Strange Life of a Cat

Ten minutes later, Jiao Wei and the man who brought back the airplane model from the tree came together.

The person who was playing with the Rubik's Cube put the restored six-sided Rubik's Cube on the wooden shelf next to it.

The wooden shelf was old with lots of scratches and the legs had been chopped off. This shelf and some similar tables, chairs and benches in this building have been repaired to varying degrees. Compared with the original places, the repaired places are much newer, but they are also worn out. It seems that people often come to this place .

"Now that everyone is here, let's start." Senior Brother Cheng got up and said.

Standing on the window sill, Zheng Tan watched these people take out model cars one after another. There are some differences in appearance, some are like miniature sports cars, some are very delicate, some are like miniature off-road vehicles, and some are like Unfinished works, the shell is incomplete or not installed at all, and some parts inside are exposed.

These people really are playing with toy cars. Zheng Tan can't care less about despising them now, to be honest, Zheng Tan still has such a mentality of sour grapes, why does he not even have a toy car now.

On the cleared ground inside, there are several circular runways, surrounded by a ring, and each circular runway is different, some are relatively flat, some are sprinkled with sand, and some have some small stones thrown in them. , Some circular runways also have slopes inside, as if simulating different road conditions.

There are other Zheng Tan who have no time to observe, because several people have already placed their toy cars on a relatively flat track. After the countdown, the four micro sports cars started running.

The four cars all run very fast. Compared with Liu Yao, the manipulators here are much stronger. There is an age factor, and it is probably because these people are veterans.

After staring at the cars on the track for a while, Zheng Tan suddenly felt something was wrong, and after thinking about it, he realized that it was too quiet.

Let’s not talk about Liu Yao’s silent and bad-tempered brat, and the people here don’t seem like introverted people. Just now Zheng Tan heard them bragging and chatting, but now it stands to reason that they should be shouting to add to the fun. At the time, it was eerily quiet.

Of course, the most clearly heard sound was the sound of the car running, and there was no sound of cheering or cheering as Zheng Tan had expected. Is it like this when older children play with toy cars? Wouldn't you shout excitedly like a child?

Zheng Tan shifted his attention from the running car to the people standing on the side of the track.

The four people who were controlling the toy car stood there, their expressions changing with the running of the car, they were either nervous, excited or annoyed, but they just didn't make a sound. As for Jiao Wei, like the others, he was looking at the toy cars running on the track while holding a notebook to record something. A few steps away from them, there were still people staring at the instruments on the table, Zheng Tan didn't know what they were for.

About ten minutes later, Zheng Tan heard that Senior Brother Cheng yelled "Stop", and the four cars stopped.

Finally, after ten minutes of silence in the sports car, it became noisy inside again, and it was quite intense, much more lively than before.

However, in what Zheng Tan heard, there were very few issues about speed and ranking. What coefficients and equations were these people talking about? For the data on the previous page, Zheng Tan felt like reading from heaven.

It seems that these people are not holding the attitude of playing with toys, but go deeper to study and strive for perfection?

Jiao Wei guessed that because he was a newcomer, he didn't talk much. Most of the time he was taking notes, listening to other people's explanations and suggestions. When he raised his head and was about to talk to someone, he suddenly noticed that he was standing by the corner window and was stretching his neck to see this. black cat on the side.

Jiao Wei: "?!!"

Now he doesn't have to look closely or call out his name, he can recognize the cat at a glance!

How did it get here? ! Jiao Wei suddenly had a bad feeling.

The people next to Jiao Wei sensed his strangeness and looked over, and also spotted Zheng Tan.

"Ha, there's another cat looking at our sports car," said the man.

"Again?" Jiao Wei looked at the people around him suspiciously. He thought these people would be surprised, but he didn't expect most of them to be very calm.

"Well, there are old houses around here, and there are no people living there. There are often cats wandering around, and occasionally curious cats come over, but not many, after all, most cats are quite timid." explained.

Because of this, even if someone found Zheng Tan squatting at the window and looking at this side, no one would make a fuss.

But this one is different. Jiao Wei murmured in his heart.

Now that he had been discovered, Zheng Tan didn't hide anymore, but he didn't jump in either. Instead, he squatted on a window sill that was closer and continued to watch.

These people ran a few rounds, each with different models and different tracks, and although they talked about the results after the run, they were more concerned with technical topics. Those Zheng Tans were completely laymen.

When he was still a human, Zheng Tan bought a car, and someone gave him a model car, and he put it there as a toy. Many people used that kind of thing for collection. Most people still think that those who use the remote control to control toy cars to run outside are children who haven't grown up, at least Zheng Tan thinks so.

Zheng Tan doesn't know how much progress has been made in car models in a few years, and he hasn't bothered to find out how much, but seeing these people playing with model cars now, he is really interested.

