Time flies, and in the blink of an eye it is already two months later.
Luo Zheyu concentrated on the training and deliberately suppressed his ability to travel through time in his dreams.
His abilities did not increase much, but he mastered them more skillfully and used them more freely.
As spiritual energy gradually rises in this world, the cracks in the planes are gradually shrinking and closing. However, there are still people guarding them every day to capture the creatures that come in from another plane.
Wen Jin was very busy during this period, just as he said. He only occasionally brought Luo Zeye, who had strongly requested, to the training base to see Luo Zheyu.
This world is guarded by someone, and on the surface it still looks as peaceful as before.
But huge changes are quietly happening in the dark...
"How is Xie Jue doing lately?" Luo Zheyu said as he shaped the silver-white flame into a human form. The man was tall, had long legs and a thin body, which was somewhat similar to Xie Jue's body shape. The most noticeable thing was the pair of small leather wings on his back.
“He…”
Wen Jin couldn't help but reveal a mysterious smile on his handsome face.
"The pair of wings on his back can't grow big. They're so small that no matter what method we use, there's no way to support his weight and fly, so..."
"He made an appointment at the hospital to undergo surgery to remove the growth and to have his wings amputated."
Wen Jin only knew about this because the news came from Xie Jue's men.
"He's a ruthless person."
Luo Zheyu controlled the figure made of flames and forcibly pulled off the pair of small leather wings made of flames on his back.
The two chatted casually for a few more words, and after Wen Jin reminded Luo Zheyu to be careful, they left the training base.
Because the training has ended, Luo Zheyu entered the internship stage and had to follow experienced personnel to handle incidents.
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"When we get there, just follow me. Watch more, listen more, talk less, and do less. If you have any questions, you can ask them later. Don't ask them in front of others. Do you understand?"
The driver was a middle-aged man in his thirties named Zhang Ya. He wore a slightly open brown windbreaker and dark blue jeans. He looked like he had been through a lot, with a weathered yet charming face.
"I understand." Luo Zheyu nodded.
The other person smiled, slowed down, and turned into a residential area.
"You don't have to be too nervous. I've read your information. To be honest, you're much stronger than me. I let you lead me because I have more experience than you and have dealt with many such incidents before."
"We don't know what we'll face. Most of the other parties are hiding in the dark and we can't attack them directly. At this time, we can only rely on clues to find them. Just like the police investigating a case, it is easiest to catch the criminals directly and simply."
The car stopped, and the two walked into an apartment building according to the address, stopped on the 12th floor, and rang the doorbell.
After showing the ID, the door opened quickly.
"Come in."
The person who opened the door was a young man, with his wife standing behind him.
"Are you here to investigate the strange things that happened in my house recently?"
"yes."
Zhang Ya nodded.
"I think this room is dirty..." The man was halfway through his words when the woman behind him pulled him and interrupted him.
"What nonsense are you talking about?" she scolded.
"Let's go to the balcony first. I planted several pots of flowers and plants, and they were all broken or crushed for no apparent reason."
The two followed her to the balcony.
There is a storage rack on the balcony with several potted plants on it, including mint and some succulents.
The mint grass was messy and a little collapsed, with broken leaves, as if it had been bitten and flattened by something.
The succulents were pulled out and their roots and soil were separated.
Some soil fell out of the pot and scattered around.
Zhang Ya squatted down, looked again and again, and even closed his eyes to carefully sense whether there was any evil spirit in the house, but he still couldn't find any problem.
He stood up.
"We've all read the files, but could you please give us a little more detail? There's nothing wrong with these flowers and plants."
"Okay, these things started about half a month ago."
"My husband and I are the only two people living at home. At first, the amount of cooked food in the refrigerator decreased, but I didn't notice it. Later, the amount of cooked food decreased. Sometimes when I got home from get off work, I would find that the TV was turned on and playing programs, but my husband and I didn't turn on the TV and we turned it off before going to work."
"Things that were on the counter, on the table, always fell to the floor, no matter what it was."
"In the middle of the night, we would hear the sound of the TV playing in the living room, and sometimes it sounded like someone was eating outside. When we went out to check, the TV was turned off and there was no one in the living room."
"Yes, but once I saw a pair of green eyes staring at me from over the sofa!" the man suddenly interrupted.
"Oh, I originally thought that someone was hiding in our house. Isn't there a movie like this, where someone hides in someone else's house and crawls out from the vents, under the bed, etc. when the owner is asleep or out, and eats and uses the things in the house..."
The woman sighed and lowered her voice when she came to this point.
"So, we quietly installed surveillance cameras at home."
"And then, what happened?"
"There's nothing on the surveillance."
"The TV turned on by itself and changed channels. The refrigerator opened automatically. Things on the cabinets seemed to be pushed down by something, but I couldn't see anything."
The woman remained calm while saying this, but her husband was very scared.
"Is there a backup of the surveillance? I'd like to see it."
"Yes, but just watch it here?"
"Right here."
Zhang Ya turned on the computer and plugged in the USB drive.
He looked up at the woman and asked casually, "You don't seem scared at all?"
"I was a little scared, but I was more afraid that someone was hiding in my house. After knowing that there was no one there, I felt much more relieved."
"You are so foolish and bold..." her husband muttered behind her.
The woman turned around and replied in a low voice with a smile:
"You are so timid, how can I survive if I am not bold?"
