poor road [end times]

This familiar color scheme.

Yang Yiqin called tentatively, "Huahua?"

I still remember the little girl who was rescued, that's how she called this black and white pastoral cat.

Hearing his call, the black and white garden cat blinked its smart eyes, jumped onto the window sill lightly, lowered its head and put down the mouse in its mouth.It first licked its paw gracefully, and then gave a "meow" as an answer.

The mouse was already dead. Its neck had blood holes from its teeth, and its body was scratched by sharp claws. The bones leaked out.

Huahua licked her paws well, jumped off the window sill, walked to Yang Yiqin's feet and turned around a few times.

Yang Yiqin looked down at it, and found that it looked much healthier than a week ago. Its black and white fur was clean and soft, and its dry body became much rounder.

It seems that the recent food is good.

It is unbelievable that the paws of this garden cat are like iron hooks, very hard and sharp. It can not only catch huge mice, but also firmly hold the outer walls of buildings and climb up several floors of tall buildings. .

Could it be that the mutated fat mouse ate too much?

However, from the appearance of the garden cat, Yang Yiqin can more or less deduce that it has lived a good life after leaving the village.At that time, I was afraid that it was only to guard the siblings in the village, and to be vigilant about the situation in the village at all times, so as to find the right time to ask for help, so as to save the two siblings, so that they became so embarrassed.

Looking back now, when Huahua appeared in front of them, her eyes seemed to be examining—it was considering whether the person in front of her was suitable for asking for help.

This shows that it should be able to distinguish between good and evil in people.

Yang Yiqin squatted down, looked at the cat, and asked in a communicative tone.

"Huahua, do you want to find your little master?"

The base will provide free board and lodging for children under the age of 12 and elderly people over the age of 65, without labor exchange.I heard that the siblings are still living in the patient's rest room of the temporary hospital. They were too surprised and without their parents to accompany them. Before they have a better place to live, they will be temporarily handed over to the medical staff to take care of them.

Huahua shook the cat's head: "Meow~"

I don't want to.

Then it came here... just to catch mice?

Yang Yiqin looked at the dirty mouse on the windowsill, and continued to ask, "Do you need to wash it for you?"

Maybe it is a cat pursuing a refined life.

Unexpectedly, the black cat shook its white head again and rejected his proposal.

Yang Yiqin smiled: "Could it be that the original taste is good for getting used to the virus in mice?"

After all, it is no longer a domestic cat. If it cannot adapt to the environment, it may lose its life at any time in the dangerous end times.

This time, Huahua actually nodded.

After answering the question, it jumped onto the window sill again, stood on the edge of the window sill and looked down, as if waiting for something.

Yang Yiqin and Feng Lin looked at each other, and walked to the window facing the playground.

Then, Yang Yiqin was shocked to find that there was a bunch of little fur balls under the window sill on the third floor—some of them had black and white fur, and some were pure black. Can't find where the head is at all.

Yang Yiqin counted, and there were a total of six little fur balls crawling on the wall.

Although they are still young, they also have sharp claws like steel hooks like Huahua. At this moment, they are struggling to grab the wall with their small claws, lined up in a vertical row, and squirmed upwards one after another.

Seeing that the nearest one is about to climb to the edge of the window sill.

Huahua stood on the window sill, staring at them with wide-open eyes, and would give a soft "meow" from time to time.I don't know whether to encourage them or teach them the skills to climb the wall.

After all, it was too young, and it took a lot of effort=with all its strength, the kitten at the front who looked the most like Hua Hua finally managed to climb up the window sill.It hung its head down and walked to Huahua's side, stretching out its tongue to dissipate the heat from exhaustion.

This is a good sign.

Next, the second, third...the fifth kitten did not disgrace its mission and successfully climbed up.

The last kitten was a pure black cat. It was noticeably thinner than the other kittens, and its movements of grasping the wall were precarious and unsteady at all, which shocked Yang Yiqin.When it was only two steps away from climbing up the window sill, a strong wind suddenly blew outside, and the already shaking little black cat almost fell downstairs.

