Chapter 118: Don’t wait for trouble to come to you, take the initiative to find it…
Chang Xile sat in the breakfast shop for a while. She scratched her face and simply picked up a pen to write and draw on the back of the flyer.
[1. Anping is hiding something from me
2. All the cats in the school disappeared
3. The Chen family plans to develop Changle Mountain
4. Weatherall seems to know a lot about foxes.
Her pen tip tapped on the paper again and again, leaving a blob of ink at the end.
Were these things connected? She couldn't see why.
Chang Xile put the cap on his pen, stood up, and thought to himself, I can't always wait for things to come to me.
She's going to look for trouble.
"What can I do for you?" Xie Wuya leaned back in his recliner, looking unusually relaxed. "Do you have any idea about your aunt's whereabouts?"
"Not at all." Chang Xile said honestly.
"Have you looked for it?"
"No." Chang Xile was completely honest. She didn't want to look for him, and she didn't know where to look. This was indeed the main reason why she had been avoiding Xie Wuya for some time.
"Then you still have the courage to come and see me?" Xie Wuya sneered, his face was pale with a hint of blue, and his inhuman side could be vaguely seen. If an ordinary person was here, he would have been scared to death.
"Excuse me, has the underworld ever paid me even a penny in my entire career?" Chang Xile asked calmly.
Xie Wuya put away his smile and replied, "No."
"For a place as vast as the underworld, it's fine if they don't follow labor laws. I didn't report them... Forcing people to work for free is fine, after all, I'm a very kind person." Chang Xile glared down at Xie Wuya with his arms folded. For a moment, the offense and defense switched sides. "But you can't just let the horse run without letting it eat grass, right? Be careful, I'll go on strike completely. I'll see if you can cross my name off the list of life and death."
Xie Wuya was silent for a moment, then hesitantly asked her, "Did you eat explosives today?"
"I came to ask you about the flatterer. Last time you said you would report it to your superiors. Have you done anything about it?" Chang Xile asked back.
Xie Wuya tapped the table with his fingertips without saying a word.
That means there's no result yet. Chang Xile understood that in this world, it seemed like only human life mattered. They couldn't even handle human affairs, so how could they have time to care about the lives of stray cats and dogs?
"Can I see the Book of Life and Death of the Animal Realm? Is there such a thing?" Chang Xile thought about it and settled for the second best.
The cats in the school are missing. Chang Xile is worried that Chen Moxin and Ninghu are using the same tricks again. She has to make sure the lives of the little animals are safe before she can investigate other things.
"I don't have it here." Xie Wuya symbolically searched the table for a moment, feeling a little overwhelmed by Chang Xile's current state. He thought for a moment and asked, "Can I get Dai Shanyan over for you?"
"Okay." Chang Xile nodded, and simply found a chair next to him and sat down steadily.
...If you don’t know, you might think she is the party A.
Xie Wuya cursed inwardly - this guy was becoming more and more like her aunt.
When Dai Shanyan arrived, she saw Chang Xile sleeping on a chair, while Xie Wuya was handling official business beside her in a depressed manner.
"Happy!" Dai Shanyan seemed very happy to see her old friend after not seeing him for a long time. The two of them exchanged a few warm words and then began to discuss the whereabouts of the cats in Shancheng University.
"The data is quite normal. The mortality rate conforms to natural laws." Dai Shanyan finished flipping through her book of life and death, stroking her chin with one hand and saying, "It shouldn't be the situation you're worried about."
Chang Xile breathed a sigh of relief at first, but then became puzzled: "That's strange."
What caused the animals to migrate en masse?
But this issue was not too urgent, and Chang Xile decided to explore it later - besides, she felt that Anping knew some inside information.
The two girls started gossiping again.
"You're still performing on stage! Why didn't you tell me earlier so I could go and show my support!" Dai Shanyan said regretfully.
"Well, I'm just an average dancer. It doesn't matter if you don't watch." Chang Xile touched his nose, feeling a little embarrassed.
"You'll have to bear the consequences if you say something against your will," Xie Wuya reminded.
Chang Xile glanced at him and said, "That's called modesty!"
Xie Wuya curled his lips, turned to Dai Shanyan and said, "I went to see it, it was pretty good."
Dai Shanyan was not very familiar with Xie Wuya, and when she heard him say that, she said "Oh" in some confusion.
What is Wuchang doing? Is he showing off to her that he has seen Chang Xile's performance?
Dai Shanyan shook Chang Xile's arm in dissatisfaction and said coquettishly, "When you have time, can you show me how to do a single-door jump?"
With a beautiful woman beside him, she was so warm and soft that Chang Xile was coaxed into laughing so hard that her teeth were showing. Xie Wuya glanced at the two of them, lowered his head to go back to sketching on the paper, and sneered in a low voice: "What a promising future."
"How is my brother doing recently? Is he in good health?" Dai Shanyan just remembered to ask.
"I haven't seen him recently, so I'm not quite sure." Chang Xile didn't know much either, but when she said this, she suddenly remembered something.
After hearing Chang Xile's story about the Chen family's unexpected victory in the Changle Mountain development bidding, Dai Shanyan repeated her question three times in disbelief: "Chen family? That upstart Chen family? Chen Moxin's family?"
Chang Xile nodded vigorously several times.
"Is Daixigang going to be okay?" Although Dai Shanyan is no longer in this world, she is the eldest daughter of the Dai family in life and the patron saint of the Dai family in death (self-proclaimed). It is difficult for her to accept the fact that "the Dai family lost", and lost to a small Chen family that she looked down upon.
