Dream Pet Shop

"Frog Frog, is this the dream you devoured?" Xia Ji came back to his senses after being shocked, and asked the little Dream Frog in his hand with his head down.

"Quack!" Little Dream Frog responded affirmatively.

"Oh my god!" Although Xia Ji knew that this was a dream, but a person like him who would not even dare to watch horror movies is now immersed in someone else's nightmare, so it's strange not to be afraid.

Two lines of tears flowed down Xia Ji's heart: "Frog Frog, let's have a discussion. Next time the dream reappears, please ask Dad for his opinion first."

"Quack?" Little Mengwa tilted her head and looked at Xia Ji with a bewildered expression.

"Oh." Xia Ji sighed, went to the corner and sat down with his knees hugged, leaning against the wall so that he could still feel a little safe.

The beginning of the dream was quite normal. It was the scene of the old man sleeping in his bedroom. The room was dark and very quiet.But because Xia Ji knew it was a nightmare, the quieter it was at the beginning, the more nervous he felt. Who knows when it will suddenly turn around.

"Squeak—" Suddenly the bedroom door was pushed open a crack, and a ray of light shone in. It was just enough to see the thing entering the room, which was the golden python.

The golden python crawled out of the incubator in the living room, and went straight into the old man's room.Xia Ji shrank into the corner subconsciously. To be honest, a snake slipped into his bedroom while he was asleep, and that alone was enough to infiltrate people.

The golden python wandered around the bed twice, and then climbed onto the bed, but at this time the old man woke up.

Probably because the old man really likes snakes, or it may be because of the reason in the dream. After the old man woke up and saw the golden python, he was only stunned for a moment, but he was not frightened.

The golden python obediently rubbed its head against the old man's palm, and wrapped its body around the old man's body very intimately. The golden scales all over its body began to shine, very gorgeous.The old man opened his eyes wide in surprise, couldn't help stretching out his hand to caress the scales on the golden python, and exclaimed: "You are so beautiful!"

The golden python seemed to understand the old man's praise, and let the old man caress meekly, staring at the old man with a pair of big eyes without blinking.Until here, this dream is still normal, even a little warm.

After a while, Xia Ji saw the golden python spit out the snake letter, and then actually spoke!

"Then do you like me?" the golden python asked seriously.

The old man in the dream heard his pet snake speak, surprised and excited, he replied sincerely: "I like it, of course I like it!"

The golden python still looked at it steadfastly. After a moment of silence, he suddenly said: "Since you like me so much, it doesn't matter if I eat it."

"Huh?" The old man looked like he didn't understand.

Xia Ji had a bad heart, and sure enough, the next second, the docile golden python suddenly became ferocious, and the originally normal snake body continued to expand like a water-absorbing sponge, turning into a monster in the blink of an eye.The body that was still clinging to the master's body just now was getting tighter and tighter, which made Xia Ji tremble with fear.

The old man was yelling in pain at first, but gradually he couldn't even yell because of suffocation. The force of the monster's shot was terrifying, and Xia Ji could even hear the sound similar to a bone fracture when he huddled in a corner.

The monster version of the golden python hooked the old man up from the bed with its snake body, then it opened its mouth with terrifying fangs, and swallowed the old man bit by bit from the beginning.

"Ouch." Xia Ji, who was watching the bloody scene, was so frightened that his scalp was numb, his stomach was churning, and he quickly covered his mouth with his hand.

Xia Ji, with a broken liver and gallbladder, thought that this nightmare was finally over, he stood up tremblingly leaning on the wall, and planned to go downstairs to pour a glass of water to calm the shock.However, after getting up, he found that the dream didn't seem to end, because the surrounding scene was still the old man's bedroom, but the monster snake disappeared, and everything returned to calm.

Xia Ji looked towards the bed suspiciously, but found that the old man was lying on the bed soundly asleep, just like the beginning of the dream, could it be...

"Squeak—" The bedroom door was pushed open again.

"No way..." Xia Ji was about to collapse. Could it be that this nightmare had to start all over again? !It turns out that this is an endless loop of nightmares!

