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Chapter 63: Gu Lang, the Lone Hero
“Favor?” Wang Ping, who had just emerged from his backpack, glanced at the menu in front of him and immediately decided to give him some face. What could he do? After all, kindness was his nature.
Under the astonished and uneasy gaze of the young waitress, Wang Ping tapped his claws on the most expensive items listed on the menu.
Gu Lang glanced at the sequence of dishes that a certain badger had chosen—hm, all specialties. You sure know how to pick them.
"Sir, this..."
The young girl probably thought Gu Lang was teasing his pet, so she looked uncertainly at him.
"Mm, bring us these," Gu Lang repeated the dishes Wang Ping had selected.
"Alright, please wait a moment!"
Seeing that someone actually ordered what Wang Ping had picked, the waitress couldn't help but mutter under her breath, "You foreigners really know how to have fun." She was also delighted because the dishes Wang Ping chose were specialties. At the very least, their high prices would earn her praise from the manager.
As the waitress left with the menu, Wang Ping idly surveyed the surroundings. This was his first time exposing himself to such a crowded environment, and he found it somewhat novel.
His furry head turned around, and by chance, Wang Ping locked eyes with a foreigner.
Even though they were sitting in a corner, and Wang Ping was standing on a chair, showing only his head, someone still noticed them.
Diagonally across from Gu Lang’s table, a group of three people was dining. One of them, a white man wearing a blue casual shirt, with brown hair, green eyes, and a small beard, kept glancing over, his eyes filled with curiosity. By chance, he caught Wang Ping's gaze and gave him a friendly smile.
Wang Ping wanted to glare back, but instead, he just turned his head and gave the man a view of his back.
Finally, during the wait for the food, the man couldn’t contain his curiosity any longer. Holding a drink, he walked over with a smile.
"Hello, sorry to bother you. My name is Tole. Is this your pet?" The foreigner with a curly brown beard asked curiously.
"Yes, his name is... uh, I call him BOSS," Gu Lang replied, immediately regretting it.
He hadn’t thought of a cute pet name beforehand and blurted out something inappropriate—what a mistake!
"Wow, cool! What a handsome pet. Can I pet him? Don’t worry, I’ll be gentle," Tole said, his eyes sparkling like little stars, looking like a little girl who had just seen a Barbie doll.
But seeing a burly man with a full beard giving him that expression made Wang Ping feel a bit nauseous.
If you dare touch me, I’ll… I’ll kill you!
"Boss, cooperate a little... bear with it... we are in public after all..." Gu Lang whispered, trying to persuade an obviously reluctant Wang Ping while smiling at Tole. "Of course, he’s very well-behaved; otherwise, I wouldn’t have brought him here to eat."
"Thank you!" Tole responded, running over to Wang Ping and carefully stroking his little head.
Throughout, Wang Ping wore a sullen face, wishing he could kick the guy who was grinning like a blooming chrysanthemum right in the face.
"Hey, little guy, can we shake hands?" Tole seemed to be having so much fun that he leaned on the table, squatted down, and extended his hand towards Wang Ping.
Wang Ping: "..."
Does this person have a mental issue? Thinking he can get away with anything, huh? Why is it so troublesome to have a quiet meal?
Slightly tilting his head, he met Gu Lang’s gaze.
Gu Lang smiled, looking down at the indifferent Wang Ping and the foreigner still extending his hand. He whispered, "Boss, why don’t you just shake hands?"
After hesitating for a while, Wang Ping glanced again at the persistent foreigner, reluctantly raising one paw and placing it briefly in the man’s hand before quickly withdrawing it. Then he resumed his aloof demeanor, ignoring Tole no matter how much he tried to engage him.
"Hey, Tole, what are you doing over there?"
At this moment, one of the two white women who had been dining with Tole turned and called out.
"Sorry, my friends are calling me." Tole stood up, nodded at Gu Lang, and waved goodbye to Wang Ping, who once again gave him a view of his back.
