Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Xu Maomao was so stunned when he thought he was going to witness a living frog star splattered with blood and flesh, but the expected brutal scene did not happen.
When the blind car passed by, the smart frog reacted quickly and lowered his body, cleverly hiding between the wheels to avoid being crushed into a frog patty, but his glass bowl was not so lucky. Because the height exceeded the chassis of the car, the glass bowl was knocked out and fell to the cement road ten meters away, shattering into pieces on the ground.
The poor big frog watched helplessly as his rain shelter was scrapped. His wide mouth grinned even wider due to the shock. He stood blankly in the heavy rain and was turned into a drowned frog within a few seconds.
The big frog was stunned when he was soaked all over. He quickly took off the small cloth bag from his back and buried it under his belly, as if there was something valuable in it which he feared being damaged by the rain.
But at this time, another car passed by quickly, and the frog quickly lowered his head and pretended that he was a big rock. When he emerged from the bottom of the car, he was running wildly in the rain with an aggrieved expression on his frog face.
Xu Maomao’s heart was racing like a roller coaster. He was about to have a heart attack due to being frightened by it. Seeing it pitifully hiding from the rain, and even wanting to run under the slowly squirming cars in front, he immediately pinched it. Then he stood on the window sill without thinking, and tapped the window glass with his paws. The clanking sound really attracted its attention.
Shen Yu: “Maomao? What are you hitting the glass for? Sit down quickly, it will be our turn to pass soon.”
“Wait a moment.” Xu Maomao not only failed to sit down, but also slapped the window more vigorously and danced with joy, because the frog’s eyesight was relatively weak, he had to move to attract it.
“What are you doing?” It was not the right time to dance.
Xu Maomao said, “A Yu, please open the car door in a moment. I’ve met a familiar little friend.”
A Yu?
This was the first time someone was not addressed by his full name and he was stunned. So, even when Xu Maomao rolled down the window and stretched out his head and half of his body, he couldn’t react immediately.
“Meow meow meow meow!” Brother Frog, come in and take shelter from the rain!
The warm-hearted Xu Maomao didn’t care about his fur getting wet. Among the cats who were afraid of water, it could be said that he was very desperate!
The frog immediately opened its eyes wide and used its poor eyesight to catch sight of the golden bell on Xu Maomao’s chest. As a frog with enlightened intelligence, it realized that the other party was also a favored one among its people and felt that it had met a noble cat. He immediately spread his legs and rushed forward.
When Shen Yu came to his senses and was about to drag Xu Maomao back into the car, he saw him rolling the window lower, and then a green shadow jumped in from the open window with a loud noise, then fell on the co-pilot seat, and there was a splash of water with its entry.
“…”
Shen Yu lowered his head and saw the alien object clearly.
The lump was very big, half the size of a frog as big as Xu Maomao. It had smooth and delicate moist skin, its back was as bright green as imperial green emerald, its belly was as white as jade, its head was slightly rounder than the frogs he had seen, and its two large convex eyes were very symmetrical and very bright.
It could be called the most beautiful frog among frogs.
The beautiful frog also saw clearly the human who was staring at him intently and was suddenly shy and excited. So, he instinctively opened his mouth: “Croak!!!”
He was very enthusiastic, not afraid of strangers at all, and his voice was very loud!
What surprised Xu Maomao most was that when he opened his mouth, he could clearly see a small golden copper coin on the tip of his pink tongue. After seeing Jade Rabbit’s moon cake and Suan Ni’s ingot, Xu Maomao realized that the copper coin should be the status symbol of the frog clan. It seemed that this frog was also a decent frog!
Shen Yu narrowed his eyes: “Maomao, you said… it’s your friend?”
His Maomao was a human before and now a cat. Where did he get the chance to meet a frog?
Xu Maomao: “Well, I just met this friend. I saw it was raining outside just now. It’s very pitiful, it’s such a cold rain.”
