"Where … is this place?"
Vladimir wandered around the unfamiliar street in a daze.
It was almost evening, and the lights were just beginning to come on.
Everything around it seemed like it was Binhai City, but it also seemed like it wasn't.
The people walking on the street all looked frightened and uneasy, as if they were afraid that a disaster would befall them. As they walked, they looked around anxiously. Their eyes went back and forth between the corners, the top of the walls, the treetops, and the roofs.
The people who were riding and driving were also very fast. They came and went in a hurry, so fast that Vladimir was worried for them.
Sure enough, at the corner of the street, two small cars scraped against each other because they were going too fast. Fortunately, the two drivers reacted quickly. They stepped on the brakes in time and turned the steering wheel to the other side. They didn't use the accelerator as the brake. The damage to the cars wasn't serious, and the people in the cars were wearing seat belts. There were no casualties. At most, it was a false alarm.
Vladimir was used to such small traffic accidents in the capital and Binhai City. It had already guessed what would happen next. It was nothing more than the people from both sides getting out of the car and pretending to be very good at damage assessment to take photos and videos. The good-tempered ones would discuss whether to settle it privately or call the traffic police. The hot-tempered ones might directly curse at each other and then fight.
However, the drivers in the two cars used an unexpected solution. They pulled down the windows and looked at the damage to their cars. They seemed to feel that it was within an acceptable range, so they looked at each other and silently exchanged a few words with their eyes. Then, one of the drivers raised his phone and showed the QR code of his social media app. The other driver used his phone to scan the QR code and add the other as a friend. Then, they raised their windows and left. They didn't say a word from beginning to end.
Vladimir was stunned. It had heard that when two luxury car owners had a traffic accident, they would often deal with it this way. Compensation was not important. It was better to make friends. But these two cars were ordinary brands. How could the owners be so carefree?
Rather than saying that they were carefree … It was more like they were afraid to stay too long at night.
All the pedestrians were the same.
It was really strange. Could it be … that the Holy Cat statue or other evil things were causing trouble in Binhai City again?
"Kebabs! Freshly baked kebabs! "
Vladimir's ears perked up. It heard a familiar shout coming from another street.
It was Uncle Li's voice!
It immediately jumped onto the wall and took a shortcut in the direction of the sound.
If it was Uncle Li, then this should still be Binhai City, right?
As long as it was in Binhai City, it was relieved. The pet shop was diagonally opposite Li's Snack Bar. It knew that Li's Snack Bar was responsible for supplying most of the food in the pet shop. For a win-win situation, it specifically told the stray cats to wander around the snack bar. If they encountered harmful animals such as rats and cockroaches, they should be killed immediately.
Not long after, it saw the figures of the Li couple, but the strange thing was that they were not selling skewers in the snack bar. Instead, they resumed their old business, using electric tricycles as mobile vendors.
What was going on?
Everyone knew how happy it was to have one's own shop. No matter how small it was, at least one didn't have to shelter from the wind and rain outside or be chased away by the city management. Why did one still have to be a mobile street vendor when one already had one's own shop?
Vladimir didn't understand, but this kind of thing wasn't the top priority at the moment. Maybe they wanted to relive the feeling of doing business in the past? Nostalgia was a trend these days.
"Hi!"
It jumped down from the top of the wall and raised a front paw to greet them.
The Li couple had seen most of the elfins in the pet shop, and they knew Vladimir. When it passed by, they often fed it with barbecued meat, but it never ate it.
Logically speaking, they shouldn't be too surprised to see it.
Unexpectedly, they looked as if they had seen a ghost. Their faces instantly turned pale, and their hands trembled. The skewers that they were grilling fell to the ground.
"Don't … Don't come over …" the old couple said in a trembling voice as they backed away.
Vladimir was stunned. It didn't understand what was going on, but it thought that in order to avoid scaring the two old people, it still took a few steps back and stayed away from them.
They saw that it was reasonable, and that its body was clean and tidy. It didn't seem like a stray cat, so they were slightly relieved. They looked at each other and immediately began to pack up, planning to close the stall and go home.
Vladimir hesitated. Should it quietly follow them? Maybe it could find the pet shop by following the clues, but they were so afraid …
Also, what were they afraid of?
At that moment, it suddenly heard light footsteps. It looked up and saw a few pairs of different colored eyes flashing on the top of the wall.
They were stray cats!
It was good to find stray cats. It could ask them where the pet shop was.
Vladimir was about to greet them with a secret signal, but it saw that they ignored it. Their eyes were fixed on the skewers that had already been grilled. They all jumped down from the top of the wall and pounced on the Li couple's electric tricycle.
Vladimir was stunned again. What were they going to do?
The Li couple also saw the stray cats and were instantly shocked. They carried their main valuables into the car and drove away without looking back, leaving behind a few simple folding tables and chairs. There was also a large plate of grilled skewers on the table. There were about a hundred of them.