Yang Yiqin's heart trembled, and he subconsciously reached out to fish it out.

At this time, Huahua, who had only occasionally "meowed" twice, suddenly stood up and stood in front of Yang Yiqin, preventing him from trying to reach out for help.Knowing that Huahua was training its children, Yang Yiqin didn't act rashly, but the worry in his heart still lingered, because the little black cat was too small.

Huahua looked at the little milk cat hanging on the wall, and "meowed" at it twice.

In an instant, the all-black kitten tightened its grip and gripped the wall firmly. The cat's face was wrinkled, and it struggled to climb up the window sill while screaming.

The moment it climbed onto the window sill, it lay on its back on the window sill, closed its eyes and gasped for breath.The other kittens came up one after another and licked its head and belly, as if to praise it.

After untold hardships, the six kittens finally arrived at the window sill safely.

Yang Yiqin also breathed a sigh of relief.

The window sill was full at the moment—there was the corpse of a dead mouse, a round black and white garden cat, and six kittens waiting to be fed.

Only then did Yang Yiqin realize that the kittens were a full circle smaller than the fat mouse next to them.

"These rats are too unreasonable." Yang Yiqin turned his head and said to Feng Lin, "These rats have mutated so much, do they want to disappear from the diet of natural enemies?"

Feng Lin looked at Hua Hua who was licking his paw, and said, "At least it hasn't disappeared yet."

"That's true." Yang Yiqin also stroked the fur of two little black cats, "In order not to be abandoned by the food chain, you must work hard to grow bigger, so that the wild mice will be scared when they look at it."

Sandstorms cause species to mutate, and the mutation is passed on from generation to generation, which is very beneficial to a population such as mice, which have a short life span and reproduce quickly.

I just hope there is a limit to this variation.

These pastoral cats are very smart, so smart that it is unreasonable. In terms of IQ, they must crush wild mice.As long as the size of wild mice does not continue to grow, there is no need to worry about their status for the time being.

The little black cat, which was as black as coal, was extremely cute. It spread its limbs and let Yang Yiqin stroke him. By the way, he rubbed his head against the palm of the opponent's hand, and "meowed" a few times.

Seeing this, several other kittens came up to lick Yang Yiqin's hand one by one.

Yang Yiqin helped the big cat, and after the mother cat returned to the nest, his breath was on her body, so the kittens did not reject him.

Huahua squatted gracefully aside, not stopping her child from getting close to humans.

Among these cats, the three older cats all look like mothers, with different black and white patterns, but they are all very cute without exception; there are two smaller cats that are almost completely black, with only small spots on their paws, tails, and bellies. As for the smallest cat that Yang Yiqin picked up, it was completely black, so black that there was no stray hair.

"Tell me, what is their father like?" Yang Yiqin smiled with his eyes bent, scratched the little black cat's chin, and enjoyed the other's clingy lick, "I think it will be a very smart cat, otherwise Huahua should dislike it .”

At this time, Huahua is sitting in a dignified posture, not at all like a village cat who can catch mice and climb tall buildings.

Sensing the softness in Yang Yiqin's eyes, Feng Lin asked, "Did you think of the cat you raised before?"

"Yeah." Yang Yiqin nodded, "It's been years in a blink of an eye."

When he was young, Yang Yiqin raised a cat.

It is also a strong and lively female raccoon cat with short, soft yellow and white fur. Because it is inconvenient to keep pets at home, it has been kept at my grandfather's house in the country.The cat was not close to anyone except him and his grandfather. Later, his grandfather died of old age, and the cat also passed away irretrievably in his later years.

After losing two important family members in succession, he never had a pet again.

Feng Lin: "Do you want to raise it?"

"No, you can see that they all have this ability, and they definitely don't need to be raised by humans." Yang Yiqin shook his head, "If I'm right, mother cat doesn't mean to let us raise them, but just find a place to stay temporarily. The place."

Hua Huaying said the same, "meow".

