Chapter 331

After kicking Gongzi Xiao, Zheng Tan kicked him two more times, making Gongzi Xiao unable to stand for a moment, then he stepped on his face, jumped aside, and kicked the golf club that had slipped from Gongzi Xiao's hand toward Hou Junyi.

Maodou saw Zheng Tan kicking Gongzi Xiao, also rushed over and took a bite at Gongzi Xiao's leg. Of course, compared to Niu Zhuangzhuang, Maodou's behavior is already quite civilized; it won't bite as bloody as Niu Zhuangzhuang did when biting a thief. After biting, the dog probably isn't used to biting people, then it turned to gnaw at Gongzi Xiao's pant leg and shoe, finally finding some sensation, biting more and more eagerly.

Zheng Tan jumped aside, seeing Hou Junyi still looking dazed, with no reaction, just staring at him. Zheng Tan immediately glared, damn it, could this kid have been scared stupid? I've already knocked the person down and kicked the club to you, yet you don't pick up the club and strike the enemy—don't you know what 'strike while the iron is hot' means? You've never fought before, right?!

Zheng Tan would never have imagined that, while he was kicking Gongzi Xiao, the image that instantly appeared in Hou Junyi's mind was not confusion nor "saved," nor the fright-induced stupidity Zheng Tan expected, but a force decomposition diagram, and based on Gongzi Xiao's reaction and movement after being forced, he estimated the approximate magnitude of the force Zheng Tan had used several times; precisely because of this, Hou Junyi stood frozen, for the result defied common sense. How could a cat have such strength?! After calculating once, he recalculated twice more, and all three results were the same.

Unbelievable. Wide-eyed, little Hou Junyi's heart had alpacas galloping.

If Zheng Tan knew what this little Hou Junyi had just been thinking in his head, he would definitely run over and kick him twice. Damn, at such a tense moment this kid still had time to do physics mechanics analysis!

You've become stupid, huh?!

However, Hou Junyi soon reacted amidst Maodou's howls, looked at the struggling Gongzi Xiao who still couldn't get up, tremblingly picked up the golf club beside his foot, and when Gongzi Xiao glared at him with red eyes, he gritted his teeth and swung the club.

Bang!

The big star got hit on the head with a club, unfortunately fainted.

Seeing that, Hou Junyi felt afraid inside. He feared he had beaten the person to death; after waiting a while and seeing no reaction from the person lying on the ground, he tremblingly approached, placed his fingers on Gongzi Xiao's wrist pulse point and felt it. Then he let out a long sigh of relief. Good. He just fainted. No loss of life is fine. He should count this as legitimate defense, right?

Maodou continued to bite Gongzi Xiao's pant leg, shaking his head and tearing, emitting low whining sounds from his throat to repay the few kicks Gongzi Xiao had given him earlier. But now biting the pant leg had no attacking power; no matter how he pulled, no one kicked him anymore.

Gongzi Xiao's temporary faint eased the atmosphere a bit, allowing Hou Junyi's constantly tense nerves to relax somewhat, but thinking about what he had seen and inferred earlier in the hallway on the first floor, he felt worried and especially wanted to leave this creepy place.

Zheng Tan ignored Hou Junyi's turmoil, saw Hou Junyi knock the person unconscious, nodded satisfied, jumped up and stepped on Gongzi Xiao's face that had attracted countless girls and women, confirmed the person really had no reaction and was truly unconscious, then moved closer, stretched his paw into Gongzi Xiao's pocket and rummaged.

He had long wondered what was in Gongzi Xiao's pocket, why he kept his hand inside; now upon pulling it out he found a small remote‑like device. Could it be a button controlling some functions of this house, like windows or doors? Many wealthy families have begun smart‑home setups; when Zheng Tan was still human he had seen such designs in some homes, so Gongzi Xiao's place is probably similar.

The remote was covered in characters and some patterns; Zheng Tan couldn't understand it, pressed it twice and noticed nothing abnormal, so he ignored it further.

Meanwhile, Hou Junyi, panting with his hand still shaking, saw that remote, his eyes lit up, freed one hand and picked up the remote.

Zheng Tan planned to go upstairs to check on Fang Mengmeng and the others, his steps paused, his ears twitched, he carefully distinguished some sounds, then ran to the huge floor‑to‑ceiling window, listened again, and confirmed that was Hei Mi's call.

The call sounded different from usual; probably few have heard Hei Mi call like this, but Zheng Tan felt a sense of familiarity, recalled, and suddenly realized that Hei Mi's call resembled the one Black Mi used to summon cats, although the sound isn't exactly the same, the feeling to Zheng Tan is very similar. Perhaps this is an ability inherited from the mother generation, something others cannot learn but they just know it naturally, like having a cheat—nature always has surprises, many things that make people envious and jealous. At the same time, Zheng Tan couldn't help but marvel again: this family's genes are truly damn strong.

