Chapter 144
Chapter 144
Chapter 144 First Release on Jinjiang Literature City
Bai Jing glanced at the little cat in his arms, then reached out his hand: “Give me Li Li to play with for a while, then I’ll talk with you.”
Bai Li obediently opened his little paws.
Xie Chen pressed his little paws back and turned around: “Li Li must be hungry. I’ll take him to eat something.”
Bai Jing didn’t let him leave.
A moment later.
Xie Chen went to make food for Bai Li, while Bai Jing finally got to hold his little brother.
“Good baby.”
Bai Jing lowered his head and kissed his brother’s furry head hard: “Did you miss Fifth Brother after coming down the mountain?”
“Meow.”
Yes, he did.
“Fifth Brother misses you too.”
Bai Jing stayed on the living room sofa with Bai Li, not going back to the bedroom.
Others weren’t around, so only the two brothers were talking.
Bai Jing was very good at coaxing words out. While stroking the little cat’s soft white fur, he got a clean, clear account from Bai Li about everything since coming down the mountain.
The naive little cat didn’t realize anything was wrong.
He lay on his back, claws holding Fifth Brother’s finger reaching out.
“Meow, meow meow.”
Don’t scratch anymore.
The ticklish little cat didn’t want Fifth Brother scratching his belly again.
Both happy playing, Bai Jing’s face always wore a smile, showing no sign of abnormality.
Even when Xie Chen came over to take the little cat to feed him, Bai Jing didn’t show anything unusual.
After Xie Chen took the little cat to the dining room, the smile on Bai Jing’s face completely disappeared.
He stood up, and for a moment, his figure seemed to tremble.Black fog.
Cat songs, cat dances, and little paws that can directly crush...
Bai Jing dazedly left the living room, returned to his room, and started flipping through things he had already read many times before.
If what Li Li said was true, then he probably knew the reason.
He even figured out clearly why Old Wu wanted Li Li dead.
At dusk.
Xie Chen coaxed the well-fed little cat to sleep. Before sleeping, the little cat drank a big bowl of bitter medicine.
“Not bitter at all.”
The little cat, with a scrunched-up face, still opened his eyes and lied to Xie Chen.
Xie Chen fed him some sweet water and lovingly coaxed the little cat for a while.
Around seven, almost eight o’clock.
Xie Chen asked Bai Liu to watch the little cat, then went to knock on Bai Jing’s room door.
Inside, Bai Jing seemed to know who it was.
He covered the book he was reading over his face and half-heartedly said, “I’m asleep. If there’s something, talk tomorrow.”
Xie Chen didn’t leave.
He knocked again: “Bai Jing, about Li Li’s matter, I hope you can tell me.”
Bai Jing didn’t respond.
After quite a while, the door opened.
Bai Jing’s originally elegant temperament was obviously almost gone.
He was visibly restless about something.
Xie Chen was best at observing, especially about Bai Li’s matters; he was more careful and attentive than anyone.
The subtle uneasy feeling that Bai Jing showed was fully caught by Xie Chen.
“I heard from Li Li that you like reading. Tan Yi and the others also mentioned you, saying you’re a very knowledgeable person.”
“I’m not a person, I’m a cat,” Bai Jing corrected.
Xie Chen quickly amended: “Tan Yi and the others said you’re a very knowledgeable cat.”
“That’s more like it.”
Bai Jing sat back down on the sofa.
At the same time, he threw the several books beside him to Xie Chen.“What you want to know is all in there. After you finish reading, ask me if you have any questions.”
Xie Chen originally planned to take the books back, but Bai Jing didn’t allow it.
“Just read them here.”
Bai Jing thought of the little cat in his room and was afraid the books would be seen by the little cat.
Xie Chen didn’t pick a place. He sat on another sofa and seriously started reading the books.
Time passed bit by bit.
Xie Chen flipped through the pages, completely forgetting everything around him.
The books weren’t thick, and they had been pre-organized by Bai Jing, so they didn’t take too long to read.
By midnight.
Xie Chen put down the books and looked up at Bai Jing not far away.
Coincidentally, Bai Jing was staying up late writing and hadn’t slept.
“Finished reading?”
Sensing Xie Chen’s gaze, Bai Jing turned and asked.
“Finished.”
He had clearly read all the contents of these books.
The books said that long ago there was a god, who cultivated the path of ruthlessness—cold and heartless.
But one day, the god obtained a treasure, a rare spiritual treasure of heaven and earth.
The god carried the treasure with him every day while cultivating. Over time, a small spiritual body grew from the treasure.
The small spirit was only palm-sized, exquisitely cute, and clingy.
The cold god could no longer remain cold toward the small spirit he raised.
When the small spirit stretched out its hands, the god would promptly hold it; when it touched its belly, the god would immediately find food to feed it; when it rubbed its eyes and yawned, the god would stop cultivating and patiently coax it to sleep.
Such days were very different from before.
And the god liked these days.
Until, when the world changed, his treasure was demanded to be sacrificed by mortals shackled by morality.
How could that be possible?
The god who cared for the treasure day and night would never allow it to be coveted.
But in this world, human hearts are always too unpredictable.Someone stole the god’s treasure, causing the god to go mad and nearly destroy the entire human world.
The book recorded that the sacrificed small spirit eventually met the god one last time.
He stopped the god’s revenge.
