"Thank you, Brother Haichao..."
Xia Runrun raised her little head, looked at Huang Haichao's softened gaze opposite her, and smiled sweetly.
Humans are truly no different from other animals. As long as she flatters them well enough, no one can escape her sweeteners! Looking at Huang Haichao's expression, she probably won't have to worry about getting beaten up by an angry Husky when playing with her in the future.
Alas~
Even though some people appear to be adults, they are still quite childish.
The little girl sighed deeply in her heart. She was really worried about the harmony of the shelter.
Even after being chopped into small pieces before frying, the seven or eight kilogram frog still weighed half as much as Xia Ruanruan's palm. The delicious aroma filled the little girl's nose, making her mouth water. Xia Ruanruan glanced down at the frog meat in her bowl, then, like a little rabbit, hopped off the table and, on her short legs, trotted over to the cat bowl containing the three little egg yolks.
Life is hard now, and the three of them, Little White and Egg Yolk, eat from the same bowl.
Egg Yolk and 666 ate with relish, not feeling uncomfortable at all. However, Xiaobai lay beside the stone platform, raising his eyelids but not moving at all.
Chu Hang looks like a cat, but he is essentially a human being. He would rather die than let a human eat from the same cat bowl as a catbird.
However, in order to relieve the little girl's worries, the little white cat lay in front of the cat bowl and did not leave. The mutant orange cat's chubby body directly covered the small figures of the white cat and 666 in the shadows. From the perspective of Xia Ruanruan's location, she could not see their current situation at all.
Chu Hang planned to wait until the cat and the bird finished their meal, then jump off the stone platform and pretend that he had already had dinner.
However, the plan had not yet been completed. A small head suddenly popped out from the lower right side of the fluffy cat's paw. Xia Runrun looked at the little white cat with a frown, puzzled.
"Huh...? Why isn't Xiaobai eating? Is he full? Or does he have no appetite?"
The white cat lay there motionless, with a calm expression as if the cat was confused, didn't understand what you were saying, had eaten, and was not hungry.
But the white cat didn't say anything, but Egg Yolk and 666 couldn't hold back. They meowed and clucked, and soon they betrayed the white cat completely.
"Meow~ Meow~!" (This cat didn't eat anything... Maybe it didn't feel like eating... Ruanruan, do you want to eat with me? I'll save you some carrots... Even though these carrots aren't tasty at all, it's a waste not to eat them. After all, they were given to cats for free. If Ruanruan doesn't want to eat the carrots, then go out and find something to eat and come back...)
"Gaga~! Gaga~" (The cat must be full, right? Maybe it hasn't digested yesterday's dinner yet... Gaga~! The food here isn't tasty. Ruanruan, let me find you something else to eat! I saw a lot of delicious nuts and seeds when I went out yesterday.)
As a starling, 666's staple food is generally grains, seeds, nuts, etc. On weekdays, he will eat some insects, vegetable leaves and fruits from time to time. As for corpses, he does not eat them. For this reason, 666 has memorized many food collection points in Xingyue City.
"No...it's snowing too heavily today, and it's almost dark outside. It's not safe...let's just eat something casually to get through the night." Xia Runrun stretched out her chubby little hand and touched 666's head.
666 and Egg Yolk had always lived in the northwest area, their home range. Now they were in the south, and they didn't know if there were any dangerous places around. If they went out to find food and encountered another beast's territory, that would be very worrying. She decided to wait until tomorrow morning and take Egg Yolk and 666 out together.
Little white cat: “…”
Chu Hang had no idea what Dan Huang and 666 were saying. The cries of the orange cat and the starling sounded like meaningless syllables to him. He only felt like the little girl was mumbling to herself. A faint flicker of nervousness flashed across the cat's eyes, followed by the adult's helplessness at a child's unbridled imagination. Had this child spent too much time alone in the wild? She'd actually learned to talk to small animals by herself.
A trace of guilt flashed through Chu Hang's heart. When he met this child yesterday, he thought that this child came from a wealthy family and was carefully taken care of by adults, so he wanted to buy a cat or dog to take home as a pet.
But later when they went to the abandoned supermarket, they found out that the little girl was just an orphan, and the food was found with the help of a group of mutant crows.
