Strange Life of a Cat
Chapter 426 - Chapter 426 405

Chapter 426: 405 Chapter 426: 405 After giving it a thought, Zheng Tan quietly retreated and then went back to where he had originally tested the first bullet. The bird was still lying there, motionless. Zheng Tan stood up, picked up the bird, looked at it in his hand, and murmured to himself, “You’re unlucky to have encountered a cat, you’ll just have to be sacrificed.”

Zheng Tan considered throwing a stone or some other inanimate object, but it was clear that the other party had a lot of hunting experience in the mountains. Whether it was a stone or a bird, the other party might be able to tell the difference in an instant, and that wouldn’t serve Zheng Tan’s purpose to distract them.

Regardless of whether the other party truly had such discernment skills, Zheng Tan decided to still use the bird to try.

It was a pity he didn’t know how to use a shotgun and it wasn’t convenient to use one either, otherwise, he would have just taken the gun and shot these people down. Disgusted, Zheng Tan shook his cat’s paw, carried the bird, and sneaked back near the tent.

At this moment, gunshots and monkey screams could be heard coming from inside the tent.

Zheng Tan’s heart skipped a beat; could the person who just entered the tent be planning to silence them?

He had initially planned to wait for the right moment, but now it seemed waiting was no longer an option. Any longer, and Pei Jie’s life might be at risk.

The person standing next to the tent would change direction every now and then.

At the spot closest to that person, when they turned to the side, Zheng Tan took a deep breath, raised his hand, and threw the bird he was carrying with all his might.

The adversary’s reaction was quick; they identified the object flying through the air merely by the faint noise it made.

As they focused on the bird, Zheng Tan also swiftly emerged from the bushes and ran towards them.

Bang!

A shot hit the target mid-air, and without stopping, the adversary, though they hadn’t seen clearly what had run out of the woods, still wouldn’t let any suspicious object pass. They quickly turned the gun muzzle.

Bang!

Another shot.

However, just missing by a hair could delineate success from failure.

As Zheng Tan charged forward, he didn’t think of anything else; he just ran at full speed, pressed the “pen”, shot, and then ran. He heard the second gunshot; even felt all his fur stand on end, a sense of extreme danger descending in an instant. But he had no time to worry – after shooting the pen’s bullet, Zheng Tan ran behind the tent and then jumped into the bushes.

Waiting a moment, hearing no further noise, he cautiously looked out.

By the tent, the person who had been shooting just now was now lying on the ground, and on their bare arm, a small bullet was embedded.

Zheng Tan picked up a clump of soil and threw it hard, aiming for the person’s face.

The soil clod hit its target, breaking into several pieces and scattering dust, yet the person remained in the same position as before, their facial expression hardly changing.

Zheng Tan emerged from the shrubbery, jumped behind the tent, looked again, then quickly rushed over to drag the adversary’s gun away.

The person still showed no response.

Looking at a bullet hole on the ground, it was less than a hand’s span from the path Zheng Tan had just run along. Had Zheng Tan been just a bit slower, he might have been hit by that bullet.

He had underestimated these people’s abilities after all.

Luckily, only one person was left now.

Zheng Tan took a momentary sigh of relief, hid the gun near a tree, then dragged the person into a tent, binding him with ropes from inside the tent, securing with dead knots.

Bang!

Another gunshot came from the tent area. With Zheng Tan just having tied the hands and having no time to tie the unconscious person’s legs, he assumed the medicine’s effect would last a while. After replacing the bullet in the “pen”, he hurried over to the tent.

Inside the tent, Pei Jie was indeed having a hard time. He had seen the person who kidnapped him enter the tent, then zipped up the tent’s door flap and secured the zip. This meant, under the premise of not destroying the tent, anyone outside wanting to come in could only have the door opened from the inside; it couldn’t be opened from outside. Destroying the tent would certainly cause noise, and the adversary would surely notice.

Upon entering the tent, the person started shooting, killing a monkey and using a knife to extract something carried by the monkey. Then they moved on to the second monkey, and after to a red panda.

In the tent, with the door flap zip locked and the light very dim, the person switched on a hanging solar camping lamp, enabling Pei Jie to clearly see what was happening.

Watching these gruesome scenes unfold, Pei Jie couldn’t hold back anymore, and burst into tears.

Damn it, he didn’t want to be Superman anymore. It was too dangerous – one slip-up and he could lose his life.

Why hasn’t Dad, Uncle Wei, Uncle Ermao come yet? Where the hell did Heitan run off to?! Didn’t he just run away, did he?!

After all, he was still a child, no matter how mischievous he normally was, he couldn’t withstand this kind of bloodshed stimulus and the threat of death. At first, Pei Jie thought of crying out loudly–if there were any rescue forces nearby, to hasten them to come to the rescue. But as he cried, all his grievances and fears came pouring out, and he sobbed uncontrollably.

The adversary did not stop Pei Jie, letting him cry out loud. In accented Mandarin, he said, “Cry all you want; your turn’s coming soon.”

While saying this, the person checked the door flap again, then surveyed the surroundings of the tent. They felt sure that no one could sneak in unnoticed, not even a child.

However, they didn’t know that cats were not included in this assessment. When Zheng Tan had previously entered, it wasn’t through the door flap, but through an unfastened drop cloth at the ground around the tent.

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