Vicious, cold, evil.

It was obviously a child's childish laughter, but there was a maddening malice in the voice.

Calvin jerked in the direction where the laughter came, but all he saw was the most ordinary waiting room.

A black cat locked in a flight case.

Lop-eared rabbit squatting on a girl's smooth lap.

And the big dog that stood in the way of the old woman.

And then there are the human beings who are unrecognizable.

The barking of the stray dogs died down in a very strange moment, and Calvin could hear their faint snorting.

No kids.

Not even the oozing laughter.

Calvin slowly shifted his gaze to the other side, to the other end of the hallway.

Then he noticed that the corridor had become elongated, and that one side of the corridor led to a distant point where the end could not be seen clearly.

Calvin's heart beat faster in an instant, and he blinked suddenly—the hallucinations vanished, and the hallway to the operating room returned to his vision.

But Calvin still felt his legs go limp, and he almost fell straight into the white hallway.

The unspeakable fear seemed to suck all his strength out in an instant, and he only felt that his back was soaked with cold sweat, and his muscles were so stiff that he couldn't move.

"Calvin?!"

Virgili noticed Calvin's strange appearance at the first time, and he almost threw the dog out to hold Calvin, but fortunately, at the last moment, Calvin stabilized his body.

"I'm fine. Calvin whispered hoarsely, "I'm just ......"

He was stunned: "I think I'm suffering from heat stroke a little, maybe it's better for me to stay outside." ”

Calvin felt sick.

Most of his vision was obscured by the brim of his cap, but even so, he felt like his vision was getting dim.

Everyone may have had that weird experience when they were children - suddenly, fear came, maybe somehow they started to worry that there was a man-eating monster under the bed, or maybe there was a "horror king" lurking in the cupboard, and that fear exploded in a person's heart, no matter how hard their parents tried to explain to them that there were no monsters or horror kings in this world, but for them as children, they were there.

And now, Calvin's "King of Terror" stood at the end of that long, lit corridor.

Calvin couldn't help but look at Virgilli, who clearly wanted to be with Calvin only as well, but Calvin shook his head weakly at him.

"Heat stroke? your face looks terrible, I think I-"

"Watch out for that poor little one, I'll be waiting for you outside. ”

Calvin said.

Then he staggered towards the waiting area.

He could feel Vigilli's gaze, stuck to his back, but when he sat down in his chair and passed away, and looked down the hallway, Vigili and Dr. Mira were gone.

It was actually a very short corridor, probably less than ten meters away, and on either side of the corridor were childlike cork boards, on which were many pictures of the pet to be adopted nailed with colorful tacks.

It's just a pet hospital, after all.

Calvin struggled to adjust his breathing.

His back was starting to ache again......

Calvin rested his arms on his knees and buried his head deep to hide the twisting of his facial muscles.

Damn it—

He cursed himself and the damn painkiller in his heart, he had taken three times the rated amount of painkillers before he went out (Fugg certainly disagreed with that), but now the deformed part of his back was eager to show his presence again.

The pain was like an invisible hand in Calvin's body, it grabbed Calvin's scalp, made him feel his forehead swell, squeezed Calvin's soft brain and eyeballs, and made them swell under the effect of blood pressure, it forced Calvin to breathe quickly and briefly with his mouth open like a pregnant woman, so that his gradually tightening lungs could get a thin trace of oxygen.

Calvin felt that he was in a terrible situation.

"Purr ......"

It was at this moment that Calvin heard a very small snoring sound, very calming, with a wonderful calming effect. Calvin couldn't help but look slightly sideways at his side, and then he met a pair of orange-yellow eyes—from the large, muscular black cat.

Only then did Calvin notice that he had sat in the same row of seats as the man with the cat without thinking.

The difference was that he was at one end of the seat, and the man was at the other end of the seat, and the latter looked down at the black cat in the cat box with some wonder at this time, he was indeed puzzled as to why the black cat, who had been making frantic threats not long ago, made a rare coquettish move through the cage at this time.

The cat rubbed its mouth back and forth against the grid of the cage door, and a series of sweet purrs came out of its throat that didn't quite match its forming.

When Calvin looked at the black cat, it stopped all movements, resting its feet together under its chest, its orange-yellow eyes fixed on Calvin.

