638 · Haining Cat Island (48)
This is not surprising.
It should be a consensus among everyone that the cats on Haining Island are not ordinary cats. It’s just that filling in the rules page has once again confirmed this information.
After sharing the message in the temporary group chat, Bai Jinshu picked up the cat squatting on his shoulder and walked downstairs.
Yun Guang and Lu Changfeng had already left with the nurse who brought the cat. There was no need for him to stay in the hospital any longer. There was no point in waiting here any longer, so it was better to leave now.
The first floor of the hospital was still as empty as when they arrived, with only an emergency room with the light on. Bai Jinshu walked over to take a look and found that a figure had appeared on the previously empty doctor's seat on duty. Looking closely, it seemed to be one of the doctors he had seen in the operating room before.
The doctor returned to the emergency room, saying that the little boy upstairs who was possessed by an unknown creature should be fine, otherwise she would not have left with peace of mind.
*
Bai Jinshu was returning to his old house from the hospital alone. On the other side of Haining Island, on the coast, the radio host sighed: "Alas, after all, nothing was found——"
They walked back and forth on the beach for several hours, even beyond the area accessible to tourists and into the private breeding area surrounded by fishermen, but still did not see any trace of the sea monster.
He was even caught by the patrolling lifeguard for wandering around the beach at this hour and was educated in person for more than half an hour.
After paying such a high price, they still found nothing. The wind was strong at the seaside at night, and Ran Ran shuddered: "Why don't we go back first?"
There seemed to be nothing else to gain from going further.
"Let's go, let's go," the radio host kicked the sand resignedly, his tone helpless, "I think tonight... Hey?"
She was talking when she suddenly turned around strangely and asked, "Where are the others?"
"Huh?" Ran Ran was startled and almost jumped up, "They are gone?! Captured by sea monsters?!"
"No, no," the radio host turned around and breathed a sigh of relief, "It's in the back."
“Fang Xiang—Nursery Rhyme—” She waved to the people in the distance behind her, “Stop looking at your phones—hurry up—”
How come these three people stopped while walking and got together to look at their phones?
"...Coming soon, coming soon." The three of them raised their heads from their combat watches.
"Cat..." Yu Changlin obviously wanted to say something, but just as he opened his mouth he realized that he couldn't communicate with words, so he quickly stopped talking and gestured with his hands in a mess.
There was no way. Although the temporary group chat could be used for communication, it was definitely not a place for a few newcomers like them to chat. Not to mention whether they could come up with anything, what if Du Zhongsheng's message was posted?
Fang Xiang twitched his lips, watched Yu Changlin gesture for a long time, slowly took out his mobile phone and opened the mobile phone memo: [You can type on your mobile phone. ]
Yu Changlin was stunned for a few seconds: "Why didn't you say so earlier..."
"You didn't ask earlier." Fang Xiang tapped his phone with his chin, signaling him to write quickly.
Yu Changlin curled his lips: [Brother Du said that cats need annotations, so are all cats in this world monsters in cat skins? ]
After typing this line, he handed the phone to Fang Xiang, who handed it to Tong Yao. The three of them passed it around, and Tong Yao typed the next line: [I remember that Du Ge and the others said they saw a cat grow and shrink, so it must be a monster.]
Yu Changlin: [That’s not what I’m talking about.]
He took the phone with some hesitation and quickly typed: [Isn’t the leader also a strange cat? ]
After typing this line, he waved the page in front of the other two people like a thief, and then quickly deleted the relevant records as if he was afraid of being seen.
Fang Xiang was speechless for a moment by his thief-like expression: "What did you delete?"
Yu Changlin: "Don't worry about it."
He glanced at Fang Xiang and lowered his voice: "Just tell me, is it true or not?"
If we have to talk about the weird cats on this island, is there anyone weirder than the leader?
"But it's not..." Tong Yao paused meaningfully, "is it?"
Isn't the leader the god of Du Zhongsheng's church? It's normal for a god to have some tentacles... right?
It's probably normal... After all, Du Zhongsheng's sect doesn't seem to be a normal sect.
Tong Yao silently recalled in her heart what Du Zhongsheng had said about the sect. It was hard to believe that a sect that cut people's hands and feet could have a positive image.
"How about asking?" Yu Changlin asked tentatively?
Fang Xiang:?
"You're brave now?!" He looked at Yu Changlin with wide eyes, "Isn't this the time for you to burn it after reading it?"
Yu Changlin nudged him with his elbow: "Are you asking?"
Fang Xiang: “You ask.”
Yu Changlin: "Ask whatever you want!"
Fang Xiang: “You ask!”
Yu Changlin: "Then the nursery rhyme asks!"
Fang Xiang: "Yes, Tong Yao asked!"
Nursery rhyme:?
Nursery Rhyme: "Do I look like a fool?"
Who would dare to ask such a question that could get him beheaded?
Are you tired of living and want to be torn apart by Du Zhongsheng?
The three of them looked at each other and shuddered in unison.
"It's all Yu Changlin's fault." Fang Xiang made the final decision.
