What kind of divination am I doing?

The black cat explained, "The success of god-killing is a coordinate. Ninety percent of the forty-two relics were found by using coordinate changes. Therefore, this method of finding them is beyond doubt, and there is currently no better alternative."

Lu Qiao nodded, but then something occurred to him: "I understand, but just because something fluctuates doesn't mean it's true, right? You were locked up for a week, right? You asked the bartender about recent events, and you can say that's an event? That's fluctuation, what if it's all fake?"

"I wasn't really imprisoned. I can freely enter and leave the castle; it's just that the key was taken, so I haven't come here to inquire for a week. We've gotten into the habit of asking about fluctuations before every divination, and this gold shop robbery had absolutely no fluctuations—it was just an ordinary incident, not even a false alarm!"

As the black cat spoke, it searched through the pile of clothes left behind by Lu Qiao, picked up the castle key in its mouth, and, like the dog in the tavern earlier, swallowed the key.

"I understand!" Lu Qiao suddenly realized.

"Of course, going won't hurt. I'll treat it as a relic event quest and guide you through the process. And as you said, since it's a gold shop, it wouldn't be a loss if we could get something out of it. Now, hold on tight, let's go!"

After saying that, the black cat sprinted forward and dashed out of the small room.

He rode horses and donkeys, but this was the first time Luqiao had ridden a cat, and he rode it like a mouse.

Luqiao rode a dog when he was a child, but it was a completely different feeling.

Only from this perspective can one truly understand how vast human society is to animals.

The black cat seized the moment during the red light and leaped across the road to Chinatown on the other side.

Lu Qiao gripped the black cat's back, feeling as if he were being swept away by lightning.

As Lu Qiao crossed the road, he saw Liu Bo and Zhao Chengpeng, who were chatting with great interest.

The conversation has turned into a situation where, regardless of who guesses correctly, they all want to make something of the poster. The two companies sharing the poster might come up with some activities to increase their revenue.

Presumably, the two of them had already started plotting against me the moment they saw me, and while crossing the street to check, they figured out how to get me involved and how to make me win the prize.

A poster diagonally opposite Chinatown is the perfect spot to showcase GG.

Luqiao was about to go to the scene to see what was going on, so he didn't care about the two of them.

Lu Qiao calmed down and realized that Black Cat wouldn't contradict himself.

This is just an ordinary event, except that it's possible to escape it.

All I can say is that this world is a giant makeshift operation.

After the black cat led Lu Qiao across the road, it stepped on a trash can, climbed onto an electrical box, and then leaped onto the awning.

It was extremely fast and completed in one go.

The buildings in Chinatown are all storefronts, not very tall, many are two stories high, and are a combination of commercial and residential buildings.

Using the awning as cover, the black cat leaped and landed on the second-floor balcony next to the jewelry store.

Under the sun, the yellow pillars decorating the exterior of the gold shop allowed Lu Qiao to clearly see his own appearance.

At this point, Luqiao was like a big black rat.

The most ordinary kind of black rat, with a really long tail.

The black cat, having just landed, immediately leaped off the roof tiles and bounded up to the second floor of the gold shop, behind the signboard.

The black cat adjusted its posture, crouched down to gather strength, and faced the air conditioner unit on the second floor, preparing for its jump.

Luqiao, like a rat, took a moment to glance down below.

This is the second floor of the jewelry store, and there's a row of police cars below.

A middle-aged man in a sharp suit had arrived and was communicating with someone.

The negotiation expert arrived in just ten minutes.

The negotiation experts present did not start working immediately; it seemed they were gathering information about the situation inside and preparing for the next round of negotiations.

The prepared black cat leaped into the air.

Lu Qiao felt like he was about to be lifted into the air, and could only desperately grab the black cat by the scruff of its neck.

"Squeak~~~!"

A scream erupted from Luqiao.

The black cat forms a perfect arc, inside the outdoor unit of the floor-standing air conditioner.

"Don't bark, humans can hear you!" the black cat warned as it landed.

The sirens of several police cars were not turned off, and the noise of the rats was insignificant.

However, there are bound to be exceptions, and it would be very troublesome if they were discovered by humans.

Lu Qiao understood this, so he shut up to calm himself down and remained silent.

Lu Qiao understood that Black Cat was treating this as a formal mission, so everything would be handled with strict standards.

Lu Qiao could also imagine that the real missions related to the relics would likely cost lives, and his aunt's death might also be related to the previous missions.

