Chapter 482: Chapter 481: The Inheritance Item

Staring at the big fat cat’s hindquarters, Shao Zifeng raised his eyebrows.

Facing such an immensely insulting act, he really wanted to give it a kick.

“I know! Zifeng, I know where it is~”

Seeing the Gold Striped Yellow Raccoon ignoring Shao Zifeng, Qiqi hopped around and raised her little paw.

“Meow?”

The Gold Striped Yellow Raccoon strained to turn its plump body, looking at Qiqi incredulously, with an expression of betrayal on its face.

“Hmph, stupid fat cat!” Qiqi glanced disdainfully at it, flicking her long tail arrogantly as she turned around: “Zifeng, Zifeng, I’ll take you to find it.”

“Meow-meow~” Just as the Gold Striped Yellow Raccoon was about to stop them, it suddenly felt a hot gust of air blowing over.

The fur on its back stood on end as it stiffly turned its head, only to see Yaya with its ferocious head bowed low, the row of sharp teeth glistening with a cold light in the night.

“Woof~”

The Yellow Raccoon, well-versed in the ways of the heart, immediately chickened out. It backed away a few steps from Yaya, looking pitifully at Shao Yuying.

Shao Yuying shook her head, saying with a reproachful expression: “Da Huang, we’re all family here, just show it to Zifeng.”

Having said that, she also followed them into the living room.

“Meow~”

The Gold Striped Yellow Raccoon covered its chest with its paw, heartbroken. It looked at the Chasing Moon Dog with teary eyes, full of pleading.

“Woof woof!”

The Chasing Moon Dog bared its teeth at it, wagging its tail and following behind the others.

The Gold Striped Yellow Raccoon stood rigidly in place, as though it could hear the sound of its own heart breaking, the gold ring on its paw no longer appealing.

No, this can’t go on!

The cat must resist!

It can’t continue like this.

With its adorable layer of fat, it must regain its place in the family!

Huff–

Suddenly, just as it had resolved to fight back, the Gold Striped Yellow Raccoon felt something tight around its neck. Then it was lifted off the ground.

“Meow-meow~” The short, stout limbs struggled in the air.

“Gurgle~”

Yaya held onto the fat cat, trying hard to lift its paws level with its eyes for a close inspection.

But no matter how hard it tried, it couldn’t manage it, and in frustration, Yaya threw the Gold Striped Yellow Raccoon back down.

Splat!

The Gold Striped Yellow Raccoon lay on the ground, belly up, watching the huge shadow loom over it despairingly.

“Meow~”

A pitiful yowl was about to emerge but was swiftly stifled; its tail, poking out, went rigid in an instant and then limply fell to the ground.

Shao’s mother in the living room couldn’t help but look back worriedly: “Zifeng, Yaya isn’t going to eat Da Huang, is it?”

“Mom, what are you thinking?” Shao Zifeng explained with amusement: “Yaya doesn’t really like raw food, and that cat is too fat anyway. You should also control its diet a bit.”

Shao’s mother looked sheepish. She hadn’t anticipated that this creature would put on weight from just a bit of food. After all, Qiqi ate the same meals and didn’t get so fat.

“Found it~”

Just then, Qiqi exclaimed with a cheer, wiggling her little bottom as she crawled under the sofa. Following a series of clattering noises, she emerged dragging an old shoebox.

“Ptui ptui, the stupid fat cat is so stinky.”

Qiqi put down the shoebox and made an expression of distaste, continuously licking her fur clean.

Shao Zifeng rubbed its little head. “Qiqi, you’ve worked hard.”

“Meow~”

Qiqi squinted happily and rubbed against his large hand, its long tail swaying back and forth.

Shao Zifeng squatted down and lifted the wrinkled lid of the shoebox. The items inside sparkled with various colors under the light.

“Wow, Da Huang has collected so many things,” exclaimed Shao Yuying as she peeked inside.

“I want to see, I want to see too.” Qiqi, driven by curiosity, squeezed over and clung to Shao Zifeng’s arm with its small paws, stretching its little head inside the box.

Shao Zifeng took out a diamond ring from the box and casually asked, “Mom, haven’t you seen this before?”

Logically, its talent was to return the favor, bringing good finds to its owner first. Why did Shao Yuying seem as if she had never seen it before?

“I haven’t seen it,” Shao Yuying shook her head. “Da Huang used to bring me things in its mouth, but I always felt they were lost by others, and it wasn’t right to keep them. So, I scolded it a few times, and after that, it stopped giving me anything.”

“Then take a look and see if there’s any jewelry you could use.”

“No, no, just looking is fine. I never wore such things even when I was young. At my age, wearing them now would just invite ridicule.”

Shao Zifeng shook his head; he didn’t quite agree with Shao Yuying’s thoughts on this.

Taking the items in the box for example, apart from gold that was still a solid commodity, the price of diamonds, which had been artificially invested with certain meanings, had long since crashed. Although they were common on the streets, their price was no longer as outrageous as before.

Moreover, the reason so much jewelry had been found was that many pieces had scattered during the chaos of twenty years ago. It was uncertain whether their original owners were even still alive.

The shoebox looked dazzling with jewels, but there were not many of real value amongst them, including some artificial diamonds and pieces of glass. It had to be said that the treasure-hunting talent of the Gold Striped Yellow Racoon species was really unreliable and performed too inconsistently.

There, in the corner, even lay a pile of bones from some unknown creature.

“Huh?”

As Shao Zifeng’s gaze swept over the pile of bones, a blue light in the corner of his eye started spinning.

He swiftly searched through the pile and eventually found a smooth fragment of bone.

[Name]: Inheritance Item

[Attribute]: Unknown

[Quality]:

[Condition]: Broken

[Function]: After gathering all the fragments, one can obtain a complete ‘Inheritance Item’

[Description]: ‘Inheritance Items’ are carriers for the inheritance abilities of powerful mutant creatures. These items have no fixed form; it might be a stone, a piece of rotten wood, or even something shed from the mutant creature’s own body. Once a mutant creature infuses it with energy, it can be preserved for a long time. ‘Inheritance Items’ are divided into skill inheritance and bloodline inheritance. Currently, it is unknown what type of inheritance this item carries, but more fragments can be sought to unlock it.

Skill stones?

The moment he saw this attribute, Shao Zifeng thought of the bald-headed old dragon he had seen at Forgotten Cold River.

It had once given him several scales, each one inscribed with a skill, which seemed to be the so-called skill inheritance.

As for bloodline inheritance, the image of Mirage Beibei flashed through his mind.

If he remembered correctly, Mirage Beibei had gained bloodline inheritance. Although it was unknown which creature’s bloodline it was, it allowed Mirage Beibei the same number of evolutionary steps as ancestral evolution.

“Mom, I’ve got something else to take care of, you should go to bed first.”

With that, Shao Zifeng, having no concern for the jewelry or jade wares now, ran outside holding the piece of bone.

“Zifeng…”

Shao Yuying was a bit confused as she turned to Qiqi, “What’s going on with him?”

“No idea.” Qiqi curiously poked at the pile of bones with its paw and sniffed them with its cute little nose.

“Ugh~”

The stench immediately turned Qiqi’s face green.

It never thought Zifeng would actually like such things. It decided it would never let him stroke its fur again.

(PS: Big shots, check your bags to see if there are any tickets that need my appraisal!)