Chapter 136
Chapter 136
Lin Zhu lay there for a long time before the hamster noticed him. Just as he was about to be thrown into the trash, Lin Zhu moved his foot at precisely the right moment.
Seeing that he was still breathing, the hamster placed him back in the cage.
After witnessing how badly Lin Zhu had been beaten, the remaining natives in the cage huddled together and trembled. Not one came forward to check on him.
Lin Zhu shuffled over to the water and took a drink. He hadn’t become color-blind or developed a fear of water, so he probably hadn’t violated the rule. His reasoning was correct.
The large hamster suddenly came in and said something to the young hamster. The two began arguing fiercely.
From time to time, the large hamster pointed at the man with the “cat” identity, becoming extremely agitated. The young hamster kept shielding him and refused to give in.
In the end, Lin Zhu thought the young hamster had compromised. After the large hamster left, it lowered its head, stroked the man’s hair, then departed in tears.
Lin Zhu had a terrible feeling. Before leaving, the large hamster had pointed toward the cage as well.
He didn’t know what had happened, but he guessed the young hamster was no longer allowed to keep humans.
In his current condition, being sent outside would mean certain death.
He still had the healing Item Lian Ge had given him, but he didn’t want to use it yet. Lin Zhu adjusted his slightly bent glasses.
He would wait a little longer and see what happened.
The moment Cheng Miao awoke the next morning, she knew something was wrong. The white cat paced around the room and repeatedly picked people up to kiss them.
She was clearly preparing to send them away.
Cheng Miao deployed every ounce of her skill at acting cute, leaving the white cat utterly reluctant to part with her.
The white cat went to make another call, then curled herself into a circle around Cheng Miao.
“This can’t last. If the authorities ordered this campaign, the white cat won’t be able to delay them for long.”
Looking at Cheng Miao nestled in the cat’s fur, Qi Jiajia began to grow anxious too.
Cheng Miao didn’t respond. She was watching her phone. Heaven knew how badly she wanted time to move faster and faster.
She had touched her wrist just now and learned that Lin Zhu and Qin Musong were both in poor condition, making her even more anxious.
She would rather enter a supernatural puzzle instance. If someone had enough ability there, they could naturally escape unscathed. This instance, by contrast, left them utterly helpless before fate.
The white cat’s ears twitched, and she looked toward the door.
Cheng Miao jumped to the floor, her expression dark. “Something’s coming.”
Shielding Qi Jiajia, Cheng Miao slowly retreated. “We have half an hour left. Use every possible method to stall them. We can’t run outside, and we absolutely cannot let them catch us.”
Thick black hair had already coiled around Qi Jiajia’s hand. Cheng Miao took out the Kun-Bone Dagger as well. The pair withdrew into the innermost room and hid beneath a cabinet.
One side of the cabinet rested against a wall, while the other three sides were open, leaving room both to attack and retreat.
Cheng Miao heard the white cat open the door. At least three enormous creatures entered. She heard the white cat sobbing, along with men and women shouting.
“Let go of me! Help!”
“Ah! One-Eye! You ate One-Eye! I’ll kill you!”
“Boohoo, it hurts! Ah!”
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Cheng Miao refused to imagine the bloody scene outside. She heard footsteps approaching.
It seemed her hope that hiding would cause them to be overlooked had been far too naive.
Cheng Miao looked back and exchanged a glance with Qi Jiajia. They held their breath as the seconds ticked by.
A gigantic eye suddenly appeared beneath the cabinet. Cheng Miao recognized it at once. It was the eye of a wolf.
It held slaughter, bloodlust, and savagery.
The instant Cheng Miao saw the eye, she raised the hand gripping the Kun-Bone Dagger and drove it viciously into the wolf’s eye.
“Awooo!” An enormous howl rang out. Cheng Miao wasted no time. She yanked out the dagger and sprinted away as the wolf, blinded in one eye, collapsed and called for its companions.
Cheng Miao saw two wolves run over from the living room and block the hallway.
They held long, tightly woven nets. There was no possibility of exploiting her small size to slip past them.
The wounded wolf whimpered behind her. Qi Jiajia had strangled it to death with Shen Xin’s Long Hair.
There was no time to check her phone, so Cheng Miao didn’t know how much longer they had. But being caught meant death.
This desperate situation, with enemies on every side, ignited Cheng Miao’s ferocity. Before the two wolves noticed their companion was dead, she charged at the smaller one.
Wind and the wolves’ howls rushed past her ears, but Cheng Miao didn’t let herself be distracted. When she was only a few steps away, she hurled the dagger hard into the wolf’s shoulder bone.
Using the momentum of her sprint, she pulled on the vine and flew onto the wolf’s body.
Without the slightest hesitation, she ripped out the dagger and plunged it into the wolf again.
This time, she struck its neck.
The torrent of blood drenched Cheng Miao. As the wolf crashed to the floor, she tumbled to the ground as well.
Blood filled her eyes and nose, choking her and making her cough without pause.
A dark shadow abruptly descended over her, accompanied by Qi Jiajia’s shrill, tearful scream.
“Cheng Miao!!”
Lin Zhu felt that his luck was terrible. The hamster keeping him clearly had abusive tendencies.
No, more accurately, the hamster only cared about the catlike man.
But something had happened, and that man had been sent away too.
Watching the hamster wipe away its tears and stamp its feet, Lin Zhu couldn’t bring himself to laugh. He suspected he would be next.
Only fifteen minutes remained until noon. It didn’t sound like much, but could he truly last that long?
The hamster carried the cage into an enormous bathroom. Hamsters used sand as a toilet instead of a commode.
Lin Zhu watched the hamster drag a person from the cage and bury him in the sand. At first, the sand pile shifted with the victim’s struggles. Gradually, all movement stopped.
Only Lin Zhu and one terrified, stupefied native remained in the cage, and Lin Zhu was injured.
He wiped the cold sweat from his face, his mind racing as he searched for a way to escape.
At last, the hamster reached a paw into the cage.
Perhaps because Lin Zhu looked half dead, the hamster had no interest in choosing him. Lin Zhu watched the native kick and bite, only to be lifted out anyway.
With no time to pity anyone else, Lin Zhu noticed that the cage door hadn’t been shut properly.
The native had struggled so violently that the irritated hamster failed to check the door.
Gritting his teeth, Lin Zhu staggered upright, rammed the cage door open at top speed, and rushed out.
The bathroom door was closed, so Lin Zhu hid behind a water pipe. He squeezed himself into the gap as tightly as possible, hoping the hamster wouldn’t find him.
After burying the unfortunate native, the hamster turned around to find the cage open and the half-dead human gone.
It searched the room, but its enormous size prevented it from discovering Lin Zhu’s hiding place.
Just as Lin Zhu breathed a sigh of relief, he saw the hamster turn on the faucet.
This was bad. The bathroom had a glass door. The water would rise and flood it.
Watching the water level climb, Lin Zhu cursed endlessly inside his head.
Weren’t hamsters supposed to be afraid of water?
What part of this looked afraid of water?!