Chapter 477: Luoluo, the Cute and Crafty Beast
Chapter 477: Luoluo, the Cute and Crafty Beast
Translator: Liu_Kaixuan Editor: Valvrave
Before doomsday, people had become accustomed to using navigation systems. As long as the destination was input, a sweet electronic voice could guide the driver to the destination, and even the traffic rules and lane changes would be reminded. But now, let alone navigation systems, normal roads were almost nonexistent.
The distance separating Xiayuan from Jiangning was a few hundred kilometers. At the same time, finding the industrial area was also quite challenging. Even if Su Guangqi had been there, he only knew about the direction. In order to avoid losing their way, they used a highway as their reference point and traveled along the edge as the highway could not be used due to the abandoned vehicles. Many of the once expensive and glamorous cars had become deformed and unrecognizable chunks of metal, because of innumerable crashes, and they were stained with black blood. From the eruption of the terrible doomsday, they were eternally abandoned there...
Under the highway, the road conditions were not very good, and thus, the minibus was shaky all the way. At dusk, it started raining, and soon a cloud of mist covered the long road.
"What a shame. The poor condition of the road and the troublesome rain has rendered the minibus' speed. Its current speed is as slow as a turtle's," Jiang Liushi looked at the rainy scenery and said in a sad tone.
"Brother Jiang, we should be content with what we have. Even though the road is not optimal and it's raining heavily, we are still driving at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour. Even a Land Rover can't accomplish that," Li Yuxin said with a smile. After finding her mother and grandfather, she was in a much better mood.
Jiang Liushi smiled and said, "Since it's raining, there's no need to be in a hurry. Anyway, it's getting dark. We should stop and rest for the night. We still have some hot-pot seasoning, so we should cook one more hot-pot to celebrate Yuxin's reunion with her family."
"Thank you, Brother Jiang!" Li Yuxin said happily. Ever since meeting Jiang Liushi again, she sincerely felt that he was her lucky star. Looking at the heavy downpour outside, Li Yuxin felt fortunate. They were in a warm minibus, with comfortable beds, hot-pot, and even beer. Compared to other people that did their best to find shelter just to sleep, they led a wonderful life.
"Oh, Brother Jiang. My grandfather has been studying Luoluo for two days now. I told him about Luoluo, and my grandfather thinks it's an amazing creature," Li Yuxin said suddenly.
Hearing Li Yuxin's words, Jiang Liushi remembered the mischievous Luoluo. Every time he remembered that the little gluttonous beast had devoured the mutant queen's egg, Jiang Liushi would feel extremely annoyed. He knew that the little beast with high IQ could tell what could be eaten, and what could not, but it was too odious.
"The little fellow is still asleep! How long will it keep sleeping? It has not done anything else other than use its innocent-looking eyes to plead for its mischievousness!" Jiang Liushi said angrily.
At that moment, he suddenly heard Jiang Zhuying's surprised voice from the bedroom, "Brother! Luoluo just moved a bit, it seems that Mr. Su has awakened it!"
Jiang Liushi was also surprised. "Really?"
Ying found a place to stop and then everyone gathered to the cab, where Luoluo had been moved.
Jiang Liushi noticed that Su Tong and Su Guangqi were overexcited. Naturally, he could understand why they were like that. No matter if it was back in civilized times or after doomsday, scientists would still get excited by some new findings.
"Mr. Su, what is going on? How did you wake it up?"
"Oh, it is like this." Su Guangqi took a sip of water and said excitedly, "This little fellow is indeed not ordinary at all. Its intelligence is the highest among all animals I have ever seen in my life! I have seen dogs that knew more than a hundred words before, and I have seen chimpanzees which could communicate with humans through the language of pictures. But all those animals were not as wise as the small hairball in front of us…"
Su Guangqi continued while touching Luoluo gently, "Such an intelligent lifeform has always been the subject of research. Many overseas researchers have published similar papers-"
'Cough! Cough!'
"Uh…but…" Jiang Liushi had to cough twice and interrupt Su Guangqi. Jiang Liushi knew Luoluo's intelligence was not ordinary, but he thought it was useless. It could do nothing more than gain girls' sympathy.
Jiang Liushi was more concerned about the way Mr. Su used to wake up the guy, and whether it had gained a new ability. After eating his mutant queen ant's egg, it should at least have a little reaction!
"Oh... sorry, Little Jiang, I was too excited and almost got lost with some other matters." Su Guangqi laughed. "This is the case. In fact, before Yuxin told me everything about the little fellow, I was already very curious about it. I have several measuring methods and tools. Form its physiological data, I found that its sympathetic activity is very high. However, under normal coma, the sympathetic nerves are in an inactive state, or even completely unresponsive. Then I did some experiments, such as orbital pressure testing... According to some of its subconscious reactions, I found that…this little fellow was pretending to be asleep. Later, things became simple. Yuxin told me that it loved to eat barbecued meat, so I deliberately put some pieces of barbecued meat next to it, and then went out. You can easily guess the end result. When I came back, I found out that lots of barbecued meat pieces were missing, and on top of that the little fellow had made it look as nothing was missing by rearranging the remaining pieces. It wanted to mislead me! Yuxin also told me that this little fellow can understand and communicate in the simplest form, so I exposed the little fraud by telling it that if it kept pretending to be asleep, I'd let Little Jiang cook it. It was so scared that it woke up immediately."
Jiang Lisushi remained flabbergasted for a long time after listening to Su Guangqi and realizing what had happened. 'It pretended to be in a coma!? This little-'
"No wonder I didn't find the barbecued meat yesterday. At first, I thought that someone was hungry, but now it seems Luoluo had eaten it!" Jiang Zhuying said happily. And then she took Luoluo into her arms. She was thrilled to pick up Luoluo, not to reprimand it, but instead, her eyes were full of love. "It must have been starving during the two days."
Luoluo seemed to have found a protective umbrella at once, desperately rushing to Jiang Zhuying and Li Yuxin's arms, while squeezing, but also looked at Jiang Liushi timidly.
However, Jiang Liushi was still annoyed even after seeing that scene. "Little fellow, stop pretending! Come here!" Jiang Liushi suddenly took Luoluo from Jiang Zhuying's arms.
Luoluo looked a Jiang Liushi with watery eyes while its two big ears were shaking.
"Don't act in a pettishly charming manner in front of me. It's useless. You have eaten my mutant queen ant's egg, so show me your new ability quickly. Do you understand?"
Jiang Liushi was a pragmatist. He thought no pains, no gains. But his mutant queen's egg had been eaten by Luoluo. As a result, Jiang Liushi figured it should have gained something.
Jiang Liushi just stared at Luoluo's big eyes. "F*ck! Really useless?" Jiang Liushi shouted.
"Brother, you are intimidating! Don't scare our Luoluo!" Jiang Zhuying quickly grabbed Luoluo from Jiang Liushi's hands, seemingly afraid her brother would harm Luoluo.
Jiang Liushi was speechless.
"Haha, Little Jiang, don't worry. We are also very curious about this," Su Guangqi said, looking at this little ball-like beast happily.