Chapter 117: Stop Fighting
Chapter 117: Chapter 117: Stop Fighting
Jiang Yuchen stared at Gu Zhao and the bashful Unicorne Whale, feeling like his entire understanding of reality was under threat.
Gu Zhao walked to the water’s edge and sat on the Unicorne Whale’s back.
The Unicorne Whale was perfectly well-behaved the entire time, except for its tail, which was wagging like a dog’s.
"My subjects! My longsword has not been blunted by the downpour! My warhorse is nowhere to be seen! But my whale has come, bearing its long spear! Mount the war-whales! Ride forth with your Big King!"
Gu Zhao sat on the Unicorne Whale. As soon as she finished speaking, other Unicorne Whales swam over, each choosing a person they liked.
No Unicorne Whale approached Ye Zuiyi. Everyone else got one—even Ye Zexi had a Unicorne Whale deign to swim over to him.
Ye Zuiyi’s face, tightly bundled up, was deathly pale. Her hatred for Gu Zhao intensified.
"Gu Zhao, are you doing this to me on purpose?!" Ye Zuiyi’s voice choked with a sob.
Gu Zhao glanced at her. "Is it my fault animals don’t like you?"
"You must have said something to them!"
"So what if I did? You already know I don’t like you, yet you still ask. Even if I really did tell them to ignore you, what are you going to do about it? You want the viewers to flame me? I don’t care. I won’t even retaliate against them. I’ll just, you know, send some cockroaches on a little trip to the home of whoever insults me."
"The rats are off the clock. The cockroaches are taking their shift."
"It was you!" Ye Zuiyi glared venomously at Gu Zhao. ’She was the one who sent the rats to our house!’
Gu Zhao looked utterly baffled, then burst into song. "It is him, it is him, it’s really him? Our good friend, little Nezha?"
She wasn’t on key for a single note, and she started way too high. So what if it was awful? She was confident.
"Brother! I actually sound pretty good!" Gu Zhao looked smugly at Gu Xulin, who was already seated on his Unicorne Whale.
[Beautiful! So beautiful! Sing for Brother Lin more often in the future! We’re not worthy of hearing it!]
[I don’t listen to free songs. Your Majesty, the Monkey King, I support you charging a fee!]
[I won’t insult the Monkey King! Please don’t send cockroaches to my house! P.S. Big King’s brother is too good-looking. Give me the brother, you can keep the song.]
[So beautiful. Gu Zhao, the Lark of the Snowy Mountains.]
Gu Xulin was speechless.
The others rubbed their ears. Gu Jiao shot Ye Zuiyi a reproachful look. ’Why couldn’t you just let Big King have her way?!’
’Did you have to make our ears suffer like this?!’
"Instead of wasting your time on this, you should be figuring out how to coax Big King into letting you ride a ’Unicorne-cycle’."
"The ice beneath your feet is about to break," Gu Jiao said, sitting on her Unicorne Whale with her arms crossed, her displeasure obvious.
"Gu Zhao, you..." Just as Ye Zexi was about to speak, the Unicorne Whale beneath him shifted.
Unicorne Whale: ’Dare to speak ill of the precious one and I’ll toss you in the water!’
Ye Zexi swallowed the words of accusation he had for Gu Zhao. "One hundred thousand to get to the shore, is that acceptable?"
Gu Zhao knew when to quit while she was ahead. ’What else can I do? I can’t just let them die here, can I?’
’I wouldn’t feel any guilt, but I don’t want Gu Xulin to be affected.’
A Unicorne Whale unhappily swam over.
Ye Zuiyi suppressed her dissatisfaction and climbed on.
Zhong Mingrui also excitedly sat on a Unicorne Whale’s back. He looked at its horn with great fondness. "When you fight, do you like to poke your opponent’s butt?"
Unicorne Whale: ???
The Unicorne Whales carried Gu Zhao and the others toward the snowy mountain. Jiang Yuchen sat dazedly on his Unicorne Whale, looking down at the creature beneath him, then back at the math Olympiad problems in his arms.
’Why is this so unscientific?’
’What kind of problem is this? I can’t solve it. I can’t figure it out.’
’How can people talk to animals?! Their brainwaves are completely different!’
Jiang Yuchen was very dejected. ’I really am a mediocrity!’
Then, with a blank expression, he stuffed the math problems he’d been clutching into his backpack.
As they drew closer to the snowy mountain, the pod of Unicorne Whales suddenly grew agitated.
*"AAAAH, they’re here again!"*
*"If I endure this any longer, I’ll be a sick whale! I’m going to stab them in the butt!!"*
He had just learned that one.
