Chapter 88

For a moment, Li Phou thought he was hallucinating.

He stared blankly at the screen displayed on his phone, his fingertips moving continuously from the top to the end, his eyes gradually filled with disbelief.

One hundred.

Not just one as he thought, but a full hundred short videos.

Li Pu's eyes moved slowly across the cover of the work, and his brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

It is obvious that such a large number of short videos cannot be accumulated in a day or two.

He scrolled down the page again and clicked on the first video.

In the picture, the fluffy white parrot stares at the camera, seemingly at a loss, but after a moment of daze, it raises its paw and touches its head.

The pair of grey claws were nimble, moving through the soft feathers like a comb, and the parrot made a very cute expression of enjoyment, with its beak slightly open, revealing a small piece of its tongue.

The video ends after the white parrot touches itself all over.

The lens is very stable.

Li Pu was the first to come to this conclusion. In this 50-second video, the background did not move at all, as if it was fixed somewhere, and Dabai just stood in front of the camera and completed all the actions.

This is amazing.

In his impression, Dabai rarely stayed in one place honestly except for sleeping, watching TV and leaning on him in a daze.

Of course, it is also rare to see it preening its feathers on such a large scale.

Contrary to what some people said online, his cockatoo doesn't like to preen its feathers like other cockatoos do. On the contrary, it just pecks at them casually a few times to keep the stray feathers from sticking out.

...Who took this steady shot?

However, the background was an unfocused patch of light and shadow, and nothing could be seen.

Li Pho clicked on the second flashback video.

The second video was of Dabai reciting a poem. The white parrot spoke clearly, its head moving along with the rhythm, and it took one minute and twenty seconds to recite the whole poem.

Li Pu's brows furrowed even more tightly.

He had never heard of the poem by Da Baibei.

After watching the two videos, Li Pu had already had a vague premonition - the contents of these 100 videos might be things he had no memory of.

And it seems they are all Dabai?

Li Pu's fingertips slid across the screen again, and the entire video cover showed patches of discontinuous white. Apart from that, there was either a bird silhouette with a clear outline or some part of the parrot's body.

...Why only film Baymax?

The living room was unusually quiet. The snow-white parrot was still sleeping soundly in its cage. Li Phou felt as if his thoughts had hit a dead end.

He subconsciously looked up at the time. It was nine o'clock. According to usual practice, he should go to bed.

But he was not sleepy at all today.

Li Pu slowly stood up with his phone in hand, his eyes still fixed on the screen, not paying any attention to anything else.

The parrot in the cage seemed to wake up, flapping its wings and making a slight sound that vibrated the cage. At this time, Li Pu had already returned to the bedroom with his mobile phone - just one second before the parrot got out of the cage.

And closed the door.

He needed some time alone, Li Phou thought, and he could also see how much information he could get from these videos.

——In fact, he already had a guess, but it was a little too late today and he didn't want to call his agent to confirm.

After the bedroom door was closed, Bai Gaoxing completely opened his sleepy eyes and habitually shouted "I'm hungry, love to eat".

If Li Pho hadn't slept yet, I would definitely come out and give him some more food.

But today... Hey, did he sleep too long and miss it?

After waiting for a long time and seeing no one coming, Bai Gaoxing walked slowly to the bedroom door, ready to take a look, but he was unexpectedly greeted by a tightly closed door.

“……”Hmm…you went to bed so early today too.

Bai Gaoxing said that he was used to it, but was surprised that the man did not add anything to the lunch box before going to bed today. Maybe he forgot? Bai Gaoxing wandered around the living room for a while, and finally chose to curl up on the sofa and watch TV in silence.

The fluorescent light of the screen smudged on the snow-white wall, flickering slightly with the picture. The room temperature had dropped in November, but he was still quite warm in his down coat, so he didn't sleep in the quilt with Li Pu.

Of course, the root cause was still the damn static electricity. After a whole day of crackling, he was no longer willing to let Li Pu touch him.

Bai Gaoxing smacked his lips and suddenly felt that it was more convenient to sleep with Li Pu. This way he could find some food in time.

Decision made! I'll go grab the quilt tomorrow!

The plan to ban sticking failed quietly in less than 24 hours. Bai Gaoxing turned around on the sofa, found a comfortable place, turned off the TV, and fell asleep again.

…

Li Pho suffered from insomnia.

After watching a few videos, he turned his attention to the comments section.

It's easy to tell that these are all his fans, but they all urge him to update as usual under the video, as if they don't know that he is not the one who posted the video.

It wasn't from him at all, he was sure of it.

But the backgrounds of several of these videos can be seen as the living room of a home, and even in one video, half of his figure is revealed.

In the video clip with his figure, Dabai quietly climbed up from behind the sofa, as if wanting to play with his hair, and spread its wings above his head, as if stretching.

And he knew nothing about it.

Li Pu carefully recalled the scene at that time and confirmed again that he had no relevant memory at all - all he could be sure of was the footage he shot with Dabai before joining "The Cute Pet Diary".

His thoughts were distracted for a moment, Li Pu pursed his lips, sat up from the bed, and slowly scanned the entire room.

