Chapter 12 Encountering a Cat Trafficking Truck
Yao Tao hid in the pet hospital and waited until Zhu Hua was far away before showing up.
At this time in her previous life, she and Zhu Hua went to the resettlement site together.
I thought Zhu Hua would go to a resettlement site to hide by herself in this life, but I didn't expect that he was looking for her everywhere.
If she hadn't been completely heartbroken after her previous life, Zhu Hua's actions would have really been a bit "touching".
Worried about your girlfriend, are you willing to risk your life to find her?
Bah! I don't trust you!
The phone call Zhu Hua just received made her realize that her relationship with Zhu Hua was not as simple as she had imagined.
Zhu Hua said he fell in love at first sight, and she believed him.
But he never mentioned his family and never took her to his home. Looking back now, she felt that she was really stupid.
Before leaving the pet hospital, she habitually went shopping and took away all the cat and dog food, canned snacks, etc. in the store.
In the end times when people have nothing to eat, cat and dog food is also a very popular commodity.
It can also be used to exchange goods or pay for supplies to seek shelter at the base.
Ride the electric bike and head towards the huge mutant tree in the distance.
Whenever she saw some supplies worth stocking up on the way, she would stop to buy some. She kept walking and stopping along the way and was about to reach her destination.
She had just come out of a drugstore after shopping when she heard a cat meowing.
“Meow… meow…”
The sound was not far away, and she held the air rifle, alert.
Mutant cats are not like mutant mice. After mutation, they will grow to the size of tigers and become very powerful.
"Meow..." The sound came from under a large area of mutated plants.
Kicking the leaves away, he saw a flattened truck under the mutant tree.
The front half of the carriage was crushed by the mutated plants, and only the rear part survived. A deformed cage was filled with cats.
Yao Tao was surprised.
Is this... a cat dealer's car?
Some people specifically catch wild cats or steal domestic cats, transport them to some shady places, kill the cats, skin them, and sell their meat.
This car is the one that cat traffickers use to transport their "goods".
The cat dealer and his car were crushed to death by the mutant plants, and the little guys in the cages did not escape either.
Only the cats in the last cage at the back of the car were still alive. They were crowded in the small space, emitting a foul smell and staring at her in horror.
Yao Tao's finger on the trigger slid up and down hesitantly.
She knew that if these cats survived, they would eventually mutate and become killers that preyed on humans.
She should kill them now to prevent future trouble.
But... their terrified and helpless eyes moved her.
"Well, there are so many mutated animals in the apocalypse anyway, a few of you won't make a difference." She muttered to herself, put down the gun, and opened the cage.
All the cats in the cages stood up with their fur on end, thinking she was going to hurt them.
Yao Tao took two steps back and suddenly remembered something. She took out the cat food she found at the pet hospital from the space, and also took out a large bowl and poured half a bowl of mineral water for them.
"The end of the world is coming. Good luck to you, little ones." She got on her electric bike and left.
The cats in the cages stared at her departing figure until she could no longer be seen.
"Meow..." A tabby cat tentatively stepped out of the cage with its front paws...
Then the second one, the third one...
They all gathered around the water bowl, licking the water greedily.
The night wind blew, and the tabby cat raised its head to sniff something, its eyes reflecting a bright green light.
Yao Tao finally arrived under the mutant tree. After putting the electric car back into the space, he took out a fire axe, cut one groove after another on the huge trunk for footing, and then climbed up along these grooves.
When she reached the first fork, she tied one end of the safety rope to it and the other end around her waist.
It took her nearly thirty minutes to climb to the top of the tree.
Holding onto the tree trunk and looking into the distance, on the first night of the apocalypse, some parts of the city still had power, and you could see tiny lights.
How many of these lights will be left by tomorrow night?
She didn't know and didn't want to think about these issues.
The arrival of the end of the world brings mankind back to the primitive jungle world, technology is lost, and society regresses.
Living in the jungle means obeying the law of the jungle.
Survival of the fittest.
Survival of the fittest, the strong prey on the weak.
She took out her climbing hammock and secured it to a sturdy branch using climbing carabiners and strong ropes.
This way, even if the mutant tree shakes due to its growth, she will not fall.
Before going to bed, she took out the alcohol stove and cooked a small pot of meatball vermicelli soup, which she ate with whole-grain bread. Then she lay comfortably in the hammock with a small blanket draped over her body.
Above her head was the vast night sky, and the mutated leaves intertwined to form an open-air dome. Breathing the slightly cool air, Yao Tao pulled the blanket up, closed her eyes and fell asleep.
At five o'clock in the morning, she was awakened by a violent shaking.
Opening her eyes, she saw the orange-red sunrise in the eastern sky, which was breathtakingly beautiful.
The hammock was still swaying, and the mutant tree was growing, its branches stretching towards the sky, upwards, upwards...
The branch where the hammock was hanging was at the very top of the tree. She felt like she was sitting in a lift, being lifted high into the sky.
Although she knew that the world was experiencing the second mutation of the apocalypse, the magnificent scenery before her still made her unable to help but indulge in it.
Nature is really beautiful.
Although this beauty has caused a catastrophe for humans, it may be a good thing for other species living in this world.
The food chain will be rewritten.
The world is reshuffled.
Half an hour later, the mutant tree stopped growing.
The hammock stopped rocking.
Yao Tao carefully left the hammock, took out the telescope and looked at the ground.
This mutant tree has grown taller than a fifty-story building. Its huge trunk can accommodate two cars side by side. The trunk is crooked and the slope can reach sixty degrees in some places. If you are not careful, it will slide all the way to the ground and break into pieces.
Yao Tao did not act in a hurry. She first observed her surroundings.
By this time, the people in the resettlement site would probably be in chaos.
Through the telescope she discovered a large number of mutant flies.
However, they did not attack humans because they were being tracked by mutant dragonflies and were fleeing for their lives.
"Nature is so cruel." Yao Tao muttered and decided to have breakfast on the tree first.
Her breakfast was simple. She cooked two poached eggs on an alcohol stove, poured some honey into them, took out two slices of bread, spread some blueberry jam on them, and added a slice of fried bacon.
While the people on the ground were shrouded in terror, she was enjoying her breakfast in the tree.
After breakfast, she started working.
Take out the climbing rope, rock hammer and rock wedge from the space and prepare for high-altitude rappelling.
In the previous life, when Zhu Hua's team was on the move, they had to reach the ground from the mutant trees that served as their base, and they used rock climbing equipment.
The apocalypse has just begun, and no one has thought of hiding in the trees. Even if they did, they couldn't climb so high without the equipment, so she planned to temporarily make this place her base.
Driving rock wedges here and there into the tree, she was halfway down when she heard a voice.
“Meow…”
She quickly stopped her rappel and removed the air rifle from her back.
Encountering a mutant cat at this time is no joke.
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