Chapter 14: Revenge

A cat spoke...

A cat actually spoke?!

This was probably the strangest thing Chen Ji had encountered since arriving in this world.

The lights in the medical hall flickered, casting shadows on the black cat's face, making it appear bright and dark intermittently. Chen Ji's expression was equally uncertain.

He cautiously circled the medical hall, first confirming that there was no one in the backyard, then confirming that there was no one on the dark street outside the door. Only then did he look back at the small black cat squatting on the counter: "Just now, ah, I mean just now, were you speaking?"

The black cat looked at him motionless, silent again.

But Chen Ji was absolutely certain at this moment that it was this little black cat that had just spoken!

Could it be because of the cat-hiring ceremony, which had produced some kind of magical effect?

"Why aren't you speaking again?" Chen Ji sized up the little black cat in confusion: "Can't you just say one sentence? So I can figure out what's going on."

But the little black cat just held its head stiffly, looking serious, and made no further sound.

Chen Ji thought for a moment: "Say one sentence, and I'll save money to buy you steamed buns."

The little black cat: "......"

Chen Ji: "Buy small dried fish."

The little black cat: "......"

Chen Ji took a deep breath: "Today, that white cat Yun Fei probably beat you quite badly!"

The little black cat stiffened its neck and said: "It wasn't much better!"

Chen Ji looked at the little black cat with a half-smile. The little black cat then subconsciously shrank its neck.

He asked: "Why weren't you speaking just now, ah?"

The little black cat was silent for a moment: "I didn't realize I could suddenly speak either."

Chen Ji was speechless...

In other words, the little black cat had only subconsciously answered him in its heart just now, and accidentally made a sound. And in the past, the little black cat had actually responded to many of Chen Ji's words, he just couldn't hear them.

Chen Ji said: "Just now in the hiring document, I named you 'Wu Yun'. Do you know about this?"

Wu Yun said disdainfully: "Ugly as death!"

Chen Ji changed the subject: "When did you gain spiritual intelligence?"

He liked cats and had some understanding of them, so he knew that most cats were not very smart, still quite foolish.

But Wu Yun, before opening its mouth to speak, had obviously already gained spiritual intelligence. It could understand human words, and even respond. Many humans couldn't even do this.

Wu Yun answered: "When did I gain spiritual intelligence? I've always been like this, ah."

"Born like this?"

"Born like this."

Chen Ji pondered for a moment: "Can you open your mouth and let me take a look at your mouth?"

Wu Yun retreated a bit, and its sharp claws on its paws also extended a little: "On what basis?"

Chen Ji said helplessly: "Can't you be less stubborn, okay? Let's trust each other more!"

Wu Yun thought for a while: "......Fine."

"Come to the oil lamp, open your mouth... ah."

Wu Yun reluctantly opened its mouth: "ah..."

Chen Ji looked into its mouth and muttered softly: "One, two, three, four... ten ridges?"

In ancient times, some cat lovers had written about their experiences raising cats: When hiring a cat, you needed to first look at the cat's mouth. On the upper jaw of the cat's mouth, there were shallow, gully-like fine ridges. Two ridges meant the most foolish, silly at eating and sleeping; nine ridges were the best, understanding human nature and capable of catching mice and protecting the home.

That is to say, a cat with nine ridges in its mouth was the best little cat, but Wu Yun's mouth had ten ridges.

Beside the oil lamp on the counter, Wu Yun opened its mouth and made a sound from its throat: "Is it good?"

"Good, good," Chen Ji seemed to be thinking. Perhaps the ten ridges in its mouth were Wu Yun's special feature?

"Tired," Wu Yun naturally lay down, its head resting right in Chen Ji's palm, warm and cozy.

But it soon felt something was wrong. How could its noble self lie in someone else's hand?

Should it get up?

Forget it, let it lie for a little longer.

"Wait, don't sleep yet," Chen Ji said: "I haven't given you the bead yet. I don't know if it will still push you away now. Get up and try."

Wu Yun shot up in a flash, all sleepiness gone: "I just remembered I came for that bead... Quickly give me the bead, quickly, quickly!"

Chen Ji handed out the crystal bead. This time, the bead actually didn't repel Wu Yun.

The black Wu Yun took a gulp and swallowed the bead into its belly. With a whoosh, it slipped out of the medical hall through the crack in the door, leaving Chen Ji alone and bewildered.

It just left like that?!

Just then, Chen Ji detected a warm current emanating from the direction Wu Yun had left!

That warm current was like the lava deep within the earth, scorching and boiling, and also like a heavy rain in August, majestic and powerful.

Finally, it drilled into his body from between his eyebrows, moistening his limbs and bones, and finally slowly gathered at his heart.

Chen Ji was stunned. This was a power he had never experienced before.

Unlike the ice flow's irritable swiftness, this melting flow moved slowly.

Moreover, he couldn't control the ice flow, but the melting flow, under his own will, actually moved a little.

When the melting flow was under Chen Ji's control, following the blood flow out of his dantian, he felt particularly comfortable in the parts it passed through, like suddenly soaking in a hot spring in the dead of winter.

In the dead of night at Qing Shan Psychiatric Hospital, Chen Ji felt that his life had no regrets.

He no longer planned his life, no longer yearned for the future. As for whether the food was good or not, whether the clothes were good or not, it was all not very important.

Now, for the first time, he truly, truly felt the mysterious new world and was immersed in it.

Moreover, Chen Ji was no longer alone now. He had a cat.

......

......

Under the night sky, Luòchéng fell asleep.