Calvin's eyes narrowed, and he realized that he liked the cat quite a bit.

"Meow. ”

The cat barked softly at Calvin.

"Hi. ”

Calvin couldn't help but smile.

"She's Ms. Vera. ”

The owner of the black cat suddenly opened his mouth, and his solemn tone made Calvin stunned for a moment before realizing that "Lady Vera" was the black cat.

"Hmm...... Hello, Ms. Vera. ”

After a few moments of hesitation, Calvin nodded stiffly at the cat. He had always avoided contact with unrelated people, and he couldn't understand why the owner of the cat, who had initially seemed a little defensive about him, would suddenly speak to him.

Maybe it's because of the cat?" Calvin thought, a little flustered.

For some reason, Calvin's jerkiness made the cat's owner, a somewhat neurotic man, relax a lot.

"Lady Vera is not your average cat, she is quite intelligent, and sometimes I think she is much smarter than humans - she likes you quite a lot, which is rare, you must be a kind person at heart. The man spoke with an air of self-talk, and Calvin suspected that he might have been working in a science and engineering job that didn't require much human interaction, but surprisingly, the man's weird air was not annoying.

But just as Calvin was thinking this, the man and the cat in the cat box suddenly looked up at the same time and stared at Calvin.

"But your companion ......," the man paused, his voice slurred, "I have never seen a person so vigilant and guarded against a person as Lady Vera. ”

“……”

Calvin blinked, he had certainly heard the man's warning, and he was a little unsure of how to respond to the man's embarrassing warning.

The man had apparently noticed Calvin's confusion as well, and his cheeks instantly turned an embarrassed flush.

"No, please don't pay attention to what I just said, I'm probably just a little confused, Lady Vera is not in good shape these days, I think I'm also a little out of sorts, the doctor said that cats of her age are ......"

The man's voice paused.

Calvin saw the other man's Adam's apple roll a little.

"In short, she's seventeen years old, which is probably long enough for a cat. Ha, ha, maybe she was confused just now to do that strange thing, I mean, to your companion-"

"Meow-"

It was as if she could understand human language, and when the man said this, Calvin clearly saw the beautiful and gorgeous look in her disgruntled eyes, and she let out a loud cry, as if in retort.

The man interrupted his far-fetched explanation for a moment, and he lowered his head and showed a look of pity and forbearance to the black cat in the cage.

"Okay, I apologize, I shouldn't have said that. ”

"Meow. ”

The black cat changed its position slightly, and a snort similar to "don't take it as an example" overflowed between its furry lips.

Calvin's heart trembled slightly at this wonderful creature.

"Is there something wrong with her?"

Calvin couldn't help but ask.

The man hooked the corners of his mouth bitterly.

"They say it's a tumor, a very serious kind. ”

"I'm sorry. ”

"No, it doesn't matter, you see I've tried to learn to accept this these days, and Lady Vera is seventeen years old after all. Still, I, I don't think I can accept what other veterinarians say, euthanasia or something. Thankfully, Dr. Mira, despite his high fees, doesn't make such a terrible recommendation. ”

"Ms. Vera still looks radiant...... I think it's going to be fine. ”

Calvin began to regret talking to the man.

He could clearly feel the man's despair and frustration, but he was too clumsy to put together any words to comfort him.

"Thank you. The man pulled a tissue from his pocket and blew his nose heavily, then he tightened his grip on the cage in his arms even harder, "But I know that her time with me may not be much, and oh my God, I don't know why I told you this all of a sudden—"

And just as the owner of the black cat was gushing into Calvin, a somewhat discordant voice interjected.

"Why are you wasting time in a pet hospital when faced with this situation?"

The person who spoke was the old woman with the dog from earlier.

She poked her wrinkled head forward, and Calvin caught a glimpse of tiny cracks in the thick foundation of her face, and the excess skin under her neck drooped like a turkey.

Calvin shuddered.

"Excuse me, wasting time?" the man looked at the old woman in shock and repeated what she had said earlier.

"Yes, that's what I'm talking about, you see, you have such a deep affection for your cat, you don't want it to leave you like that. But trust me, the guys at the pet hospital aren't really going to do their best to save this little thing's life - what you should really do now is take your cat, get out of here, and find someone who can actually help you. ”

"Wait......"

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