While Zheng Tan was recalling, any nearby household that kept cats and could hear cat calls saw their cats start behaving abnormally, crying out to run outside.

In the upstairs room where Fang Mengmeng and the others were, the two jointly smashed the louvered vent, letting Hei Mi out through the vent; Fang Mengmeng also took off her hair bow and let Hei Mi carry it to find help, as she had seen on TV.

In fact, the other end of the vent was blocked, so Hei Mi couldn't get out, but shouting here could still be heard loudly outside and wouldn't be drowned by the playing music; as he kept shouting, it produced an unexpected effect for Fang Mengmeng.

Zheng Tan stood by the floor‑to‑ceiling window, thought for a moment, then intended to turn back and go upstairs; at that moment, Hou Junyi fiddled with the remote and also figured something out; after pressing a few buttons, the originally blurry floor‑to‑ceiling window instantly became transparent, only some water vapor clung to it; Zheng Tan wiped it, discovered that on the other side of the glass window several cats were moving about—Lianzi, Guiyuan, and that forest cat he hadn't seen in a long time, the one that had committed a crime, been injured by Zheng Tan, then taken away by A Wu; it seems they have all been trained by A Wu, and since they can hear Hei Mi's call, they must not be far away, which also proves that Gongzi Xiao indeed has a problem, and a serious one.

Besides those familiar cats, there were also cats from neighboring households, most appearing to be expensive breeds, wearing cat tags; whether ordinary house cats or precious breeds, at this moment they were all howling and prowling around the house.

With such an abnormal phenomenon and commotion, nearby people would surely come over; Zheng Tan had already seen Hou Junyi's father running this way.

Originally Hou Junyi's father was outside smoking while waiting for Hou Junyi, never expecting to hear Hei Mi's voice; although the tone differed from usual, they were familiar with Hei Mi and could associate the sound with him, and the voice came from the neighboring house. The two families were about ten or so meters apart; Hou Junyi's father walked over, looked into the courtyard, and saw several cats, plus other cats he knew from nearby residents' homes.

It was a strange phenomenon; Hou Junyi's father pressed the doorbell, found no one answering, sensed something wrong, then called Hou Junyi, but got no response. So he contacted the parents of the other two households, learned that none of the three children had been seen, and directly called the police; the security responsible for this residential area also rushed over.

Although Hou Junyi used the remote to make the dimming glass window transparent, the door and the upstairs room's door still had no correct button or solution; perhaps there are other input commands. He scratched his ears and cheeks anxiously for a while, heard the knocking sound from the window side, looked up, saw the person outside the glass window, the nervous Hou Junyi almost burst into tears, and kept slapping the floor‑to‑ceiling window.

Seeing his son's state through the glass, Hou Junyi's father felt extremely anxious, didn't wait for police and security, ran home to fetch tools.

Zheng Tan didn't know what tool Hou Junyi's father had taken; he only followed Hou Junyi backward, found cover, and the next moment saw the floor‑to‑ceiling window glass completely shattered, not exploding everywhere, just falling onto that spot of the window.

By the time police and security arrived, Hou Junyi's father had already used tools to cut open the upstairs door as well.

Looking at Hou Junyi's father in work clothes, gloves, holding a set of tools, Zheng Tan thought, these people are really tough.

When Fang Mengmeng and Chu Laiya came out, aside from being somewhat startled, their health was fine, only their hands had slight abrasions, not serious injuries.

Parents accompanied and comforted them, after all they are just children; after experiencing these things, they don't know whether they will leave psychological shadows, parents are thinking how to dispel those emotions that might negatively affect the children.

Zheng Tan looked around; Lianzi and Guiyuan were gone, probably A Wu had summoned them back nearby; as the crowd grew, A Wu recalled them. Police and security also didn't think these cats could be useful, watched them leave without stopping; residents of this area are either rich or noble, after such a big incident the police will surely be busy, who would still pay attention to those cats?

When the police cars arrived with a huge commotion, the unconscious Gongzi Xiao was taken away; besides that, Zheng Tan also saw police bring out a long object wrapped in a black bag, he smelled it, and in the blowing wind there was a faint scent of blood.

The three children were each accompanied by their own parents and did not see what happened over there; that's better, otherwise seeing it might cause deeper psychological trauma.

Tonight, the residents of this area cannot sleep peacefully. And Fang San ye, who has received the news and is rushing over, will surely lose his temper. (To be continued…)