Rebirth: I can easily control the end-of-the-world game

Chapter 690 [Land of Grace] 12

“There really is…” Feng Lan didn’t finish her sentence.

She never expected that Hua Hua's habit of splitting branches wherever it went and waiting for a rabbit to run into it would actually lead to a rabbit being caught.

Just as they finished picking enough mushrooms, Feng Lan stored all the mushrooms the three of them had picked into her spatial storage. Together with an excited Hua Hua and an incredulous Bi Ke, she teleported to the location Hua Hua had mentioned.

"Sir, there's been a small problem... We might not be able to move for three days."

"what happened?"

“Jiuqiu has changed his mind and said he’s quitting. Without him, we can’t open the gate and leave.”

"Jiuqiu?! Does he not want to know anything about Yuanjun anymore?"

"Um... um, sir, Yori-kun, Yori-kun, it seems he's come back on his own... so, so..."

Both spirits fell silent for a moment. The illness was truly unexpected; the most reliable link had actually run into trouble.

Without Jiuqiu opening the gate, even if he tricked a lot of cat people into coming here, it would all be in vain if he couldn't get out.

"Is that Yuan-kun... real or fake?"

"Okay, it seems true, but I saw her fall into the swamp under the tree, turn into a spirit and disappear, dying under my tree! It's really true!"

“Then it’s fake,” the leader of the spirits declared. Even if it were real, in order for Jiuqiu to take action, the Yuanjun who returned had to be fake. “Go, say that Jiuqiu went so far as to study forbidden techniques to revive the dead cat people in order to revive Yuanjun. I don’t believe that the cat people didn’t react.”

For the gods, bringing the dead back to life is not difficult. As long as the cat people bring the bodies of the dead cats to the temple, the gods will approve of any reasonable accidental death.

The most typical example is the cat people who die unexpectedly while fighting against outsiders. In such cases, as long as the body is present, the cat people can be resurrected by the gods.

The gods will not agree to the life or death of outsiders.

Jiuqiu was an outsider brought in by Yuanjun.

He is human, even if he is Yuanjun's partner.

Humans cannot enter the temple.

Yuanjun is not dead, but missing.

In this world, without identity or home, one can only stay at the Exile Dock. Before Feng Lan moves into her own house, Hua Hua Bi Ke will stay there.

Now, Jiuqiu, whose lover has disappeared, is also there; he can only stay there.

Feng Lan squatted in the shade of a tall tree, listening to two spirits below discussing how to separate the young couple who had finally managed to reunite.

"Heh." She let out a cold purr from her throat.

"Who?" The two spirits below were shocked. The leading spirit was faster. A strange cloud of smoke suddenly appeared, obscuring the view. It quickly fled into the smoke, leaving its subordinates behind, who were a little confused and slow to react.

"Su—" The vines in the forest seemed to come alive, and in the blink of an eye, they caught the escaped spirit through the smoke.

"What a terrible plan." Feng Lan looked at the two spirits who had been captured by Hua Hua. After listening for a long time, she felt that the plan the two spirits came up with was not only malicious but also full of flaws.

Well, perhaps this is what a high-energy world is like; absolute power often breeds pure idiocy.

"who are you?"

"We were having a nice chat, and you suddenly tied us up. Be careful, or I'll have the guards report you for human trafficking!"

Feng Lan jumped down from the tree branch, stepped onto the colorful vines, and walked to the two spirits, her pupils glowing silver.

"Now, tell me your plan, who your superior is, how many people you have arrested, and where they are hiding."

When the leading spirit met Feng Lan's eyes, it struggled for a moment but still fell into hypnosis, unable to wake up no matter how the subordinate spirits beside it called out to it.

"Boss, boss, wake up!"

“We captured 237 cat citizens and hid them at the exile dock, where they were waiting to meet us online.”

"So noisy!" Bi Ke angrily slammed the spirit into the sealed bubble. Today was supposed to be a family outing, but it was all because of these two!

Feng Lan asked about Jiu Qiu in detail. This spirit didn't know much either. After all, they met Jiu Qiu at the exile dock. It was because of the special nature of the other party's race that they could open the boundary gate. So they used the other party's missing lover Yuan Jun as bait to seduce him. They didn't expect that he would leave now. This dog is immoral and said that he was quitting!

The hypnotized spirit is full of resentment.

It went through so much trouble to trick and capture so many cats, it needs to be moved quickly, otherwise it will be very troublesome if it is discovered later. Now that Jiuqiu's wife is back, he doesn't want to work anymore. Has he ever considered their cooperation?

After the interrogation was over, Feng Lan looked at her subordinates and asked them again.

Compared to the leader, this subordinate knew less key information, but because he was in charge, the information was more specific: where the deceived cat people came from, whether they had relatives, how long they had been there, and whether there were any targets yet to be targeted.

"We'd been keeping an eye on this for years, but we only started making our move recently after the boss confirmed his departure date..."

"If you find a suitable excuse, it won't be discovered for at least ten days or half a month."

"Some cats have cavitation syndrome. No one will pay special attention if such cats disappear. It's normal for cats with cavitation syndrome to disappear."

"Hollowness syndrome," coupled with her identity as a spirit point, made it hard for Feng Lan not to think of Apni. She changed the subject of her interrogation, "Do you have some undiscovered companions, no, cooperative spirits, who specifically stay around cats and induce reclusive cat people to develop hollowness syndrome?"

"Yes."

Feng Lan realized that this was a well-established and complex industrial chain hidden beneath a peaceful world.

Apni was not an isolated case. If she hadn't exposed it, she probably would have disappeared soon. It wasn't that the spirit induced her to think she was dying, but rather that she was abducted to another world by this group of spirits.

Feng Lan knew without even thinking that the consequences wouldn't be good.

They might be sold into slavery, used as test subjects, have their inner strength drained, or face some other, even worse fate.

"Damn it..." she said softly, her cold gaze fixed on the two spirits that had regained consciousness. "I take back what I said before."

“You are not stupid at all,” she sneered, “clever and audacious greedy people.”

This mature industry chain has been operating for who knows how long, and how many cats and spirits have been abducted.

Without hesitation, Feng Lan took the two cats and went to find the black cat immediately.

These two spirits know so much, their identities are probably not simple. We should hand them over to the black cat as soon as possible so that the cat has time to react and save people. If those evil spirits realize what's going on and move the location or take them away beforehand, it will be troublesome.

The space remained blurry, and the black cat stayed in the smoke-filled room, as if it had always been there.

It was Bi Kehua's first time here. She stayed behind Feng Lan, curiously looking around the room. She made eye contact with the tiger cat in the corner. The tiger cat flicked its tail, and Bi Kehua's eyes darted over.

After hearing what had happened, the black cat pondered for a moment, "...We know about this; there are cats watching them."

Feng Lan instantly understood that they were planning to wipe them all out in one fell swoop. "Then these two..."

“Just put them back,” the black cat said, looking at the two struggling spirits and stretching its long tail toward them. “Before that, we need to erase some of their memories.”