Pet King - Chapter 425

Chapter 425: Nightmare



Zhang Zian dreamt that he was in a snowy plateau . The sky was gloomy, the chilly wind was sharp as a knife, and he was surrounded by white snow . Beside him were a few people whose silhouettes were fuzzy . They seemed to have lost consciousness, and only he was awake, wrapped tightly by the overwhelming loneliness . He held the steel gun tightly to his chest and would not throw it away, even as he shivered in the coldness .
There was something moving around him, he looked down and found that it was Famous . It was lying alongside those figures, as if trying to warm them up with its own body .
The snow kept falling, piling thicker and thicker on the ground . It seemed that in this world, only two creatures, he and Famous, were alive .
Suddenly, Famous’s ears moved . Sitting up from the lying position, its eyes stared at the snow-covered distant place .
"What's the matter, Famous?" Zhang Zian asked and stretched his ears like Famous . He did not hear any sound, but the wind and snow had brought some smell, like the rancidity emitted from some beasts .
His heart was racing . Holding his steel gun firmly on the snow wall built by his comrades in defense of the enemy's attacks, he starred in the direction of the wind .
Pairs of ghost-fire like green eyes appeared one-by-one in the blizzard . The dark sky had sketched their muscular bodies . They silently stopped beyond the firing range of the steel gun, besieging him in the distance in the shape of a fan . Without taking the risk of attacking, they just needed to trap those humans and wait for them to all freeze to death—a perfect hunting plan . Their leader must have been as cunning as a fox .
His heart was pounding faster, and he glanced back at his injured comrades . In the face of being besieged by the beasts, he could not withstand it for long by himself . All of them were doomed to be devoured by these beasts .
"Famous, run! Only you can escape from this," he said to Famous .
Famous looked at him, then shook its head . Suddenly it jumped on the snow wall, roaring at the distant beasts as if trying to provoke them! T
he beasts were aggravated . No matter how organized they were, they were beasts after all .
"What are you doing, Famous?" He asked in astonishment .
Famous looked back at him . Its eyes were so pure and calm, without any fear of death .
"Famous wants to be an angel," Famous said .
Before he could stop it, Famous had jumped off the snow wall, running and barking in the other direction .
Just like iron sand attracted by a magnet, the formations of the beasts became chaotic and messy . Driven by their instincts, innumerable beasts chased after Famous .
"Famous!" He yelled .


. . .
"Fa… Achoo!" Zhang Zian loudly sneezed and sat up from the bed suddenly .

The sky was not yet completely bright, and the elves in the bedroom were awakened by his sneezing . Eyes of various colors were silently watching him, but fortunately, there had been no ghostfire-like green eyes in his nightmare . Fina's eyes were green, but were shiny like emeralds, completely different from the ghostfire-like green eyes .
He looked down . He was sitting on his own bed, without a steel gun in his arms . But where was his quilt?
Looking to the side, he found that the quilt had been pulled off and was covering Richard . It seemed that it was not enough for Richard to take his clothes . Where the hell did a bird have so much strength?!
No wonder he had had this strange dream in the snow, and no wonder he was frozen; he had suffered from the coldness the whole night…
Zhang Zian really wanted to throw Richard out of the window, but it would certainly imitate a girl's voice and shout for help . Not only could he not punish it, but he would cause trouble for himself as well!
"I had a nightmare . " He laughed innocently at the elves . "Don’t blame me . Blame Richard . It took my quilt away . "


He looked to the location where Famous was lying, and their eyes met . For some unknown reason, Zhang Zian felt that Famous knew that he had just had a nightmare, and it was conveying a reassuring message to him with its deep black eyes .
He touched the pajamas on his chest . They were drenched in sweat . He must change clothes now or else it might worsen his cold . Bedside him there was a clean pair of spare pajamas . In order to prevent them from being soiled by Richard, he had stuffed it under the pillow . He reached out and pulled out his pajamas . A pamphlet on the pillow fell to the ground . It was the script of Dog Warrior .
What you read is what you dream . He must have been engrossed in the script, causing him to have such a nightmare .
The drowsiness of the elves was scared away by his sneezing . Since the sky was brightening up, they got up gradually .
After practicing Kung Fu for a while, Zhang Zian cleaned the store a little and went to fetch breakfast for the elves . Time was passing quickly .
Lu Yiyun still came to work early, much earlier than when Zhang Zian had specified . She was carrying a digital drawing board and a shoulder bag, which contained her cat Jasmine .
"Mr . Store Manager, you don’t look very well . Did you not sleep well last night?" She placed the drawing board on the cashier's desk, turned her head, and noticed the strangeness on his face .
Zhang Zian was stunned, he could not help but reach out and touch his face . "Is it so obvious? I had a nightmare this morning . "
"You look paler than usual," she said . In fear that he did not believe her, she pointed at her thick glasses . "Although I am myopic, I am sensitive to colors . "
This explanation was so convincing that Zhang Zian had to believe her . He had seen some of Lu Yiyun's work . As a professional artist, she had a very accurate grasp of colors and always colored her work just right . When she was in the shop, she only drew an outline . She would color the pictures only after she returned to her apartment, using the professional graphics monitor, which was more upscale than the normal monitor in Zhang Zian's shop . She said that his monitor was simply "hard on the eyes . " But Zhang Zian was not to blame for this . Who would buy a professional graphics monitor for the computer used at the cash register in the store?
Lu Yiyun took Jasmine out of the bag, and Zhang Zian handed her a food bowl . "Did Jasmine have breakfast yet? Here are some skewers with no salt . Eat them while they are still warm . "
"Well…this…this is too much," she muttered .
"It’s nothing . This is part of your employee benefits . You don’t have to prepare breakfast for Jasmine at home, just bring it here . There is always excess barbecue here anyway . " Before she could decline, Zhang Zian put the bowl down and left .
Jasmine smelled the flavor of barbecue, broke free from Li Yiyun’s arms, walked to the edge of the bowl, sniffed, then gobbled up the meat .
"Is it delicious?" Lu Yiyun stroked Jasmine's neck, smiling happily . Jasmine felt comforted by her touch . It narrowed its eyes and meowed .
When it finished the barbecue, Lu Yiyun went to clean the food bowl . A police vehicle parked in front of the shop .
With a grim expression on his face, Sheng Ke took a kraft paper portfolio bag from the passenger’s seat and trotted into the shop . There was no file number on the cover but there was a surname scribbled on it—"Guan" .