Little Chubby Girl's Sense of Urgency

In the dead of night, two police cars entered Chongyun Village, immediately attracting the attention of some people who were still awake, including Liu Zhengyi, who was "on duty" at the construction site.

He immediately called Liu Caifu to inquire, then sent a WeChat to Xiang Kun, and then woke up his younger brother who was lying in the house playing on his phone to keep an eye on the construction site for him. He then rode his electric scooter and followed the police car in the direction it was going.

In a small village like Chongyun Village, most of the villagers know each other, and some are even related. If the police have to be involved, it must be a serious matter.

Liu Zhengyi, riding his electric scooter, noticed that the two police cars drove through the village and headed out of it. He couldn't help but wonder if another fugitive had sneaked into Chongyun Mountain and the police were conducting a nighttime search. But if that were the case, there would have been more than just a few officers.

Soon, Liu Zhengyi realized he was wrong. The two police cars did not continue driving out of the village, but circled around on the unpaved road outside the village before turning back and heading towards several construction sites in the southeast direction of the village.

He then realized that the police officer must have taken the wrong route...

Seeing the police car drive into the dark construction site, Liu Zhengyi was a little confused. He remembered clearly that it was a factory that Pig Eight's family was building, following the trend started by Mr. Xiang, to build a breeding farm, but it seemed that there were some problems with the permits and construction had stopped. There was an old man living there watching over the building materials. What could have happened there?

When Liu Zhengyi arrived at the construction site entrance on his electric scooter, Liu Caifu also arrived on his electric scooter, asking in confusion, "What's going on?"

"I don't know either..." Liu Zhengyi shook his head.

So the two of them sat on their electric scooters, watching in bewilderment as several police officers got out of their police car and inspected a Wuling Rongguang mini-truck loaded with various materials parked in the middle of the construction site.

Under the beam of the police officer's flashlight and the headlights of the police car, Liu Zhengyi and Liu Caifu were astonished to see that the small truck was covered in bird droppings from the windshield to the body. The bird droppings were concentrated on and around the vehicle, looking quite appalling. Through the bird-dung-covered windshield, they could see two people sitting inside.

Upon seeing the police, the two men quickly jumped out of the car, saying, "We called the police, it was us, we want to turn ourselves in."

Liu Caifu asked in surprise, "Pig Tail, Liu Two Dots, what are you two up to?" But as soon as he asked the question, he immediately realized something from the situation of the small truck on the construction site and shouted angrily, "You two little rascals, you've come here to steal things?"

Liu Zhengyi also cursed, "Damn it, they even steal from their own village! Useless!"

The two men, nicknamed "Pig Tail" and "Liu Two Dots," dared not retaliate. Under questioning by the police officer, they confessed to their actions of stealing building materials and explained why they had called the police to turn themselves in.

So, a few tens of minutes later, after the two suspects were brought back to town by the police, the story of them being attacked by bird droppings at the construction site and the "ghostly" incident spread throughout the village.

Many young people who were still awake immediately started gossiping in the village's WeChat group when they saw police cars entering the village, and then went to see what was going on. Some middle-aged and elderly people who were already asleep were also woken up and scolded the young people for being too noisy, while getting dressed and running to the "haunted" construction site to take a look.

So, in the middle of the night, the construction site, which was originally a remote corner of the village in the southeast, suddenly became lively. A bunch of electric scooters were parked there, and people with flashlights and emergency lights were looking around, vividly describing the gossip they had heard.

The photo of the small truck covered in bird droppings quickly spread across social media.

Liu Zhengyi and Liu Caifu were at Xiang Kun's house, telling Xiang Kun and others in the yard what they had seen at the construction site, as well as the brief information given by the two petty thieves and the police officer at the scene.

Xiang Kun was already aware of these circumstances.

Through the details of Alice and Gold Glitter using the "Super-Sensing Item System" to deal with the two petty thieves, Xiang Kun clearly understood what methods they used and what they specifically did.

Xiang Kun deliberately let Alice formulate her own plan within the controllable scope of Chongyun Village, to see how she would handle the matter.

Judging from the final result, Xiang Kun was quite satisfied with Alice's handling of the situation—it was obvious that Alice's entire approach was learned from Xiang Kun, and she was operating entirely according to Xiang Kun's "guiding principles."

In general, the steps are: stop the crime, prevent the suspect from escaping, notify the police, and then keep your good deeds hidden.

