Strange Life of a Cat

The tattooed man felt that he must have offended someone.

Since returning home that day, seeing the toy cat smeared with ketchup on the bed, the red pattern on the wooden wardrobe that was suspected to be the footprints of an animal, and the deep scratches on the wooden wardrobe, the tattooed man began to Who do you want to offend?

There are too many people who are skeptical, after all, those who watch the scene will definitely offend people. Especially the recent conflicts between several forces are suspicious. However, who will do this in the end cannot be determined in a short while. After all, those people's methods will be more direct and bloody, instead of just using tomato sauce.

people around?

The tattooed man shook his head. He has lived here for several years, and the people around him are all soft-tempered. He called his superiors to beat and intimidate those who had a hard temper, and those people stopped challenging him after that.

However, it is not absolutely impossible.

Who on earth is it?

The tattooed man couldn't figure it out. He stabbed the toy cat smeared with ketchup with a knife and threw it into the trash. As for the marks on the wooden wardrobe, after wiping it, he wiped the scratched place with several layers of newspapers. Cover up tightly.

In addition, the tattooed man also changed his own door lock. He felt that someone must have got the key of his house, or used some means to unlock it.

The next day, the tattooed man returned home at the same time, and when he was about to open the lock, he held a steel rod in the other hand, and he was afraid that someone would be in the house. However, before he inserted the key into the lock hole, he felt something stepping on his feet.

There was no light outside the door, and at this time, other residents were already asleep, and the surroundings were pitch black, only the light circle of the flashlight held in the creaking nest shone on the door lock. Just now he was only looking at the door lock, and he didn't pay attention to what was on the ground at the door.

The tattooed man has a bad feeling.

Throw the key in your pocket and take a flashlight to shine on it.

There is a fluffy toy cat doll at the door, smaller than yesterday's, the fur should be white, but there are some red marks on it, especially around the cat's mouth.

The tattooed man's hands trembled, but he didn't have to be timid after watching the scene for so long.

So he opened the door and walked into the house.

The inside of the house was still the same as it was before he went out, there were no scratches on the wooden wardrobe, and there were no suspicious marks on the surrounding ground.

The tattooed man felt a lot more relaxed. It seems that changing the door lock is still useful.

In fact, Zheng Tan also entered the house this time, but after seeing the door lock changed, he didn't put things in the house, and he didn't make some tricks in the house. If the tattooed man was in a hurry, he would seal all the broken windows. What if you die?

Therefore, Zheng Tan now takes care of the cat doll before bringing it over and placing it at the door of the tattooed man's house.

After walking around the house, the tattooed man became more courageous. He picked up the toy cat by the door, took a look, sniffed it, and then stuck out his tongue to lick it. It smelled like tomato.

"Bah!" The tattooed man curled his lips, he felt that someone must be playing a prank.

On the third day, when the tattooed man came home, he first shone the flashlight in his hand on the ground at the door, and there was indeed a toy cat doll like yesterday, with a lot more red painted on his body.

With yesterday's experience, the tattooed man was no longer afraid, and he walked over to pick up the toy cat on the ground without opening the door. However, when he was holding the toy cat, all the goosebumps on the tattooed man suddenly popped up.

Something is wrong!

This sticky touch...

The tattooed man moved a little stiffly and sniffed the toy cat doll in his hand.

The smell of blood! !

Immediately, the tattooed man felt as if his hands were burning, and threw the toy cat out of his hands.

There was still that lingering bloody smell in his nose, which made the tattooed man remember the cruel and bloody scene he saw in the clubhouse.

Taking a few deep breaths, the tattooed man shone the flashlight back on his door lock, and gave a pause to the hand that took out the key.

There was a long red mark on the lock, and claw marks. It's like a cat scratching down from the door lock, but this track is blood red.

This time Zheng Tan didn't use tomato sauce. When he went to the School of Biological Sciences during the day, he saw some students in the basic laboratory collecting blood samples from rabbits and putting them in plastic tubes. Heparin had been added to the collected blood. sodium solution. Heparin sodium has an anticoagulant effect. Zheng Tan often visits here, so he has heard of it.

