Chapter 618 Haining Cat Island (28) [VIP]

After three or four days in the unknown space, the exploration of rules finally made some progress.

The cats on Haining Island are the clue, or in other words, the act of photographing cats must represent some kind of clue related to the rules.

But thinking about it this way, it seems even more exciting.

Zheng Feng took a picture of a cat, but the old man next door kept saying that he was peeping at the old man...

So, does this equation mean that the cat is actually equal to the old man?

"How can you explain it!" Guan Hongyan's eyes widened, "How can you explain it?! Du Zhongsheng, you should be careful with your words and actions! Language!"

Bai Jinshu: ...I didn't notice that I had spoken out what I was thinking.

"Actually, I think that's possible." Fang Xiang said weakly.

"You're a pervert!" Guan Hongyan turned around in shock.

"I'm not..." Fang Xiang stuttered, his eyes widened, "Didn't Brother Du say that first?"

In order to prevent himself from falling into the same situation as Zheng Feng, Fang Xiang quickly threw the blame away.

"Then since Du Zhongsheng said it first, it means he also..." Guan Hongyan looked over angrily.

Guan Hongyan saw with great momentum that the leopard cat above Du Zhongsheng's head was staring at them.

Guan Hongyan saw with a slightly weaker momentum that the shadow of tentacles seemed to appear faintly in the leopard cat's mouth.

Guan Hongyan followed suit from the bottom of her heart: "Then what Du Zhongsheng said first doesn't mean that you are a pervert!"

Fang Xiang:?

ah?

What’s the ups and downs of it?

"First, Brother Li said his mother could speak cat language," Bai Jinshu said slowly at this time, "At that time, we suspected that the cats on Haining Cat Island were actually human."

"Second, both times the cat was filmed entering the courtyard along the wall. The difference is that the rich second-generation Ran Ran who filmed the cat the first time was not caught by the boss, while Zheng Feng who filmed the cat the second time was directly kicked out for peeping."

"Well, that's right," Fang Xiang quickly followed up, "How heavy is the word voyeurism? It's just recording a video, why is it called voyeurism? This fully shows that the old man thinks Zheng Feng's act of filming a video is an invasion of privacy. Then everyone, ask yourselves, he's just an old man, he didn't take off his clothes and dance in the yard."

At this point, he couldn't help but muttered, "No, besides, who wants to watch an old man striptease?"

"I just took a video and accidentally captured a small incident in the yard. How could it be considered as peeping at someone's privacy?" Fang Xiang continued. "So based on the above, it's reasonable for me to suspect that the cat is an old man!"

"It is reasonable, but..." Guan Hongyan had a complicated expression.

But this idea is very sick!

"But then again," she changed the subject and fell into deep thought, "It's not impossible..."

After all, birth, aging, sickness and death are common to all humans...and cats as well. It doesn't mean that people who are transformed from cats cannot grow old.

Everyone else: ...

Although I don’t know what Guan Hongyan is thinking, her expression seems very complicated.

"And the third one," Bai Jinshu hugged the ocelot and stroked its fur nonchalantly, "Didn't you notice that all the people who came to scam people yesterday were elderly or middle-aged people."

"Oh, that's right." Wu Meng looked up.

Bai Jinshu's words made everyone realize this blind spot.

Why wasn’t there a single young person committing fraud yesterday?

Although Haining Island has a serious aging population, many young people came to Maode Academy on the day it opened. In the following two days, many young people also came to take their pets to bathe and have cosmetic surgeries. Why was it that yesterday, all of them were middle-aged and elderly people trying to scam people?

"Are you doubting that this rule is linked to age?" Yun Guang finally spoke.

"Well," Bai Jinshu nodded, "It is very likely that only elderly people can... turn into cats?"

Or conversely, cats can only become old people.

"It's over, it's all over now," Fang Xiang muttered nearby, "Cat Lady is now Cat Lady."

【？ 】

Is this correct?

Is this appropriate?