Xia Ji was frantic when he saw the normal golden python slipping in through the crack of the door again, and then began to repeat the routine just now, climbing onto the bed, acting coquettishly, asking questions, transforming...

"Frog Frog! It's enough to read it once, and we can end this dream!" Xia Ji roared at the little Dream Frog in his palm.

"Quack." The well-behaved and capable little Dream Frog shook his head!

"Why?" Old Xia's father's mentality collapsed, and he hurriedly asked the system for help: "Xiao Chong, what's going on?"

[The host doesn't need to panic, it will disappear naturally after the dream reappears. At present, the dream frog's ability is limited, and the manipulation of the dream is not yet mature. 】

Xia Ji: "If you hit me, you'll cheat t_t..." Who knows how many times this nightmare will have to be repeated before it disappears!

Xia Ji had no choice. Since he couldn't leave the dream for the time being, he could only bite the bullet and watch.Xia Ji felt that the old man would not have this kind of nightmare for no reason, there must be a reason, what he had to do was to try to find clues from this dream.

After repeating the dream several times, Xia Ji's courage increased significantly. Apart from fear and nausea, he finally found something wrong with the dream.

If you just want someone to have a nightmare, then it can be extremely scary from the beginning of the dream, but why do you keep repeating the seemingly warm scene in the previous paragraph?

After thinking about it, Xia Ji felt that the question that the golden python asked was the key.Every time the golden python asks this question and gets the old man's answer, it will suddenly change its temperament and become a monster, as if... the old man answered wrong.

"do you like me?"

Generally, when such a question is asked, one expects an affirmative answer, and the old man always says "I like it" every time, and he says it sincerely, which can be seen by the onlookers.

But if you infer it backwards, the correct answer should be "don't like it", then everything is easy to explain.

The nightmare started again, this time Xia Ji didn't stare at the old man and the golden python anymore, but began to carefully observe the corners of the room, as if looking for something.

Xia Ji walked around the room and found nothing. Just when he felt strange, he suddenly found that a part of the low cabinet against the wall was blocked by a curtain, and a little light was faintly shining from behind the curtain.

Xia Ji walked to the side of the low cabinet, changed the angle, and finally found the guy hidden behind the curtain, which was a little hamster locked in a cage.

The hamster held the cage with both hands, and kept staring closely at the person on the bed. Although it was obviously a small hamster, for some reason, Xia Ji could see the deep emotion and stubborn expression in its eyes.

The golden python asked that question again, and the little hamster started to have red eyes and tremble all over, as if desperately wanting to know the answer, but also extremely afraid of it.

The old man repeated the wrong answer again, and the little hamster suddenly grabbed the cage and screamed sharply: "Squeak!!", as if going crazy, and then the golden python turned into a monster and ate the old man.

Xiaji finally found the culprit, and the nightmare just ended here.

The bedroom returned to its original state, Xia Ji held Gua'er in his arms and kissed him, then ran to the next door and knocked on the door of Long Wei's room. He knew what was going on, and it had nothing to do with the golden python in fact!

"Brother Long, are you asleep?" Xia Ji asked and found no response, so he knocked on the door again, only to find that Long Wei's bedroom door was not locked.

"Brother Long, I'm coming in?" Xia Ji tentatively opened the door to look in, but found that there was no one on the bed. He went into the bedroom and looked in the bathroom, but there was no one there.

"Where did you go so late?" Xia Ji came down from the second floor and looked in the store on the first floor, it was also dark and there was no one there, then he turned to the pet clinic, but he also didn't see Long Wei's figure , When I was wondering, I suddenly heard a crackling sound, as if it came from the next door.

Xia Ji came out of the store, walked to the door of the Pavilion of Rare and Exotic Beasts, and found that there was no light at all inside, as if Hu Tian was not there, but there was indeed a strange sound coming from the store, Xia Ji was worried that someone would break in The door was empty, so he took out his mobile phone and called Hu Tian.

At this time, the Pavilion of Rare and Exotic Beasts was in a mess, the incubator in the store was smashed to pieces, and the cold-blooded pets shivered in the corner, watching the two big bosses fight.