Xia Runrun had no idea what the white cat was thinking. She just thought that the kitten was injured and had no appetite.
She remembered the cat food with canned food from yesterday, which Xiaobai still liked very much.
"Ah! This is the frog meat Brother Haichao gave me. You guys can eat it... I ate some biscuits before, so I don't need to eat meat anymore..."
The girl filled the sink with water and poured all the frog meat into the clean water to wash off the salt. She then placed it in the cat's food bowl. "There are eight pieces of frog meat here... Five pieces of egg yolk, one piece of 666..."
"...There are two pieces of frog meat left. Give them to Xiaobai. Xiaobai was injured before, and he needs to eat something good to replenish his body so that he can recover quickly." The little girl's eyes were curved, and her dark eyes seemed to be filled with the entire sky and sea of stars. She pushed the washed frog meat directly in front of the kitten.
Even after washing the stir-fried frog meat with clean water, it still has a rich meaty aroma, coupled with the little girl's trusting and worried eyes.
In a moment...
There was an indescribable complex emotion spreading in Chu Hang's chest. The noisy cafeteria seemed like a dark and silent space at this moment - a little bit of guilt and worry crept into his heart, but more of it was at a loss.
He didn't know that the child in front of him had lost both his parents and had accidentally come to the Northwest District in the past few days...
It was because of the accident eight days ago that caused the death of the other party's parents and ended up here.
If it was the latter, Chu Hang couldn't imagine the child's expression after learning the truth...
Blood flowed down from the laboratory tables. Corpses were dissected with scalpels, and the bodies that failed due to the side effects of the drugs were put into sacks by researchers in white coats.
One year, two years, three years...
What Chu Hang saw in the underground laboratory over the past three years were all experimental subjects being treated like livestock... Crying, begging for mercy, and wailing in prison were the main themes of the laboratory. All kinds of cruel experiments were performed every day in that dark underground laboratory... Almost every day, more than a dozen corpses were dragged away from the laboratory.
——And all these experimental subjects were found from outside by the person in the base above the laboratory, which is called the Northwest District Pearl Shelter.
So many experimental subjects, such a huge amount of work, and everything he heard when his spirit became physical and traveled through the Pearl Shelter at night... all showed that no one in the entire shelter was innocent.
But now he...
Not sure...
"Woo woo woo~! Meow meow meow~ meow~" (Woo woo woo~! Ruan Ruan, you are so kind to cats, woo woo~!)
The cat face with the big egg yolk was so moved that it almost knocked Xia Ruanruan to the ground.
Without Chu Hang's complicated emotions, Egg Yolk and 666 were so moved when they saw that they were being fed by the cubs and the cubs gave all the meat to them without eating a single bite. They immediately burst into tears and swore in their hearts that they must find delicious food for the cubs tomorrow.
Huang Haichao was eating while watching the heartwarming scene of people and pets playing next to him, and he couldn't help but subconsciously glance at his own Husky not far away.
The silly dog, who was three meters tall, ate without raising his head, as if he didn't notice the distance at all. What happened beside the stone platform was so touching that it moved heaven and earth.
Huang Haichao: “…”
For some reason, Huang Haichao suddenly felt a faint sigh and relief in his heart?
Look at that! He was clearly showing great love for her just a second ago, but the moment he turned around, he forgot all about the little girl. After all, all that love is still not as good as a pot of frog meat.
Husky, you are worthy of it!
What a pity...
Before Huang Haichao could be happy for two seconds, the Husky who was eating frog meat in the pit suddenly seemed to smell some charming fragrance. He raised his head abruptly, looked around for a moment, and saw Xia Ruanruan not far away.
The furry dog's mouth cracked, and the Husky ran to the little girl with a food bowl that was half filled with frog meat in its mouth and pushed the bowl to her.
“Woof woof woof! Awooo awooo!” (Here you go, here you go! All for you! This meat is delicious!)
Huang Haichao: “…”
The stir-fried frog meat has a golden and slightly charred surface, which is the color of lemon!
…
The frog legs, after being washed with water to remove the salt from the skin, did not taste as good as when they were just out of the pot. The little white cat glanced at the small plate that the little girl used to wash and hold the meat. Not wanting to disappoint her kindness, he lowered his head and ate the meat.
