Shua!

Several questioners all looked at Lin Baici, waiting for an answer.

Lin Baici frowned. Under the illumination of the ghostly oil lamp, he saw that the number of black cats around each person was different.

“Could there be another trap?”

Lin Baici carefully counted them again. There were 16.

Still not reassured, he widened his eyes, perked up his ears, and even activated his sense of taste, trying to confirm the number of black cats around him more accurately.

“Don’t look at me, I can’t help you!”

Lin Baici spoke the truth, “Seek help from others!”

Three couples and a salesperson heard this and immediately felt despair. “Lin the Great, you can’t just stand by and watch people die!”

“Please!”

“My family is very wealthy! I’ll give you money! A lot of money!”

The seven of them begged, seeing that Lin Baici really couldn’t help them, so they turned to Bai Hetun, begging him to take action. “Hehe, I can indeed see the black cats around, but why should I tell you?”

Bai Hetun smiled, with a wicked sense of humor. “Just wait to die, bye-bye!” “You fucker!”

A man was infuriated and pounced on Bai Hetun.

Bai Hetun sneered and threw a punch, full of pent-up anger, fiercely hitting the man’s face. Bang!

The man was sent flying, with half of his jawbone shattered and a third of his face caved in.

“Who else wants to try my fist?” Bai Hetun grinned, “Cat God, I have 11 cats around me. Do you want to ask me about the colors of these cats again?”

He was putting psychological pressure on Lin Baici.

“I have 16 around me. Seven black, three yellow, and six white,” Lin Baici answered, the latter being the colors of the cats.

When Bai Hetun heard Lin Baici say this, his expression became regretful and serious. Oh no, my psychological warfare actually reminded him.

“On my side, there are five black, four yellow, and two white!” Bai Hetun added.

“Lin the Great, you’re done answering, help me out!” the salesperson cried.

Lin Baici didn’t tell him the answer.

Everyone’s answers were the same just now, and they all said it was no problem. Now, asking Lin Baici to tell them the answer separately, what if there are hidden rules that don’t allow this?

He had to be cautious!

The black cat was unhappy, wanting to bare its teeth. Why did you answer correctly? Did I need your answer?

What I needed was this delicious canned fish!

“The third question, how many cats are there around you?” The black cat forcefully flicked the golden balance.

“….”

Lin Baici wanted to say, are you done yet? Are you picking a fight with cats?

“Help! Help…”

The salesperson and the three couples all turned into cat statues, even the struggling expressions on their faces were vivid.

No one cared about their life or death. Everyone was looking at Lin Baici and Bai Hetun. “15!”

Lin Baici’s gaze wandered, his ears perked up to listen. “No, it’s 17. There are sounds coming from behind those two cat statues, obviously hiding one each!”

Lin Baici was about to report the answer, but when he caught a glimpse of the salesperson, he closed his mouth. Wait a minute!

He was a divine hunter, possessing divine blessings and divine taboos. He called me out to answer the questions, which already meant we were enemies. How could he not plot against me?

Or rather, the plotting has already begun?

Lin Baici crossed his arms with his left hand and touched his chin with his right hand. Thinking from a different perspective,

On Lin Baici’s side, the key to discovering the black cats was obviously this oil lamp. So he would definitely focus on attacking it, as long as it was shattered, the opponent would have no moves left.

But why didn’t he do it?

It means the opponent tampered with something elsewhere.

From this, it can be inferred that the sounds behind the two cat statues may not have been made by the cats themselves, but were illusions created by the opponent.

“15!” Bai Hetun gave the answer, sounding very confident. He didn’t look at Lin Baici, but between his eyebrows, a determined expression had already appeared.

Kid, you’re finished.

“Why isn’t Lin classmate answering?” Cai Wenqi was nervous. “Doesn’t he know?”

“Don’t panic, this is psychological warfare!” Xia Hongyao was confident. With Lin Baici’s intelligence, he could easily outsmart this young man. “16!”

Lin Baici gave the answer.

He still had the red clay figurine, which could be used as a scout. The black cat was annoyed. He answered correctly again.

“Next question!”

Before the black cat could finish speaking, Bai Hetun interrupted, “Wait, this Q&A is unfair, you’re favoring him!” “I’m not!”

The black cat retorted.

