Pet King

Chapter 921: The Spring Thunderstorm

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

As the abnormal phenomenon befell the sky, people started to worry and panic.

It was common knowledge that animals behaved abnormally when earthquakes were coming, and it gave the customers the feeling of impending doom. The panic soon attracted the attention of surrounding merchants and pedestrians; it looked like it was about to spread.

Nothing could be done just by talking to them, so Zhang Zian no longer tried to explain. He turned around and ran back into the pet shop.

“Master, is there really going to be an earthquake?” Wang Qian asked, cold sweat all over his forehead. In his hand was his phone; apparently, he had also wanted to call his family to warn them that an earthquake was coming.

“What earthquake?” Zhang Zian waved his hands. “Go outside and explain to the customers. Just make up any reason and remember to make the most out of your moronic brains!”

Wang Qian was confused and speechless.

Lu Yiyun was also in a state of panic, but she had no relatives in the local area. Even if she had wanted to call someone, she wouldn’t know who to call. At most, she could warn Snowy.

Famous had just woken up from its nap. It shook its head to rid off the lingering drowsiness, and it didn’t seem to hear any unusual sounds.

The same was true of Richard. It stood on the top of the shelf and laughed at the customers who were overreacting. They had such unfounded suspicions and were extremely paranoid.

Snowy Lionet curled up into a ball and covered its ears with its long, dense hair.

Galaxy, on the other hand, wasn’t much affected. With its head tilted up slightly, it started at the ceiling.

Zhang Zian didn’t have time to say much. With a few big steps, he went up to the second floor but was immediately stunned. The calm and relaxed Old Time Tea was in a spasm. Is bamboo hat was thrown aside, and it covered its ears with its paws. It seemed to be suffering in extreme pain.

Fina’s state was similar, too. It had lost all of its usual gracefulness as it laid on the ground and pulled its long ears down with its paws as it rolled back and forth.

“Grandpa Tea! Fina! You guys…”

Zhang Zian bent down and tried to lift them up when he heard chatter from the basket hammock chair. Pi, who had been asleep before, was awoken by the noise. It sat up awkwardly, staring at them with its big, round eyes. It was completely oblivious to the current situation.

“Zhi Zhi!” Pi wanted to jump off the basket hammock chair to help Zhang Zian.

Zhang Zian locked eyes with Pi, then immediately raised his hand to stop Pi’s movements. “Pi, don’t move!”

“Zhi Zhi?” Pi stopped moving, not knowing why.

Suddenly, Pi felt warmth coming from its nose, so it raised its hand to rub it. A touch of red appeared on its pinkish palm.

“Zhi Zhi?” Pi stared at the red on its palm, confused. It had never had a nosebleed before.

Zhang Zian was creeped out. He was unable to hear the ultrasonic waves in the air, but that didn’t mean that they wouldn’t cause harm to his body.

The full set of the underwater pickup device was placed on the table, and although it was designed for underwater use, it could also be used in the air.

Zian flipped the switch, and the numbers on the small LCD screen that came with the instrument flashed, eventually flashing an error message in the end.

Holy sh*t! He quickly turned the switch off to prevent the instrument from overheating. If it went on like that, it wouldn’t take long before the pet shop became a microwave oven.

Zhang Zian didn’t have time to help Old Time Tea and Fina. He rushed into the bathroom and shouted with all his strength, “Stop crying!”

In fact, he didn’t even see the situation in the bathroom at all; however, he knew Sihwa was in the bathroom, and he knew that it was Sihwa that was crying. Crying was fine, but she was actually crying with ultrasound waves!

Zian had long known that Sihwa had a broad range––the kind of transcendence that transcended human knowledge. But previously, she had only displayed her ability in the ranges of the low-frequency sound waves, such as communicating with whales thousands of miles away. He had ignored any other possibility, such as her potential with high-frequency ultrasound waves.

As it turned out, he was wrong. The panic in the store today was the result of his own mistake. However, his shouting did not go as he had expected. Sihwa continued to cry and wipe her tears as if she didn’t hear him.

“Stop crying!” Zian shouted again. But still to no avail.

Zhang Zian thought that she had deliberately ignored him, but after a closer look, he realized that wasn’t the case. After hearing a sudden roar, one would definitely have a reaction to it, such as flinching. Sihwa had no reaction whatsoever.

He immediately understood. Sihwa’s hearing range also had a broad range; all she could hear was her own crying. Her crying had drowned out all the other sounds, including Zian’s shouting and the conversation he had with Old Time Tea and Fina outside.

Having understood that, he was about to rush up and hold her arm to stop her from crying, but right that moment, a dazzling white light flashed from the small window of the bathroom. It was so bright that he couldn’t open his eyes. Next, came an earth-shattering roll of thunder!

Bang! That year’s first thunder of the spring finally sounded.

It has been cloudy since the morning before. The weather forecast mentioned that there would be rain, and the old people on the streets had also said that there would be rain, but it hadn’t rained until then.

Accompanied by the sudden explosion of thunder, dark clouds invaded the sky from the north at a speed visible to the naked eye.

A cold wind started to blow. The first spring rain of the year was about to fall.

Sihwa, who was wiping her tears, got a shock from the lightning and thunder. When she looked up, she noticed Zhang Zian standing by the door of the bathroom. She had no idea when he came in. She stared at him in a blur, her eyes red and swollen from crying.

Anyway, she had finally stopped crying, right?

Zhang Zian pointed with his finger and warned her again, “No more crying!”

Next, Zian stuck his head out to look into the hallway. Both Fina and Old Time Tea seemed to have been released from their pain and were struggling to stand up. They still didn’t look too good.

The effect was immediate. When the crying stopped, their pain was immediately gone, too.

Zian then ran to the window and looked outside through the cracked glass. The customers who had flocked to the streets were shocked by the thunder and lightning. They looked up at the sky and knew that it was going to rain soon.

Wang Qian, who was sent to appease the customers, tried his best to think of a solution, but he just couldn’t make one up. At that moment, he had a good idea and shouted, “Don’t use your mobile phone when there is lightning! You might get struck!”

The customers started another commotion.

Wang Qian wasn’t spouting nonsense. Many people knew that it was best to not use their phones in the open air when there was lightning in the sky because they could attract it down.

It was still unclear whether or not there would be an earthquake, but if they were to insist on making calls in the open air, it could just be minutes before they were fried into a KFC luxury lunch.

Wang Qian noticed that it was working, so he immediately continued to shout, “It’s raining! Keep your clothes! Let’s not stand outside and get drenched. Hurry into the house to take shelter from the rain! Whoever continues to stand outside is a stupid fool! ”

Although what he said was true, the customers were not so easily fooled. Being treated as a stupid fool was much better than dying under the rubble of a collapsed house.

However, the abnormal behaviors of the animals seemed to have disappeared, too.