Time manager

"All! What happened to me just now?" Lian Ping woke up and called the system immediately.

He felt as if he had said something strange just now, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

"You were crawled on by a cat, and you have severe asthma due to allergies," the system said.

"I know it's an allergy again, I wonder if I said something nonsense?"

"I don't know, I don't know why, the spiritual connection between me and the host was suddenly broken just now."

"What do you mean disconnected?!" Lian Ping immediately became nervous.

"The host can be understood as a network disconnection."

"Oh..." Lian Ping was relieved.He has experienced hundreds of bugs, it's a trivial matter to drop the line.As for cats...just stay away from them in the future.

He was thinking about it, but Shi Jing couldn't relax.

Lian Ping actually revealed his identity as the time manager!

But this is impossible.Lian Ping did not know his identity.

Then the most suspicious thing is only this black cat.Only it has seen the world at rest.

So at this time, one person and one cat are sitting face to face, and they are all very serious.

"Did you say what Lian Ping said just now?" Shi Jing asked straight to the point.

The black cat nodded.

really!This black cat is no ordinary cat.Shi Jing thought, and asked again: "Do you know the time manager?"

The black cat continued to nod.

Shi Jing took the note and asked it: "Then do you know what this is?"

The black cat sniffed the notes suspiciously and shook his head.

Can't recognize the time note...how did it recognize the manager?It stands to reason that the notes have changed owners many times, which means that the manager can be changed, but the notes should always exist.

"Xiao, what do you think? How does this cat know?"

[Outsiders do not know the existence of the manager. 】The notes said. [Even managers do not necessarily know other managers.However, the Time Keeper is the oldest being born, and his existence is also the most widely known. 】

Shi Jing looked at the cat and asked another question: "Then is it possible that the other managers are animals?"

【impossible.Managers must be advanced intelligent life forms with independent personality and ideology in order to control various forces. 】

"Then why does this cat know the manager..."

[The only possibility is that it, like me, is a media tool used by a manager to control power. 】

Shi Jing understood.He looked at the black cat: "Your master is also the manager?"

The black cat immediately stood up excitedly, obviously the answer was yes, but because it couldn't speak, it could only pace back and forth anxiously.

Shi Jing saw it.The cat's owner, the manager, I'm afraid...

Based on what he said in the notes, he asked solemnly: "He disappeared?"

The black cat whimpered sadly.

"I understand." Shi Jing said, "You should recuperate at home first, and we can continue our discussion when I come back from get off work."

He also probably guessed the purpose of the black cat.Since its owner and he belong to the manager of this world, the purpose of the cat's approach to him is obvious - to ask for help.

So Shi Jing put water and food for the cat, and went to work as usual.

On the way, he asked: "When I was young, which managers have you met?"

Although the time manager is the most well-known existence, the black cat can indeed judge that he is the manager after seeing the ability to freeze time.but……

He thought of the calm expression of the black cat when he saw the still world for the first time, and he was very suspicious. The cat had seen similar scenes before.The owner of the black cat, then, may have met the Time Manager before, maybe even was familiar with it.

[A manager who masters wind, water, and good luck used to interact more with time managers. 】The notes said.

[I understand what the master means.However, the form of managers' tools is not fixed.For example, a long time ago, I was not a notebook.So, I haven't seen the cat and can't tell which handler it belongs to. 】

This can be troublesome.

Shi Jing remembered that only he could hear the voice of the note, so the only one who could talk to the cat should be the cat's owner.

cat owner...

Shi Jing came to the door of the library, looked at the place where the orange cat was squatting by the flower bed yesterday, and suddenly remembered that the orange cat...was entrusted to the owner of the thrift shop.

The two cats seem to have a good relationship.Maybe the owner of the orange cat has met the owner of the black cat, maybe even had a relationship?

He entered the library with heavy thoughts, only to remember that Lian Ping was afraid that the orange cat would appear again, so he didn't go with him today, but arrived early.

"Ms. Shi, have you heard?" Lian Ping said mysteriously as he went upstairs, "Last night someone was scratched by a cat, on the way we came to work."

Shi Jing didn't pay much attention to local gossip, so he frowned and said, "No way, if it's not provoked, cats shouldn't take the initiative to attack people."

"Who knows. Anyway, the man was seriously injured. It is said that he fainted. The cleaners didn't find him until the morning. So I have been staring at the cats in the neighborhood recently. You should keep an eye on the one in your house. Don't Let it run around again." Lian Ping said.

No wonder the orange cat didn't squat at the door of the library this morning... Shi Jing thought.

"It can't be that black cat, can it?" Someone behind said, "The one that often hangs around outside our museum looks particularly fierce. Besides, the black cat looks very unlucky."

Shi Jing looked over and saw that the man was an old man from the cleaning department, so he stopped and said seriously: "Sister Liang, no matter whether a cat is black or white, a cat that catches mice is a good cat, there is no such thing as auspicious or unlucky.

"Currently cats can't catch mice." Sister Liang laughed.

Of course, Shi Jing didn't expect to use popular science to convince others of superstition, so he changed his route.

"Of course, if you have to say it from the perspective of mysticism, it should be said that the black cat is more spiritual and can predict certain omens. Wherever it appears, it may indicate danger. Therefore, it is not that the black cat brings bad luck, It's the catastrophe itself that is about to happen, and the black cat is just drawn to warn others."

"Oh, it does sound like that." Sister Liang said dubiously.

"Sister Liang, just listen to superstitions, don't take them seriously." Lian Ping also chimed in, "Teacher Wang Xu also said that black cats ward off evil spirits and guard houses. Who do you think is right?"

"Really?? Teacher Wang really said that... Oh, it must be true." Sister Liang said with certainty, and led the people to work with a smile.

Only then did Shi Jing notice that Lu Sheng was right behind her.It's just that when Sister Liang spoke, he was hiding and no one noticed at all.

This man changed into a cleaning uniform, and he looked much more energetic, but he was still timid, especially when he passed by him and Lian Ping, he seemed particularly panicked and frightened. Go up to Miss Liang.

Shi Jing originally wanted to talk to him, but...forget it, the working hours matter.

Lu Sheng turned up the stairs, then sneaked a glance down, and found that Shi Jing didn't pay special attention to his appearance, and secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

He obediently received the tools and assigned tasks, while working, while dreading what happened yesterday.

That person actually didn't faint because of the cat's attack, but was knocked unconscious by him with a brick.However, now that the rumor has turned into a cat, no one should suspect him... He can finally get rid of the cat's stalking.

However, Lu Sheng heaved a sigh of relief, recalling what Shi Jing said just now, and inexplicably jumped out of an idea——

Maybe, the cat didn't follow and monitor him all the time, but came here because it sensed that he would run into that madman...

Then did he blame the cat?

But if he didn't knock that one time, the little orange cat would be finished.Lu Sheng thought in distress.