Chapter 599 Haining Cat Island (9) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]
The props that Li Ge mentioned were a toolbox in the office and several telescopic metal rods in the back seat of the vehicle.
"Let's drive over," he expertly threw the metal pole from the back of the vehicle onto the back seat and counted the number of people in his mind, "We have 1,234,567 people... My car can't hold so many people, I can only take four more at most."
Li Ge’s car is a white sedan that can only seat five people at most.
"I'll stay and look after the store," Xiao Zhen raised his hand and said, "We need someone to stay in the hospital to prevent any emergencies."
"Then I'll stay too?" Xiao Zhou pointed at himself.
"You can't, you have to take a video," Li Ge rummaged through his bag for a long time and pulled out a sports camera, "What will happen to the video if you leave?"
"What video?" Several people came behind her, and Guan Hongyan only heard the last few words.
"We're shooting videos," Xiao Zhen took the initiative to explain, "We have to post videos when we rescue and catch cats. Xiao Zhou is the one shooting the video... Hey, is the leader here too?"
She was halfway through her words when she saw the Leopard Cat Cult leader's voice was particularly obvious behind Guan Hongyan and Yun Guang.
"Well," Bai Jinshu nodded twice after hearing her voice, "He can't get off my head."
"You don't want to get off? That's weird." Xiao Zhen touched his chin. Although he couldn't understand, he respected her. "Won't your neck get sore if you keep holding a cat like this?"
"No," Bai Jinshu shook his head calmly, "We are going to rescue the cat now, right?"
While they were chatting, Brother Li had already gotten into the driver's seat and started the car.
"I'll stay to look after the store. Xiao Zhou has to go shoot the video." Xiao Zhen looked at the remaining four people and asked, "Who of you will stay with me?"
"Let me do it," Yun Guang took the initiative to speak, "Hongyan and Zhongsheng go save the cat."
After all, a pet hospital has the reputation of a hospital. We can't just not have a doctor there. What if something happens to someone's pet and there's no one to treat it when it's sent here?
Among the people present, only he and Guan Hongyan had switched to [Primary Veterinary Mastery]. Between the two of them, Guan Hongyan would definitely be more inclined to rescue cats, and she was also better at it, so it was natural for him to stay and look after the store.
Yun Guang and Xiao Zhen took the initiative to stay, and the rest of the people naturally got into Brother Li's car and drove towards the location.
It was almost dusk. Haining Island was surrounded by water and the buildings on the island were not very tall. Looking out the window, the setting sun was covered with pink and purple sunset clouds that spread all the way to the end of the sky. Guan Hongyan lay by the window at the back and couldn't help but sigh: "What a beautiful scenery..."
She had been to many places and had seen this kind of scenery in other unknown spaces, but perhaps because she had just been tortured by Du Zhongsheng, now sitting in the car, she actually felt a sense of relief as if she had survived a disaster.
As long as Du Zhongsheng and the leader above him don't make trouble, it would be nice to spend a few days in such a small island...
What you say will come true.
Before Guan Hongyan could finish her sigh, she heard Brother Li in the driver's seat ask curiously, "Hey? Xiaodu, why did you bring the leader with you when you came out to rescue the cat? You and it just met this morning, right?"
The leader once named the cat Buli. It was a wild cat that was kidnapped from the street by their Cat De Academy not long ago. Du Zhongsheng reported to the cat in the morning. He could put it on his head within less than an hour of meeting it. Now he directly carried it out together. It didn't seem like the man and the cat had just known each other for less than a day, but rather that they had lived together for a long time.
"It's fate." Bai Jinshu uttered these two words lightly.
"That's right. Raising a cat is all about liking it," Li Ge sighed. "My grandfather also had a good relationship with a black cat when he was young... Oh, here we are."
He was halfway through his words when he suddenly looked forward.
We have arrived at the location.
The location Lu Changfeng sent was a new residential area. Just as they got out of the car and picked up their equipment, they heard someone talking not far away.
