneel and lick humans and did not have the slightest desire to evolve into humans.

However, in the next minute, he saw the dogs rushing towards them, and suddenly, they hid on both sides. Then, every monster who was in the car that was moving at a speed of more than a hundred miles saw the big car that appeared behind the group of stray dogs. It was the car that originally escorted the stray dogs.

And this time, there was no need for the Lion King to give an order, and the few cars on the Lion King’s side immediately turned the steering wheels.

On the other side, while the tiger cub was grabbing Zhao Xixi in his mouth and panting heavily, he met a large group of dogs. His heart had tightened.

However, he didn’t expect that the large group of dogs would rush past him and move forward to the other side while barking.

Vaguely, he could feel their barking had a meaning: “The human baby is in danger! The human baby is in danger!”

Most of them were large dogs, and they rushed toward the car that was chasing the tiger cub without hesitation. Just like they were on those days in the past when strangers came to the house before they got abandoned.

The tiger cub had no time to explore more of the situation. He felt he was almost out of strength.

And at this moment, he saw a familiar figure. It was the husky who had bitten him before. The husky was standing at the intersection, looking at him.

The tiger cub miraculously understood that the other party was not hungry or wanted to trouble him either, and when the other party turned around and started running, he followed him.

The husky took the tiger cub along the path next to the highway. The tiger cub felt he could no longer maintain his current size, but if he returned to his original size, he could not carry Zhao Xixi away.

So he gritted his teeth and kept following.

Fortunately, it didn't take too long before the tiger cub heard a familiar voice: “That’s weird. Why did that dog lead us to go this way?”

It was Teacher Tao Hua’s voice.

The tiger cub felt his eyes go blank, and then he passed out.

When Zhao Xixi woke up, she was in a strange bed. She turned her head and saw a photo above her head, which was the photo of Teacher Tao Hua.

Zhao Xixi jumped out of bed just as Teacher Tao Hua opened the door and came in. Seeing that Zhao Xixi had woken up, she breathed a sigh of relief and said, “Fortunately, you have woken up.”

Zhao Xixi didn’t understand how she could see Teacher Tao Hua and then hurriedly asked, “Teacher Tao Hua, did you save us? Where’s the tiger cub? Where is he?”

Teacher Tao Hua felt she was not the one who saved them because she had just picked up the two cubs at that time. When she arrived, there were already two cubs, Tiger Cub and Little Xixi, who were lying unconscious there. After the doctor’s examination, they found that the tiger cub was exhausted and Zhao Xixi was unconscious because of drugs, but it was not a big deal.

Teacher Tao Hua patted Zhao Xixi's head and then said, “The tiger cub is very tired today. He is sleeping in the next room. Xixi, do you still remember what happened today?”

Although Zhao Xixi wanted to go to the next room to see the tiger cub, she still answered the teacher’s questions. She said, “I met two uncles. They said they wanted to cut off my fingers and catch the tiger cub for experiments. Also wanted to cut off Tiger Cub’s ears. Then the blonde uncle said that the people had skinned him when he was a child, and then… and then I don't remember.”

Although Zhao Xixi didn't speak clearly, Teacher Tao Hua had spent too much time with her, and she was already able to recognize her ghost-like drawings, so naturally she got used to her way of speaking.

Teacher Tao Hua estimated that they must have drugged Zhao Xixi at the most critical moment. So for the specific situation, she should have asked the tiger cub, who had not woken up yet.

“Teacher, please take me to see the tiger cub. I won't disturb him when he’s sleeping. I’ll just watch from the side and definitely not talk!”

Zhao Xixi still knew that she was a child who talked a lot.

Teacher Tao Hua thought for a while and realized that the two cubs must have been frightened. This is her home, and her family's ancestors are all here, so it's still very safe. Then she took Zhao Xixi to the next room.

Teacher Tao Hua found that the tiger cub hadn't woken up yet, and she still had things to deal with, so she left Zhao Xixi here.

Zhao Xixi looked at the little tiger who was sleeping under the quilt. This time she was really obedient and didn’t disturb the little tiger's sleep at all.

Then Zhao Xixi took off her shoes, climbed onto the bed, got under the quilt, and slept next to the little tiger.

Zhao Xixi touched the little tiger's ear. Fortunately, the blonde uncle did not cut the little tiger's ears.

In fact, Zhao Xixi was very sleepy as well. She put her little hand on the little tiger's ear, then blinked her eyes and started to yawn again. She gently leaned her little head against the tiger cub's head and then fell asleep.


