An hour later.

Zheng Haoran looked at the back kitchen that had become a ruin dumbfounded, rolled up his sleeves, and scolded and scolded to beat up the unfilial son.

was pulled by Chun Tao, who couldn't cry or laugh, and Yue Linglong, who felt sorry for her husband.

It's good to say that Chun Tao used eighteen kinds of martial arts to persuade her irritable husband.

And the initiator of everything, General Zheng Shao, was hiding in a corner of Zheng's house, and at the same time as he was destined to celebrate the thirteenth day of the wind, he made a basin of clear water, and scrubbed a black "creature" up and down, left and right, front and back in the basin.

Invisible to the naked eye, with Zheng Xiu's scrubbing, a crooked "black smoke" rubbed down from the body of the "black creature", spiraling into the sky, quite spectacular.

"Chirp."

"Chirp."

Several strange creatures like "swimming fish" let out bird-like cries and swam without water, hovering beside Zheng Xiu, curiously looking at the basin of black dirt brushed out.

The "swimming fish" is only the size of a palm, and on the surface it looks like a "fish", but only a decaying skeleton remains, and the eyes are glowing red, and on the skeleton, many feather-like tentacles stretch out and swing.

This thing is what Zheng Xiu "cooked" in the pot not long ago.

"Stretch your neck."

"Turn around, and put your hand up."

"Tail cocked, butt washed."

"Yes, that's it, turn your legs apart, have you ever seen a dog pee...... No? Can't you learn right away, can't you wash it yet? ”

"Hehe, if it was Fengbei, she would wash with you in the hot bathtub, but I'll rub it desperately."

"This is the difference between having Fengbei and not having Fengbei."

In that "explosion accident", the orange cat was the closest and was blown black.

She's not clean anymore.

Zheng corrected the orange cat's body.

The orange cat remained silent the whole time, not saying a word, unlike her usual.

She let Zheng Xiushi do it like a marionette.

It looks hopeless.

The accident in the back kitchen was not a simple "explosion".

The black slimy thing washed out of the orange cat's body, Zheng Xiu's eyesight, and the flowing river water in the ferryman's Bund are the same thing, a kind of "filth".

Zheng Xiu's [Dark Cooking Technique] did cook a little "strange thing".

He glanced back at the five "swimming fish" swimming beside him, unknown creatures...... No, Zheng Xiu couldn't even be sure that these five small points did not belong to the category of "living things".

He named the five fish "mayflies".

"Good! Clean! ”

Zheng Xiu wiped the sweat from the top of his head, picked up the orange cat from the bathtub filled with black water, and set it aside.

Qing 13 handed over a bucket of water.

Hula!

Zheng Xiu didn't say a word, and splashed a bucket of water on the orange cat.

The orange cat's fur is all puffed out of the back of its head.

Mistress Anne opened her eyes with a terrible glow.

She raised her two paws and twisted the clumps of hair on her head.

"Alright, don't be angry." Zheng Xiu stroked the orange cat's head and rubbed it: "I didn't mean to. ”

"I know." Lady Anne's tone was unusually calm at the moment, and she actually nodded in agreement: "Otherwise, you are already in Chang Yan at this moment." ”

“……”

She looked really angry.

But for some reason, Mistress Anne had to leave him alive.

"I also forgot that I have a talent for 'dark cooking', I never expected it to ......blow up," Zheng Xiu tried to explain weakly, "And I can't be blamed for this matter, if you hadn't dripped a drop of saliva in the oil pot......"

"Meow?" A charming and lovely smile appeared on Lady Anne's wet face, and she meowed in extreme anger, "Meow meow? ”

Zheng Xiu immediately closed his mouth and nodded vigorously: "It's my fault." ”

Anne quieted down.

"Anyway, I'll find a way to get you to eat the fish cakes." Zheng Xiu thought about it, it was useless to apologize, he simply did something he was good at - painting cakes. He raised an index finger and smiled: "The taste of Fengbei." ”

Mistress Anne shook her head vigorously, and the water splashed.

"Shut up!"

"Don't mention the fish cake meow!"

"Fish cakes aren't that tasty!"

"Stupid container!"

"Abominable container!"

"Filthy container!"

"No big or small containers!"

"If it weren't for the great, extraordinary, proud, invincible Lord Anne, who accidentally took on such a humiliating shape, how could you be offended by this inferior, stupid, hateful, filthy, and despicable vessel!"

The orange cat slashed his head and scolded Zheng Xiu angrily.

Zheng Xiu had never seen the elegant orange cat's shrewd-like posture.

He was completely stunned.

I didn't react for a while.