Shen Yu held his forehead, and he felt that he and Xu Maomao had the biggest similarity. They both probably just couldn’t help but bring all kinds of small animals back to their nest. He said coolly: “You guys talk and you translate for me.”
After so many things, Shen Yu probably understood that Xu Maomao might understand a lot of animal languages.
The frog looked at the human in surprise, then at Xu Maomao, and finally took the initiative to say hello: “Croak!”
It was the first time for Xu Maomao to hear frog language, and it was very difficult. Fortunately, this frog may have opened his spiritual consciousness for a long time and thus had a higher IQ. Although he had an accent, he could barely communicate with it.
“Meow!” My name is Oscar, what’s yours?
The frog also had a hard time understanding him. Xu Maomao repeated it three times before he understood. He suddenly said loudly: “Croak!” My name is Lu Bao. Thank you Cat for letting me take shelter from the rain in your house.
Xu Maomao said earnestly: “Why are you playing on a human highway? It’s very dangerous.”
Lu Bao: “Wow~ So this is called a highway? I mainly walked on dirt roads in the mountains this trip, or… This is my first time on this kind of road.”
“Traveling?” Xu Maomao was surprised.
“Hey, people always laugh at us using ‘frogs in the well’, so I want to go out more and see the world.”
Xu Maomao couldn’t help laughing and asked curiously: “Did you live in the mountains before?”
“I lived in a pond in the city.”
It turned out that Lu Bao was an urban frog, and he was very motivated.
After Lu Bao finished croaking, he glanced at Shen Yu cautiously: “This human being is actually indifferent to me? When humans in the past saw me, they either wanted to catch me and roast me, or they would drive me away.”
“No, he won’t do that, he listens to me in everything.” Xu Maomao said boldly, “After all, he is my shit shoveling officer.”
Shen Yu felt something, turned his face and hummed: “Don’t just talk to him, translate for me as well.”
So the conversation that followed became longer and longer. While chatting with Lu Bao, Xu Maomao had to translate for Shen Yu, and gradually he learned some things about Lu Bao.
“So you also live in City B?”
“Yes, I live in a lotus pond in a human palace with many friends from the water tribe.” Lu Bao became even more excited when he talked about his hometown and wanted to tell Xu Maomao how beautiful it was there with his limited vocabulary.
Through its description, Xu Maomao gradually understood its location – it turned out to be a famous scenic spot in City B. It was now a national first-class scenic spot. When he was a child, he often went there for a walk, but he never went there after growing up. He had visited it, but he never expected that there was a world inside it that actually gave birth to monsters like Lu Bao.
However, according to Lu Bao, not many creatures in the entire pond had opened their spiritual consciousness. Only he and a fish had wisdom, and his other friends were stupid.
Xu Maomao asked again: “You are still carrying this big bag of things when traveling? Is this a specialty product you want to bring to your friends?”
Upon hearing this, Lu Bao hugged his small backpack tightly: “Well, yes, these are the gifts for them.”
Seeing Xu Maomao’s curiosity, it hesitated for a moment, then opened the small backpack, only to see a lot of plastic… photos inside?!
The paper size of the photos was only about two inches, the picture elements were not clear, and the shooting angle was very surprising. 90% of the shots were often covered by various inexplicable things. However, the number of photos could not be supported, so you could still see the shooting location after a rough glance. The scenery of “Lu Bao” could be described as diverse, including garbage dumps, shops, stones on the roadside, and empty abandoned factories. The largest number of photos were of the sea, and it was the sea in various time periods, including sunny and rainy days, day and night.
“I took all the photos.” Lu Bao was a little proud, pointing to the photos of the sea, “Silver-white sand, very beautiful, right? I took the photos at the risk of being sunburned by Mr. Sun.”
It pulled out another photo. One picture showed a group photo of a group of crabs standing in rows. “And they are all my new partners.”
