Youyou eagerly squeezed into the shop, acting as if she were one of the guests.
"Zhao Xiaoxiu, let me see what drinks you have here. I'd like some cola and orange juice, do you have both?"
No sooner had she finished speaking than she was startled by the fresh mutated animal meat on the shelf and darted to stand in front of Zhao Xiaoxiu.
“Dead,” Zhao Xiaoxiu said.
Youyou frowned and said, "Ew~" "It looks bloody. Zhao Xiaoxiu, aren't you scared?"
Zhao Xiaoxiu said, "Think about the hot pot you ate at my house, are you still scared?"
Hot pot with meat?
Youyou licked the corner of her mouth. Uncle Zhao's hot pot meat was incredibly delicious, but it was actually made with this bloody meat?
Seeing that he was afraid of mutated animal meat, Zhao Xiaoxiu arranged for him to sit on her stool, and then went to the freezer and took out a bag of each of the chilled drinks, yogurt, and brown sugar water, and handed them to Youyou.
"We don't have cola or oranges, just these. I'll treat you to them for free," Zhao Xiaoxiu said generously.
"Thank you." Youyou picked up a bag of brown sugar water, bit open a corner of the plastic wrapping, and happily sipped it.
"What are you doing here?" Zhao Xiaoxiu asked, leaning against the counter with her arms crossed like a little adult.
Youyou gulped down most of the bag of chilled brown sugar water in one go, letting out a comfortable "Ah~" before giggling and whispering mysteriously in Zhao Xiaoxiu's ear:
"My dad is coming."
Zhao Xiaoxiu pressed further, "Your dad? Your dad who works at the biotech company headquarters? Is he coming to the planting area?"
Youyou made a shushing gesture, signaling Zhao Xiaoxiu to be quiet, then nodded and whispered, unable to hide her anticipation:
"Dad called me secretly and told me not to tell Mom, so Zhao Xiaoxiu, you have to keep it a secret for now. I've only told you."
Zhao Xiaoxiu glanced suspiciously towards the bridge pier. "They don't know either?"
Youyou looked at Zhao Xiaoxiu triumphantly and said, "Well, I'm only telling you this now. Right now, only you and I know about this."
"Zhao Xiaoxiu, when my dad comes, I'll treat you to lots and lots of chocolate."
When Youyou talks about his father, his eyes are full of admiration, as if his father is omnipotent.
Zhao Xiaoxiu listened to him chatter on and on about his father, but he kept bringing up just one thing.
When he was very young, his father took him to see a giant mutant whale in an underwater tunnel.
"When those mutated whales swam over your head, it was like they blindfolded you, and you couldn't see anything. They were so, so big... But even though they were so big, Dad said they were just a deep-sea monster's dinner."
"Xiaoxiu." Youyou suddenly grabbed Zhao Xiaoxiu's shoulder, pressed his head against her face, opened his big eyes, and asked seriously, "Do you know how the big monsters in the deep sea eat dinner?"
Zhao Xiaoxiu was startled by his sudden action, feeling as if she were listening to a horror story in a public toilet in the middle of the night, which sent chills down her spine.
She swallowed hard and asked curiously, "How do you eat it?"
Youyou said, "First, use a sonar crusher to cut the giant whale into many, many small pieces. Then, in a dark place where you can't see anything, there will be a huge vortex that will suddenly swallow the entire whale... and eat it all in one gulp!"
Youyou suddenly increased the volume, and Zhao Xiaoxiu, who was listening intently, was startled again.
But Zhao Xiaoxiu's intuition told her that what this little brat was saying didn't sound like something he was making up to scare people.
"You really saw it?" she asked tentatively, still unable to believe it.
Youyou raised her hand. "I'd be a dog if I lied to you."
Zhao Xiaoxiu gasped. The headquarters of the biotechnology company was actually raising such a terrifying deep-sea monster. If this monster escaped from the deep sea, would humanity still have a chance to survive?
Youyou also looked terrified just thinking about it, muttering while biting her candy bag, "Dad thought I was too young to remember this, but I remember it very clearly, I haven't forgotten a bit, and now when I think about it, I feel like the sea is so scary."
"Maybe it's a nightmare you had when you were a child, and you're taking it as reality," Zhao Xiaoxiu complained.
Youyou was stunned, clearly not expecting such an explanation. He scratched his head, seemingly unsure whether he had actually seen a deep-sea monster.
But none of that matters.
The important thing is that Dad is coming to see him!
"Your dad called you, and nobody at the research base knows?" Zhao Xiaoxiu glanced at the two guards under the bridge pier. Making a phone call? Such an obvious notification, how could they not see it?
Furthermore, every phone call within the research base should be recorded.
Youyou chuckled, "Because we have a special codebook, even Mom doesn't know it."
Zhao Xiaoxiu wanted to ask more detailed questions, but Youyou was unwilling to reveal anything related to the special codebook.
After being asked so many questions, he got annoyed and glared at Zhao Xiaoxiu, saying, "I came to share some good news with you, why do you keep asking me questions?"
You dare glare at her?
Zhao Xiaoxiu thought to herself, "It seems I've been too good to you, and you can't even tell whose territory this is!"
Seeing Youyou reach for the yogurt, Zhao Xiaoxiu slapped his hand away, picked up the yogurt, inserted a straw, and gulped it down herself.
Zhao Xiaoxiu: "Yogurt is so delicious!"
Youyou: "..."
After finishing the yogurt and satisfying the child's cravings, Zhao Xiaoxiu felt relieved.
"Youyou, you need to tell your mother that your father is coming to see you in Zone B." She earnestly instructed him.
Youyou snorted and tilted her head, "I'm not telling her. She forgot about her own child as soon as she entered the lab. She definitely won't remember my birthday next month. I'm not telling her!"
Zhao Xiaoxiu glanced at Youyou in surprise. As the little guy spoke, his eyes reddened, and he looked extremely aggrieved. He sniffled, and in less than two seconds, two lines of tears rolled down his cheeks.
Zhao Xiaoxiu said in a panic, "Don't cry, I'll go get you another bottle of yogurt, okay?"
Youyou wiped her eyes with the back of her hand, but didn't forget to nod, her sadness vanishing instantly.
Zhao Xiaoxiu could never match his speed in changing his expression.
The two of them, each with a bottle of chilled yogurt, sat in front of the counter, their heads resting on the countertop. They didn't say anything, just looked at the sky, at the passersby, and at the lush forest in the distance, and they felt very happy.
During this time, two groups of hunters came to sell mutated animals. Youyou followed behind Zhao Xiaoxiu and actively helped, treating it like a game of house, and was even more excited than Zhao Xiaoxiu, the small boss.
As the sun began to set, Youyou wanted to stay for a free meal, but before he could even express it, two guards approached him and said:
"Youyou, your mom said she's waiting for you at the dorm to have dinner together tonight. She's asking if you want to eat at home or stay here?"
Without any hesitation, Youyou glanced at Zhao Xiaoxiu and said loudly, "I'm going home to have dinner with my mom. Goodbye, Xiaoxiu!"
He dropped the hose he was carrying and ran. After running for a while, he suddenly ran back, leaned close to Zhao Xiaoxiu's ear, and said:
"The secret I'm telling you today, you might not tell anyone else."
Zhao Xiaoxiu shrugged. Youyou thought she had agreed and gave her a bright smile. "Mom's finally done with her work." She skipped and hopped back to the research base with the two guards.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
