Chapter 263: Learn from Senior Sister?! [Fourth Update]

"What happened to Master Fuli?"

The hotel elevator had stopped completely for unknown reasons, so Lin Ying and Lin Bingyun ran out from the stairwell, each carrying a mop they had just found in the cleaning closet to scrape off water stains.

Lin Ying stepped out of the stairwell and saw Master Fuli unusually well-behaved, his two small paws spread out as he sat on the wet floor drinking cola, his four fluffy tails curled at the tips like question marks.

In front of Master Fuli lay a beast-eared girl rolling on the ground, clutching the back of her head with both arms.

"The fountain water had additives—it's super slippery. That big cat over there banged her head on a shard from the fountain when she tried to get up."

An Sheng saw Lin Ying approaching, smiled, raised his arm, and waved to her to explain the situation.

"She hit her head."

Lin Ying glanced at the beast-eared girl, a flicker of unusual expression crossing her eyes, but she quickly looked away, pressed the water-scraping mop against the floor, and shoved the dirty water forward, advancing over thirty meters.

Lin Ying took Master Fuli's paw, dragged him out of the puddle, cradled his chest in one hand, and walked straight out of the flooded area.

Lin Ying handed Master Fuli over to Lin the butler, instructing him to wash his rear with clean water.

Lin Ying turned back, pushed aside the sticky spring water, and dragged Wang Qiqi out as well.

"Thank you."

Wang Qiqi spoke her thanks, then asked Lin Ying: "Are you… Lin Ying, the nighttime guardian of Master Fuli and the chairperson of the board?"

"Guardian?"

Hearing this, Lin Ying murmured the word inwardly, a faint flutter stirring in her chest, but her face showed no change—she merely gave a slight nod in affirmation.

"Master Fuli said… he's here to study?"

Wang Qiqi sat on the ground, turning her gaze toward Master Fuli, who was now washing himself with mineral water.

"Yes."

Lin Ying nodded and said: "His other guardian is a student currently in his fourth year at the Changancheng campus of the New Xing Academy of Agriculture. But your university apparently doesn't allow pets on campus."

"Yu Xueqing left him at home, and then Master Fuli, sulking, found me. I brought him to Chang'an to buy property and handle his enrollment procedures."

As Lin Ying spoke, she glanced at Wang Qiqi.

Although Lin Ying had no comprehensive knowledge of Xia's secret research institutes, due to her visit to Dongxiang Research Institute, she had some understanding of the Anquan Bureau.

Most young officers in the Anquan Bureau, aside from a few specially recruited talents, come from three experimental universities, and nearly all loggers and forest rangers graduate from the New Xing Academy of Agriculture.

Bai Tao also graduated from the New Xing Academy.

She graduated from the Sacred Beasts Sect, originally intending to become a veterinarian, but somehow ended up as a forest ranger by accident.

"New Xing Academy of Agriculture?"

Upon hearing her alma mater's name from Lin Ying's lips, Wang Qiqi was startled, her eyes widening in surprise as she looked at Master Fuli.

"This year's fourth-year freshman really is an extraordinary little fellow."

"With a workaholic body like his, how could he not get promoted?"

Master Fuli naturally possesses social specialization, high combat power, and hostility toward vicious spirit beasts—in the logger's circle, he's the dream pet.

Once you acquire a Master Fuli, and if you have even a modicum of scientific talent, after three to five years of fieldwork, you'll surely be transferred to an office position, managing the security and spirit beast operations of an entire core research institute.

After a brief moment of awe, Wang Qiqi immediately recognized Master Fuli's workaholic body trait.

But.

After cleaning off the dirty water, Master Fuli leapt off the table, seized the taser in his mouth, and sprinted swiftly toward the hotel exit on all fours.

"Hm?"

Seeing Master Fuli's strange behavior, Wang Qiqi turned to his guardian.

"Master Fuli is called 'Master' because he has the instinct to protect his territory."

