Chapter 164: Dinner - 164
As the deer walked towards Zhou Fan while moving its head, the chicken and the fox finally noticed them.
Despite the new people, the chicken and the fox were too attracted by the music to pay them any attention.
The deer and the butterfly on its head were the same, ignoring the fox and the chickens presence.
Once she had come within ten feet of Zhou Fan and the harp, the deer curled up its legs and layed on the ground while listening. The butterfly remained on its head.
As the deer and the butterfly listened more and more, they seemed to be gaining intelligence faster. Zhou Fan could only guess that the song was clearing their minds and speeding up the intelligence-giving process as a result.
Instead of almost an entire day, the deer and the butterfly's eyes cleared up within an hour. Still, they simply sat and listened to the music.
Not long after, what seemed like moving dirt made its way towards the harp. As the dirt reached within ten feet of Zhou Fan, it stopped moving. Then, a head popped out of the dirt pile. The mole left its lower body below the ground while its head moved to the rhythm of the song. It too gained intelligence within an hour.
By that time, Zhou Fan was ready to stop for the day. He soon struck the last note of the song and stopped moving his fingers.
After a minute, the animals around him left their trance.
"Wow, that was really good!" The deer said, speaking her first words.
"I agree!" The high pitched voice of the small butterfly said.
"Same." Said the deep voice of the mole that gave the illusion it was bigger than it actually was.
"It was okay." Said the fox.
"I think it was absolutely enthralling." Said the chicken.
Although Zhou Fan wasn't much for flattery, he couldn't help but enjoy hearing the chickens' words.
"Thank you all. Would you three like to stay for dinner?" Zhou Fan asked while looking at the newcomers.
"Sure!"
"Sure!"
"Sure."
The three newcomers spoke at the same time. Zhou Fan walked through the path that led towards the waterfall with the 5 animals following behind him.
"Here is some water. I will go prepare some food for each of you." Zhou Fan said before walking back through the path and heading to his main house. Although he could have instantly brought it over, he wanted to let them get to know each other.
While he was gone, the five animals started speaking to each other.
"My name is chicken. You all can call me Big Brother Chicken." The chicken said proudly.
"Ok big brother chicken." The deer and the butterfly said in unison. The mole simply nodded.
"My name is fox. You all can call me Miss Fox." The fox said arrogantly.
"Yes miss fox!" The deer and the butterfly said in unison. Once again, the mole merely nodded.
"We don't have names, do we make them ourselves?" The butterfly asked after realizing that they couldn't introduce themselves.
"Just ask brother Fan when he returns. I'm sure he has a name for all of you." The chicken said.
"That sounds good! Should we also call him brother Fan?" The deer asked.
"Just call him whatever you want. I'm sure he doesn't mind." The fox responded.
"What do you call him miss fox?" The butterfly asked.
"I just call him mister Fan." The fox said.
The deer and the butterfly thought about it for a while, but they eventually spoke. "I think Brother Fan sounds good." The deer said, speaking for both of them.
After some chatting, Zhou Fan returned with two plates. One was full with meats, while the other was filled with plants. Naturally, Zhou Fan had avoided using the meats of certain animals such as chicken or deer.
"Here you go. Try some of both." Zhou Fan said.
Although butterflies weren't usually meat eaters, these animals were different. They had yet to choose between meat and plants, or both. It wasn't in their genes like it was in most animals.
As the butterfly came up to try the meat, Zhou Fan cut it into tiny pieces so that she could fit it in her mouth.
Before she took a bite, she asked Zhou Fan a question. "What's my name?"
Zhou Fan thought for a second before he answered. "Your name is butterfly."
The butterfly nodded happily and ate the meat bits.
The other animals also came up, with the mole and the deer asking for their names. "Your name is deer, and your name is mole." He had said.
After a couple minutes, the animals had eaten their fill. Surprisingly, every single one of the animals liked both meat and plants. He didn't know why some animals on earth had evolved to not like meat, but he assumed that it was because it was hard to get for them.
Before they left, Zhou Fan grabbed the chicken and forcefully cleaned it with the water. It struggled for a while until it realized that it was hopeless. If Zhou Fan hadn't strengthened the space, it would have been shattered from his resistance.
Afterwards, he grabbed the fox, who hissed at him, and forcefully gave her a bath as well. She struggled much less, but the brief anger on her face showed how mad she was.
Sensing their impending doom, the butterfly, the deer, and the mole started to run away. Sadly, Zhou Fan caught them all and dragged them back. He first gave a bath to the deer, who accepted her fate.
Next, he cleaned the mole. It was by far the dirtiest since he had been digging underground before. He too accepted his fate and got cleaned.
As for the butterfly, Zhou Fan simply gave her a couple drops of water since she wasn't dirty at all. He only did it to be fair.
By the time he was finished, there were 5 wet and upset animals glaring at him.
