Chapter 2: The Cat and X
If you have a nightmare, you should wake up with a strong sense of security, such as seeing a familiar bed, a familiar person, or a clear sky outside the window. However, everything in front of him made Li Xingxuan suspect that he was still in a dream. Looking up, the streets are a little familiar, but all the objects have been magnified several times, Li Xingxuan looked down at himself in a panic, covered with white soft fur, raised his hand that had turned into a claw, and saw the pink meat pad below, Li Xingxuan turned into a cat?!
Thinking back to what happened in the old alley, the strange soothsayer like a snake and the mysterious black cat that appeared at the end are nowhere to be found, all of this is incredible! Li Xingxuan tried to stand up, but it was difficult to maintain her balance, and she tried to step on the ground with a meat pad, which felt amazing, softer than all the shoes she had worn. Try to take a step forward, but fall to the ground without any difficulty, and struggle to get up and continue. It is not easy for the former "two-legged beast" to learn to walk with four paws, and Li Xingxuan feels that it is difficult for cats to live.
Finally able to staggering down the street for a while, Li Xingxuan was sure that he was still in the old alley, but after a few circles, he couldn't find the weird little shop. In the same location around the corner of the alley is the garbage depository, no door, no passage, look up at the house number, 2006, 2007, no 2008? She was a little suspicious that she was lost, and that her sense of direction had deteriorated since she became a cat.
As night fell, her small body became tired, and Li Xingxuan was thinking about how to survive this unusual night. Suddenly, a "kind" sprang out from behind the garbage can. As a human being, Li Xingxuan's reaction when she saw stray cats must have been that they were so cute and wanted to get close to them, but this scene was something she had never imagined at all. A yellow and black tanuki cat walked towards her, twice her size, with its tail standing up and its eyes fixed on Li Xingxuan. At this moment, in her eyes, this huge tanuki cat is clearly a cat demon! The terrifying thing was that the tanuki cat was followed by several wild cats of other suits, and they approached Li Xingxuan step by step with obvious hostility. Realizing that it might have violated the other party's territory, Li Xingxuan immediately took two steps back, but the cats didn't appreciate it, and meowed out their paws and pounced on Li Xingxuan.
It hurts! The sharp hook on the cat's claw slashed through Li Xingxuan's neck, and she let out a scream. I wasn't eaten by the snake demon before, but now I'm being brutally attacked by the same kind of poisonous hands, and I haven't adapted to this body, so how can I fight back. At this time, if she didn't run away, Li Xingxuan turned around and was about to rush hard, but the scene at this time made her stunned, and there were more than a dozen wild cats behind her who surrounded her, and their tails were constantly afraid of hitting the ground.
"You little guys, you're bullying the newcomer again." A male voice suddenly came from behind him. Li Xingxuan looked for prestige and saw a tall man, his face was hazy against the dim street lamp, his clothes swayed in the wind, as if he was about to melt into the night, and his smiling eyes were bent like a crescent moon in the sky.
The man walked up to Li Xingxuan, squatted down on his knees, and the surroundings suddenly quieted down, and all the cats changed their menacing appearance just now, and came over to rub the man's shoes one by one as if flattering. The man stretched out his hand to Li Xingxuan and touched the wound on her neck, "hiss" Li Xingxuan let out a low cry of pain and subconsciously dodged back. The man saw the blood on his hands and whispered, "The new little guy is injured, and this is not easy." The man's eyes were still squinting, but his voice suddenly became unsmiling. The cats seemed to be frightened, fled in all directions, and soon disappeared from Li Xingxuan's field of vision.
"Little pity, I'm afraid it's going to be hard to keep you here, why don't you go home with me?" The man touched Li Xingxuan's plush head, the big palm, dry and warm, Li Xingxuan couldn't help but squint his eyes. "Looks like you agreed." The man lifted Li Xingxuan up with both hands and placed it on his shoulder.
The man's apartment is not far from the university town where Li Xingxuan studied, and from the floor-to-ceiling windows in the living room, you can see the road in the outer ring of the university town. The wound on my neck is still aching, and I am not dreaming? Is this still the real world?
Looking at his reflection on the glass, his thin body, pointed ears, amber eyes, and his whole body are snow-white, without a trace of miscellaneous hair, in the cat world, it is estimated that he can be regarded as a good look. Li Xingxuan was secretly pondering, when he saw the man behind him come out of the bathroom, wearing a white bathrobe and loosely tied with a belt, revealing a piece of wheat-colored skin on his chest. His limbs were slender, his muscles were tight and graceful, his hair did not half-cover his eyes, and he looked very lazy. "Come here." The man beckoned to her. Although Li Xingxuan can understand human speech, he should at least play a real cat now. So she obediently sat down and tilted her head.
The man picked Li Xingxuan up and put it on his lap, and used a cotton swab dipped in iodine wine to help her disinfect her wound. Li Xingxuan meowed in pain, and her body couldn't help arching. "Bear with me," the man stroked Li Xingxuan's head, "It's just a small injury." He looked down at Li Xingxuan, and this distance allowed Li Xingxuan to see the man's face clearly. Amazing appearance, truly worthy of the sword eyebrows. The inky eyebrows fly obliquely into the sideburns, the sculpted nose bridge, the lips are thin and shiny, and the most special thing is that the blue eyes are as deep as the sea of stars. Li Xingxuan looked at it, as if she was about to be sucked in by these eyes, she lowered her head embarrassedly, isn't it a half-race, it's really a shame to stare at people like this.
"I'll be your master from this day forward, Star Swirl." How did he know who he was?! Li Xingxuan jumped up and wanted to ask loudly, but unfortunately the words turned into meows. "By the way, you can call me Mr. X." The man narrowed his eyes and smiled again, "Because you're not a real cat, you'd better sleep in bed at night." "There is only one bed in the whole apartment, what a host, this is simply Chi Guoguo's teasing.
Mr. X went straight to the bedroom, leaving Li Xingxuan and a cat looking around, and finally chose to nest in the sofa. In the silent night, in an unfamiliar environment, Li Xingxuan's brain kept running rapidly. This mysterious Mr. X, who seems to be the only one who knows her identity, may be the key to her transformation back into a human. Judging from Li Xingxuan's current form, she can't recognize her mother even if she returns home, so she decides to stay with Mr. X and look for opportunities to get back on track.