I am Lapland’s rat!

However, when I blew my hair after taking a shower, I could not tell where I was clean because of the black charcoal all over my body. I felt as if I had never taken a shower. When I stood next to the stove, Alf, who was not wearing glasses, thought it was a stove. A piece of live coal fell out!

Alf, who laughed in anger, gave Heitan this name and said that he would never give Heitan a bath unless he was unbearably dirty.

——But Alf probably didn’t expect that the name he chose casually could be the same as the name Wu Xian named his brother in his heart.

Well, at least they have the same name in meaning.

……

After finishing the meal, Duccio walked in and started to put away the knives and forks.

Lapland took the two rats out of the reception room, returned to the conference room, and sat down on the main seat.

Entering the conference room, Wu Xian saw the big man Alf still sitting at the conference table.

There was a newspaper in front of him, but he was not reading the newspaper at this time, but looked out the window, somewhat lost in thought.

Heitan skillfully jumped onto the conference table, ran to Alf who was in a daze, and looked up at him.

"Well, Black Carbon?" Alf came back to his senses and lowered his head to glance at his pet.

When Wu Xian saw this scene, he suddenly became curious:

"Why did Heitan develop such a cat-like personality?"

In his previous life, he once heard someone say that as pets, cats and dogs have two different concepts about their owners -

Dog: "This man is so kind to me and gives me a place to live and feeds me. He must be a god!"

Maomao: "This person is so kind to me and gives me a place to live and feeds me. I must be a god!"

Wu Xian has talked about this difference before, and this is also an important reason why he chose to raise a dog instead of a cat.

Unconventional pets like pet rats, because of their low IQ, do not have as complex a cognition of the concept of "owner" as cats and dogs, at least not in Wu Xian's memory.

Therefore, it was difficult for Wu Xian to say whether it was normal for Hei Tan to treat Alf like a cat treats its owner.

Wu Xian jumped up, pulled the edge of the table with his paws, and climbed onto the table next to him.He planned to stay far away so as not to disturb Hei Tan, and wanted to see how Hei Tan and Alf interacted on a daily basis.

At the conference table, Hei Tan looked up at Alf and chirped a few times in confusion:

"Are you okay?"

Alf looked down at Heitan. Of course he didn't understand what Heitan was talking about.Seeing Heitan blinking his little eyes and looking at him cutely, Alf suddenly raised the corners of his mouth, raised his whole cheek happily, and showed a happy smile:

"Black charcoal..."

Wu Xian: "...I'm super, a little disgusting!"

Wu Xian was shocked by how disgusting Alf, the three-hundred-pound aunt, laughed. His tail was like an electric shock, and a numbing cold feeling ran from the tip of his tail through his back and straight to his forehead.

He had never seen Alf, who was lazy and fishing all day long, show such a happy expression!

"Hei Tan..." Wu Xian shook his beard and silently mourned for Hei Tan in his heart: "You have endured things that a rat should not bear."

"You are a warrior."

Hei Tan looked disgusted and took two steps back.But before it could run away, Alf's big hand reached out.

Heitan squeaked helplessly: "Again?"

Heitan slapped Alf's hand with his paw, but Alf was rough and thick-skinned, so he didn't care about the scratches at all. He still smiled and rubbed Heitan's furry little head with his fingers, touching and touching.

Touch, touch, touch.

Wu Xian: "...Okay."

He already knew why Charcoal disrespected Alf so much.

Rats are actually creatures that push their limits. Looking at Alf's behavior, it is obvious that Hei Tan does something out of the ordinary, and he will not reprimand Hei Tan.

Heitan's courage was raised by Alf in this way!

"Alf, you should really learn from my method of raising little Silver."

At the main seat of the conference table, Lapland looked at Alf who was immersed in playing with the rat, raised the corners of his mouth, and said with a smile.

Alf's fingers paused and the corners of his mouth twitched.

Chapter 2 An important thing!

……

After a while, Heitan turned away and refused to be touched by Alf.

But seeing the satisfied look on Alf's face, Wu Xian knew that Alf probably wouldn't change much.

The two chatted in the conference room for a while, then Ducci walked in and sat down on Lapland's right hand seat.

At this time, Wu Xian, who was squatting on the table, realized why Lapland had been staying in the conference room without moving. Du Qiao, who had clearly agreed to go to the West District, was at the headquarters at this time.

This is a meeting!

Did something happen?

Wu Xian was a little curious. He jumped from the low table next to the conference table in the center, ran a few steps, looked up at Duccio and then at Lapland.

Lapland seemed to understand what Wu Xian meant and chuckled: "Xiao Yin, you are right."

"You should also sit in on this meeting. Maybe there will be something about you."

Wu Xian could only wag his tail.

At this time, Hei Tan asked curiously: "Boss, what are these humans going to do?"

Black Tan often sees Saluzzo's cadres meeting here, but there is no meaning of "meeting" in its mind. To it, this seems to be some kind of ritual held regularly by this human group.

The key is that this group of human beings are sitting here and they are just talking and not eating at all!

In this way, every time he expected that Saluzzo's conference room would be like the restaurant he saw outside, Heitan was a little disappointed when a large table of dishes was suddenly served from outside.

