On the Ark.

He looked up and saw Bai Xue already waiting for him on the stairs, but he hadn't followed because he was thinking about the flood. At that moment, Wei Yanwu also heard Bai Xue's voice, turned around and glanced at her. When he saw Lin Ye, Wei Yanwu didn't show any special expression, as if he had already guessed that Lin Ye would come. He simply nodded and continued his call with Chen.

Seeing this, Lin Ye felt there was no need for him to think so much. After all, it wasn't a problem he should be concerned about; he wasn't the governor of Longmen. If a third of Longmen were flooded, it wouldn't be him who lost face. Even Wei Yanwu didn't care, so why should he? With this thought in mind, he followed Bai Xue upstairs.

But what Lin Ye didn't know was that when he turned to go upstairs, Wei Yanwu raised his head again and gave him a meaningful look at his back, but quickly returned to normal and did not show any abnormality.

……

"Look, Brother Lin." Mu Yue hugged Haha in front of Lin Ye and said with tears in her eyes, "Look, Haha has lost so much weight."

Haha, who was being held in Muyue's arms, seemed to remember Lin Ye and barked at him, though his voice sounded weak and listless.

"Hmm... compared to a year ago, you have indeed lost a lot of weight." As Lin Ye said this, he was thinking to himself that a year ago he was so fat that he looked like a pig, but now he has lost weight and looks like a normal dog. So, the Wei family's food is really good, isn't it?

"Yes, yes, veterinarian!" Mu Yue nodded repeatedly. "Haha, now we can only eat three meals a day! You'd better think of something quickly!"

Three meals a day is already quite normal, okay? And could you please use a more consistent way of addressing him? Why are you calling him "Brother Lin" one minute and "Veterinarian Brother" the next? It sounds really strange.

Lin Ye complained inwardly, but didn't say it aloud. After all, it was really not like an adult to be so petty with a little girl.

"Okay, okay," Lin Ye said. "I'll prescribe some medicine for it... I think quite a few doctors have already prescribed medicine for it, right?"

Mu Yue nodded: "Yes, but Haha won't eat it."

"Why not just mix it into the dog food?"

"In that case, Haha won't eat dog food anymore."

"You'll eat when you're hungry."

"But... I can't bear to see Haha hungry."

Lin Ye: "..."

He now understood why so many veterinarians couldn't cure Haha's illness. With an owner who spoils him so much, how could he possibly get treatment?

"Never mind, let me do it." Lin Ye sighed. "You bring the medicine over, I'll feed it."

Mu Yue nodded repeatedly, as if she had been waiting for Lin Ye to do this. After receiving Lin Ye's instructions, she ran off to get the medicine.

At this moment, Lin Ye rubbed Haha's head while looking up at Bai Xue, who was standing quietly to the side: "Your name is Bai Xue, right? Let me tell you, if you want to cure this dog's illness, you can't stop taking the medicine. You can't stop it just because it doesn't want to eat."

Bai Xue glanced at Lin Ye and slowly said, "No."

"No?" Lin Ye asked, somewhat puzzled. "No what?"

"My duty."

...Can't you just finish what you're saying at once? Your way of speaking is a bit like Bai Gugu's.

While Lin Ye was mentally criticizing Bai Xue, he also took the opportunity to criticize the White-faced Owl. Then he said, "Does this need to be taken to the level of responsibility? Mu Yue obviously couldn't bear to feed the dog medicine, so she sent someone else who was more ruthless. Why don't you just help her?"

“A ninja,” Bai Xue said slowly, “doesn’t do meaningless things.”

Lin Ye: "..."

He now understood why the dog hadn't recovered. Was there no one of normal people in this family? Did they really need to ask Madam Wen Yue for help with something so simple?

Mu Yue quickly brought over the medicine, and then Lin Ye fed it to Haha. Haha wasn't very willing to take the medicine, but with Lin Ye's coaxing, it obediently swallowed it. This made Mu Yue, who was watching from the side, exclaim, "As expected, only the veterinarian brother can save Haha," leaving Lin Ye speechless. But this also made him feel like he was back in Chernobog, where his main job, besides spaying and neutering, was feeding those irritable animals medicine. His hands, which were known as "mobile tranquilizers," had fed countless cats and dogs.

Thinking about it this way, he felt a little nostalgic. Unconsciously, it had been a year since he left Chernobog, and he didn't know if he had had a chance to go back and visit, although he didn't know what there was still to miss there.