So, Zheng Tan "took" three tubes while those students were leaving. They were taken away in three times, and each time Zheng Tan could only take away one tube, and he had to be careful not to be discovered. There were cameras in the aisle outside the laboratory, so Zheng Tan always walked by the window. It would be inconvenient for Zheng Tan to move a few tubes at a time.

When using the blood from the plastic tube to smear the toy cat, Zheng Tan got blood stains on his palm, so he simply smeared some more blood on the tattooed man's door lock. After finishing the work, Zheng Tan went to the kitchen sink of the small restaurant to wash his paws with dish soap. Anyway, there were very few dishes to be washed in the kitchen at that time, and there was no one in the sink.

The situation was similar on the fourth day. Coupled with the recent warmer weather, some cats that had been nestled at home for a long time and were not taken away by the quilt ran out again, and the cats began to meow at night. There are not many cats, and most of them are not from the alley. They just come here to play. I probably didn't expect that after a year, there are basically no cats here.

The tattooed man who has been sensitive to the word "cat" recently, when he sees cats running around when he comes home at night, he will pick up things and throw them over to drive them away. .

When the tattooed man went out during the day, his eyes were bloodshot.

The residents around the old building area have also recently discovered that something is wrong with the tattooed man. This man used to walk sideways with his nostrils upturned, but recently he always looks a little strange when he looks at people, as if he is doubting something. When you ask, the tattooed man will yell back with a sullen expression, as if he will come up to beat someone in the next moment.

So, recently, when people in the alleys of the old buildings saw the tattooed man, they took a detour and never met him face to face. This man must have a neurological problem, and there is no guarantee that he will do something.

On the fifth day, Zheng Tan didn't bring a toy cat, but only a small bag wrapped in several layers.

This time Zheng Tan didn't hold the small bag in his mouth, but put a wide rubber band around his neck, and the small bag was tied to the rubber band. Zheng Tan tried to run a few steps, but it didn't fall off.

Although the ribs are uncomfortable, Zheng Tan really doesn't want to hold this thing in his mouth, Zheng Tan is also afraid of this thing, even if he wraps it in a bag, he still feels uncomfortable, it's better not to touch his mouth. Zheng Tan's hands-on ability is not strong, so he can only think of this simple carrying method.

Inside the bag were a few small mushroom-like things. Zheng Tan got these things from old man Lan's small flower garden. The flower shed where these things are planted is strictly controlled in temperature and humidity, so the door of the flower shed is usually closed tightly, but Zheng Tan often In the past, I also knew that there would be one day every week when Old Man Lan took samples of the soil in the flower sheds to check the pH, changes in the proportion of soil elements, etc., and he would close the doors of the flower sheds after sampling all the flower sheds.

And Zheng Tan went in while old man Lan was taking samples from other flower sheds.

It was found that the things in it were also the things planted in some special flower sheds when Zheng Tan accidentally heard old man Lan instructing the students when he came to play.

The mushroom-like things that Zheng Tan got did not originate in China, they were introduced. Old man Lan got some from a friend. Since this kind of plant belongs to the symbiotic species, old man Lan specially planted it in the flower shed Some other tree species were planted, but due to the scale of the flower shed, it is not possible to plant very large trees. Later, Old Man Lan discovered that no matter how he adjusted the temperature and the growth environment, these imported varieties had not been able to grow well. They were always small and did not grow big, but they still had toxicity.

It contains hallucinogenic neurotoxins, and people who eat it by mistake will have hallucinations, feeling that everything around them is magnified, which is what old man Lan told the students "magic hallucinations", but it seems Instances of death are rare, and those few are not fatal.

The attack time is within 30 minutes to two hours after eating, and the patient will experience obvious dizziness, vomiting, hallucinations, etc.

