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Chapter 111 Water Monkey

After taking the peacock's paw print, the zookeeper took it back, saying he would bring another one over.

Lin Yu poured the last spoonful of plaster into the mold and looked up.

The zookeeper had already walked away and turned behind the iron gate.

Ruan Yunxian lifted her head from Lin Yu's shoulder and blinked.

"Are we just going to wait here forever?"

"It should be."

"But this is so boring—I wish I hadn't come. Going to the zoo would have been much more interesting."

"Weren't you quite happy just now?"

"But I'm just bored right now."

"I think you're just bored."

Although Ruan Yunxian disliked the female peacock for not having beautiful feathers or a fluffy feel, he still couldn't resist touching it a few times.

She was so busy having fun that Lin Yu did almost all the work. And that's still the case now.

"Senior, what do you think the next one will be?"

"have no idea."

"I hope it's the fluffy kind."

"Haven't you come to terms with reality yet? We only have birds here, they only have feathers, no down."

Lin Yu set the plaster mold, which had not yet solidified, aside and prepared another mold.

The plaster takes about 15 to 30 minutes to set, but we can't just wait like that, so we prepared three molds in advance.

"Yes, chicks are fluffy!" Ruan Yunxian immediately retorted, "Children are indeed fluffy!"

Lin Yu had almost finished his work and glanced at Ruan Yunxian.

"You expect the zookeeper to bring you a newborn cub?"

Ruan Yunxian's eyes lit up.

"May I?!"

What do you think?

"All right."

After a while, footsteps could be heard in the corridor.

Ruan Yunxian immediately raised her head.

"Here it comes!"

The zookeeper appeared at the door, carrying a new cage.

"Brother, isn't it too much trouble for us to keep going back and forth like this?"

Lin Yu couldn't help but ask a question.

"There's nothing I can do, that's how the regulations are." The zookeeper held the two birds' claws and imprinted their claw marks on the mold, then looked up with a hint of helplessness. "I can't bring too many of them at once."

"Then we can go over there." Lin Yu was a little puzzled; they could actually move around a bit.

"It's a pity, you haven't been quarantined, so according to regulations you can't go in," the zookeeper said somewhat helplessly. "Actually, strictly speaking, even we can't really do it this way."

"Huh? Is this not okay?"

"Strictly speaking, that's not possible. In principle, you should also go through quarantine and obtain a certificate. It's not as simple as just wearing shoe covers, masks, gloves, and hats."

But it doesn't matter, anyway, those leaders aren't exactly law-abiding either—"

"Brother, it's done."

Sensing that things were getting out of hand, Lin Yu quickly spoke up to stop the zookeeper's increasingly dangerous remarks.

"Alright, running back and forth like this isn't going to work. Let's go over there."

The zookeeper thought for a moment and realized that there were quite a few animals scheduled for today, and it would probably take several hours to finish.

Running back and forth here all the time is too tiring, so we simply took Lin Yu and walked a bit further inside.

"This is it, we can't go any further."

Although he hadn't gone inside yet, Lin Yu could already smell the mixture of various poultry droppings.

This reminded Lin Yu of the chicken coop in his rural hometown when he was a child; he had never liked the taste of chicken there.

I even feel nauseous every time I pass by.

"Let's move back a bit, hopefully this won't be too much of a hassle for you?"

While the zookeeper went inside, Lin Yu quietly moved back a little.

Lin Yu suddenly regretted saying that, since it wasn't him who was running back.

"What's wrong, senior?"

Lin Yu frowned, trying to overcome the smell that made him feel nauseous.

"It's nothing, I'm just not used to the taste."

Ruan Yunxian sniffed lightly: "It does smell like chicken manure."

"Senior, you don't get chicken-phobic, do you?"

"What kind of strange statement is that?"

"Some people feel unwell when they see needles, which is called needle phobia; some feel uncomfortable when they see blood, which is called blood phobia. Senior, you feel unwell when you smell chicken, isn't that chicken phobia?"

"————You can use this word if you want."

Ruan Yunxian chuckled, then took something out of her pocket and handed it to him.

"Give."

Ruan Yunxian took out a small bottle of floral water.

"It might be better to spray this on the mask."

Lin Yu took it, turned his back, sprayed it lightly in the air, and then waved his mask a few times in the air where the mist of floral water had fallen.

Lin Yu did not spray it directly onto the mask as Ruan Yunxian had suggested, because that would have made the smell too strong and pungent.

"Senior, why don't you just spray it on the mask?"

Lin Yu handed the perfume back to her.

"Spraying it directly is too strong; this way the scent is more even."

Ruan Yunxian took the perfume bottle and nodded thoughtfully.

"Senior, you're so particular."

"Do you spray it directly onto your body? Don't you usually spray it on your collar and cuffs?"

"That's true." Ruan Yunxian nodded thoughtfully. "I didn't expect you to know so much, senior."

"If you don't have a good reason to praise someone, you don't have to force it," Lin Yu glanced at her. "It's just basic common sense."

"Why do I feel more and more tired as we walk?" The zookeeper picked up the last pheasant. "Luckily we moved it over here, otherwise it would have been even more tiring."

Lin Yu glanced at his previous position. After moving around a few times, his current position had shifted quite a distance from where he was before.

Even after spraying Ruan Yunxian's floral water, Lin Yu still couldn't stand the smell of poultry and could only move away discreetly.

Lin Yu was doing well, but the zookeeper suffered. He had to do a shuttle run, add weight, and then do an incremental set at the end.

Who could stand this?

After packing up all the supplies, Lin Yu returned to the original meeting place with a large pile of molded paw prints and handed them over to Teacher Zhu.

"Wow, you guys are fast!"

Lin Yu's group was the fastest to complete the task; the other groups hadn't returned yet.

"There's still about an hour before closing time. Would you like to go for a walk in the park?"

Since there was still time, Lin Yu did indeed have this idea. He had heard that there were water monkeys at Hongshan Zoo. He wanted to go and see them.

"Let's go, senior, let's go for a walk!"

Stepping out of the work area and back into the visitor area, Ruan Yunxian took a deep breath.

"They're finally out!"

Lin Yu glanced at her.

"What's wrong? Tired of being in there?"

"It's not that I'm tired of it—it's just that the air outside is a bit better."

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