Strange Life of a Cat

The news that someone stole a cat from the family compound in the East District spread like wildfire.

No one would have thought that there would be cats on the university campus, and it would be at eight or nine o'clock in the evening, not in the middle of the night.

I have to say that the cat-stealer is really brave.

For a while, in the campus of Chuhua University, residents who raised cats, including the Xi Family Compound, kept their cats tied up at home at night, even if they broke their throats, they would not let them out. Go to Xiao Guo and the others for neutering. I heard that neutered cats will be less noisy. No matter what, it's better than running out and getting caught, and getting caught will probably become someone else's dinner.

So in the past two days, the business of Xiao Guo and his pet center has been very good. Even if some people don't perform surgery on their cats, they will go over to ask if there is any other way to keep their cats at home quietly.

As for the cat thief who was caught, the people from the security office found a motorcycle on the other side of the courtyard wall in the East District. There were several large woven bags on it, and there were several live sparrows in one of the bags. In addition, there are some cat-attracting food and so on. Looking at these things, you can tell that this person has done this many times.

According to this person's account, he himself only came here to set up a cat on a whim when he heard a cat meowing here. He originally planned to go to a community not far from here, and that was his main goal.

Zheng Tan heard these things when Jiao's father and mother were talking, but Zheng Tan didn't believe what the cat thief asked. He felt that the man came after him.

What a coincidence. So discreetly spying on a cat, only to have someone steal it? And I still come to the family compound in the East District. Comparatively speaking, there are not many cats in the East District compound, and there are much fewer residents who raise cats than some specialized residential areas. Why would that person take the risk to come here at eight or nine o'clock cat? The time period also happens to be at the point when you usually go out?

In the bedroom, Papa Jiao was holding a textbook in his hand, but his attention was not on the book. He felt that something was wrong, and he was always inexplicably uneasy. Either way, don't let your cat out.

Zheng Tan had the same thought as Papa Jiao, since many things were uncertain and doubts existed, he simply stayed at home peacefully. And these days, let alone Zheng Tan, even Fatty was locked up at home and not allowed to lie down on the balcony. The old lady cared about being fat, and she was afraid that the cat that she had managed to raise, fat, and emotional would be taken away by the quilt.

After staying at home like this for a week, Zheng Tan began to feel uncomfortable again. So, one morning, when Jiao Ma sent Jiao Yuan and Xiaoyouzi out, Zheng Tan followed her out.

To be on the safe side, Mother Jiao asked Zheng Tan to follow her, and after sending the two children to the attached primary school, Mother Jiao would go to the vegetable market, and Zheng Tan would definitely not follow her, but Mother Jiao was worried that Zheng Tan would run around, so she told Zheng Tan Tan stayed on a piece of lawn in front of the attached primary school and waited.

Not long after the sun came out in the morning, the temperature started to pick up recently, many flowers bloomed in the school, and the chirping birds were chattering and shitting everywhere.

The bell for class rang, and no matter whether it was the attached primary school or the college students, those who had classes started to go to class, and the road became quiet again.

Zheng Tan lay down on a landscape rock and yawned. Sure enough, he still wanted to take a breath of fresh air occasionally.

Before finishing a yawn, Zheng Tan felt a sudden crisis. It was similar to the situation of being monitored a while ago, but with a strong sense of crisis, this was the first time Zheng Tan felt this way since he became a cat.

He looked around vigilantly, and finally his eyes fell on a young man in a gray sportswear. The young man was carrying a backpack and a mask, with his hands in his pockets. He looked like an ordinary student.

Due to the SARS incident last year, many people wore masks when they went out. Although there are not so many people wearing masks now, there are more or less some of them. Even those who ride small electric cars to work in urban areas sometimes wear with. The air in the urban area of ​​Chuhua City is not very good. Many places are under construction and there is a lot of dust. Wearing a mask will not attract extra attention.

Although this person was wearing a mask, Zheng Tan still recognized him.

This is the kid who watched me a while ago!

Now that he recognized him, Zheng Tan must be vigilant. Seeing the other party walking towards him, Zheng Tan didn't plan to confront him head-on. There are few people around at this time, so it's really not good for him.

However, just as Zheng Tan was about to run, he felt a pain in his back.

"Aw--"

I didn't even have the energy to cry halfway through.

The numbness has begun to quickly spread to the whole body, the vision is blurred, and the consciousness is gradually getting out of his control.

Zheng Tan rolled down from the landscape rock, and on the side facing away from that person, Zheng Tan struggled to pull off the pet tag around his neck. At this moment, he was extremely thankful that his cat tag rope was elastic.

