Schrödinger of the Cat [Interstellar]

Chapter 24

"Is there such a surname in the empire?" Xue Yi was curious, "Li. There is also the Qi Jun I met before, whose surname is Qi. Then there are also people whose surnames are Zhang, Wang, and Zhao?"

Ares stroked the cub's hand for a moment, feeling a little tingling in his heart, but said expressionlessly: "Maybe there is, but there must be none among the nobles. Didn't you also check the six families of the current empire?"

Xue Yi thought about it, and it seemed that this was indeed the case.He wanted to ask more about the Li family, but was interrupted by the major general: "Does this building look familiar?"

The empty rail car just turned around the tall buildings surrounding the old house of the Li family. Xue Yi observed carefully for a while, not sure: "Something like, the walls here are similar to what I remember, but not quite..." As he was speaking, His eyes were fixed, and he rushed to the window of the empty rail car.

Outside the window is a dilapidated courtyard wall. The eaves on the top of the wall reveal a small sharp corner from the thick ivy on it. However, most of the wall is covered by this thick ivy. It seemed to be just a long green fence.

"It's here!" Xue Yi was excited, "You must come and see here, I have a notebook and a pendant buried under it!"

Ares frowned upon hearing this: "Under the ivy?"

"Yes, it's right under the green vines, but I'm not sure where it is." Xue Yi thought for a while and added, "It shouldn't be far from the alley."

Not far from the direction of the empty rail car, there is a large concrete building erected.From a distance, it looks like tall buildings very close to each other, but when you look closely, you can find that it is actually just a building.The outside of this building is protruding, but the inside is closely connected, forming a backrest of each other, gathered into a maze-like behemoth, presumably there will be many alleys surrounded by it.

It's a pity that even if the empty rail car that everyone was riding on was on the highest track, they couldn't see the plane structure of the building clearly, let alone the bottom of the alley where Xue Yi once hid.

"This is a poor building built by the Empire, and most of the buildings are old, weak, sick and disabled without income." Ares explained, staring at the sign on the outer wall of the building.

Xue Yi stared dumbfounded at the labyrinth building in front of him, convinced that this was the place where he had lived for more than half a year, but no matter how much he recalled right now, he still couldn't figure out the route that the raccoon cat brought him out.

If you don't know the route, you can't find the bottom of the alley.If he couldn't find the bottom of the alley, where would he go to find the two little friends who were left behind?

After finding the right place, Ares asked Amin to park the empty rail car in front of the poor building, and the group got off the car.It wasn't until they walked into this huge slum building that they realized that the place was lifeless, and it didn't look like there were many people living there. However, the clothes hanging outside the windows and the huge garbage dump downstairs showed that there were indeed people living here. , and basically full.

Everyone endured the smell in the air, and circled the maze-like building for half a circle. Xue Yi still didn't find any details that could correspond to the memory.

This building is relatively independent from the surrounding buildings, and there is a lush green belt in the middle, not to mention that his memory of the scene where the big raccoon flower led him out of the alley was already blurred.

A bright color suddenly appeared in his vision, Xue Yi lowered his head, and saw a piece of wrapping paper falling at the entrance of the alley not far away.It was a colorful plastic bag, which looked a bit inferior, with cartoon patterns and balls printed on it, and a few fat words spelled out by a few yellow letters.

Xue Yi used to study the language of this world through these words, and now he finally recognizes the meaning of these words.

"Fragrant meatballs." He said silently, recalling the taste of this kind of meatballs in his spiritual world.

Ares frowned: "Have you eaten this kind of food before?" All of them are artificially synthesized starch and protein, as well as various chemical additives, flavors and pigments, and they have no advantages other than being barely full.

"Uh, actually, you can occasionally eat canned food..." Xue Yi replied subconsciously, and then realized something was wrong, "Forget about it, go to this alley to have a look!"

As soon as he walked into the alley, Xue Yi knew that this was not the place he was looking for.He had a deep memory that the place where he was hiding was surrounded by exterior walls without windows, but in this alley there were not only windows, but even doors on the first floor.The doors are mostly closed, except for one door at the bottom of the alley, which looks dark inside.

Ares held the cub and walked towards the door.

This is a canteen, which seems to be divided into two spaces, so the area is very small.A dilapidated counter almost reached the door, and the aisle left beside it could only allow one person to pass sideways.At this time, there was a little old man sitting behind the counter. He probably heard the movement. He slowly opened his cloudy eyes and looked at the person coming.

Xue Yi's gaze was staggered from the old man's, looking at the shelf behind him.

Although the crookedly nailed shelves are full of items, the types of items are very monotonous. There are only meat snacks, small sausages, and small biscuits. Like out of stock.

Xue Yi has seen and eaten all these snacks before. Obviously, that raccoon cat got its food from here.He wanted to ask the old man in front of him, but remembered that he should not use spiritual communication in front of outsiders, so he turned to the major general for help.

"Old man, have you ever seen a brown striped cat a year ago?" Ares asked the cub for help.

Xue Yi Yu died: Li Huamao!What a brown striped cat!This is the bad point of mental power communication. It can only convey a general meaning, and the words are too inaccurate!

The old man raised his eyes and looked at Ares silently for a while, and was about to speak, but saw Ares suddenly turned his head and looked out of the alley with sharp eyes.Ke Ke and A Min also looked over, but their eyes widened suddenly, as if they saw something incredible.Ke Ke glanced at the major general who looked normal, and the tips of his ears were slightly red.

At the entrance of the alley, a skinny tortoiseshell cat was holding up one front paw, standing there hesitantly, as if weighing whether to move on.

