Doomsday Cat City Lord - Chapter 12

This was a Tier 3 fusion variant possessing Split-Brain capability; one head wielded Wind-attribute supernatural elements, while the other commanded Dark-attribute energy fields. Worse, it was an Alpha-tier entity, actively sacrificing and drawing its own kinetic swarm into its mass to force a breakthrough into Tier 4.

Dark, toxic vapors saturated the immediate air. Gale-force wind blades materialised out of nothingness to execute brutal ambush vectors from above, while the variant’s heavy, fused tail whipped relentlessly from below to disrupt their footing.

Faced with a top-tier combat predator wielding multi-elemental offensive capabilities, blanketing the field with standard honeysuckle blooms would merely exhaust Mi Miaomiao’s reserves. Instead, it carefully engineered just two hyper-concentrated floral branches to maximize detoxicating efficiency, draping them like protective collars around its own neck and Xuanyu’s.

Mi Miaomiao stopped restraining its internal reservoir of power. Deploying razor-sharp claws, fangs, and a fluidly whipping tail, it channeled an explosive burst of physical acceleration to shatter the monster’s exterior defenses, unreservedly unleashing the lethal instincts it had forged through the grueling crucibles of its past life.

The incoming wind blades cut cleaner and sharper than laser knives. Narrowly dodging past them offered a surging thrill, a sensation akin to dancing directly along the razor’s edge of survival.

The white cat’s focus was locked entirely onto the serpent monster’s pre-injured head. Extreme agility remained a feline’s definitive genetic trademark; no matter how massively its physical scale expanded, that core baseline remained absolute.

Leaping high to clear a sweeping wind blade, it planted its paws onto the incoming tail, using the momentum to spring even higher, its unsheathed claws driving down to clamp onto the creature’s critical node.

The instant the serpent’s intact head snapped over to retaliate, the black cat’s silhouette materialized seamlessly beside the white cat. Leveraging the falling white cat’s torso as a launchpad, Xuanyu spun through the air like a crescent moon, tracing a half-circle clean around the strike zone as his claws gouged a massive, bleeding fissure deep along the serpent’s neck.

The python’s lower trunk coiled and contracted with alarming velocity, instantly pinning the black cat within its flared, razor-sharp scale network.

At that critical juncture, a honeysuckle branch exploded outward in volume. The black cat clamped his teeth onto the branch, utilizing the leverage to spring clear and recover his positioning flush against the white cat’s flank.

The two cats executed their maneuvers with flawless, instinctive coordination. Their movements synchronized so perfectly that neither required verbal cues nor glances to anticipate the other’s next tactical vector.

Exactly like their history… traveling across vast, snow-covered terrains, they invariably left behind a single, unified line of footprints.

As the dense swarms across the forest floor were entirely absorbed into the serpent king’s mass, the combined offensive of the white and black cats succeeded in severing the head housing the Tier 3 Dark-attribute crystal.

Finally, at the exact microsecond the remaining Wind-attribute head initiated its evolutionary breakthrough into Tier 4, Mi Miaomiao drove a laser knife directly through its open maw, skewering its brain cluster.

Xuanyu stared down at the transparent crystal resting against his black paw pad, its core swirling with a luminous, azure stellar river. His physical body was still actively processing the residue of the high-octane battle.

The engagement had been swift, clean, and seamlessly executed. For a fleeting moment, it felt as though they had truly fused into a singular entity.

The black cat watched blankly as the white cat padded closer, only to be thoroughly nuzzled across his cheeks by a face saturated with a heavily fragrant, metallic blood-scent. The moment he opened his maw to speak, a warm, dense chunk of flesh was nudged straight between his teeth.

The white cat backed away a fraction of an inch, only to lean back in with an affectionate, lingering focus, using the tip of its pink tongue to cleanly lap up the fresh blood clinging to the margins of the black cat’s lips. Shaking its tail, it trotted back over to systematically tear into the mutant python’s carcass.

“Incredible! This two-headed serpent actually developed dual hearts!”

As the warm heart tissue descended into its stomach, a smooth, nurturing stream of energy diffused across its physical framework, instantly replenishing the stamina expended during the high-intensity combat and sealing the minor lacerations marking its torso.

