Chrysalis

Chapter 1234: Lin Qiao was wrong

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

While Lin Qiao and Teng were making guesses about the number of those creatures, a red figure flashed across the air and darted before her car like a shooting star.

“Hey, the cat pulled ahead!” Teng said with surprise as he reached his head outside the window and popped his eyes to look around, as if he were really able to see the cat.

“It’s been following behind us quietly,” Lin Qiao was also confused, “How come it suddenly went ahead of us?”

Duan Juan who was driving joined the conversation, “Why is the cat not like the other underground creatures? All the other creatures emerge in herds. They ruin the environment and attack other animals once they come out. Why is the cat alone? Is it a rare species?”

Lin Qiao tended to agree with her. “Rare species? It’s indeed largely different from the other underground creatures. It’s strange indeed. It affected the environment when it came up from underground, but it’s not affecting the plants anymore.”

What was even stranger, the cat ate fruits instead of meat. But, why did it always bring meat to Lin Qiao?

Was that because the cat had seen Lin Qiao catch quite some mutated animals? It was not so smart, was it?

“Why does it follow only you?” Since the cat visited All Being Base and dropped the bird, people were sure that Lin Qiao was its target, because only when she showed up did it react.

“How am I supposed to know?” Lin Qiao had no answer to that question either. “Baby, do you know why?” She lowered her head and asked her son.

Teng gave her a glare and said, “The cat is following you, not me. How am I supposed to know why, when even you don’t know?”

“The cat is following you, and the large Tibetan mastiff is too. Why?” Duan Juan was so curious.

Lin Qiao thought for a moment and said, “Who knows if the dog is following me or not? It hasn’t done anything to me yet. It’s probably following you.”

At that moment, waves of beast roars were heard from the front.

“Roar!”

“Owooooo…”

Lin Qiao, Teng, and Duan Juan immediately turned to the front. Teng blinked his eyes as he leaned forward to look at the frontal area.

“Why are you popping your eyes like that? Can you see what’s over there?” Lin Qiao was amused by the look on the little boy’s face. She laughed and reached out to pinch the boy’s cheek.

The boy was about forty-five days old. His cheeks had grown chubby, and his eyes were bright all the time. He had delicate nose and mouth, and pink cheeks. His body temperature was much lower than that of normal human babies, but still, he had been very healthy and energetic.

He had plump and short limbs. He might have been crawling too much lately, which caused his knee skin to be a little coarse.

Teng felt a slight pain, so he raised a little hand and slapped off his mother’s hand, then ignored her as he stared at the frontal area through the windshield. Meanwhile, he said, “I can feel it! I have a very keen intuition! Wait and see! The big red cat will solve the problem for us!”

Lin Qiao looked at him with disbelief, “How do you know that? The cat has gone ahead of us, but you don’t know for sure that it’s able to drive the whole group of underground creatures away.”

The big cat was only at level-seven. The vibes coming from the frontal area were faint, but clearly stated the great number and power of those creatures. Reasonably speaking, those creatures wouldn’t be afraid of just one level-seven mutated beast. After all, a level-seven vibe was sensed from the herd too.

“As I’ve said, I can feel it,” Teng raised his chin and said proudly, “I won’t be wrong!”

Lin Wenwen looked at him and said, “Really? Do you have your Aunty Wenwen’s power?”

Teng shook his head and said, “No. My superpower isn’t awakened yet. I have a nature power, not my Aunty’s power. My intuition is just a faint feeling. I need to be close to the target to feel them.”

Lin Qiao smiled at him. Seeing the proud look on his face, she had her heart softened. She couldn’t help but scoop the boy up and bury her own face in the boy’s soft and elastic cheek to give him a kiss.

“Alright, I’ll wait and see. Let’s see if you’re right!”

Teng quickly wiped his face with his hand and said, “Ew! Why do you leave saliva on my face every time you kiss me!”

Lin Qiao lowered her head to look at the boy with an innocent look, “That’s not true. There’s no saliva on your cheek. You’re so young, but why are you a clean freak already?”

“Eh!” Teng made a face to her grumpily and said, “You’re wrong!”

Duan Juan turned back and glanced at the boy and his mother, then said with laughter, “Wenwen’s second power is special, but our Teng is special too. Our Teng is a special little baby!”

“Exactly! Aunty Duan knows about it clearly. Mama, I can’t believe that you don’t trust me,” Teng said, then crawled back to his own seat.

Meanwhile, the car moved closer and closer to those creatures. After entering the dangerous zone, Lin Qiao told everyone to get off the car, then put the cars into her space. After that, she carried Teng and moved toward a relatively tall hill, with the others following behind her. Soon, they found a few trees on the hill to hop on and looked ahead through the distance.

“Owooooo…”

“Roar…” The enormous red cat was attacking a group of rat-like creatures rampantly. Every time it bit a rat to death, it threw the dead body to the side.

“Whoa! Teng was right! What are those? Rats? They don’t look like rats. They have no hair… Are they earth rats?” Duan Juan stood on another branch on the tree that Lin Qiao was standing on and exclaimed.

They saw a herd of brown, hairless creatures, which had large and round ears and pointed noses. They looked like rats, each as big as an adult pig.

As same as regular rats, they had sharp noses, as well as large and round ears. However, they didn’t have any hair. Their forepaws were large and strong, and rear paws were relatively small. They also had short tails.

Their number wasn’t very large. Only thousands of them were seen, not even one in ten thousand as much as the rats that Lin Qiao had seen in the zoo area.

They all seemed panicked under the cat’s attack, running desperately in all directions. Only the enormous, level-seven one among them, which was about half the size as the cat, had been attempting to attack the cat. However, the cat dodged nimbly every single time and turned to leave a few deep scratches on its body.

By now, the huge rat was already covered in wounds.

“Roar!” The cat pounced on the huge rat, and the rat darted underground within a blink. After that, the cat turned and went after the other rats, seeming reluctant to go underground.

Lin Qiao looked at Teng and said, “So, the cat is catching rats. Alright, you won!”

She felt as if she were slapped in the face.