"Now it's your turn. Go through the air conditioning duct and open the door for me!" the black cat explained softly, shaking its body.

The bridge was thrown off, landing safely on all four sides without making a sound.

In front of me were the pipes connecting the outdoor and indoor units of the air conditioner; the entire pipe was damp and looked filthy.

Lu Qiao had no choice but to bite the bullet and squeeze in. Although the pipe was narrow, Lu Qiao squeezed in easily.

As a rat, its glossy fur can protect it from oil stains, allowing the road bridge to easily pass through pipes that are not much larger than itself.

At the end, there was an obstruction. The road and bridge felt the material; it was rather hard, but softer than a water pipe.

Luqiao immediately realized it was foam!

Once they realized what was happening, the road and bridge construction began to crumble.

The rat's front teeth were incredibly useful, gnawing away at the foam plastic bit by bit.

They bite with a specific purpose, so they are very fast.

In less than twenty seconds, Luqiao had carved out a hole large enough for him to enter.

Lu Qiao crawled inside, pawed at it a few times, and squeezed himself in.

Looking around from the landed bridge, this is the storage room on the second floor.

It's called a storage room, but it's more like a small area that was used to store the outdoor unit of the air conditioner. To avoid waste, mops, brooms, and buckets are placed here.

The room is only big enough for a human to crawl into, and it's more suitable for reaching in to retrieve tools, making the best use of the space.

There is a window at the end of the storage room, on the wall opposite the air conditioning duct.

This window is probably for air conditioning technicians to crawl in and inspect or repair the outdoor unit of the air conditioner.

There was a handle on the window, clearly indicating that he was going to open the door for the black cat.

At this moment, Luqiao finally understood.

Why would a black cat turn itself into a mouse? It's not a perverse pleasure, but a necessity for its mission.

Insects can enter these places but cannot open the doors; only mice, when small enough, can open the doors.

Lu Qiao used the pile of debris to easily climb up to the window.

Upon seeing the window handle, Lu Qiao leaped and grabbed it.

The rat was quite heavy, and at that moment the handle was tilted downwards by the pressure of the road bridge.

Using the lever, Lu Qiao extended his "rat claws" and hung the person from the end of the handle.

Using its own weight to press down the handle, the window latch was opened.

The bridge also fell to the ground, and almost instinctively landed on its limbs.

Lu Qiao also realized that after he turned into a rat, he also inherited the rat's instincts.

As a human falling from the sky, Lu Qiao knew he couldn't do a mid-air spin.

This is probably why the black cat has a series of strange cat-like behaviors.

So Lu Qiao pondered, perhaps this wasn't a simple transformation, but rather he had truly become a mouse.

To find out the specifics, I estimate I'll need to communicate with Black Cat more to understand what's going on.

The window latch was opened, and the black cat jumped onto the window from the outside.

The black cat gently nudged the opening with its head and then crawled inside.

"Well done! Much better than I expected!" the black cat praised as it entered the storage room.

"Then how bad do you think I am?" Lu Qiao retorted.

The black cat didn't answer and continued walking forward.

Luqiao knew that he had stumbled upon this by chance, so he was not the servant that the black cat had chosen.

It must have been because of his aunt; otherwise, if he had discovered the matter of the Outer Lands tavern, he probably would have been buried in the lawn outside the castle long ago.

Love what you do! Luqiao followed the black cat forward.

The black cat pushed forward again towards the main door of the storage room, creating a gap and wedging itself into the door.

Lu Qiao immediately understood, walked under the black cat's crotch, and entered the gold shop with the black cat's support.

Turning around, I realized that the storage room had a hidden door on the second floor.

Having successfully entered the jewelry store, Luqiao saw the situation inside.

Because it's in Chinatown, the entire jewelry store exudes a traditional Chinese style of decoration, both inside and out.

The first floor had a proper glass display case, but it was all shattered, and the gold jewelry inside was completely gone.

Even the counters have been moved and placed in front of the rolling doors to serve as cover.

On both sides are wooden ceilings, and near the hall are two symmetrical wooden steps that lead up to the second floor where Luqiao and the black cat are.

It's said to be on the second floor, but that's a bit of a stretch.

Just like how the fake second floor of the castle is actually a small warehouse, the second floor here only has a U-shaped corridor, and all the doors cannot be opened.

Apart from the storage room where Luqiao and the black cat came, everything else was just decoration; it had windows and doors, but they were all fake decorations.