How about finding some time to come to me in my dream?
"Do you want to tell him something?" Chang Xile remembered that he used to hear deceased people appear in their dreams and tell their relatives about the future lottery numbers or that there was gold buried in their yard, which would make ordinary people rich overnight. This was what was often called the protection of ancestors.
I didn't expect that Dai Shanyan, as a new ghost, could protect the Dai family on her own? How amazing!
"No, I'm going to laugh at him." Dai Shanyan blinked.
"...Oh." Chang Xile was glad that he didn't ask it just now.
"But, can you help me ask him what's going on?" Dai Shanyan's expression finally turned back to worry. She held her face in her hands and said, "No matter how I think about it, I don't think it's right."
There must be something wrong when things are abnormal, so Dai Shanyan is not very reassured.
"Okay." Chang Xile agreed readily. She didn't mention what her relationship with Dai Shanyan was, as she was going to ask anyway.
"You mean, Shanyan appeared in your dream?" The two sat in the car, Dai Xigang stroked the steering wheel, thinking.
"Yes." Chang Xile couldn't explain more complicated situations, such as the underworld and reincarnation as animals, so he simply continued to use the previous explanation of dreams.
"Why doesn't this girl know how to send a message to her brother in his dreams?" Dai Xigang turned his face to the window and complained in a low voice.
"What?" Chang Xile didn't hear clearly?
"It's okay." Daisy Gang smiled and said, "Are you so sure I will believe you? This kind of business matter can't be casually discussed with outsiders."
"But I will never be on Chen Moxin's side." Chang Xile said.
Seeing her serious expression, Daisy changed the subject and said, "I was just kidding. You helped my sister, so you are the benefactor of our whole family. There is nothing to hide."
"Do you remember the last auction? After Chen Moxin was released on bail, he suddenly appeared on the scene as an uninvited guest on the list and bid with me." Dai Xigang said.
"Ah... I remember." Chang Xile was stunned. She didn't quite understand the twists and turns here, and only had a guess, "Did he get to know the Dai family's bottom line through that auction?"
If this were true, Chang Xile would immediately feel mixed emotions - after all, Daisy Gang had bid for Prosit's painting to help her.
The real estate industry is a fraught one. Once assets are tied up at any point, cash flow is inevitably reduced. This is why some seemingly large companies can face bankruptcy due to a breakdown in their funding chain.
"It's not that simple, but there are indeed clues starting from here. We're already conducting an internal investigation to see who leaked the secrets to the Chen family, which allowed them to bid just the right amount, just a little bit more than the Dai family." Dai Xigang twisted his index finger and thumb together and chuckled, but there was no trace of laughter in his tone. He said leisurely, "If I have any regrets, I only blame myself for not having any suspicions at the time."
It’s all because he was too arrogant and thought the other party was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot.
But contempt is poison, which can kill a grown elephant for a being as tiny as an ant.
The Dai family was a formidable force in the entire business world of City C. However, precisely because of their enormous size, they were more vulnerable to setbacks. Even if someone were to exploit their weaknesses, they would simply brush off their noses as if it were a light bite from an ant, allowing the attack to gnaw away at them without a care in the world.
"Ah, if you see Shanyan in your dream again, please tell her." Dai Xigang said and instructed Chang Xile.
"Well, is what you have to say long? I can take notes on it." Chang Xile sat upright and listened to Dai Xigang finish speaking. Seeing this, he immediately searched for paper and pen in his schoolbag.
"No need." Daisy Gang smiled and only asked her to convey three words.
"don’t worry."
He is there for everything.
Although it was only three words, Chang Xile still took it seriously. She wondered if she should go look for the cats in the mountain city first, and then go meet up with Dai Shanyan.
Coincidentally, the moment she lowered her head, she saw a calico cat jumping out of the grass not far away.
"Hey! Hey! You, you stop!" Chang Xile realized that her speech was incoherent after she said it. She was not sure whether she should communicate with the cat in human language or cat language at this time. She ran towards the grass under the puzzled gazes of passers-by.
The kitten ran away so fast that it disappeared in an instant. But Chang Xile spotted the trampled grass on the path leading to the roadside and followed it quietly.
She soon spotted several cats gathered together. Although it sounded incredible, they seemed to be discussing something. From the distance, their voices were so low that Chang Xile could only hear the words "escape," "what should we do with people," and "too late."
"Hello..." In order to avoid disturbing the cats, Chang Xile tried to keep his voice soft when approaching them.
But the kittens were still frightened. Chang Xile even saw the fur on one of the cats' back stand up.
However, the leading cat was calmer. It lowered its head and sniffed the palm of Chang Xile's outstretched hand, then said to the few younger brothers around it, "They are one of us."
"Excuse me, what were you discussing just now?" Chang Xile asked politely.
"Human, run away quickly." The smaller calico cat said to her tremblingly.
"Run away? Why?" Chang Xile was puzzled. She guessed, "Did you encounter some bad guys?"
The kittens shook their heads and stared at each other, unable to speak.
"Earth Dragon..."
"The earth dragon is about to turn over."
"Let's run! We can't stay in the mountain city any longer!"
Chang Xile listened to them chattering and warning her about something. Although she still didn't quite understand what was happening, she had heard of the term "earth dragon turning over".
That was the ancients' description of "earthquake".
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