Reborn Cat Sheriff

Chapter 688 Immortal Boat
Lin Ge stopped Zhang Ke's actions.

It's getting late; night will fall in just two or three hours. If I go back to the police station to gather my men and bring them over now, it will probably be completely dark before we get any work done.

Even though cats are nocturnal, it's a bit unfair to them to be looking for such small things late at night.

Therefore, Ringo did not intend to waste time.

He came to the balcony, glanced at the Maine Coon playing hide-and-seek with a magpie in the bushes not far away, then climbed over the balcony and onto the tree, slowly walking towards the big guy.

"Woo!"

The Maine Coon quickly noticed Ringo's movements, stopped in its tracks, looked wary, and let out a threatening growl.

But after staring at Lingo for a short while, the wariness in its eyes quickly dissipated. Seemingly confirming Lingo's friendly attitude, the creature turned its head, flicked its tail, and refocused its attention on the magpie above its head.

"Hey! Big cat, can you do me a favor? Holy crap!"

Just as Lin Ge was only two trees away from it and was about to greet it, the creature suddenly pounced and slammed the unfortunate magpie against a branch.

Despite its large size, this creature is surprisingly fast. The unfortunate magpie didn't even have time to escape before being tackled and then attacked by the Maine Coon with its jaws wide open.

"Cuck!"

The unfortunate magpie was terrified, struggling and screaming in agony.

But its pleas for mercy were to no avail; the Maine Coon lowered its head and snatched the magpie in its beak. The Maine Coon even shook its head violently, making the magpie dizzy and stop struggling, before finally carrying it towards Ringo with satisfaction.

It seems that the bird is to be given to Lingo as a gift.

"Hey! Spare the bird's beak!"

Lin Ge was startled by the guy's recklessness.

More importantly, Lin Ge knew that any magpie that imitated a crow's call was a lackey of his own lowly bird. Normally, it was the law of nature for them to be killed by cats, but this guy brought it right in front of me—was he asking me to do anything about it?
In addition, Lin Ge came here on important business, and there was something he needed from the magpie.

So, to the Maine Coon's astonishment, Ringo swiftly rushed over and snatched the magpie from its mouth. After checking that it wasn't injured, he put the poor creature down; the unfortunate fellow, covered in drool and still shaken, quickly stumbled and hid behind Ringo.

"Quack! Quack!"

It seemed terrified, like a fledgling bird targeted by an eagle, only able to hide behind its mother and cry out helplessly.

"Cat?"

The Maine Coon tilted its head and looked at Ringo, not understanding what he was going to do.

"Thank you for the gift! It was a bit of a hassle, but I appreciate your kindness. However, I'm not used to eating furry things, so just leave the live one for me. I need its help with something else."

Regardless of whether the Maine Coon could understand, Ringo still expressed his gratitude to it.

This cat was clearly the leader of all the cats in the research institute compound, because in the animal world, the only thing needed to become a leader is overwhelming strength. Its initial acceptance and...goodwill essentially earned Lin Ge the approval of all the cats in the institute. The reason Lin Ge stopped Zhang Ke from running around was that he planned to directly recruit laborers on the spot. With the Maine Coon's attitude, it would be very easy for Lin Ge to command the other cats from now on.

"Meow~"

The Maine Coon seemed to understand Ringo's meaning, responding with a meow and a tail flick. It didn't care whether Ringo liked to eat birds, but since it had accepted its gift, they were on the same side.

"So, how about you do me a favor next?"

Ringo meowed at the Maine Coon twice more, trying to use feline language to make the creature understand that he needed its help.

To be honest, this is a bit tricky, because storage devices... are generally hard for cats to understand. When Lingo directs his men to find things, he usually gives them a general description, but this thing they're looking for today...

"Meow!"

Surprisingly, the Maine Coon seemed to understand.

"Meow~ Meow~~"

That's just like the research institute's cat!
Under Ringo's astonished gaze, the Maine Coon turned and howled towards the family quarters. Its howl surprised Ringo; it roared desperately, but the more it howled, the stranger it became, its voice soft and sticky, a cute contrast that didn't sound like a lion at all.

"Are you a male cat?"

Lin Ge's lips twitched. He hadn't expected that such a large creature, which looked to be at least twenty pounds, would growl more and more slurred the harder it roared. If it weren't for the fact that it still had testicles on its rear end, Lin Ge would almost have thought it had been castrated.

Maine Coon cats, are they really such adorable creatures with such a contrasting personality?
Lin Ge remembered that Li Yiduo's villa had a Maine Coon, but that guy was still young, so it was hard to tell whether he would grow up to be a sissy with a powerful physique like this one.

Even so, the boss is the boss, and soon all sorts of cats came running out from the balconies of the neighborhood, giving the Maine Coon a chaotic response.

The appearance of so many cats terrified the magpie behind Lingo. It looked at Lingo, who had saved it, and then at the dozen or so cats that were climbing trees from various floors and rapidly converging on it. With a flap of its wings, it took off running.

Lin Ge didn't have time to pay attention to it; he was only satisfied with the dozen or so little creatures of all kinds that had gathered around him.

