Xu Guanyuan gazed at Zhao Yao imploringly and said, "Please knock her unconscious, will you?"
Zhao Yao raised his brow and activated his power of illusion. Qing Qing fainted to the floor. He said solemnly, "Xu Guanyuan, you actually used your daughter to perform experiments?"
"It shouldn't have failed!!" Xu Guanyuan spat out blood and said hysterically, "My previous simulations were all successful. The animal testings were safe, all were successful!! It shouldn't have failed!"
Zhao Yao asked, "You carried out the experiments to save your own daughter?"
Xu Guanyuan said calmly, "My daughter was in a vegetative state. I wanted to cure her. I needed more data and experiments to improve the cat transformation medicine to save her. I am very sorry for the feline girls. However, if I can save Qing Qing, everything is worthwhile. If the medicine is successful, everyone can be cured, the world will change and humans will enter a new era. The cat transformation medicine will be the world's greatest invention."
"With the development of superpowers, even if you do nothing, the world will still enter a new era." Zhao Yao shook his head and lifted him using the Deflective Field. "Do you know what is going to happen to you?"
"It is a pity. I will never see the completion of the cat transformation medicine." Xu Guanyuan gave a wry smile. His face was severely distorted by the enormous pain in his body. With great exertion, he slowly said, "Do not tell Qing Qing the truth, will you?"
As Zhao Yao was about to answer him, his body spasmed. He opened his mouth and vomited a large amount of dark-colored blood.
Zhao Yao was taken aback while he used his remaining energy to say, "Thank… you…"
Xu Guanyuan's heart stopped beating. He opened his eyes revealing a deep sense of regret.
The feline girls were not poisoned. It was Xu Guanyuan who was.
Zhao Yao shook his head at the passing of Xu Guanyuan. He threw the corpse on the floor and looked at the unconscious feline girl. He lifted and tossed her into the Dimension Portal of the Extradimensional Belly.
A fire started burning in the void of space and Zhao Yao immediately retreated into the Dimension Portal.
The flames formed a circular ring and a weird creature walked out from it.
Its entire body was filled with deep blue sea-colored fur and its four legs stomped with fiery flames. A single horn sprouted from his head, occasionally flashing with lightning.
In Zhao Yao's eyes, it was merely a fire-stomping, blue-furred, single-horned kitten.
He looked in amazement at the cat and asked, "Supercat?"
The creature looked at the corpse and Zhao Yao before saying, "A pity."
Zhao Yao asked in a demanding tone, "Who are you?"
"My name is Kun Wu, God of Cats." The supercat sighed. "If the cat transformation medicine had been successful, it would have been immensely beneficial to the future of the Earth. It is a pity."
Zhao Yao curiously sized up the supercat, Kun Wu. It was his first time encountering such a cat and he wanted to bring him home.
Kun Wu read Zhao Yao's intentions and said, "Human, you and your supercats are powerful, however, it is still not enough to counter the future crisis. The awakening of the cats may look like an opportunity but is actually a crisis."
"What crisis?" Zhao Yao was piqued. "Er… Kun Wu, do you have WeChat? Can I add you as a friend?"
Kun Wu hesitated and shook his head. "I do not add strangers." He said gravely, "I can feel… in the far East, an evil presence is awakening. Hurry up and strengthen yourself. Perhaps you have a better chance of winning."
Kun Wu's flames dissipated and his figure vanished into thin air.
Zhao Yao's eyes flashed with crimson rays and Elizabeth activated the mind control superpower but in vain. Kun Wu was like a mirage that disappeared without a trace.
"No effect? Perhaps that was not his real body?" Zhao Yao was astonished. "Mirage? Or illusion? It is very likely as normal supercats do not look like that."
"And what is the relationship of this supercat with Xu Guanyuan? What is his concern with the cat transformation medicine?"
Suddenly, the surrounding equipment burst into flames. Zhao Yao was worried and ran out quickly. He put all the feline girls one by one into his Extradimensional Belly.
As he walked outside, he discovered that the equipment was in flames too. He opened the Dimension Portal and activated Time Freeze so that he could place all the feline girls inside. Everyone was safe.
When time resumed, the entire basement laboratory exploded with huge tongues of flame. All the equipment were reduced to ash, however, the walls and the floor were intact. It seemed as though the fire was intended to wipe out all traces of equipment and computers.
Zhao Yao was perplexed. "Is this fire being controlled? If I did not save the feline girls, perhaps they would not be burnt? Is it done by the strange cat? Isn't the cat mourning the experiment? Why was everything destroyed in the fire?"
In the Extradimensional Belly, Zhao Xue was embarrassed when she saw the naked feline girls being tossed in one by one. She chided him, "Zhao Yao, what are you up to? Why are they stripped of their clothing?"
Yellow Bro knelt down to examine the bodies of the feline girls. Touching their smooth skin, she asked curiously, "Why are their bodies sticky? What kind of a thing is that?"
Fu Mi pulled Yellow Bro aside and said, "Do not touch it, Yellow Bro. That is disgusting stuff."
"Eh? What is it?" Yellow Bro scrutinized the sticky liquid and everyone was shocked when she licked a mouthful and said, "Sweet, pretty tasteful."
"Fool!" Ah Yuan punched her on her head. "Do not eat it!"
"It is alright." Zhao Yao walked out from the Dimension Portal. "Those are liquid nutrients. I don't think there is poison inside."
Fu Mi, Zhao Xue, and Ai Yuan blocked Zhao Yao from stepping forward. They hollered frantically, "Don't come over! Don't look!"
Zhao Yao replied condescendingly. "They're all flat-chested. There is nothing to see. If only they transformed, they might look better." Everyone glared at Zhao Yao while he tossed some clothes over. "Let them put these on."
Fu Mi's companions gradually regained consciousness. Once they saw each other, they all hugged in excitement.
Zhao Yao let Lucifer lent his regeneration power to the feline girls in vegetative state and helped revive them.
Zhao Yao smiled contentedly when he gained 2000 experience points.