The five boxes of canned meat that the Tibetan fox Fugui brought were quickly eaten by the more than one hundred ferocious beast cubs.
Because he had to manually open the cans of food for the cubs and prevent them from fighting over the food, Fugui the Tibetan fox was forced to count the total number of cubs.
There were a total of 101 carnivorous predator cubs, almost a third less than the 150 he had mentioned.
But this was within Gou Fugui's expectations. He had already overstated the number of cubs, and one hundred and fifty was the highest number he believed he would not exceed.
After the cubs finished their own cans of meat, they clung to the wealthy fox, unwilling to leave. These clever little creatures had their watery eyes fixed on the remaining forty cans of meat and refused to go.
"Aww!" Tiger isn't full yet! Tiger is big! Let's give Tiger another bite!
"Awooo!" The leopard isn't full either! Here, let me pat your belly, and maybe give the leopard some more food!
Several of the largest and fiercest cubs surrounded the Tibetan fox Fugui and wouldn't leave, while another one stretched out its little paws, trying to grab a can of meat.
But they were eventually torn apart by the Tibetan fox, Gou Fugui—when distributing the canned food, Gou Fugui fed the dozen or so slightly larger cubs an extra half can of food, so that at least their stomachs were half full.
But there are other animals here that need food, and they're probably almost at their limit.
Tibetan Fox Fugui looked at the dozen or so adult beasts lying quietly on the edge of the valley, almost motionless. Although they were not exactly emaciated, their bones were clearly visible beneath their fur.
The remaining forty cans of meat certainly wouldn't be enough for these dozen or so hungry wild beasts, but something was better than nothing.
Moreover, Zanghu Fugui has also prepared a second plan.
He first put the three cans of meat into his pocket, then began calling for his siege servants beyond the thorn bushes:
"Big Wolf! Throw my backpack over here!"
Xie Tianlang outside was silent for two seconds after hearing the shout. There were four options to choose from: "Tianlang, Alang, Brother Lang, and dear." Why did his Yuanyuan insist on calling him Big Wolf?
There's always an ominous feeling that I'll soon have to take medicine and that my hair is turning green.
However, the honest Big Wolf eventually fulfilled his wife Yuanyuan's request and threw the bulging backpack that Gou Fugui was carrying across the thorny thicket.
As the backpack fell from the sky, the adult animals, who had relaxed their guard, all turned their heads to look in their direction. Their eyes were fixed on the black backpack, as if wary of something that might suddenly appear inside and harm them.
But when the square-faced fox skillfully opened the backpack, the animals saw inside... a dozen or so packets of instant noodles and a dozen or so packets of bread crammed together?
What is it?
It's all brightly colored and doesn't look like it's edible at all.
But the animals soon learned the lesson that "you can't judge a book by its cover." Although these things looked completely inedible, when the square-faced fox tore open their skins, the animals with their keen sense of smell could still smell the aroma of bread and grains.
Then they watched helplessly as the fox tore apart and shredded all the bread and instant noodles, dumped them together, and finally added the remaining thirty-seven cans of meat. After kneading and mixing it by hand, it piled it on the ground and addressed the dozen or so beasts lying in the ravine waiting to die:
"Come and eat!"
The beasts, of course, couldn't understand his words, but they could understand his meaning.
However, these dozen or so weakened beasts did not rush over to devour the food. Gou Fugui saw that their mouths were drooling, but they all turned their heads away, not intending to eat the food.
Although it was mixed with strange things, the animals knew that these were edible.
Food is extremely scarce and precious for them now.
It should be left for the cubs.
Several cubs were attracted by the smell of meat and wanted to eat it, but the big fox grabbed them with its two paws and threw them away.
In the end, the Tibetan fox Fugui scooped up a handful of food and stuffed it into the mouth of the skinny wolf.
At this moment, the half-zombie wolf king, who could eat or not eat and thus deplete his own life force, finally spoke and let out two low whimpers.
Upon hearing the howl, the dozen or so weak and hungry beasts stepped forward one by one and began to eat the pile of food mixed with canned meat, which had a strange taste.
