Rebellious Game C5.1

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Chp5. part1

He tossed and turned all night.

His head ached terribly, and with something on his mind, Wang Ze couldn’t sleep at all. As dawn broke, he jumped out of bed. After thinking it over all night, he finally decided to go to the hospital for a rabies vaccination.

When he went to the parking lot to get his electric scooter, he overheard two cleaning services chatting. “People these days, they’re all so wicked! Someone killed the cat and just dumped it here.”

“It wasn’t killed by a person,” the other guessed. “It had scratches and bite marks, it must have been fighting for territory, and its injuries were too severe for it to survive.”

Wang Ze shuddered.

He remembered the “ten-day observation method” the clerk had mentioned. They said if the cat that bit him didn’t die within ten days, it would be fine. If the cat died, he absolutely had to get vaccinated.

“What did the dead cat look like? When did it die?” Wang Ze asked urgently.

Startled by his sudden interruption, the cleaning staff were taken aback.

One of them struggled to recall for a long time before saying uncertainly, “It’s been dead for about half a month? If it was tabby, an orange cat?”

“No, no,” the other corrected, “It wasn’t a pure orange cat, it was orange and white, with a tuft of white fur on its neck.”

“Ah, really? I don’t remember.”

What did the cat that bit him look like? Wang Ze tried hard to remember, but so much time had passed that he couldn’t recall a thing.

He still had to go to the hospital.

Wang Ze hopped on his electric scooter and hurried away. The cleaning service  was baffled. “The stray cat died, why is he so worried? It wasn’t his cat.”

At the hospital, the doctor said that seven shots of immunoglobulin, plus the first rabies shot, would cost about 1500 yuan. If he needed the full five rabies shots, the total would be 2700 yuan.

“So expensive?!” Wang Ze exclaimed in shock.

But thinking of the cat that had died in the parking lot, he panicked. Finally, he gritted his teeth and said, “I’ll get it!”

While the doctor was dispensing the medication, Wang Ze’s heart was bleeding. He began to regret provoking the cat.

But once he had all the necessary shots, he finally felt relieved- he had the vaccine, he was safe, and everything would be alright.

On the way home, Wang Ze was cheerful, his spirits lifted considerably.

Back at the hotel, upon seeing Tong Jia, he even proactively greeted her, “Manager Tong, I went to get vaccinated today!”

When Tong Jia saw Wang Ze, she couldn’t quite describe the feeling, she involuntarily took a step back. After realizing what she’d done, she mumbled, “Oh, that’s good.”

After getting the vaccine, Wang Ze, as if he’d been handed a get-out-of-jail-free card, happily went off to work.

Tong Jia watched his retreating figure, filled with repulsion. Every cell in her body seemed to be telling her that she had to stay away from this person.

Resting time.

Tong Jia pulled Yun Xin to a secluded corner and whispered, “I just saw Wang Ze, and he seemed a bit off. Did you already guess?”

When they first met, Yun Xin was recommended by the manager, which Tong Jia found objectionable.

Later, after Yun Xin told her to go to buy drinks or she would be hit by a car, Tong Jia felt a growing sense of closeness and trust.

After that, Tong Jia told her about the strange things that had happened to her. More than half a month passed, and no strange rumours circulated in the hotel about her.

Tong Jia increasingly felt that Yun Xin was discreet, had good character, and was a very good person, she had become more open in her speech.

“Huh? What happened to him?” Yun Xin tilted her head.

“Stop pretending.” Tong Jia became increasingly convinced that her instinct was correct. “You must have known all along that the cat that bit them was problematic, which is why you advised Zhao Zechen to get a rabies vaccine.”

“Wang Ze readily agreed, but secretly went back on his word, so he was late.”

Yun Xin asked doubtful, “What happened to Wang Ze?”

“His eyes were lifeless, his expression tired, he gave off a very bad impression,” Tong Jia casually described.

Yun Xin asked again, “Did he go to the hospital for a checkup and get diagnosed with rabies?”

Tong Jia, “…No, not really”

Yun Xin looked up and asked, word by word, “Then why do you think there must be something wrong with the cat that bit them?”

Tong Jia was stunned. “What?”

“Didn’t you realize yourself? Your logic is very strange,” Yun Xin analyzed seriously. “No one has been diagnosed, so why are you so sure Wang Ze is sick? Then you deduce that the cat is the problem, and then you deduce that I knew all along.”

Tong Jia opened her mouth, but couldn’t say a word for a long time.

She vaguely felt that her deduction was correct, but Yun Xin’s explanation also seemed right.

So, why was she so certain before?

“Is it possible,” Yun Xin said slowly, “that your sixth sense isn’t sharper than mine, but yours?”

“I was just being cautious and giving advice in a perfectly normal way. And you, wanting any connection clue for your doubt so badly, found my behavior suspicious.”

Is that so?

Tong Jia was completely bewildered.

Logically, it made sense.

But a voice inside her kept screaming, no, that’s not it.

“I say, aren’t you being too nervous?” Yun Xin said in a rather casual tone, “After the car accident, your physical abilities improved, but did you become a superhero?”

“No,” Tong Jia quickly shook her head.

“That’s it then, you’re still a normal human being,” Yun Xin asked again. “Girls are known for their strong intuition. From childhood to adulthood, haven’t you ever met a girl like that?”

Hearing this, Tong Jia recalled someone. “There was a female classmate in college, in the same year but a different class, everyone called her ‘the scumbag detector.’”

“How exaggerated was it? The first time she met her roommate’s boyfriend, she privately told her roommate that she didn’t have a good feeling about him.”

“My roommate didn’t believe it at first, but then her boyfriend really did cheat on her.”

“Then another time, a classmate got a new boyfriend. She joked that since she had good judgment, she absolutely had to meet him and let her know.”

“After meeting him, she didn’t say anything, just shook her head. My classmate thought she was deliberately causing trouble and got angry. Not long after, her boyfriend was exposed for cheating on her with several women, she wasn’t the first one he’d been seduced by.”

Finally, Tong Jia began to wonder if she was being too nervous.