Xia Ruanruan happily touched Xiaobai's fluffy little head and patted it soothingly, saying as if she were comforting a baby: "Xiaobai, be good. You will grow up to be as tall and handsome as egg yolk!"
White Cat: “…”
The white cat wiped its face with its paw, pretending not to understand what the little girl was saying.
Xia Ruanruan: “……?”
Xia Ruanruan scratched her cheek. It had been a day and a half since she picked up Xiaobai yesterday, but Xiaobai hadn't said a word from beginning to end, not even the simplest meow, let alone communicating with her.
If she could not still understand what Dan Huang and 666 said and communicate with them, Xia Runrun would have suspected that she was only able to talk to the furries in her previous life.
Is Xiaobai really a mute? This is too pitiful.
The little girl put down her plate, held her little chin, and her glass-like eyes were filled with worry. She would go back and ask someone where the veterinarian was and ask the veterinarian to help take care of Xiaobai. She didn't know if Xiaobai was injured too seriously yesterday and hurt his vocal cords.
The little girl was thinking with a worried look on her face, and she didn't notice the figure passing by not far from her.
There were five or six middle-aged men in navy blue work clothes. Some of them were dark, thin and strong. You could tell at a glance that they had often worked outside to look for supplies in recent years.
They seemed like a small team, talking and laughing, chatting about some recent events, and saw Xia Ruanruan and the mutant orange cat.
I couldn't help but look at him twice more with envy.
"Alas, luck is everything these days. Even a little girl like me, three or four years old, can easily find several mutant animals. Look at that white cat. Although it's small now, it looks very hardy. If it survived alone in the wild, it would be eaten by other mutant animals in a few days... But since that white cat has been taken home and is being cared for by the mutant orange cat next to it, I'm sure it will grow into a giant cat two or three meters tall in less than two years."
"If nothing unexpected happened in the past two years, I'm afraid that little girl will become the strongest person in our entire shelter in no time."
Several middle-aged men were chatting and laughing, with envy in their eyes.
no way……
People these days were lucky to have a pet by their side, let alone the little girl across from them, who had three pets with her. Two of them looked like they would soon become her strongest fighters. The good thing about mutant animals these days was that once they recognized their owner, as long as the owner treated them well, they would treat their owner like family and would never run away.
"Hey! What's the point of you guys being envious? Aren't there many lucky people these days? Not to mention the little girl's pet next to you, which still needs time to train, take those guys in the East District. Isn't their leader the one who runs a dog farm at home? Even though most of them ran away and refused to recognize him as their master... there are still at least thirty or forty dogs left. Plus, after a while, the big dogs will be able to give birth to puppies. In just a few years, I'm afraid the entire East District will be conquered by them!"
"Right, right, right! It's not just them... Take for example, not long after the disaster, weren't there some people who were particularly lucky? I remember Old Zhao telling us before that there was a family in their neighborhood who went out looking for supplies. Not only did they suddenly find a large amount of supplies, but they also happened to run into a transport team heading to the survival base... and they were directly transported to the survival base next door!"
The dark, thin, middle-aged man smiled, revealing a mouthful of white teeth. His eyes sparkled as he spoke, "What cats, what dogs?! They're all just lies... Where we live now is so dangerous... Even if we bring mutant animals with us, we never know when a few vultures will suddenly fly down from the sky and snatch us away. Besides, with so many people in a family of three, even a cat or a dog can't protect three people..."
"What's the point? I'd rather live in a survival base. The sky above the base is covered with high-voltage power grids. Not to mention vultures flying down to grab people, even a sparrow..."
"Now that sparrows have grown so large, they don't dare to go down and steal food at will!"
"That's right! The residents of your community are the luckiest. They just happened to receive a large amount of supplies, and they were able to exchange them for a spot in the survival base... It's just too lucky."
Five or six middle-aged men chatted and laughed as they talked again about the neighbor in the community called Lao Zhao.
The wrinkles on the face of the man called Lao Zhao were already obvious. It was obvious that life had not been particularly good in the past three years. He held the food tray in his hand, smiled, shook his head and said, "Don't say that. The Chu family in our neighborhood originally had twin sons... When they went out to look for supplies, the two children had just been admitted to university and were only 19 years old... In the end, the eldest son died directly at the hands of the mutant beast, leaving only the youngest son and his wife to escape with the supplies..."
