Animal Detective

Chapter 37 Da Mei Makes Another Move

"DaMei, are you going to bully the cat?"

Da Mei, who was looking utterly hopeless and letting the three little ones wriggle around in her arms, perked up instantly upon hearing Shen Xin's words.

With a meow, it jumped off the sofa and headed straight for the door.

"Hurry!"

As expected, I heard her innermost thoughts.

Even the bully, who was curled up asleep, raised his head, eager to try.

Although it has been neutered and lost its majestic status as the king of the cat world, the ferocity ingrained in its bones has not been lost.

The bully is still incredibly vicious.

Zhao Rui also said that although the pain has subsided, the hormone levels haven't completely gone down yet, and it will get better after a while.

Shen Xin thought for a moment and decided not to bring the bully along.

This time, we're not going to fight.

Bullies can run rampant and do evil in the cat world, but the size difference between cats and dogs is too great, and Shen Xin doesn't think he can be a match for a stray dog.

Therefore, today's focus is on reconnaissance.

Da Mei is agile and can easily venture into any nook or cranny, unlike Shen Xin.

Shen Xin puts a cat-shaped recording device on her, and if she discovers anything, then he will take action.

After clocking in at the institute, Shen Xin set off immediately.

I reported to the institute, so it can be considered that I was ordered to leave.

Before long, we arrived at Xianghong Village.

I've gotten used to it, so I still drove to Wu Zhicun's house.

Yesterday, Zhao Shouchuan sent me a message saying that Wu Zhicun had been discharged from the hospital.

After parking the car, Da Mei couldn't wait any longer.

Shen Xin put the cat recorder on her, adjusted it, and then took out a lost dog poster, pointing to it and introducing the situation of the stray dog.

"The ears and the area next to the buttocks are white. Remember that."

It was a bit complicated, but Shen Xin believed that Da Mei would be able to understand.

The influence of the icons seems to be mutual.

Shen Xin can better understand the meaning of animals, and animals with icons can also more easily understand Shen Xin's words.

Da Mei understood, and then behaved herself, giving Shen Xin a low meow and drooping her eyelids.

That expression seemed to say, "Are you serious?"

Ask me, a cat, to discipline a dog?

"Can't beat it."

“Not happy!”

Shen Xin could hear her inner thoughts; she practically wore her dissatisfaction on her face.

Shen Xin hurriedly said, "I didn't tell you to go fight. Just find it, then follow it and observe it. Do you understand?"

Da Mei continued meowing.

"It's boring."

This is what she truly felt.

It's fun to bully cats.

It wasn't easy to raise the icon's favorability to this point, so Shen Xin couldn't use force. He could only say in a soft voice, "Please help me out. If you reply, I'll buy you some delicious food, and catnip. Do you know what that is? It's good stuff."

I saw catnip on my phone the other day, and it seems like cats really like it.

Da Mei meowed twice, probably convinced, and jumped out of the car.

This time, she didn't rush out impatiently, but strolled away slowly, occasionally turning her head to look at Shen Xin, as if hoping that Shen Xin would stop her.

However, she quickly darted up the wall and disappeared.

Shen Xin quickly took out his phone and switched it to real-time mode.

It lasts for about 50 minutes; you can replace the battery when that's not enough.

After watching for only a short while, Shen Xin started to grin. Da Mei was heading straight for Houzhuang Village, clearly going to bully that cow cat again.

He sighed silently.

Da Mei is, after all, a cat, and can't possibly listen to her completely.

Now that the cats have all run away, Shen Xin can only pray that Da Mei hasn't forgotten her important business after bullying the cow cat.

And that black and white cat, it's quite pitiful to think about.

Seeing that Da Mei couldn't find the cow cat for the time being, Shen Xin thought for a moment and went to Wu Zhicun's door.

The courtyard gate was ajar, and the door to the main room was closed.

Shen Xin felt a sudden unease and quickly pushed open the door to enter.

Shen Xin breathed a sigh of relief as he pushed open the door to the main room.

Wu Zhicun sat alone in the chair, muttering to himself, his words unintelligible. After his hospital visit, he was now emaciated.

Moreover, Shen Xin also saw a deathly aura on his face.

The concept of death energy is quite mysterious, but Shen Xin remembered that before his grandfather passed away, he was also old and accidentally fell, and then he immediately became unwell, with a complexion exactly like Wu Zhicun's.