“This serpent meat is exceptionally dense with nutrients. Xuanyu, the moment you break through into Tier 3, your baseline efficiency is going to be immense.”

“Xuanyu? Why exactly are your ears turning bright red?”

Mi Miaomiao’s striking, clear gold-and-blue eyes locked tightly onto the outer margins of the black cat’s ears. Because the black cat’s coat was absolute midnight-black, even if one shaved away the fur, his skin retained a pale, slate-grey hue. This represented the absolute first time it had witnessed a distinct color flushing through his skin.

“Is that a reaction triggered by the mutant serpent’s heart?”

“Perhaps,” the black cat muttered, his physical posture stiffening as he trailed rigidly behind the white cat, completely detached from whatever syllables were escaping his mouth.

System 012 observed that the black cat was literally walking with identical, synchronized limbs same arm, same leg and felt entirely at a loss for words. How on earth can a cat be this pure? Why are you spacing out at a juncture like this? Shouldn’t you have taken the initiative to boldly lick her back?!

Ah, ah, ah!

“The second I got Xiao Quan back to my apartment, I collapsed into a bizarre, catatonic slumber, only waking up roughly four hours ago. By the time I opened my eyes, the entire residential block was a ghost town, and the second I powered up my communicator, the feeds were completely saturated with apocalyptic alerts.”

Ai Yuan’s brow was locked into a tense, rigid knot. The 185-centimeter grassland giant was currently huddled flat against the floor, his light-brown eyes focused with absolute intensity onto a pair of surgical forceps clamping a fine black thread. Every muscle group across his torso was taut as he cautiously, incrementally extracted it from his sister’s calf muscle.

“Pick up the pace, or I’m pulling the rest out myself!” Wen Yushuang had been starving for a full day; right now, she was aggressively shoving instant noodles into her mouth with one hand while holding a half-empty carton of milk in the other. Noting her brother’s hyper-delicate, embroidery-like posture, she impatiently clattered her fork into the bowl, her sharp brows snapping down as she leaned forward to take over.

“Don’t stop, please! This is an active parasite; if it fractures and leaves a segment embedded inside the muscle tissue, what are we supposed to do?” Ai Yuan muttered, sweat dripping profusely down his face as he gently pinned her back into the chair, ruffling her naturally curly long hair.

His younger sister possessed a refined, strikingly cool physical beauty, yet her operational style was remarkably grand, aggressive, and unrefined. Aside from the profound patience she displayed when treating animals, her baseline demeanor was considerably more rugged than his own history as a former professional boxer.

“Review the data packets archived on my communicator and map out how we’re supposed to navigate toward the northwest. I only received a singular text from our parents on the first day of the crisis confirming their immediate safety; I haven’t been able to re-establish contact since I woke up, and I’m deeply worried.”

Wen Yushuang, driven by sheer hunger, sank back into the seat to finish her noodles while rapidly scrolling through the data feeds on the display, her expression darkening with every swipe.

Every single major municipality was undergoing a massive, chaotic exodus. The rural townships and agricultural sectors had transformed into absolute death traps, far outpacing the dense urban zones due to the sheer volume of local livestock, wildlife, and insect populations. Strictly speaking, the coastal administrative zones actually retained a minor safety margin for the time being; because their human populations had been systematically evacuated ahead of schedule, the volume of humanoid variants was remarkably low. However, localized, minor-tier seismic activity had just rattled the fault lines, meaning a catastrophic megatsunami was projected to strike the coastlines within two to five days.

“Traversing via land corridors presents an extreme hazard, particularly since the military forces stationed across the coastal zones are entirely consumed with executing evacuation protocols; the primary arterial highways have zero clearance crews active. If the two of us attempt to pilot a standard vehicle through those channels, the probability of being completely overwhelmed by a variant swarm is near absolute. Conversely, the density of mutant entities active within the water systems remains comparatively low; routing via the river channels offers a vastly superior safety index.”

Ai Yuan finally extracted a complete “black thread,” turning his head to look toward the giant white cat currently examining the two pulse rifles.

