PFC Chapter 475 "Infecting the World" - Male Mother (86)
Chapter 475 "Infecting the World" - Male Mother (86)
Looking at the orderly scene, Lu Liruan was filled with admiration: "It must be really not easy to do something so perfect here."
He Yan did not mince words: "It is not easy. Everyone has put in a lot of effort and sacrificed a lot of personal rest time. Most of our volunteers here do not receive a salary. They rely entirely on their love for small animals to persevere in completing this work."
She smiled and said, "And thanks to the donations from all sorts of kind-hearted people, we've been able to keep going. Although we've always been quite poor, we can at least do what we can. So we've been trying our best to find good, responsible adoptive families for the animals we rescue. This is for the good of these animals and also to help support us."
She speaks quickly, but clearly and understandably.
While talking to Lu Liruan, He Yan directed Liao Tingyuan to place the items in the warehouse, showing no politeness whatsoever.
Liao Tingyuan also worked quietly. He was naturally strong, so he moved these things much faster than He Yan, a girl.
He Yan nodded with great satisfaction and said to Lu Liruan, "Thanks to your help, it would have taken me a while to move it myself."
"Your boyfriend is really strong. By the way, are you two married?"
Lu Liruan felt slightly embarrassed upon hearing this question, but she tried her best to hide it on her face, forcing a smile: "Not yet, we're just living together right now..."
"So you want to adopt a pet together, right?" He Yan continued, and Lu Liruan, seeing that He Yan had already prepared the answer for her, quickly nodded.
"Yes! That's right... We both love animals, and we came here specifically to check out the rescue organizations we heard about. After all, we're looking for an alternative to buying."
"Yes, adopt instead of buying, hahaha!" He Yan seemed to really like Lu Liruan.
Lu Liruan and Liao Tingyuan both possess physical attributes that are almost universally advantageous.
Lu Liruan has an adorable baby face and looks very energetic, while Liao Tingyuan is handsome and gentle. Although he is good-looking, he is not sharp at all and gives the impression of being a good person. When the two of them stand together, they can win the favor of others at a glance.
Lu Liruan could sense that He Yan was wary of her when they contacted each other online yesterday, and he didn't seem very welcoming, although Lu Liruan didn't know exactly why she needed to be wary of him.
The two chatted in front while Liao Tingyuan worked diligently behind them.
After all the items were moved into the warehouse, Liao Tingyuan gently patted Lu Liruan on the shoulder, indicating that it was over.
He Yan looked into the warehouse and saw that everything was neatly arranged where it should be, and then he came to his senses.
"I'm sorry to have made you do so much work so soon after you arrived."
Liao Tingyuan shook his head, pursed his lips slightly, and smiled: "It's okay, just consider it an early experience of volunteer life."
"Will you be volunteering with Ruan Ruan in the future?" she asked with a smile.
Liao Tingyuan nodded, his voice gentle: "Whatever Ruan Ruan does, I'll do along with her."
Lu Liruan was surprised and thought to herself: I didn't expect you to be so good at talking. I never knew you were so eloquent!
Lu Liruan reached behind Liao Tingyuan and pinched his side.
Liao Tingyuan also put his hand on Lu Liruan's shoulder and squeezed it. The two understood each other without saying a word, but they didn't even exchange a glance.
I naturally walked into He Yan's room.
He Yan sat back down at the table, took out the information book that he had asked Lu Liruan and Liao Tingyuan to fill out earlier, and had them add a few more items.
This includes home address, family members...
"Ah, you don't need to fill that out." He Yan pointed to the salary section and waved his hand.
"Later we felt that this kind of investigation was too much of a privacy issue, and that wealthy families don't necessarily have love, and loving families..." She blinked.
Lu Liruan laughed: "The more you talk about it, the more it sounds like raising a child?"
“Raising pets is just like raising your own children…” He Yan smiled and said, “I have two cats and a dog at home. I’m not exactly rich, but raising them makes me happy, and I’m willing to spend my time and energy on them. I think that’s enough.”
