Not too many out of four

There is no doctor or place where cats can be seen in Saibo Street.

Zhong Yuanzhong can only go to places outside Leibo Street to find a veterinarian. Medicines are rare in Leibo Street, but the price may be more expensive outside Leibo Street. There are always medicines to buy.

What worries him is the current chaos in Yokohama. There may not be doctors working at night.

"Hold on, you know?" He put the cat into his pocket and hid it, a small ball huddled in his hand, trembling uncomfortably, "I will find a doctor for you."

After all, the cat got sick because it ate his rice balls, and at first it was frightened by the stones he kicked over. We can't leave the cat like this on the side of the road.

"...Mi." Li Jia, who was nestled in the boy's pocket, couldn't see clearly, but could only vaguely see the big hand falling beside her, with blue circles on the wrist.

She didn't know if she would die, but she felt that her body was a little cold now, and she instinctively moved her close to the boy's hand to get some warmth, and the rice scent and oil remaining on her fingers tempted her flat and hungry stomach.

But Li Jia didn't dare to make any big moves at will, she was afraid that the vigilant teenager would suddenly throw her out of her pocket.

"Hey, is anyone there?" "Is anyone else in there?" "There's a sick cat here that needs treatment."

She heard that the boy ran around a lot, but no one seemed to be there, and the huddled cat paws moved restlessly. Li Jia wanted to speak out to dissuade him, but let it be if he couldn't find it.

She is not a person who likes troublesome people, knowing that the young worry has traveled so many places for her, she is already very grateful.

It's a pity that cats can't speak human words, so they can't let the boy understand what she means.

The body was hidden in the boy's pocket, and she could clearly feel the other person's panting breath and heaving chest. Li Jia turned her head slightly and licked his fingers, making a soft voice: "Mi."

As someone who met by chance, the boy has already helped her too much.

"... Excuse me, there is a sick cat here." I ran around Yokohama a lot, and finally found a pet hospital that was still open in a remote location.

Zhong Yuanzhong also let out a long breath, stretched out his hand to cover the cat in his pocket, carefully took it out and held it in the palm of his hand.

"Is this your cat?" The veterinarian simply turned Li Jia's ears in his palm, and then looked at her teeth and fur.

Although it is covered in dust and tiny cobwebs like rolling out of a coal pile, its hair is very smooth, and there are no ear mites or skin diseases. Except for a flat stomach, it is no different from a domestic cat just by observing it this way.

"No," Zhong Yuanzhong was also a little embarrassed: "I saw it on the side of the road. I fed her some rice balls, but I vomited them all up."

He didn't say that he picked up the cat on Leibo Street. People in Yokohama City don't have a good impression of the people living in Leibo Street. identity of.

Seeing the veterinarian take the cat in his hand, Zhong Yuan Zhong also felt a little bit reluctant, trying to suppress the subtle and weird feeling, telling himself that the doctor was only treating the cat.

"The stomach is so flat, maybe I haven't eaten for a day." The veterinarian checked the black cat in his hand over and over again. He thought it was a kitten that hadn't been weaned yet, but when he looked at the teeth, he found that the cat had been around for two or three months. It looks like a kitten.

"Do you want to give her a detailed examination?" The veterinarian told Nakahara Chuya euphemistically. The price may be a heavy burden for a student like him, but if you want to know the physical condition of the kitten picked up by the roadside, a comprehensive examination is definitely It is indispensable, as well as vaccines and deworming.

Of course, these are all due to the teenager's willingness to adopt a cat. If not, there is no need for Zhongyuanzhong to pay all the money. Anyway, he doesn't plan to raise a cat, and there is no need to empty his wallet and bear debts.

Zhong Yuanzhong also asked about the approximate price, and was silent for a long time: "Can I pay on credit first?"

"Do you want to raise her?" The veterinarian touched the smooth fur under his hand and sincerely persuaded him: "This cat was probably domesticated before, and it has a good personality and will not scratch people. As long as the vaccine and deworming are done, it can be taken back. .”

A person who can be a veterinarian is naturally a person who loves animals, and he does not object to Zhong Yuanzhong also proposing credit, but if the teenager does not plan to adopt the little black cat, it may be difficult to find an adopter in the future.

