Chapter 80

Dudu squatted next to the Little Yellow Dog and looked it over again and again. She still felt that this little yellow dog looked a lot like the terrifying Ox Grandpa’s dog.

The terrifying Ox Grandpa had many little dogs. Every time she went out to play and accidentally ran into Ox Grandpa, she saw him walking a different little dog.

But only one little yellow dog was always held by Ox Grandpa. He never let it run on the ground by itself.

One time, she got really curious about what that little yellow dog looked like and looked at it carefully from a distance.

The little dog was chubby, covered in warm-looking yellow fur, with only the tip of its tail being white.

The little girl watched the Little Yellow Dog’s tail wagging back and forth. The tip of its tail also had a tuft of white fur.

She couldn’t hold back and said, “Xiao Mu Brother, your Little Ah Huang looks just like the little yellow dog at Ox Grandpa’s house.”

After saying that, she remembered that Xiao Mu Brother’s house was next to Ox Grandpa’s. They were neighbors.

Su Ximu didn’t think there was anything to hide about it, so he nodded and said directly, “Yeah, Little Ah Huang was given to me by Ox Grandpa.”

The little girl squatting there suddenly widened her eyes in shock. Her tone became extremely surprised and admiring. “Xiao Mu Brother, you’ve actually been to Ox Grandpa’s house!”

Su Ximu was initially puzzled by Dudu’s reaction, but then he remembered the other dangerous weird living inside Ox Grandpa’s body, and he understood.

His second brother had said that Ox Grandpa had only gradually suppressed that Beast Tamer Weird in recent years. Even now, Ox Grandpa had his second brother tell him not to visit in the mornings.

That time slot still carried some danger.

Kids had a keen sense for danger. That was probably why Dudu and the other children didn’t dare get close to Ox Grandpa and were afraid of him.

In his view, Grandpa was very, very good. The bad part was only that weird inside his body! The thing that scared the kids was definitely that weird!

Thinking back to when he first arrived in this world and met Ox Grandpa, when the old man had looked lonely and said he looked fierce and the kids didn’t like him, Su Ximu turned to Dudu, who was still looking at the Little Yellow Dog in shock, and said, “Ox Grandpa has been a bit busy lately. Once Ox Grandpa isn’t busy anymore, brother will ask him and take you to Ox Grandpa’s house to see the little rabbit. Dudu, do you like little rabbits?”

What he meant by waiting until “Ox Grandpa wasn’t busy” was until Ox Grandpa completely drove out the weird in his body.

“I like them!” Dudu said loudly.

After picking a small basket of berries with Xiao Mu Brother in the Picking Garden, Dudu didn’t go straight home. Instead, she brought her brother and sister along and bounced over to the Playground Slide where the other kids usually gathered.

The little girl carrying a small basket immediately took the highest step on the Playground Slide and shouted twice, “Everyone, look at me!”

Once all the kids’ eyes gathered on her, the little girl standing high up raised her chin proudly and announced to her playmates, “I touched Ox Grandpa’s little yellow dog today.”

The five or six kids who gathered at the bottom of the steps exchanged glances upon hearing this.

Ox Grandpa?

Which Ox Grandpa?

Was it the one living right here, the one who was said to eat kids?

They heard that Big Sister Boss’s little brother had been eaten by Ox Grandpa!

Noticing her playmates’ looks, Dudu felt even more proud. She lifted her little chin higher and continued announcing, “In a bit, once Ox Grandpa isn’t busy, I’m going to Ox Grandpa’s house to see the rabbit!”

“Real or fake? You’re not just making it up to fool us, are you?” Because Dudu’s words were too outrageous, skeptical voices rose from below.

“Yeah, yeah.”

“Dudu’s lying! You don’t even know Ox Grandpa. How could you go to his house to see the rabbit?”

Hearing her playmates’ doubts, the little girl got anxious. She looked back and pulled her brother and sister over to explain for her. “Brother, sister, tell them—didn’t I touch the little yellow dog just now? I even held it!”

Dai Qian was silently noting down all the key information she had heard that afternoon.

As a place where various powerful weirds gathered, Wealth Avenue was a high priority for the Bureau. They had special files on the Weird BOSSES living here.

Today, she had probably unlocked another Weird BOSS.

From these little weirds’ reactions, it was clear that this weird they called Ox Grandpa was by no means weak. He could very likely rank at the top in all of Wealth Avenue.

And the weird Dudu called “Xiao Mu Brother”—was that the one Rao Fei had encountered in the Wealth Avenue Gardener Dungeon and the Deep Courtyard Dungeon?

Thinking of how familiar Dudu had been with that young man that morning, and her shocked reaction that afternoon to the origin of the young man’s little yellow dog, Dai Qian added another profile entry to the one on Rao Fei: [Suspected to have extremely wide social connections].

She had just finished adding the profile entry in her mind when she heard Dudu calling her. On reflex, she chimed in, “That’s right, Dudu is telling the truth! Ox Grandpa gave his little yellow dog to Xiao Mu Brother, and Xiao Mu Brother let Dudu touch it.”

Wu Ming nodded along nonstop.

Kids were easier to convince than adults, after all.

