All My Colleagues Are Animals 54p1

Chapter 54 p1

“Ding-ding-ding—”

The dedicated rescue phone rang throughout the work area.

It was already after work hours, and the small animals were temporarily not at their desks, only the Golden Retriever was lying limply.

The ringing was extremely piercing, as if it could touch the soul.

Her ears immediately perked up, and her puppy-dog eyes widened.

—A small animal needs rescue!

The little Golden Retriever, who had been listless all day, immediately forgot about herself, leaped down from her seat, and her paws pattered on the ground as she came to the side of a cabinet.

She transformed into her human form and took out the dedicated rescue phone.

The incoming number on the screen was clearly unfamiliar, but for some reason, a sense of fate rippled in her heart, and her heartbeat inexplicably began to become chaotic.

Thump-thump— Thump-thump—

It pounded in her chest, more agitated and frantic than ever before.

She tried her best to steady her breathing, lightly tapped the answer button with her fingertip, and her voice trembled slightly when she spoke:

“Hello, this is the ‘Small Animal Survival Guide’.”

A slightly heavy breathing sound came from the other end of the line.

“Hello, I’m a reader of the magazine, and I saw in the rescue column of the first issue…”

The woman’s voice had a sickly hoarseness, and after every few words, she would stop to catch her breath.

Each word, transmitted into the little dog’s ear, made Jin Can’s pupils constrict.

Bzz—

Her mind was instantly dazed, and a buzzing sound rang in her ears, making it almost impossible for her to hear what the woman was saying.

She only felt a fine, dense trembling spread wantonly throughout her body.

The “Jiejie” she had met yesterday was wearing Jiejie’s clothes, had Jiejie’s scent and fragrance, looked like Jiejie, and had the same name.

The heavy evidence had forced her to believe that it was Jiejie, but deep down, she had always felt that something was not right.

But at this very moment, hearing that voice, which was clearly deformed by illness, weak and hoarse, and also distorted by the distance of the phone, she was for a moment incomparably certain that this was the one she had been yearning for—

“Jiejie!”

The woman on the other end of the line was suddenly interrupted by this tearful “Jiejie,” and seemed a little confused.

“I’m sorry, you…”

“Jiejie, Jiejie, it’s me, your little dog!”

Jin Can was so anxious that she repeated it, her puppy-dog eyes glistening with tears. Then she managed to realize that she was in human form.

The next second, she transformed into a little dog.

Although she had just been discharged from the hospital today and was all sick and listless, at this moment, she was full of spirit and, looking up, she barked:

“Woof-woof-woof!” This was the voice she used to warn bad people when she was protecting Jiejie before.

“Awoo-awoo~” This was the voice she used to ask Jiejie for pets.

“Awoo-awoo-awoo!” This was the voice she used when she was in a mood because Jiejie had been out for a few days and hadn’t come home.

As she barked, she frantically wagged her tail in front of the rescue phone.

She wished her tail would wag into a propeller, so the little dog could fly to find Jiejie.

A heavy and rapid breathing sound came from the other end of the line.

“…Can Can!”

“Ooh-ooh-ooh~” The little Golden Retriever lowered her voice and whimpered, which was the voice she used to act cute for Jiejie before.

That voice was so familiar, as if it had crossed the half-year of life and death, and all the warmth of the past was like yesterday.

“Can…” The person on the other end seemed to want to say more, but after just one word, she was choked with sobs.

The little Golden Retriever’s furry ears were pressed tightly against the phone’s speaker. She heard the woman’s low sobs, and later, it seemed she accidentally choked and couldn’t stop coughing.

The first few coughs were earth-shattering, but the next second, the coughing sound suddenly became muffled, as if the woman, afraid that she would hear, had covered the phone’s microphone.

The little Golden Retriever was so worried that her whole heart was in her throat. She whimpered pitifully on this side, large tears also falling from her puppy-dog eyes. “Jiejie, what’s wrong…”

Click.

The door to the work area was pushed open, and Luo Bian walked in.

“Can, it’s time to eat.”