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Chapter 36 - Outbreak


Zhao Xixi and Tiger Cub have been missing for an hour, and the monster police still haven’t found any useful clues. There is no mark on the anesthesia needle, whether it’s materials or others; they are all common on the market.

At first, Teacher Tao Hua didn’t intend to talk about Longteng Pharmaceuticals. She still hoped to find clues from the street surveillance. Now she has been searching for more than an hour, but there is no clue at all. Teacher Tao Hua is also in a hurry. Facing the questions from other monsters, she opened her mouth and said, “It is very probable that this time, they had not aimed at Zhao Xixi but at the tiger cub.”

“Him?”

The teachers didn't know why Longteng Pharmaceutical Company would try every means to attack a little mixed-race monster.

Then, Teacher Tao Hua took out her mobile phone and passed the photos she took before to several teachers for circulation. Then she said, “This is the identity card of Longteng Pharmaceutical Company, and it is also the identity card inside the laboratory. The tiger cub has been carrying it with him since he was a child. In fact, I have checked the tiger cub's teeth before. His teeth did not fall off naturally, but some people or some monsters had pulled his teeth out with large-scale instruments.”

It’s not that she’s sensitive, but she recalled that there were rumors that Longteng Pharmaceutical wanted to use cloning to revive the saber-toothed tiger.

The biggest feature of the saber-toothed tiger is the conspicuous teeth, and the tiger cub just happened to have lost those two teeth, which really makes people feel suspicious.

Although saber-toothed tigers exist in the form of short hair in all existing image data, the experts have also said that the saber-toothed tigers’ fur pattern cannot be determined for the time being. So it is not impossible for a long-haired tiger like Tiger Cub to be a saber-toothed tiger. This can also explain why they cannot query some of his genes.

Teacher Tao Hua said all these things she had speculated about, and then everyone’s surprised eyes greeted her.

Teacher Tao Hua said, “We must find Zhao Xixi before the human kindergarten next door is out! If you all believe what I say, come with me to the laboratory of Longteng Pharmaceutical Company. The remaining people will stay here to search.”

The bearded teacher frowned and stood next to Teacher Tao Hua, then said, “I’ll go with you. I’m an old man, so I can go with you. If anything happens, we can still rely on my old age.”

Actually, the idiom "relying on the old and selling the old" (以老賣老 yǐ lǎo mài lǎo) is a derogatory term.

The Chinese teacher next to him was enduring it and did not correct him.

Translator's Note:
以老賣老 yǐ lǎo mài lǎo is a Chinese idiom that means an older person who shows off his seniority to look down upon others and thinks that everyone must be humble and considerate.

So the teachers at the cub kindergarten had divided into two groups. Half of them continued to track down the traces of the two cubs.

As for the two cubs they had tried so hard to find, Zhao Xixi was holding the little tiger in her arms at the moment, preventing him from fighting!

Zhao Xixi roared loudly, “Tiger Cub, Tiger Cub, don’t fight. You didn't wear a seat belt. What will you do if you get thrown out?”

The tiger cub turned back to Zhao Xixi's side, and then his little milky voice said, “They caught me because they wanted to put me in a cage.”

When Zhao Xixi heard this, she looked at the uncle, who had a miserable childhood, in shock and said, “Uncle, Tiger Cub is the most powerful kitchen knife tiger. Why have to put him in a cage?!”

Kitchen Knife Tiger? The rabbit in front burst out laughing. It was not Zhao Xixi who deliberately picked up the nickname. But Zhao Xixi was unfamiliar with the term, so that's why she associated it in another way. For example, the teeth are as long as kitchen knives, so naturally, Zhao Xixi will remember it as a kitchen knife tiger.

The rabbit saw Zhao Xixi’s shocked gaze. Although he felt uncomfortable, he still said, “He was originally an experimental product. We will use him to study the transformation of monster cubs.”

Zhao Xixi: “No! He’s not an experiment. He’s a tiger cub!”

Zhao Xixi couldn’t understand what the experiment meant. Just like she was unable to understand what the hybrid tiger monster was. But still, she instinctively retorted.

If you say he is an experimental product so that he has to be locked up in a cage, then Zhao Xixi will argue that he is not so that you cannot lock him up.

The tiger cub narrowed his eyes and said, “What do you mean?”

The rabbit explained, “You are a clone of a saber-toothed tiger that had been born in the laboratory. You carry the hope of the entire monster. Once the experiment is successful, all the monsters will remember your name because it is your flesh and blood that saved their future.”