After that day, Zheng Tan often came to this area in the afternoon, basking in the sun on a low blue-tiled house not far from this old house, and went to watch the movement when he heard the movement inside.

After two weeks, Zheng Tan knew that these people would come here every Monday and Thursday at three o'clock in the afternoon. These people come from different departments, including mechanical engineering, electronic information, mathematics and statistics, as well as people from the School of Physics, School of Chemistry, etc., because of common hobbies. And the leader of these people is that "Senior Brother Cheng". As for the more detailed Zheng Tan, I don't know, it's too difficult to inquire about the news.

Every time these people come to the "sports car", they also bring some simple and portable instruments. After the completion of the work, they take away what should be taken away, and those who are too lazy to take away are directly put in a cardboard box and placed on a high shelf. They would also close the doors and windows of this building, lock the gate, and the things left here are not too valuable, so they are not worried.

And these people also know Zheng Tan's origin from Jiao Wei, know that he is the cat of a teacher's family in the School of Biological Sciences, and he is familiar with Jiao Wei, so every time they see Zheng Tan watching, they will give some snacks or something of.

It's a pity that Zheng Tan didn't appreciate it, he glanced at those snacks and never looked at them again. There are also some people who are trying to attract Zheng Tan's attention by dangling the wool rope or throwing a tire around with the idea of ​​teasing the cat. Zheng Tan looks at them like an idiot, and then turns his eyes back to running on the track. model car.

If you can't get a car, let's go to the head office after eye addiction.

After getting acquainted with these people, Zheng Tan no longer stayed on the window sill every time he came, he simply went into the room, stood on a high shelf, and looked down at the situation below.

After five o'clock, these people finished and started packing their things one by one.

Zheng Tan jumped down from the high shelf and was about to leave. When he jumped onto the window sill, Zheng Tan suddenly heard someone talking about him from behind, and his pace slowed down.

"Why do you think cats are interested in this kind of toy car?" Someone asked, looking at the black cat with its back on the window sill.

"Cats are more interested in such small and moving things, so it's not surprising."

"That's not it. My sister's house just jumps away when they see this kind of thing, let alone watching from the sidelines."

"Don't cats like fur? Here are a bunch of hard materials or parts."

"My uncle's cat likes to squat by and watch my nephew play with the remote control car, but it just doesn't get close."

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Hearing what these people were talking about, Jiao Wei twitched his lips. These people are not familiar with the black cat, and they look at him like an ordinary cat, but he knows that the black cat is probably listening to these people's conversations. Didn't you see that the cat's ears turned to this side? ? And the rhythmic hook and hook of the tail also proved that the guy was thinking about something.

However, Jiao Wei couldn't express what was in his heart. Associate Professor Jiao once talked to him, and Jiao Wei remembered the things to pay attention to about these cats on weekdays, so he is now talking about it in his heart.

After Zheng Tan returned to Jiao's house for dinner, he thought about it, and then ran out decisively.

The target is the old tile-roofed house area. These few days, Zheng Tan's mind is full of those running model cars, to be precise, they are the miniature versions of the cars. Those people have some model cars that can no longer be called toys. They are all "high-end goods" full of technical content.

During this period of time, I have been thinking about cars, so that one day when I was lying on a tree branch basking in the sun, I heard two college students passing by below talking about "model cars". Zheng Tan's first reaction was "model cars" instead of Not "Car Models"! Zheng Tan didn't realize that this "car model" was not that "car model" until he heard the two college students talk about those beautiful girls who were glamorous or flamboyant.

Zheng Tan suddenly felt that he was much purer, thinking that when he heard the word "big wave", his mind would be straight and far away.

Looking up at the sky, the moon is bright and the stars are sparse, which is not bad.

There are no street lights in the old Wafang District, only the places along the edge near a few traffic lanes, most of the other places are dim. It is estimated that the school feels that this area will be demolished and rebuilt sooner or later, and there is no need to change the street lights.

Zheng Tan was walking along the path to the house where Jiao Wei and his sports car lived, when he suddenly felt that he was being followed. Due to the wind direction, Zheng Tan couldn't smell any unusual smells, but Zheng Tan could hear the slight sound of brushing the grass, and, by intuition, Zheng Tan felt that someone was looking at him, but there was no malice.

A black figure jumped over from the bushes and rushed towards Zheng Tan.

Zheng Tan was vigilant, and knew the direction from the black shadow before it jumped up. Seeing the other party rushing towards him, Zheng Tan jumped away, and slapped him a few times at the same time, with little force, just like the normal level of cats playing with each other.

Zheng Tan really didn't expect to meet the sheriff here. This guy hasn't seen much people at night recently. Now it seems that he came here to play. That's right, the straight-line distance between this old Wafang District and the East District compound is not too far, and there are few people, many cats, and ghosts often howl at night.