The End of the Universe Is Live-Streaming E-commerce – CH58

Chapter 58: The 58th Day of Livestream Selling

Milk tea was spilled everywhere, the lights were shattered, and after dealing with all the intruders, the white tiger—standing taller than an adult human—finally looked toward Lin Zhao.

Although Qin Xiaoman knew this was his good friend’s newly adopted cat, under the gaze of such a top-tier predator, he still could not help feeling a chill run through him, the kind that made all his hair stand on end. It could not even really be called fear, but more of an instinctive shudder that came over a small animal when it encountered its natural enemy, as if even looking at it one more time was a sin. Afterward, Qin Xiaoman felt it was probably because the visual impact of the other party’s mouth being bigger than his head was too strong, making him keep worrying that if this thing suddenly lost its temper, wouldn’t it just eat one person per bite like Munchy Crisps?

Only Lin Zhao looked completely fine, because…

The spiritual power around Reinhardt was so strong it was almost becoming tangible. To passersby, it could practically count as an attack. Yet when it came to Lin Zhao, it produced no suppressive effect whatsoever. It only wantonly wrapped around Lin Zhao’s entire body in a space no one else could see. This was protection, but also an uncontrollable possessiveness.

He only wanted Lin Zhao’s whole body to be covered in his scent.

To confirm that Lin Zhao was safe.

That Lin Zhao forever belonged to him alone.

The instant Reinhardt looked at Lin Zhao, his eyes, which had originally turned a dangerous dark purple, became clear again. He moved closer awkwardly on all four paws, crouching down as much as possible to make himself look a little smaller. He looked terribly innocent, complementing the satin bow around his neck that had grown larger with him. Arland truly deserved to be Faelris’s most outstanding crafts-elf. His craftsmanship was excellent.

Reinhardt tentatively took half a step forward. Seeing that Lin Zhao’s eyes, which reflected his shadow, showed not the slightest fear, he finally walked over with peace of mind and courage.

Under Lin Zhao’s upturned gaze, the enormous white tiger lowered his furry head and gently nudged the person he liked most in the whole world with the slightly damp tip of his nose.

So soft!

So fragrant!

Happy~!

That was what filled the mind of the tiger, who was like an oversized plush toy.

Most people’s reaction would probably have been to bury their head in him and enjoy the fluffiness. Only Lin Zhao was so unromantic. He lowered his head to look at the shirt pocket in front of his chest and found the snack he had casually stuffed inside at some point. “Are you hungry?”

In the breathless silence of everyone present, who still did not dare to speak, Lin Zhao merely raised his hand as usual and rubbed the big head. “Wait a little. It’s messy here right now. After everything is cleaned up, I’ll take you to eat something good. Do you want beef or lamb?”

A familiar purring sound came from the white tiger’s throat. It was only far deeper and richer than usual, rumbling like thunder.

The security team nearby, witnessing all of this while the detector in their hands flashed wildly with the word “DANGER,” could only sigh in admiration. As expected of one of the country’s only two S-class powerhouses.

He did not even need to make a move himself. Just letting his pet act had already solved everything casually.

The intern who was about to officially transfer could not help sighing once again, “Are we really useful to Mr. Lin?” Were they not basically serving as atmospheric decoration?

They were definitely still useful. For example, they could investigate the scene.

Once the teleporter’s ability disappeared, the constantly twisting spatial entrance naturally cut off completely. Nothing could be detected from it anymore. Only the intruders scattered all over the floor proved that what had just happened was not a dream.

The livestream had already been interrupted by 1114, but its backend kept receiving concern for Lin Zhao from different plane worlds.

And Reinhardt’s handsome transformation from little cat to giant tiger had already rushed onto the day’s trending searches.

The female captain of the security team had not expected any survivors to be left under the tiger’s claws, but the result was even better than she had predicted. Reinhardt appeared to have knocked down a whole group, but most of them were merely unconscious. Although he was extremely furious because Lin Zhao had encountered danger, he had not lost his reason. At the very least, he understood that living captives had to be left behind to question the mastermind.

This instantaneous teleportation had caught everyone off guard. They had to race against time to figure out what the other side wanted, and whether they had any backup plans.

The scene was already taken over by the Special Management Bureau. They had a very professionally matched external expert in this area. No matter how much training these intruders had undergone, it was useless.

In short, someone else handled the aftermath, so Lin Zhao did not have to worry about it.

In fact, after the recording studio attack, aside from being a little frightened, everything else Lin Zhao gained was a benefit.

First, he got time off.

Second, he finally got time off.

Finally, he finally, finally got time off!

Truly enough to move heaven and earth.

After working for months in a way that made listeners sad and hearers cry, Lin Zhao finally saw compensatory leave. Whether the higher-ups meant to let him go home and recuperate, or whether they were afraid another accident would happen and were indirectly making him stay inside the protective shield he had drawn from the system, Lin Zhao was extremely happy to have this open-ended vacation.

He was really too tired.

Although Lin Zhao himself did not know what he was busy with day after day, he just felt tired. His brain was tired, and his heart was tired too. Lying on Reinhardt, who had deliberately enlarged himself so Lin Zhao could bury into his fluff, Lin Zhao refused to get up no matter what.

Reinhardt was also very satisfied with this state where there were only him and Lin Zhao at home—Lin Xiang was currently so busy at the bureau that he slept there every day and had not come home for several days in a row. Reinhardt’s enlarged tail also went from wrapping around Lin Zhao’s wrist to wrapping around Lin Zhao’s entire person. The big kitty successfully got his wish and made Lin Zhao’s whole body full of his scent. He swayed his head, so happy he could not help himself.

Whenever Lin Zhao moved slightly on the mattress, he could see the big cat’s round ears wobble along with him, as soft as a huge pudding.