Seeing the scene in the work area at a glance, she couldn’t help but walk over quickly. “Is there a new small animal asking for help?”

Seeing Jin Can in tears, Luo Bian thought the person asking for help was in a critical situation and quickly said to the other end of the line:

“This is the Velvet Bamboo rescue team, ready to provide help at any time!”

Chi Yu had finally managed to stop coughing and catch her breath. Her lashes were damp, her lips crimson.

A new voice came from the other end of the line. She was about to speak, but she suddenly heard a sound from the ward door. It must be Chi Yu coming.

There was no time.

She could only quickly leave a message:

“I’m trapped in Xiao’s Private Hospital, convalescence department, 2010. The other party is the Chi family…”

***

The ward door was pushed open.

Chi Yu hid the aunt’s phone under the covers. Her face, besides the damp and sickly flush from coughing and crying, showed no emotion.

Compared to Chi Yu’s composure, the caregiver aunt was a little flustered, her legs trembling.

She was terrified of the unpredictable Miss Chi Yu and had also been threatened not to talk to Chi Yu too much and to ask for instructions for everything.

But, she had been taking care of Chi Yu for half a year and had seen with her own eyes this beautiful girl go from being in a coma and in critical condition several times to miraculously waking up.

At first, she could only open her eyes, and then she gradually became able to move and speak.

No friends came to visit, and she had no contact with the outside world. She was deprived of all social interaction and freedom by her own sister, and her expression was apathetic and defeated every day.

The aunt couldn’t help but think of her own daughter, who had also been sick in bed and depressed.

As a mother, she couldn’t refuse this girl’s tearful request.

Fortunately, Chi Yu didn’t look at her at all, so she didn’t notice her guilty and nervous appearance.

Her usually cold gaze landed on Chi Yu, unblinking.

For a moment, Chi Yu felt that her sister was a little more spirited, lacking the near-death feeling of being on the verge of withering.

But if she looked closely, she found that nothing had changed.

“Have you had dinner, Jiejie?” she asked with a gentle smile.

Chi Yu pursed her lips and glanced at the clothes Chi Yu was wearing.

Under the high-end, custom-made coat, the collar of a hospital gown was faintly visible.

It was a hospital gown she herself had worn.

She was a neat freak and would wipe her body and change her clothes every day.

She had thought that the changed hospital gowns were all washed in time…

At this thought, Chi Yu’s heart felt blocked.

Noticing her sister’s gaze, Chi Yu lowered her head slightly.

She had been in a hurry just now, and a button on her coat had come undone, revealing her secret.

Seeing her sister bite her lower lip, her usually gentle face showing a distant annoyance, Chi Yu’s pupils also trembled slightly.

She didn’t often do this.

It was just that the night before last, when she had come to visit her sister, it had been just after her sister had finished cleaning up and changing her clothes.

The changed hospital gown was piled in the bathroom, and the aunt had not yet taken it away.

She had unconsciously picked up the clothes and sniffed them lightly.

Her sister had worn them for a day, but they smelled very clean, full of her sister’s scent and body fragrance.

A certain thought had suddenly arisen, and she had taken the hospital gown and worn it.

“If you’re not happy, I’ll go take it off and change right now,” Chi Yu said carefully.

Chi Yu lowered her lashes, not speaking, not looking at her.

She was stingy with even a single word.

Chi Yu went to the changing room to change her clothes.

Chi Yu took out the phone and handed it back to the aunt, thanking her silently.

The matter of the clothes did not linger in her heart for a second. Her mind was already filled with the content of the call just now, both joyful and worried.

For a moment, she wondered how her Can Can could speak human language.

Could it be that technology had advanced in the past six months, and there was now a machine that could translate a puppy’s language into human language in real time?

Can Can was still so cute when she barked, and the human words she spoke were also so cute. She had really called her Jiejie…

And then she thought that she had been so excited just now that her head had been in a whirl, and because this was almost her only chance to contact the outside world, she had given her address.

But what if Can Can and the rescue team came rashly and angered the Chi family…

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