Zhao Xixi suddenly understood. She knew they couldn’t beat adults, whether humans or monsters, so she felt very sad.

Zhao Xixi wiped away her tears with her hand. She looked at the uncle who had been treated as medicine when he was a child, then she said, “I see… Just like the blonde uncle when he was a child…”

Zhao Xixi’s words stunned the pangolin next to him. He had heard such words before:

“Their scales are the best medicine that God has given.”

“This meat is so tender. It was born to be gourmet food, and this smallest one, how do you want to eat it?”

When the little tiger heard this, he suddenly understood why he was in this situation, so he said, “In that case, it doesn’t matter if you catch me. But release her. Let her go back. I will go to the laboratory with you.”

The pangolin came to his senses because of the tiger cub’s words and happened to see a few cars coming in front. He said, “It’s too late.”

Several cars on the opposite side started driving in reverse and speeding across the line, then stopped in front of them.

The rabbit had no choice but to stop the car. He saw a few familiar monsters getting out of the opposite car.

The other party said, “Why did it take so long?”

Zhao Xixi, who was in the car, felt that the voice was very familiar. She looked up and saw the lion cub’s father standing outside.

The pangolin injected an anesthesia needle into Zhao Xixi with one hand, then got her under the car seat and quietly picked up the tiger cub. The whole movement was so fast, then he got out of the car and said, “I’ve caught him.”

The tiger cub had also seen the lion cub’s father, but at this moment, he pretended he had never seen him at all. The tiger cub was about to tell them to let Zhao Xixi go when he heard a small voice coming from his side: “If you don’t want Zhao Xixi to be killed, don't mention her.”

The tiger cub turned his head and saw the cold look of the pangolin. Then he thought of Zhao Xixi’s attitude towards this big monster before, so he became quiet.

The lion cub’s father said, “Where’s the human cub?”

Without changing his expression, the pangolin said, “She ran away midway.”

The lion cub’s father sneered, then said to his subordinate, “Go to the car and bring that human cub down. She'll be of great use to me.”

The rabbit immediately said, “This human cub is very popular with monsters, especially some old monsters. Hurting her is really not worth the loss.”

At this moment, the lion cub's father picked up the unconscious human cub, Zhao Xixi, from his subordinates. Then, in a brisk tone, he said, “What if someone deliberately hurts her in order to blame the monsters? For example, her parents, who are members of the Anti-Monster Alliance.”

The lion cub's father slowly tightened his hands when he said this, and currently no one has noticed the little tiger.

And the next moment, a lightning bolt struck the hand that was holding Zhao Xixi's neck.

It’s Tiger Cub, the cub with the largest circle drawn in Zhao Xixi's mind.


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Chapter 35 - Sympathy Seeker


As soon as the rabbit left, Zhao Xixi became even more nervous. Her eyes widened, staring at the pangolin monster next to her.

The pangolin was not used to it and said angrily, “What are you looking at?”

Zhao Xixi just looked at him without saying a word.

The pangolin was very upset and roughly said, “…I didn’t really want to cut off his ears. What do you think I am doing?”

Zhao Xixi was surprised, hugged the little tiger, and leaned against the car door pitifully and helplessly.

The pangolin was in a bad mood even more. Originally, he intended to scare Zhao Xixi and said to cut off her fingers, but she was not afraid at all and kept talking, which made her seem to find a sense of presence. He actually didn’t intend to scare her just now. He didn’t know why he did that, but the human cub was really scared.

The rabbit: “I bought it back. Are four chicken drumsticks enough to eat?”

The rabbit put the paper bag containing the chicken drumsticks into the pangolin’s hands.

Obviously, the rabbit had put the fried chicken drumsticks into the pangolin’s arms, but he still didn’t forget to give himself a good impression in front of the human cub. He said, “Little Xixi, would you like a fried chicken drumstick?”

The car was full of the smell of fried chicken drumsticks. Even though Zhao Xixi was tired of eating fried chicken drumsticks a while ago and even decided that she would never eat them again in her life! Obviously, one cannot guarantee for a lifetime the promises made at the age of three.

Little Xixi smelled the aroma of fried chicken drumsticks and felt that her stomach was even hungrier.

But the fried chicken drumsticks are in the hands of the villain, and Zhao Xixi doesn’t want to ask the villain for them.

So she stiffened her neck and didn’t even look at it.

The rabbit: “…” Really have a backbone!