He also kept a lot of pets himself, and he was really unable to adopt another black cat, so he could only try his best to persuade Zhong Yuanzhong to take her away.

"...No, you can find another adopter for the cat."

Zhong Yuanzhong also showed embarrassment, and said in a low voice: "My situation is not suitable for keeping cats."

He himself lives on Lei Bo Street, and his life is unstable and there is no safe place for cats to live. The children who take cats back to the base at will will not agree.

It is difficult for them to even support themselves. Having an extra cat is almost equivalent to adding another burden. If the cat moves around the base, he still has to worry that the cat will be secretly picked up by the greedy children.

"Under the current situation, it's hard to find an adopter." The veterinarian shook his head and sighed, and decided to do a comprehensive checkup for the cat first, make up for the lack of vaccines, and repel the worms if there are few.

Li Jia nested at the consultation desk of the pet hospital, turned her head to look at Zhongya Zhongyuan: "Mi..."

The thin and weak cry attracted the attention of the pensive teenager, he always pulled out his hand from his pocket and stroked the cat's head, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, I will find an adopter for you. "

The black cat looked at him quietly with its beautiful blue cat eyes, as if it could understand the human nature and knew that Zhong Yuanzhong was also the one who helped her. Originally, he would only curl up and gently rub against the shivering cat.

Zhong Yuanzhong was also a little surprised and pleasantly surprised: "Does she like me?"

What could be more satisfying than the cat that just shivered and shed tears when I saw him just now, and suddenly obediently came over to be petted and hugged.

The veterinarian, who didn't see that the cat moved over by himself, beat him mercilessly: "No, she's just timid."

Cats that are truly loved ones will make a peaceful purring sound anytime, anywhere, and take the initiative to get close to humans and ask for petting. Black cats like black cats do not resist, bite, or refuse. At best, they are timid and dare not move around.

Of course, compared to some cats who are afraid of nervousness and will breathe fiercely, the timidity of black cats is much more docile and harmless.

……

Although there is no way to pay off the cat's treatment fee in one go, but Zhongyuanzhong is also a person who loves small animals, so the veterinarian gave him a discount, and by the way, he has more time for credit.

Li Jia now stays in the cage of the pet hospital every day, so she doesn't need to worry about eating and drinking for the time being, but it is not easy to get out of the cage.

With her soft nails, she couldn't open the lock of the cage at all.

In order to prevent someone from stealing the cat after he left after work, the veterinarian here directly locked the cage firmly with a metal lock, and he was responsible for taking the key away. There was no chance of the cat getting out and re-locking the cage right away.

Even if she wanted to tease the cat, she still waved the cat teasing stick across the cage. Li Jia watched the beautiful cat-attracting feathers flickering in front of her, and was not in the mood to play with the cat teasing stick at all. She just lay quietly and depressed in the cage.

As soon as Zhongyuan Zhongye entered the door, he saw the veterinarian waving the cat teasing stick in boredom, and the black cat in the cage slumped up listlessly. He couldn't help frowning and asked, "Is she not feeling well?"

Obviously, the test results show that the black cat is in good health. As long as it is vaccinated and dewormed, it will be a healthy kitten again.

"Mi?" Li Jia shook her ears, trying to look in the direction of the sound.

Mao Mao's head squeezed out of the gap in the cage, and her body was stuck and it was difficult to get out. She yelled weakly: "Muh."

The cage in the pet hospital is like this. It gave her hope and made her realize that only a head can come out, and the body cannot be squeezed at all.

Zhong Yuanzhong also laughed and stepped forward, poked the black cat's head and pushed it back carefully: "Don't run out, the outside is not as safe as here."

Recently, the chaos on Leibo Street has gradually spread outwards, spreading to the urban area of ​​Yokohama. Many people are afraid to go out or run shops at will. If it weren't for the remote location of this pet hospital, they might also be involved in the disturbance Among the ripples.

He came this time to pay off all the debts owed to the veterinarian, and to see how the little black cat living here is doing.

"Are you really not planning to adopt her?" The veterinarian simply counted the money and made sure that it was safe to put it in his pocket. Now he dare not even put money in the cash box in the hospital, for fear that there will be thieves breaking into the house at night.

