Chenchen’s Pet

Yun Cheng kept floundering and roaring under the water and the purification wouldn't finish in a short time. Yun Che went into the mountains and caught several pheasants and hares with Heiyu. They'd also caught a little snow-white fox, which Yun Che thought Chenchen would probably like, so he took it with him. At the end of the hunt, Yun Che also caught a big fat silver carp that weighed about 4 kilograms. After asking Heiyu to watch the Jade Spring, he got out of Space with all the animals.

"Wow, where do these games and fish come from? Is this a little fox? It's still alive. Chenchen, come and have a look, your uncle got you a pet."

To keep a low profile, Yun Che didn't go downstairs, instead, he jumped from the window on the fourth floor to walk through the front door. Wang Suhua, happened to come out of the front door, saw him carrying all the animals. She rejoiced and hoorayed like a little girl, and called Chenchen who was supposed to be in the house. Soon, Chenchen did scurry out of the house, followed by Yun Yao, who was wearing an apron. She was obviously about to cook dinner.

"Uncle, that fish is huge. And what are those? They're pretty."

Chenchen saw the big silver carp right away. Salivating over the fish, he then turned his attention on the pheasants. Unlike domestic fowls, pheasants had colorful feathers, kind of like tiny peacocks. They looked really beautiful.

"These are pheasants."

Chenchen seemed to like the pheasants, Yun Che moved forward his hand that was carrying the pheasants so that Chenchen could take a closer look. Chenchen put a curious look on his face. "Can I touch it?"

Chenchen looked at his uncle with his eager, twinkling eyes that were full of excitement and craving.

"Sure, but don't you want this? It's alive!"

Yun Che waggled the little fox in front of Chenchen as he spoke. Chenchen's twinkling eyes suddenly shot a fervent glow of thrills. He opened his arms to hug the little fox. "Yes, yes! I want it. It's so cute. What is it, uncle?"

With the fluffy white fox in his arms, Chenchen was over the moon.

"It's a little fox. Keep it if you like. It might be helpful when it gets older."

Having handed the games and the fish to Wang Suhua, Yun Che petted his nephew's head. Fox was sly, small yet agile. They were generally spiritual creatures. If a fox was properly trained, it could come in handy for its master.

"Really?! Can it write for me?"

Upon hearing this, Chenchen's face lit up with surprise and expectation. Yun Che was out of words for a second. Yun Yao curled her finger to gentle knock on her son's head. "Hey, you smarty, do your homework on your own."

"Heehee, I'm only asking."

Sticking his naughty tongue out, Chenchen put on a wild smile. Yun Che crouched down to pet the little fox in Chenchen's arms. "It's your pet now. Name it." He said.

"OK." Chenchen answered.

He thought for a while, head tilted, and asked in a sweet tone, "How about I call it Xiaobai?"

"OK, Xiaobai it is. You'll be looking after it from now on. You'll be feeding and bathing it. Look, it's all white except for its paws because the ground is dirty. You don't want its body to be dirty, right?"

"OK. Xiaobai will eat and bathe with me."

"Good boy, Chenchen."

After entrusting his nephew with such responsibility, Yun Che stood up after patting his head. Yun Yao was puzzled though. "Didn't you say you went upstairs to get some rest? When did you go out and bring so much meat home?" She asked.

She didn't see him going out. Did he come back when she went next door to move some stuff?

"I couldn't fall asleep. Sis, please cook dinner now. I want spicy chicken, sauerkraut fish, and chili diced-rabbit."

He didn't want to lie to her but couldn't tell her the truth, either. He chose to evade the question by pushing her inside and ordering dishes but…

"Wow! Pheasants and hares and a fish? Yao, I want chicken soup. I also want lotus leaf-wrapped chicken, cold chicken, brined rabbit, spicy rabbit dice, boiled hot rabbit, stir-fried fish maw, fish head soup with tofu, fish fillet with veges…"

Before they went into the house, Chu Haoling the glutton came with an exclamation. While he kept ordering, he gawked at the stuff in Wang Suhua's hands as if the ingredients were already cooked and served. Yun Che, Yun Yao and Wang Suhua found him ridiculous. Xing Feng, Yang Huaien, Gu Mingxuan who came with Chu Haoling, was thinking if they should go and come back again later. Even showing up together with Chu Haoling was a shame.

"You want those, huh? OK, go gut and clean the ingredients."

With a flash of wit, Yun Che took the animals from Wang Suhua's hands and shoved them into Chu Haoling's hands. He should at least do something to earn the dishes that he ordered. More importantly, they must keep him busy in case he kept babbling on and on forever.

"Sure thing. I'm good at handling ingredients."

As long as he got to eat, Chu Haoling was down for anything. He carried all the meat into the kitchen. Yun Che turned around and saw Xing Feng. "Finally home? I thought Mo Wenyang owned you forever."

"I was a bit busy."

Seeing that Yun Yao was still around, Xing Feng didn't flirt with Yun Che, he just smiled at him because he knew Yun Che hadn't told her about their relationship.

"Sis, cook more hot dishes for our very important, very busy Chief Xing."

Much as Yun Che was upset, he still ordered dishes for Xing Feng using a teasing tone. Yun Yao didn't see anything wrong, she just nodded. "Sure, you guys keep chatting, I'll go prepare dinner with Aunt Wang in the kitchen. Chenchen, have fun with Xiaobai but don't disturb your uncle, OK?"

