Chapter 92: See a doctor early to get paid. It's a very boring job...
Cashiering is a very boring job. Cashiers stand there for half a day, mechanically picking up items and scanning codes.
The customers in shopping malls are always quite diverse: couples, families, and people traveling alone...
And brought a cat?
Although there is no rule prohibiting pets, there are still a few people who actually bring cats and dogs in, especially such a special cat.
For some reason, the cashier felt that the cat was... not very cat-like the first time he saw it.
Maybe it’s because the black cat’s expression is too human.
With a look of genuine half joy and half sorrow, he looked like a prisoner who was still struggling over whether to eat his last meal.
Squatting on the owner's shoulder, his eyes couldn't stop glancing at the shopping cart.
A shopping cart was pushed over and the cat's owner raised his hand to put something on the checkout counter.
The other party puts the items one by one, and the cashier scans the codes one by one.
The cashier couldn't help but take a few more glances at the cat. The closer he got, the stronger the strange "human" feeling of the cat became.
Especially when the other person is looking at you too.
…
By the time the cashier came to his senses, the checkout had already been completed, and the customer in line behind him couldn't help but urge him to pay.
So he hurried back to work, scanning the code and packing the goods diligently.
But... what exactly settled the bill?
I have no recollection of it at all, as if a period of time had been cut off, or as if the cat I saw was just a dream, and now, its owner has taken it away.
Wait, did its owner show up?
The cashier mentally reviewed his memory.
It clearly happened not long ago, but it seems like a long time has passed. The faded feeling in the distant memories slowly blurs the perception.
The black cat squatted on its owner's shoulder.
The black cat was squatting...where was it squatting?
What is a black cat? Have you seen a black cat today?
The cashier paused for two seconds and continued working without changing his expression.
Nothing happened today.
Cashiering is a boring job.
*
Li An walked back slowly carrying two oversized plastic bags.
Her strength increased dramatically. She was carrying these things that were enough to make any otaku kneel down on the spot, but she felt like she was only carrying two bags of potato chips. They were so light that she lost the sense of their weight.
This is also one of the few benefits of being a store manager, your physique is comparable to that of Superman.
Just squatting on her shoulder made Li An worry about whether her clothes were wet - she always felt that the black cat could no longer hold back her saliva.
How could there be such a greedy cat in the world? When it was wandering around the snack area, it wanted to stuff the entire area into the shopping cart.
But it's normal for the Cat God to be a little different.
Loop her hair casually with the tail.
It softened its voice and immediately sounded like a kitten's meow, sweet and soft. "Are these all mine?"
"Basically." Li An had lost her worldly desire for food. Even though she hadn't eaten for a long time, she was not moved at all when she passed by the delicatessen area.
It wasn't that she wasn't hungry at all, but the aroma of meat wafting over made her lose her appetite.
She wanted to eat something, but she didn't quite want to eat what these people were supposed to eat.
The black cat seemed to cheer, and after a while, it asked anxiously, "Isn't this the last meal?"
Li An walked slowly along the road back to the handcraft shop, following the shadows of the street lamps in the moonlight.
"Of course not."
She felt something furry, round, and soft coming up to her and rubbing against her ear.
There is no happier cat in the world!
When I returned to the store, it was already very dark.
The familiar silver-blue color flowed across the shelves, and in the dim light, there was no need to turn on the lights.
Li An had just found a place on the second floor to put down her shopping bags when she heard the doorbell ring.
She narrowed her eyes and asked softly, "There won't be any human guests?"
This is a completely normal human society. What other animals would come here at this time?
Suibian suddenly shook his fur: "It should be... not."
It was not sure whether the person walking in was a human or an animal. After all, it could no longer cast an illusion on Li'an.
Li An obviously didn't quite believe it, but since she hadn't seen anyone for a long time, it didn't seem like a bad thing to see them occasionally - with this feeling, she still walked downstairs with the black cat in her arms.
If anything unexpected happens, just throw the Cat God away. She doesn't want to know how to communicate with others. Anyway, it's better for her to die than for her friends to die.
Walking through the corridor, I saw a calico cat.
Fortunately, it's not human.
Even though she thought it was okay to see people, Li An still felt more at ease.
People always feel uncomfortable in crowded places, and they don’t know what danger may come at the next second.
Li An looked at the black cat and asked, "One of your kind?"
Randomly getting angry: "How can this be called the same kind as mine? Do you think I have even the slightest resemblance to it?"