It wasn't until the orange cat shook his wet hair angrily, jumped onto the roof, and disappeared after a few ups and downs, that he smacked his lips and remembered what the orange cat had just said.

The orange cat had already had a showdown with Qing 13 and Yue Linglong beside Zheng Xiu.

Qing 13 is not surprised to talk to an orange cat.

Seeing a big fight between one person and one cat, Qing 13 came over at this time, touched his chin a little uncertainly, and said: "Young master, forgive Qing Mou's bluntness, that cat seems to be ......"

He thought left and right, and couldn't think of the right adjectives for a while.

She ...... Broken defenses. ”

Zheng Xiu nodded and affirmed.

What is ...... Breaking the defense? Qing Thirteen asked curiously.

Zheng Xiu's expression was serious, his left hand was circled, and his right hand erected an index finger, inserted into the circle circled by the index finger and thumb of his left hand, and made a popping sound.

Qing 13 listened to it, this metaphor was vivid, elegant and vulgar, and easy to understand, which made him suddenly enlightened, and he couldn't help but give Zheng Xiu a thumbs up and express his amazement.

Five mayflies swam happily around Zheng Xiu.

It is in stark contrast to the defense of the orange cat.

Zheng Xiu played with a few mayflies casually, and the orange cat had commented that the "mayflies" cooked by Zheng Xiu were "inferior scum" before breaking the defense. It's just that Zheng Xiu thinks that the pot is filled with the spit of the orange cat's greedy mouth, and the mayflies boiled out should be of some use.

"I'll go see her."

Zheng Xiu jumped onto the roof neatly.

The orange cat didn't know where to go, and after looking around Zheng Zhai, Zheng Xiu didn't find the orange cat.

"Did you really run away?"

Zheng Xiu was stunned for a moment, thought for a while, bypassed the courtyard where his parents were, and went to the vicinity of the fence. There was a bush of flowers that had not been repaired for a long time, and it was overgrown with weeds. Zheng Xiu stepped forward, shot like lightning, five fingers like claws, and grabbed a ...... from the grass Snake.

Beauty snake.

The snake was dumbfounded, she used her natural instinct to lurk in the Zheng Mansion for nearly a month, and no one noticed her existence. She was secretly happy because of this, she never expected to be caught red-handed in broad daylight today.

The person who caught her turned out to be the one she cared about the most - the man who could hit her "seven inches" with great precision without warning and spit her.

"Shhhh

The snake's two eyes instantly turned into vertical pupils, grinning, and its pointed teeth glowing with colorful luster. She is trying to show her desire and danger in this posture.

"My cat has already found you, so I don't bother to pay attention to you. Your smell can also repel mosquitoes, I heard that the second elder of my family sleeps quite soundly these days, but thanks to you. ”

Zheng Xiu's expression calmly broke the matter of "carefully lurking for many days thinking that he was not discovered, but in fact he was very completely exposed", the snake's eyes widened, and before he could speak, Zheng Xiu put the rag that had just bathed the orange cat under the tip of the snake's nose.

"Sniff, tell me, where did my cat go?"

"I'm not a dog!" The snake is furious!

"Then I'll go out and report to the official, I believe that the people of the Pure Sect are very happy to catch you."

When the snake heard this, the momentum was steep and weak, and it pointed helplessly in the direction of the roof of the attic in the distance.

That road Zheng Xiushu used to be his incense full of buildings.

"Madame! Madam! ”

Zheng Xiu turned his head and called Mrs., with a bit of a scumbag in his back.

Snakes, jaw-dropping.

"I ...... Got a dog? ”

An inexplicable sense of grievance came to my heart.

What made her more uncomfortable was not the feeling of humiliation, but the fact that she realized that she was enjoying it from the bottom of her heart...... Treatment.

After some effort, Zheng Xiu carried a bag of oilcloth, waved his hand to perform the [Painter] Inhuman Technique, put on a colorful gauze robe, and then inserted small wings, and flew into the sky with a flutter.

The streets are bustling, and the bustling downtown is full of human fireworks.

On the top of the attic, a thin figure squatted a little lonely, standing in the wind, incompatible with the fireworks in the world, and independent of the world.

Zheng Xiu sat down next to the orange cat, and the orange cat didn't look back, as if he didn't see Zheng Xiu.

Her pupils, which should have been vertical, were now dilated into a kaleidoscope shape, without focus, and she didn't know what she was looking at.

"Fishcakes."

Zheng Xiu pasted the still hot oil packet on the orange cat's face.

When the orange cat heard the word "fried fish cake", it seemed to have triggered some kind of switch, and subconsciously dodged two steps and almost fell down.