"Well, how do you put this..." Wu Xian shook his beard, looked at Heitan who was also squatting in the middle of the conference table, thought for a while, and said seriously:

"Heitan, do you remember what I told you, Shushu? As a Shushu, we should have more lofty ideals and great needs for self-realization, instead of just thinking about three meals a day."

"The human beings sitting in this room are the great pioneers on this path. They are building a higher level of spiritual civilization..."

"This is different from the vulgar taste of Chafan."

Even though Heitan is so smart, he still thinks about food all day long. This won't work!

Heitan seemed to understand: "Boss, does that mean there won't be food here? We don't quite understand."

"Of course!" Wu Xian patted the side of Hei Tan's body with his paw, as if a boss was encouraging his most respected younger brother:

"Look well, study hard."

At this moment, footsteps sounded again outside the conference room.

The two rats squatting in the center of the conference table turned to look at the same time, and saw a gray-haired Luper girl wearing an inconspicuous gray coat walking into the conference room from the door. She was holding a plastic bag in her hand. The inside seemed to be some kind of golden and crispy fried thing, and the aroma of cheese wafted from it.

With a calm expression on her face, Texas walked into the conference room and said hello to the three people and two rats in the conference room: "Good afternoon."

Then, Saluzzo’s young contact in the East Side put the plastic bag in his hand on the conference table:

“This is a famous fried Sicilian cheese roll in the East End.”

"Aha, Texas, I've always fantasized about this moment." Lapland's eyes visibly lit up. She laughed, clapped her hands, stood up, leaned forward and began to untie the table. plastic bag on.

Ducci also stood up, turned his back, and began to look for paper towels in the conference room that could be used to cover food residues.

Alf leaned forward and began to examine the finished food in the plastic bag to see if it was attractive enough.

But Texas just sat down in his seat, with a two-pixel smile that was not easy to detect at the corner of his mouth.

Only the two rats in the center of the conference table looked at each other.

Heitan: "Boss...?"

Wu Xian: "..."

His beard twitched, and he turned around and pulled up the plastic bag.

"Eat first, then talk. How can we have a meeting if we don't have a full meal?"

Hei Tan's eyes lit up.

"As expected of the boss! Break some for us!"

……

After a while, another person came in from the outside. It was Dan Brown, who had some injuries on his shoulders and could not move very easily.

By the time Dan Brown sat down next to Texas, all of Onor's Saluzzo cadre, except for the injured Ciro, had arrived.

Dan Brown still looked confused. He looked at the people who were eating fried cheese rolls and collecting the remains with paper towels. After thinking for a while, he took out the last piece from the plastic bag and bit into half of it.

Holding the golden cheese roll in his right hand, he chewed it and asked: "Hey, why are there two mole beasts on the table?"

He still failed to understand that Saluzzo had one or even two human-like flying beasts.

Du Qiao's face twitched: "...Don't worry about them."

He no longer explains it to Dan Brown like he used to.

At this time, Texas on the side finally asked: "Lapland, what is the theme of today's meeting?"

"Uh-huh."

Lapland blinked, swallowed the cheese roll in his mouth, and then threw the last bit of it into his mouth, chewing and wiping his mouth gracefully.

Then, she leaned forward slightly, put her elbows on the table, and said easily:

"Simply put, we need to discuss our next steps."

"Texas, I guess you want to say that we discussed the next plan as early as the night before yesterday." Lapland's lips slowly revealed a smile as she progressed with her words.

"But that's not what we are going to discuss today. Everyone—"

Lapland glanced around, and Texas looked at her with slight doubts in his eyes.

Ducci's face was very serious and he was holding a notebook in his hand.

Alf's attention was focused on her, his expression still a little casual.

Dan Brown paid attention to her with a confused expression.

Two rats were each nibbling a small piece of cheese roll on the table.

So, Lapland finally showed a happy smile:

"—I want my father, Alberto Saluzzo, to come and see Honol."

"?!"

As soon as these words came out, the first person to look shocked was Duccio who was sitting aside and looking at the notebook in his hand most seriously.

He looked at Lapland with a hint of fear in his eyes.

Then came Alf, a muscular man of [-] meters and [-] pounds looking at Lapland with an expression of disbelief.

Dan Brown blinked his eyes, tilted his head, and looked at Lapland, looking very confused.

Wu Xian on the table raised his head: "...Ah, sure enough, the time has come."

When Lapland said he was going to have a meeting, he had anticipated it.

Wu Xian knew what Lapland wanted to do, and as the heir of Saluzzo, no matter what Lapland wanted to do, a confrontation with her old and strict father was indispensable.

Lapland simply chose this to be on her home turf.

"……Um?"

Texas looked at the people who made exaggerated reactions, and said somewhat uncertainly:

"Is this... something important?"

Chapter 2 Let daddy come see me!

In the conference room, the air suddenly became calm, and everyone except Texas looked at their young lady with confused and surprised eyes.

——Texas doesn’t know much about Alberto, so she has these questions.

In the eyes of Duccio and others, Miss Lapland suddenly said that she wanted to call Master Alberto. What was she doing?