266 Needs Help (1/2)

Chapter 266: Needs Help

Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Zhang Zian stared at the birdcage nervously, waiting to see how the situation was going to fare.

Richard was confronting the two red-headed lovebirds in the cage — it wasn't accurate to say they were being confronted, because Richard was just like a big devil from a comic book that was bullying both of them...

Little Purple and Yellow Pea Cake wanted to escape from Richard. They flapped their wings in the cage, trying to fly away, but Richard's huge body was blocking the cage door, and they simply had nowhere to go. During their attempt to flee, they crashed onto the cage, hit the grab bar, fell into the water basin and looked like two drowned rats. Zhang Zian was so sorry to see that at least a dozen feathers had fallen off. Failing to escape, they began to wail in more woeful and louder voices.

Every time they cried, Richard responded with an even louder ”Quack” sound.

”What is happening?”

Shortly after Galaxy went onto the second floor, Fina came downstairs yawning. Having heard the whining, Fina looked at the three birds tossing about in the cage and asked doubtfully.

Snowy Lionet followed closely behind Fina. Perhaps because in its dream, Snowy Lionet had licked Fina's fur, it seemed very excited. Although it hadn't figured out the situation either, it replied confidently, ”Your Majesty, it must be this dick who's pulling the strings!”

”I don't know what's happening either,” Zhang Zian ignored Snowy Lionet and said to Fina. ”Richard seems to be training them to speak, but is it really necessary for it to be this way…?”

Fina looked at the cage raptly for a while, and said, ”I don't think there's anything wrong with its method.”

Zhang Zian doubted whether he had heard it right. Richard was making such loud noises in Fina's shrine, and Fina was actually not angry?

Fina jumped easily onto the top rack of the cat tree. Without a clue, Fina said, ”That's why you're just a mortal.” And then it closed its eyes and went back to sleep.

Zhang Zian did not understand what she meant by that. Indeed, he was just a mortal, but why did that fact have anything to do with Richard's practice?

Fina had been in contact with a lot of people in the past, and many of them were big shots whose names had been remembered for centuries. These so-called great men, no matter what they looked like, would definitely become hard-hearted, to others and to themselves, at important moments. They would give everything it took to achieve great accomplishments. Fina reconfirmed that he was a soft-hearted mortal who was unable to remain silent and indifferent to the suffering of others.

However, Fina did not detest him, even though he was only a mortal.

Neither Fina nor Old Time Tea tried to interfere with Richard's teaching, so Zhang Zian started to question whether he had ignored something important.

He temporarily put aside his sympathy for the two red-headed lovebirds, and carefully observed the interaction between Richard and them.

Knowing that they could not escape, Little Purple and Yellow Pea Cake gradually accepted their destinies. They stood timidly with their claws grasping the grab bar, facing Richard like they were pupils being punished.

Hm?

Zhang Zian suddenly found that since Fina had come down onto the first floor, he no longer heard Richard's hoarse ”Quack, quack” sound. Instead, Richard's beak was swiftly opening and closing like it was still speaking.

After a while, he finally realized that Richard was imitating the red-headed lovebirds' voices. And its imitation was so real that he couldn't tell the difference at all!

He recalled that these red-headed lovebirds seldom tweeted, and since they were put in the cage covered with cotton cloth, they remained quiet almost all the time. Was Richard deliberately scaring them and forcing them to tweet so it could learn their language?

Zhang Zian did not understand the languages of birds, but it seemed that Little Purple and Yellow Pea Cake started to calm down, chirping with Richard in front of them, though clearly, they were still in disadvantageous positions.

If Richard wanted to teach them how to speak, it needed to learn their language first!