[No Aunt Cat, no Aunt Cat, no Aunt Cat, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! ]

[Cat girls have all become cat ladies, so does that mean cat boys will all become cat boys? 】

[? Don’t you think it’s a bit inappropriate to type this name yourself? ]

“Puff… cough cough cough cough…” Guan Hongyan couldn’t help but almost choked to death on a mouthful of Coke, “cough cough cough…”

What?

Yun Guang reached out and patted her on the back. Guan Hongyan tried to calm down and looked painful: "Why don't we talk about something else?"

Don't continue to speculate on this horrible conjecture.

The surrounding exploration team members nodded their heads in agreement, all unwilling to face this cruel rule.

"Well, for now, why don't we try to trick Zheng Feng into giving us the video!" Guan Hongyan quickly changed the subject, "Let's get serious and discuss the clues."

"Especially you, Fang Xiang, you are not allowed to speak."

"Why?" Fang Xiang looked up.

Guan Hongyan: "Anyway, don't say it."

"Hongyan," Yun Guang held his forehead helplessly, "How about we discuss the clues first?"

"Let's discuss this," Guan Hongyan coughed lightly and quickly followed Yun Guang's words. "At present, it seems that photographing cats is definitely related to clues, but there is a difference between photographing any cat and photographing a cat that 'jumps up the wall from the other end of the courtyard wall and walks in a line, and finally jumps into the courtyard of the next door homestay.'"

The former means that all cats on Haining Island are related to this rule, and as for the latter... there are many more possible situations.

"I'm not sure if it's the cat's problem or the behavior problem." Yun Guang continued, "Zhongsheng, what do you think?"

"First of all, it definitely can't be all cats." Bai Jinshu denied the former, "As for the latter, it depends on the situation."

If it's all cats... then it can't be photographed because countless people have already taken pictures of them.

Not to mention the large number of tourists on Haining Island, almost everyone of whom has taken photos of the cats on the island. Just talking about the locals, Li Ge also takes photos of cats every day.

If not being able to take pictures of cats is some kind of rule, then tourists from other places may not know about it, so how could Li Ge not know about it?

"If we discuss this in categories," Yun Guang clasped his hands together and analyzed carefully, "One possibility is that some of the cats on the island have problems. These cats usually don't appear in front of people, so if they are photographed, they will be found to be abnormal."

The rich second-generation girl next door and Zheng Feng behaved like this because they photographed this special cat.

"As for the second type, only cats that jump onto walls and walk in a line cannot be photographed?" Fang Xiang drew inferences from one example, "Is there something wrong with this behavior?"

"Yes," Yun Guang nodded, "but in fact these two situations can also be considered as one."

For example, only the special cats on the island will jump onto the wall and walk in a line, and jump into the yard of the owner of the next door B&B.

"That means there must be something wrong with what they filmed," Guan Hongyan stood up, "I'll go ask Zheng Feng about it."

"Hey, Zheng Feng!" Guan Hongyan called out to Zheng Feng who was still squatting at the door, "I have something to ask you."

"What's wrong?" Zheng Feng looked back blankly.

"Do you still have the video you took of the old man next door? I'm a little curious and want to see what you captured that made the old man so angry."

"I...I'm really convinced!" Zheng Feng's expression, which had originally calmed down, became ferocious again when he heard this.

As Zheng Feng danced and made a ferocious expression, Guan Hongyan leaned over and muttered for a long time, then came back and spread his hands to everyone: "It's gone, the video was deleted. I asked him if he wanted to find someone with technical recovery skills to restore the video, but he didn't plan to dwell on it anymore."

If you can't afford to provoke someone, you can always avoid him. Even a strong dragon will defeat a local snake. After Zheng Feng was rejected by a number of hotels, he no longer planned to stay on Haining Island. He was ready to leave by boat at dawn.

"There's nothing we can do about the video," Lu Changfeng suggested, "Why don't we just sit back and wait?"

"Sit back and wait? What does that mean?" Wu Meng was at a loss.

