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Chapter 62 The Negative Cat (4)
As soon as I finished speaking, the white cat stood up abruptly, its originally smooth hair stood up one by one, and its size suddenly increased.I thought it was angry, after all, it is also a cat!
The white cat's tail stood up, and then I realized why the tail looked too thick. It turned out that there were several tails together, and I didn't notice it at first.The cat neighed, then there was a gust of wind and a torrential rain, and by the time I could see things again it was gone.

When I think about that scene now, I feel like I was dreaming. After returning to the village, I fell ill. When I woke up the next morning, I found my only friend Hammer and told me about it. ("Hammer is your fourth uncle." Teacher Zhou looked at me Confused, so I explained) I thought he wouldn't believe it, but he looked at me with panic.

"You really don't know what happened last night?" Hammer asked me.Of course I didn't know, I changed my clothes and lay down after coming back from the rain, sleeping like a dead person.

I asked Hammer, Hammer shook his head and couldn't speak. He just took me to the east of the village, where pigs are slaughtered every year in the village.

I couldn't believe my eyes at all!

A skinned cat hangs upside down, with its pink flesh exposed.The cat opened its mouth wide, the iron hook passed through its throat, and there was a spot of unwashed blood on the ground.There are piles of cat intestines and internal organs piled up next to it, and flies are flying around.The peeled cat skin is also hung up, waiting to be air-dried.

There were two people next to the cat. The cat's front paws were tied to an iron hook. One was holding it, while the other was skinning it. One cat's skin was peeled in half.I recognized the cat, the black fur made my eyes hurt, it seemed to be alive, its eyes were wide open and stared at me, the skin was stripped off as if undressed, and its thin body dripping blood was in the air sloshing.

I threw up on the spot, and the hammer was startled.

"I killed all the cats last night," Hammer said.

"I was so dizzy from vomiting that I could barely hear Hammer's narration. It turned out that the old people in the village fell ill at the same time last night. Like the plague, they foamed at the mouth, their nails grew long, they scratched things everywhere, and they meowed." , the whole village was horrified. Some people said it was feline plague, just like rabies. It was rumored behind the scenes that it was a cat demon, a cat demon called Negative Cat, which could turn cat owners into cat monsters. .

Everyone was afraid. At this time, I don’t know where the saying came from, saying that killing cats and eating cat meat can stop the plague and cure diseases, so those who love cats on weekdays launched a massacre of cats.The alert cats were completely unprepared, and they were all tied up and sent to the knife.The children howled, but nothing could be done.Everyone waited for the cat to be slaughtered, skinned and divided, and then sent back to the patients in a hurry to eat.

In this way, overnight, the cats in the village became extinct, and a meow was no longer heard, and the illness of the person who ate the cat meat was cured, and people believed in the cat demon even more.Since then, no one in the whole village has cats anymore.

My wish has really come true.

But I feel the fear, almost every night I can hear the cat meowing, no one else can hear it, only me.Even more terrifying is yet to come.

(Ms. Zhou stopped suddenly, the pupils in her eyes constricted, like a cat.)
I began to find that there were a lot of claw marks on the things in the house for no reason, my books were also bitten to pieces, and there were a few cat hairs on the head of the bed, yellow cat hairs.

One night when I woke up at night, I suddenly heard the sound of clicking outside the door.That was what cats loved to do in the past. If the cats came back too late and the owner locked the door, they would scratch the door hard.

I was shivering with fear under the quilt. After a long time, the sound disappeared. I slowly opened the quilt, but saw the blind milk standing in front of me.Her eyes were glowing green, her hands were curled up, kneeling on the ground and grabbing the foot of my bed, the sound was like planing wood, very harsh.I just remembered that the cat meat was distributed that day, and some kind-hearted people also gave some to the milk.

I was terrified to leave the milk and leave the village.At that time, people from my mother’s family wanted to take me to the city. They pitied my mother for my little flesh and blood, and couldn’t bear the thought of me wandering outside.They were also beaten badly before, but now they came to pick me up as soon as they got better.

I agreed without hesitation.The day before she left, Grandma sat on Xiaozhu's chair without saying a word.I know she blames me, and I also know that she is really alone after I leave, but I was young at that time, and I was too scared.

She didn't say a word until I walked away, she just kept crying.

Half a year later, I passed the high school entrance examination. On the same day, I planned to take the notification letter to tell my grandmother, but she had already passed away.After that, I lost the last contact with the village. I only chatted with Hammer when he occasionally came to the county to do business.

