Yun Mingchen’s mask as a useless young master has been engraved in peoples’ hearts, so the male servant only used one detection method.
After confirming that there were no defensive formations, he took out a piece of chicken breast from his pocket and peeled off the plastic wrap on top. He intended to take his chicken breast and swap it with the boiled chicken breast prepared by Yun Mingchen for the kitten.
The system, busy applying a tattoo sticker, peeked out with a cigarette in its mouth and said, 【This brute poisoned the chicken breast, I figured it out!】
Yu Tong didn’t say a word and just watched the male servant’s actions with his head tilted.
The male servant took out a spare key and was about to open the small padlock on the cat cage when he found that the lock was already open.
He glanced at the little kitten clinging to the edge of the cage, seemingly planning to escape, and let out a cold laugh.
Perhaps mocking the careless and negligent young master for forgetting to lock the cat cage.
He reached out to open the cat cage, and the moment the small iron door opened, two golden beams of light shot out from the iron bars, straight toward his hands.
The appearance of the golden light was sudden, and even though the male servant reacted quickly, he couldn’t completely avoid it.
One beam of light hit the male servant, while the other was casted on the ground, turning into a small golden chain.
Yutong squatted in the cage, tilting his head to look.
‘Xiao Ba, I think this little rope is used to catch escaped kittens.’
【Get rid of the word ‘think’, you see, there’s even a dangling kitten tag. Let me see… hmm… it says ‘Xixi’.】
Dogshit wasn’t written on the cat tag, which made Yutong inexplicably moved.
Perhaps worried about hurting the kitten, Yun Mingchen didn’t set up defensive formations with offensive capabilities.
The male servant didn’t have any wounds on his body. After quickly checking himself, his face instantly turned pale.
He decisively gave up poisoning the kitten, one hand shutting close the cage door while the other quickly tapping on his phone.
With a meow, Yu Tong pounced onto his head.
His angle wasn’t convenient for peeking, so the system helped him spy on the screen.
【He’s going to message Mr. Wen. In the type box, it says, ‘There’s a defensive formation on the cat cage, with a sealing function and an alarm. Young Master knows someone will target the cat, he’s in…’
And that’s it.】
Before the system finished speaking, the servant had already typed the last few words.
Yu Tong furrowed his brows tightly, knowing he absolutely couldn’t let this message reach Mr. Wen.
He turned around to try and knock the phone away, but the servant was quicker, hitting the send button first.
The cigarette smoking system asked, 【Do you want me to help you block… Oh, damn, the message didn’t send!】
There was an exclamation mark displayed next to the newly sent message.
The male servant broke out in a cold sweat. It was only then that he noticed the signal on his phone, which had been full before, was now gone.
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Apparently, when he triggered the defensive formation by opening the cat cage, he also activated the signal-jamming device.
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Coafg rjslcu atlr, Te Kbcu tlwrfio kjr raeccfv.
Dgbatfg Jtfc?
Qtfc wfcalbclcu la ilxf atlr, atf nliijlc’r cjwf jirb mbcajlcr ‘Jtfc’.
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Before Yu Tong could ponder further, the male servant dashed to the window, opened it, and prepared to jump out.
Once he left the area where the jammer functioned, the truth about the antagonist pretending to be useless would be exposed.
Yu Tong didn’t know why Yun Mingchen was pretending to be foolish, but he still felt that Mr. Wen should be kept in the dark about this.
So, just when the servant stepped onto the windowsill, Yu Tong, who had been flung out of the window, leaped back and pounced onto the servant’s face again.
The butler lost his balance and stumbled from the impact.
Seizing the moment before he could regain his footing, Yu Tong opened his mouth wide and viciously bit down on his skull.
In the quiet bedroom, a few crisp sounds echoed — the sound of the butler’s skull shattering.
The intense pain almost made the butler cry out, he shaped his fingers into a finger sword and raised his hand to stab at the kitten above his head.
Yu Tong leapt towards the nearby cabinet, executing a cat-like pounce. Before the butler could stab him, he flashed away.
A bloody hole was bitten into the butler’s head, blood gushed out uncontrollably.
He covered the wound, looking at Yu Tong in horror. “Are you a monster? The book was right, the young master actually keeps monsters!”
Yu Tong was taken aback.
He used “actually” instead of “unexpectedly.” Did someone find out about Yun Mingchen raising monsters?
What book? What kind of book was that amazing?
It’s unclear what exactly the male servant had been through. As he looked at the palm-sized Yu Tong, his face gradually turned pale, despair wallowing in his eyes.
He didn’t immediately escape, but rather fished out a voice-transmitting talisman, intending to ignite it.
Yu Tong didn’t give him the chance to share information, immediately pouncing with a meow.
Cat pounce was always 100% accurate, and even the Meditation stage cultivator Yun Mingchen couldn’t dodge it, let alone a servant in the Body Refinement stage.
The next moment, a series of crisp sounds echoed in the room.
It was the sound of the little cat tearing at the servant’s neck. Blood gushed from the wound, splattering all over Yu Tong.
The servant’s body slumped down, his empty eyes staring straight at the ceiling.
Yutong knew the importance of finishing the job. He climbed up and gnawed on the servant’s head a few times to ensure he was dead.
Then he jumped down from the body, bit off the servant’s thumb to unlock the phone’s fingerprint lock, and deleted the failed message.
Using the recording function built into the system, he quickly recorded the servant’s conversations with Mr. Wen and others.
After extracting all the valuable information, Yu Tong destroyed the phone by biting it to pieces.
