Chapter 1 Though Gun Was Eager to Go Out

Although Gun was enthusiastically wanting to go out for a stroll, to be honest, there really wasn't much to do in the southern suburbs at this time. Originally, this was a sparsely populated and remote suburb, and now it was the time of year when the province was cooling down. More than half of the population in the southern suburbs were elderly folks, so there weren't many people braving the cold wind to wander around. Hao Ren led the cat girl around the somewhat deserted streets, and he didn't encounter many people along the way, which was a good thing for him: at least he didn't have to worry about this stupid cat suddenly running over and grabbing someone's pants leg, causing a whole bunch of trouble.

However, although Hao Ren didn't see many acquaintances, Gun saw quite a few—all the stray cats from around here. Just like Lily had her own army of dogs, Hao Ren saw that the power under this cat's command was not to be underestimated...

In order to prevent unnecessary trouble, Hao Ren deliberately chose to walk in places where there were few people, and the scenery around him became more and more desolate. He definitely shouldn't be taking a normal girl out like this, but Gun was a cat demon, and this guy didn't care where she went to play. In fact, being able to stroll around in all kinds of strange and deserted streets was exactly what the cat girl wanted. She ran around Hao Ren with great energy. As soon as Hao Ren was distracted, she would immediately dart to places where she wasn't usually allowed to run, such as the top of walls and trees, and then be yelled down by Hao Ren in a matter of seconds: it was as if she was deliberately doing disobedient things to attract attention.

Unknowingly, they came to a place far away from the last residential area. All the houses here were particularly dilapidated, and there were no buildings taller than two stories on either side of the road. All that could be seen were brick and stone bungalows built thirty or forty years ago, and several larger houses could be seen in front of the road, with the words "xx Grain Station" and "xx Wholesale Department" faintly visible on the mottled and peeling walls, almost faded beyond recognition.

This was a completely abandoned urban area, the oldest street in the southern suburbs. Time seemed to have stood still here, and everything had an atmosphere that only existed decades ago. After the last few families moved out of the bungalows in this area ten years ago, this street was completely abandoned and has remained so to this day. It is said that the reconstruction project of this area has been put on the plan, but just like the entire southern suburbs, time is a slow thing here, and it is hard to say when someone will come to renovate these dilapidated brick houses.

Hao Ren even remembered that what he saw when he came here to play when he was very young was the scene before him. Although there were still a few families living on the west side of the street at that time, the dilapidated appearance of the street was almost no different from the completely deserted situation today.

The scene on the street reminded him of many things from his childhood, and Hao Ren felt a slight sense of emotion in his heart. Then, he looked up at the old poplar trees beside the road that had lost all their leaves. Although his body was not afraid of the cold, he still rubbed his hands subconsciously: "The weather is really getting colder and colder."

Taking advantage of Hao Ren's distraction, the cat girl lightly and skillfully ran to the low wall next to her, and quickly climbed onto the roof of a nearby house along the wall. She looked around cleverly, and then quickly locked on her target: a fat pigeon perched on the ridge of the roof not far away.

Gun rubbed her hands happily, and suddenly felt that the meaning of her cat life had returned to her again. She arched her body and walked carefully along the ridge, preparing to give herself an extra meal. However, this silly thing forgot one thing: when she went out, Hao Ren forcibly tied her tail inside her clothes. So, as soon as the cat girl took a few steps forward, she felt her body sway. She subconsciously wanted to raise her tail to restore her balance, but in the next second, she still fell headfirst from the ridge. This old house, which had been in disrepair for many years, couldn't withstand her tossing around like this at all, so only a cracking sound of broken tiles was heard, and a hole was directly broken in the roof. Gun was stunned for a moment at first, and then immediately flailed her hands and feet in a panic, but she still fell down from the hole irresistibly.

Hao Ren was busy feeling the passage of time, and when he didn't pay attention, he found that the stupid cat beside him was gone. Immediately afterwards, he heard the loud noise made by the cat. He looked in the direction of the sound and happened to see the scene of Gun falling into the big hole. Before he could react, the cat had already disappeared.