I wonder how the neighbor's child is doing. Life must not be easy for someone who has been infected.

Lin Ye couldn't help but fall into his memories until Haha licked his hand, which brought him back to reality.

"Alright, that's about it." Lin Ye put down Haha and then stood up.

"The veterinarian is amazing!"

"What's so great about me? I was just feeding you medicine, and the medicine was prescribed by someone else." Lin Ye sighed. "You could have done this yourself. I can't come to your house every day to feed you medicine."

"Huh? Is that not allowed?" Mu Yue tilted her head. "Can't you come every day?"

"Of course not, I don't work here." Lin Ye smiled and patted Mu Yue's head.

Mu Yue then asked, "Can't you work here? Veterinarian brother, why don't you stay? I can get Dad to pay you lots and lots of money."

Before Lin Ye could speak, Wei Yanwu's voice came from the doorway: "If Dr. Lin Ye really likes money, then everything is fine."

"father!"

Upon hearing Wei Yanwu's words, Mu Yue immediately stood up and ran to Wei Yanwu's side. Wei Yanwu affectionately patted Mu Yue's head and then gently said, "There are always some people who live for their ideals, don't you think? Doctor Lin Ye."

Lin Ye smiled and said, "I just don't want to leave some people behind."

“So this is your philosophy, a philosophy that’s more important than money. That’s quite rare.” Wei Yanwu nodded. “But one day, you might change your mind because of it… Just kidding. Come down for dinner. I’d like to have a drink with you.”

……

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Author's BB: Today I was supposed to take my cat, Daomei, to get her stitches removed, but when we got to the vet, the doctor said Daomei had already licked the stitches off her testicles...licked them off...so they didn't need to be removed. But today I was planning to buy some things to take back to my hometown for the Chinese New Year, so after dropping the cat off at home, I rushed to the mall. I was so busy all day I really didn't want to write, and all I wanted to do when I got home was sleep.

However, I felt guilty for not writing and had insomnia, so I got up at 2 AM and barely managed to write this 4K (as everyone knows, a typical day on a book blog starts before 6 AM). Fortunately, it's a transitional chapter, so it doesn't really affect my writing state.

Chapter 447 You're a Scumbag Woman

"The rain is really heavy. In my memory, it's been a long time since Lungmen has seen such heavy rain," Mostima said softly, holding a cup of hot tea and looking at the downpour outside the window. "It's really beautiful."

Standing behind her, the Emperor snorted somewhat unhappily: "Beautiful? What's beautiful about it? In this awful weather, we can't even leave the house. We can only stay at home and get moldy. Only pretentious people would say it's beautiful."

Even though the Emperor called her pretentious, Mostima wasn't angry. She just smiled and replied, "You can swim out, Boss. This little bit of water is nothing to you, right?"

"That will get my clothes wet."

"You can go without clothes."

"Am I supposed to run naked in the street?!"

"It doesn't really matter whether you're wearing clothes or not."

"Mostima, you're going too far!" the Emperor shouted angrily. "You really don't respect me as your boss? You're the one who's corrupting the atmosphere of disrespecting the boss at Penguin Logistics!"

"How could that be? You're the best BOSS, I clearly respect you a lot," Mostima said, half-jokingly. "BOSS, I want to talk to you about something."

The Emperor snorted coldly, sat down on the sofa, picked up a beer from the table, took a sip, and then slowly said, "You're leaving me?"

"Huh?" Mostima asked, somewhat surprised. "How did you know?"

“You’ve already written all your thoughts on your face. You humans are so pretentious,” the Emperor said. “But I’m still quite surprised that you would come all this way to talk to me about this. I thought that, given your personality, you would leave me a note saying, ‘I’m leaving. See you again someday.’”

"Wow." Mostima looked surprised. "No wonder he's the boss."

"Damn it, you really want to do this?!"

“Well… to be honest, I’ve already written the note. I was originally planning to leave it on your desk, but after thinking about it, I thought it would be better to tell you.” Mostima said with a smile, “Besides, I don’t necessarily want to leave. It’s okay to just leave my name here, right? You don’t really want to kick me out, do you, BOSS?”

"Hmph." The Emperor finished his beer in one gulp before continuing, "Whatever. You're just a figurehead there anyway, and you're just a figurehead here. Nowhere can hold you back. We're cooperating with Rhodes Island anyway, and Texas only goes there occasionally to hand over work. From now on, we can hand this job over to you."

"Hmm... As expected of the BOSS, you already knew before I even said anything."