Zheng Xiu grabbed the tail of the orange cat and couldn't cry or laugh: "The crescent moon made it." ”

Click!

If anyone could see what was happening in the attic at this moment, they would be so shocked that their eyes would fall.

A man and a cat sat side by side, and the orange cat held a large handful of fried fish cakes, gnawing angrily, and there was one less click, and another one less click.

"Hiccup~"

The orange cat burped contentedly, and finally spoke, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he complained: "Hmph, it's unpalatable." ”

"Yue Linglong will be sad when she hears it." Zheng Xiu reminded.

"......" The orange cat looked down and thought about it, folded its fluffy chin on its two paws, lay on the attic, and changed its words listlessly: "General." ”

"Not angry?"

Zheng Xiu said tentatively.

"Stupid container," the orange cat's voice was cold and unwarm, "how can I, like this, be angry at such a trivial matter?" Angry? Hmph, joy, anger, sorrow, and sorrow, the thing called 'emotion' is nothing but a 'lower expression' of the defects of the lower beings, we, which do not exist. ”

Zheng Xiu smiled.

The hair on the orange cat's head stood up, and she added: "Even if there is a 1 in 10,000 chance, such an insignificant little ......" The orange cat's claws rose and fell, making a "click" claw gesture: "We can also kill that thought in an instant, without leaving any trace." ”

"I ...... Can you dare to translate it? Zheng Xiu looked at the orange cat cautiously.

The orange cat didn't speak.

"It's often just a trivial thing that makes an adult meow break the defense;"

"You say you don't have the 'low expression' of joy, anger and sorrow......"

"Can I understand it...... The reason you broke your defenses is that you perceive that you have become weak? ”

The fluff on the orange cat's forehead stood straight in an instant, and she let out a low moan of "meow".

"You...... It's getting more and more like a cat. Zheng Xiu continued to translate: "So, you can't go back?" ”

The orange cat raised its palm, and the hair on its whole body stood up, like an angry battle cat, and the cold green cat pupils stared straight at Zheng Xiu.

Zheng Xiu hurriedly said: "You said that you are not angry, anger is a 'low-level expression'. ”

The orange cat was stunned for a moment, and then put down his slap after a moment.

"You're right."

The orange cat looked ahead with a look of despair.

"Great me,"

"It's 'backtracking.'"

"In this place of the hell."

Zheng Xiu frowned: "Backtracking? ”

"That's what you humans say...... Die. The orange cat's erect hair fell off one by one, and his voice weakened: "There is no difference. ”

"No,"

After a while, Zheng Xiu was still digesting this strange word, the orange cat raised his head again, his pupils vibrate, and he shook the furry head vigorously: "Backtracking, more terrifying than death." ”

"We will not die. But once you go back, you will completely lose your 'self' and become another ...... No, or decompose, or transform into innumerable, dirty, inferior, even inferior to human beings and containers. ”

She pointed to the "mayfly" floating beside Zheng Xiu, and her eyes didn't look over: "Those scum." ”

Zheng Xiu wondered: "Probably ...... What does it mean to be reincarnated as an animal? After thinking about it, Zheng Xiu comforted: "If you think about it carefully, it doesn't seem to be worse than your current situation." ”

The orange cat was angry, but after a few moments, she was really, really angry. It's just that she knows that it's useless to be angry with Zheng Xiu. She was too lazy to get angry, and raised her paw weakly: "You don't understand. ”

"I don't understand." Zheng Xiu nodded first, then shook his head and smiled: "Anyway, you're like this, why don't we be honest with each other?" You tell me what you know, and I will do everything in my power to help you. You know me, I, the Red King Zheng Xiu, am by no means a person who does not believe in my word. ”

"Okay."

The orange cat raised its paws and slapped a meat ball at Zheng Xiu's forehead.

The voices of Ding Boiling suddenly became dead silent, and the time flowing around them seemed to stand still for an instant. Zheng Xiu's soul was slapped out by the orange cat and floated between heaven and earth.

Again?

Zheng Xiu felt that this feeling of the human soul being exposed made him very insecure. But once born and twice ripe, Zheng Xiu quickly adapted. The orange cat hovered in front of him, and the paws somehow snapped their fingers.

A miniature "stool" slowly rotates on the tip of the orange cat's paws.

Zheng Xiu squinted and looked closely, the small stool was tattered, it was actually made of snow-white "jade feet", and on the stool the size of a fingernail, the jade feet were clearly visible, but they were broken and pitted. There is one hole, two holes, three holes in it...... Zheng Xiu counted.

"What is this?"

Zheng Xiu didn't understand what the orange cat meant by changing the "jade-footed little stool".

