Chapter 224: No Way to Recover
The rain stopped at some point, and the white cat's shriveled body was slowly picked up by Li Muhan. He wrapped the white cat's gradually cold body with his coat, and then brought it to the seed that it had been guarding day and night.
"Yes, it's me, Li Muhan, from xx Street, No. xx. I discovered a monster injuring someone. I couldn't determine the casualties at the scene, so I killed it."
After contacting the Special Management Bureau, he gently placed the white cat's body next to the seed. Looking at the kitten that was almost breathing in more than out, he sighed.
Although the white cat was not dead yet, it would no longer say anything to Li Muhan. Li Muhan also knew that even if the white cat was not so seriously injured now, it was probably beyond saving. It... was already just a wild cat on the verge of death, and it was the kind of wild cat that could not be any older.
Watching its hair gradually fall off and its body slowly shrivel up, Li Muhan slowly placed his hand on its body.
Hypnos' green energy began to slowly flow into the white cat's body.
[…Even I can’t restore this little life. Li Muhan, let it go.]
"I know...it's just that I...want to do something about it one last time."
Just then, a sound of footsteps came in the rain.
"...Amitabha, Captain Li, I thought you were in such a hurry to get me out because you wanted to play games with me. What are you doing...?"
Zhong Ya's figure appeared in front of Li Muhan.
Li Muhan raised his head, looked at the big monk with slightly red eyes and gave a bitter smile.
"Can you... recite a Buddhist sutra for it before it dies?"
"...Captain Li."
Zhong Ya turned around and looked at the collapsed grocery store and the "corpse parts" of the Huan Kingdom that Li Muhan had buried in the ruins of the grocery store, as if he understood something.
"I'm counting on you, Master."
"Saving sentient beings is my unshirkable duty as a Buddhist disciple. Captain Li... I should be the one thanking you for allowing me to witness this little life's final journey."
The monk slowly lifted the hem of his robe, not caring at all about the dirtiness of the ground after being soaked by rain. He sat cross-legged on the ground, and then gently placed the white cat's body wrapped in his coat on his legs.
The sound of chanting and the sound of rain echo each other.
Li Muhan knew that the white cat could no longer understand these Buddhist sounds, but... this was the last thing Li Muhan could do for it.
The white cat's blood was still flowing out of its mouth, flowing along the monk's robes into the wet mud. In Li Muhan's mind, Hypnos also sighed deeply, and she told Li Muhan in a gentle tone.
This cat...is dead.
Li Muhan nodded slightly, but he did not stop Zhong Ya from reciting the scriptures. He just stared blankly at the muddy ground, and the white cat's blood was now soaking into the earth...
It was at this moment that the ground suddenly shook. Li Muhan originally thought he had seen it wrong, but then he looked again and found that it was correct.
The muddy ground, or to be more precise, the small piece of mud soaked with the white cat's blood, really began to tremble, as if something was about to break out from the ground underneath.
The next second, a bunch of tender green branches broke through the mud, and then grew rapidly, blooming a lavender flower.
Li Muhan was extremely shocked. He suddenly remembered the iron seed...
Wait, iron seeds... can actually sprout?
Then Li Muhan saw that the lavender flower was emitting a gentle yet powerful force, and that force was continuously flowing into the white cat's body.
Li Muhan was stunned by such a miracle, but what surprised him even more was that at this moment, Li Muhan actually saw a ragged woman. She stood behind Monk Zhong Ya like a ghost, holding a rusty blade in her hand.
When did she come? Did she just come?
No! Li Muhan's mind suddenly began to tremble. This woman had been standing here from the beginning! She had been standing here since Zhong Ya started reciting the scriptures! Why, why did he only notice her now?!
The blade in the woman's hand was raised high, as if it would chop down Zhong Ya in the next second.
Her long hair, wet by the rain, covered her cheeks, but the eyes that shone through the ends of her hair made Li Muhan feel a chill in his heart.
What...what is this...thing?
He remembered what White Cat had said about the girl whose murderous aura was so intense that even Buddha statues could not bear it...
Wait...her eyes...this person...?!
Just as Li Muhan was about to say the name, the woman slowly lowered her hand holding the knife and murmured, "...The time...is not yet."
In the blink of an eye, the woman's figure disappeared without a trace.
"... Weird, weird, damn, this is too weird."
Li Muhan patted his chest and was about to tell Zhong Ya about these things when he suddenly discovered that the white cat in Zhong Ya's arms, which had been shriveled and stiff, had regained its vitality. Not only did its body change, but its core, strength, and demonic power also began to expand in an instant.
He understood.
Li Muhan fully understood that the flower, the iron seed, and everything the monk left behind were all for this moment.
When you truly understand your true nature and correctly recognize your own power... I will come to pick you up.
He lied, the monk... lied, he would never come to pick up the white cat, but he gave the cat demon a chance to re-understand himself, the world, and his own power.
And now, the white cat used its own life to delay the Monkey Kingdom. Even though it no longer remembered anything and even though it could only act on instinct, it still did it and sacrificed its own life to save a human being.
Perhaps at that moment, the so-called enlightenment already had the answer.
"Captain Li."
Zhong Ya also slowly opened his eyes at this time, and he still looked at Li Muhan with a kind look.
"Could you please help me hold this cat?"
As he spoke, the animal wrapped in his coat in his arms had gradually regained its vitality, and even its strength had completely recovered to its peak. However, Li Muhan didn't quite understand why Zhong Ya wanted to hold it himself.
"Oh, huh? Okay, but...why?"
Li Muhan took the unconscious white cat and looked at Zhong Ya in confusion.
Zhong Ya put his hands together and said to Li Muhan with a kind expression: "Amitabha, because I am a poor monk, I don't like women."
"Huh? What?"
Before Li Muhan could figure out what was going on, the white cat in his arms suddenly began to swell, and then a fair-skinned, petite girl with white hair and cat ears appeared directly in Li Muhan's arms.
"Holy shit!! Holy shit!! Every otaku's ultimate dream!! How did it come true in my arms! Holy shit!!"
He was so frightened that his mind was confused and he didn't know what he was saying.
Just at this moment, the voice he least wanted to hear came from behind him.
"Li Muhan! Are you okay? Lin Ze said you reported that there were aliens here, and you..."
Xia Yue's voice changed from anxious at first to indifferent.
".......you......"
"......I......"
Li Muhan held the girl in his arms, his lips trembling and his teeth began to chatter.
Finally, she saw Xia Yue's originally concerned eyes turn cold, and finally turned into a look as if she was looking at trash.
"...You...scumbag."
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