Chapter 2599: Fantastic Beasts in the Zoo 06

Xiao Bai Shi looked left and right, pushed off with its hind legs, and lightly leapt onto the decorative fake rock beside it.

Finally it could barely manage to be on eye level with Hu Gu.

Xiao Bai Shi fearlessly roared back, "Roar!"

To human ears, this roar sounded milky and weak, lacking any power.

But when it reached Hu Gu's ears, it felt an extremely ancient pressure, and its huge body tensed slightly.

It became alert, its foreleg that could kill an animal with one swipe cautiously stepped forward, its amber tiger eyes fixed on the white lump on the small stone, and it let out a low growl from its throat.

"Where did you little sniffler come from?"

"……" Jin Chen.

Stupid tiger.

This thing is actually the seme protagonist from the original plot.

Xiao Bai Shi shook its snowy white fluffy fur all over, then let out a low roar again.

Hu Gu: "？"

"Hold on, this little sniffler seems off somehow."

Jin Chen again increased his pressure and let out a roar.

Hu Gu: "……"

He who knows the times is an outstanding tiger.

It warily stepped back half a step, muscles tensed.

This pressure was too strange, making it instinctively feel danger, even more perilous than the life-or-death threat it felt when facing leopards in the wild and single-handedly killing crocodiles before entering the zoo.

Seeing it cower, Jin Chen then began to speak the main point.

"Stupid tiger, the fox in here is a bad fox; if you hang out with it, the zoo will kick you out."

These long words, heard by the anxious keeper Amu and Xiao Li who had caught up, became nothing but a string of milky, voiceless sounds, utterly lacking threat…

"Roar…… chirp-roar…… ah-oo……"

So cute it makes people's hearts tremble.

Amu really couldn't hold back, secretly took out his phone, and recorded a short video of Xiao Bai Shi standing on the stone, roaring fiercely at the big tiger, then casually posted it in the staff group.

Humans don't understand the tiger king's suffering.

Hu Gu, forced to listen to the lecture, suffers even more.

It whined pitifully, "Fox, pretty fox…… fragrant……"

Jin Chen, angry, jumped straight from the fake rock onto its big head, and rudely slapped its cheeks and ears with his paws.

"I said it's a bad fox! A bad fox! Do you understand or not, you tiger!"

Hu Gu, dazed from the slaps, instinctively replied, "... ah, I'm a tiger."

Jin Chen: "……"

"Forget it, can't communicate with this love‑addled tiger."

He, angry, circled around Hu Gu's head; his fluffy tail swept the tiger's nose tip, making the tiger sneeze twice from the itch, almost flinging Xiao Bai Shi away.

At that moment, the staff group had already exploded over that video.

": "Is that the little lion the director picked up?"

": "It's being fierce toward Hu Gu? My goodness, this contrast is adorable!"

": "Ahhh so cute! So fiercely cute!"

": ""How did it run over to the Tiger Garden? And still standing on Hu Gu's head?"

": "A newborn lion cub fears no tiger?"

": "@Director Bai Rendong, hurry and look! Shi Bao Bei is about to ride on Hu Da Wang's head!"

Bai Rendong, still checking the purchase list with the logistics department, heard the phone notification, opened the video, and couldn't help but watch the short ten‑second clip over and over.

Seeing the little one standing before the big tiger without backing down, he felt both amused and worried.

"Xiao Bai Yu is too small; if Hu Gu loses his temper, he'll bully it."

Bai Rendong closed the list booklet in his hand, told the logistics chief and Da Niu, "Keep checking, I'll go take a look first."

Da Niu nodded foolishly, eyes full of envy, "Director, hurry over—the little lion is important!"

Bai Rendong hurried out, sat in the park shuttle parked nearby, and drove toward the Fox Garden.

Here, Jin Chen was still earnestly trying, patting the tiger's head with his paws, to persuade this tiger that had barely met the fox but already leaned toward love‑addled behavior to leave.

However, most of his Monster Power was sealed, so he couldn't directly beat it into submission.

He was just starting to feel troubled when he heard the shuttle's sound.

Xiao Bai Shi turned his head and saw his wife driving the vehicle over.

