The Fierce Little Chubby Girl

Seeing Liu Shiling's "I'm super brave" attitude, Xia Tianhuo couldn't help but laugh.

This little girl is like a ray of sunshine. Even though she doesn't actually intend to make others laugh, Xia Tianhuo can't help but smile every time he sees her these past few days.

But looking at the Little Chubby Girl now, why does she look a bit fierce and menacing with the hood up? Hmm, although she's still very cute, judging from Xia Tianhuo 'Little Chubby Girl limited interaction with her these past few days, this little girl has a very good personality. Most of the time she's in a cute and innocent state, soft and sweet, and it seems she would never throw a tantrum.

Xia Tianhuo could also sense that the Little Chubby Girl's aggressive attitude wasn't directed at him, nor could it be directed at her sister Little Apple or Lao Xia. So what was going on? Was it just morning grumpiness from being startled awake in the middle of the night?

Or was it that the little girl was a bit embarrassed and a bit angry because she had been found out that she had been woken up by thunder?

Xia Tianhuo laughed and said, "Alright, alright, Little Bell is so brave, not afraid of thunder. She must have been woken up by hunger. It's all your fault for not making a good Roast Chicken Wing Sister."

Now it was Liu Shiling's turn to feel a little embarrassed. She scratched her head through her hood and walked down the stairs, greeting Chu Xiuwen as she quietly defended Lao Xia, saying, "Dinner was still very good." However, her argument sounded somewhat weak.

Seeing the Little Chubby Girl snuggle up to Lao Xia, who was making instant noodles, and lean against his leg, Xia Tianhuo couldn't help but say, "Lao Xia, if you're making a late-night snack for a child, you should at least make something more nutritious and healthy. How can it be just instant noodles? That's too perfunctory."

However, after Xia Libing glanced back at him, he immediately shut up, because he realized what Lao Xia meant: If you can do it, then you do it.

There's nothing I can do; he can't do it either.

When he was abroad, he had to cook for himself, and he basically just put meat and vegetables in one pot and stewed them together. He added oil, salt, and other seasonings as he pleased, so he didn't know anything about cooking. Especially after he ate Xiang Kun's cooking, his definition of "being able to cook" was raised to a whole new level.

As Lao Xia added hot water to the instant noodles and the Little Chubby Girl went upstairs to Little Apple down to eat, Chu Xiuwen couldn't help but ask, "Dr. Xia, when the power went out and there was a thick fog, if you were awake, did you hear anything or smell anything?" Although Xia Libing no longer worked at the hospital, he was still used to being addressed as such.

Xia Libing said, "I heard thunder and some birds chirping. I guess the birds in the mountains were frightened by the thunder and obscured by the fog, so they couldn't tell which way was which and wandered into the village by mistake. The visibility is too low, so they are flying around wildly and may have crashed into the village buildings."

Chu Xiuwen and Xia Tianhuo immediately thought of the bird that had died on the road and nodded subconsciously in agreement.

"Can you smell anything? When we were on the road, as soon as the fog came up, we smelled something like barbecue..." Xia Tianhuo asked.

"Maybe it got struck by lightning," Xia Libing said.

Chu Xiuwen frowned. "It also has a hint of cumin..."

"Oh right, I think I also saw something on fire in the village, and then it flew towards the mountains. Could it be that a bird was struck by lightning?" Xia Tianhuo said, then chuckled and shook his head, "No, if a bird was really struck by lightning, it would definitely die on the spot, how could it fly?"

Chu Xiuwen glanced at him, unable to resist wanting to refute. He thought of the "Fire Phoenix" story about Purple Huan Mountain that he had heard about when he was having tea with his old classmate Guo Lin and Officer Xu in Citong City after the New Year. Although many people had "debunked" it as a drone catching fire, not a Fire Phoenix, he had some other thoughts after watching the related videos. Moreover, he also thought of the two fugitives who were struck by lightning and killed in the Chongyun Mountain Region. There must be something "existing" in those mountains, which might be the reason why Mr. Xiang chose to live in Chongyun Village for a long time and set up that Research Base.

However, after hesitating for a moment, he did not voice his thoughts and judgments.

