Chapter 611 Haining Cat Island (21) [VIP]
After the trip, Li Ge lost his old net bag, gained a new tabby cat, was scolded by a square dance master who suddenly appeared, and learned the truth about Sanjiu by the way.
"Wow," Guan Hongyan applauded as she listened, giving Li Ge, who was scolded by the old man, a second critical strike. "Then you have at least embarrassed humans in front of thirty-nine cats. In addition to the abbot and the three thousand yuan, there are at least thirty-eight suspected cats at large."
As expected of someone from an organization, her first reaction was exactly the same as Lu Changfeng's.
"Stop talking," Li Ge wailed, "Who would have thought that it was not the same tabby cat that attacked me every time? Did they agree on this behind my back?"
"Maybe you killed too many cats," Xiao Zhou gloated beside him, "so they saw the ghosts of countless cat eggs behind you and attacked you."
"Why did they attack me and not Doctor Du?" Li Ge said dissatisfiedly, "Dr. Du is a pet doctor and has cared for many cats. Why are they so respectful to Doctor Du but attack me directly?"
Bai Jinshu:? Why is there still something about him?
"That's because you haven't done enough," Guan Hongyan said seriously, "Have you ever heard the saying, 'Killing one person is a crime, killing ten thousand people is a hero, can you compare to the wronged souls behind Du Zhongsheng?"
Besides, it’s hard to say whether this fake veterinarian Du Zhongsheng has ever sterilized a cat, but she strongly suspects that he has ever sterilized a human.
Well, isn't it said that cats are animals that understand human nature? Maybe they saw that Du Zhongsheng was not a good person. There were countless cat's testicles floating behind Li Ge, and there were countless human arms, legs, wisdom teeth, appendixes, ear cartilages floating behind him... In short, there were a bunch of messy things floating around, so these cats chose to stay still when he and the tentacles on his head meowed.
"Although I don't know what you are thinking," Bai Jinshu silently glanced at Guan Hongyan who fell into deep thought after saying this, and said with full understanding of her train of thought, "But I definitely haven't done what you are thinking."
"What am I thinking? Don't judge others by your own standards," Guan Hongyan raised her head with a guilty conscience and pointed at Bai Jinshu's face to change the subject. "I was thinking that the cat didn't attack you because of your face."
"What's wrong with Doctor Du's face?" Brother Li looked at Bai Jinshu, confused.
"So handsome! If I were a cat, I wouldn't have the heart to attack a face like that," Xiao Zhen passed by and observed Bai Jinshu for three seconds, and then observed Li Ge for another three seconds, "Brother Li, you... well, you're also a man."
Brother Li:?
What do you mean he is also a man?!
He was at least a little handsome... medium handsome! When he was in college, he was also a handsome guy with a good atmosphere in the whole department. Before Du Zhongsheng appeared, he was at least the number one handsome guy in the whole Maode College, although there were only three people in the college including him, and the remaining two were girls.
What's wrong with the cats on this island! What kind of aesthetics!
"Ahem... Brother Li?" Yun Guang stepped out in time to interrupt the attack on poor Brother Li. "We have discussed and decided to let Tong Yao and Hong Yan watch the door tonight to prevent any cats from destroying the cage and running out. Do you think it's okay?"
"Two people?" Li Ge's attention was diverted. "One is enough, right? There is only one bed in the lounge."
“Um…Originally, Brother Yunguang told me to come alone,” Tong Yao raised her hand, “but I was a little scared to sleep alone, so I asked Sister Guan to accompany me.”
Originally, the people who kept watch at night in Maode Academy took turns. Although the bed in the lounge was a single bed, two girls could still sleep together.
Besides, it’s fake that one person is guarding the door. The real purpose is to keep someone to see what happens at night.
Guan Hongyan and Tong Yao were there one in the first half of the night and the other in the second half, so if anything happened outside the door they would have time to react.