Hu Tian usually looked gentle and polite, but he was really wild when he got into a fight. When his temper came up, he didn't care about anything. He was blown into a ball and was pinned to the ground by Long Wei. He was still baring his teeth and growling, his eyes were red. However, in the end, Big Brother Long was even better.

"Come on~ be happy~ I have a lot of time anyway~" The phone rang suddenly, the phone was in the middle of the fight between the two, and at some point it was still on the ground, not far from Long Wei and Hu Tian The place.

The two had a truce, and turned their heads to look at the same time. The caller ID on the screen was Xia Ji.Hu Tian glared at Long Wei, and when he was about to reach out to answer the phone, Long Wei got the phone one step ahead of him, and pressed the answer button: "Hello."

"Hey, Boss Hu... No, Brother Long, why is it you?" Xia Ji was surprised when he heard Long Wei's voice coming from Hu Tian's cell phone.

"What's the matter, what do you want from him?" Long Wei's voice was filled with displeasure, and it sounded a little colder than usual.

Only then did Xia Ji remember that Long Wei had just told him not to get too close to Hu Tian, ​​but he obviously went to someone’s shop in the middle of the night, Xia Ji didn’t answer the question, but asked instead: “Brother Long, why did you In Boss Hu's shop?"

Long Wei hesitated for a moment on how to answer, Hu Tian looked at the right moment, and threw his big fried tail to Long Wei's face, Long Wei was thrown into his eyes, he let go with a "tsk".Hu Tian quickly escaped from under his hands, transformed into a human form in an instant, picked up the clothes on the ground and began to wear them, gasping for breath while saying sarcastic words: "How is it? Do you want to tell him?"

Xia Ji heard Hu Tian's words on the phone and was still out of breath. What should I tell him?At such a critical moment, Xia Xiaoji's mind was inexplicably spinning. Could it be... that he was cheated on?No, he and Long Wei are not together yet, so it is not considered green.No matter what, Xia Ji excitedly held the phone and yelled: "What the hell are you doing in there?!"

Hu Tian sat on the edge of the bed and dressed slowly, and couldn't help laughing when he heard Xia Ji's angry roar coming from the phone.

Long Wei gave a "tsk", and said to Hu Tian, ​​"Open the door of the shop and let him in."

Hu Tian fastened the last button, raised his hand and waved towards the door, the enchantment under the Pavilion of Rare and Exotic Beasts disappeared, and the door opened in response, Xia Ji finished the call and rushed in immediately.

Xia Ji heaved a sigh of relief when he found Long Wei standing in the middle of the shop in neat clothes, but he was completely shocked by the surrounding environment. Was it ransacked by robbers?

Hu Tian was sitting on a chair with his long hair loose, his flowery face was bruised, and the corners of his mouth were bleeding, as if he had fought with gangsters.

"Boss Hu...are you alright?" Xia Ji asked cautiously, "Could it be that someone really left the bed alone?"

Hu Tian didn't speak, and looked at Long Wei with a mocking smile.

The golden python that was shrunk in the corner saw Xia Ji coming, his eyes lit up, he stretched out his hand and waved at Xia Ji, excited and joyful, just like a pet seeing its favorite owner: "Boss Xia, you are here! "

Xia Ji followed the sound, only to find that there was a young man huddled in the corner, looking at him eagerly at this time, his honey-colored complexion made his eyes shine brighter, he was a good-looking and lovely young man, but Xia Ji did not remember himself I saw this young man before, so I nodded to him and said hello, "Hi, may I ask who you are?"

The golden python still looked at him with a smiling and well-behaved expression and said nothing.

Long Wei said, "He is that golden python."

"..." The smile on Xia Ji's face gradually froze. After two seconds of silence, he yelled "monster", but quickly hid behind Long Wei.

"Woo...qaq" Seeing Xia Ji's reaction, the golden python's expectant eyes dimmed, and his whole body shrank into a smaller ball like an eggplant beaten by frost.