"So you're planning to save the cat," an old man said, "where is the cat?"
"Uncle, I'm upstairs." The voice sounded much more familiar. It was Wu Meng.
"Oh..." the old man said, "Are all of you young people raising this cat?"
"No," Fang Xiang replied, "We are Maode Academy. Have you heard of it? We specialize in this!"
"Hey, I haven't heard of it," the old man said with a click of his tongue. "Times have really changed. There are people who specialize in this now. We didn't have as much free time as you back then. They say cats have nine lives..."
"Hey," Wu Meng had sharp eyes and saw Bai Jinshu walking towards them, especially the cat on his head, "Du Zhongsheng and the others are here."
The old man was interrupted in the middle of his speech.
"What's going on?" Brother Li walked in front, carrying a toolbox and looking curiously at the equipment on the scene, "Where is the cat? Where is the person? Is this guy the cat's owner?"
What Lu Changfeng said just now was "I met two young men who were rescuing a cat", right?
This uncle...can be called a "young man"?
The barrage was also shocked for a moment.
[Lu Changfeng, you call an old man of this age "little brother"? ]
[Is there any bias in our understanding of "small"? 】
[Is there any deviation in our understanding of "brother"? 】
【At this age, the old man is also a "young man". 】
Fortunately, the misunderstanding was quickly resolved.
"No, I was just passing by," the old man waved his hand and pointed at Lu Changfeng and the others around him in a familiar manner, "I saw these guys pulling the sheets here, and I wondered what they were doing, so I came over to take a look, and they said they were rescuing a cat."
"The old man is very kind-hearted," Fang Xiang also chimed in, "We pulled the bed sheet underneath to prevent the cat from falling, but he said that we couldn't do that."
"Of course it's possible," the old man turned to look at the so-called professionals, and soon his attention was attracted by Bai Jinshu and Huai Jiamu. "Hey, this guy is holding a cat on his head, doing juggling?"
"Master," Bai Jinshu pointed at the ocelot above his head, "You want to join the sect... forget it, you're too old to join."
"Does your sect still have age restrictions?" Guan Hongyan twitched her lips and lowered her voice, whispering in a low voice.
Do cults no longer want the elderly these days? Don’t cults like the elderly the most? Why do they, the Redemption Society, do the opposite?
"If I'm too old," Bai Jinshu also imitated her whispering, "I'm afraid I won't be able to make it."
Guan Hongyan: ...That makes a lot of sense.
Your sect has been chopping off people’s hands and feet, and you know you won’t be able to survive!
"That's true. The elderly are not in good health." She silently glanced at the old man not far away and estimated that he was probably over 70 years old. She found words to praise him. "Your sect still has some morals. You don't cheat the elderly."
At least he is more moral than Chao Yougan.
"Why?" Du Zhongsheng's puzzled voice came from her ears, and Guan Hongyan realized that she seemed to have accidentally said what she was thinking.
"Because you limit the age, but Chao Yougan persecutes everyone equally?" Guan Hongyan thought about it.
"Chao Yougan is stricter than me," Du Zhongsheng looked at her in even more disbelief, "Chao Yougan doesn't want anyone over 35."
Guan Hongyan:……?
"Don't you have street lights there?" she asked sincerely, "Is it true that no one has hoisted him up there?"
Job seekers over 35 years old don’t need to be top capitalists?!
It's not a giant Internet company, a wheelchair factory under it can be fine, why is it so strict about the age limit?
【Rich brother, you...】
[Whenever I think Chao Yougan has enough capital, reality always hits me hard.]
[Cat Saint, let's not learn from the evil rich guy next door. Let's stay away from him. 】
[The Cat Saint is already evil enough. ]
[Look at his face, he is so handsome, how bad can he be! ]
[You are right. I will reward you with an appendectomy surgery. ]
[Reward you for having your wisdom teeth removed. 】
While the two were talking, Brother Li had already asked Lu Changfeng and the others about the basic situation.
