Chapter 1228 - 1225: The Fall of the Cat Race's Prodigy

"Whoosh—"

The Luwu Fighter took off, drawing a dreamlike ion curtain across the night sky, then, at a speed fast enough to break Blue Star's gravitational shackles and leave the planet, looped back over Xia Country and descended above Xia Dong Jiule City.

The Luwu Fighter landed at Lin Ying's villa.

"Huh? What's going on in the village, why is it so lively?"

As Ansheng was landing, he looked out from the window and saw the bustling crowds in Changxi Town, and couldn't help craning his neck curiously to look.

Right now Xia Country time was around nine in the evening. It was still early, but during the New Year, if Xia East People weren't drinking and bragging at this hour, they'd be drinking tea and catching up.

Who gathers in the street at night like this, huddled together whispering about something?

Ansheng shuffled his way out of Lin Ying's family home into the crowd and found professional onlooker Ah Qing.

"Ah Qing, what's going on in there? Why is everyone crowding around the Chen Family's door..."

Ansheng tugged on Ah Qing's horse-face skirt and voiced his curiosity.

"Eh? Xiaolan, you're back?"

Ah Qing looked at the Little Fox in surprise.

Normally when the Little Fox said he was going on a business trip, he'd be gone at least a day or two; this time it hadn't even been half a day.

"The transport's been upgraded recently, a bit faster. Once we touched down, Huhu threw three punches and the other side was already dazed..." Ansheng casually explained his business trip.

When he went on business trips to negotiate, he never wasted time—what held him back was the transport. Every time he had to sit on a plane for half a day.

Now, with the Luwu Fighter, Master Fuli could elegantly air-drop himself anywhere on Blue Star within half an hour.

"Oh..."

Ah Qing gave a vague reply, put Huhu back on her shoulder, rubbed him with her cheek and said:

"Actually, it's nothing major, it's just that the village chief's family is negotiating something right now."

"A schnauzer took advantage of a life-and-death battle between a Cat Race prodigy and a Rat Race powerhouse to secretly make a dirty move."

"Before the Cat Race prodigy died, it summoned a Human Race supreme..."

Ah Qing started telling the Little Fox what had just happened.

A kitten was in the middle of hunting a big rat about the same size as itself; the two sides were fighting until they were both exhausted. Just then a schnauzer dog appeared out of nowhere and, with one bite each, swallowed both the kitten and the big rat.

Of course.

Under normal circumstances, something like this wouldn't be enough to draw the entire idle neighborhood out to gawk.

But that kitten wasn't simple. Its parents were both certified competition-grade Bengal leopard cats.

The kitten's quality surpassed even its parents, with a market price reaching a staggering 120,000.

If it competed in shows in the future, its value could rise even more—it was a Cat Race prodigy. But that kitten dropped dead right in front of its own door.

The kitten's parents flew into a rage and immediately called the police, determined to get justice.

Right now the cat and dog owners, along with the security officers, were at the village chief's house mediating.

"...Your village really has skills, huh? Even raising a cat comes out to over a hundred thousand."

After Ansheng understood what had happened, he couldn't help showing a look of amazement and made a wry comment.

"During New Year, any kind of rich weirdo can pop up in the village!" Ah Qing said with a comical expression.

Normally the owners of that leopard cat and schnauzer didn't live in Changxi Town; they were just visiting relatives for the New Year and had brought their pets back to the countryside to play.

Usually in the village, the most valuable things were the feng shui fish in fish tanks or ponds.

Among the things that run and jump, the priciest was the family at the village entrance's pet-grade border collie, worth eight thousand.

"It's not just 120,000!"

"That thing, if you go by R&D costs and annual production numbers, each one is worth several million dollars."

While Ah Qing was still complaining, the guy wearing a satin shirt beside her spoke quietly:

"Killing that leopard cat without alarming anyone took us quite a bit of effort..."

"And the schnauzer isn't actually a schnauzer. It comes from Old Europa nobility, calls itself 'Nix,' but is in fact a Genetic Translocator with dire wolf blood."

"Hm?"

Ansheng and Ah Qing both turned their heads in surprise to look at the guy who'd spoken.

"And you are?"

Looking at the flashy guy in the glittering suit shirt, Ansheng asked with a puzzled face.

"I'm that schnauzer's second son..." The flashy guy said with an overly humble face. "I know folks in Xia Country aren't sensitive to foreign names, so just call me Second Son."

"We knew Master Fuli was going out, so after we tied up Little Angel, we've been guarding Master Fuli's house and the village entrance the whole time. And wouldn't you know it, we spotted something fishy..."

The Alaska incident had just happened and hadn't yet spread through the Spirit Particle Realm.

But Master Fuli's prestige was long established. Just yesterday he'd scolded a bunch of Landlords of Longevity in the villa, clearly losing his temper. The Landlords of Longevity, guilty as sin afterwards, aside from trying to flatter him and shower him with gifts,

were also planning to play the victim a bit to get closer to Master Fuli, so things would be easier to talk about when they met again.

After they finished beating up Little Angel and locking him in the bathroom at the villa, they scattered around Changxi Town to do a token patrol, planning to have something to report to Master Fuli when they apologized.

And then.

On this little stroll, they really did find something unusual.

The kitten was indeed a cat, but it had human genes in its body. It belonged to a special Spirit Beast type developed by the America military for decapitation-style assassinations.

The Landlords of Longevity were overjoyed to find this opportunity; without a word, they directly took the kitten out.

Along the way, they also arranged for a dog owner and staged the entire incident beautifully.

"There's something like that?"

Ansheng looked surprised and asked, "So... did you find any info or something?"

"Do we even need to think about it? That kitten was definitely tailing us, or targeting Master Fuli..."

Second Son said confidently, analyzing: "The Life Sciences tech in that leopard cat came from the military, meaning from the faction hostile to us..."

"It either came to snoop on our gathering, or it was specifically here for you, Master Fuli."

The core member–level Landlords of Longevity gathering in Changxi Town, Xia Country, was never a small matter.

They could easily sway national policy, and could trigger a financial tsunami anytime, anywhere, to devour and harvest the wealth other countries had accumulated over many years. Their status was extremely significant.

However.

Jiule City wasn't simple either. There were Sea Beasts in the sea, Security Bureau and public security surveillance on land, and inside the city, the Spirit Beast Gang's informants and streetwise Spirit Beasts.

Any Spirit Beast or Genetic Translocator trying to infiltrate Changxi Town would find the difficulty no less than publicly assassinating a head-of-state-level figure.

The Longevity Club chose to meet here, aside from Master Fuli himself, precisely because of the omnipresent defenses and tight security.

"Uh... is this even stuff I'm allowed to hear?" Ah Qing froze, then looked at the Little Fox on her shoulder and asked:

"I feel like after hearing all this, I'll have to tape my mouth shut when I sleep tonight."

"What's there that you can't hear..."

Ansheng let out a soft "yip," then looked toward the Chen Family and said:

"Do you have your phone on you? Call the War Department like I tell you."

"Tell them to patch you through to Missile Ghost, and have them ask what's going on with the leopard cat they sent to Changxi Town."