Chapter 465: Chapter 443: Tonnage Crushing the Food Chain_1
It was 8 AM on the Qin Continent.
Inside the study room of a country vi.
Teacher Yuanyuan was sitting in the chair by the desk, receiving a fresh new novel from someone’s hand. On the cover was a striking illustration of two cute mice — the one on the left was sitting on a toy airne, while the one on the right sat in a toy tank.
The title read “Shuk and Beta!”
And at the back, it says, “By Chu Kuang.”
After tearing open the sealed packaging, the woman who bought the storybook for Teacher Yuanyuan said with a smile, “The New Cathay Bookstore has a clever touch today. They promoted this book and Teacher Hu’s “The Aristocats” together, even iming it to be the ultimate showdown in Long-form Fairy Tales.”
“They used the same marketing for me before.”
Teacher Yuanyuan casually replied, “But it seems like I’ve held the Qin fairy tale world back. Teacher Hu’s fairy tales are indeed more engaging, and the situation in the field is gloomy. That is, if Chu Kuang hasn’t released a new book…”
“Think Chu Kuang can win?”
“Why not read it and see?”<div>
Teacher Yuanyuan shook the freshly unwrapped novel in her hand, deeply inhaling the scent of fresh ink, “I love the smell of new books. They smell wonderful. This book should be great.”
The woman next to her rolled her eyes.
Doesn’t ink smell the same everywhere?
Ignoring the thoughts of the person next to her, Teacher Yuanyuan cheerily flipped open the first page of the novel. The opening of the story jumped out: “Shuk was born in a family with a bad reputation…and it went on.”
Fairy tales do not strain the brain.
For an adult like Teacher Yuanyuan, reading a fairy tale mostly consisted of skimming through the plot. However, as she read through, she suddenly burst outughing.
What an interesting story!
Shuk doesn’t want to be a mouse with a bad reputation, so he disguises himself as a pilot, going around helping others. In the end, he seeds in earning the friendship of ants, bees, and sparrows. However, when he ns to have a dinner with these new pals, a cat shows up.
The cat reveals Shuk’s true identity.
Everyone hates mice, the cat thought that revealing Shuk as a mouse would turn everyone against him, but to its surprise, not being deterred by Shuk’s identity, they all plead the kitten to let Shuk go. In the end, the little kitty had to leave in disappointment…
That was why Yuanyuanughed.
The main viin in the story is a cat.
Any sane person whoes across this plot might suspect Chu Kuang had a teasing intention behind it, since Teacher Hu’s fairy tale protagonist seemed to feature a cat.
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Teacher Yuanyuan suddenly remembered that her protagonist was also a cat, which made herughter more hearty. Especially when sheter found that the two protagonists of this book are actually two mice, and the other mouse, Beta, is proficient inmanding a tank.
We have two cats!
Chu Kuang has two mice!
But it is truly a coincidence, rats and cats are natural enemies, so it is granted that the cat serves as the viin in this fairy tale. Despite being the viin, the cat doesn’t really do anything atrocious after all.
That’s what Yuanyuan thought.<div>
While Yuanyuan was reading “Shuk and Beta,” Teacher Hu, also clutched a copy of the same book, but he couldn’t easily burst intoughter like Yuanyuan while reading.
…
Many people purchased “Shuk and Beta,” but not everyone chose to read it immediately. Some bought it for their children, as adults usually don’t take an interest in fairy tales.
Inparison to the content.<div>
The thing that most concerned everybody is whether Chu Kuang’s long fairy tale can win back the glory for Qin’s fairy tale circle as Teacher Hu’s fairy tales were quite impressive in terms of sales and reputation, and he even surpassed Teacher Yuanyuan.
“When will the resulte out?”
“If it’s close, it might take a few days.”
“If there’s arge gap, one day will be enough.”
“We can put it this way. If Chu Kuang’s proficiency in writing short fairy tales is ten out of ten, then his long fairy tales would only have to reach eight-tenths of his short fairy tales to easily beat Teacher Hu.”
“Sounds about right.”
“He doesn’t even need eight-tenths. I feel that if Chu Kuang’s long fairy tales have even seven-tenths or even six-tenths of his short fairy tale’s strength, he can win. His short tales are of the one-to-nine level, officially recognized as the King of Short Fairy Tales by the Literature and Art Association!”
“Five-tenths will do already!”
“You guys are exaggerating more and more. The current issue is, how much worse are Chu Kuang’s long fairy tales than his short fairy tales? What if Chu Kuang’s long fairy tales are of the same standard as his short stories? That would leave no hope for Teacher Hu.”
“…”
You can tell at one nce that the above group ofizens are from the Qin continent. When ites to the Yan Continent, opinions take apletely different turn: “Separately categorize short fairy tales and long fairy tales. Qin people love generalizations.”
“Exactly.”
“Long fairy tales require a moreprehensive outline and a more exciting storyline to connect. Otherwise, those acimed fairy tale writers wouldn’t distinguish between short and long tales. Everyone has their own strengths.”<div>
“Victory for Teacher Hu!”
“Chu Kuang is dizzy from the victory over the nine opponents in the short fairy talepetition. I can understand. Just like when I won the championship in an amateur singing contest and thought I was unbeatable until I went to an entertainmentpany and discovered how little I know.”
