Chapter 151

Chapter 151

Chapter 151 Jinjiang Literature City First Release

The back mountain usually didn’t have any monsters coming over.

After losing the treasure, everyone tacitly kept their distance from this place.

In their hearts, they still wondered if maybe someday the treasure would appear on its own…

Xie Chen searched the entire back mountain thoroughly, not missing a single corner.

“Li Li.”

He stopped in front of a patch of grass, gently tapping with his fingertip.

A scene from years ago appeared again.

Within a ball of light and shadow, the snowy white little kitten curled up into a kitten ball, eyes closed, floating in midair.

Next to the kitten ball was a little boy.

He stood outside the light and shadow, watching with his own eyes as the kitten ball transformed into a delicate little baby.

“So cute.”

Xie Chen murmured softly.

Such an adorable Li Li, it was a pity he hadn’t been able to grow up with him all along.

While Xie Chen searched the back mountain for a way to lift the restriction, below the mountain, Bai Li sat in a car playing Dou Di Zhu with his two older brothers.

They were playing on their phones.

“Brother, I still have two cards.”

Bai Li looked at them nervously: “Do you want to take the cards?”

All three cats had reverted to their original forms, using their paws to tap the phone screens.

Bai Si leaned against a pillow, looking like he was almost asleep.

Bai Jing glanced at his younger brother and spat out two words: “Don’t.”

Bai Li was thrilled and threw down another card: “Joker!”

“Bomb.”

Lazy Fourth Brother used four eights to bomb Bai Li’s Joker.

Bai Li: “…”

His eyes immediately widened in disbelief as he looked at the card that was played to bomb his.

It’s over!He was going to lose.

Bai Fourth Brother finished bombing his little brother, then looked at his about-to-break little brother.

“Be good, don’t be scared.”

Bai Fourth teased him: “Fourth Brother is just playing with you. You still have one card left, right? Come on, Fourth Brother will let you win.”

After saying that, Bai Fourth threw down a "three," then reminded his brother, “Here, you can play your last card now.”

Bai Li pouted with a kitten face, unhappy: “I can’t play it! I lost.”

Bai Fourth: “?”

Bai Fourth’s eyelid twitched: “No way, what’s your last card?”

“Three.”

The smallest card in the game, he had saved it until last.

Even Bai Jing couldn’t hold back his laughter now.

Their little brother was really adorably bad—saving the biggest and the smallest cards for the end.

The big one got bombed, the small card couldn’t be played.

Seeing his brother’s gloomy look, Bai Fourth cleared his throat and comforted him: “Li Li, let’s play again.”

The three cats played Dou Di Zhu on their phones for a while, but Bai Li didn’t want his brothers to go easy on him, so he ended the game.

“Li Li.”

Bai Jing, bored, flipped through a book in the back seat while chatting with his brother: “When does your sir plan to come down the mountain?”

Bai Li shook his head: “I don’t know.”

Without sir here, it was boring to be in the car.

After some time passed,

The three cats fell asleep next to each other, but the kitten in the middle, Bai Li, woke up groggily.

“Meow?”

He subconsciously called out for sir.

Sir didn’t respond.

The car heater was on, warm and cozy.

The kitten lifted his paw and rubbed his face, then called Fourth Brother and Fifth Brother, but none of the cats paid attention to him.

Outside, the sky was completely dark—not only completely dark, but also utterly silent.

It was as if all sounds had been muted at once.

Bai Li climbed out from on top of Fourth Brother, crawled to the window, and looked outside.

He saw not far away, the Monster Mountain, the back mountain of Monster Mountain...There seemed to be a light.

That light mysteriously tempted the kitten to get closer.

Before getting closer, Bai Li tried to open the car door to get out, but didn’t manage to grab the handle; he jumped and fell into the box below.

That was the box where Fifth Brother put books. Just now, Fifth Brother, tired from reading, hadn’t closed the box and curled up to sleep there.

The kitten sitting among the books was about to climb out.

