Chapter 22 - Revenge of friends

Qian Mu asked with a disgusted face, "Hey! I guess you should wash up now."

"What were you doing to get so stinky?" he pinched his cheek like elders do to little kids. Lin Bao grinned and said, "But that woman is guarding my door."

"I don't how she knew it was mine." he said as agony filled his words.

Qian Mu looked around for an idea to occur as he gazed at the stairs which seemed to have no end.

"How about we wash up in your daddy's room? that woman is right now at your door. That means your father's room is vacant?" Mumu inquired.

No sooner did Lin Bao nodded, Mumu grabbed his hand came out to the corridors. For a while, they stood there hiding behind the edge of a turn.

"What are we doing?"

"Shouldn't we be at my daddy's room?" Lin Bao whispered as his eyes glared at the keeper who was pulling a trolley of towels.

Mumu signalled his eyes at the ID card hanging around the keeper's waist. Lin Bao shifted his gaze and asked, "What do you want? Towels?" Mumu rolled his eyes and thumped him, "You are an idiot."

Mumu walked up to the keeper who was about to enter another room and looked at her with cute puppy eyes. However, the keeper didn't even spare a second glance at the toddler duo. She continued to swipe her ID and opened the door, entering the room with a strange creepy smile.

Mumu grabbed the card while she was getting inside of the room and ran from there, holding Lin Bao's hand. The keeper seemed to have not realised it as she greeted the couple who were staying in that room.

....

The two boy gasping and trying to get a hold of their breathe stood before a presidential suite which looked spooky from the sight of it. "It's the right room?"

"Are you sure?" Mumu asked hesitancy in his words gave his fear a way out. Lin Bao nodded as he proceeded to swipe the card fearlessly.

As soon as they door opened smoothly but with a sense of horror, the two little boys turned pale to see a lion like beast before them.

~~ Roar~~

The beast roared like a tiger and the boys stumbled backward, their souls seemed to have lost their way back to their tiny boy. They froze right there as Lin Bao fell and Mumu screamed as the beast jumped towards them.

"Run!!!!!" A man yelled at the two preys of the beast. Lin Bao turned his head and saw his uncle Fan.

Mumu did not look anywhere but the voice of the man acted like a charm and he pulled his friend away. He helped Lin Bao up and ran without looking back, as hard as he could.

Seeing the boys running away, Fan Xian attempted to close the door before the beast could come out, however he failed because the beast had quick and sharp reflexes. It ran after the two boys, who chose stairs instead of the elevator. they had left the door open of the stairs exit which gave the beast advantage of the situation.

They ran down as fast as they could but the beast was still visible to their eyes, roaring and chasing them as if he was hungry for years. The two of boy could not think of anything else as their mind and stopped and was locked on the running mode.

They ran till the last basement where a huge swiming pool waiting for them to arrive. They ran along the pool as Mumu suggested, "The tiger cannot swim."

Lin Bao heard him but before he could react, the roar of the beast was heard again and he was pulled along with Qian Mu in the pool. The two boys were ignorant of the pool's depth and the fact that Lin Bao could not swim.

The beast had spotted the two boys struggling with their lives in the deep pool. A worker saw the boys seemingly drowning from the control room, he pulled the drain lever.

In just matter of few seconds the water started draining, making the two boys feels the tiled ground. Lin Bao could hardly breath and he fainted at the sight of beast again.

The saliva of the beast dropping at the slippery floor as it's eyes turned red, staring at the two boys who were completely drenched as the pool was emptied. The worker had not noticed the beast and marched his way towards them.

He was about to leave the control area when the roar left stunned and his limbs melted on the floor. He screamed and activated his walkie-talkie, "We need help!!!!!"

"A Liger!!!!!"

"Kids!!!!" he kept screaming ignoring the voices of a man from the other end. he stood up and ran from there. He was stumbling and staggering towards the elevator.

--ting--

The door of the elevator opened and he bumped at Dongmei who looked puzzled and confused. She looked at worker, seeing his terrible expression, she asked, "What happened?"

The worker could not keep up with his manners and with apologizing spoke, "Two kids ate the Liger." his voice fluttered.

"Pardon?" Dongmei couldn't understand what he said. At this, the worker realised and shook his head, "Two Liger ate a child."

"huh?" Dongmei heard him but could not comprehend what he meant.so, she proceeded to ask her question, "I wanted to go to the lobby."

"But I can't figure out why I didn't arrive at the floor. I pressed the right button though."

The worker heard the roar which Dongmei failed to notice and he asked trembling, " Are you going to use it or not?"

"huh?" Dongmei couldn't understand again his fluttering voice.

The worker could not wait and pulled Dongmei out who was standing between the door of the elevator, not letting it to close.

"Hey????" She yelled.

The worker rubbed his trembling hands and said,"Ma'am, you can complain all you want!!! But I would rather lose my job than to die or letting you see what I am about to do."

"Wait!!" Dongmei banged her hands against the metal door as it closed right before her eyes.

"Oh no!"

"I am lost again." just as she mumbled to herself. A distant roar was heard. Dongmei was terrified as she had never heard a real roar before, like people do in the zoo or animal park.

Her feet felt numb when she heard two separate voice screaming for help. She fell and closed her ears to think it was a hallucination. But then she deciphered the words of the worker she had seen.

"Two liger ate a boy????" she blurted out and look at the direction of the voices, her hands slowly moved away from her ears as she wanted to confirm the roars and screams coming from a door which was sealed with translucent cover.

She staggered her way in, falling and stumbling. Her heart was racing and sinking deep, as if she was walking into a nightmare. She kept telling herself , "It's impossible for a liger to be here."

But the sounds of roars were to real to be considered fake or to be used as a drill. She entered the huge swimming pool with high ceilings,which left her overwhelmed.

She immeasurable caught the Liger trying to figure his way down at the empty pool where two boys were his targets.

She tried to attract the attention of liger as her numb feet stepped closer little by little, "I am done today!" she mumbled holding her heart and dragging her feet.

As she grew closer, she saw the Liger trying to maintain his grip of the tiled floor.

"Heyya! liger thing!!!!!!"

"Look at me!" Dongmei screamed at the top of her voice. she hadn't yelled so loud in her entire life.

"Cough! Cough!" she started coughing, she still had not completely recovered from the trauma of motion sickness.

The Liger successfully glanced at her and was about to make its way towards her but few guards also entered following Fan Xian, each carrying a rifle in their hands.

Fan Xian whistled at the Liger and said pulling out huge pieces of lamb meat, "Come! come! baby? listen to me!" He was luring the liger as if he knew it and it was a cat.

Suprisingly, Liger saw Dongmei started within 300 of his radius and decided to ignore the lamb meat and go for a human instead.

Due to the slippery high floor of the pool,it seemed to have dropped the ideas of going after the kids who had freed him. It's eyes was now glued at Dongmei only.