Xia Lunong suddenly turned into a kitten, Xia Huoqu was worried, so he went to discuss with Lao Liu whether they could return to the base early.

Lao Liu didn't expect that they would encounter a snake tide this time. He puffed on his cigarette for a while, and sighed with a sad face: "I don't feel safe either. How about this, we will look for another day, find a safe place to rest at night, and go back when the collected supplies fill two trucks."

Xia Huoqu thought for a while, "How about I take Xiao Nong back first, and let Captain Yan stay here? With him, he should be able to protect everyone."

"Hey, please don't." Old Liu begged, "The scale of the snake tide is so large that Captain Yan alone may be overwhelmed. How about you stay for another day? In one day, we will definitely be able to collect a lot of things. You also know that it is not easy to drive two large trucks out. If we drive back empty, we will lose a lot."

After that, without waiting for Xia Huoqu to answer, Old Liu said, "Deputy Captain Xia, I still have two packs of treasured milk powder. They are not expired. I will send them to you. You can soak Xiao Nong and cook some meat porridge in the next two days. It shouldn't be a problem."

Seeing that he even said honorifics, Xia Huoqu couldn't refuse, so he said helplessly, "Then I will observe for a few more hours. If Xiao Nong's condition is not good, I will have to take him back early."

"No problem." Old Liu agreed immediately, "Compared to supplies, people are more important. If it comes to that, we will go back with you."

Xia Huoqu returned in vain.

Yan Xinian was sleeping with the kitten in his T-shirt, and smiled when he saw him coming back, "Were you convinced by Old Liu?"

Xia Huoqu said, "It wasn't easy for Old Liu either."

Yan Xinian said directly, "You are just soft-hearted."

Xia Huoqu looked at him depressedly, "Give Xiao Nong back to me."

"Hold it for a while. I haven't seen such a soft kitten for more than a year. When you were little, you picked up a kitten and put it in my house to raise. Do you remember?"

"Why not remember?" Xia Huoqu smiled a little, "Later your mother wouldn't let you, so she sent you to your grandmother's house to catch mice, and we had a fight."

Talking about the past, the two smiled at each other.

Yan Xinian lifted the kitten in his hand a little higher, "This one will definitely not be given away, we will take good care of it."

"Speak louder, Xiao Nong will bite you to death if he hears it."

Yan Xinian laughed softly, "That can't happen, the kitten's teeth haven't grown hard yet."

Xia Lunong had no idea what the two brothers were talking about. He was tired from his body, his belly was heaving, and he was sleeping soundly in the small nest made of his brother's T-shirts.

After a short rest in the morning, everyone continued to search for supplies.

Ling Chen's escape was not in vain. This time, Lao Liu drove the car himself and took people to the largest market in Zhangshu County.

It has been nearly two years since the disaster. Most of the buildings were razed to the ground by the earthquake, and the originally prosperous market has long been covered by green plants.

A group of people dispersed and searched slowly.

Xia Lunong woke up, smacked his lips on his brother's palm, and tugged at his brother's sleeve with his little paw, "Meow."

"What's wrong?" Xia Huoqu looked down at him, "Are you hungry?"

Xia Huoqu opened his backpack, took out one of the water bottles, opened the lid and poured him a cup of milk.

Xia Lunong didn't want to ask this question at first, but the smell of milk stimulated his stomach and he immediately felt hungry.

He ignored the question he wanted to ask and staggered to the lid on all fours, licking the milk with a "pat pat" sound.

The cat's mouth is flat and wide, and its cheeks can't wrap things easily like humans do. He can only drink milk by rolling it with his tongue and putting it into his mouth.

After a long slurp, Xia Lunong finally finished a bottle of milk. There was a circle of milk whiskers around his mouth, and his soft white cat face was soaked.

The kitten subconsciously stretched out his pink tongue to lick it. After licking, he felt sleepy again. Sleepiness flashed in his watery green round eyes, and he looked at his brother blankly.

It's over. What did he want to say before drinking the milk?

Xia Huoqu gently scratched the cat's head, "Go to sleep if you're sleepy."

"Meow." The kitten yawned again, and his long whiskers trembled. His small soft body fell into his T-shirt and squinted his eyes and fell asleep again.

Yan Xinian came over to take a look, clicked his tongue, and was about to laugh.

Xia Huoqu glared at him and said defensively, "Kittens can sleep."

Yan Xinian raised his hands in surrender.

Old Liu led people to disperse in this area of ​​the market to search for supplies.

During the earthquake, most of the things in the market were destroyed. In the past two years, most of the remaining supplies have also deteriorated.

They searched and searched, and found some knives, cloths, seasonings and other items, as well as a small number of dried mushrooms, dried black fungus and other mountain products.

Xia Huoqu and Yan Xinian did not join in much, and just walked around slowly a little outside the market.

