Chapter 90

Chapter 90

【Extra Nutrition Update】

The orca is playing with a ball. Wait... where did a ball come from in the sea?

“Did it finally get ashore?” Noticing the comments in the live chat, Lin Qianyu asked.

【No!!! Hahaha!】

【Sister in front, you laughed too loud! One time it almost got up, but just then the crocodile on shore flipped over, and its tail slapped it back, making it bite the water in frustration.】

“Haha.” Lin Qianyu laughed loudly too.

The cheetah walking ahead heard the sound and glanced back at her.

Lin Qianyu flicked the cheetah’s tail, “It’s nothing, just talking about the crocodile.”

The cheetah slowly lowered its gaze, eyes falling on the path they came from.

As expected, it still wanted to eat the crocodile.

The next moment, Lin Qianyu lifted the cheetah’s head with her hand under its chin, “I don’t eat crocodiles.”

The cheetah squinted its eyes and licked her cheek.

The honey badger walked slowly nearby, curious about everything and always moving closer. Usually small animals would run off when seeing the honey badger—especially since it wore an Elizabethan collar, making it look even bigger and tougher than usual. Anyone who didn’t run was foolish.

Not finding anyone to fight with, the honey badger felt a bit bored and followed Lin Qianyu back to the cabin but didn’t go inside.

It wanted to leave directly but thought twice and greeted Lin Qianyu with an “Ah!”

“Leave? What about the Elizabethan collar on your head?” Lin Qianyu pointed to her own neck, signaling the honey badger to pay attention.

The Elizabethan collar was made of plastic, cleverly designed so sharp claws and teeth couldn’t damage it. Only by forcefully kicking with the hind legs might the adhesive come off, allowing it to be removed.

But that relied on luck, plus plastic outdoors affects the environment, so it had to be collected by someone specially assigned.

“Just wear it for one day. If you want, stay here with me today, and you can leave tomorrow.” Saying this, Lin Qianyu picked up the honeycomb placed on the ostrich egg cup before going out.

It had been left for quite a while today; counting the previous times, the ostrich egg cup was already more than half full of honey.

Even so, squeezing the honeycomb still produced lots of pure-colored honey.

Lin Qianyu handed the honeycomb to the honey badger, “Here.”

The honey badger grabbed the honeycomb with its paws and tried to put it in its mouth but hit something. It opened its mouth, chewed twice on air, but didn’t get any honey.

It looked down and didn’t see the honeycomb.

Lin Qianyu pressed gently on the edge of the Elizabethan collar, guiding the honey badger’s paw to move forward.

The Elizabethan collars prepared for small animals at the rescue station were all the right size. The honey badger just wasn’t used to it yet. It found the honeycomb and bit off a small piece from the edge.

Lin Qianyu then loosened the Elizabethan collar downward, “Okay, you eat first.”

The honey badger sat in the shade, looking at the green plants swaying in the yard and took big bites of the honeycomb.

Because of her cold, Lin Qianyu felt a day-night reversal early in the morning and wasn’t sure if the porridge she had then counted as breakfast.

But she hadn’t eaten lunch; until now, she had only drunk some water and eaten wild fruits.Lin Qianyu was a little hungry too.

“The fire doesn’t seem to have gone out yet.” Lin Qianyu picked up an ostrich egg water cup hanging above and tested the temperature of the fire pit with her palm. Inside, she couldn’t hear the crackling sound of burning.

Maybe because the fire was small, she added some leaves into it, not daring to add wood directly for fear that the wood would snuff out the faint flames.

The salted meat hung under the eaves, already starting to develop into something like wind-dried meat.

What kind of meat it ended up being wasn’t too important; the key was that it could be preserved for a long time.

Lin Qianyu first washed some rice with warm water from the cup, then soaked the salted meat in the rice-washing water.

She started cooking the rice, then cleaned off the sand and dirt stuck to the salted meat. For uneven or recessed spots, she scraped them with a kitchen knife, and if scraping didn’t work, she just dug them out.

Finally, she cut the salted meat into small pieces and put them into the porridge that was starting to bubble.

Lin Qianyu propped her chin up with one hand, stirring the porridge bowl as she said, “It would be even better if there were some century eggs.”

This was basically century egg and lean pork congee.