Moreover, she accurately grasped how to create an eerie atmosphere and how to "scare" people.

Even though she can't use "Emotion-Infused Object" to project emotions remotely without Little Apple's help, and can't create a terrifying projection of an "Eight-Armed Eight-Eyed Wooden Carving" to intimidate her target, she still has her own ways to create an atmosphere and impact the target's mind and will.

However, the bird droppings "air raid" was not arranged by her. Rather, it was "Gold Glitter" who, after hearing that the two suspects were planning to target it, felt resentful and gathered its henchmen to carry out a wanton revenge.

Of course, objectively speaking, "Gold Glitter" can be said to have greatly helped Alice, allowing her to perfect the whole plan and better cover up the various anomalies she created.

Just like now in the yard, Liu Caifu and Liu Zhengyi were certain that "Pig Tail" and "Liu Two Dots's " claim of seeing a little girl's "ghost" was complete nonsense. Ninety-nine percent of the time, they were frightened by a flock of birds that appeared out of nowhere, and in the dark, they mistook the shadows of the birds for a little girl.

Judging from the tone of the officers' questioning of the two men at the construction site, the police likely shared this view.

As for why the birds did that, it's possible they were roosting nearby and were annoyed by the noise made by the two suspects stealing.

Based on the auditory information he had gathered, Xiang Kun knew that some of the older villagers, upon hearing the gossip, were somewhat inclined to believe what the two suspects had seen. Their reasoning was, "If they hadn't really seen something terrifying, why would they have preferred to stay at the scene and call the police instead of running away?"

But the young people scoffed at their opinion, believing that "Pig Tail" and "Liu Two Dots" were simply terrified by the birds and too embarrassed to tell the police they were scared by the birds, so they made up a story about a "little girl ghost" to make themselves seem less cowardly.

For young people these days, ghosts are nothing to be afraid of. If ghosts really existed, they'd be set for life—they could make a few short paranormal videos and become internet sensations. Then, live streaming, short videos, and offline ghost-hunting events would surely make them money.

In fact, that little truck covered in bird droppings has now become a "photo spot".

Not to mention the energetic and idle young people in the village, even Xia Tianhuo, Yang Zhen'er, Chu Xiaoting, Zicheng and the others were very curious after hearing Liu Zhengyi and Liu Caifu's "first-hand report". Before long, a large group of them also ran to the open space to watch the excitement.

Anyway, there are a lot of people there now, and it's brightly lit, like a market, so it's not scary at all.

Even Little Apple, who knew the truth immediately, looked very interested when she heard them talking about the situation over there and making various guesses.

To her, Alice and Gold Glitter were both her good friends and helpful assistants. She was naturally proud of their good deeds, their fight against crime, and their protection of the village.

It's like the Justice League's logistics manager hearing that their hero has saved the world again.

After watching the various gifts that "Roast Chicken Wing Sister" received and ending the video, Liu Shiling came out of her room, first poured cat food into the Egg Pie's food bowl, and then sat down at the dining table.

She carefully removed the lid from a plate in front of her, revealing a plate of warm fried noodles, which her mother had prepared before leaving the house.

Starting last week, Mom began working at the convenience store next to our neighborhood.

Although Liu Shiling didn't quite understand why her mother, who had always stayed at home with her, suddenly had to go back to work, she found it quite interesting that her mother had gone to that convenience store a few times when picking her up from school and had eaten dinner and breakfast there for several days.

If, when she grows up, she defeats all the monsters and villains with Bald Uncle, Roast Chicken Wing Sister, and Little Apple Sister, and there are no more monsters to fight, then she wants to open a convenience store and often invite Bald Uncle and the others over for meals. The convenience store can stock up on lots and lots of ingredients, like big fish, rabbit meat, pig's feet, and everything else, as well as cooking utensils so Bald Uncle can cook for her.

The Little Chubby Girl took out her precious chopsticks from her treasured wooden box and slurped down her lukewarm fried noodles. But in her mind, she was thinking about how her bald uncle used to make her crispy pork knuckle, roasted chicken wings, and braised rabbit at the convenience store. Her eyes narrowed with happiness, and the noodles tasted even better with each bite.

After slurping down her fried noodles, Liu Shiling tiptoed to place the plate in the kitchen sink. Then she moved a stool over, climbed up, grabbed some dish soap, and squeezed it onto the plate.