The rabbit returned to the driver’s seat and continued driving. The pangolin didn’t eat the fried chicken drumsticks.

He was actually waiting, waiting for this human cub to take the initiative to ask him for the chicken drumsticks.

If she asks for them, be pitiful. He might give her half a fried chicken drumstick. Anyway, these chicken drumsticks had been bought back, and it would be a waste if she didn’t eat them.

The car was driving on the highway, and the scenery outside the window flashed by, but inside the car, it was quiet.

Seeing that the fried chicken drumsticks were going to be cold, the human cub still had her neck stuck, showing no intention of being subdued.

It’s fine if she refuses to give in, but the question is, won’t they waste these fried chicken drumsticks?

Do humans not understand what it means to have limited resources?

The pangolin said, “Do you want to eat?”

Zhao Xixi didn’t speak. Her little hands were still tightly covering the little tiger’s ears. The pangolin’s eyes darkened, and she had kept up this movement for a while.

The physical strength of the human cubs is far inferior to that of the monster cubs, let alone the adult monsters.

The pangolin looked at the white and chubby little hand and said, “Cutting off the ears means nothing! You were already so scared like this before I cut it off. And me… when I was a child, humans had skinned me.”

When the rabbit heard these words, his hands trembled, and he almost hit the guardrail on the side.

There is only one sentence in his mind: Is he seeking sympathy now? This is a sympathy-seeker, right?

The rabbit couldn’t believe it. This was the arrogant pangolin he knew, who hated humans!

The pangolin glanced at him coldly, and the rabbit hurriedly continued driving.

When the rabbit looked back through the rear mirror, he saw the human cub looking at the pangolin. Although there was still distrust in her eyes, she still asked in a low voice, “Why are you skinned?”

Resentment flashed in the pangolin’s eyes, but he said lightly, “Because our scales are medicines for humans. I was only three years old at that moment. If it were you, you definitely could not survive!”

Back then, the monsters still did not have human rights. The rare animals’ protection only protected those not enlightened animals and did not protect them, the monsters.

When Zhao Xixi heard this, she had not really understood it yet but still said, “Then they were really bad people! Uncle, you didn't tell your parents?”

The pangolin: “They skinned my parents to death and soaked them in medicinal wine. The ridiculous thing is that medicinal wine was used to treat rheumatism in several humans.”

For this reason, he had lost his family.

Zhao Xixi opened her eyes wide and looked at the uncle in front of her.

The pangolin met her gaze, opened his sleeves, and revealed an arm with no skin but red flesh. Then he said, “This is where they skinned me. If the police hadn’t come, they would have skinned all over my body. A human cub like you definitely could not bear this pain.”

Zhao Xixi touched the uncle's arm with her hand and said, “Uncle, does it still hurt? I'll blow it for you.”

Zhao Xixi came closer and blew on the uncle’s arm.

The pangolin: “It doesn’t hurt anymore.”

Zhao Xixi: “Uncle, you need to fight back. After fighting back, they won't dare bully Uncle anymore!”

Zhao Xixi also got bullied before, and then she fought back. After that, she did not get bullied anymore. She was too young and had little understanding of death, and she only understood that being skinned was very painful.

The pangolin fell silent and looked at the human cub.

The human cub seemed to open up the chatterbox suddenly, and she started chattering, “When I was a child, I also met several bad guys. They would pull my braids every day, call me a little fat pig, and push me to the ground, and they said they wanted to kill the pig. Later, I learned from Tiger Cub and fought with one of them. After that, they never pulled my braids again.”

The pangolin suddenly said, “What’s the name of that human cub?”

Zhao Xixi said, “Well, it seems to be called… Hmm… I forgot what he was called, but he’s a big villain, anyway.”

The rabbit in the front row kept silent, but he was still driving: “…”

He thought, didn’t the pangolin want to kill this human cub before? Now it seems that he is ready to preserve the other party’s honor?

Zhao Xixi continued, “At that moment, I was too young, so I couldn’t win. Fortunately, I have grown up now.”

The rabbit: “…”

Zhao Xixi looked at this bad-tempered uncle and then said, “Uncle has grown up now, already so big! In the future, no one will bully Uncle anymore!”

Zhao Xixi suddenly added, “Uncle, you put on your seat belt. My father said that if you don’t put on your seat belt when you are in the car, you will get thrown out.”

The rabbit silently fastened the seat belt on himself, then saw the pangolin freeze for a moment, and then also fastened the seat belt.

Zhao Xixi felt this uncle was not as bad as she imagined.