The porridge simmered slowly on low heat, and the meat was still raw but dry and without much blood, so she skipped blanching it. She stirred it in the coconut bowl and waited for it to boil.

This time, the fire pit was stacked higher, so the open flames didn’t reach the coconut shell, only flickering brightly in the gaps.

The honey badger, having finished eating the honeycomb at some unknown time, licked its paws to clean the honey off. Seeing Lin Qianyu sitting still in front of the mysteriously large object, it leisurely came over to see what she was doing.

Suddenly, the porridge in the bowl bubbled loudly.

“?!” The honey badger froze for a moment. Other small animals startled by sudden sounds would shrink their necks and retreat; only after seeing what scared them would they straighten up and either fight if capable or run if not.

But the honey badger was different. After being startled, it immediately widened its eyes, didn’t even check what it was, rushed forward and slapped the fire pit aggressively, growling fiercely, “Awo!”

The next moment, it retracted its paw and glared angrily at the fire pit, its howl suddenly raising in pitch, “Awoaa—!”

The honey badger’s paw hit the stones stacked for the fire pit.

Lin Qianyu: “?!!”

The honey badger was slow to react to being burned.

Lin Qianyu quickly put down her chopsticks, “Let me see your paw.”

The outer layer of stones around the fire pit was stacked two layers thick, quite thick, making a big difference from slapping the firewood directly.

The honey badger wore an Elizabethan collar which made moving inconvenient; it couldn’t squeeze into small places and after running only a few steps, Lin Qianyu picked it up to check its paw.

At first glance, there didn’t seem to be a big problem; the paw pads looked normal in color.

The honey badger seemed to realize this too, licking its paw and glaring at the fire pit, feeling like it had been ambushed by the fire pit just now.

Lin Qianyu patted its head, “Let’s go, rinse it with cool water.”

The honey badger grumpily followed Lin Qianyu to soak its paw in the river water behind.

It dipped its paws in water, soaking both paws and fidgeting in the water as if trying to catch something.

【No wonder it’s my honey badger, recovers way too fast.】【Maybe it wasn’t actually burned, just scared by the heat of the fire pit and got into a quarrel with it.】

【The honey badger wouldn’t take advantage of a dark and windy night to knock over the fire pit, right?】

The honey badger, obsessed with catching fish, didn’t seem to have any intention of fighting the fire pit for now.

Lin Qianyu was still cooking porridge over the fire, so she didn’t linger. “I’m heading back first. Do you want to play here a bit longer?”

“Awo!” The honey badger splashed the water, shouting without lifting its head.

This place was very close to home; small animals find their way by scent, so they wouldn’t get lost within a few steps.

Lin Qianyu lifted the Elizabethan collar higher, then got up to leave.

After some fuss, the porridge in the coconut bowl was no longer the watery rice from before; the rice wasn’t fully broken down yet but had thickened a lot, and the aroma of rice came out.

The meat blended with the rice porridge.

Even though the salted meat had been washed twice and soaked before putting into the pot, it still tasted salty, which balanced perfectly in the porridge.

The coconut bowl used for cooking was too hot, so Lin Qianyu took a new coconut bowl to serve some porridge, while the one on the fire continued to simmer gently.

When the serval arrived, Lin Qianyu was pondering adding water to the bowl because she was full of porridge and wanted some rice water to drink.

The serval took two cautious steps forward in disbelief, showing surprise, peeking and scrutinizing the thing in Lin Qianyu’s hand.

—It really was water!

Lin Qianyu: “…”

What kind of expression was that?

She scooped some rice grains from the bottom with a spoon, “I’m drinking porridge.”

The serval brought its prey to Lin Qianyu, rubbed its snout against her, signaling her to eat it.

Lin Qianyu thought for a moment and added some meat from the porridge bowl, “Look, there’s meat.”

After seeing the meat, the serval’s gaze towards Lin Qianyu grew even stranger.

【Hahaha, serval: I haven’t been here for one day and humans have become this pathetic?!】

【Such tiny pieces of meat, cut almost smaller than rice grains.】

【Serval: I’m out of this family.】

The nutritious meat porridge was despised by the serval.

“Try some.” Lin Qianyu decided to win the serval over with taste. The saltiness was mild, so it was fine for small animals.

Faced with the spoon she offered, the serval shyly raised a paw and gently pushed her wrist, signaling refusal.