Zhongyuan Zhong also reached into the cage to touch the black cat, he slowly shook his head and said, "I don't have the ability to raise her well."

Even his own life is at stake, a monster who doesn't know when the beast in his body will explode, how dare he expect to support such a weak life.

Even the cat will be involved in the disaster that broke out with that guy, so it's better to find a good home for her to adopt.

"You can't find an adopter in a few days if you don't raise it, so I can only send the cat Anle away." The veterinarian put away the cat teaser and said calmly: "Yokohama is getting more and more chaotic. If I don't leave, I worry that I will die Get out of here with your life."

"Send An Le away?" Zhong Yuanzhong also frowned, and suddenly understood what the veterinarian said, his face changed slightly: "Are you going to kill her? Even if you leave, you can release her, right?"

He could understand the veterinarian's desire to move away from Yokohama, away from danger and man-made disasters, but he didn't understand why the black cat was killed.

"It's impossible," the veterinarian shrugged and said lightly, "We can't adopt her, and she doesn't look like she can survive alone outside, and she can easily become someone else's meat when she goes out, as she is. It would be better to send her away intact, painless and disaster-free."

Given the current chaotic situation in Yokohama, probably no one would want to raise animals.

The veterinarian gritted his teeth and decided to take away the pets that he had been keeping with him for a long time because they were already family members. One more cat could not afford her life.

Li Jia lowered her head slightly, and quietly shrank her body.

She couldn't ask for help, and she couldn't tell people that she used to be a human and not a cat.

Tears overflowed her eyes and moistened her hair. She also knew that stray animals that had not been adopted for a long time would be euthanized, but now she didn't even have the ability to resist.

She misses her family, her brother and her friends very much.

Even the cries for help that she could barely utter were weak and pitiful meows, and she couldn't even save herself.

Just as the veterinarian said, she lived a life of wandering in hiding outside, and maybe she would be caught by very hungry people to eat meat.

She didn't know why Yokohama was so chaotic as a port city, but she just vaguely began to understand that this was not the Kanagawa Yokohama she knew.

The boy with the poet's name in front of him also has a special ability that she has never seen or heard of.

This is Japan, but it is not the Japan she is familiar with.

Even the crying was silent, if it wasn't for the shivering and trembling of the huddled body, the black cat would not have been found crying in the Central Plains, as if he understood what they said and knew that his life was not long.

He silently looked at the black cat curled up in the innermost part of the cage, and pursed his lips: "...I adopted her."

"I'm going to raise her," he crushed the strong lock into powder with his bare hands, and gently lifted the palm-sized black cat out, "I want to raise her."

A smile appeared on the calm face of the veterinarian: "She is two shots away from the vaccine. I left the injections for you. You can take the cat food, cat litter, and cat teasers here if you can."

Anyway, he wasn't going to take these things away to escape. His family had a dog, and taking away the food, canned food, nutrition and medicine that the dog needed was almost half full, and the rest of the space had to be filled with his own things.

"She is a healthy little female cat no more than four months old." Even the deciduous teeth have not yet grown in, and she stumbles when she walks, but according to his observation, the blue membrane has faded. "As long as you take care of her patiently and gently, she will be fine." It will also give you emotional support and trust, animals will never betray our family."

"Now you are holding a life weight in your hands, please take good care of her."

Compared with cat food, cat litter, and canned cat food, the weight of a life is the reason why veterinarians are reluctant to adopt black cats.

Zhongyuanzhong was also a little shocked and a little bit at a loss. He looked down at the little cat in his palm. His black hair was fluffy and his paws and tail were very small. "Mi, Mimi."

He seemed to understand the meaning of the veterinarian's words, but he didn't seem to understand the weight of life.

He thought he was simply adopting a cat, but his idea seemed too naive. A black cat is a living being. She can meow, run and jump, and even quietly rub her over for him to pet.

Her life is also meaningful and valuable.

Even if he understood that what he said just now was the veterinarian's design, and he just wanted him to soften his heart and take the cat away, he couldn't say anything to accuse him.