Zhao Xixi: “Uncle, do you have children in your family?”

The pangolin: “No.”

Zhao Xixi: “Oh.”

Originally, Little Xixi wanted to say that if you have children, they must sit in the child’s safety seat.

The pangolin looked at the human cub, touched his nose, and awkwardly said, “There are still four fried chicken drumsticks here…”

Zhao Xixi looked at him with wide eyes.

The pangolin: “Has your teacher ever taught you that wasting food is shameful?”

Zhao Xixi nodded: “Teacher Tao Hua had said it. Teacher Tao Hua said that the farmer uncle has been working hard to grow crops, so we have to eat every grain of rice, and there should be no leftovers.”

Zhao Xixi narrowed her eyes with a smile, then said, “Every time I eat, there is not a single grain of rice left in the bowl.”

The pangolin handed the fried chicken leg to Zhao Xixi and said, “Then you eat it. I don’t want to eat this. If you don’t eat it, throw it away.”

Zhao Xixi quickly picked it up, afraid that he would throw it out, but Zhao Xixi still didn’t forget a very important thing.

She looked down at the little tiger in her arms and asked, “Why hasn’t the tiger cub woken up yet?”

The pangolin seriously explained, “He bit my arm just now, and the toxin in my arm had entered his body, so he fell into a coma for a while. He will wake up in a while.”

Zhao Xixi: “Then, Uncle, if he doesn’t wake up after a while, can we go to the hospital for an injection?”

The pangolin looked at the fried chicken leg. Is this human cub ready to eat? Isn’t she panicking? Seeing that he didn’t answer, she continued to ask once again. This time, the pangolin answered, “Okay, if after a while he has not woken up yet, we’ll go to the hospital for an injection…”

The rabbit: “…”

In a childish voice, Zhao Xixi continued to say, “Then, Uncle… When I'm eating fried chicken drumsticks, you can’t cut off the tiger cub’s ears.”

The pangolin: “…I won't cut it.”

Zhao Xixi: “You promise!”

The pangolin: “I promise.”

He thought, Why did he cut off the ears of this experimental subject? Is he sick?

Zhao Xixi breathed a sigh of relief and started eating the chicken drumsticks slowly.

The pangolin looked at her quietly for a while, then remembered something.

The rabbit mentioned that the human cub is very popular in the monster forum. So the pangolin took out his mobile phone and logged in to the monster forum for the first time. He didn’t need to search and directly saw the area marked with red and bold postings about the human cub, Zhao Xixi.

The pangolin clicked in and saw various uploaded videos of the human cub inside.

After watching all the videos and the stories shared by the monster nursery, he saw monsters commenting on Zhao Xixi’s postings:

“There are three types of human beings in this world: those who advocate peace, those who exclude others, and this little friend, Zhao Xixi.”

“This little friend, Zhao Xixi, doesn’t seem to see the difference between humans and monsters.”

“When I saw her parents before, I thought they were fierce and evil. But because of Zhao Xixi, now whenever I see her parents who are fighting against monsters, I start to feel they are very good-looking, with clear eyebrows and bright eyes.”

“No matter what she looks like, I hate humans, and I hate her too! Who made her have human blood!”

“Please be reasonable. What did Zhao Xixi do? Rather than saying that she likes monsters, it's better to say that she really regards monsters as the same kind, and your thinking is even more ridiculous. Just because she is a human being, you hate her. Isn't this logic very familiar to you? Like this one: Just because you are a monster, you cannot stay! To be honest, the current Monster Association is just wearing a big hat of justice, and it's actually doing something similar to the human Anti-Monster Alliance.”

“So I can't even say that I don't like that human cub now? To be honest, with her current limelight, it's not necessarily whether there will be an extreme anti-human monster who will twist her neck or not.”

When Pangolin saw the last comment, his heart burst into an unknown fire, and then he typed with a snap—“Take care of your own neck.”

As soon as he finished replying, he saw that the other party had replied to him, too—“Where did this little monster come from? Since you like to kneel and lick humans so much, you must be a dog monster, right? It's a pity that you are barking behind your master’s back, and your master probably does not even take a look at you.”

This is the first time the pangolin has logged on to a monster forum in his life, and he has never experienced the baptism of a keyboard man. Although he had a miserable childhood, when he grew up, he had a ruthless, demonic heart. And he had never met anyone who dared speak like that to him anymore.