Actually, Lu Liruan was still a little disappointed because she really wanted to see how much money Liao Tingyuan would fill in in that column.
It wasn't that she coveted Liao Tingyuan's assets, but rather that she wanted to see how much salary she could earn if she could work for his company in the future.
Although Lu Liruan's mission is to ensure Liao Tingyuan's survival, this does not conflict with her desire to get rich and live a good life.
Who would choose to live a bad life if they could live a good one? Who would choose to work the night shift if they could work the day shift?
Lu Liruan felt like a typical office worker, ranking herself in order of priority.
Lu Liruan and the others' original purpose was not really to take a small animal back today.
So Lu Liruan sat across the table and began to think about how to start the conversation.
Then Lu Liruan next to us asked very naturally, "We originally wanted to pick up a kitten downstairs and take it home. But we couldn't find one in the yard. When we were chatting with someone the other day, we heard that there used to be a rescue center in the yard, but it was later closed down. Is it because all the kittens in the yard ran away to other places? Or have they all been taken away by the rescue station?"
Lu Liruan silently gave Liao Tingyuan a thumbs up.
You're usually quiet and reserved, but you're surprisingly eloquent when it matters!
Liao Tingyuan felt the little girl pinch him on the back again, and the pinch wasn't light...
Liao Tingyuan showed no outward change, but secretly reached behind him with his right hand and pressed down on Lu Liruan's misbehaving hand, causing the two to fight with their fingers behind their backs.
But on the surface, they presented a harmonious and warm image, like a young couple eager to learn...
Lu Liruan even took the initiative to move closer to Liao Tingyuan, their shoulders touching.
Upon hearing Liao Tingyuan's question, He Yan paused in his actions, and his expression darkened slightly.
Lu Liruan sensed something was amiss and quickly and cautiously pressed for details: "Actually, we heard that something unpleasant happened... Everyone seems quite worried about the pets in the yard..."
Lu Liruan tentatively spoke, hoping to hear the specifics from He Yan.
He Yan sighed and nodded: "Yes, you've all heard about it."
"Yes, the lady who called us said a few words to us and told us that if we wanted to keep a pet, we had to be careful..."
“Back then, someone called us from your neighborhood to report that there were many stray kittens born, and one litter of kittens were all sick and looked very pitiful. They hoped we could come and treat them, so we went over to check on the situation, treated the kittens, and then assessed the situation in the neighborhood,” He Yan said.
"Later, when problems arose, we took this into consideration when we retrieved the feeders and fixed capture points that had been placed in that community."
Seeing that they looked like they wanted to know, He Yan didn't hide it from them.
This is not something that can be easily hidden...
"At that time, our volunteers set up fixed capture points there so that the kittens could be adopted, and the adult cats that were already bred and could not be domesticated could be captured, spayed or neutered, and then released back into the wild. So, we would feed them at fixed locations."
She pulled up several photos from her phone and showed them to Lu Liruan and Liao Tingyuan.
Lu Liruan looked at it carefully and realized that the photo captured the scene she and Liao Tingyuan saw in the spatial time last night.
But it must have been set up just then, everything was still quite new...
There were also volunteers taking photos with them, creating a very harmonious and happy scene.
"At that time, your community, like other communities, had made the same arrangements, and volunteers went to feed the animals on time, and everything went smoothly."
He Yan flipped through a few more photos: "Initially, these things were vandalized by people... Once, the shelters we built for stray animals were all torn down."
Looking at the photo of several pieces of wood that had been kicked and broken, Lu Liruan gasped in shock.
Just how much resentment must someone harbor to do something like this?
Lu Liruan and Liao Tingyuan exchanged a glance, both of them knowing who was responsible for this.
He Yan continued, "We discovered it at the time, and even sent volunteers to guard the area for a few days, and then we moved to a new place. Then, it did quiet down for a while..." She then showed Lu Liruan the photos from behind.