But his gaze landed on the books and didn’t move away.

These books recorded Monster Mountain’s... treasure.

There were also some notes written in Fifth Brother’s handwriting.

The books weren’t thick but contained detailed records about various things.

Bai Li looked for a very long time.

Long enough that Fifth Brother stirred, seeming about to wake, and only then did Bai Li climb out of the box.

“Treasure.”

He looked at himself in confusion: “I am the treasure.”

Monster Mountain had been searching for the treasure for so long, looking everywhere—and it turned out to be him.

He had run away from the back mountain, and was even born from Mom’s womb as a cat.

The polluted energy in the human world was also increasing because he was gone, wasn’t it?

The kitten stopped thinking further.

He stretched out his little paw and opened the car door.

The moment the door opened, he dashed outside.

If he truly was Monster Mountain’s treasure, maybe he could go back to Monster Mountain without restrictions.

The sound of footsteps pattering finally woke Bai Jing.

“Li Li?”

Bai Jing, sensing something, looked around inside the car but didn’t see his little brother.

He opened the car door and just caught sight of a white little figure disappearing.

“Bai Si! Get up quickly!”

Bai Jing shouted and successfully woke Bai Si: “Chase Li Li, he’s going back to the mountain.”

When it came to their little brother’s matters, not a single brother was careless.

Very soon,

The snow-white little kitten ran ahead, with the two bigger cats closely chasing behind.

“Meow!!!”Li Li, stop!

Bai Li didn’t stop; instead, he ran even faster.

They were already at the foot of the mountain, and before his brothers could catch up, Bai Li successfully climbed up the mountain.

Just as he guessed, he wasn’t stopped by the restriction.

“Li Li, don’t run, come back with your brothers.”

Bai Jing’s meow cracked, but his meow only made Bai Li pause.

“Fifth Brother.”

Bai Li, separated by Monster Mountain’s restriction, looked at him: “I’m not going back.”

“It’s because of me that Monster Mountain became like this.”

The little kitten stared at Fifth Brother, meowing, “Once you all go down the mountain, there’s no way to come back up. The other cats can’t even go down.”

“Fifth Brother, I caused all this. I want to take responsibility.”

Bai Jing was so provoked by this that he was almost going crazy.

“Take responsibility?! How do you want to take responsibility?”

Bai Jing stepped closer, his voice hoarse but soothing: “Be good, listen to Fifth Brother. I’ll find a way to solve the restriction problem. You don’t need to do anything. You just need to be good and come here to Fifth Brother.”

Bai Li shook his head but still resolutely ran toward the back mountain.

Seeing he couldn’t catch up, Bai Jing could only call Xie Chen frantically.

Luckily,

Thanks to the advanced technology now, having a handy communication tool like the phone.

Bai Jing hurriedly told him the news that Bai Li had run toward the back mountain.

“I don’t know what’s going on. Li Li seems to understand everything.”

Xie Chen didn’t respond to the scattered words and hung up immediately, striding toward the back mountain.

At the back mountain,

Xie Chen saw his little kitten.

“Li Li, what do you want to do?”

Bai Li’s chubby little body sat on the grass, staring blankly in a certain direction.

Hearing Xie Chen’s voice, Bai Li turned around.

“Meow.”

Master.

Xie Chen walked over step by step. Seeing the kitten didn’t resist, he relaxed a little.

“Master, hug.”The little kitten spread out his paws, letting Xie Chen hold him in his arms.

“I want to change back.”

He rubbed against Xie Chen’s face, meowing: “If I don’t change back, all the monsters on Monster Mountain will be trapped.”

Xie Chen hugged him tightly and simply sat down on the ground.

“This kind of risky thing, Li Li can’t do alone.”

He lowered his head and kissed the kitten’s head, his tone full of gentleness: “You have to let me accompany you.”

Bai Li’s beautiful amber eyes looked a bit confused: “How will you accompany me?”

