No one knew how they disappeared, and many speculated that they must have encountered a wormhole.
Wormholes devour everything, and objects that enter them can never be retrieved.
Looking at this information alone may not seem significant, but Ruan Xiao's intuition is keen. He feels that the disappearance of those people must be related to the rebels.
Not long after the documents were sent out, Ruan He and Ruan Lin both quickly replied.
They also felt that this was no coincidence.
Ruan Linzhan: After the Beast God Festival, I will investigate this matter.
Ruan He: Let's not make a big fuss for now. Currently, none of us know if there are any spies for the rebels on the main planet. We can only investigate in secret.
Ruan Xiao: Yes.
Ruan Linzhan: Yes.
For now, let's set aside this matter. Ruan Xiao gently patted his daughter's fuzzy little head.
"Tomorrow, I have to return to the military headquarters." This time, the main purpose of my return is to oversee the military exercise for the Beast God Festival. I might stay at the military headquarters to rest. If you miss me, I'll have someone take you directly to the military headquarters to find Daddy.
Ruan Shu raised her fuzzy ears to look at him. Although she didn't say anything, her eyes and expression were very revealing.
Her clear eyes seemed to be asking, "Can I really go?"
Ruan Xiao pinched her ear. "You can go."
Ruan Shu immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Although she felt a little disappointed that her father might be absent for some time, she was still very happy to be able to see him. She snuggled into her father's arms, deciding that tonight, the little cat would sleep with her father!
This little troublemaker really took clinginess to the extreme. Even if her father had things to do, she could still crawl into his pocket, fully embodying the concept of "making your father carry you around."
Before going to bed, she took a shower. With wet little footsteps, she went to her father to have her fur blow-dried. As she was being blow-dried, she transformed into a fluffy, soft, and fragrant little doll-like cat.
When it was time to sleep, she skillfully turned in circles under the chin of her father, as if marking her territory.
After finding the right position, she crawled out and nestled between her father's chin and front paws. She created a particularly comfortable little nest by holding a fluffy soft cushion in her mouth.
Although Ruan Xiao occasionally helped her, most of the small items were things that Ruan Shu had brought in herself, such as a small handkerchief or a fluffy ball made from her Big Brother's felt.
Ruan Xiao realized that his daughter had a bit of a collecting obsession. She would gather anything she found beautiful, and her room was filled with many cute and pretty little things.
Once the makeshift nest was set up, Ruan Shu laid her head on her father's tiger paw, ready to sleep.
Before going to bed, she politely meowed "goodnight" to her father.
The next day, Ruan Xiao got up very early. In order not to disturb the little creature curled up in the small nest, he moved quietly.
The Beast God Tiger was a top-notch hunter; he could walk completely silently whenever he wanted.
Ruan Xiao stood by the bed for a while, gazing at the sleeping little cat. He gently squeezed her paw, then left.
He left before dawn. In truth, if it weren't for seeing his daughter, he wouldn't have come back at all.
If someone had told him this a year ago, he would never have believed that he would become so devoted to his daughter.
Not seeing her father in the morning made Ruan Shu feel a little lost, but the thought of being able to see him at the military camp when she missed him immediately lifted her spirits.
She went to her room to change her clothes and then proceeded to water the flowers on the balcony.
There were flowers given to her by her father and brother, as well as those given by her grandfather. The four pots she grew herself were not particularly remarkable, but she was comforted to see that they had grown a bit taller.
However, she felt that the little vine was unfriendly towards them. It always seemed as if it wanted to move the flowers when she wasn't looking. If she hadn't watered them twice, the flowers she had worked hard to grow would have been lost.
While watering the four pots of flowers, Ruan Shu noticed a small vine closely observing them.
She gestured towards the tip of the vine. "It's just four pots of flowers." "Why are you so hostile towards them?"
The little vine twisted and swayed, hinting that the four pots of flowers could potentially yield mutant plants.
It also had a sense of territory, and the little mistress belonged to it. It would be best to remove those four peculiar-looking plants as soon as possible!
After watering the flowers, Ruan Shu left with the small vine. Unbeknownst to her, at the moment the door to her room closed, the leaves of the plant in the middle pot, resembling a small tree, swayed slightly.
It appeared as if it was being blown by the wind, although there was no wind at the time.
Today, she had a task at hand: crafting a large tiger using her father's fur to make felt. She wanted to create a very majestic tiger.
She first drew a cute tiger with several kittens lying on its body.
Since there was a lot of white fur left after making the big tiger, she thought it was most suitable for making cats.
Not just one, she wanted to create many cats surrounding the big tiger. Cats were observed rolling on the ground, embracing the tiger's leg, lying on the tiger's head like dandelion seeds, and even hanging from the tiger's tail.
If those cats weren't hers, she would have been jealous. How could there be such cute cats?
Ruan Shu thought to herself, feeling a bit self-indulgent.
The little girl, who was diligently focused on her work, was quiet and obedient. She held the needle in her hand, concentrating in her own little world, with no sense of alertness, unaware of when someone might approach.
If it were her younger brother, Ruan Fengsi would have given him a pat on the head. Someone so lacking in alertness was asking for trouble and needed a lesson.
However, for Ruan Shu, he didn't think about teaching her a lesson but rather about ensuring her safety by assigning a few bodyguards to her.
Ruan Fengsi glanced at the drawing she was working on and suddenly became serious.
"Why does Dad have so many cats on him, but I don't have any?"
Suddenly hearing her big brother's voice, Ruan Shu's hand nearly poked herself with the needle.
She widened her eyes and looked at him, appearing a bit angry with her chubby cheeks.
"Don't scare me, big brother," she complained. "I almost poked myself again."
Ruan Fengsi felt a little guilty, but he couldn't bear all the blame.
"You're so absorbed in your own world."
Being diligent is commendable, but lacking alertness is not.
But what was wrong with having cats? After all, she was just a useless little cat.
Ruan Shu had already learned to accept it.
"Okay, I'll apologize, but could you tell me why I don't have as many cats around me as you do?" She asked inquisitively. "Did you forget, big brother?" I am a white cat, and your fur is black. "It's impossible for me to make your cats like mine."
The Big Brother seems a bit foolish.
Ruan Fengsi: "..."
He was too preoccupied with jealousy to remember it.