Chapter 195 The Life of the Fur Balls
The newly opened area of Fantasy Park is located southeast of Fantasy Ranch. There you can hear the calls of ground dragons and puff birds, as well as waves of laughter from tourists that seem to reach the sky.
It was with this background noise that Liu Meilan took out basket after basket of food for the rolling sheep from the big barrel.
The baskets were all labeled "Dwarf Elf," clearly from the Dwarf Elf restaurant. As soon as Liu Meilan lifted the lid, a delicious aroma filled her. She knew the food at the Dwarf Elf restaurant was always excellent, but she hadn't expected the food served to the Rolling Sheep to be this good. She couldn't help but take a few more glances.
The amount of food in each basket was the same, but they were all different things. Some were carrots, some were vegetables, some were pork, some were palm-sized sea fish, and there was also a basket of peeled sweet potatoes.
Liu Meilan and her daughter spent many days as rolling sheep at the "Book Tour" experience center, and they're well aware of these little fur balls' dietary habits. Rolling sheep are omnivores, consuming vegetables, whole grains, and fish. However, they originally lived on land and rarely had access to marine fish. The basket full of marine fish likely reflects their dietary habits, which evolved after they migrated to the sea.
In addition to food, there was also a stack of plastic tableware in the bucket, which was obviously prepared for the little fur balls.
Liu Meilan picked up the colorful tableware, looked at it carefully and sniffed it, making sure that the tableware was washed clean, without any peculiar smell, and with the "food use" mark on the back. Only then did she feel at ease to put food into it.
Although she came here to work for her daughter, she felt a sense of empathy and closeness towards the sheep, so she worked very seriously.
Except for the young children, the other rolling sheep are of similar size. Liu Meilan fills each plate to ensure that each portion is nutritious and of equal size.
There are nearly two thousand rolling sheep in this park. If four rolling sheep share one plate, that would require five hundred plates. Liu Meilan was doing this job for the first time, and she was exhausted after loading all five hundred plates. She wiped her forehead with her hand and said to the group of little fur balls, "Okay, come and eat."
While she was distributing the food, the flock of rolling sheep huddled in a corner, their big black eyes staring at her.
They were motionless, their claws extended, as if ready to tickle her at any moment.
When Liu Meilan took a step closer, their eyes widened and they moved in unison. Although they were in a state of alert, they looked very cute in the eyes of humans.
Liu Meilan was touched by their cuteness, but she also knew that they had been abused before and might be wary of humans, so she waved her hand and said, "You guys eat, I'll go over there."
There is a raised wooden platform in the park, where Liu Meilan placed the lunch boxes she had divided.
She walked to the other end of the park. When she was far away, the sheep finally couldn't resist the temptation of food and jumped onto the dining platform with bleating sounds.
They have no hands, only a pair of duck-webbed claws. When eating, they lift their claws, push their bodies forward, open their mouths and dive into the food box to chew.
Liu Meilan secretly looked back and saw that the little fur balls were already eating, with chewing sounds coming one after another, and she couldn't help but smile.
Her job involved caring for the sheep. Besides feeding and cleaning the enclosure, she also had to play with the sheep. While the sheep were busy eating, she wasn't idle either. She began observing the enclosure.
This new park has not yet been opened to tourists. It is oval in shape. The side facing the Fantasy Ranch is made of solid rock, and the rest of the area is made of glass. The space inside is very large, with several rockery, more than a dozen large trees, many toys, and a large pond. There is enough space for the sheep to play together.
On the other side of the rock, there was a large house with some blankets spread out inside. It was also equipped with air conditioning and heating, and it was obviously a place for the rolling sheep to rest and sleep.
However, Liu Meilan looked around and didn't see any such small space. Seeing that there were tools in the house, she moved some out and started to make a small room. If she hadn't made rolling sheep, she might not have thought that these little guys who like to stay together also need some time to be alone.
She was making a small house there with a lot of noise, and the noise attracted the attention of some fur balls.
They stopped eating, their eyes became alert again, and then they began to bleat to exchange information.
"What is that human doing?"
"Mee-mee, no matter what she wants to do, we can't fall for it! Humans are evil!"
"Yeah, humans are super bad! Stay away from them!"
"But the food sent by humans is really delicious~"
After the communication, they continued to chew the food in the lunch box.
After eating, they start to lick each other to help clean their bodies. As furry creatures, their fur is very easy to get dirty, especially when eating, which is something the clean-loving sheep cannot tolerate.
After half an hour of eating and another half an hour of cleaning the fur, the fur balls began to feel drowsy under the warm sun in the sky.
“The environment here is nice~”
“The air is nice too~”
Compared to the sea, they are of course more adapted to life on land. It didn't take long before they fell asleep in a slumber.
