After taking a nice hot bath, Yuan Xiaoxiao hummed a song while making her bed.
Even though she had to stay up late and could only rest during the day, the few days she had slept most comfortably in the protected area. Unfortunately, she knew better than anyone that the good days were coming to an end.
She tore off the towel and threw it on the bedside table. Just as she got into bed, the landline in the room rang. Yuan Xiaoxiao frowned and picked up the phone. She listened to the anxious voice of nurse Kasaya coming from the receiver, and her mouth opened into an "o" shape.
Thinking of the excitement he had seen in the past few days, someone's mouth curled up inexplicably, and he promised something. After hanging up the phone, he opened the quilt and hurriedly put on his clothes.
It turns out that we cannot underestimate that badger. Even after being tied up like a human, no, a badger-like work of art, it was still able to run away.
Everyone in Gu Laosan's room waited for nearly an hour and gradually felt something was wrong.
Although the hotel is a bit far from the clinic, the badger's legs are strong enough to run back and forth twice, so he should not be unable to find the way, right? Excluding the fact that he had discovered the "ambush", the only thing left was that he was completely hiding because he was afraid of the injection.
Idle guards and forest rangers were dispatched, as well as medical staff familiar with the badger, and Gu Laosan began to search within the circle centered on the hotel. Miss "Emeijing" called Yuan Xiaoxiao and asked her for help. After all, there were only two of them guarding the badger, and they were more familiar with it.
As people left, the hotel became increasingly deserted.
In Yuan Xiaoxiao's room, the handle of a window behind the blackout curtain inexplicably turned 90 degrees. Then, the window was opened from the outside, and a furry figure came in and closed the window again.
Looking from the inside, no one would know that a small hole as thick as a chopstick had been poked out at the position corresponding to the window handle.
Blowing his paws with satisfaction, the badger standing on the windowsill turned around and looked at the layout in front of him.
The room was filled with the faint scent of jasmine. Wang Ping vaguely remembered that each of Yuan Xiaoxiao's different outfits seemed to be matched with different perfumes to set off. He just didn't know if there was any particular reason for this or if it was just conceit.
A hoodie hanging behind the bedroom door proved that the badger was right. Yuan Xiaoxiao had worn that sweater yesterday. It seemed that in informal occasions, the little girl particularly preferred this kind of convenient and comfortable clothing.
Wang Ping believed that he was not a peeping Tom, and it was impossible for Yuan Xiaoxiao to bring anything sensitive here. The reason why he came to her room first was more of revenge.
Not only Yuan Xiaoxiao, but anyone who had watched him have fun these days could not escape.
Outside the hotel, everyone searched almost every possible place, from the supermarket selling beef jerky and nuts, to the only two restaurants open in the park, to several animal enclosures and medical tents that the badger was familiar with and had visited, but there was no trace of this badger.
Gu Laosan always felt that he had overlooked something, but he couldn't remember what it was as his emotions were disturbed.
It was almost noon, and everyone returned to the hotel entrance, frowning and discussing where to go next. At this time, Li Jie, covered in dust, ran out of the elevator, cursing and running straight to the hotel front desk.
"Brother Jie, what are you doing?"
Gu Lang shouted in surprise as he watched Li Jie, whose face was covered in white powder, pass by. Then everyone looked over and saw that Li Jie's hair, face, and neck were all covered in a layer of flour-like substance, and a fragrance could be smelled from afar.
"Fuck it, I want to complain!" Li Jie had long lost his composure and angrily said, "What kind of crappy security is this hotel? They still let people in even though I locked the door!"
"Don't be anxious. Tell me slowly. What happened?"
Gu Lang ran over like a peacemaker and pulled Li Jie out. As he spoke, everyone's faces turned strange and many of them tried to hold their mouths to laugh.
It turned out that Li Jie had just finished an operation at the clinic and thought he would take a shower to get rid of the smell on his body. But after taking a shower, he just picked up the hair dryer in the hotel to blow dry his hair when a large amount of powder sprayed out of it and covered his face.
