Chapter 52 People? Going back up the mountain? The cat will take you!

[The main system previously stated that whoever killed Fan Xin would have that tiger follow them. Fan Xin had already explained this clearly to the mutated tiger, and he repeated it again before his death, so it understood.]

[However, I didn’t expect things to turn out this way. After realizing something was wrong, I immediately contacted the main system and learned the whole situation.]

The system explained everything.

It really hadn’t known about this matter beforehand. If it hadn’t discovered the binding contract on Fan Xin, it probably would have simply treated it as an ordinary mission.

Lin Yun sighed again.

"Who could have imagined this?"

She bent down, picked up the binding contract from the ground, casually put it into her backpack, and then turned around and left.

However, she had no intention of taking the mutated tiger with her.

The tiger had a certain ability to survive, so it should be able to live well on its own in this world. It didn’t really need her.

Besides, the companion slot she had already agreed upon was meant for the Ivy.

Meanwhile, the system was secretly cursing the main system.

It blamed it for failing to synchronize its data and for creating that random mission with a Binding Contract Clue as its reward.

And the background of that random mission was a complete headache.

Fortunately, although the plaster monkey had obediently stood there and allowed Lin Yun to kill it in the end, that was only because Fan Xin was present.

Once Fan Xin completely transformed into a beast, the plaster monkey’s ambitions would become uncontrollable. Once it grew powerful enough, no one would be able to stop it.

Eventually, just as described in the background of this mission, it would try every possible means to kill humans and destroy the entire official base.

As Lin Yun walked, she suddenly stopped.

"Don’t you hate me? I killed your zookeeper."

When Tuantuan saw Lin Yun leave again, it happily followed without being called.

Its foster father had told it that the item should be given to the person who killed him, and that it should follow her as well.

It couldn’t hate that person.

After all, that person had helped its foster father finally escape from his suffering.

Tuantuan knew what a human should be like.

It also knew that its foster father had been in pain ever since he became like that. He wanted to die, but he continued living because of Tuantuan and the plaster monkey.

At first, Tuantuan had indeed been angry.

But whenever it remembered how its foster father would secretly cry when no one was watching, and how painful he looked, the anger gradually disappeared.

Tuantuan didn’t understand what a binding contract was.

It didn’t understand what a system was either.

But it knew that it couldn’t help its foster father.

Someone else could.

Fan Xin had given Tuantuan a choice long ago.

And even before he died, he had asked it again whether it wanted to leave or stay.

It had chosen to stay.

So it didn’t hate Lin Yun.

Even when Lin Yun didn’t call it, Tuantuan continued following behind her.

It listened to its foster father.

If he told it to follow Lin Yun, then it would follow her.

When Lin Yun asked the question again, Tuantuan immediately barked several times.

[It said that it initially hated you, but later came to understand what you did.]

Lin Yun stared at Tuantuan for a long time before sighing and turning back.

She returned to the pile of ashes and rummaged through her backpack.

Then she took out a small bottle, carefully gathered the ashes together, and put them inside.

Tuantuan remained beside Lin Yun the entire time, watching her actions.

It seemed to understand what she was doing and obediently stayed where it was.

"Little Vine, make some thinner vines and weave them into a holder."

The bottle was just a small round plastic bottle.

If she wrapped it in vines, she could hang it around Tuantuan’s neck.

Lin Yun washed her hands with water again before hanging the small bottle around Tuantuan’s neck.

Throughout the entire process, Tuantuan didn’t resist at all.

It simply cooperated with Lin Yun.

It had originally thought that its foster father wouldn’t be able to leave anything behind for it.

It hadn’t expected that it could still keep a part of him.

With this, it would be able to see its foster father whenever it wanted in the future!

Tuantuan was extremely happy.

So when Lin Yun left again, it immediately followed her.

"You can leave now. You can live well on your own. There’s no need to follow me. Besides, I can’t afford to feed you."

Lin Yun was speechless.

This mutated tiger was really foolish.

She had already killed its foster father, yet it was still following her so happily.

"Awoo."

Daddy told me to follow you. I don’t care.

"The outside world is huge. Don’t you want to go and see it?"

Lin Yun tried to persuade it several more times.

But Tuantuan refused to leave her no matter what.

Eventually, Lin Yun gave up.

She really couldn’t take it with her.

After all, she could only bind one companion.

She wasn’t planning to return to the shelter for the next couple of days anyway.

Now that she was in the city, she might as well see if there was anything useful to collect.

Soon, she encountered the tabby cat that had come looking for her near the zoo entrance.

The tabby cat excitedly rushed toward her.

But the moment it saw the mutated tiger following behind Lin Yun, it immediately jumped behind Lin Yun and hissed fiercely at Tuantuan.

Tuantuan was startled and quickly took several steps backward, its ears flattened in fear.

This cat is so fierce!

It let out another pitiful howl toward Lin Yun, hoping she would tell the cat that it wasn’t a bad tiger.

Lin Yun was speechless again.

This thing was so huge.

Why was it afraid of a cat?

The tabby cat stared at Tuantuan for a long time.

Seeing its cowardly appearance, it began wondering whether this was really the same mutated tiger it had seen before.

The tabby cat immediately turned its head toward Lin Yun.

"Meow."

Human, want to go back up the mountain? The cat will take you!

Lin Yun immediately panicked.

"No, no, no! We’re not going back yet. Let’s look around the city and see if we can find anything good."

This world was practically a zero-cost shopping paradise.

Of course she had to stock up on as many useful things as possible.

What if the next world was even worse than this one?

"Meow."

Oh, you’re not answering? No problem. The cat can take you!

"Big Cat, I appreciate the offer, but we need to take things slowly."

"Meow."

Oh, the cat understands. Come on up! The cat promises to go slowly!

Lin Yun:

"..."

Fine.

She still couldn’t escape the cat’s enthusiastic invitation.

She climbed onto the tabby cat’s back again and got into the cat-shaped taxi.

Just as the tabby cat had promised, it deliberately slowed down this time.

Tuantuan followed behind them, but it didn’t dare get too close.

Every so often, the tabby cat would turn around and growl at it, frightening Tuantuan into backing away.

Lin Yun ignored it.

If it wanted to follow, then let it follow.

As long as it didn’t bother her, she didn’t care.

The animals in the city had already dispersed, leaving only the officials dealing with the mutated animals they had killed.

Although the meat probably wasn’t particularly good, it was still meat.

They weren’t living in peaceful times anymore.

Whether the dead animals were protected species or not was no longer important.

When people couldn’t even get enough meat to eat, who would care about that?

Lin Yun didn’t approach them.

She only glanced at the scene from a distance before turning toward another area.

Ah...

Another wonderful day of scavenging.

Most places had already been thoroughly looted during the past few months.

She could only go inside and see whether anything had slipped through the cracks.

Whether she found something or not didn’t matter.

The first convenience store was almost completely empty.

Only a few bags of melted candy had been carelessly tossed into the corner of a shelf.

They were so inconspicuous that they would have been very easy to miss.