"Hey... I remember that your family, Old Zhao, lived in the Xinyuan Residential Area on Dongjiang Road, right? I also heard that there was a family named Chu there. Their two sons were very good at studying and both got into the top universities in China. Are you talking about them?"
"That's right...it's their family." Old Zhao shook his head with a sigh.
"I think this person's luck is limited... We don't ask for anything else, as long as our family lives in good health..."
The voices of several middle-aged men faded away as they walked, blending into the noisy cafeteria.
“Bang!”
The white cat was holding a small piece of frog meat in its mouth, but suddenly it seemed as if it lost its grip and it fell directly into the small plate, making a crisp sound.
"Hmm...?" Xia Runrun gave Xiaobai a worried look.
It seems that the injury yesterday was too serious. I didn’t expect that Xiaobai couldn’t even pick up a piece of frog meat.
…
"Don't worry, little girl. The HCP virus causes mutations in plants and animals, making them stronger and more resilient. It also makes these cats and dogs more resilient than before. Minor injuries heal in a day or two... Serious injuries like fractures, as long as the bones are properly connected and not dislocated, can generally heal in about two weeks... Your cat's injuries are serious, but you've treated it well... I'll find some hemostatic herbs to apply to it later, and don't let it scratch the wound. It should be fully healed in less than a month..."
The veterinarian was a young woman in her early 30s wearing gold-rimmed glasses. She looked at Xia Runrun and Xiaobai with a very kind look. She took out some prepared herbs from the closet at the back and handed them to Xia Runrun.
"I have some herbs here. You can use them first. The mutated herbs are quite effective... Apply them when you change the dressing every day, and the external wound will heal in a few days."
After the natural disaster, veterinarian is a very popular profession, but there are too few mutant beasts in the Star Sea Shelter. There were only 5 at most before. These mutant beasts are not injured every day, and sometimes they may not be injured for several months. This makes the job of veterinarian a bit awkward in the Star Sea Shelter. So in addition to treating injured mutant beasts, they also work part-time to deal with the external injuries of the survivors and residents. As for internal injuries and other pains, they are the responsibility of another doctor.
"Thank you, sister... I don't know if this is enough for Xiaobai's medical treatment." Xia Runrun took out three pieces of white chocolate from her pocket.
After the experience in the cafeteria, Xia Runrun was reluctant to take out the canned food. There was basically no meat in the cafeteria. She also thought that if she couldn't find food to eat one day, she would use the canned food to improve Xiaobai's diet and supplement his nutrition.
"No need... In our shelter, all the injured do not need to pay for treatment. Our shelter provides free treatment to everyone and their pets." The veterinarian smiled and touched Xia's soft little head. He felt the child's soft hair dancing on his fingertips, and his heart sank instantly.
The little girl's face was white and soft with baby fat, and her short, slightly curly hair was particularly smooth. Especially her pair of black gemstone eyes filled with the bright stars made her look more like a cute little squirrel.
Seeing that the little girl was still a little worried about the little white cat, the veterinarian once again comforted the little cutie in front of him.
"Doctor He... could you give me some hemostatic herbs to help me apply the medicine?"
A cold male voice, accompanied by the sound of knocking on the door, suddenly broke into the ears of Xia Ruanruan and the veterinarian.
"Ah! It's you, Xiao Zhou..." Dr. He looked up at the door of the treatment room.
A tall, thin boy, about eight or nine years old, stood outside the door with a cold expression, his expression polite and distant. From beginning to end, he never once glanced at Xia Ruanruan.
"?" Xia Runrun tilted her head in confusion. This was the first time someone treated her like this since she entered the shelter.
No matter good or bad, the survivors in the shelter are always particularly interested in her identity, as well as Egg Yolk and Xiaobai.
The little boy was wearing a brown down jacket. Xia Ruanruan hadn't noticed it because he was wearing the jacket. But when he took off the jacket, she saw a scar on the boy's back that was more than 20 centimeters long. The wound had directly cut through the boy's sweater, and fresh blood seeped through his white sweater. Probably, he had hastily smeared some mud on it to stop the bleeding, and the wound was black and red.
