Title: A Fake Holy Mother in the Zombie Apocalypse
Translator: Little Bamboo Spirit
Chapter 213 - The Mysterious Food Thief (3)
Bei Nuan seemed unaware that there was a better choice for a bedroom companion standing behind her. This person was tall, strong, and could handle all sorts of monsters and ghosts just by raising his hand.
Her attention was entirely on that monkey, who had no advantages except for its soft fur.
The monkey was very well-behaved. It stretched out its paw from between the bars of the cage and placed its paw on her hand. It didn't look like it had any intention of scratching her at all. It looked at her with its sparkling black eyes. It couldn't look more innocent.
"No." Lu Xingchi pulled Bei Nuan up. "We don't know the origins of this monkey. It might have problems. Besides, it's better to keep your distance from wild animals. Don't just be wary of the zombie virus. This monkey might have bacteria or viruses. There's no hospitals available to save you now."
"But you said it's a pet!" Bei Nuan grumbled, but Lu Xingchi still pulled her away from the monkey.
Even as she was being dragged away, she pitifully looked at the monkey and stretched her hand towards it.
"Monkey -"
The monkey could only watch on. It helplessly raised a paw.
They were reaching towards each other, but their respective hand and paw couldn't bridge the gap. They looked like a pair of tragic lovers that were being cruelly torn apart.
They went upstairs, and Lu Xingchi escorted Bei Nuan back to her room.
Before she entered the room, he asked her, "So… are you really scared?"
Bei Nuan's eyes lit up. "Are you saying you'll bring Great Sage upstairs?"
"Great Sage?"
"That monkey. That's the name I came up for it. Great Sage as in Sun Wukong the Great Sage. Can I sleep with Great Sage?"
Lu Xingchi was silent for a moment before saying, "You can't."
Bei Nuan wilted and listlessly entered her room and closed the door.
Lu Xingchi stood outside the room. Facing the closed door, he felt the situation was amusing, and he also felt sad for himself.
***
The sound of the rain could be heard all night, and the rain continued the next morning. It was as if the gods had accumulated an endless amount of water and wanted to shower the earth below.
When Lu Xingchi got up and was in the hallway about to go downstairs, he heard laughter coming from downstairs.
After turning around the corner, he saw that the others had already gotten up and were sitting on the sofa.
The crucial point was that the cage was open.
Bei Nuan had the fluffy golden brown monkey on her lap, and the group was playing with it.
Jiang Fei saw him and explained, "Great Sage is very well-behaved. When we opened the cage door to test it, it didn't run away. It has probably gotten used to us from Bei Nuan feeding it."
Great Sage was very small, not much bigger than a cat. It looked like someone that had found its family. It comfortably leaned on Bei Nuan with its front paws resting on her shoulder and blinked at Lu Xingchi.
Lu Xingchi slightly furrowed his brow.
Seeing his expression, Great Sage hid in Bei Nuan's arms with a swoosh. It raised its head and whimpered like he was filing a complaint.
Bei Nuan turned around. Seeing Lu Xingchi's expression, she immediately tightly hugged Great Sage.
"Lu Xingchi, why are you scaring Great Sage? You're an adult. How can you scare a child? Look, it's trembling in fright.
Lu Xingchi's poker face didn't change, but he grinded his back teeth. He had thought Jiang Fei's level of acting was already perfect, but this monkey was even better than him.
Great Sage stayed with Bei Nuan all day as if it had forgotten how to walk. It was as if the monkey from last night, who had fled as fast as an arrow, wasn't itself.
Bei Nuan changed professions to be a monkey's mother without hesitation.
Lu Xingchi couldn't resist saying, "Since you're so dutiful, you might as well pick lice off of it."
"Don't say nonsense. It doesn't have lice." Bei Nuan could tell that Great Sage was a pet from its soft and dense fur. It felt super nice to run her hand over its fur.
Throughout the day, the rain didn't stop. Instead, the rain got heavier, and there was even thunder and lightning by the evening.
After dinner, the group played board games for a while before splitting off to read books or chat.
Bei Nuan was sitting at the dining table with Great Sage on her lap. There was a large amount of roasted melon seeds on the table, and she was feeding them to Great Sage for fun.
The Great Sage knew how to crack the shell with its teeth and was smart enough to spit the shell out after cracking it. After it had eaten for a while, it suddenly offered a melon kernel to Bei Nuan.
Although Bei Nuan wouldn't eat the melon kernel, she was very touched.
"Did you guys see that? Great Sage is giving me a melon kernel!"
Everyone else: "..."