The train.

Earth-Tiger was waiting anxiously in front of a wooden door. The Zodiacs passing by all bowed respectfully, then hurried far away.

“Damn it… still not off work?” Earth-Tiger leaned against the wall with one hand, his expression looking extremely irritable, “What the hell are you trying to achieve working overtime every day…”

After waiting a few more minutes, the door in front of Earth-Tiger finally opened slowly.

Earth-Sheep, covered in black fur, walked out from inside. He glanced at Earth-Tiger expressionlessly, then turned to leave.

“Wait a minute!” Earth-Tiger called out.

After hearing this, Earth-Sheep stopped, turned around, and said impatiently: “Are you sick? It’s only the first day. I’ll slowly pay back your ‘Dao.'”

“Who the fuck wants ‘Dao’!” Earth-Tiger grabbed Earth-Sheep at once, “I have a new idea. I want you to help me with something…”

“Just say it directly.”

“I…” Earth-Tiger was just about to speak when he suddenly remembered something, “This… that… when asking someone for help, shouldn’t I treat you to a meal first?”

“Can you not suddenly pretend to be polite?” Earth-Sheep pushed Earth-Tiger away with one hand, “If you don’t say it, I’m leaving.”

“Wait, wait…” Earth-Tiger showed a troubled expression, “It’s not convenient to talk here. Come to my room first?”

“Huh?” Earth-Sheep showed an impatient expression, “What exactly do you want to do?”

“Ai… come on, come on…”

Earth-Tiger dragged Earth-Sheep forcefully toward his room. They hadn’t walked far when another door in front of them opened, revealing another figure.

It was a dog with his upper body bare, draped in a suit jacket.

“Yo…” Earth-Tiger nodded perfunctorily, “How rare, Doggy, you work overtime too?”

“Don’t even mention it. I encountered an old hand.” Earth-Dog sighed, “Tiger, you’ve got food at your place, right? Take me to eat something. I got off work too late and didn’t even get my meal.”

“What? Not today.” Earth-Tiger decisively said, “Tomorrow. I’ll treat you to two meals tomorrow.”

“What’s this?” After hearing this, Earth-Dog frowned, “No way… are you really that stingy? I even let you drink the liquor I saved up myself, and you won’t even treat me to a meal?”

“Ai! Today really won’t work!!” Earth-Tiger looked at Earth-Sheep somewhat aggrieved, “We two have something to discuss, right?”

“Who has anything to discuss with you?” Earth-Sheep sneered, “Earth-Dog, come join us. This guy said he’s treating to a meal.”

“I knew it.” Earth-Dog yawned, “Let’s hurry, Tiger. Don’t waste precious off-work time.”

Originally it was Earth-Tiger forcefully dragging Earth-Sheep, but in a moment it became Earth-Dog dragging these two together toward Earth-Tiger’s room.

Earth-Tiger pushed open the door with a helpless expression. Inside, there were seven or eight human-level “Zodiacs” sitting at the table waiting for him, and the table was filled with food.

“Teacher has returned…” a female Man-Monkey said.

After this was said, all the students looked toward Earth-Tiger.

“That… well…” Earth-Tiger showed an extremely awkward expression, “You guys scram for a bit. We three have something to discuss.”

The seven or eight students saw that three Earth-level Zodiacs had entered. No one dared to be negligent. They all stood up and walked out the door. The Man-Monkey at the end of the line carefully closed the door.

Earth-Dog saw the table full of food and stopped being polite. He sat down in a chair and started eating.

But Earth-Tiger and Earth-Sheep at the side remained silent all along.

“You two chat…” Earth-Dog said, “My hearing isn’t good. I can’t hear anything.”

“Damn it…” Earth-Tiger cursed under his breath, “Do you even believe what you’re saying? You’re a ‘dog’—your hearing isn’t good?”

“Then what can I do?” Earth-Dog said while keeping his head down grabbing food, “You don’t have any plastic bags here. Otherwise I’d just pack it up and take it away.”

Earth-Sheep crossed his arms in front of his chest, sighed, and said: “If you have something to say, just say it. Don’t waste everyone’s time.”

“But there’s an outsider here!” Earth-Tiger shouted.

“Outsider?” Earth-Dog looked around with his mouth stuffed with a bun, “Where’s anyone else here?”

“It’s fucking you!” Earth-Tiger roared, “Why the hell did you have to come over?!”

“You’re being too hurtful.” Earth-Dog shook his head and took another bite of his bun, “If I hadn’t been forced to work overtime today, would I have run into you two? My running into you is a kind of fate, and your treating me to a meal represents ‘Zodiac camaraderie.’ From every perspective… this should be a pleasant meeting…”

“Come on!”

Earth-Sheep reached out and picked up a carrot from the table. He took a bite and said to Earth-Tiger: “We’ve known this dog for quite a few years. He doesn’t count as an outsider, right? What else is there that he can’t hear?”

“Ai… yes… yes…” Earth-Tiger suppressed his voice and said, “It’s about ‘Brother Sheep’…”

Although he had tried his utmost to suppress his voice, Earth-Tiger’s voice was simply too loud. This sentence transmitted clearly into Earth-Dog’s ears.

“Brother Sheep?!” Earth-Dog was stunned, “Brother Baiyang?”

“Don’t listen, you bastard!!” Earth-Tiger shouted.

“No… you’re too ridiculous. With your bass-cannon voice, I can’t not hear even if I wanted to.” Earth-Dog said, “Brother Sheep is my idol after all. Haven’t I told you? At first I wanted to become a sheep, but unfortunately people are hard to deceive and sheep are hard to be, so in the end I had no choice but to become a dog…”

“Ah, alright, alright…” Earth-Tiger waved his hand, “You’re asking for bad luck. What I’m going to say next, you wanted to hear yourself. If something happens, I take no responsibility whatsoever.”

“Eh?”

Hearing Earth-Tiger say this, Earth-Sheep and Earth-Dog felt something was wrong. They suddenly felt somewhat regretful about coming with him.

“Old Black, Doggy.” Earth-Tiger looked into the eyes of the two and very seriously said a sentence that made both of them widen their eyes—

“Let’s rebel.”

After this was said, Earth-Dog coughed violently, clearly choked by his food.

Earth-Sheep also hurriedly stood up, muttered “excuse me” in a small voice, then frantically bolted toward the door.

“Hey, don’t leave!” Earth-Tiger strode forward and grabbed Earth-Sheep, “You already heard everything. It’s too late to leave now.”

After saying this, he turned back and pointed at the constantly coughing Earth-Dog: “And you too—you’re in on this now. Whoever leaves, I’ll report them. Damn it, neither of you can run.”

Earth-Dog coughed for a long time before coughing out the food that was stuck: “You old bastard, you’re too ruthless… This is the first time in my life I’ve mooched a meal from you, and you pull this on me? Just you wait, I’ll throw it up right now…”

Earth-Dog frantically used his own fingers to gag his throat, but it didn’t seem to have much effect.

“Throwing up won’t help!” Earth-Tiger said, “I’ve already said what I said. You two are both in the know. Either report me now and I’ll turn around and bite back at you, or we sit down and properly discuss the feasibility of this matter.”

Earth-Dog kept gagging himself until he was retching continuously, but still couldn’t figure out what this matter had to do with him.

He just wanted to eat a meal. He hadn’t expected to board such an absurd pirate ship.

Did Earth-Tiger have rocks in his head?