“Until this point.”
Lu Liruan leaned closer to her phone, looked at the photos on it, and frowned.
The nest, which was originally the color of wood, was covered in a mess of red and black stains, making it look quite terrifying.
"Someone deliberately sabotaged this, as if they were specifically targeting us, telling us that they would cause trouble whenever we held this charity event here!"
“…He’s really sick!” He Yan muttered under his breath.
Lu Liruan wholeheartedly agreed. It's just that she's sick or something... How could someone with a sound mind and a twisted mentality do such a thing?
“At that time, there were many uncles and aunts in your community who came to help us with this charity work. They also spontaneously said that they would keep an eye on the situation here when they were taking a walk or exercising. We are very grateful.”
“But these people usually cause trouble in the middle of the night, and when we wake up in the morning, it looks like this… We didn’t believe in superstitions at the time!” He Yan shook his head helplessly.
She continued, her brow furrowing deeper and deeper: "At first, we thought these people would calm down after a few incidents, but we didn't expect them to escalate like this..."
"It seems like they're deliberately going against us. At first, they just vandalized things, but then we received a call from someone saying that their pet had been poisoned while they were walking it. We rushed over immediately, took the animal to get treatment, and then took the items back for inspection. We found that they did indeed contain poison..."
At this point, He Yan slammed his fist on the table: "They've poisoned us! This goes beyond mere sabotage!"
“We applied to the community to retrieve the surveillance footage, but because it was in the shade of trees—we chose that location precisely because we didn't want to obstruct pedestrians—it didn't capture anything. We had no choice but to file a report with the police, but it hasn't been effective…”
Just listening to this made Lu Liruan's blood pressure rise. It was so infuriating. Everyone was clearly well-intentioned and doing good deeds.
These people, driven by their own baseless and dark desires, cause destruction, harm the lives of small animals, and hurt others' willingness to help them.
“We had no choice. It’s not that we didn’t want to compete, but competing wouldn’t benefit anyone. So we had to remove everything…and then…” He Yan said, still sounding somewhat disappointed.
Lu Liruan wanted to ask her if she knew that someone had taken the cat from the yard and abused it to sell videos.
But she didn't know how to bring it up. If He Yan didn't know about this, it would be very cruel for her to tell her.
Liao Tingyuan and she exchanged a glance; without saying a word, they both knew what the other was thinking.
Liao Tingyuan and Lu Liruan shared the same thought. Both of them were soft-hearted. After a moment's thought, Liao Tingyuan sighed and asked, "Then why are there no kittens in the yard? Is it because no one is feeding them, so they've all run off to other places?"
He Yan thought for a moment: "At first we rescued a litter of kittens, and there was another litter. We went there again, but we couldn't find them anywhere. We asked the people in the yard, and they all said they hadn't seen them since."
"That was a litter of kittens... The mother cat was with her kittens, but we never saw her again. She wasn't spayed or neutered, so she probably ran off to another neighborhood. Maybe we'll run into her again someday."
He Yan thought for a moment and said, "Hey, I took a picture of that litter of kittens back then, take a look!"
Lu Liruan leaned forward and took a deep breath.
But when Lu Liruan actually saw those photos of kittens on He Yan's phone, she still felt a pang of sadness.
Sure enough... it was the same few kittens that appeared at my doorstep in the virtual world.
What do I mean? I'll never find them again...
They will never grow up again...
Even the mother cat...
A bittersweet feeling welled up in Lu Liruan's chest and rose to her eyes, making her eyes feel a little sore. Lu Liruan pretended to turn around and rub them.
She felt Liao Tingyuan squeeze her arm, offering silent comfort.
"Didn't you see these kittens?" He Yan asked them again.
Liao Tingyuan shook his head: "No, it probably went somewhere else with its mother cat."
"Hopefully...it's over there after all..."