On a dark and windy night, cats gather.
The snow-white kitten sat in Xie Chen's arms, its head peeking out from under his coat.
"Meow."
arrive.
Bai Li stretched out her paw and patted Xie Chen, reminding him.
This place is very remote. I don't know what that black-footed cat was thinking, choosing this place to meet Lili.
They hadn't waited long when, not far away, a black-footed cat was squatting there.
"Meow."
He called out to the kitten, but didn't come any closer, seemingly wary of Xie Chen.
Black-footed cats are very wary of humans, even those they trust.
"Sir, put me down."
Bai Li knew that Black-Foot Cat was wary of the gentleman, so she took the initiative to ask.
Since Xie Chen had already brought the cat along, he naturally wouldn't forcefully prevent the cat from going down.
He bent down and put the kitten in his arms on the ground.
Worried that the wind outside might be cold and the kittens would get chilled, Xie Chen even dressed the kittens in the cat clothes he had brought with him.
The cat's clothes were made by Uncle Xie; they were bright red and green cotton-padded jackets with large flowers.
Bai Li liked this flower, so she wore a floral cotton-padded jacket and walked with a proud stride.
"Blackie!"
The little kitten, wearing a floral cotton-padded jacket, ran up to the black-footed cat and subtly showed off—?
The specific manifestation of showing off was showing off the flowers on the black man's floral cotton-padded jacket in multiple ways.
Black-footed Cat Bro: "..."
Black-footed Cat's expression was complicated; clearly, Cool Guy couldn't appreciate such a large flower.
"Little kitten".
Black-footed Cat Brother raised his paw and patted his head earnestly: "If I don't die later, I'll buy you two nice outfits."
Bai Li was stunned for a moment, then keenly noticed the key point.
"die?"
Cat Bro nodded: "There will be thunder today."
“I was smuggled in here. The person who smuggled me in has been arrested, and I escaped.”
“When I was wandering here, I met a mysterious man who said he was the last old Taoist priest of some sect. Before he died, the old Taoist priest taught me a little something, including something about transformation.”
Previously, Cat Bro didn't care about transforming into human form.
He didn't want to be human; he just wanted to be a free cat that came and went like the wind.
But the human he tamed...
Thinking this, Black-Footed Cat's eyes grew even more determined: "I asked you to come here because I'm begging you. If I don't get struck by lightning, I'll probably be very weak. You can drag me away then."
"If I die, throw me far away—so no one can see me."
Bai Li was stunned.
He hadn't expected that Blackie's human form would also come with the risk of death.
"Blackie."
Bai Li anxiously advised him, "Why don't you just not transform into human form?"
"Thunder is scary. Let's go back. I can go find my older brother and sister. They are very capable."
Black-footed Cat Brother remained clear-headed upon hearing this.
"Little kitten".
He calmly said, "If they had a way to transform into human form, they wouldn't have let you come down the mountain."
The kitten had told him about the difficulty he had in transforming into human form.
Bai Li was on the verge of tears when she couldn't persuade her.
Cats' ears are particularly sensitive to sound. Loud noises can make cats feel fear and trigger their physiological instinct to hide.
And thunder, as you can imagine, is terrifying for a cat.
Black-footed Cat was determined to be struck by lightning. He found his spot on the tall earthen slope at the very front.
The old Taoist priest calculated that tonight, lightning would strike the earthen slope.
"Go back now, and come back to pick me up after the lightning has finished striking."
As soon as Black-Footed Cat finished speaking, he turned around and darted away a long way.
Seeing that the black-footed cat had run away, Xie Chen stepped forward and scooped the crying kitten into his arms.
"What's wrong?"
He looked down at the teary-eyed kitten and asked in a softer voice.
"Blackie is going to get struck by lightning."
Bai Li watched the black-footed cat run away and told him about her conversation with it.
"Cats are afraid of thunder."
Bai Li said, "Brother Hei must be scared too."
This is their instinctive fear.
Xie Chen watched the kitten's retreating figure, then thought of Yan Cen.
After a while.
