This year has been an extraordinary year.

This year, China took the lead in completing the technological revolution of controlled nuclear fusion, opening the curtain of a new era of unlimited energy.

This year, the Shenlong deep-sea submarine completed the exploration of the deepest trench on the earth, the Mariana Trench, for the first time.

This year, the lunar base of many countries was finally completed, and the first "alien" base with a life cycle system was officially completed.

This year, all countries in the world invariably chose to retreat in the confrontation with China, silently announcing that China has regained its position as the world hegemon.

However, this year is still an ordinary year for Zheng Fang.

This year, Zheng Fang still lived in his not very spacious room. I am still plagued by diseases brought about by congenital constitutions. Still doing things he doesn't like, painting things he doesn't like.

The only thing that satisfies him is that he can do things he enjoys in his spare time, such as the book "Monster Origins" that he is currently reading.

"Since ancient times, there have always been some strange phenomena in the world that we can't explain, we fear it, we are afraid of it, but we try to understand it, to expel it

Later, we thought we had found a plausible explanation, and that was that these phenomena were caused by some monsters that were beyond common sense, and we called them demons.

Wherever there are human footprints, they can be found in the past and present, in the countryside and in the city. Among them, the most common are fox demons and ghosts who like to turn into handsome men and beautiful women to seduce humans, and zombies or vampires who suck people's blood souls after the corpse is transformed.

Of course, in addition to demons, there are also ghosts. After death, people will have souls, go to heaven or go to hell, heaven is beautiful, and hell is terrible, good people go to heaven, and evil people go to hell.

However, if there really exist such terrible things as monsters in this world that can collapse mountains and lands and overturn rivers and rivers, why can't we find them?

Ghosts are easy to say, they are afraid of wind, fire, and fierce beasts, and when they are exposed to the sun, they will be destroyed like foam, and this fragile thing, even if it exists, will not have much effect on humans. Moreover, it is a fragile thing in life, and it is a thing of the past to become such an even more fragile thing after death."

"Wait" Zheng Fangmeng closed the book, puzzled.

"Where did this book come from?" Zheng Fang doesn't remember that he ever bought such a book, and he usually doesn't buy it as a materialist.

After thinking about it for a while, Zheng Fang didn't understand it, so he didn't want to think about it at all, touched the black cat that jumped into his arms at some point, opened the book and read it again.

After reading it for a long time, Zheng Fang didn't understand what the book was trying to say, so he closed the book again.

The content of this book is very strange, completely unorganized, just around the monsters and spirits in the constant questions and answers, but they are rambling and not knowing.

What time is it now, and it seems too old to talk about monsters and spirits.

However, just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

"So here's the problem! Are there really youkai in this world? ”

"Miss Black Cat, please answer!"

"Meow~"

"Is there a soul in this world?" Zheng Fang asked again.

"~Meow~Meow~"

"You're stupid!"

"~Meow~Meow~Meow~"

"I like you!"

"We don't like you! Get lost! The black cat said suddenly.

"Huh?"

"I think I just heard that I was badly stuck" by a cat."

"I like you!" Zheng Fang blinked, staring at the black cat.

"It's all said that we don't like you anymore!" The black cat bent over and blew up, looking annoyed.

"We're geniuses, so we won't look for a down-and-out owner like you!" The black cat wagged its tail and looked proud.

"Hehe, that's right. I'm so sorry for following me and making you feel wronged! ”

"Of course." The black cat raised its head and closed its eyes with a proud look.

"Although this is the case, you can be regarded as having advantages, so you have to stay with us." The black cat opened one eye again and looked at Zheng Fang in this very cute gesture.

"But it's just a dream. It's a pity, but you're just a dream in my dreams. Zheng Fang was slightly stunned for a moment and figured out the current situation, and said with some regret.

"~Meow~ Dream? We're not! How could we be a dream for a low-level creature like you! "The black cat seemed to be angry.

"Anyway, you're going to stay with us."

"But it's just a dream, if I stay here, my body outside will die, and in that case, I'll die here."

"Who cares if you live or die! Anyway, you're going to stay with us. The black cat stretched out its sharp claws and grabbed Zheng Fang's shirt tightly, saying very willfully.