Even if he is arrested, Zheng Tan must let Papa Jiao and the others know that his accident happened here!

He took off the cat card and threw it to the bottom corner of the landscape stone, then Zheng Tan tried his best to get into the bushes on the other side. But the anesthesia was too strong, his hands and feet were already soft, and he fell to the ground without taking two steps. There is also a needle stuck in the back.

damn it! Catch a cat with a tranquilizer gun!

Zheng Tan was in a daze when he noticed someone approaching, and then he was carried by one leg and stuffed into a bag, and then, the surroundings were dark...

The young man seemed a little nervous and in a hurry. When he saw someone passing by on a bicycle, he quickly ran over and stuffed the cat into his schoolbag and left quickly. He didn't find the cat sign in the corner under the landscape stone.

Jiao's mother, who finished shopping for vegetables, carried a few big bags in her hand and bought spare ribs, planning to cook a big meal for everyone today. However, when she came back, her cat was no longer on the lawn. Before leaving, my cat was still lying on the rock, did it go to play?

"Heitan—"

After calling twice, Mother Jiao searched around the lawn, and when she came to the back of the landscape stone, she found the cat sign that had fallen there.

Jiao's mother asked the people around, but no one paid attention to the situation here, but a teacher at the teaching building of the attached primary school said that when she came out of the office, she saw a person wearing a mask go to the lawn. It's just that the situation on the lawn can't be seen clearly from the angle here.

Regardless of the dishes in hand, Mother Jiao quickly took out her mobile phone to call Father Jiao. Based on her understanding of her cat, since she let it wait here, she wouldn't leave for no reason, let alone throw the cat card here. My cat is so smart...

Thinking of the cat-catching incident a few days ago, Mother Jiao was very worried. Could it be that she was really caught? !

On the other side of the teaching building, Dad Jiao was in class. He noticed the vibration of the mobile phone in his pocket, looked at the display screen of the mobile phone in his pocket, frowned, took out the mobile phone and walked out of the professor.

Generally, teachers are not allowed to answer the phone in class, except for emergencies. After Jiao's father saw Jiao's mother's phone number, he knew that there must be something urgent, otherwise he would not have called when he knew that he had classes in the first two periods in the morning.

The students sitting in the classroom saw Associate Professor Jiao go out to answer the phone, and after a while he walked in with a serious face and turned off the projector, let everyone study by themselves, and then left in a hurry.

After the young man who caught Zheng Tan hurried out of the campus of Chuhua University, he was planning to find a place to deal with the cat, when the phone in his pocket rang.

"Uncle, what's the matter?"

"I'm going to leave in an hour, if you want to leave, come here!" There seemed a little uneasy.

"Why are you in such a hurry? Didn't you say you only set off at night?"

"No, it's urgent, come here quickly!" After speaking, the other side put down the phone.

Xiaonian hesitated for a moment, gritted his teeth, and left first, when can't a cat be dealt with! Just asking for money can be a little troublesome.

An hour later, Xiaonian appeared in a warehouse in the suburbs. There was a small truck in front of the warehouse, and a man in his forties and fifties was smoking next to the car.

After seeing Xiaonian, the man said impatiently: "Why did you come here!"

"It's a vote." The young man didn't say much, and took out his backpack to show the man.

After taking a deep puff of the cigarette, the man threw away the cigarette butt, took the schoolbag and unzipped it, and saw a black cat inside, and lifted it up by the cat's leg to have a look, "It's not bad, you can buy it at a good price. Mao is also good, and when the time comes to deal with it, someone will definitely buy it.”

"What should I do with this cat? The owner told me to kill it, and I'm going to throw it directly into the river when the time comes. Uncle, you called me."

"Why throw it away!" The man glared at Xiaonian, "This cat is well-fed. If we are lucky, we can sell the meat for a few hundred dollars with this shiny fur. The pure black fur Uncommon quality."

"Alright." The young man also agreed, who wouldn't want to be able to sell for money?

The man lifted the cat into the van and threw it into the cage.

The compartment of this medium-sized truck is full of cats in one cage and one cage. They are divided into several grades according to the appearance of the cats and the price they can sell, and they are kept in different cages. On the outside of the carriage, there are some large cardboard boxes, which contain some sundries. They help people by the way, and they also make money in multiple ways.

After throwing the cat into a cage on the upper level, the man closed the car door, climbed into the driver's seat, and drove away.

The young man was sitting in the passenger seat. He didn't have time to ask some questions before, so he held back until now.

"Uncle, why are you leaving in such a hurry?"