After all, such a storage room can hardly be called a room.

Lu Qiao noticed something upon looking around: there weren't eight hostages the robbers had mentioned; there were only four hostages tied together.

The four hostages had their mouths stuffed with something and were all tied together back to back.

Their eyes were wrapped with layers of black tape, clearly to prevent the hostages from peeking.

Furthermore, each hostage had white tissue paper sticking out of their ear, along with layers of tape, clearly indicating that they were not to be allowed to hear any sound.

Not far away, there was a corpse, shot in the head, lying in a pool of blood.

The deceased appeared to be a security guard. He was missing his shirt, and the shirt with lipstick writing on it that was thrown out was clearly his.

Only then did Lu Qiao realize that the lipstick and the words on the clothes were likely drawn with blood.

Thinking of the road and bridge here, the rat covered its mouth with its paws, almost vomiting up all the airplane food it had eaten on the plane.

This was the first time Luqiao had ever seen a dead body face-to-face, and it was undoubtedly shocking.

At this moment, all that can be seen in the lobby are all the staff of the jewelry store.

It seems that when the thugs returned for the second time, they didn't have time to escape.

Surprisingly, there wasn't a single robber in the entire hall.

The robbers weren't in the lobby, so Lu Qiao wasn't too surprised by the incident.

After all, the black cat said the criminals disappeared within an hour, which should be around this time.

Luqiao was extremely curious: how could someone possibly disappear into thin air from here?

The black cat came up behind the bridge, opened its mouth, and sniffed the air with its nose and vomeronasal organ.

It pressed a paw down on Luqiao's head, turning Luqiao's head to the left, answering Luqiao's question with its actions.

That's the back of the gold shop, where there's a screen that reads: "Making a fortune every day."

This screen is meant to block out the staff rest area at the back, but the passageway behind it is clearly visible from the second floor.

Luqiao then tried to sniff as well; animals have a much more acute sense of smell than humans.

Luqiao also understood how Black Cat determined that the group of robbers were located in the employee passageway.

Because Luqiao could smell a strong gunpowder smell, which was the smell of gunfire.

These guns had previously fired numerous shots into the sky to cover an escape through the main gate.

The smell is strong; presumably, this is how specially trained dogs are identified for problems.

"Come on up, we'll get off!" The black cat beckoned to Lu Qiao with its paw, signaling Lu Qiao to get on its back.

Luqiao didn't hesitate either. With the black cat's invitation, Luqiao climbed up the black cat's right arm and neck in a few steps.

Once the black cat had a firm grip on the bridge, it leaped down and disappeared into it without going down the stairs.

The black cat is extremely fast and moves at tricky angles, always in blind spots of the surveillance cameras.

Lu Qiao naturally saw it all and knew that the black cat must have done this kind of thing to avoid surveillance quite often.

But Luqiao didn't hold on tight enough and jumped off the black cat.

Previously, the jumps were all upwards, but this downward swooping motion is too fast for the road and bridge.

After the black cat fell, the inertia caused Luqiao to land on the ground, rolling several times before stopping.

With his head spinning, Lu Qiao couldn't distinguish up from down from left from right.

Lu Qiao shook his head from side to side to calm himself down.

Behind the screen are two paths; the left one leads to the toilet.

On the right is an iron gate, which is completely blocked by a cabinet.

This should be the back door of the jewelry store; theoretically, one could run directly to the other side of the street from here and escape.

But the fact that it was blocked like this was clearly to prevent the agents from breaking in from behind.

Judging from this, the robbers could only escape through the toilet.

The black cat opened its mouth again, took a few breaths, and tried to pinpoint the robber's location.

Seeing the black cat's movements, Luqiao also began to try, sniffing again.

But the next second, Lu Qiaoxiang became confused.

That was the corner exit of the employee passage, with half a sausage on a sticky rat trap.

Half a low-quality sausage gleamed in Luqiao's eyes.

The aroma emanating from the ham sausage seemed to be telling Luqiao: You must be tired. It's not easy for anyone. Have something to eat before you go!

At this point, Luqiao was completely out of control, and Luqiao also understood what animal instinct was.

The most tiring thing is to struggle with yourself.

Lu Qiao kept telling himself that it was a trap and he shouldn't step into it!

If you use one of these sticky mouse traps, you'll be permanently stuck to it!

But at this moment, Lu Qiao's body was completely out of control!