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Song Zhou rarely received calls from him during work hours. Thinking something had happened at home, he sounded tense. "What is it? I'll be home right away."

"It's nothing, don't panic." Lu Ao lay back in his recliner and sighed. "I just heard some news that's left me feeling pretty down, and I wanted to talk to you."

Song Zhou relaxed somewhat. "What news has you so unsettled?"

"It's about the group that came to our Marine Ranch to steal Dolphins before. Didn't they have someone backing them? Little Du told me today that the Dolphins their boss had on hand got sick, which was why they wanted to find new Dolphins as replacements. From the sound of it, the Dolphins in their boss's hands seem seriously ill."

The moment Song Zhou heard that, he knew Lu Ao couldn't let go of those sick Dolphins.

"Then what are you planning to do? I'll come pick you up, and we can look around together. Maybe we can find that zoo and ask about the situation."

"Yeah, that's what I mean." Lu Ao picked at his phone case. "What do you think? Is it too much meddling?"

"It's fine. This is our responsibility in the first place."

After saying that, Song Zhou hung up and teleported straight back.

The moment he returned to their courtyard, he saw Lu Ao half-reclining in the lounge chair, his eyes slightly unfocused.

Song Zhou walked over and gently stroked his cheek, looking into his eyes. "What's there to be so troubled about?"

"I don't know either. Hearing that news just made me feel awful." Lu Ao sighed. "Before I was reborn, I used to watch animal performances too."

Now that the animals performing had fallen ill, the tourists surely bore some responsibility as well.

If tourists