He held the cat in one arm and picked up his phone in the other, dialing a number he hadn't called in a long time.
"Are you still able to walk?"
Xie Chen cut to the chase: "Your cat is in danger right now."
A violent coughing sound came from over there, followed by the sound of a wheelchair being pushed.
"Give me the address, I'm coming over now."
On Yan Cen's way there, Xie Chen simply turned on a video call for him, letting him see with his own eyes the black-footed cat running towards the mountaintop, waiting to be struck by lightning.
Black-footed cats are small, but even such little cats are quite willing to go to great lengths for a human.
Bai Li didn't care about Xie Chen's call with Yan Cen; he was completely focused on watching Blackie.
I don't know how much time passed.
Yan Cen seemed to be arriving quickly, and at that moment, thunder finally struck.
"Meow!!!"
The little kitten, its body tense, stared wide-eyed at the distant hillside, looking helpless.
On that hillside, the usually cold and powerful Blackfoot Cat was being struck by bolts of lightning.
A painful meow broke the stillness of the night.
Bai Li's claws clung to Xie Chen's clothes, her beautiful amber eyes brimming with tears.
Blackie must be in a lot of pain right now.
Not only was Bai Li's heart clenching, but on the other end of the video call, even the gentle man had tears in his eyes.
"Xie Chen, save him."
"I'm begging you."
Yan Cen appears gentle, but Xie Chen knows that behind his gentleness lies a strong will.
This was the first time he had ever heard such a humble plea.
"OK."
Xie Chen only gave a brief reply of one word.
Next—? seconds.
He put the kitten, who was wearing a floral cotton-padded jacket, down and took off his coat to wrap it up.
"Lili, sit here obediently and don't move."
After giving his instructions, Xie Chen strode towards the hillside, intending to rescue the cat whose fate was uncertain.
On the hillside, the black-footed cat was in so much pain that it was losing consciousness.
When Xie Chen arrived, he saw that Xie Chen's body was covered in black marks from being cleaved, and he was unable to move.
Being in the middle of a lightning strike is dangerous, let alone rescuing a cat; even getting close to it is perilous.
Bai Li couldn't sit still, so she ran after him.
"Meow!"
Sir, wait for me!
Xie Chen did not wait for him.
If we really let the kitten get close, who knows what kind of trouble it might cause.
Xie Chen made a quick decision, gambling as he used a long tree branch to try and pull the cat over.
Before the branch could even reach out, Xie Chen was struck by the stray lightning.
Just a fleeting moment.
Xie Chen was about to curse Lei for being so blind.
Bai Li, who hadn't run over yet, saw that her master seemed to be enveloped in lightning, and her head buzzed as if it had exploded.
"Meow!!"
The kitten's broken meows were filled with unprecedented fear.
Time seemed to stand still at this moment.
Xie Chen did not feel the expected pain; his whole body was indeed numb, and his consciousness was pulled into darkness.
But at the end of that darkness, there was a gentle light that he found comforting.
The ball of light landed on him, then disappeared in tiny specks.
The lightning, which had been striking wildly and aggressively, stopped, as if it had realized it had struck the wrong target...
Or perhaps, he struck someone he shouldn't have struck.
All their arrogance vanished instantly, and they scurried away timidly.
The black-footed cat was blackened by the lightning strike. Xie Chen, however, was simply unconscious on the ground, with no visible signs of being struck by lightning.
Bai Li stumbled over and finally ran to Xie Chen, throwing herself into his arms, tears streaming down her face.
"gentlemen."
"Don't die."
Bai Li's chubby little body trembled violently. Seeing that his teacher was not moving, he felt that it was all over.
How could a human survive being struck by lightning?
The night was dark.
Bai Li wiped away her tears with her paw, then transformed into human form with a paw and even changed her clothes with her fur.
"Let's go see a doctor."
Bai Li picked up the black-footed cat beside her, put it in her bosom, and then forcefully dragged the gentleman onto her back.
The demon core was activated.
The little kitten, now strong, carried her husband on her back and her brother in her arms, crying as she walked out.