Great opportunity!

Jin Chen pushed off Hu Gu's head with his hind legs, leapt up, and jumped into the arms of Bai Rendong, who had stopped the vehicle and opened his arms.

"Ah‑oo." Settling into the familiar warm embrace, Xiao Bai Shi immediately buried his head in Bai Rendong's neck crook, whining pitifully, and even gave a little shake—showing none of the mighty aura he'd had when slapping the tiger's head earlier.

He also lifted the foreleg that had just slapped the tiger's head, stretched it toward Bai Rendong's eyes, and let out a soft "ah‑oo," as if filing a complaint.

Look, his paws are all sore from slapping!

"What's wrong, Bao Bao?" Bai Rendong had only ever seen Xiao Bai Shi look this distressed when he got his vaccination yesterday, and his heart ached.

He quickly held onto that tiny paw and examined it closely.

Of course, nothing could be seen.

Bai Rendong then gently rubbed it, holding Xiao Bai Shi and rubbing his cheek against its fluffy head.

"Why are you so upset? Did Hu Gu scare you?"

Hu Gu, forced to be the stepping stone, said: "???"

It watched the little Lion rubbing and trembling in the keeper's arms, looking timid and weak, as if suffering a great grievance—it simply couldn't believe it.

The little Lion lay on the keeper's shoulder, quietly lifted its head to look at it, showing no trace of grievance, instead grinning provocatively and sticking out a small pink tongue.

Mocking it!

Hu Gu had been holding it in for a while, seeing the little thing act bold because someone had its back, finally couldn't help but let out an angry, stifled roar toward the sky.

"Roar!!!"

This roar hit Jin Chen right in his sweet spot.

He immediately buried his head again, nuzzling Bai Rendong's cheek with an even more aggrieved whimper, his little tail tightly wrapped around Bai Rendong's wrist, occasionally pointing his claws toward Hu Gu.

Bai Rendong steadied the little white lion in one hand, walked over, rubbed Hu Gu's fluffy head, and admonished him helplessly.

"Hu Gu, you are already an adult tiger—how can you bully such a little Lion? When the fox first arrived, weren't you still welcoming it and behaving gracefully?"

Hu Gu: "......"

It watched the little Lion in the keeper's arms secretly making faces at it, then heard the keeper's biased words, and was so angry it nearly spat out a mouthful of old blood.

It simply turned its head and pointed its butt at everyone.

Its very thick tail angrily beat the ground, kicking up a small cloud of dust.

The tiger didn't want to speak.

The tiger was weary at heart.

In the tree, the Great Parrot Dao Ge Youyouly transmitted a faint sound.

It spread its wings, flapping back and forth, stretching its neck forward, perfectly imitating the earlier scene.

"Tiger Great King! Lewd monster! White fur! Roar!!"

After imitating Hu Gu's roar, it then piped up in a high voice, learning: "Keeper! Keeper! Punish them all, punish them all!"

"Only Dao Ge did nothing wrong—'Dao Ge! No noise, extra meal!'"

Amu: "......"

"Truly the heart of a Great Parrot—obvious as day!"

Bai Rendong, amused by Dao Ge to the point of laughing and crying, finally realized this wasn't Tiger Garden at all; he glanced at the nearby zone sign—Fox Garden.

He couldn't help but raise his brows: "Hu Gu… you didn't stay in the garden this morning, you came over here to see the little fox?"

Just as it was presenting its rear to them, Hu Gu's massive body stiffened slightly, its long, thick tail stopping its beating and quietly curling up.

Its big head sank even further between its two front paws.

Having been called out on the central matter, it felt quite embarrassed.

Jin Chen buried his face in his wife's shoulder and let out a disgusted 'eh'.

Feeling chilled, he couldn't bear to watch.

He buried himself in Bai Rendong's warm embrace, unwilling to face the love‑addled stupid tiger again.

Bai Rendong watched Hu Gu, whose guilt and shame were written all over his body, smiled helplessly, and gently patted the little Lion's back to soothe it.

"Well then, Amu, put Hu Gu into the Fox Garden, just keep a distance."