The guilt towards the village made me refuse to go to the government office after graduating from university, but stayed in the county to teach, and I was especially concerned about the children in the village.The parents of those children thought that I was thinking of old love, and they always came to the city to thank me and apologize for bullying me in the past.

I dare not tell anyone.The matter of killing cats has always haunted me, especially when I heard that cat demons appeared again in recent years, I became more and more afraid.

I originally planned that I would never come back in this life, but that day I met the cat that made a wish 20 years ago.I don't understand why it wants to come back, why it wants to come to me.Are you here to ask me for the price of fulfilling your wish, or to avenge me on behalf of those cats who died unjustly?I see it everywhere I go.

Later, Hammer found me and said that another accident happened at Chunsheng's house.Chunsheng is the smartest and most promising kid in my class, and he is about to take the college entrance examination.I really don't want him to be disturbed like this, and I don't want to get anyone else involved.So I listened to the hammer and came to the village. If the negative cat really wants to take revenge, just come to me and don't implicate other people.

Mr. Zhou spoke very slowly. He didn't speak for a long time, but his voice gradually became hoarse. Usually, he was in good spirits and his voice was loud when he lectured continuously for several hours.

"Do you really think that this is all the cat's revenge?" The young man walked up to Teacher Zhou.

"Isn't it? Because of my selfishness and hatred, it is my fault that so many cats died tragically and the people in the village were tortured." Teacher Zhou covered his face.

"If that's the case, why is the cat that made your wish come back here?"

Teacher Zhou raised his head.

"Have you ever thought about the days when the cat demon harassed the village every time? Have you really forgotten?"

The fourth uncle on the side suddenly said "ah".

Mr. Zhou was thinking almost dully, and then looked at us in disbelief. He understood something from the expressions on our faces.

"No, it's impossible!"

"A dead cat is dead. It is not the cat that really becomes a negative cat, but the person. The person who sits at the door of the house and sheds tears every day hopes that you will come back."

"Stop talking—" Teacher Zhou's tears welled up and dripped on the ground, and the gray cat beside him suddenly walked up to his feet and rubbed his neck against his calf.

"Strong emotions turn people into monsters. This kind of emotion will attract that guy to appear and ask you for desire. In other words, what you actually satisfy is not yourself, but the cat that fulfills your wish. I'm looking for it It's been a long time, and I didn't expect it to come back here."

The young man grabbed the cat, and the cat let out a dissatisfied cry.

"Why that giant white cat appeared here, you should understand! Because according to the old man's wish, she just wants you to come back, but she can't express it like a cat, so every year when the cat demons make trouble in the village, in fact It's your birthday."

If a cat that is accidentally locked out of the door comes home and finds that the door is closed and the owner is asleep, it will frantically grab the door, hoping to be found.

I suddenly felt that Mrs. Zhou's grandma was very pitiful. Her son and daughter-in-law were gone, her grandson was gone, and even the only cat that could accompany her to relieve boredom was killed.

"I won't leave again, never." Teacher Zhou knelt on the ground, put his hands on his legs, and spoke to someone, with a crying sound, and seemed to be talking to himself.

"The wish has come true! I don't know where that guy is going again." The young man smiled and put the gray cat into his pocket, leaving only a furry head to look at us.

"I'm sorry to bother you. The food is delicious. I really want to stay and eat more. But I have to go after that cat. There will be no cat demons here in the future. Those who like cats can also raise a few." The young man Organized my luggage.

"Can this one be raised for me?" I said courageously, pointing to the cat.

"Okay." He took out the gray cat and put it on my hand. It was the first time I touched this feeling, warm and soft.

The book says that the human heart is also warm and soft, so when you touch these little guys, they can feel your heart.

I hugged the gray cat, and it no longer resisted me, but curled up and squinted, lying quietly in my arms.

After that, I never saw this young man again, and I never saw that huge white cat in the wheat field after harvesting. I even suspected that it was my hallucination, but it was so real.

The long-lost meowing began to appear in the village, and Teacher Zhou also stayed at the elementary school in the village.Fourth uncle and father both asked him if he was too wronged, and he said that it was nothing compared to his grandma.

Later, I was admitted to university as I wished. It is not easy to raise a cat in the city, but I tried my best to raise one.I would love to see that young man again, and that huge white cat with several tails.

Is it a cat demon?Or, is it a cat god?

Who knows?

(End of this chapter)