067 A Brand New Attribute
Regarding Han Yixuan’s intense psychological activity, Wang Heng of course had no way of knowing. He didn’t even know that the girl had been so close to him just now. He just said goodbye to Pei Ningle as usual and walked towards the school.
He walked through the school gate, across the campus, into the dormitory building, up the stairs, took out his key, and opened the door to his dorm.
Then he saw his three roommates sitting on the edge of the lower bunk, all turning their heads in unison to stare at him.
Wang Heng couldn’t help but feel a little surprised. After all, it wasn’t lights-out time yet, and Fu Hanwen wasn’t playing games, nor was Wang Ke watching anime. This situation was really a bit rare.
He asked, “What’s wrong? What are you guys doing?”
The three roommates looked at each other, a little hesitant. But the most conflicted of the three was Tang Hexing.
Fu Hanwen rushed to say, “This matter is mainly Little Tang’s fault… But you can’t blame him too much. After all, no one could have expected something like this to happen.”
Wang Heng: “What happened?”
Wang Ke patted Tang Hexing’s shoulder. “Let Little Tang tell you.”
Wang Heng’s gaze turned to Tang Hexing.
Tang Hexing gritted his teeth. “That stupid cat seems to have escaped.”
Wang Heng smiled. “Wild and free, huh…”
Tang Hexing: “When the cat escaped, it also took your hamster.”
Wang Heng: “?”
Fu Hanwen pointed to the hamster cage on the desk and sighed, “When we came back, the crime scene was already like this.”
Wang Heng walked to his desk and took a look. Sure enough, the cage was empty. The little gray thing with black stripes inside had disappeared without a trace, and the cage door was open upwards.
Fu Hanwen continued to analyze, “This is a locked-room mystery. A hamster’s strength definitely couldn’t lift this door, but a cat’s strength could.”
Wang Ke adjusted the non-existent glasses on his face and also analyzed, “The victim is Teacher Wang’s hamster. The only possible culprit is Little Tang’s cat. But now there’s another problem, which is the dorm door. The door was closed. It’s hard to believe that a cat fleeing in guilt would close the door on its way out.”
“Right. Sometimes even I forget to close the door,” Fu Hanwen added. “So, this has really become a locked-room crime mystery.”
Wang Heng: “Detective reasoning… Is it fun?”
Finally, Tang Hexing sighed and spoke, “So we think the cat probably climbed down the outer wall. We just looked for it, but we couldn’t find the cat or the hamster.”
Wang Ke: “But logically, based on rigorous reasoning, the culprit is undoubtedly Student Hanekawa.”
Tang Hexing grabbed his hair and shouted, “Can you change the name? Stop calling it Hanekawa! Why won’t you let go of that drunken incident?”
Fu Hanwen patted his shoulder. “Can’t be helped. The consequences of your drunken recklessness not only provoked Student Hanekawa but also sent Teacher Wang’s hamster to its doom. This is really… tsk, tsk.”
Wang Heng interrupted, “You guys wait a minute. Since you didn’t find a body, my hamster isn’t necessarily dead.”
Fu Hanwen: “How could it still be alive? It was in a cat’s mouth!”
Wang Ke: “And it went out through the fourth-floor window. A cat’s climbing ability is very strong, but a hamster’s isn’t, right? It’s probably already been taken away by Student Hanekawa as a late-night snack…”
Wang Heng smiled and didn’t say anything more. But he knew very well that the great Spacetime Administrator would definitely not die so easily.
Just then, there was a knock on the dormitory door.
The sound was a bit strange. It didn’t sound like someone knocking, but more like… the sound of a cat’s claws scratching?
The four of them looked at each other, almost simultaneously realizing a certain possibility.
Tang Hexing rushed over and opened the door.
Sure enough, the little white cat was squatting at the door, its left front paw still raised in mid-air.
The little gray hamster was also there, lying under the little white cat, almost curled up into a small meatball, shivering and looking pitiful.
Fu Hanwen exclaimed in surprise, “The criminal actually turned itself in!”
Wang Ke also shouted, “And the victim is really still alive!”
Tang Hexing pinched the scruff of the cat’s neck and lifted it up.
The little white cat looked innocent, not knowing what had happened. However, what awaited it next was Tang Hexing’s violent discipline.
Slap after slap landed on the cat’s body. Tang Hexing scolded as he hit, “Run! Who told you to run around! And you even took someone else’s hamster. You’ve gotten bold, haven’t you!”
Wang Heng picked up the hamster, silently walked out of the dormitory, and came to the end of the corridor. There was no one around at this time, and the commotion in dorm 414 was not small. As long as he didn’t shout, he basically didn’t have to worry about being heard.
He held the hamster up to his eyes and asked in a whisper, “Your acting was really good just now. It was you who caused the trouble, right?”
The hamster sat in his palm and actually crossed its legs leisurely. “Is there even a need to ask?”
Wang Heng: “I guess you ran out of the dorm on your own, and the cat just followed you. It’s innocent.”
The hamster clapped its little front paws, as if applauding. “So smart. You guessed right!”
Wang Heng stared at it and asked again, “Then what did you do when you went out?”
The hamster: “If I said I didn’t do anything, would you believe me?”
Wang Heng: “Do you think I would believe such nonsense?”
The hamster spread its two small front paws and shrugged helplessly. “Then there’s nothing I can do. You wouldn’t believe me if I told you the truth. I really didn’t do anything, just went out to get some fresh air. I’ve been in the cage for so many days, and you don’t even walk me…”
Wang Heng couldn’t help but interrupt, “Are you a dog? Do you need me to walk you?”
At this moment, footsteps approached. The hamster immediately changed its posture and lay obediently in his palm, like an ordinary little hamster that had just been scared out of its wits.
The one who came over was Tang Hexing, who said apologetically, “Sorry, Teacher Wang. But I just taught my cat a lesson. It probably won’t cause this kind of trouble again in the future.”
Wang Heng smiled. “It’s okay. The cat and the hamster are both back anyway. This kind of thing probably won’t happen again.”
Seeing that his roommate didn’t plan to pursue the matter, Tang Hexing also breathed a sigh of relief. He turned to go back to the dorm, but saw that the little white cat, which had just been beaten until it was meowing, had come over again, clinging to his pant leg. Tang Hexing squatted down, and the cat stretched its neck for him to pet, being incredibly well-behaved.
Wang Heng was stunned. “You just beat it. This cat doesn’t hold a grudge?”
The hamster’s gaze suddenly became incomparably deep. “It has awakened a brand new attribute… Among the countless futures, this is the one that has come true. Do you see it? The relationship between that person and that cat has developed in the strangest direction.”
Wang Heng sneered. “It’s just a cat. What can happen in the future?”
The hamster said faintly, “You have to know, this world is very complicated…”