Even if they turned away and refused the food before, they ate it fiercely and greedily when they actually ate it.
Even the Tibetan fox Fugui saw some clear liquid overflowing from the wolf's eyes.
He thought this must be the joy of escaping death.
A backpack full of grain and thirty-seven cans of meat barely provided the hungriest beast with a little energy.
Although wild beasts only eat meat, at this point they have no choice.
In less than an hour, the Tibetan fox Fugui had distributed all the things he had brought.
He still had three cans of meat left in his spatial pocket to feed the three little golden eagles, and that concluded his trip to Ao Valley for the day.
Fugui the Tibetan fox decided to leave. He didn't need to say goodbye to the animals. But when he turned around, some of the animals that had been watching him suddenly stood up and barked at him.
Tibetan fox Fugui was stunned for a moment, and then saw several large monkeys nimbly dragging over a large bag made of leaves. The bag was filled with various flowers and plants, as well as fruits of different colors from the forest.
"Squeak! Squeak!"
The monkeys pushed the straw bag in front of the Tibetan fox, Fugui.
Fugui the Tibetan fox was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized that this was the animals' way of expressing their gratitude.
A wistful smile appeared on the fox's square face.
Sometimes animals are truly more adorable and sincere than humans.
However, the Tibetan fox Fugui did not take everything in the bag. He picked through the plants and eliminated those that were the same as yesterday, only taking the rare and hard-to-find plants that he had never seen before.
Even as the monkeys squeaked and begged him to take everything with him, he earnestly addressed all the animals watching him, saying, "This is enough. I don't need the same things."
He figured the animals couldn't understand him, so he shook his head with a laugh. But as he was leaving, he suddenly looked at the half-zombie wolf king and said, "...I'm not looking for plants to eat. I need a special kind of plant, one that can neutralize the toxins of the golden flower."
The wolf king looked at him, his scarlet and dark blue eyes devoid of understanding or emotion, filled only with coldness and indifference.
Tibetan Fox Fugui: "..."
The fox patted his head; his brain had probably been licked too much by those little cubs and wasn't working properly anymore. He thought this particularly clever wolf king could understand him.
But how is that possible?
After emerging from the valley, the Tibetan fox Fugui, shaking its head, went to the cliff face and transformed into the owl Fugui to feed the two little golden eagles.
Because of the distance, Xie Tianlang wasn't allowed to come along this time; he was simply told to go back to the base and wait.
It was only during the second feeding that he realized that the two little golden eagles and the half-zombie eagle didn't look like the same species of bird at all.
The two chicks had short wings, long tails, and yellowish feathers, which were more characteristic of golden eagles. However, judging from the gray feathers and broad, rounded wings, the giant eagle could not possibly be the biological mother of the two golden eagle chicks. So, this eagle was actually an adoptive mother.
And because the two cubs weren't his own, the eagle would try to attack Xiao Fugui whenever it saw him, nod its head up and down, flap its wings enthusiastically, and even give Xiao Fugui the wild rabbits it had painstakingly caught. This made Xiao Fugui think that this half-zombie eagle was probably an eagle with a story and overflowing maternal love.
After feeding the two little golden eagles, Xiao Fugui wobbled back to the base at noon. He just managed to have lunch with Xie Tianlang at the canteen, and then he overheard the conversations of other soldiers and ordinary survivors in the base.
"Today's a bit strange. I've been waiting anxiously all morning, but those zombie beasts haven't come to attack us?"
"Indeed, zombie animals have been attacking and killing people here every day for the past few days, but not a single animal has come this morning."
"It's not that there weren't any animals at all; a dozen or so zombified snakes and squirrels came by, but a large number of zombie animals didn't come. The most worrying ones, the zombie birds, didn't come either."
"Are they all dead?"
"...That's unlikely. This forest is so big. Maybe it went somewhere else, or maybe it got blocked by something?"
"Haha, that's ridiculous. What could possibly stop those zombie beasts? Aren't they just attacking anything that's alive?"
Then the person who spoke realized they had said something ridiculous, chuckled, shook their head, and continued eating.