A few minutes later, the instant noodles were ready, and Liu Shiling brought Little Apple downstairs to eat them.

While sitting at the table eating noodles, the two girls, who are usually quite lively and talkative, both ate their noodles in silence, their heads down, creating a somewhat oppressive atmosphere.

Especially Little Apple, when she came downstairs, you could see that her eyes were a little red and swollen, her brows were furrowed, and her expression was not quite right, which was very different from her usual happy and sunny appearance.

Xia Tianhuo couldn't help but whisper to Lao Xia, "What's wrong with Little Apple?"

Xia Libing said, "Gold Glitter was injured on her way back before the fog came up, and they were both very sad."

Thinking of the intelligent and chubby canary, Xia Tianhuo asked with concern, "Is it badly injured?" He immediately understood why the Little Chubby Girl had been in that state earlier; it seemed she wasn't aggressive, but rather worried.

Chu Xiuwen quickly added, "I know an old friend who used to run a pet hospital in Jianzhou City. He lives in town now. Since the fog has lifted, shall I take you to see the birds?"

Xia Libing shook her head and said, "No need, the wound has been treated and bandaged, it's fine."

Hearing her words, Xia Tianhuo and Chu Xiuwen both assumed that Gold Glitter's injuries were probably just minor superficial wounds that could be easily treated with some alcohol and iodine. As for Little Apple and Little Chubby Girl's reactions, they were understandable. Little Apple couldn't see and couldn't determine the extent of Gold Glitter's injuries, and Little Chubby Girl was too young and would be frightened by blood, so she was a little overly concerned and overreacted. Lao Xia, on the other hand, was much calmer.

But Lao Xia always seems so calm.

After drinking a cup of tea and seeing that the rain had subsided considerably, Chu Xiuwen took his leave.

On his way back, he drove around the newly built village road to check if Liu Caifu was awake. Then he went to Xiang Kun's Research Base construction site and chatted with the Liu Gaoshang and Liu Zhengyi, who were both awake.

On the other side, Xia Tianhuo started to feel sleepy even after drinking tea. Seeing that Little Apple and Little Chubby Girl had finished their noodles and were whispering to each other, he told Lao Xia that he was going upstairs to his room to sleep.

As he passed by Little Apple's room on the second floor, he wanted to check on Gold Glitter, so he opened the door and peeked inside.

As soon as the door opened, a Big Cat stood up from the table, staring at them with wide eyes. In that instant, this usually silly and cute fat cat suddenly exuded an aura that was inconsistent with its size, startling Xia Tianhuo, who was over 1.9 meters tall.

However, upon recognizing him, the chubby Egg Pie slumped down again, its head bowed and eyes lowered, as if it were dozing off.

Behind it was Gold Glitter, whose body was half-wrapped in bandages.

A cat guarding a bird?

Downstairs, Xia Libing, who had also eaten a bowl of instant noodles, looked at the two girls who were still full of energy and showed no signs of sleepiness, and asked, "Aren't you going to sleep?"

Little Apple shook her head. "I can't sleep."

Liu Shiling shook her head as well. "Me too."

Xia Libing first checked with Alice on her phone to confirm that Xia Tianhuo had gone back to his room and gone to bed. Then she contacted Xiang Kun, asked him a few questions, and then asked Little Apple and Liu Shiling, "Are you afraid of ants?"

"I'm not afraid," Little Apple said.

"I'm not afraid... not afraid!" Liu Shiling said halfway, but after hearing Little Apple's reply, she quickly corrected herself, swallowed, and added softly, "I'm not afraid as long as the ants don't crawl on me or bite me."

Xia Libing nodded and instructed, "Go put on another layer of clothing and change your shoes. Let's go out."

Thinking they were going to find out where the heavily injured Gold Glitter monster had gone, Little Apple and Little Chubby Girl perked up and rushed upstairs to change their clothes and shoes before coming down.

Then Xia Libing led the two of them out the door. The rain had mostly stopped, and the moon had peeked out again. With the help of the village streetlights, it was clear enough to see without using a power line.

Xia Libing held the Little Chubby Girl's hand with her left hand and the Little Apple's hand with her right hand, but instead of heading towards the edge of the village and closer to Chongyun Mountain, she led them to the courtyard she and Xiang Kun had rented when they first arrived in Chongyun Village.

