15: The Crow God transforms into the Cat God, General Yu goes to war, and the whole place goes wild!

7:50 PM on the night of the live stream, Riverside Park in Jiang City.

The announced location was already packed with people.

A dense sea of heads stretched from the DJ booth all the way to the park's boundaries, far exceeding the numbers estimated in the event application.

The air was sweltering, thick with the scent of sweat and excitement.

Inside the temporary mobile command center outside the park, Zhao Lin stared intently at the real-time heat map of the crowd on the screen, her palms drenched in sweat.

The numbers had already crossed the safety red line set by the police, and several security heads behind her were anxiously coordinating with the authorities.

At the same time, inside an inconspicuous black command vehicle on the outskirts of the park.

Chen Jianguo sat in the center, several screens before him displaying surveillance footage from different areas.

On a main screen, a drone's bird's-eye view showed the dense crowd looking like a swarm of ants, making him furrow his brows.

Exactly 8:00 PM.

Amidst great anticipation, Jiang Ming appeared on the DJ booth right on time.

He was still wearing that simple white T-shirt, his figure looking somewhat slight under the massive stage lights.

The lenses of tens of thousands of spectators and over a hundred media outlets instantly focused on him alone.

The audience soon noticed something was off.

The massive DJ booth was empty—no turntables, no mixers, no electronic equipment whatsoever, only a single, solitary microphone stand.

Jiang Ming didn't give anyone a chance to ask questions.

He started the TikTok live stream with a simple and direct title.

"Tonight, this city will revel for the cats."

The moment the stream began, the number of viewers started from zero and shot up vertically at a terrifying speed: 100,000, 300,000, 500,000... The comment section was flooded with "Crow God" and "Cat God."

Jiang Ming picked up the microphone.

"Before the party begins, let me introduce tonight's real DJ—General Yu."

As his voice fell, the entire venue went silent.

Everyone, online and offline, was stunned. General Yu? Who was that? Which underground label's ace DJ?

Under everyone's puzzled gaze, an exceptionally large one-eyed orange cat stepped slowly out from the shadows backstage with a steady pace that didn't seem like an animal's.

Ignoring the blinding lights and the roaring crowd, it gave a light leap onto the DJ booth and sat down by Jiang Ming's feet.

The giant LED screen behind the stage projected a close-up of the cat into the night sky.

That hollow left eye socket, the hideous scar, and the single eye gleaming with a wild light.

A primal aura belonging to the streets and the struggle for survival slammed into everyone's visual nerves through the live stream and the on-site screens.

"Holy crap! It's a cat?"

"This cat is so fierce! Look at those scars, how many fights has it been in!"

Both online and offline, uncontrollable gasps and commotions broke out simultaneously.

Jiang Ming ignored it. He spoke into the microphone, emitting a unique, low buzzing sound from his throat that sounded like an ordinary electronic beat to human ears.

This sound spread throughout the entire park via the amplification equipment.

But with the enhancement of the Voice of the Mind, it represented a clear command to all felines in the area.

[Assemble]

The next moment, a sudden change occurred.

From the bushes around the park, the shadows of distant buildings, and even near the feet of the crowded audience, dense rustling sounds began to emanate.

In the darkness, one pair, ten pairs, hundreds of pairs of glowing eyes suddenly lit up.

Those green and golden points of light merged together in the night, silently announcing their arrival.

Before anyone could recover from this eerie sight, Jiang Ming emitted a second, more complex buzzing beat with a sharp transition.

[Take the Stage].

General Yu, crouching at his feet, seemed to have received a royal command. He suddenly raised his head and let out a low, highly piercing roar.

The roar was the military order.

Hundreds of stray cats surged out from the shadows in all directions like a tide of black and mottled colors. Ignoring the humans' shock, they rushed with a clear target toward the DJ booth where the lights converged.

"Ah—!"

"Cats! So many cats!"

The front-row audience, facing the surge of cats, finally let out screams of terror.

The crowd's panic was contagious. Though those in the back couldn't see what was happening, they also began to stir, instinctively wanting to retreat.

In the command vehicle, Chen Jianguo suddenly stood up from his seat and grabbed the walkie-talkie, about to give the order to forcibly disperse the crowd.

"All units..."

He couldn't finish his sentence.

Because the scene on the screen caused his brain to momentarily freeze.

That unstoppable tide of cats did not charge into the crowd.

They stopped with unerring precision about ten meters in front of the DJ booth.

There was not a hint of chaos; not a single cat crossed that invisible line.

Even more incredible was that after they stopped, they actually began to sort themselves.

The orange cats gathered together, the tabbies in another spot, and the pure blacks and pure whites in their own groups, forming several large phalanxes with clear distinctions.

Jiang Ming delivered a third segment of rapid, highly rhythmic buzzing beats.

[Follow the Rhythm]

The lighting equipment above the DJ booth finally activated at this moment.

Accompanied by the powerful electronic drum beats suddenly exploding from the speakers, colorful beams of light began to flash wildly.

Under the gaze of tens of thousands on-site and millions online, a miracle occurred.

Below the stage, those thousand-plus stray cats that had just shown their wild side began to move in unison with the explosive drum beats, the back rows mimicking the front and the squad leaders mimicking General Yu—

Nodding their heads.

Swaying their bodies.

Waving their tails.

From the drone's high-altitude perspective, the thousand points of light on the dark lawn were reflections from the cats' eyes.

These points of light flashed in sync with the rhythm of the music, rising and falling, flickering on and off, forming a flowing "light show" filled with an eerie vitality.

The speed at which the audience's brains processed information could no longer keep up with what their eyes were seeing.

The initial fear was replaced at this moment by an even more extreme, unbelievable emotion.

Frenzy.

"Holy shit! Holy shit! They're clubbing!"

A boy's cracking scream ignited the entire crowd.

Everyone frantically pulled out their phones, aiming them at the once-in-a-century spectacle of "hundreds of cats clubbing" below the stage.

The screams, cheers, and the heavy bass of the music almost blew the lid off the night sky over Riverside Park.

Inside the command vehicle.

The half-smoked cigarette in Chen Jianguo's mouth hung there as he sat stunned for a good while.

Beside him, the young officer, Xiao Wang, had his mouth open wide enough to fit an egg, muttering to himself.

"Captain... they... they're clubbing?"

On the stage, Jiang Ming became the sole conductor of this carnival.

He began to command the cats below the stage using more complex buzzing sounds and simple hand gestures.

With a wave of his arm, the orange cat phalanx would ripple their bodies in a "wave" sequence.

With a finger pointed to the other side, the black cat phalanx and the white cat phalanx would start "dancing off" against each other, battling with the frequency of their tail wags...