The cat with a human face, after vomiting out a finger, lazily stretched its body and cutely meowed,
"MEOW~"
The sound was pleasant and gentle, its form comically endearing. If one could ignore that pale, stiff facial skin, it might even qualify to participate in a Pokémon Beauty Contest.
His vast experience with countless cats was evident in that instant. Li Ang squatted halfway down, forcing a slight smile.
No matter how illogical the current situation was, standing still was probably the worst option.Hesitation would lead to defeat.
"Mimi, be good..."
Li Ang slowly reached out towards the bizarre cat, pretending to want to pet the creature. Under the moonlight, one could vaguely see a wooden chopstick hidden in his sleeve.
The cat with a human face completely ignored Li Ang's gesture of goodwill, merely licking its paws self-absorbedly.
Little by little, Li Ang's palm drew closer, about to touch the cat's furry forehead. At the same time, he tilted his forearm slightly, allowing the wooden chopstick in his sleeve to slide down smoothly.
The cat with a human face squinted, using its freshly licked paw to scratch its ear in a grooming motion, oblivious to the impending danger.
From an angle utterly invisible to the bizarre cat, Li Ang's thumb firmly caught the sliding chopstick. At this distance, should the creature make any sudden movement, Li Ang could immediately reverse his grip on the chopstick and thrust it into its eye socket the next second.
The cat with a human face kept its head lowered, maintaining its grooming posture, simply meowing indifferently.
"MEOW~"
CLICK. CLICK. CLICK.
Suddenly, Li Ang felt his limbs become as heavy as if filled with lead; his joints felt as if cement had been injected between them, making it difficult to move. Attempting to shift his limbs, he could only hear harsh grating sounds.
In the span of a single breath, Li Ang had completely lost control of his limbs, resembling a statue, frozen in a half-squatting position with his hand outstretched.
The black cat emitted rapid breaths, HUFF, PUFF, HUFF, PUFF, the old woman's skin on its face contorted in pain, appearing especially terrifying in the dead silence.
After a while, the black cat got its breathing under control and staggered towards Li Ang.
Li Ang watched wide-eyed as the black cat slowly approached, leaped onto his knee, and began leisurely licking his chin with its pink, barbed tongue.
Once, twice, the frequency of the black cat's licks increased. The barbs on its tongue scraped across his skin, leaving bloody scratches and bringing a chilling pain.
Goosebumps instantly covered his body. So Zhang Cuilian hadn't fainted and died from acute diabetic complications, but just like me now, had been immobilized by this bizarre cat, forced to watch helplessly as her face was eaten away and her fingers and toes were gnawed off…
A chill engulfed his heart like a tide, as if he'd plunged into an ice cave.
Li Ang clenched his teeth, tensing every muscle in his body with all his might, yet only managing to slightly move his stiff and numb eyes, nose, mouth, and tongue.
As if satisfied with the taste of blood, the cat with a human face contentedly licked its lips. After a brief inspection, it suddenly opened its mouth wide, biting at Li Ang's chin.
HISS.
The cat's fangs pierced his skin; blood dripped profusely, flowing down Li Ang's neck.
It could no longer suppress its intense desire for flesh and blood; it needed to tear, gnaw, chew, swallow… to devour all those bipedal beasts that had lorded over it in the past…
The bizarre cat drank Li Ang's blood in a self-absorbed frenzy. As its limbs shifted, the buttons on the small, handmade Vest it wore came undone.
The pale yellow pet Vest fell to the ground. Unlike the sleek, glossy fur on the rest of its body, the fur concealed by the Vest was short, sparse, and matted, like untended weeds.
Beneath the matted fur, a series of grotesque and hideous scars spread wantonly—bruises, needle marks, knife slashes, cigarette burns…
These were the precious marks left by the black cat's former owner, the seemingly kind-hearted old lady.
As if recalling some unpleasant memory, the human-faced cat's tearing and gnawing became even more violent. For this master-slaying "pet," only by returning all the brutality to humans could it alleviate its resentful and chaotic emotions.
Li Ang strained to move his eyes, but could only see a dark shadow beneath his chin and feel the intense pain in his lower jaw.
"....."
He took a deep breath, forced his clenched teeth apart, stuck out his tongue, and viciously bit down!
The tip of his tongue was ruthlessly crushed by his sharp incisors. Blood gushed out, and an intense metallic taste filled his mouth, searing its way to his brain.
The oppressive feeling of being tightly bound instantly eased. Li Ang grabbed the wooden chopstick and, without hesitation, stabbed straight down.
SQUELCH!
The pointed end of the chopstick pierced straight through the bizarre cat's fluffy fur and soft skin, sliding down along the right side of its atlas vertebra until more than half of the chopstick was submerged in the human-faced cat's body.
The bizarre cat, as if struck by lightning, froze with its mouth half-open in a biting posture, its almond-colored pupils dimming instantly.
Li Ang stomped fiercely on the ground and lunged forward. Still gripping the chopstick, he slammed the black cat against the wall.
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
Punch after punch rained down on the bizarre cat's body like a sudden Gale.
Frontal bone, occipital bone, parietal bone, sphenoid bone, ribs, pterygoid bone, scapula, hip bone...
Silently, Li Ang crushed every bone in the human-faced cat's body.
DRIP. DRIP. Crimson blood dripped from Li Ang's withdrawn fists onto the ground.
HUFF...
He slowly exhaled, tossing the "cat pancake"—now nothing but fur, shattered bones, and a mush of flesh and blood—onto the ground.
The dense fog cleared, the moon emerged bright and clear, and the distant sounds of Bug Buzz and birdsong drifted through the air.
The ghost wall had disappeared.
[Detection: Player BC95***1568 has been eliminated by a non-player. BC95***1568 player status is now voided. Qualification transfer procedure initiating.]
[Qualification transfer procedure completed. Initial username: Li Ang]
[User level: LV1]
[Current XP: 0/100]
[Equipped: None]
[Items: None]
[User identified as a novice player. Novice guidance procedure initiating.]
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