At that time, Zheng Tan was lying on the flower shed, listening to old man Lan's explanation, he felt that the thing was really miraculous. And when he decided to teach the tattooed man a lesson, Zheng Tan thought of the many kinds of poisonous plants in the flower sheds that Old Lan had with warning signs, including belladonna. Even if it is not good, it can kill people.

However, Zheng Tan chose this one in the end, and old man Lan said what it was called an umbrella. Whatever it is, just know its effects.

At 7:30 in the evening, Zheng Tan brought the bag to the tattooed man's house.

The tattooed man will leave for his workplace between 8:30 and 9:00, and before that, the tattooed man will take a shower, make a bowl of instant noodles, drink a cup of tea, and then leave. Every day.

After Zheng Tan arrived, he waited outside for a while, and then heard the sound of the tattooed man taking out a bucket of instant noodles in the kitchen.

The tattooed man poured the boiled water in the electric heating cup next to him. By the way, he took out half a bag of leftover stewed meat brought back from the clubhouse yesterday, put a few pieces of meat into the instant noodle bowl, and stirred it.

After soaking it, the tattooed man went to the toilet to take a shower.

Zheng Tan came in through the broken window, carefully poured in a few small "mushrooms" from the small bag, and stirred them with a fork.

The instant noodles have a spicy taste, and the red oil wraps the stewed meat and "mushrooms" inside. After soaking for a while, it is not easy to see the abnormality of the "mushrooms".

Zheng Tan put the fork back to the original place, rolled up the bag containing the "mushroom" and inserted it back onto the rubber band. Hearing the movement from the toilet, Zheng Tan jumped out of the broken window, squatted on the wall outside and looked at the tattooed man's bedroom.

In the dark night, you can't see the scene outside the window from inside the house, so when the tattooed man returned to the bedroom to eat with instant noodles, he didn't notice that there was a cat looking at him outside his window.

The tattooed man ate absent-mindedly. He didn't know if he would see the same scene as the previous few days when he came back tomorrow morning, so he didn't pay attention to the things in the instant noodles that were different from the stewed pork.

After watching the tattooed man finish eating, Zheng Tan left here and came to the place where the tattooed man must pass - pee spot.

Behind the blocked wall are the sundries piled up by the residents. Inside these sundries are hidden a few bottles of beer, which Zheng Tan "brought" from the small restaurant. Fortunately, the small restaurant is not far from here, otherwise Zheng Tan would not have bought glass bottled beer.

Zheng Tan "walked" here step by step by holding the beer bottle with both hands and standing on two legs. Fortunately, it was at night when they acted, and no one saw it, otherwise they would probably be regarded as monsters. How can there be a cat that walks on two legs like a human while holding a wine bottle?

No one thought that it would be a cat who stole the wine. After all, ordinary cats don't have that much strength to divert an unopened bottle of beer.

Put the hidden bottles of beer on the side of the wall that blocked the road, and then Zheng Tan squatted behind the wall, standing on the sundries, with only one head exposed, looking at the fork. The rubber band and bag around the neck have already been thrown away, and now we are preparing for the final link.

After a while, Zheng Tan saw that familiar figure. And the tattooed man seemed to be drunk, walking unsteadily.

It appears to have started to have an effect.

The tattooed man wobbled over here, muttering something, Zheng Tan couldn't hear clearly, and didn't care, he just stared at the wobbled figure.

The tattooed man came to the familiar wall, there was still a familiar smell of urine, the tattooed man didn't know what to think, he smiled, then unbuttoned his pants and started to pee, peeing, the tattooed man suddenly supported the wall, "Wow" to throw up.

I haven't finished urinating yet, I'm really vomiting up and down.

Zheng Tan tugged at his ears, the smell was really bad.

The tattooed man's consciousness has begun to blur, the surrounding is very dark, and he can't see anything. He supported the wall for a while, rested for a while, and was about to leave. He didn't pull up his pants, and he probably forgot.

Just two steps away, there was a sudden "bang" sound from his feet, which was quite harsh in the silent night, and the tattooed man was startled, his feet went limp, and he fell to the ground.

