Humans, Delicious, Devouring!

"Run! Onto the windowsill!" Tom didn't have time to worry about the mutated giant rat that might be lurking downstairs, so he quickly instructed everyone to climb onto the windowsill. The rats were faster than he had anticipated.

People climbed desperately upwards as Tom and Li Qiang exchanged glances. With one knife each, they stood guard in front of the makeshift ladder. It was too late to run now; all they could do was try to hinder the rats as much as possible.

But just then, a meow sounded, and both men felt the ground tremble as a huge yellow figure landed in front of them, pinning down two rats rushing towards them.

"It's Ah Huang!" Li Qiang exclaimed with joy. The crucial moment had awakened the orange cat.

The big cat stepped on one rat and held another in its mouth. It turned to face them, and among the crowd, it seemed to notice the dazed expression on Xiaobao's face.

After biting the rat in its mouth and kicking away the one under its foot, Ah Huang roared loudly at the crowd, mouth wide open.

"Delicious!" Tom thought of the way the orange cat had eaten Xiaobao's mother and quickly shouted to Liu Lian on the windowsill, "The green crystal!"

Liu Lian hurriedly tossed down the green crystal.

Normally, a cat's reaction would be swift, and it would intercept Liu Lian's action. However, at this moment, it seemed to be at a crossroads of conflict, only roaring at the people without further action.

Outside the door, several big rats also seemed hesitant.

Tom picked up the green crystal and quickly ran to the orange cat, pressing it against him.

"Keep the rats out and protect Xiaobao," Tom said.

Tom could feel the orange cat wavering between the temptation of food and protecting Xiaobao. Indeed, after eating human flesh, it had developed a liking for that taste, much like someone addicted to a drug.

Tom immediately tried to evoke memories of the good times between the orange cat and Xiaobao. Suddenly, he felt a warmth emanating from the object in his hand, enveloping his whole body, giving him the strength to guide the orange cat. It must be the green crystal; regular emeralds didn't evoke such intense feelings.

Ah Huang's mother was a stray cat in this neighborhood. After giving birth to Ah Huang and his siblings, she died from malnutrition. At that time, almost all the kittens in the litter starved to death, leaving only Ah Huang struggling on the brink of death.

It was Xiaobao and his mother who found Ah Huang and brought him home, taking care of him meticulously.

Ah Huang had been very close to Xiaobao since childhood. Xiaobao, who was not very healthy, rarely went out to play and often played with toys at home, with Ah Huang accompanying him.

Xiaobao's father seemed to be a faithful man, but with a bad temper. He often beat Xiaobao's mother and was unkind to Xiaobao.

Whenever Xiaobao was scolded by his father, Ah Huang would bristle, feeling affected as well.

Then, on the morning of April 6, Ah Huang was the first to notice that Xiaobao had shrunk. It then took care of Xiaobao attentively.

Xiaobao's father and mother, realizing they had shrunk, found Xiaobao's bedroom, and the three of them lived together helplessly.

Feeling overwhelmed by the current situation, Xiaobao's father vented his anger on Xiaobao. Xiaobao's resentment toward his father infected Ah Huang, who then ate his father and, captivated by the wonderful taste, proceeded to devour Xiaobao's mother.

Seeing the frightened Xiaobao, Ah Huang calmed down.

Before long, the ants in the house came up, only to be killed by Ah Huang.

When Xiaobao woke up, he seemed to have forgotten that Ah Huang had eaten his parents and thought it was the ants.

A day later, a mutated bird that had eaten a person flew onto the windowsill and was killed by Ah Huang.

Inside was a green crystal that Ah Huang didn't like, so he gave it to Xiaobao, who ate it.

Tom learned all this while guiding Ah Huang's memories, understanding the cause and effect of this family. All of this happened in the blink of an eye, only a few seconds.

Ah Huang's intimacy with Xiaobao overcame his appetite. With a meow, it pounced on the rats outside the door.

Finally freed, Tom grabbed the green crystal and ran, leading a crowd of people to the balcony, eagerly awaiting Tom's command. A security guard couldn't wait and jumped down first.

"Don't jump, don't jump yet!" Tom stopped him. "The mutated rats might still be downstairs."

"What should we do then?"

"Wait! Liu Lian, have you heard anything?"

Liu Lian looked frustrated. "Not yet, I'm trying. Li Qiang, give me a big ruby!"

Dealing with one or two rats wasn't too difficult for Tom, but a dozen or more would be impossible. As for Li Qiang and the others, they probably wouldn't stand a chance.

And now, with Ah Huang awake and mutated, although not very big, he was fast. Tom and the others couldn't see its movements clearly, but it quickly killed the rats, one after another, making them disappear in a blink.

"Great, wonderful!" Seeing Ah Huang kill the rats effortlessly, everyone was overjoyed, clapping and cheering, except for Tom, who knew Ah Huang's history and felt worried.

Had the mutated rats come up?

Should they jump down now?

Tom was constantly torn by this decision, unsure of what to do.

Just as Tom was about to make a decision, Zhao Yingying shouted, "Xiaobao!"

Xiaobao had broken free from Zhao Yingying's embrace and jumped out of the window on his own.

There was a soft cushion below the windowsill, which Ah Huang had pushed over to prevent Xiaobao from falling off the windowsill. Now Xiaobao had landed safely on the cushion. Being so small, the air resistance also played a role, so he was unharmed.

