Daily Life in the Pet Shop Ch. 211

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As the sun rose outside, Hua Ziyi continued to hear the sound of cat meows, but he couldn't find the black cat he had seen the day before anywhere. Someone slowly walked in, and Hua Ziyi, still wrapped in his blanket, breathed a sigh of relief—it was the housekeeper of Hua's family had sent to take care of him.

"Master, what would you like to eat today?" the woman asked.

"Just make something simple," Hua Ziyi waved his hand to dismiss her, thinking that he should probably bring a couple more people over. The more people there were, the stronger the yang energy. Maybe that would stop the cats from coming back.

Hua Ziyi quickly called home and said that someone had been harassing him in the middle of the night, and that the villa wasn't safe. He asked them to send two bodyguards over. No one questioned him, and soon, two strong bodyguards arrived.

"Oh, so he's hired bodyguards now. This is great," Zhou Chongwen remarked as he walked in just in time to see Hua's family sending the bodyguards. Things were progressing smoothly.

Since he had been hearing the cat cries all night, Hua Ziyi began to have hallucinations during the day. He felt like he could hear cats meowing everywhere, but no one else seemed to hear it.

The bedroom had already been cleaned, and Hua Ziyi's old sheets and blankets had been burned. The bodyguards were staying in the room next door, ready to come if anything happened. At last, Hua Ziyi could relax and get some sleep.

He dreamt of countless black cats walking toward him. As they walked, their heads fell off, and blood slowly pooled at his feet. The headless cats continued to walk toward him. Hua Ziyi tried to run but found himself unable to move. It felt like something was holding his feet down. The blood was rising, threatening to drown him, but he still couldn't move. Just as he was about to scream for help, a gush of blood filled his mouth. It was foul, salty, and disgusting. Hua Ziyi woke up abruptly, still tasting the blood in his mouth.

Outside, the sound of cat meowing came again, just like the previous night. Hua Ziyi ran to the window and saw that the black cat was still perched on the branch outside, staring at him quietly, just like before. He couldn't tell where the meowing was coming from.

"You guys, get that cat out of here," Hua Ziyi ran to the next room and woke up the bodyguards, pointing to the cat outside the window.

"Where's the cat?" one of the bodyguards asked, looking confused.

"It's right there, on that branch, a big black cat! Can't you see it?" Hua Ziyi pointed angrily at the branch. A huge black cat was right in front of them, but the two men couldn't see it.

"There's no cat. There's nothing on that tree," one bodyguard said, giving Hua Ziyi a look as if he thought he was crazy.

"How could there be no cat? It's still meowing. Are your ears deaf?" Hua Ziyi shouted loudly.

"There's no cat," both bodyguards shook their heads in unison.

Hua Ziyi stared at the black cat outside. It suddenly moved, getting closer, and its expression changed as it seemed to mock him. The meowing sound shifted from outside the window to inside the room.

"Listen carefully! The meowing is in my room now! How can there be no cat?" Hua Ziyi shouted in frustration. Could this black cat really have come from hell to get revenge on him?

The two bodyguards moved around the room, listening carefully, then walked over to Hua Ziyi and shook their heads, saying they hadn't heard anything, let alone any cat meows. But Hua Ziyi knew the meowing had been constant.

"Go back," Hua Ziyi waved his hand weakly. It seemed that there really were ghosts and monsters in this world. Hua Ziyi, who had never believed in such things, was now completely convinced by the black cat incident. He started to worry. If the animals he had tortured came back for revenge, would he be able to survive?

As he turned his head, the black cat was already standing on his bed, grinning at him and flicking its tail. The meowing now seemed to say, "Wait for it, wait for it."

"Nice job," Zhou Chongwen said, thoroughly enjoying the scene. He stood up and handed Zhou Qimeng a cup of hot tea. Although he didn't know exactly what Zhou Qimeng had made Hua Ziyi dream about, the look on Hua Ziyi's face made it clear that he'd had a nightmare.

"His mind is stronger than most. Small tricks won't break him. You'll need to step it up. I estimate he'll need at least five or six more rounds of hypnosis before his psychological defenses completely break down. After that, any little thing could scare him. Make sure you leave him some lasting psychological scars. Once his mental defenses are shattered, your actions will likely send him to a mental hospital," Zhou Qimeng explained. When he had been hypnotizing Hua Ziyi, he had noticed that Hua Ziyi's twisted psyche was much tougher than others'. Normal psychological suggestions had minimal effect on him.

"It would be even better if he ends up in a mental hospital," Zhou Chongwen said bitterly. He had hoped that after Hua Ziyi's time in prison, he would change, but instead, he had come out even worse, being crueler to the realistic animals. Such a person was beyond change. If scaring him into a mental hospital was the only way to handle him, then so be it.

"What do you think?" Zhou Qimeng asked Fang Yi. While they had scared people before and used hypnosis, they had never gone as far as to push someone to the point of needing to be sent to a mental hospital.

"Go all out, be ruthless." Fang Yi had been thinking about this as well. Although their previous methods of scaring people had been improper, Fang Yi had never harmed anyone. At most, he just scared them into avoiding animals. But Hua Ziyi wasn't an ordinary person.

He could still cruelly harm these animals even while being despised by everyone. If they didn't deal with him properly this time, once he recovered, there was a high chance he'd start all over again. Who knew how many more animals would suffer by then?

"It should have been done like this a long time ago. For people like him, you should never go soft. Who knows, maybe he'll get bored of abusing animals and start hurting people. We're just eliminating a threat to society," Zhou Chongwen reassured Fang Yi.

"Don't make excuses. If this blows up, I'll take responsibility," Fang Yi wasn't someone who was soft-hearted, nor was he a coward. He just didn't want to give up the life he had now. What would happen to the pet shop if he left? Would Du Qianze be sad? He had finally managed to live the life he wanted, and it was hard to let go.

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