Before she left, she said to her son.

"OK."

Chenchen nodded. He said hello to Xing Feng and trotted into the house with Xiaobai in his arms.

"Where did you get the little fox?"

"My secret base which I can't reveal. Would you make it up for me if I couldn't catch games anymore."

"I couldn't give you games, and the only thing I can give is me myself."

"You're already mine, aren't you?"

"Ha. Good point."

Watching the kid playing cheerfully with the pet, Xing Feng and Yun Che walked inside the house shoulder to shoulder and they bickered along the way. Such overwhelming sweetness stung Yang Huaien hard. As he tried to seek a fellow bachelor's company, he realized that Gu Mingxuan didn't follow up. Yang Huaien walked up to him and asked, "What are you looking at? Chief has gone in there."

"Hmm? Oh, nothing. I still think Yun Yao's a good girl."

Gu Mingxuan nudged the spectacles up his nose as the wandering of his mind got snapped off. He took a quick glance at the kitchen. He always felt that Yun Yao was a good girl. She was pretty, kind, gentle, and, of course, had a good character. He just never thought about chasing after her. It was just Yang Huaien mentioned that he was after Zhan Yafei, which led Gu Mingxuan into that direction. A good girl deserved a good man despite her past. Plus, Gu liked Chenchen a lot. He wished Chenchen was his own son.

"You need to hurry if you want to date her. As far as I know, a lot of single guys in Chaoyang are after the two girls in Che's family. Compared to Yafei who is no less tough than men, Yao is more popular. Everybody knows she's pretty and gentle. What's more, she can cook."

Yang Huaien wasn't surprised that Gu Mingxuan adored Yun Yao. He was into the housewife type of girls, Yun Yao was the best among that kind. Yun Yao had been staying at home, looking after the kids, Gu had been the housekeeper back in Chaoyang, both of them were indoor people. They were bound to have some sort of feelings for each other.

"Ha. It looks like I've got a bunch of lurking love rivals."

Gu Mingxuan chuckled and stepped into the house. The topic ended here.

"All the zombies in the lab had been cleaned up. The armies, the government, and the lab have signed an agreement that no superfunction possessors will be caught for research purposes. They can openly ask for superfunction possessors' permission to get their blood for research if needed. They will be studying dead zombies. No living zombies are allowed in the lab. The laboratory will be making adjustments in the following days and working out their future research interests. Those are what I've been busy with in the last couple of days."

When everybody was seated in the living room, Xing Feng gave a quick sum-up about the stuff he'd been helping the military with. It sounded easy but no one was that naive to believe that it could be implemented without hindrance.

"Will those lab maniacs step back?"

Yun Che doubted the agreement. All his impressions on those researchers were negative, which couldn't be changed in a short time.

"They have to. It's not up to them."

Xing Feng sounded assertive. He took the nearly-burnt-out cigarette from Yun Che's lips and continued, "When we were in Tongyang City, there were quite a few Level-3 zombies. The lab suffered a great loss, several researchers were dead. The military spent a lot of effort to kill the zombies and lock down the news. No matter how mad they were, the researchers are still humans and they would fear. The military has toughened up because many soldiers were killed in the battle with the zombies, what else can the lab do? In short, the strong have the powers."

The strong had the powers, it was the universal law anytime, anywhere, especially in the doomsday. If the military were pissed, they could just abrogate the laboratories. It wouldn't matter if human technology stopped progressing. The current situation was, human had less and less room to survive, no one even knew what would happen tomorrow. In the doomsday, scientists weren't the only group of people that would go mad.

"Oh, I see."

So they stepped back because they suffered a loss, huh? Yun Che scoffed. He thought a while and asked, "According to you, the military can deal with it themselves. Why would they need you?"

Apart from the Mo Army, the other two armies distrusted Xing Feng. They wouldn't let him easily step in the base's core affairs.

"Well, they needed my superfunction."

Once the military became serious about one thing, they wouldn't allow any shadiness. Mo Wenyang happened to know Xing Feng was a three-attribute superfunction possessor. In case he was uncovered, Mo Wenyang alleged that he had a psychological hypnotizer in his army and promised to the other two armies and the government that he could make the researchers talk. That was why Xing Feng was summoned by Mo Wenyang as soon as he came back.

Xing Feng had been hypnotizing the researchers these days with psychological superfunction. On the one hand, he got to ask them if they were doing some other research behind everyone's back, on the other hand, he was giving them psychological hint so that once they breached the agreement or found someone breaching the agreement, they'd unconsciously snitch. Thus, everybody was relieved of future concerns.

"Your superfunction?"

Yun Che looked askance at him. Xing Feng realized that he never told him about it. "Oh, sorry, I forgot to tell you that I'm a three-attribute superfunction possessor. And psychological is another sub-superfunction of mine, which means I'm also a hypnotizer."

"Jeez…"

What else was he capable of?

Yun Che admitted the inferiority to Xing Feng, though, he, too, was a so-called three-attribute superfunction possessor. Only he himself knew that he was just a dual-attribute superfunction possessor. Space wasn't technically a kind of superfunction, Yun Che just called himself dual-attribute in case people got dubious of him. Xing Feng, however, was an actual three-attribute one and he was now level 3. This was more shocking than the fact that Chenchen got all types of superfunction.