"Oh! Why are you injured so badly today?... Boss Yang told you to stay with Old Gong and the others in the cafeteria, and they will provide you with three meals a day... Why are you still running outside all the time?! If you continue like this, you might die outside one day!" Doctor He glared at the little boy with disappointment.
Now she was in no mood to care about Xia Runrun. All her attention was focused on the little boy's wound.
The boy pursed his lips and said nothing, but his expression was extremely stubborn.
"Ruanruan...this brother is seriously injured. Go out quickly and don't get scared...Sister He will come to play with you later...Go back. Keep this medicine."
Seeing the little girl staring blankly at the wound on the little boy's back, Doctor He didn't bother to explain anything. He just stuffed the small bottle of ointment into Xia Ruanruan's arms and quickly pushed the little girl and the cat out.
When she was pushed out the door, Xia Runrun was still a little dazed.
He sighed helplessly in his heart, and when he thought about the robbery threats and other things he encountered along the way from the Northwest District to the Xinghai Shelter, his heart sank a little.
If she had not been loved by animals since she was a child, she might have been seriously injured like the little boy within a few days after she crossed over.
…
The shelter has a separate power generation room, but the power is not large. Apart from being able to turn on a TV in the cafeteria, basically only small electrical appliances such as electric lights can be used.
Xia Runrun was feeling a little heavy-hearted and had no interest in watching TV in the cafeteria. She returned to her room with the three little ones, Little White and Egg Yolk.
The room felt cold and deserted in the winter. Not wanting to sleep alone in the small bed, Xia Runrun wiped the floor of the room with a small towel, hugged the small quilt, stepped with her short legs, and made a bed on the floor next to Egg Yolk. She pressed her whole body against Egg Yolk's soft belly. The furry cat fur carried a slightly higher temperature than humans, which instantly warmed Xia Runrun's slightly cold little body.
The big orange cat's limbs and paws were curled up into a ball, and its tail was curled up on the left side of its body. It looked very cold.
Xia Runrun was stunned for a moment and blinked twice.
Cats are animals that are very afraid of the cold. Even in the summer, they will run out to bask in the sun from time to time, not to mention the cold winter when they would rather their fur be roasted by the charcoal fire and smoke than die by staying next to the fire.
Since the shelter is built in a closed underground area, even if there are ventilation holes, it is not allowed to light fires in the room.
“…”
Xia Runrun was silent for two seconds and thought about it, then she pulled off the thick quilt on the small bed, climbed onto the big orange cat using her hands and feet, covered the small quilt and quilt on the big orange cat's back, and then she hugged 666 and Xiaobai and crawled into the fluffy arms of the egg yolk cat.
In the arms of egg yolk, it is warm and soft.
The big cat, steaming all over, kept the night warm.
…………
"This is disgusting! How could I have given birth to a cold-blooded and heartless child like Chu Hang? The kindergarten teacher came to me today and told me that he pushed a kid down the second-floor stairs this afternoon! He's only six years old, how could he be so vicious?!"
"Calm down! Calm down! I asked Hanghang today, and he said he didn't push the child. He was alone on the rooftop before."
"You believe him when he says he didn't push it? Is this the first time this has happened?! You say this is the first time this has happened?!"
The woman sat at the head of the bed, her voice suppressed and mournful. "It's always been like this before. He always said he didn't do it... But you see, we always believed him, took him to the teacher and other parents... He's the one captured by the camera, and those kids always pointed at him..."
"You know what my neighbor, Aunt Zhou, told me the other day? She saw that kid torturing a kitten!... Later, I went to see the kitten's body, dumped directly in the trash can, covered in blood! Its limbs were all broken!" The woman was on the verge of collapse, facing her husband. "You said he didn't do any of this... But if it wasn't him, are you trying to say it was Xingxing?"
"Xingxing, that kid, has never dared to hurt even a bird. From neighbors to kindergarten teachers, no one has ever said anything bad about him... Are you trying to tell me that Xingxing did all this? Are you trying to tell me that both of my sons are emotionally apathetic and born with antisocial personalities? Mr. Chu, tell me! If that's the case, how am I supposed to live? How am I supposed to live?!"
