Pet King

Chapter 360: A Place Where Magic Happened

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Seeing that Zhang Zian was holding his cell phone with a strange look on his face, and not knowing what had happened, the elves stopped to look at him.

“Quack! Did Tim text you to confess his affection for you?” exclaimed Richard excitedly, “Be careful with your butt!”

“Shut the f**k up!” cussed Zhang Zian.

“Zian, what happened?” asked Old Time Tea.

“An unknown elfin has appeared around this area,” he replied.

Galaxy happily shouted, “Meow, a new partner! I hope it likes to play hide-and-seek!”

Snowy Lionet was also excited. Just when it was trying to say that it hoped the elfin was a beautiful female cat, it noticed the grumpy Fina and quietly swallowed back its words.

Old Time Tea was quite surprised; it looked around and said, “This is a good thing. What are you waiting for?”

“The problem is that this area is too big. I don’t know where to begin…” he sighed.

Zhang Zian focused on the words displayed on the screen. Not counting Snowy Lionet, this would be the fifth elfin he had encountered.

The aperture that represented the location of the elfin was around him and covered the Walk of Fame and the places nearby. But the area was very complex, covering too many buildings and tourists. The Chinese Theater alone was visited by tens of thousands of tourists every day. What’s worse, the edge of the aperture had also covered a small area of Beverly Hills. How was he, an ordinary person, going to access those celebrities’ luxury mansions?

He put down the phone and looked around, back and forth. Last time, the Apprehensive Bird appeared in Binhai University, and although the university campus covered a very large area, most of the campus area was easily accessible. Even so, he still had to visit every corner of Binhai University before he found it. Obviously, it was unrealistic to visit every attraction of Hollywood in a short period of time.

He must calm down. In such a complicated area, he couldn’t afford to go to every place.

Fina first appeared in the jewelry store, because it used to possess a myriad of jewelries and liked shiny things.

Richard first appeared in a Chinese classroom because it was an Apprehensive Bird.

Old Time Tea first appeared in the Teahouse in Hidden Fog, because it had felt that to some extent it was tied with the teahouse owner, Ms. Ye…

Wait a minute. Ties..

Zhang Zian wondered that since this elfin was appearing in the Hollywood area, did it have a connection with some celebrity? If that was the case, he knew a place to go — a place he had been thinking of visiting with the elves anyways, for it represented ties to some extent.

Thinking of this, he decided to follow his original schedule and left everything to fate.

“Let’s go,” he said to the elves.

“Aren’t you going to find the elfin?” asked Old Time Tea.

Zhang Zian shook his head, “Let’s leave it to luck.”

About a minute later, at the corner of the street, they arrived at a building with a bright red sign, with a statue of a green fat guy at the entrance, and a family of three was happily taking photos with him.

“Zian, what’s this place?” Old Time Tea looked up at the sign, but unfortunately it didn’t understand the letters above it.

“This is a wax museum, a very famous one,” said Zhang Zian.

Richard fluttered its wings, “Quack! It is a wax museum… Quack! No, but the wax museum I remember is not like this…”

Zhang Zian understood its doubt and replied, “Because there are two wax museums. Not far from here is another one, which should be the one in your memory. This is the new one, and the waxworks within it are relatively more refined, so we don’t need to go over there.”

“Wax museum?” Elves other than Richard had never heard of such a thing.

“In short, the wax museum displays figures made of wax, which are very delicate and so vivid that even some waxworks could be mistaken for real people. You will understand when you see them in a moment.” Zhang Zian bought a ticket. Since the elves were invisible, no one stopped him when he entered the museum.

There were many wax museums around the world, and although waxworks elsewhere were not as good as they were here, they were basically the same. Unless people had nothing better to do with their money, visiting a wax museum once should be enough. Since it was not peak season, the tourists here were less in number at other well-known Hollywood attractions and the museum seemed empty.

As soon as he entered the door, Zhang Zian lifted his cellphone excitedly!

Old Time Tea was surprised, and it quickly asked, “Zian, have you found that elfin already?”

He took a few photos consecutively, and replied as if he had not gotten enough, “No, but I finally saw the legendary Marilyn Monroe…”

Old Time Tea didn’t know what to say.

Marilyn Monroe’s wax figure was placed in the doorway. She had blond hair and was wearing a snow-white dress. Her smile was brilliant and appealing. No wonder she was extremely popular for a time.

Zhang Zian had never watched a movie with Monroe in it, but had heard of this Hollywood goddess who was gossip-ridden and died mysteriously a long time ago. Today, seeing her wax figure was a feast to his eyes. Her figure was simply perfect…

“Hey! What are you doing!” He angrily rebuked at Snowy Lionet.

Snowy Lionet had jumped on the side of Monroe, stretching its neck to look inside her breasts…

“Pfft! What are you angry about?” Snowy Lionet disdainfully curled its lips, “I’m just doing what you want to do!”

Zhang Zian thought to himself, unfortunately it was speaking the truth, but he would never admit that!

Old Time Tea stared at the statue of Johnny Depp and said in amazement, “It is indeed like a real person! If not for the different smell, I would believe it is real…”

“Grandpa Tea, you are being modest again. Although it really looks like a real person, you can tell every nuance!” Zhang Zian said half-jokingly.

Fina glanced at the Monroe statue for a few times—which was very rare for it, but it still didn’t seem to be intrigued by this place.

Zhang Zian turned around and found that Galaxy was hesitantly standing in the corner of the doorway and didn’t dare to come this way.

“Galaxy, come here. These are not real people, just wax figures,” he said.

Wide-eyed, Galaxy said, “Meow ~ not real persons?”

“They are not real and are not going to hurt you. You can come closer. It’s okay.” He wanted to raise and wave his hand towards it, but immediately put his hand down.

The elves were in invisible states so that no other people can see them. It was fine that Zhang Zian talked to them, for people would think he was a person who liked talking to himself. But if he waved at something that didn’t exist in others’ eyes, people would think he was lunatic or that a supernatural event was happening.

Galaxy lifted a forepaw and put it down, and repeated such movements several times, as if something terrible in front of it was forbidding it to move forward. Zhang Zian looked at it, hoping to pass courage onto it.

Eyes blinking, Galaxy seemed to have made up its mind. It finally avoided the tourists carefully and came over.

Zhang Zian suddenly realized that this would be a good opportunity for Galaxy to reduce its fear of human beings through having contact with these wax figures.

“Don’t be scared,” he encouraged it, “You can touch them.”

Galaxy had also found that, albeit the similarity, these wax figures were not real people, for they had subtle differences from real people. They didn’t have the breaths, smells and body temperatures of real humans… but it all still felt a bit scary, because after all, they were too similar to real people

It moved forward little by little. Two meters… one meter… half a meter… until the wax figure was within its reach. It had never been so close to a “human”.

“Well done, Galaxy!”

Galaxy’s four limbs were gently shaking. It pouted tightly, and strived to curb the urge to turn around to escape. It turned around and looked at Zhang Zian. Its eyes were full of anxiety.

“Meow…”

Zhang Zian tightly clenched his fists and emboldened it, “Come on! Galaxy! A bit closer! They are not real, keep telling yourself that they are not real, and will not hurt you! I am right here, cheering for you!”

Galaxy slowly nodded and repeatedly whispered, “Meow… they are not real, they will not hurt Galaxy…”

It gently lifted a front paw, retreated several times, and probed several times, until it finally touched Monroe’s right-hand finger that was pointing downwards.

At this moment, a classic still was popping up in Zhang Zian’s mind—the scene where E.T.’s finger was touching the finger of the little boy.

Hollywood was indeed a place where magic happened!