Chapter 35 The Mark of the Past
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As night fell, the lights in the living room were blocked from the balcony by layered black shadows.
Mao Mao nestled in the hammock, tilted his head and looked downstairs. Its eyes were covered with black, and there was no trace of light. Its tail was hanging outside the hammock and spread on the balcony floor.
The long tail is like a python coiling around its body, occupying the entire balcony. The tail hair explodes, revealing black eyeballs on the skin.
Scream... Scream... Scream...
These eyeballs slowly cracked, like a chick breaking out of the shell, and the beak of the same color came out under the black eyeballs.
The bird's beak grows slowly like an independent life, and eventually grows extremely huge. Its size is comparable to that of a toucan's beak, but its color is black and shiny. It reflects the highlights of the living room lights, giving people a metal texture. The tip of the bird's beak is hook-shaped, like a pirate's hook hand, which can easily hook a person's heart.
The birds' beaks grow and spread out, stretching out, either slender or flat. The tongues are different in shape and length. The only thing that is the same is that they are covered with blue barbs, which makes people know at a glance that they can secrete highly toxicity.
The black in the cat's eyes suddenly retreated like a tide. The cat's hair tightened, and the open bird's beaks were forced to close. The hook's mouth pierced into the tongue. The tip of the tongue twisted violently like a stimulus, and the blue blood splattered out, but was forcibly dragged into the tail.
The long tail shortens inch by inch to restore its original appearance.
The blue blood evaporates in the air without leaving any trace.
Click—
At the same time as the sound of opening the door sounded, Lu Meimei's voice also came from the door.
"Just send it here. You can go back early."
"Don't I say hello to Maomao?" Zhou Hai asked.
Lu Meimei smiled, pushed open the door, and poked her head and shouted: "Maomao!"
Mao Mao raised his head, still lying in the hammock, motionless.
"Maomao ignores you. Haha. Go back quickly." Lu Meimei said.
Zhou Hai sighed, "Okay. I'll stay with Maomao for a while next time."
"Don't you stay with me for a while?"
"You are second now."
“Hahaha…”
"Good night."
"Good night."
Lu Meimei sent Zhou Hai away. While entering the house, she reported to Maomao what the two of them had eaten in the evening. After washing her hands, she went straight to the balcony and picked up Maomao.
"Maomao! Are you angry? We blame us for throwing you at home?" Lu Meimei rubbed Maomao's head.
Mao Mao quietly leaned against Lu Meimei's shoulder.
Lu Meimei sat down on the sofa, turned on the TV, and asked, "What do you think of Zhou Hai? Do you like Zhou Hai?"
Mao Mao rubbed Lu Meimei's shoulder without answering.
"Like it? Don't like it?" Lu Meimei tilted her head and rubbed Maomao's ears. "Do you still need to observe again, observe?"
Maomao stuck out his tongue and licked Lu Meimei's chin.
"Okay. Let's observe again, observe again." Lu Meimei made a decision with a smile, took out her cell phone, "Tell you sister Ai Ai to report a letter and tell her we want to observe again."
As she said this, her fingers stopped on the screen of her phone.
Lu Meimei's eyes fell on the "Call" icon.
She remembered the call in the afternoon.
The strange male voice reported the place name she thought she would never hear again in her life...
"...I still remember that you were so small at that time. You couldn't eat the cat's mother's milk. I wanted to steal my cousin's milk to feed you. I was caught by my aunt and beaten..." Lu Meimei suddenly said, "Fortunately, I didn't steal it at that time, otherwise if I feed you, I might have eaten my stomach."
"That day was my tenth birthday." Lu Meimei gently stroked Maomao, "I was quite stupid when I was a child. On my cousin's tenth birthday, my uncle and aunt bought her a new schoolbag and cake. I thought I would have it too. How could it be...but I met you."
Although when she went to look for the cat's nest the next day, she found that the mother cats and the little cats were gone, and she was sad for several days.
Lu Meimei kissed Maomao's ear.
Maomao turned his head and his nose pressed against Lu Meimei's face.
Lu Meimei remembered that the second time she met Maomao was after that week. She saw a little cat playing in the woods. One of them was obviously smaller than its siblings, but he was quite lively pounding his siblings. After discovering her, several kittens hurriedly wanted to escape, and even bared their teeth at her. Only the smallest one, tilted their heads and looked at her curiously.
Lu Meimei couldn't help but laugh when she recalled this.
She didn't know anything at that time and directly reached out to Maomao. Maomao was not alert and even played with her. Her little teeth grinded her fingers and her tongue scraped her palms. The cat mother rushed over and screamed. Maomao let go of her hand, turned her head to look at the cat mother, and then pushed her nose to her palm, then ran towards the cat mother with her calf.
"...I wanted to take you home at that time. But my uncle and aunt definitely disagreed. I squatted there and watched for a long time, and thought that if you come back, I will take you home secretly and hide you well." Lu Meimei lay down on the sofa, raised Maomao, looked at it for a while, and then held it in her arms.
That day, Maomao did not come back. However, for a long time after that, Lu Meimei often met Maomao. She saved the lunch from the school to feed Maomao, and she also asked the teacher in the infirmary with red eyes to ask for alcohol and bandages to help Maomao heal her injuries.
Lu Meimei touched Maomao's tail.
There are still dense scars under the soft fur there.
She couldn't cure Maomao's injuries, so she could only watch Maomao walk with her tail. She cried for a long time, but she had no choice but to cry.