Could it be... a pinhole camera?

Li Pu recalled that before he moved to this neighborhood, he had indeed been followed by stalkers, who secretly followed him to his home and installed cameras and eavesdropping equipment, which caused a big commotion at the time. In the end, those people received the punishment they deserved, and he moved to the safer and more confidential Huantong Garden, which calmed the farce.

But this possibility is actually very small.

Soon, he overturned his guess. Because in addition to the excellent privacy of this community, the only protagonist of these videos is Dabai, which is also a question.

And...even the avatar seems to have been chosen specially.

Li Pu looked at the white parrot in the avatar, clicked on the large picture, and found that there was a pair of small sunglasses on the parrot's beak, which was a rough finger drawing.

“…”

Time passed minute by minute, and Li Pu stared at the backstage of the Xinghuo account without a trace of sleepiness in his eyes.

…

After a night, the sky was already slightly brighter.

Bai Gaoxing had a very comfortable sleep, but because he slept too much yesterday, he woke up unusually early.

He stretched his wings and legs happily, waiting for Li Pho to get up on time.

"Click." The bedroom door opened.

It's time to eat. Bai Gaoxing looked towards the direction of the sound happily, but his expression froze the moment he saw the man.

Li Pho, what's wrong with you? Li Pho! ?

The tired look, the blue eyes, the heavy expression... It's not that he hasn't seen it before. In the past, he was like this when he couldn't sleep all night. However, this state has not appeared for a long, long time, so long that he thought Li Pu would never appear in this situation again.

But why... did it suddenly become like this?

Bai Gaoxing's eyes were filled with worry. He watched the man walk by and discovered that he was actually about to take his coat and go jogging. He quickly called out and flew over to stop him.

Are you crazy? Do you want to die suddenly?

However, Li Pho just touched his head and continued to put on his coat.

Seeing that this was useless, Bai Gaoxing flew to the top of the cage and shouted, "Eat! Eat!"

The man paused, then walked over to fill his lunch box, turned around and walked out again.

What is going on? ? ! Bai Gaoxing was a little anxious. He rushed out of the cage without eating a single bite and fell on Li Pu.

I wish I had a hook. He grabbed Li Pho's collar and tried to pull it back, but he was wearing too much autumn and winter clothes and couldn't feel it at all. Li Pho noticed his action, said "stop it", raised his hand to take him off, and put him back on the top of the cage.

How could Bai Gaoxing let such a person go away so easily? He flew to him again, muttering "Play with me". This sentence always worked well, and Li Pu would put down what he was doing and accompany him when he heard it.

But today it was totally useless.

Just like that, after several rounds, Bai Gaoxing was put back into the cage and watched helplessly as the cage door was closed by the man from the outside.

What is going on? ?

Bai Gaoxing hung on the cage and bit the wire hard, but it was no use. He could only watch Li Pu's figure disappear from his sight.

…

"Sister Li."

In a corner of the community park, Li Phou called his agent.

"Why are you calling me so early?" The woman on the other end seemed to be still asleep. After a few seconds, her voice became clearer. "What's wrong?"

"…I climbed the Starfire yesterday."

Li Pu now feels a bit of a headache. He stayed up all night and watched all 100 videos and added comments... However, there were too many comments and he hadn't watched them all.

"Huh? You also watched it on Xinghuo?" Lei Li's voice was a little surprised. "Not bad, are you planning to publish it yourself?"

After hearing this, Li Pu's tense mood since last night eased a little, because it sounded like the previous short videos were all sent by the company.

However, the information summarized last night made him realize that things were far from simple, so he spoke carefully: "Did the company not manage my account later?"

"Who's in charge?" Lei Li smiled. "You didn't have the intention to do a live broadcast before.

We have also agreed that we will not take over this account casually. It is a private account. I have also told you about this. Do you still remember it? "

"I remember." said Li Phou.

Lei Li continued, "We bet that you would not use Spark until you quit, but we didn't expect you to suddenly post it and even broadcast it live."

Because it was the first time that Lei Li heard Li Pu discussing live broadcast-related topics with her, she couldn't help but say a little more, "I wanted to ask you, but since it was your personal account, I didn't ask too much. I just asked Xiao Mei to remind you. And..."

And because he was difficult to get out of the role, she would not ask too much about his private life.

Li Pu completed in his mind what Lei Li wanted to say, and realized that she had known about this from the beginning.

At this moment, his heart sank completely.

"Not me."

"What?"

"These videos..."

Li Pu did not continue. He had not planned to do morning exercises when he went downstairs today, but wanted to cool down in the breeze. Yesterday's weather forecast said that the temperature would drop, and this morning was indeed colder than usual. When the wind blew, his mind became clear.

But at this moment, he was a little too sober.

"Li Pu," Lei Li said, "Don't scare me."

“…”

After a while, Li Pu took a deep breath and said, "It's nothing. I was just joking."

This is not funny at all.

Lei Li glanced at her phone. Coming from Li Pu's mouth, these words were like Mars about to hit the Earth.

Lei Li, who knew her artist's personality well, said in a serious tone, "Li Pu, is there something wrong with you?"