Turning his gaze to the corpse, he began to contemplate how to dispose of the servant and erase all traces.
The confused system couldn’t help but speak up: 【Did you just kill someone?】
The small cat’s body was too tiny, making it inconvenient to deal with the corpse. Yu Tong panted heavily in exhaustion.
He had no desire to chat with the system and just responded with a casual “Hmm.”
【You seem very calm. Isn’t this your first time killing someone?】
Yutong fell silent for a moment, then lowered his head somewhat awkwardly. When he looked up again, his body was trembling, and his round eyes were filled with nervousness and unease after the murder, making him seem pitiful.
He took a deep breath, his voice choked with a sob, “I’m not calm, I’m just scared out of my wits.”
【……】
“Blood sprayed into my mouth, it’s so disgusting. Little Eight, what should I do? I’ve killed someone, I’m so scared, Brother Eight, please help me, I’m scared.”
【…Don’t talk like that, you’re scaring me】 the system responded.
Seeing that the system stopped pressing him, Yutong continued cleaning up the scene.
The system didn’t believe his nonsense at all; it planned to find some time to check the host’s information again.
After wiping away the bloodstains, Yutong squatted on the ground, tilting his head to stare at the servant’s corpse.
The system quickly accepted the fact that its host might have been a murderer in his past life.
It curiously asked, 【The way you just killed the servant wasn’t like an ordinary kitten at all. Aren’t you afraid of being found out by Mr. Wen behind the surveillance?】
Yutong stepped on wet wipes, repeatedly rubbing his claws to clean off the blood.
Hearing this, he tilted his head and explained with a smile, “Last time when the monster came looking for Yun Mingchen, the surveillance in the bedroom got damaged.”
“Last night, Yun Mingchen dared to test me in the bedroom and see if I was possessed. The culprit was probably the monsters wandering around the dormitory area at night, causing disruptions to the surveillance inside the house.”
【So now the surveillance inside the house is also broken and no one can see what’s happening in the bedroom?】 the system asked.
The system thought for a moment.
【I don’t quite understand, what are those monsters, and why do they affect the surveillance? 】
“That, I’m not sure.”
【To be honest, I think you’re a bit impulsive. Yun Mingchen can scheme so perfectly, which shows that he’s not only capable but also very intelligent. Even if you clean up the scene perfectly, he’ll definitely figure out that the cat killed the man.】
Yutong sighed sorrowfully, “It’s been over half an hour since the defensive formation sent out the alarm. Yun Mingchen still hasn’t returned, he’s most likely held up by something and can’t return accordingly. If I didn’t kill the servant, his personas would have been exposed, so I didn’t have a choice.”
“I don’t know why the antagonist wants to pretend to be useless, but according to his plan, his true nature shouldn’t be revealed yet. I was worried that triggering a chain reaction prematurely might lead to his downfall,” Yutong mused.
The system murmured in agreement, 【True.】
Seeing the host staring at the corpse again, it inquired, 【Little Yu, Little Yu, what are you thinking about?】
Yu Tong sighed, “I can’t move the body, so I can’t dispose of it. I’m thinking if I could eat him.”
【???】
“Just kidding, I’m planning to set the body on fire. I’m calculating the best ignition point, so don’t disturb me”
【???】
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Meanwhile, the students who weren’t cultivating were required to return to their dormitories for online classes after several students died.
As they walked to the dormitory area, they saw Yun Mingchen’s room light on fire.
The academy was established by the three major families, and as the young master of the Yun family, Yun Mingchen had privileges.
He lived in a detached villa with a meticulously maintained small courtyard, some distance away from the dormitories of other students.
Despite the intense flames, the fire did not spread to other dormitories.
Fires were not uncommon in the cultivation academy, as students often accidentally ignited their dormitories.
However, such incidents usually occurred in the alchemy and artifact refining academy dormitory areas, rarely in the sword cultivation dorms.
As the academy heartthrob, Yun Mingchen was well-liked. Passing students flew over to help extinguish the fire and rushed into the house to salvage valuable items.
The master bedroom on the second floor was the most severely affected area by the fire. A member of the student council walked around the bedroom and spotted a charred corpse.
He took a photo with his phone and sent it to Yun Mingchen, saying, 【President, your dorm is on fire. From the body size, it seems to be your male servant.】
After a while, a reply came.
President Yun: 【What’s in the upper right corner of the photo?】
The student council member checked and replied, 【It’s a collapsed cat cage on the bookshelf.】
He had just sent the message when a new notification popped up on the screen.
President Yun: 【Where’s the cat?】
Student Council Member: 【Um… President, don’t you want to know what happened to your male servant?】
President Yun: 【I’m deeply saddened by his death. I will investigate the cause of the fire and take care of his family. He was not just my servant — in my heart, he was also an important family member.】
President Yun: 【Just thinking about his death breaks my heart. I’m really… I’m so upset right now, I really don’t want to bring up this sad matter again.】
President Yun: 【Where’s the cat?】
“Oh no I’m soooooooo sad 😏”
Back to the important question:
“Where’s the cat?”
I was thinking the same thing! 😂😂😂
😂😂😂
Broooooo, like master like cat :))))))
Asking the important questions.
Maybe this kitten and this kid are a good match after all.
The important question is obviously about the cat
Thanks for the chapter
Dogshit and his shit shoveller are just two sides of a coin.. 🤣
“Oh I’m so sad, this is so terrible… now where’s the cat” love it 😂
Also probability of our MC coming from a shady family (probably mafia) has significantly increased