fictionpage Chapter 19 Director VS Aloofness
Chapter 19 Director VS Aloofness
At 2:30 a.m., the temperature at the foot of the Qilian Mountains dropped to freezing point, and a cold wind howled outside the courtyard.
Lin Ye, who was sleeping soundly, was suddenly awakened by a very faint "beep beep" alarm sound from his phone.
This is the infrared high-definition monitoring and early warning system that he just installed in the yard with the money he earned during the day.
"A thief?"
Lin Ye instantly woke up, without even turning on the lights, grabbed his phone and opened the surveillance footage.
With the help of the bright moonlight and the high-definition infrared night vision camera, the scene in the yard was displayed on the mobile phone screen with extreme clarity.
Under the eaves, in front of the rows of golden, glistening, and deadly-tempting smoked meat racks, stood an extremely large, hairy figure.
It's aloofness!
This eunuch snow leopard, which usually sleeps like a log at night, is now standing on tiptoe, stretching its neck as far as it can, its nose almost touching a piece of smoked beef leg.
Its thick tail swished back and forth behind it with extreme restlessness and excitement.
Through [Listening to the Voices of All Things], Lin Ye could hear the cat's inner turmoil even through the screen:
"I'm just taking a sniff... I'm truly only here as the King of the Snow Mountains to inspect the quality of these winter supplies!"
"But it smells so good... That two-legged beast says it's poisonous? Bullshit! I'm a beast immune to all poisons! I'll just take a lick... just a tiny lick, he'll never notice!"
Lin Ye was watching from inside the house, trying so hard not to laugh that his stomach hurt. He was about to push open the door and catch this thief in the act, to bring him to justice.
However, just as the aloof and lewd man opened his blood-red maw, preparing to bite into the beef leg meat at the critical moment!
A second figure suddenly slid into the corner of the surveillance footage!
It's the square-faced Tibetan fox "Director"!
It emerged silently from the shadows of the eaves like a ghost.
Instead of shouting, it walked gracefully to a spot three meters away from the smoked meat rack and sat down properly.
The director's imposing, square face appeared even more lifeless under the moonlight.
Its squinting eyes were fixed on Gu Gao, its expression screaming:
"I knew it."
In my mind, the director's extremely disdainful middle-aged voice echoed softly:
"Tsk tsk tsk, a dignified snow leopard, stealing meat here in the middle of the night. I knew you, this spineless eunuch cat, wouldn't survive the night. Eat up, take one bite, and I'll report you to the two-legged beasts tomorrow and deduct half a month's quota of spiritual spring water and mutton from your ration."
Gu Gao was startled and turned his head sharply.
When it saw that it was this square-faced monster, its ears instantly snapped back in obvious displeasure, and a very low warning growl escaped its throat:
"Ugh... (What are you doing here? Mind your own business! Believe me or not, I'll eat you up too!)"
The director sneered, completely unmoved, and even yawned provocatively, just like a domineering CEO who holds the power of life and death over his employees and checks on them in the middle of the night.
Gu Gao glanced back at the exquisite smoked meat so close at hand, then at the square-faced supervisor beside him who was always ready to tattle, and instantly fell into an extremely painful internal struggle.
Go ahead and steal it, that cunning fox will definitely report me, and then my long-term meal ticket will be in jeopardy.
If I don't steal it, the aroma of that meat is like a hook, tantalizing my very soul!
Just as Gu Gao was so anxious that he was pacing around in circles, even considering whether to kill the fox to silence him.
At the edge of the surveillance footage, on the two-meter-high wall of the observation post, a very strange black shadow suddenly appeared!
That was the third "person"—a real meat thief!
Lin Ye looked closely and raised an eyebrow slightly.
It was a slender wild animal with dark brown fur and a very obvious white patch on its chest.
Its movements were extremely agile, like mercury spilling onto the ground, as it stealthily climbed up the wall towards the smoked meat rack.
Wild stone marten!
This is an extremely rare and extremely greedy small carnivorous beast in the Qilian Mountains!
Although not large in size, it is ferocious and agile by nature, and is a typical master of petty theft.
Clearly, it too was lured down the mountain by the heavenly aroma of smoked meat made with pine wood.
The first to notice the situation was the highly vigilant director.
As a top expert in catching plateau hares, the director did not make any noise to alert the other party.
With practiced ease, it lowered its body almost to the ground and, using the shadows in the yard as cover, silently crept towards the base of the wall, instantly cutting off the stone marten's escape route.
At this moment, Gu Gao also noticed the unusual movement above his head.
It raised its head, and its deep blue vertical pupils instantly contracted into two dangerous sharp points!
Hurrah!
