Super Zoo

The two new members of the team, the golden monkey and the baby fish, got along fairly well after some communication with Suming's spiritual power.

The golden monkey actually hadn't suffered any serious injuries. Upon examination, Suming found that the little guy had just shed some fur and had a few superficial wounds, while everything else was normal. The baby fish had a habit of storing food and had probably planned to eat it later when it was dragged into the cave, still not hungry. However, before the baby fish had a chance to eat, Mr. Qian had wriggled into the cave, driving the big baby fish out.

Compared to monkeys like macaques, the golden monkey was relatively 'well-behaved'. After understanding the situation, the little golden monkey sat in the corner of the cave, hunching its shoulders and staring with its dark, fearful eyes at the Diamond Parrot sisters and Haidong Qing. These guys were several times larger than it in size, and their presence in the cave felt quite oppressive.

And that scruffy little wolf didn't look too easy to mess with, either.

"Call me big brother! Call me big brother!"

"Smile! Smile!"

The two parrots began to teasingly hassle the golden monkey, one on either side.

The little golden monkey wouldn't call anyone big brother as it was scared stiff, huddled in a corner, daring not to move an inch.

"Don't scare it, you guys! Especially you two, if you're so capable, make Haidong Qing call you big brother!" Suming specially warned them, considering, after all, that they were a national class-1 protected animal.

The giant baby fish had also woken up by then. Its two dark, little fishy eyes stared at Suming for a while, looking somewhat unfriendly, but soon it shook its head and chickened out.

The creature might have been fierce, but it wasn't stupid; plus, it had been living for who knows how many years, so it was pretty sharp. It quickly grasped a few things: first, Suming meant no harm; second, it was powerless to resist; and third, it seemed that the person in front of it had saved it. Taking these points together, it would be foolish to make trouble for itself.

The big baby fish seemed very familiar with the cave, wagging its tail as it crawled into the wild man's den, nudging him with its head. Seeing that the wild man seemed still alive, it wagged and squirmed back out, found a bed-like big rock in the cave, and climbed up to lie down.

"So, you two are neighbors?" Suming discovered the relationship between the baby fish and the wild man only after probing with his spiritual power.

Initially, he had thought the baby fish had raised the wild man, but observing the wild man's behavior and mannerisms, he seemed more like a human than a feral child raised by animals.

It appeared that the two were merely neighbors, and it was extraordinary how they had managed to coexist peacefully until now without getting eaten by one another.

"Wa wa... wa wa..." The baby fish's cries echoed in the still cave as Suming's eyelids grew heavy. Holding a handgun and resting not far from the wild man, he soon fell asleep.

He didn't know how long he had slept when he felt a warm sensation on his face. Upon opening his eyes, there was the wild man's fuzzy face close to his own, large nostrils huffing out hot air.

"Good morning..." Suming didn't even know when his courage had grown so much. If it had been the past, waking up to such a sight would probably have scared him half to death, but now he was completely unflappable, not feeling the slightest bit of fear, and even lazily greeted the wild man.

"Hoh hoh..." The wild man showed an ugly smile on his face, shaking Suming's military water bottle in his hand at him.

"Wow, you want water again, big brother? Can you ever get enough, or are you the reincarnation of Sha Wujing..."

Before Suming could finish muttering, the savage surprisingly got up from the ground, bent at the waist, leaned against the wall, and slowly made his way to the cave entrance. Then, mimicking Suming's actions from the previous day, he pressed the water bottle to a puddle to fill it with water.

"Huh?" Suming was somewhat surprised. This guy has recovered so quickly? Shot three times, and after just one night's sleep, he could barely walk!

He scurried to his feet and walked to the cave entrance. The savage didn't look at him, squatting by the puddle, eyes wide open, intently staring at the water bottle and swaying it back and forth, making strange emphasis in his throat as if encountering something incomprehensible.

Suming looked into the pool and laughed. The fellow had the bottle's opening facing up, above the water surface, while putting the bottom of the bottle into the puddle. After trying to fill it for quite a while, not a single drop of water went in.

"That's not how it's used. Let me teach you," Suming said, shaking his head with a smile. The savage was imitating his water-filling actions from yesterday, but he hadn't seen clearly while lying in the cave.

The savage handed the water bottle to Suming with a puzzled look. Suming deliberately slowed down his movements, tilted the mouth of the bottle towards the puddle, and gently placed it in. Then the water poured into the bottle, creating a bubbling sound.

"Heh heh... heh heh..." The savage's eyes brightened, and he danced with joy. However, his movements were too vigorous, and he aggravated his wounds, making him grit his teeth in pain.

"You try it!" Suming poured the water back into the puddle and handed the empty bottle to the savage.

The savage's large hands took the bottle, first looking at Suming, then at the bottle in his hands, and finally staring at the puddle a few times. He hesitantly mimicked Suming, slowly tilting the bottle's mouth into the puddle.

With more bubbling, seeing the water fill the bottle, the savage was very excited, laughing foolishly with "heh heh heh" like it was a game. He kept pouring out the water from the bottle, filling it up again, then pouring it out and filling it up again, thoroughly enjoying himself.

Every time he filled the bottle with water, the savage would shake it towards Suming as if showing off a treasure. Hearing the sound of water hitting the sides, he would laugh contentedly.

Suming smiled and shook his head.

At this moment, aside from being a bit larger and more imposing than a normal person, the savage didn't seem much different from an innocent and naive child;

Yet just ten or so hours before, Suming had seen another side of him that was extremely dangerous. Da Xiong, a big burly man, was held like a doll in the savage's hands and was smashed to death. With one punch, he blew Mr. Qian's head apart, and he even managed to dodge the first bullet at the last moment by sheer instinct.

Suming rubbed the messy-haired head of the savage and said, "I'll teach you something else later. For now, stop playing and go back inside the cave to rest."

Without using spiritual power, the savage seemed to understand some of Suming's words, and nodded vigorously. Then, with both hands, he offered the water-filled bottle to Suming.

"Is this for me to drink?" Suming asked.

"Heh heh! Heh heh!" The savage thought Suming didn't understand his intention, so he gestured a drinking motion with his head held high while holding the water bottle, and handed it back to Suming.

Suming took the water bottle, frowning slightly.

He had felt that there was something strange about the water here yesterday.