Chapter Eighty-Six: The Admiration of the Cats
These cat breeds are complex, but no matter the big cat, the small cat, the black cat, the gray cat, the yellow cat, the white cat, all of them are looking at the cat mother-in-law like a torch at the moment, as if they can understand what the cat mother-in-law is saying.
Granny Cat nodded in satisfaction and continued to tell the story.
"Among the dark-skinned wanderers is a young boy named Menes, who lost both his parents in the plague."
"The only solace for the little boy Menes is a fluffy black kitten, and the little boy usually sits on the pedal of the caravan and plays with the black cat, and their relationship is far more than the relationship between the average owner and his pet."
"But in the early morning of the third day after the strays settled in the city of Usa, Menes suddenly discovered that her cat was missing."
"The little boy lost his cat, searched all over the city of Usa, but could not find it, and finally crouched in the bazaar and cried in despair."
"The simple inhabitants of the city of Usa saw that the little boy was too pitiful, so they told him that the old tenant farmer and his wife in the suburbs had a habit of abusing and killing cats, and that the screams of cats could have been heard from the old tenant farmer's house yesterday, and that his cat had probably been taken away by the couple."
Hearing this, Menes suddenly stopped crying and turned into deep thought.
After a moment of contemplation, he began to pray.
He opened his arms to the sun and chanted a language that the inhabitants of Usa did not understand.
"With Menes' chanting in high tones, the clouds in the sky showed extremely strange changes, and the clouds in the sky actually converged and became the image of a cat!"
"It was a dark, grotesque image of a cat, with a hazy but bewitching strange body, with its long tail whipping the sun like a living creature."
"At night, the team of wanderers left the city of Usa in a hurry, but with the team of wanderers all the cats in the entire city of Usa left."
"All of a sudden, no matter the size or breed of cats in every household, disappeared, and for a while, there was not even a trace of a cat in the city."
"The inhabitants of Usa City immediately thought of the team of wanderers who left suddenly, and guessed that it was the team of wanderers who took revenge on the residents of the city for the black cat that Menes disappeared and took away all the cats in the city."
"People curse the strays, these damn cat stealers, but there are also those who think that the old tenant farmers outside the city should be more suspicious because they have been killing cats more and more brazenly lately."
"And the townsfolk saw with their own eyes that during the day, all the cats of the city gathered in the cursed and foul-smelling cabin in the woods, and they lined up in two columns in an orderly manner, surrounding the house, as if performing some animal ritual that had never been seen before."
"But in any case, the inhabitants of Usa City don't have the courage to go directly to the forest hut in the gloomy jungle to find out, and they dare to wait until dawn tomorrow to go together."
"But by the next morning, all the inhabitants of Usa City had found that their cat had suddenly returned home."
"Their cats lay in front of the fireplace they were most familiar with, as if they had never left."
"Overnight, these cats had shiny coats, bulging bellies, and snoring contentedly during sleep."
"This matter became a topic of discussion among the residents of Usa City for a while, and some people thought that it was definitely the strays who stole the cat, and the cat escaped on its own, because if it was really caught by the old tenant farmer, it would be impossible for the cat to come back alive."
"But there are also people who think that these cats should have entered the Q phase en masse and went to have some pleasant carnivals."
"There is only one thing that all the residents agree on, and that is that when these cats come back, they start refusing to eat, and they just laze in the sun every day."
"After another week, the inhabitants of Usa City noticed that the lights had not been lit in the woods hut in the trees on the outskirts for a long time."
"And the residents recalled that the old tenant farmer couple who lived in the forest hut had not been seen since the night the cat disappeared."
"Another week passed, and still no one saw the couple."
"So, the residents gathered to discuss the issue, and although these two people were the hateful people who abused and killed the cat, they were also two living people after all."
Eventually, the residents decided to overcome their fears and go into the shabby hut in the shadows to find out.
"Residents stepped into the old tenant farmer's territory full of cat traps with torches, pushed open the fence door, and then broke the broken wooden door, and finally saw the inside of the house."
"Two cleanly clean, flesh-free human skeletons lay loose on the dirt floor, and in the dark corners, countless black beetles crawled."
"The residents argued about it, and no one dared to say what was really responsible, but only one decree was passed by all the residents."
"In Usa City, you must not kill any cats."
Granny Cat breathed a sigh of relief, and Itachi woke up from the thought-provoking story.
At this time, Itachi looked down and looked around, with the cat mother-in-law as the center, there were hundreds of cats gathered in the whole room.
The cat mother affectionately stroked the heads of several cats around her, and said casually, "That's not only the law of Usa City, but also the rules here." ”
Itachi understood what the cat mother meant, and nodded to show that she understood.
At this moment, footsteps were heard from the passage leading to the depths, and Fugaku returned under the leadership of Denki and Hina.
Dianhuo saw the hundreds of cats gathered in the room, looked up and complained to the cat mother-in-law: "Cat-mother-in-law, you didn't even take me one with you to tell that story, I like that story the most." ”
"I'm meow too~"
This shocked the Itachi, could it be that these cats had really gathered here to listen to stories?
The cat mother seemed to see through Itachi's thoughts, and took out a cat ear headband from her side and handed it to Itachi.
"It's called a cat device, and you can communicate with cats when you wear it."
Itachi tentatively placed the cat device on his head, and sure enough, the meaningless cries and whispers of several surrounding cats suddenly changed into a language that humans could understand.
"It's so comfortable, it's comfortable~"
"It's long overdue~"
"Well done meow~"
"It's really good~"
The group of cats gave out words of admiration, not knowing whether to praise the story of the cat mother-in-law for telling well, or to praise the ending of the story where the cat abuser was finally eaten by the cat, or to praise this decree.
Itachi returned the cat equipment to the cat mother-in-law, and Fu Yue, who had paid the money, bowed slightly to the cat mother-in-law, and turned around and left here.
And the cat mother also recalled the shock when she first heard this story.
Yes, this story is not original to Granny Cat, but was heard from someone in a team of wanderers.
(It's kind of an easter egg chapter, I'll take it on later, and I'll remind you that the person who told the cat granny this story appeared in the Naruto theater version.) )