Chapter 15 Walking the Dog

At the loft, there was temporarily no danger.

If the enemy were to find them, they would first smash the door, giving them a chance to escape through the window.

Gao Xin, while observing the battle, rapidly repeated everything he had discussed with Silver Hand.

Upon learning this, the crowd was deeply moved.

"Now, I am not necessarily the cat, and I don't know if the organizers recognize this, but anyway, the cat collar is on my neck. Big Beard will definitely seek out every rat just to find this collar."

"He might even let other rats escape, as long as it's not me, because he must have seen Silver Hand give the collar to me."

"So, staying with me is very dangerous."

Meimei nodded, understanding this instantly.

Then with a strange expression, she said, "In such a desperate moment, how could you think of so much? This must have been a backup plan you'd thought of long ago!"

"When the bald man was grabbing the dog collar, you didn't care, you had already thought of using a rat collar."

"And you didn't want me to follow you then because you knew it would be dangerous for me to do so... It turns out you're a good person."

At the end, Meimei broke into a smile.

Gao Xin glanced at her, "So a good person deserves to be wronged and end up in this hellhole?"

Meimei was taken aback, "You were wronged?"

Gao Xin nodded, "I indeed am a good person, at least I've never done anything bad, but now I'm even more determined to survive."

"If it weren't for you finding the loft key, I wouldn't have allowed you to follow me. You following us could easily have led to everyone dying together."

Meimei understood that if it weren't for having a loft almost like a safe house, a place to hide multiple people, and being able to move at any time, there would be no point in the three of them sticking together, rather it would be a burden.

"This guy is truly crazy, giving you the cat collar and going it alone against three..."

The three of them stood in the loft, watching Silver Hand's fierce battle.

The plan had deviated somewhat, perhaps those two hated Silver Hand too much, or they wanted to quickly eliminate Silver Hand together, removing a threat before focusing on Big Beard.

In any case, Silver Hand wasn't given the chance to fight one-on-one and was currently facing an attack by the two brothers.

He was truly formidable, fighting two against one, and managing to give as good as he got, inflicting severe injuries on the other two as well.

Gao Xin declared in a grave voice, "Old Cat basically has two tactics, one is to accept the rat's protection fee, then drag out the game during the three-dog siege, and end up with 2100."

"The other, which I taught him, is to first abandon the identity of the cat until he defeats every strong opponent, then revert to being the cat and kill everyone."

Meimei expressed relief, "It's good that he's so crazy, really wanting to defeat everyone, agreed to your strategy and chose to kill those three people."

Gao Xin said, "He was bound to choose the second strategy because he rejected the first one."

"He even said, 'Why not kill when the payoff is the same?'"

"If he wasn't so mad, so brutal, and so keen on drawing hatred and challenging himself, he would have accepted our first proposal, so he was bound to choose the outcome where he kills everyone."

The two of them suddenly realized, right, if the other party was not the type to accept the second strategy, then he would have chosen the first one earlier...

"And you say you didn't have it planned from the beginning? When he breached the contract earlier, you knew this guy was terribly greedy, definitely choosing a strategy to win it all, and that was your countermove." Meimei said with a smile.

Gao Xin shook his head, "What's the use of foreseeing it? I didn't want to face such a situation, only hoping that the Cat would accept the first option..."

"I've said it before, we're just ordinary people, there are too many things in this world, fighting desperately only to fail in the end. Someone's whim, a single sentence, could destroy all your efforts..."

"Even though he accepted the strategy at the time, he still harbored the intention to kill me, I nearly died."

Meimei asked curiously, "He accepted it, why did he still want to kill you?"

Gao Xin replied helplessly, "Accepting the strategy doesn't mean he accepted me or the details I mentioned."

"He hates weakness, and even more, he hates having to listen to a plan from someone weak."

"So, he could easily have killed me, then found another rat to give the cat collar to and help them hide, the same plan could be executed... and even then they might have been incredibly grateful."

The two were startled, right, in the plan 'Gao Xin' wasn't really that important.

Killing the person who proposed the strategy and then repeating the same thing to another rat wouldn't have been a big deal, if it wasn't for the fact that Silver Hand didn't have the time to change his plan.

That's the so-called senseless killing intent: Oh, you're smart, you speak well, but I'm still going to kill you, because I can.

Some malice is just that simple.

"How did you convince him?" Meimei was curious.

Gao Xin's eyes intense, "I just questioned him, asking if he was afraid he couldn't beat me in the end..."

Meimei nodded, "So that's it, with his temperament, he couldn't have tolerated your provocation."

"Provocation?" Gao Xin was puzzled, he didn't even know what that meant.

Meimei's mouth twitched, then said with amusement, "Oh, you didn't understand."

"It's about verbally stimulating your opponent, triggering a certain emotion, damaging their pride, and thereby making them make the choice you want."

Gao Xin acknowledged he had learned something, saying, "So that's called provocation, actually at that moment I was more out of anger, mocking him before dying, not expecting him to fall for it."