There is a lucky cat in the dream

Chapter 14 Reunion with Meow

"But drilling wood to make fire is too difficult for us ordinary people." Ye Chixu thought as he climbed the stairs, "The videos of drilling wood to make fire I watched on the Internet before are all about making a small wooden stick. Put some wood chips in the hole, and then use another wooden stick to rotate it at high speed...It's a question of whether we both have enough hand speed...It's really balding..."

"Huh... so tired..." Ye Chixu finally climbed to the 5th floor residential floor. She gasped heavily while holding on to the railing, and paused for a while before planning to continue going up.

Suddenly, Ye Chixu felt something cold and smooth on her ankle... like... fur.

"Ye Chixu, are you coming up?" Lin Xiaolang called softly from upstairs.

"We're on the fifth floor. I'll take a break. I'm too tired." Ye Chixu squatted down and groped in all directions while responding.

"Cat?" she asked in a breathy voice.

"Snapped"

The only response to her was the sound of the carton falling to the ground.

The soft fur brushed her ankle again, and the little paws stepped firmly on the top of her sneakers.

"Leave me alone, I can keep up with you, go do the task." The kitten's soft voice finally sounded in her mind again.

"Then be careful." Ye Chixu rubbed its head and back twice to make sure that its body was dry and would not catch a cold.

"Go." The kitten jumped onto the dimly lit steps, and pushed the cardboard box it had just dropped there, "Put the box away when you're done using it, I haven't paid you yet."

"What?" Ye Chixu stepped forward to pick up the small paper box, took it out and looked at it again.

It's a match!
"I asked the stall owner for credit. Remember to pay the money when you get the reward after completing the task." The kitten's snow-white tail flicked on the steps, and Ye Chixu wanted to grab it.

"Ye Chixu, are you alright?" Lin Xiaolang from upstairs urged again in a low voice.

"I'm coming!" Ye Chixu patted the kitten's head, and said again in a breathy voice, "Be careful."

After speaking, he held the matchbox tightly and went upstairs in two steps.

She first handed the matchbox and the briquettes to Lin Xiaolang, and then carefully squeezed through the gap between the debris pile and the railing.

"I found a box of matches in the milk crate on the fifth floor." Ye Chixu explained to Lin Xiaolang, "Where was the delay?"

Before coming up, she saw that there was indeed an old-fashioned green milk box hanging at the door of a house on the fifth floor, and she was not afraid that if the experiment was successful, Lin Xiaolang would see it and check it.

"Really?" Lin Xiaolang carefully pulled out a small part of the inner layer of the carton, sniffed it at the tip of her nose, and said pleasantly, "It's true!"

"It seems that what you said is right. The item drop rate of this dream test is indeed very high." Ye Chixu took the briquettes from her arms and hugged her, and then supported her with one hand, "Come on, let's go upstairs to collect tasks .”

"Don't take some wood to burn? It's just that the coal doesn't burn, right?" Lin Xiaolang turned her head to look at the pile of debris that she couldn't actually see.

"Let's go up and put things away first, and I'll come down to get them. Maybe there are things in the stairwell on the 8th floor above." Ye Chixu answered her while thinking about the kitten.

How could it appear on the 5th floor dry and clean?And I have been stuck at the entrance of the first floor to wipe the floor, how did it get up?And this box of matches, the delivery was too timely, right?

Ye Chixu felt that to a certain extent, the kitten was her "hook", so she could not let the mission fail no matter in terms of emotion or practical benefits.

"We must complete the task!" She said unconsciously.

"Yes!" Lin Xiaolang thought she was encouraging the two of them, so she answered naturally, "Do you think we will be the fastest to complete the task?"

Ye Chixu was a little nervous when she unconsciously leaked the words just now, and she even felt a little hairy behind her back. She thought to herself that it was an irrelevant sentence.

"I think there is a chance." She continued calmly.

The two soon came to the stairwell on the 8th floor, but unfortunately there was no debris piled up here, and Ye Chixu had to go downstairs to get the discarded bench.

Lin Xiaolang crouched in the corner guarding the props of the two of them and said, "I'm sorry to trouble you, it's you who have been running all this time."

"It's okay, it was originally our mission. Besides, you helped me in the beginning." Ye Chixu said in a low voice.

Lin Xiaolang kept saying polite words to her, and she didn't know how to answer it if it went on like this.

Ye Chixu went down to the debris layer to search carefully, and chose a few rags that were easy to ignite and a broken chair and put them aside.Then he removed the folding round table that was on the top of the pile of debris, and stuffed it into the gap where the two of them had just passed.

"It should be safer now." She silently patted the dust on her hands, then picked up the props she had just selected, and quickly went upstairs.

"I'm fine." She put her things on the ground and was about to open the door leading to the rooftop.

"This door...is so difficult...to open..." The doorknob might be rusted, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't push it down.

Lin Xiaolang, who was squatting beside her, stood up, groped along the wall to get behind her, leaned the tarp against the corner and said, "Let me come, I am strong."

"Okay, wait a minute, this doorknob hurts so much." Ye Chixu moved away, bent down to pick up a piece of cloth, and was about to hand it to her to wrap the handle so that she could use it.

"Pa-ta-squeak--"

The old wooden door made a sound of opening.

Ye Chixu: "Strong!"

"Hey, it's nothing, as long as I can help you." Lin Xiaolang clapped her hands shyly and stood aside, "Should we do the task first or do the experiment first?"

"Let's do the task first. The task is linked to ranking and rewards. Let's do the experiment later." Ye Chixu put the rags, chairs and briquettes on the small steps outside the roof door. There is a small piece on the top The slate canopy, the material will not get wet, and it is more ventilated.

"It seems to be raining less." Lin Xiaolang supported the door frame and stood on the edge of the small steps outside, and then draped the tarp over her body with a shake.

Ye Chixu had just set up her three-story "small fire" and was about to light a fire. Hearing this, she looked up and said, "The rain is lightening, and it feels like the sky is getting brighter...We have to speed up!"

As he spoke, he lit the match and approached the edge of the rag pile.

The fibers at the edge of the rag curled, melted, and ignited an open flame, giving off a burnt smell.Then the bag is attached to the unpainted section exposed by the broken wooden chair, and the smoke slowly rises and ignites slowly...

As the fire grew stronger, Lin Xiaolang put on a tarpaulin and pushed out several steps, while Ye Chixu also retreated to the stairs under the platform.

"When will the mission be completed?" Lin Xiaolang asked.

"Maybe when the briquettes are lit, or when the burning time is up?" Ye Chixu covered her mouth and nose. She was not so ventilated in the room, and the smell of the burning fire was quite unpleasant.

(End of this chapter)