I became incredibly cute after dressing up as an animal!

"Hmm! I touched Blue Small!"

"You can still touch her? She's so docile!"

"It's okay to touch Lan Xiao, but not necessarily Chu Yi. Let's not get too close."

"Let's call the panda reserve and ask them to come over. We don't know what to do with these pandas."

Police only catch bad guys; pandas should be left to professionals.

"These two pandas came down the mountain with traps in their mouths. Did they come to complain? Nobody would believe it if you told them. They're so clever."

The two pandas stayed at the farmer's house, with police guarding the area the whole time.

The policewoman also bought a bag of apples for them to eat. Little Blue sat in the yard eating apples, and she was very well-behaved.

When the villagers heard that Old Liu's family had gotten a panda, they all came to watch, and many people took pictures of the panda from behind the courtyard wall.

That afternoon, many people posted panda videos online!

Professor Xu and Xiao Zhang, among others, had already seen the latest video of Lan Xiao and Chu Yi on the video website while they were still on their way.

"Lan Xiao is still as gentle as she was when she was a child; even the police can touch her."

"Are they hungry or just craving apples, eating so many in one go?"

……

In a farmer's courtyard.

Even a bear eating an apple gets praised for being cute. Little Blue is crazy about getting close to humans, acting cute in all sorts of ways, and playing with the police.

In the first year of junior high, I sat in the back eating an apple, occasionally glancing up at the little bear.

Lan Xiaoxiao felt she had played enough, so she patted the dust off her fur, stood up, and prepared to walk away. Chu Yi followed her.

As a result, several police officers blocked the entrance to the courtyard. The policewoman said, "Lan Xiao, Chu Yi, you can't leave. The people who are to pick you up will be here soon."

"Huh?"

Lan Xiaoxiao tilted her head.

Upon first seeing these people blocking the bear, I immediately stepped forward, ready to bite if they didn't move aside.

"Oh dear, Chu Yi, Lan Xiao, be good," the policewoman reassured them.

The old policeman said, "Close the door. We can't let them run around."

The policewoman reluctantly closed the door.

Lan Xiaoxiao: "Huh?!"

They arrived in good health, but couldn't return!

I was having so much fun playing with humans and eating apples that I didn't even notice the police calling the nature reserve.

Now that she's locked up in the yard, Lan Xiaoxiao has finally realized what's happening.

Staff from the panda reserve will come to pick them up. They cannot walk on their own because humans are worried that they will not be able to enter the mountains on their own and that they might run away from the village and onto the national highway.

If these animals were taken away by the people in the reserve, they would definitely be sent to another habitat!

"Waaaaah!" Lan Xiaoxiao burst into tears, "Chu Yi, we can't go back, we can't go back to that cave by the waterfall, waaaaah!"

When I first saw the little bear crying, I panicked and spun around in circles, and even tried to bang on the door.

The police officers outside were startled. They had been quite docile just moments before, so why were they yelling and ramming into things now?

Lan Xiaoxiao quickly stopped Chu Yi, "Don't bump into it, or you'll need a syringe later."

Uncooperative bears will be anesthetized with a syringe.

Lan Xiaoxiao licked Chu Yi to calm him down.

Chu Yi immediately hugged the teddy bear and licked her cheek.

"We walked for over a month to find our new home, and we haven't even lived here for long yet, sob sob sob."

Professor Xu and Xiao Zhang arrived. I heard that the two pandas had just gotten angry, but now they are sitting obediently in the yard.

"Put the cage by the door, leave the door ajar, and see if they can get in."

"Are there any more apples? Put a few apples in the cage."

The humans outside were chattering away. The door opened, and a huge cage appeared before us, with two apples placed inside.

Lan Xiaoxiao: "..."

Fine, I accept my fate. Time to go into the cage.

Lan Xiaoxiao went inside first, plopped down in the cage and started eating an apple, even holding another apple in her paws as if offering it to Chu Yi.

Chu Yi was initially wary and reluctant to come in, but when he saw the little bear handing him an apple, he immediately squeezed in.

……

They were taken away by the people of the reserve.

In the back of the pickup truck, everyone worked together to lift the cages up. Luckily, there were many strong men, otherwise they really couldn't have lifted the two bears.

Professor Xu squatted down beside the cage, his face full of kindness, and said, "It's alright, it's alright, don't be afraid, we'll take you back to the mountains."

