Chapter 88: The Great Gift-Giving Clan of the Animal Kingdom
The others looked at Gu Zhao as if she were a criminal.
Zhong Mingrui ran to Gu Zhao’s side. "Big King, I missed you so much! Every second we were apart felt like an eternity!"
Song Yi ran over too. "Ever since you left, people keep asking me why I’m spacing out."
Song Zhe: ’??? Who are these ’people’? How come I haven’t heard anyone?’
Gu Zhao reflexively asked, "Why?"
Song Yi: "Because I was thinking of you."
Zhong Mingrui: ...
’Alright, I lost. I just can’t be that cheesy.’
Zhong Siqi put a hand to his forehead. ’The feeling that I’m the only sane person here is getting stronger and stronger.’
Gu Xulin grew anxious. ’It wasn’t enough to fend off that poaching boss? Now these two kids are making a mess of things, too!’
After placating them, Gu Zhao looked at the others. ’Explaining would take forever. A waste of breath.’
’What a headache.’
She glanced at Gu Xulin, and he got the message. Looking slightly resigned, he stepped forward to negotiate with the others and explain.
Soon, everyone was following his instructions, weaving the vines into rope.
Of course, some were defiant. But what could they do? The hyenas, lions, and tigers were all grinning at them with bared teeth.
In any case, no one dared to grumble and curse.
[As expected, brute force can solve half of your problems. The Monkey King is straying further and further down the path of not taking crap from anyone.]
[Manners don’t fill your stomach! Go, Monkey King! Fly free! If shit hits the fan, I’m dipping.]
[I get the feeling the poaching boss is looking at Gu Zhao with more and more admiration... He’s not planning to kidnap our girl, is he?]
You have to admit, with danger as a motivator, everyone’s practical skills were absolutely incredible!
In no time, all the vines had been woven into ropes.
Without even needing an order from Gu Zhao, everyone was already working with the animals, using the ropes to bind the monsters.
They were so worried a single rope would break that they didn’t stop until every monster was tied up like a pretzel.
"Darling! You’ll never believe what I just did! I actually worked with a bunch of animals to tie up a bunch of monsters!" someone said excitedly, recording on their phone.
Everyone was buzzing with excitement.
The elephants took over logistics, tossing the monsters into the crevice one by one.
Just tossing them in wasn’t enough; another group of animals scoured the area for rocks to throw in after them.
Many hands make light work, and plenty of stones make for dead monsters.
Confident that the monsters were trapped for now, Gu Zhao relaxed. At least the animals wouldn’t be harmed by these creatures during their migration.
She wouldn’t interfere with the normal laws of nature, but these monsters born from human research had already disrupted the natural order.
Nature doesn’t need man-made monsters.
After dealing with the monsters, Gu Zhao looked at the others and pondered for a second.
’Since they’re all here anyway, might as well feed them before they leave.’
While the others were still being polite, Feng Jiexu had already started picking out the menu. "I hear wild crocodile meat is delicious. Why don’t you whip some up for us to try?"
Gu Zhao paused when she heard him. "You’re still here?"
"What, are you planning to just cast me aside after getting a good look at my body?" Feng Jiexu’s lips curved into a roguish smirk as he raised an eyebrow.
The moment he heard that, Gu Xulin’s head whipped around like a dog catching a whiff of a particularly fragrant turd, and he fixed Feng Jiexu with a death glare.
Feng Jiexu looked back innocently.
Gu Zhao couldn’t be bothered to argue. "Tie him up."
The instant they heard her, Big Eagle and Little Eagle snatched up a rope. Each grabbing one end in its beak, they swiftly tied him up.
The corner of Feng Jiexu’s mouth twitched, but he didn’t struggle.
Gu Xulin was silent for two seconds, looking at the two eagles with a particularly strange expression.
’How did they manage to tie a man up so... suggestively?’
[SLURP SLURP, give Big Eagle and Little Eagle a raise! He may be a bad guy, but I’m no saint either. It’d be a waste not to enjoy the sight of a handsome man in bondage for free.]
[I wanna soul-swap with Gu Zhao so bad right now!! Let me have a turn, just for a little while!]
