-- Missing aliens --

and the era of 1014 in the winter of Yarra in the Roddy Pava Empire. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The Rodi Pawa Empire was the most welcoming country for foreigners, and Yarra was one of the three largest towns with the largest number of alien residents. Bordered to the north by the Twin Forests and surrounded by a group of peaks in the other three directions, Yarra is a beautiful city and a famous place to visit, attracting many troubadours in addition to the aliens.

At noon, in the center of the square of Yarra City, there is a square fountain, people of different races sit on the edge of the fountain, the tall tiger tribe, the cattle tribe and the goat tribe, the small and agile cat tribe and the rat tribe who are hostile to each other, and the rabbit tribe that looks gentle but is actually very sensitive. A brown-haired feline youth and a dark-haired Terran walk side by side, and they seem to be very good friends.

They passed by the fountain, intending to find a place to sit and rest, and the celebrity asked him, "Popin, have you been here for a while, are you used to life here?"

"The place where the Terrans live is completely different from the neighboring places of the Cats, and after I came here, I had to spend time learning the Terran script every day, and if everyone only used their own language, it would be very difficult to get together. Popin Koko confessed his thoughts to the friends he had known since he came here.

From a long time ago, in order to make it easier for human races to get along with other races, there was a lingua franca, a language that any race can use, to solve the fundamental problem of communication.

The celebrity clan smiled, "I feel the same way, just like you, I have met friends of different races not long after I first came to Yarra City, and it feels quite fresh." ”

Then the celebrity said, "You've bought so many things, do you need help?"

Popin looked at the paper bag he was holding, and said with a smile, "It's all gadgets, not heavy at all." ”

The celebrity was a little confused, "When I was working in a restaurant, I always saw that the cat people liked all kinds of fish, and you, as soon as the payment was paid, all the apple candy was purchased, wouldn't it be a bit of a waste ......?"

"I have a younger sister, she's a child, ten years apart from me, a very little kid, very, very cute, she loves sweets. I wanted to see the outside world, and I left her out of the Cat Clan's territory, and she still complains about me, but I still want to leave the territory. ”

"I worked here for a month and made my first fortune, and I used all the money to buy all kinds of apple candy, and I wanted to bring her this gift. ”

"I see, Pupin, I feel that you don't seem to be like any other alien. ”

"How is it different?"

"Probably...... This kind of feeling, most of the aliens who have not been in contact with the human race always have a feeling that it is difficult to communicate, after all, each other's living habits are different. You haven't been here for a long time, and you've not only adapted to this life, but you feel more like a human than those aliens. ”

"Thank you, probably because I have a good teacher, the cat Guru is my teacher, and I have been learning about the human race from him for a few years. ”

"The Cat Clan, Gruul?" "In Terran parlance, it should be a figure similar to a sage. ”

When Popin said this, he suddenly realized that it was not too early, so he said goodbye to his Terran friends and left. Popin Koko returned to his hut, and on the way he swore to himself, "Lilil, when you are older and more sensible, and if I have money, I will take you over and see the outside world." ”

In the evening, Popin sat in his room, reflecting on what had happened that day, and at the end of another day's work. Even if he doesn't know many words, he wants to write down what happens every day, and look up the words he doesn't understand. Two hours later, he stood up and went to the next room with some reluctance. "Water...... Why do Terrans bathe every day?"

"The habit of having to take a shower every day is the hardest thing to get used to. Popin sighed deeply, his expression becoming grave as the hot water filled a large wooden barrel.

"Water...... Water must be defeated. Popin clenched his fists, reminded himself, gave an order to himself, and then after he took off his clothes, his body felt the cold air, and he couldn't bear the cold, so Popin could only bite the bullet, plop, and jump down at once.

“…… Meow!"

"The feeling of water...... It's so uncomfortable...... No, if you get up right away, you're going to lose!"

Popin cheered himself up again. The body uncontrollably wants to get up from the barrel, it is an innate instinct, all cat people are afraid of water, but he can't give in so easily, he uses his will to suppress that fear, and continues to soak in the hot water, whimpering from time to time.

Eventually, Popin left the barrel and put on a change of clothes, his head dazed.

"Bathing...... Left...... It's very cold, meow ......" Popin looked drunk, staggered back to the room, he immediately lay on the bed, his head was still uncomfortable, he moaned in pain, "The bath is really a painful thing......

"Meow...... Death from cold...... "Pupuyin didn't want to think about it, he put his head in the warm quilt, the bathing he faced every day was a very difficult problem, what he needed now was to rest immediately, so he had to get up and turn off the light, and then return.

The room lost its light and became pitch black. A few hours passed, and it was late at night, and in the dark night, a few inconspicuous black shadows flashed, and suddenly there was some slight movement in the room where Popin was.

After dawn, the first rays of sunlight casually sprinkle into the bedbed bed, scattering warm colors.

Outside, a few small birds fluttered their wings from the trees and flew by, their flapping wings inadvertently disturbing the branches of the trees, and the leaves fell lightly.

At the beginning of the day, as the time progressed, the sounds outside gradually increased. However, everything in the room remained unchanged, the diary on the table, the messy cot by the window, the dust in the sun.

In the middle of the night, no one familiar noticed that there were traces of struggle in this room. At noon, the door was opened and walked in by the celebrity friend he had known before, and he and Popin had met because they had worked together in a restaurant, and yesterday was the day when Popin was paid, and after working hours, he went out on the street with him for a while.

Who knows, this morning, Popin has not come. He surveyed the room, a worried look on his face, but his gaze stopped at the half-opened drawer, where there was a bag of candy apples.

"What's going on...... "A day has passed, and two days have passed, and Popin has not appeared.

"In Yarra City, there are aliens missing, there is more than one, it is said that one of them is the cat clan, and it seems that the tiger clan and the wolf clan also disappeared in the same time period. ”

The disappearance of Popin Koko is one of them, and elsewhere, the city of Paco, which has the second largest number of the three most alien inhabitants in the empire, seems to have disappeared in the next three months.

"This is a terrible situation, how can we account to the wild beast field, those orcs have disappeared on our Terran territory after all, and there is no clue. ”

"There is no clue at all, those aliens live a very ordinary life here, and they suddenly disappeared, why are they missing? They have nothing in common. What is the purpose? Is there any unknown festival?"