I Can Understand Animal Speech and Paid Off My Online Loans Overnight

My name is Chen Mo, and I live in a basement apartment in the old city of Xianyang. Three years of online loans have weighed me down, forcing me to count every pack of instant noodles I eat. Then, one feverish night, I heard a mouse in the corner say, "Under the third pillar on the east side, there's something good buried." I thought I was delirious. But when I dug down a foot, I hit something hard. Moonlight shone up, revealing a corner of green-rusted bronze. From that night on, all the animals in Xianyang seemed to be talking to me. Sparrows chatted about the tremors on the Wei Riverbank, wild cats remembered which patch of earth held the "old thing," and even the earthworms could sense the lingering vibrations of the chime bells. They...