After that, their story abruptly ended; no further records were found.
Bai Jing timely supplemented the parts he hadn’t seen.
“You should have heard Li Li talk about it—our Monster Mountain had a lost treasure that protected us for many years. Later, the treasure suddenly disappeared…”
Bai Jing realized something as he spoke.
“Li Li was born after the treasure disappeared. Born very small, he never really grew up.”
This was clearly the same situation as the small spirit recorded in the book.
They talked late into the night.
The old crow who wanted to harm Li Li was also mentioned by Bai Jing: “He wants Li Li to die again and drive you insane.”
Last time, the god lost his small spirit.
This time, if the treasure he barely regained dies again in front of him…
Thinking of the mad god recorded in the book, Bai Jing felt that it would surely be the end.
Besides this reason, there was one more.
“Whether Li Li was in the past or now, he has the ability to save everyone, but his price is self-sacrifice. If he dies prematurely, he can’t fulfill the condition of self-sacrifice.”
Humans surrounded by black mist still couldn’t be safe.
Listening to Bai Jing’s deductions, Xie Chen coldly said,
“I won’t let anything happen to Li Li.”
His Li Li had already suffered too much pain, and this pain needed to come to an end.
Xie Chen calmed himself and then calmly asked,
“Bai Jing, these things in the books, is there a way for me to remember them all?”
He didn’t want to lose any memories about himself and Li Li.
“Only if you fully awaken.”
Bai Jing’s “awaken” meant completely freeing himself from his current human identity and returning to what he once was.
But how to awaken wasn’t certain.
The way the old crow chose involved killing the little cat first; if successful, Xie Chen could indeed “awaken.”
Now that they knew everything, they couldn’t choose that method.“Let me think again.”
Bai Jing frowned, pondering in his mind the method Xie Chen wanted.
After about ten minutes of thinking, Bai Jing’s eyelids grew heavy.
“Well then.”
He looked at Xie Chen: “You go back and stay with Li Li first, I can’t come up with anything right now.”
The key point was, it was the middle of the night, and it was inappropriate for them to be alone like this.
Xie Chen hadn’t seen his little cat for several hours; he stood up, said goodbye to Bai Jing, and left without taking the books.
All the bedrooms were along the same corridor. After leaving, Xie Chen quickly returned to the bedroom he shared with Bai Li.
On the bed, two cats were sleeping with their heads touching. The bigger gray-and-white cat was Bai Xiao Liu, and the small little kitten ball was Bai Li.
Xie Chen called Bai Xiao Liu: “Bai Liu.”
After calling several times, the gray-and-white cat flicked his tail and meowed, showing he didn’t want to move.
Xie Chen: “...”
Squinting, Xie Chen brought a cat bed over.
Bai Liu could transform; if Xie Chen wanted to hold Li Li, having the gray-and-white cat still on the bed meant they needed some space.
For example, bringing over a cat bed was like having two beds.
Seeing the cat bed, Bai Liu rolled his eyes.
“Meow.”
Li Li, you hold him.
Bai Liu knew he couldn’t win against this man, who was too good at coaxing; he had his cat utterly devoted and clingy.
The gray-and-white cat jumped down from the bed and ran out of the room without looking back.
Xie Chen went to lock the door.
After taking a shower and changing into pajamas, Xie Chen got into bed and hugged the curled-up little kitten in his arms.
“Li Li.”
Having learned so much tonight, Xie Chen still felt no sleepiness.
He lowered his gaze onto the little kitten’s body, feeling like he could never look enough.
“Don’t leave me again.”
He whispered softly, “Never leave me.”
“Meow.”
Alright.
The sudden meowing sound came from his embrace.
The little kitten who just covered his face with his paws had quietly woken up without Xie Chen noticing. He pretended to be asleep to scare Mr. Xie but unexpectedly heard a confession!
The little kitten blinked, looked at the handsome Mr., and suddenly wanted to kiss him.
He quickly transformed into a handsome young boy.
The boy tilted his face up and straightforwardly, sincerely pleaded, “Mr., kiss me.”
Xie Chen was slightly stunned.
Since Li Li was rescued from the forest, he had been healing, always staying in his original cat form. The human form...
Xie Chen hadn’t fully reacted yet.
“Smooch.”
The impatient playboy cat approached and gave Xie Chen’s handsome face several kisses.
While kissing, his chin was pinched.
A dark meaning swelled in Xie Chen’s eyes. He leaned in and gave the cat his favorite kiss.
The gentle and lingering kiss made the cat’s beautiful amber eyes misty and moist. Just looking at them a little longer made one want to tease him.
“Mr.”
When the gentle kiss ended, Bai Li didn’t breathe for a while, his face turning red.
He reached out to hug Xie Chen’s waist and rubbed his face against his chest.
“I’m almost better. When I’m better, don’t forget to take me back to Monster Mountain.”
He still wanted to marry Mr.
“Hm, I won’t forget.”
Xie Chen kissed his forehead again and promised him, “When we go back to Monster Mountain, after meeting the elders, we’ll get married.”
The two exchanged affectionate whispers. Bai Li, who had slept a lot before, wasn’t sleepy at all now.
Since he wasn’t sleepy, Xie Chen stayed with him instead of sleeping.
Late into the night, finally the sleepy cat got tired again and fell back asleep.