She wasn't sure how much dish soap to use for one plate, so she pressed it down and made three circles.

After adding the dish soap, Liu Shiling plugged the sink and then started running water.

Once the sink was full of water and covered in a layer of foam, Liu Shiling stood on a stool, pulled up the hood of her sweatshirt, tugged at the drawstrings, and then spread her arms wide, muttering in a serious but actually childish voice, "Chocolate! Ice Cream! Lemon Tea! Mung Bean Cake! Sachima! Come on out, it's your time to shine!"

As she finished speaking, one Coin after another flew out of her pocket and into the sink.

Next, the sink full of foamy water began to stir, first undulating up and down and left and right, and then slowly rotating.

Liu Shiling focused intently on the small whirlpool forming in the sink, controlling her "five Little Sprite Guardians" to swim in the water without colliding with each other, touching the sink walls or the plates inside. At the same time, she kept the plates in the center, allowing the "Little Sprite Guardians" to manipulate the surrounding water flow for a thorough cleaning.

Unbeknownst to her, while she was intensely focused, the lights in the room began to dim. Egg Pie was happily munching on cat food, raised its head, glanced at its little owner who was sitting on the kitchen stool with her arms outstretched, meowed, and darted over to the refrigerator, standing guard over Liu Shiling from above.

A few minutes later, the sink leveled out. Liu Shiling first retrieved the three Coin: "Sachima," "Lemon Tea," and "Mung Bean Cake." Then, she used "Chocolate" and "Ice Cream" to open the sink drain, drained the water, turned on the tap, rinsed the Coin, plates, and chopsticks, wiped them clean, placed the plates on the drain rack, and put the chopsticks back in the box. Satisfied, she jumped off the stool, wiped it clean with a cloth, and went back to her room.

She knew that Little Apple, with Alice's help, had become even more powerful, and her sense of urgency intensified.

We must seize every opportunity to practice magic while maintaining secrecy, and prepare to learn more advanced magic.

So after returning to her room, Liu Shiling set up the iPad, turned on the desk lamp, took out a book from a stack of books, opened it, and began reading the words on it. When she encountered a word she didn't recognize, she would hold the book up to the iPad's camera and ask, and Alice would answer. Alice would also search for relevant online course videos to teach her to recognize words.

The book in her hand wasn't an extracurricular book her mother bought or a literacy book given to her by the kindergarten; it was a first-grade Chinese textbook, a gift from Da Lu. After Da Lu and her uncle moved to another city and enrolled in a new school, they received new textbooks, and these old ones were given to her.

Previously, Liu Shiling knew that she needed to study knowledge, especially mathematics and physics, so that she could become as powerful as Roast Chicken Wing Sister, Uncle Bald, and Sister Little Apple, and become a true Great Mage, using real super magic to help Uncle Bald do great things.

However, her learning method was basically haphazard and disorganized, lacking any systematic approach. So, although she seemed to work hard, apart from recognizing a few more characters, drawing a little better, and singing a little better, she didn't make much progress.

Although her bald uncle thought she had done a good job, her mother always praised her, and her kindergarten teachers and classmates often praised her as well, she was not satisfied. She was almost of primary school age and time was running out.

So after getting to know Alice and being able to communicate with Alice via iPad, she often asked Alice all sorts of questions.

Compared to Lao Xia, Alice is much better at answering questions. She can find answers to anything she wants to ask online, and he can explore even the most in-depth questions with her. However, she can't understand 99.99% of the answers. So, after she told Lao Xia about this problem, Lao Xia gave her a suggestion: she could start by learning the first-grade curriculum and let Alice use the knowledge system in it to help her learn.

So she contacted Da Lu, who sent her the set of old books. After half a month of studying, Liu Shiling felt a very obvious improvement and became more and more happy with her studies.

Under Lao Xia's arrangement, Liu Shiling's Chinese class was tutored by Alice and Xiang Kun, her art and music classes by Tang Baona, her math class by Yang Zhen'er, and sometimes Da Lu could also guide her in drawing. Little Apple could also teach her music and other knowledge.

So, while Alice was catching thieves in Chongyun Village, she was also using her iPad to help a little girl who aspired to become a super Great Mage learn first-grade Chinese.

Egg Pie jumped onto the windowsill, hid outside the curtains, curled up, and watched with some boredom as several stray dogs fought outside the window.