In the middle of the night, a figure quickly shuttled between the tall buildings.
[Go right and enter the fire escape in the building over there!]
The cat toy shouted urgently, jumping up and down in Yun Jian’s mind, wishing it could turn into a physical body and run out to help.
Yun Jian was relatively calm. He hooked his cat's tail around the center of a telephone pole and leaped to the door of a closed bakery on the street not far away. He transformed himself into a small tabby cat and hid in the compartment of a tricycle selling snacks. He sat cross-legged and watched the person chasing him spinning around in confusion.
"Another group of superpowers, meow." He held his chin with one hand and said depressedly, "If I had known this would happen, I would have joined the Twenty-Eight Mansions. At least that way I would be the one hunting them down."
Nearly half a month had passed since he rescued the child from the Fire Controller. During this half a month, he encountered fanatics of the Super Power Sect almost every day. He could deal with them most of the time, but when he was surrounded by a group like today, he had no choice but to flee.
The Twenty-Eight Mansions had helped him many times and caught many super-powered criminals. Tang Aibai even jokingly called him the "wanted criminal attractor", but Yun Jian always felt embarrassed to refuse other people's invitation to join the team. Unless they met each other, he would rarely seek support.
[These people probably want to capture you for research.]
Cat Toy's tone was angry.
[After all, in the eyes of these guys, you are a cat demon—and you may even be the only demon that has become a spirit in the past thousand years.]
...
...
Yun Jian spread his hands indifferently and watched the group of believers who had lost their target walk away. He took a photo of the Twenty-Eight Mansions and sent his current coordinates. Then he slipped out of the tricycle and transformed into a human form again.
"Locate the next hellhound," he nimbly jumped onto the treetop, "Didn't you just say that another hellhound appeared, meow?"
[Okay, that’s the positioning.]
Following the direction indicated by the cat toy, Yun Jian tried hard to fight against the cat instinct, and finally overcame the habit of always meowing: "I have to try to reduce the time I spend as a kitten in the future. The cat instinct is too strong."
He was chatting with Cat Toy in a casual manner, and suddenly he appeared on a wide avenue eight blocks away. Directly opposite was the bustling pedestrian street. Yun Jian tried his best to hide in the shadows, with sharp eyes, scanning everywhere for the traces of the hellhound.
[Next to the festive snowman milk tea shop, near the corner of the iron gate!]
Yun Jian looked as he was told, and saw that in front of the milk tea shop with a bright sign, men and women were queuing up in groups of two or three, talking and laughing to buy milk tea. About five meters away from them, a big dog was breathing heavily with its eyes bulging, its canine teeth bared, and its blood-red gaze fixed on the person closest to it, as if it would pounce on him and bite off his neck in the next second.
"It's terrible."
Yun Jian murmured.
The locals in Sufang are afraid of the dark and are reluctant to go out at night, but many outsiders who come here for sightseeing or work do not understand the rules here. Even if they have heard of them, most of them do not take these rumors seriously. For example, places where tourists gather, such as pedestrian streets and snack streets, are still crowded with people even in the middle of the night.
However, most of these places are brightly lit, and creatures like hellhounds that are afraid of light and water will instinctively drive them away from light sources. This is the first time Yun Jian has seen traces of hellhounds in such a place.
The situation was already critical. He didn't have time to think. He leaped towards the hellhound, grabbed its ears accurately before it pounced on the passers-by, and rolled several times with it on the concrete floor. The huge impact force made a dent more than half a meter deep in the door of the milk tea shop. Countless screams rang out one after another amid the flying dust.
Not wanting to cause panic, Yun Jian stepped on the ground, grabbed the hellhound's tail, and threw it to a relatively remote street in the distance. He quickly chased after it, and in mid-air, he jumped on the hellhound's belly, still feeling unsatisfied. As a result, he was bitten by the hellhound, and its sharp teeth embedded in his leg. Blood came out almost instantly.
The piercing pain came as expected, Yun Jian's eyes went dark, and he almost thought he had lost half of his leg. Fortunately, he still had his sanity, and swept his metal claws towards the hellhound's head, forcing it to open its mouth, leaving only a gap deep enough to see the bone.
[This hellhound should be an evolved one - stronger, with faster reaction speed, and not as obviously afraid of light and water as the previous ones - more importantly, it may have evolved the superpowers of a hellhound.]
Cat Toy didn't care about Yun Jian's injuries and reminded him quickly.
Yun Jian's hands were shaking in pain, but he didn't stop moving. He hopped on one leg on the ground, fighting with the hellhound, and tried to lead it into an empty alley. "What superpower? This guy can fight and bite, and it's not considered a superpower?"
Before the cat toy had time to explain this question, the hellhound had already given the answer. Its bulging eyes suddenly emitted two beams of red light, like the laser pen it played with when it was a child, shooting straight at Yun Jian, but missed, hitting the wall behind Yun Jian and directly penetrating the wall.
"So strong?" Yun Jian retreated tactically, "Is this guy really a hellhound? Even if you say it's from Krypton, I'll believe it!"
[…My advice is to read less comics and more books.]
"Next time, give me a copy of the Cat Holy Bible and I promise to read it."