"The cat was on the beam on the fifth floor," he said as he walked upstairs, pointing to Xiao Zhou who was holding a camera behind him. "The guy who found the cat was a delivery guy. When he was climbing upstairs, he saw the cat's shadow outside the window."
The cat was located on a beam extending outward from the corridor on the fifth floor, probably along a narrow decorative strip along the wall. The delivery guy wanted to rescue the cat the moment he found it, but the beam where the cat was located was too far from the window. He couldn't find a way, so he could only knock on the door of the customer's house to which he had just delivered the takeaway, trying to find some tools to rescue the cat from their home.
In the end, of course, it was not found.
In desperation, the customer suggested finding a few people to pull the bed sheets on his balcony downstairs to prevent the cat from falling from the fifth floor. So two people went downstairs with the bed sheets and happened to run into Lu Changfeng and his group who had just finished selling hardware, and successfully found help.
"But the rescued cat was a little too far outside, and falling from the fifth floor would be dangerous," Li Ge continued into the camera, "so letting the cat fall onto the sheets was the worst option, so the person seeking help found us."
"Wasn't it Lu Changfeng who called?" Fang Xiang couldn't help but chatter, "We didn't plan to ask you guys to come over, but you guys took the initiative to come."
Where does the help come from?
"Speak in a jargon, speak in a jargon!" Brother Li turned around and glared at him. "If you say that, it will make us look very famous in the local area, and then it will make us look very authoritative! Otherwise, are we going to say that they caught a passing employee pulling the bed sheet, and the employee asked us to come here? That's too embarrassing!"
“Do you understand?” he muttered, “Do you think it’s easy to run a self-media business?”
"Oh..." Fang Xiang touched the tip of his nose, "Just use the big flag."
"Why are you making such a fuss?" Li Ge said confidently, "Aren't you considered as someone seeking help... Cut this part out."
"It's packaged." Xiaozhou made an OK gesture.
The old man also walked behind with his hands behind his back to join in the fun. When he heard the conversation, he laughed out loud: "Hey, this young man."
"I just observed it," Li Ge, who was walking in the front and didn't hear the old man's voice, continued to speak to the camera, "This window is relatively small and too high. It's only wide enough for one person to reach out. So we can't use our first plan, one person using a lasso from above and the other using a net bag to catch it from below."
The fishing industry is well developed on Haining Island, and all kinds of fishing nets are very common. There is a huge fishing net in the toolbox that Li Ge brought, but unfortunately the window is too small and the net cannot be used.
"Then we can only use a lasso," he said as he asked Xiaozhou to extend the camera to take a picture outside the window. "This little white cat is already very far outside. I'm worried that using other props might scare him, so I'll use some cat strips or something to let him relax his vigilance."
It seems that Brother Li has indeed done similar rescues many times and is very familiar with the process.
"There are also cat strips," the old man tilted his head curiously, "What are cat strips? Cat meat strips?"
"Cat snacks," Lu Changfeng said, eyes wide open, trying to sell it. "Where can I get cat meat snacks? Uncle, why don't you buy some for your cat? We sell these in our store."
"No, no," the old man shook his head, "You guys are making it so fancy now, I just go to the dock every day to pick up a fish, steam it and throw it in the basin."
"Isn't this even more extravagant?" Fang Xiang muttered, "What conditions are there at home? Feeding the cat with fresh fish every day."
"That's your inland," the old man waved his hand, "fish on our island are not valuable."
That’s true. After all, people living in coastal cities probably have gotten tired of these foods.
【Why is this old man here? 】
[It feels like just watching the fun. 】
[We are busy rescuing cats here, what are Sister Yaner, Cat Saint, and Rice Noodle Rolls doing? 】
In the corner of the live broadcast screen, while Brother Li was preparing the cat strips, Du Zhongsheng, Guan Hongyan and Lu Changfeng, three members of the special space team, gathered together.
