Chapter 197 - Rabbit Disaster
translator: xiin
editors: apricot & juurensha
“Rabbit, mammal, Oryctolagus cuniculus, Leporidae family. A common family pet. The white rabbit is especially popular, and thrives in gra.s.slands and forests with their strong reproductive capacity. In 1202, the famous mathematician Fibonacci once used rabbits as an example…”
White Moonlight Entertainment building, 9th floor multifunction zone.
Wu Jin held a whole batch of little white rabbits as he ran along the corridor. The AI in his terminal headset was reading out the entry for rabbits from the encyclopedia.
The entrance to the White Moonlight clinic on the 9th floor was deserted at noon on a Sat.u.r.day.
At this time, it was the weekend again, and most trainees were wandering around on the street outside while the professional players had their own private doctors.
The infirmary was empty.
The doctor on duty was reading the newspaper in his seat when he heard a knock on the door outside. The sound was heavy and didn’t sound like knuckles knocking, but more like elbows––
The door creaked open.
The doctor smiled as he looked at Wu Jin, who’d knocked respectfully on the door with his elbow, “Oh, Little Witch. Why are you holding a litter of rabbits––what, what did you say?”
Wu Jin still looked a little dazed as he reported earnestly, “When I left, there was only one rabbit in my bedroom, but when I came back, there were 12 rabbits. Brother Rabbit is the rabbit that I raised, and he’s a male rabbit, but when I entered the room just now––”
Wu Jin choked and stuttered, “He was still with the female rabbit… with the female rabbit…”
The doctor began to eat melon seeds, “Ooh!”
Wu Jin asked stupidly, “Take a look, can Brother Rabbit still be saved?”
“……” The doctor, “Hahahahahahaha-hic, hahaha. There’s no saving it. Just let it be a rabbit.”
Wu Jin choked.
His Brother Rabbit, the one that was small and soft and rolled into a ball when lying on a pillow, the Brother Rabbit that slept so quietly! He now only knew how to do those kinds of primitive motions. If he pulled Brother Rabbit away from the female rabbit, Brother Rabbit would quickly jump back to the female rabbit to continue his original movements…
The doctor coughed and spoke earnestly, “The skies will rain, and rabbits will have babies. This is the nature of small animals. Male rabbits start mating based on season or due to external inducement. Your rabbit… Brother Rabbit, if you block him, your pillow, desk, and chair in your bedroom might all get peed on, understand?”
“If that’s really not acceptable, we can do an operation for him, but I can’t do that here. When I was a medical student, rabbits were used for dissection practice, and I’m not very good at precise cuts!”
Ten minutes later, Wu Jin went back out with a litter of rabbits in his arms. Before he left, he tried to ask, “Can our company help raise little rabbits?”
The doctor waved his hand, “No. The robot only knows how to take care of normal rabbits. It’s best to find owners for them that can take charge of their lives!”
Wu Jin nodded repeatedly, then suddenly thought of something and asked, “Can you check to see when the female rabbit got pregnant?”
……
The door to the infirmary closed behind him.
Wu Jin looked at the note in his hand. Science and technology in the 31st century was really shocking. Perhaps it was because the development of the agricultural industry had already reached its peak, but the robot that had a full knowledge reserve only needed to take one look at the female rabbit to write out a specific date for Wu Jin.
Wu Jin quickly brought the baby rabbits back to his bedroom and rushed over to the logistics team to obtain the surveillance footage for his room.
White Moonlight’s logistics staff tsked in surprise, then pulled up the corridor recording for the period after Wu Jin left the company––
A month and a half ago.
Wu Jin sent Caesar the ‘inner eyeliner’ he’d gotten to support Zhuang Fan for his girlfriend.
Caesar had come to Wu Jin’s bedroom to thank him.
Wu Jin wasn’t there.
Caesar purchased a white rabbit online.
Caesar tossed the white rabbit into Wu Jin’s bedroom, opened up his terminal in the corridor and sent a message to Wu Jin, “Little Witch, your big bro sent your pet rabbit a girlfriend! So that they can play together!”
The special communication firewall that Zoe had set up for Caesar detected the keywords ‘sent’ and ‘Little Witch’ and automatically determined that Caesar was forcing Wu Jin to order takeout to White Moonlight.
The message was successfully intercepted and failed to send.
Wu Jin: “……”
The logistics staff was very emotional as he patted Wu Jin on the shoulder, “It’s Caesar. Oh, in that case, there’s no solution, and anything is possible…”
Afternoon.
The White Moonlight team rea.s.sembled. The suspension car that was to take them back to the Crosson Base was parked at the entrance waiting for its pa.s.sengers.
When Zoe and Wen Lin got into the car, Wu Jin was still stuffing the baby white rabbits one by one into a shopping bag padded with hay.
Brother Rabbit and another adult white rabbit sat together in the back seat. For the sake of making it more convenient to identify them, Wu Jin had purposely tied a blue bow on Brother Rabbit and a pink bow on the other rabbit.
Zoe was in a trance as he looked on, “Little Witch, have you ever heard of the Fibonacci sequence?”
