The Strange Cat from Fuuto

The little angel, whose head was throbbing, suddenly stood up, his eyes flashing with blue light. The orange sunset sunlight streaming in through the window flickered rapidly, as if echoing the blue light in the little angel's eyes.

The setting sun suddenly became dazzling and began to flow across the ground like water.

But just then, a flame appeared out of nowhere and burned everything away.

When everything burned out, only endless darkness remained, and the little angel was nowhere to be found.

Instead, a defiant roar echoed from the depths of darkness: "No!!"

"Emu!!!"

"It's too early to go out!"

A deep, authoritative voice echoed in the darkness. Deep within the prison, a young man gripped the bars, one arm reaching out of the cage as he roared madly.

"Do not!!!"

..........

"Well...."

The little angel groaned and opened her eyes. What came into view was a white ceiling and the distinctive smell of disinfectant in CR.

"Are you awake?"

Hua Jia Da Wo's voice came from the side. The little angel got up from the hospital bed, scratched his head in confusion, and asked, "Are we back?"

"I'm back!"

"What about the battle?"

Suddenly realizing what was happening, the little angel eagerly pressed for an answer. Hua Jia Da Wo put away his phone and opened his palm towards the little angel, revealing only a cluster of flame patterns on his palm.

"The battle was lost, and..."

“Alright, I’ll take care of the rest!” Jing Feicai came down from the second-floor lounge, interrupting Hua Jia Da Wo’s narration.

"Intern, let me take a look at your palm first!"

"My palm?"

The little angel, who had frantically opened his palm, was astonished to find that one of his flame clusters had disappeared, leaving only two.

"We lost the battle against that red bastard, and in the end, it was someone we knew very well who delivered the final blow!"

Jing Feicai's words made the little angel pause in surprise: "Could it be Poppy?"

"That's right, although that guy doesn't know why she defected to the enemy?"

But one thing is for sure: Poppy is now our enemy!

"Can..."

"No buts, intern!" Jing Feicai waved her hand, interrupting the little angel, whose face darkened. "And then what happened?"

"Later, we took you, still unconscious, to find a place to recover and wait for you to wake up, but we didn't expect..." At this point, a look of shock appeared in Jing Feicai's eyes, and the little angel quickly asked, "What happened?"

"The game world we entered has collapsed!"

"Although we don't know what caused the collapse, the moment we noticed the cracks in the sunset on the map, everything was already destined!"

"Fei Cai, you mean..."

“This time is different from last time. Last time, after you were injected with the virus by Dan Kuroto and completed the game alone, the game world dissipated normally, throwing us out. But this time, the entire map collapsed. We were torn apart by the force generated when the map collapsed in an instant, and then revived in Taiko Plaza.”

"What happened to those players?"

"They all disappeared because of the game. I guess they were sent to the LE domain, or maybe they all..." Kagami Hiiro didn't finish her sentence, but instead let out a long sigh.

Hua Jia Da Wo picked up the little angel's coat and tossed it over. The little angel caught the coat, and Jing Fei Cai immediately started operating the examination machine connected to the hospital bed, saying, "Go back and rest for a day, come back tomorrow!"

"But now, how can I...?"

"Don't say that anymore, go back and rest. I'll let you know if there's any progress!"

"All right!"

The little angel, looking dejected, finished dressing, said goodbye to Hana-ya Daigo and Kagami Hiiro, and left CR.

After the little angel left, Jing Feicai opened the machine's report and printed it out.

"What was going on when you were looking at the interns just now?" Kagami Hiyori asked without looking up. Hanaya Taigo stood up from his chair and leaned against the wall, saying, "Just as Kujo Kiriya guessed, there is indeed a Bugster in Exaid's body, but it only appeared for a short time. During this time, Exaid also had an attack!"

"It seems the interns' situation is indeed deteriorating, so..."

"What exactly did you and that guy Kujo Kiriya investigate?" Seeing Kagami Hiiro's behavior, Hanae Taiga realized something was wrong.

