[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-fox-has-no-malicious-intent":3,"chapter-the-fox-has-no-malicious-intent-the-fox-has-no-malicious-intent-chapter-38":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Fox Has No Malicious Intent",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2340491,4575,"Chapter 38: Why Can","the-fox-has-no-malicious-intent-chapter-38",38,"\u003Cp>Lin Tongfu’s bureaucratic tone hit Old Chen like a machine gun, leaving him stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His words were full of amazement that Shougoujian could produce a wild boar capable of breaking the world record.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amidst astonishment and gratitude, he subtly hinted to Old Chen why the Forestry Bureau had acted so decisively.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Forestry Bureau acted so decisively because!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wild boar is extraordinary—it may be the heaviest wild boar in recorded history.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The previous world record for wild boar weight had long been held in Siberia, Russia.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now the record is about to change hands!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why is the Forestry Bureau pleased? Of course, because if the world record for wild boar weight comes to Xia Nation, it proves the green mountains and clear waters of Xiadong region are well managed—otherwise, how could such a massive wild boar have been born?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of this represents progress!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Old Lin truly longs for progress!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Tongfu’s bureaucratic speech left Old Chen dazed, while the Forestry Bureau’s helicopter airlifted the boar away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Tongfu and three Forestry Bureau officers descended the mountain with Old Chen toward Zhangxizhen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But where Old Chen couldn’t see, the helicopter’s direction was not toward the Forestry Bureau, nor any zoo or veterinary hospital.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The helicopter marked with rescue insignia flew straight west after leaving Zhangxizhen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It landed at a restricted zone and vertically placed the metal cage on an open patch of ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People who had been waiting there dragged it into a sunken plaza within the restricted zone, resembling a zoo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huff?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wild boar, with a tuft of blue hair on its head like a mammoth, suddenly opened its eyes, scanned the surroundings, confirmed no fox was present, then let out a loud snort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Despite the metal cage separating them, the raw power and ferocity of the boar as it awoke terrified the surrounding personnel who had been conducting inspections.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Excluding the weight of the alloy cage, the Shougoujian wild boar weighs 1.2 tons.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Once the anesthetic wears off, the Shougoujian wild boar may break free from the cage within moments. Requesting high-dose sedative injection to ensure safety throughout the examination.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of the veterinarians examining the boar grimly activated his radio to request restricted drugs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Shougoujian wild boar’s recovery speed far exceeded their prior expectations.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they continued using ordinary sedatives, the boar might break the alloy cage before the exam finished, sending them flying into the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cao Siyuan felt he was merely an insignificant biologist and veterinarian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He currently had no intention of switching jobs to become the first human astronaut in the neighboring field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Evacuate immediately.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the radio on the other end did not approve Cao Siyuan’s drug request; the young man spoke in a low voice:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Professor Cao, please evacuate immediately—the Shougoujian wild boar’s recovery speed far exceeds expectations. It’s about to break out.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cao Siyuan froze, abandoned the ongoing blood draw, and hurriedly led his team out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The steel door at the only exit slowly lowered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Shougoujian wild boar could now climb directly over the five-meter-high reinforced concrete wall of the isolation zone—otherwise, it could never have breached the containment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huff—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the sedative gradually wore off and the boar saw no fox, it regained its former status as forest overlord and let out a furious roar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Shougoujian wild boar shook its head and slammed hard into the alloy cage; the solid steel pillars forming the rectangular enclosure visibly deformed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huff!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Shougoujian wild boar charged forward, and a series of metallic groans and snaps echoed across the plaza.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The steel pillars blocking the boar bent into exaggerated arcs and flew outward, striking the concrete wall and sparking violently—the entire cage shattered into pieces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hiss—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Shougoujian wild boar, still bitter from its humiliation at the fox’s hands, now saw a group of people surrounding it, pointing and whispering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the forest overlord, the Shougoujian wild boar king had never suffered such humiliation—except from the fox.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Boom—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With bloodshot eyes, the Shougoujian wild boar charged like a steam locomotive, snorting as it rammed straight into the only steel door of a different color.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid the thunderous crash, the biologists and geneticists outside stared in disbelief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The steel door had dented.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Shougoujian wild boar’s assault had not stopped—its previous impact was merely a Shitan  strike against an unknown object; now it confirmed the door could not stop it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having experienced the fox’s foot brake, the Shougoujian wild boar now moved with two-tenths caution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It dared not charge recklessly as before, fearing another encounter with the fox’s foot brake and another broken snout.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Crack—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the reinforced concrete wall, people who had prepared in advance fired a shot at the Shougoujian wild boar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the high-velocity bullet bounced off the boar’s steel-like bristles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Skip-fire?” The sniper on the concrete wall nearly popped his eyes out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That bullet was real—no tranquilizer or low-impact round.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had experience handling out-of-control spiritual beasts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The standard protocol was to spray aerosolized sedatives to subdue the rampaging beast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Shougoujian wild boar was too powerful—the ordinary aerosol sedative might not even activate before it smashed through the steel door and wreaked havoc in the isolation zone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Protocol One failed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only Protocol Two remained: live ammunition to wound the spiritual beast, drain its strength, then apply aerosol sedation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bullets bounced off!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bullet struck the boar’s hide, ricocheted, and shot upward into the sky after hitting the concrete wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hiss!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeling pain on its belly, the Shougoujian wild boar erupted in fury and charged full-speed at the steel door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Boom—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rivets and embedded fixtures securing the steel door snapped and twisted; the door tilted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Shougoujian wild boar kept running, circled the sunken plaza once, then smashed straight through the steel door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid the thunder of hooves striking the ground and a quake-like tremor, it escaped through the passage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All scientists present stood dumbfounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were experienced—they knew spiritual beasts were extraordinarily rare and dangerous creatures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But spiritual beasts were also the nation’s most precious treasures, treated as strategic resources in Xia Nation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet none of them had ever seen a spiritual beast as ferocious as the Shougoujian wild boar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cao Siyuan stared blankly at the Shougoujian wild boar as it galloped away, kicking up a cloud of dust, and muttered into his radio:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Reporting, Commander… isolation zone breached. The boar has now…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Understood,” came the young man’s strange reply on the other end. “Take a break. When the Shougoujian wild boar returns, resume the experience.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Shougoujian wild boar is formidable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unexpected by all, yet the young man on the radio noticed something deeply odd.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was a graduate of the first cohort of the Animal Science Department at the New Agricultural Academy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His thesis was on pig farming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A male pig’s groin should carry two enormous, ground-dragging lanterns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the young man saw no dangling weakness bell on the Shougoujian wild boar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nor did he see any snout.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So… where was the Shougoujian wild boar’s weakness?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>………………\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What happened inside the restricted zone had no effect on An Sheng, who was fast asleep on Yu Xueqing’s arm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A new day arrived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yu Xueqing’s face glowed with determination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She planned to use the summer break to expand and strengthen her family’s tea plantation business.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Aowu—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An Sheng yawned, turned over, and stuck up his little butt to keep sleeping.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So cold—temperature suddenly dropped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My typing fingers are frozen stiff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Please, dear readers, send me monthly tickets to warm me up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1258,"2026-06-20T23:19:16.017Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","1ed6eb4503843e6f4663cd8e356c291e9964a2d8b20258751004aa26ebc2f44e","the-fox-has-no-malicious-intent-chapter-39","the-fox-has-no-malicious-intent-chapter-37",354,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-fox-has-no-malicious-intent-cover.jpg"]