“They possess functional vessels?” Wen Yushuang looked toward the two cats, a flash of genuine surprise coloring her features as she parsed her brother’s implication.

“Yes. The white cat is a domesticated specimen, capable of comprehensive human synchronization. It comprehends human text and manipulates electronic communication interfaces with ease.”

Wen Yushuang retrieved a cigarette pack from her fresh jacket pocket, sliding a single cigarette between her lips without lighting it. She sat in absolute silence, observing the diverse collection of wildlife currently being systematically treated by the white cat’s healing pulses.

The animals were currently scattered across the office floor in casual, relaxed postures, yet their positioning subtly and deliberately anchored the white cat squarely at the center of their defensive layout. The infant animals showed zero hesitation, rolling and playing across the white cat’s massive, fluffy frame… a radical, paradigm-shifting concept suddenly crystallized within her mind.

Reaching onto the medical tray, she retrieved a surgical scalpel, sanitized the blade, and bent over to slice through the dark nodes marking her skin. Using her bare fingers to clamp the exposed black threads, she evaluated their structural elasticity and rapidly hauled the parasites clear of her flesh. She systematically cleared every single black line marring both calves, a shallow pool of blood gathering across the floor beneath her boots.

Ai Yuan’s face turned completely bloodless, yet he didn’t dare step in to forcibly disrupt her process.

“Brother, if only I possessed the defensive dermal density of an evolved animal,” she muttered, flashing a sharp, grin through the pain as she pushed herself up and walked with a halting, uneven gait to sit beside the massive white cat.

“Boss Cat, is there any possibility your squad could accommodate myself and my brother on your transit? My physical coordination is exceptional, and I’m a fully credentialed veterinary physician. I can discern that your personal supernatural ability specializes primarily in accelerating external trauma recovery. However, my career has kept me in the field for years; I possess comprehensive operational utility—trauma debridement, suturing, fracture reduction, managing standard systemic pathologies, parasite extraction, obstetrics, and with basic medical hardware support, I can independently execute minor to medium-tier surgical interventions.”

“Furthermore, my brother currently operates as a professional animal handler; prior to this career, he was a elite professional boxer who ranked in the top three of international tournaments. He has recently manifested the ability to generate live flame arcs, confirming an active supernatural awakening. Crucially, his proficiency in managing and nurturing animals is absolute; every specimen in this room can vouch for him.”

“Ying-ying!” The doctor and the handler are exceptionally good humans!

Yanguo, the Giant Panda cub, wrapped his paws firmly around the white cat’s leg, nodding his head with absolute, emphatic intensity. The remaining mature animals, noticing the white cat’s evaluating gaze sweep over them, similarly nodded their heads in unison.

This female physician had left a remarkably deep imprint on Mi Miaomiao’s consciousness. When the squad initially breached the administration block, they had encountered several former park personnel who had degenerated into variants; the emotional signature radiating from the woman carried an incredibly dense undercurrent of grief and agony, yet she had resolutely, personally neutralized those entities without a single microsecond of hesitation.

Exactly like right now even though the core emotions she emitted were a cocktail of tension, anxiety, and deeply buried fear, the physical expression she maintained was absolute calm, grit, and transparent sincerity.

A soft, vibrant green radiance cascaded over the human’s bleeding legs, driving the lacerations to knit together smoothly. Wen Yushuang traced her fingers over her fully restored skin, an expression of profound awe surfacing within her eyes.

Mi Miaomiao materialized its storage water droplets, distributing two pristine orbs to every human and animal present within the room before bringing up its communicator to rapidly input a sequence of text:

“I intend to guide these animals to evacuate this sector, with the ultimate objective of establishing a dedicated sovereign Animal Sanctuary within Boyun Province. I can accommodate your transit for a segment of the journey, but if either of you executes a single action that compromises our collective safety, I will personally terminate you.”

“Agreed. My brother and I are locked onto a northwest vector to locate our parents; our joint transit will conclude the moment we breach the borders of Boyun Province.” Wen Yushuang offered zero empty platitudes promising she would never harm an animal; the upcoming journey would serve as the definitive proof of her character.

