Chapter 151: A Trip For More Righteousness
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
There ca a rotten sll.
The dead, rotten sll ca from a quiet lane ahead.
Old Ti Tea knew it had arrived at its destination.
A hot wave ca from its chest up to its throat.
It knew it was getting old, not as strong as he used to be, just like how the song went:
[The wind smiles
It makes feel lonely
But there are still great thoughts in my mind.——]
It wasn’t a good ti to be sad at the mont. Old Ti Tea tried to let out excess body heat from breathing quickly, which also reverted its rapid heart rate back to normal.
Old Ti Tea didn’t enter the lane from the ground. Being a cat, walking on the wall was way safer.
Standing up on the wall, Old Ti Tea carefully observed this lane.
Slop and garbage was everywhere. The heavy stink was, in fact, a natural protection of the lane from outsiders. A normal person would not co in.
There were no street lights.
It raised its head and found that there were indeed street lights, which were all intentionally broken.
The lane was dark, but darkness wouldn’t stop Old Ti Tea.
Through the eyesight only cats had, Old Ti Tea discovered that there were signs of fresh cat urine in the lane. A place where humans abandoned could sotis be a cats’ heaven.
A big fat rat ca out from the sewer. It was squeaking and slling around before it decided that this was a safe spot to find so food. Imdiately, it ran towards the trash piling up at the corner, tore up the plastic bags, and searched for dinner.
Old Ti Tea was about to move forward until suddenly, a slight friction-like noise caught its attention. It stopped.
A black cat quietly squeezed itself out from another corner, staring at the rat. Apparently, it had been waiting for its prey’s arrival for quite a while.
Quietly raising its feet and lightly approaching to the rat, the black cat didn’t make even a tiny bit of noise. It was getting closer and closer to the rat from behind. However, the rat didn’t hear the cat all, digging half of its head into the trash bag and enjoying its delicious dinner.
As the black cat got close enough, it suddenly jumped up with two front paws, and landed on the rat’s head and body.
The rat was scared, screaming and whipping its tail. Yet it was fate that decided that tonight was the end for him.
After watching this scene, Old Ti Tea once again jumped up and headed inside the lane.
The black cat was frightened by Old Ti Tea’s movent. It thought that was a competitor so its paws loosened. The rat grasped at the chance to escape, but the black cat wouldn’t let it go. It was thrown at the wall and passed out.
Old Ti Tea changed from running quickly to slowly jumping so it had ti to carefully observe the environnt as it proceeded.
People lived in this lane. Dim lights ca out from a few houses. Why would they live here? Out of financial reasons or others?
A small three-story building, which looked very much like an observation tower, appeared in front of Old Ti Tea. Surrounding the building, there were short one-story houses on either side.
It was the Qing Ren Consulting Firm.
The building was dark and as quiet as a tomb. Old Ti Tea listened carefully, but it could not hear a thing.
Old Ti Tea jumped down from the wall and walked around the outside of the front door.
It slled carefully.
That was it!
The sll of rotten rats from the sewer lingered.
The front door was a tal gate. Old Ti Tea reached out its paw and tried to open it. The door was tightly shut.
It didn’t really matter because Old Ti Tea had other options as it ca to entering a building.
If a person wanted to enter the building, he had to pull the door open from outside. Old Ti Tea thought about it for a second and found a piece of wood that was about 3 feet long, which was very likely a piece of leftover material from a piece of furniture.
Old Ti Tea pressed its sharp nails in the wood to pick it up and went back to the door. It tried a few different angles and utilized a small hole on the ground to place the wood against the doorknob. Old Ti Tea then raised and kicked so that the wood was tightly fixed on the door and kept it shut.
In this case, if soone in the building tried to escape, they could not get out from the front door.
When Old Ti Tea pushed the wood against the door, it made a loud noise.
Old Ti Tea listened again. It was still dead-silent inside.
It then jumped up to the wall and walked to the side of the building.
Sewer pipes ran from the top level to the ground.
The plastic pipes were held on the wall by a few old rusty tal rings.
Old Ti Tea jumped up, grabbed a pipe and went up to the top level within seconds.
There were all sorts of garbage and leftovers on the top level. A small door led to the roof.
The roofs between this building and the neighboring one were close enough that if soone rushed to escape, he could jump to directly from one roof to the other.
The door was made of tal, and was locked from inside.
Old Ti Tea did the sa thing, using so garbage to secure to lock so no one could ever get out.
It had to eliminate all possible ways out.
