The Urban Legends of Monsters: I used to be a cat

I used to be a cat

"Oops! Oops! I forgot my forget-me-nots in the car!" Rose called out as soon as she entered her shop, and hurriedly put all the flowers in her hands on the ground and rushed out to chase the taxi. I saw a **** cat with a big bag of forget-me-nots in its mouth and pulled a few bamboo flower baskets with one paw and followed. It put down the things and immediately got busy. First, it put the freshly purchased flowers into the refrigerator to keep fresh, and then put some blooming flowers in the bucket for purchase. Finally, after finishing the vases on the shelf, it grabbed a basket and began to arrange flower baskets.

Although it has no hands, it stands on its hind legs and its two front paws are still busy picking up flowers, pruning branches, and cleaning. When a customer came in, he jumped onto the chair and curled up into a ball of fur, pretending to be sleeping.

"Wow, this cat is really big."

"Yeah yeah."

"I want this flower basket to be placed in such a beautiful basket. The lady boss is very ingenious."

"Hehehe where...160 yuan thank you."

As soon as the guest stepped out of the black cat, he jumped up and placed a flower basket for sale.

"Hei Bing, you are so amazing! Why don't you just keep helping me work if I don't recruit workers?" Rose put up the doorway, "A female recruiting staff, regardless of age or race (this sentence I used a special method to deal with the big sign that only monsters can see)" and took it in and asked Hei Bing to please.

The girl who had been working in Rose's shop a few days ago rushed back to her hometown because of her mother's illness, which made Rose feel in a hurry. She couldn't find anyone to help her, so she had to call a friend to help Zhou Ying brought Huo'er to work for a day. The fire scorched half of the flowers in the shop and ate a customer; The two female customers left together and didn't come back. Instead, they took more than 100 roses from the store and didn't pay. Went away; Lu Jiu came to stand for a day without selling a single flower, but someone stole the money box from the store; Quan Xian volunteered to work part-time, she is a very good clerk, diligent and dexterous, and can entertain customers, just hired her The cost is too high, and she is particularly afraid that every time Zhou Ying comes to pick up and drop off the rose shop, it will be a big loss.

Finally, Rose hired Lu Weima's apprentice Hei Bing when she had no choice.

Although the black ice can't be transformed into a human being, it has low wages: three meals a day plus five yuan and is obedient and stable. Fire to intimidate).

Gui'er originally had this idea in mind and asked Hei Bing to try it out. The worst-case scenario is that it won't do anything. I didn't expect that Hei Bing's ability was greater than Rose's expectations. In a few days, it turned out to be better than Zhou Ying and Liu Di did a good job.

Although Hei Bing is just a cat (Hei Bing: I am a monster!), it has a very good artistic talent. The flower baskets in which it is placed are beautiful and always sell quickly. It also loves cleanliness and tidying up the flower shop. Basically, if it is not for fear that it will scare customers to death if it speaks, the owner of Rose can omit all the chores and do it all by himself.

"How about Black Ice? If you come here for a long time, you will have six meals a day (same as Huo'er), and you will be paid ten yuan to take out and let Zhou Ying teach you spells."

Hei Bing sat upright and nodded and said, "It's an honor to be praised by you, but I have to discuss this with my tutor."

"It's so polite! You're much better than our fire's and I really want it to learn from you." Rose couldn't help taking Hei Bing into her arms and kissed it hard.

"Who? Who's better than me? Who is it? Come out and duel!" Huo'er shouted and rushed in. It obviously understood the phrase "better than Huo'er" as "better than Huo'er". Slapped off a few vases and grabbed a bucket with one claws. The flames on the body were roaringly burning, and they searched for the target in the store.

"Dead Fire is here to destroy again!" Rose threw herself at it.

"It won't do you any good for Rose to immediately hand over the guy who claims to be better than me and hide him!" Huo'er yelled.

Seeing that Zhou Ying and Huo'er had come to pick up Rose, Hei Bing walked out the door knowing that it was time to get off work.

"Hei Bing, don't you also live in Taoyuan Community? Shall I take you back on the way?" Zhou Ying kindly suggested.

"Thank you, Senior Zhou. I have to go to Brother Jiu's farm to help me today. I can't go back." He bowed deeply to Zhou Ying.

Looking at its background, Rose couldn't help but sigh deeply: "He is capable, polite, and motivated... How could such a good cat let the deer pick it up for the horse? He is just making the most of it. Hei Bing might as well let him come to our house!"