"No." This time the answer was crisp and clear.

Lei Li's wrinkled brows relaxed a little. "If you feel uncomfortable anywhere, be sure to tell me. Or, can I go over and take a look now?"

"No need," said Li Pho, "I have no problem."

"……real?"

"Um."

Lei Li said seriously, "I have to go on a business trip for the next two days. If you really have any problems, please call Xiao Mei."

Li Piao: "Okay."

After listening to the agent's instructions, Li Phou finally hung up the phone.

He looked up at where his home was.

In fact, he has an even more incredible guess.

…

After returning home, Li Pho released the parrot from the cage.

The snow-white parrot immediately rubbed against him affectionately, with its head pressed against his chest, looking silly and cute.

Especially those pair of round, dark eyes, looking at him, as if wondering why he put it in the cage.

Li Pu raised his hand and touched its head, poured a handful of melon seeds on the table, and then walked towards the bedroom. But when he was about to step into the room, he suddenly turned his head and saw the parrot still staring at him.

…

Before opening the monitoring software, Li Pu logged into Xinghuo again.

Watch the first video in reverse order, it's dated April 25th.

It’s been too long since then.

If he hadn't noticed the comment section talking about filming, he wouldn't have realized that the first video was filmed so early.

At that time, there was no surveillance installed in the house.

Li Pu clearly remembered that he asked his assistant to help install the home surveillance after filming "The Long Ballad" in order to prevent Dabai from being lonely when he was not at home. However, he never separated from Dabai for too long afterwards, so the surveillance was no longer used.

No...I think I've seen it once.

It was on the way to the official promotion of "The Long Song". He turned on the surveillance and saw a big white parrot lying on the sofa in the living room.

Performance is very normal.

Thinking of this, Li Pu's tense mood relaxed slightly. How could such a ridiculous thing happen... There must be something hidden in these 100 videos that even he didn't know.

After upgrading the software to the latest version as prompted, Li Phou began to set the viewing time.

The surveillance system can keep records for one month, so he simply pulled it back to yesterday morning.

Because the last video was released yesterday.

Li Phou stared at the screen of his mobile phone, not daring to be distracted for a moment.

At half past six in the morning, his figure appeared on the screen.

After he went downstairs, the white shadow also flew out of the bedroom.

The parrot first circled a few times in the living room, then landed on the electronic screen near the balcony, and then pressed the power button.

Li Pu's eyes were shocked.

When the screen was turned on, the parrot ran to the cabinet next to it - there were a lot of miscellaneous items there, and he didn't quite understand what it was doing.

Until it landed on the coffee table, clutching an elliptical object.

That's a video camera.

Li Pu clasped his fingers together and unconsciously applied force, until his fingertips turned white.

He continued reading.

After placing the video recorder on the table, Dabai adjusted the position of the device with his paws, stood in front of it, and coughed a few times, as if preparing to speak.

Li Pu thought that he might know why the shots in these videos were so stable and fixed.

Dabai didn't say anything directly, but flew back to the screen and scratched it with his claws.

It...seems to be able to type.

After noticing the text appearing in the blank search bar, Li Pho adjusted the zoom of the screen, trying to maximize it.

But because of the screen reflection, it is not very clear.

Maybe I just stepped on it accidentally.

Li Pu told himself this, and the next second, he heard the parrot say, "The owner is not at home today, so hi!"

After saying that, it flew to the screen again, moved its claws a few times, and the screen also said: "The owner is not at home today, so hi!"

Li Pho fell silent.

He knew that this equipment could connect to these software backends and that the video recorder could directly upload videos, but why could Dabai perform these operations? Did it learn from watching him use it?

Li Pu was amused by his own thoughts, the corners of his lips curled up slightly, but there was an indiscernible suspicion in his eyes.

The more he watched the surveillance behind him, the more horrified he became.

The filming of "Diary of a Cute Pet" only took about a month, and Dabai returned for two days because of the award ceremony. During these two days, Dabai released eleven videos.

He checked the dates on the videos again and they were exactly the same.

It's just not accurate to the minute and second, but judging by the light behind it, it's probably early morning.

Early morning... when he is not around.

Before filming "The Long Ballad", he went to the library or went to the hospital every day, and spent more time away from home.

It’s a pity that there was no surveillance at that time... otherwise, he might have seen even more exciting scenes.

So, what is this?

Li Pu was not sure whether a cockatoo could be so smart. It seemed reasonable, but also seemed extremely outrageous.

He prefers Dabai's incomparable intelligence, but this degree is obviously a bit too much.

Li Pu calmed down and put away his phone. He thought that he had to observe the details that he had not noticed before making a decision.

Li Pho opened the door.

Bai Gaoxing, who had been eavesdropping outside the bedroom door, was startled and furious.

He flapped his wings and backed away. He was relieved to see that the man was fine. He jumped on the ground twice and said, "Hello! Tietie!"

Bai Gaoxing waited for Li Pu to lean over and touch his head, but this time, he didn't.

and……

Bai Gaoxing blinked, wondering if it was his illusion, but Li Pu's eyes seemed to become strange when he looked at him?