Was he really just going to lie there and do nothing?

Yes. He was doing nothing.

Previously, Lin Zhao always felt that without him, the expert group could not move an inch. Now he discovered that online work was exactly the same. There were indeed many things the system could not do without his command, but remote authorization was enough.

Lin Zhao: Then why did they insist I sit in the office every day before? Flip the table!

He decided to launch a retaliatory rest!

How wonderful. This feeling of not needing to care about anything.

…That was what Lin Zhao should have thought.

But in reality, lying in the empty house, what Lin Zhao blurted out to his big cat was, “I wonder what your owner is doing. He hasn’t replied to me for days.”

When he had been busy before, Lin Zhao had not felt it so strongly. Now that he had free time, he finally realized he was very unaccustomed to Reinhardt not replying for a long time.

Knowing the other party had something to do was one thing. Unconsciously opening that communication app to take a look was another.

Lin Zhao had long developed the habit of waking up every morning and opening the communication app first to see how many fresh and interesting things Reinhardt had sent him overnight. There would always be message after message. It was as if even if Lin Zhao did not reply to a single one, Reinhardt would still have endless things to say to him and endless news to share.

But now, that avatar that had once been blank and had suddenly, on some unknown day, changed to a selfie of Reinhardt had never lit up again.

Lin Zhao looked at it again and again, but nothing was there. Their messages still stopped at Lin Zhao asking Reinhardt whether this tabby was his cat. And that was even something Lin Zhao had said. If he were to count Reinhardt’s last message, he had to go back even further.

Reinhardt had sent Lin Zhao a very beautiful picture of a nebula, saying it was the home of the Solin people. This especially narcissistic race believed that during the universe’s long 13.7-billion-year evolution, it had created atoms, neutrons, and protons, but for the vast majority of that time, it had always been dark, silent, and unwitnessed. Only after intelligent beings like them were born did the universe gain a nervous system. They were both the universe’s thought itself and the universe thinking.

[They believe we are not unimportant specks of dust passing through the universe, but the way the universe awakens. We are the universe’s eyes, the universe’s senses, even the universe’s thoughts. Although saying it like that is a little too narcissistic, their nebula really is beautiful.] He had said to him, [It would be nice if one day we could see it together.]

How had Lin Zhao replied at the time? He had said: [Hahahahaha, aren’t we looking at it together right now?] Through pictures, through videos.

The Solin Nebula was indeed magnificent and dreamlike.

But looking carefully at this mismatched conversation now, Lin Zhao suddenly realized that sometimes his emotional intelligence was inferior to that of an adult banana.

Although even now he still did not quite understand what Reinhardt had wanted to express, it was obvious that Reinhardt’s expectation had definitely not been an answer like that.

The big cat lowered his head and carefully rubbed Lin Zhao’s face. He actually wanted to lick him, but his tongue was covered in barbs, and he did not want to hurt Lin Zhao. He sensed that Lin Zhao seemed a little unhappy at this moment. Reinhardt tilted his head in confusion, not understanding why Lin Zhao was unhappy. He only knew that he had to work even harder, even harder, to make Lin Zhao smile.

For this, he even did not hesitate to take the initiative and put on the ridiculous glowing shoes Lin Zhao had bought online. Lin Zhao had seen them while scrolling through videos. Just as parents liked buying those squeaky, flashing, thunder-and-lightning shoes for children, cat owners also liked buying them for their furry companions.

At least Lin Zhao liked them very much. In the days he had been lying around at home, whenever he was not uncontrollably thinking about Reinhardt, he was buying all sorts of strange things for his cat.

Although Reinhardt would go along with anything Lin Zhao wanted, he still had the occasional line he insisted on.

For example, he absolutely would not wear such stupid shoes.

Except at this moment.

Because when he turned back into a little cat and walked past Lin Zhao wearing those flashing shoes, Lin Zhao immediately laughed.

Then Lin Zhao’s first reaction was to take out his phone, record a video, and share it with Reinhardt. But Reinhardt still did not reply to his message.

Why isn’t he replying to my messages?!

Lin Zhao tapped open Grand Duchess Elowen’s avatar, closed it, opened it again, closed it again, then opened it again. After going back and forth for a long time, in the end, he still could not bring himself to ask: What has Reinhardt been busy with recently? How could he be so busy that he could not send even one sentence?

The more Lin Zhao thought about it, the angrier he became. He decided to go to sleep. Mm. Once he was asleep, he would not have to think about what Reinhardt was thinking.

After Lin Zhao angrily fell asleep, Reinhardt himself, who was not thinking anything at all, sneakily took out Lin Zhao’s phone. Imitating the password unlocking method he had seen Lin Zhao use, he opened the communication app. With his clumsy big paws, he tried several times before finally dialing his imperial sister’s communicator.

Only, he did not know that she was his imperial sister. He only knew that she was the person Lin Zhao wanted to contact but, for some unknown reason, had not contacted.

The call connected. One person and one cat stared at each other through the camera for a long time.

Grand Duchess Elowen: “?”

She had originally thought her younger brother had recovered his memories. Looking at it now, even after losing his memory, Reinhardt was still the same troublesome thorn in his loving sister’s eye. Wonderful.

“What are you doing? Speak!”

The tabby cat indeed opened his mouth and spoke human words: “You made Lin Zhao unhappy!”

Elowen: “???”

Why don’t you try listening to the nonsense you’re saying?

Reinhardt: “He drank half as much yogurt for his midnight snack.”

He looked furious.

Grand Duchess Elowen: Can you be reasonable? I haven’t contacted Lin Zhao at all recently. How did I make him unhappy?

But the big cat emperor did not want to be reasonable. He only wanted Lin Zhao to be happy.

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