Someone was so angry that he didn't even wait to wash it off and rushed down to keep it as evidence, insisting on asking the hotel for an explanation.
For some unknown reason, Gu Laosan suddenly recalled some unpleasant past events in his home.
"Ahem..." Patting the white powder on Li Jie's body, Gu Lang asked in an inexplicable tone: "Brother Jie, I remember the day before yesterday afternoon, you seemed to have made a special trip to the clinic to see the boss? It seemed that you also... played his little bird?"
"… Why are you talking about this all of a sudden?" Being stared at by a bunch of people with strange eyes, Li Jie touched his nose and looked a little evasive. His wretched uncle temperament was immediately exposed.
"It's like this..." Gu Laosan sighed, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "The boss ran away from the clinic this morning and hasn't been found yet. I guess... it might be him who did it..."
A figure suddenly squeezed out of the crowd, pushed Li Jie who was blocking the way, and hurriedly ran towards the stairs. It was Yuan Xiaoxiao. Liu Min and Kasaya called her several times but she turned a deaf ear.
But then there was a big uproar in the crowd, and everyone finally reacted and ran to their respective rooms. Only Li Jie and Gu Lang were left at the door, looking at each other in bewilderment.
"Emm..." Li Jie looked at Gu Lao San, whose face turned black, with embarrassment, and asked curiously, "Why don't you go back and take a look?"
A salty fish shook his head simply: "I plan to ask the hotel to change my room. I don't want that room anymore!"
"Where's the stuff?"
"Don't want the stuff anymore! Brother Jie, I advise you to go back and check again. Do you think this is the end? Let me tell you, this is just the beginning!"
The first thing Yuan Xiaoxiao did when she returned to her room was to take out two rubber gloves from her pocket and put them on, then put on a mask, and then squinted her eyes and walked towards the bedroom. Unlike others, she did not check common facilities such as hair dryers first, but went straight to the cabinet in the bedroom.
Lifting the bottom board of the cupboard, a small black shoulder bag was quietly placed underneath. Yuan Xiaoxiao looked closer and saw two black hairs crisscrossing above the shoulder bag.
"Huh..."
A clear exhalation sound came from behind the mask. Yuan Xiaoxiao put down the cover and stood up to check other things. But when she turned around, she was suddenly stunned. Under the quilt on the big bed opposite her, a yellow water stain in the shape of a map was particularly obvious on the white bed sheet.
"Son of a bitch!"
The fair little hands instantly clenched into fists, and the cheeks were tightly clenched. Yuan Xiaoxiao could even imagine what kind of expression the hotel would have when she asked them to change the sheets. A badger's prank? Haha, do you think they would believe it
Of course, whether this was the real revenge of the badger or not, Yuan Xiaoxiao had no way of guessing. Normal people would never want to know the thoughts of a crazy little animal.
At the hotel entrance, everyone got into their cars in a state of embarrassment and rushed angrily to the medical center. The guard just reported that an arrogant badger, in league with a group of chimpanzees, was gathering in a tent and was suspected of having a party.
In China, Han Daxia hurried out of the hospital and immediately booked the earliest flight to Kenya 6 days later. He kept cursing in his heart, saying that he had never seen such a slow vaccine.
He had just received a report from a "concerned person" that poachers had sneaked into the Tianshui Nature Reserve, which had just suffered heavy losses, for unknown purposes. Based on the description and comparison with the photos of volunteers on the official website, Old Han seriously suspected that the Japanese female student named "Ohara Riko" was Yuan Xiaoxiao, whom he had been looking for.
I had thought that I would "search high and low for it but still not find it", but now I'm troubled by the vaccine with an incubation period of up to 6 days.
In desperation, someone had to look for the contact information of colleagues in Kenya on his mobile phone.
"Hey, what excuse should I make up this time?"