After taking out the key and opening the gate, Xia Libing led the two into the yard, but instead of going inside, she turned on the porch light, walked back, and stood directly in the middle of the yard, flipping a Coin in her hand, as if waiting for something.

A moment later, two dark objects flew up from the tree and the grass next to it, landing on Xia Libing's arm.

Liu Shiling instinctively stepped back, but her hands gripped the hem of Xia Libing's clothes tightly, her eyes wide as she stared at the two dark, one large and one small objects in Xia Libing's hands.

"Roast Chicken Wing Sister, this... is an ant?!" The Little Chubby Girl's face was full of frightened expressions, as if to say, "Sister, I'm not well-educated, don't lie to me."

The larger one was bigger and fatter than an AA battery, and had thin wings, making it look nothing like an ant. The other one was smaller, about the size of her little finger, and also had thin wings. Its carapace looked smooth and shiny, and it had barbs, making it look quite ferocious.

Upon seeing these two "ants," the Little Chubby Girl felt a chill run down her spine and her scalp tingle. If it weren't for Xia Libing's promise and instructions beforehand, and the presence of her sister Little Apple, she would have already run away crying, or thrown out her five Little Sprite Guardians, including Chocolate and Ice Cream, to "protect" them.

Little Apple didn't react much. She held her phone, pointed the camera at the two "ants," and tilted her head, seemingly deep in thought.

Alice is using her phone camera, the existing cameras in the yard, and the Super-Linked Object in the yard to simulate various information about the two "ants" into cognitive information that Little Apple can understand, and then transmitting it to her.

"Sister Bing, are these two ants raised by Uncle Xiang?" Little Apple asked. From Xia Libing's brief conversation with Xiang Kun, she realized that these two ants might also be special beings like Gold Glitter, and possess special abilities from Xiang Kun.

Xia Libing nodded. "Yes."

Upon hearing this answer, Liu Shiling suddenly felt less scared. She even found the two large ants to be as chubby and cute as the Egg Pie and the Gold Glitter, and couldn't help but stand on tiptoe to take a closer look.

Xia Libing placed the larger ant in Little Apple's palm and said, "This is Zero Zero Two, the queen ant."

He placed the smaller ant on the Little Chubby Girl's arm through her clothes and said, "This is Zero Zero One, it's a worker ant."

"Ah, its name has 'bell' in it, just like mine?"

"It's the zero of a zero."

"Oh."

Liu Shiling gently touched the "Zero Zero One" mark on her arm with her finger. The large ant's front antennae and two translucent antennae touched her finger, tilted its head, and rubbed its back against her fingernail.

Feeling the large ant's affection, Liu Shiling felt no fear or worry. She chuckled and teased the ant, murmuring, "Zero Zero One, you are 01, I am Shiling, which is 40, so I am older than you... Forty minus one equals... equals... Ten minus one equals nine, four minus one equals three... Thirty-nine, I am thirty-nine older than you, you have to call me Big Sister."

"Little Bell, ants don't chirp," Little Apple laughed.

"It's okay, I'll teach it," Liu Shiling said.

Xia Libing let the two of them play with ants in the yard while she went to open the door and went inside. A little while later, she came out carrying two specially made boxes.

Place the box in the yard, open the special lid, and you'll immediately see a swarm of black ants inside, flapping their wings and taking flight.

Although these flying ants are far smaller than Zero Zero One and Zero Zero Two, they are still a size larger than ordinary ants, and at first glance, the scene is indeed quite terrifying.

Liu Shiling was startled and instinctively wanted to hide, but then she remembered that these were probably the bald uncle's pets, so she put on her hood, hunched her neck, and watched carefully.

Fortunately, after the flying ants scattered, they quickly gathered again above Lao Xia's head and did not go near Little Chubby Girl or Little Apple.

Xia Libing took two small cloth bags, each about the size of a palm, from her coat pocket and handed them to the Little Chubby Girl and Little Apple respectively. "Give these to the flying ants and let them take them into the mountains to search for the place that was struck by lightning, and help Alice find the 'monster' that ran away."

