Ever since he signed the contract, Hao Ren felt that his days at home were getting shorter and shorter. Most of his life was spent on the road. He was as diligent as an imperial envoy who was worried about the country and its people. Once in a while, he would go home, but even the cat at home would not recognize him anymore …
Leading a large group of travel-worn companions back home, Hao Ren saw Rollie squatting on the coffee table watching the TV the moment he opened the door. The dumb cat heard the commotion at the door and immediately jumped down from the coffee table. She scuttled to everyone and stared blankly at Hao Ren. She tilted her head for a long time before meowing. This reaction scared Hao Ren. Had the dumb cat forgotten about him?
"Big Boss Cat?" The cat girl circled around Hao Ren briskly and reached out to grab his pocket. "You're not dead?"
"Don't move!" Hao Ren snapped out of his daze and pressed the dumb cat's head. "What do you mean by that? I've only been away for a month and you've already forgotten who raised you? "
"I want to eat snacks. I saw that you have snacks. I touched them just now! You must have bought them for me! " The dumb cat struggled hard under Hao Ren's hand. Her howling could be heard from half the street. "I was just checking your scent. Who knows if you're real or not. You haven't been back for so long, I thought you were dead!"
"Holy moly … Why does she think I'm going to die every now and then?" Hao Ren was dumbfounded as he watched the dumb cat rummaging through his pockets and pulling out snacks (the snacks were indeed for her). "Do you think humans die so easily in a cat's mind?"
"What do you think?" Nangong Wuyue crossed her arms and watched the scene unfold. "Sometimes when you've been away for a long time, she would wake up every morning and scratch everyone's door, asking 'Is Big Boss Cat dead outside? Why isn't he back yet? Should we split our luggage?' We're all used to it."
Hao Ren felt his pure heart was seriously hurt. "This heartless thing … What else did she say?"
Nangong Sanba also came up to him. "I've asked her before. She said she would avenge you first. If she couldn't do that, she would go to your house and take your belongings. After that, she would go to the ends of the world."
Hao Ren was speechless.
"Big Boss Cat, you're so annoying." The cat girl stuffed her mouth full of dried fish and rolled her eyes at Hao Ren. "Why didn't I realize you were so unreasonable before? Didn't I say the same thing every time you came back when you were away for too long?"
Hao Ren was a little stunned. "Did you say that? Wait a minute. You used to be a cat. How would I know what you meant?"
He felt that his heart was hurt even more than before. Once upon a time, he felt that his cat was not a bad person other than being naughty and lazy. At least every time he came home from a long trip, the cat would enthusiastically run around him and meow for a long time. Although she would usually jump around asking for food after meowing, Hao Ren was still very touched at that time …
He never thought that this was what the cat meant when she meowed!
Hao Ren was very angry. The consequences … the consequences were not that serious. Anyway, the cat girl had an indestructible and self-protective worldview. She could have fun on her own even if no one cared about her.
And Hao Ren had no time to continue playing with the cat. He had important work to do.
The first thing he did when he got home was to send a sample of the information that Anthony Alfonso recorded the moment the Great Fissure opened to the drone cluster in the Plane of Dreams.
That information sample could be said to be the only clue to the whereabouts of the crystal core, and the drone cluster was Hao Ren's most extensive eyes and ears in the Plane of Dreams. If even the drone cluster could not find the source of the information sample, the crystal core would probably be lost.
Obviously, Hao Ren was very concerned about the missing crystal core.
The reason for his concern, of course, had nothing to do with Raven 12345's "eight hearts and eight arrows" claim. The real reason was that the place where the crystal core fell might contain the relic of the goddess of creation. The second reason was that he really needed a new "Gate of the World". Other than that, he had another concern.
The crystal core was too powerful.
It was a true divine artifact. Not only was it a divine artifact, but it also contained the power of a divine artifact. It had the ability to penetrate the Wall of Reality and destroy the world of order. Just thinking about it falling into the already fragile Plane of Dreams was a bone-chilling matter. And now, Hao Ren also knew that there was an "ancient culprit" lurking in the Plane of Dreams. Would the ancient culprit also notice that something so powerful that it could escape in an instant had suddenly fallen into its cage?