It's not that the other party doesn't have eyes to pay attention, but mainly this is just an online monster forum. Even if they are big guys, if they are rarely active, then the administrator will also give them a red vest code. Let alone somebody like him, who has no certification but only the code name of the vest that the system has randomly assigned. That's why no one will think he is a big man, and naturally, the other party's speech is a little harsh.

The pangolin looked at these few lines of comments and then looked at them again. He couldn’t believe his eyes. He was so angry that the scales of his soul were shaking.

Zhao Xixi: “Uncle, Uncle, I ate it up!”

The rabbit had stopped in front, and he looked at the pangolin, then said, “Going further ahead is the sea highway.”

The rabbit glanced at Zhao Xixi, who was holding the little tiger, and said meaningfully, “Should I continue driving?”

If it continues, they will eventually bring Zhao Xixi, a human cub, to the laboratory, and no one knows what the outcome will be.

The pangolin looked at the scenery outside and looked at Zhao Xixi next to him. Then he pointed to the monster convenience store not far away and said, “Put her in that store.”

After finishing speaking, the pangolin remembered something about what the person on the forum had said before: If she encounters an extremely anti-human monster…

Suddenly, the pangolin said, “Go back to my laboratory first.”

Zhao Xixi: “Uncle, uncle, why hasn’t the tiger cub woken up yet?”

As soon as she said this, she felt the ears on her lap move, and then the tiger cub woke up.

Immediately afterward, the tiger cub protected Zhao Xixi, baring his teeth, and pounced on the pangolin.

The pangolin was not polite either and sneered: “You want to beat me right now? You’re still too young.”

On the other side, the entire kindergarten is on vacation. From the head of the kindergarten to the teacher, everyone is looking for Zhao Xixi and the tiger cub.

“Did you feed your kindergarten safety measures to humans? You didn't even know that Zhao Xixi had actually left the school? Do you think you look after a monster cub who is beat-resistant, fall-resistant, and break-resistant, and that no one wants to abduct and traffic her?”

The teachers are also anxious. They all know about Zhao Xixi’s situation. If they can’t find her, this will inevitably be a big storm that they cannot solve!

Teacher Tao Hua searched the surveillance cameras everywhere, but still did not find any clues. After hesitating for a moment, she said to the other teachers, “I remember that Longteng Pharmaceutical has an independent laboratory.”

The director was a bit strange and said, “Do you suspect they took Zhao Xixi away? Do they need to do this?”

Even if they don't like humans, Zhao Xixi is not an ordinary human. For a large enterprise like that, there is really no need to kidnap Zhao Xixi, who has a lot of Mother's Monster fans. Do you think the public relations of her fan-based community are too leisurely?


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Chapter 34 - Cut Ears


When the traffic police officer looked inside, he naturally saw the little tiger that Zhao Xixi was holding.

The little tiger's body size is about the same as a child's. Being held in the arms of a child is like holding a big doll.

In fact, the traffic police really thought so. After all, no one would think that this child was holding a real tiger.

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Back then, when the teachers arrived just now, the tiger cub had bitten the pangolin’s arm. According to the physique of the pangolin, no animal could break his skin, but the tiger cub was not an ordinary animal, and he was able to bite him.

However, this is not a good thing because this pangolin is unusual. The skin of ordinary pangolins has a certain healing effect, but this pangolin monster used his own channels in the laboratory to experiment so that he could carry poison in his body. This way, the tiger cub was poisoned when he bit the pangolin!

The anesthesia needle was never applied to the tiger cub. But in this way, because of the pangolin’s poison, they could take the poisoned little saber-toothed tiger baby to the car.

Zhao Xixi worriedly asked, “What happened to the tiger cub? What happened to him?”

The pangolin angrily said, “You are a human cub, and I am a monster who wants to destroy all human beings. Why should I answer your question?”

Zhao Xixi: “Then… what happened to the tiger cub?”

The rabbit couldn’t stand it anymore, then said, “He just fell asleep temporarily, and he will wake up in a while.”

The skin of the pangolin is poisonous, but it is not very harmful, and its effects have a similarity to those of anesthetics.

When they ran away, the pangolin carried Zhao Xixi and threw her onto the back seat. Then she stretched out her hands and wanted to hold the tiger cub. At that time, the pangolin held the tiger cub casually.

Naturally, it was impossible for the pangolin to give the tiger cub to her. The rabbit sitting in front had already started the car, and he heard Zhao Xixi chattering in the back seat:

“Uncle, give me the tiger cub.”

“Uncle, if you carry the tiger cub like this, the tiger cub will feel uncomfortable.”