Xie Chen looked up, his gaze sweeping around. After thinking for a long time about a solution, it was vaguely taking shape in his mind.

“Give me some time.”

The man and the cat quietly stayed in the back mountain. Near dawn, Xie Chen finally called to the kitten wrapped in his arms: “Li Li, I have a plan.”

He didn’t notify anyone and directly waved his hand, setting up a barrier around the entire back mountain.

“I will accompany you to change back, don’t be afraid.”

He still had his former identity.

But in this world, gods and demons were no longer needed.

So, he only needed to disperse half of the power of his divine and demonic body to protect his cat.

He and the kitten would temporarily sleep here. How long they would sleep depended on fate.

Maybe they would wake up after a few days, maybe after decades.

Bai Li listened to him speak, not afraid at all.

They didn’t choose to say goodbye but only left a letter outside the barrier.

“Master, did you like me very much in your past life?”

“Yes, I loved you very, very early on.”

“I love you too, chu.”

Their voices gradually faded away. No one could break through the barrier around the back mountain.

Inside the barrier, the snow-white little kitten curled up in the arms of his beloved master. One man and one cat slept with eyes closed. Warm light radiated from them, with glowing spots flying out from the mountain to every corner of the mortal world.

The lingering black mist retreated when met with light.

The crow buried under the peach tree was finally freed completely this time.

“Hey, have you noticed the sky seems especially bright today?”

“Yes! I feel like my mood is getting better too.”

Similar conversations continuously appeared in every corner of the city.

Joyful laughter, bright smiles, a beautiful scene people wished to freeze in time.On Monster Mountain, Bai Si and Bai Jing returned home and sat together with their parents.

“Mom, don’t cry.”

Bai Jing placed the paper Xie Chen left on the table and said firmly, “They will come back. It won’t take long, they will come back.”

Mother Bai’s eyes were swollen like peaches. She leaned on her husband’s chest, choked with sobs.

“Li Li.”

She kept repeating Bai Li’s name: “My Li Li… I just want him to come back.”

Even if he could never leave the mountain in his lifetime, as long as her Li Li was safe and happy, that was enough.

Raising the kitten had been so difficult since he was young; she had put in so much effort to raise him to this point.

But this was how it ended.

The other older brothers and sisters of the cats all rushed back after hearing the news.

However, the world had already been set in stone, no one could change it.

After the initial grief, Mother Bai had to accept this reality.

She had Father Bai build a house near the back mountain, and the whole family moved there.

Days passed by one by one.

Luckily, with Father Xie holding things up at the company, the Xie family was stable.

As for the Bai family, most of the older brothers and sisters lived on the mountain most of the time.

Except for Xie Chen and Bai Li, everyone’s lives gradually returned to normal with the passage of time.

Half a year later.

“Bang—”

Late at night, it seemed as if something suddenly exploded.

Father Bai and Mother Bai, who lived closest to the back mountain, were abruptly awakened. When they rushed outside, they saw fireworks filling the sky.

The fireworks made sounds but didn’t drop any sparks.

It was caused by Xie Chen’s illusion.

Under the fireworks, a cat yawned and stretched its round little body. Seeing them, it meowed to greet them.

“Dad, Mom, I’m back!”

The little kitten’s meows were very enthusiastic, waving his paws as if shaking a rattle drum.

Father Bai and Mother Bai held hands, eyes moist, and walked step by step toward the little kitten.

“Meowaow.”

The little kitten jumped out of Master’s arms, jumped onto Dad’s shoulder, sat down with his butt, and tilted his head, pressing close to Dad’s ear.

“Dad, Master put on beautiful fireworks for me, let’s watch them together.”"Okay, let’s watch together."

The three people and the cat stood in place. The cat tilted its head back, eyes sparkling, watching the beautiful fireworks.

The other three all looked at him.

The fireworks were splendid and colorful, but to them, they couldn’t compare to the flash of white in their hearts.

That flash of white was the color of the little kitten.