Pet King

Zhang Zian browsed the data and pictures of the inflatable boats provided by the Taobao sellers, as well as the evaluations from their buyers. He then selected a few that seemed reliable and added them to his shopping cart to compare them in detail later.

In addition, life jackets and lifebuoys were also necessary. Although he grew up in a seaside city, and he was able to swim, he knew that those that drown most often were always those that could actually swim. He did not want to verify that truth with his own life.

After he was done, he returned the computer back to Pi. The rest could be done on his phone.

If he was an ordinary person, no matter how much he liked whales, he would take a look at the risks before attempting the one that was his current plan. Still, he had a cheat: Sihwa.

He could let Sihwa record a song in advance, so when he approached the giant whale by boat, he would play the song and clear the whale’s hostility so that he could safely approach it.

As for the content of the song, he’d let Sihwa decide. Anyway, it should mean something along the lines of: “Captain don’t shoot, it’s me!”

He walked to the bathroom and knocked on the open door, indicating that he was coming in.

Sihwa was not filming a live broadcast, but instead, she was sullenly stirring the water in the bathtub. Two little yellow ducks rocked back and forth on the surface of the water.

Ever since the day that Fina had scolded and questioned her about if she would like to exchange the lower half of her body to become a human, she had been in a daze––she just stared at the water or out the window all day.

It was heart wrenching to watch her behave in such a pitiful manner. After all, beauty was justice. She had a 360-degree sense of beauty that was unparalleled and had no bad angle; even if she had a bad personality, it was fine it she didn’t speak.

However, Zhang Zian did not comfort her, because the situation was not necessarily a bad thing. She was no longer the brainless, big chested fan who used to make a fuss all day about going to South Korea to see her Oppa. Now, she was really starting to think about things, such as herself and the meaning of her own existence.

But, would she be able to think things through? After all, she had not had any education. She also had no social experience, and the only knowledge she had about human society was through Korean dramas and live broadcasts.

On the bathroom cabinet next to the bathtub was her phone and a few fairytale books with colorful covers. The covers of the books were slightly curled, which proved that she did read the books instead of placing them there just for show.

Aside from having deep thoughts, she had also started learning pinyin and Chinese characters every day under the supervision of Old Time Tea. Although she hadn’t been studying for long, she had picked it up unexpectedly fast. She was already able to understand some simple words, and if it was labeled with pinyin, she could even read an entire fairytale. Perhaps it was because she was an elfin born out of faith, so she couldn’t be measured by human standards.

In the past, she couldn’t understand the bullet screens in the broadcast room; she had to rely on the text-to-speech function to understand them. Now, she could understand some of them after she turned off the text-to-speech function. The only problem was the speed of the bullet screens because her reading speed was unable to keep up with them.

Sihwa heard Zhang Zian knock on the door. As she looked up at him, her sea-like blue eyes had a shred of maturity aside from their original innocence.

“Using the bathroom?” she asked randomly.

In fact, Zhang Zian had been using the bathroom next door in his parent’s bedroom. The only ones who used that toilet were the other elfins.

“No, I’m here to ask for your help,” Zian said. “Do you have time now?”

After a momentary pause, Sihwa reacted, and she quickly grabbed her phone and a fairytale book. She said, “I… I’m busy. I’ve got some studying to do, and I still have to go live later. But if you ask for my help, then I would consider helping you…”

Zhang Zian was speechless. Had she been in contact with Fina too much? The contempt in their tones was exactly the same.

But he really had something to ask of her, and no one but her could help him with it.

“Then can you please help me? Please,” he asked in a resigned tone.

“Then… First, charge the phone full for me!” She said with a smile, like she had won a big bargain. “And I heard that there’s something called a power bank. Buy that for me too! ”

Zhang Zian took the phone from her. “I have no problem charging the phone for you, but as for the power bank, we’ll have to discuss it again later. After all, that stuff is very expensive. Don’t forget that you still owe me money!”

“Chie! Stingy!” She pouted and said unhappily. “So… What help do you need? Is it to spend money on you?”

“No, that’s not necessary. I don’t even have enough to spend myself, so why would I need your help…?” Zhang Zian turned it down without a moment of hesitation.

She smacked her lips in pity. “Tsk! Then what do I need to help you with?”

Zhang Zian pulled out his phone and let her look at the screen.

On the screen was the photo and video he took at the beach, where the protagonist was the giant whale that had appeared for an instant.

“What is this? It’s so blurry! Is it AVI quality?” She squinted her eyes and looked at the small black spot on the screen.

There was no other choice; that was the picture quality after he zoomed in, so it was definitely going to be blurry.

“What AVI quality… Who did you learn this from?” Zhang Zian asked. “This is a whale that swam near the coast. It’s very big.”

“Oh.” Sihwa blinked her eyes and asked, “And?”

“A whale of such size, logically speaking, should not have swam close to the coast. It might get beached any time,” Zhang Zian explained. “Do you know what it means to be beached? It’s just like you when you were tired on the beach of Germany.”

“Of course I know what it means to be beached! Don’t treat me like a child!” she exclaimed indignantly.

To be honest, Zhang Zian suspected that her social common sense and scientific knowledge were not as good as a child’s. He figured Xiao Zhi knew more…

“Okay then, but the size of this whale is too big… Once it gets beached, it’d be very dangerous. Sihwa, you like whales a lot, right? Could you bear to watch this big guy die on the beach?” Zian patiently explained to her.

Sihwa’s expression finally got a little serious. She glanced at the little black dot on the screen of the mobile phone and asked, “And? Why is it going to get beached? Because there’s no money? Ajeo-an, you’re really stingy. You’re going to let it get beached just because it doesn’t have money?”

Zhang Zian said, “…What does this have to do with me!”

“It’s not that it wants to get beached, but…” Zian felt that it was very tiring to try to explain things to the common sense idiot, but there was no other way. He had to think about how he could go about it. Then he said, “But… it shouldn’t be swimming in the shallow part of the sea so close to the shore. This puts in danger of being beached at any point of time.”

“Oh, okay then. So it’s not you who’s making it beach itself.” Sihwa finally understood a little. She asked, “Why would it swim in the shallow seas? Isn’t it more fun in the deep sea?”

“That’s what I was going to ask you,” Zhang Zian said seriously. “Sihwa, in your previous singing, did you really tell the whales to swim out to the outer seas of Binhai City?”