"Waiting for the rabbit by the tree means waiting for the rabbit by the tree. Don't you have that allusion?" Lu Changfeng looked at her strangely. After getting a positive nod, he looked around strangely and found that the faces of several newcomers were blank. "Really, you don't have that allusion."

"Well... let me explain it," he briefly told the story of waiting for the rabbit to come to you, and finally concluded, "In layman's terms, we leave one person here, and when a line of cats walk in a row on the wall, we also record it. This way, when we check it later, we will know what the two people in front have recorded."

This method is the simplest and easiest to implement, and everyone voted unanimously in favor of it.

After all, Zheng Feng’s video was not saved, and the rich second-generation girl next door was keeping avoiding them.

"Then tomorrow during the day... Lu Changfeng and Yu Changlin will stay behind?" Yun Guang thought about the candidates for a while. "Right now, we can't be sure whether these cats will avoid people, so you'd better hide and take pictures tomorrow. Also, we can't be sure whether there is a problem with the cats in the photo or with the courtyard. If it's the latter, we'll have to make new plans."

"Is it necessary to keep Lu Changfeng for such a small matter? Just keep two newcomers," Guan Hongyan said dissatisfiedly, "What if some old lady or old man comes to our door tomorrow to make trouble? The newcomers can't even do such a small thing as recording a video."

"Then... Wu Meng and Yu Changlin," Yun Guang thought about it for a moment and wanted to continue talking, but he saw Zheng Feng walking in from the door with a guitar, so he had to change his words, "Let's do this for now, take a rest tonight, Zhongsheng, I'll leave the next door to you..."

Bai Jinshu nodded in understanding.

Yun Guang suspected that there was something wrong with the cat, and there was also something wrong with the yard next door, but the cat and the yard next door combined caused the biggest problem.

They can't go in as people... uh, as neighbors, but cats can.

As Zheng Feng walked in with his guitar, the exploration team members who had gathered in the living room dispersed and returned to their own rooms to wash up and go to bed.

While no one was paying attention, a leopard cat came out from the gap in the window, jumped up the wall, and jumped into the next yard.

Unfortunately, there was nothing strange or special in the courtyard next door, and even the owner of the B&B was not inside. Huai Jiamu walked around the entire bungalow and the courtyard but didn't find anything, so he had to jump back along the wall.

Bai Jinshu held the cat and pushed the door open, looking down, just in time to see Yu Changlin and Fang Xiang using extra quilts in the room to make a bed on the floor for Zheng Feng, who was temporarily sleeping in the living room tonight.

Wu Meng, who was supposed to be on guard tonight, simply went back to sleep.

There's someone in the living room tonight, so there shouldn't be any stray cats coming in and causing any damage.

*

At three o'clock in the morning, there was a rustling sound in the living room.

Bai Jinshu was awakened by the sound. He turned over and groped around the bed with his left hand for a while. Soon he touched a warm...ear.

Bai Jinshu pinched the tip of his ear, and soon, the owner of the ear shook his head.

"There seems to be a noise downstairs," Bai Jinshu knew that Huai Jiamu had woken up, and asked in a daze, "Did the cat come in again?"

They have been here for three days, and only encountered a wild cat on the first night. But the wild cat appeared again tonight. Could it be because Zheng Feng is staying here tonight?

"Did Zheng Feng attract those wild cats?" Bai Jinshu was completely awake now.

Could it be that the wild cat was targeting Zheng Feng? Doesn’t this mean that the wild cat that appeared here on the first day was also because of something they did?

The leopard cat made a series of slight purring sounds in its throat, and opened its eyes to look around.

Bai Jinshu stood up and said, "Go down and take a look."

The leopard cat rubbed his fingertips with its head, jumped out through the window, and re-entered the room through the window of the living room downstairs.

Following the leopard cat's perspective, Zheng Feng was lying on the sofa in the living room, and not far from the sofa, two dark shadows were standing at the kitchen door.

The two shadows took a step forward at the same time, and then... collided with each other.

"There's a ghost!"

"So and so and so and so and so!"

Two voices suddenly erupted in the living room.

After a few seconds of pause.

"Fang Xiang?"