But only Gou Fugui, who was eating his meal, knew the real reason why the zombie animals and beasts didn't come—
Because their leader stopped attacking humans.
This is also because animals need to protect their more precious offspring and safeguard the continuation of their species.
At this point, the humans who had occupied their homeland were no longer the biggest enemy threatening their survival.
The wealthy beauty, who had a bald patch next to her left ear, quickly finished her meal and planned to have Song Sanchuan export a map of the cities surrounding the Latin American forest that afternoon.
After he delivers the food tomorrow morning, he might be able to go to a nearby big city to stock up on some food for the animals.
It might take a little longer, but as long as he brings more canned food, he believes the wolf king will be able to distribute the food reasonably.
After seeing the cubs and the weak, self-sacrificing beasts, Gou Fugui thought that he still hoped to do his best to keep these animals healthy and alive, at least until the world was saved.
Therefore, it wasn't enough to keep these animals at the bare minimum; he wanted them to at least be able to eat their fill while they were alive.
He shared his thoughts with Xie Tianlang, and even he himself felt that he hadn't considered the bigger picture.
But Xie Tianlang gave him a good reason to keep animals: "We are here to save the world and repair the core. The world is not just for humans."
"What if the core of this world lies among those cubs and animals?"
When Xie Tianlang said this, his eyes softened: "The core of the last world was the seed, which still needed the protection of humans and other living beings."
"Who can guarantee that the world will no longer need animals?"
"Moreover, regardless of whether they are human or not, I always have respect for resilient and strong individuals."
Like that half-zombie wolf, that wild boar raising its cubs, and that male deer that deliberately broke off its antlers.
Humans have brave individuals, and animals also have indomitable heroes.
Life is always worthy of reverence.
Upon hearing this, the wealthy and beautiful woman looked at him and smiled, a smile that was excessively beautiful and gentle.
So the next morning, the Tibetan fox Fugui delivered much more food to the valley.
They not only brought twenty boxes of canned meat, enough for the cubs to eat for four days, but also brought ten extra boxes to leave with the wolf king.
The wolf king knew, of course, that the food encased in metal shells was for the cubs, but it was surprised that the square-faced fox would bring them so much food.
Is it humans who want to domesticate them?
That's impossible.
Because the only human who followed them was quite obedient to the fox. And the fox didn't make any demands or threaten them.
What does this fox want from them?
But the fox took away less and less of the various plants and flowers that the animals were looking for.
So what does it actually want?
The wolf king never believed in kindness without a reason.
However, this square-faced fox showed no fear when facing the wolf king's scrutiny. The fox even tried to reach out and touch the wolf king's fur, but the wolf king dodged it in disgust and slapped it into the cubs.
The frightened Tibetan fox, Fugui, quickly scrambled out from the pile of cubs, then stroked his fur, which was already bald in three patches: "Stop licking me!! If you keep licking me, there won't be any food left!!"
After saying that, Zanghu Fugui looked at the wolf king and said, "I'll probably be out for a day or two to find some food to save you. If I don't come back by tomorrow morning, you can distribute the food yourselves."
"Don't look for me, just guard this valley."
The wolf king, along with the wild boar and stag behind him, watched him quietly, as if they understood but also as if they didn't.
But when Fugui the Tibetan fox left, he discovered that the thorny hole that allowed him, a large fox, to roam freely had been completely blocked by a wild boar with a stone.
Tibetan Fox Fugui laughed.
Then, in the helicopter, he transformed into Owl Fugui and went to the cliff to retrieve two baby golden eagles.
At first, the zombie eagle was extremely hostile to helicopters with humans present, wishing it could smash the helicopter to pieces with its body and tear the pilot inside to shreds as well.
Unfortunately, the two little golden eagles have already recognized a male mother again these past two days? Or perhaps a wet nurse? After Fugui was put into the plane, he didn't seem to feel any sense of crisis, and after being fed by the wet nurse owl Fugui, the two little guys betrayed him.
The giant eagle was so angry that it kept slapping the wall with its wings, but in the end it had no choice but to follow the helicopter to a populated area.
At first, the giant eagle arrogantly refused to associate with the human helicopter.