The stray cats jumped onto the table and started to eat the skewers.
"Meow my a * s! What are you doing? "
Vladimir was angry. It also jumped onto the table and waved its claws to drive the stray cats away.
"Why are you stealing from ordinary people?" it asked sternly. It was so angry that its whole body was trembling.
If it hadn't seen this unbelievable scene with its own eyes, it wouldn't have believed that the stray cats would do such a thing.
The few stray cats jumped off the table in shock, but they didn't run away. Instead, they silently looked at Vladimir around the table.
"Who's your branch leader? Let it come and see me! "Vladimir roared.
The stray cats were shocked, but they quickly bared their teeth and hissed at it fiercely. They also looked like they were about to pounce on it.
"F * ck, do you still want to rebel?" Vladimir was so angry that it laughed. It moved its shoulders. "Looking at you, I'm afraid this isn't the first time you've done this kind of thing. Today, I'm going to punish you on behalf of your branch leader as a warning to others!"
The stray cats seemed to feel its power. They were just bluffing around the table and didn't dare to really pounce on it.
After a while, Vladimir heard the subtle sound of footsteps again. It looked up and saw more stray cats appearing nearby. They must have heard their companions' cries for help.
The nearby shops might have also heard the cries of the stray cats. They quickly pulled down the shutter doors and closed the doors. They even turned off the lights in the rooms. It was as if … the devil had entered the village.
Vladimir's heart ached when he saw this. What was going on?
More and more stray cats gathered there, surrounding Vladimir in three layers. But it was calm and fearless. Its eyes were like torches, full of anger and grief.
The stray cats stared at it with the same anger. It didn't know why they were angry. Was it because it had stolen their barbecue skewers?
"You guys, can anyone understand what I'm saying!" it roared, temporarily suppressing their noisy hissing.
It raised a front paw. "The king covers the earth, meow!"
There was no response.
The stray cats tensed their muscles warily, thinking that it was making a strange gesture to attack them. They stood up and screamed at it even louder.
Vladimir's claws were trembling, not because it was tired, but because its heart was about to break. Was the stray cat organization that it had built up going to fight now?
"Meow meow … Meow meow meow."
A weak sound came from the periphery.
Then, the stray cats separated to the sides, and a black cat with a missing ear slowly walked into the crowd.
"Ah Que? Is that you, Ah Que? "
Vladimir cried out in surprise. It recognized that it was Ah Que, its right-hand man.
However, in the past, Ah Que had only lost one ear. Now, Ah Que still had one eye that was squinted, as if he was blind in one eye. There were several scars on his body, and he had aged a lot.
Due to the lack of vision, Ah Que couldn't walk in a straight line. As he walked, he would lean to one side, which made Vladimir feel even more pained.
"Ah Que, what happened to your eye?" it asked, gesturing. "Who blinded you?"
Ah Que stared at it suspiciously, then turned his head to listen to the cats' hissing. He gestured to it, meaning: Traitor! Why are you helping humans?
Traitor … Traitor?
Vladimir felt as if it had been struck by lightning. It had never thought that it would be identified as a traitor, just because it had stopped the stray cats from stealing the Li couple's barbecue skewers?
"Ah Que … You don't recognize me? I'm Vladimir! "
Its eyes were filled with tears. Even when it had been attacked and seriously injured by Emile and Mieza, it hadn't shed a single tear.
Ah Que gestured even more angrily, meaning: Traitor, I was just about to ask you, where did you learn this secret code and this set of gestures? Why are you pretending to be our leader?
"I …"
Vladimir was dumbfounded by the question. A mouthful of blood was stuck in its chest, almost suffocating it.
"I … I'm Vladimir, Ah Que … What happened? Why are you stealing from humans? "it said with difficulty.
The stray cats were even more indignant. They hissed in unison, and their shrill cries rose and fell in the sky above Binhai City, attracting the response of stray cats even further away.
Vladimir vaguely felt that they weren't yelling blindly, but were singing some kind of melody …
In the dense forest, there were campsites arranged for comrades everywhere;
On the high hills, there were countless of our good brothers;
Without food, without clothing, there would be enemies who would send themselves to us;
Without guns, without cannons, the enemy would build for us …
Ah Que waved its claws, and the cries of the stray cats stopped for a while. Then it made an extremely firm and heartbreaking gesture: Destroy the tyranny of humans, the world belongs to the cats!
The stray cats were so excited that their screams rang through the sky. They were all roaring the same sentence, and the sky above Binhai City was like a ghost crying and a wolf howling.
Vladimir's body went limp, and it stumbled off the table. Its heart had already been broken into countless pieces.
Was this … Was this a dream?
How it wished that this was a dream. As long as it woke up, it would forget everything in the dream.
History seemed to have gone in another direction at a fork in the road.
