CH 13.2

What Song Bei said was very interesting, it made Li Ai Guo take a couple more glances at Bai Xia Xia: “This time, it was all thanks to her, if something had happened to comrade Qin, I fear that in the future I would not even think of sleeping.”

Li Ai Guo did not have the mind to pay attention to this cat either, even if she had saved comrade Qin through a freak combination of factors[1]. This cat is a bit different from what I imagined… the thought was fleeting, Li Ai Guo hurriedly retracted his thoughts, ruthlessly using his hand to hit his head, forcing himself to focus his attention, “Colonel Song, I’ll have to bother you again this time…”

Li Ai Guo concisely and comprehensively spoke about the situation, all throughout last night, they had gotten an oral confession from Old Liao, and it had indeed matched up with the information of the missing children. This matter could increase the credibility of Old Liao’s words, Old Liao was very cooperative, but he was not willing to talk anymore about other details.

It could have been really because Old Liao only knew the information of those two children, and that he was not clear about the others. It could have also been because this guy was afraid of spilling the beans by talking too much, Li Ai Guo had no qualms about using extraordinary means.

However, right now, Old Liao was staying in the hospital, and he was also a wily old fox, very difficult to deal with. Fortunately, this fellow said that he had stayed in Tong City for more than half a month and wandered around, but the reality was that he was worried of something going wrong and had not gone out that many times in total.

The vicinity of the place of residence of Old Liao and the others had long been searched, what they had to do now was to do net pulling style investigation[2], without monitoring, instead, using manpower to make up for it.

Li Ai Guo was actually a bit nervous; he did not dare to guarantee that Song Bei would really accept. The mission given to the base was to aid them in maintaining the law and order, but specifically investigating a case, this type of thing…

[You’ve received the quest ‘Li Ai Guo’s worry’, the clue is the following: A ruthless, inhumane kidnapping gang has kidnapped seven pitiful individuals in Tong City, please do your best, help them escape from trouble, and solve Captain Li’s worry!]

[Upon the competition of the quest, 100 achievement points will be received.]

Bai Xia Xia: ? After sleeping, I almost forgot that there was a stupid healing system.

System: …

Bai Xia Xia faintly said: “You’re making things difficult for me, fat tiger!”

Tong City is so big, the transportation hub between the north and south, with a population of about a million, wanting to find the pitiful people that have been hidden to be trafficked? In the future, there were cameras, but finding people was still more difficult that climbing into heaven.

But, there are only seven people being trafficked, this is a clue.

Red letters: “As long as you’re willing to climb, kitty climbing to the top isn’t a dream.”

Bai Xia Xia: …I only want to find a poop shovel officer to sit and eat and wait to die, passing the days like someone with no aspirations[3] ah! I sourly and miserably ask the heavens, why do I still have to work after turning into a cat!

Domesticated soul, domesticated cat, domesticated cat shakes from anger.

“If you feel that this quest is too difficult, there are other quests.”

Bai Xia Xia exclaimed once, subconsciously looking over at Song Bei and Guo Chao Ming, both had a question mark at the top of their heads.

She thought about ‘touching’ them, the small question mark on Guo Chao Ming’s head turned into a quest.

[Guo Chao Ming’s small worry: My ideal kitty is callous, unfeeling, and unreasonable, why is it so difficult to take it home!]

[Quest clue: Help Guo Chao Ming return home with kitty.]

[Upon the competition of the quest, 10 achievement points will be received.]

Bai Xia Xia: “I’d rather be Lei Feng[4] and save people from a catastrophe[5].”

The pond could raise this unreliable fish[6], Bai Xia Xia preferred her favorite Qin daddy. Guo Chao Ming’s personality was a bit jumpy, a silly but amusing one. Bai Xia Xia could not be at ease, also, this fellow has many cats in his sea. I need to ensure that I’ll become the only one, only in that way will I get the treatment of someone who’s unique and unmatched.

Bai Xia Xia: …there seems to be something wrong here, who cares.

No matter what, I can’t just spectate as something bad happens to those people. I’ll at least do my best to contribute, regardless of whether it succeeds or not.

Song Bei and the others’ conversation slowly turned for the better, Li Ai Guo’s wrinkled eyebrows relaxed slightly, the fret and depressing aura that was pressing on his body somewhat faded.

“…ok, let’s leave it at that for now. I’ll make a call to the base in a moment, to tell them to leave the mountains and help.”

As they talked, the three felt hunger surging, no one had eaten breakfast, Guo Chao Ming took the initiative to stand up, “It’s almost seven, I’ll go down to buy food.”

Guo Chao Ming coincidentally bumped into the chubby big sis Wang from the hotel, she was all smiles when she saw Guo Chao Ming, enthusiastically turning her body and walking over: “Yo, comrade is going to buy breakfast?”

There was no need to conceal buying breakfast, Guo Chao Ming nodded, big sis Wang told him to wait for a bit, turned to go downstairs, and not long after, she held a big bag and gave it to him, inside, there were steaming hot buns and youtiao[7], there were also freshly ground soymilk.

Youtiao

“I was just planning on sending them over to you, but we bumped into each other, it was really timely.”

Guo Chao Ming constantly lived in the hotel; he had never heard about a service of helping buy breakfast. As he gave his thanks and received that bag of breakfast, he mumbled about how strange it was: “Sorry for bothering you to be concerned about this, how much was it?”

“It wasn’t that I was concerned,” big sis Wang secretly leaned over, her eyes were so bright that Guo Chao Ming was scared: “Comrade, I heard that the military dogs in the army are obedient, good at carrying out orders, and all smart. I never heard that you raised cats ah, tell this big sis, where can I get such an intelligent and beautiful cat!”

“Yo, your cat actually knows how to buy breakfast, and knows how to calculate! It knows 123, unbelievably incredible! It’s beautiful and smart! No wonder it followed and was brought out, does it know how to track and bite bad people or not?”

Guo Chao Ming was first stunned, immediately after, he did not know whether to cry or laugh: “It’s one that has undergone training, normal cats can’t be con…ditioned.”

Translator’s comments:

Guo Chao Ming is going to start to suspect that Bai Xia Xia knows how to read and talk LOL.

Translator’s notes:

[1] Idiomatic expression ‘阴差阳错 (yīn chā yáng cuò)’: lit. translation is ‘ying miss yang wrong’. It means ‘accidentally’ or that something happened through a combination of factors that are very difficult to believe or that could hardly happen normally.

[2] According to the search in Google, the closest thing found was that this investigation style (?) meant that all residents of the district would be screened, applying the motto of “not missing any household, not leaving out any person”.

[3] 咸鱼(xián yú) was used here; it means ‘salted fish’, and it’s a metaphor for corpse. Currently, it’s commonly used to refer to someone who’s not willing to do anything, has no aspirations, or just lets things be.

[4] The personage Lei Feng was explained in a previous chapter.

[5] Idiomatic expression ‘救人于水火 (jiù rén yú shuǐ huǒ)’: lit. translation is ‘saving people from fire and water’. It means ‘saving people from a catastrophe’.

[6] For those who did not understand, Guo Chao Ming was labeled the King of the Seas for cats, so he’s a theoretical fish, therefore, the pond can raise him.

[7] Youtiao (油条) are long golden-brown deep-fried strips of dough made from wheat flour. They are very commonly eaten as breakfast in China.