Upon hearing this, the Little Chubby Girl and the Little Apple perked up immediately. They carefully poured the tungsten steel beads out of their small cloth bag, spread them on their palms, and then let the flying ants come over and use their forelegs and mandibles to put the tungsten steel beads into their mouths before flapping their wings and flying away.

The tingling, itchy feeling as the ants crawled on her palm made Little Apple burst out laughing, seemingly sweeping away the gloom she felt when Gold Glitter was injured.

The Little Chubby Girl reached into the cloth bag, then took it out, covering one finger with a dense layer of tungsten carbide beads, and said to Lao Xia, "Look, Roast Chicken Wing Sister!"

The tungsten steel bead covering her index finger flowed like water across her skin.

"I know, these are Alice's magic beads!" Liu Shiling said happily. She controlled them by sensing the five Coin on her body. Although there was a layer between them, the low-complexity control was still very easy, after all, these beads were too small and too light.

After sending out more than two hundred flying ants and having Zero Zero One Zero Zero Two lead them into the mountains, Xia Libing took the two boxes back into the house, locked the courtyard gate, and took Little Chubby Girl and Little Apple home.

Back home, she went to the bedroom, changed her clothes and slippers, and found Little Chubby Girl and Little Apple sitting in a row at the foot of the bed. Xia Libing placed her laptop on the table in front of the bed.

Alice brought up an electronic map on the screen and then marked the locations of more than two hundred ants carrying the Super-Linked Object with dots.

As you can see, more than two hundred small dots, on the edge of Chongyun Village, move outward in an orderly fashion, like an army launching an attack.

With these two hundred-plus Super-Linked Object, Alice essentially had a "mobile version of Chongyun Village" capable of short-term detection and manifestation, or rather, she forcibly extended the scope of Chongyun Village by relying on these ants.

In this way, Alice can clearly determine whether there are any "Mutated Creature" within the coverage area, and analyze the relevant extrasensory information to determine whether the "Mutated Creature" have been struck by lightning and reduced to ashes.

In fact, arranging for Zero Zero One, Zero Zero Two, and those secondary derivative ant colonies to carry the Super-Linked Object Sphere to the mountainous area did not require Lao Xia, Little Apple, or Little Chubby Girl to operate; rather, Xiang Kun handled it remotely in his "Hyper-Sensory State."

Although Zero Zero One and Zero Zero Two have also entered the "Super-Sensing Item System", their comprehension and intelligence are far inferior to those of Egg Pie and Gold Glitter. With one layer between them, it would be difficult for Lao Xia, Little Apple, or Little Chubby Girl to issue precise commands to the secondary derivative ant colony through them.

However, Xia Libing still personally took Little Apple and Little Chubby Girl to complete this seemingly unnecessary step, because she knew that the two girls were truly "uneasy" about Gold Glitter's injury tonight.

Although they had teamed up to beat up the "strange giant bird" with the black monster formed from condensed sand, Xiang Kun Gold Glitter's injuries remotely, they had experienced the whole thing indoors. Before they were sure whether the "strange giant bird" was dead or had escaped, they were still feeling uneasy.

Since Xia Libing couldn't risk taking the two of them into the mountains to search, he could only let them lead the "distribution" of the Super-Linked Object of the ant army, giving them a real sense of participation in the search.

When the tiny dots representing ants on the computer screen reached the locations where the Little Chubby Girl had been struck by lightning five times, Alice appeared in the room, pointing and gesturing on the laptop screen with a scalpel.

"Zero Zero One this dot. It led the First Legion of 130 ants to the first mine pit. According to my senses, that insect wasn't electrocuted here. The Second Legion is led by Zero Zero Two. It went to the second mine pit to check first." Alice, who had materialized, sat cross-legged on the table, turning to the side and describing the specific investigation situation in her notebook. She even went so far as to divide the ant "army" into "legions."

The Little Chubby Girl was very interested in this novel way of investigation. She stared intently at the screen, her eyes shining, as if she were a commander-in-chief watching the operation of thousands of troops.

Little Apple, using the cognitive information directly simulated by Alice, was also exploring the mountainous area, even more intuitively than Little Chubby Girl.