Chapter 2

When I came out of the clinic, it was drizzling.

The cat's owner is called Tang Qi. When the doctor was bandaging Wen Xin's wound, he kept thanking the cat rescue organization on the phone. It can be seen that he cares about his beloved cat Huanhuan very much.

Looking at the bandages wrapped around Wen Xin's arms, Tang Qi still felt guilty: "Thank you so much for what happened today. I'm sorry for causing you trouble."

He said in frustration: "I checked the window clearly when I went out today, and it was closed. I don't know how it got opened."

To find out exactly what happened, you may have to go back and check the surveillance footage.

Wen Xin said it was okay.

The two people's homes are very close to each other, in neighboring buildings.

After politely declining Tang Qi's offer to treat him to a meal, Wen Xin and he parted ways downstairs.

"Meow..."

The little cat Huanhuan still remembered that Wen Xin was his savior, and before leaving, he stretched his neck and called out reluctantly.

Tang Qi brought it into the building, and muttered: "You really scared me to death, you little rascal."

That is not a complaint, nor is it shirking responsibility, but a place to put the fear in one's heart, and the other party is very grateful for it.

The kitten also meowed several times in a sweet voice, rubbing here and licking there, trying to comfort its frightened owner.

Watching the man and his pet disappear around the corner, Wen Xin felt a little empty in his heart for some reason.

He moved his feet, but did not go upstairs. He turned around and began to search the community garden.

However, when he searched every corner of the garden, he did not see the familiar black ball.

Autumn nights always come quickly. Before you know it, the street lights come on, dark clouds are about to fall, and the air seems to be filled with icy mist.

Wen Xin felt a layer of moisture on the bandage, and remembering the doctor's instructions to "not get it wet", she had to go home first.

Just as he went upstairs, the black ball landed silently at the place where he had just stayed, staring at his receding back.

After quickly returning home, Wen Xin took out the umbrella from the shelf without hesitation.

Just as he was about to go out, he remembered what the counselor had said.

——Stray animals usually don’t have enough to eat, so you should be honest and bring cat food and canned cat food. When Xiao Hei sees so much food, he might go home with you.

Wen Xin had prepared some cat food and cat canned food in advance.

Out of some kind of insurance mentality that he couldn't explain, he took a plastic bag and filled it up with cat food cans so that it looked like there was a lot of food, and then he turned around and went downstairs.

He thought it would take some effort to find the cat, but before he even walked out of the building, he met the eyes of the unexpected black ball.

Wensing slowed down immediately.

Hei Tuanzi didn't expect the other party to come back so soon. He looked a little dazed and didn't know whether to run away for a while.

By this time, the sky had become completely dark, and the light from the street lamps was flickering in the wind and rain.

In Wen Xin's sight, the black ball stood alone in the rain, his fur wet into strands, his head slightly raised.

Its back was straight, still proud, but it looked more like a small figure that had lost its way in the dark world, with an air of loneliness surrounding it.

Wen Xin's heart softened all of a sudden.

He opened his umbrella, tiptoed to the black ball and squatted down. The heavy bag fell to the ground, revealing a bag full of cat food and cat cans.

Staring at the other's trembling pupils, Wen Xin said softly: "It will rain heavily soon. If you get wet and don't wipe yourself dry, you will get sick."

"I'll keep you well fed and comb your hair."

"Come home with me, okay?"

The black ball hung his head.

It stared at the bag that Wen Xin brought, as if it tasted a hint of sincerity in it, and did not turn around and leave as it did before.

Wen Xin tentatively reached out his hand to it.

When you touch it, you first feel a layer of cool rain water, and then you feel the hard hair like scales.

With another touch, the black ball's taut muscles suddenly softened, and the whole ball fell directly into his palm.

Wen Xin realized something was wrong and quickly picked it up. His fingertips ran along the wet fur and touched the flesh, which was terribly hot.

Oh no.

Hei Tuanzi was very agile in dodging people, and he didn't expect that the other person was already sick.

You have to go to the hospital immediately.

But the black ball seemed to have a clear consciousness in the chaos. As long as Wen Xin walked out of the community, it began to struggle desperately, with such great strength that Wen Xin almost couldn't catch it.

Helpless, Wen Xin could only take it back home first.

With the experience during the day as a lesson, he locked the doors and windows carefully, then went to the pet hospital with an umbrella to buy medicine.

The round trip took about forty minutes.

When Wen Xin rushed back and opened the bedroom door, he was instantly shocked.

In order to welcome Xiao Hei's arrival, he ordered a cat bed online in advance. After bringing the sick black ball back, he placed it in the cat bed.

At this moment, the black ball that should have been curled up in the cat's nest disappeared. Instead, there was torn cotton all over the floor and a huge monster.

The monster was crawling on the ground, like some long-extinct Jurassic reptile, its body covered with scales and glowing coldly.

Each of its paws was as big as half a TV screen, and trapped underneath were not only cat litter but also half of a destroyed table.

You have to know that the table is made of solid wood, so you can imagine how powerful the monster's claws are.

Faced with such a ferocious monster, Wen Xin's mind went blank.

Hallucination or dream?

He had no time to think more.

The monster noticed the door opening, and as the two were very close, it let out a roar, rushed over, and pinned Wen Xin to the ground before he could move.

Wen Xin felt that what was pressing down on him was not a monster but a mountain. Under the huge impact, his internal organs were almost knocked out.

