Aliens on Earth [Interstellar]

Mornings in the supermarket are battlefields.

A large group of housewives were waiting at the entrance of the supermarket early, densely packed, staring at each other, waiting for the supermarket to open, rushing into the supermarket as soon as possible, picking the freshest ingredients, and snapping up rice grains with limited discounts.

Ji Lin, who never got up early to go shopping in the supermarket, never knew that the supermarket entrance in the early morning would be like this.

When the section chief assigned him to be on duty at the main entrance of the supermarket for the first time, he, who had always been calm, was shocked by the army of housewives outside the glass door and the security curtain. The aunts were at a loss.

However, today he was assigned to be on duty at the front gate for the third time, and Ji Lin handled it much more calmly.At least... he firmly grasped the handle of the glass door, and he didn't let himself be pushed to the electronic security door by the surging crowd.

After finishing the busy morning rush hour, Ji Lin followed Lao Zhao to the receiving office to watch for about two hours, and it was lunch time.

Most supermarket employees will choose to bring their own meals, and then go to the employee lounge to eat. There is not only a microwave oven to heat food, but also an air conditioner to keep it cool.

Ji Lin didn't follow them to squeeze into the staff lounge, he didn't like that kind of noisy and crowded environment.I bought a freshly made bento in the supermarket, and went to the exit corridor at the back door of the supermarket. Usually there are no people coming in and out here, and the sun doesn’t shine in. The outside wind blows into the corridor from time to time, and the cool feeling is not inferior to staying under the air conditioner.

Ji Lin climbed up the stairs, sat down in the middle of the stairs with his back to the stairs, opened the lunch box, broke the disposable chopsticks, and was about to eat when he suddenly felt something strange behind him, as if someone was staring at him, His eyes fell on his back like a substance.

Holding the disposable chopsticks, he paused his finger and stopped stirring the rice. Ji Lin looked back and saw a very familiar black cat squatting at the entrance of the corridor against the light in an arrogant manner, condescending Looking at him intently, his icy blue eyes were hidden in the shadows, shining faintly.

This time, what Ji Lin felt from the eyes of the black cat was no longer scrutiny, but a kind of dissatisfaction.With such human eyes, it is hard for him to deny that this black cat is not the one blocking his door in the morning.Although it is a bit unbelievable that it appears here, you must know that the supermarket is not close to the old town where he lives, and the bus needs to drive for an hour. For a cat, it can be regarded as a long journey.

Did the black cat come here after him?

"You followed me?" Ji Lin asked it in a low voice.

Of course, it was impossible for the black cat to answer his question.But after he opened his mouth, he found that the black cat's eyes that had been staring at him had shifted, and it landed lightly on the bento he was holding in his hand.

Ji Lin looked down at the bento in his hand, hesitated for a moment, then pulled out the plastic lid that was placed under the disposable bento box, put some cold rice on the lid, and put the lid with the rice on there In front of the black cat.

The black cat looked down at the rice Ji Lin gave him, then raised its eyes and continued to stare at Ji Lin's lunch box.

Ji Lin: "..." Too little?

Ji Lin added some rice to the lid in front of the black cat, but the black cat remained unmoved, staring at the bento in Ji Lin's hand.

Ji Lin carefully observed the whereabouts of the black cat's gaze, and finally found that its gloomy eyes were staring at his only meat dish - a small yellow croaker.

Ji Lin: "..."

Ji Lin looked away indifferently. He was never a warm person, even to people, let alone a stray cat who had only seen three times——

Ji Lin lowered his eyes and stared at the little yellow croaker under his chopsticks for a while, then he saw that he had pinched half of the fish with the tip of his chopsticks and put it on the lid in front of the black cat.

——Forget it, even if this cat is arrogant and has learned to push his limits, at least it is much cuter than some people.

After Ji Lin finished his portion of lunch, the black cat also ate up all the food on the lid of the lunch box.Ji Lin picked up the lid, threw it into the trash can at the entrance of the corridor together with his empty bento box, and turned around to collect the goods.However, he came down from the corridor and after a few steps, he felt something was wrong. Looking back, he saw the black cat following him with graceful steps.

"...Don't follow me." After Ji Lin finished speaking, he thought that the black cat might want to go back to the old city, so he added, "I have to go to work. If you want to go back with me, you can wait here for me to get off work."

The black cat was indeed a very smart cat. After Ji Lin stopped and turned around for the second time, he stopped following Ji Lin.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, Ji Lin got off work. Because of the black cat, he deliberately turned around to the safety exit at the back door of the supermarket, but he didn't see the black cat.That's right, it's just a cat, how could it understand what he said, and wait here obediently?Moreover, it is just a guess to say that the black cat took the initiative to follow him, and it is probably just the wishful thinking of human beings.

He couldn't find the black cat, and Ji Lin didn't stop at the safe passage, so he turned to the bus station and went home by car.I just feel a little regretful, that black cat...maybe I will never see it again.

However, this little regret was broken up the next morning before I had time to forget it.

Ji Lin looked at the familiar black figure squatting at the door of his house, and he was already sure that the black cat was indeed following him.

"Have you had breakfast?" Ji Lin asked.

The black cat just looked up at him.

"I'm off today, do you want to have breakfast with me?" Ji Lin said as he closed the door and walked towards the stairs.

When he reached the stairs, he turned around and saw that the black cat hadn't followed. Ji Lin waved at it, and the black cat really showed its extraordinary IQ again, got up and followed with a flick of its tail.

Ji Lin felt that the menu of the nearby breakfast shop was not suitable for cats. There might be nothing wrong with feeding small yellow croakers to cats yesterday, but it felt a little wrong to feed them buns.So, after Ji Lin bought his own breakfast, he went to the nearby small supermarket to buy a small bag of cat food.The landlady bought the cat food for the stray cats in the alley all the time, so it shouldn't be a problem for him to buy it for the black cats.

Holding cat food, carrying breakfast, followed by a black cat, when passing the alley of stray cats, the landlady who was feeding the cat stopped him.

"So this cat was raised by you! I said it didn't look like a stray cat, and I went around asking people in the community who lost the cat."

"This is not my cat." Ji Lin shook his head and said, "I just saw it squatting at my door this morning, so I bought some food for it."

Hearing what Ji Lin said, the landlord's wife sighed, looked at the bag of cat food in Ji Lin's arms, and said regretfully, "I'm afraid you bought this cat food for nothing. It doesn't eat food fed by others."

Not eating food fed by others?Ji Lin lowered his eyes to look at the black cat squatting at his feet. If he remembered correctly, this cat had to ask him for half a small yellow croaker yesterday.

"When I saw it appearing in the alley two days ago, I tried to feed it, but it just refused to eat. I put down the food and avoided it deliberately. I didn't see it during the day. It, thought it was found by its owner, and thought that this little guy would starve to death at last..." the landlady was rambling, her tone full of worries about the black cat.

"It ate the food I fed it yesterday." Ji Lin interrupted the landlady's chatter.

The landlady was taken aback for a moment, a little disbelieving at first, and then remembered that when she saw Ji Lin approaching from a distance just now, the black cat followed Ji Lin step by step.Obviously, the black cat's attitude towards Ji Lin is very special, so saying that the black cat ate Ji Lin's food, it shouldn't be lying to her, and Ji Lin didn't need to lie to her about this kind of thing.

If Ji Lin can adopt this black cat...

"Well... Ji Lin, are you interested in raising a cat?" the landlady asked tentatively.