648 · Haining Cat Island (58)

The cat didn't do anything next.

After all, it is easy to go from simplicity to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality.

A small island that has never been visited by humans, the food and entertainment there are very poor. Just like if an ancient person were put into modern times, food additives and short videos on certain audio platforms would quickly corrode his taste buds and brain. Since the fishermen set foot on this island, the hermit crabs that live on cats... let's call them hermit crabs for now, have finally coexisted with cats and felt the afterglow of the industrial age.

Specifically, as pets raised by humans, they ate industrially contaminated food for the first time.

After all, before humans came here, the best they could eat were small fish and shrimps in the sea. As for whether they could eat them and how much they could eat, it depended on the size of the turtles and seabirds they lived on. But cats are different.

Not to mention the fixed canned meals three times a day, the comfortable, warm and soft nests, not to mention entertainment such as movies and TV. The hermit crabs that turned into cats only took a few days to adapt before they were quickly corrupted by the industrial society.

As the saying goes, the first thing people do when they become rich is to forget their roots. This is essentially the case with all intelligent creatures in the world.

Compared to being a person who has to work hard to go out to sea to fish or collect pearls when he grows up, then get tanned, and work hard for a living every day, it is obvious that being a cat is more in line with the pursuit of an intelligent creature - no worries about food and drink, and lying down every day.

All they have to pay is a little physical price - that is, being caught and sucked wildly by humans. Moreover, even if they don't live with them, cats will be sucked wildly by humans anyway.

Compared with living in the open air and worrying about one's future, this is nothing!

The cat didn't do anything, but the party that didn't live in symbiosis with the cat began to realize that it was unfair.

The other faction belatedly began to realize that it was unfair. This wasn't right. Why did they seem to be living better after switching sides to humans?

"So they stopped doing anything to humans and started fighting for the life of a cat." Li Ge's mother said silently.

Anyone can choose between humans who work hard from sunrise to sunset and cats who just need to lie down in the sun and meow a few times to act cute.

The exploration team members looked at each other in confusion.

Barrage:

【Grass】

【An unexpected development.】

【Not outside of this. 】

This makes sense.

[Coach, I want to learn this. I also want to be a cat. ]

【Right and reasonable is what everyone wants. 】

[Do you understand what this cat is doing?! Get out of the way and let me do it! ]

…

Although this sounds outrageous, it also seems reasonable.

Wu Meng was speechless: "Then...then they will start fighting for the chance to be a cat?"

Li Ge's mother nodded silently.

Fortunately, cats give birth to kittens, so this quota is not set in stone.

However, the number of places for kittens is limited. After all, the fishermen who come to the island are here to make a living, not to travel and vacation. They bring not many cats, and the population is not expanding fast enough. After a short-term competition, the hermit crabs that did not get a place began to feel resentful.

It is hard to imagine that for a long time, this group of hermit crabs capable of possessing other bodies were competing not to become humans, but to become cats.

"But things will be different when the economy develops," Li Ge's mother silently took a sip of tea, "the quality of life will improve, and there will be more hermit crabs who want to become humans."

The hermit crabs that failed to snatch the opportunity from the deceived cat began to try to possess humans again. It was at this time that they finally caught the eyes of humans.

This long story finally gets to the point: "The hermit crabs that were hosting babies were all chased away by cats. After the babies they were hosting grew up, they suddenly discovered that they could understand cats' talk."

"Ah?" Li Ge made a shocked sound, "So this is the truth about why you can speak cat language, mom?"

"That's actually the case." Bai Jinshu tried hard to answer, but was strangled by the tentacle uncomfortably. He paused and continued calmly, "This should be a kind of transformation."

"Transformation? Why is it transformation?" Fang Xiang was curious.

Wouldn't it be more accurate to call this a sequela?

"Because of the cat." Bai Jin said concisely.

These "parasitized" cats seem to have exhibited some unexpected abilities, such as the one that can grow bigger or smaller, and the one like Huai Jiamu that can spit out tentacles from its mouth.

When entering other unknown spaces before, Huai Jiamu had replaced others many times, but no one had ever been able to spit out tentacles from his mouth. This was enough to show that Huai Jiamu's "dissolve into copy" would not change the original shape of the object.

It is quite intriguing that this cat can spit out tentacles.

Excluding the problem of Huaijiamu, the only problem is the parasitic crabs that are parasitizing them.

"Yes," Li Ge's mother looked at Bai Jinshu in surprise. She didn't expect that they had guessed to this extent. "It's probably because these children were once parasitized by the crabs for a period of time, but the period was not long, so they were only changed a little bit and can understand the language of the parasitic crabs."

Until this time, the people on the island knew that they had another creature in existence.

Skipping the initial stage of being on high alert and blindly worshipping the parasitic crabs and finally integrating and adjusting to each other, after a lot of trouble, the indigenous people and these parasitic crabs finally established an equal and peaceful relationship. After fully understanding their demands, the number of cats on the island began to grow exponentially.

Between becoming a human and starting to go through primary school, middle school, and college entrance exams, and becoming a cat and just lying down, most parasitic crabs choose to become cats and live a life like parasites.

However, not all hermit crabs are willing to become cats.

After all the parasitic crabs that were willing to live peacefully with cats turned into cats, only those that were unwilling to turn into cats were left.

