Chapter 411 [Blatant Cheating]
The child gradually stopped crying after hearing Master Mo's words, and the emotion in his eyes changed from fear to anticipation and yearning. He sniffed and stammered, "Can I really make money and go back to find my parents?"
Master Mo broke off a piece of pine nut candy and fed it to the child. "Of course, as long as you train hard, your parents will be happy that you have mastered a skill."
"Besides, these animals aren't as ferocious as you think. Look at those three little brothers who have been in my circus for three years. Aren't they surviving well?"
The child timidly glanced at the three little boys in costumes, then turned his gaze to the golden python in the cage, whose head was even larger than his own. His lips trembled, but when he thought about training well and being able to go home to his parents, he suppressed his fear and nodded to Master Mo, "Okay, I will train hard."
Master Mo patted his head and said, "You haven't had enough to eat lately, have you? We have meat buns for every meal here, and pine nut candy as a snack."
When Master Mo said this, the three skinny, dark-skinned children in juggling costumes all showed a look of sadness in their eyes, with an expression of wanting to say something but stopping. However, when Master Mo turned around to look at them, they silently withdrew their gaze.
When the abducted children heard what Master Mo said, many of them showed the same expectation as the children on their faces. After training hard in this opera troupe, is it really possible for them to go home and see their parents?
"You're lying!"
One of the eight children suddenly yelled at Master Mo, "There are only these three little brothers in your circus. It must be because they are the only three who survived!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of the adults and children present changed.
The circus member closest to the little girl, with his hand on the whip at his waist, walked towards her and asked, "What nonsense are you talking about?"
Master Mo stopped him and said, "Old Nine, what are you doing? We've only met these kids once, so it's normal for them to not trust us. We need to reason with them and appeal to their emotions."
"I'll talk to this kid."
Just when everyone's eyes were on the little girl, two mice sneaked into the zoo, circled around the panda's cage, and made squeaking sounds. No one paid attention to the two mice. It was very common to see mice in such a large place.
Master Liao's attention was all focused on the group of abducted children, fearing that they would be beaten. At this moment, a slight sound came from the iron cage where Panda was imprisoned next to him.
Master Liao looked back into the cage and saw Panda, who was sitting on the ground, moved his butt to the side, revealing a line of English words he had written on the ground, which roughly meant "Attack Anemone City at one o'clock in the morning."
The Crown Prince attacked Hai Kui City at one in the night? Wouldn't that leave the camp empty?
Master Liao's eyes lit up, and he suddenly thought of the two mice that had been circling around Panda's cage. It turned out that the two little guys came to inform Panda.
Master Liao was horrified by the thought. Brother Pan was truly amazing! With his powerful social skills, coupled with the ability to communicate with animals, didn't that mean he had established a universal intelligence network? And one that humans couldn't break through!
"Hey, what's written on the ground? What are you looking at?"
Just as Master Liao was surprised and excited after reading the message on the ground, a cold and alert voice came from behind him, which scared him so much that he shuddered. When he turned around, he saw a sallow and sinister face right behind him.
A short member of the circus had walked behind him and saw the line of English words on the ground.
Everyone's attention was drawn to him, and the members of the circus troupe all walked towards Master Liao with the horrifying torture instruments in their hands.
More than a dozen men with unfriendly faces surrounded them with weapons in their hands. Master Liao and Panda were both nervous.
Seeing that he had been noticed, Panda retracted his claws that were about to erase the line of English words on the ground and continued drawing on the ground next to him. By the time the members of the circus troupe came over, Panda had already drawn a bamboo and a simple bird.
The short man who first discovered the scene witnessed the entire process of Panda painting bamboo. His eyes almost dropped to the ground. Then he excitedly shouted to his companions who were walking over, "Master Mo, this iron-eating beast can actually paint!"
Everyone rushed over to watch, and after seeing the stick drawings on the ground, they were amazed. Although they couldn't understand the confusing scribbles, they could tell at a glance that they were bamboo and birds.
Master Mo's gaze towards Panda also became hot.
Someone nearby asked in confusion: "Could it be that he was trained by the eldest prince's people?"
Master Mo shook his head, his tone as excited as if he had unearthed a treasure. "It's unlikely. Eunuch Zhang never told me about this. If the First Prince's men had discovered that this iron-eating beast could paint long ago, its treatment would definitely be different. It wouldn't have been casually handed out to us for training."
The short man rubbed his hands excitedly. "Now that we've discovered this iron-eating beast's talent, wouldn't that be a huge advantage? We could even have it perform a ball-tossing show!"
"We'll just ask a painting master to train this iron-eating beast. Then we'll present a painting of a thousand miles of rivers and mountains, which will open the eyes of the Crown Prince. Wouldn't that make us rich?"
Master Mo glanced at his accomplices and sighed, "You guys are a bunch of roughnecks, none of you can paint. Now we have to spend money to hire someone."
He said to the short man, "Xu Laoqi, you should hurry up and go to the city to hire a painter!"
The man known as Xu Laoqi nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go now!"
[@Master Liao: Li Li, where are you now? ]
[@江麗麗: Heading to the eldest prince's camp, what's going on?]
Master Liao took a picture of the man known as Xu Laoqi and sent it to Jiang Lili: "This man is looking for a painter to bring into the military camp. See if you can run into him and disguise your identity to create a chance encounter."
[@Jiang Lili: OK, wait and see!]
Master Liao sent a message in the group, "The First Prince will attack Hai Kui City at 1:00 tonight. Who of you will send someone to notify the Third Prince to come and steal the city?"
@Jiang Lili: Received! Xin Che has already sent a member of the Xin family army to deliver a message to the Third Prince.
Master Mo and others were pleasantly surprised when they found out that Panda could draw. The little girl who had just exposed Master Mo's lie escaped.
The members of the circus troupe dispersed, and Master Liao and Panda both looked at the line of English words on the ground. They never thought that learning English could be useful in this way, where they could blatantly cheat in front of these ancient people.
Master Liao couldn't help but sigh, "Luckily, Brother Pan, your English is pretty good. If Rong Shen, who's poor at English, dressed up as a panda and wrote Chinese characters on the ground, we'd be doomed."
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