The child nodded, "I will help you." He grabbed the lighter on the stove and put it into Jiang Yingbai's hand, "Don't be afraid, I will help you."
[Props obtained: Inextinguishable lighter]
[Inextinguishable lighter (green level/sustainable upgrade)]
[Item function: Burn the ignited target to ashes. You can pause it with your mind or use props containing water and higher level than it to extinguish it. After the fuel is exhausted, the points can be topped up]
[Item description: Do you think I would say that its fire is the true fire of Samadhi? No, no, no, that’s too popular, its fire comes from the fourth child among the gourd children]
This is actually a prop!
Jiang Yingbai accepted it happily, "Do you know where I can find small fish?"
"I'll find it for you!" After hearing this, the child immediately squatted down and rummaged through the things in the cabinet. After a while, he dug out a pack of dried fish from a pile of miscellaneous things, "Here you go."
"Thank you!" Jiang Yingbai thanked him happily.
"I'm going back to my room, see you later, thank you," the child quickly ran out of the kitchen, the last part he said very, very quietly.
Jiang Yingbai walked towards the big lake next to the main building, where she had used her clone to dump the old man's body. Maybe she could see the black cat there.
Soon she saw the black cat in the pavilion by the lake. The black cat was sitting on the table looking at the sparkling lake.
Jiang Yingbai was shocked every time she looked at a pair of dark golden pupils. Jiang Yingbai didn't know whether it was its unique look that touched her, or the see-through emotions inside that touched her.
When the black cat saw someone approaching, he turned around and looked in the direction of the person with no intention of leaving.
"I want to talk to you."
Jiang Yingbai approached step by step.
"Meow~" The black cat tilted his head.
"I want to save your master, and I also want to save myself."
Expressing the same interests is the fastest way for strangers who don't trust each other to establish a short-term alliance. Offering free help from the beginning will only make people think that you have evil intentions.
"Meow~" Black Cat stared at her.
"Before, he was attacked by people in the compound, one at a time and two at a time. His situation is not optimistic, but I can save him."
Jiang Yingbai was only three meters away from the black cat, enough to catch the black cat in one sprint.
"Meow~" The black cat was indifferent.
"Not just saving his life."
"Meow!" The black cat raised the melon seeds as if to warn.
"And get him out," Jiang Yingbai stopped, raised the small dried fish in his hand, took out one and put it in his mouth, and threw the rest in front of the black cat.
It was salty, fishy, slightly bitter, and smelly. Jiang Yingbai had not eaten such unpleasant food for a long time. She controlled her expression not to show any displeasure.
The black cat lowered his head and smelled the dried fish, and a black smell floated into his nose from the dried fish.
"What are your plans, human."
"Wait a minute, you can speak?" Jiang Yingbai looked at the black cat in surprise.
The black cat pointed at Jiang Yingbai, "You can talk, why can't I?"
A cat that could talk and call itself Ben Meow was so strange. For a moment, she felt that some mysterious and noble filter had been shattered.
Jiang Yingbai retracted his surprised expression, "Ahem, I'm just a little curious."
The black cat raised its chin and said proudly, "Huh, human, put your curiosity aside. I am not an ordinary cat. I am a powerful cat god who was born from the essence of a thousand-year-old high-level mass graveyard."
Jiang Yingbai blurted out, "So the black mist you just ate is a soul?"
They also thought that their souls would be reincarnated after death.
The black cat was disdainful, "The point is the essence! Pay attention to the key points for me! Besides, how can I eat that kind of thing? What I eat is the breath of death."
"Oh," Jiang Yingbai took out a family photo from his pocket and changed the subject, "Is this the monster's true form?"
The black cat narrowed his eyes and looked at the family photo, "Where did you find it?"
"Your master's room," Jiang Yingbai returned honestly.
The black cat came close to the family portrait and smelled it, "I can feel its breath on it, but not all of it, it also has a derivative body."
"Do you know where it is?"
"Follow me," Black Cat jumped off the table, "Didn't it attack you?"
The main body is the most important thing to it. Any injury to the main body will alarm it. The human being in front of it is very ordinary, and the black cat doesn't think she can take it away unscathed.
"When I disturbed it, I knocked your master unconscious. After getting the things, I ran away, and then nothing happened." Looking back, Jiang Yingbai also felt that the whole process was too simple. He took another look at the family photo, and there was no such thing. Fraud.
In fact, it doesn't matter if it's a lie. Jiang Yingbai has already guessed what the true identity is.
The black cat thought for a while, "Maybe because destroying the family portrait will not threaten its life."
"Will it just hurt?"
"Yes."
Jiang Yingbai thought for a while and asked his most curious question, "How did your master become possessed by it?"
"He's stupid," Black Cat said speechlessly, "He heard someone say that there was a treasure on the mountain, so he stupidly went up the mountain to dig for treasure with tools. After digging for several days, he couldn't find the treasure, and he dug a corpse pit. It was nothing to put next to a white skeleton, but his hands were worn out because he dug in the ground for too long. The blood dripped on the painting and activated the monster in the painting."
"So that's it."
"How did you know that I would appear at the lake?" The black cat secretly observed Jiang Yingbai for several days. It was very sure that Jiang Yingbai was just an ordinary human being. The black cat was very surprised that she was fully prepared to meet him.
"The old lady told me," Jiang Yingbai replied honestly.
The black cat stopped and looked back at Jiang Yingbai, "What old lady?"
"The one in the backyard."
The black cat stared at Jiang Yingbai closely, "You are wrong, there is no one in the backyard at all. I have never seen anyone outside the compound."
"Maybe," Jiang Yingbai said casually.
It seems that the old woman is a clue given by the system. Only she and the children can see her. No wonder no one drives her away. Thinking of how fast the old woman ran away when they first met, maybe she can only communicate with the old woman by going with the children.
The black cat stopped outside the old man's room, "Here we are, I sensed that the derivative body is in this room, go find it quickly."
The door was unlocked. Jiang Yingbai glanced inside. It was filled with boxes of all sizes. The tables, refrigerators, bookshelves, and boxes were filled with colorful antiques, and the walls were covered with calligraphy and paintings.
"Aren't you going to help me?" Jiang Yingbai asked while turning around.
The black cat said arrogantly, "Hmph, how could Benmiao do such a thing that a servant should do?"
Jiang Yingbai: "..."
An hour later, Jiang Yingbai dug out a picture album from the secret compartment under the bed.
Jiang Yingbai raised the picture album and shook it at the black cat at the door, "Is this it?"
Jiang Yingbai sat on the bed, and the black cat ran towards her in a few steps, jumped on Jiang Yingbai's lap with its hind legs and put its nose close to the album and smelled it.
The black cat found a comfortable sitting position on Jiang Yingbai's lap, "Open it and take a look."
Although Jiang Yingbai was speechless about the black cat's behavior, he still reached out and flipped through the book, which contained detailed drawings of everything that happened in the compound during the four days.
After reading it, the black cat still stared at the album as if thinking about something. After a while, he said with certainty, "That's it."
Jiang Yingbai nodded, but he disagreed in his heart. It was too simple, everything was too simple.
Jiang Yingbai lifted the black cat on his lap and threw it to the ground, then put the album away, "Let's go then."
The black cat bared its teeth and said, "Damn human being, how dare you throw the great cat god to the ground!!!"
Jiang Yingbai ignored it.
