CH 17.3

Colonel Song got into an agreement with the superior that was leading the team, the soldiers that had come down with them would cooperate with the police, to go and inquire about news of the kidnappers.

After most of the people in the room had left, Li Ai Guo held a cigarette in his lips, but did not light it up to smoke out of politeness. He only rubbed the cigarette butt, his old face wrinkled like a bitter gourd.

Bai Xia Xia sneakily took a glance, Real.Sunk Face!

I feel that, soon, bitter gourd juice will be pressed out.

A red question mark emerged on Li Ai Guo’s forehead; Bai Xia Xia guessed that it would be related to the relics.

[Li Ai Guo’s worry: Important relics were sneakily hidden in a cave by evil smugglers, help Li Ai Guo find the whereabouts of the relics.]

[Upon the competition of the quest, 20 achievement points will be received.]

Until now, Bai Xia Xia still did not know what the achievement points could be used for, System: “After accumulating achievement points, you can create quests, you can also make a wish.”

“? Create quests?” Bai Xia Xia: “Create quests for who?”

System: “When the time comes, you’ll know.”

“Make a wish…” Bai Xia Xia’s adrenal glands produced adrenaline, her paws trembled from excitement, and the fur on the back of her neck pricked up: “Can I transform back into a human? Can I go back home?”

“In theory, you can, as for how much achievement points you would need, I don’t know either. You must slowly accumulate, accumulate to a certain level. I’ll naturally know what the achievement points can do.”

Bai Xia Xia roughly understood, in between her excitement, there was also hesitation and disappointment: “Can you guess, about how much will be needed.”

Hundreds and thousands will still be okay, but if the number is too high, I’ll be working in vain for the rest of my life, doing a hopeless endeavor[1], nothing more.

“Work well on your quests, be a bit more diligent, do quests that have a higher difficulty, then you’ll have hope.”

The quests done by Bai Xia Xia before were all those that could be done or not done, now, she could go home and transform into a human.

She became energetic, immediately receiving a second quest from Li Ai Guo.

Bai Xia Xia could delineate an approximate range of the relics’ positions; she and Da Hua had followed these guys for many days.

She had sniffed the scent, adding on Da Hua’s hunting skills, they had practically delineated Old Liao and the others’ range of activity.

If Bai Xia Xia told the range of activity to Song Bei, who knew if they would be able to find them.

Bai Xia Xia frowned with her cat face and tried her best to recall the conversation that she had eavesdropped that day, pondering if there was any clue about the artifacts in it.

“…sorry, Captain Li, there’re no clues from my side.” In the latter half of his stay in Cuilian Mountain, Qin Xiao had been physically exhausted, had suffered massive blood loss, and had only braced himself solely through his extraordinary willpower.

His mind had been groggy, and the things that he looked at had appeared blurry, making him unable to find traces of Old Liao and the others.

At that time, he did not have the capability to kill the three people, so he had simply given up. Then decided to search for an appropriate place to hide the clues and leave them to his comrades.

Qin Xiao: “Old Liao is sly and vicious person, always leaving an escape route. Now, he’s secure knowing that he has something to back him up and is playing games with us by withholding the trail of the kidnappers, there’s no way on his side. It’s better to look at Wang Peng and Old Second Bai, putting some pressure on them, since they have already fallen into the net, without any hope. If we manage to make them turn into our camp, not only do they know about the hiding place of the relics, but they can also help us get information from Old Liao.”

Hearing Qin Xiao speaking about these two people, the corner of Li Ai Guo’s mouth turned up into a sneer: “These three people are all wily old foxes and difficult to deal with, those two acted pretentiously to try to scare me and blackmail me, we must first give them the cold shoulder for two days, if we can’t find the things, it won’t be late to talk to them then.”

Bai Xia Xia listened to Li Ai Guo and the others discuss the case, all directions were very interesting.

In this decade, there were no superb inspection technology, there were no camaras placed everywhere, there was no complete household registration system, to solve a case, police relied more on each person’s skills, using the most traditional ways to solve cases.

Bai Xia Xia, who was listening, was able to feel Li Ai Guo’s strong logical thinking and ability.

It was a pity, communication was poor, much of his ability could not be exerted at all, and his commands could not be delivered smoothly either.

His restlessness and irritation were not without any reason.

Li Ai Guo was very busy, so he also left in a hurry.

Only Song Bei and the others remained in the room.

Bai Xia Xia pushed ah pushed, wanting to drill out her tiny head from under the curtain. But the front of the curtain seemed as if it had a wall spanning across it, the kitty pushed ah pushed, pushing against the immovable wall, but it was only wasting its strength: “Meow??”

“…Guo Chao Ming, you’re so naïve!”

Bai Xia Xia was angry, the snow-white kitty immediately and resolutely changed directions, running out from the back of the curtain like lightning, then bared its teeth and scratched at Guo Chao Ming.

Guo Chao Ming was startled, retracting his hand subconsciously; Bai Xia Xia passed over Guo Chao Ming in the air, in the instant when they crisscrossed, Guo Chao Ming clearly saw the cat eyes staring at him, its gaze proud and disdainful.

Meowing once, “You bastard!”

No mark was left on Guo Chao Ming’s hand, Bai Xia Xia had only used her paw to hit the back of his hand.

The truth was that, her claws had not been extended out, it was only to scare.

Guo Chao Ming had sharp eyes and agile hands, the speed of a soldier from the special forces was like lightning. In the moment when Bai Xia Xia passed in front of him, he decisively made his move, holding her in his embrace.

His palm stroked from her head to the end, then dragged the tip of the tail, ruthlessly pulling twice: “Speak, where did you go to fool around?”

Kitty unhappily struggled: Wuwuwu[2], I’m unclean again!

Guo Chao Ming’s right hand pinched the kitty’s two paws, with his arm partly pressed on the big bundle, he elatedly suppressed it in a hug and sat down.

“…I announce, from now on, you’re my cat.”

Guo Chao Ming refused to give up his sinister designs; Bai Xia Xia rolled her eyes big time, her tail escaped from the bondage, pointing straight at Qin Xiao, then grieved like a pair of lovers that were separated[3]: “Meow!”

Guo Chao Ming angrily caught the little cat’s tail.

One human, one cat, fought energetically.

Song Bei covered his forehead with a headache, Guo Three Years, no more.

Translator’s comments:

Bai Xia Xia can transform into a human~ Guo Chao Ming is really obsessed with her, but he’s not the ML.

Translator’s notes:

[1] Idiomatic expression ‘水中捞月 (shuǐ zhōng lāo yuè)’: lit. translation: ‘scoop the moon out of the water’. It means ‘to do something that can’t be done, despite looking like it can’.

[2] Those are crying sounds.

[3] Idiomatic expression ‘棒打鸳鸯 (bàng dǎ yuān yāng)’: lit. translation: ‘hitting mandarin ducks with a stick’. It means ‘to break up a pair of lovers’.