Chapter 22: Good News and Bad News
It was already dark, and on the sparsely populated streets, only electrified signboards were glowing, and trucks full of warehouses and cages were clattering at high speed, and soon slowed down and stopped on the side of the road.
Two men in SWAT uniforms stepped out of the car, one with a bearded face and looking very vicissitudes, and the other with a childish face, obviously a novice, after the two got out of the car, they squatted on the side of the road and began to smoke.
"It's not a good job. The vicissitudes of life swallowed the clouds and spitted mist, while talking with some irritability.
The young man was silent, smoking a cigarette with his knees on his elbows like a little rascal, then exhaled the smoke and said muffled in the smoke, "Yes." β
The vicissitudes of life man looked around and muttered, "Obviously there aren't many cats, why are there so many incidents of hurting people?"
The young man did not speak, silently watching the faint red smoke from his fingertips.
"Doesn't your grandmother like that cat very much?
The young man shook his head: "The children in the family are allergic and can't keep cats, so I originally planned to make a cat kennel in the warehouse after this busy period..."
"The cat is no longer there after this while, if you want to do it, you have to do it quickly, and we are not the only ones in Seoul who are catching cats. The vicissitudes of life man took a sharp breath, threw away the cigarette butt with the smoke, got up, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Let's work." Then he walked to the van.
The young man got up and looked at the back of the vicissitudes of life, and did not follow to get into the car, with a hesitant look on his face.
The vicissitudes of life turned back in confusion: "What's wrong?"
The young man gritted his teeth and said, "Senior, I'm going to quit." β
The vicissitudes of life were stunned for a moment, and asked with some surprise, "Are you sure?"
The young man nodded.
The vicissitudes of life man asked again, "Then what are you going to do?"
The young man said, "I have an uncle who is working as a trainer, and I plan to get a certificate and work with him in the future." β
The vicissitudes of life looked at the young man, and saw that his eyes were full of determination, and he knew that he was not just talking casually, so he nodded and said: "I will take care of the rest, you go back to go through the formalities yourself, if you get home first, go upstairs to see my father, and help him turn over, so as not to lie down for a long time and make a mess on his back." β
"Got it, thank you seniors for taking care of you!" the young man bowed ninety degrees to the vicissitudes of life.
The vicissitudes of life didn't say anything more, turned around and got into the car, ready to start the car.
The old truck is not particularly easy to start, and the vicissitudes of life the man stepped on the brake and twisted the key to ignite, making the whole car "boom" non-stop.
In the long compartment of the truck, the sonorous sound of iron cages colliding and the frightened screams of cats sounded.
All kinds of terrible sounds were intertwined, and the young man's heart was frightened, his face was a little pale, and his mind was full of images of himself holding a tranquilizer gun at various cats.
He closed his eyes and looked down and muttered, "I'm sorry..."
Next to the car, there is a bakery, and on the eaves, I don't know when a blue shorthair cat has been standing.
It didn't look much different from other wild cats, except for those eyes, which glowed estrangely red.
It jumped lightly and jumped towards the signboard lamp under the eaves.
Under the sign light, an ever-expanding shadow enveloped the young man.
The young man sensed the anomaly, opened his eyes and looked up, and saw a scene that he would never forget for the rest of his life.
On the sign of the bakery, there is a huge monster lying on its stomach. The body was in the shape of a human, but it was covered with tiger hair, and the hideous fangs were inserted into the signboard to fix the figure, and the huge glowing eyes like light bulbs looked at the truck condescendingly.
"Blame... Blame..."
An endless chill swept over his body, and the young man was like falling into an ice cellar, so cold that he couldn't speak, couldn't think, and couldn't even think of running away.
Am I dreaming?
The thought crossed the young man's mind, and he blinked vigorously, as if that would repair the malfunctioning eye.
Then he succeeded, and the moment he closed his eyes and opened them again, the monster was gone.
The young man trembled, and reached out a hand and slapped his face fiercely.
The heat on his cheeks told him that this was not a dream. He looked around in horror, but saw no more monsters, only empty streets and wagons that had lit a fire and began to tremble.
Is it really a hallucination?
The young man thought again, and then he suddenly heard a strange sound. It seems to be a screeching noise that only occurs when metal is on the verge of cracking...
"Bang dang!"
The truck compartment suddenly broke in half and slammed heavily on the ground, and the fragments of the iron cage rushed out of the gap, and countless cats of all sizes rushed out of the gap, like refugees who had to flee for their lives after being bombed by planes, running in all directions.
"Tick-tock... Tick tock..."