The orange cat's voice was fleeting and charming, as if it came from the distant horizon, and it seemed to be close to the ear.

"Roots,"

"Heavenly Dao,"

"Extreme,"

"Epiphany,"

"Laws,"

"Reason,"

"Everything you can understand, everything you can imagine, everything you can use, when this 'everything' climbs to the top, when your 'understanding' is highly condensed, the 'throne' will be born."

"The throne is authority."

"This is the ultimate pursuit of all life."

The orange cat said loftyly, but Zheng Xiu didn't feel it, but frowned and replied: "But it looks very broken." ”

"......" the orange cat put away what she had said was the supreme being.

The orange cat didn't seem to intend to tell her unbearable past.

"The only way to restore my authority is to find another authority."

Zheng Xiu was stunned, stunned for a moment, and suddenly said, "You mean...... Over here? ”

The orange cat nodded: "There was once a fallen 'authority' here, but it broke into many pieces and hid in many containers. ”

Zheng Xiu touched his forehead.

"It's not your." The orange cat seemed to see through Zheng Xiu's thoughts, his face showed disdain, and he broke through Zheng Xiu's thoughts: "Your 'prisoner' is the scum of the scum when you hear it, and it is definitely not the main core. ”

"......" Zheng Xiu didn't speak, and secretly said if you have any misunderstanding about the power of the [prisoner].

After a while, the orange cat stared at Zheng Xiu with a gaze that seemed to understand everything: "Indeed, you are special. Everyone has a place to come from and will return. The other containers here, the other human beings come from 'here', yours is 'somewhere else', that's all. ”

Zheng Xiu was shocked when he heard this, and the orange cat knew...... Is he actually from another world?

Zheng Xiu found that he didn't seem to have any secrets in front of the orange cat.

I've seen a lot of them before.,Those broken protagonists still treat their identity as traversers like treasures.,In fact, this little secret is not a secret at all in front of high-level existence.。

Zheng Xiu quickly calmed down: "I understand, so the essence of the strange thing is some kind of ...... Authority? Split? It seemed to match what he had first seen. The more Zheng Xiu thought about it, the more he understood, and he kept nodding his head and said, "You want to find it?" ”

The orange cat snorted coldly, and after showing her authority, her arrogance seemed to come back, and she was swept away, and she nodded proudly and said, "Hmph, that's good." The reason why that hole is hidden under the palace is, I speculate, that the main core must be playing tricks. ”

"The main nucleus?"

"Emperor! Only the emperor can be the main core of the fallen authority! The guy who rashly invaded here is also coveting the 'emperor'! ”

The orange cat analyzed it head-on, Zheng Xiu thought about it, and felt that it was very reasonable. But he couldn't help but touch his forehead, do you really look down on your [prisoner]? He was a little depressed, but after a while, Zheng Xiu asked, "Where did Fengbei go?" ”

The orange cat didn't hide this time, and replied, "If she hadn't died, she would have been outside of here, outside of Changyan, and even more farther away." You will never be able to reach the 'far place' in your lifetime. ”

"So, how do I get there?"

"Hmph, if you can't find authority, you and I will both die here."

It turned out to be catching the [Emperor], Zheng Xiu's eyes lit up, and he thought it was quite simple. So Zheng Xiu smiled and said, "I'll find that authority and give it to you." ”

Swish!

The orange cat's eyes widened suddenly.

In the orange cat's consternation, she seemed to have forgotten to maintain this state. Let Zheng Xiu's human soul return to his body.

The hustle and bustle is surging, the ears are noisy, and the fireworks in the world are burning around a person and a cat.

"Do you understand?" After a moment of consternation, the orange cat looked incredulous: "That's authority!" Have authority and become a god! God at worst! You will be omnipotent, immortal, beyond the world, you will ......"

"It's okay," Zheng Xiu rubbed the orange cat's head: "It doesn't matter, it's not important, just the authority is given to you." So, don't be sad? ”

The orange cat lowered its head and did not speak.

"Oh? There is one more piece. Zheng Xiucai saw a piece of fried fish cake hidden in the oil bag, and he stuffed it into the orange cat.

The orange cat clutched the fish cakes, a little overwhelmed.

"So," Zheng Xiu smiled, "Our goal is the same. ”

He stretched out his fist towards the orange cat: "Find Fengbei." ”

The orange cat looked down at the not so tasty piece of fish cake and pondered for a moment.

Click.

She took a bite.

Actually, it's not that unpalatable.

She still misses the smell of that memory.

"For the fish cakes."

The orange cat sticks out its paws.

One person, one cat.

A firm fist, a soft ball of flesh, above the tall building, lightly touched.

"For the sake of ...... Emperor. ”