Chapter 432: Chapter 308: Spiritual Energy Enters the Body, Mutation
"Meow..." The two little stray cats responded, but they remained wary.
"You know that and you’re still acting like this! Honestly, you two..." Zhou Tongtong said, exasperated.
Lin Li watched Zhou Tongtong’s serious-looking conversation with the two little strays and chuckled. He then asked her, "Do these two little guys like the beef I gave them?"
Zhou Tongtong, who was in the middle of lecturing the two little strays, looked up at Lin Li and nodded. "They love it. Not only do Little Black and Little White love it, but I do too."
"As long as you like it," Lin Li said with a smile. "I have to go run some errands, so I’ll be leaving now."
"Goodbye, Lin Li," the little girl said politely.
"Mm."
Afterward, Lin Li walked toward the main gate of the residential complex. At the shared bike rack outside, he scanned a QR code to unlock a bike and rode it toward the nearest Spirit Stone Shop.
After Lin Li left, Zhou Tongtong played with the two little strays on the grass for a while longer.
She had been out for over half an hour. It was time to go home, or her mom would come downstairs looking for her soon.
So, Zhou Tongtong said goodbye to the two little strays, picked up the small bowl that the two little things had licked completely clean, and went home.
The two little strays sat on the grass, watching as Zhou Tongtong walked into the apartment building’s corridor. They only looked away once she was out of sight.
"Meow... what about that big rat?" the Little Black Cat turned to the Little White Cat and asked.
"Meow... What else can we do? She doesn’t like the big rat, so we’ll have to eat it. Can’t let it go to waste!" the Little White Cat replied.
"Meow... But we just ate so many beef cubes. I’m really full right now!" the Little Black Cat said.
"Meow... Dummy, we can hide it in the tree for now and save it for lunch," the Little White Cat said.
The two little strays conferred for a moment, then went over to the base of the large tree.
The Little Black Cat snatched up the fat rat from the shade of the tree, leaped toward the large tree in front of them, and with a few quick movements, scrambled up to the crown of the lush, leafy tree.
"Meow... Make sure you put it somewhere safe. Don’t let it fall, or someone else might find it," the Little White Cat, standing under the tree, reminded the Little Black Cat above.
"Meow... Don’t worry! I’ll find a good spot to hide it." The Little Black Cat placed the rat from its mouth onto a branch and replied to the Little White Cat below.
Then, it carefully surveyed its surroundings from the tree. Next, it picked up the rat again and quickly moved forward.
There was an abandoned bird’s nest in the lush, leafy tree.
Although the nest was abandoned, its original owner hadn’t cut any corners when building it. The nest was very sturdy and wouldn’t be easily blown to the ground by the wind.
The Little Black Cat decided to put the fat rat in the bird’s nest.
After hiding the tasty food, the Little Black Cat even reached out a paw to poke at the abandoned nest, checking if it was truly sturdy. Once confirmed, it leaped down from the tree.
"Meow... Alright, now it’s time to go get revenge on that Big Orange Cat from next door," the Little White Cat said.
The Big Orange Cat the Little White Cat mentioned was a stray from the neighboring residential complex.
That orange stray was already an adult, and its body was much larger than the young Little White Cat and Little Black Cat.
Previously, the two little strays had wandered into the neighboring complex by mistake and, as luck would have it, ran into the neighborhood’s cat bully—the Big Orange Cat. They ended up being pinned to the ground and taught a lesson.
Ever since then, the two little strays had held a grudge against the Big Orange Cat and would periodically go next door to pick a fight.
Unfortunately, the difference in their strength was too great. Even though the two little strays had the advantage of numbers, they had never won.
"Meow... We’re stuffed, which will slow us down. If we go pick a fight with that Big Orange Cat now, we’ll definitely lose.
I think we should rest for a bit, let the beef in our stomachs digest, and then go after the Big Orange Cat," the Little Black Cat suggested.
