[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-tom-cat-who-broke-through-the-dimensional-wall":3,"chapter-tom-cat-who-broke-through-the-dimensional-wall-rat-in-the-wall-the-light-buried-deep-in-the-earth-305":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Tom Cat who broke through the dimensional wall",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1244755,1674,"Chapter 305: Rat in the wall! The light buried deep in the earth!","rat-in-the-wall-the-light-buried-deep-in-the-earth-305",305,"\"Tom! Tom! Hey! Tom!\"\nIn the ancient castle, an old voice kept calling Tang Mu's name.Character.\nAfter just a good night's sleep, he arrived at this place inexplicably, leaving Tom Mu still a little confused about the situation.\nJust lying on the cashmere blanket where he was, looking at the surrounding environment.\nAfter a while, it seemed that it was because he didn't receive a response from himself.\nNow the owner of the voice slowly walked up.\nNo one has arrived yet.\nTom Mu first heard the sound of leather shoes stepping on the ground.\nTang Muxun shouted.\nYou can see the entrance of a spiral staircase on the side of the room.\nThis old castle is very old.\nThere is some moss on the large bluestone on the wall next to the stairs.\nThere are some signs of recent cleaning on it.\nBut it obviously has no effect.\nThe moss has grown back again.\n\"Oh! All this damn moss. I think I should burn it, it's so wet.\"\nNo one has been seen yet.\nThe light of the oil lamp first came from under the spiral staircase.\nThe light gradually swayed up from below, and a huge black shadow was also reflected on the wall by the light.\nWith complaints and footsteps.\nThe figure who spoke before is getting closer and closer.\nNot long after, a white-haired man wearing a coat and holding an oil lamp slowly walked up the steps.\nThe old man's hand was a little withered, but he held the oil lamp in his hand very tightly.\nThe flickering light of the lamp shone on the old man, pulling his figure back very tall.\nIn this cramped castle room, there is a strong sense of oppression.\n  \"Meow--!\"\nA shrill scream sounded beside Tang Mu.\nThis sudden movement startled Tom Mu!\nTurning around to look at the line, black shadows emerged from under the big bed next to them, quickly passed over Tom Mu and surrounded the old man's feet.\nNow Tang Mu could see clearly, they were eight cats of different colors.\nIncluding myself, there are probably nine.\nTom Mu was not sure why the old man in front of him kept so many cats.\n\"Tom, you are here, go down and eat quickly.\"\nDelapore spoke, his voice very hoarse.\nIt was like two rusty files rubbing against his throat.\nWhen he first arrived, Tang Mu didn't want to act too abnormal, so he walked downstairs with the old man.\nTom followed the spiral staircase all the way down.\nWhen passing by a small window by the stairs, I looked outside.\nI found that I couldn't see anything clearly outside.\nIt's just pitch black.\nThe depth below was even more bottomless, giving Tang Mu an unsteady feeling like he was walking a tightrope over an abyss.\nThe castle where it is currently located seems to be built on the edge of a cliff.\nBeing in this old castle always gave Tom Mu a rather contradictory feeling.\nBoth solid and empty.\nIt is obviously a stone castle built for several centuries, and it should give people a solid and solid feeling.\nBut in line with the external environment.\nTang Mu always felt that the next second, this castle would collapse together with the cliff and fall into the bottomless abyss.\nThe footsteps of humans and cats echoed in the spiral staircase.\nTom Mu felt like he had walked for a long time before he reached the hall below.\nIn the hall, the maid and butler have prepared food.\nIt can be seen that the old man really comes from a wealthy family.\nHowever, this wealthy family also seems to be a bit of a cat slave.\nEven though there are so many people at home, even though he is old, he still climbs the stairs to find people.\nA row of cat bowls are neatly placed in front of the dining table.\nInside is food for cats.\nAt this time, it seems that industrialized cat food has not yet appeared.\nBut no matter what kind of cat food it is, Tom Mu will not eat it even if he is beaten to death.\nOld Man Delapore had also sat down and began to enjoy his dinner.\nHolding the knife and fork in hand, Delapore cut off a piece of veal steak and stuffed it into his mouth.\nIt can be seen that the steak was cooked very delicious by the chef.\nBut the old man, who is thin and has a withered face, feels like nothing.