Chapter 28

  At that moment, the world seemed to have lost its voice.

  It's all over, it's all over, it's all over, it's all over, it's all over, it's all over...

  Jiang Chuan was in charge of silence.

  It was Fang Yu, the culprit who caused the hamster riot, who saw Jiang Chuan get hurt and immediately jumped up to play his nanny role. He loudly reminded Jiang Chuan not to move while frantically searching for the first-aid kit like a headless fly... Meanwhile, the injured person himself was staring at the hamsters in the cage through the cage door until Fang Yu had made at least four laps around the room. Only then did Jiang Chuan shift his gaze and say calmly: "The first-aid kit is under the TV, second cabinet from the left, you can see it when you open it."

  There's nothing unusual about his tone.

  The man thought for a moment and said: "Fang Ge, this little injury is nothing, you don't have to make such a big fuss."

  "What's non-toxic? That's a food bowl used by mice! Just now, I saw it dive in and swim around, who knows if the splashed fragments on your body had touched its saliva, what if you get infected - no way, tomorrow I'll take you to get vaccinated against rabies, just in case!"

  Every day, I carefully wash every nook and cranny of my body in the bath, and yet I still feel that my sacred dignity has been violated.

  Still getting rabies vaccine, the hamster temporarily pressed down the anxiety in his heart, raised his paw with disdain and scratched his ears, because if he went to get a doctor's opinion on this kind of thing, they would laugh their teeth off.

  Of course, it's not ruled out that there are doctors who like to interfere and suggest that the owner humanely dispose of the disobedient hamster, such as asking the owner of the rebellious hamster if they have a cat on the upper floor?

  Provoked.

  The hamster's ear-scratching motion came to an abrupt halt, as a strong sense of unease washed over him once again. He twisted his body slightly and pulled out some cotton balls from behind him, holding them close to try and increase his sense of security. He watched as Fang Yu furrowed her brow and pulled out the first-aid kit, walking over to Jiang Chuan's side. She used her foot to push aside the scattered hamster food and broken bowl fragments that were still on the floor near his feet. Then, she took out some disinfectant alcohol and raised an eyebrow at Jiang Chuan - who had no choice but to reluctantly place his foot on the table. He took the alcohol from Fang Yu and half-heartedly wiped it clean, before carelessly tossing the blood-stained cotton ball into the ashtray nearby. With a lazy motion, he leaned back into the sofa, covering his face with his arm, looking as though he was preparing to take a nap.

  Of course it looks more like it's thinking about whether or not to have dinner tonight, that big-faced cat upstairs.

  He had one foot in a slipper, the injured foot had lost its slipper - his bare toes were right before Jian Ran's face.

  The hamster lay in its cage for a while, looking at the wound that had not yet healed. The small wound was still bleeding and everything around it was bruised - perhaps this wound would be a problem that could be solved with just a band-aid from a human perspective, but from the hamster's point of view...

  The length of that wound is longer than Jian Ran's head.

  Enough to shock and amaze.

  For a moment, my mind was occupied with "how could there be such a big wound", "damn why is the blood flowing non-stop", "it's all over, it's all over" - Jiang Chuan, tell me, can I still push open the cage door and rush up to kiss your ankle?!

  He crouched beside the cage, a pair of green bean eyes staring at Jiang Chuan who was lying on the sofa with his eyes closed and furrowed brows. At this moment, he spent some time thinking independently about a problem that had been bothering him: when pets hurt their owners, to a certain extent, it should be considered a matter of principle betrayal... So what kind of punishment should "pets" who betray their owners bear in the education he received from an early age?

  Murder by stealth.

  “……”

  The man with long limbs lying on the sofa opened his eyes without warning, and there was no extra emotion in those clear eyes like the sky.

  He paused for a moment, turned slightly, and glanced faintly at the hamster that was now lying on its stomach on the cage, with its face pressed against the edge of the cage, flattened into a pancake, staring at its owner with beady green eyes.

  The man stared at the hamster for a while, until the silent gaze made the hamster quietly take a step back. The emotions in his blue eyes suddenly softened, and he raised his hand to roughly brush away the soft hair that had fallen on his forehead. He muttered in a voice close to self-talk, "Forget it...it's too strange to use this kind of rule to make things difficult for a hamster."

  Jian Ran: "????"

  Although the hamster couldn't understand what Jiang Chuan was saying at all, the muttering owner still made the hamster feel a strong sense of unease. At this moment when the pet and its owner needed to sit down face-to-face with a cup of hot tea for good interaction and communication, there was someone next to them who kept muttering away.

  Fang Yu: "Jiang Chuan, you said you had nothing to do and raised a hamster, but now you can barely take care of yourself... This hamster eats a lot and is disobedient, only growing fat, and doesn't even know how to run on a wheel, the most basic skill for a hamster..."

  I don't know which sentence of Mr. Fang's long, nagging speech hit the sore spot, but suddenly, in the midst of his chatter, the hamster, who had been feeling guilty and anxious about "hurting its master", suddenly swept away its uneasy emotions, its fur standing on end as it inexplicably became enraged, and without any struggle, the round ball of fluff violently crashed into the edge of the cage, making a light "thud" sound.

  Fang Yu subconsciously closed his mouth, then he felt the angry gaze of the hamsters in the cage.

  That's enough of your nonsense!!

  Don't stir up trouble like this!!

  Is it easy for me to transform from a human into a hamster? Try sleeping and waking up in a world filled with giant mice, how terrifying is that?! I was forced to watch a live broadcast of "mouse eating mouse", I didn't want to see it at all! At that time, I had just become a hamster, no buffer, no one cared about my feelings! Ah!!! Seeing my own mother being bullied by reporters and not being able to fight back made me feel so useless!