Yes, they are all cats.
*
When Yu Qiu was awakened by the sharp sound of air flow, the outside was covered with clouds and fog, and there was no moonlight.
She didn't even know if she had slept for an hour, and she had wasted two minutes just sitting there in bed, listening to the sound getting closer and closer to her.
The neighbors were completely silent, as if completely drowned out by the sound of the airflow.
Yu Qiu hoped that this was an illusion, perhaps the neighbor was just asleep so there was no sound, otherwise several living people would just disappear out of thin air...is it possible?
This is something that is difficult to think about. Yu Qiu rolled off the bed. For some unknown reason, she ran out of the house in a panic.
In my panic, I put on my slippers the wrong way around without even noticing, and I didn't even feel goosebumps from facing the cold temperature without a coat.
Stay away from that thing.
A little further away.
He ran all the way to the first floor. When the sound gradually became blurred and difficult to hear, Yu Qiu felt his sanity slowly returning.
She felt that she was very confused just now, and she was also confused that she was still unwilling to go back after waking up.
But I really don’t want to go back.
I clearly didn't see anything, but I had a feeling that I should have seen something.
It's like an ant standing in front of a giant tree. A fallen leaf is like an ark to it. It can't see the tree, and every rugged line on the trunk is bigger than it, but it can still feel the presence of the giant tree.
Yes, she just felt something.
Yu Qiu thought that something was growing out from the other side of the air.
She folded her arms, realizing the temperature was too low. But she absolutely refused to go back for her coat. Knocking on other people's doors... wouldn't she be considered a psychopath? Even she herself found it hard to understand her own behavior.
Yu Qiu felt her pajamas pockets; they were empty. She simply sat down on the first floor stairs, shivering again on the cold cement.
I don’t know if it’s feasible to find a 24-hour convenience store with this look… I hope I won’t be kicked out if I don’t buy anything.
She bent down, put her two slippers back on after being worn inside out, and then stared at her own shadow in a daze.
The clouds had dissipated a little, and the moonlight shone through the small window in the stairwell, illuminating her shadow clearly.
Sometimes, people mistake their shadow for their second self, and imagine seeing a moment when the shadow and themselves are out of sync.
Just like now, Yu Qiu saw a long and thin thing slowly protruding from his shadow, with tiny hairs floating around it.
Like it's growing.
——
Her heart skipped a beat, then leaped hard, but when she blinked a few times and looked again, it had vanished again, like an illusion.
...Maybe she really has a mental illness. Yu Qiu began to question himself. He had auditory and visual hallucinations, and he thought that there was something wrong with his brain.
Yu Qiu calculated how much it would cost to see a psychiatric doctor in the hospital.
It’s a pity that I didn’t have my cell phone with me, otherwise I could have checked it.
So you want to go back?
Yu Qiu prepared himself mentally and finally mustered up the courage to climb the stairs.
I walked up slowly floor by floor, and the house I rented not long ago was on the fifth floor.
Yu Qiu stopped on the third floor.
The auditory hallucination came again, and the range has expanded a lot. It was in the middle of the corridor on the fifth floor before, and now I can hear it again before I even reach the fourth floor.
Yu Qiu held the handrail tightly. The sound of air flow in his illusion was very close, spreading towards him inch by inch, like a tide that flooded the building, pouring down from top to bottom, and the speed was getting faster and faster.
It's just an illusion, don't scare yourself.
I repeated this in my mind several times, but I couldn't convince myself to move my legs upwards.
When the tide was about to cover her, Yu Qiu finally couldn't help but run downstairs.
The hairs on her body stood up, and it was difficult for her to persuade herself to be rational.
As he ran down, Yu Qiu thought to himself that he might also develop some symptoms of paranoia... He hoped the treatment wouldn't be too expensive.
She had made up her mind not to go upstairs anymore. At worst, she would just stay awake for one night. Tomorrow, she would go directly to her part-time boss to get her salary, and then go to the hospital.
It was like a young sprout breaking through the soil, tearing through the air and struggling to get out. The sound of the air was mixed and difficult to distinguish, like breathing.
Yu Qiu ran back to the first floor, hugged his arms and sat down on the cold stairs.
She was a little out of breath after running so fast, and she subconsciously lowered her head and met her own shadow again.
One eye blinked slightly.
It was almost like he was greeting Yu Qiu.
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