Shen Yu and Xu Maomao were shocked that it went all the way to the beach to take pictures. How much did he love the sea. Couldn’t the small pond satisfy the little frog’s big heart?
“You like the sea so much, why do you want to come back? This is the highway back to city B, right?”
“Because I have finished all the dry food, and besides, my fish brother is still waiting for me.” The little frog cherished the photos, so he put them away and explained, “These are all taken for Brother Fish.”
Xu Maomao almost spat out his saliva: “Who is Brother Fish?”
“Brother Yu is a very handsome big ink carp. His fish tail and fins are very beautiful, he also lives in the pond with me. But he yearns for the world outside the pond and is especially curious about what the sea looks like. Unfortunately, Brother Fish’s practice time is relatively short and he could not fully transform, so I went on a trip and took some photos to show him.” Lu Bao said this with a bit of pride in his distress, “Actually, my practice time is shorter than Brother Fish’s, but we amphibians are better at transforming. We have an advantage over fishes, unlike Brother Fish who has a big tail even when transforming into human form.”
Oh, a male mermaid who was said to be very handsome. But for some reason, a large amount of saliva filled Xu Maomao’s mouth – the sashimi of the big carp might be delicious or something…
Xu Maomao quickly suppressed his cat instinct and changed the topic: “Wow, what about you? You must have been out for a long time, right?” There were all the seasons in the photos.
“Yes, I left the pond a few months ago. Sometimes when I miss Brother Fish, I will send him a postcard.” As he said that, Lu Bao rummaged through the small bag again and found one postcard that he couldn’t send out. The postcard was actually a larger photo with some incomprehensible words drawn on it, which may be frog language.
“Originally it shouldn’t have taken that long, but the weather was too cold some time ago,” Lu Bao said shyly, “We frogs all hibernate. Although I have been practicing for a long time, I still can’t completely overcome my instinct, so I took a nap. …If Brother Fish finds out, he will definitely laugh at me for being lazy.”
“…No, you have worked very hard.” The temperature was still very low now, and this beautiful frog could be called a hero among frogs.
Lu Bao also shared other photos he took with them, and finally chose a photo of standing on a tree and playing with butterflies and gave it to Xu Maomao.
Xu Maomao played with the two-inch mini photo paper, studied it, and found that the material was very special, so he asked: “It doesn’t seem to be a product of humans?”
“Of course not, this is the greatest invention of our frog tribe. A masterpiece of ‘Engineer Frog’, he even gave me my camera.” As he said that, Lu Bao also showed the camera to Xu Maomao.
An engineer? It sounded similar to Dr. Mi!
Xu Maomao noticed that the frog took the camera just like he did, directly from the void. His mind suddenly moved and he lowered his voice and asked: “You frog tribe also has a red envelope group to grab the red envelopes?”
“Yes, but there are only a few of us in frog tribe who have spiritual wisdom, there are only more than thirty in the group… Our group leader is the Golden Toad.” Legend had it that the golden toad could attract wealth and was also a member of the lucky beasts. It seemed that the leaders of each race were all incredible monsters, the Cat Clan had the Suan Ni, the Rabbit Clan had the Jade Rabbit, and even the Frog Clan had the Golden Toad to support the scene.
The frog stuck out its tongue and showed Xu Maomao the status symbol of their frog clan. Since, it was the frog clan led by Golden Frog so, the tokens used in place of bells were all in the shape of coins.
Shen Yu couldn’t see these. He just saw the big frog suddenly sticking out a long tongue, and Xu Maomao was still staring at the tongue studying it. Suddenly, some strange jealousy surfaced. His temples twitched and he stepped on the accelerator, frightening the frog so much that his tongue snapped back into his mouth.
The frog opened his bulging eyeballs and complained aggrievedly about the old driver with poor driving skills. He then patted his chest with his green webs to calm down, and suggested to Xu Maomao: “Big Cat, let’s become friends!”
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