Xia Lunong transformed into a kitten, his body was so weak that he couldn't even bite meat, but his five senses were much stronger.

He had just woken up, so he wasn't too sleepy.

The ubiquitous sunlight was okay, his pupils could change, and he didn't find it too dazzling, so it didn't disturb his sleep. But his brother and Yan Xinian's chat, as well as the clanging sounds of rummaging not far away, kept ringing in his ears, making him a little irritated.

The tip of his tail drooped down, shaking again and again. He couldn't fall asleep, so he had to open his eyes, lie on his brother's hand, and meow at his brother.

Xia Huoqu lowered his head, "What's wrong?"

Xia Lunong remembered, why can't he change back after the beast transformation? Didn't everyone change back easily?

He turned over and stood up, his four short legs moving back and forth in his brother's palm, "meowing" at his brother.

Yan Xinian asked, "Does Xiao Nong have anything to say?"

Xia Huoqu was a little helpless, "Even if you say it, I can't understand it now."

"Meow!"

"Don't worry, I'll find you a pen and paper." Xia Huoqu handed the kitten to Yan Xinian and took out a pen and paper from his backpack, "Can you hold it in your mouth and write?"

"Meow!" Xia Lunong nodded.

Xia Huoqu rubbed the soft little cat's head and handed the pen to his mouth, letting him hold it in his mouth and write.

Xia Lunong tried several postures and found sadly that the kitten's body was not much longer than the pen, and its pink fur mouth was small and tender. Except for the canine teeth, other teeth had not grown, so it was difficult for it to hold the pen in its mouth.

He held the book in his mouth and tried to write two words on it.

Yan Xinian read it and muttered, "Change...to a human? Xiao Nong, do you want to change back to human form?"

Xia Lunong nodded her head like a cat.

The body of a kitten is not fun at all, and he will no longer look forward to beastification.

Xia Huo said, "Beastification has used up all your stored energy. You probably won't be able to change back in a short time. I'll think of a way for you when we get back to the base."

"Meow?" Xia Lunong's eyes widened, "Meow meow meow!"

With this body of a kitten, he can only drink a small bottle of milk in one meal. When will he be able to store enough energy to change back to human form?

Xia Huoqu understood exactly what he meant from his cat face, and answered him directly without him having to write: "Go back and ask Dr. Ou to use some healing powers on you."

The kitten looked at him listlessly.

The furry long-haired kitten was really cute. Xia Huoqu rubbed the kitten's head and said, "It's not just healing powers for you. The abilities of beastmen usually have two aspects. One is that your brother and I have particularly developed muscles, and we have no special powers in terms of combat power. The other is that the beast form is very weak, but has special powers."

The kitten looked up at him, with expectation in its wet green eyes, motioning him to continue.

Yan Xinian also rubbed the cat's head next to Xia Huoqu's hand, and testified with a serious face, "What your brother said is true. Doctor Ou's beast form is still a squirrel, much smaller than your adult body. Isn't her ability particularly useful?"

"Meow." The tips of the kitten's ears stood up energetically, and it sat upright in its brother's palm with its chest and head held high, and didn't even notice that Yan Xinian was rubbing it.

The two people and the cat have been wandering around.

Xia Lunong perked up and began to look around attentively, hoping to find something valuable.

The light was good, and the cat's pupils stood up in a line. When he turned his head alertly and looked around, he really showed some majesty.

He sniffed hard and soon smelled an unusual scent in the wind, a bit bitter.

"Meow meow meow!" Xia Lunong called out, stretched out his front paws and pointed in a certain direction ahead.

He was not very skilled in using his cat body and didn't know how to stand on three paws. When he stretched out his paws, the whole cat immediately lost balance and rolled over in Xia Huoqu's palm, with a blank expression on his face.

Xia Huoqu tried not to laugh, but he couldn't hide the smile in his eyes, and his eyes narrowed.

"Woo--" Xia Lunong lowered her cat head and buried it in his palm depressedly.

Xia Huoqu forced a change of subject and walked in the direction of his cat's paws, "What's there?"

"Meow." There might be something good.

Yan Xinian followed Xia Huoqu, holding the iron hook in his hand, and went to the direction pointed by Xia Lunong. He used the iron hook to remove the weeds and vines on top, and moved away the cement slabs and bricks on top.

Once the debris was cleared, Yan Xinian quickly knew what was underneath.

It turned out to be some medicine!

"It works!" Yan Xinian showed an amazed expression on his face, and picked up a medicine at the bottom, "Nifedipine sustained-release tablets... Not bad, these tablets are basically not damaged, how did you know there are medicines here?"

Yan Xinian was a tiger after the beastification, even if he was in human form, his sense of smell was much more sensitive than that of ordinary people. He didn't smell it, let alone ordinary people.

Xia Lunong, a kitten who had transformed for half a day, found it so quickly.

Could it be that the blind cat stumbled upon a dead mouse?