Daily Life in the Pet Shop Ch. 212

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"Are you ignoring me?" Zhou Qimeng scoffed at Fang Yi's righteous expression. He wasn't worried about the hypnosis techniques—he was confident they'd never be discovered. However, he asked, "Does the Pei family know what we're doing?"

"They know." Fang Yi nodded. Pei Haoyan had even sent him a lot of advanced equipment.

"Is it reliable?" If they really frightened Hua Ziyi into becoming insane, the Pei family could become the only unstable factor. Fang Yi had only known them for a short time.

"Not sure, but they provided all this stuff," Fang Yi shook his head. He hadn't expected Hua Ziyi to be so stubborn. Originally, he hadn't planned to be this ruthless, but now, telling the Pei family about this seemed like a tricky issue.

"Pei Haoyan comes by every day, right? When he comes, I'll ask him." Zhou Qimeng said, but his "ask" wasn't just a casual question.

"Okay." Fang Yi nodded, deciding to leave some backup plans in place, at least so the Pei family would have some reservations about him.

Pei Haoyan excitedly came to deliver food to Fang Yi, and to ask about the progress. Not long after sitting down, Zhou Qimeng pulled him away. A little while later, Zhou Qimeng came out of the room and told Fang Yi that Pei Haoyan had helped him purely because he couldn't stand Hua Ziyi's actions. Zhou Qimeng patted Fang Yi on the shoulder, saying that Fang Yi had really hit the jackpot, but there still had to be backup plans.

"I know," Fang Yi always thought he was good at reading people, and Pei Haoyan hadn't let him down. So, when he was doing these things, he had never guarded against him. If Zhou Qimeng hadn't reminded him, he might have even forgotten.

Hua Ziyi couldn't stand being in the villa anymore and insisted on going out. The Hua family had no choice but to let him dress up and send two bodyguards with him.

He thought that once he left the villa, the black cats wouldn't follow him anymore, but even outside, he could still hear the meowing. No matter where he went, he could always spot a dog, staring at him menacingly, as if it was about to charge at him and bite him.

Hua Ziyi didn't believe in superstition, so he visited several busy places, but every time he moved, that same dog appeared in front of him, and the cat's meowing never stopped. But the two bodyguards couldn't hear the meowing or see the dog.

Exhausted from a whole day of walking, Hua Ziyi returned to the villa. As soon as he stepped inside, he found the living room was a complete mess. The person responsible for cleaning said they had finished just an hour ago, and no one had been there since.

On the floor were several disemboweled rats, along with cockroaches and some other small animals. Hua Ziyi thought of the words the skeleton had said yesterday: this was the cats' revenge, and it had just begun.

"I want to move. I don't want to stay here anymore." Hua Ziyi was so scared by his own thoughts that he demanded to leave. But this was the best place the Hua family had found. It was in a sparsely populated area, with few reporters, and the Hua family's company was already in crisis.

If news of Hua Ziyi's release spread, it would be a huge blow to the family. They couldn't take such a big risk. Hua Ziyi couldn't move for the time being, especially since he couldn't give a good reason for it.

So the two bodyguards who were originally assigned to protect Hua Ziyi, ended up being the ones to monitor him, preventing him from sneaking away.

From that day on, wherever Hua Ziyi went, he could always hear the sound of cats meowing. That black cat always appeared in his line of sight, seemingly everywhere. But to everyone else, these things didn't exist. Hua Ziyi even noticed the black cat on the TV screen, stubbornly occupying one corner of the screen, glaring at him with an angry expression.

Every night, Hua Ziyi dreamt, and in his dreams, there was always a group of black cats, along with all the cats he had abused. The dreams developed little by little, and in the end, he turned into a black cat in the dream, dissected by himself, cut in half by himself. He even put broken glass into the cat's eyes. The pain was so intense that his whole body went numb. He had never known that a person could hurt this much. He kept struggling, but the person in the dream was him, and he couldn't escape. He could only endure.

The second time he had a nightmare, Hua Ziyi noticed a thin scratch on his wrist. It wasn't deep, and there was no bleeding, but it looked like the mark of some animal's claws. The first thing Hua Ziyi thought of was the black cat.

In the following days, Hua Ziyi wasn't physically harmed much, but it was as if he were living in hell. Not only could he see the black cat at all times, but the animals he had abused also appeared one by one in front of him. They were all incomplete, and they meowed at him pitifully. He was driven almost mad by these things, but no one else could see them. The black cat's revenge was only targeting him.

There were often disemboweled mice with gruesome deaths found in the villa. Every time Hua Ziyi called someone to clean up, the servants were baffled, as nothing seemed to be there. Hua Ziyi insisted that they clean up the d**d mice from the area.

One day, when Hua Ziyi lay down, his hand suddenly brushed against something slippery in the blankets. He quickly threw off the covers and discovered a snake on the bed, its belly ripped open. The thought that he had just lain next to a snake made Hua Ziyi feel instantly disgusted. He rushed to the bathroom and threw up violently. He called the servants to help clean up, but when they checked, the bed was completely clean, with no bloodstains, let alone a snake.

Soon, news of Hua Ziyi's mental state spread throughout the Hua family. Not long after, a doctor came to the villa. When Hua Ziyi saw the black cat-like design on the doctor's clothing, he refused to accept treatment. The Hua family had to switch doctors several times before Hua Ziyi finally agreed to see a psychologist and talk about the black cat.

The psychologist, once accepted by Hua Ziyi, immediately went out and informed the Hua family, suspecting that Hua Ziyi had been in prison too long, which had affected his mental state, causing him to hallucinate things that weren't there.

"How's it going, brother?" Zhou Qimeng had just gotten into the car when Zhou Chongwen called.

"No problem. He does seem to have some mental issues now, looks like he's really hearing things that aren't there. There's more drama to come," Zhou Qimeng said. Hua Ziyi probably didn't realize that the only psychologist he trusted wasn't there to treat him.

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