“Anyway, we don’t know the correct answer, so isn’t it up to you to decide?” Bai Hetun incited.

“Count for yourself!”

The black cat sat up and clapped its two little paws. Clap clap!

The cats that were originally invisible around Lin Baici suddenly appeared. “Isn’t this 15?”

“He answered wrong!”

“It seems really unfair!”

People were discussing, to be honest, although Lin Baici saved them, there were a few dark-hearted individuals who were actually unhappy with him.

They wished for his misfortune.Why is everyone trembling in fear while you are so calm and composed? “Xiao Bai won’t be wrong!”

Hua Yueyu shouted.

“That’s right, Oppa will never be wrong!”

Jin Yingzhen’s cold gaze stared at these people.

Lin Baici pointed to a statue ten meters away from him, at the two o’clock direction: “There’s one behind it!” Everyone looked over.

Meow!

A black cat walked out from behind the statue. “….”

Bai Hetun’s expression was dejected. He knew that his trap had been discovered. Damn it!

This guy is really clever!

Lin Baici pointed to another statue: “You used some method to create a disturbance behind it, trying to mislead me. Do you think I don’t know?”

“You thief, using petty tricks, dare to show off in front of me!” “How ridiculous!”

Lin Baici retorted, but mainly to make the other party lose their composure.

Song Huizhi frowned. Has this guy really only become a Divine Hunter for a little over two months? She started to worry. Is it really okay to provoke such a powerful newcomer in the Lost Coast?

“This guy actually used underhanded tactics?”

Cai Wenqi was furious. “How shameless!” “Xiao Linzi is amazing!”

Xia Hongyao crossed her arms and laughed heartily. Now you know how powerful my sub-team is, right? I won’t go easy on you!

Gu Qingqiu couldn’t help but applaud.

“The next question, are you willing to abandon your family and spend the rest of your life with me?”

The black cat asked, reminding solemnly: “If you choose me, your family will turn into statues!”

Everyone was dumbfounded. Isn’t this question too sinister? And they also didn’t really believe that this black cat could turn their family members, who were thousands of miles away, into statues.

The black cat was very clever and guessed what these people were thinking. It took a bite of a sausage and looked at them: “I can’t immediately turn your family members into statues, but I can plant a curse. As long as you come into contact with your family members, they will be done for!”

“Hoo!”

Bai Hetun took a deep breath. “I am willing to spend the rest of my life with you and buy you the most delicious food every day!” Smack!

The black cat slapped the stone platform with its paw and roared at Bai Hetun, “What do you think I am? A pet? I am the Cat God. I will get whatever I want without you giving it to me!”

Afterwards, it looked at Lin Baici. “Answer the question!” It had lost patience.

Since they won’t offer sacrifices, then I’ll just take it myself.

As the Cat God, the black cat actually didn’t like to rob on its own initiative because it would lower its status.

“Take action, answer yes and you will turn into a statue, otherwise, your family members will turn into statues!” The God of Gluttony commented.

In any case, someone will definitely die from this question. “I’ll wait until he turns into a statue before answering!” Lin Baici smiled faintly.

“What?”

Bai Hetun was shocked. Did I answer wrong? He quickly lowered his head to check. Damn it!

There were patterns appearing on his body, a lot of them. This was a sign of petrification. Bai Hetun panicked and suddenly pounced towards the black cat. Ding!

He pulled off his belt, which immediately turned into a snake with sharp fangs and a venomous tongue, biting towards the black cat.

This was a Divine Taboo called Snake Whip. If it couldn’t be outsmarted, then it would be a head-on clash.

The black cat’s fur stood on end and it jumped up from the stone platform, leaping towards the distance. Meow!

It let out a cry and all the cat people statues around it instantly came to life, pouncing towards Bai Hetun. Bai Hetun swung the snake whip.

Crack!

The snake whip struck the heads of those statues, directly exploding them. Bang! Bang! Bang!

One by one, their heads burst open, brain matter splattering everywhere. After taking a few steps forward, their bodies fell to the ground. Bai Hetun wanted to grab the golden balance on the stone platform, but found that it had disappeared. “Xiao Linzi, should we take care of him?”

Xia Hongyao asked, gripping her dagger. “Attack!”

Lin Baici threw the bronze sword with a flick of his hand. Swish!

