The Pseudo-Human Academy: Starting with a Bricklayer Personality

Amidst the cherry blossoms, some people wept, some cursed, and some sat on the ground in despair, embracing the bodies of their relatives lying in pools of blood.

"Go back immediately! This is a warning!"

Looking at the bloody and forceful blockade scene before him, Xu Feng frowned even more deeply.

Although he didn't feel sorry for the people who died, the cruel method of suppression made a hint of disapproval flash in his eyes.

It has to be the Japanese; they can be so ruthless to their own people. I'd like to see the Japanese people take care of the Japanese themselves.

Sure enough, the recent surge in rice prices in Japan was blamed on the inaction of the Japanese government.

He stepped forward, walked calmly to the front of the blockade, took out his identification, and showed it to the military commander stationed there.

"I am the warden of the Silent Containment Tower, in charge of containing the Nine Lives Cat Disaster. Tell your people to stop immediately. This containment method is too extreme. If you continue like this, the situation will only get worse."

Xu Feng's voice was calm and indifferent, as if it carried absolute rationality.

The commander, dressed in military uniform, was short in stature but had a resolute face and cold, determined eyes. He glanced at Xu Feng's identification.

Without showing any intention of backing down, he retorted firmly in a pure Hokkaido accent:

"Too extreme? Warden, these are extraordinary times, and extraordinary measures are necessary!"

He turned to look at the chaos spreading throughout the city, his voice filled with determination:

"As you can see, the curse of these nine-lived cats is like a deadly plague, highly contagious. Once the people in the city escape..."

"The disaster will spread to surrounding cities, and then the entire country, and even more places, will be plunged into catastrophe!"

"If they want to escape with the plague, they must be prepared to be shot."

"Right now, only a ruthless blockade, using the most extreme measures, can trap this plague within Flower Sea City and protect the hundreds of millions of people outside!"

In the commander's view, sacrificing Flower Sea City in exchange for the safety of the entire Sakura Empire is the most correct and necessary choice at present.

Faced with such a terrifying catastrophe that can instantly destroy a city, any act of leniency would be irresponsible towards the many more innocent people.

Xu Feng understood the situation when he saw that the other party had no room for negotiation, but he still shook his head firmly.

He was well aware of the seemingly reasonable logic behind the other side's pandemic lockdown measures.

If placed within the Nine Lives Cat's rules of calamity, it would not only be completely ineffective, but would also push the city into utter ruin.

Stunned by the gunfire, the crowd dared not approach the city gate any further, and retreated into the city of Huahai in a disheveled state, crying and shoving.

Unbeknownst to them, the curse of cause and effect had already quietly ensnared them amidst the chaos, collisions, trampling, and fleeing.

Amidst the cries, collisions, trampling, and shoving, countless cats were frightened into suicide or tainted by the ominous aura. Now, the curse has fully erupted.

After retreating only a few dozen steps into the city, someone in the crowd trembled, and a faint gray light appeared on their body.

"ah--!"

A series of heart-wrenching screams rang out.

One by one, the bodies of the people shrank and twisted rapidly, their fur emerged, their bones folded back, and in the blink of an eye they transformed into terrified nine-lived cats.

The street, which was just a moment ago crowded, suddenly had hundreds of cats with their fur standing on end in a state of shock.

They darted around wildly, some crashing into walls, some being trampled by panicked crowds, and some rushing headlong into traffic...

A cat was run over by a car wheel.

A cat had its spine broken by being stepped on.

A cat was startled and jumped out of a window, falling to its death.

Every time the Nine-Lives Cat dies, someone will turn into the cat, and the power of cause and effect begins to frantically reverse.

The security guards who just reprimanded the crowd, the police officers maintaining order, the drivers at the intersection, and the passersby nearby...

Anyone even remotely connected to this death was swept up in the assimilation.

Humans turn into cats, cats die, and they are reborn, in an endless cycle.

Outside the city, the commander remained steadfast in his defense of the blockade, with armored vehicles lined up in rows and guns pointed inward.

No living creatures were allowed to come out, yet the soldiers around him turned into cats one after another.

His face was ashen, but he never gave the order to shoot the cat.

He coldly ordered the soldiers to drive the Nine-Lives Cat into Flower Sea City, attempting to completely lock the Nine-Lives Cat inside.

He thought that as long as the cat didn't come out, the disaster would be contained.

However, within just a few minutes, the anomalies in Huahai City spiraled completely out of control.

More and more people in the city are turning into cats, and the cat population density has reached a terrifying level.

Tramplings, car accidents, falls, accidental poisoning... Accidental deaths never stop.

For every cat that dies, several people are assimilated; the more people are assimilated, the more frequent the deaths.

The entire city was like a sealed powder keg, exploding internally.

Screams, meows, explosions, and vehicle horns mingled together, echoing continuously from within the city.

The windows of the high-rise buildings were smashed one after another by the startled cat, and the streets were full of out-of-control vehicles and Hakimi rolling and struggling.

The commander stood outside the city, watching the entire city gradually turn into a cat's den, his face resolute. He believed he was doing the right thing.

For the sake of the trillions of lives outside Flower Sea City, the sacrifice of just one city is absolutely worthwhile.

However, in the next moment, the commander's body also changed. His limbs shortened, and he quickly turned into an orange cat, then lazily curled up into a ball and began licking his fur.

Xu Feng watched this scene without any surprise.

The transformation mechanism of the nine-lives cat is causal tracing.

The crowd went completely mad, charging and trampling wildly. In the chaos, cats were trampled, crushed, and scared to death. Some people even turned into cats, died after turning into cats, and then more cats would appear.

Shooting the cherry blossom people is tantamount to artificially creating conditions for the cats' deaths, accelerating assimilation within the city, and causing the cats to die from stress due to fright, thus forming a perfect vicious cycle.

The soldiers themselves would overturn, and the civilians they drove back would turn into cats and die.

The causal chain will also directly entangle the soldiers, and even if it is just a matter of time being blocked that leads to the death of a cat, it will be traced back to the cause of the cause and directly turn into a cat.

This Nine Lives Cat Disaster seems to be much more dangerous than I imagined, but its spread is just too unreasonable.

Although Xu Feng knew that the Nine Lives Cat chain reaction would have a terrifying effect, he did not expect it to be this terrifying.

Is this flower-filled city some kind of giant cat-themed TV station?

The seemingly harmless nine-lived cat was able to plunge an entire city into chaos in a short period of time.

As the dungeon describes, each of the catastrophic objects that appears has the potential to destroy the world.

Ren Hongying, who was standing to the side, was also stunned. She thought the containment work would be easy, but who would have thought that a little nine-lives cat could cause such terrifying chaos.

The members of the End Guild stared at each other, each seeing a solemn look in the other's eyes.

Seeing the soldiers at a loss, Xu Feng gave the order:

"From now on, I will take over Flower Sea City. Think of your families and children. You are all now under the karmic chain of the Nine Lives Cat."

"If you don't want to become sinners who destroy the world, everyone must obey my orders."