  Someone who I used to be able to kill with one hand is now someone who can truly kill me with one hand, do you know how heart-wrenching this feeling is!!!! You of course don't know!!!!!

  And forced me to run on the treadmill!!

  Why does dad want to ride a unicycle!!

  Is it for the entertainment of you bunch of foolish humans!!!!!!

  I think I look great being chubby, hamsters are supposed to be fat, aren't they? The owner of the pet store said that hamsters only look good and are gentle when they're fat!!!

  Although I'm not very gentle, did I bite you!! Did I bite you!! Even if you gave it to me, I wouldn't bite, thick-skinned and tough-fleshed!!

  Betting on the former human dignity, when a hamster is already very tired and still has to put on a strong smile (not really) eating and drinking every day, why do you want to go run on the wheel? You tell me.

  "It will."

  In the quiet living room, a low and magnetic voice suddenly rang out.

  Jian Ran: "What?"

  Huh?

  The hamster, which had been running wildly in its cage, suddenly calmed down. It crouched in the corner of its cage, looking up at the tall man who was originally lying on the sofa and suddenly sat up, saying to Fang Yu: "When I bought it back, it ran very well on the exercise wheel, but for some reason it became like this after coming home."

  Fang Yu: "......"

  "I don't know why it turned out like this," said Jiang Chuan, thinking for a moment. "I've never raised small animals before and didn't know what to do. I only had experience training hunting dogs."

  Fang Yu: "Training hunting dogs? What were you doing before... Never mind, since you have experience training animals, why not..."

  Jiang Chuan smiled: "Very demanding."

  "Huh?"

  Jiang Chuan: "Ah Fei is still so young, how can it possibly withstand that kind of professional training? Isn't it strange to demand so much from a hamster? ... Besides, before this, it had always been very gentle and hadn't bitten anyone. Today, suddenly like this, there must be a reason for it, just like humans sometimes suddenly lose control of their emotions."

  Fang Yu: "Don't compare animals with humans..."

  Jiang Chuan turned his head and looked at Fang Yu seriously, saying: "I didn't."

  "I don't know why, but the way you're telling me with a serious face that you didn't compare hamsters and humans makes me feel like you think 'humans can't possibly be compared to hamsters'."

  "..." Jiang Chuan said, "Think too much."

  "Fang Yu: "What's with that one-second pause? ... Anyway, this hamster only knows how to eat, drink, poop, and sleep every day. Except for being lazy and fat, I really can't think of a third reason. It was probably docile before because it was well-fed, but now it suddenly goes crazy because it's forced to exercise - even in the hamster world, this is a rare freak!"

  Jiang Chuan seemed to have not heard Fang Yu's words, stretched out his hand, across the cage door, and quickly pointed in the direction of the hamster's nose: "So I guess it's unhappy."

  Fang Yu: "......Huh?"

  Jian Ran: "………………………………"

  The man's words had just fallen, and in the agent's face of incredulous gaze, the hamster in the cage suddenly shook violently, then lifted its paws to cover its face and rushed back into the small wooden house with a small internal eight-character font - the house that was just right for the little hamster ten or so days ago was no longer suitable for Jianran now, and at this moment he could only squeeze his upper body into the house with great effort, leaving a round buttocks exposed outside...

  Outside the cage, humans can see from the side of the wooden house that half of the hamster's body is stuffed inside, desperately pulling cotton wool to wrap itself up. Throughout the whole process, its plump round buttocks are shaking outside, shaking.

  "Ah, I'm crying."

  "How is that possible? Don't be ridiculous."

  Jiang Chuan: "A Fei cries easily."

  "How is that possible? Don't be ridiculous."

  Jiang Chuan: "I really cried... It's all your fault."

  Fang Yu: "How is that possible, stop messing around... even if it really cries, what's that got to do with me? Let it roll over and be done with it, where did this deep-seated hatred come from?"

  Jiang Chuan: "You let it run amok, it didn't want to run amok, so it's unhappy now - your fault, my fault too."

  Fang Yu: "When I was bitten by the hamster, the first thing that came to mind wasn't to feed it to the cat upstairs, but to find fault with myself. Are you kidding me?!"

  Jiang Chuan didn't respond to Fang Yu's question, his azure eyes narrowing slightly as if he had thought of something. He seemed to find it amusing that the other person would describe him as "Holy Father". A lazy smile spread across his face as he reached out and closed the hamster cage door. After a moment's thought, he suddenly clapped his hands lightly and said: "Ah."

  Fang Yu: "What's going on?"

  "Look at this mess! The food bowl is broken again and we'll have to buy a new one, which means more expenses."

  Fang Yu: "Compared to this, you should think about how to reasonably raise hamsters in the future so that they don't have to go to the vaccination station every month to get rabies shots."

  "Alright," said the man sitting on the sofa, suddenly straightening up and narrowing his eyes slightly, "I will consider this matter carefully."

  There was a moment when Fang Yu had an illusion that he seemed to be conversing with some kind of unstoppable task, but that should be just an illusion, right? It's just a sea turtle who likes to use various fake brand names, what else could it be? The agent paused for a moment, wiping the sweat from his forehead.

  "If all else fails, just feed the cat on the upper floor."

  "No."

  “……”

  When the agent and the male artist he had just happily signed were going crazy and calm respectively, they stared at each other in silence...

  That fat butt squeezed outside the small wooden house is still shaking regularly.

  Hamsters cry silently.

  He knew that crying like this and wiping away tears with a handkerchief might lead to him being ridiculed for being stupid enough to pee in his sleep.

  But at this time he couldn't care about so much, after becoming a hamster, he found that his heart became particularly fragile.

  In short, it's all the wheel's fault!