Lin Ying spoke calmly: "When Master Fuli encounters other spirit beasts, he first judges their nature. If they're harmless to humans, he approaches with a smile and greets them."

"But if he senses danger, he may use violent means to shatter their dreams of becoming spirit beast overlords, deterring any ambition."

Wang Qiqi looked from Lin Ying to Master Fuli's retreating back. After a moment's thought, the pain in her head suddenly clicked.

Wang Qiqi's eyes widened, and she scrambled to her feet, chasing after Master Fuli.

"Stop! Don't fight! We're all colleagues now—we'll see each other every day!"

Although Master Fuli moved fast, the leopard-converted Wang Qiqi moved even faster, catching up to him mid-crosswalk in an instant.

"Ying?"

An Sheng glanced at Wang Qiqi, puzzled, and chirped twice:

"Colleagues? I'm just an ordinary Level Two fox. I don't have a job."

"Just let me explain—"

Wang Qiqi stepped in front of Master Fuli and introduced herself: "My name is Wang Qiqi, graduated from the New Xing Academy of Agriculture, Class of 21. Uh—I'm Yu Xueqing's senior sister."

"You look like a goldfish guy—the kind who sits in the park all day with a Diji candy, luring kids into the woods to see big Nai Nai."

An Sheng stepped back a few paces, squatting on the bike lane beside the road, and glared at Wang Qiqi, who claimed to be Yu Xueqing's senior: "If I didn't know you were a logger and that even your underwear had insults about peeping tom written on it, I'd think this leopard girl was completely unreliable."

Who introduces themselves on first meeting by trying to build a personal connection?

Either a date scammer or a housing scammer—trying to seduce me into buying property.

"Me? A goldfish guy?"

Wang Qiqi's eyes widened, and she gasped in disbelief, staring at Master Fuli.

"How can a fox call a young girl a goldfish guy? I'm incredibly charming, you know!"

"No! We shouldn't be discussing irrelevant personal matters right now."

"The reason I say we might be colleagues is that the New Xing Academy of Agriculture doesn't just teach regular plant knowledge—it has extensive research on spirit plants and spirit beasts."

"Graduates from the New Xing Academy mostly end up in the Anquan Bureau, scattered across different teams and projects nationwide."

"But we're all under the Anquan Bureau, right?"

An Sheng blinked, then nodded.

"So, Jin Qianbao isn't a vicious beast—there's nothing wrong with us being colleagues, right?" Wang Qiqi said.

"So, Jin Qianbao isn't a vicious beast—doesn't that mean we're all colleagues here?" Wang Qiqi said.

So the "new" in New Xing Academy of Agriculture really means "new."

Total disaster!

Yu Xueqing got on the wrong boat!

No way—I need to fly to Chancheng tonight, cook two dishes to get her drunk, and convince her to transfer. An Sheng muttered inwardly.

Whenever the Anquan Bureau is mentioned,

An Sheng immediately thinks of loggers tying criminals to tram bumpers and flying them like kites, or Su Qiyuan's hemorrhoids being as big as a fist.

An Sheng immediately thought of lumberjacks flying kites by tying prisoners to the bumpers of streetcars, or the forest ranger Su Qiyuan's hemorrhoids, as big as a fist.

Master Fuli clutched his head, trying to shake off the horrifying fantasy of Yu Xueqing suffering from hemorrhoids, tremblingly raising a paw to beg him to buy her hemorrhoid suppositories.

Master Fuli clutched his head, trying to shake off the horrifying fantasy of Yu Xueqing suffering from hemorrhoids, her hand trembling as she begged him to buy her hemorrhoid suppositories.

An Sheng had bought them for a colleague before—the female pharmacist at the pharmacy had looked at him with an extremely strange expression.

When he asked his colleague how to use hemorrhoid suppositories, An Sheng's pupils dilated in shock, and he unconsciously dropped the grease pen he'd just picked up from the desk.

If a fox were to buy hemorrhoid suppositories—

He couldn't even imagine it. He simply couldn't.

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