"Everyone, I need your help! Look for something in these trees, under all the branches and leaves! Something that looks suspicious at first glance, hidden somewhere like this, please find it for me!"

Lin Ge began directing the cats to work without any hesitation. This was something he was very familiar with, except that describing the target's appearance was a little troublesome.

Ultimately, these cats all gave him face.

Although pet cats are more willful than stray cats and less obedient than their younger siblings, Ringo is special after all. Plus, with a Maine Coon to keep things in order, these cats, though a mess, began searching around.

"Tsk tsk... Even witnessing this with my own eyes, it still seems unbelievable!"

Standing on the balcony, Comrade Guoan watched as Lin Ge effortlessly gathered all the cats in the neighborhood and commanded them to do things, and immediately exclaimed in amazement.

He glanced back at Wu Duan, and sure enough, the boy's face had turned extremely ugly.

This way, you'll have a better idea of ​​what's hidden somewhere in the tree.

But if a human is determined to hide something, can these cats really find it? The memory card is worth at least eight figures, so Wu Duan wouldn't just casually throw it in a crack.

He's a researcher specializing in materials, so it probably wouldn't be difficult for him to come up with something disguised or misleading.

So even though Lingo and his new friends were jumping and wandering around in the trees, Guoan still didn't have much confidence.

But now that things have come to this point, the thing must be somewhere nearby! Even if the cat can't find it, we can use manpower and work hard to cut these trees into sections, and then search slowly, pointing one by one, until we find that damn thing!
"Where exactly is that thing hidden? Given Wu Duan's size and the fact that he needs to avoid people, it can't be too far from the balcony. After all, if someone sees him climbing a tree like a monkey, what he's doing will be exposed. Another question is, how did he get this memory card from Huang Gang? Of course, this can be done with prior preparation, but the thing is definitely somewhere in this tree?"

Lin Ge squatted on the tree branch and looked back at Wu Duan. He found that the guy had his head down and was not saying a word. Under the escort of two armed police officers, he did not show any resistance.

So Ringo thought for a moment, then handed the search task over to the Maine Coon and his little brothers, while he himself followed the tree branches back to the seventh-floor balcony.

This time, however, Lin Ge didn't go to Wu Duan's house. Instead, he went to the balcony of the retired professor next door. This balcony was filled with all sorts of flowers and plants, including a gardenia tree over a meter tall and a jasmine tree. Heaven knows what the person who planted those trees on the balcony was thinking. There were already sturdy green trees right in front of them, so big that several people couldn't wrap their arms around them, yet they still insisted on planting a few more at home. Did they think there wasn't enough greenery?

Lin Ge had previously considered whether Wu Duan had hidden the item in his neighbor's house, since the retired professor and his wife had a good impression of him. However, hiding it in someone else's house would inevitably lead to discovery, so Lin Ge felt the possibility was low.

Since he couldn't find anything at the moment, Lin Ge had no choice but to include this area in his search and personally went to the professor's house for a walk.

The house was quite cluttered, with all sorts of random things crammed into every room. The old professor and his wife were comforted by Li Siyu and sat on the sofa, letting Lin Ge wander around inside and outside the house, their expressions rather unpleasant.

But knowing the nature of the matter, although he questioned what a cat could possibly do, he did not stop Lingo from jumping onto his bed and table.

Soon, Lin Ge returned empty-handed once again.

There wasn't much of Wu Duan's scent in the old professor's house; it was only present in the living room, dining room, and balcony. Following these scents didn't reveal anything suspicious. After all, he was determined to hide, so how could they be found so quickly?

"These flowers and plants on your balcony must be hard to take care of, right?" Nie Guoqiang stood with his arms crossed in a corner of the living room, quietly watching Lin Ge jump back from the balcony onto the tree outside and rejoin the search.

"They're not very easy to care for; several of the ones I bought before died from disease. These two were given to me by Wu Duan. He said he got them from a classmate who studies plants at school. They're definitely easier to care for than the ones you buy outside, and the flowers are more beautiful."

After calming down, the old professor realized the seriousness of the matter and stopped blindly vouching for Wu Duan as he had done before.

But as he spoke, a look of regret crept into his eyes. If Wu Duan really was that bad kid who stole the research institute's data, how disappointed he must be.

"Was this given to you by Wu Duan?"

Nie Guoqiang and Guoan exchanged a glance.

He immediately ordered Zhang Ke and a member of the National Security Bureau to go straight to the balcony and pull the two potted plants out of the large ceramic pots. One person checked the plants while the other searched through the soil, quickly making a mess of the balcony.

The old professor had anticipated this scene after he mentioned it. After comforting his wife, he squinted and quietly watched the people on the balcony.

The group carefully rubbed all the sand and soil in the flowerpots, leaving no stone unturned, not missing a single pebble or clump of mud. To ensure there were no areas missed, they borrowed a clean, empty plastic bucket from the old professor and transferred all the soil they had rummaged through into it.

Even so, after all that effort, they still found nothing. They didn't find their target among the trees and potted plants.