"I don't know what's going on in the past two days. Someone checked, and the fake certificates in the hands of several cat dealers were found out, and even the entire car was impounded. I was afraid to investigate further, so I ran first. Let’s talk.” This time the cat didn’t scratch too much, and the cage inside the carriage wasn’t full, if it wasn’t for the emergency, he would have stayed here for a few more days. Even if you don't have a cat cover, you can treat a few dogs. I saw a few big fat dogs yesterday.

"Look deeper? No way? I haven't done this in previous years." The young man was surprised.

"Anyway, we are not planning to come to Chuhua City in the past few months, and the rumors here are tight. It's fucking unlucky, and such a situation has never happened before. Aren't those people turning a blind eye? , why are you suddenly serious now..." The man complained while driving.

The young man in tracksuit ignored the complaints of his relatives, took out his mobile phone and started making calls. He had never met the employer, but he just accepted the job and paid for it. It didn't matter if he saw it or not.

"The cat is done, when will you call me the money?" asked the young man in the sportswear.

"Is the cat dead?" asked the other side.

"I was hit by an anesthesia gun. If I can't carry it, I'm probably going to die. Even if I carry it, it's useless. My uncle took it to the south and sold it to the market over there. After passing by, it will be a plate of Chinese food. You don't have to worry about that." .”

The person on the other end of the phone was silent and did not speak.

The young man thought that the other party didn’t want to pay, so he was in a hurry, “Recently, the rumors in Chuhua City are tight, and you are also in a hurry. I even risked being found out to help you. I bought an anesthesia gun for thousands of dollars. It's over here, you can't make people feel cold."

"... Don't worry, the agreed 30,000 yuan will be remitted to you later, and don't contact me in the future."

After that, he hung up the phone.

Listening to the beep on the phone, the young man cursed.

"What? Does that person want money?" asked the driver.

"Who knows!" The young man scoffed.

"You put a cat on and buy an anesthesia gun?" The driver sneered.

"I have inquired about it. I heard that the cat has been trained. The employer also said that the cat is very smart. I am very careful even when monitoring." The young man said, and gradually changed the subject, without saying that the employer gave a total How much. In fact, his tranquilizer gun was bought second-hand from a friend for a few hundred yuan. He earns money even when his employer doesn't pay him.

The person who went to the East District compound to trap the cat was contacted by Xiaonian. Use that person to test it out. easy to catch. It happened that a friend had an anesthesia gun on hand, so Xiaonian bought it. But the cat didn't come out for the next few days, and he couldn't find a chance to do it. Time has dragged on for too long, so I have to be more aggressive. I don't know if there are cameras around there. If there are, he'd better avoid it in the south for a while.

To catch a cat and even use an anesthesia gun, Xiaonian himself never thought of this before.

And in the compartment of this medium-sized truck, in the uppermost cage, Zheng Tan was crowded with several cats.

Many of the cats in the cages were given medicines and became lethargic and silent. Even if the cat is awake, it only meows once in a while, and it probably doesn't have the strength to meow.

Zheng Tan, who was in a coma, didn't know that because of his disappearance, a "hurricane" blew up in Chuhua City, a large number of cat dealers were arrested, and several trucks carrying live cats and dogs were detained that night.

Papa Jiao checked a camera installed in the attached primary school, and he could vaguely see the lawn. Although the image was not clear, it was enough to confirm that his cat had been taken away.

Papa Jiao asked some friends, as well as Wei Leng and He Tao to help him, and searched for cats everywhere, including the impounded trucks and several places selling cats. identify.

It is a pity that Zheng Tan is not among these.

That night, many people did not sleep well.

At the same time, because of this incident, some conflicts of interest have been triggered, and various struggles have continued both openly and secretly. Zheng Tan didn't know about this.

The dose of anesthetic used by that young man was relatively heavy. If it was an ordinary cat, it would probably not be able to survive it and would fall off immediately. Even if it survived it, it would be comatose for several days, but Zheng Tan is special.

Zheng Tan woke up after a few hours of coma, but even after waking up, his whole body was still weak.

Surrounded by strange smells and strange cats, Zheng Tan could feel their fear and bewilderment. You have to suffer when you are hungry or thirsty. A few cats were meowing, as if whimpering.

Zheng Tan looked at the pitch-black compartment, the cage he was in was relatively close to the compartment door, and there was wind coming in through the crack of the compartment door, which made Zheng Tan's consciousness much clearer.

It was dark outside the crack of the door.

How long is the night?

Zheng Tan lay in the cage, thinking about how to deal with it next. However, after thinking about it, Zheng Tan fell asleep again.

In the dream, Zheng Tan saw the city where he had lived for twenty years, and saw himself...