The bronze sword flew at an extremely fast speed and appeared in front of Bai Hetun almost in the blink of an eye. Bai Hetun swung the snake whip.

Crack! The bronze sword was knocked away. Swish!

A walnut-sized stone suddenly shot out from behind a statue five meters away from Bai Hetun, aiming for his head.

Bai Hetun waved his left hand. Crack!

The stone was knocked away. “Just you?” Bai Hetun sneered.

If he wasn’t in a hurry to kill the black cat and resolve the crisis, he would have killed Lin Baici first. He could feel that as the patterns spread, his limbs were becoming more and more stiff.

The cat people statues, like loyal soldiers, fearlessly pounced towards Bai Hetun, trying to stop him from getting closer to the black cat. But besides having more numbers, they posed no threat to Bai Hetun, a master like him.

As he swung the snake whip, a pile of corpses fell to the ground. Xia Hongyao intercepted, her dagger unsheathed.

Ding!

Bai Hetun blocked it, his expression immediately becoming serious. Truly worthy of being Xia Hongmian’s sister, so strong!

“I swear, I can spare your lives!”

Bai Hetun stared at Lin Baici. “You should know that if we don’t kill this black cat, we won’t be able to escape!” “No need for you to worry, I can handle it myself!”

Lin Baici had already figured out how to deal with this black cat. “Foolish! Arrogant!”Baihetun cursed loudly, unleashing his full firepower, forcing Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao to retreat and continue chasing after the black cat.

Xia Hongyao may not be very smart, but her combat and execution abilities are outstanding, and she is fearless. No matter what level of divine hunter you are, there is only one word for her: reckless!

The black cat wandered and hid among these statues, its figure appearing and disappearing.

This is because Baihetun has the “Divine Vision” divine blessing, which allows him to see it. Otherwise, if someone else came, they wouldn’t be able to find the black cat, let alone kill it.

Of course, Lin Baici’s ghostly lantern can also reveal the specific location of the black cat, but the problem is that it is better to keep it alive than to kill it.

Most divine hunters, when faced with rule contamination, first gather information, attempt to clear the level, and obtain the divine taboo. If they can’t do it, then they resort to violence.

Just like now, Baihetun saw that he couldn’t outsmart them, so he chose to kill them decisively! “Help!”

Baihetun shouted.

Everyone became nervous when they heard this. Who was he calling for?

Baihetun had almost no contact with Song Huizhi before, and even when they were together, it seemed like they were strangers passing by. So they thought that Lin Baici hadn’t noticed their acquaintance.

Song Huizhi didn’t move because she thought there was little hope for Baihetun to survive. As for killing Lin Baici, she believed she could do it alone, and at any time. “Damn it!”

Baihetun wanted to shout out Song Huizhi’s name, forcing her to join the battle, but when the words reached his lips, he didn’t dare to shout. He was afraid of making things worse and making Song Huizhi choose to kill him and make peace with Lin Baici!

In that case, his family would be doomed.

Baihetun had no chance. With Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao entangling him, he couldn’t get close to the black cat. As the area covered by the patterns on his body increased, his movements quickly became stiff, and his combat power greatly decreased.

Bang!

Xia Hongyao kicked Baihetun away.

When Baihetun flew out and landed, rolling a few times, he couldn’t get up anymore. He turned into a cat person statue.

“Why did it take him so long to turn into a statue?”

Cai Wenqi didn’t understand and was worried and scared because this guy looked quite fierce. “Because he is a divine hunter!”

Hua Yueyu looked at these people and wondered who her companion was. Gu Qingqiu nodded.

The answer was obvious. Divine hunters have better physical conditions, so their resistance to petrification is much stronger.

Song Huizhi looked coldly at everything. If it weren’t for Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao causing trouble, Baihetun should have been able to kill the black cat.

But in that case, they would lose a divine taboo.

I’ll wait a little longer. Maybe this Lin Baici has a way to subdue it. Then I can kill him and take the treasure together! Crisis resolved, the black cat jumped onto the head of a cat person statue.

“Meow!”

The black cat was furious. “How dare you attack me! I will turn all of you into statues. Everyone, answer my question. Are you willing to become statues and be my slaves?”

“It was him who wanted to kill you, not us!” Cai Wenqi argued.

“That’s right, and Xiaobai and Sister Hongyao saved you!” Hua Yueyu was angry.

