Meow!
Ding Ke's sudden cry startled Xu Le and the other two as they discussed matters. Xu Le glanced at his black cat and saw Ding Ke place a paw over his mouth, gesturing for him to shut up.
Xu Le was puzzled. What was Ding Ke trying to do?
Then Ding Ke tilted its head and leaned into Xu Le's arms. Perhaps it found their conversation too boring and was expressing its displeasure?
Something along the lines of: stop talking, I want to sleep.
"Uh, I'll head back now. Brother Shu, Teacher Gan, you two carry on. I can't help with anything right now anyway, so I'll leave you to it."
Gan glanced at Xu Le and the black cat on his shoulder, then nodded slightly.
"All right, go ahead."
Actually, Xu Le already understood the Puppet Mark to some extent. It was a symbol resembling a smiling doll.
Those bearing the mark would react faintly to Ancient Yin Duo Energy, but not strongly enough-at least, not enough to provide the energy required for aberration.
It was roughly equivalent to a beacon, a key, or some sort of communicator.
"I feel like I could ask Brother Li to teach me about incantation seal runes. But what should I use for the design?"
Xu Le returned to his bedroom with Ding Ke. Just as he was about to lie down, Ding Ke jumped onto his desk and drew a wobbly picture.
It looked roughly like some deformed creature with something on its head, raising both hands.
Xu Le looked slightly puzzled at the drawing.
"What's this? Some kind of unpredictable oddity?"
Ding Ke was visibly angry at Xu Le's assessment. What unpredictable oddity? That was clearly this very cat, all right?
Its drawing might have been a little ugly, but