I'm just a little mouse after all [Comprehensive British and American]

Ethan found an excuse to go home first, and as soon as he entered the living room, he smelled a bloody smell.

The dead body of a kitten is scattered messily on the floor of the living room. Looking at it from Ethan's perspective, one can vaguely see that the blood and the dead body form a strange symbol, which seems to be some kind of figure, and it also looks like an animal. a part of.

There was a commotion on the sofa, Ethan looked over, Tom was tied into a ball by Jerry, with an apple stuffed in his mouth.

"What's going on here?" Ethan asked, frowning while holding Jerry's head.

"As you can see, I was afraid that Tom would run over regardless and be split into the next painting, so I tied it up." Jerry rubbed his hands and said, "I'm not tall enough, but I feel that People seem to have painted something with blood and corpses."

"You're right..." Ethan said anxiously, "This is what makes me feel uncomfortable the most."

10 minutes later, two police officers arrived at the scene.

They called the surveillance and quickly found the man who broke into Ethan's house.

As soon as the police brought him in, Jerry's eyes lit up instantly. He grabbed Ethan's hair and said excitedly, "That's him, I saw it with my own eyes! I even stabbed his foot!"

Ethan looked at the policeman beside him and said, "Can I see who he is?"

The police who came to investigate were the same group that participated in the bowling alley terror/attack before. They had a good chat with Ethan before, and he turned his head to signal Ethan to be casual.

Jerry was lying on top of Ethan's head, and it could clearly feel Ethan's body trembling.

"What's the matter Ethan?" Jerry asked worriedly.

Ethan didn't speak. Under the gaze of everyone, he raised his hand and took off the man's mask.

It was a young white guy with a little stubble underneath, and Ethan was pretty sure he'd never seen him before.

At this moment, the man's face was full of fear. He avoided Ethan's gaze, lowered his head and whispered, "It's just a cat, and it's my cat."

"It's just a cat!" Jerry blushed furiously. He waved his fist and said, "Ethan, give him a punch in the face, quick!"

Seeing that Ethan's face was unkind, the man quickly said: "The cat is my property, and I have the right to decide how to deal with it. I didn't infringe on other people's interests, so don't look at me like that, you've abused the cat too, haven't you! "

As he spoke, he raised his handcuffed hands and pointed to the sofa.

Ethan looked back, and Tom, who was tied into a living Christmas present, was moving out with an apple stuffed in his mouth.

The two policemen who came to investigate after receiving the report looked at Ethan, and the man shrugged and said, "Look, he's not a good guy himself."

Jerry swallowed, and it quietly climbed down from Ethan's head, and whispered into his ear, "Sorry, Ethan, I didn't think carefully. I should have knocked Tom unconscious before tying him up."

With a stiff smile on Ethan's face, he quickly walked over to release Tom, picked him up and turned to the policemen, "My cat likes this kind of game better, right, Tom."

Tom spat out the apple, meowed sweetly, and rubbed Ethan's arm affectionately.

"Its bark is so cute." The policeman had a good impression of Ethan, but he smiled and didn't take it to heart.After handing over the man to his partner, he continued to collect evidence on the spot.

Seeing this, Ethan casually threw Tom aside.

He walked up to the man quickly and said in a low voice, "Who asked you to do this?"

"What are you talking about?" The man pushed Ethan away, and said impatiently, "Isn't it killing a cat?"

Tom sneaked over, hugging the man's calf and biting on it.

The man exclaimed, and the scene became chaotic again.

"Nice job, Tom! Kill him, bite him!" Jerry shouted while waving his flag, trying to nibble off the man's little finger while looking up, but found Ethan's face full of nervousness.

"What's wrong with you?" Jerry asked, leaning on Ethan's shoe and tilting his head.

Seeing that the two policemen were trying to separate Tom from the criminal, Ethan picked up Jerry and put it on his shoulders. He tilted his head and whispered, "I feel that this is not an accident, but a conspiracy about me."

Jerry scratched his head, and there were many small question marks on his head.

"Remember that note we found in the cake earlier, it was for me. The first message on the note corresponds to the terror/attack of a fanatical cultist, and now someone is using blood in my living room A symbol was drawn. Most importantly, my parents are likely to be members of a cult."

Jerry wowed and said in amazement: "I thought you were just an ordinary operator. I didn't expect your life to be so twists and turns."

"Actually, I've always wondered why I can understand you." Ethan looked at Jerry suspiciously, and whispered, "This incident itself is not normal. What does Goddess of Fate want in me?"

"I really don't know why this is, but it may know, you wait for me to ask it."

Jerry tapped his head as he spoke, trying to call out his system.But, as in the old days, its systems were still offline.

Jerry shrugged and said helplessly to Ethan, "It's not at home, so I can't help it."

"What's not at home?" Ethan asked suspiciously.