“Shut up! I don’t want to hear it. I just want you all to die!” The black cat screamed, “Answer the ques…meow!”

The black cat couldn’t finish its sentence and turned into a “meow” sound, filled with fear and panic. “What the hell is going on?”

“What is this?” “Who is this lady?”

Everyone was shocked, panicked, and terrified. Song Huizhi’s pupils contracted.

A woman with a tiger-like back and bear-like waist, nearly two meters tall, with arms strong enough to carry horses, suddenly appeared behind the cat person statue. She grabbed the black cat by the scruff of its neck and lifted it up.

This woman was wearing a clean coarse linen robe, tied with an apron, and had a white square cloth wrapped around her head.

“Where is my porridge?”

The cook turned around in place, looking angry. “Where is my big pot of porridge?”

Everyone saw that when this woman turned around, she revealed her back, and there was a kitchen knife tucked into the waistband of her apron.

“It’s that cook!” Hua Yueyu exclaimed.

She had a deep impression of this woman, who had a voice even bolder than Sun Erniang from Liangshan. After all, when they were in the Xiangji Kitchen at Longxian Temple, everyone had tasted the porridge she cooked.

The porridge was delicious, but the person was really fierce.

If the guests couldn’t taste the ingredients in the porridge, they would be beaten to death by this cook and thrown into the stove as firewood. “Is she summoned by Lin Baici?”

Gu Qingqiu was curious. “Is she also a divine taboo?” Xia Hongyao looked at Lin Baici, waiting for an explanation. “It should be resolved!”

Lin Baici smiled faintly.

What the Gourmet God said was correct. Just like the food chain, one creature suppresses another. After the cook grabbed the black cat, it became limp.

With its two paws holding its head, neck curled, it looked like a miserable fish thief caught in the act. “Who stole my Fu Lu Shou Xi porridge?”

The cook roared, preparing to smash the black cat on the ground. “Wait!”

Lin Baici shouted.The cook looked over, “Is it you?” She still remembered Lin Baici.

“Stay calm, I will help you find your pot as soon as possible!”

After hearing the comments from the God of Gluttony, Lin Baici thought of the rule pollution that would occur after the activation of the black pot. A Fragrant Accumulation Kitchen would appear.

The porridge-cooking cook might have a way to deal with this black cat. So, he injected divine power into the black pot, activating it.

This time, even without the God of Gluttony’s comments, Lin Baici was confident that he could pass the test if it involved eating porridge. This was because after activating the divine grace of the Wine Pool and Meat Forest, his appreciation for fine food and wine would be enhanced. He could taste the best flavor of a dish and understand the mindset of the chef who cooked it.

In addition to the Hundred Flavors in a Breath, Lin Baici believed he wouldn’t fail due to this rule pollution. However, to his surprise, only the cook appeared, not the Fragrant Accumulation Kitchen.

“Could it be because this is a God’s Ruins created by a deity, the rule pollution of the black pot has been suppressed?” Lin Baici guessed.

“Alright, you need to hurry up!”

The cook urged, then looked at the black cat in her hand, “What are you going to do with this little guy?”

“Leave it in the Fragrant Accumulation Kitchen to catch mice!”

Lin Baici suggested. “That’s a good idea!”

The cook nodded, then her body gradually turned into a phantom and disappeared. The black cat also vanished.

Everyone looked at Lin Baici, feeling uneasy, “Is everything alright now?”

Lin Baici ignored them and immediately rushed towards the stone platform because the golden balance had appeared again. He swiftly grabbed it.

“This kid has so many Divine taboos!”

Song Huizhi squinted her eyes. If she could kill him, she would gain a lot.

However, now was not the time to act. She would wait until they left the God’s Ruins.

Song Huizhi also sensed something was wrong. Since there was no impact from a falling meteor, she suspected they might have encountered a deity from the legends.

So, she needed to keep Lin Baici alive. With him around, the chances of breaking through this God’s Ruins were higher. Unbeknownst to Lin Baici, his performance along the way had won over Song Huizhi.

“[Cat God Balance, after the rule pollution is activated, it will ask random questions. Answer incorrectly, and you will turn into a cat person statue.] [Hurry up and eat, there’s divine grace on it!]”

The God of Gluttony urged.