Liu Meilan has some carpentry skills, and the tools in the house are all planed wood boards. She only needs to assemble them. It didn’t take long for her to complete the five small houses. Finally, she put the micro surveillance provided by the park in the small wooden houses.
"Mission accomplished!" Liu Meilan looked at the small wooden houses in front of her, each as big as an A4 paper, with great pride, feeling a sense of accomplishment. She arranged the small wooden houses, hanging some in front of the windows of the big house, some on trees, and some on the rockery. A piece of wood was placed on the higher places for the little fur balls to go up and down.
Then she went back to collect the plates. Just as she reached the dining platform, the fur balls that were lazily lying in the sun were suddenly awakened. Some of them jumped far away, some rolled out directly, and some moved away quickly with their two little paws, trembling as they ran, looking like they were too full to walk.
Liu Meilan shook her head helplessly, put away all the lunch boxes and pulled the bucket away. She didn't count carefully, but when she pulled it to the water room behind the restaurant, the machine made a dripping sound.
The washroom is divided into two parts. One side is where employees get water and tea. Some employees also bring their meals here, as there are plenty of tables and chairs for them to rest, and since there won't be any tourists coming in, they can eat in peace. The other side is where the dishes are washed. There are several large dishwashers, and the tableware used by employees, tourists, and the exotic races is washed in different machines.
In the morning, when Liu Meilan was pulled over by her colleagues to familiarize herself with the environment, she was also puzzled. She didn't understand why strange races also needed to eat. Aren't those all holographic effects?
Her colleagues didn't find it strange at all and even explained a few things to her. For some reason, Liu Meilan couldn't remember what her colleagues had explained to her. She only knew now that yes, yes, it was normal for creatures created by holographic technology to need to eat!
However, the rolling sheep are a little different. She still remembers that after entering the rolling sheep park, her colleague gave her a piece of information, telling her that rolling sheep are a species living on the other side of the ocean. They are real creatures, so it is normal for them to need care, companionship, and feeding.
Liu Meilan just felt that she was ignorant and did not doubt the information given to her by her colleague at all.
At this moment, she heard a long beep from the machine. She was puzzled and clicked the button again to start it, but the machine still made a long beep.
A colleague came in to wash the dishes and said, "Is it broken? No, it was just repaired this morning." She took a closer look and said, "It's not broken. It's telling you there are fewer plates." She pointed her to the number next to the machine. "Look, 497. That's three fewer than when you left this morning."
Liu Meilan was surprised. She remembered that she had collected all the plates on the dining platform and put them in a big bucket along the way. It was impossible for them to fall. Could they have been left in the park?
She quickly said, "It might have fallen into the Rolling Sheep Park. I'll go find it right away." She was worried about not passing the internship and losing her job.
But my colleague said, "It's so far from here! Don't worry, eat first! It won't be too late to pick it up when we deliver the food tonight. Xiao Chen will be working there this afternoon. I'll call her and ask her to keep an eye on it."
As he spoke, his colleague had already modified the numbers on the machine, and the batch of hundreds of plates rolled into the machine and began to be washed.
Liu Meilan felt relieved when she saw that her colleagues were kind and that other colleagues didn't think it was a big deal at all.
However, bad things had just begun. Not only were the plates not found that day, but in the following week, plates were lost every few days, and each time, several were lost. Once, when Liu Meilan put them back into the wooden barrel, she had clearly counted them one by one, but when she pulled them back and checked the machine, she found that several were still missing!
When she threw the plate for the fourth time, Liu Meilan's face flushed. She felt as if everyone looked at her with a deeper meaning.
In the end, the supervisor went to check the surveillance footage and told people not to guess blindly, because it was stolen by the sheep.
Liu Meilan: ...
The supervisor checked the surveillance footage from the past few days and discovered that the sheep had been stealing the plates since day one. Perhaps the park had too much food, and these furballs couldn't finish it all but didn't dare force their way in. So, while Liu Meilan was building the hut, they secretly packed up the leftovers and hid them behind the rockery. Of course, they used plates to store the leftovers.
In the following days, there were leftovers every day, and the rolling sheep would steal a few plates from time to time. Once, Liu Meilan had loaded them all into the car, and there were a few fur balls working together. Some of them attracted Liu Meilan's attention in the front, and the others quietly jumped into the bucket, bit the plates with their mouths, and then quietly jumped out.
Liu Meilan: ...
After watching the surveillance video, everyone: ...
No one knew who started it, but the monitoring room was filled with laughter. Afterwards, Liu Meilan and several colleagues went behind the rockery and dug out all the food that Maotuan and his men had hidden over the past few days, including the stolen plates.
The fur balls were not stupid either. They hid long-lasting food such as carrots and potatoes, as well as a few dried salted fish.
When Liu Meilan went to clean up the "stolen goods", the fur balls gathered together, staring at her with their big eyes, as if they were looking at a bad guy who had robbed their house.
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