"If both of my children are like this... born this way, then what's the point of me living?"
"Why is my life so unlucky? Meeting that kid was a disaster!"
"My neighbors all told me that they get terrified every time they see that child. What should I do? Old Chu, what do you think we should do? How could I be so unlucky to have a child like this?"
The mother's suppressed crying kept coming into Chu Hang's ears through the crack in the door. The child took a step forward and then retreated in a daze.
He doesn't know what innate antisocial personality and emotional indifference are...
He only knew that he was different from others since he was a child.
He doesn't like Peppa Pig, which is loved by all the other children. He also doesn't like his younger brother's picture books. He has no interest in Transformers, sneakers, and football. He doesn't even understand why his mother cries in pain. Isn't it just someone who looks like him who makes other children roll down from the upstairs?
Neither he nor his brother were injured or in pain.
Why is mother crying?
Little Chu Hang was at a loss...
…
"Uh-huh……"
As Xia Ruanruan fell asleep, she suddenly heard a few uneasy hums in her ears. These were the sounds coming from the cat's throat. The little girl woke up instantly, rubbed her sleepy eyes, and directly hugged the little white cat into her arms, patting it and coaxing it.
"Xiaobai, it doesn't hurt anymore, it doesn't hurt anymore... I'll blow on you... it will stop hurting... in two days... in two days it will be fine..."
"Xiaobai, be good..."
A child's sleepy body is much more difficult to wake up than an adult. Xia Runrun tried her best to pat Xiaobai gently, hugged the kitten in her arms, and blew on the injured part of the kitten from time to time.
In reality, the child's snoring had no effect on the already bandaged wound, but in the darkness...
The white cat slowly opened its hazy eyes, woke up, and looked at the little girl in front of it with complicated eyes.
In the dark night, Chu Hang used the dim light from the corridor outside the window to clearly see the sleepy and worried look on the little girl's face.
Even now...
He felt guilty towards the child, thinking that he had wronged him before and that he might be the murderer who made him an orphan...
But Chu Hang never understood why the child had come to save him with food in his arms. The emotion was too complex for him to comprehend… Was it pity or compassion? Or perhaps love and concern for the little animal?
“Bang!——”
The soft kitten paw gently patted the little girl's brow, telling her not to worry, saying that she would be fine and that she had just dreamed about something that happened in her childhood...
The touch of the little white cat's soft paw pads, with its warm warmth, made Xia Runrun stunned for a moment.
Xiaobai was clearly groaning in pain just now, but now he is actually comforting her not to worry?
Xia Ruanruan was immediately moved to tears. Kittens are so cute! She is still injured, but she is just a little cub!
The little girl looked up at the little white cat, and a sweet smile immediately appeared on her chubby little face. "Xiaobai, you're awake? Is your wound hurting again just now? But the veterinarian said you'll be fine in a few days, and then you won't be in so much pain anymore!"
As she spoke, the little girl kissed the white cat's soft head as if to comfort it.
The little white cat froze all over. No one had ever done such an intimate thing to him.
"Xiaobai is so cute! He even comforted me so gently and told me not to worry, but I really want to worry about Xiaobai! I am so lucky to meet a cat as gentle as Xiaobai~!" After the little girl said this, she kissed the soft cat head twice.
This time...
Chu Hang's heart trembled slightly, and he looked at the little girl with an extremely complicated look.
Gentle and lucky?
A word that no one had ever used to describe him since he was a child.
…
"Rustle...rustle..."
Suddenly...
The door, which was originally tightly closed, creaked slightly and opened a small gap.
The faint light in the corridor came in through the small gap. Xia Runrun, who had just been woken up by Xiaobai's voice and had not yet fallen asleep, subconsciously opened her eyes and looked vigilantly in the direction of the gap at the door.
Night attack?!
Could it be that someone in the shelter coveted her can of candy and wanted to steal it in the middle of the night?!
Xia Ruanruan immediately tugged at the fur on Danhuang's front paws, signaling him to look towards the door. The large orange cat, already awake, raised its eyelids slightly, twitched its nose, and silently and slowly tensed its limbs.
“Squeak, squeak, squeak…!”
Suddenly, a black shadow jumped out from the crack in the door!