“Uncle, you are not wearing your seat belt. Adults must fasten their seat belts when they are in the car.”

“Uncle, give me the tiger cub… I will hold him in the car.”

This posture was completely inappropriate to give her the tiger cub, but she seemed unable to stop nagging about him until they reached their destination.

The rabbit secretly looked at the pangolin through the rearview mirror. He thought the pangolin would directly seal the noisy mouth of this human cub.

It turned out that the pangolin threw the little tiger at the human cub. This covered the human cub in fur. Then the little hand carefully adjusted the little tiger's position, hugged the little tiger, and started asking again:

“Uncle, uncle, when will the tiger cub wake up?”

“Uncle, uncle, if it still doesn’t work, can we go to the hospital for an injection?”

In Zhao Xixi’s view, as long as you feel uncomfortable, go to the hospital for an injection, and you will be fine soon.

The pangolin turned his head and said, “Shut up! If you ask him whether he can wake up, I will make him never wake up!”

The rabbit watched this scene and thought of something while driving: Why do you have to be reasonable? Or does the pangolin think it can convince this seemingly enlightened human cub?

So, with the efforts of Zhao Xixi, who was "a fine person", it became Zhao Xixi holding the little tiger and sitting in the car in good manners.

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Presently, the traffic police officer looked at the driver’s license of the rabbit monster, and he continued, “It’s okay. But still, you have to buy a child’s safety seat quickly. Don’t ignore this problem.”

When the traffic police officer said this, he was writing something in the notebook, so he didn’t see the pangolin cover Zhao Xixi’s mouth with one hand.

The rabbit was afraid that something bad would happen to her. So he quickly talked to the traffic police officer to divert his attention: “Okay, I will definitely buy it. We just changed the car, so we didn’t have time to buy it. There was a child’s safety seat in the previous car. Don’t worry. We are all law-abiding, good citizens.”

The traffic police officer raised his head when he heard this and said, “This is not just a matter of obeying the law. It is a matter of your child’s safety. It was not the state that sent your child to you.”

The rabbit: “...”

Forget it… It's better to shut up. Nothing was right today, neither about what to say nor what to do. Obviously, he was the king of communication before. Could it be that it was really a mental blow by a human cub?

The traffic police quickly let the group go. Zhao Xixi turned her head and looked thoughtfully at the police uncle.

Just now, she wanted to tell the police uncle that she and the tiger cub wanted to go back to the class. But the bad-tempered uncle covered her mouth and told her that if she was disobedient, he would cut off the tiger cub’s ears for making medicine wine.

Zhao Xixi immediately straightened her back, put her hands on her knees, and sat like a standard young pioneer.

The reason he said he wanted to cut off the little tiger's ears was because he had threatened Zhao Xixi with killing the tiger cub previously, but as a result, the child didn't have a concept of killing. She kept nagging about having lunch or going back to school, and while nagging, she kept touching the little tiger’s ears.

So the pangolin changed his tune and said that he would cut off the little tiger’s ears.

It seemed the little tiger’s ears were really important to her because Zhao Xixi sat quietly in the seat without saying a word.

The inside of the car was so quiet that they could only hear the sound of the wind whistling outside.

This kind of quietness gave the rabbit a very depressing feeling. Obviously, when they went on missions together previously, they always kept quiet. But there was never such a depressing atmosphere as this before.

The rabbit was driving and wondering if he should say something, and then he heard a "growl" sound from the back seat.

Zhao Xixi’s stomach growled, and when she heard the sound, she quickly covered the little tiger’s ears with her hands!

Don’t cut off Tiger Cub's ears!

The pangolin doesn’t really have the perverted hobby of cutting off cubs’ ears. The pangolin looked at Zhao Xixi and said with disgust, “Why are your human cubs so troublesome?”

Zhao Xixi continued to cover the little tiger’s ears with her hand and retorted in a childish voice, “I won’t be a bother when I grow up.”

The pangolin: “It will become more annoying when you grow up.”

Zhao Xixi exclaimed, “No way!”

The pangolin sneered, “Your parents belong to the Anti-Monster Alliance. Do you know what the Anti-Monster Alliance wants to do?”

Zhao Xixi didn’t know, so she shook her head.

The pangolin: “The Anti-Monster Alliance wants to cut off all the monster's ears, then pile them together, take photos, and send them to Moments.”

The rabbit: “...” What is this mess?!