“…”
They say the mindset depends on where you stand.
During the discussion between Qin people and Yan people, this argument was proven most fair. However, even fairer than the Qin and Yanizens would be theizens from Qi Continent and Chu Continent. Yet, their view was:
“”It’s a fifty-fifty shot!”
Both sides have unpredictable oues!
But is the oue really unpredictable? The answer to this question became clear by evening, because not everyone was chatting online without reading the book. Many people bought ‘Shuke and Beta’ and took it home to read.
Not necessarily out of interest.
Just out of curiosity.
As a result, this curiosity turned into the first batch of readers’ reviews of ‘Shuke and Beta’, which appeared one by one on the main novelment section of Starry Sky Network, attractingizens who hadn’t read the book to the site:
“Chu Kuang is so interesting!”
“I originally bought it for my son. I just flipped through it casually but I couldn’t put it down. Shuke flying nes and Beta driving tanks have outsmarted kittens in various ways. I have burst intoughter several times. Now my son wants topete with me for the book.”<div>
“I really like Shuke and Beta!”
“Isn’t the most interesting one is the cat? The protagonist of Teacher Yuanyuan and Teacher Hu’s fairy tales are kittens. But Chu Kuang changed the protagonist to two mice. The kittens became viins who were beaten up at the beginning.”
“Shuke and Beta are such great pals.”
“These two Zhi star people are so handsome. I remember I liked model toys when I was a child, which could let my hamster get in and start moving with a remote control. I’m a model enthusiast even now. Shuke and Beta have fulfilled my childhood dream!”
“It seems like kids really like it.”
“I haven’t finished reading the book yet, so I quickly came online to make my presence known. This round, Teacher Hu is out. Shuke and Beta is probably the type of fairy tale I liked most when I was a child. It’s thrilling and doesn’t make people feel clichéd. With two mice as the main characters, flying nes and crashing tanks directly hits the sweet spot for kids!”
“…”
It appears to be quite good?
These earlyments on the Starry Sky Network formed the first impression for those who hadn’t read ‘Shuke and Beta’, and this impression didn’t change as morements appeared. On the contrary, there seemed to be even more excitement.
Meanwhile.
Inside many families with children, the little ones were engrossed in ‘Shuke and Beta’, flipping the pages from time to time, their faces full of tension and excitement, as if worried about another adventure of Shuke and Beta, yet excited for another victory of theirs.
…
Still in Qin Continent.<div>
Having read half of ‘Shuke and Beta’, Teacher Yuanyuan sipped her tea and smiled at the woman next to her: “Cats and mice are indeed natural enemies. But cats usually dominate the food chain and mice can only scurry away when cats y with them.”
“So?”
“There are exceptions.”
Teacher Yuanyuan narrowed her eyes.
The woman next to her pped her head and said, “Speaking of mice and cats, I saw a very funny animated picture a few days ago. It was probably the situation you were talking about. Let me send it to you.”
The woman took out her phone and operated it.
Teacher Yuanyuan was taken aback, then picked up her phone to open the image the woman had sent. As a result, she was stupefied when she saw the picture: a mouse bigger than a cat was eating cat food.
The cat cautiously approached.
The breed of this cat is bluish-white.
The mouse looked back at the cat and continued eating its food, its tail swung once, which instantly scared the cat away. The cat hid in the corner, trembling while looking at the mouse eating its food, leaving a very adorable impression.
“What the hell…”
Teacher Yuanyuanughed back and forth. This seemed to be arger species than cats, so it was quite normal for the cat to be scared. “Your picture is good, but it’s mine in the next second.”
While talking, Yuanyuan logged into the tribe.
She didn’t say anything else, but uploaded this funny animated picture. As soon as the post was published, many fans began to leavements underneath.
“Poor cat.”
Jin Shan reposted the dynamic picture.
Qiqi also reposted it.
Turtle Master followed by reposting the dynamic picture, and left an onlinement: “I always thought that cats were the natural enemy of mice, but I didn’t expect that there are cats in the world that can’t beat mice. Does this count as the food chain being crushed by the tonnage…”
A cat and mouse war?
Where is the promised war?
Lastly, in the Yan Continent, Teacher Hu, with a change of expression after a few seconds, abruptly sneezed: “Why does the smell of the new book’s ink irritate my nose so much!”
Then, there was silence.
Teacher Hu had a dream. His dream was to have a time machine, even a one-time consumable would work. All he needed was to adjust the timeline a bit. Well, this was actually a dream he had just five days ago, when he hoped he coulde five dayster ——
Now he wants to go back to five days ago.
Saving face is possible, but revenge isn’t.
The heated regionalpetition seems to be drawing to a close in an almost humorous manner. From Chu Kuang’s prating through nine to the final unique “Cat and Mouse War”, it’s as interesting as a long fairy tale.
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ps: Thanks a lot to big boss [Zinc Luan] for the reward, bing the 31st Alliance Hierarch of this book. Additional updates wille, but I owe you guys quite a few updates. I have to jot it down in a notebook and pay it off slowly. I somewhat regret the three-updates-at-least promise I made before (＞﹏＜).