She couldn't help Maomao, and Maomao could only lick her and rub her as she cried, bringing her spiritual comfort.
Lu Meimei covered Maomao's belly on her face, closed her eyes hard, stopped the tears that were about to overflow, and hugged its warm body tightly.
Fortunately, all these things have passed.
Maomao lay in Lu Meimei's arms, and ink was spreading in his green eyes. Its mouth was pushed open by its teeth. Mammoth-like fangs grew from the lower teeth, and the upper teeth were stretched out like the two teeth of a saber-toothed tiger. It raised its head and stretched its neck to prevent its teeth from touching Lu Meimei, and also looked at the phone that was thrown by Lu Meimei on the sofa. It seemed that a storm was condensing in its dark eyes.
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Sheng Yao took a long time to catch another stray cat.
His rapid movement scared the fat orange cat. The back of the neck was grabbed by Sheng Yao, and the orange cat hung its limbs, motionless, and widened its eyes in horror until it was put into the cat's bag. It was quiet and there was no action of resisting and struggling.
This was the ninth wild cat he had caught in a week. He also investigated four pet hospitals around Lu Meimei's house and brought great shock to Boss Le.
In the words of Boss Le, he is not as efficient as Sheng Yao, even if he is professionally catching stray cats, he is not as efficient as Sheng Yao. Moreover, Sheng Yao does not catch stray cats eight hours a day.
Sheng Yao took a taxi to Pegasus Pet Hospital. The store with a difficult name is not small. The store sign is a beautiful Pegasus simple drawing, and the decoration inside the store is also extremely luxurious. The doctor's level is unknown, but from the equipment in the store, at least at first glance, it makes people feel that they are very professional and must be very expensive.
This store is a bit far from Lu Meimei's house, and its expensiveness makes Sheng Yao rank it behind the survey order.
Lu Meimei is not a very rich person. Sheng Yao had inquired about this before in the community, followed Lu Meimei, and confirmed the company where she worked.
What’s unusual is that she rented and bought two houses, so she also had to move in at a cheap price.
After Sheng Yao heard the news, his heart felt heavy.
He remembered the sarcoma monster that grew in Liu Yu's arm. If he hadn't been thrust into it, the monster would have killed Yu Guangchun that night.
Did Maomao also grow monsters and kill the tenant and the landlord's granddaughter?
Is an accident really an accident?
Sheng Yao carried the cat bag and entered the Pegasus Pet Hospital, registered at the front desk, and explained his purpose.
The veterinarian he assigned was a woman with a name written on the nameplate on her chest.
"Hello Dr. Wang." Sheng Yao said hello and put the cat bag on the table. "It's this stray cat. I want to give it a checkup, get a vaccine, and do sterilization."
"Okay." Dr. Wang took out the fat orange cat from the cat's bag. The orange cat looked at Sheng Yao timidly, turned his head, took his big butt at him, and buried his face in Dr. Wang's arm.
Dr. Wang smiled, "Did you scare it when you caught it?"
"Maybe..." Sheng Yao smiled embarrassedly, "Is it healthy?"
"Well, let's take a look..." Dr. Wang started a detailed examination and recorded the physical data of the orange cat.
"You usually have more cats in your family, right? There are fewer orange cats and tabby cats like this?" Sheng Yao asked casually.
"Some people also like tabby cats. Some people pick up stray cats and raise them." Dr. Wang introduced.
"Is that so? What's the name for this?"
"Have you not figured out what name you have yet to choose?"
"No."
"We have an orange cat here, which is called Pangpang."
"Where is a tabby cat? The orange cat is also a tabby cat?"
"Well, you are the tabby cat. This is the second tabby cat in our hospital." Dr. Wang was a little embarrassed.
She said before that it seemed that all kinds of cats in their hospital were treated, but in fact, most of the ones who would send them to see a doctor were naturally breed cats, each with a blood certificate, and most of them were sold from cathouses that they cooperated with. The "Pangpang" she mentioned was a match-grade Garfield. In the past two years, their hospital has more customers who raise land cats and picked up stray cats, but few of them have received membership and regular physical examinations.
Sheng Yao said "Oh", "There is still a tabby cat?"
"Yes. It's a gray tabby cat." Dr. Wang said this and sighed in a tone, "It's very lucky. Six or seven years ago, its owner sent a similar tabby cat to rescue. At that time, the cat was actually no longer able. Its owner had already gone to several pet hospitals, and each of them suggested euthanasia. The cat had a serious kidney failure, and its owner didn't know how to feed it scientifically. It used to be a wild cat, so she just raised it freely, and she didn't even notice that there was a problem with its body..."
Sheng Yao's heart beat violently. He felt that he had finally found the right pet hospital.
"My teacher was treated and told her to be euthanized, which was also a relief for the cat. She cried so hard that she couldn't even speak. The cat was so thin that she was skinny and had no strength at all. She tried hard to rub against her hand and licked her fingers." Dr. Wang sighed, "She ran out with the cat in her arms. Later, she picked up a similar tabby cat from somewhere and said that the cat was healed by herself. How could she be healed by herself?"
"What's the name of that cat?" Sheng Yao asked impatiently, holding his breath.
Dr. Wang was stunned, "Hmm?"
"What's the name of that cat?" Sheng Yao asked again, slowing down his speech this time and trying to keep himself calm.
Chapter completed!