Tom quickly jumped down, wanting to pull Xiaobao back, but Ah Huang jumped onto the cushion and stopped Tom, carrying Xiaobao aside.

"Ah Huang, you bastard, you ate my mom! Give me back my mom!" Tom was extremely anxious now. Ah Huang would become addicted to eating human flesh, and if Xiaobao provoked him, it could lead to disaster.

Ah Huang lowered its body, curled its tail, flattened its ears, bared its teeth, and emitted a low growl. Tom knew this was a sign of the cat's anger. Xiaobao, even angrier, approached Ah Huang and transferred his resentment into him.

Seeing this, Tom quickly rushed forward with his knife, but Ah Huang swept him away with a tail.

People on the windowsill watched in horror; seeing Tom swept away frightened them to death.

When Tom got up, he saw Ah Huang's eyes glazed over, indicating its struggle with its desires. Tom shouted angrily, wanting to stop it, but the next moment, he saw Ah Huang bite Xiaobao.

People on the windowsill cried out in fear again, and some even wanted to jump down. The situation was out of control. Tom quickly shouted, "Jump, everyone jump down, hurry!"

But Liu Lian loudly stopped them, "No, don't jump. I heard it, I heard it! The mutated rats are still downstairs, right beneath us! If we jump down, they'll eat us! The one who jumped just now is as good as dead!"

Li Zexin and others were in a dilemma. "What should we do? This cat even ate its owner..."

"Give me the green crystal!" Tom shouted.

Li Qiang quickly tossed down the green crystal that Tom had left on the windowsill.

Ah Huang was still chewing Xiaobao's body when Tom, holding the green crystal, rushed up and pressed it against Ah Huang.

"Delicious! So delicious!" Tom tried hard to instill in Ah Huang, "You are eating your partner, you ate your partner!"

Ah Huang hesitated for a moment, "Xia... Xiaobao?"

"Yes, you are eating Xiaobao, you are a bad kitty!"

"No... Ah Huang is not... Ah Huang loves Xiaobao, Ah Huang wants... to protect Xiaobao!"

Tom, enduring the pain, continued to input, "Protect... Xiaobao... Mutated rats, delicious, eat up. Protect Xiaobao."

"Humans, delicious, eat them all... all."

Tom was afraid of this and quickly inputted again, "Mutated rats, delicious. Eat them up. Protect Xiaobao."

"Humans, delicious!"

He could feel Ah Huang looking around at the humans, then saw Zheng Shiyi, who had turned into a zombie, climbing up with his legs bound. Ah Huang immediately pounced and bit off Zheng Shiyi's head.

Tom was freed and immediately vomited again. Perhaps human flesh was delicious to them, but to Tom, it was an extremely nauseating feeling.

Watching Ah Huang eat Zheng Shiyi, Tom rushed up again. He knew Liu Lian hadn't reported the location of the mutated rats yet, and they needed to hold Ah Huang back.

He pressed Ah Huang again, "Humans, not delicious."

Ah Huang spat out Zheng Shiyi's head, "Humans, not delicious!"

It seemed that the mutated flesh of Zheng Shiyi, who had eaten gems, didn't have the same taste as native human flesh, and Ah Huang didn't like that taste. Tom immediately confused it, making it think that everyone's flesh there was the same.

"Mutated rats, delicious!"

"Rats, delicious! Eat them all up!"

Ah Huang broke free from Tom's touch again and pounced on the half-dead rats, devouring them.

"Liu Lian, where are the mutated rats?"

"It's calling, it seems impatient!"

Ah Huang, now larger, was eating one rat after another, and it wouldn't take long before they were all gone. Tom immediately ran over and pressed Ah Huang again.

"Mutated giant rats, downstairs, delicious."

"Downstairs... downstairs... Xiaobao won't let me go downstairs..."

"For Xiaobao's revenge, go downstairs!"

"Meow!" Ah Huang let out a sharp and loud cry, then dropped the rat with only half a body left and ran down the stairs.

Tom wiped the sweat from his forehead, seeing that the green crystal in his arms had lost its color. The energy consumed by forcibly inducing the mutation cat was too great. If it hadn't been a crystal but an emerald, it would probably have been used up after two inputs.

"An... Tom, should we still jump?" Li Zexin had retreated to the edge of the balcony, waiting for Tom's command before jumping down.

"No... we'll take the stairs!"

With mutated rats downstairs, parachuting down was a death sentence. The person who had disobeyed orders and jumped down earlier, Liu Lian had just reported hearing his screams.

With disaster looming, everyone followed Tom's instructions and went downstairs.

Downstairs, they saw several holes smashed in the supermarket's low windows, and Ah Huang had already run out.

Liu Lian heard the noise and said loudly, "Ah Huang is fighting with the rats, it's intense!"

Through the glass, everyone could hear Ah Huang's cries, accompanied by the squeaks of the rats, terrifying everyone.

"How do we get out?"

"Fool!" Liu Lian scolded Li Qiang, "Of course, through the back door window. Hurry up and climb!"

People climbed up to the back door window, women climbed up first, men brought electric cars to the scaffold, and Tom, who had just replaced the ruby, pulled them up. Then the man on the car pushed the scaffold to the small window, and Tom loosened the rope, lowering the scaffold outside, and the car drove out.

The first to leave naturally were Li Qiang and Liu Lian. Tom had to ensure the safety of their retreat. Zhang Meng's lesson was enough for once.