Hearing this, the Little White Cat thought about it seriously for a moment, then nodded.
And so, the two little strays lay down in the shade of the big tree, resting comfortably, their long tails twitching back and forth unconsciously.
At that moment, the two little strays didn’t realize that something was different with the Yellow Ox Exotic Beast Meat they had eaten. The Spiritual Energy it released was something their bodies normally couldn’t absorb.
But today, there was a change. A faint trace of Spiritual Energy was being taken in by their bodies. The amount was minuscule, but it was definitely being absorbed.
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"Welcome." A saleswoman in a qipao and high heels smiled as she greeted the customer walking into the shop.
"I want to buy Spirit Stones."
Lin Li needed to buy a house in the Spirit Realm’s Dongwu City today, so he was in a hurry to get the Spirit Stones sorted out. The moment he walked into the Spirit Stone Shop, he got straight to the point with the saleswoman who came to greet him.
"This way, sir." The saleswoman in the qipao led Lin Li to her counter and asked how many Spirit Stones he wanted to buy.
"I’ll take 400."
"Hmm?" The saleswoman thought she had misheard and asked for confirmation, "Sir, did you say you want to buy 400 Spirit Stones?"
"Yes."
"..." The saleswoman confirmed that she hadn’t misheard. The young man before her, who looked to be in his early twenties, really did want to buy 400 Spirit Stones. She was so shocked she fell silent for a moment.
"What’s wrong? Don’t you have that many in stock?" Lin Li asked, seeing the shocked expression on the saleswoman’s face.
"Er..."
The shocked expression on the saleswoman’s face turned to one of embarrassment at Lin Li’s question. She spoke to him apologetically.
"I’m very sorry, sir. We only have a little over two hundred Spirit Stones in the store right now. Please wait a few minutes while I contact our main branch and have them dispatch more Spirit Stones immediately."
Lin Li glanced around the hundred-plus-square-meter Spirit Stone Shop. ’My luck really isn’t great,’ he thought. ’To think I’d pick a shop with insufficient stock.’
"How long will I have to wait?" Lin Li, who was eager to get to Dongwu City in the Spirit Realm and settle the housing matter, asked the saleswoman.
"It’ll be very quick, sir. Fifteen minutes at most." The pretty saleswoman could also see that Lin Li was in a hurry, so she gave him a reasonably short waiting time.
"Fifteen minutes? Alright, then please hurry and contact them for me," Lin Li nodded and said.
Then, another saleswoman from the shop brought over a chair and invited Lin Li to sit and wait.
Fifteen minutes passed quickly as he scrolled on his phone for a bit.
After scrolling through some short videos, Lin Li finally got the Spirit Stones he needed.
"You don’t need to put them in a box for me. Just throw them in a plastic bag." Lin Li saw the saleswoman about to place the sparkling, translucent Spirit Stones into brocade boxes one by one and quickly stopped her.
The first time he’d bought Spirit Stones from a Spirit Stone Shop, they had also been packed in brocade boxes. He still had those boxes at home.
Now that he was buying 400 Spirit Stones, it would require a lot of brocade boxes, and he would just have to pour the stones out later anyway.
If he didn’t throw the empty boxes away, they would just take up space at home. But throwing them away would be a hassle. It was much better to just use a plastic bag from the start.
The saleswoman, who was just about to place the Spirit Stones into the brocade boxes, was taken aback when she heard Lin Li’s request. It was the first time she had ever encountered a customer with such a demand.
However, seeing his serious expression, she knew he wasn’t joking. Since the customer had made the request, she just had to comply.
And so, 400 Spirit Stones were packed into an ordinary plastic bag.
He paid via a mobile transfer. The transaction was swift and clean—money for goods, with no fuss at all.
"Take care, sir! Please come again..." The group of pretty saleswomen in qipaos enthusiastically saw off this generous customer, who had just bought 20 million yuan worth of Spirit Stones in one go.
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