[Comprehensive British and American] How agents solve the single problem

19

After half an hour.

Cardboard boxes, large and small, were piled up outside the Kings/man headquarters. Merlin and Eggsy stood at the gate of the manor, watching Phoebe rummage through the cardboard boxes.

Eggsy: "Is this really possible?"

Merlin tilted his head while holding the tablet.

He didn't know if it would work, either.It stands to reason that cats like boxes, but there are always exceptions.

But Merlin's focus is not on this aspect.

Merlin pointed to the Nintendo Switch box inside: "Who sent this?"

Eggsy: "Uh, the tech department?"

Okay, if he sees someone stealthily playing The Legend of Zelda with a Switch during work hours, they're dead.

Phoebe, who was picking up boxes, glanced at the carton that Merlin was paying attention to, and shook her head.

Phoebe took out a cardboard box the size of two hands from the pile of boxes, and happily walked up to Merlin: "This kind."

He stared at the box in Phoebe's hand and thought for a moment, "Phoebe, you like this kind of box, don't you?"

Phoebe: Crazy nod.

It's a pity that now that Phoebe is a girl, it's a little hard to find a cardboard box that can hold her.

Under Phoebe's command, they put several cardboard boxes of similar size under the bushes of the manor, and then Eggsy asked the kitchen to boil a piece of chopped chicken breast as cat meal, and put it beside the box.

And it turns out that, as a cat-turned-woman, Phoebe was right.

The theorem that cats can grow out of cardboard boxes is true.

The next morning, the weather was rarely sunny. Merlin walked out of the headquarters, and what she saw was Phoebe trying to communicate with two cats squatting in the box, and there were several cats rubbing against her.

However, when Merlin walked forward, the cat lying lazily on the ground suddenly became vigilant, and got into the bushes with a "whoosh".

"Ah," Phoebe complained dissatisfiedly, "Merlin don't bother me talking with my friends!"

Merlin stepped back helplessly.

Phoebe turned to look at the bushes: "Okay, he won't come, don't worry."

The cats carefully poked their heads out from the bushes, and only let down their vigilance when they saw Merlin standing far away.

A cow cat jumped into the box again: "Meow."

Phoebe: "Don't worry."

As she spoke, she reached out and touched the cat's head, and the cow cat stretched out its paws to rest on Phoebe's knee, and leaned forward to rub her chin affectionately.

Phoebe smiled.

The girl rubbed the cat's back, then whimpered happily, and couldn't help but hugged the cat into her arms: "No wonder humans like to pet cats!!"

Cowcat: "Meow!!"

If you want to change someone else, the stray cat will probably have scratched people with their fingernails.But the cat in Phoebe's arms just pushed away Phoebe's face with disgust.

Phoebe: "Let me hold you for a while."

Merlin: "Can it understand your language?"

Phoebe: "Huh?"

She didn't seem to expect Merlin to ask such a question at all. One person and one cat turned their heads at the same time, and aimed at Merlin with two pairs of clear eyes.Phoebe answered as a matter of course, "I can always understand what Merlin is saying."

"..."

It is true.

Phoebe, who has just become human, can understand Merlin's words, and she can even read words.

So cats not only understand English, they can actually communicate with humans, but humans don’t understand cat language—what’s the matter with the feeling that ordinary people are being discriminated against?

Merlington felt helpless.

Of course, he didn't forget what the cardboard box was for.

"If they won't let me near, Phoebe," Merlin said, "we can't house stray cats."

"The cats feel safe and will let you approach," Phoebe said seriously.

"Isn't there a quicker way?"

As it turns out, there really are.

In the afternoon, Roxie learned of this, and on the way back to the headquarters, he turned a corner and went to a pet supply store.

She took out a transparent jar from her pocket as if by magic, and as a former cat owner, Merlin recognized what it was at a glance.

A whole big jar of catnip!

The young Lancelot shook the jar triumphantly: "You are the one who has raised a cat, Merlin, how could you forget this?"

Merlin laughed, because the white cat didn't like this at all.

Although not all cats are interested in catnip, it is only a small part, and Phoebe the white cat is one of them.

Phoebe, who had become a human, couldn't understand it even more. She watched Roxie unscrew the bottle cap curiously, and then the group of cats who were still wary of strangers suddenly went crazy and rushed to Roxie, howling.