He elbowed Yu Changlin and ran towards the radio host.
Yu Changlin punched back and chased after them. Tong Yao rolled her eyes behind their backs and quickly read and burned the last message on her memo. When she looked up, she saw the two of them punching and elbowing each other and running away in the direction of the radio host.
On the other side, the leader Leopard Cat, who was being suspected by them, has now reunited with Guan Hongyan together with Bai Jinshu.
[This also needs an explanation,] Guan Hongyan leaned over to look at the content on his watch, [Then how could we possibly know this? ]
They have now discovered most of the abnormalities on Haining Island, but what about the cats on Haining Island... Looking at the strict defensive attitude of these indigenous people, it is impossible for them to investigate.
And looking at the current situation, even if it could have been investigated before, it has probably been cleared out by the indigenous people after waves of tourists entered here.
"This is troublesome..." she muttered, walking backwards while looking around.
Cats are nocturnal animals. At night, a cat will appear at any time in places where there are usually green belts on the roadside. She doesn't know if she is too suspicious, but these cats on the roadside always make her feel that they are not appearing here randomly, but to observe their actions.
These cats can understand human language, grow bigger or smaller, and help humans expel monsters that parasitize in the human body. If they are all monsters, then the people on Haining Island must know it.
The people on Haining Island knew that these cats were monsters but they still helped cover up for them. It would be impossible to get accurate information about these cats by just relying on some conventional methods.
Got to push it.
Guan Hongyan muttered to herself and gave Bai Jinshu a look.
Temporary group chat:
【Du Zhongsheng: Red face or white face? 】
[Red face, right?] Guan Hongyan shrugged, [How can this be a white face?]
What is red face and white face?
Beside the two, Wu Meng looked confused, and the comments were also bewildered:
【What is red and white face? 】
[Playing the good cop and the bad cop are common tactics used to force confessions.]
[Why do you suddenly want to force a confession? 】
[Because it is obvious that all information about cats on Haining Island has been blocked, the aborigines are on high alert and cats can understand human language and observe their actions, so they have no way to get in. ]
【And most importantly】
[What is it…]
[If you type halfway, someone will put you in a sack (stare at you)]
[Here I come. I accidentally sent this out before I even finished typing. The most important thing is that it will be the sixth day after midnight. They only have two days left to explore. It may be too late to look for clues elsewhere.]
[Oh, that’s right. There’s not enough time.]
Time is running out. Although it is possible to get the answer by continuing to explore slowly, now we can only get the information that needs to be supplemented in the rules from here.
[How about I play the red face and you play the white face?] Guan Hongyan raised her head and quickly glanced at Bai Jinshu, and said nonsense, [Du Zhongsheng, you look like a pretty boy.]
Bai Jinshu: ...
【Du Zhongsheng: The leader can see it too.】
【Guan Hongyan:? 】
【Guan Hongyan: Sorry, I take it back.】
She didn't want to become food for the tentacle cat yet.
In the temporary group chat, the two people's banter made the newcomers even more confused. However, it is not known whether the newcomers understood what they were talking about, but Yun Guang should have understood it.
Before the two could continue their conversation, Yun Guang's message popped up.
【Yun Guang: If it’s a red-faced or white-faced person… you can’t just grab someone on the street.】
[That’s right,] Guan Hongyan hammered her palm, [Rather than blushing or being embarrassed, we have to decide who to look for first!]
Although Haining Island is not big, it has a large permanent population. In addition, once you leave here, you will lose your memory, and it takes time to remember after returning here. Therefore, it is important to choose who to interrogate.
Bai Jinshu lowered his head: [Cat Whisperer.]
On Haining Island, although all the indigenous people are united in guarding a secret, there are definitely differences in the degree of knowledge among the indigenous people.
[Du Zhongsheng: People who can communicate with cats must have more information than ordinary people. And considering the rule that you will lose your memory once you leave here, people who can understand cats' speech should not forget this language even if they lose their memory.]
"That's not necessarily true, right?" Guan Hongyan thought for a moment and retorted, "Foreign languages are something you learn after birth. What if you forget them along with your memory loss?"
[That shouldn't happen,] Yun Guang pondered for a moment, [Changfeng and I are on our way back. We just followed the nurse to her house downstairs.]
This tracking finally yielded some results. They witnessed the entire process of the nurse communicating with the cats. It was as if there was a translator on both sides. The nurse spoke Chinese and the cats meowed.
The two sides exchanged a few sentences, and from what the nurse said, I could roughly tell that she was thanking the cats for their help and that she would open more delicious cans of food next time.
Judging from this communication method, the so-called "cat language" is actually not like ordinary foreign language communication - that is, both parties need to communicate through this second foreign language when using it, but it is like there is a simultaneous interpreter between this person and several cats.
This kind of "cat language" is actually more like a skill than a foreign language.
[So that means we have to catch someone who can speak like a cat, right?] Guan Hongyan concluded, [I totally understand. Now we have the candidate!]
Since they entered here, there are only three cat whisperers known to them -
Li Ge’s mother, the barbecue stall owner’s son, and the nurse just now.
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