"I'm against it! I'm firmly against keeping pets! Never agree! Just eat it!" Huo'er was not in the store and noticed that the enemy had just quieted down and shouted after hearing what Gui'er said.

"Okay, okay, we can't keep pets at home." Zhou Ying comforted it, "Go home."

"Go home for dinner! I want to eat braised pork."

Hei Bing has been standing at the intersection and waiting for the red light to watch Gui'er, Zhou Ying and Huo'er talking, laughing, getting on the car and leaving. They seem to be such a good family that Hei Bing couldn't help but feel envious. But if I want to become such a monster, I don't know how long it will take me to at least learn to become a *human. Now Hei Bing doesn't even fantasize about things that are too far away, just practice hard every day according to the master's instructions.

...I seem to have had a warm family when I was very far away... But it's too far to make it clear that I was still a cat at that time...

Black Ice shook his head to drive those memories out of his head.

"Black Ice? Black Ice..." a voice called tentatively.

Hei Bing turned his head and saw a group of elementary school students standing not far behind him. One of them was squatting on the ground and beckoning to him: "Hei Bing, Hei Bing, are you my family's Hei Bing?"

Hei Bing stared at him quietly. At this time, the red light at the intersection turned on and the vehicles stopped. Hei Bing immediately caught in the flow of people and ran to the opposite side of the intersection, no longer paying attention to the curiosity of "Look at the cat crossing the road!" Sheng also stopped answering the child's "Black Ice Black Ice" call.

The group of elementary school students gathered around and chatted and discussed "the first time I saw a cat, I would wait for a traffic light."

"Perhaps a very smart cat was raised in a circus?"

"Do you know that cat, Xiaofeng?"

"...It really looks like the black ice in our family, but it doesn't seem like our family moved to a place where pets can't be kept a few years ago. My mother has already sent the black ice to the countryside... Poor black ice It won't catch mice at all and it will starve in the country..." The more the child said, the more sad he kept looking for the black cat in the distance, and he recalled the cat that once belonged to him and lived like his little brothers. I don't know if it's good in the countryside?

"It turns out that he has already gone to school? At that time, he was a kindergartener who was neglected by others. Now it seems that he has a lot of friends... After all, several years have passed." Hei Bing walked out of the green belt to see Walk away with the group of children across the road.

"Humph! Human!" It remembered something and snorted heavily, turning around and running towards the countryside.

"Look at the cat again."

"Yes, is it going to cross the road again?"

"Why don't we go and catch it? Such a smart cat must be easy to care for."

"No! I forbid you to catch it!"

"It's not your cat... by the way, didn't you say it looks like your old cat? Just caught it and raised it for you."

"We don't allow pets where we live, or the black ice will be given away."

"Me too."

"Me too."

"...Then it's useless to catch them, and everyone can't raise them."

"Actually I would love to have a puppy."

"I want to raise a turtle."

"I want to keep a snake."

"When I grow up and earn money, I will definitely live in a house where I can keep pets."

"Me too."

"I want to live too!"

The children expressed their determination. The boy suddenly turned around and faced Hei Bing. He took out a packet of beef jerky from his schoolbag and tore the package and slowly approached Hei Bing. Hei Bing looked at him warily. He squatted down and pushed the beef jerky in front of Hei Bing: "I'll give you this kitty, this is what our family Hei Bing used to like the most."

Hei Bing watched him coldly as the signal light at the intersection changed and Black Bing immediately turned and ran across the road, leaving the boy and his snacks behind.

Gui Er took a lot of milk, fried fish, prawns, and snacks from the bag and put it in front of Heixing: "Come and eat, these days, you are selling flowers and raising flowers here. Pigs must be very tired, eat more nutritious food..."

Hei Bing politely thanked him and began to eat generously, no matter how hungry he was, he would not gobble it.

"Black Ice is really educated." Rose patted its head in praise.

Although Hei Bing is very reluctant to be petted like a cat, even Huo'er, who is held and petted by Rose all day, can't possibly be more pretentious than Bi Fang.

“I don’t know how Huo’er and Fox are busy, will they not come back for dinner today?” Gui’er said to herself, these days, when Huo’er was dragged by Lin Rui to run outside, it’s always not good. When she came back to eat, she had no choice but to cook and eat by herself.