Yang Yiqin asked it curiously: "How did you find us?"

They drive very fast, no matter how powerful the cat is, it should not be able to catch up with it—not to mention that it has a family with it.

Hearing this, Huahua moved her nose, stood up and walked around on the window sill twice.

"...According to the smell?" Yang Yiqin raised his arm, smelled the smell on his body, and asked with a smile, "Are you cats or puppies?"

Hua Hua licked her paws: "Meow."

Yang Yiqin smiled: "It's a cat."

Yang Yiqin had wondered before why the Tianyuan cat disappeared immediately after the siblings were rescued.Looking back now, it should have gone to feed its own children immediately.

These kittens seem to be just full-term. Even if they have the ability to climb concrete walls, they are not suitable for survival in the perilous apocalypse.Probably because of this, the black and white cat mother brought them to the human base, so that they could be guaranteed before they grow up.

And it is very witty, knowing that the little human masters in the past do not have the conditions to take care of them temporarily, and others may not even be able to solve the most basic survival... Finally, I found the one I had met before, who seemed very strong And Yang Yiqin who is easy to get along with.

Huahua seemed to understand their communication.

It approached Yang Yiqin, rubbed the back of his hand, then walked to the dead mouse on the window sill, and rolled the mouse's corpse with its black-haired paw.After rolling two times, it looked at Yang Yiqin again, and Yang Yiqin's face was clearly reflected in the yellow orange eyeballs.

In Huahua's view, catching the mouse that ate the roast chicken was an act of "exchange of equal value".

"Thank you." Yang Yiqin chuckled, seeing that Huahua didn't show any resistance, he touched its head too, "If there are still mice, I'll leave it to you."

After speaking, he looked at the supplies on the wooden bed board in the corner.

There is also a deserted monitoring room in their office. The monitoring room is not very big, but it is more than enough to live in Tianyuanmao's family.It just needs to be a temporary nest, otherwise the kittens may not be able to withstand the cold at night.

Feng Lin understood what he meant and found a big washbasin.

Yang Yiqin pulled out a blanket.

The two just piled up the blankets in the washbasin, and under Huahua's command, several kittens jumped into it one by one like dumpling.Afterwards, Yang Yiqin put the washbasin into the monitoring room, and opened a gap in the monitoring window.

This gap is reserved for Huahua, which is convenient for her to go out and train the milk cat to climb the wall.

After finishing this, it was almost two o'clock in the morning.

Whether you are sleepy or not, Yang Yiqin and Feng Lin haven't eaten dinner yet, and the two young adult men feel uncomfortable if they miss a meal.

Although the roast chicken was gone, they still took out bags of kelp and pickles, opened a box of canned dace in bean sauce, and steamed the cooked rice for tonight's dinner.

Before going to bed at night, Feng Lin put one leg on Yang Yiqin's side and circled him.

Yang Yiqin kissed him: "You've worked hard today."

In this short day, I have done too many things.

Feng Lin lowered his head and deepened the kiss.

The next day, the two rarely slept until almost eight o'clock before getting up.

—was awakened by a knock on the door.

Feng Lin opened his eyes first.

As soon as he heard the knock on the door, he subconsciously covered Yang Yiqin's ears, but he still couldn't stop him from being woken up from his sleep.

Therefore, Feng Lin frowned and glared at the office door.

I don't know if it was influenced by the pastoral cats yesterday, Yang Yiqin opened his eyes, first rubbed Feng Lin's palm unconsciously, and then sat up leisurely.

"Who is it?" The quilt slid down from Yang Yiqin's chest, revealing a lean and strong waist without a trace of fat, "Feng Lin, what time is it in the morning?"

No one answered.

Yang Yiqin turned his head in doubt, looked at Feng Lin who was sleeping next to him, and found that the other party was in a daze, inexplicably dazed.

"Feng Lin?"

"...Ah. Sorry."

Feng Lin rubbed his palms, there seemed to be the touch of Yang Yiqin's cheek.