Wu Jin felt desperate.
After the rabbit b.a.l.l.s were loaded up, Wu Jin stuffed the slightly smaller female rabbit into the cup slot of the suspension car and introduced her to his teammates, “This is Sister-in-law Rabbit.”
Then, he hugged the Brother Rabbit who was wrapped up in three layers of cloth bags and pet diapers and sat obediently in a corner, calmly explaining the situation.
10 minutes later, Caesar, who was running late, jumped energetically into the car and said, “Hurry, let’s go, let’s go. Hey, Little Witch, what are you holding? Is it a snack… Ouch, captain, don’t hit me!”
Wu Jin could only hold back their captain and take out his terminal to snap a photo.
10 soft, white, fluffy rabbit b.a.l.l.s b.u.mped and rolled around in the shopping bags.
He sent the photo to the big boss.
Wu Jin typed out: Your rabbit relatives, please adopt…
He hadn’t sent out the message yet when the other side sent over a message.
Wei Shi: Mm. So many.
Finally, there was a second message. Wei Shi: You birthed them?
“……” Wu Jin puffed up his small round face: !!! Then, he swiped to delete the entire message.
Angry!!
Evening.
The Crosson Base that they hadn’t seen for a long time seemed to be set ablaze by the sunset, and the twin towers in the back were filled with activity. The program producer specifically sent over two small cameras to take pictures of the returning trainees, “Do you see those dormitory towers? What does this mean?! It means that our show will produce amazing trainees!”
“It shines brilliantly every time something is about to happen. Is this going to be a huge survival show c-position debut who will be known across all of interstellar s.p.a.ce…”
Blood Pigeon, who was to the side, “The sunset is caused by the scattering of light through the air particles. According to your opinion, this block of residential buildings, including the dairy cattle breeding base behind the mountain will all produce a huge c…”
The program producer stubbed out his cigarette and criticized him, “You’ve just killed the conversation. Why don’t you go and find a dairy cow from behind the mountain to nag at?”
In the base, there were only a few dozen of the original 500 strong men left in the Crosson Show, not including habitual cla.s.s skipping offenders like Wei Shi.
The little Pterosaur circled down from the sky and nibbled at Wu Jin’s ear, bringing with it the fresh smell of soil. Wu Jin held the Pterosaur and introduced it to all the rabbit relatives one after another, but compared with the rabbits, the little Pterosaur was obviously more interested in bullying the black cat all day long. After glancing at them a few times, it shook out its wings and flew off.
On the field, Ying Xiangxiang was teaching several trainees how to sing.
Unsurprisingly, Thin Fire stood in front of all the trainees and could hardly wait to stand beside Ying Xiangxiang as her teaching a.s.sistant. He spoke in a flattering tone, “Instructor Ying, my singing is pretty good, and my rapping is even better!”
However, Ying Xiangxiang was paying more attention to Wei Yan, “Contestant Wei Yan, don’t be shy.” The female instructor encouraged him, “In the next elimination match, you’ll need to adapt to the ident.i.ty of a traditional boy group artist and will have to dabble in rapping, singing, and dancing.”
Wei Yan moved his lips a little, “……”
Ying Xiangxiang instructed him, “Good, now do it a little louder, I can’t hear you.”
Wei Yan was forced to increase the volume. He was still expressionless, but his eyes showed a little nervousness.
Ying Xiangxiang was shocked and spoke in an incredulous tone, “Little Wei, how come your singing is toneless?”
Behind the crowd of trainees, the White Moonlight Team began to discuss the upcoming seventh elimination match.
Wu Jin stretched out his head and looked at the twin towers behind them, “No new stadium has been built. Will it be held in an outside location this time?”
Zoe shook his head, “We don’t know yet. And we don’t know how we’ll be competing either. , if it’s really a singing and dancing talent show––”
Everyone turned to look at Wu Jin.
Zoe patted Wu Jin on the shoulder, “You’re the hope of White Moonlight!”
Wu Jin quickly raised up his small round face and explained, “No, no, no, the game must be absolutely fair. Instructor Ying is only guiding everyone on how to open their mouths and sing, but she’s not actually correcting their tones or voices.” Wu Jin pondered for a moment, “The focus shouldn’t be on singing and dancing.”
Zoe: “Hm?”
Wu Jin let his thoughts roam for a moment, then described, “In an abandoned factory building, a group of trainees are forced to sing and dance. Anyone that the camera focuses on will die strange deaths. The script is written by the G.o.d of Death, and the bedroom doors are stained with blood. When dancing in front of the mirror, the trainee who imitates you and does the exact same action in the mirror might not be you.”
“Every night, the trainees that you eliminated personally will smile at you strangely from the head of the bed…”
A few people around them, including the cameraman in charge of filming, all trembled and shivered.
But the other three people from White Moonlight all expressed together, “That’s good, that’s good. That’s much easier! As long as we don’t have to dance…”
On the stage, the program producer who was affected by the noise started to complain over the loudspeaker, “Contestant Caesar, contestant Qin Jinbao, please note that this is vocal training practice. Please pay attention and control the volume of your voices. Are you treating this like karaoke? Instructor Ying’s voice can’t even be heard!”
