Chapter 603 [First Update]

Liu Tan didn't know whether Gungun was happy or not, but he was really having a headache.

He just wanted to find a wife for Gungun, so why did he send a panda cub? Did his father misunderstand him?

Liu Che didn't say anything in the letter, but just said casually, "I have sent someone to deliver the iron-eating beast you asked for."

Liu Tan finally found the reason in Liu Ju's letter - Liu Ju had originally taken a fancy to the mother of the cub and thought she was pretty, so he wanted to capture her to be the wife of Gun Gun. However, when he was trying to capture her, the female panda's "original wife" was very cruel and injured several Yulin soldiers. Liu Che was so furious that he personally took action to kill the male panda.

When Liu Che aimed his crossbow at the male panda, the female panda went crazy to protect her cub.

Liu Ju was anxious and took out his crossbow.

Everyone knows the power of a crossbow. This unfortunate pair of mandarin ducks died instantly, leaving only one cub behind.

No one took it seriously at first. If these two didn't work, they could just change one.

In the end, they didn't know what went wrong. In the next few days, they traveled around the entire Shanglin Garden, but didn't see a single iron-eating beast.

Shanglin Garden was originally very large, and all kinds of animals were raised freely. Liu Che wanted that kind of pure natural feeling, but he ended up getting into trouble this time. He had no choice but to send the smaller one to his son first.

After learning the entire story, Liu Tan couldn't help but complain to Lu Xuan, "If this happened to a human, it would be a bloody drama."

Lu Xuan didn't understand for a moment and asked in surprise, "What?"

Liu Tan said seriously, "Think about it, parents are murdered, their children are sent to be raised by their enemies, and then when they grow up they seek revenge. Isn't that a bit melodramatic?"

Lu Xuan: ...

He was really impressed by Liu Tan's train of thought and had no idea how the other party could come up with such an idea.

These are just two iron-eating beasts.

Fortunately, there were only two iron-eating beasts, otherwise Liu Tan would definitely not have kept the smaller one.

But... panda cubs are really cute. This little one reminds Liu Tan of the way he looked when he first met Gun Gun.

Liu Tan didn't want to let go of the panda cub. After thinking about it, he decided to take the panda cub to see GunGun.

GunGun was originally struggling with his swing. He liked the swing very much, but perhaps because he was born wild and difficult to tame, even though he liked it, he wanted to take it down from time to time. He was just playing with it.

Gungun was very sensitive to Liu Tan's footsteps, but as he listened, he felt something was wrong. When he turned around, he saw a little kid in his owner's arms.

That color combination... looks very familiar to Xiong.

Gungun looked down at himself, then at the dumpling, and his expression instantly became somewhat ferocious.

Of course, this ferocious look was what it thought it was. In fact, in Liu Tan's eyes, Gungun just sat down on the ground, raised his head and barked twice, sounding a little dissatisfied.

Liu Tan walked over, touched Gungun's head, and said, "Gungun, I brought you a adopted son. Do you want to raise him?"

It was difficult for Gungun to understand what a adopted son was. He only knew that he had not been held in the arms of a two-legged beast for a long time, and now the two-legged beast was holding another iron-eating beast.

Gungun was very sad, so he hugged Liu Tan's thighs and cried out twice in grievance.

Liu Tan took a breath immediately. GunGun's current strength was so great that if he wasn't careful, he could hurt someone in a matter of minutes even if he was just playing.

He now felt that his thighs might have turned blue.

Lu Xuan, who was standing by, quickly came over to rescue Liu Tan.

But neither of them blamed Gungun, after all, Gungun had already restrained his strength.

After letting go of Liu Tan, Gun Gun just left his back to the two of them, looking very aggrieved and angry.

Liu Tan had no choice but to put the dumpling a little further away, went over to hug Gungun and said, "Hey, what are you doing? Even if you have a adopted son, he is still Dad's good son."

Liu Tan was also very melancholy. GunGun was growing too fast. It felt like he had barely held him in his arms and "tortured" him at first, yet he had grown so big in the blink of an eye.

Now I can only hug you like this, don’t even think about holding you directly in my arms.

Gungun turned around and stretched out his front paws to hug Liu Tan, while at the same time he secretly stretched out his hind paws to kick the cub away.

Lu Xuan was watching with a mixture of laughter and tears, and he quickly went over to pick up the cub, fearing that it would be kicked to death by Gungun if he wasn't careful.

After Liu Tan coaxed Gungun for a long time and had the cub taken away, Gungun finally felt better and ate two bowls of fruit and two bowls of milk in one breath.

Liu Tan: ...

Why do I always feel that this guy is taking the opportunity to eat and drink?

