Chapter 126

According to the whale man, Qiu Yufei's current location should be on the 41st floor.

Chu Yungang had the setting records of all the floors in his hand. Qiu Yufei took a photo with her mobile phone when she separated from him. To find out which floor it is, just study the settings.

41, which is close to the ground. Xu Ming curled up and stood on the window eaves. He looked down tentatively and decisively gave up the idea of ​​flying down to find someone. He also confirmed with the whale man whether there was a window that could be opened at Qiu Yufei's place. He planned to let A Jiao take the rule book and climb up directly along the outer wall.

Since he could fly outside the window, it should be possible to let A Jiao come up from the outside.

"Okay." The whale man agreed neatly, and then asked curiously, "Then you now..."

"I'll go back first." Xu Ming said stiffly, "Try to change back to your original form first, and by the way, see if the cat in the house has come back."

The whale man: "..."

"Uh." It felt necessary to remind Xu Ming, "Your cat just jumped down from here."

"I know. But maybe a new one will come out." Xu Ming said, carefully moving along the eaves of the window, trying to squeeze herself back into the window.

This place is too high, unlike the indoor floor, she didn't dare to flap her wings and fly directly. So she just used her claws to hold the eaves tightly and moved down little by little. After a lot of effort, she finally returned to the house smoothly.

... Fortunately, the parrot is a climbing bird, and its toes are very strong. Otherwise, Xu Ming really didn't know if he could just crawl back like this.

Because he was worried that another cat would appear in the living room, Xu Ming was very cautious when he entered the house, with his wings tightly pressed to his sides. He looked around on the windowsill for a long time before jumping to the floor.

The cat's nest was empty. There was no sign of the "cat" around. Xu Ming looked around again and finally confirmed a complicated fact - there seemed to be no cat in this room.

...How to say it.

Things seemed to have suddenly become a little awkward.

Xu Ming shook his fur on the spot and grumbled tiredly. He tilted his head to listen to the movement in the kitchen. After making sure that she didn't hear any strange noises for the time being, she began to look around for a mirror, thinking about letting herself recover first. After

searching for a while without finding it, the clock in the living room briefly struck the time. Xu Ming looked up at the time, and her heart suddenly sank again.

If she remembered correctly, it was time to clean up the dog's food bowl.

Half an hour ago, she had put the food into the dog's food bowl according to the "feeding guide". Now I have to go and see the situation. If the dog doesn't finish the food in time, I need to deal with it, just like taking away the cat's leftovers before.

...Speaking of which, what should I do with the cat food left by Cha Ji? Normally, it should be put in the refrigerator, but she didn't seem to have the ability to open the refrigerator door at the moment...

The shadow in Xu Ming's heart suddenly became heavier. After a slight hesitation, she still jumped towards the restaurant.

She was still thinking about the words "the dog is crazy", and when she stepped into the living room, she held her breath again. In order to prevent being suddenly attacked by the "dog", she deliberately jumped onto the dining table first, and looked down cautiously. It was not until this moment that she really saw the appearance of the "dog" -

it must be said that it is not unreasonable that it can live in the same house with a cat.

It also has a human-like shape, and to be more precise, it is based on a human, and has undergone some deformations that are more similar to dogs - the middle of the face is protruding, the neck is shortened, and it is not the heels that step on the ground, but the toes, which looks like it is standing on four feet.

The dog didn't stay in the kennel, but was walking back and forth along the food bowl, nudging it with its nose from time to time. Xu Ming took a closer look and was glad to find that its food bowl was empty at the moment.

In other words, he didn't have to worry about it for the time being. That was a big help.

Xu Ming secretly breathed a sigh of relief and observed it quietly for a while. He didn't think the dog looked "crazy". Although its appearance was a bit strange, its mood seemed to be stable - Xu Ming tentatively shouted "Congratulations on your prosperity" to it, and it wiggled its butt towards her happily.

Although Xu Ming felt that its original intention should be to wag its tail.

I don't know why, cats have tails, but dogs don't. The normal wagging of the tail looked strange all of a sudden.

Xu Ming wasn't sure whether it was originally normal, or simply because she was a bird now and there was no need for it to be crazy with her. In any case, she really felt a little regretful - she seemed to have paid too much attention to the note that said "the dog is crazy" before. If she had chosen to run to the restaurant at that time, at least she could have kept a cat for now.

Only cats can catch mice, and mice will destroy the leftover food in the kitchen. The dog's food shortage will make it angry - from this point of view, perhaps the note that said "the dog is crazy" refers to this situation.

The question is, what should she do next?

Continue looking for the mirror? Speaking of which, this mirror can turn itself into a bird, and maybe it can also turn itself into a cat. If that's the case, the problem of no cats is solved... I just don't know what the "rats" in this place look like...

Or can you use a mirror to take pictures of other animals? If you take a picture of a dog, will it turn into a cat?

Xu Ming seriously considered the feasibility of this plan. After thinking about it for a while, she still couldn't come to a conclusion. Looking at the time, she decided to go to the kitchen first - the kitchen is next to the restaurant. Since she's already here, she doesn't need to make another trip.

She had been in an idiotic state before, and she didn't know if there were any changes in the kitchen. She had to go and check it out. Besides, there might be a mirror in the kitchen.

Xu Ming made up his mind, looked at the "dog" who was scratching his neck with his hind legs, turned around and pounced again, staggered into the kitchen, looked up and looked around, his face froze.