The sound of dripping water came, and the sluggish young man twisted his stiff neck to see that the door of the truck was gone, and drops of blood were dripping from the car to the ground.
The whole world seemed to be black and white, only the blood that kept dripping, red and arrogant.
"Before... Seniors..."
The young man trembled like a sieve, lifted his legs and walked to the truck, his legs were weak, and he fell to the ground in embarrassment, he didn't care, and ran to the driver's seat with his hands and feet, and looked over.
The vicissitudes of life man lay in the driver's seat, his face was as pale as paper, his eyes were wide with horror, his chest was covered with narrow wounds, blood was pouring out, and the SWAT uniform had been crumbled into rags and dyed red.
The young man stretched out his hand and slowly put his fingers under the vicissitudes of the man's nose, wanting to touch the warm current that ordinary people have.
And yet he didn't feel anything.
"Senior... Wake up..."
ββββ the dividing line of near deathββββ
The joys and sorrows of people are probably incompatible.
The kid next door broke his leg, there was a car accident on the street yesterday, and there was another earthquake somewhere far away. These are just messages, and when you hear them, you hear them.
Unless the neighbor's child appears in front of you on crutches and says to you with a bitter face, "Uncle, I hurt so much." Unless you saw a man's head run over by a wagon, unless you stood on top of that ruin, and heard the fearful wails of countless people.
Otherwise, it is difficult to touch the bottom of people's hearts, and instinct makes them only show pity for the pitiful things that appear in front of them.
But it's just pity, and it's far from empathy.
Even some cold-blooded people don't even have pity.
If anyone sees the news of an earthquake and genuinely grieves for those in disaster, he must be an amazing person who has a love that transcends human instinct.
Luoyang doesn't know what kind of person he is, an ordinary person, a cold-blooded person, or a person with great love.
However, he did not feel well when a report of the incident marked "Twenty-three people seriously injured and one near death" was presented to him.
His mind began to involuntarily imagine the people lying in pools of blood, thinking that these people also had families waiting for them to return.
There was an old father paralyzed in bed waiting for his son to come back and turn him over, not knowing that he might never be able to wait for him to come home.
Then Luoyang felt that his stomach was twitching, his whole body was very cold, and he wanted to vomit a little.
"It seems that you don't have much appetite for drinking. The black eye next to him said. His face didn't look good, and his mood was a little sad.
The bar where the two had their last accident was still stuffed with drunk or delirious men and women, deafening electric sounds, and dazzling lights.
Only in this place, two big men sit together and chat, but in fact, there is not a single sound that makes a strange scene, so that no one notices.
"I originally thought that the superpower force or something should be as large as the Avengers and handle things first-class, but in fact it doesn't seem to be the case. Luoyang stared at the report.
Black eyes said: "Have you seen Gintama? If you have seen it, you can imagine our superpower affairs team as a house of all things with a relatively large number of people, the investigation department of the executive department or something, it just sounds handsome, in fact, there are only a dozen or twenty people, and they usually deal with some trivial things, the largest number of people is the logistics department, most of them are ordinary soldiers, mainly responsible for doing some things to wipe their butts and avoid big news." β
Luo Yang asked: "So what we are responsible for now is actually a big event?"
The black eye nodded and said, "The big incident of the rampage." β
"Okay. Luoyang raised his head, took a deep breath of the turbid air from the bar, then patted his face, cheered up, and asked, "Is there any other news?"
Black-eyed said sullenly: "The humanoid creature that hurt people in the bar before was caught by me, and when I started it, it was a little loud and smashed a street, but I still caught it, which is good news." β
"For me, it's not good news that the street was smashed..."Luoyang gritted his teeth, calmed down after a while, and continued to ask, "Is there anything else?"
"There is more than one humanoid, there may be many, and after the government issued a policy of killing stray cats and dogs, twelve trucks were attacked, which is bad news," said Blackeye. In the end, these humanoids are the ones that the strengthened cats become, and if they continue to strengthen to a certain extent, they will become humanoids. This is good news, because two troubles have come together and become one thing. β
After the founding of the Celestial Empire, animals were not allowed to become sperm, so they were released abroad... Luoyang muttered in his heart.
"Anyway, I need you to use your superpower to hit targets even if you walk around, take me to their base camp, and then work with me to catch their boss. Blackeye said.
In principle, the sooner a bunch of dangerous humanoids lurk in the city, the better.
But Luoyang was silent, and after a while, he said, "I need to prepare for two days." β
Blackeye knew he was lying, but he nodded.