However, Gungun was not surprised that the cub did not accept Liu Tan. Even humans might not readily accept a child that did not belong to them, let alone an animal.

Moreover, GunGun is a male and has never had children. Even his mental age may still be that of a cub. He definitely would not like real cubs.

However, the only place in the palace suitable for pandas to survive was the separately developed panda park, so Liu Tan had people directly enclose a small area in the panda park to raise the cub.

Fortunately, he has been expanding Gungun's habitat over the years. Now this area is quite large, and even if he fences off a piece of it, it will not affect Gungun's activity space.

The only thing Liu Tan was worried about was whether Gun Gun would take advantage of the situation and attack them, so he had people use barbed wire to surround the place where the cubs lived to ensure that Gun Gun could not come into contact with them.

Emotionally speaking, Liu Tan definitely likes GunGun more. After all, he has raised him for so long, and GunGun is smart and clever. However, humans have almost no resistance to panda cubs.

So Liu Tan simply left the preparations for the trip to others, and went to watch the cubs every day when he had nothing to do.

Of course, he also had to comfort Gun Gun. What if Gun Gun really escaped from prison and killed the cubs while he was away?

Even though he felt that this protective measure was in place, it could not withstand the iron-eating beast's explosive combat power, and no one has been able to test the upper limit of this species until now.

And these days, GunGun and the cub have not seen each other.

Liu Tan originally thought that Gun Gun either hated the cub very much or ignored it.

As a result, one day he was busy with other things and was a little late when he went to see the cubs. When he got there and habitually checked on Gungun first, he found that Gungun was not in the playground where it usually was.

He asked people to look for him for a long time, and finally found that GunGun was actually at the edge of the cubs' habitat.

Liu Tan and his men approached cautiously and saw Gungun lying on the wire mesh, staring at the sleeping cub without blinking.

Liu Tan was a little puzzled. He thought it was cute to see the cub sleeping, but the problem was that Gungun probably wouldn't like it, right?

He asked people to keep quiet and squatted aside to watch.

After a while, the cub probably woke up. It got up and called out twice in a baby voice, then staggered to the side of Gungun and looked up at him through the wire mesh.

At that moment, Liu Tan couldn't help but hold his breath. After confirming that the gap left in the barbed wire was not big enough for Gun Gun to put his claws in, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Gungun seemed to have tried it as well, but when he found that he really couldn't get in, he just sat on the ground, grabbed a bamboo shoot from the side, and started peeling the skin of the bamboo shoot in front of the cub.

Liu Tan originally thought that GunGun just wanted to show off in front of the cub, and couldn't help but chuckle twice - the cub's daily food now consists largely of bowls of milk, with only a small amount of solid food, so it is estimated that it may not be very interested in bamboo shoots now.

What he didn't expect was that after peeling off the outer skin of the bamboo shoots, Gungun only left the tenderest part in the middle, and then carefully pushed it in through the gap in the wire mesh little by little and handed it to the cub.

After the cub took it, it took two hard bites. I don’t know if it moved, but it looked very happy.

Liu Tan was very surprised. He originally thought that GunGun and the cubs didn't have a good relationship, but now it seems that is not the case.

He knew how protective GunGun was of its food. Apart from him and Lu Xuan, no one else could stay near it while it was eating, otherwise they would be attacked by the iron-eating beasts.

It keeps a close eye on its food. Last time, a bird flew in from nowhere and stole its peaches.

Then Liu Tan watched helplessly as Gungun jumped up and slapped the bird to death.

At that time, he almost doubted whether he was dreaming. It was bad enough that those running on the ground could not outrun him, but how come those flying in the sky could not escape his clutches?

If someone told a bear like this that Gungun would share his food with other pandas, he would definitely not believe it.

However, the facts were before him, and Liu Tan could no longer bear it and left the bamboo forest where he had just hidden and walked over there. He wanted to get closer to see if Gungun was really taking care of the cub.

If that were true, he wouldn't have to go to so much trouble to separate the cubs.

Gungun's hearing was pretty good. It probably didn't notice them just now, but it still heard Liu Tan's footsteps even though they were very light.

It just moved its ears, turned around and saw Liu Tan, and was obviously stunned for a moment, probably because it didn't expect Liu Tan to appear at this time.

Just as Liu Tan was thinking about what to say to Gun Gun, he saw Gun Gun look at the cub hesitantly, then turn around and run away quickly with a nimbleness that was not in line with his fat identity.

The only people left at the scene were the bewildered cub holding the bamboo shoots and Liu Tan, who was just as bewildered as the cub.

Liu Tan looked at the fleeing figure and couldn't help but wonder: Could it be that... this guy is shy?