Even the cow cat in Phoebe's arms stopped paying attention to her new friend. The cat jumped to the ground, ran to Roxy's side, and raised its paw to ask for catnip.

With sharp eyes and quick hands, Roxy picked up the cardboard box containing the cats with one hand and held up the catnip with the other, and successfully led several stray cats to the car.

Merlin: "..."

Phoebe: "..."

The girl looked at Roxie in shock and walked away with the cat: "Why?"

"I think most cats really like catnip."

"Ah," Phoebe showed a look of disgust, "a strange smell."

Looks like Phoebe is picky about more than just food.

But that's a good thing.After Phoebe turned into a human, she seemed to keep the white cat's keen senses. If she would also go crazy about catnip, then the witch Millie Center wouldn't need to make every effort to get close to Merlin. can abduct her.

Phoebe looked away as she watched the taxi carrying the cat drive away.She tugged at the corner of Merlin's clothes: "Where are you going to take them?"

Merlin: "Sterilize first, and then publish the adoption information."

Phoebe: "Oh, first off..."

and many more.

sterilization?

sterilization! ! ! !

——Merlin actually wants to sterilize them! !

She turned her head in disbelief: "Merlin caught them for sterilization?!"

Merlin reacted immediately.

Now Phoebe, with clear speech and straight back, besides being clingy and coquettish, seems to be a qualified lady.This also made Merlin subconsciously treat her as an ignorant girl, not a little she-cat.

"Wait, Phoebe," he realized, "it's not what you think it is."

"No, no, no, no, no, no, no sterilization?"

Phoebe's expression seemed as if the sky was falling: she came up with the idea of ​​the paper box, rounded up Phoebe is the mastermind of this insane conspiracy!

A thunderbolt from the blue sky struck Phoebe on the forehead.

"Why," she began, "how could—"

"You calm down."

Merlin didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "It's for the good of them and the environment, Phoebe."

However, Phoebe is still immersed in the idea that "she caused her friend to lose her penis and have to be a eunuch for the rest of her life".

Never thought that she would one day become an evil human being.

Despair was written on Phoebe's pretty little face, she was still clutching the corner of Merlin's clothes, and suddenly remembered that he had asked her if she had been sterilized.

"May, Merlin," Phoebe looked up in horror, "do I want to be sterilized too?"

Merlin raised his forehead, he knew that the final answer would lead to this aspect.

"You are different from them," Merlin decided to put it another way that a girl could accept, since in Phoebe's perception, she was still no different from a cat. "You have my care, and you can go to the hospital when you are sick. But strays Cats can't, they bear a lot of risk when they give birth, there is no one to take care of them in the wild, and the hygiene conditions are not good. You don't want your new friend to get sick because of it?"

"But……"

"I won't sterilize you."

He patted Phoebe on the shoulder reassuringly.

"Because I can keep you safe, do you understand, girl?"

Phoebe was still a little apprehensive.

She calmed down somewhat: "What if Merlin is gone?"

Merlin: Would you like me to order some?

Of course, Phoebe's words meant more than just words to Merlin.She is not a domestic cat, and no one knows what kind of life the white cat lived before Merlin met her.

In addition, she also knew the evil witch, so it was no wonder that Phoebe felt insecure.

"You can grow strong," Merlin said, "and become a strong, brave person enough to protect yourself, and then you don't have to worry about anything."

"Then can I also protect Merlin?"

"Of course," he laughed out loud, "I'm looking forward to that day."

"Then I can have a baby with Merlin?"

"..."

Why did he get back to this question again, Merlin was speechless.

He really didn't know how to explain to Phoebe that a human woman was worth more than procreation.And as far as Merlin is concerned, he doesn't want Phoebe's existence to stop there.

It's just that this is a problem for many women who are born human, and even men, not to mention Phoebe who became human halfway.

It seems that suggesting her to watch "Beauty and the Beast" at the beginning is really not an appropriate choice.

Merlin thought for a moment: "I think, I can ask Paddington to watch "Wonder Woman" and "Star Wars" with you, Phoebe."

And sex/education/education is also on the agenda, he really doesn't want to go around this topic with Phoebe anymore!