Wasteland Farming, Manual for Raising Human Cubs

Chapter 166 Peter Pan Awakens

Late at night, when everything was quiet, Zhao Xiaoxiu suddenly felt something in her heart. She struggled to open her eyes and woke up.

There was a loud sound of waves coming from the other side of the pond. The floating fish that had been sleeping in the pond for a whole winter jumped out of the water. It was nearly three meters long and covered with silver scales. Under the moonlight, it emitted a faint halo.

It floated in the air, as if it had just woken up, waving its tail absentmindedly and circling the pond. Then its pointed triangular head turned and swam tentatively towards the green wall not far away.

The silver fish body gradually left the pond, floating in the air, moving forward bit by bit.

The two bean-sized fish eyes turned left and right, with a hint of surprise flashing in them, as if it couldn't believe that it could actually swim in the air without water.

It was a little excited, and suddenly flicked its tail and swam forward excitedly, but it fell from mid-air with a "bang" five hundred meters away from the pond.

The fall caught it off guard. It was too far away from the water, and the scales on its body quickly became dry. The three-meter-long fish body rolled on the grass in panic, sending up a pile of grass debris. Its mouth opened wide, and it looked as if it was about to suffocate.

When Zhao Xiaoxiu ran over from home holding her father's hand, this was the pitiful and ridiculous scene she saw.

"Peter Pan!" Zhao Xiaoxiu exclaimed.

She quickly glanced at the pond five hundred meters away, then at the silver floating fish that was struggling on the ground and seemed to have grown fatter. She was shocked and happy.

What’s surprising is that it should have been in the water, but it could run so far.

Fortunately, it finally woke up.

And it seems that there are new changes.

Peter Pan was also very happy to see her, but he felt as if he was about to die of thirst. He struggled hard, trying to get back into the water, and had no time to be intimate with his little master.

Zhao Xiaoxiu hurried forward and reached out to take it back.

But Peter Pan was no longer the size that she could easily hold in her arms. Zhao Xiaoxiu could not hold it with both hands. She had no choice but to pull its two fins and drag it towards the pond.

Zhao Gang raised his hand to support his forehead. In the end, he still felt sorry for his child, so he released a tentacle to help. Only then did Peter Pan return to the water before he suffocated to death.

There was a splash of water and Zhao Xiaoxiu quickly stepped back, otherwise Peter Pan would have almost splashed her with water.

After soaking in the water for a while, Peter Pan finally surfaced again, floating in mid-air, circling excitedly above Zhao Xiaoxiu's head. The fish's tail swept over her from time to time, narrowly avoiding causing Zhao Xiaoxiu to stumble.

But she didn't mind. After she stood firm, she laughed and wiped the water off her face with her hand, then looked up and said, "Peter Pan, you've grown up again!"

Peter Pan spit out a circle of bubbles, "Puff, puff, puff", to remind Zhao Xiaoxiu to pay attention to it, and then tried to fly out of the pond again.

It was flying in the air and Zhao Xiaoxiu was running along with it on the ground. He ran 500 meters in one breath. When he was less than 100 meters away from the green wall of his home, he suddenly stopped and dared not move forward.

Zhao Xiaoxiu noticed that the scales on Peter Pan's body sparkled at first, but gradually became dull and shriveled as he got farther away from the water.

Seeing that the water stains on the scales were almost drying up, Zhao Xiaoxiu hurriedly urged Peter Pan to go back.

As a result, he retreated less than fifty meters and then fell from the air again with a dull bang.

"Dad!" Zhao Xiaoxiu quickly asked for help from her father on the shore.

The tentacles flew over, swept up Peter Pan, who was struggling on the ground, and threw him into the pond with a "bang".

After failing twice, Peter Pan was very frustrated. Only his head was exposed on the water surface, rubbing against the palm of Zhao Xiaoxiu's outstretched hand.

Woo woo woo, it thought it could go to the other side of the house to play with its little master, but it turned out that it couldn't fly far at all. A floating fish that can never fly out of the pond is definitely a failure in its life!

Sensing Peter Pan's emotions, Zhao Xiaoxiu felt amused and a little distressed. She gently stroked its smooth fish head and encouraged him:

"Being able to fly so far out of the water, you are already the top hovering fish among all hovering fish. You are amazing!"

Perhaps feeling comforted, Peter Pan's mood improved. He stirred up a wave of water with his tail and sprayed it towards the small wooden boat parked on the shore, wanting Zhao Xiaoxiu to go up and play with it.

Zhao Xiaoxiu was so excited to see the changes in Peter Pan that she couldn't fall asleep. But she didn't plan to play boring games with Peter Pan.

After tapping Peter Pan's fish head to let it stay quiet for a while, Zhao Xiaoxiu got up and ran home.

She wanted to do an experiment to verify her guess.

Zhao Gang followed behind with great interest, watching his cub carry the family's basins, ladles, watering cans, etc. onto her small hoverboard and drag it to the edge of the pond.

"Dad, if Peter Pan and I fall down later, you have to catch us." Before the action, Zhao Xiaoxiu seriously instructed Zhao Gang.

Zhao Gang nodded to indicate that he understood.

Zhao Xiaoxiu took a deep breath, suppressed her excitement, and waved to Peter Pan to come out of the water.

"Lower, lower, let me sit on your back," she said.

Peter Pan moved clumsily and finally reached the right height so that Zhao Xiaoxiu could climb onto his back.

Zhao Xiaoxiu held the leash of the hoverboard in one hand and supported Peter Pan's back with the other, and quickly moved to the front center of it.

Peter Pan thought she wanted him to carry him flying, so he flicked his tail in delight and prepared to float up.

Zhao Xiaoxiu felt the weightlessness and floating, and quickly shouted, "Don't move!"

Peter Pan was startled and retracted the magnetic field he had released, floating steadily above the ground.

Zhao Xiaoxiu didn't dare to delay and quickly put the leash between its two fins, jumped off its back and sat on the hoverboard.

Next to her were various containers filled with water.

Zhao Xiaoxiu held a watering can in one hand and a stainless steel ladle filled with water in the other. He cleared his throat and said, "Peter Pan, fly forward, fly higher!"

Because of the trauma caused by the two previous "plane crashes", Peter Pan no longer dared to be reckless this time. He first floated to the highest height he could reach after leaving the water, which was about twenty-seven or twenty-eight meters.

Then it started to move forward and slowly flew towards the residential area.

The hoverboard was pulled by Peter Pan and floated in the air.

There was only a light breeze on the ground tonight. As the altitude increased, the wind Zhao Xiaoxiu felt became stronger and stronger.

The hot wind blew up her sleeves and trouser legs, and her hair all stood up like a lit torch.

Looking down, the bright full moon of the night was reflected on the pond, and Dad turned into a black dot, standing on the lighter gray ground.

A gust of wind blew from the slope, causing the hoverboard to sway, and Zhao Xiaoxiu's heart was also lifted.

Without any safety measures, her small body could be blown down by the wind, which was very dangerous.