634 · Haining Cat Island (44)
After saying this, Bai Jinshu put down his watch. After a long while, he felt his wrist trembling slightly.
There was silence in the temporary group chat for several minutes before Tong Yao said weakly: [Du...Du, you are quite experienced. We didn't think in this direction at all.]
The appearance of this sentence finally broke the content of the temporary group chat. Several newcomers seemed to have discussed it beforehand and started to flatter others without paying any attention.
[Yu Changlin: The boss must be different from us. I have never thought about it in this way, haha.]
[Fang Xiang: You are indeed a big shot, so awesome.]
[Yu Changlin: Thanks to Brother Du and the others, otherwise we might not be able to find the rules of this space.]
【Fang Xiang: Brother Du is too strong! 】
Barrage:
【These three people...】
[Blowing also...]
[It’s too obvious…]
[This guilty conscience is about to overflow from the lines. 】
…
Faced with the overwhelming praise, the other four people in the temporary group chat remained silent for a while, and a bubble slowly floated out - [Guan Hongyan: You guys...are you done with the test? ]
Three people: ...
[Next time, don't compliment people as if it was pre-planned.] Guan Hongyan twitched her lips. [It's been a long time since I've seen people like you who have their worries written all over their faces.]
There was an even stranger silence.
【Guan Hongyan: Where are the people? Speak.】
[Fang Xiang: ...Uh, I did try it, and I failed this one.]
Under normal circumstances, they might not dare to question their inferences directly in front of the high-level players, as they were surrounded by high-level players. However, a few minutes ago, four high-level players left one after another, leaving only the three newcomers on the scene.
The three of them didn't dare to whisper, and they couldn't communicate in the group. They discussed it for a few minutes with the memo on their phones and decided to try out this rule to see if it was correct.
The result was obvious. Not only was this rule not judged to be passed, but the three people praised Bai Jinshu like guilty thieves, and were pointed out by Guan Hongyan on the spot.
[But Brother Du is really awesome! We are sincere!] Fang Xiang quickly added, [We have never thought about it from this angle! Brother Du, how did you come up with this idea!]
Barrage:
【By the way, this angle of Du Zhongsheng is indeed rare. 】
[When most people are involved in these aspects, they will subconsciously lean towards the fantasy worldview, and rarely consider the self-esteem issues between human and cat forms, right? ]
[Indeed, but isn’t the Cat Saint the Saint of some sect? Maybe that’s why?]
"Yes," Lu Changfeng also looked at Du Zhongsheng beside him curiously, "Brother Du, how did you come up with this idea?"
【Du Zhongsheng: I’ve seen a lot. 】
What the barrage said was indeed correct. As for Du Zhongsheng, I don’t know how much he has seen of other things, but when it comes to “dignity”, he has seen quite a lot.
People who suddenly lost their legs and can only walk in wheelchairs, people who cannot accept the partial loss of perception due to disability, and people who have been looked down upon since childhood due to congenital diseases... The Redemption Society, which constantly contacts disabled people under the banner of a public welfare organization, is most in need of these kinds of people.
Human self-esteem is sometimes very high and sometimes very low. No one probably knows better than the sons of saints living in the Redemption Society how to break this boundary and make them voluntarily enter the Redemption Society, and how to raise their self-esteem which has fallen to the bottom after breaking this boundary and transform it into a fanatical conversion to God.
The Sons of God who grew up in the Redemption Society have no concept of self-esteem. In such an environment where death is possible at any time and one's future is uncertain, survival is the top priority.
But as fewer and fewer Sons of God remained, they, as the Redemption Society's external voice, came into contact with more and more people, and normal society began to erode and attack their worldview step by step. At this time, some subtle changes began to appear within the Redemption Society.
After coming into contact with the outside world, the world that was completely different from that in the Redemption Society fell into their lives like a mirror. The other side of the mirror was a comfortable and ordinary life, which vaguely existed only in the distant memories before the age of four or five.
Under this mirror, something seemed to have taken root, causing the "holy sons" who were accustomed to such a life to have thoughts that they had long forgotten.
The secrets in the dark night could not be hidden from Du Zhongsheng, who had lived in the dark for more than ten years. To him, the secret activities that were hidden from others were as clear as if they were happening right next to his own ears. So as these people's plans gradually became more complete and they were about to escape, the night before -
Du Zhongsheng, who had a very low presence in the "Son of God" reserve and was not guarded against by anyone most of the time, seemed to have a good relationship with everyone. He had been trembling on the brink of being eliminated and dying, but suddenly informed the leader and exposed the escape activity.
In the few days that followed, there seemed to be fewer "holy sons", and the blind young man with an unforgettable appearance seemed to have a stronger smell of blood on him than before.
"Brother Du, Brother Du?" Lu Changfeng's voice came from the side.
"Hmm?" Bai Jinshu came back to his senses, "What's wrong?"
"Brother Yun Guang is calling you." Lu Changfeng pointed at Yun Guang.
"Brother Li just sent a message," Yun Guang pointed at the dial, but his eyes moved suggestively in front of the night market not far away, "saying that because Maode College was smashed and closed, the patient has been sent to the hospital."