Li Ge nodded without thinking too much: "That's fine, then I'll tell you how to fix this lock..."
"Then we're leaving for the day?" Xiao Zhen and Xiao Zhou packed their bags and waved to everyone, "See you tomorrow morning."
"See you tomorrow morning," Li Ge nodded to the two girls, watched them go away, and briefly told the remaining five people about the follow-up arrangements and progress. "Hongyan and I have discussed and reviewed the situation. At present, there is only one clue about this unknown space. The only clues are that Li Ge's mother can speak cat language, and two groups of cats broke into Li Ge's neighbor's old house and Cat De Academy last night."
"As for the former, we are staying at Li Ge's neighbor's house. After we go back tonight, we can find an opportunity to say that the cat that broke into the living room damaged the appliances, and then let him ask the neighbor how to compensate him."
According to Brother Li, they have always been the ones taking care of their neighbor's old house. After the neighbors moved out, they chose to entrust the house to them because they trusted them. The neighbors moved out several years ago, and Brother Li was still studying in another city at that time, so the people who had a good relationship with them must be the elders of the previous generation.
It's hard to say whether Li Ge has the contact information of the neighbor whose things were damaged. The people who will deal with it in the end will most likely be Li Ge's parents. Then they will put the blame on the group of cats that broke into the room last night, and they can naturally judge whether Li Ge's mother can understand cat language.
"If it's the latter, where did you go today?"
"The government compound and the Citizens Park," Lu Changfeng answered quickly. "The government compound is being rebuilt and is now a construction site. As for the Citizens Park... when we went there, there were cats all over the place."
"That's hard to judge..." Yun Guang pondered for a few seconds, "Then let's see if there are other cats that break into the Cat Deity Academy and the old house tonight. We'll see after we meet Brother Li's mother tomorrow."
There doesn't seem to be any big problem on Haining Cat Island at the moment. Most of the rules of the E-level space have a relatively small scope of application. It seems that the older generation on Haining Island has some magical abilities against cats, such as Li Ge's mother's ability to understand cat language, the second uncle Fangzhang's ability to "calculate with fingers", and the eldest uncle Fangzhang's ability to "find cats by asking cats for help". Whether they are useful or not is not discussed for now, but it is basically certain that these strange things are definitely related to cats, or to the older generation of indigenous people on the island.
"Sometimes the scope of application of rules is not the traditional geographical scope," Yun Guang said as he sorted out his thoughts on the way back while explaining to the three newcomers, "In this unknown space, I currently think there are two possibilities: the bloodline scope and the carrying scope."
"What is the scope of blood relationship?" Wu Meng raised his hand and asked in a very studious manner, "Is it something like family inheritance?"
"Yes," Bai Jinshu had a good impression of Wu Meng and replied, "It's a genetic disease."
"Genetic disease is a description that is easy to understand," Yun Guang explained responsibly, "In the unknown space, the rules of blood relationship are basically some family curses. When encountering such a situation, it is best for exploration team members to contact more members of this family to make exploration judgments."
“The risk is relatively low.”
After all, rules are spread through blood. For outsiders like them, their blood does not carry curses. As long as they do not touch on related content, they will not be controlled by the rules of the space.
【The Yunguang classroom has started. 】
[It’s been a long time since I’ve listened to Yun Guang’s mother’s lectures…]
[After all, high-end players don’t need him to give lectures. ]
[As soon as they entered the foundation, they realized the experience of countless newcomers who risked their lives. The dead girl and the dead boy are really lucky.]
[Do you understand the lecture of the Foundation’s famous male mother Yun Guang? Stand up and let me listen! ]
"Does the carrying range mean that I am carrying some kind of cursed item?" Fang Xiang drew inferences from one instance in the unknown space, "Will anyone who touches it be cursed?"