I, the mighty King of the Snow Mountains, am waging a frantic battle against my conscience for a single bite of food, not daring to even touch it! What are you? A creature that looks like a giant rat, how dare you try to steal my meat right in front of me?!
Can we tolerate this?! Absolutely not!
Seeing the stone marten, oblivious to its fate, hanging upside down under the eaves, greedily reaching out its claws to grab the smoked chicken on the outermost side.
"roar--!"
Without uttering a sound, its body, like a spring compressed to its limit, suddenly and violently pounced out of the shadows!
The enormous snow leopard paw, accompanied by an extremely terrifying whooshing sound, slammed solidly into the wall below the eaves with a muffled "thud!"
The stone marten didn't even realize what was happening; it only felt an extremely terrifying shadow of death loom over it. Terrified, it let out a sharp, mournful cry, its claws loosening, and it plummeted straight down the two-meter-high wall!
"Squeak squeak squeak!"
After landing, the stone marten displayed an extremely tenacious will to survive, scrambling and crawling as it tried to run out of the yard.
However, as soon as it turned around, it was met with an extremely square, mocking face.
"Sizzle—!"
The chief had already blocked its retreat, revealing extremely sharp canines and emitting a hissing warning sound characteristic of foxes.
A stoic fox blocked the way ahead, while a raging snow leopard pursued from behind!
The stone marten panicked completely and, in its haste, darted into the enormous woodpile in the corner of the yard, which was used for wintering.
What happened next almost made Lin Ye, who was watching the security camera inside the room, laugh himself to death in bed.
The director calmly walked to the front of the woodpile, squatted down properly, and stood guard over the front door.
Meanwhile, Gu Gao, with perfect understanding, circled around to the back of the woodpile, lay down on the ground with his huge body, and stared intently at the gap, guarding the back door.
The fox and the leopard have formed an extremely bizarre cross-species strategic alliance: the thief who dares to steal the meat must die inside!
"Amazing! This is a dream defense line!" Lin Ye laughed so hard he couldn't stand up straight. With these two top-notch security guards on duty for free at night, the smoked meat was definitely safe.
He yawned and posted the screen recording on his live stream account.
Let netizens know what happened last night.
The next morning, sunlight once again filled the courtyard.
Lin Ye pushed open the door, but stopped in his tracks just as he reached the smoked meat rack.
On the most conspicuous bluestone slab directly below the smoked meat rack, there is a wild rat whose neck has been bitten off, placed very neatly (not the stone marten from last night; it is estimated that the stone marten was trapped overnight and then found a chance to escape, or it was caught but not displayed).
Meanwhile, the square-faced Tibetan fox "Director" sat next to the dead rat, looking at Lin Ye with extreme arrogance.
In my mind, the director's capitalist-like corporate slave voice echoed:
"Here's last night's 'night shift attendance record' and security fee invoice. I not only caught a thief, but I also killed a rat that tried to get close to the smoked meat. According to the labor contract, shouldn't I be paid?"
Not to be outdone, Gu Gao rubbed his large head against Lin Ye's thigh frantically, "Waaah! I also contributed last night! I was the one who took that big rat! I want to eat meat!"
The live stream had already started, and netizens burst into laughter at the sight of the mess and the two adorable pets "taking credit."
["Hahaha! The director is so meticulous! This working fox never works for free; he's using a dead mouse as an invoice for reimbursement!"]
["Lonely and Arrogant: I was here to steal too, but I cleverly chose to redeem myself by becoming a security guard!"]
["Stone Marten: I was just passing by to sniff around, and I ended up getting a double attack from a snow leopard and a Tibetan fox. This yard is terrifying!"]
Lin Ye laughed heartily and, true to his word, took out two extremely succulent pieces of raw mutton from the freezer.
"Well done! Here's a bonus!"
Lin Ye gave a slightly smaller piece to the director, and then threw a particularly large bone-in lamb chop to Gu Gao (after all, he had done a lot of work).
Just as the fox and leopard were thoroughly enjoying their "night shift allowance," the sleepy-eyed general emerged from the doghouse.
It looked at its two colleagues who were eating meat, then at its own empty bowl, and protested with extreme dissatisfaction:
"Woof woof! (I was on duty last night too! I killed ten bears in my dream! Where's my meat?)"
Lin Ye chuckled and patted the dog's head, ignoring its protests.
His gaze passed over the adorable pet that was eating dry food and landed on the huge pile of firewood that the stone sable had crawled into last night.
Because of the disturbance caused by the fox and leopard last night, half of the woodpile collapsed.
But behind the collapsed firewood, at the very edge of the yard, at the base of the mud wall…
Suddenly, a very well hidden, half-excavated fresh cave appeared!
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