Chapter 165: Waterfall - 165
Near the waterfall, Zhou Fan was forced to make a fire in order to calm the animals down. Otherwise, they would have all attacked him at once.
Once he had gathered sticks and leaves, Zhou Fan started the fire. If the fire was anywhere else, it would have burned an entire planet to ashes before possibly stopping.
Within Zhou Fans manor, however, the fire could only burn the sticks and the leaves as if it was a normal fire on normal wood and normal leaves.
The animals and Zhou Fan sat on the ground around the fire. They did it to dry off, while he just looked at the fire. Although they didn't say a word, Zhou Fan could tell they were angry at him.
The butterfly dried the fastest, while the deer took the longest to dry. Once they were all dried, Zhou Fan led them back to the yard. Before he entered his room, he turned around and spoke.
"You all can sleep wherever you want. There is a cave that way, and a hill that way." Zhou Fan said while pointing.
Before they could respond, he entered his room and closed the door behind him.
"I can't believe he didn't apologize!" The butterfly said with her high pitched voice.
The rest of the animals nodded their heads in agreement before heading off in different directions. The mole went towards that hill, while the deer and the butterfly went to the forest. The fox traveled to her cave following a path, and the chicken slept near the house on the open ground.
In the morning, Zhou Fan opened his door and saw the chicken laying against a wall. He walked up to the chicken quietly and picked him up softly.
The chicken moved slightly in his sleep, but he never woke up. Zhou Fan carried him to the waterfall. The sound of the crashing water woke the chicken up once they arrived. He was surprised to see himself being held like a stuffed animal, but he didn't move.
"Why are we here?" He asked, still in a weary state of mind.
Zhou Fan didn't answer, but walked forwards. As he reached the water, Zhou Fan's feet walked on it like it was ground. The chicken was surprised, but not as surprised as when Zhou Fan walked through the waterfall and entered a cave hidden behind it.
The cave was small, square, and well lit by a lantern on a wall. Besides the lantern, there was only a desk with some papers and a seat.
Zhou Fan walked up to the desk and sat the chicken down on one of the clear spots. "From now on, you are my research partner." He said to the chicken.
The chicken was both surprised and confused, but he nodded his head.
"Once you completely wake up, we will talk about some of the things I've been thinking of." Zhou Fan said.
As the chicken sat there still regaining its consciousness from its sleep, Zhou Fan wrote on some of the papers.
He had started to treat the chicken as both a pet and a friend. He felt that he could keep quiet if he was asked, not that there would be any important secrets.
After a few minutes, the chicken spoke. "I'm awake. What have you been doing." The chicken asked while watching Zhou Fan write on some papers.
"Right now I'm pondering runes, but that's above your knowledge level." Zhou Fan said. "What you can help me with is ideas. You're so stupid that you might accidentally say something that I haven't thought of."
Rather than feeling insulted, the chicken felt somewhat excited at Zhou Fan's words.
He instantly started saying random things despite not knowing how runes worked. As expected, every single one of his thoughts were stupid. For a couple hours, he didn't stop talking and ended the session with zero good ideas.
"Nevermind runes. Just sit there and be good company next time." Zhou Fan said.
The chicken was a little disheartened, but he accepted it easily. By the time Zhou Fan and the chicken left the waterfall, it was 10 am. The other animals had just started waking up from their slumbers.
The fox was the first to wake up. She made her way from the cave to the land. When she arrived, she saw the chicken and Zhou Fan playing a card game. The game was something that had been invented on earth before Zhou Fan had ever started cultivating.
The chicken was picking up cards with his beak and struggling to look at his cards without showing them.
To Zhou Fans surprise, the chicken was actually quite good at card games. He was even better once he got used to it.
As they were in the middle of their 5th game, with the score being 4 -1 and Zhou Fan leading, the fox came to the table and sat on one of the chairs.
The table was circular and newly added. Zhou Fan had created it just minutes ago.
"Can I play?" The fox asked.
"Of course." Zhou Fan said before he explained the rules.
The fox understood the game quickly, and joined in on the next hand. They played for three rounds, with Zhou Fan winning them all, before the deer, the butterfly, and the mole showed up.
They too asked if they could play and Zhou Fan explained the rules. After an hour of playing, Zhou Fan had won 20 times, the chicken won 5 times, the fox won twice, and the deer, the mole, and the butterfly had won once each.
As they kept playing, they got better and better, evening the odds since Zhou Fan wasn't cheating or using any tricks.
They ended up playing all day, with a hundred more games being played. Of them, Zhou Fan won 45, the chicken won twenty, the fox won 15, the mole won 5, the butterfly won 8, and the deer won 7.
In the end, yesterday's incident was forgotten and completely forgiven. They all ate dinner together happily. Zhou Fan didn't even give them a bath afterwards.
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