"Yes," Yun Guang nodded, "but the rules for the carrying range are not necessarily for the items carried. It is also possible that people who have come into contact with a special item are within the range of the rules. In this case, it is best to choose objects that have come into contact with the same performance for further exploration."
“This is going to be much more dangerous.”
After all, the curse is spread through objects, and if they are not careful, outsiders like them may also come into contact with cursed objects.
"But at the moment, I'm more inclined to believe that the rule of this world is bloodline transmission," Yun Guang clasped his hands together. "There are two clues that have emerged so far. Everyone on the island has the surname Wu, and the middle-aged and elderly natives on the island have a special connection with cats. These two points point to the bloodline rule."
"During the day, the abbot's adoptive elders said that most people on the island are related to each other," Bai Jinshu added, "The age connection means that this rule is likely to be accompanied by an age limit."
"Well...it's possible," Yun Guang nodded, "Then let's get in touch with more middle-aged and elderly people on the island."
The two senior team members were communicating with each other, and the three newcomers behind them kept nodding and taking notes silently, looking humble and eager to learn.
"Hey, what's that in front? A thief?" Lu Changfeng walked behind Bai Jinshu and when he looked around, he saw two people squatting at the door of their old house, facing the gate, studying something.
Two people were studying something at their front door. The lock of their door was hanging outside and looked easy to knock open, but... what could be stolen in this shabby house?
Hearing Lu Changfeng's voice, the two people who were busy doing something in front of the door turned around. Fang Xiang saw this and immediately said, "Hey, this is an acquaintance."
These two people were not strangers. They were acquaintances from the B&B next door and they had had barbecue with them last night.
The second-generation rich girl Ranran wore an ordinary-looking colorful short T-shirt today. Seeing her from behind, several people almost didn't recognize her. When they saw her turn around, Wu Meng confirmed: "Ranran? Why are you at our door?"
"Hi..." Ran Ran awkwardly tucked the strands of hair that fell on the side of her face, "We knocked on the door for a long time just now, but you didn't seem to be here..."
"We just got off work." Bai Jinshu said expressionlessly.
"Ah... you guys got off work quite late," Ran Ran said awkwardly, "So it turns out that the working day on Haining Island is not eight hours..."
"Miss, there are very few other places where the eight-hour workday is common," Fang Xiang couldn't help but complain, "What the hell are you two doing at our front door? Picking the lock?"
"No, no, absolutely not!" The girl next to Ran Ran raised two fingers and swore, "We are not thieves! We just want to see through the crack in the door to see if there is anyone inside..."
Through the crack in the door?
Everyone looked at the door behind the two of them in surprise. The door of the old house was made of wood. Perhaps because of the long time and the humid air, the wood shrank due to moisture and could not close tightly. There was indeed a crack in the middle.
I guess these two people just wanted to see through this crack to see if there was anyone inside.
"Come on first," Yun Guang took two steps forward and took out his key, "What's the matter that requires you to come to us so urgently?"
*
Five minutes later, the two girls sat obediently on the sofa in the living room of the old house. Ran Ran on the left spoke first: "We two just want to see if we can enter the other small courtyard separated by a wall from your backyard through the backyard of your house."
"Why go to that courtyard?" Yu Changlin was curious.
"I accidentally dropped something over there. It was my birthday present last year and it's very important to me, so I wanted to look for it," Ran Ran put his palms together, "but it seems to be someone else's house, so we wanted to go over from your place."
"Then why are you looking for us?" Fang Xiang asked curiously, "Why don't you just go find that family and ask them to open the door for you?"
"Over there... that yard doesn't seem to be occupied either," the girl next to Ran Ran explained, "We took a look and found that your yard is only a wall away from that yard, so we wanted to climb over from here."
That sounds like it should be fine.
"You're lying." Bai Jinshu said lightly.
"We're not lying," the girl blinked twice nervously, "something really did fall in there. It was Ranran's earring, a very small one, and it's hard to find."
