Chapter 819 Chapter 14: Time Bomb
Zuo Chi was stunned for less than a second, then immediately got up from the ground, rushed to the windowsill and opened the window.
Sasha jumped in lightly, without making any sound except for the little kitten that kept calling out in her mouth.
"You...what are you doing?"
Zuo Chi looked at Sasha in confusion.
Sasha held the kitten's neck and moved closer to Zuo Chi.
Then she raised her head slightly and moved the white cat in her mouth forward, and the kitten's body swayed gently.
"Are you...giving it to me?"
Zuo Chi pointed at himself.
Sasha nodded vigorously, and the white cat in her mouth swayed up and down.
Helpless, Zuo Chi had to carefully take the kitten with his hands.
"I'm sorry, Ms. Sasha, I have to tell you something. Pets are not allowed in the clinic. Animals can bring various germs, and our clinic..."
Sasha immediately came over and said to Zuo Chi while sniffing the kitten.
"Hunting, prey, for you...!"
Zuo Chi's words were interrupted, and then he found that he seemed to have misunderstood something.
So she suddenly ran out to hunt?
"Zuo Chi...I'm unhappy. I'm giving it to you. The prey...is full and in a good mood."
Sasha tried hard to express her thoughts to Zuo Chi, completely ignoring the fact that the kitten was trembling with fear.
Meow--
At this moment, Zuo Chi heard another cat's meow. He turned around and saw a big cat wandering outside the window, at the door of the clinic. Every two steps, it would raise its head and look at the window on the second floor, looking very anxious.
"Ms. Sasha."
"arrive......!"
Sasha stood up straight as if by reflex.
"Come with me."
Zuo Chi held the kitten and led Sasha to the first floor of the clinic. Then he opened the door and gently placed the kitten at the door.
Seeing this, the big cat wanted to move forward cautiously, but was a little hesitant.
"Take your child back."
Zuo Chi waved his hand, and the big cat seemed to understand. It crawled closer carefully and gently picked up the kitten by the scruff of the neck, as if it was treating a precious treasure.
Then it moved quickly and nimbly, turned around immediately, and fled into the dense bushes opposite with the kitten.
"Hun...prey!! Run...run!" Sasha's voice suddenly rang out, her eyes filled with panic and confusion.
When she saw the big cat carrying the kitten away, she instinctively made a move to pounce on it, as if this was the only purpose in her life.
Seeing this, Zuo Chi immediately grabbed her wrist and stopped her impulse.
"Left, left pool! Prey! Escape, escape..."
Sasha's voice was hurried and anxious, and her body was tense, as if she would burst out with power at any moment.
"There is no prey for you here." Zuo Chi said coldly, without a trace of warmth in his voice.
"No... no prey..."
Sasha seemed very confused, and her cognition could not support her to understand Zuo Chi's words.
Zuo Chi looked at Sasha, his eyes full of seriousness and solemnity. He knew that for Sasha, hunting was her survival instinct and an indispensable part of her life.
But now, he had to make her understand that this world was not just about hunting and killing.
"You don't need to hunt anymore." Zuo Chi's voice sounded again, this time with a hint of gentleness and comfort in his words.
"No... no prey..."
Sasha repeated, her voice becoming lower and lower, as if she was talking to herself.
There was a hint of fear and uneasiness in her eyes, as if she was doubting the meaning of her existence.
"No, hunting... would starve you to death."
Sasha's voice trembled slightly, and her body trembled slightly with the trembling of her voice.
The girl couldn't understand Zuo Chi's words, but her instinct told her that having no prey meant being abandoned and dying.
She made her final rebuttal. Zuo Chi couldn't imagine what kind of life she had led before, whether it was on the front line of killing or living in the city where she was unwelcome after being abandoned.
"Oh..." Zuo Chi took out a cigarette box, lit a cigarette, and then sat on the steps in front of the clinic.
"Sit here."
He patted the empty space next to him.