"Zheng Feng?"

They said in unison: "Why is it you!"

Huai Jiamu's vision went dark for a moment, which vividly reflected the three words "it's too blind to see".

"What are you doing up?" Fang Xiang lowered his voice, widened his eyes and gritted his teeth.

"I... I'm hungry," Zheng Feng also glared, "I didn't eat dinner!"

After he was involved in the scandal of secretly photographed photos, he had a quarrel with his boss. Then he carried his suitcase and looked for a place to stay. By the time he found that he was rejected by all the hotels and B&Bs and returned here, he was so hungry that he could not even feel the existence of his stomach.

After this series of events, he had no time to find something to eat. He just wanted to get through the night quickly and leave here tomorrow morning. Unexpectedly, at around midnight, he was attacked by hunger.

"What about you?" He looked at Fang Xiang, angrily, "Why did you get up?"

"I heard some noise down there so I came down to check," Fang Xiang held his forehead with his hand, "I thought it was a wild cat, but it turned out to be you."

Before he came down, he played rock-paper-scissors with Yu Changlin, who shared the same room with him, and decided who would go downstairs by best of two out of three. If he had known it was Zheng Feng, why would he have been afraid?

"Why don't you turn on the lights when you're looking for food?" he said speechlessly.

"I don't know where the light in your living room is," Zheng Feng complained. "My phone is out of battery, and I just remembered that you put the remaining chicken nuggets on the table before going to bed, so I wanted to look for it..."

Who would have thought that the sound of tossing and turning in the living room could wake Fang Xiang up.

This person is so shallow.

However, it seemed that it was not only Fang Xiang who was woken up.

"You should have said it earlier," a muffled voice came from upstairs, "I took the chicken nuggets to my room before I went upstairs."

"Sister Guan?" Fang Xiang looked up.

"Hmm," Guan Hongyan turned on the flashlight with one hand and shone it from her chin upwards, "I was wondering who it was, but it turned out to be you two."

"Sister Guan, you... wipe your mouth." Fang Xiang shuddered.

Guan Hongyan held a cell phone in one hand and the leftover chicken nuggets from dinner in the other. Perhaps it was too dark at night to see clearly, and there was a lot of ketchup on the corners of her mouth when she was eating. Under the light of the underworld flashlight, she looked as bloody as if she had just eaten three children raw.

"I don't have any paper. I'll come down to look for it." Guan Hongyan felt her pockets but couldn't find it. She was about to go downstairs when a hand suddenly reached out from the side.

"Give."

"Oh my god, Yun Guang, don't scare me all of a sudden!" Guan Hongyan turned around in shock, "When did you wake up?"

"When you opened the door and walked out just now," Yun Guang nodded, "I thought you discovered something, so I followed you out."

"Damn, there are so many people, who is still awake?" Zheng Feng was shocked downstairs.

"Well...actually, we woke up too." A door next to them opened, and two girls, Wu Meng and Tong Yao, came together and looked out.

"And me," Lu Changfeng raised his hand, "and Yu Changlin."

"Damn, Brother Lu, how did you know I was awake?" Yu Changlin was shocked.

"Uh, I heard... you and Fang Xiang playing rock-paper-scissors," Lu Changfeng groaned, "You two were quite loud. Fang Xiang was not convinced after losing and said that you were too slow in playing rock-paper-scissors and wanted to play finger-guessing to decide the winner. You said you didn't know how to play, so Fang Xiang said let's play fifty-fifty-twenty."

He shouted as if he was afraid that others couldn't hear him.

"Then we are just trying to give ourselves courage..." Yu Changlin said sullenly.

Although I know there is most likely a stray cat in the living room, what if... what if it is a ghost!

These two are just newcomers to the Foundation. This is their first time entering an unknown space. Don't expect too much from them!

"So now only... Brother Du hasn't woken up?" Fang Xiang looked around, and before he could finish his words, he felt a sudden flash in front of his eyes.

"Who the hell turned on the light..." Before he could finish his words, he saw a black shadow jumping past him. Then, the black shadow quickly jumped up the stairs several times and finally fell into a man's arms.

