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Illiterate Squirrels

Two squirrels are walking along a path when they see a sign: “BEWARE WOLF 谨防狼”.

“What does that say?”

“I don’t know.”

They continue on and there is another sign, “🐝🧥🐺”

“What’s this?”

“It has some pictures.”

“I see some animals but no squirrels.”

“And that thing in the middle I think that’s a coat, something humans wear!”

“Come on.”

They continue and come upon a speaker. There is a button. The squirrels press the button.

“Watch out for the wolf up ahead,” the speaker says. But meanwhile there is a bee buzzing around and a man putting on a coat. A doll of a wolf lies by the side of the road.

“You hear what that said?”

“No, I was distracted.”

They continue on and they find another sign. It has a comic on it. The 1st panel is the squirrels encountering a sign “BEWARE WOLF 谨防狼” 2nd and 3rd panel and so on.

“This is kind of interesting.”

“Very strange.”

“What does it all mean?”

They shrug & go on.

As they walk along the path, there is a wolf hanging by the curb. They cross him. Zoom into wolf: smh.