Lin Qianyu sighed and ate the rest at the bottom of the bowl herself, “It’s really delicious.”

The serval didn’t believe her, turned and walked away, then paused and changed direction.

It seemed like one prey wasn’t enough, so it went to catch more prey.

—The evening rain was pouring especially hard.All the furry animals stayed inside the house, listening to the rain pounding on the wooden cabin. The curious young cubs used their paws to scratch at the wooden walls.

The white lion and the prairie wolf who had gone hunting returned before the rain started.

Small animals are sensitive to weather changes and didn’t delay outside after catching prey. Once they sensed the change in weather, they dragged their prey back.

The serval came back several times, each time carrying something in its mouth—either a rabbit or a bird—never empty-handed.

But the heavy rain came quickly.

The serval didn’t have time to run and squatted at the doorway. The eaves could no longer block the sideways heavy rain driven by the wind.

Lin Qianyu, holding the newly knitted clothes, also sat by the door. “Little leopard cat? Come inside to avoid the rain. This place can’t block the rain.”

She lowered her head, focused on knitting, but her words were directed at the serval.

The serval was grooming its rain-dampened fur, then lowered its paws, wrapped its tail from behind to the front around itself, and flicked the tip of its tail resting on its paws.

It didn’t respond or say whether it would come in or not.

Lin Qianyu wasn’t in a hurry, didn’t urge, and continued knitting steadily, stitch by stitch.

The serval looked at her, then glanced down at its paws, seemingly lost in thought.

After a while, it stood up, shook its fur, and softly called, “Awo…”

Then it turned around and voluntarily walked inside.

Lin Qianyu paused her knitting, smiled softly, gathered the knitting needles and clothes, went inside, and closed the wooden door, shutting out the wind and rain.

“You can sleep here.” Lin Qianyu patted a horizontal wooden plank sticking out from the wall, which was lined with a fluffy cushion.

【I thought this was a shelf, but it turns out it’s a bed prepared for the serval.】

【Pretty delicate, a separate little bed.】

【Awo—Little leopard cat jumps up and covers itself with a blanket. I might just die from cuteness.】

The plank had been placed inside when building the wooden walls.

To ensure stability, the plank was cut from a whole piece of wood without shortening, with one end protruding outside.

The outside protruding section works well as a shelf. With this section, when the serval jumps onto the plank, it’s very stable and doesn’t move at all.

The little wolf cub looked up, watching the tail dangling off the edge of the plank. It was a bit far, and before it could open its mouth to bite, the tail swiftly retracted.

The lynx also had a wooden plank with a fluffy cushion, but compared to this, it preferred curling up comfortably in a corner on the floor, burying its head into the corner.

The sky was overcast. Lin Qianyu closed the window, turned the flashlight to maximum power, placed it on the table with the light facing upward.

This light was enough to illuminate the area around the table.

The prairie wolf sniffed the sweater Lin Qianyu was wearing, “Wuu…”

“Yes, there’s some of your shed fur inside.” Lin Qianyu pointed to a slightly grayish spot on her sweater. “It looks quite nice.”

Looking at the shape without considering the color.

This sweater really was nice.The main thing is, it doesn’t itch.

Newly bought sweaters that fit close to the skin always feel itchy, but this one is made from pure natural animal fur and entirely handmade, so it doesn’t itch at all when worn.

Lin Qianyu tugged at the three-quarter sleeve sweater and couldn’t help but praise, “A must-have for home and travel.”

It’s just that wearing it during the day might be too warm; it’s better to wear it in the evening.

Having clothes to change into is better than always wearing just fur.

The white lion played with a box in his own room for a while, then lay on the edge to look outside. After a moment, he got up, jumped out, and entered from the side door under the rain shelter connecting the two wooden houses.

Sensing the white lion approaching, the serval stood up from the wooden plank.

Previously, when food was delivered to the wooden house, the serval could smell the white lion’s scent and had occasionally seen him, but never shared the same room like now, though they weren’t very close.

Still, this closeness was enough to make the serval nervous.

The white lion didn’t look around after coming inside and didn’t notice that another furry animal was now present, sitting behind Lin Qianyu, resting his head on her shoulder, also curious about the piece of cloth.

Lin Qianyu said, “This is something I’m preparing to give to Mr. Feng.”

She lifted it, measuring it by the light, “Does this part need to be a little longer?”

