Chapter 94: Like a Demon Child Descending
Ye Zuiyi was still searching tirelessly.
She was convinced this was her destined opportunity!
’Once I get in with this tycoon, I’ll hire an assassin to kill Gu Zhao!’
’So what if she’s really a five-year-old kid? She’s in my way, and she’s humiliated me several times! She must be eliminated!’
’This world only needs one protagonist.’
She fantasized about the wonderful life she would have after Gu Zhao’s death, fantasizing about being adored by everyone like she was in her past life.
Her motivation grew even stronger.
Ye Zexi followed, his eyes vacant.
...
"What’s your name?" Song Yi asked, looking curiously at the little girl held in the lion’s mouth.
The little girl looked at them blankly.
"Are you deaf and mute?" Zhong Mingrui asked, looking at her.
The next second, he got a smack on the head. Zhong Mingrui glared over indignantly.
Zhong Siqi looked utterly exasperated. "She’s a foreigner, not deaf and mute."
"We’re the foreigners here," Zhong Mingrui retorted, unconvinced.
Zhong Siqi thought about it for a moment. He was right... They were in another country.
Zhong Siqi glanced at the little girl, then back at Gu Zhao. "Zhaozhao, maybe we should let the little girl feel some solid ground under her feet?"
The group fell silent. They had been so wrapped up in their curiosity that they’d forgotten the little girl was still in the lion’s mouth.
The leopard relayed the message to the lion. The lion opened its mouth, and the little girl plopped down on the ground.
"What is your name? Where are your mommy and daddy? How did you end up here?" Gu Xulin asked gently in the local language, squatting down to her level.
The little girl didn’t answer him. Instead, she looked at the lion, her eyes filled with excitement. "Can it carry me in its mouth and run again?"
’That was so much fun!’
Everyone: ...
The lion: ?!
Gu Zhao: ’?? Translate, will you!’
After the leopard translated, Gu Zhao looked at Elsa with a hint of admiration.
’She knows how to have fun! And she’s bold!’
Gu Zhao held out her hand toward the lion. The beast instantly trotted over obediently and lowered its head for Gu Zhao to pet.
Elsa’s eyes lit up at the sight, and her gaze on Gu Zhao was filled with pure adoration.
Gu Zhao lifted her chin proudly. Under the little girl’s worshipful gaze, she had the lion roll over and then stand on its hind legs.
The leopard gave the excited lion a sympathetic look. ’And you’re still excited...’
’You’ve been reduced to a performing lion.’
Gu Xulin covered his face. ’Why do I feel like my little sister is acting like some flashy player trying to pick up girls?’
’Even though the one getting wooed is the one who’s actually blonde.’
But alas, Gu Zhao was laying it on thick, and the foreign girl was naive.
In just a few minutes, she had successfully won over the little girl.
Zhong Mingrui noticed Elsa’s worshipful gaze, and his sense of duty as Gu Zhao’s number one follower swelled in his chest.
He explained to her, "This is our Big King!"
Elsa looked confused.
Zhong Mingrui started to panic. ’The language barrier! Now I totally get how the animals feel when we can’t understand each other!’
’This won’t do! I have to learn other languages, too! I’ll strive to recruit followers from every country for Big King in the future!’
He pulled Zhong Siqi aside. The moment he announced his intention to start studying, Zhong Siqi was so shocked he wanted to find a Daoist priest on the spot to perform an exorcism on his brother.
Elsa gazed at Gu Zhao with adoration. "My name is Elsa! What’s yours? How do you make him so obedient?"
This time, Gu Xulin took over the leopard’s job as translator.
Gu Zhao cleared her throat, tilting her head up at a forty-five-degree angle to reveal her perfect profile.
"I am Gu Zhao. I was once a member of the Immortal Class in the Heavenly Realm, but alas, I was framed by treacherous villains and banished to the mortal world. Fortunately, I have won the hearts of all beasts and have temporarily assumed the title of Beast God. On the day my merits are fulfilled, I shall return to the highest heavens and avenge the grievance of my fall. Would you, my good lady, be willing to grant me fifty gold pieces to aid my cause?"
When Gu Zhao finished, she didn’t hear the gasps of amazement she expected. She looked at Gu Xulin, a little disgruntled.
