Chapter 14: The Druid's Choice

The morning market in the town is much more prosperous than Yi Chun imagined.

When Yi Chun walked into the door with sound insulation effect, he could feel the sound wave rising several decibels in an instant.

Those noisy sounds made the surrounding temperature seem to rise a lot.

Just like the market many years ago, the people who are now active here have basically crossed the years of confusion.

In the years he has been working in the town, Yi Chun has never set foot here.

However, the braised meat shop outside the morning market is a place that Yi Chun often visits.

Under the town's updated cleaning system, the blood mixed with grease and stench was quickly disposed of.

But even so, when there is a lot of traffic, there is still some odor in the air.

After all, it is a wet market, and the requirements for no taste are somewhat beyond the current standards of the town.

Compared to these, Yi Chun could feel the complex information flowing in the air.

Fear, hunger, irritability......

Compared to the monotonous and simple message of the plant, the livestock to be slaughtered emits an incomparably stronger signal.

Yi Chun passed by a shop selling meat rabbits, and he could see certain longing messages in the eyes of the meat rabbits in the cage.

They were terrified of death—the short screams of their companions who had been caught, and the sound of knives cutting throats......

All of this is deeply stimulating their hearts.

Animals are not as intelligent as some humans think, and in this world humans have an intellectual advantage that is incomparable to that of other creatures.

But also not so stupid:

They know what death is......

"Babbling ......"

As if sensing Yi Chun's gaze, the meat rabbit let out some kind of inexplicable roar.

Yi Chun knew why—under the power of wild identity, these beasts would maintain a relatively high level of recognition for him.

To put it simply, it is quite pleasing to the eye in the crowd.

But that's just that, when the actual interests are touched, this simple relationship has no real meaning.

"Buy rabbits?"

When the owner of the meat rabbit shop saw that business was coming, he immediately put down the bloody guy on his hand and wiped his hands and greeted.

"These rabbits are all pulled from the pasture in the mountain next door, go back and get some chili peppers to keep it strong!"

Seeing Yi Chun looking at the meat rabbit, the boss directly opened the cage and lifted the meat rabbit up.

"No, just look at ......"

Yi Chun turned around and left.

In many people's understanding, a druid is an existence that saves animals, and by the way, he can't get along with a lumberjack.

Or in many fantasy novels, there are occasional cameo roles as the prophet and victim of the disaster.

But apparently, that's just part of the druid's profession.

In the wider realm, the druids have their own unique color.

Protect the core stability of nature and punish the unstable factors that affect nature.

Under this vague theme, there are more nuanced, even contradictory philosophical ideas.

Yi Chun is only a beginner on this path now, and he has chosen a direction.

But it's just the direction, and in that direction it's a wide avenue or a treacherous mountain.

Everything is still unknown......

Yi Chun's family once had a raccoon cat, which was a very fat raccoon cat.

Yi Chun once thought that its coat color should be orange.

It has accompanied Yi Chun's family for nearly ten years, and that has run through Yi Chun's memories of almost his entire childhood.

Then, one night it left and never returned......

Since then, Yi Chun's family no longer has cats.

"I don't want to, and I don't need to feed anything......"

Yi Chun thought so.

When you feed certain creatures for loneliness or other reasons.

You need to understand that when cold death takes it away, you will pay more......

And if you drive them for profit, you don't have to pay anything.

Unfortunately, Yi Chun is not such a being......

There was no wave, Yi Chun bought a large bag of shallots seeds from an aunt's stall in the morning market.

Because of the constraints of his current conditions, he could only choose this relatively convenient plant for experiments.

Yi Chun was not impatient, he had regained his composure now.

It was as if the patience of hunting rats in the dark began to settle in his consciousness.

Then, Yi Chun started the day's work......

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Today, a couple came to register, and Yi Chun went through the marriage formalities for them.

To be honest, this is probably the most filling post to eat dog food.

Of course, sometimes you can't help but see some regrettable scenes.

Human emotions seem to be the most sincere and pure at this time.

Once, Yi Chun was quite envious of this.

And now?

Yi Chun turned into an orange cat and walked around the room.

Sometimes he jumped over the small table in the room, sometimes he tried to walk against the wall.

The agility of a cat allows him to perform many movements that a human body cannot do.

However, it is clear that this room is too narrow for a tanuki.

Even ordinary activities seem too narrow.

After hesitating for a moment, Yi Chun pulled the door open to the balcony.

As the door slowly opened, the outside lights shone in.

With the drastic change of light, Yi Chun's pupils suddenly changed drastically.

Compared to the human perspective, the cat's perspective is obviously much lower.

Those once distinct pictures have become a little softer.

Yi Chun knew that this should be due to the difference in the visible color between the cat's eye and the human eye.

Yi Chun rushed directly onto the balcony and squatted next to the pot next to the shallot seeds that had just been planted.

Then he let out the first roar of this body to the world:

"Meow ......"

The sudden meow of a cat made the pedestrians downstairs look up.

After exclaiming, for example, "This orange cat is so thin", most of them left.

Yi Chun didn't pay attention to them, he enjoyed the feeling of being strange.

Perhaps there is a difference between the cat's senses and the human senses, Yi Chun feels that the rough balcony is unusually pleasant.

Of course, maybe it's because there are still remnants of daytime sunlight on it.

As night falls, the ancient genes that lurk beneath the cat's body kick in.

Yi Chun began to feel energetic, and there was no fatigue at all after half a day's work.

There seemed to be some strange smell coming from the air, which should be the smell of the pets of the residents next to them.

Compared with those varieties that have been artificially selected by genes, Yi Chun, a wild existence, should obviously be eliminated.

Natural selection, sometimes not depends on the ability to kill and hunt.

After human civilization dominated the world, living beings had a new evolutionary choice.

However, this does not include Yi Chun......

"It smells like rats......"

Suddenly, Yi Chun suddenly opened his half-squinted eyes.

He seemed to smell something familiar......