"Who said I was timid? I'm not..."
As newlyweds, the two began to show their affection as if no one was around. Zhang Ya and Luo Zheyu pretended to be deaf and could not hear anything and watched the surveillance footage carefully.
The picture was dark, and some outlines of the living room could be vaguely seen.
11:30:02 PM
The dark picture suddenly became much brighter because the TV was turned on, but no one appeared in the picture.
11:35:04
TV switching channels.
There is still no one in the picture.
12:05:06
The TV turned off and the surveillance screen turned dim again.
12:06:03
The door in the upper left corner opened and light shone through it.
The man walked into the bathroom in his pajamas, passed by the camera screen a few minutes later, and returned to the bedroom.
12:15:36
The refrigerator opens automatically and closes after a moment.
Due to the angle, you can only see whether the refrigerator is opened or closed, but you cannot take a picture of what is inside the refrigerator.
01:36:01
The refrigerator was opened again, but there was still no one there.
This early morning, until the young couple living at home got up to go to work, the refrigerator was opened by itself 5 times.
10:12:32 AM
As the sunlight shines in, the surveillance footage becomes bright and clear.
"pause."
Before Zhang Ya saw what was happening, Luo Zheyu told him to stop.
Zhang Ya pressed pause.
Luo Zheyu looked at the screen carefully, then raised his head to look above the sofa in the living room.
There was a decorative painting hanging there with a yellowish background. In it was a picture of an orange and white cat, standing up with its tail dragging on the ground and its paws stretched forward.
In front of the claws is a white butterfly.
"What's wrong?" Zhang Ya asked.
He looked at the painting, then at the painting in the paused surveillance, and saw no difference.
"I've gained weight."
As Luo Zheyu spoke, he took two or three steps forward, jumped lightly, and took down the painting.
Place it next to the notebook and compare it with the picture in the monitor.
"It seems there is a change..." Zhang Ya checked carefully and found the difference.
"The belly is a little bulging, and it's all hanging down here. It's not in this surveillance picture."
"My legs seem to have gotten thicker, too."
"The face has gotten bigger." Luo Zheyu pointed at the orange cat in the painting.
Because the painting shows the side view, it is not so obvious, but if you look closely, you will see that it is bigger.
“Meow——”
A round cat head suddenly popped out of the painting, instantly changing from 2D to 3D, with its mouth wide open, sharp teeth showing, and it bit towards Luo Zheyu's fingers with a ferocious look on its face.
The young couple behind were startled and hugged each other.
Swoosh——
A translucent dagger slid quickly over from the oblique surface and poked under the cat's head. The sharp blade was full of threat.
At the same time, Luo Zheyu only moved his fingers slightly, and his fingertips were firmly placed on the cat's nose.
The translucent dagger is Zhang Ya's ability. At this moment, he has only four fingers tucked into the sleeves of his windbreaker, and one of them has turned into a dagger.
Feeling the threat on its neck, the orange cat's head froze, and its bright yellow pupils looked at Luo Zheyu. After a few seconds of staring at each other, the orange cat's ferocious expression gradually returned to normal, its open mouth closed, its ears pulled back, its eyelids drooped, it blinked a few times, and then stuck out its tongue to lick the tip of its nose.
The pupil turned around, and while the dagger on the neck was not paying attention, the head slipped back into the painting.
In the painting, the orange cat stands on its hind legs with its front paws extended forward, pouncing on the butterfly.
Exactly the same as before, as if nothing had happened.
The culprit who stole food from the refrigerator, turned on the TV when no one was around, overturned items on the cabinet, kicked the flower pot, and bit off the mint has been identified and brought to justice.
Zhang Ya said he wanted to take the painting away. The young couple, still in a state of fantasy, did not object. Instead, they told the origin of the painting - it was given by the husband's mother when they moved to a new home. It was said that it was found in the house in their hometown. The painting looked cute and adorable, so they made it look brand new, framed it and gave it to their son.
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Luo Zheyu was driving the car while Zhang Ya, who was supposed to be driving, was sitting on the passenger seat, talking to himself while shaking a painting of a cat catching butterflies.
"Come out, Mimi, come out quickly..."
The orange cat in the painting didn't react.
"Meow~ Come out quickly."
Zhang Ya began to imitate the cat's meow.
I used the common method of teasing cats, trying to get the orange cat to respond.
"Brother Zhang, you can't do this."
After parking the car on the side of the road, Luo Zheyu shook his sleeves slightly, and a piece of dried fish wrapped in leaves fell out of his sleeves.
A delicious dried fish from the magical world.
He held the dried fish by its tail and waved it in front of the painting.
"Come out to eat dried fish, or stay in the painting forever and stare at it with envy. You choose one."
A round orange head poked out from the painting, and its bright yellow vertical pupils stared at the dried fish in Luo Zheyu's hand.
Move your hand to the left and it will turn its head to the left.
Turn your head up and down, left and right to follow the dried fish.
Luo Zheyu threw the dried fish towards it. The orange cat quickly stretched out its claws from the painting, hooked the dried fish, and ate it up in two or three bites. At the end, it licked its lips with satisfaction.
Another small dried fish appeared in Luo Zheyu's hand.
The orange cat perked up, put his paws on the drawing paper, pulled his entire fat and strong body out of the painting, and ran towards the dried fish.
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