Our confrontation with the cat spirit almost got the best of us. But at least Huang Xiaotao brought back good news—Officer Liao got an arrest warrant for Yu Jun and several officers had been dispatched to capture him.

Knowing that we now had a few hours to spare since there was nothing else we could do at the moment, we returned to our hotel and rested. At about five o’clock in the afternoon, Officer Liao called and informed us that Yu Jun was now at the police station.

We rushed there immediately and saw Yu Jun in the interrogation room. His previous boldness and arrogance had been swept off his face. When he saw me, he pleaded, “Officer, please tell them to release me! I must hurry back home! There’s an urgency that I have to attend to in my family!”

“What urgency?” I asked.

“My… My wife is sick! I have to go back and take care of her…” he answered.

“Is it really your wife that you need to take care of?” I sneered. “Or is it your cat?”

I told him that Bai Yidao had been arrested, and that the Wealth Beckoning Cat was now...