"But it's just a dream, and you're just a dream."

"Humph!" The black cat snorted coldly with disdain.

"Okay, don't be angry, I really can't be with you anymore." Zheng Fang stroked the black cat.

"No! You're going to stay with us! ”

"It's not okay, every time I have a strange dream, I wake up in pain to death."

Hearing this, the black cat suddenly arched its body as if it had been stepped on its tail, and its emerald green eyes shot a cold light, baring its teeth and saying coldly: "Then you are going to wake up for me to take a look!" ”

As he spoke, countless pairs of green eyes suddenly opened in the darkness around him, surrounding Zheng Fang and sneering sharply, revealing their white sharp fangs.

"Then I'll wake up." Looking at the surrounding scene, Zheng Fang was also not afraid, what was there to be afraid of in the dream. In a dream, the idea is reality, as long as he wants to wake up, he will definitely wake up. Smiling and finally stroking the black cat, Zheng Fang suddenly "opened" his eyes.

"Huh?"

However, Zheng Fang "opened" his eyes, but the surroundings were still the terrifying appearance in his dream.

"Hah! Didn't you say you were going to wake up? The black cat in front of Zheng tilted his head and sneered.

"yes!"

"And where are you now? Hey, hey, hey! ”

"In a dream." Zheng Fang smiled lightly, stood up, and walked towards the wall of green eyes.

"Since I can't wake up directly, I'll just look around."

"I think that dreams are not infinite, so I should be able to get out! Goodbye, little black cat. ”

The black cat's face suddenly changed, and it suddenly became hideous, and it grinned and threatened: "Come back, or I will tear you apart." ”

"Little black cat, this is just a dream, you can't hurt me." Zheng Fang smiled slightly.

Hearing this, the black cat angrily shouted at the pair of green eyes: "Stop him!" ”

"~Meow~"

"~Meow~"

"~Meow~"

“”

In the darkness around them, countless cat meows suddenly sounded, and one by one the black cats bared their teeth and grinned, and their eyes came out of the darkness, blocking Zheng Fang's way.

"Okay, don't be angry, I'm really leaving, goodbye!"

Zheng Fang knew that this was a dream, but he still turned around and whispered goodbye to the black cats, and walked towards the black cats fearlessly.

"~Wow~~~"

"~Wow~~~"

Unexpectedly, the black cat behind him suddenly began to cry, and the big tears kept rolling down, falling on the dark ground and splashing around with silver ripples. made Zheng Fang's footsteps pause.

"Why do you have to leave us! Let's be so lonely! ”

"Why are you leaving?"

"Is the outside world that important? Why don't you stay with us! ”

"So many people, come and go, go and come, why are we so lonely!"

"Why can you all go outside, but we can only stay here, let's be so lonely!"

"~~Wow~"

"~~Wow~"

The black cat's cry became louder and louder, penetrating straight through the body, and that deep loneliness seemed to spread directly in Zheng Fang's soul, making Zheng Fang's heart soften for a while, and his body suddenly stiffened.

"Alas~"

Zheng Fang sighed, turned back to the black cat, and gently picked up the crying black cat, constantly comforting him.

"Aren't you leaving? We don't need your comfort! The black cat wiped tears from the corners of her eyes with her paws.

"We don't need human comfort! We're genius cat demons! ”

"We have our pride"

"I'm also lonely, so can you stay with me?" Zheng Fang sighed.

The black cat's words were stunned.

It raised its head and looked at Zheng Fang, at the human. This human seems to be something special, why?

This face is obviously very ordinary, but why is it different from other humans? It had never seen such a big smile on the face of a human who had encountered it, unlike any other person it had ever seen

"This human seems to be a little special, why?"

"Is that okay?" Zheng Fang asked again.

"Hah! That's what you said! It's not for you! The black cat didn't think about it, and happily stretched out its paw and patted Zheng Fang's chest.

"Hmm!" Zheng Fang nodded.

"For the sake of your sincerity, let's reluctantly agree to you."

"Thank you."

"For the sake of such politeness, let's sing a song to you, this is a song that only we can sing, and even the monsters are proud to listen to us sing!" The black cat said proudly.

