Chapter 876: Killer In the Shadows
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
Despite Rollie’s enthusiasm, Southern Suburbs was a dreary place during this ti of the year. Already a remote suburb with more than half of the small population was senior folks; no one would want to brace the chilly weather coming out for a stroll. Hao Ren led the cat maiden mooching around in a deserted street and did not have to worry that the dumb cat would unwittingly create trouble.
Though Hao Ren did not et anyone he knew on the street, Rollie did et many of them—the strays. Just as Lily had her army of canines, the dumb cat had quite an influence among the cats in the neighborhood.
To prevent unnecessary troubles, Hao Ren deliberately took Rollie to the more empty places, the more desolate, the better. He would not have done this if he were to bring a normal girl out, but Rollie was a cat demon, this guy would not care where she was going as long as she was outside. The cat maiden was kind of like strange and quiet places. She ran around spiritedly and would have gone to places, such as wall and treetops, where she would not have a chance to go usually if Hao Ren was not careful. Hao Ren would have dragged her back down within seconds if she did that. She was just like a kid doing this on purpose to get attention.
Unwittingly, they had co to a place far from the last residential area. All the houses here were exceptionally dilapidated. Not a building was more than two-story tall on either side of the street. They all were forty-year-old, single-story brick houses. However, there were a few large houses at one end of the road with prominent faded writings, such as ‘Grocery Store,’ ‘Wholesale’ on the mottled walls.
It was the abandoned section of the town, the oldest street in Southern Suburb, where ti seed to be stagnant, and everything carried an atmosphere that only existed a few decades ago. After the last few families moved out from the nearby houses ten years ago, the street was completely deserted until this day. It was said that a reconstruction plan had been mooted, but as the entire Southern Suburb, everything here happened slowly like a sloth; it was hard to tell when soone would co and fix the dilapidated brick houses.
Hao Ren even rembered that this was the scene that he saw when he was still a kid. Though there were still families staying in the west of the street back then, the state of the road back then was no better than what it was now.
The scenes reminded him of his childhood. Hao Ren sighed for days gone by as he looked at the old bald poplars. He instinctively rubbed his hands despite he was not afraid of cold. “Hmm, the weather is getting colder,” he murmured to himself.
As Hao Ren was distracted and imrsed in his thought, the cat maiden quickly climbed onto the nearby wall before hopping up the roof of a house. She looked around alertly and promptly locked her target—a fat pigeon on the ridge not far away.
Rollie rubbed her hands happily. She was excited to find back the aning of the life of a cat. She arched her body and walked carefully along the ridge, was so delighted to see her al was just within grasp. Unfortunately, she forgot one thing; Hao Ren had her tail tied to her clothes. She began to lose her balance without her tail as counter-balance, she fell. She was startled for a mont and tried to recover, but it was too late. The disrepair old house would not withstand such an impact, the roof tiles gave way, and she plunged straight down together with the tiles, punching a massive hole on the roof.
While imrsed in his childhood mory, the sudden noise jolted Hao Ren out of his dream. He looked in the direction where the sound ca from; the silly cat had disappeared from the roof.
Two seconds later, he heard the cat maiden’s panicking ow in the nearby house.
“This idiot!” Hao Ren clicked his tongue and rushed into the abandoned house. He knew that all the houses here were considered unsafe and considering Rollie’s physical strength, she could have torn down the entire building if she was not careful. “Stay still until I co in to get you!”
The doors and windows of the house had rotten to the core. With just a slight push of his hand, the entire door ca down. It was pitch dark inside except that there was a beam of skylight shone down through the hole on the roof above, illuminating the interior sowhat. Rollie got up from a pile of broken tiles and dust. She looked as if Lil Pea had just beaten him.
The cat maiden looked up when she heard Hao Ren ca in. “Boss cat! I fell!”
She sounded like not having a bit of awkwardness but excitent. She thought that the accident was fun.
“Have I not told you not to run around?” Hao Ren held down the head of the cat maiden who was rubbing against his body, knowing that the idiot was trying to use coquetry to get away with the trouble she had caused. “I’m not going to let you out again if you do that again.”
“I’ve never fallen last ti while running the roof” The cat maiden talked back.
“Crap, didn’t you realize you have gained a lot of weight now?” Hurry—”
He suddenly felt an inexplicable chill coming straight towards him. He barely had ti to think as he instinctively pushed Rollie away while he jumped to a side.
However, the chill did not go away but followed his dodging movent, sticking to the skin and spread up from his limbs. The next mont, he felt his hair was shooting straight up as the chill had condensed into a knife-like weapon coming straight up to his throat!
Hao Ren’s muscles tensed up, his supervision allowed him to see in the dark, but he saw nothing at all this ti. He could only intuitively sense that there was a sinister blade attacking him. In the last mont before the sword piercing through his skin, he spun around and dodged the attack.
He had no clue what he had dodged though because he saw nothing, there was only the air before his eyes. From the chill in the beginning to the ‘blade’ in the last mont, it seed to be just an illusion. He sensed sothing but saw nothing substantial. He was dang sure that he had just avoided so attack because he saw the silver glow on his skin in the dark, which was caused by the collision of sothing with his Steel mbrane Shield.
After the sinister assassination failed, the chill seed to fade away suddenly, but Hao Ren knew that sothing was still lurking around, very close to him. The sixth sense which he had developed after years of dangerous encounters was sounding its alarm. He felt that a breeze-like cool air was sticking under his feet and he could not shake it off. It was as if a cheetah lurking in the grass, waiting to strike when its prey let down its guard.
Rollie regained her composure after being pushed away by Hao Ren. Usually, the silly cat would have co up to Hao Ren and demand an explanation as to why he pushed her, but this ti she had sensed sothing strange in the air. Her muscles tensed and got down on all fours instinctively, her body arched and her eyes glowed in the dark. She had taken off the contact lenses that she used to her cat pupils. She stared at the space of one ter around Hao Ren in the dark.
“ow—” Rollie gave out a nacing growl in her throat as if a beast threatened its enemy.
Hao Ren asked the cat demon while watching the surroundings, “Rollie, what did you see?”
“I don’t know.” Rollie sounded a little confused. “I see nothing, but I can sll it. I can feel it. Sothing terrible…”
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