Bai Jinshu translated it in his mind. What Yun Guang meant was that the little boy who had a conflict with the cat here before has been sent to the hospital.
Haining Island is very small and there is only one hospital on the island, so I don't have to ask around. However, the little boy's strange behavior... I'm afraid it's beyond the hospital's treatment scope.
Since entering Haining Cat Island, all their explorations have been blocked intentionally or unintentionally. Only the accident tonight can be regarded as an emergency.
This kind of sudden incident, for which there is no time to prepare, is the easiest time to detect the undercurrents beneath the calm surface.
Bai Jinshu recalled the scene he had seen before thoughtfully. The scene was too chaotic, and the faces of the onlookers around were full of surprise and panic. He couldn't remember the expression of the stall owner next door very clearly, but someone had an accident at his stall. Logically, he should have been the most panicked one, but before and after the incident, these stall owners at the night market were unexpectedly calm.
Their only reaction was to let their children take the wild cats around the night market home. Given the previous incidents of wild cats attacking tourists' children, this move was somewhat strange, no matter how close the residents of Haining Island were to cats.
Guan Hongyan and Wu Meng followed the child who took the cat away, and Fang Xiang and his team went to investigate the sea monster on the beach... Although there was a high probability that they would not find anything, they just had to follow the path to find the child who showed abnormal behavior after being attacked by the cat.
Bai Jinshu and Yun Guang looked at each other, and they could see the same meaning from each other's eyes without having to communicate in a temporary group chat.
If tonight's sudden incident could bring any clues, then the clue would not be with Guan Hongyan, but with them.
*
Ten o'clock at night.
The three of them walked into the public hospital on Haining Island.
The hospital was very small because there were not many residents on the island, and the inpatient building was only four stories high, so the floor space was pitifully small. The three of them followed the red sign of the emergency room into the building, and they didn't even see a security guard. They just swaggered into the lobby on the first floor with the cat.
"There seems to be no one inside." The three of them walked around, Yun Guang looked inside the emergency room and shook his head, "The doctor on duty is not here either."
The hospital is small, and the emergency room is naturally visible at a glance. The medical conditions on Haining Island are not good. If there is a major disaster or serious illness, everyone will choose to take a boat to a big city for treatment. The medical level of this hospital is probably at the county level.
There were no large instruments in the emergency room. There were only a few beds covered with blue non-woven fabrics in the corner. Scattered around them were some medical supplies such as IV racks, and some instruments that I couldn't name but looked quite old.
Bai Jinshu narrowed his eyes and looked around carefully: [There is an empty seat next to it, and the equipment has also been moved away. ]
This emergency room doesn't look like anyone usually comes here. All the operating beds and the instruments next to them are neatly arranged. The empty beds and instruments being moved away can only mean that an operating bed has been pushed out.
Where was the child pushed?
[Yun Guang: Look for it?]
Several people looked at each other and were about to leave when their combat watches vibrated twice again.
【Guan Hongyan: Don’t look for it yet.】
[Guan Hongyan: Help, Yun Guang, is there any miracle in the mall that can hide one's body or make the sound made when walking completely disappear? ]
Yun Guang squatted down, thought for a moment, and sent a few links in the temporary group chat: [These are all OK, you want to hide and seek? ]
[Yeah,] Guan Hongyan replied, [I followed that kid called Wu Da back home. They seemed to be talking about something, but I didn’t dare to get close, so I used miracles to get closer and listen.]
[I feel like there might be something wrong with these kids.] On the other side, Guan Hongyan put on the Miracle neatly while typing quickly on her watch, [Are cats on Haining Island free-range? Cats around the night market should be around the night market, right? If a child is asked to take a stray cat away, shouldn't the normal approach be to release the cat from a distance? Even if they are worried that the cat will run back, they should walk further away, right?]
Bai Jinshu asked: [They didn’t let the cat go? ]
【Wu Meng: No, it was very strange. Sister Guan and I followed these children all the way and found that they had no intention of putting the cat down. They took the cat home directly. The parents who opened the door for them didn’t say anything and looked like they were used to it.】
[Guan Hongyan: Wait a minute, I'll be in right away. I want to hear what they are talking about.]
Under the cover of night, Guan Hongyan lightly climbed over a wall and appeared silently in Wu Da's courtyard.
Because her family runs a barbecue business, there is a lot of charcoal and unwashed food scattered around the yard. She carefully avoided knocking over items that might attract attention and squatted under the eaves of the house.
Wu Da's voice came through the window in the room, a little muffled: "From now on, you should not appear in crowded places, and it is best not to appear during the day."
Two cat meows were heard in the room, as if in response.
Is this communicating with a cat?
Guan Hongyan moved her fingers slightly and quickly sent this message to the temporary group chat.
[Du Zhongsheng: Wu Da is talking to a cat? Are you sure?]
[That should be it,] Guan Hongyan glanced carefully into the house, [There's no one else in the living room right now.]
That's strange.
Bai Jinshu tapped the dial with his finger and fell into deep thought.
Previously, they had always believed that only middle-aged and elderly people on Haining Island could communicate with cats and know the secrets of cats, but now it seems that this is not the case...
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