Chapter 240 A Narrow Escape

“Relax, it’s just a normal reaction. I’ll go and get her some antidote so that she can recover faster.” De Ertai assured while letting go of the Persian cat’s head.

“Hurry up then!” He Lulu urged matter-of-factly. Then, he muttered to himself, “Is the antidote enough? Should I prepare something else?”

“But if we give her the antidote now, we still need to drug her later, right? Isn’t it a little troublesome?”

De Ertai mouthed although he disagreed with He Lulu’s method.

“Let her rest for the time being! After all, she has been performing for quite a while today.” He Lulu knew what De Ertai was trying to tell him. He pondered for a moment before stating his opinion.

Did they want to drug her again?

No way! She must escape before they did it again!

Cheng Xiaoxiao did not expect the Hu merchants to be so ruthless. She had just woken up, but they planned to drug her again! Recalling He Lulu’s whisper earlier, Cheng Xiaoxiao thought of a new idea as she darted her eyes around playfully.

The Persian cat rolled her eyes and fainted again. She lay on the floor limply, looking very pitiful and heartbreaking.

“Did she faint again?”

He Lulu quickly picked up the cat and carefully cradled her.

“I guess she falls asleep because she is too tired. Let her rest here. We’ll come back after dinner.”

De Ertai didn’t give a damn about the cat’s condition at all. After all, all the animals had experienced the same in the past, and all of them were lively and energetic later and had been bought by the rich buyers.

Cold-blooded!

Ruthless!

Cheng Xiaoxiao cursed, but she didn’t dare to move a muscle. She had to stay like this until the men went out. They would drive her up the walls if they checked on her again.

He Lulu was already starving. Upon the mention of dinner, he could hear his stomach grumbling.

He Lulu looked at the cat in his embrace sorrowfully, and then at De Ertai who urged him to leave. Finally, he gritted his teeth and put the cat in one of the cages covered with black cloth before reluctantly leaving the warehouse with De Ertai.

“Oh, wait a minute. I didn’t lock her cage.”

Cheng Xiaoxiao, who was pretending to be unconscious in the cage, felt the coldness of the iron cage while listening to the conversation between He Lulu and De Ertai, who were about to walk out of the door.

“Don’t! Don’t come back! Don’t worry about me.”

Cheng Xiaoxiao didn’t dare to open her eyes to take a look, so she desperately prayed that the men would just walk away.

“Nah, you don’t have to lock it. I gave her quite a large dose today, so I bet she won’t wake up for a long while. Maybe, she’d still be asleep when we are back from dinner.”

As De Ertai’s voice drifted further and further away, Cheng Xiaoxiao soon heard the sound of the chain and iron lock.

Patter! The door was locked.

Whoosh! The chain was also put down.

After a while, Cheng Xiaoxiao slowly opened her eyes. After confirming that there was no one around, she opened her eyes wide and looked around the entire warehouse.

Next, it was time for Detective Cheng to search her way out!

Cheng Xiaoxiao jumped down from the cage. The black cloth fell on the floor along with her snow-white figure.

It was the black cloth that covered the cage!

When the black cloth fell down, Cheng Xiaoxiao could clearly see what was inside the iron cage, but when she saw it clearly, she almost screamed in fear.

It was a little monkey that looked similar to the macaque Cheng Xiaoxiao saw in the afternoon.

However, compared with the macaque in the afternoon, this little monkey was even smaller. It was now lying in the cage, looking listless with its eyes shut. Its nose was moving slightly, which indicated that it was still alive.

The monkey was locked in this cage. What about the other cages?

Cheng Xiaoxiao quickly stepped forward and removed all the black cloth on the other cages. Then, she sucked in a breath of cold air and took a few steps back before stopping.

All sorts of animals were locked in these iron cages. There was a little kitten, a large dog, and a colorful python…

However, regardless of the species of the animals, they all had one common characteristic, which was that they were all lying quietly in the cages with their eyes closed.

Cheng Xiaoxiao felt a surge of anger in her heart. She was wondering why she did not hear anything. It was because these animals were unconscious!

She finally understood what De Ertai meant by “we need to drug her again”.

It was pretty straightforward. These animals were drugged just in the same way as her!

Only then would the animals be easily controlled, and they would not make any sound.

Cheng Xiaoxiao was angry with the Hu merchants and was distressed for these small animals. She wanted to save them, but when she saw the special iron lock on each cage, she withdrew her thought.

So what if Cheng Xiaoxiao had the keys? These animals were unconscious, and she couldn’t bring them all out in one go.

What should she do? What should she do?

She should hurry up and think of a way! She couldn’t just sit by and do nothing!

Yes!

Chu Yunshen!

Cheng Xiaoxiao had Chu Yunshen!

She would be able to save these animals as long as she rushed back now and brought Chu Yunshen and the others over.