"Didn't I tell you?" Jerry said, pointing to his head, "I live here with an artificial mentally retarded, bah, artificial intelligence. Although I don't know what it is for, it sounds very cool, right? In In the book, the system is only configured by the protagonist."

Another cult, another system, Ethan felt that the world suddenly became magical.

"It just talked to me twice, it's the same without it, let's talk about you first." Jerry patted Ethan's hair comfortingly, touched his chin and thought seriously: "I I think what you said makes sense, this is probably a conspiracy against you, we'd better tell Al about it."

Soon after the police adjusted the angle, they also saw that something was wrong with the blood on the ground. They looked at each other and reported the matter behind Ethan's back.

Tom had just bit off a piece of meat from the man's leg, and it spit out the meat, cocked its tail and wobbled to the policeman's side to eavesdrop.

"What did he say?" Jerry ran over and asked curiously.

Tom crossed his arms and thought: "They seem to have seen this mark. Just now the policeman reported to his chief. He said, 'Sir, it's the red goat'."

……

Ethan got into the police car directly with the police, and Tom and Jerry tried to follow, but were thrown out by the police.

The bloodstains on the living room hadn't been washed off yet, and when Tom saw it, his cocked tail drooped down again.

It walked into Ethan's bedroom listlessly, lying on the bed with his eyes closed and not speaking.

Even though Jerry was just a little mouse, he still clearly felt that Tom was in a bad mood.

Although Tom is not an optimist, he is alive and kicking most of the time.

"Tom, are you okay?" Jerry climbed onto the bed, squeezed into Tom's arms, tilted his head and said, "If you think about it, you bit off a piece of his flesh just now, it's considered revenge for the kitten, isn't it?"

"It's dead, but he just lost a piece of meat." Tom turned his head and pressed Jerry directly under his head, and it said weakly: "Perhaps people and cats are not equal, just like cats and fish and mice. "

Jerry knew that wasn't the point, but he still couldn't help asking: "Me and me! I'm a mouse too."

Tom was still lamenting the ruthlessness of the natural world. When he heard Jerry's words, he propped his chin and said in a long tail: "You are a mouse? This is really shocking news for cats."

Jerry grabbed its beard and said briskly, "Say it quickly, it's me."

Tom squeezed its tail, brought it to his eyes, and said with lowered eyes: "You always like to ask such questions, why can't you remember. You are the most special mouse, Jerry. The most special... "

As he spoke, he leaned over and licked Jerry, swallowed his saliva on purpose, and said in a low voice, "The most special snack, you are safe until I decide whether to make sashimi or fried little mice."

Jerry shivered, struggled to jump onto the bed, stuck his head/under the pillow, showing his trembling little ass/butt.

Tom lay on his side next to the pillow, popped out the sharp point of his claws, and pricked it lightly.

Ethan didn't come back until midnight. He threw himself on the bed and said wearily, "Sorry, I didn't have time to make dinner for you today."

Tom was woken up. He yawned and climbed onto Ethan's body to step on the milk and prepare to go back to sleep.

Jerry asked in a low voice, "How's the investigation going?"

"That man doesn't know anything. He posted about cat abuse before, and then someone found him." Wearing a blindfold, Ethan said, "A woman gave him a milk cat, and the apartment's The key. Falsely claiming to be my ex-girlfriend, and hired him for $[-]. Said to get revenge on me, let him kill a cat in my living room, and draw the designated mark to intimidate me."

"Al, have they found anything?"

"The police department has records of the 'Red Goat' logo dating back to the 50s. It's a small, unnoticed cult that's only recently become active. They believe in a self-created ' Horn Devil', also known as 'Red Goat'. They believe that after death, people will go to another world and get a new life." Ethan recalled: "The people who joined the 'Red Goat' were all unsatisfactory people."

Ethan seemed to be caught in some memories. He paused and continued: "They have poor people, rich people who are bankrupt, veterans suffering from illnesses, and ordinary people whose lives have suddenly changed. They have nothing to do in the real world. If you change your current situation, it will only get worse in the future. So they hope to realize their wishes in another world after death."

After Ethan finished his statement, the room became quiet again, only Tom snoring could be heard.

After a while, Jerry asked hesitantly: "Those terrorists before were also followers of the 'Red Goat'? I have also been to church, and the people there are not like that."

"One is a formal religion, the other is a cult, they are different." Ethan stroked Tom's hair and said softly: "The followers of the 'Red Goat' believe that only by sacrificing living people can they get what they want from the devil. .”

Jerry thought for a long time, and said curiously: "Ethan, if there is no other world after they die, will they go to the red goat to settle accounts?"

"Devils are like angels, they are all virtual." Ethan nodded Jerry's head and said, "I respect other people's beliefs, but to be honest, I am a materialist."

"But I've seen them all." Jerry said seriously: "Whenever I'm hesitating whether to kill Tom, I can see them, even though they're only Jerry's models. You haven't seen them, then Do you want to see it?"