Those with cars drove them. As for those without, Gu Zhao felt it would be rude to make them run back, so she simply organized an animal marathon.
Each animal carried one person, and those who were driving looked on, their eyes full of envy.
But one person’s eyes were filled with despair. "You little lunatic! You’re inhuman!! You’re abusing an old man in his twenties!"
Feng Jiexu had been tied to the back of a car and was being forced to run along with it.
Gu Zhao was making him put his long legs to good use.
Feng Jiexu wasn’t happy, but Gu Xulin was.
’That’s what you get for trying to seduce my kid!’
His gaze toward Gu Zhao grew even gentler. ’My kid is the best!’
’She isn’t tempted by good looks.’
A caravan of animals carrying a crowd of people arrived at the bank of a large river.
A few large trees grew by the riverbank, blocking some of the sunlight.
Zhong Mingrui, riding a cheetah, was the first to arrive. He jumped off and immediately grabbed Zhong Siqi, chattering away excitedly.
The other tourists who’d been rounded up were busy taking pictures of everything.
Feng Jiexu had the great honor of being tied to a tree.
At this point, the animals scattered and left.
Someone asked, confused, "Why are they leaving?"
Song Yi looked directly at Gu Zhao. ’He figured that when in doubt, asking the Big King was always the right move!’
Gu Zhao said, "If they don’t leave, we won’t have anything to eat."
No one understood what she meant, but they soon would.
Gu Xulin had already started gathering firewood without being told.
Zhong Siqi and Song Zhe also started to help, and when the others saw this, they joined in as well.
Song Jina glared at Gu Zhao, her eyes filled with resentment.
’If she hadn’t made the animals herd us over here, we’d still be eating fruit right now!’
’It’s all her fault! She’s the reason we lost our fruit.’
Ye Zexi and Ye Zuiyi, on the other hand, were quietly helping to gather firewood.
It wasn’t that they’d stopped hating Gu Zhao.
They were simply exhausted. The amount of exercise they’d done today was nearly equivalent to a whole month’s worth from before...
It just goes to show, when a person is truly hungry and tired, they really don’t have the mental energy for anything else.
’Gu Zhao? Is she edible?’
In no time, a large pile of firewood was collected. Nearly all the branches in the surrounding area had been picked up, and the area was spotless without even needing a cleanup.
Just then, the first to return was an antelope. It strode over to Gu Zhao with a victor’s gait and nuzzled her affectionately.
’My dear Xiangxiang~ Close your eyes.’
The antelope was extremely proud. ’I defeated ninety-nine percent of my kind to be the one standing here!’
Gu Zhao closed her eyes. The antelope then walked over to Zhong Mingrui and Song Yi and nudged them with its head.
The two of them were confused.
A glimmer of understanding flashed in Zhong Siqi’s eyes. "It probably wants you to close your eyes, too."
The two did as they were told. The antelope, satisfied, circled around everyone, pausing for a moment in front of every child.
Ye Zuiyi closed his eyes as well. But when the antelope approached the irritable Song Jina, she kicked it squarely.
The antelope looked deeply wronged. Then, right in front of her, it charged headfirst into a tree.
Its head split open, blood gushing out.
Song Jina froze in shock.
The others were also stunned, until more animals arrived. Three tigers returned triumphantly, carrying a wild boar, only to see the antelope at the foot of the tree.
The triumphant expressions on the three of them froze on their faces, and then they started cursing out the entire antelope species.
"You just had to show off, didn’t you! You devious antelope!"
"You conniving antelope! From now on, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, I’m eating nothing but antelope!"
More and more animals returned, most of them carrying the corpses of other species as gifts.
Herbivores were the most common offering.
The herbivore clans: ...
The antelope clan held their heads high with pride: ’Better to present ourselves than be hunted down!’
[Such a gentle antelope! It even knew to have the children close their eyes before it turned itself into food!]
[Is there something wrong with Song Jina?! Why doesn’t Zhou Lan control her kid! I’m speechless!]
[Even though I can’t understand animal language, I have a feeling the tigers’ insults were pretty vulgar. It seems like every animal that came back had a few choice words for the antelopes.]