Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 1293: Chapter 424: Suffering the Consequences, Hezang’s Orphan, Upheaval and Hatred (Part 2)

The young man in black entered the inner room and immediately tore off his shirt.

On his chest was tattooed a silver-white kitten.

The kitten’s body occupied only half of the man’s chest, about the size of a human palm, but the eight thick, long silver tails almost enveloped the man’s entire upper body and arms.

The kitten was entirely silver-white, except for its four black paws, around which seemed to swirl a layer of dark air; its fur was detailed and clear, with a pair of unusually conspicuous silver-white eyes, its head raised and mouth open, revealing sharp fangs, as if ready to bite the man’s neck at any moment.

The man looked down at the silver eight-tailed cat, his eyes first showing a trace of fear, but then, thinking of something, he spoke angrily, saying:

"The Shadow Demon Insect has been killed, you can’t just act rashly anymore. There are more and more people patrolling South City these days, and their strength is getting stronger. I was watched when I went to Treasure Tower to buy Dan Medicine. If you act on your own again, you’ll get both of us killed."

As soon as the man finished speaking, the tattoo of the kitten on his chest suddenly burst into a strong silver-white light.

As the light rose, the man’s expression began to turn painful, and the degree of pain was clearly increasing until his face contorted in agony, collapsing to the floor with a thud.

"Ho... Ho..."

It wasn’t over; suppressed, low sounds of pain kept coming from his throat, his body writhing and struggling on the ground, waist and abdomen suddenly lifting upward, hands and feet bracing on the ground, limbs twisting to strange angles.

As the man’s limbs twisted further, a thin layer of silver fur suddenly grew all over his body, eyes gradually enlarged, nose slowly shrank, hands and feet becoming sharp, clearly undergoing some sort of beast transformation.

However, this beast transformation only proceeded halfway before stopping abruptly.

"I lost a life to get you out of Hezang, stole so much silver for you to buy cultivation resources and become stronger. You don’t even show gratitude and dare to shout at me?"

With the beast transformation suddenly halted, the young man in black opened his mouth, but this time it wasn’t his voice; it was a cold, female voice, clearly coming from the Cat Demon inside him.

"Sounds nice, you thief... mainly for yourself. Don’t think I don’t know; you’ve secretly infected a dozen people with cat plague. What are you trying to do? You saw last September, the strength of the Great Xia Lord is very strong. If you really attract him, both of us will die!"

The young man in black was still unwilling to give in, roaring angrily, biting teeth to endure the severe pain, continued: "Finally escaped from Hezang, I want to go back for revenge. Don’t think you can kill me here; if you act without my consent again, we’ll each go our separate... Ah!"

Just as he finished speaking, he let out a scream as the halted beast transformation restarted, and at a faster speed than before, his body shrank to less than half its original size in two or three moments, almost completely covered in silver fur, limbs turned into claws, face fully transforming into that of a cat.

"Separate ways? Pretty naive of you to think so; you think it’s still like when we just escaped from Hezang, and everything has to be discussed between us? Your organs have been completely assimilated by me using cat plague. If it wasn’t for the convenience of blending in with people, I would have taken over your skin bag long ago. Hehehaha..."

The Cat Demon let out a piercing, deranged laugh, then spoke with madness: "Now you can only obey me. Hongmen City not only has a lot of silver, but also many people with cultivation abilities, perfect for me to recover, perfect. Hehehaha..."

......

In the ninth year of Great Xia, on the third day of March, during the day

Northwest direction of Hongmen, outer area on the southern side of Beining Mountain.

In the tranquil snow forest, a female corpse lay on the snow, her appearance seemed less than twenty years old, with a deep knife wound on her neck, the inner bone clearly visible, nearly severing her head entirely.

Although her pre-death appearance suggested charm, she was, after all, a corpse, her pupils round and her face preserving a death’s fear, thus truly unrelated to beauty.

On the corpse was a young man in black, kneeling.

The young man’s back had two knife wounds, with blood frozen by the cold, but his weak breath, unlike the female corpse, indicated he was not dead but merely in a coma.

Even unconscious, the young man kept his arms open, protecting the corpse beneath him, his face filled with terror and pleading. His facial expression and the snow stains on his forehead suggested he must have desperately begged the murderer not to kill while awake.

"Brother, father and mother were killed by the Wood Puppet Monster; what will we do in the future?"

"Brother, the Lord is so strong. He hunted prey again. Will you get a share?"

"Brother, you broke through to the Logging Realm. Great! Hahaha."

"Ah Jiang also broke through to the Logging Realm, hahaha!"

"Brother, we are moving to the valley, to start living in a new place."

...

Ji Hong suddenly had a very, very long dream.

The dream began more than ten years ago on the Great Xia Slope; he was fourteen, holding his nine-year-old sister Ji Jiang, watching as their parents were killed by the Wood Puppet Monster, marking the darkest moment of their lives.