After the chaos of Jǐng Fēi Wǎn Xīng Yuán, Jǐng Wáng Manor had returned to quiet. Jǐng Wáng had not returned to the manor for more than ten days, saying that because the war with the Jǐng Dynasty was tight, the northern iron cavalry had already reached Shānhǎi Guān, and the soldiers were at the city gate.

Jǐng Wáng was stationed in Luòchéng, the transfer hub of the southern grand canal, and needed to raise a large amount of military grain in the south and transport it to the north through the canal.

Under the moonlight, a group of small black cats were silently walking on the wall eaves, their footsteps light. Surging power surged within its body. After eating that crystal bead, Wu Yun's muscles rapidly restructured and grew, increasing its strength by a whole cat!

When Wu Yun jumped onto the flying eaves of Jǐng Ān Táng, if someone looked up from below, it would almost overlap with the crescent moon above the sky, as if standing on the hook of the crescent moon.

Just then, a guard of the Wáng Manor detected something and suddenly turned his head. The armor on his body made a clanging sound. His gaze, like a hawk, swept across the glazed roof of Jǐng Ān Táng, but there was nothing there.

The guard hesitated for a second, then flashed and climbed onto the wall eaves, holding a long halberd in reverse, and pursued in the suspected direction.

The next moment, the guard leaped down from the wall eaves. A huge black shadow was as oppressive as a night owl.

He patrolled around for a week, then squatted down, borrowing the moonlight to check if there were fresh footprints on the ground, but still found nothing.

"Strange, am I being suspicious?" The guard slowly left.

After a long time, Wu Yun, curled up in a corner of the wall and merged with the shadows, stretched its body and continued towards the depths of the Wáng Manor.

It walked through Míng Zhèng Táng, walked through Wǎn Xīng Yuán, avoided patrolling guards, avoided fierce servants on night watch, crossed mountains and rivers, cut through brambles and thorns, and finally arrived in front of Yún Fēi's Fēi Yún Yuán.

Wu Yun hooked its claws onto a wooden pillar and firmly climbed towards the second floor of the covered building. The window was open, so it stealthily clung to the window sill and peeked inside.

Inside the room, the white cat opened both eyes and stared directly at Wu Yun!

Wu Yun: "Te!"

Turned around and ran.

Seeing the situation, the white lion cat leaped out of the window and followed Wu Yun towards the back garden. Only, it was a bit puzzled. How could this defeated subordinate... be both cowardly and brave again?

The white lion cat chased Wu Yun all the way into the back garden, passed through a rock garden, then passed through a grassland, and finally lost track of Wu Yun in front of Fēi Bái Chí, famous in the Wáng Manor.

Jǐng Wáng Manor's Fēi Bái Chí was famous for its shape resembling calligraphy. The so-called Fēi Bái generally referred to the dry brush strokes in calligraphy. In this shallow pool of Fēi Bái Chí, there were scattered rocks. The water flow sometimes broke and sometimes continued, like dry brush writing, with a transcendent artistic conception.

And Jǐng Wáng Manor's Fēi Bái Chí, Tīng Léi Tíng, and Guó Huā Yuán were all places savored by the literati of Luòchéng.

At this time, the white lion cat lightly sniffed the air, but suddenly discovered that the smell actually came from behind!

In an instant, the white lion cat's fur exploded all over its body. Just as it wanted to turn around, it was already too late. A black cat pounced on its back, and a paw struck it, flipping it over.

The white lion cat couldn't understand how in just a few hours, this defeated subordinate had turned over, and the power inside its small body was actually a bit greater than its own.

Figures intertwined. Wu Yun seized the gap and pinned the white lion cat to the ground, curled its claws into fists, and hammered its head with bangs, a fierce and violent attack!

Chen Ji didn't know that Wu Yun's pride naturally came with the capital to be proud. Its fighting instinct far surpassed that of its peers, and it had even stronger fighting intuition.

Even if the power difference was not much, the white lion cat was only destined to be beaten.

The white lion cat began to whimper and beg for mercy, but how could Wu Yun care about this? It had taken so many beatings during this time. Every time Yun Fei came to Wǎn Xīng Yuán, it would take a beating.

Revenge was at this moment!

Wu Yun flipped the white lion cat over, exposed a claw at the white lion cat's crotch, and flicked it hard!

It breathed a long sigh of relief, stepped a front paw on its old opponent's body, raised its head to look at the moon, full of spirit.

However, Wu Yun always felt that its anger was still not sufficiently vented...

It quietly returned to Fēi Yún Yuán, licked all the snacks the servants had placed in the side room, and only then left with a satisfied heart.

Medical hall main hall.

Chen Ji was currently flipping through a book when he saw the black cat return with elegant steps. He asked curiously: "Where did you just go?"

Wu Yun raised its head: "Returning in triumph!"

Chen Ji: "......"

Still quite proud, huh.

Chen Ji closed the book: "Go beat that white cat?"

"Beat it fiercely!" Wu Yun raised its head even higher.

"Were you discovered?"

"No."

"Beat it to death?"

Wu Yun hesitated: "......No."

Chen Ji's expression showed some regret.

Wu Yun hurriedly added: "But I licked all the snacks in their Fēi Yún Yuán!"

Chen Ji nodded: "That's still okay."

"Heh heh heh."

"Heh heh heh."

Just as they were talking, rustling sounds came from the backyard. Chen Ji turned his head and saw Liú Qǔ Xīng wearing a jacket, peeking into the medical hall: "Chen Ji, I heard you talking just now? Who were you talking to, huh?"

Chen Ji was silent for a moment: "I was just talking to myself. Did Senior Brother Liu hear something else?"

Liú Qǔ Xīng was puzzled: "Cat meowing sounds. It seems a wild cat got into our yard. Have you seen it, huh?"

At this time, there was no sign of Wu Yun on the counter.