The moment she secured confirmation, she immediately summoned her brother over, and together they began systematically salvaging the remaining logistical assets scattered throughout the administration building. The wildlife park’s evacuation hadn’t been entirely frantic, but standard office snacks and a vast assortment of low-utility equipment had been left behind.

Ransacking desks and clearing out the staff locker rooms yielded a decent haul of apparel, non-perishable food items, and essential pharmaceuticals. Down in the first-floor security office, they located riot shields, containment poles, and high-voltage stun batons. The siblings methodically armed themselves to the teeth.

Throughout the process, her mind continuously revolved around the white cat’s stated objective of constructing an independent animal sanctuary. While the concept initially felt entirely fantastical, the world had descended into an absolute apocalypse, and the white cat’s cognitive capacities were undeniably advanced. Wen Yushuang found herself experiencing a spark of intense anticipation regarding what evolutionary thresholds the giant white cat would ultimately scale. Would the sanctuary it spoke of truly manifest into reality?

Returning to the first-floor main lobby, she observed the animals extracting premium feed sacks from the storage bays, alongside various infant animals carefully packed and secured to the torsos of the mature specimens a profound sense of grounded reality settled over her. Brimming with proactive energy, she approached the white cat with a logistical proposition: “If your vessels possess sufficient displacement, we should seriously consider packing the remaining diagnostic and surgical hardware housed within the park’s veterinary clinic. Managing an population’s health cannot rely exclusively on supernatural healing arcs; furthermore, any fully operational sanctuary will invariably require a structured medical facility.”

“Meow?” The evacuation teams didn’t salvage that hardware?

Letting out a soft vocalization, Mi Miaomiao lowered its head to rapidly input text onto the glowing interface.

“The premium medical hardware is stored securely inside a dedicated subterranean vault, completely sealed against environmental factors.” Wen Yushuang mused that the original architects of the wildlife park likely never anticipated that the heavily ridiculed, highly waterproof mountain bunkers would find their definitive utility on a day like this.

The handler’s personal truck had been parked by Ai Yuan at the southern base of the mountain corridors; trekking all the way back to retrieve it represented a massive logistical detour. However, they now possessed the ability to drive out two heavy-duty cargo trucks original to the park’s logistics fleet.

Midway through loading the advanced veterinary hardware into the truck beds, another sharp seismic tremor rattled the region. A mere five hours had elapsed since the conclusion of the prior Tier 5 earthquake; this tremor carried a significantly higher intensity, registering as a Tier 6 event.

“Move out, now! We’re leaving the remaining hardware behind; we’ve maxed out our cargo limits,” Wen Yushuang yelled, fights through a wave of severe vertigo as she slapped the security seals back over the vault doors.

The infants were secured inside the vehicle cabins; the evolved mature animals possessed massive physical proportions that prevented them from crowding onto the truck roofs, meaning they had no choice but to open their strides and run directly behind the convoy.

Continuous aftershocks rippled through the terrain, causing loose scree to cascade down from the mountain peaks. Ancient structural assemblies within the park swayed violently, her visual field warping like water rippling from a dropped stone, or like dense creases crumpling across a sheet of white paper.

As the trucks approached the western exit gates of the park, Mi Miaomiao finally sighted the familiar silhouette of the black cat waiting patiently before the main administrative steps. It called out with a flash of irritation: “Xuanyu, where on earth did you wander off to? I couldn’t track your position anywhere!”

“Don’t be angry. I managed to locate an exceptional gift.” Xuanyu leaned down to gently nuzzle the white cat’s neck, methodically grooming the fur around her ears before tentatively, softly licking her lips. He took a single step back, his eyes locked unblinkingly onto the white cat.

Sensing that Xuanyu was completely uninjured, Mi Miaomiao’s ruffled coat smoothed down instantly. Hearing his explanation, its head tilted in curiosity as it evaluated the shifting, irregular movements rippling across the heavy bundle secured to the black cat’s back. It asked in surprise: “What kind of gift? How is it actively alive?”

Xuanyu: “…”

Xuanyu: “We’ll examine it once we’ve boarded the vessels. The trucks have already pulled ahead.”

Mi Miaomiao: “Oh.”

