Oh no! I've been kept as a pet by a stray killer whale!

Giving a bath to several orcas weighing several tons is definitely a physically demanding task worthy of a Guinness World Record.

After Jiang Che finally finished serving the difficult old man, the fat man, and then cleaned the barnacles off the dorsal fin of the vain little female whale, he felt like his arm no longer belonged to him.

Sour, bloated, numb.

My arms looked like I'd just spent three hours lifting weights at the gym; even lifting them was a struggle.

"Alright, alright... I really can't do it today."

Jiang Che waved his hand, refusing the whiny girl's unreasonable request to "add more minutes," and dragged his heavy steps back to the shore.

It was 2 p.m., the time when the sun was at its strongest.

Although he had just been looked down upon by the orcas, Jiang Che still felt a sense of satisfaction looking at the neatly structured single-slope wooden house standing on the edge of the coconut grove.

In any case, this is a nest, a place that can shelter us from the wind and rain.

"It still needs some improvement."

Jiang Che was a perfectionist. He noticed that the ends of the vines he had used to tie the crossbeams were too long, drooping down in an unsightly way and posing a tripping hazard.

So he pulled out the Swiss Army knife that had served him so well from his waist and walked to a pillar of the cabin.

"Trim this loose thread."

Jiang Che grabbed the rough vine with his left hand, gripped the knife in his right, and made a forceful cut.

The vine had already dried out somewhat, making it extremely resilient. Jiang Che failed to cut it off with his first stroke, so he increased his strength and flicked his wrist sharply.

collapse--!

The vine broke.

But in that instant, the blade shifted slightly due to excessive force, and the sharp edge grazed the vines, grazing the pad of Jiang Che's left index finger.

"hiss--"

Jiang Che gasped and withdrew his hand as if he had been electrocuted.

The pain of having his fingers instantly slashed by a sharp blade made him furrow his brow.

He looked down.

A cut about two centimeters long appeared on my fingertip. It wasn't deep and didn't damage any tendons or bones, but due to the tension of the skin, bright red blood quickly seeped out from the wound and gathered into a full bead of blood.

Tick.

The drop of blood slid down her fingertip and fell onto the pristine white sand, instantly staining the sand into a striking little red flower.

"I was careless..."

Jiang Che shook his hand in annoyance.

In the wild, any wound carries the risk of infection.

He instinctively put his finger in his mouth and sucked on it. Then, to clean the dirt around the wound, he turned and walked to the beach to rinse it with seawater.

Although rinsing a wound with seawater can be painful, the high salinity of seawater has a certain bactericidal effect. In the absence of alcohol and iodine, this is the most primitive and effective disinfection method.

Jiang Che squatted down and put his injured finger into the clear seawater.

A thin line of red blood spread rapidly in the blue seawater, then disappeared.

To Jiang Che, this was just an ordinary little incident in life. Even ordinary people have cut their hands while chopping vegetables at home, let alone researchers; a band-aid is all it takes.

however.

He clearly underestimated the seriousness of this matter in the eyes of "certain beings".

He also forgot that at this very moment, he was crouching in front of five apex predators with the most sensitive sense of smell in the ocean.

Sharks can smell the stench of a single drop of blood from kilometers away.

Orcas, as hunters even more advanced than sharks, possess an incredibly sophisticated sense of smell.

Just as Jiang Che's fingers touched the seawater...

The family of orcas, who were lazily floating in the shallow water, basking in the sun and digesting their food, suddenly stiffened almost simultaneously.

The feeling was like a security team on their lunch break suddenly hearing a piercing air raid siren.

"Inhale—inhale—"

Big Fatty's huge nostrils suddenly opened, and with a gust of air, it inhaled a very special smell that it had never smelled before, with a hint of sweetness and fishiness, which instantly stimulated its olfactory nerves.

That's the smell of blood.

But it doesn't have the fishy smell of fish blood, nor the greasiness of seal blood.

It was a very light flavor, yet it sent shivers down the spine of the whale.

Big Fatty suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze instantly locking onto Jiang Che, who was squatting on the shore washing his hands.

It saw that trace of red that hadn't completely faded in the water.

next second.

In Jiang Che's mind, a thunderclap comparable to a nuclear explosion exploded without warning!

Holy crap!!!!

The roar was so piercing and fierce that it sounded as if someone had ripped a piece of flesh from Big Fatty's heart with a knife.

"Blood! It's blood!!"

"That's pet blood!!"

Big Fatty has gone mad.

Its massive body suddenly rolled over in the shallow water, creating a three-meter-high wave. Completely disregarding elegance and composure, it pounced directly at Jiang Che.

"Oh no! Oh no! It's leaking! The pet is leaking!!"

"I told you this thing was brittle! I told you it was a piece of shoddy construction that would crumble at the slightest touch! We didn't even touch it! How did it just crack by itself?!"

"This is death! This is definitely death!"

"Quick! Help! Level one alert! Everyone, rescue people!!"

Jiang Che was so startled by the shout that he almost fell into the water.

He looked up, completely bewildered. Before he could even process what the fat man was up to, the entire orca pod was in an uproar.

The scene was exactly like an "emergency room ICU".

The old grandmother stopped pretending to be profound; her huge tail slapped the water's surface with a loud splash, her inner voice filled with the anxiety of an elder:

"Oh my goodness! My grandson! He's bleeding so much! How much of his life force has he lost!"

"Stop the bleeding! You must stop the bleeding immediately! Otherwise, it'll bleed to death and turn into a dried-up corpse!"

The most outrageous one is the whining monster.

The child burst into tears; the piercing whistle was so loud it hurt one's eardrums.

"Waaaaah! My pet is dying! My fetch partner is gone!"

"What do we do? What do we do? Big brother, you have to think of something!"

"That's it! Grass! That medicinal grass!"

Although the whimpering monster doesn't know what herbs are, in its genetic memory, it seems that applying something to a wound can help.

"I know where the grass is! I'll go find it!"

After saying that, the thing spun around in place twice like a headless fly, then suddenly plunged its head into the sand on the seabed and started frantically burrowing around.

Jiang Che was completely dumbfounded when he saw the enormous, chaotic group of creatures in front of him.

He held up the finger that was still slightly bleeding, his eyes twitching.

"No... guys..."

"I only got a cut, is it really that big of a deal?"

"I bled more when I was a kid and my baby teeth were falling out!"

But his explanation was clearly drowned out by the panic of the orca pod.

At this moment, the viewers in the live broadcast room were also startled by this sudden change.

[Holy crap? What happened? Why are the orcas suddenly acting up?]

[What did you do, streamer? Did you stir up a hole for the killer whale?]

[It looks like the streamer's hand is bleeding?]

[That's it? Is such a big deal to shed so little blood? Haven't these orcas ever seen anything like this before?]

[You don't understand, upstairs. In animals' eyes, injury equals weakness equals death. They're worried about the streamer!]

[While it's touching, isn't this reaction a bit...over the top? It's like the streamer has a terminal illness.]

But the most outrageous things are yet to come.