"Is that so? Then I'm really lucky! I'm afraid that no one in the world has ever heard the song of a yokai. Zheng Fang hugged the black cat in his arms and sat down cross-legged.

"Of course," the black cat glanced at the black cats surrounding Zheng Fang, and said, "It's all gone." ”

Suddenly, all the black cats disappeared.

"Listen," the black cat poked Zheng Fang with his paws. Zheng Fang nodded and looked at it with a smile.

"Don't look at us like this, we'll be embarrassed" Although the black cat said this, he still closed his eyes and sang, but Zheng Fang didn't expect that the black cat was actually singing an ancient song.

"It's a matter of life, but a thought

Looking back, there is no way to go

Lost in a foreign land, not to live here

Time passed, and the heart gradually wandered

In my dream, I traveled through the three thousand realms, why don't you see my hometown

“”

Zheng Fang listened quietly, the black cat's song also had a power to make him quiet, its song couldn't tell whether it was ugly or good, but with its song, the surrounding darkness suddenly turned into pitch-black fragments and shattered and disappeared, and what was revealed behind it was a grotesque picture.

As the surrounding scene changes, he will occasionally sit in a candy house made of candy, occasionally soak in an orange juice lake, occasionally sit in a science fiction capsule, sometimes above the clouds, sometimes at the bottom of the sea.

The pictures are all grotesque, like a childhood fantasy, and like an ideal country in a dream.

The black cat said that it only sang one song, but this song never stopped at all.

Zheng Fang was not in a hurry, hugged the black cat, sat quietly, and listened like this.

After a long time, the black cat stopped singing, jumped out of Zheng Fang's arms, squatted on the ground, and looked up at Zheng Fang.

Zheng Fang didn't know why, so he smiled and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"We'll return the favor, because we don't like to be the only one who is happy. You will be happy! This is our blessing to you! The black cat said very seriously.

"Happiness, is this your gift to me? Thank you so much! However, there are many kinds of happiness in the world, cats eat fish, dogs eat meat, and it is also happiness. Zheng Fang paused and couldn't help but chuckle.

"What are you laughing at!" The black cat puffed up.

"I don't like to eat fish. Hahahaha! ”

"If you don't believe it, you dare to laugh at us?" The black cat suddenly exploded, and said angrily: "Wait, let's attract the most powerful woman in the world to you, and then you will know how powerful we are." ”

"Peach Blossom Tribulation! We're going to give you a peach blossom robbery! ”

"You can really make me happy, don't you still believe that you are just a vision of my dreams?" Zheng Fang pointed to the grotesque pictures around him, touched the black cat and said, "Little black cat, do you know, in fact, you and I are one." I've had a lot of weird dreams like this before, but there are really few dreams like this now! Anyway, thank you! ”

"Who wants to be one with you!"

"Hurry up and get out! Time's up! Originally, I was going to trap you to death, but for the sake of your acquaintance, I'll spare your life! ”

"Cat, it's really moody." Zheng Fang said tentatively: "Then I'm really leaving." ”

"Let's go, if you stay any longer, you'll die!" The black cat was obviously reluctant, but he still said stubbornly.

"I hope I'll have a chance to dream of you again in the future." Zheng Fang picked up the black cat and touched the black cat's forehead with his forehead.

"If you don't come, we won't be moved by you." The black cat slapped Zheng Fang's face with one paw and jumped off Zheng Fang's hand.

At this moment, all the surrounding scenes suddenly became white, and then in the gradually brighter light, Zheng Fang, the black cat, and the grotesque scenes around them all melted into the light and disappeared, just like the moonlight and starlight dispelled by the sun.

In a room that was not too spacious, full of various picture books and pen utensils, Zheng Fangmeng opened his eyes on the bed.

"Is it really another strange dream?"

Looking at the familiar scene in front of him, inexplicably, Zheng Fang suddenly felt a burst of loneliness.

"If only the little black cat in my dream could keep me company. However, after all, it was just a dream. Presumably, you will soon forget! Just like the previous dream. ”

After a short period of melancholy, Zheng Fang realized that his heart was beating violently at an extraordinary speed, as if it would explode in the next second. Then, an unbearable pain began to blow through his brain, as if someone was hammering his brain.