High-intensity spotlights mounted on the main transport ships cast a brilliant, blazing industrial work zone across the dark water surface. Cheng Ningye stood with a heavy toolbox in hand, operating under the immense physical leverage provided by Huabi’s mechanical claw arms and the raw muscle of the two Haskorgis. Together, they had systematically filtered through the cluster of drifting aquaculture structures to isolate three units whose framing remained entirely intact.

They sheared away the damaged surface structures, stripped the deteriorating nets clinging to the lower profiles, and uninstalled the automated mechanical feeding apparatuses and oxygenation systems preserving nothing but the underlying structural skeletons and the buoyant pontoon footings.

Slicing through the premium decking harvested from one of the larger rafts, they laid the thick timber flush across the framing of the remaining units, successfully retrofitting them into three distinct, highly functional utility barges measuring 5 meters in width and 6 meters in length.

By the third hour of Mi Miaomiao’s absence, the mass of logistical assets stored within the cargo train containers had been systematically distributed across the primary transport ships, the smaller support crafts, and two of the newly constructed barges leaving a singular barge entirely vacant to serve as an emergency overflow deck.

By the fourth hour of the white cat’s departure, the small flotilla safely converged at the precise tributary branch where the Songyuan River intersected with the base of Mount Mizhang.

The digital display confirmed the time as exactly 1:00 AM on September 2nd.

The entire fleet was locked into a rigid departure deadline: they had to clear the channels before 4:00 PM on the afternoon of the 2nd. This timeline represented a critical milestone that he and Miaomiao had calculated based entirely on the memories of his past life.

By maintaining this exact departure vector, they would successfully utilize the 48-hour transitional window to navigate deep into the interior of the Tiansong Mountain Range the singular geographic bastion capable of weathering the absolute devastation of the initial megatsunami. This precise timing would also ensure they intersected with critical humans and exceptional animals at the exact coordinates recorded in his past life, allowing him to repay the profound debts of gratitude he owed from a history he could never otherwise balance.

“Meow-meow!” Miaomiao and the crew will be back any minute now! Handler, you need to maintain your composure!

Ju Dabang the massive orange cat had dumped his entire physical mass directly over Cheng Ningye’s boots, deeply concerned that his human would lose his mind and leap off the deck to search the woods on foot.

Across the deck, Xiaotian, Huabi, the two Haskorgis, and the two infant Haking pups had formed a literal knot around Taiyang, absolutely refusing to let the old Husky shift his positioning clear of the vessel.

“Woof, woof, woof!” I’ve already stated a thousand damn times that I’m staying! I’m not leaving the fleet! Back off, every single one of you!

Sprawled flat across the deck plating, the Husky’s vocalizations were incredibly loud and aggressive, yet his physical body remained completely motionless, casually permitting the two small pups to scramble and play across his belly.

“Meow-ow!” They’ve breached the perimeter! I can smell their signatures!

Ju Dabang, who had been actively soothing his handler a microsecond prior, caught the distinct scent profiles of Mi Miaomiao and Xuanyu. The massive orange ball literally bounced clear off the deck in pure excitement.

Cheng Ningye slid his night-vision optics into place, anchoring his gaze toward the eastern horizon.

Even the old Husky lying on the deck lazily cracked open a singular, ice-blue eye to peer into the distance.

The first elements to materialize within his field of vision were the dual headlights of two heavy cargo trucks operating in parallel. Then, Cheng Ningye’s eyes completely locked up, his brain grinding into an absolute, catatonic freeze as his mind filled with a singular, terrifying realization: There are going to be additional humans on these vessels… more than one… this is absolutely horrifying!

“Meow!” Handler! I’ve harvested an incredible surprise, and it requires your immediate technical intervention to save its life!

Mi Miaomiao broke away from the approaching column, executing a massive flying leap to clamp its teeth onto its handler’s jacket collar, violently hauling him straight into the main cabin before unzipping its tactical pack with frantic speed.

Clatter, clang, crash!

Amidst a sharp, cascading sequence of metallic impacts, a vast array of micro-precise, silver mechanical components scattered across the pristine white marble tabletop. The tactical pack buckled and shifted once more, and out tumbled a furry, living “exclamation point”!