It flew high and low from time to time, circling with its wings to show off its power and proclaim the weakness of humans. But after the helicopter flew for three hours in a row, even the half-zombie giant eagle could not take it anymore. In the end, it secretly glanced at the bird and the two chicks in the helicopter without looking at it, then spun its wings and squatted on the tail of the helicopter to rest.
Why fly? Father Eagle is tired. He doesn't bother with humans.
Two hours later, Xie Tianlang, with his beloved daughter Yuanyuan, finally arrived at the bustling port city closest to the Lameya Forest.
He also landed the helicopter directly on the tallest container piled up at the port.
The sound of the helicopter alerted the zombies and humans present. In just a few minutes, a circle of zombies had already surrounded the pile of containers.
Xie Tianlang looked down through the cockpit, his expression unusually serious: "The port is usually a place with a high density of people. In addition, with so many supplies, people who lack supplies may gather here. The number of zombies here is more than we thought."
“Whether it’s Yuanyuan, Fangfang, or Xiaobaozhao, none of them are suitable to move around here.” Xie Tianlang looked at Xiao Fugui and said, “So you can fly in the sky and help me check the codes and types on the containers. We’ll look for containers of bulk food, such as rice and soybeans, or refrigerated containers.”
"My job is to go down and unpack and move the goods."
Xie Tianlang essentially left the most dangerous task to himself, while Gou Fugui became a dispensable owl with a long-range view.
Xie Tianlang knew that his Yuanyuan might not be too happy with this arrangement, but he was also a little relieved—his Yuanyuan could only transform into one of the animals that was useless here, and didn't have to take risks herself.
However.
Before Xie Tianlang could even feel happy for half a minute, he saw the long-eared owl Fugui sitting in the helicopter give him a disdainful look that seemed to say, "I knew you would say that" and "I knew you were like that." Fugui suddenly tilted its head and then raised its left wing and patted it next to its right wing.
Xie Langren suddenly had a bad feeling.
Then, he watched in disbelief as the long-eared owl in the helicopter suddenly elongated its body and transformed into a brown and white... little lamb??
But that wasn't the end of it, because the pretty little lamb rolled its eyes at him, stuck out its tongue, shook its head, and stomped its left hoof.
The little lamb turned into a long-haired beauty... a human-shaped sheep brings wealth and honor.
Yangyang Fugui quickly picked up the clothes next to him and put them on. Then, with his big, beautiful phoenix eyes, he looked at Xie Langren, who was stunned by the sight of something beautiful, and gave him a weak middle finger.
He turned around and jumped off the plane. Then... in front of the bewildered Xie Dalang and the equally bewildered Giant Eagle who was watching the owl turn into a sheep and then into a human, he jumped straight into the zombie horde!
"!!"
Xie Tianlang's eyes widened instantly, and he almost felt his heart stop beating completely in that instant. Overwhelmed by immense panic and sudden anger, he jumped out of the plane without thinking.
But he was still a step too late.
Fortunately, he was a step too slow.
Otherwise, he would have really followed his beloved Yuanyuan into the zombie horde.
"Don't be silly, Big Wolf, Daddy has a special way of playing dead."
"So this is still Dad's territory."
Xie Tianlang stood on the edge of the container and looked down. He was stunned to see his family's Yuanyuan lying in the middle of a group of zombies, completely ignored by them.
Xie Tianlang: "...Damn it."
I almost scared him to death!
So what the hell was that sheep that was, some kind of bizarre mutated animal?!
* * *
Meanwhile, in Sanchez's laboratory, all the researchers held their breath, feeling even more terrified and uneasy than Xie Tianlang had been just moments before.
"...all research directions failed?"
It was a gentle and pleasant voice, but at this moment it inexplicably made the listener feel cold and terrified.
"Yes... Doctor."
"Besides what the Chinese researcher mentioned, or rather, what Si Mingri said about finding the antidote for the Golden Flower, do we have no other way to completely eliminate the mutation of the Golden Liquid?"
"...Yes, Doctor!"
"No."
The blond man standing in the center of the laboratory laughed: "That's not it. We have another method we can use."
"A fast and good method."
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