Raven 12345 was usually carefree, but after knowing that the crystal core had fallen into the Plane of Dreams and gone missing, she really showed a worried expression. This was enough to show the seriousness of the situation.
Hao Ren guessed that if he could not find the crystal core, things would inevitably worsen, and eventually, Raven 12345 would have to do it herself. If that happened, the Plane of Dreams would be in big trouble.
He carefully compiled everything he had seen and heard on this trip into a report, including the current situation of the Nine Worlds, the Ark of Origins, the Ultimate Absolution, and so on. He sent all of it to Raven 12345. Then, while waiting for a reply, he was at home dealing with all kinds of information from the droid swarm, the Inferno Monitoring Group, the Gate of Solenne factories, and other places.
When the MDT handed him a newly compiled report, Hao Ren suddenly realized that he had unknowingly expanded his footprint and deeds to such a vast, distant, and numerous places.
In the surface world, in the Plane of Dreams, among the stars, in the deep space, there were tens of thousands or even millions of monitoring points sending back massive amounts of information every second. Some were monitoring a certain ruin, some were recording the evolution of the ecosystem, and some were observing the operation of civilization and the development of races. This vast amount of data was uploaded to the droids, and then to the monitoring outposts and space fortresses before finally being summarized in front of him. In this process, the data climbed like a pyramid network, and finally reached the top.
Then, he read the report at the top with a dumbfounded look, and sighed every five minutes. "F * ck, there's more … F * ck, there's more?"
He wondered if other inspectors were like this in the first few years of work.
Hao Ren lay on the table reading the report, and Rollie squatted beside him, playing with a fluffy ball. The cat girl did not know why Hao Ren did not talk to her for the past two days, but she felt that as a cat, a proud, superior, smart, and super cute cat, she had to have her own reserve, so when Big Boss Cat ignored her, she could not take the initiative to provoke Big Boss Cat. But honestly …
Squatting like an idiot was super boring!
The cat girl squatted on the ground and rolled the fluffy ball around, but she found that this favorite game was now boring, not even as interesting as watching humans quarrel on TV. She sneaked a peek at Hao Ren, and found that he was reading the report, so she tiptoed and quickly moved a few centimeters away.
Hao Ren still did not respond.
"Meow?" Rollie tried to sound him out, and then immediately regretted her rash behavior, but after that, she found that Hao Ren still did not respond.
So, she decided to try moving a little more, and if it did not work, she would throw the fluffy ball on Big Boss Cat's lap.
"What are you doing?" Hao Ren finally could not stand the big person moving around like a thief, and could not help but stare down at the dumb cat.
In fact, Hao Ren had noticed the cat maiden's behavior the first time she came over. But the cat had always behaved in a variety of ways, and when her cat personality flared up, she was just like Lily. So, Hao Ren did not care what she was doing next to him. But seeing the dumb cat moving closer and closer to him, and holding the fluffy ball in her hand with an eager look, Hao Ren could not stand it anymore.
This cat would not want to kill its owner just because it was ignored for two days, would it? Isn't using a fluffy ball as a weapon when killing its owner a little too weak?
Hao Ren's call shocked Rollie, and the cat girl immediately arched her body and took half a step back, her tail erect like a lightning rod pointing at the ceiling. She stared straight at Hao Ren, and suddenly a thought came to her mind: Big Boss Cat was the one who asked!
So, the cat girl thought that she had won a big victory, and she was satisfied. She moved to Hao Ren's side, and put her head on his leg. "Well, you can scratch my ears now."
Hao Ren could not understand the cat's mind at all. "Crazy …"
But he did not want to delve into the cat's mind, nor did he want to stop working, so he simply held the MDT in one hand, and put the other hand on Rollie's head.
"I'm too lazy to move, you can rub yourself."
Rollie thought for a moment, and began to shake her head vigorously.
And just like that, a cat's little melancholy passed.
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