I didn't see it at all when I was still an "idiot" before... I saw that this room was covered with large and small scratches at some point.

The marks were very shallow, and at first glance, they looked like messy lines. Xu Ming jumped towards a cabinet and saw those scratches overlapping and crisscrossing on the cabinet door, but they didn't look like the marks of a mouse - Xu Ming's biology was not very good, but even she knew that there would be no mouse with eight nails on one paw.

In addition to the scratches, Xu Ming also found some hidden bite marks. The marks were not deep either, but they were shocking, especially when Xu Ming found that the handle and rubber ring of the refrigerator had been bitten twice...

She had to get a cat.

Xu Ming had to realize this again. Getting another one was imminent.

Because she didn't have enough strength now, she didn't check the things in the refrigerator. But looking at the marks on the refrigerator, the thing called "rat" should not have been able to open the refrigerator for the time being, and the food inside was still safe.

This made Xu Ming feel relieved again. After confirming that there was nothing wrong with the kitchen, he skipped back to the restaurant, and then skipped all the way to the living room. After staying at the table in the living room for a while, he still didn't see any mirrors, so his eyes turned half a circle and landed on the right side of the living room.

The corridor on the right passes through the storage room, study and second bedroom respectively.

There is a normal mirror in the second bedroom, so there is no need to go there first; there are potted plants in the storage room, and there are starlings in the study.

The latter two rooms are worth a look. Xu Ming pecked his wings on the spot. After all, under the guidance of the principle of proximity, he chose the study, which was closer.

Fortunately, she did not close the door tightly when she walked around before. Xu Ming squeezed herself into the door without much effort, looked around, and couldn't help but hiss in her heart.

The study looked almost the same as before, but the overall color was a little weirder than before. It was like it was covered by a layer of blood-colored filter, and just looking at it made people feel an uncontrollable depression.

Xu Ming wondered if this was related to the fact that she was a bird now - the colors she saw now were obviously different from when she was a human, and seemed to be much more brightly colored overall.

But it seemed to be the first time she had seen something that turned completely red like this.

Looking around again, she didn't find any mirrors. This made Xu Ming a little panicked. Looking at the bird cage hanging in the house, Xu Ming's heart moved, and she flapped her wings violently, and threw herself upwards, and she actually landed on the bird cage.

Xu Ming held the bottom of the cage tightly with her claws, and her unskilled movements caused the bird cage to shake. She tried her best to stabilize her body, listened to the movement in the cage with her ears, and then grabbed the cloth on the cage with her mouth and pulled it down hard. The inside

of the cage was instantly revealed - it was indeed empty. There

was no "starling". There were no other strange creatures named starling. The whole cage was empty, except for a large piece of black feathers at the bottom, blood stains at the roots, and blood stains on the rails, as if it had experienced a fierce collision before.

In the food bowl of the cage, there were still "mealworms" that Xu Ming had fed before.

Although they were called mealworms, they looked like completely different insects, white and fat, like miniature elongated silkworm pupae. The insects were all refrigerated and were motionless when they were just taken out, but now they seemed to have awakened from the low temperature, crawling into a ball in the bowl, entangled with each other, and arching their backs.

To be honest, it was quite creepy to look at... especially for someone like Xu Ming who originally hated worms.

Xu Ming tilted her head slightly and looked at the squirming mealworms. For some reason, she stared at them for a long time.

She wasn't sure if it was because of her current identity or what, but she felt that this thing... didn't seem so disgusting.

Not only was it not disgusting, but if you looked closely, it was actually quite cute. It was white and plump, and it looked like it was rich in protein. It would burst with a bite...

Come to think of it, did I not eat yet? Thinking of

this, it seemed that I was a little hungry...

Xu Ming thought vaguely, and suddenly felt a tightness in her mouth, as if something was stuck - she came back to her senses with a start, and then she realized that her mouth had reached the side of the food bowl without her knowing when.

…but she was not used to her beak yet, and when she reached out, she didn’t control the distance well, and got stuck in the gap between the food bowl and the bird cage…

wait, wait.

What am I doing? What did I want to do just now?

Xu Ming blinked, and suddenly woke up. Her first reaction was to pull her beak out—probably because of the angle, and she couldn’t pull it out by force. She subconsciously flapped her wings and pulled her body back in fear. Because the movement was too big, the cage also shook along with it…

Following that, there was a snap.

There was another clang.

Finally, there was a click.

Xu Ming fell to the ground, and the cage rolled to the ground with it, with the mealworms scattered all over the ground. Xu Ming staggered to his feet, and when he caught a glimpse of the mealworms on the ground, he was so frightened that his feathers stood up. He closed his eyes without hesitation, and moved towards the door with a hop and a fly. Halfway through his hop, he suddenly realized something was wrong—

click.

Click?

Why did the cage fall...with a clicking sound?

Xu Ming was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that it was not the sound of the cage falling, and it was not even from the study.

It was the sound of the doorknob turning from outside.

And from this position, he could hear it so clearly, which meant that the other party should have opened the door of the storage room opposite...

As if echoing her thoughts, the next second, there was another "pop" sound—the door of the storage room opposite was closed again.

Immediately afterwards, there was another deliberately light footstep, which approached quietly and stopped outside the study door.

Xu Ming slowly turned his head and saw through the crack of the open door a pair of tattered men's shoes parked outside the door.