\n\"Have you bought all the mousetraps?\"\nDelapore had no appetite. After taking two bites, he didn't really want to eat anymore.\n\"Master, everything has been arranged.\"\nThe housekeeper standing aside lowered his head and said, \"According to your instructions, mouse traps have been placed in all places on the first floor where mice may appear.\"\nAlthough the old housekeeper doesn't think there are a lot of rats here as the old man said.\nBut after all, it was the master's order, and the old housekeeper must handle it honestly no matter what.\nAs an old butler, he knew exactly what he wanted to do.\n  \"very good.\"\nDelapore nodded.\nBut suddenly, Delapore, who was still normal at first, suddenly held his head and screamed!\nHis face became extremely terrifying.\nDrapore, who was so old that only a piece of skin was left hanging on his face, raised his hand and scratched his face with his nails very hard!\nJust after grabbing it, there were already several blood stains on Delapore's face!\n\"Ah! Rats! There are so many rats in the wall! Rats are everywhere!\"\n\"Tom! Catch them! Catch them!\"\nA person who was fine before.\nThe next second he fell completely into madness.\n\"Master!\"\nThe old housekeeper next to him was also shocked!\nShouting, he rushed forward and grabbed Delapore's scratching hand with all his strength.\nThe servants around are all recruited locally.\nThey have never seen such a person before.\nWhen I saw the new owner going crazy, I was immediately at a loss..\nFortunately, the cats at the dining table seem to have gotten used to all this.\nDelapore was just starting to go crazy.\n\n            \n\n\n\n                 \nThe cats who were eating there normally went crazy!\nThe eight cats except Tom dispersed, scratching and scratching at the surrounding stone walls, growling sharply!\nThe cats' meowing sounds are very high-pitched and threatening.\nIn the restaurant, eight cats were running around and barking, as if they were really catching mice.\nBut the servants around him looked at each other, and they didn't hear anything.\nLet alone seeing the so-called rat with his own eyes.\nBut both my master and the cats seemed to indicate that there were indeed mice here.\nSuch anomalies reminded these locally recruited servants of some bad rumors.\nSuddenly, everyone was trembling uncontrollably, with a look of fear on their faces.\nThe working environment here is too weird and depressing.\nIt always makes them feel very uncomfortable.\nIf it weren't for the fact that the master is a normal person most of the time and the salary he pays is quite high.\nEven if they were killed, they would not continue to work here.\nTom Mu was still sitting at the dining table, squinting his eyes and raising his ears to observe his surroundings.\nThe old man said he heard a lot of rat noises.\nThis is indeed true.\nBecause it heard it too.\nJust within the surrounding walls.\nIt's not just the walls.\nEven the ceiling beneath your feet and above your head is like this.\nListening to the dense sounds, I'm afraid it's not just a few or a dozen.\nAt least hundreds or thousands!\nJust listening to the sound, they seemed to be surrounded by a cage composed of a large swarm of rats.\nOne after another, dirty rats with slender tails moved and rubbed in the wall, making irregular \"squeaking\" sounds from time to time.\nNot to mention Delapore.\nEven Tom Mu felt his scalp numb.\nI don't know if Tom Mu has said it before.\nIn fact, it hates mice very much.\nIt's the kind of hard-haired rat you see every day.\nIt has a pointed mouth, hairless claws, and a slender tail like an earthworm with circles of rings.\nAll this made Tom feel uncomfortable and nauseous.\nSnakes, insects, rats and ants.\nSnakes, insects, ants, and Tom Mu all accepted it, but the wire-haired mouse couldn't.\nThis was the case when Tom was still human.\nThere is no change even if I become a cat.\nTom Mu would get goosebumps just looking at such a disgusting creature like a mouse.\nNot to mention getting up close and personal.\nAt this time, listening to the dense sounds of mice moving around, Tang Mu's whole cat's scalp exploded, and his eyes became a little red.\n​As a man.\nWith one or two mice, Tom could suppress his nausea and catch and drive them away.\nJust like in the world of \"Doraemon\", it replaced Doraemon and caught a mouse once.\nBut now this scene has begun to really oppress its sensitive nerves.\nThat means you can't see those disgusting rats yet.\nIf the floor tiles under your feet, the surrounding walls, and the ceiling above your head all become transparent glass, you can directly see the mice inside.