"You just said that there's only a wall between our yard and that place," Bai Jinshu raised his chin toward the window, "but if I remember correctly, that small yard should also be only a wall away from your B&B, right?"
When he woke up this morning, Huai Jiamu was on the tree. With the help of the leopard cat's perspective, Bai Jinshu could also have a panoramic view of the courtyard and the surrounding walls.
The old buildings on Haining Island have a unified style. Most of them are two-story buildings with a small courtyard. The main door of the building faces the street, and the courtyard behind it is adjacent to the courtyard of residents on the next street.
The sizes of the buildings and courtyards of each household are different, some are larger and some are smaller, but the distribution of buildings and courtyards in these streets is basically like this, which means that every household’s courtyard is basically separated by a wall on both sides and there are neighbors.
The small courtyard that Ranran and the others were talking about should be the one on their left. This morning, when Huai Jiamu was on the tree, Bai Jinshu happened to glance over that courtyard. He couldn't remember the specific layout of the courtyard very clearly, but he only remembered that the courtyard was smaller than the regular courtyards on the left and right. It looked like a separate courtyard with only a small piece of open space and a single bungalow built in the courtyard.
If we talk about adjacent courtyards, in fact, that small courtyard, their courtyard, the courtyard of the homestay next door, and the courtyard of the house behind are all adjacent.
If these two people wanted to pick up something, the easier way would be to climb over from the backyard of their B&B, so why were we looking for them?
"The owner of the B&B doesn't allow us to climb in from there, saying that it's someone else's yard," Ran Ran explained hastily, "but that earring is really important to me! That's why I want to climb in from here."
The two girls obviously had no experience in lying, and they made numerous mistakes in just a few sentences.
The members of the exploration team looked at each other, Yun Guang clasped his hands together, and began to play the good cop and the bad cop with Du Zhongsheng: "Well...but the owner of the B&B is running a business, and you are the guests of the B&B. It is the peak tourist season recently. If something important is lost, he should be more anxious than you."
Otherwise, if these tourists posted something unfavorable to his B&B online, he would be the one who would not make any money.
"You're not looking for earrings, are you?" Bai Jinshu was much more direct. He crossed his arms over his chest, with a fierce-looking leopard cat on his head. "What are you looking for? If you don't tell the truth, we will investigate the matter of you two trying to pick the lock."
Du Zhongsheng's face looks quite serious.
"I told you we're not trying to pick the lock. We just want to find an earring that's very important to Ranran..." The girl next to Ranran wanted to struggle, but Ranran stopped her.
"Okay..." She said weakly, "We are definitely not looking for earrings."
"What are you looking for?" Yun Guang said, "You two don't look like the kind of people who would pick locks and steal. You must be in a hurry, right?"
"It's not urgent... Actually, it's not that urgent," Ran Ran took out her phone resignedly, "Actually... I was just video chatting with my bestie and she saw something strange, so I wanted to verify it."
The story begins a few hours ago.
Ranran came to Haining Island for vacation alone this time. Since she had just broken up, she came here to experience a slow-paced life. Therefore, she did not focus on visiting the attractions on the island most of the time. Instead, she preferred to sleep in the B&B until she woke up naturally and then wander around.
Everyone drank a lot of wine when they were barbecuing last night. She couldn't drink much so she didn't wake up until one or two in the afternoon. When she woke up, there were not many people in the B&B. Her head was dizzy after the hangover, so she simply decided not to go out. She ordered some takeout and had a picnic in the courtyard of the B&B. She also called her bestie on video and ate while chatting.
"You all know how to make a video call," she gestured. "You are on the small screen in the upper right corner, and the other person is on the big screen, right?"
Lu Changfeng nodded.
"I was eating fried chicken while talking to my bestie on the phone," she recalled the scene, "and while we were talking, my bestie said in surprise that there were so many cats behind me!"
Hearing her best friend say this, Ranran turned around curiously and saw many cats on the wall behind her.