Zhao Xixi said, “You are talking nonsense! They don’t know how to cut off ears! I already told my parents that monsters are not scary. They no longer fear as much as before! Obviously, it's you, the one who wants to cut off the tiger cub’s ears! You are a big villain!”

The pangolin looked at this human cub, who was blushing so anxiously that her neck was thick, and her speech was sharp. She was so anxious because she was afraid that the little tiger monster would have his ears cut off.

The pangolin looked at Zhao Xixi and said, “You are not a monster, so what does it matter to you if the little tiger monster had to cut off his ears?”

When he said this, his fingers suddenly turned into sharp claws, and he seemed about to cut off the unconscious tiger cub’s ears.

Zhao Xixi tightly covered the little tiger’s ears with her small hands. Her eyes were red, and she shouted in a crying voice, “Don't cut off the ears. If he doesn't have ears, then it won't look good… Everyone will laugh at him.”

The rabbit looked at this scene. He knew the pangolin would not really cut off the experimental subject’s ears. He was the last hope of the laboratory. How could it be possible to cut off the ears?

But the problem was that the human cub didn’t know about it. She tightly covered the little tiger’s ears with her small hand. The pangolin’s sharp finger claws had already reached for the human cub’s hand, but she still didn’t dodge him.

The rabbit thought that at least the child was doing well when she was seemingly playing house. It's better than the current earth-shattering scene.

In order to avoid a more bizarre plot, the rabbit hurriedly said, “Won’t cut off the ears. The blood will be in the car later, and there is no way to wash it.”

The pangolin’s claws turned back into human hands. This time, Zhao Xixi had shed her tears, hugging the little tiger and looking at the pangolin vigilantly. She was absolutely not as relaxed as she was in the beginning.

One can regard this scene as the state of a kidnapped hostage.

The pangolin looked out of the window, but there was nothing to see, so he withdrew his gaze.

As soon as he turned his head, he saw the human cub shrinking to the side, vigilantly covering the little tiger's ears again. Her eyes were big and bright, but she did not speak.

The pangolin disdainfully said, “Troublesome human cub!”

However, this time, there's no such thing as an angry retort like this—it's not troublesome.

The human cub was still looking at him vigilantly. Her mouth was tightly shut, and her eyes were like those of an irritated little beast. Completely without the relaxed look of the human cub, who said that she wanted to eat lunch and wanted to sit in a safety seat.

It seems that before, the uncle next to her was a bad-tempered uncle, but now this uncle is a big villain!

The pangolin looked away impatiently, and he saw a shop selling fried chicken drumsticks on the side of the road. Then he said to the rabbit monster in front, “Stop aside.”

The rabbit who sees everything in his eyes: “…”

He thought, Is he the only monster who remembers that the main purpose of their coming out is to capture the experimental subject back?

But he stopped obediently and asked Zhao Xixi, “Your stomach is growling. Are you hungry? Do you want to eat chicken drumsticks?”

Zhao Xixi shook her head, pursed her lips tightly, and didn’t say a word.

Not eating, not eating! To eat chicken drumsticks, you should have to hold them with your hands. What if they cut off the tiger cub’s ears while I'm eating?

If the tiger cub had his ears cut off, how sad would he be when he woke up?

Hearing this, the rabbit looked at the pangolin, who was sitting next to the human cub. He didn't say anything at all. Neither said to continue driving nor to get out of the car.

But obviously, his mood is very bad—worse than when the human cub was chattering and asking various questions before.

The rabbit is clear in his heart. Because of family reasons, the pangolin monster has hated humans since he was a child. He feels that all humans are selfish and cruel. Therefore, when facing this kind of human who has no fighting power, is harmless, and is also desperately protecting a monster, he cannot help but feel the psychological turmoil. So the rabbit hurried down from the car to buy fried chicken drumsticks.

When he got out of the car, he found that the eyes of the human cub seemed to be even more panicked.

Her whole body tensed up, as if she were about to fight with someone in the next moment, like an irritated little beast!

No wonder so many monsters like her so much.

The rabbit thought about it for a while. It should be that when the pangolin said he wanted to cut off the tiger cub’s ears just now, he had helped to speak. So in this human cub's mind, he should be a good person, and the pangolin is an in-and-out villain. That's why, when he left, she would be more afraid and guarded.

The rabbit secretly peeked at the pangolin, and he seemed to be in a worse mood.

Serve you right. Why are you scaring the human cub?

The rabbit humbly comforted the human cub. He said, “Don't be afraid. I'll be back in a while. He dared not cut the tiger cub’s ears.”


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