*"They’re the worst!! I’m gonna beat them up!"*
Gu Zhao looked puzzled. "Who?"
The Unicorne Whale carrying her explained, its voice full of resentment, *"A pod of nasty Tiger Whales! They’ve got nothing better to do than pick fights with us all day!"*
*"They even said our horns are good for picking their teeth!!"*
"Whoa." ’Such venomous-tongued fish.’
Gu Xulin also sensed the change in the Unicorne Whale beneath him. He looked at Gu Zhao. "What’s wrong? Why do I get the feeling they’re about to start a brawl any second now?"
Gu Zhao nodded very seriously. "Brother, you have a real talent for animal ethology! They want to go stab the Tiger Whales in the butt."
"Big King, are those Tiger Whales?" Zhong Mingrui asked, looking at the group of whales churning the water behind them.
Seeing them, the Unicorne Whales immediately went on high alert.
"They’re Tiger Whales. One of the ocean’s biggest delinquents," Jiang Yifeng explained to the group.
"Then why are they called Tiger Whales?" Zhong Mingrui asked curiously.
Before Jiang Yifeng could answer, another voice replied as if it were common knowledge.
"Because they do things in a ’tiger-ly’ dumb way. If you want to learn that too, I can guarantee your butt will blossom into a magnificent flower."
Zhong Mingrui pouted and fell silent.
Jiang Yifeng was silent.
’I want to go home.’
’Even back to the uninhabited zone would be fine. I don’t want to interact with people anymore!!’
’Their brains are nothing like mine!!’
Jiang Yuchen, who felt the same way, quietly faded into the background. He could no longer comprehend their words.
’At this point, even if they said the whales could fly, I wouldn’t bother arguing.’
The Tiger Whales had already swum over. The initially menacing whales instantly became reserved the moment they saw Gu Zhao.
It was like a gang of punks with bleached hair, smoking cigarettes and coming over to start a fight, only to see the other side holding a precious treasure. The punks tried to act reserved, but their eyes screamed with the desire to snatch it away.
Not only did they want to snatch her, they wanted to lure her over.
*"Well, hello there to the Xiangxiang who is so pretty and cute, who finds money when she walks, finds money when she bends over, finds money when she looks up, finds money in her sleep, and strikes it rich wherever she goes~"*
The lead Tiger Whale grinned from ear to ear, showing off its big teeth.
*"Xiangxiang! Don’t play with them, they’re just a bunch of big idiots! Come play with us! We’ll take you to beat up sharks! We’ll catch little fishies for you to eat!"*
Nearby sharks: ...
The big-idiot Unicorne Whales, having their person stolen right in front of them: !!!
*"Can’t take it anymore!! I’m gonna get ’em!!"* The Unicorne Whale exploded with rage and charged directly at the Tiger Whales.
*"Charge! Beat the Tiger Whales! Snatch the baby!"*
The pod of Unicorne Whales ferociously began to fight with the Tiger Whales.
Gu Zhao and the others were swept into the fight, still on the backs of the whales, before they could even react!!
Gu Zhao clung tightly to the Unicorne Whale, terrified of being thrown off.
The group, on the verge of a mental breakdown: "Stop fighting!!"
Gu Zhen hugged her Unicorne Whale tightly. ’What kind of variety show did I sign up for?!’
’When I said I’d risk my life to accompany my sister, I was just saying it!!’
’I really want to live!’
*"AAAAH! Which one of you damn Unicorne Whales stabbed me in the ass!!"* A Tiger Whale, caught off guard, had its butt stabbed.
Seeing this, the other Unicorne Whales grew extremely excited. ’The two-legger’s method actually works!’
*"Charge! Stab them in the butt!"*
The Unicorne Whales threw all sense of honor out the window.
Gu Zhao was getting whale-sick. "Stop! All of you, stop! Don’t fight anymore!"
Gu Zhao felt her stomach churn. Just as the Unicorne Whale beneath her was about to go stab its opponent’s butt, Gu Zhao, living up to the whale’s expectations, threw up.
The Unicorne Whale was now dirty.
The Unicorne Whale blinked in a daze.
The Tiger Whale seized the opportunity to ram and flip it over. Before Gu Zhao could react, the whale beneath her had been swapped.
*"HAHAHAHAHA, got her! Retreat!"* The Tiger Whale laughed with wild arrogance, carrying Gu Zhao away as it fled.
"Gu Xiao Zhao! Where are you going?! Are you coming back for dinner?!" Gu Xulin yelled, turning his head just in time to see his sister disappearing from view.