Two seconds later, he heard the cat girl's panicked meows from inside the nearby house.

"This idiot!" Hao Ren clicked his tongue and quickly ran towards the abandoned house. He knew that all the houses here were already dangerous buildings, and with Gun's already-refined physique, she might be able to collapse the house if she messed around in it. "Don't move around in there! I'll go help you!"

The doors and windows of this old house, which had been abandoned for many years, had already rotted. Hao Ren just pushed lightly and tore down the entire gate of the house. When he ran in, he found that the abandoned house was dark everywhere. Only a beam of light shone down from the big hole in the roof, allowing people to see the situation in the center of the house. He saw a pile of messy broken tiles spread on the open space in the center of the house. Gun was crawling out of it, covered in dust and dirt, looking as embarrassed as if she had just been beaten by Dou Dou.

After hearing the movement at the door, the cat girl immediately looked up, and then pounced up with a meow: "Da da cat! I fell down!"

There wasn't a bit of embarrassment in her voice. On the contrary, she was quite excited: it seemed that this thing completely regarded the accident just now as something quite fun.

"How many times have I told you not to run around casually!" Hao Ren pressed down on the cat girl's head, which was rubbing against him, preventing her from trying to get away with it by acting cute. "If you do this again, I won't let you go out in the future!"

The cat girl raised her neck and spoke plausibly: "But I never fell down when I ran on the roof before!"

Hao Ren glared: "Nonsense, how much did you weigh before? Don't you look at yourself now! Hurry up... hmm?"

Hao Ren was halfway through scolding the stupid cat when he suddenly felt a strange chill coming from somewhere unknown. Without even thinking, he subconsciously pushed Gun aside, and then suddenly jumped to the side!

However, after he dodged, the chill didn't go away at all. It followed his dodging movements like a maggot clinging to a bone, sticking to his skin and extending up along his limbs. In the next instant, Hao Ren felt all the hairs on his body stand on end, and the chill at the same time condensed into something like a blade, rushing up from below towards his throat!

Hao Ren's muscles tensed. His eyes could see everything in the dark, but this time he couldn't see anything at all. He could only sense with his intuition that an extremely sinister blade was attacking him. At the last moment when the blade almost touched his skin, he twisted his body with all his strength, barely dodging it.

But what did he dodge? Hao Ren didn't even know what he had dodged. He didn't see anything. All he saw was the same air as before. From the chill at the beginning to the "blade" a moment ago, it all seemed like an illusion. He only had perception but no real object. But Hao Ren was sure that he had just dodged some kind of attack, because he saw a flash of silver light on his skin in the darkness, which was produced by the collision between the automatic activation of the rigid shield and something.

After this sinister assassination failed, the chill began to subside quickly, just like when it suddenly appeared. However, Hao Ren knew that some kind of "thing" was still lurking around him, and lurking extremely close. The sixth sense, which had been honed in various dangerous environments, was issuing a warning. He felt a cool breath circling around his feet like a breeze, like a cheetah lurking in the grass, waiting for the moment when its prey relaxed.

After being pushed away by Hao Ren, Gun jumped several times in a row before finally standing still. If this stupid cat encountered a similar situation in the past, she would definitely jump up stupidly and ask why he pushed her, but this time even she seemed to sense the strangeness in the air. The cat girl's muscles were tense, and she unconsciously turned into a posture of arching her back with all four feet on the ground. Her eyes emitted a faint light in the darkness. She didn't know when she had taken off the cosmetic contact lenses used to conceal her cat pupils. Now, a pair of wide cat eyes were staring intently at the space within a meter around Hao Ren.

"Meow woo woo—" Gun made a threatening sound from her throat, revealing a strong hostility like a wild animal.

While paying attention to the movements around him, Hao Ren asked the cat demon: "Gun, what did you see?"

"I don't know..." Gun's voice was a little confused, "I can't see it, but I can smell it, I can feel it, it's a terrible thing, meow..."