Cat and his husband were both quiet, and the only sound in the entire wilderness was the kitten's whimpering.
After walking for a few minutes, a car turned on its lights in the distance.
The man in the wheelchair hurriedly approached Bai Li.
"Where's my cat?!"
Bai Li stopped and looked at the man in front of her.
"Are you looking for Brother Hei?"
The man nodded.
Bai Li struggled to free one hand and handed the dark-skinned cat brother to him.
As she handed it over, Bai Li's tears fell even harder.
"I don't know if Blackie is still alive."
"The gentleman was also struck by lightning. I need to carry him to the hospital."
Yan Cen's hands were trembling when he took the dark kitten.
"Xiaoxi."
He called out softly, his voice trembling.
Silly cat.
Because of that superstitious belief in "bringing good luck together," this silly cat actually ran out to be struck by lightning in order to transform into human form.
Having lived this long, Yan Cen had long since become indifferent to life and death.
If you can live, then live; if you can't live, then your fate has run its course, and you can't force it.
But……
This silly cat is still insisting on it for him.
Yan Cen's eyes reddened, and Bai Li was also shedding tears.
At this moment, the two people facing each other were both immersed in the same grief.
Bai Li saw Yan Cen's car, wiped away her tears, and pleaded with him in a tearful voice—
"Could you take me to the hospital? I'm afraid I'll get lost at night."
Xie Chen was implicated while trying to save his cat, so Yan Cen had no right to refuse.
soon.
Xie Chen was taken to the hospital, while Yan Cen, with the black cat-like creature, was nowhere to be seen.
Bai Li—not knowing what to do, called her older brother.
Bai Lin answered the phone and heard his younger brother crying. He thought something terrible had happened to his brother, so he panicked and drove over immediately.
“Lili”.
Bai Lin lost his composure and rushed to the hospital. He was relieved to see that his younger brother was unharmed.
"What's wrong? Don't cry, talk to your older brother properly."
Just now on the phone, Bai Li started crying and Bai Lin couldn't hear what she was saying.
Bai Li threw herself into her older brother's arms, looked up at him, and finally explained everything clearly.
"Sir, will the sir die?"
Bai Lin hugged his younger brother, patted his back reassuringly, and coaxed him, "It's okay, Xie Chen won't die."
The two brothers waited outside the ward.
In the ward, Xie Chen, whose eyes were still closed despite Bai Li's tearful prayers for him not to die, remained silent.
Bai Lin and the others were anxious, and after weighing their options for a long time, they decided to try to contact Bai Lao Si.
His fourth younger brother was incredibly lazy, but he had one redeeming quality: he knew medicine.
The fourth brother's initial purpose for studying medicine was simple and straightforward, for two reasons.
—? It's because he loves to sleep, and his family thinks that sleeping all day is bad for his health.
To prove his health, the fourth brother studied medicine and then examined himself.
The examination results showed that there was no problem with him sleeping like that, and his family could not use this as a reason to order him to move around.
Secondly, it was all for Lili. Lili wasn't in good health, and the fourth brother seemed listless and didn't show much emotion to anyone, but no one doubted how much he doted on Lili, whom he carried around all day.
Bai Lin comforted his tearful youngest brother and finally managed to contact his fourth brother.
The moment the call connected.
Bai Li, clutching her eldest brother's phone, called out to her fourth brother in a tearful voice, "Fourth Brother."
—The sound of "Fourth Brother" made the cat, who was squinting and about to sleep, instantly straighten up.
"Lili?"
The familiar voice made Bai Li's pent-up grievances burst forth like a floodgate being opened.
"Fourth Brother, come quickly."
Bai Li tried her best to hold back her sobs, but she couldn't hold back in front of her fourth brother.
The younger brother's heartbroken voice reached the ears of Bai's fourth brother, making him unable to sit still for even a second. He hung up the phone and rushed over here as fast as he could.
On the road.
Bai Laosi licked his lips, already thinking about where to hide his younger brother.
Hide him and coax him gently.
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