Chapter 164 The look in the eyes of a dead person
When Tan Zhaozhao was carrying her bags home, when the elevator opened, she finally saw her next-door neighbor.
She was also a girl, standing in the corridor and communicating with the palace people who were doing the installation about what kind of installation effect she wanted.
Tan Zhaozhao didn't care at first, but as soon as he stepped out of the elevator, he heard the other party's clear and firm voice saying, "We need something that can prevent home robberies, preferably something that can be powered by electricity and high voltage."
Tan Zhaozhao: "...?"
She turned her head in confusion to look at the girl's pretty profile, then looked down at herself and the kitten squatting on her shoulder, and a big question mark popped up in her head.
Home invasion?
High voltage electricity?
Sister, if you are not on guard against me, your only neighbor, then what are you doing out there? ?
Perhaps she stayed at the elevator entrance for too long, and the girl who was communicating with the worker finally noticed her, turned her head and looked over, successfully meeting her confused gaze.
The next moment, the girl calmly withdrew her gaze.
It was obviously a very ordinary eye contact.
But for some reason, even after Tan Zhaozhao returned home, closed the door and put down the meat and vegetables in his hands, he still felt that the look was extremely strange.
She couldn't describe the feeling, but she was really frightened and panicked.
This strange feeling of uneasiness kept lingering in her heart. Tan Zhaozhao was a little too exhausted to make dinner. Instead, she sat cross-legged on the sofa, hugging the little furry star, and lost in thought.
Xingxing glanced at the small alarm clock that humans had placed at the entrance facing this side. The time was almost nine o'clock in the evening.
So it stood up from the human's arms, and patted the back of the dazed human's hand with its small soft paws. When she lowered her head to look at it, it raised its little head and let out a soft howl at her again.
People, it's time to eat.
Tan Zhaozhao didn't realize it, but the moment his eyes met Xingxing's still slightly misty round cat eyes, it was as if a flash of lightning suddenly flashed through his head, and he shuddered!
She thought of it!!
The look the neighbor gave her just now!
It was just like the look the male protagonist gave the dying villain in the costume TV drama she watched two days ago!
Cold, emotionless...
No, the actor's acting skills are not that good. He is not as frightening as the look of the neighbor girl just now!
That's a look like looking at a dead person!!
The more Tan Zhaozhao thought about it, the more certain she became of her understanding of that look. She was a person who believed in her first instinct, and that look had been bothering her ever since the moment they locked eyes until now. The goose bumps that inexplicably aroused on her body could not be faked.
I don't know where I saw a text saying that human intuition is often very accurate. It means that the animal instincts remaining in the human body are stimulated. You must trust your intuition, because it may save your life in many cases.
Tan Zhaozhao has seen such remarks more than once.
She herself also believes this statement because she is a single woman living alone. In her long life growing up, she has suffered malicious gazes from the opposite sex more than once in this society.
So she trusted her own feelings and the danger warnings sensed by her body.
Combined with what the girl said to the workers just now, it is necessary to be able to prevent home robbery and iron doors with high voltage electricity...
Tan Zhaozhao suddenly stood up nervously, holding the cat.
While Xingxing was still confused, Tan Zhaozhao raised it and asked seriously, "Baby, I think there's something wrong with the girl next door. What do you think?"
Star:"……?"
Although he didn't know why humans always talked to cats, Xingxing still maintained the strange posture of being held in the air, holding his little tail obediently, nodding his little head and howling in agreement.
"!" Tan Zhaozhao's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but bury his head in the cat's head and kiss it. He became more and more excited as he spoke, "Really? Xingxing thinks so too, right? That girl looks like she's not someone you can mess with. If she wasn't about my age and pretty, I would have called the police and suspected that she had killed several people."
"That's not right. Who says that pretty people can't kill people? I'm just making an unreasonable guess, but the look in her eyes just now was really scary... and she's going to connect high voltage to the door. What if I forget to close the door or you accidentally run out and touch it?"
Tan Zhaozhao became more and more worried as he spoke. He held up the star and shook it left and right, up and down, earnestly admonishing the kitten in his hands: "Don't sneak out without telling your mother, and don't touch that door, okay? Otherwise, when your mother finds out, you might be turned from a furry little orange cat into a furry little black cat."
Xingxing wanted to say that she couldn’t.
But the human in front of him seemed nervous.
So she immediately refuted the previous sentence, frowned and continued to talk to herself: "Even people can't control themselves sometimes, let alone you are just a kitten? I shouldn't warn you, but how can I prevent this from happening?"
The first thought that came to my mind was moving.
Tan Zhaozhao didn't think there was anything wrong with moving rashly just for a cat, even when nothing had happened. She really treated Xingxing as her own cat, and since her neighbor was obviously a dangerous person, she didn't feel very safe living there.
Thinking of this, Tan Zhaozhao simply ordered some takeout, then sat cross-legged on the soft sofa with Xingxing in her arms, petting the kitten while holding her phone in one hand to send messages to her bestie.
Xingxing was being stroked by the human and was almost falling asleep on her, but she was suddenly awakened by a knock on the door.
The little orange furry head suddenly raised up and looked towards the door. Tan Zhaozhao stroked it soothingly and coaxed the frightened kitten in a gentle voice: "Xingxing, good boy. This is the takeaway that mom ordered. Don't be afraid."