\nI'm afraid Tom Mu will have to bring out the nuclear bomb and have a one-click love scene!\n\"Tom! What are you still doing here? Go catch mice too.\"\nUnder the comfort of the butler, Delapore seemed to be in a better condition.\nBut looking at the fuming Tang Mu at the dining table, he couldn't help but urge him.\nWhen there are cats around, the noise of those mice will be much less.\nIt would also relax Delapore's nerves.\nThis is why he keeps so many cats.\nAmong them, his favorite is the cat Tom.\nAs a mouse-catching champion, Tom Cat was bought at a high price by him specifically for catching mice.\nAfter hearing what Delapore said, Tom jumped directly onto the dining table, then took out a knife and gave it to Delapore.\nWith a confused expression on his face, he pointed at the surrounding walls.\nIt means, you have to catch yourself.\nI don't want to serve you.\nWith so many rats, if I were to catch them myself, I might as well just wipe out the castle together.\nIt's very efficient and you don't have to come into close contact with disgusting rats.\nDelapore looked at the knife in his hand and was a little confused.\nLooking at Tom Mu on the dining table, he seemed to be looking at a strange cat.\nFortunately, the other eight cats are all model workers.\nHe ran around the wall of the restaurant several times and kept making threatening meows.\nThe movement of the mice around them also gradually slowed down.\nThis made Delapore's nerves obviously relaxed a lot.\nPutting the knife aside casually, Delapore did not pay attention to Tom Mu's changes.\n\"Let's go and see the mousetrap.\"\nIt seems that Delapore has no appetite for dinner again.\nTom sat down directly in Delapore's seat.\nThrowing aside the plate of beef that Delapore had touched.\nHe grabbed the other food on the table and pulled it in front of him, and started to eat it directly.\nWhen the servants around him saw it, they were all at a loss again.\nWhile Tom was eating dinner in this strange world, he observed the servants around him.\nJust nowHou Tangmu discovered it.\nIt seemed that except for the old man and his group of cats, no one else seemed to hear the mouse.\nThis means that those mice are obviously not ordinary mice.\nIt is also possible that everything is a targeted hallucination.\nMaybe even mice have never appeared in this castle.\nTom ate everything on the table without any concern, and then went to find Delapore.\nThe old housekeeper really filled this old castle with mousetraps.\nThose who are very experienced have placed them in places where rats are most likely to infest.\nLooking at the mousetraps all over the house and the kittens spinning around him, Delapore's expression became much more relaxed.\nSoon, it was evening.\nDelapore fell asleep in his room.\nBut he had just fallen asleep, and his brows suddenly tightened.\nIn his dream, a hooded swineherd appeared.\nAll around the hunched pigherder were naked white four-legged creatures crawling.\nIt was a really dark crawl.\nJust looking at it makes people feel a strong mental discomfort.\nThis made Delapore struggle fiercely, trying to get rid of this weird dream.\nThe next second!\nDelapore opened his eyes suddenly!\nThen Delapore screamed again!\nThe moment the old man opened his eyes, he seemed to see thousands of rats gathering densely in his room.\nThe floor was full of rats squeezing the rats, and there was absolutely nowhere to put their feet.\nSo much so that the rats crawled all over Delapore's bed.\nThere were densely packed rats all over Delapore's quilt, chest, and pillows!\nThere were even six rat kings whose tails were stuck together due to feces and secretions.\nIt looks even more disgusting!\nThe moment Delapore woke up.\nAll the mice in the room stared at him with their green bean-like eyes.\nThis made Delapore couldn't help but scream again!\n\"Master! Master! What's wrong with you?\"\nThe old housekeeper heard Delapore's cry and rushed over holding an oil lamp.\n\"Rat! Rat! It's all rats!\"\nDelapore was already a little frightened.\nThe housekeeper quickly lit the candle in this room and handed a glass of water to Delapore.\nBut when he looked at the clean room, his face was full of doubts.\nHe didn't see a mouse at all!\nLet alone a mouse, not even a single mouse hair can be seen!\nBut seeing Delapore's frightened look, the old housekeeper didn't know what to say, so he could only call the cat in the castle to accompany him.\nDelapore relaxed a lot with the cats around.\nFinally fell asleep again.\nThe next day, Drapore screamed again.