He pulled up the quilt for the other party, put aside the messy movement in his heart, and then continued: "I'll go see who is outside, if you are sleepy, you can take a nap."

At this time, Yang Yiqin was fully awake.

He shook his head and said with a smile, "It's okay, I should get up too." After he finished speaking, he casually put on a shirt and trousers to cover his well-shaped body, and walked towards the monitoring room, "Trouble You open the door, I'll go and see Huahua."

Feng Lin watched his back disappear into the door, and then he said: "Okay."

It was Wang Che who knocked on the door desperately early in the morning.

Facing Feng Lin's murderous gaze, Wang Che hurriedly explained the cause, process, and result of the matter in a few words, trying to shift the responsibility to other people: "Wait! Listen to me first! It was Dr. Liang and Captain Qian who asked me to come and find someone of!!"

After finishing speaking, he tightly closed his eyes, waiting for the "God's Punishment".

After waiting for a while, there was still no movement, Wang Che quietly opened one eye, and saw Yang Yiqin hugging a black milk cat, looking at him with a half-smile.

"...Brother Yang." Wang Che breathed a sigh of relief, "I thought you were still sleeping."

"I was sleeping." Yang Yiqin said, "Come in first."

Wang Che immediately raised his foot and walked in.

He looked into Yang Yiqin's arms curiously: "Brother Yang, where did this kitten come from?"

"I found it myself." Yang Yiqin briefly stated, "I guess I will only stay here for a few days."

After finishing speaking, he bent down, put the milk cat on the ground, and let the cat run around.

Feng Lin said, "Let's wash up first."

After washing up and having breakfast, it's another busy day.

Yang Yiqin was staring at the cat, when he heard this, he turned around and said to Feng Lin, "You go first."

Feng Lin nodded: "Okay."

Wang Che was still puzzled: "Did such a small cat find you by itself? How did it find you?"

The base's gate and cells are clearly guarded.

Yang Yiqin explained: "It climbed into the window along the outer wall."

"...the outer wall?" Wang Che was shocked, "Can it still be called a cat?"

This is a leopard, right?

Even a leopard can't walk freely on a concrete wall.

"Look for yourself." Yang Yiqin raised his chin, followed the little black cat running all over the ground with his eyes, "How is it not like a cat?"

"It's a cat, so cute." Wang Che sighed, "And...it's so dark."

If it was at night, they would not be able to find where the cat was.

Forget it.

These days, the rats are huge, the lambs are attacking people impulsively, and even zombies have appeared... The cats just climbed a few floors of the outer wall, and it's really not a big deal.

Human beings should accept this changing world with open arms.

Just as he had made this plan, a black and white cat suddenly jumped onto the windowsill of the office from outside.

Wang Che was startled: "Big...there are big ones!"

Yang Yiqin explained: "That's their cat mother, named Huahua."

Another big mouse was in Huahua's mouth. The mouse on the window sill had disappeared yesterday, so it must have entered its stomach.

Wang Che: "...they?"

At this time, other kittens who heard the mother cat come back from the monitoring room began to "meow" one after another.Not long after, a string of fur balls came out in line.

The formation was actually the same as when they climbed the wall yesterday.

Yang Yiqin praised: "The training is really good."

Hearing this, Huahua held her head high and proudly wagged her tail.

Wang Che's world view was refreshed again: "Wow, it understands..."

The kittens are in good spirits, and they all look satiated. Presumably, the black and white cat mother specially fed them after getting up early and eating the mice last night.

Obviously, Huahua wants to train and feed the kitten in his own way, so Yang Yiqin is not going to intervene until it asks for help.

Also occasionally stroking the kitten.

After making sure that all the cats in the room were fine, Yang Yiqin looked at Wang Che and asked, "What are you doing here so early?"

Feng Lin came back from the shower and said, "He said that Dr. Liang and Captain Qian asked him to come and find someone."

"Yes!" Wang Che said hastily, "Dr. Liang wants zombie animals, Captain Qian said to discuss with you."

