Let's start by analyzing the sun

Chapter 12 [12] My Cat Tries to Support Me

Cheng Han understood the situation and decisively muttered, "Deduce a way to deal with... no, to eliminate the extraordinary power within the gold coin."

A familiar coolness spread from the top of his head.

The next moment, his eyes lit up.

Cheng Han "saw" an incredibly dazzling sun, emitting endless light and heat, surrounded by a sky filled with strange black clouds.

The sun suddenly expanded, erupting with endless light filaments, each filament striking the black clouds, causing them to dissipate slightly.

In just a moment, the black clouds were gone.

Only the great sun remained in the sky.

As if existing for eternity.

A prompt immediately flashed: "Proficiency +2, current proficiency is 58/1000, mental value is 4.3/13.4."

Cheng Han was pleasantly surprised: "It's truly unexpected. I didn't think the True Flame Remnant Imprint parsed from the sun would perfectly counteract the extraordinary power of the gold coin."

He stared at the ditch and smiled, "Mr. Heretic God Believer, it seems your luck isn't so good."

It wasn't just not good.

It was simply terrible.

Originally, the plan of these Heretic God believers was going quite smoothly. They only needed to wait one more day to hold a grand sacrificial ritual inside the textile factory.

Unfortunately, a certain middle school student suddenly popped up and interfered.

Not only did the ritual fail, but the believers also suffered heavy casualties. Even the gold coin, hidden so well, was found by its scent.

In a word, miserable!

Cheng Han wielded his small shovel and busied himself in the ditch, quickly finding the gold coin.

He didn't dare touch this strange thing with his hands, but used the shovel to pick it up and throw it on the grass beside him.

This was a brand new gold coin.

Its surface was embossed with a thriving giant tree, the Myriad Radiance Divine Banyan.

The gold coin also contained a special power.

From the moment it was dug out, Cheng Han heard faint, strange whispers in his ears, and his emotions became uncontrollably agitated.

Previously, it was the whispers foreshadowed by the skill.

But now it was a real voice.

Cheng Han didn't dare delay any longer and quickly activated the True Flame Remnant Imprint. A faint light appeared on his fingertip, and he forcefully poked the gold coin.

At this moment, the gold coin seemed to realize that the situation was not good and twitched a few times in a bizarre manner.

"Buzz~"

The gold coin trembled.

The whispers immediately grew louder.

But this was a futile effort.

"Ding!"

Cheng Han's finger accurately touched the gold coin.

The light on his fingertip instantly became incredibly bright, comparable to a hundred-watt light bulb. The surrounding air seemed to be affected by the heat radiation, and the temperature also rose a bit.

"Ah~"

A shrill scream came from the gold coin.

In just a moment, the sound stopped abruptly.

The gold coin no longer trembled.

Cheng Han quickly performed a deduction and breathed a sigh of relief: "The black mist cluster has been annihilated by the remnant imprint."

He relaxed, only to feel his head spinning severely. Checking his stats, he found that his mental value had dropped to an extremely low value of 0.2/13.4.

In other words, the brief confrontation had consumed a full 4.1 points of mental value.

Cheng Han rubbed his temples, feeling lingering fear: "The confrontation of extraordinary powers is too draining on mental energy. My little body really can't handle it."

He happily pocketed the gold coin: "It wasn't for nothing that I worked so hard."

The average person's monthly salary was around twenty silver coins. One gold coin was equal to five months' salary for an average person. This was by no means a small amount of money.

Cheng Han quickly cleaned up the scene and rode away on his bicycle.

*

In a certain secret room.

In the center of the ground, a candle was burning.

The flame it burned with was actually a strange, inky green.

By the light, one could see that the ground was paved with smooth stone slabs, on which was carved a rather large pattern, also a horrifying scene.

This was a four-armed giant.

The position where the head should be was empty.

The two hands near the shoulders each held a head, their faces all wearing extremely strange smiles.

The two hands below the shoulders each held a bloody bone staff, seemingly just torn from a corpse.

"Dong! Dong!"

As if the sound of a cane hitting the floor, it rang out rhythmically.

A gaunt, hunched figure, draped in a floor-length robe, slowly approached the candle.

He coughed heavily a few times and waved his sleeve towards the candle.

"Whoosh!"

A large amount of inky green flames emerged from the candle, condensing into an ordinary-looking face.

The flame face opened its mouth and spat out a puff of sparks: "Zagu, you have failed."

The hunched figure replied in a shrill voice: "We had a mole!"

The flame face said indifferently: "Evidence?"

The hunched figure sneered: "This operation, from beginning to end, was full of strangeness. Our hidden lines received no news, but the authorities suddenly launched a crackdown."

The flame face remained unmoved: "This is a clumsy excuse."

The hunched figure suddenly raised his tone: "Hatch's 'Soul Lamp' has been extinguished! This means that the 'Secret Soul Gold Coin' has been discovered, and a wisp of his escaping remnant soul has been killed!"

The flame face immediately changed: "What?"

The hunched figure became even more angry: "The concealment of the Secret Soul Gold Coin is beyond doubt. Without a mole informing, how could the authorities have found it?

"The remnant soul attached to the gold coin is in an extremely special form. Only a powerful Mystic adept in the field of souls can perceive the existence of the remnant soul.

"The soul lineage is difficult to cultivate. There have been no Mystic who majored in this lineage in the Taian Small Spirit Realm for decades. If it weren't for a mole selling us out, how could the authorities have killed Hatch?"

The flame face was silent.

After a long time, he spoke: "I will personally investigate those related to Hatch."

He added heavily: "Everyone!"

The hunched figure snorted: "When you ferret out the mole, I will use the 'Human-Faced Worm' to gnaw his internal organs away bit by bit."

The flame face did not respond and dissipated into green smoke.

*

Shanyi Ward.

The moment Cheng Han pushed open the door, he immediately heard a cat's meow.

"Meow~"

The black cat squatted at the door, its cat eyes quietly watching him.

Cheng Han said approvingly: "Not bad! You listened to my words and didn't run around outside after dark."

The black cat stood up, rubbed against his trouser leg, and then ran lightly for more than ten steps, easily leaping onto a wooden table more than a meter high.

Cheng Han's gaze followed, and he was immediately stunned.

Because on the wooden table, there were actually three birds placed.

Their sizes were much longer than an adult's palm, and their weight was estimated to be no less than half a catty.

This was obviously the Sheriff's spoils of war.

The black cat raised its paw and pressed down on a bird, and meowed again: "Meow~"

Cheng Han glanced at the black cat's abdomen and tentatively asked: "Sheriff, is this the dinner you brought me?"

The black cat flicked its fluffy tail, as if indicating affirmation.

The corners of Cheng Han's mouth twitched.

He suddenly realized that this black cat seemed to be trying to support him.

*

Half an hour later.

Dinner was cooked.

Cheng Han picked up a bird leg, took a light bite, and immediately nodded repeatedly.

The meat was firm and chewy, and the taste was quite good!

He suddenly felt that adopting this black cat was really a wise decision.

At least he could eat meat without spending money, right?

The black cat squatted not far away, observing him eating, and flicked its tail again.

Cheng Han finished eating, cleaned up the dishes, and instructed: "I'll rest for a while first. You stay obediently in the living room and don't make too much noise, understand?"

"Meow~"

The black cat responded and crawled under the cabinet.