\nIt turned out that all the mousetraps in the castle were triggered.\nBut I couldn't catch a single mouse hair!\nStrange things happened one after another, making the atmosphere in the entire castle even more depressing.\nIn fact, it's not just this castle.\nWhen he arrived in a new place, of course Tom Mu couldn't just sit around and do nothing.\nSo it looked around the next day.\n\n            \n\n\n\n                 \nI found that the atmosphere in this whole world is very depressing.\nThe old castle it is in now is actually a monastery.\nIt's just that it has been abandoned in the past few years.\nUntil recent years, old man Drapore returned to his hometown castle, probably because he was getting older.\nA large sum of money was spent on renovations.\nOriginally, Delapore was in pretty good shape.\nBut since he moved into this monastery, his spirit has become worse and worse day by day, and he has become nervous.\nThere is a small town near the monastery, and many locals there seem to know something.\nI am very afraid of this monastery.\nIn addition, Tom Mu also felt that this world gave him a very familiar feeling.\nBut I couldn't remember it for a while.\nIn the end, Tom Mu could only stop thinking about the problems of this world for the time being.\nI plan to try my best to solve the problem of this castle and monastery first.\nIt can come here, and if you want to go back, you may have to find the answer here.\nIn the next few days, the atmosphere in the castle monastery became increasingly depressing.\nThe various mouse traps set by the old butler will always be triggered.\nBut nothing could be caught.\nDelapore was becoming more and more nervous.\nHe always said there were rats in the wall, but when he cut the wall open, there was nothing inside.\nSome servants could no longer stand the atmosphere here and resigned.\nBut as time went by, Delapore's situation did not get any better.\nOn the contrary, his condition became worse.\nIt's not just a mental problem.\nEven the physical body gradually underwent some changes.\nThe more Tom looked at him, the more he felt like a big mouse.\nListen to the conversation between Delapore and the old housekeeper.\nHe has been having a recurring dream recently.\nThe content of that dream was actually the same as the dream I had in the Defense Force.\nThis further strengthened Tom Mu's idea.\nIt will come here, and it is indeed related to Drapore.\n\"Hehe! WeYou have to go underground and take a look! The ground is full of rats! \"\nOne day, Delapore suddenly grabbed the old housekeeper and laughed nervously.\n  \"What?\"\nBefore the old housekeeper could react, Delapore, who looked more and more like a large mouse, was already walking towards the monastery hall.\nHe took a crowbar, walked to the center of the hall with ease, and pried open a whole floor tile there!\nAt this moment, a stench suddenly came out.\nAs soon as Tang Mu smelled the smell, he immediately took out a gas mask and put it on his head.\nHe also took out air freshener and sprayed it around.\nOnly then did I feel a little better.\nThe old housekeeper was surprised when he saw Tang Mu's behavior.\nBut Delapore ignored the changes outside and directly pulled the old housekeeper towards the floor tiles.\nThere seems to be a basement attached there.\nTang Mu did not hesitate and quickly followed.\nThe basement below is very spacious.\nThere are many strange words and graphics in it.\nIt feels more like an altar.\nIn the middle of the altar, there was a vague humanoid statue, which gave people a rather weird feeling.\nTang Mu just took a look, and many hallucinations appeared around him.\nThese hallucinations are really annoying.\nTang Mu frowned and stretched out his claws to fish around.\nSoon he caught all the hallucinations in his hands and squeezed them tightly into a small ball like colored plasticine.\nTom Mu's actions seemed to frighten the stone statue.\nIt trembled visibly to the naked eye.\nTom Mu looked doubtfully.\nThe stone statue has returned to normal, and there seems to be no change.\n\"Down below, the mouse is down there, squeak! squeak!\"\nDrapore hunched over and groped around the stone altar statue for a while, as if he had turned on some switch.\nThe altar immediately moved away, revealing the deeper steps below...\nUnder there, Tang Mu actually felt a trace of light.",3123,"2026-06-05T15:23:28.309Z",1,null,"40d9c704386f8f9d261ea74be09b44c9f7292833620f1fb18083e03cea76630b","the-bronze-statue-of-ultraman-tiga-306","star-clusters-captain-of-the-winning-team-304",463,"\u002Fcovers\u002F2744d9e2-255e-4853-bafb-59a1dcb29203-1780673005081.jpg"]