Yes! At that time, they could not only save the animals but also capture the Hu merchants. They must be punished!

Cheng Xiaoxiao made up her mind and was about to rush out when she tripped on the few sackcloth bags next to her feet.

Ouch!

Cheng Xiaoxiao kicked one of the sackcloth bags, which hurt so much that she grimaced and rolled on the floor in pain.

Right, she had not checked what was in this sackcloth bag.

Cheng Xiaoxiao climbed onto the sackcloth bag and pulled the hemp rope tied to the mouth of the bag. However, the more she pulled at it, the tighter it became. She figured that it would turn into a dead knot if she went on.

Spit! Spit!

Cheng Xiaoxiao spat out the hemp rope in her mouth. Then, she bit into the sackcloth bag dejectedly.

Since she couldn’t untie the rope, she could bite the bag!

However, it didn’t work as well.

After Cheng Xiaoxiao let go and took a closer look, she found that there was no sign of damage on the bag at all except for a few tiny teeth marks.

The quality was really good…

The sackcloth bag was so sturdy and durable, it seemed that it was made from good materials.

Cheng Xiaoxiao praised the sackcloth bag involuntarily.

Damn it!

Finally regaining her composure again, Cheng Xiaoxiao clawed at the sackcloth sack and then angrily jumped off it.

She shouldn’t do such useless work here. Not only because she couldn’t get anything out of it, but also because it was purely a waste of time.

When she brought Chu Yunshen over to seal the place, he could investigate the content of the bag anyway. Without further ado, Cheng Xiaoxiao ran toward the door with the iron chain hanging on it.

The carefree Cheng Xiaoxiao did not notice that some white powder was slipping out of the sackcloth bag from the hole where she had bitten. The powder was very fine and white, and it disappeared as soon as it scattered in the air.

And the hole where the powder slipped out of was the row of teeth marks that Cheng Xiaoxiao had just bitten out.

What she did next proved that cats were indeed made of liquids. It must have been an accident when she was stuck in between the wooden bars of the prison cell.

After taking a few deep exhalations, Cheng Xiaoxiao finally managed to squeeze out through the crack in the door. Only the heavens knew that she almost suffocated from exhaling. Only then did she forcefully pull her entire body out of the door.

It was not easy to be a “liquid cat”!

In any case, Cheng Xiaoxiao would not lose weight. Every excuse that was used to lose weight was a form of disrespect to food.

Cheng Xiaoxiao, who respected food, rushed out like a white bolt of lightning as soon as she passed through the door. She kept running forward, regardless of where the road ahead led her to.

She should just rush ahead!

Anywhere was better than being trapped in the warehouse.

When Cheng Xiaoxiao ran through the entire alley, the warehouse was left far behind by her. Only then did she dare to slow down.

She couldn’t catch her breath. Was it because she hadn’t exercised recently?

She panted heavily, and her pace gradually slowed down.

It was a little tiring.

She should see where she was right now.

Cheng Xiaoxiao was quite lucky because she had discovered that the road in front of her was one of many paths in Pink Alley.

Of course, Cheng Xiaoxiao wouldn’t have been so sure about it had it been only one of the alleys. Fortunately, Xiaowu had brought them to walk in this exact alley the other day, and it was also the alley where they stopped to listen to Mu Bai and Xiaowu arguing.

She wasn’t sure of the road where the warehouse was located, but if Cheng Xiaoxiao remembered correctly, they had passed the road she was on now, and then they would encounter a wall at the corner of the road ahead.

The wall was covered with ivy, and there was a large piece of heart-shaped moss at the corner of the wall.

Cheng Xiaoxiao was too bored the other day that she observed all the houses and strange scenery along the way. That was why she remembered the details so clearly.

Yes, it showed how boring that day’s journey was most of the time because she could even see such a wall as scenery.

As Cheng Xiaoxiao carefully recalled her memories, she continued to walk forward, shaking her head from time to time.

It seemed that she was a little dizzy again…

Did the drug not completely leave her body system yet?

Damn Hu merchants! It would be their doomsday when she brought her men over!

Cheng Xiaoxiao cursed as she walked forward. She stumbled along the way, her body constantly swaying. Fortunately, this place was really close to the courtyard Chu Yunshen had rented. In addition, although Cheng Xiaoxiao was already dizzy, her mind was working wonderfully. After stumbling for a while, she arrived at the gate of the courtyard.

When passing by the gate of the Hu merchants’ courtyard, Cheng Xiaoxiao, who was almost crawling on the ground, spat at the door in great dismay.

Hey, come quickly!

“Chu Yunshen! Open the door!”

“Hurry up and open the door! Chu Yunshen! I know you are at home!”

Cheng Xiaoxiao tapped on the wooden door powerlessly. When she came to her senses, she scratched the door.