"By the way, Hei Bing can help me take this to the hospital after dinner to Nan Yu." Rose took out the dried flowers she made and Nan Yu always gave him embroidery or something, so she made some dried flowers as a gift in return. Anyway, when Hei Bing went to the outside world, he would pass by the hospital and run errands for it. Today, Zhou Ying was dispatched by Huo'er and the others to go out for a while. He has to find another car to go home, so let's close the door early.

Recently, there have been several cases of missing children in Lixin City, which has made parents very nervous. Lin Rui's mother also personally picks up her son to school every day in her spare time. Of course, Lin Rui was not afraid of some gang that kidnapped and trafficked children, but he was afraid of seeing his mother tired. In order to reassure her that he went to school alone, he searched around for those kidnappers all day long, ready to come and eat Yongyi.

Huo'er has to be busy, of course, Yu Wai has to take Zhou Ying as a sidekick. Those innocent criminals who have been engaged in robbery and theft these days don't know how much they have been grilled by Huo'er, but they have never found the theme. They just stay like that all day. Wandering outside rarely comes home.

So Rose was listless and didn't do anything, and closed the store before 4pm today.

Hei Bing is walking on the road facing the sunset. At this time, there are fewer pedestrians and fewer people make a fuss about the cat with the glass bottle hanging around its neck. Hei Bing had been so busy these days that he stepped on time every day to work as fast as a human worker. It was rare to have such an afternoon where he could take a leisurely walk in the sun. In the past, it used to spend a long time sleeping in the sun every day when it was full. Now it is a blur as if it was a lifetime ago.

No, I don't have time to waste sleep now!

Hei Bing resisted the desire to stretch and strode forward.

When he came to the crossroad, Hei Bing habitually looked behind him. These days, because its off-duty time coincides with the closing time of the nearby elementary school, it encounters that child every day. Never ignore him.

Hei Bing has never forgotten the cold weather that day when the family tied themselves to a tree and left without looking back. After it became a monster, it has almost forgotten a lot of its past life, only that picture is clearly imprinted in its mind.

It doesn't hate the family anymore.

Humans are always like that, and if they didn't abandon themselves back then, they wouldn't be able to become youkai now, but I should be grateful to them for that.

It didn't see the boy until it remembered that it left work early today and waited patiently for the signal light to change.

"Hey black cat." The child's voice sounded, Hei Bing suddenly turned around and saw that he was not far behind. He was holding a man's hand and said, "Uncle, look at that cat that looks exactly like the black ice we used to keep in our house. I see it here all the time."

"Probably a feral cat," said the man with little interest.

"Uncle, wait, I'll give it something to eat." The boy found some snacks in his schoolbag to feed the black ice. Hei Bing stared at him and didn't understand how he would appear outside the school at such a time and why he was with a strange man. The boy's parents, Hei Bing, knew it but had never seen this person.

"You just eat a little, why don't you eat anything? I may not be able to feed you again in the future." The boy coaxed it.

The man next to him got a little impatient and urged, "Your father is waiting for us, leave this wild cat alone."

The boy reluctantly stood up and waved to Hei Bing: "Goodbye kitty if you meet our black ice, please help me say hello to it."

Hei Bing watched the man lead the child to the side of the road to stop the car, and even opened his eyes wide. That direction was not the direction the boy usually went home. Wait, who are Huo'er and the nine-tailed fox catching? A gang that kidnapped children? That person was saying something like "Dad is waiting for you" just now, and the child also said that he would never come back... Could it be... Hei Bing's ears perked up all of a sudden.

The man stopped a taxi and pushed the child into the car.

Hei Bing took a few steps and approached the car that was waiting because of the red light. He saw the child talking and laughing with the man in the carriage and looked very happy. He didn't know he was kidnapped, did he? Then he will be sold and it is said that they are sold to the mountain villages. Humans like to buy boys (don't they buy to eat?) Humans always sell animals, but they must not like to be sold. ?

But the monsters don't care about human affairs.

Black Ice turned and walked away.

Two steps and then turned around, do you want to tell them that Huo'er is in the Nine-Tailed Fox? But by the time they found Huo'er, they didn't know where the car was going, right?

Just as Hei Bing was thinking about it, the car started to move.

Hei Bing didn't have time to think about it. The moment the car drove out, it jumped under the car. Its claws clung to the chassis of the car and tucked itself into the middle of several unnamed parts.

