Chapter 631 - 395: A Flash of Spiritual Light, Zhou Tongtong’s Strange Dream

Chapter 631: Chapter 395: A Flash of Spiritual Light, Zhou Tongtong’s Strange Dream

"I’ll pour you some more." Lin Li picked up the kettle and added some more cool water to Zhou Tongtong’s small paper cup.

"Lin Li, have you had dinner?" Zhou Tongtong asked, placing the small paper cup on the coffee table.

"I just ate at a friend’s house," Lin Li said as he put the kettle back on the coffee table.

"Lin Li, do you have a girlfriend?" Zhou Tongtong asked suddenly. The change in topic caught Lin Li completely off guard.

"Uh..." Lin Li hadn’t expected Zhou Tongtong to ask such a question. He froze for a moment, then shook his head. "No."

"Why not?"

"I don’t have one because I don’t have one!" Lin Li said, stating the obvious.

"I see other big brothers in the complex have girlfriends. Why don’t you?" Zhou Tongtong asked again.

"..." Seeing Zhou Tongtong looking at him so seriously, asking a question he had no idea how to answer, Lin Li fell silent.

Just as he was struggling to answer the little girl’s question, his phone, which was sitting on the coffee table, suddenly rang, saving him.

He picked up his phone and glanced at the screen. It was a video call from Su Yue.

Lin Li tapped the screen and answered the video call from Su Yue.

Su Yue’s apartment was still in a blackout, so when the call connected, Lin Li saw she was surrounded by darkness.

"What’s up?"

"The power won’t be back for a while, and it’s pitch-black in here. It’s so scary!"

"..." An expression that said, ’Are you kidding me?’ crossed Lin Li’s face. "You’re afraid of the dark? I might believe that from someone else, but do you really think you can fool me?"

"Hee hee... I guess I can’t fool you," Su Yue said with a laugh. "It’s pitch-black and so boring here. Come play a game with me! I’ll carry you."

Lin Li glanced at Zhou Tongtong, who was watching cartoons, and said to Su Yue, "Let’s play later. I have a guest over right now."

"A guest?" Hearing Lin Li say he had a guest, a confused expression appeared on Su Yue’s cute and charming face.

After all, Lin Li had just had dinner at her place and hadn’t been home for long—only ten-odd minutes. How could he suddenly have a guest?

"It’s the little kid from next door. Her parents aren’t home, and she forgot her key, so she was locked out. I let her come over to my place to sit and watch some cartoons while she waits for her family to get back."

"Oh, I see! Okay, then. We’ll play together later." The ever-reasonable Su Yue nodded and then ended the video call.

Lin Li sat down on the sofa, placed his phone to the side, and joined Zhou Tongtong in watching the cartoons with great interest.

Meanwhile, Zhou Tongtong, who was holding a bag of crackers and watching the cartoon, had a thought running through her mind. ’I feel like I’ve heard the voice of the big sister on the video call with Lin Li before.’

Twenty-something minutes later, the doorbell rang.

Lin Li, who had been watching cartoons with Zhou Tongtong in the living room, stood up and walked toward the entryway.

CLICK.

Lin Li opened the door. Xia Qing, a tall woman with a serene and elegant demeanor, stood before him, holding two bags of groceries.

"You’re back!"

"Yes. Is Tongtong...?"

Lin Li turned and called toward the living room, "Zhou Tongtong, your mom is back."

The words had barely left his mouth when a small, cute figure ran out, holding half-eaten crackers in one hand and a small metal bowl in the other.

"Mommy."

"You silly girl, you actually forgot your key when you went out. You need to be more mindful next time," Xia Qing said, looking at her daughter who had run up to her.

Zhou Tongtong nodded. She had already mentally scolded herself for forgetting the key and figured a mistake like this wouldn’t happen again.

"Mommy, Lin Li gave me crackers..." Zhou Tongtong held up the half-empty bag of crackers in her hand.

"Did you say thank you to Lin Li?"

"Mhm."

Watching the mother-daughter exchange, Lin Li said with a smile, "It’s nothing, just some crackers."

After that, Xia Qing thanked Lin Li again before leading her daughter back home.

After the guests left, the quiet house was filled only with the echoing sound of the cartoons still playing on the TV in the living room.

Lin Li walked into the living room, turned off the TV, then went to his bedroom to grab his pajamas and take a shower.

He had originally planned to shower the moment he got home, but the unexpected turn of events had delayed him a bit.

Next door, Zhou Tongtong followed her mom back home. She put the half-eaten bag of crackers in the living room, then walked into the kitchen and placed the food bowls for Little White and Little Black on the counter.

Xia Qing was taking groceries out of the bags, preparing to wash the vegetables and cook. Seeing her daughter place the small metal bowls on the counter, she asked curiously.

"What did you give those two little stray cats to eat?"

"I gave them some of the mung bean soup you made, Mommy. After Little Black and Little White drank it, they both said your mung bean soup is delicious," Zhou Tongtong reported dutifully.

"Oh, so those two little strays like my mung bean soup, do they!" Xia Qing replied jokingly to her daughter.

"Yeah! I’ll give them more next time," Zhou Tongtong said earnestly, not catching the playful tone in her mother’s voice. The two of them weren’t quite on the same wavelength.

"Then I’ll have to make more mung bean soup next time... Okay, go watch some TV in the living room. I’ll call you when dinner’s ready," Xia Qing said.

"Okay." Zhou Tongtong nodded, left the kitchen, and went to the living room, where she picked up the remote and turned on the TV.

YAWN~

Watching the cartoon on TV, Zhou Tongtong raised a hand to cover a yawn.

After waking up from her nap, she had gone out to play with the two little stray cats for quite a while, using up a lot of energy. She was feeling tired now.

After yawning, Zhou Tongtong lay down on the soft sofa. Her eyes slowly closed, and she fell asleep to the sound of the cartoon coming from the television.

The very instant she fell asleep, a faint golden Spiritual Light appeared between her eyebrows.

The small cluster of faint golden Spiritual Light that appeared between the little one’s eyebrows flickered like a golden flame... It lasted for only two or three seconds before vanishing.

A dream. Lying asleep on the sofa, Zhou Tongtong had a strange dream.

In the dream, she saw a young Little White and Little Black in a remote corner of a park, facing off against a strong, adult Big Striped Cat.

The muscular adult cat was clearly a ferocious stray. It looked down disdainfully at the two little ones before it, who glared back, refusing to be outdone.

"Meow... You two runts actually came to my territory looking for food? Are you looking to die?" the strong adult Big Striped Cat threatened the Little White Cat and the Little Black Cat in a menacing tone.

"Meow... This park is huge, and there are plenty of mice. You can’t eat them all by yourself," the Little White Cat said.

"Meow... So what if we came here for food? What are you gonna do about it? You want to fight us?" the Little Black Cat retorted.

"Meow... Such a bold tone. Very well. I was originally just going to teach you a lesson, but now it seems I’ll have to go for the kill." The muscular Big Striped Cat stared at the Little Black Cat, a vicious gleam in its eyes.

The moment the words were out, its limbs tensed, and it shot toward the Little Black Cat.

But just an instant before the muscular Big Striped Cat launched its attack, a faint golden Spiritual Light flashed in the Little White Cat’s eyes. It had foreseen the danger and sent a warning to its companion.

"Meow... Little Black, watch out! It’s about to attack us."

Unfortunately, despite the Little White Cat’s advance warning, the difference in their strength was simply too great.

The muscular Big Striped Cat attacked with incredible speed, far too fast for the young Little Black Cat to possibly defend against.

. . . . . .