"Of course," the Emperor said with a touch of pride, "I know everything."

"Amazing, amazing!"

"Except for one thing." The Emperor looked at Mostima and asked slowly, "Who exactly is this guy named Lin Ye? I have his resume, and to be honest, I don't see anything special about him. And as far as I remember, you shouldn't have been to Chernobog, so you shouldn't have had any contact with him before, or is my information wrong?"

“Well… there’s nothing wrong with that, but my interactions with him don’t happen in Chernobog,” Mostima said with a smile. “Boss, can’t you give your employees some privacy? I think it’s fine if only I know about him.”

"Since you've put it that way, then so be it. I'm not really interested in men anyway," the Emperor said. "But what about Exusiai?"

"What's wrong with Ah Neng?"

"You actually asked what's wrong...tsk, suddenly I feel like you're a bit like that." The Emperor tilted his head, no, tilted his body. "I don't know if you've heard of this term, um, it's 'scumbag girl,' the kind of girl who plays with the feelings of innocent young boys."

"Boss, that's an overstatement."

"Was it too much? I don't think so. Ah Neng has been teasing me twice as much these past few days," the Emperor hummed. "Obviously, it's because you're back and in a good mood."

Mostima laughed and said, "Aren't you going to tease me when you're in a good mood? That's quite a nasty personality of hers. I'll have a good talk with her."

“The only one who has no right to educate her is you, hey!” the Emperor said irritably. “Back then, A-Neng followed you to my place. She seemed a bit silly at first, and I didn’t really want her, but in the past few years she has grown to a point that amazes me. She is indeed a very hardworking child.”

"If you, the boss, call me hardworking, then I really am very hardworking."

"But she's not working so hard for me, you should know that, right?" The Emperor pointed at Mostima with his wing. "That child is fighting so desperately to catch up with you, hoping to one day travel with you. Otherwise, why would she leave Laterano and come to a restless place like Lungmen? Don't you have any idea?"

Mostima put down his teacup and said softly, "That's quite an impolite criticism."

The Emperor retracted his wings: "After all, Aneng is with me every day. As her boss, I always have to speak up for her."

"So it's really lucky that A-Neng was able to join Penguin Logistics."

“Yes, she’s already one of my best employees,” the Emperor said. “I don’t want to see her run off to Rhodes Island with you again. If that happens, I’ll definitely beat you up… no, I mean, I’ll beat up that guy named Lin Ye.”

“I support you, BOSS. If you’re going to beat him up, count me in,” Mostima said with a smile. “I’ll hand you the stick. After all, I’ve been looking for that guy for so long, and I’m a little resentful too.”

Hearing Mostima's reply, the Emperor scoffed unhappily, "No fun, like punching cotton."

Mostima chuckled twice, then slowly suppressed his laughter and said softly, "Actually, I didn't want it to be like this either. I didn't want Aneng to come looking for me, I didn't want Aneng to leave Laterano, and I didn't want her to get hurt. Because the closer she is to me, the greater the possibility of her getting hurt."

"So, you still haven't been able to resolve all those messy things you've got?" the Emperor said. "That's why the Laterans are such a nuisance. They make such a big deal out of something so small."

Mostima shook his head and said, "That's no small matter. After all, no matter what, I did point a gun at the time..."

"Alright, I have no interest in hearing your past." The Emperor jumped up from the sofa, stood on it, and then put his wings behind his back. He said slowly, "Whether you want to join Rhodes Island, stay with Penguin Logistics, or even be nominally affiliated with both, it doesn't matter. Anyway, no one can confine you. The only place that can accommodate you is this world."

Is this the world that accepts me? Those words sound so familiar.

Mostima thought to himself.

"Alright, you've rambled on for so long, what a waste of time." The Emperor jumped off the sofa and complained, "If I had known this would happen, you might as well have left me a note."

“Do you have anything else to do?” Mostima asked with a smile. “Shouldn’t you be staying home listening to records and drinking in this weather?”

“My favorite thing to do in this kind of weather is to stay in my room and write records, but that’s not going to happen today. Some very unpleasant guys have entered Lungmen, and I don’t know what they’re here for,” the Emperor said. “So we need to find out.”

"A strange fellow?" Mostima asked curiously. "You mean?"

The Emperor turned around, glanced at Mostima, and said indifferently, "Bears from the north."

"...Why did they come to Lungmen?"

"Who knows? But it's definitely not a good thing," the Emperor said. "And of all things, it just so happens to be at this time."

At this time...?