Now that Dudu had two witnesses, the kids below immediately believed her earlier words. They changed from skepticism to looks of admiration and even a bit of envy toward Dudu.

“Dudu, you’re awesome. You actually got to touch Ox Grandpa’s little dog and you’re going to visit Ox Grandpa’s house. Last time I saw him here, I got so scared.”

“Dudu, who is Xiao Mu Brother? Why does he have Ox Grandpa’s little dog?”

“What color was that little dog? Black? Or the spotted one?”

“It definitely wasn’t yellow. Ox Grandpa likes yellow little dogs the most.”

“That little dog never walks on its own. It’s so fat its belly almost drags on the ground.”

Dudu pretended to be annoyed by the questions and “casually” answered, “Ugh, what color else could it be? It was the yellow one with white at the tip of its tail. Xiao Mu Brother is Xiao Mu Brother. He’s neighbors with Ox Grandpa. Last time, it was Xiao Mu Brother’s big brother who tore up all your dads and moms, and Lao Da’s and Big Sister Boss’s dads and moms too.”

Impressive, right?

The group of little kids drew in sharp breaths at this answer.

It was that Xiao Mu Brother!

Although Su Ximu had been working a summer job for the past month or so, that didn’t stop legends about him from circulating among all the kids in the Villa District.

His legendary status was second only to the Ox Grandpa who was said to eat kids.

The kids often talked about the “terrifying Ox Grandpa” on their lips, but the fact that they had accidentally left Big Sister Boss’s little brother near Ox Grandpa’s house showed these little weirds had an adventurous spirit deep down.

They both feared the place where the terrifying Ox Grandpa lived and were full of curiosity about it.

Now Dudu had touched Ox Grandpa’s little dog at Xiao Mu Brother’s place and was planning to visit Ox Grandpa’s house with Xiao Mu Brother’s guidance. At once, these kids nearly all saw Dudu as a hero.

They were willing to hail her as the new Big Sister Boss!

Dudu, basking in her playmates’ praise, laughed happily.

She had originally felt a bit uneasy and scared about going to Ox Grandpa’s house to see the rabbit, thinking she shouldn’t have spoken so fast.

But now, she couldn’t help thinking: When would Ox Grandpa finish being busy? Could it be sooner?

She was waiting to go to Ox Grandpa’s house and come back to brag to her playmates like she was doing today.

Behind Dudu, Dai Qian, who had widened her eyes a bit, hurriedly added more profile entries in her mind: [Suspected extremely wide social connections + has a brother who can pierce other weirds + has a big brother who can tear apart same-area weirds by hand + can receive precious gifts from neighboring powerful weird].

As she summarized, Dai Qian suddenly felt like she couldn’t summarize anymore.

Meeting rich second-gen, celeb second-gen, all sorts of second-gens outside was one thing, but passing through a dungeon and running into a weird second-gen?

It made her, a Confidentiality Bureau drone and veteran player, feel a bit sour inside.

After Su Ximu got home, he settled Little Ah Huang and the two hamsters, then went to the kitchen to wash his harvest from the day.

He divided the small basket of berries into three equal portions after washing them and put them into three fruit plates.

Just as he was about to carry out the first plate, the young man suddenly compared the heights of the berries in the three plates with his hand. He hesitated, then took a few berries from the one that looked fuller and popped them all into his mouth.

Now, the three portions of berries were equal.

Su Ximu nodded in satisfaction, carried the first plate of berries, and turned to knock on his big brother’s study door.

“Big Brother, are you busy?”

“Xiao Xi? Come in.” Su Xuanxiao’s voice came from the study.

After entering the study, Su Ximu saw that his big brother had already stood up from his office chair. He placed the fruit plate on the small tea table in the study and smiled at his big brother. “Big Brother, I picked the berries you like this afternoon.”

Over a month ago, he had even taken his big brother’s labor fee to pick berries for him every day.

But right after taking the fee, Third Brother had sent him off to work a summer job.

His little brother still remembering his preferences clearly put Su Xuanxiao in a good mood. In his happiness, he pulled out his wallet to give pocket money again.

Su Ximu reacted quickly and said his pocket money was already plenty, and he still had the black card, which stopped his big brother from giving him more.

Compared to last time, Su Ximu was much less reserved when entering his big brother’s office this time.

The two brothers sat on the sofa, eating the fruit from the plate together. Before his big brother could ask, Su Ximu proactively told him about everything he had done that day.

He went out for morning exercise with Third Brother, took Little Ah Huang and the little hamsters out to sunbathe, and picked berries with three little kids.

The youngest one, a little girl named Dudu, had even canvassed his vote right before they parted.

Their family had received a community invitation and made it into the top ten Model Families of Wealth Avenue. In the final first-place evaluation, there was a voting segment open to other residents of Wealth Avenue.

“Wealth Avenue Model Family? Community invitation?” Su Xuanxiao set down his fork and thoughtfully repeated.

“Big Brother, you didn’t know?”

Su Xuanxiao shook his head. He really didn’t know and hadn’t received any competition invitation.

For a family man with the world’s most perfect family, this move by the Wealth Avenue community was a bit too presumptuous.