novelraw Chapter 52
Chapter 52
Chapter 52: What Are You Craving Human Cubs For?!
“Sheep, white goats, black goats…”
“Tibetan sheep, yellow sheep, alpaca.”
In this area of herbivores, Xia Li introduced Lucia to the types of sheep on Earth.
Actually, he didn’t know much about these animals either. All the introductions were read from the signs in front of the sheep pens.
Unlike the chimpanzees, the different breeds of sheep only glanced at Lucia from afar after seeing her and didn’t make any strange noises.
After pointing out the different sheep to Lucia and introducing the words on the signs, Xia Li added another sentence.
“Oh right, alpacas aren’t sheep. Alpacas are camelids.”
“Gulp…”
Just as Xia Li was seriously explaining the knowledge points to Lucia, he clearly heard a sound like swallowing coming from Lucia’s throat. “…………”
“What’s wrong?” Xia Li asked.
Lucia replied, “A little hungry.”
Don’t swallow your saliva at this time, it’s scary!
Xia Li’s eyes drifted towards the few sheep huddled timidly by the fence.
He suddenly remembered that when Lucia told him stories about Azure Continent, she often mentioned eating sheep, chasing sheep, and stealing sheep.
This evil dragon… probably likes sheep a lot, right?
After all, the calories and nutrients provided by one sheep are enough to equal hundreds of rabbits.
Now, these dozens of sheep displayed in the sheep pen were like humans walking into a buffet restaurant to Lucia.
“Mommy, mommy, why don’t the lambs come over to eat my grass?”
Next to Xia Li, a child’s innocent voice caught his attention.
A child who looked to be only four or five years old was nestled in her mother’s arms, holding a handful of alfalfa bought from the zoo’s vending kiosk. She was shaking the grass blades, waiting expectantly for the lambs to come and eat.
However, the sheep of varying heights and breeds, as if they had encountered a wolf, huddled together at the back of the fence, only able to look at the hay offered by the tourists from afar, but not daring to approach and eat.
“Mommy, the grass you bought is fake grass,” the little girl said innocently.
“It shouldn’t be. This basket of grass cost twenty yuan, and we bought it from the staff,” the little girl’s mother also found it strange.
Seeing this, Xia Li quickly pulled Lucia beside him.
“Let’s go.”
“Gulp…”
Lucia shifted her gaze from the sheep to the child beside her who was shorter than herself.
Human cub…
First close encounter.
“Gulp…”
Xia Li clearly heard the evil dragon swallowing.
No way, what do you mean!
Xia Li wanted to punch the dragon.
It’s fine if you drool over the lambs, but what are you craving human cubs for!!
However, when Xia Li looked over again, he found that Lucia was not staring at the little girl’s head, but at something in the little girl’s other hand.
Oh, so it’s the grilled sausage she’s craving.
“…I’ll take you to buy one.”
Xia Li dragged the evil dragon to the small kiosk in the zoo.
Commercial development in scenic spots like zoos, which are considered public welfare, was not extensive. Grilled sausages cost five yuan each, and they were the kind of volcanic stone grilled sausages with meat.
Xia Li bought one for Lucia and held one in his own mouth.
He glanced at the time on his phone and realized it was impossible to leave the zoo before noon, so he had to eat something to cushion his stomach.
“Huh?”
While unlocking his phone, Xia Li caught a glimpse of a message notification.
Zhihu: Very interesting, please update more.
“What’s wrong, Xia Li?”
Seeing Xia Li holding his phone motionless as if he had paused a mini-game, Lucia became curious and wanted to see what was inside that small box.
“Someone left you a message,” Xia Li said.
“For me?” Lucia tilted her head.
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“Yes, someone said your story is very interesting.”
“Really?!” Lucia’s eyes lit up, “Let me see!”
So Xia Li lowered his phone a little to show it to Lucia.
Lucia didn’t know many characters, but she knew Xia Li wouldn’t lie to her, so after a symbolic glance, the expression on her face instantly softened.
“It’s true…” Lucia said excitedly.
Previously, when Xia Li said that some humans would like her stories, she could only hear him say it.
But now, she had witnessed such real feedback with her own eyes.
“Xia Li, is this person male or female?” Lucia wished she could stick her face to Xia Li’s phone.
“I don’t know, I don’t recognize them,” Xia Li shook his head.
“Then how did they find my story and leave a message?”
“It’s a very common thing in modern times, but it’s also very complicated to explain. It’s called ‘the internet’… You can think of it as a kind of communication magic that connects all humans around the world.”
“Oh…” Lucia said, seemingly understanding, “That must be very powerful magic.”
Xia Li didn’t explain much about the internet. If Lucia wanted to integrate into modern society, she would soon come into contact with it.
“Let’s go, to the next area,” Xia Li said.
Xia Li threw the finished bamboo skewer into the trash can.
The next stop was the elephant house.
Animals of this size were no longer kept in cages. Instead, the area where the elephants moved was lowered by six meters, ensuring that tourists on the viewing platform could not come into contact with the elephants while allowing them to have a panoramic view of the entire elephant house.
Lucia leaned against the artistic fence made of poured concrete, staring at the three elephants below.
The animals inside were estimated to be only three to five meters tall, a height that would be considered toys in the eyes of a giant dragon.
However, when Lucia looked at it from a human perspective, she found that a height of less than five meters was already very high.
If only she could transform into her dragon form…
Lucia looked up at the sky. She silently estimated that in her dragon form, she could eat an elephant in two bites, well… three Xia Lis in one bite.
“What are you thinking about?”
Seeing the evil dragon looking at him with the same eyes she had used to look at the grilled sausage, Xia Li raised his hand and knocked her on the forehead.
“Ow,” Lucia covered her forehead.
“Stay here, I’m going to the restroom,” Xia Li said.
The three elephants below the viewing platform were being fed by tourists and didn’t notice Lucia.
But even if they did, it wouldn’t matter. Elephants couldn’t jump or fly, and this sunken design was very safe.
“Don’t wander off,” Xia Li emphasized again.
Lucia frowned, wanting to follow him.
But Xia Li had already taught her that the public restrooms they went to were separated by gender, and even if Lucia followed him, she couldn’t enter the men’s restroom.
Recalling the unpleasant smell outside the public restroom, Lucia decided to wait for Xia Li here.
“You go ahead,” Lucia nodded.
Xia Li turned and left, Lucia staring after him for a long time.
When Xia Li’s figure completely disappeared around the corner, Lucia suddenly felt a sense of insecurity and a sense of crisis.
Xia Li had said… the possibility of encountering bad people in these places was very small, but never zero.
Now that she was acting alone, she had to be extra vigilant.
Detective Lucia’s eyes darted around, her ears listening in all directions, searching for non-existent bad people in the bustling crowd.
Suddenly, Lucia’s ears twitched.
She saw a child who was feeding bananas to the elephants throw something that looked like a bracelet on her hand into the elephant enclosure along with the bananas.
Immediately afterward, the child’s cries came.
“Wah, mommy!”
“My watch fell down!”