Then, a few months later, my grandfather passed away.

Wu Zhicun was even more troublesome than his grandfather; he ingested rat poison and fell seriously ill in the hospital.

He was usually very alert; he would immediately know if someone pushed the door open.

But now there is no reaction, and he is still muttering to himself in a daze.

As Shen Xin drew closer, he heard Jia Wang and Da Jun's words.

With a sigh, Shen Xin called out several times before Wu Zhicun came to his senses.

Upon learning it was Shen Xin, he suddenly grabbed his white cane and hurled it at him, shouting angrily, "It was you! Who told you to save me? Wouldn't it have been better if you had just let me die?"

Shen Xin dodged it.

So, you saved yourself and ended up being the one who was wrong?
"Sir, calm down," Shen Xin advised.

Wu Zhicun was still cursing and swearing, his emotions running high. He kept saying that Shen Xin shouldn't have saved him and should have let him die.

His voice seemed to have been affected by the rat poison; it was extremely hoarse.

He shouted a few times, then started coughing violently again.

Shen Xin hurriedly went to find water.

There was no hot water, but there was rice, noodles, and bottled water in the corner.

It must have been someone from the community who came to offer their condolences.

Shen Xin offered him a bottle of water, but he refused to take it. Instead, he opened it, pointed towards the inner room, and told Shen Xin to get lost.

Fearing that he would become emotional and not wanting to provoke him further, Shen Xin left the main room. However, he stopped and turned back before leaving, saying, "Uncle Wu, since you're not afraid of death, why not wait a little longer? Maybe you'll get some news."

Shen Xin didn't mention the clues, so as not to give him any more vague hope.

"roll!"

Wu Zhicun shouted at the top of his lungs.

Shen Xin sighed and left the courtyard.

After thinking for a moment, Shen Xin made a phone call to Zhao Shouchuan.

Zhao Shouchuan had previously mentioned that the community wanted to send Wu Zhicun to a nursing home.

Only after asking did I learn that Wu Zhicun absolutely refused to go, saying that this was his home and he wanted to die in his own home.

On the phone, Zhao Shouchuan sighed deeply, saying that Wu Zhicun was an outstanding employee and a model worker in the city when he was young. He worked diligently all his life, but it was quite pitiful that his family ended up in this situation.

He also mentioned the stray dog, saying he would continue to keep an eye on it for Shen Xin.

Shen Xin thanked him, hung up the phone, and glanced at the yard again, faintly hearing Wu Zhicun wailing at the top of his lungs.

My feelings are complicated; I don't feel good about it.

He then took out his phone to check on Da Mei's situation.

Shen Xin didn't know what unique ways cats could find each other, but Da Mei caught the black and white cat again.

The camera is shaking rapidly as Da Mei leaps and bounds, darting across the wall like the wind.

Before long, she pounced and knocked the black and white cat down into the green belt.

The black and white cat screamed and ran away, its airplane ears twitching in panic as it whimpered at Da Mei.

Da Mei wasn't afraid at all. She arrogantly went up and beat the cow cat until it was completely subdued before stopping.

The black and white cat became obedient, lying quietly on the ground, letting Da Mei taunt it as she circled around.

Shen Xin remained silent. This was serious business!
Besides, it's just that you were bullied by a gang before, why are you holding such a grudge?

In the video, the two cats were locked in a standoff for a while before Da Mei finally left.

They should be completely satisfied.

She strolled leisurely through the green belt, on the road, and on the wall, stopping occasionally to lick her fur and lie down for a while.

It had absolutely no purpose.

Shen Xin felt that with this method of searching, it was highly unlikely that they would find the stray dog.

Sure enough, even as the battery was almost depleted, Da Mei, who was wandering near the national highway, still hadn't found anything.

We actually encountered a few dogs along the way.

But clearly none of them are true.

Just as Shen Xin was about to give up and put away his phone, a yellow dog suddenly emerged from behind the garbage room in the distance, glanced warily in Da Mei's direction, and then turned and ran away.

The phone has already indicated that the battery is depleted and screen recording will be interrupted soon.

But in that fleeting glance, Shen Xin noticed a grayish-white patch on the yellow dog's rear end, near its left hind leg.

Shen Xin's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that stray dog?

(End of this chapter)