Yun Jian was still chattering away to the cat toy to divert the fear in his heart, but his hands were extremely decisive. After dodging the hellhound's red rays several times, he realized that he was exhausted due to excessive bleeding in his legs. He decisively stopped dodging and took a ray attack from the hellhound on his shoulder. The metal claws scratched his neck heavily.
With a bang, black fog spread and the reflection of the hellhound in the human world disappeared.
Yun Jian panted heavily, leaning against the damp moss-covered wall of the alley. After a long while, he finally had the courage to look down at his scarred calves. Seeing the horrible bloody wounds, he sobbed artificially: "Cat Toy, if I became disabled, would you still want me?"
[Did opening two vests awaken some weird acting talent in you?]
Cat Toys Speechless.
[The vest of the tabby cat is made of fragments of the cat god's body and soul, and has the ability to self-repair. Moreover, you just expelled the advanced version of the hellhound, and the spiritual power fed back by it and the cat god's divine power can also be used to repair the body. When you go home and sleep for a day, the injury will be almost healed.]
Yun Jian finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He supported himself and stood up on one leg. His eyes fell on the collapsed walls of the alley, the cars and houses nearby that were affected by the laser, and then he thought about the milk tea shop that he had just smashed into, and he suddenly felt guilty.
"Cat Toy, I'm considered to be working for the Cat God, right?"
[Should it count? What happened?]
"Will the Cat God reimburse the damage?"
[……]
The poor cat toy dared not squeak.
Yun Jian had guessed that this would happen. He shook his tail tiredly.
"Then tell me, if I join the Twenty-Eight Mansions now, will they reimburse me for the losses?"
[Should, should?]
Cat Toys wasn't sure either, so he made a weak guess.
Yun Jian held on to the wall and hopped back on one leg. When he passed the walnut tree at the corner of the alley, he broke off a branch and used it as a walking stick, then limped home.
"Luckily this place is not far from my home," he patted his chest and narrowed his eyes thankfully, "If I had to cross half of Sufang City like before, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to get home tomorrow night."
[The vest can be changed over long distances, but it consumes more mental energy.]
Cat toys remind him.
“Then I won’t have the energy to attend class tomorrow!” Yun Jian raised his eyebrows in disapproval. “Tomorrow’s math class is about conic sections, which is very difficult!”
Cat toys are speechless.
Ever since it followed the will of the Cat God and chose Yun Jian as its master, there have been more and more things that it doesn't understand.
For example, right now, this young man, who was being hunted by cultists with ulterior motives and attacked by hellhounds, and suffered such serious injuries, is enduring the pain and difficulty on his way home alone, and what he is thinking about is an ordinary math class tomorrow.
Another example is the communicator that suddenly rang.
Tang Aibai, who had obviously checked the nearby surveillance cameras, was only concerned about whether Yun Jian was injured and whether he needed help from a healing person. After getting a negative answer, he even comforted him, "Don't worry about the damage caused by the battle. We have reported the situation of the hellhound for approval. From now on, all damages related to the hellhound will be borne by the state treasury."
——It was obvious that with just a little bit of coercion or inducement, or even just handing the bill to Yun Jian, they could get a perfect thug, but they actually reimbursed him!
Cat Toy doesn't understand, but Cat Toy feels very relieved.
Even the sadness that came from seeing the hellhound and recalling the past was slowly soothed by this kind of reassuring feeling.
"Meow, why is it still so far away?" Yun Jian muttered softly after hanging up the communication, "If I had known earlier, I would not have been so stubborn and asked Captain Tang to drive me back."
[You still have time to call back now.]
"How can that be! I still have to save my face!" Yun Jian was furious, shaking his head like a rattle, even his cat ears wiggling along, "It would be too embarrassing for Captain Tang to know that a dog bit off half of my leg! Besides, this would expose my home address!"
[I think they already knew where you lived—although they probably thought you were their pet cat.]
Cat toys pour cold water.
"Yes, you reminded me. I have to go online to buy a cat food bowl and a cat scratching post tomorrow. At least I have to create the illusion that there is a cat at home."
[Really? Why do I feel like you can't control your cat instincts and want to play with the scratching board?]
Yun Jian was so angry that he yelled in his native language: "Meow meow meow! It's not meow!"
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He and Cat Toy walked home noisily, his attention diverted elsewhere, and even the severe burning pain in his calves and shoulders was alleviated a lot - although to others, this kind of self-talk and emotional fluctuations was really not normal.
"Is this guy really a cat demon?" The man holding the telescope turned around and asked speechlessly, "Could he be a psychopath who likes cosplay?"
"The intelligence can't be wrong," the person behind him said impatiently, "The leader sent another group of people to lure away the Twenty-Eight Mansions Nangong team. This time the cat demon was seriously injured and is isolated and helpless. We must take him down and there must be no more problems!"
The man immediately became serious, put on his hood, and turned into gray mist with the other four people, disappearing into the night.
People with super powers are a rare resource, and the Twenty-Eight Mansions have captured quite a few of them recently. They have already gone all out in this two-pronged operation. If they can capture the cat demon for research, their sect will surely stand out among the major super-powered sects in the Mansion. If they can't capture it -
The man gritted his teeth.
This time, there will be no possibility of failure!
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