Chapter 131: The Base Was Stolen

’Damn it all,’ she thought. ’If this goes on any longer, I’ll be too embarrassed to show my face ever again.’

Yin Zhi pulled Wen Qian’s hand down and stared at her. After a long moment, he lowered his head and nuzzled her palm a few times, just like a well-behaved kitten. "Anyway, I’m yours now. You have to take responsibility for me."

"COUGH, COUGH, COUGH..."

Beside them, Shen Mqing nearly coughed up a lung. With an expression like he’d just seen a ghost, he got up and made to run upstairs.

’I shouldn’t be hearing this!’

’I’m still young! I don’t want to be silenced by Yin Zhi...’

"Come back." Lazily raising his eyelids, the man’s voice had completely changed when he called out to him.

Shen Mqing’s eye twitched violently. He hesitated for a moment before slowly turning around.

He crossed his hands in front of himself, wearing an expression that said, ’At your service.’

"Clean up the table." As he spoke, Yin Zhi picked up the milk tea from the side. His cold demeanor from when he faced Shen Mqing vanished, and he nuzzled Wen Qian’s neck coquettishly. "Let’s take this back... we’ll drink it in our room."

"..."

’Was that a personality switch?’

’That was definitely a personality switch!!’

Back in her room, Wen Qian rejected Yin Zhi’s proposal to sleep with her.

Not even when he revealed his fluffy ears and tail, not when he clung desperately to the door with teary, red eyes, and not even when he changed into his beast form to scratch frantically at the door and MEOW...

But her life was on the line...

If he kept pestering her like this, her small frame really couldn’t take it.

’But damn it all! And this guy has the gall to say he isn’t a cat?’

’What’s with climbing through the window in the dead of night?’

Wen Qian had been on a video call with Gu Mian, and she was so startled by him that she immediately threw her phone.

The man transformed into his human form as soon as he landed, without a moment’s hesitation.

"Yin Zhi, are you trying to get yourself killed?!" She squeezed her eyes shut, but his strong hand forcefully pulled hers away.

Her cheeks instantly flushed beet red. Feeling the immense pressure from his height, Wen Qian cursed him inwardly.

However, the most mortifying part was what she discovered the next day...

She hadn’t ended the video call.

Call duration: four and a half hours.

’Thanks. I don’t want to live, but I don’t want to die either.’

In contrast to Wen Qian’s listlessness, Yin Zhi looked much more refreshed.

As he left Wen Qian’s room wrapped in a towel, he happened to see Qi Ke walking his way. Yin Zhi immediately lifted his chin proudly.

Qi Ke gritted his teeth. He had been heading toward Wen Qian’s room, but now he was so angry he stopped dead in his tracks. He turned, went back to his own room, and slammed the door with a BANG.

Shen Mqing could hear the slam from a great distance away, and it startled him so much his beast ears almost popped out.

He anxiously patted the top of his head and let out a long breath. ’I can’t let my Beastman features show in front of a female.’

’I’m a noble and mighty member of the Bali Tiger Clan! I absolutely cannot be labeled as "cute" or "cuddly" by humans.’

Those were the adjectives he heard most often when he was locked up in that nightclub. It was just too humiliating...

After what happened yesterday, Wen Qian didn’t dare contact Gu Mian again.

’If I tell him things just progressed naturally... that would make me seem like such a scumbag.’

’But blaming it all on Yin Zhi would be wrong... after all, the experience was pretty good.’

Gu Mian, who had been temporarily out of touch with Wen Qian, called Little Fox. Little Fox, who was in a foul mood, replied with only two words: "Happily married."

On the other end of the line, the man’s face instantly darkened.

"What happened?" Chi Heng, who was holding down a Mutated Bat Wing to inject it with a serum, sensed the change in atmosphere and looked up to ask.

His originally jet-black eyes grew lighter and lighter in color until they became a frightening emerald green. Gu Mian’s face was cold. After a long while, he finally spat out three words: "My base was raided."

Chi Heng’s expression had been relatively normal, but when he heard this, it instantly froze.

’With Yin Zhi watching the house, nothing major should have happened. So, what he means by his base being raided...’

Chi Heng’s brow furrowed as he recalled the scent clinging to the man when they met this morning.

’As a fellow Beastman, I could tell he had just found relief from his heat period. In that case, the so-called ’raided base’...’

His eyes flickered, and in a moment of distraction, the force of his hand increased.

The Mutated Bat Wing, who was being jabbed, grimaced in pain. "If you don’t know how to do it, let me do it myself!"

Chi Heng snapped back to his senses and awkwardly withdrew his hand.

They couldn’t leave just yet.

Gu Mian and Chi Heng spent most of their time holed up in the lab.

Yesterday, Chi Heng had gone to the laboratory the Mutated Bat Wings had mentioned. Although the location was different, the interior furnishings and layout were identical to the one he had been in before. Even the iris-scanning system used to unlock the doors was the same.

Chi Heng used a method Gu Mian taught him to sneak in. To avoid being discovered, he only took a few commonly used serums. It was still unknown whether they could help alleviate the toxins in the Mutated Bat Wings’ bodies.

The serums weren’t injected directly into the Mutated Bat Wings; they were mixed and prepared first.

Although the lab Gu Mian was using wasn’t large, it was fully equipped with all the necessary apparatus. Even if supplies ran low, he could use his status as a professor to requisition more.

Chi Heng assisted him, and the two of them were silent the entire day.

To prevent any mistakes with the injection that might cause the Mutated Bat Wings to go berserk, Gu Mian had them transform into their beast forms and get into a cage after the final shot was administered.

The Mutated Bat Wings were initially unwilling, but when they looked up and met Gu Mian’s cold gaze, they remembered that neither of them wanted to provoke this formidable figure...

Awkwardly rubbing his neck, one of the Mutated Bat Wings gave a hollow laugh. "Being human is so tiring. I was just thinking I’d like to turn into my beast form and rest..."

The other Mutated Bat Wing didn’t catch on at first and said irritably, "Are you stupid? What if it’s a trap..."

The moment the words left his mouth, a sharp gaze landed on him.

He instantly fell silent. The next second, he transformed into his beast form and obediently scurried into the cage.

The cage was specially reinforced, making it impossible for a Beastman to break free. Moreover, an electric grid had been added to the bars. When necessary, they could just flip a switch to electrocute the Beastman inside into unconsciousness.

The Mutated Bat Wings listened quietly as Gu Mian emotionlessly explained the cage’s features. Their faces were blank, but inwardly they were cursing out the entire Snake Clan...

’This snake’s mind is too damn vicious. A single snake with eight hundred schemes.’

’If we’d known it would be like this, we would have rather died than follow him to City A...’

’We should have let Shen Mqing take us back then. That kid hits hard, but he doesn’t seem to have much going on upstairs... If we’d tricked him a little, we might have actually escaped.’

"I’ll go with you tonight." After locking the cage, Gu Mian’s voice was faint.

"What about them?"

Chi Heng glanced at the Mutated Bat Wings hanging obediently from the cage bars, hesitating.

"Don’t worry. They can’t get out."

That one sentence shattered all the Mutated Bat Wings’ hopes.

Although they hadn’t dealt with Gu Mian before, the two Fuyi had been terrified ever since they found out he was from the Gu Family.

Combined with their interactions over the past two days... they had determined that he was the most dangerous one of the group.

’He looks refined and noble, but in reality, his heart is pitch-black.’