The old man also saw the tortoiseshell cat, and slowly took out a small bag from the counter, and said hoarsely, "Meiniang is here, here are the things, and they will be delivered to Gate [-] on the [-]th floor of West [-]nd Block."

Hearing this, the tortoiseshell cat seemed to have made up its mind, and quickly ran up to the counter of the shop, picked up the small bag, and ran away quickly.In a few seconds, it disappeared outside the alley.

Xue Yi stared at it for a while, wondering if there is something weird about this building, why all the cats here are abnormal.

"Brown striped cat, there was indeed one a year ago." The old man's voice sounded faintly, drawing Xue Yi's attention back.

"He is also my delivery man. He came here more than two years ago. Because the family has three cubs, he works very hard. He never asks for money, and only takes some food from me every day. "The old man said, his eyes fixed on Xue Yi who was nestled in Ares' arms, as if these words were addressed to him, "Unfortunately, he suddenly stopped coming half a year ago, and I lost a good helper." .”

Xue Yi felt even weirder now, this old man didn't seem to care about the abnormality of the cat at all, could it be that he was the hermit master who enlightened the cat's wisdom?

"Do you know which alley he lives in?" Ares asked.

"Alley? He doesn't live here. I know all the residents in every room here. He should live somewhere else. You can look elsewhere." The old man said, his eyes slowly drooping, with a happy expression Asleep.

After asking a few more questions, seeing the old man answering more and more perfunctorily, Ares knew that he couldn't ask any more questions.He thanked him, took the cub and the two warriors out of the alley, and planned to go around the remaining half circle, maybe he could find something.Big deal, he just went through every alley here with the cub.

The small shop at the bottom of the alley returned to calm, and the old man closed his eyes, as if he had fallen asleep.Suddenly, he was woken up by the sound of a kitten meowing, and when he turned his head, he saw a small orange head protruding from the partition door of the inner room, and its clever eyes were looking at him.The old man sighed, got up tremblingly, walked to the front of the partition door, bent over and picked up the little orange cat, went into the inner room, and placed it side by side with a sleeping little three flower.

"It doesn't seem to give up... I can't see through it, I guess it should be a grade A, it should be enough..." He looked at the two kittens on the bed, and whispered to himself, "I hope they can deal with it... Tsk , I really don't know what kind of guy Lao Li has provoked, it's just... hiss..."

There are dozens of alleys scattered around the huge labyrinth building, which look deeper in the already foggy weather, like animal mouths waiting for prey to throw themselves into the net.At this time, the three of them were walking in an alley less than two meters wide, and there were no windows on the surrounding walls.

"The barbed wire is gone." Xue Yi stared at the four big holes in the wall, knowing that he probably found the right place.However, the barbed wire fence that was erected here before has disappeared.This is something cats cannot do, so humans must have been here.

Ares led the cubs and continued walking towards the bottom of the alley. When they turned the last corner, Xue Yiteng stepped on Ares's arm and stood up.

All kinds of bowls and basins, including mattresses, that were originally placed at the bottom of the alley were gone, and even the shed was nowhere to be seen.Now there is only a wooden pole standing in that corner, and a dead body is hanging there quietly on the wooden pole.

The corpse of a raccoon cat.

Shocked, Xue Yi involuntarily released his mental power, and suddenly, he heard that extremely familiar noise.This time the noise was very loud, as if it had surrounded them.

"Go!" Ares growled, and immediately ran towards the alley with the cub.One step, and then he stopped.

At some point behind them, a group of black insects gathered, and more and more of them gathered, and some mice began to come out of the ground and run towards them.

Ke Ke's pretty face turned pale. She hated this kind of thing the most. With a flick of her hand, two emerald green vines shot out instantly, hitting the pile of black worms.Although there were many black worms, they were very fragile. When the vine was whipped, the whole black worms were smashed to pieces.

At this moment, Xue Yi trembled violently, as if he had been hit hard in the head.

I saw a group of shiny and transparent things squeeze out from the insect corpses, rolling and twisting, reaching out to the three people in the alley.

Suddenly, Ke Ke's vines burst and turned into a raging fire, burning all the ghosts—it was Amin who shot, but she immediately realized that something was wrong.

Xue Yi's condition did not improve, but trembling became more intense.

"Put away your mental power, you haven't awakened yet, it's too affected." Ares reminded the cub, but stared at the swarm of insects affected by the fire without blinking, only to see dozens of ghosts emerging from there again.

"So many!" Amin gritted his teeth, "Why didn't you find out that trash, Third Brother!"

Ares snorted coldly, and the three of them and one cat floated into the air, and groups of black bugs and mice on the ground were grouped into a ball before their eyes, getting smaller and smaller.Strands of ghost bodies overflowed from the black ball, but were instantly crushed into powder by gravity.

It wasn't until the worm ball was crushed to the size of a child's fist that no ghost body appeared again.The force dissipated, the ball fell to the ground without any cracks, and Gululu rolled away.

"More than 2000 servant-level ghosts are really a big deal." Ares crushed the ball into the ground casually, and said coldly, "If I were still a first-level mental power, it would be a lot of consumption, now... hmph."

The three of them landed lightly, looking at the alley that had been swept away, each heaved a sigh of relief.

Xue Yi raised his head from the major general's embrace, looked at the wooden pole at the bottom of the alley, and stared at the dried corpse hanging above, his body trembling slightly.He wanted to cry, but he couldn't cry out. He didn't know whether it was because of the cat's body or other reasons.He could only stare at the skin, feeling the dense needle-like pain on the tip of his heart.

His sight was suddenly covered by his palm, and Ares' voice sounded above his head: "Don't look."

Xue Yi remained motionless, allowing the other party to cover his eyes.

"Amin, take it down and bury it in..." Aris paused, then continued, "Li's old house."

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