novelraw Chapter 126
Chapter 126
Chapter 126: The Evil Dragon’s Little Pet
The evil dragon, who answered with the three words “old thing,” was, as expected, ravaged by the Brave Hero.
Her face was pinched red by Xia Li, and her eyes, brighter than gemstones, were filled with grievance.
The word “old” in the Chinese textbook can form so many words.
How could she know what word Xia Li wanted?
Xia Li didn’t tell her the correct answer either, saying, “It wouldn’t be fun if I told you, you have to figure it out yourself.”
Lucia felt very wronged.
Besides, what’s wrong with the term “old thing”? Among dragonkind, the older the dragon, the higher the status.
“Get out of the car, get out of the car.”
Xia Li arrived at the destination, first closed the panoramic sunroof above his head, then went around the car to open the door for Lucia. Lucia was sullen, clumsily stepping on the pedal to get down.
Xia Li wanted to laugh when he saw the red mark on her fair and delicate face.
It seemed he pinched a little too hard…
It was also possible that Lucia’s face was simply too delicate, leaving a mark with the slightest pinch.
He suddenly missed Lucia’s face covered with dragon scales, that kind of defense… Xia Li probably couldn’t even bite through it with his teeth.
“Where are we?”
After getting out of the car, Lucia looked around. This street was unfamiliar; she had never been here before.
“Jinjiang District. There’s a very big pet shop here,” Xia Li replied.
After getting the car, their range of activities had greatly increased. Before, they would hesitate for a long time to cross a district, but now they just stepped on the gas pedal and came over.
“Pet shop…?”
Lucia quickly saw the pet shop Xia Li was talking about.
The shop had a large sign that spanned seven or eight storefronts.
It seemed to be the largest shop on this street.
“Well, I thought about it and decided it would be better to have a pet at home,” Xia Li locked the car and pulled Lucia’s small hand forward.
“That way, when I go out to work, you’ll have at least one companion at home and won’t be so bored.”
“No, no…”
Lucia was still very resistant to the idea of keeping a pet.
But Xia Li still insisted: “Why not? Didn’t I tell you? This is a basic necessity of life. Keeping a pet can bring spiritual joy and a sense of accomplishment. These positive emotions are no less than the satisfaction of eating two delicious meals, and in the long run, the cost-effectiveness is also very high.”
“…I don’t like small animals,” Lucia said stubbornly.
Keeping a pet?
Any animal appearing around a dragon’s lair is food to a dragon.
Isn’t keeping a pet just keeping emergency food?
“You obviously like small animals very much. Last time you petted Peach’s dog until it was bald,” Xia Li said with a smile.
“That’s different…” Lucia said with a straight face, “It’s okay to play with them, but having to feed them and water them every day… is too much trouble.”
As the name suggests, pets are animals to be pampered.
The thought of a weak animal competing with her for food gave Lucia a sense of territorial crisis.
And…
“And, with a pet, you’ll focus your energy on the pet, which is not good.”
“…Why are you even jealous of a pet?”
Xia Li couldn’t help but laugh after hearing Lucia’s theory.
“Under any circumstances, you and my parents come first, I come second, and everything else can wait,” Xia Li said with a smile.
Pushing open the glass door, the warm air from the pet shop’s air conditioner hit them.
Unlike mobile phone shops or clothing stores, there were no enthusiastic salespeople here. In the large shop, there were only two shop assistants introducing the habits and precautions of pets to customers with purchasing intentions.
This shop lived up to the introduction Xia Li had read before coming.
It was big enough, and the variety was also abundant.
In addition to the common cats and dogs, there were also new types of pets like rabbits and ferrets.
Walking further in, in an acrylic box decorated with greenery, Xia Li even saw alternative pets like spiders and geckos.
The whole first floor of the pet shop was like a small zoo. Lucia really liked seeing the small animals. She lay on the transparent box, staring at the gecko hiding behind the rockery.
Geckos are a type of lizard with thick tails and cute round heads.
Lucia had her eye on a gray gecko with silver spots. Its eyes were big and round, black and shiny, and it was looking up at Lucia.
“Doesn’t it look a lot like your true form?” Xia Li said beside her.
Lucia puffed out her cheeks, a little unhappy.
It was more like she resembled a crayfish.
At least crayfish were delicious.
This lizard looked not only unappetizing, but also silly and fragile.
“It doesn’t.”
Lucia snorted softly and went to look elsewhere.
This shop not only sold pets, but also had a large number of pet supplies on the shelves in the middle. Judging from the direction the customers were choosing, the demand for these retail items was actually greater.
“Do you want that?”
Xia Li pulled Lucia to the shelf and pointed to the cardboard at the bottom.
“What is this?”
It was the first time Lucia had seen cardboard being sold.
“A scratching post for cats, used for sharpening their claws. You can sharpen your dragon claws on it.”
Lucia: “…”
“And this,” Xia Li became more and more excited, picking up a bag of dog chew sticks to show Lucia.
