Chapter 8: The Kitten Goes Hunting

Jiang Jinyue looked at the cute kitten in the cat bed with satisfaction again before turning her attention to the game panel.

She originally wanted to check her strength value, but unexpectedly noticed a new pet panel had been added.

Clicking in, she saw an ID photo of her Mimi on a blue background. The kitten's face in the photo was very serious; one look and you knew it was a proper Mimi.

After admiring Mimi's peerless beauty, she finally noticed the data below the photo.

【Pet Information:

Pet Cat:

Name: (To be named)

Happiness: 55

Health: 100

Satiety: 100

Loyalty: 80

Skills: 1. When Happiness is above 60%, it can hunt 30 gold coins for the player every day.

2. Bringing Wealth and Treasure: Has a certain probability of bringing financial luck to the player.】

"Huh?"

Looking at the panel, Jiang Jinyue couldn't help but let out a soft exclamation. She hadn't expected the kitten's initial loyalty to be so high?

Being trusted by Mimi felt pretty good, warming her heart.

But what should she name Mimi?

The little orange cat was golden all over, could attract wealth, and could even earn gold coins himself.

Then...

Miao Aotian!

Perfect!

Looking at the three large characters 'Miao Aotian' on the pet panel, Jiang Jinyue's heart suddenly felt at ease. At least in this cruel game where the weak were prey to the strong, she had an existence she could trust.

After observing the cat's data, Jiang Jinyue continued to turn her gaze to the personal information she had initially wanted to see.

Good, her Strength was now 6.6, and her Health had recovered to a startling 8.

After admiring her stats with satisfaction, she saw the time on the game panel had reached 6:50.

Jiang Jinyue didn't bother checking the backpacks dropped after the kills just now. Instead, she immediately chose to place all unused items.

The next moment, a swaying stalk of catnip appeared next to the Broom Turret.

At the same time, Aotian, who had been lazily curled up in the cat bed, pounced out excitedly.

Watching the yellow blur flash past her eyes, Jiang Jinyue raised her eyebrows knowingly.

As expected, no kitten could resist catnip!

No longer paying attention to the kitten rubbing frantically against the catnip, Jiang Jinyue continued to check the descriptions of the various items.

【catnip: When the dormitory door is under attack, it can produce one gold coin at regular intervals. Meanwhile, this item has a high attraction for cat-type weirdnesses; please use with caution.】

【Automatic Kettle: Special non-slot-occupying item. After pouring water into the kettle, the water temperature can be controlled.】

【Basic Cat Bed (Upgradable): Companion item for the pet cat. Sleeping in the cat bed can slowly increase Health.】

Jiang Jinyue didn't have much of an opinion on the latter two items, but she had to pay attention to the first one, the catnip.

Based on what she had seen earlier in the Weirdness Management Group, none of the currently lit-up avatars were cat-related, but she couldn't be sure about the future, so she still couldn't be too relaxed.

Glancing at little Aotian, who looked like he was in paradise with a 'meow' face, Jiang Jinyue intended to reach out and pet the little cat's head.

To her surprise, just as she walked over and before she could touch Mimi...

The next moment, the kitten that was comfortably rolling around suddenly disappeared before her eyes?

Hmm?

Rubbing her eyes... and rubbing them again.

Looking at the empty floor next to the catnip, Jiang Jinyue still couldn't believe her eyes.

Where's my cat?

Where did my big cat go?

She quickly opened the pet panel. Seeing that the kitten's ID photo was still there, Jiang Jinyue finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After carefully checking Aotian's information again, she indeed found a new status behind Skill 1, showing (Kitten is out hunting, please do not disturb).

catnip can actually increase a pet's Happiness?

Moreover, it had increased the kitten's Happiness by a full five points in such a short time!

Looking at the catnip with satisfaction, Jiang Jinyue turned her gaze to her inventory.

In addition to the items obtained from opening treasure chests, there were also the two backpacks dropped by the players she had killed.

Both backpacks were flashing with a red light, displaying the option 'Merge Backpacks?'

She wondered if the items inside would disappear after the backpacks were merged?

After contemplating for a moment, she chose to take out everything from the backpacks first before starting to merge them.

The next moment, a soft multi-colored light flashed, and the two scavenged backpacks merged with her original one.

Seeing the backpack illustration on the game panel, which didn't seem to have changed much, she smiled with a slight raise of her eyebrows and tapped to open the details.

As expected.

Not only had the original 10 inventory slots become 30, but the number of items that could be stored in each slot had also increased to 200.

After scanning the newly upgraded backpack with satisfaction, Jiang Jinyue turned her gaze to the items she had just taken out from those two backpacks.

There was a huge pile of miscellaneous stuff, but nothing very useful.

Among them was a work ID card showing the woman with the gentle smile from earlier, labeled as 'Chief Game Planner of XX Game, M Company, City A.'

Although she was just a high school senior, she actually knew this company.

After all, it was the number one game giant in the Xia Kingdom. She had played many of its popular games, and of course, she had played this one too.

She had even cursed the 'dog planner' many times for nerfing her main character, saying the company was 'done for' sooner or later!

She hadn't expected the planner to actually be 'done for' at her own hands; life was truly unpredictable.

But thinking about the woman's appearance—at most thirty years old—her position as Chief Planner, the trap she had set when they first met, and the corpse in the room...

Jiang Jinyue couldn't help but feel lucky again. If such a ruthless character were allowed to develop, she would definitely be a formidable enemy in the future.

Not many things had dropped from her backpack. Besides the work ID, there were only two phones, a pack of cigarettes, and a lighter.

One of the two phones was a high-end tri-fold costing over ten thousand, and the other was a thousand-yuan phone with a shattered back. It was obvious the latter belonged to the corpse.

Even the half-empty pack of Hongtashan and the one-yuan lighter must have been his.

On the other hand, the power bank that person had thrown out earlier looked quite expensive, but unfortunately, it had been smashed to pieces and was completely useless.

With a sigh of regret, Jiang Jinyue continued to check the dropped items from the unlucky Suit Man's backpack.

A green watch, an Audi car key with a promotional Audi bear charm attached, another iPhone, and a black wallet.

The wallet was full of various IDs and cash.

She casually removed the Audi bear charm from the key, planning to give it to Aotian to play with later, and threw everything else into the last inventory slot.

This slot would be dedicated to trash that was useless but too good to throw away.

After organizing all her gains, Jiang Jinyue noticed that the messy arguing in the hallway had completely vanished at some point.

It was quiet all around, without a single sound, as if she were the only person left in the world.

But the game panel now showed 7:04. Given the premise that 'weirdness starts attacking dormitories at seven,' this silence was actually hair-raising.

The information from the management group shouldn't be wrong.

Jiang Jinyue silently raised her guard and then crept toward the iron dormitory door.

Arriving at the door, she held her breath slightly and slowly brought her face close to the portable mirror, wanting to observe the situation outside.

Strangely, what she saw wasn't the hallway she imagined, but a heavy, thick darkness, without a single glimmer of light.

Had the hallway lights broken?

No, that's not right!

Alarm bells suddenly rang in Jiang Jinyue's heart. She abruptly took two steps back, quickly putting distance between herself and the iron door!