"It's not just him." Long Wei glanced at the pets, big and small, in the store with sharp eyes, "I'm afraid all the pets in this store are monsters."

"What's wrong with the monster? Did the monster eat your rice?" Hu Tian rolled his eyes, pointed at Xia Ji and Long Wei and said, "What prejudice do you have against monsters!"

Long Wei said: "We should ask you, what are you trying to do by disguising these monsters as pets and selling them to humans?"

"What can I do? I just want to find someone to support me." Hu Tian spread his hands and said, "How many of you know how hard it is for monsters to make a living these days."

Hu Tian is also too lazy to move, so he explained to Xia Ji and Long Wei: "In recent years, the cities where human beings live have been expanding, and there are not many deep mountains and old forests for monsters to live in. Many monsters have no choice but to mix into human society. But in modern society, there is less and less aura, and monsters cultivate very slowly. Many of them are not qualified for the work of human society and cannot support themselves. So I thought of a way for them to keep their original shape and be raised by humans as pets. This way, you won’t have to worry about food and lodging, and you can practice slowly. As a middleman, I can only make some money, isn’t that okay?”

It sounds like this group of monsters are quite pitiful, they have been reduced to the point where they are used as pets by human beings to earn a living, and they are not as powerful as in the ghost stories, capable of doing a lot of evil.However, Long Wei is not interested in how monsters survive: "I just want to know if that nightmare has anything to do with you."

Hu Tian laughed angrily, went to the corner and picked up the golden python who was still feeling sorry for himself and said: "Look at him, look at him! Does he have the ability to make people have nightmares all day? Retired, I didn't make any money, what's the benefit of doing this? I still want to know what's going on!"

The golden python desperately waved his hands: "It's not me, it's not me... qaq"

"Um... I might know what's going on." Xia Ji emerged from behind Long Wei and said, "It really shouldn't have anything to do with them."

So Xia Ji told Long Wei and Hu Tian what he found in the old man's dream.

"So, is it the old man's pet that was causing the trouble?...or a hamster?" Long Wei frowned.

"To be precise, it should be the evil spirit that the hamster turned into after death, so it makes sense for the evil spirit to cause trouble." Hu Tian looked at Xia Ji again: "Even dreams can reappear. Speaking of which, if Boss Xia If you want to do bad things, you must be much stronger than me."

"Hehehe, Boss Hu really knows how to joke." Xia Ji smiled, and quickly changed the topic: "If it's an evil spirit, shouldn't it really be suggested to the old man to hire a Taoist priest?"

"No need, I can go." Long Wei said.

"Hmph, as expected of a boss, he is proficient in all eighteen martial arts." Hu Tian sneered.

Long Wei didn't bother to talk to him, pulled Xia Ji and said, "Let's go home."

"Oh, oh." Obviously it was a very common sentence, and Xia Ji also knew that Long Wei just said it casually without any deep meaning, but he still couldn't help being happy.

Long Wei and Xia Ji swaggered away, Hu Tian cursed mmp at the messy room, and then resigned himself to his fate and started to clean it up.

……

The next day, Long Wei went to the old man's house and asked if he had pets before, and found out that the old man had actually raised a hamster before. The hamster was very dear, and the old man couldn't put it down. He kept that hamster for three years It took a long time to die, which is considered to be the longest life among hamsters, which is enough to show the old man's intentions.Probably because of this, the hamster has a very deep affection for the old man. Even if he dies, he is unwilling to leave. When he finds out that the old man has a new pet, he can't help but feel jealous.

Sometimes the fate between pets and people is only a few years, but the depth of the relationship generated in it is unclear.

Before Long Wei came back from the old man's house, Xia Ji found that the progress of the task had changed to 3/100. It seemed that the old man's troubles were completely solved this time.Xia Ji's dream value has also been saved enough, and finally won the mask machine in the system mall, and received the decoration upgrade reward for the pet peripheral shop.

The author has something to say: Xia Xiaoji who experienced the nightmare of a 4D cycle: "I feel my body is being hollowed out... qaq"

Long Wei: "Do you want to make it up for you?"