The faster the car drives, the faster the black ice becomes, and it becomes more and more difficult to hide under the car. It also carries a large bottle around its neck, dangling around and always touching its face. It will die with its fingers and claws Grab that metal object as the car vibrates and the nails become more and more painful, and the metal becomes more slippery and harder to grasp.

If the kid hadn't been in the car, Black Ice would have used a spell to break the tires to stop the car, but it couldn't guarantee that it wouldn't crash the car and wouldn't have dared to take it lightly.

The car changed direction several times and the other cars on the road were less and less and faster and faster. Hei Bing was so dizzy that he almost fell out of the car several times.

It's a little funny to think that I'm trying so hard to save the child.

However, Hei Bing repeatedly reminded himself that he did this for Huo'er and Jiu-Tailed Fox. They are his seniors and usually take care of themselves (Huo'er will also take care of you?), so he should do something for them as a matter of course. It has nothing to do with that boy. When I was a cat, didn't the owner of the house often say that dogs are loyal and cats hate the poor and love the rich? So now that I am a monster, I have no obligation to save the boy.

I don't know what happened ahead. The car suddenly came to a sudden stop.

Black Ice was thrown out of the car unprepared. It deftly adjusted its posture before it landed and stood firm, but the glass bottle on its neck immediately turned into a swirling glass ballast and black ice was too close behind it and there were wheels blocking it. It was too late to dodge and was hit. After several slices, not only did blood flow out of his body immediately, but his left eye was also beaten, and now it was bleeding and there was no way to open it.

The occupants of the car were unaware of what was going on under the car and the car started moving again shortly after.

Hei Bing gritted his teeth and rushed up to grab the bottom of the car.

The situation of the car on the black ice again is much worse than the beginning. It is a common occurrence when it is a wild cat opened. Its claws slipped a few times, and it was always close to being thrown under the wheel, and the sorcery didn't work at all in this case. The dexterity trained as a wildcat always saved its life. Several times it couldn't help but want to He uttered a spell to destroy the car, but he finally endured it.

"I'm here to find out the prisoners' lair, not the kid!" it muttered inwardly, tightening its claws.

The car finally came to a stop.

Black Ice immediately slipped out of the car and got into the grass on the side.

It looks around and appears on the hills on the edge of the city surrounded by brand new villas and neatly planted greenery.

"It turns out that the criminal group lives in such a high-level place, no wonder they have been unable to find them." Hei Bing thought about where he and his master lived, and then looked at the villa in front of him and couldn't help but be stunned. However, criminals who use improper means to get money and spend are of course not generous, unlike myself and Master, Senior Brother Jiu, Senior Zhou, and the others who rely on labor to work. Liu Di can live in this kind of place, and it is normal for me and myself Master has no hope in this life, and can only create it himself after he has cultivated into a true fruit.

He sighed in his heart for a while about the social inequality. Now that the man led the boy into the villa complex, he followed quietly.

Hei Bing's wounds have stopped bleeding from other wounds, but the blood from his eyes still drips down drop by drop. It was useless to wipe it with his claws several times. If you see clearly which house the kidnapper is in, go back to inform Huo'er and Jiu-Tailed Fox about other matters, and it has nothing to do with me. I came here for Senior Huo'er, not for that child.

Hei Bing kept mumbling as he followed.

Following the gravel-paved path, turning around an artificial pond, the man led the child into a three-story building. After the door was closed, Hei Bing jumped to the steps, read the house number several times and nodded: "I already know their old nest and can go back and report to Huo'er." go.

"Ah..."

A child's scream came from the closed door.

Hei Bing jumped over the door and jumped up the trees next to the house several times, and then jumped into the house through the open window on the second floor.

The house is very new and smells of freshly painted and renovated, and there are few furniture. Hei Bing carefully stepped up the stairs and heard voices coming from downstairs, which seemed to be the voices of two adult men. Hei Bing was about to listen to what they were saying when there was a "bang" and the men shouted: "Don't let him run away!" "Tie him up! Quick! Catch him."

Black Ice screamed and jumped down the stairs.

The two men were still running around the room clumsily catching their target, startled by the black ice that jumped down on the head, and shouted, "Why is there another one!"

"Black ice is another black ice!" The child who was running happily behind the men also shouted in surprise.