Standing on top of the building, Old Ti Tea was staring down at the lane and thinking everything over again.
A few seconds later, it jumped down from the roof!
Within the blink of an eye, it was at level three.
Old Ti Tea whipped its tail, strengthened its back, and adjusted its core and direction. It reached out its paws to grab the balcony on the third floor, and pulled itself up to third floor.
Sitting outside of the window, it looked into the room.
It was completely dark inside, but that was not a problem for Old Ti tea.
If soone was watching from inside, he would be frightened to death by Old Ti Tea’s yellow eyes.
It seed like there wasn’t any activity going on inside. People had left.
Old Ti Tea raised its paw and hit the glass rapidly.
Bang!
The glass broke. Most fragnts fell inside. So fell outside, rolled down to the ground and got smashed.
What a loud noise!
It there was soone sleeping inside, he should’ve been awakened by now.
Old Ti Tea didn’t rush to get in. Instead, it stayed by the window to observe.
The residents in the lane might have gotten used to such disturbances. If they heard glass breaking, no one would co out and everyone would shut their doors and lights.
The lane got even darker.
It was still quiet inside the building.
Old Ti Tea wiped away so of the fragnts on the window. It put down its sleeves to cover its two front paws, cleaned up the rest of the glass and hopped in.
In fact, before it broke the glass, Old Ti Tea already knew no one was there because the human scent was very light, which ant people had left a while ago.
It looked like an office. The person didn’t leave in a rush so he cleaned up the place. He swept to floor, mopped the desk and everything in between.
Looking at this, Old Ti Tea know two things. First, it would not be able to find any clues here; second, the person was cunning as a fox.
It wasn’t accurate that the person didn’t leave behind any sort of clue. In the middle of the desk, there lay a stack of docunts. It looked as if it was waiting for people to read it. Old Ti Tea worried that it was a trick.
Old Ti Tea walked around the room from the outside inwards, round after round, trying to search for clues. The couch, under the desk, the coat rack… it didn’t miss any spot.
When Old Ti Tea searched, it usually reached out its paw to knock on the floor and listen to the resulting noise. It had to make sure there wasn’t a trap underneath.
Finally, it had searched everything but the desk.
First, it checked the bottom of the desk to see if there were any killing traps.
None. Everything looked fine.
It jumped up to the surface. Besides those docunts, there wasn’t even a paper left in the room. It reached out one paw and slightly pulled at the docunts in front of it.
There was a note on the paper sitting on top of the stack.
“I was not sure who would get here first. It might be the police or soone else. By the ti you see this paper, I’ve already left the city. Don’t waste your ti looking for . There was no personal grudge between us. My business was rely a comrcial act. Soone paid, and I provided the service. That’s all.”
“I am only a small potato trying to make a living by running a business like this. It is not worth your ti searching for . There are too many people just like . You can’t get them all. A famous saying goes: where there is a will, there is a way. I say that where there is demand, there is supply.”
“Of course, my words won’t ease your pain. I understand. I haven’t failed my mission a lot, but this is not the first ti. The fighters might be too weak or you might be too strong. I admire you for beating us. The docunts underneath this paper are your souvenir. I hope this makes you feel better. ”
“If you insist in chasing , I will show you real trouble.”
Signed – Qing Ren.
Old Ti Tea moved away the paper. There were so docunts that looked like conversation records. Besides the stack of docunts, there was also a small plastic thing which looked like Zhang Zian’s thumb drive. It might be the sa thing.
Qing Ren thought these things would ease the visitor’s anger. Old Ti Tea was debating whether or not it wanted to believe him.
From the lane, there ca the siren.
Old Ti Tea jumped back to the window and saw that a few police cars were blocking the lane.
The police sergeants were here!
It rolled the first paper into a ball, put it in its pocket and was going to leave from the window. Suddenly, a banner on the wall attracted its eyes. There were two lines on the banner, written in beautiful Chinese calligraphy:
If soday I beco king, there will be peach blossoms everywhere.
Old Ti Tea sneered. What an egomaniac!
It jumped up, reached out its paws and cut the banner in half like slicing a piece of tofu. The cut landed on the character “Qing”. The wall behind the banner was all fine.
The lane was too narrow for cars. It was dark, and the policen ran in.
Old Ti Tea jumped out of the window and slid down to the ground through a pipe. It kicked the wood at the door to the side, jumped back on the wall and was ready to head back to the pet shop. There, a new partner was waiting for it, just like how the song went:
[People laugh,
No more loneliness
My great thoughts are still there——]
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