This group of parasitic crabs are unwilling to be inferior to humans. Instead, they want to replace humans and become the tallest species in nature. However, after humans can communicate with cats, this goal has obviously become a fantasy.

"The parasitic crabs that have successfully coexisted with cats have reached an agreement with the people on the island. The humans will take care of them, and they will be responsible for driving away the parasitic crabs that try to parasitize babies."

Some children who are particularly weak will attract the attention of these hermit crabs. This is probably the reason why some of them, who grew up on Haining Island, were beaten by cats since childhood... Li Ge was pouring tea nearby, silently thinking of his unlucky classmate.

Ah, how pitiful the mouse is, having been beaten by the cat since he was a child. His real name has been forgotten by all his classmates after graduation, and only this nickname remains.

"Oh... I think I understand why you like cats," Guan Hongyan was one of those who forgot about mice. "In order to achieve this goal, all the children on your island must live with cats from childhood, right?"

Generally speaking, if a pet-raising family allows babies to live with pets from an early age, then the children who grow up like this are likely to have more feelings for the creatures that grow up with them than for ordinary pets.

Everyone on Haining Island has grown up with cats and has a very close relationship with the cats on the island. With such upbringing and education, everyone on the island has a deep affection for cats. As the children who grew up with cats gradually grow up and there are more and more residents on the island, the cats gradually develop a deep affection for them.

At this point, the cats here are certainly no longer ordinary cats. Everyone who grew up here regards cats as a part of their family or life.

This wonderful balance should have been maintained on Haining Island all along, but with the unexpected popularity of the self-media blogger, a large number of tourists began to flock to Haining Island.

This is the first time in many years that Haining Island has had so many outsiders.

"With so many tourists coming... the balance of the island has been disrupted." Li Ge's mother nodded with a headache, "Plus, Wu Zhili gave you that house to live in."

"Our house?" Lu Changfeng repeated in surprise, "What happened to our house?"

"Your house has been the headquarters of cats for a long time because the owner has been gone for a long time. So after a lot of tourists flocked to Haining Island, it became the headquarters of cats..." Li Ge's mother said silently.

"Commander what?" Wu Meng suspected that he had heard it wrong.

"Headquarters." Li Ge's mother repeated.

...Is this why there are always lines of cats walking over their walls? I'm really sorry to have occupied your headquarters.

With so many tourists suddenly pouring in, many of them with children, in order to effectively deal with this emergency, the cats on Haining Island naturally chose an empty house located between B&Bs as their headquarters.

In order to prevent the secret from being leaked and to prevent tourists from panicking during the day, they naturally cannot act arbitrarily and can only deploy plans in the old house. When night falls and the entire Haining Island falls into a deep sleep, these cats who have made plans during the day will break into the windows of every tourist who has marked them during the day, sneak into the room through the windows left open by the landlord, and then...

Then... punch and kick the infected tourists.

[A woman woke up tired every day and found out from the surveillance camera that she was beaten by a cat.jpg]

[Although I thought of it a long time ago, I still find it funny. 】

[A group of well-trained soldiers climbing through the window and beating the victim every night sounds horrible, but if you put it another way, living here and having a cat beat you every night sounds much more tempting. ]

[It’s really tempting. ]

【I suggest you hit me. 】

[You guys are so scary... The kitten hit me, but I'm not an M. ]

"Uh... so, excuse me," Guan Hongyan raised her hand silently, "Can I ask a question?"

"You ask." Li Ge's mother nodded.

"So why don't you want to tell Brother Li about these things?" Guan Hongyan's face was filled with pure confusion. "From what I've heard along the way...there's nothing you can't tell me, right?"

Of all the things Li Ge's mother said, the most outrageous thing was that the cats on the island would beat up tourists every night. Many tourists might get even more excited after learning about this.

Then why can't we just tell this matter directly, but instead keep it secret?

"Because a long time ago, the residents of Haining Island made an agreement with the hermit crabs here," Li Ge's mother said with a serious expression, "No news about Haining Island can be brought out of this island. Similarly, the people on the island cannot take the initiative to leak this information."

Otherwise, for the vast human race, this small group of parasitic crabs on Haining Island is a species that they cannot see or understand. If they are suddenly exposed to the public, the danger they will bring is immeasurable.

By then, everyone, including humans who have been parasitized by parasitic crabs and thus gained the ability to communicate, will never have peace.

"That's true..." Bai Jinshu nodded. No one could understand the evil of human nature better than Du Zhongsheng. "So if you leak this news to outsiders, the consequences will be serious?"

"It's very serious," Li Ge's mother nodded again, "Once this news is leaked by someone..."

Everyone stared at her.

"The cats on the island will..."

Guan Hongyan even opened the foundation mall in case of emergency.

"Never again..."

Lu Changfeng made preparations to use fixed attributes.

"Ignore the person who leaked the information." Li Ge's mother said this.

Everyone: ???

Everyone couldn't believe it.

The so-called price is that once you spread the news, all the cats on the island will ignore you???

Li Ge’s mother also:?

“Isn’t this price too high?” She was even more incredulous. “All the cats on the island will ignore you. The person who leaked this news will be hated by all the cats. From now on, on this Haining Island where cats are everywhere, he will never be able to pet a cat again!”

【Author’s words】

That's serious.