The murder caused by the theft of the jade plaque
At three quarters past midnight, the moon hung in the sky like a gnawed-off pancake. Xiaodou squatted on the eaves of the Wulin Alliance Leader's residence, half a melon seed curled around his tail, staring at the glistening jade plaque on the steps. To the treasure-stealing rat, it was clearly a crispy pancake that could yield martial arts secrets.
"Zhizhi! (This jade pendant smells like osmanthus cake!)"
Its claws itched, and it slid down the beam. Just as its teeth touched the edge of the jade token, it heard footsteps in the distance. With a flick of its tail, Xiaodou's jade token disappeared into its subdimensional stomach, and it simultaneously spat out an identical counterfeit—except that the counterfeit had a neat tooth mark on it.
【The butterfly effect caused by stealing cards】
"There's a thief!"
The guards' cries woke up the entire villa. Xiaodou slipped back to the inn with the jade token, only to find the owner, A-man, huddled in a corner, hugging a pillow, with a "Hero Quick Success Talisman" (actually an expired pain-relieving patch) stuck on his forehead.
"Xiaodou, where have you been?" Ah Man said with a sad face, "When I woke up this morning, the leader's mansion was looking for the thief who stole the card. His portrait was posted all over the street..."
The "thief" in the portrait has thick eyebrows and big eyes, with a piece of grass in the corner of his mouth - it was clearly drawn based on the image of Xiaodou squatting on the roof and chewing melon seeds.
Forced to participate in a martial arts competition to win a bride
The arena at noon was packed. Ah-Man clutched Xiaodou's paw, trembling all over. "They said if I won three fights, I'd be cleared of suspicion... but I can't even hold a sword!"
Xiaodou swung his tail, and the tip of his tail wrote a line of mouse language: "What are you afraid of? I'm here!" He had been reading a book called "Light Industry Quick Course" last night, and was now using his paws to demonstrate to Aman "how to fall gracefully into the opponent's arms."
The first opponent was a muscular man, charging at him wielding a meteor hammer. Xiaodou took advantage of the situation and nibbled on the hammer's handle, instantly producing a marshmallow-shaped meteor hammer from his subspace stomach. As the man swung the hammer, his grip suddenly felt lighter, and the marshmallow "pop" smeared onto his face, sending the audience into fits of laughter.
[The female thief's dagger threat]
"What a stealthy little mouse."
A cold female voice came from above. Xiaodou looked up and saw a masked female thief hanging upside down from the eaves, with the tip of a dagger pressed against her tail: "Help me steal a secret book, or else—"
The dagger cut off a piece of mouse hair, and Xiaodou screamed in pain, lashing his tail wildly, writing on the ground: "Lady, spare my life! I stole it!"
The female thief pulled off her mask, revealing the teardrop mole at the corner of her eye: "Call me Ye Li. See you at the Sutra Library in three days." She threw a piece of beef jerky to Xiaodou, turned around and disappeared into the crowd.
【The school hunk who made a guest appearance across the volume】
"Aman? Is it really you?"
A familiar voice called out. Xiaodou looked up and saw the school hunk from the campus chapter pushing through the crowd, his suit replaced with a moon-white robe, with a "Star Chapter Energy Chip" hanging around his waist (a foreshadowing of the cross-volume).
"Why are you here?" Ah Man's face was as red as a tomato.
The school hunk smiled bitterly: "I... am actually a disciple of the Huashan Sect, and I'm here to participate in the martial arts competition to win a bride on my master's orders." His eyes suddenly became sharp as he looked at Xiaodou: "But what's more important now is - this rat seems to be very similar to the totem in my cousin's clinic."
- Xiaodou's subspace stomach suddenly felt hot, and the carvings on the jade token unexpectedly overlapped with Bai Yan's fox fire mark from the Demon Realm chapter;
- The code that Ye Li left in the Sutra Library was actually written in the tentacle language of the Cthulhu arc;
- The energy chip on the school hunk's waist emitted a faint light, illuminating the gear rune on Xiaodou's paw, which resonated with the photo of Lin Shen's medical record in his sleeve.
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