"No … Ah Que, listen to me, this is not right. Stray cats and humans, maybe they can try to coexist peacefully …" it desperately tried to explain.
Ah Que stared at it coldly, gesturing with his hands to interrupt its words: Traitor! How dare you question the leader? The leader is God, and he is absolutely right!
This gesture completely destroyed Vladimir's heart.
All its hard work, all its blood and sacrifice, was not to make itself the person it had been trying to defeat.
"Your leader, where is it? I want to see it, "it said, panting.
Ah Que gestured with his hands in grief: The leader has already left, dying together with a copper cat, and its unfinished business has to be completed by us!
Vladimir understood. It was probably because they hadn't been able to stop the Holy Cat Statue in time, allowing it to gather too much power of faith and become abnormally strong. That was why it had ended up dying together with it.
It had fought for its entire life, in order to sweep away all evil spirits, and in the moment of its highest glory, it had fallen, causing the stray cats to have absolute respect for it, and then it had been regarded as God …
Was there anything more painful than this?
But that wasn't right. Why did history go in this direction?
Where was Zhang Zian? Why didn't he stop all this, why didn't he … stop it?
"Chief Zhang, where is he?" it asked weakly.
If … If even Zhang Zian became the enemy of the stray cats …
Ah Que gestured with his hands in confusion: Chief Zhang, who is it?
Vladimir raised its head. "Amazing Fate Pet Shop? Do you know? "
Ah Que was confused.
"I … No, your leader, why did he come to Binhai City?" Vladimir asked.
Ah Que gestured: There's no harm in telling you, traitor. Because the copper cat was acting recklessly and lawlessly here, the leader heard the news and came all the way from the capital.
So that's how it was …
No wonder the Holy Cat Statue had become so strong. If it had come all the way from the capital, it definitely wouldn't have made it in time.
This world … was a world where it hadn't met Zhang Zian.
"I understand …" it muttered to itself. "As long as I find him, he will definitely have a way to remedy it …"
"I understand!"
Vladimir roared, using all the strength in its body to leap into the air. Before the other stray cats could react, it jumped onto the top of the wall and ran desperately towards the east.
The Amazing Fate Pet Shop was in the Dongcheng District. This Binhai City was different from the real Binhai City. It could be a few years or ten years later in the real world. Hopefully, the pet shop hadn't moved yet.
It saw it! It was the Amazing Fate Pet Shop!
Vladimir saw the sign of the Amazing Fate Pet Shop from afar and couldn't help but cry tears of joy. In this chaotic world, only this sign was like a bright light that illuminated the darkness.
However, the door of the shop was already closed, and the shutter door was down.
Vladimir stopped at the door of the shop and saw that the lights were still on inside. This meant that Zhang Zian hadn't gone far. Otherwise, with his stinginess, he definitely wouldn't have forgotten to turn off the switch.
It jumped onto the window sill on the second floor. Through the glass, it saw that Zhang Zian was sitting on the bed, focused on using his phone.
Dong!
It used its claws to hit the window, but he didn't seem to hear it.
Bang bang!
It used even more force, but he still didn't respond.
"Chief Zhang, the sky is about to fall, and you still have time to play with your phone?"
Vladimir couldn't care less. It punched the glass hard.
Unexpectedly, the glass was extremely strong. Not only did it not break, but the reaction force bounced it back to the ground.
Vladimir seemed to have sensed something. It looked up and saw the ball of light floating in the night sky.
So that's how it was. Who was behind this?
Seeing Zhang Zian, it was no longer afraid. It stared at the ball of light and laughed.
"When there is wind and thunder from the earth, there are piles of white bones!"
[Navigation Elf]: Isn't this the world you want?
"Bullsh * t!"
Vladimir roared. "Open the door! Otherwise, I'll break the door down! "
[Navigation Elf]: Please don't make unnecessary attempts.
Vladimir couldn't be bothered to listen to its nonsense. It clenched its fist and hit the shutter door.
The shutter door was supposed to be very thin, and a punch should have caused a lot of noise. However, after the punch, the shutter door did not budge at all, like the thick iron doors of the underground nuclear fallout shelters that weighed thousands of tons. There was not even the slightest hollow echo. The punch only made Li Yao's fist hurt.
[Navigation Elf]: If you hit it again, you'll only break your own bones. Someone has already proposed to you …
Vladimir laughed out loud. "Shut up!"
It clenched its fists tightly, and a lofty idealism appeared in its eyes. It took a deep breath.
"Eat my — Meow Meow Doctrine Iron Fist!"
The fist broke the door.
The unstoppable punch was like breaking dry weeds and smashing rotten wood.
Debris flew everywhere, smoke filled the air, and a loud noise echoed throughout Binhai City.
A terrifyingly large hole appeared on the shutter door, as if it had been blown up by a huge amount of C4.
Several figures in the door were shocked and took a few steps back. Among them, there were a few figures that Vladimir was very familiar with.
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