Tioga International Airport, South City.
Lilly held up a card with a cartoon flowchart that Blake had hand-drawn for her. It showed a sizable airplane first, then a truck, a conveyor belt for luggage, and so forth.
Zachary was uninterested as he trailed Lilly. He had his phone in his hand and was engaged in intense battling in-game. He roared, "Bring it on, you idiot!"
Due to the headphones he was wearing, he was unable to gauge the volume of his own voice. The passersby turned around and gazed at him in surprise.
Lilly quickly waved her hand and apologized, "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. My brother is too rude."
As she said that, she took the bread out of her bag and stuffed it into Zachary's mouth.
Zachary mumbled, "Hmmm!"
He continued to mumble, but no more offensive words came from his mouth.
Lilly followed the hand-drawn map to collect her luggage and reunite with Polly.
Polly was sent out with pet transportation, where it was in the care of a professional pet carrier.
Polly and another parrot were having a lively conversation, or more accurately, Polly was doing all the talking.
The other bird was a cockatiel parrot. It looked beautiful with its light yellow feathers and smooth crown line. It also had two round red spots on its cheeks just below its eyes, which made its cheeks look pinkish.
"Hello, hi there; did you just wake up?" Polly spread its wings in front of the cockatiel parrot.
That parrot simply ignored Polly.
Lilly said softly, "Polly…"
Polly showed his shining green feathers to the cockatiel parrot again. It said, "Why did you not say anything? Can't you talk? Oh my gosh! I must teach you then!"
Lilly was speechless.
Polly continued, "Hey, listen to me; you must have a crush on me. If you don't…I'll think of something else."
Lilly called out to the parrot again, "Polly…"
Polly shook its feathers, leaned slightly forward, and got closer to the cockatiel parrot's cage. It said, "I don't think you're the right parrot to date, hmm… but you're the right parrot to marry me."
The Cockatiel Parrot finally lost it, and it shouted, "I'm a male! You idiot! Moron!"
Polly was astounded. It turned to face Lilly right away and said, "Let's go. Quick, we have to leave now."
Lilly was wordless.
The airport employees who were standing nearby were holding their laughter in until they finally lost control and started laughing out loud.
Lilly was so embarrassed. She quickly grabbed Polly's cage, strided forward, and hurriedly fled from the scene.
Polly once again delivered an extended statement in gibberish once they were outside the airport terminal.
Lilly had a "you won" expression on her face. She asked solemnly, "Polly, did you learn all these from Hannah?"
Polly shook its head and said, "I couldn't tell you!"
The cage was fastened to the suitcase by Lilly. She then followed the road signs outside while pulling the suitcase with one hand while holding the fruit and unfinished cake in the other.
Zachary continued to play games with earphones on and casually followed her from behind.
The kids completely overlooked the few secret agents who pretended to be "ordinary people" in the crowd. All of them wore eyeglasses with tiny cameras on them.
Blake set up four computers in the Crawford Mansion, each receiving real-time surveillance footage from the front line.
Hugh sat with a newspaper in his hands and a somber expression on his face, but he was secretly sneaking glances at Blake's computer. He asked with a long face, "We've agreed that we will let her be independent. Why are we doing all this behind her back?"
Blake said, without even bothering to raise his head, "Dad, I'll believe you if you try a little harder to hide that you're peeking at the computer."
Hugh was taken aback.
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