These were all relatives of the Terry family. He had done a great job selling Jiang Qiuqiu to his family’s group chat, and now, his whole family were basically her fans. The mont they learned that the recent lack of daily food was because so braindead rcenary from the dark web had taken a mission against her, this warning notice sprang into existence.
’Awooo, I can’t even get any work done without my daily jerky from Juju.’
The onlooking rcenaries read the notice: ???
’Nope, not touching it. Not touching it.’
The sly rcenary who had already accepted this contract felt his heart drop.
He was just a weak, pitiful, and helpless B Level rcenary. When he saw soone post such an expensive mission, he’d gotten an itch and just accepted it.
’I originally thought she was just a strear—’
Now, it looked like this money was a bit too hot to handle.
’Sheesh, but I’ve already received it. It’s in my pocket. There’s no way I’m giving it back now.’
’Then I’ll just pocket it! It’s a dark web transaction anyway. That guy won’t dare co after , right? And even if he tried, he wouldn’t be able to find . Haha.’
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anwhile, in another place, a group of people were frantically searching for any information they could find on Jiang Qiuqiu.
The rescue center.
Little Qing was nearly in despair. It had been too long. The kind young lady hadn’t co to donate food in far, far too long.
The first ti she ca, Little Qing had just assud she was a generous young lady from a noble family, one who had brought a great deal of all-natural food.
He should have noticed sooner...
After eating that food the first ti, everyone in their ’family’ beca much more docile. Even the fur on Brother Leopard’s arms stopped growing.
It was even more obvious the second ti she ca. After they ate, everyone was so happy... Brother Leopard, who had been losing control of his ears, was able to retract them again.
If only he’d realized all this sooner, he could have asked the kind young lady to leave her contact information.
But now, in a world of countless faces, he had no idea where to even start looking for her.
He couldn’t find her on the Star Network. He couldn’t find anything at all.
But Brother Leopard was barely holding on...
He drooped his head in dejection. Lying on the small bed, Brother Leopard’s voice was already faint. He was struggling to maintain his human form and speak in a human tongue, but a glance at the bed showed that his face had completely transford.
His human features had given way to the head of a leopard, complete with tawny fur, black spots, feral eyes, a black, fleshy nose, and sharp fangs. "Little Qing, don’t overthink it."
"Truthfully, we shouldn’t have gotten our hopes up. It might not have had anything to do with the food."
"Maybe it was all just a coincidence."
"Impossible!" Little Qing imdiately shot back. "There’s no such thing as that many coincidences!"
"It was that food that gave us strength!"
"...Haaah."
Who would believe sothing so miraculous? The only reason Little Qing was so adamant that the food had changed everything was that if he stopped believing, there would be no hope of a turnaround.
Utterly hopeless, all they could do was wait for fate to pass its judgnt.
Take Brother Leopard, for instance.
Two months ago, he was a living, breathing person. But in another two months, he might truly beco a leopard, destined to spend the rest of his life in a cage at the rescue center or be released onto a special preserve planet.
"Actually, it would be fine to just release when the ti cos."
"By that ti, I probably won’t have my human consciousness anymore." Brother Leopard already felt a bit groggy. "Maybe I can be happy, running free in the vast wilderness."
As a leopard, Brother Leopard would surely be happy then.
"No!"
"What does future happiness matter? All I know is that right now, you don’t want to beco a leopard!" Little Qing grabbed Brother Leopard’s hand, his eyes welling with tears. "Brother Leopard, don’t you worry! I will find that young lady! I swear it!"
This matter had now beco an obsession for Little Qing; he was also one of those with defective Genes—
’What if he finds her, and it’s still no use? It would likely just speed up the reaction in the boy’s own Genes, pushing him into despair that much faster.’
’That just won’t do.’
Just as the two of them were talking, a joyful voice suddenly rang out from outside the door. "I found her!!"
"I found her!"
"Little Qing! I found her! The young lady who ca to our ho to donate food!"
In that mont, even Brother Leopard, who had felt the situation was utterly hopeless, revealed a flicker of yearning in his eyes.
He might have sounded accepting, but he didn’t want to be released out there—
’Losing my sanity, becoming a leopard... out in the wilderness, I might run into my old battle comrades.’
’Either to be eaten or to eat others.’
These were not things he wanted to experience.
’Forget it. If... this is also useless, then just let it die.’
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