“This is for grinding teeth, just right for grinding your dragon teeth, otherwise biting people would hurt too much.”
Lucia: “…”
“And this baby bottle for feeding kittens, when you drink milk at night…”
As Xia Li was talking excitedly, the short dragon calmly walked past him.
As she walked past, Lucia’s small leather shoes “accidentally” stepped on Xia Li’s instep.
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She stepped directly on Xia Li and walked past.
Xia Li grimaced from the stomp, and stopped his teasing.
The two came to the most popular puppy and kitten cabinets. The three Pomeranian puppies in the cage looked like hairy tofu.
The puppies barked, interacting enthusiastically with the other two female customers.
Perhaps girls have no resistance to these cute and fluffy little animals. The two female customers were grinning from ear to ear, saying they wanted to keep them, but the landlords who rented them their apartments might not agree.
“Dandelion balls.”
Lucia was also quite interested in these fluffy white creatures.
From a dragon’s perspective, puppies of this size were nothing more than three dandelion puffs.
She squatted down, ready to imitate the other two female customers and reach out to pet the dogs.
“Woof ━ Ow ow ow, ow ow ow!”
The Pomeranian, which had been sweetly sticking out its tongue a second ago, suddenly screamed and retreated as if it had seen its natural enemy.
The two female customers were startled, and the shop assistant not far away also rushed over after hearing the commotion.
After careful inspection, they found that the puppy didn’t seem to have been attacked, nor was it fighting.
“What’s wrong?”
“We don’t know, we just touched it normally, and it suddenly started screaming…”
The female customer looked around, but none of them found anything unusual.
Lucia silently withdrew her hand.
She stared at the three puppies huddled in the corner, her expression a little dejected.
“…It’s okay, let’s look at the others.”
Xia Li comforted her in a low voice and pulled her arm to stand up.
Lucia didn’t say anything and turned to look at the other cages.
As expected, all the big and small dogs were afraid of her. Even the bulldog, which claimed to be able to battle a cow, tucked its tail and hid in its kennel after a glance at Lucia.
“Hmph…”
Lucia was unhappy, muttering to herself.
Puppies weren’t fun, they were too timid.
She could still touch the big dogs, but the puppies didn’t even have the courage to face her directly.
“How can I keep a pet like this…” Lucia said discontentedly.
Although she had been stubborn just now, she really liked these fluffy animals.
She had liked them when she was a dragon, chasing these little guys all over the mountains. It was one of the few joys in her dragon life.
Now that she had transformed into a human, she liked these little guys even more.
Human hands were much smaller than dragon claws, and she could touch these small animals at will without crushing them. Moreover, she felt very comfortable touching those fluffy things.
“Sigh.”
Xia Li sighed along with her.
It was quite sad to think about it.
Because of the dragon blood flowing in her veins, even though Lucia liked these little creatures, they wouldn’t approach her.
No wonder it was said that a dragon’s nature was solitary.
This was a kind of loneliness.
“Do you want to keep a cat? Cats are also very cute.”
Xia Li led Lucia to the cat cabinet.
Here, each kitten had its own suite, complete with a litter box, a cat bed, food, and drink. It was much more refined than the dog area.
“Cats eat very little. One day’s food intake is not even as much as one bite of yours.”
As Xia Li was saying this, the golden chubby cat in front of them raised its head in a daze.
When it saw Lucia’s dragon eyes, its already round body puffed up even more, looking like a hedgehog with inflated air.
“…Scared stiff,” Xia Li said.
Perhaps the choice of keeping a small animal was inherently impossible in front of this dragon, Lucia.
“It’s afraid of me too.”
Lucia’s dragon claws hadn’t even reached out before they retracted.
“Why don’t we just take one home and try? It’s normal to be unfamiliar at first, they’ll get used to it after a while.”
Seeing the disappointed expression on the evil dragon’s face, Xia Li suggested.
Lucia shook her head: “You can’t force a melon to be sweet.”
He didn’t know where this guy learned the phrase, but it was surprisingly… fitting in this situation?
The two walked around the cat cages.
As before, no cat was willing to approach Lucia. Some kittens were even so scared that they hid in their litter boxes.
Seeing this, Xia Li was worried that the evil dragon’s fragile heart would be hurt, so he quickly said:
“It’s okay, keeping a pet is all about fate. It means that the pets here are not fated with you. There’s no rush, maybe you’ll pick one up on the road someday…”
He remembered that it was Xia Li who had brought up the idea of keeping a cat or dog.
Now Lucia was interested in keeping a small animal, but no small animal was willing to go home with her, making the dragon very depressed.
“We were just out for a casual stroll today. Why don’t… we go to the flower and bird market? The birds there will definitely like you.”
“No, birds are not good, they poop everywhere.”
Lucia didn’t get to pet a single fluffy little animal in the end, and her pouting lips were as high as they could be.
Completely losing interest in the things in the pet shop, she walked out with her head down.
Xia Li walked behind, as if he had thought of something, and grabbed her dragon claw.
“Wait…”
“I thought of a small animal you can keep.”