When knitting her own clothes, she didn’t consider male or female styles; they all turned out the same anyway.

If there was any difference, it was only in the pattern.

She hadn’t intentionally knitted patterns; it was just how the yarn colors gathered and stitched together naturally—uncontrollable.

The white lion resting on Lin Qianyu’s shoulder immediately lifted his head and leaned forward.

His big furry head blocked the flashlight’s beam. Knitting required good lighting, and finer work was harder on the eyes.

Such a large shadow covered her hands.

She raised her hand and pushed the big white lion, “Tuanzi, you’re blocking me. I can’t even see the yarn.”

“Roar…” The white lion refused to move and growled at her.

But the sound was lazy, more like a sulky plea than a fierce roar, tilting back to nuzzle her with his ears.

Clearly, he didn’t want her to keep sewing.

“Do you want one too?” Lin Qianyu shook the sweater and stroked the white lion’s furry neck scarf, “You have such thick fur, this would be useless for you.”

The fur on the white lion alone could make more than a dozen sweaters like this.

It wasn’t even the thickest time for his fur yet; when temperatures drop, their fur grows thicker to resist the cold.

The white lion rubbed against her for a while, saw that Lin Qianyu was still knitting, then stopped, resting his jaw on her shoulder again, but his eyes never blinked, staring intently at the moving yarn.

“Woo…”

Lin Qianyu adjusted the flashlight’s angle and shifted it to the other side where the white lion was, “If you ruin Mr. Feng’s clothes, I’ll definitely have to make him a new one.”

Also, coming over to help didn’t bring any benefits—instead, he got scolded.

Maybe he had already been scolded before coming here.Too rough.

Just as she thought that, Lin Qianyu noticed the shadow slowly creeping toward the knitting needles in her hands.

“Tuanzi…?”

As soon as she spoke, the moving shadow stopped.

Lin Qianyu calmly lowered her hand, “I’ll speed up. It’ll be done in two or three days. No causing trouble.”

Three seconds later, the shadow moved again.

A paw swung, but hit only air.

Lin Qianyu bent down, slipped sideways under the white lion’s paw, and turned around still holding the unfinished sweater.

“Roar!” The white lion’s paw hit the table, he growled, then pounced again.

In the small space, the white lion had to be careful not to knock over things on the table or other small items in the room.

Compared to him, Lin Qianyu was more agile and could avoid him easily, while the white lion struggled just to turn around.

“All right, good boy.” Lin Qianyu went behind the white lion and patted his head. “Rest a bit.”

“Roar!”

The white lion lifted his head and bit the sweater.

Lin Qianyu couldn’t help but laugh and cry.

Was he biting the sweater thinking it was Feng Jingye?

【Unexpectedly unexpected, how many furry ones did the island owner offend?】

【Lin Jie said: “The sweater is for Feng Jingye.” White lion heard: “Feng Jingye.” So he attacked.】

【Hahaha, isn’t this some awkward kind of familiarity?】

The furry ones at home were all woken up by the commotion. Watching Lin Qianyu and the white lion go back and forth, the cubs glanced left and right, and finally let out a loud “roar” joining the fight.

Lin Qianyu: “?!”

“Wait, wait!”

“Roar!”

“Ah!”

“Meow-roar?”

With the furry ones joining, the white lion no longer had the energy to focus on the sweater.

Lin Qianyu took the chance to jump onto the wooden bed, grabbed the little wolf, and peeked out from behind it.

The noise inside the house only stopped around midnight.

The big brawl was truly chaotic, fur flying everywhere.

Lin Qianyu tidied up afterward and collected quite a bit of fur.She sneezed, still sick, and after getting tired from playing, she hugged the little wolf and collapsed. “Ceasefire, ceasefire, the referee is too tired and needs to rest. Generals, fight another day.”

Although the flashlight was on its brightest setting, as time passed and the battery drained, the light grew dimmer.

The furry ones were tired too, lying on the ground, too lazy to move.

The prairie wolves took turns carrying the baskets back.

The white lion seemed to have forgotten about the clothes, shook his fur, and took the little leopard off his paw. Despite the rain outside, he went back to the next room, jumped into a box, and rolled around inside.

Lin Qianyu turned over, got off the bed, closed the door, and waved to the white lion rolling in the box, “Good night, Tuanzi.”

“Roar!”

Peace!