She gestured toward Elsa with her chin. ’Hurry up and translate!’
’Holding this pose is tiring!’
Gu Xulin looked at Gu Zhao with a pained, constipated expression. In the end, he didn’t translate her speech, simply saying, "Her name is Gu Zhao. Animals tend to like her a lot."
Elsa was puzzled. She had clearly seen Gu Zhao chattering away for a while, so how did the translation boil down to just two sentences?
’Their language must be so difficult,’ she thought. ’It takes that long just to say two sentences.’
The livestream comments exploded with laughter.
[Brother Lin, a translation like that would get you fired where I work, hahaha.]
[He cut off the beginning, the end, and the middle, hahahaha! Brother Lin, you’re an expert at summarizing—you cut out the entire soul of it!]
[I suggest Gu Zhao just communicate with hand gestures. It would probably be more reliable than Brother Lin’s translation (jk).]
[The confusion in Elsa’s eyes is practically spilling out. Gu Zhao said such a long string of things, how did it get condensed into two sentences? Is this that legendary Eastern concept of being ’concise and comprehensive’?]
The leopard’s tail twitched. ’I would have done a better job translating.’
Gu Zhao and Elsa quickly became friends. Song Yi ran over to drag away Zhong Mingrui, who was trying to study. ’You’re not allowed to get ahead of me!’
The four children excitedly ran off to play, riding the lion and the leopard.
At the riverbed, several heads poked above the water’s surface, staring mournfully at Gu Zhao.
’Why isn’t our dear Xiangxiang paying attention to us! Aren’t we cute?!’
"This is all your fault and your stupid idea! Didn’t you say two-leggers like playing hard to get?!" one crocodile fumed, slapping the croc next to it with its tail.
The crocodile that got hit was aggrieved. "But I saw three two-leggers do this last time! The male was holding one female with a cold look on his face, but when he looked at the other female, he looked like he was about to start a mating dance right then and there!"
"This is all on you! Look, our dear Xiangxiang is about to start cuddling with those other little imps!"
The two crocodiles started fighting.
The other crocodiles quietly backed away. One crocodile’s beady black eyes darted about before it stealthily crawled ashore.
Song Zhe heard the commotion in the water and glanced over. "Huh, why are they fighting?"
The two crocodiles were fighting with wild abandon.
In the middle of the fight, they actually stood up in the water, their little front legs grappling with each other.
"Wow. Looks like they’re trying to hug it out."
"And I don’t even have anyone to hug..."
Song Zhe turned his head away. Hated fish that flaunted their relationships.
The Crocodiles: ’Relationship?’
’He’s chewing on my arm!’
The children were having a great time, but Gu Xulin was not.
Zhong Siqi stood beside Gu Xulin. "Brother Lin, this child’s parents..."
The two of them were worried.
Only when Gu Zhao and the others were tired from playing did Gu Xulin finally get a chance to catch them.
But he noticed something was off with Gu Zhao. The other two boys also looked like they were at their breaking point.
Even the lion and the leopard looked completely zoned out.
Only Elsa was still bursting with excitement.
Before Gu Xulin could even speak, Gu Zhao clapped a hand over his mouth.
"Brother, let’s take her home," Gu Zhao said, her expression world-weary.
’If we don’t take her back now, the three of us are going to have a meltdown.’
The three of them had finally, truly experienced the meaning of the term "little terror."
Zhong Mingrui slid off the leopard, and his legs immediately gave out, sending him sprawling on the ground.
Song Yi ran to the side and immediately started retching.
The three adults exchanged a look. What in the world had happened??
Gu Zhao’s eyes were completely dead.
"What happened? Somebody, please tell us!" Song Zhe was about to explode with curiosity.
Lying on the ground and staring at the sky, Zhong Mingrui said, "We were riding the lion, and she started pulling out its fur... The lion almost bucked us off."
"She..." Song Yi started, then stopped, a look of pure trauma on his face. "She... she also grabbed the lion’s... balls..."
"And... and she said they weren’t as big as her brother’s. The lion got depressed."
This was the complaint the lion had tearfully made to Gu Zhao, with the leopard translating. At the time, the leopard had been rolling on the ground, howling with laughter.
Until...
Gu Zhao added, "She... she said the leopard’s balls couldn’t even compare to the lion’s..."