Although there are many wild cats on Haining Island, this is the first time she has seen so many cats in all the days she has been here.
For a moment, Ranran was also a little surprised.
"I watched the cats jump onto the wall one by one, and then line up neatly and walk forward. I was curious about where they were going," Ran Ran said truthfully. "In the end, I saw them walk along the wall for a distance, and then jump into the small yard."
As she spoke, she opened the chat app on her phone: "I'm not lying to you, my bestie even recorded the screen!"
She opened her phone and saw several screen recordings below the chat box with the note [Wang Haoran].
"Is this your best friend?" Fang Xiang's mouth twitched.
"Yes," Ran Ran nodded as a matter of course, "Any questions?"
"Nothing...nothing, the name doesn't sound like a girl's," Fang Xiang scratched his head, "Go on, let's watch the video."
Ranran clicked on the video, and just as she said, the video was a recording of two people having a video chat. In the recording, a group of cats of different colors were walking in an orderly line on the wall, and then jumped into a small courtyard.
"Is there anything strange about this?" Bai Jinshu raised his eyebrows and asked after watching the video, "Isn't this normal?"
"It's not normal," the girl next to Ran Ran argued, "These cats look very organized and disciplined. They all know how to march in a line."
"This wall is so small," Bai Jinshu glanced at her, his expression seemed to say, "Are you stupid?" "How else can they move except in a line?"
The watch vibrated twice, and everyone lowered their heads slightly to see a line of words pop up on the panel:
Du Zhongsheng: [Set words. ]
What are you saying?
The three newcomers looked at Bai Jinshu blankly.
Yun Guang: ...
For the three new Foundation members, it was too difficult to understand Du Zhongsheng's simple instructions.
Taking advantage of Lu Changfeng's cover, he quickly typed a line on the panel to explain the instructions in detail.
Yun Guang: [These two people may have seen something but are unwilling to say it. Their description of the cat is too subjective. And if we go by their description, there is not enough motivation to support their thinking. I will pretend not to understand their subtext and try to get a hint.]
Ranran and this girl obviously don't want to tell others some things. In the face of different situations, different inducing methods should be used.
"Yes," Wu Meng raised his head and continued, "The wall is so narrow that the cats can only line up in a row."
"But things got weird afterwards!" Ran Ran closed her phone. "I thought it was weird so I followed them all the way into the courtyard, but I didn't see them come out. As a result, when I went back to the grass to continue eating, I saw the owner of the B&B come out of the courtyard!"
"What does this mean?" Lu Changfeng scratched his head and pretended to be stupid, "Does this mean that the boss is feeding these cats?"
Isn’t this normal? Most of the aborigines on Haining Island feed wild cats. Wild cats are used to being fed, so it’s normal for them to line up to eat at mealtime.
"That means there must be something fishy going on!" The girl next to Ran Ran slammed the table. "Ran Ran asked the boss curiously if he had raised those cats, but the boss denied it and asked her where the cats came from!"
"That only means that the boss didn't see those cats." Yu Changlin twitched his lips and pretended not to understand. "Besides, the cats on Haining Island are not raised by anyone. Aren't they all wild cats?"
"But..." She argued hastily, "But Ranran was curious and wanted to go in and take a look, but the boss wouldn't let her."
"Well... the boss's house has now been converted into a homestay, and a small yard has been specially set aside as a private space. It's normal that he doesn't want guests to see it." Yun Guang also spoke, pretending to be fair.
Maybe it was because they acted too much alike, the two girls looked at each other and pretended not to notice the complicated eye contact between them. Finally, Ran Ran hesitated for a long time before speaking.
"But..." She looked at them hesitantly, then at the girl next to her, "But I saw those cats actually jumped out of your yard!"
The author has something to say:
Sister Yaner: I doubt whether Du Zhongsheng has sterilized anyone.
Everyone present: A chill ran down their spine
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