The next second, the tense egg yolk suddenly lunged forward, and a squeaking scream instantly rang out in the room!
"What's wrong? What's wrong?! What happened?!"
Maomao, who was always alert nearby, suddenly started barking, and Yang Fan, Huang Haichao and the others woke up instantly. They opened the door and rushed directly to Xia Runrun's room without even having time to put on their coats.
Four or five searchlights patrolling at night brought with them the sound of lights switching on and off in Xia Runrun's room.
There were seven or eight people and three or four mutant animals, all staring at the small black shadow that was pressed under the huge cat claw of Egg Yolk.
——A hamster with yellow fur mixed with white fur, which looked about the same size as a little white cat, was pinned down by the egg yolk under the cat's claws.
Xia Ruanruan: “???”
Xia Runrun looked at the little hamster in confusion. How could a hamster be so reckless as to sneak into the cat's room and steal things in the middle of the night?
"Tuan Tuan?! Ah, I knew it must be this rat that caused the trouble!"
When Huang Haichao saw the hamster, he immediately covered his head and wailed, "How many times has this happened this month? Why does this hamster always like to sneak into other people's rooms and steal food late at night?"
"Last week it was Brother Yang's room, and this time it's Xiao Xia's room... Will it steal all the rooms in the shelter?"
Yang Fan glared at Huang Haichao as if he saw something. "Don't say that. Tuantuan didn't mean it... Xiao Zhou... don't worry. Your Tuantuan is fine. You can take him back first. I'll find you a better cage next time. You should keep him in the cage at night from now on."
Xia Ruanruan was still a little dazed when she saw a little boy who looked about eight or nine years old in the next room. He ran out of the room with messy hair, wearing pajamas and looking anxious.
The expression on her face was one of embarrassment and worry, completely different from the cold look Xia Runrun had seen in the infirmary during the day.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!... It's my fault that I didn't keep an eye on Tuan Tuan. I clearly put it in a cage when I went to bed at night... but I don't know how I fell asleep and let it sneak out..." The little boy apologized repeatedly, picked up the little hamster that was pressed under the egg yolk at his feet, and bowed to Xia Runrun and Yang Fan.
Seeing the anxious boy sweating profusely and unable to hide the embarrassment on his face, Yang Fan sighed softly, quickly comforted the little boy, and said to Xia Ruanruan, "Ruanruan... this is another survivor in our shelter who has a pet. He is alone like you... This hamster named Tuantuan in your arms is his pet... Although Tuantuan has mutated and grown in size, he still retains his rodent habits... Sometimes there will be some small accidents at night, but you don't have to worry. Even if an accident happens, Xiao Zhou will return your things to you the next day..."
"Why don't you go and check now to see if anything is missing from the room? If not... let's forget about what happened today. It's a kind of fate that we all live in the shelter at the same time... It's not easy for any of us." Yang Fan wanted to be a peacemaker between the two of them.
Yang Fan was actually a bit troubled by Tuantuan's problem. He didn't know what was wrong with this hamster, but it would often sneak into other rooms in the shelter late at night to steal food. It wasn't a lot, actually... but it would happen once or twice a month.
Furthermore, after the hamster mutated, its size increased to the size of an ordinary adult house cat, making it of little help to them. Therefore, its position was very awkward. If Xiao Zhou hadn't been the only one left, Yang Fan would have even wanted to suggest that the child simply throw the hamster away to prevent it from getting into trouble several times a month.
However, at this moment...
Xia Runrun didn't hear what Yang Fan said. At this moment, her ears were filled with the voice of the little hamster.
“Chichichichi! Zhizhizhizhi!…” (Zhou Yiyang, put me down! Yangyang, put me down! You’re hurt, you’re hurt! If you don’t put me down, the wound will open up!)
"Squeak, squeak, squeak~!..." (Yangyang, I'm telling you, I smell something delicious over here~! There's canned chocolate meat, and other aromas~! I'll find some for you to replenish your body, okay? After you eat them, your wound will heal quickly~!)
The little hamster's squeaking was full of concern for the little boy Zhou Yiyang, as if it was not the one who was hurt by the cat's claws just now, and it didn't remember the fact that it had just been caught.
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