"I'm sorry! My colleague will come over later to arrange compensation for your plants."

Comrade Guo An apologized to the old professor, but still decided to pack up all the flowers and plants and take them with him. Soil is a natural place to hide things, and during the day they even dug up all the soil in the research institute's courtyard that had been disturbed.

"No need! If he really is a bad person, I don't want to keep any of his things! Besides! As long as it can solve the research institute's problems, what do these flowers and plants matter?"

The old professor waved his hand dismissively, showing he could tell what was important and what wasn't.

"Meow~"

Among the bushes, several cats were getting a little bored playing. After all, walking back and forth was utterly pointless; it would be better to go home and fawn over their old owner, where they could at least get some treats.

"Could it be that I really made a mistake? But that doesn't make sense either, Wu Duan's expression at that time didn't seem like he was faking it."

Lin Ge was also somewhat puzzled.

How did this guy do it? What methods did he use to hide something so completely without leaving a trace?

"Is it related to what he's researching?"

Lin Ge glanced at Wu Duan again.

But it's getting dark, so there's no point in saying anything more. If they really can't find it today, Beijing Guoan will definitely use all sorts of methods tomorrow, so Lin Ge doesn't need to worry about it.

It's just that I failed to find something the first time, and I still feel uneasy about it.

If there's really nothing they can do about it, Lin Ge estimates he won't be able to sleep tonight because he's so angry.

"Cuck!"

Just then, a series of chaotic caws suddenly came from overhead.

Lin Ge looked up, and all the cats nearby looked up in astonishment as a dark mass of birds flew rapidly toward them, making unpleasant noises as they flew.

"This guy……"

Lin Ge's lips twitched slightly; he could tell at a glance that the leader was none other than the scoundrel.

Several months passed in the blink of an eye, and this guy's influence grew larger and larger. Just look at the air force squadron that flew over now, scaring these cats half to death; there were at least forty or fifty birds.

Besides a large number of magpies, there were also sparrows, light-vented bulbuls, doves, tits, mynas, azure-winged magpies, and many other small birds that Lin Ge didn't recognize. Among these creatures were even a few real crows, whose origins Lin Ge had apparently conquered. In short, these birds were all making a chaotic, incoherent cacophony, mimicking the calls of crows, a dense, overwhelming chorus. It was as if they were seeking revenge for their bullied underlings, aggressively swooping towards them.

The cats, who had never seen anything like this before, were terrified and their fur stood on end. They meowed and adopted aggressive postures, fiercely confronting the approaching air force from the sky.

Even the big Maine was startled, squinting and looking at his own balcony with some fear.

But seeing Lingo calmly approach the birds, the guy quickly calmed down and cautiously followed behind Lingo.

"Meow~"

"Cuck!"

"Meow~"

“Quack~”

The sounds of cats meowing and birds chirping created a chaotic and strange atmosphere.

At this moment, even the police officers and state security officers who were still working nearby looked up in astonishment at this scene, completely bewildered as to what had happened.

"Ouch! What are you yelling for! It's so noisy!"

Lin Ge felt a sharp pain in his ears from the chaotic noise, so he jumped to the top of the tree and roared at the nasty bird.

The distinctive howl brought the birdsong to an abrupt halt.

Except for a few slow-reacting birds that chirped a couple of times, the rest of the birds followed the scoundrel and landed on the tree opposite Lingo. With the cat joining them from behind Lingo, the two sides faced off as if about to engage in battle.

"Quack!"

The scoundrel called out to Ringo, then raised one wing, seemingly showing off his little brothers to Ringo.

"Stop fooling around! I called you here because I need your help with something!"

Lin Ge was too lazy to argue with the wretched bird, and had no interest in its ambition to conquer the sky. He even discovered something else: real crows don't caw, they caw!
In other words, the call that the rascal imitates and forces its subordinates to learn is not the sound of a crow, but rather... a deeper sound, which, upon closer inspection, sounds more like a raven, possessing a unique quality.

In European mythology, the raven was even the pet of Odin, the king of the gods.

Of course, in the country, this kind of creature is called a crow.

After a while of lost in thought, and once the minions of the scoundrel had quieted down and the cats' guard had lowered slightly, Lin Ge finally gave the scoundrel orders to lead its minions in a search of the trees for anything unusual.

To be honest, birds are definitely better at this than cats.

These creatures live in trees from birth, and no difference or change in the branches and leaves can escape their notice. Even a well-camouflaged little insect cannot escape their prey, let alone something larger than an insect.

"Quack!"

The cheap bird tried to bargain.

A magpie next to it was hopping around and squawking at the big Maine, seemingly complaining and asking its leader to avenge it.

As a result, the scoundrel pecked at it, and the guy immediately became docile.

Then, among the scoundrel's henchmen, especially the magpies he had tamed earliest, they had cooperated with Ringo's underlings, searching for and enjoying food together. Therefore, they were not afraid of Ringo's cat pack, and even eagerly wanted to approach.

If you build a good relationship with them, you can get free food later. These birds are actually quite clever.

(End of this chapter)