The food delivery app on her phone showed that the delivery guy was only 2 meters away from her.
In the past, Tan Zhaozhao would simply make a note outside the door saying "no need to knock", but just now when she thought of the two workers outside and the weird neighbor, the delivery guy's knocking on the door would make her feel strangely safe, so she deliberately did not make a note this time.
After opening the door, taking the takeaway, and saying thank you, Tan Zhaozhao did not close the door immediately. Instead, he turned his head to look at the heavy black iron door that had been installed in the corridor.
The door seemed to completely separate the people inside and outside into two worlds.
Tan Zhaozhao couldn't explain how she felt. When she saw the two workers and the girl actually turning on the electricity for the gate, she frowned and closed the door with a heavy heart.
Behind him, Xingxing was still sitting obediently on the sofa, but Qiuqiu was conscientiously broadcasting everything he saw to Xingxing using the light screen.
"The end of the world is coming soon, but the prelude to a natural disaster-type end of the world is long and different from our previous world. For example, this city will have a heavy rain the day after tomorrow. No one took it seriously at first, until the rain continued for a whole month."
"After the city's sewer and other flood control systems were completely paralyzed, the entire city was soaked in muddy, cold rainwater. Many shoddy construction projects were washed away and rotten, and untreated urban garbage was soaked or suspended in the water, quickly spreading diseases to all the surrounding cities flooded by the heavy rain."
"But the protagonist was lucky. She lived on the top floor, the 26th floor. The rainstorm did not flood this floor, and the buildings in this community were not shoddy. So after she was reborn, she decided to rent this place as soon as possible."
So, in fact, the stars don’t have to worry that the month-long heavy rain will cause their human owners to lose this small home.
But beyond that, there is much to worry about.
If Xingxing could speak human language, Qiuqiu even felt that Xingxing could act as a little divine cat to warn Tan Zhaozhao of the impending doomsday disaster.
It's a pity that the stars nowadays can't even speak cat language, let alone human language...
The aroma of food soon spread in the warm yellow light. Tan Zhaozhao sat in front of a low table, her favorite variety show playing on the tablet. Xingxing lay on the corner of her plush pajamas scattered on the carpet, leaning her body to try hard to free the tip of her claws from the edge of the pajamas that she had accidentally hooked.
“Ding Dong——”
It is a message reminder that you care about your friends specially.
Tan Zhaozhao took the phone, lowered her head and took a sip of the steaming noodles, her finger had already clicked on the voice message sent by her best friend.
"From your description, it seems like your neighbor is not a good person. Why don't you move in with me? It will also be a good opportunity for Xingxing to see his brothers and sisters and his mother."
Tan Zhaozhao was originally moved.
But after hearing what happened next, she gave up the idea.
Logically, one shouldn't think that way, after all, animals have their own instincts, but... when he thought about how his cub was taken out of the nest by the mother cat again and again and tried to be abandoned, Tan Zhaozhao privately didn't want Xingxing to see the mother cat again.
From the moment I brought Xingxing home, Xingxing has only had me as her mother!!!
Thinking of this, Tan Zhaozhao pressed the voice button and started to reply: "Forget it, our cub is still trying hard to learn to walk recently, and I found that it seems to be a little unable to meow. I am afraid that your cats will bully it again when I go to your house. It is so small, I hope it will not be sat on to death by your big fat orange cat."
The old mother who was protecting her cubs started to speak in a sarcastic tone.
My bestie laughed out loud on the other end, "Geese, geese, geese, geese, how dare you come to my house and tell my little Orange that he's fat in front of her? I'll see if he won't beat you to death with his cat punches."
But then she continued to worry, "What if you don't come to my house? How about I come and stay with you for two days?"
Tan Zhaozhao: "..."
Is this any different from my past?
She really suspected that there was something wrong with her best friend's brain.
But she felt extremely warm in her heart.
Because she knew that the other party only had these two options because they were truly worried about her and didn't want her to face danger alone, so they didn't give her a second choice.
This kind of "tough and straightforward" concern is the easiest way for person E to control person I.
But Tan Zhaozhao still refused.
"Forget it, maybe I'm overthinking it. Maybe he's just being too defensive. I won't bother you anymore. I'll send you messages every day for the next two days to let you know that I'm safe."
Without waiting for her bestie to retort, Tan Zhaozhao lowered her voice and sent another message: "I'm just suspicious now. I'll observe tomorrow. If I really think there's something wrong, we can discuss what to do."
Xingxing gave up trying to save his own paw and tilted his head to listen to the conversation between the two humans.
"It doesn't seem like I need to do anything." It raised its other paw and pushed the ball of light rolling in front of it.
Qiuqiu was very calm and replied, "Because fate is not immutable. The moment you woke up, especially when you followed humans out, the fate of humans was slightly changed because of you chatting with others in the vegetable market for five minutes."
In the original destiny, Tan Zhaozhao went to the vegetable market to buy things without delay and came back. He missed the start of the workers installing the iron gate, missed the discussion between the protagonist and the workers about powering on, and did not have that creepy eye contact with the protagonist.
A small butterfly flapping its wings can create a storm.
The kitten can also deviate the ball from its fateful trajectory by moving its paw.
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