The heavy rain washed the prairie island clean and fresh.

Inside the house were all the furry ones, and Lin Qianyu comfortably stayed inside the wooden house for several days.

“Good morning, everyone.”

Lin Qianyu rubbed her face hidden under a towel, “I deliberately got up early today to go see Dabai.”

The rain kept falling nonstop, and without an umbrella or raincoat, Lin Qianyu rarely left the house.

The furry ones who had been cooped up inside for a long time went out hunting as soon as the rain stopped.

“Bo Zhao sent me a message, Dabai occasionally appears on the patrol group’s cameras. Its pod is still nearby but when they get too close to shore, they get hit.”

Saying this, Lin Qianyu laughed, “Bossy Dabai.”

【Ahhh, you even know how to stream?! Do you know how I’ve been surviving these black screen days?!】

【@Director Su, if you don’t add time, I’m really going to get mad.】

“I haven’t gone out these days, so not much to stream,” Lin Qianyu explained to her livestream fans, “No black screen, just bad lighting while filming the wolf cubs.”

Plus, since she stayed home all day, the usual was just petting little animals, knitting, which viewers found boring.

Lin Qianyu tidied up the house a bit, chewed on dried roast meat, emptied her backpack, planning to go to the seaside to bring back some seafood. After preparing, she woke up Zhuifeng, “Let’s go to the seaside.”

The sea was close by, but since Lin Qianyu was carrying food, with the zebra’s help, she didn’t have to drag nearly ten jin of prey herself.

“Neigh!” The zebra was bored staying idle and eagerly got up and ran over at once.

Carrying almost ten jin of prey, it didn’t slow down at all and sprinted straight toward the sea.

Lin Qianyu followed behind, raising her voice, “Careful, don’t drop the stuff.”

Otherwise, if Zhuifeng got to the sea but the prey dropped somewhere on the way, they’d have to turn back to find it.

“Neigh—!”

The zebra ran and jumped, twisting all four legs.

It was hard to imagine how Zhuifeng could run like that.

There were small rabbits on the grass, and after the heavy rain, the hungry animals didn’t care about the time and all came out hunting.On the still-watered grassland, the lion was not seen lying and basking in the usual spot.

Lin Qianyu stretched lazily. “Feels like it’s been a long time since I saw Dabai.”

After finishing the last bit of dried meat, Lin Qianyu clapped her hands and walked onto the beach. “Dabai!”

“Ying—?”

She thought Dabai wouldn’t be at the seaside after she hadn’t appeared for days, so she called out a few times to wait for Dabai to hear and come find her.

Unexpectedly, Dabai was near the shallow sea.

Not only Dabai, but the pod’s orcas were there too.

They seemed to be playing.

Tails slapped a round, rolling object from the sea, and a nearby orca popped out of the water and head-butted the ball back hard.

“They’re playing ball,” Lin Qianyu raised her eyebrows, smiling brightly, “Quite coordinated, tossing it back and forth.”

The ball never fell into the water; it was immediately caught by another orca on the other side.

Pretty fun.

Dabai didn’t play with them but stayed near the shallow water, not letting other orcas get close.

Then, Lin Qianyu’s smile froze, “Where did a ball come from in the sea?”

Sometimes the pod would hit turtles for fun, but the ball being tossed around looked too big to be a turtle.

“Marine trash! Strongly oppose marine trash!”

“Wait… Could this be from the rescue station staff? Didn’t they say there were dedicated people responsible for marine sanitation in the surrounding area? How could there still be such things?”

“Whoa, that thing looks like a pufferfish, right?”

Pufferfish, from the Tetraodontidae family, are warm-water marine benthic fish.

Their bodies are covered in spines and they inflate when scared.

Lin Qianyu also noticed the round ball rolling in the air had a small fish tail behind it, “Looks a bit like a pufferfish?”

Just then, Dabai saw Lin Qianyu staring intently at the pufferfish, without hesitation bumped aside other orcas, and forcibly snatched the pufferfish from them. Then he raised his tail high and slapped the pufferfish onto the shore.

The inflated pufferfish landed on the beach, bouncing along the ground, and finally spun to a stop in front of Lin Qianyu.

Lin Qianyu: “…?”

Confirmed, it really was a pufferfish.

Author’s note: Here it comes~ [All information about pufferfish is sourced from the internet.]