Mysterious Fruit

"What gift?"

Li Xuan spoke, using his original voice from his previous life.

"It's this. Here, it's for you."

Thinking it was telepathic communication, Qin Yue immediately took out the small box she had prepared and handed it to Li Xuan.

"What is this? This feeling is so strange. Why do I feel like what's inside this little box is very important?"

Li Xuan inexplicably found it strange. He felt that the box contained something extremely important, which made him very curious.

"I also felt that it was very precious, so I picked it up. That day after work, I saw a little cat nest in the corner of a street.

I thought there might be kittens inside and felt sorry for them, so I went over. But there was nothing inside. I only found this little box."

Qin Yue recounted the entire process in her adorably dazed manner.

But as she spoke, Song Xiaomei beside her stared blankly at Li Xuan, unable to believe that he could talk.

Seeing that Qin Yue had not noticed, Song Xiaomei raised her little hand and tugged at Qin Yue's sleeve.

"Sister Xiaomei, what's wrong?" Qin Yue turned her head in confusion and looked at the slender Song Xiaomei.

"Yueyue, haven't you noticed?" Song Xiaomei hurriedly asked, her big eyes blinking rapidly.

"Noticed? Noticed what?" Qin Yue looked adorably bewildered, her little head full of confusion.

"Talking. Your little cat is talking!" Song Xiaomei hurriedly said.

"Huh? Talking?"

Qin Yue froze for a moment, then looked at Li Xuan in astonishment. "Brother Li Xuan, you can actually talk now?"

"You only noticed now? You're so dumb. Huh? There are oranges. Peel one for me."

Li Xuan jumped onto the sofa and looked at the fruit plate of oranges on the coffee table, raising a little paw to point at them.

"Okay."

Qin Yue hurriedly nodded, obediently went to the sofa, and stretched out her fair little hand to pick up an orange, slowly peeling it bit by bit.

Throughout the process, her lively eyes occasionally glanced at Li Xuan. Her little mind was filled with confusion, as though she could not understand why Li Xuan could speak.

"Brother Li Xuan, why can you talk now? Can you tell Yueyue?" Qin Yue finally asked, mainly because she was too curious.

"I just practiced my voice a little and could speak. It's a trivial matter for me. Open that little box."

Li Xuan swallowed the orange segment Qin Yue handed him in one bite, looking at the small box as he ate.

"Okay." Qin Yue obediently opened the small box.

In an instant.

Golden light shone, and a mysterious aura Li Xuan had never felt before slowly seeped out.

That mysterious aura made Li Xuan's cat eyes widen abruptly as he stared in disbelief at the golden fruit inside the box.

"Wh-What is this?"

Li Xuan asked in surprise. He had a feeling that this golden fruit would be of great use to him in the future.

"I don't know either. I picked it up on the road, and this is the first time I've opened it." Qin Yue spoke in her adorably dazed manner, looking utterly confused.

Bang!

Li Xuan immediately shut the box. Then, with a flick of his little paw, the box vanished instantly.

"Huh? Where's the little box?"

Qin Yue and Song Xiaomei froze at the same time, staring in disbelief at the empty coffee table.

"I put it away. This thing clearly isn't simple. It must involve quite a few people, so I'll assess the situation first."

Li Xuan solemnly activated God's-Eye View and swiftly scanned Blackstone City.

Soon, through God's-Eye View, he saw a cold-faced man chasing an acquaintance.

That acquaintance was none other than Ye Fan, the apprentice who had worked at the pill shop.

Ye Fan was also holding a small box like this one, and the sight made Li Xuan pause before greed appeared in his eyes.

"What's inside these little boxes is extraordinary. It'll definitely be a huge help to me in the future. It would be great if I could get my hands on that one too.

But there's something very wrong with that cold-faced man. His eyes are dull, and he looks just like those puppets I saw before."

Li Xuan thought of that alchemist from back then, of people and mutated beasts being refined into puppets, and of the Evil Energy Organization.

Blackie had once told him about the Evil Energy Organization. That organization could refine people into puppets and seize talented people's aptitudes to fuse into themselves. How could Li Xuan possibly forget such an evil organization?

Now, the cold-faced man's expression and movements closely resembled those of a puppet. Or rather, he might be a puppet outright. This indicated that the Evil Energy Organization had once again left traces in Blackstone City.

Moreover, the cold-faced man was quite powerful. Li Xuan estimated that he was at least upper Black Iron rank.

If he was merely a puppet, then the person who had refined him was very likely Bronze rank.

As long as the top experts did not appear, Bronze rank was already a force that could not be ignored in this city, so he had to be vigilant.

"This Ye Fan really isn't simple. His own strength hasn't even reached Black Iron rank, yet by merging with his summoned beast and relying on all kinds of items, he keeps narrowly evading every attack."

Li Xuan silently analyzed the situation. Merging with a summoned beast was normally an ability only advanced summoners could use, and it could greatly increase one's strength.

For someone as weak as Ye Fan to master merging so early was truly astonishing. The key was that even after merging, he was only at mid Black Iron rank.

Under the pursuit of an upper Black Iron rank opponent, Ye Fan should have been doomed. Yet he always managed to escape at the very last moment, which was incredibly surprising.

"But Ye Fan has already reached his limit. His merged form has a time limit too. If he doesn't have some special means, he's definitely dead."

Li Xuan saw that Ye Fan had used up his items, suffered fairly serious injuries, and was nearing the end of his merged form. He probably would not be able to evade this time.

"Huh?"

Li Xuan froze, and his expression immediately turned tense.

Because Ye Fan actually threw that little box away, tossing it directly into a large courtyard. The courtyard contained many tattooed men and looked like it belonged to a gang.

After he threw out the box, the cold-faced man chasing Ye Fan stopped pursuing him and rushed into the large courtyard without hesitation, clashing with the gang members.

"Could it be that the little box in his hand was fake? That the real box is the one Qin Yue picked up?" Li Xuan was surprised and continued monitoring Ye Fan.

Sure enough.

After taking the chance to escape, Ye Fan ran through several streets with countless twists and turns, checking back and forth several times to make sure no one was following him.

He then cautiously arrived at the corner of a street and began searching through a little cat nest.

But after searching for a long time, he found nothing. In the end, he furiously kicked the cat nest apart and roared in rage.

This scene left Li Xuan even more speechless, making him feel that Qin Yue's luck was far from ordinary.

"Qin Yue, you can't tell anyone about picking up the little box. Only the three of us know about it, understand?"

"Okay. I won't tell anyone." Qin Yue obediently nodded, listening very closely to Li Xuan.

Song Xiaomei beside her also nodded her little head. Being clever, she naturally knew what to do.

However, Song Xiaomei was very curious about where Li Xuan had hidden the little box, so she could not help asking.

"Little cat, where did you put the little box? How did it disappear in the blink of an eye?"