Chapter 35

Remembering this, Su Jianglou thought of Xiao Mu again. He stood up and stretched his neck a bit.

He had been too busy these days and truly hadn’t paid much attention to Xiao Mu. It was perfect—he had some free time today, so he would go see Xiao Mu.

The moment this idea popped into his head, Su Jianglou immediately lifted his foot and headed out of the office.

He planned to take the car to the Tourist Garden today. After seeing Xiao Mu, he could ask for leave on his behalf and take him to check out their new home.

Su Jianglou’s dedicated driver waited in the office building every day. Now that he was preparing to head out, with just a slight intention, by the time he reached downstairs, the car had already pulled up steadily not far from the office building.

Su Jianglou’s tourism group office building was not far from the Tourist Garden. Half an hour later, he could already vaguely see the gates of the Tourist Garden through the car window.

It had been over half a month since the Tourist Garden got its new boss. After undergoing one round of reforms, the Tourist Garden gradually returned to normal operations.

After several weirds in the Folk Custom Area of the Tourist Garden were taken down, Su Xuanxiao no longer stayed to oversee the place. Instead, he sent a manager from a subsidiary company to serve as the Park Chief and manage the Tourist Garden in his stead.

With his eldest brother gone, Su Jianglou had no intention of heading to the Park Chief’s Office. After getting out of the car, he entered the Tourist Garden and headed straight to the Employee Dormitory.

He had never been to Xiao Mu’s dorm, but that didn’t mean he didn’t know which room Xiao Mu lived in.

After going upstairs, Su Jianglou walked through the corridor with clear purpose and arrived at the door of a single-person dorm.

The dorm door wasn’t locked, which meant the person should be inside right now.

Su Jianglou knocked casually. “Xiao Mu?”

“It’s Third Brother. Third Brother came to see you.”

There was a slight sound from inside the door. Su Jianglou smiled at the corner of his mouth as he watched the dorm door slowly open.

Then… then a stranger’s face appeared, wearing a little green hat on his head.

The mushroom weird who opened the door asked nervously, “Are you also a Mr. Su?”

“I didn’t mean to take over Little Mr. Su’s dorm on purpose. Before Little Mr. Su resigned, Minister Huang 12 mentioned reserving the dorm for him permanently, but Little Mr. Su generously and selflessly turned down Minister Huang 12’s offer.”

After this dorm became vacant, in order to soak up more of the aura from powerful weirds, he had gone through hell and high water to secure the right to live here.

“Resigned?” At this point, Su Jianglou’s face held no trace of a smile.

The green hat weird opposite him was so intimidated by this powerful weird aura that his legs nearly gave out and he knelt.

Su Jianglou’s tone was flat, but beneath the flatness lurked a storm of wind and rain. “Who approved his resignation?”

“Mr. Su… Su, Mr. Su.” The green hat weird was so scared he started stuttering. Realizing his words were ambiguous, he quickly added, “Dong… Chairman Dong.”

“Do you know where he went after resigning?” Su Jianglou asked this, but he already had a guess in his heart.

In some ways, Su Jianglou and Su Ximu were alike—they both had strong intuitions.

Sure enough, the green hat weird, unable to withstand the pressure any longer, hugged his head and squatted on the spot. “It seems… seems like he has a new job, in some program group.”

Su Jianglou got the answer he wanted and saw no point in bullying a small fry. As he turned to leave the dorm building, he clenched his fist in fury.

The next second, including Tanzhong, a total of 45 remote mountains and villages in the surrounding five cities all experienced earthquakes.

Su Jianglou’s mood took a long time to calm down. He knew it! He just knew it! His eldest brother talked a good game, but in reality, he had no intention of letting Xiao Mu go!

He had lived for many years as a weird, after all. If he really wanted to understand someone’s personality, he could figure it out pretty accurately just by observing carefully after some contact.

Before, Xiao Mu had mentioned to him about changing jobs, saying it was a friend who introduced it. He could tell Xiao Mu was somewhat tempted by the new job at the time.

But he wasn’t the type to ignore advice and charge ahead stubbornly. His exact words to Xiao Mu back then were: ‘The outside world is very dangerous. Xiao Mu, you’re an adult now, but you haven’t really experienced society much. Don’t trust those shady friends! If you get tricked and taken away, you’ll know to cry then.’

With Xiao Mu’s personality, he might have taken issue with the phrase ‘shady friends,’ but he shouldn’t have confidently gone off to explore the outside world after that, diving into a new environment without any sense of danger.

So, even if he really wanted to change jobs, his first reaction would definitely be to lay out the facts, reason it out, and get permission from his family elder.

This was also the main reason he had felt so at ease about Xiao Mu these past few days.

But in the end, he had calculated Xiao Mu’s personality correctly, but failed to account for the fact that, to Xiao Mu, there was more than one family elder at home!

And because of the memories he had instilled in Xiao Mu, Xiao Mu subconsciously saw his eldest brother as the head of the entire family.

Xiao Mu had no defenses against his eldest brother!

If his eldest brother approved Xiao Mu’s resignation and supported his new job, Xiao Mu would definitely think the new job was safe.

This would overturn the conclusion he had previously instilled in Xiao Mu that the outside world was dangerous.

Because his eldest brother wouldn’t harm him.

On the contrary, his eldest brother was all too good at it!

An innocent puppet doll delivered himself right to the door, and his eldest brother would treat it as optional at best, never acting like a truly reliable family elder by planning and scheming for the child.