Sasha quickly ran over and sat down, then looked back at Zuo Chi.
"Have you been staying here with me for the past three days?"
"Okay..." Sasha seemed to realize that she had done something wrong again and made Zuo Chi angry. She spoke cautiously and tried to speak as little as possible.
"Have you eaten enough in the past three days?"
“…Eat, I’m full!”
Speaking of food, Sasha became excited. These three days were the times when she had eaten the most. No one had ever provided her with such clean food and let her eat as much as she wanted.
Although Zuo Chi was a little shocked, how could such a small body eat six big bowls of rice.
But this is still within his tolerance.
So I didn't say anything.
"So you see, if you do some chores for me, and I provide you with food and shelter, you can have enough to eat and a place to stay, you won't have to starve or freeze, and you won't have to hunt at all, right?"
"But, but..."
"No buts."
Zuo Chi shook off the cigarette ash.
"Get used to this kind of life as soon as possible, earning your wages through labor, not through killing and hunting. Do you understand?"
The girl nodded, not quite understanding.
Zuo Chi looked at her confused eyes.
She felt like a plant struggling in a swamp, with its roots deeply embedded in the mire and unable to be easily pulled out.
Her eyes were filled with confusion, as if she would be swallowed by the darkness around her at any moment.
I don’t know if it’s because I’m afraid of being abandoned again.
The girl's body was unconsciously tense, and every tiny movement seemed extremely cautious, as if she was always ready for a sudden battle.
If it were an ordinary veteran, Zuo Chi would think it was PTSD, or post-traumatic stress syndrome.
This symptom was very common in the year after the End Event, and many members of the Special Management Bureau who experienced the End Event encountered this problem.
As an experienced psychologist, Zuo Chi has received many such patients.
They witnessed the tragic deaths of their own kind, and although their bodies survived the catastrophe, their souls were still trapped in the ruins destroyed by the rift.
Every night, the members of the Special Management Bureau who had fought against the Tara people would mobilize all the nerves in their bodies as if by conditioned reflex and feel everything around them.
Their senses became extremely sharp, as if they could detect the slightest sound and movement.
This is more common in veterans.
The combat members of the Special Management Bureau deal most with aliens, but the blows and pressures that the Tara tribe brings to this world are incomparable to those of aliens.
So their spirits were severely traumatized.
Having finished fighting, they would take whatever weapons they could find, such as a stick, a knife, or even a stone.
These seemingly ordinary items become extremely important in their hands, because only in this way can they give them that pitiful and fragile sense of security.
They held the weapons tightly in their hands, as if this could dispel the fear and anxiety in their hearts.
But Sasha's condition is far more complicated than ordinary PTSD.
Zuo Chi held a cigarette in his mouth and stared at her, with a hint of helplessness in his eyes.
He knew very well that ever since she was biologically transformed, everything about her being human had become a thing of the past.
Her life became monotonous and cruel.
Apart from obeying orders, there is only killing.
She tears apart all enemies and hunts all living things, as if she is the god of death active on the battlefield, shuttling through the dark land and reaping countless souls.
Her hands were covered in blood and her eyes were full of indifference and ruthlessness.
But when the war ended and dawn broke through the darkness of the long night, how could she, exposed to the sunlight, integrate into this peaceful world that she had never experienced before?
Her existence is like a time bomb that may trigger a new disaster at any time.
In people's eyes, Sasha is a monster, an existence that they cannot understand or accept.
But in Sasha's view, all the beauty under peace and those humans who cannot hunt are monsters.
She couldn't understand how these people lived, how they could live so peacefully in this dangerous world.
Her heart was filled with doubts and fears. She was afraid that she would be rejected by the world and hurt by those so-called "monsters".
If this situation cannot be guided and treated in time.
This time bomb will be completely detonated.
Is this why she was allowed to be sent to China...
Those mice hiding in the shadows, what you want to see is a grand explosion...
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