Because Zhong Yuanzhong also knew that if he didn't take the black cat away, the veterinarian would really kill her before leaving.

It was a bitter plan, and it was an honest statement without a single lie.

……

Zhong Yuanzhong also put the black cat in his pocket and took it away. He didn't take away the canned cat food and cat litter from the pet hospital.

It's not that he doesn't want to take these things away, but that he has no place to put them when he takes them away, so it's better to stay in the pet hospital and come to pick them up when needed.

The veterinarian gave him a key to the store. Although Zhongyuan Zhong didn't say anything at first, he already knew that he was from Leibo Street and that he was a person with supernatural powers.

None of his things were given to Zhongye Zhongyuan for free, this was a deal.

The veterinarian left behind what the cats needed, and Nakahara was in charge of securing his shop until his return, when the chaos in Yokohama settled down, and he'd be back here again.

Yokohama is where the veterinarian lived and grew up, and even if he leaves temporarily because of the dangers now, he won't leave his roots forever.

"Shall I give you a name?" Zhong Yuanzhong also held the cat tossing and turning in the sun, and the scorching light fell on the black cat's hair, which was coated with a light layer of gold.

He said enthusiastically, "How about calling him Xiao Hei? Maybe Hei Jin or Dali?"

Li Jia obediently let him hold it in his hand, her tail flicked left and right behind her back. She actually didn't like the names that Zhong Yuanzhong also gave her, but she couldn't speak and opened her mouth to refute, so she had to shut her cat's mouth depressed.

"There is no response," Zhong Yuan Zhong also lay back on the soft grass, struggling to free up a hand to stroke the cat's head: "Because she is a girl, so there is no response to these names?"

He didn't intend to put the cat in the base, but he had to have a name to call her. He couldn't just call her black cat, black cat or cat.

"What kind of name do you like?" Zhongyuan Zhong also read the fifty-syllabary characters in distress. When the sounds of ri and か appeared, the black cat let out a soft cry.

"りか?" Nakahara Chuya tentatively called out, "Do you like this name?"

"Mi!" Li Jia's tail dangling from side to side quietly drooped down, and the beautiful blue cat eyes quietly looked at him, "Mimi."

"Is りか Rika or Lika?" He wrote Chinese characters with finger gestures, thought about it left and right and followed his intuition to choose the name: "Okay, it's Rika!"

I don't know why the reading method is the same, but out of selfish choice, Zhongyuan Zhongye still decided on the black cat's name written in Chinese characters as Lijia.

Zhong Yuanzhong was also a little guilty, he held the cat up to him and kissed the cat's head: "Li Jia, do you like this name?"

He didn't ask the black cat which kind of Chinese characters he likes, anyway, the cat doesn't know any characters, and the name follows her name to choose the one he likes, so let him choose the Chinese character writing method.

"Mi." She responded softly, her tail curled up shyly.

The young man looked up at the sky, and it was indeed getting late. If he didn't go back to the base, he would probably be asked by his companions, where he always went recently.

"Let's go, let's go back to the base," Zhong Yuanzhong also carefully put Li Jia in his pocket. When the cat gets older, it will probably not be able to hide in it, so we have to put it in another place. "Don't make any noise, you know?"

Although he unilaterally decided to adopt the black cat, Zhong Yuanzhong did not intend to tell his companions.

There is no need to worry about Lijia's food for the time being. The veterinarian has left a lot of cat food and cat litter. Just take her to the store after the daily patrol to solve the hygiene problem.

Cat food and cans can be easily carried on the body for a day, and he can also feed the cat when he eats.

In short, as long as Li Jia stays on him obediently, and doesn't yell casually, it shouldn't be difficult for the children to secretly raise her without telling the sheep.

"Be good," Zhong Yuan put his hand into his pocket to cover the black cat, he frowned and said in a low voice, "My companions may not like cats very much, I don't want them to see you."

He didn't know if Lijia Maomao could understand these words, but it was better to say it than not to say it.

He always thinks that Lijia Maomao is a very humane, well-behaved and quiet kitten who can understand human speech.

Li Jia opened her mouth and bit his finger lightly, quietly and silently.

Nakahara Chuya let out a sigh of relief, and his body bounced back towards Leibo Street.