The person holding the cat lowered his eyes slightly, and his pupils shrank slightly, almost turning into a vertical line under the strong light.

"Brother Du, you're up too..." Lu Changfeng turned his head.

Now it seems that everyone is awake.

"You made so much noise that I couldn't sleep at night," Bai Jinshu stood at the door of the room holding the cat, his face indifferent, "What are you doing?"

"Well...find something to eat?" Zheng Feng finally answered tentatively.

Are all the people in this room so shallow?

"Is your house not soundproofed well?" he couldn't help but ask.

A few minutes later, all the exploration team members gathered in the living room again. The only outsider, Zheng Feng, was eating hard and showed no sign of wanting to come over to chat.

It seems that he is really hungry.

Guan Hongyan hugged the pillow, yawned, leaned on Tong Yao and said weakly: "I think we are a little too nervous."

Zheng Feng just got up in the middle of the night to find something to eat, but everyone in the room got up to eat with him. This was a bit too grand.

"It's a good thing to stay alert," Yun Guang shook his head and glanced at Du Zhongsheng who was petting the cat, "Besides, Zheng Feng is eating here now, and we won't be able to sleep if we go back."

If I stay in the room and hear a noise outside, I always worry whether it is Zheng Feng or a wild cat. Instead of this, I might as well wait in the living room for him to finish eating before going upstairs.

At three or four in the morning, there were not many people in the live broadcast room. Occasionally, one or two scattered comments would pass by, all of whom were curious about what the exploration team members were doing in the middle of the night instead of sleeping.

"Okay, I'll take a nap first," Guan Hongyan yawned loudly and put the coat next to her on her head, "Call me when you're done..."

Before he finished speaking, suddenly, an extremely shrill ringtone rang out.

"Whose cell phone is this?" Everyone looked upstairs.

"Yun Guang's room." Bai Jinshu identified the source of the voice without even raising his head.

"My room with Brother Yunguang," Lu Changfeng was stunned for a moment, "I'll go up and see who called in the middle of the night."

A few seconds later, Lu Changfeng stood on the second floor, holding his phone with a strange expression: "It's Brother Li's call."

"Whose?" Guan Hongyan opened her coat and said, "Brother Li, calling at three or four in the middle of the night?"

Who in their right mind would make a phone call at this hour?

"You answer it first." Yun Guang looked up and said to Lu Changfeng.

Lu Changfeng answered the phone with a strange look on his face, but after a few seconds his expression suddenly became serious.

"Brother Yunguang," he grabbed his phone and ran down from upstairs quickly, "Brother Li said that he just received an online alarm message from the rolling shutter door at the entrance of Maode College, saying that someone had invaded."

Everyone's sleepiness suddenly disappeared.

What happened? Someone smashed up the store of Maode Academy in the middle of the night?

They were committing fraud during the day, but how come they started smashing shops at night? The change is too fast.

"Brother Li said he was going out now, so he asked us to find a few people to go with him. He was worried that someone was targeting Maode Academy and was smashing the store," Lu Changfeng said, holding his phone. "Let's go with him. It will be safer if there are more people."

"What should we do?" He was a little unsure and looked at Yun Guang, "Who should go?"

"Who else is there to choose?" Guan Hongyan slapped her thigh and stood up from the sofa. "Of course everyone is going! Those who want to mess up the place are here! How can a business war be like this!"

Even Chao Yougan hired mercenaries! He only went to grab the official seal after everything was over!

Who would throw away the Joker and the Jack as soon as they start playing Landlord? The local gangs are really rude!

"Give me the phone." She looked at Lu Changfeng.

"Ah? Oh...oh." Lu Changfeng handed over the phone.

"Call me, I'll kill them," Guan Hongyan answered the phone aggressively, "Whoever smashed our store, I'll kill them!"

"That, that Sister Guan... Sister Guan?" Lu Changfeng stretched out his hand hesitantly, "The phone is hung up! Brother Li hung up!"

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