Wasteland Farming, Manual for Raising Human Cubs

Chapter 63 Fish Can Think

Can fish think?

Zhao Xiaoxiu sat on a rock beside the pond, with a pole at her feet and a chopped pear in her hand. She looked at the floating fish on the water with changing eyes and fell into deep thought.

Maybe they would? She wasn't sure.

"Will you dare to bite me next time?" The girl asked, standing with one foot on the stone and with her hands on her hips.

The suspended fish actually shook its head left and right in the water.

Zhao Xiaoxiu stared in amazement, thinking she had seen it wrong. She grabbed a handful of chopped pears, squatted down at the edge of the pond, and slowly stretched out her hand.

The floating fish glanced at her obviously, then swam towards her little by little.

"Stop!" Zhao Xiaoxiu suddenly shouted.

The suspended fish stopped swimming and tilted its body in confusion.

Although it looked stupid, Zhao Xiaoxiu not only sensed its emotions this time, but also realized that it was thinking.

It was thinking about what she meant by this.

This is really strange, it wasn't like this yesterday.

Zhao Xiaoxiu waved again, "Little Peter Pan, come here."

The floating fish raised its head from the water. It knew that she was calling it Peter Pan.

"Has it become a spirit?" Zhao Xiaoxiu murmured, and then looked at the pair of fish eyes. It had an obvious reaction as soon as she opened her mouth to speak.

A cool breeze blew over from the river, and Zhao Xiaoxiu suddenly got goose bumps all over her body.

Her heart beat faster and she called out Peter Pan again.

The hoverfish swam forward a little, looked at her, and then looked at her outstretched hand.

"If you bite me again, I will kill you and make fish soup with you!" Zhao Xiaoxiu warned, grabbing the pole with his other hand.

It had just been poked by the pole several times, and there was obvious fear in its eyes.

The floating fish came closer and closer and was already under Zhao Xiaoxiu's fingertips.

She kept her warning eyes on it and slowly lowered her hand beneath the water.

The broken pears floated up, and the suspended fish tentatively ate one first, then swung its tail away, obviously happy.

But it did not rush to eat the next one immediately. Instead, it looked at Zhao Xiaoxiu first. Seeing that she did not take the next step, it swam over and ate a piece of the broken pear.

But Zhao Xiaoxiu could clearly feel that when the triangular fish head swam past her fingers, it always seemed to want to get closer.

Zhao Xiaoxiu took a deep breath and deliberately reached out to touch it.

The entire body of the floating fish suddenly turned around, its head rushed towards her, its tail flapping loudly, and high splashes of water instantly appeared on the water surface.

It flew up, spitting bubbles from its mouth and delivering them to her palm.

Zhao Xiaoxiu stretched out her finger and poked it, and it broke. A water mist firework bloomed brilliantly before her eyes.

It spit out a bubble like this yesterday to tempt her to come closer. Zhao Xiaoxiu was always on guard against its next unexpected attack.

Unexpectedly, it spit out several bubbles one after another, flying around her, and in its fish eyes it was waiting for her to pop them.

Zhao Xiaoxiu poked them one by one, and water mist bloomed around her, colorful and brilliant.

When the floating fish saw that she had made all the mistakes, it seemed to think she was very happy. It jumped into the water and swam around in the water for several circles. It looked very happy.

An inexplicable feeling of intimacy surged into Zhao Xiaoxiu's heart. She looked into the water. She didn't know whether it was because of the refraction of light or something else, but she felt that the fish seemed to be bigger than when she saw it yesterday. Zhao Xiaoxiu put her hand into the water again, shaking the water, and the waves spread out. The floating fish immediately swam towards her happily, flicking its tail.

"Peter Pan," she called it.

It stopped beneath her palm, its mouth rubbing against her fingers and palm, longing for something.

Zhao Xiaoxiu suddenly had an idea in her mind. It couldn't be...
She suddenly stood up, and her little hand in the water also left the water. The floating fish jumped, thinking that she was leaving, and tried to catch up with her.

Zhao Xiaoxiu turned around and saw this scene. He made up his mind, picked up a pointed stone, and stabbed his palm with it.

The sharp stone pierced his palm and blood oozed out instantly. Zhao Xiaoxiu frowned, went back to the pond and placed his palm beside the water.

The suspended fish immediately approached excitedly, but this time it was not as eager to bite her as it was yesterday.

It swam anxiously around her palm until she called softly, "Peter Pan."

It flicked its tail and opened its mouth to the edge of her palm.

Zhao Xiaoxiu tilted his palm, and the blood gathered in his palm immediately flowed into the wide-open mouth of the suspended fish.

However, after drinking just a little, the wound on the palm of his hand healed automatically.

Peter Pan swam around her palm contentedly, looking very intimate.

Zhao Xiaoxiu touched the fish head. There were no scales there and it was slippery and felt very good. He unconsciously rubbed it for a while.

When she came to her senses, she found that Peter Pan looked like he was about to faint from comfort, and he was lying flat on the water, floating motionless.

Zhao Xiaoxiu touched his chest, and his originally vague sense of Peter Pan's emotions now became extremely clear.

It was happy, liking her touch and wanting to play with her.

I even wanted to invite her to go swimming with me.

Zhao Xiaoxiu couldn't swim, so he quickly stood up, took a few steps back and stood in a safe place.

Peter Pan, who was floating on the water like a dead fish, noticed her leaving and immediately turned over and swam towards the shore. A triangle fish head emerged, and two fish eyes looked at her eagerly.

This is so wrong!

Zhao Xiaoxiu walked home carrying the pole while looking at her palms.

She was now certain that Peter Pan's change was because he had eaten her flesh and drunk her blood yesterday.

It became obedient to her and seemed to become a little smarter. A mysterious connection had grown between them.

A fish suddenly has intelligence, and it was given by her, so what is she?
"Dad, have I become a monster?" Zhao Xiaoxiu asked pitifully when she walked into the tool room and saw Zhao Gang.

Zhao Gang had just fixed a small children's dining table and was about to call Zhao Xiaoxiu over to try out the height. When he looked up, he saw her frowning face with an aggrieved expression that looked like she was about to cry, and he couldn't help but sigh softly.

Zhao Xiaoxiu felt that he was becoming more and more like a human being, and she herself was becoming more and more strange.

"Why are you unhappy?" Zhao Gang came in front of her, squatted down, and looked at her level. "Peter Pan is different from other floating fish now. It can help you do things. Isn't that good?"

“Okay, but I…” Zhao Xiaoxiu raised her eyes and saw two blood-red tentacles sneaking out from behind Zhao Gang’s collar. Her face instantly fell and her mouth flattened. “Wow, I don’t want to grow tentacles!”

The tentacles were unhappy, and they opened their fleshy buds to the left and right, revealing densely packed fangs, and pushed in front of Zhao Xiaoxiu.

"Is the tentacles bad?" There was a hint of grievance in Zhao Gang's tone that he himself didn't even notice.

Zhao Xiaoxiu stopped crying. Oh no, it seemed like she had made her father sad.

(End of this chapter)