Xiao Zhang: "I can't believe what the police said. They brought animal traps to report the crime. In the afternoon that we were waiting for to pick up the pandas, the police found the suspects in the next village. The suspects had homemade guns at their house and confessed that they had seen two pandas in the mountains, which they guessed were Lan Xiao and Chu Yi."

Professor Xu felt a chill run down his spine when he heard that the poachers had homemade guns. Fortunately, Lan Xiao and Chu Yi were alright.

Professor Xu said, "Let's go, let's take them back to the center for a comprehensive check-up."

The two bears had finished eating their apples and were licking their paws.

……

On the way back to the protection center, Lan Xiaoxiao lay on Chu Yi and dozed off.

The car drove for quite a while, and as soon as they arrived at the conservation center, they smelled all sorts of noisy odors in the air.

The car stopped, and she looked out through the gap in the windshield. There was concrete ground, flower beds, and many houses in the distance. There was a smell of disinfectant mixed with the smell of animals, unfamiliar, and many pandas.

As soon as the windproof cloth was lifted, a lot of people gathered around.

"Here it comes!"

"Are they those two internet-famous pandas?"

"I never expected them to visit our center."

"Don't push, don't push, let Uncle Wang see first!"

A middle-aged man in a blue work uniform jogged over, his face crinkled with a wide smile. "Finally here! I've been waiting all afternoon!"

He jumped onto the truck bed in his green coat, his eyes shining brighter than someone his age would.

"It really is you, Lan Da's little one." Wang Zhuo was overjoyed to see Lan Da's child again.

Lan Xiaoxiao looked at this human and felt like she had seen him somewhere before. After thinking for several seconds, she finally remembered the time when she couldn't get down from the tree. At that time, this zookeeper was invited to comfort Da Lan, and Da Lan became affectionate with him.

Wang Zhuo, the zookeeper who was closest to Da Lan before its release.

Professor Xu got out of the car. "Wang Zhuo, Lan Xiao and Chu Yi were very well-behaved the whole way."

Uncle Wang squatted down and looked at Lan Xiaoxiao through the cage, admiring her immensely: "The last time I saw you, you were still a little dumpling. Now you've grown up. Your face is so round, you really look like your mother."

Lan Xiaoxiao tilted her head to look at him, and Chu Yi also came over and sniffed the scent of these people.

"Good boy, good boy, Lan Xiao is back in her hometown, don't be afraid." Wang Zhuo patted the railing.

Just as Lan Xiaoxiao was about to stick her head out for him to touch, something suddenly pricked her hind leg.

It wasn't pain, it was cold, followed by a feeling of soreness and distension.

Lan Xiaoxiao looked down and saw a thin needle stuck in her hind leg. A plastic tube was attached to the end of the needle, and at the other end of the plastic tube was a staff member wearing a white coat.

Blowpipe anesthesia!

She had seen this thing online in her past life; it's a blowpipe anesthesia device used in zoos to anesthetize large animals.

"Waaaaah!!!"

Lan Xiaoxiao cried out, feeling extremely wronged.

She cooperated the whole way, didn't bite or cause trouble, obediently ate apples, and sat quietly in the cage, but she still couldn't escape the syringe!

At the same time, Chu Yi was also pricked.

It looked down at the syringe in its hind leg, tilted its head, and felt no pain, but something was drilling into its body. Its head began to feel heavy, as if someone had stuffed a stone into its brain.

Chu Yi shook its head, but couldn't shake it off, and started to panic.

"Whoosh!"

Chu Yi growled at the person in the white coat, baring its teeth menacingly. It didn't know what was happening, but it knew it was losing control of its body.

Lan Xiaoxiao forgot about her grievances and pressed her head against Chu Yi's nose, "Waaah~".

"It's okay, don't be afraid of the first day of the Lunar New Year. Just take a nap, and you'll be fine when you wake up. Don't be afraid."

Chu Yi was pushed back half a step by her, looked down at her, and felt reassured by the sound of the little bear's bark.

Chu Yi stopped growling, but was still resisting the anesthesia, its claws gripping the metal plate at the bottom of the cage tightly, refusing to fall down.

Lan Xiaoxiao's tongue also started to go numb, and her cries became intermittent.

She looked at the increasingly blurry face of the first-year student, wanting to say something more, but her mouth wouldn't obey her.

The last thing I saw in the first year of junior high was Lan Xiaoxiao's eyes slowly closing. Her body went limp, like a plush toy with its bones removed, lying motionless in the cage.

Chu Yi let out a short, muffled cry, as if someone had choked him.

Then it fell down too.