When the foreigner returned to his table, he probably started talking about Wang Ping. The three foreigners occasionally cast glances over, annoying Wang Ping immensely.
Fortunately, the food began to arrive.
When the black waitress brought the food, she also delivered two drinks, saying they were compliments from the foreigners across the way. So Gu Lang took the drinks over to thank them.
By this point, Wang Ping was too lazy to care. When the steak, cooked medium-well and neatly cut into pieces, was placed in front of him, drizzled with sauce, Wang Ping’s gaze hardly moved from it.
Extending his paw, he gestured over the plate, then retracted his claws, leaving only one claw extended to skewer a small piece of beef and pop it into his mouth.
The aroma of the beef, mixed with black pepper, onion, ketchup, and garlic, hit Wang Ping’s taste buds hard. Especially now that his sense of taste had become extraordinarily sharp as an animal. Suddenly tasting a familiar flavor from memory almost brought tears to Wang Ping’s eyes.
This is what real food should taste like—no, what a badger should eat!
Why did he have such a strong attachment and nostalgia for his human identity? At first, Wang Ping thought it was because of his cleanliness obsession, then later believed it was because he couldn’t let go of his teammates and Wang An.
Now, Wang Ping understood. Isn’t life all about enjoying good food?
Eat!
Eat like crazy!
In the restaurant, while Gu Lang was chatting at another table, no one noticed that in the corner, a honey badger with white hair on his head was elegantly using the tip of his central claw like a fork, continuously feeding himself delicious morsels from the table.
"Snap!"
A flash went off, freezing Wang Ping’s movements.
Who? Who dared to take a picture without permission?
Looking up, he saw that Gu Lang was shamelessly taking selfies with those foreigners.
Wang Ping listened closely and realized that Gu Lang had apparently run into some fans.
It turned out that after Gu Lang went over to chat, one of the white women dining with Tole gradually recognized him.
At first, she thought it was due to her difficulty distinguishing Asian faces. Later, she pulled out her phone and found a news webpage she had read, finally making the connection.
A Chinese streamer in Africa had encountered poachers, witnessing the poaching of savannah elephants and a unique elephant funeral. Such news was reported domestically as entertainment, but some foreign media liked to repost Chinese news abroad, treating it as current political events.
In this incident, the protagonist was Chinese, the location was Tanzania, and it involved sensitive topics like ivory smuggling and poaching, quickly becoming an international event in some people’s eyes.
Perhaps only the local folks in Tanzania were still in the dark, unaware that their country had gone viral online.
The foreigners were thrilled.
Such thrilling adventure stories were always what they yearned for and admired.
Imagine it: alone, venturing deep into the jungle teeming with beasts, facing the poachers' guns. In the end, not only did he emerge unscathed, but he also brought the poachers to justice. This was the epitome of a lone hero narrative!
Though, in reality, the person had merely fled for his life, and the poachers were apprehended for "various reasons." But some people preferred to believe that everything was thanks to a hero turning the tide.
Thus, Gu Lang transformed from an ordinary passerby dining with a cute pet into an honored guest. The white woman, excited, flushed red. Wang Ping guessed that with the foreigners’ openness, if Gu Lang invited her back to the hotel, she’d follow without hesitation.
"Thank goodness Anna’s personality isn’t like these foreigners…" Wang Ping thought halfway, suddenly realizing, "Damn it, look at me worrying about nonsense. What does it have to do with me?"
The two tables gradually merged into one.
Gu Lang seemed to be having a blast. After all, no one had ever worshipped him like this before—it was almost like he had gained a fanatical following. It made this streamer feel quite elated.
So, after Wang Ping received a pile of food and two inexplicable kisses, Tole suggested going to a nightclub after dinner, and Gu Lang readily agreed.
Wang Ping initially wanted to smack him to bring him back to his senses, but for some reason, he hesitated.
A nightclub, eh? It had been a long time since he last went there, hadn’t it?
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