"That forensic doctor was a genius!" Kagami Hiiro explained to Hanaya Taiga as she picked up the printed report and began to examine it. "Kujou investigated some things, and it was because of his investigation that he died!"

At this point, Jing Feicai's eyes revealed anger.

"He's dead?"

So what exactly did he investigate?

"Before that, don't you want to talk about what you investigated?" Jing Feicai casually tore the report in her hand to shreds. Hua Jia Dawo had just seen the whole process of examining the little angel while she was unconscious, so she had no intention of looking at the report again.

“I went to investigate the previous Machina Vision tragedy.”

"The Machina Vision tragedy?"

Jing Feicai looked up in surprise, and Hua Jia Dawo explained, "I also learned about it from one of my guests!"

"Machina Vision was an overseas company comparable to Genm Games before CatsDog existed. Some local games had to go through their channels to be released overseas."

"The Machina Vision massacre was a brutal massacre in which all employees of the company were killed, and even the cleaning staff did not survive."

"That scene was simply hell." As if recalling something unpleasant, Hua Jia Da Wo's face turned somewhat pale.

"So what did you find out?"

"Not all of Machina Vision's employees died; one man survived."

"You suspect it is..."

"Not necessarily, but this man is definitely connected to this matter."

"Fine!"

After I finished speaking, Hua Jia Da asked, "So what did that guy Kujo find out?"

"The intern might be one of the original Bugster virus carriers!"

"what?"

Hua Jia Da Wo's eyes widened in utter shock. "Such important news is only being told now?"

“Because this matter needs to be kept secret!” Jing Feicai glared at Hua Jia Dawo, saying angrily, “After all, we also need to consider the intern’s feelings. Once he finds out that he is a first-generation infected person, do you know how much pressure that will put on him?”

"If the pressure becomes too great, he might suffer a complete breakdown from his gaming addiction!"

"So what do you plan to do?"

Hua Jia Dawo, who had just asked a question, awaited an answer, while Jing Feicai revealed a hint of helplessness: "What else can we do?"

"We can only keep this a secret for now!"

"So, is the LE domain you mentioned real?"

Hua Jia Dawo's eyes gleamed with anticipation, while Jing Feicai nodded solemnly: "It's true!"

"That's good!"

With a hint of relief in his eyes, Hua Jia Da Wo seemed to breathe a sigh of relief: "This gives me a chance to atone for my sins!"

...........

Baosheng's residence.

"Mom, I'm home!"

Amidst weak, feeble calls, the little angel's mother appeared from the kitchen: "Oh dear, why are you back so early today?"

"Isn't he still in his internship period?"

"Could it be that they didn't complete the tasks assigned by the department head?"

"no!"

Sitting on the steps in the entryway, the little angel, slowly taking off her shoes, said dejectedly, "They only let me come back to rest because I didn't look well!"

The little angel, now wearing slippers, yawned widely: "I'm going upstairs to rest now. Call me for dinner!"

Seeing the little angel go upstairs, the little angel's mother wondered, "What's wrong with this child today?"

Upon entering the room, the little angel, who casually locked the door from the inside, quickly took two steps and threw herself onto the bed.

The little angel unconsciously stared at the palm of her hand, at the two remaining flames in her palm.

"Is it really impossible to win?"

"There are so many people waiting for us to save, but is there really no way to help them?"

His voice was choked with emotion as he covered his eyes with his arm.

The voice gradually faded until it disappeared, and the little angel, now asleep, slid her arm off her face.

Total darkness.

There was no light in the darkness.

"Drip, drip, drip..."

The sudden sound of an ambulance siren caught the little angel's attention. For some reason, the little angel felt anxious and took a step forward, only to find himself on the street.

An ambulance drove away into the rain, while he himself seemed like an invisible man detached from the world, only able to watch this scene unfold.

"ambulance?"

Just as the little angel was wondering, a cat walked out from the roadside, a cat he would never forget.

He is...

The cat rode on the back of a husky, watching the ambulance drive away, a slow smile playing on its lips.

"Oh....."

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