“As for Little Thin, don’t be so focused on competing against Caesar on the high notes. Follow Instructor Ying’s guidance!”
That night.
The trainees rushed back to their dorms to wash up, chatting amongst themselves.
Spring had turned to summer. Qin Jinbao’s mat was taken out of the bedroom, and the retro radio crackled and squeaked. Qin Jinbao took out a cooling fan and watched as the clouds in the sky curled up slowly into various shapes…
Wu Jin: “Brother Qin!”
Qin Jinbao was surprised to find that Wu Jin had poked his head out and was now beside his map. Wu Jin had a low sense of presence and low extroversion. He stood in the corner in a well-behaved manner and didn’t get in the way.
Wu Jin spoke in a mysterious tone, “Brother Qin, there’s nothing for your hands to hold while you’re sitting there. I have a little treasure here…”
A few minutes later, Dolma Entertainment’s younger team member pa.s.sed by, “Brother Qin, why are you holding a rabbit?”
Qin Jinbao was listening lazily to the radio, “It was donated by White Moonlight’s Wu Jin…”
Twin towers, Thin Fire and Wei Yan’s dormitory.
Thin Fire had only just finished washing his hair and was preparing to style it before starting up his live broadcast to make some money that evening. Wu Jin held out a shopping bag towards him and giggled, “Brother Thin, do you want a rabbit? A little one that isn’t picky about food.”
Thin Fire was stunned, but soon agreed, “Give me the ugliest one.”
“Alright, this one is good. I’ll name it Caesar. Come, Caesar, say ‘daddy’!”
Wu Jin went around everywhere and soon finished delivering rabbits.
When he went to find Jingyi, Ming Yao had laughed happily with both Wu Jin and the nephew rabbit, but this rich second generation had been very honest and refused to actually raise a rabbit.
According to Ming Yao’s words, he had a bunch of lions and tigers in his home. Usually, they were scattered everywhere and specially raised by animal trainers. He was worried that they would eat the rabbit while he wasn’t paying attention.
Zuo Botang accepted a rabbit after some careful consideration. He held the rabbit carefully when he brought it back, like accepting a diplomatic gift from White Moonlight to Jingyi in the same way that giant pandas were lent out for diplomatic purposes centuries ago.
By the time Wu Jin returned to his bedroom, only the female rabbit was left in the shopping bag.
Caesar had taken three of the rabbits for his girlfriend, then tossed the entire matter to the back of his mind in the blink of an eye. Since Wei Shi hadn’t yet returned, the four members of the White Moonlight team gathered together in the living room for an informal tactical discussion.
Compared with the ‘singing and dancing talent show’ theme, they paid more attention to the ‘mystery guests’ who would also be partic.i.p.ating in the compet.i.tion.
“The seventh elimination match will be held with the Stardust Cup’s youth training group.” Zoe set up a virtual projection, “That means that the trainees from the Stardust Cup’s youth training will be coming, including the King of Hearts.”
Wen Lin: “The King of Hearts will be in their team’s c-position as soon as he debuts. Why would he come?”
Zoe had done preparations for the next elimination match. After dealing with the fan circle for such a long time, he understood the purpose of these actions at a glance, “He wants to use the Crosson Show as a stepping stone to help him pave the way.”
“Wei Yan is the candidate for the c-position of R-Code, and the King of Hearts is Star Emperor’s c-position. If he can win this compet.i.tion, then the King of Hearts will be able to suppress Wei Yan even before his debut.”
Caesar slapped the table, “Your grandfather, I, am also an active player. Let’s beat him up!”
Zoe made a sound of acknowledgement, “He will fall without knowing what hit him. What’s more, we’re not bad either. There’s also Jingyi and Contestant Wei––Oh, Little Witch, why are your socks too big…”
Wu Jin was currently clenching his fists in antic.i.p.ation: Have him fall without knowing what hit him! Crosson Show also had a Little Witch…
Then came the captain’s voice, interrupting his daydreaming, “Speaking of which, Contestant Wei still hasn’t decided which team to sign up with?”
In the Crosson Show staff quarters.
On the top floor of the program producer’s three story mansion.
The program producer was slowly looking through the trainee’s graduation aspirations.
Wu Jin, Zoe, etc: White Moonlight Entertainment.
Wei Yan: R-Code Entertainment.
The program producer began to make full use of this information in the introduction for the next round of enrollment, “The Crosson Show has 2-100 senior instructors, high-quality survival show training resources, a perfect trainee service platform, and provides top-level employment opportunities within the industry.”
“The top 50 players have an 100% acceptance rate to super first cla.s.s Federal entertainment companies, including R-Code and White Moonlight…”
The program producer flipped to Wei Shi’s graduation aspiration.
The program producer: “……”
There was a crash as the Crosson Show program producer almost fell out of his chair.
Juurensha: You get a rabbit! And you get a rabbit! And you get a rabbit too!!!
xiin: this quote [Wei Shi: You birthed them?] < BAHAHAHA