He would only watch as the puppet doll, full of trust in him, walked toward unknown dangers.

If the danger level of the Tourist Garden was 1, then that idol selection show program group—Su Jianglou estimated—had a danger level of at least 3.

Why did this world always harbor such great malice toward an obedient, harmless puppet doll like this?

Su Jianglou sighed, suppressing the urge to go demand an explanation from his eldest brother right now. He didn’t take the car and simply vanished from the spot.

The lack of backlash meant Xiao Mu was still safe for now. But in this world, danger could strike at any moment.

Su Jianglou decided that the next time he saw Xiao Mu, he would take him straight back to their new home.

Some weirds harbored too much malice toward Xiao Mu—returning to the new home he had just prepared was still the safest.

While Su Jianglou was on his way to Bizarre Island, Su Ximu was walking with Blue 242 Leader toward the props team’s warehouse.

One of the trainees on the Third Floor had asked him to help find some special effects makeup.

Su Ximu thought of the tools he used every night to draw red eye circles and scars, so he gave some of his own tools to the trainee who asked for his help.

He had the tools, but he was short on pigments.

Now he was heading to the props team to get more pigments.

As they walked, he chatted with Blue 242 Leader. “The trainees really work hard. They don’t even have time to come to the props team to pick up props for the promotion battle grand performance.”

And to maintain their weight, they ate very little every day. He had personally seen many trainees still only eating the energy bars he gave them last time.

Although the energy bar packaging said one could provide a full day’s energy, for ordinary people, it was hard to overcome just the hunger.

Blue 242 nodded. “They are a bit overworked.”

But he didn’t forget to praise the young man beside him. “But under Xiao Xi’s dedicated care, none of the trainees on the Third Floor have gotten sick so far.”

“I think next time the program group hands out outstanding employee awards, they should give one to our Xiao Xi.”

Su Ximu had grown a little accustomed to Blue 242 Leader’s habit of praising him. Hearing the praise, he wasn’t as embarrassed as before. He turned his head, eyes curving in a smile toward Blue 242 Leader.

He returned the courtesy. “Blue 242 Leader, you’re amazing too. Every time I go to you, your work is already done.”

The logistics team’s work wasn’t like the trainee management side, which at least had some rest time.

For Blue 242 Leader to have so much free time without getting criticized by the Associate Director in the group chat, it had to be because he was so capable and finished his work quickly.

The props team’s warehouse was quite a distance from the trainee dorms, which explained why the trainees had no time to go there.

Su Ximu was walking side by side with Blue 242 Leader at a leisurely pace. He opened his mouth, about to say something more to him, when Blue 242 Leader suddenly half-hugged him and shifted their position.

The boy, suddenly moved and carefully set down, instinctively turned his head. A coconut had smashed heavily onto the beach.

If Blue 242 Leader hadn’t noticed in time, that coconut would have hit his head.

Su Ximu touched his head and let out a small sigh of relief.

Then he saw Blue 242 Leader walk over to the fallen coconut, squat down, pick it up, and shake it with both hands.

Since he was facing sideways, Su Ximu didn’t see Blue 242 Leader’s exact movements clearly. By the time Blue 242 Leader stood up and walked back, two straws were already stuck in the coconut.

Blue 242 held the fallen coconut and offered it to Su Ximu’s mouth. “Want a sip? It shouldn’t be bad.”

“Mm.” Su Ximu nodded obediently and took a sip of the coconut juice.

The sweet fragrance hit his taste buds instantly, and his eyes lit up. He pushed the coconut to the other side a bit.

Seeing the boy’s expression of ‘I tried it, it’s very sweet,’ Blue 242 also lowered his head and took a sip of the coconut juice from the other straw.

The two, who had gained a big coconut midway, continued onward. Amid the sea breeze, faint words of thanks from the boy could still be heard. “Blue 242 Leader, thank you. Otherwise, I might have been smashed by the coconut. I might have even fainted.”

“That big a coconut—it’s possible.”

“Want another sip?”

“Mm.”

Behind them, Su Jianglou emerged from behind a coconut tree and looked at the Blue 242 walking side by side with Xiao Mu.

Right—he had forgotten. At the beginning, the reason Xiao Mu wanted to resign was because a ‘friend’ introduced him to a new job.

And now, that friend had come here with Xiao Mu.

At this moment, Su Jianglou resembled a wild leopard that had locked onto its prey, his dark golden eyes filled only with cold intent.

He had wondered—what kind of weird would be so kind-hearted, introducing a colleague to a job just days after meeting and even jumping ship together.

Su Jianglou closed his eyes in recollection. When the coconut fell, that Blue 242 had acted first, with clear protective intent toward Xiao Mu.

He even shared a coconut with Xiao Mu.

Whether the coconuts on Bizarre Island were drinkable or not—he was standing right here, how could he not know? That coconut was solid when it fell!

After a long while, Su Jianglou finally opened his eyes again and slowly exhaled.

At night, after bidding goodnight to Xiao Xi, Blue 242, who lay on his dorm bed pretending to sleep, suddenly opened his eyes. The next second, he appeared at the dorm door.

At the window, the single bed in Blue 242’s dorm had already melted away silently.

The first strike failed. A strange light flashed in Su Jianglou’s eyes. He simply stopped hiding and raised his hand to attack the weird opposite him.

They had each returned to their own dorms, yet he still used a clothes rack to tap the window!

I’ll let you tap!!!