"I observed a bit when we came out just now," Lu Changfeng whispered about his findings, "all the buildings here are very low. I don't know if it's because the geological conditions don't allow it, or because the economic conditions here don't require it. The tallest building doesn't seem to be more than ten stories high. It feels like there are basically no high-rise buildings."
In contrast, there are a lot of flats or two- or three-story buildings here. Along the way, most communities have such small buildings. Some older-looking communities even have brick and tile bungalows from decades ago. It can be seen that the economic conditions here are indeed a bit backward.
Apart from that, the infrastructure on the island is pretty good, but there is not much of a shopping district.
"We took a look around when we were looking for the hardware store. The largest business district here is the two pedestrian streets. There is nothing obviously unusual," Lu Changfeng concluded. "There doesn't seem to be anything strange at the moment."
"Yeah." Bai Jinshu said.
After working in the foundation for so long, Lu Changfeng has grown into a mature exploration team member. When he goes out, he actively collects a lot of information.
"The biggest problem is that there is nothing strange about it," Guan Hongyan touched his chin, "This is difficult. We need to find out what the rules are first."
We have been in this space for almost a day now, and no one has found any signs of rules. This is not good news.
After all, to explore the rules, you must first have a clue before you can explore further.
Now no one has any idea and can only follow the owner of the pet hospital.
But the current action doesn't seem to require many people.
Bai Jinshu glanced at Li Ge and his group and said, "Let's go upstairs and take a look. This residential building is quite tall."
"Okay," Guan Hongyan immediately understood what he wanted to do and winked at Lu Changfeng, "Du Zhongsheng and I will go up and take a look."
They can't help save the cat at the moment, so it's better to observe and see if they can find anything strange about this unknown space.
Guan Hongyan and Bai Jinshu entered the elevator silently and whispered, "This is an island. I suspect the rules may have something to do with the sea."
"And it's closed." Bai Jinshu said three words lightly.
The natural characteristic of an "island" is that it is isolated from the inland. On this small island that can only be accessed by passenger ships every day, if there are any strange rules or weird things, there are very sufficient conditions.
Just like the small community of the Redemption Society, separating believers from normal people can easily create information gaps and cognitive gaps. These gaps and errors take time to discover.
"Yes, close it off," Guan Hongyan continued, following his train of thought. "In this way, we can also try to contact the tourists who come here to travel. By observing the difference between the pain of tourists and locals, we can also find out the problem."
After all, they are outsiders and sometimes may not be aware of some problems that only the indigenous people can discover.
"Tourists," Bai Jinshu adjusted the Huaijiamu on his head, "We encountered one today."
"When?" Guan Hongyan wondered.
"It opened this morning," Bai Jin said briefly, "someone went to register and asked if outsiders could adopt. Brother Li said that local residents would be given priority, but he still registered."
The sign of Maode Academy is loud. I don’t know if the people who came here are locals. Later, near noon, a few people came who were obviously there to join in the fun. They walked around in front of the cages, played with a few cute kittens, and asked the front desk clerk Xiao Zhen if they could adopt some from other places.
Brother Li said that local residents would be given priority, but since several girls seemed to like cats very much, and women naturally have more advantages among adopters, he still registered their names and phone numbers and added them to the adoption group.
"Oh, those girls," he said, and Guan Hongyan also remembered, "I remember they looked no different from the locals."
The only difference may be the row of [武xx] on the registration book, while they have other surnames.
"I remember Brother Li and the others said that the most common surname in this area is Wu. Could this surname also have a special meaning?" She thought of another doubt.
"It's possible, but the probability is very small." When the elevator reached the top floor, Bai Jinshu was the first to step out of the elevator and reach the tenth floor. "For a relatively closed island or village like this, it's normal to have a big surname, but 'Wu' is relatively rare and special. If it was Wang, Li, or Liu, you wouldn't think so."
"That's right," Guan Hongyan muttered, and walked out of the elevator, "What are we here to see?"
"Take a look around," Bai Jinshu found the stairs expertly, walked up half a floor, and tried to push open the door to the rooftop, "Don't you think there's something wrong with the sea?"