Yang Yiqin was puzzled: "Ask us to discuss?"

Wang Che nodded: "He said that you seem to be very experienced."

Yang Yiqin: "..."

I don't quite understand.

It may be that they sent too many materials to the laboratory. Qian Guowei felt that as long as it was them, they could always find good experimental materials.

Thinking of this, Yang Yiqin leaned over to look at Huahua.

The black and white pastoral cat opened its bright orange eyes, and looked at him with a "meow".

"Huahua, have you ever seen a zombie mouse?" Yang Yiqin made a gesture, "It's the kind of mouse with red eyes, a stinky body, maybe a wound, and the most important thing is that it doesn't look very smart. "

Huahua understood, it thought for a moment, then shook its head.

No zombie rats around?

At this time, Wang Che said, "By the way, Captain Qian said that he asked the warden, who said that in the past two years, no prisoner or prison guard has responded to the problem of rats."

Warden?

It's been almost half a month since he came to the base, and Yang Yiqin hasn't met the legendary warden yet.

However, there were no rats in the prison before, which means that these fat rats are probably not from the base, at least they did not live in the sewer network under the base.Now if they are allowed to come back to the base and steal everyone's food, they will nest under the base sooner or later, and it will be difficult to handle.

Maybe there will be a plague of rats.

Feng Lin rubbed his head and said, "You can ask Lihuamao."

Yang Yiqin looked at Huahua: "Can you tell us where the mouse was caught?"

Huahua understood, nodded the cat's head, and then jumped onto the windowsill, stretching out her paws and pointing towards the west of the base.

"It's so spiritual..." After sighing, Wang Che squinted at the window and looked into the distance, "The fruit forest in the west?"

"I guess it's a corn field." Yang Yiqin corrected him, "The other end of the orchard is a corn field and a small village."

Generally, after the wheat is harvested in the northern region, corn will continue to be planted in the field, and the corn will be harvested around late September.Now that the time has entered mid-July, when he and Feng Lin patrolled the vicinity of the base, they would often pass by the cornfield.

Because no one fertilizes and weeds, the growth of corn stalks is not satisfactory.If you add the damage of rats, you may get nothing this year.

At that time, before the base is expanded to the west of the building, the crops of that field will be wasted for one season.

"Huahua, can you show us?" Yang Yiqin looked at Tianyuanmao, "We need your help."

He has been communicating with Tianyuanmao in a deliberative tone, as if treating it as a mature-minded peer.

Huahua also seemed to like him very much, and nodded her head in response to requests: "Meow."

"...What about the zombie animals?" Wang Che interrupted immediately, "Captain Qian and Dr. Liang are still waiting for a response."

"Energy is limited, so we can only solve the immediate problems first. Let's deal with them one by one, and put the matter of zombie animals behind the matter of mutant mice." Yang Yiqin instructed him, "Go and mention this matter to Captain Qian, please. He sent people together to check the situation in the fields east of the base."

Wang Che nodded: "Alright."

After finishing speaking, he left in a hurry, and followed Yang Yiqin's instructions to give Qian Guowei a message.

Afterwards, Yang Yiqin quickly washed and tidied up, and was ready to go in a short while.

Taking advantage of this time, Huahua ate the newly caught fat mouse.

When they were about to go out, the little milk cats realized that they were not on the travel list, and they all acted coquettishly.

For a moment, six fur balls surrounded Yang Yiqin's feet—they didn't dare to beg the strict mother cat, nor did they dare to beg Feng Lin, who was hard-hearted at first glance, thinking that only Yang Yiqin who smelled good could take them go out.

Who knew that Yang Yiqin would not be moved.

Huahua gave a serious "meow", and all the cats stopped acting coquettishly, and lined up to the monitoring room listlessly.

Looking at their well-behaved backs, Yang Yiqin's heart softened, and he couldn't help but comfort him: "Learn from Huahua, and when you grow up, you can go out and catch mice."

Otherwise, none of them would be as big as a wild mouse, and it would be unknown who caught whom.