He groaned in pain and suddenly made eye contact with the monster.

Those were a pair of distinct vertical eyes that belonged only to predators; violent, fierce, and as cold as metal. They lingered on the fatal part of Wen Xin's neck, as if wondering from which angle to bite.

Wen Xinhun was covered in cold sweat.

Where on earth did this monster come from?

Is he going to die in such an unclear way?

Thinking of this, Wen Xin struggled harder and harder.

At the moment when the sharp claws were about to cut his skin, the monster suddenly squinted its eyes in pain, as if it had woken up a little, and the claws that were clamping on him loosened slightly.

For no reason, Wen Xin saw restraint and patience in it.

His first impression of it was that it was a man-eating monster, but how could a man-eating monster have restrained emotions in its eyes?

On the contrary, it was Jin Chanchan's vertical pupils that were eerily similar to Hei Tuanzi's.

……Wait a moment?

In a flash, an incredible thought flashed through Wen Xin's mind.

——After opening the door, there seemed to be no trace of the black mass. Even if it was eaten by the monster, there should be bright bloodstains in the monster's mouth.

Wen Xin bit her lower lip.

Finally, under the monster's cold gaze, he stretched out his hand and touched the sharp claw that could tear him into pieces in an instant, and called out, "Xiao Hei?"

Xiao Hei was originally a nickname given to Hei Tuanzi by the elders in the community. Later, Wen Xin became familiar with it and often called it that.

Hearing Wen Xin calling it in a familiar voice, the monster raised its claws that were pressing on him and moved back a little.

After getting the response, Wen Xin's heartbeat did not slow down, but beat faster.

His mind was filled with disbelief.

He thought that a stray cat that he picked up turning into a monster only happened in science fiction movies, but he never expected that he would actually encounter it.

Neither science nor common sense can explain this incredible scene.

Is Xiao Hei a natural-born monster, an alien, or a monster that escaped from a secret laboratory?

Is this world still the world he knows? Will he accidentally uncover some secrets? Will he be murdered to silence him? ...

No one could tell Wen Xin what to do now. It seemed that the most sensible way was to find the person in charge of the relevant department.

After a few seconds, he moved his stiff body, staggered to his feet, touched the pocket where his cell phone was, but did not move.

...If he really called the police, what would happen to Xiao Hei?

Wen Xin's mind was in a mess until the monster's suppressed roar brought him back to his senses.

He turned around suddenly.

The monster that was so powerful just now was now weakly sticking to the ground, shaking continuously as if it was in great pain.

The pair of golden pupils stared at Wen Xin stubbornly, and the next second he turned around and disappeared at the door at a quickened speed.

Wen Xin ran away?

The monster's pupils shrank, and in an instant it let out an angry and low roar!

What Wen Xin didn't know was that the monster had already met many seemingly kind humans before meeting him.

Those humans approached it in the same gentle way, making solemn promises to take it home, but when its body began to change, everyone screamed in fear and looked for other humans to deal with it.

Obviously, he had already lost all hope for human beings.

But it still believed in Wen Xin!

The severe pain tortured its few remaining sanity, and the monster tore the half-remaining cat nest into pieces as if to vent its anger, and staggered towards the window.

It had to run away quickly because a group of uniformed police officers would arrive soon.

Those policemen cannot harm it at all, but they will alarm the person who created it, and then it will face excruciating torture.

"Little Black?"

A gentle voice appeared behind him. The monster was stunned and turned his head quickly, only to find that Wen Xin did not escape.

There was nothing behind the opponent, and he did not call on anyone else to attack him.

I had just dodged in a hurry and had forgotten the medicine in my hands. Wen Xin took some time to get them back.

There are medicines for treating fever, skin diseases, bandages, hemostasis...there is everything.

Just in case, the veterinarian still suggested that he take the sick cat to the veterinarian for a detailed and comprehensive examination.

On the way, Wen Xin was still worried about how to coax Heituanzi to go.

But at this moment, under the overwhelming force of the monster, the original problem suddenly ceased to be a problem.

Would human medical methods still be useful to Xiao Hei? Wen Xin had no idea.

He sighed and walked towards Xiao Hei.

As a result, every time he took a step forward, the monster took a step back, and soon the latter was against the window sill.

A ferocious and huge monster was forced to retreat again and again by skinny humans. The scene was extremely funny.

Wen Xin looked puzzled when he saw this.

The monster that made eye contact with him subconsciously shifted its gaze, and seemed to feel that such an act of escape was somewhat embarrassing, so it turned its head and growled continuously at Wen Xin, trying to drive away this audacious human.

Wen Xin, however, could see the monster's cowardice beneath its ferocious appearance.

At that moment, he seemed to go back an hour and saw the lonely figure of Black Ball in the continuous rain.

Wen Xin was stunned for a moment, and suddenly he was no longer afraid. Even the fear caused by the huge size difference disappeared without a trace.

He walked forward slowly, and despite the monster's silent resistance, he insisted on hugging its cold body.

Hei Tuanzi's hair is always very hard and prickly. Wen Xin previously suspected that he was malnourished, which caused his hair to be dry and rough, and she was worried about this for a long time.

At this moment, touching the hard and uncomfortable scales, he seemed to know the real reason.

Half with emotion, half with relief, Wen Xin whispered something that made the other party shudder.

"You are undoubtedly the same Blackie I know."