Hei Bing now has a cat not far from him who is trying to dive into the sand and the cat with black body and white claws looks exactly like him. It looked up and realized that the two men who were chasing the cat, one was the one who brought the child, and the other was a little fatter than before, and the clothes on his body were higher-end and some black ice, but he still recognized him as his original man. The owner was stunned for a while, not understanding what happened.

"Brother-in-law, how many cats did you buy!" the man quietly asked the former owner of Hei Bing.

"How many? This one is still found in most of the city! It's like a black ice and an adult cat - there is no pet store that sells such a big cat! I still blame you for saying that you would When we pick up the black ice, we can rest assured and tie it to the tree. You actually think about the wrong day and let others steal the black ice from our house! Your sister and I are going to make up a lot of lies to deceive the children! Find a fake black ice to deceive him."

"But my brother-in-law was not when I..." The man rubbed his head and smiled bitterly.

"Poor Hei Bing meets a good master, but in case he encounters a bad one..." Hei Bing's former master shook his head and sighed.

"Dad, what are you talking about? What happened to Black Ice?" The boy blinked in confusion.

"Ah Xiaogang, do you want to see our new home? And this is a place to raise small animals, and I will help you bring Hei Bing back from the countryside. Look..." Hei Bing's former owner coaxed Son, "Your mother has gone shopping for food. Let's celebrate tonight as a family. Xiaogang will go to a new school tomorrow and start a new life, okay?" Even the beloved pet had to be thrown away after so much time and hard work. Today, I can finally say this to my son, and his eyes are red after saying this.

"But dad, who are our black ice?" the boy asked, looking at the two cats.

Hei Bing looked at the human in front of him and then looked at the cat who was so scared that he was desperately diving into the sand after seeing him, with only one tail exposed.

"Hei Bing, are you Hei Bing?" The boy reached out to Hei Bing first. "You are injured."

Black Ice jumped back and took an attacking stance. The boy's father hurriedly hugged him away.

"Feed the cat out!" Hei Bing yelled at the cat, "Or I'll pass!"

The cat was terrified and crawled out from under the sand. Hei Bing found that this was a cat that grew up as a pet. Its body was sprinkled with perfume, and even its paws were cut off, and its nails were obviously living a good life. The fur was smooth and fat. Now it is afraid of this unfamiliar environment and also afraid of the cat-like monster in front of him who suspects that he has taken its territory and shakes into a ball.

"What's your name?" Hei Bing asked.

"Xiao Hei, I was sold to them, not my own willingness to come..." The cat shrank into a ball and begged for mercy.

"From today onwards, you will tell Hei Bing to forget that the masters who sold you live here! - they are all good people and will take good care of you."

"I...you..." The cat looked at the monster and wondered why it had given up its turf to itself.

"I'm a monster and don't need to be raised by humans." Hei Bing said proudly.

"Hei Bing, which of you is the black ice?" The boy looked at the two cats repeatedly.

"In the past! He is your master now!"

The cat walked slowly to the boy and rubbed him a few times. With animal intuition, it knew that the human boy would be a hundred times better owner than the original one. "Hei Bing, you finally know me." The boy cheered and took it into his arms.

"What about the other one? It's still injured? Why don't you just keep it and raise it, anyway, there's more than one cat in such a big house." The host suggested enthusiastically.

Black Ice turned and walked towards the open window.

"His third uncle, go and close the window and don't let it run away!" The host rolled up his sleeves and prepared to pounce on Black Ice.

Hei Bing jumped forward and slapped the man who was about to close the window, jumping out of the window when he was scared back, only to hear them screaming behind him: "Get it back, it hurts badly. Medicine will do!"

Hei Bing quietly hid out the window and listened to the sound of the child playing with the cat The lights came on, the smell of the food came, and the happy banquet of the family moving to a new house came.

Black Ice waited until the house had stopped and the lights had gone out before coming out of the hiding place. It has forgotten the days of being a house cat, I vaguely remember that the cat should sleep in the little master's bed at this time, but he is a monster and has a lot of things to do to apologize to Rose and Nanyu for breaking their dry vase Zi has to go to Brother Jiu to drive back the work that has been left behind.

It looked back at the house again.

Actually, it was not bad to live with that family. After all, I was a cat at that time. It was a kind of happy cat life. If he hadn't become a youkai, he might have fought desperately for who could stay there with that cat.

The injured eye suddenly became so painful. It looked up at the starry sky and a tear slipped from its eye socket...

Black Ice jumped over the road and ran down the hill.