Title: A Fake Holy Mother in the Zombie Apocalypse
Translator: Little Bamboo Spirit
Chapter 212 - The Mysterious Food Thief (2)
The monkey suddenly clasped its paws and bowed at her.
Bei Nuan was dumbfounded. "Did you guys see that? I-It's bowing at me."
Lu Xingchi glanced at her. "Why are you so excited? This only shows that he's very likely to be a pet. Isn't it normal for a pet monkey to know how to bow?"
"I think it's begging me," Bei Nuan analyzed, "It's trying to convey that the cage is too small. It's not comfortable being locked in there. It wants me to let it out."
Lu Xingchi was speechless. "You have an overactive imagination."
The monkey seemed to understand their conversation. It surreptitiously glanced at Lu Xingchi before looking away as if it was quickly making the determination that this human wouldn't fall for its tricks.
It ignored Lu Xingchi and turned its gaze back to Bei Nuan. It looked at her with its bright, black eyes and pitifully blinked at her. It bowed at her again.
Lu Xingchi thought that the monkey's routine of pretending to be pitiful was just like Bei Nuan's. It was as if the monkey and Bei Nuan were apprenticed to the same teacher.
However, Bei Nuan didn't seem to recognize her fellow apprentice and fell for it.
"See, I'm right. Lu Xingchi, let it go. I don't think it'll run away."
Bei Nuan confirmed with the monkey, "You won't run away if we let you out, right?"
As if it could understand her words, the monkey clasped its front paws, blinked at her, made a begging gesture, and whined.
Its gaze looked sincere as if it was saying, "I won't run."
The monkey pitifully looked at Bei Nuan, and Bei Nuan pitifully looked at Lu Xingchi.
Lu Xingchi was immune to the monkey's pitiful gaze, but not to Bei Nuan's.
He glanced at her and raised his hand. The cage was yanked up, and the monkey was free.
The monkey didn't hesitate and scampered away. However, the metal chair fell from the air and trapped it again before it could get far.
Du Ruo was about to die from laughing too hard. He fell onto the sofa and couldn't get up. "Bei Nuan… I can't take it anymore… You're usually so clever… but you were tricked by a monkey!"
Bei Nuan: "..."
Lu Xingchi curved his lips into a smile. "I'll keep it locked up for a few days. I'll let it out when we leave."
Jiang Fei understood Lu Xingchi's reasoning. "Yeah, the monkey is too smart. It can get up to all sorts of trouble if you give it free rein of the house. It's better to keep it locked up for now."
They were right. It was better to temporarily keep the monkey locked up.
Bei Nuan sat down by the cage and took out an apple from her pocket space.
The monkey's eyes brightened. It stretched out its little paws from inside the cage and made a pitiful sound at Bei Nuan.
Bei Nuan passed the apple to the monkey.
"Obediently stay in the cage for the next two days. As long as you behave, I'll give you delicious food every day."
The monkey took the apple and scarfed it down in a few bites. It even ate the apple core. It looked like it was famished.
Bei Nuan was about to take out another apple when she noticed that the monkey was looking at baked cassava chips on the coffee table. It seemed that the monkey really liked baked cassava.
Bei Nuan brought over all of the cassava chips and put them into the cage.
The monkey acted as if had found treasure. It hastily hugged the cassava chips to its chest and stuffed them into its mouth.
Seeing how eating the chips would be too dry, Jiang Fei helpfully poured a bowl of water for the monkey.
However, the cage was too small. Not only was there no space to put the bowl, it wasn't even big enough for the monkey to easily turn around.
Lu Xingchi watched Bei Nuan and the monkey for a while before going to the basement. He soon returned with a big metal cage. He made the cage from the metal shelves in the basement that stored miscellaneous items.
Lu Xingchi put the monkey into the new cage.
This cage was much bigger, and the monkey had the space to move around. The cage also had a door, but Lu Xingchi tied the door to the bars with thick metal strips. No matter how clever the monkey was, it wouldn't be able to open the door with its meager strength.
The thief was finally arrested and brought to justice. The rest of the group went upstairs and back to their rooms to sleep.
Lu Xingchi didn't go upstairs. He stood behind Bei Nuan and hesitated on speaking. He had finally gotten the rare chance to kiss her earlier, but he had been interrupted by the monkey before he was done.
Was she willing to continue? If only she would let him go to her room. That place was quiet, and no one would bother them.
Unfortunately, her room was like a forbidden place. It took him a lot of effort to enter, and he would be pushed out within a few minutes. His goal was tantalizingly out of reach.
His daydreams were interrupted by Bei Nuan's voice.
She asked, "Lu Xingchi, can you put the monkey in my room?"
Lu Xingchi: ???
Bei Nuan gently touched the monkey's furry paw with her fingertip and sincerely said, "It's a bit scary sleeping in such a big room by myself. I'll feel better if it sleeps with me tonight."
She said the room was big and that she was scared and wanted the monkey's company.
Lu Xingchi looked at her and then at the monkey. Suddenly, he felt it was a bit hard to breathe.