At the same time, fragments from the beer bottle exploded everywhere. Although the tattooed man was wearing thick clothes, his hands were exposed, and several bloodstains had already been drawn by the fragments. The trousers were not pulled up, and the thighs were also lodged in debris, and the job was almost scratched off.

The tattooed man's reaction became much slower, he felt that everything around him became extremely strange, as if he had come to a strange and hopeless place, surrounded by high iron walls.

Where is the way out? !

Where can I escape? !

"Aww—"

The sudden cry was particularly scary in such an environment, and the tattooed man looked around in horror. He felt that there seemed to be a beast hidden outside the "bronze and iron walls" around him, looking at him, while he himself was small It doesn't seem worth mentioning.

Another resident came back on a small electric bike at the intersection, and the dim light from the corner of the headlight made this side a little bit brighter for a second or two.

And in these two seconds, when the tattooed man looked around with blurred vision, he saw a pair of shining eyes on the "copper wall and iron wall", glowing with a faint light, especially eye-catching against the surrounding black background. And the illusion made him feel that the eyes he saw were like huge searchlights.

"Aww—"

Hearing this cry again, the tattooed man trembled all over, his forehead was covered with sweat and some blood flowed out from scratches.

boom!

There was another explosion. The bottle exploded right next to the tattooed man's feet.

The tattooed man felt like he was being scratched by something on his hands, face, and legs. It was very painful, burning pain, but his hands and feet couldn't be controlled, and he couldn't react.

The tattooed man lay on the ground, curled up into a ball with his head in his arms, shaking all over.

boom!

boom!

boom!

...

The explosions came one after another. It hit his eardrum and stimulated his nerves.

In the already chaotic consciousness, certain emotions suddenly began to become sharp.

It must be that monster!

right! Definitely the monster with eyes like two big searchlights!

Every time the explosion sounded, the tattooed man felt that the monster's footsteps were approaching, and then he was injured, as if the next moment he would be torn into pieces and crushed into a pulp.

"Meow-meow-meow-"

After Zheng Tan finished throwing the wine bottle, he was looking at the shivering people curled up on the ground, when he suddenly heard a cat meowing. this voice...

The tattooed man on the ground heard the meowing of the cat, and suddenly remembered the toy cat that had been placed at the door of his house recently. I also remembered the few kittens that fell to death some time ago.

Was it because of those cats that this big monster found him?

Cats, blood, screams, and other related or irrelevant things that frightened him all came to mind one by one, and the burning pain in some places on his body became stronger and stronger, making him want to scream out loud Come out, but actually only made a humming sound, it felt like a pair of big feet stepped on him, too depressed to vent.

The human brain is a wonderful thing. You always think that you have forgotten things, but in an inadvertent moment, you remember that forgotten part, or, under the stimulation of some environmental factors, fade those things. The fragments of the story were spliced ​​piece by piece, and played slowly and clearly in my mind.

And for the things that come to mind at this time, it will not be as easy to forget as the first time. It will take months, or years, or, if it is serious, it will form a conditioned reflex for the rest of this life. Once there are similar environmental conditions and certain familiar factors around that time, the brain will uncontrollably search for those pictures from the depths of your memory that you have always wanted to bury, and remove those things that you never want to recall from the memory. If you pick it up from the deep sea, those images you can't avoid will be raging like a storm until you deepen your impression again.

Perhaps, after the toxins on the tattooed man were metabolized and the hallucinations disappeared, he would tremble when he heard the cat meowing and the cracking of the bottle again, and would recall his own feelings at this time?

Zheng Tan glanced at the man who was still curled up and twitching, jumped off the wall and left.

I smell of alcohol all over my body, blow on it before going home.

Thinking, Zheng Tan walked along the wall to the outside of the alley, and within a few steps, he saw a cat squatting on the wall outside the fork.

It's the big white cat.

Zheng Tan didn't know why it came here at this time, was it a coincidence or some other reason?

"Meow--"

The big white cat let out a sigh to Zheng.

Zheng Tan paused, raised his chin, wagged his tail slowly, and walked away.