A macro perspective will definitely reveal more hidden details than a close look. Since most of the buildings on the island are very low, the residential building where they are is the highest point for observing the surroundings.
"Can you open it? Let me do it. I have exchanged for lock picking skills." Guan Hongyan looked at the locked rooftop and quickly exchanged for a piece of wire from the foundation mall. It was obvious that she had prepared it in advance. "This lock is easy to open. Let me do it."
After a few minutes, the door to the rooftop was opened by Guan Hongyan, and the two finally stood on the rooftop. Unfortunately, although this residential building was considered tall here, it was still some distance from the coast. Standing on the edge of the rooftop, one could not see the sea, but only a circle of residential buildings around it.
As Lu Changfeng said, most of the residential buildings here are indeed generally short. Looking around, except for other newly built residential areas around, most of them are bungalows, with a few two or three stories high.
A little further away is probably the commercial street that Lu Changfeng mentioned. The sky is gradually getting dark, and the lights on the pedestrian street are on, making it look bustling.
Other than that, there is no important information.
Guan Hongyan looked around desperately and had to admit that there were really no new clues here. She could only shrug and say to Bai Jinshu: "Let's go back."
No one has sent them any news for such a long time, so the cat probably hasn’t been saved yet.
The two of them locked the door again and returned to the elevator. Just as they were about to press the elevator button to go down, they heard a door open behind them. A female voice that sounded about thirty years old came from the door: "Okay, I'll come right away."
There were also a few "meow" sounds, it seemed that the woman had several cats at home.
The elevator arrived at this moment, making a "beep" sound.
The two men turned around to look at the woman who was speaking, and the woman also looked up at the elevator.
"You are..." She looked around at the two men's faces, and the obvious hostility in her eyes faded a lot after she saw Bai Jinshu's statement.
I don’t know if it’s because of his face or because there’s a cat on his head.
"We are from Maode Academy," Guan Hongyan took the initiative to speak, "We are the very popular self-media account."
She didn't know whether it was popular or not, but she just wanted to make the other party think that they were not scammers.
The bad thing about communities in small places like this is that the neighbors are too familiar with each other, and once a stranger appears, it will easily arouse everyone's suspicion.
Unexpectedly, a hint of realization flashed across the woman's face: "Oh, I know you guys, but you two... don't seem to have appeared in the video?"
One of these two people has a face that people will never forget, and the other has dyed his hair a very eye-catching red. If he appeared in the video, I would definitely not forget it.
"We are new employees," Guan Hongyan pointed downstairs and introduced, "There is a cat trapped on the beam on the fifth floor. Someone came to ask us to save the cat. We are here to save the cat. We want to go upstairs to see if we can find an angle or position to extend the pole from upstairs."
After she explained this, the suspicion on the woman's face suddenly faded a lot, and turned into a kind of worry: "Is the cat trapped? Do you need help? How about I go and take a look."
She stood on tiptoe and looked down from the window. After seeing the pole extended by Brother Li on the fifth floor below, she immediately believed them and took the initiative to walk into the elevator: "I think this cat is very small. If necessary, I can take my cat out and let it try to meow."
"We shouldn't use it for now," Guan Hongyan shook her head, "Let's go down and take a look first."
There must be something wrong as they haven't been rescued for such a long time.
The three of them were in the elevator, and when the floor reached five, they immediately walked out.
"What's wrong?" Guan Hongyan looked around and grabbed a child's song. "Is there any problem if they haven't been rescued yet?"
"It's getting darker and darker," Tong Yao frowned, "Brother Li can hardly see where the cat is."
The cell phone flashlight has a limited range, and the cat is hiding at the farthest point. As it gets darker, it’s almost impossible to see where the cat is.
"Hiss..." Brother Li was no longer relaxed as before, sweating profusely, "Why don't you send a few people down to pull the sheets, and then ask someone to borrow a powerful flashlight. It's getting darker and I don't dare to use the pole. I'm afraid it will scare it and fall."
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