ninth tail

When Ji Xiao returned to the dormitory, it was almost time for dinner. Although he didn't eat at noon, he didn't feel hungry anymore.

"Xiaohua!" Lin Zi followed behind him, and as soon as he turned into the corridor, he saw a little tabby cat in the cardboard box that Ji Xiao put in the corner yesterday, "I didn't see Huayan, it's really a little flower!"

"It's amazing, there's still canned cat food, you can feed it." Ji Xiao responded flatly, went back to his room, and sat on a chair in a daze.

He has an indescribable sense of fear for the warehouse, and this feeling is especially strong today when he saw the warehouse surrounded by fire and thick smoke. When he entered the warehouse, he wanted to turn his head and run away several times.

Warehouses, smoke, fire, these things have repeatedly appeared in his dreams in the past few years, constantly tormenting him... Every time he is awakened by a nightmare at night, he is covered in cold sweat, as if he just ran a few kilometers Come back exhausted.

Ji Xiao closed his eyes, sailed away, I'm sorry.

"You don't take a bath? It stinks." After feeding the cat, Lin Zi opened the door and came in, fanning his nose with his hand.

"What you smell is your own." Ji Xiao smiled, stood up and took out a change of clothes.

"I found that something is wrong with you today," Lin Zi patted him, "Don't be so impulsive in the future, there is no one in the warehouse, even if the liquefied gas tank explodes, there will be no casualties, why are you carrying it out regardless, We haven't figured out what's going on with the jar, what if it explodes!"

"Well," Ji Xiao walked out the door. As soon as he came out of the fire scene today, he was already scolded by Wu Zhijun, saying that he was being brave. He glanced at the cat in the cardboard box and found that the cat's hind legs were actually splinted , he looked back at Lin Zi, "Did you do it?"

"No, it's like this when I come back, do you think that child hurt the cat..."

"Probably not," Ji Xiao bent down and poked the cat's leg with his finger, "and the point is not this, shouldn't the point be why the cat is there?"

"And he knows it's our cat?" Lin Zi thought for a long time, "Also, how did he get in here..."

"Let's take a bath first, and ask the duty room later." Ji Xiao looked at the cat. He hadn't seen the cat all night, but his appetite improved a lot. The two of them surrounded it, and it kept its head down and ate endlessly. Could it be I was injured yesterday, is it too painful to eat?

Lu Kuan did not know how to complete the transfer procedures. It is a private high school in the city. It is said that the school has a strict school spirit and a high enrollment rate.Ding Wei has no interest at all. He has never researched and understood what going to this school has to do with trimming his tail. When he spends time with a group of human children every day, he feels so irritable that he wants to shed his hair.

"I'll pay the tuition for you. Just come and help out in the store on weekends." Lu Kuan sat behind his desk, gently turning his chair back and forth, "Don't be annoyed all the time, just go if uncle tells you to go."

"Has he ever been to school by himself?" Ding Wei pouted.

"I don't know, he was already an uncle when I met him," Lu Kuan smiled, and waved at Ding Wei, "Go get ready, report to school by yourself later, study hard and improve every day, don't be ashamed, kitten."

Ding Wei thinks that Lu Kuan is a very capable person. He can easily end a normal conversation and make people extremely angry. No one is better than Lu Kuan in provoking people. Achievement.

Ding Wei has nothing to prepare, he doesn't even have a schoolbag, so he can go out straight away.The cafe hadn't opened yet, and the two little girls were busy tidying up in the shop. When they saw him come out, they said hello: "Ding Wei, are you going to school?"

"Yeah." Ding Wei pushed the door and went out. He is not a diligent person, but now he thinks that cleaning in the store is more interesting than going to school.

The school is not close, he checked, and it takes four to ten minutes by bus.He is considering whether to take a car or walk there. He rarely takes a car, and there are too many people on public transportation, so he is willing to run wherever he goes. Of course, his range of activities is not large, and he is not a stray cat.

After walking a few steps along the road, Ding Wei heard someone honking the horn behind him, so he leaned to the side. The horn continued, and he gave way again. After he finished, he remembered that he was walking on the sidewalk, so he said annoyedly. look back.

On the side of the road behind him, someone followed him on a motorcycle, saw him turn around, smiled at him, and waved: "Hi!"

"Looking for me?" Ding Wei stopped and looked at him, he was too lazy to think about running into this person again and again, and he didn't even have the energy to sigh "Where is fate".

"Well, my name is Ji Xiao, you should still remember me?" Ji Xiao's car slowly slid to his side.

"Ding Wei." Ding Wei raised the corner of his mouth and smiled.

"You were the one who was outside our squadron with the cat yesterday, right?" Ji Xiao came to him early in the morning for a reason. He asked the duty room that no outsider had entered the squadron compound yesterday. He was concerned about a broken leg The fact that the cat can find its own way and climb back to the corridor of the dormitory on the third floor is full of doubts.

"Yes."

"You put Xiaohua back?"

little flower?Ding Wei was stunned for a moment, and when he realized that it was the name of the kitten, he felt admiration for Ji Xiao's ability to say a name that reached deep into the mountains so freely.

"Hmm." He nodded.

"How did you get into our squadron's yard?" Ji Xiao propped his legs on the ground, the car turned off, he felt that it was a bit difficult to talk to this kid, except for um and yes, there was not a single word.

Ding Wei didn’t even have an um this time, yes, how did he get into the yard?Of course, it went around the backyard wall and then jumped up and scratched at the cracks in the wall and went up. For a cat, it was not difficult at all.

"Also, how did Xiaohua stay with you? You raised that little black cat? It steals cats? You wrapped Xiaohua's legs? How do you know that Xiaohua is the cat of our squadron?" Ji Xiao looked at him Without making a sound, he simply shook out all his doubts. After he finished speaking, he was startled, there were so many doubts...

Ding Wei looked at him, his eyes were dark and bright, but he didn't seem to intend to speak, as if he was frightened by his series of questions.Ji Xiao didn't say anything, before Ding answered, he didn't know what to say, so he could only look at him.

After looking at each other for a while, Ji Xiao made a new discovery. He suddenly knew why he felt something was wrong when he saw Ding Wei in the cafe that day. Those amber eyes appeared in front of his eyes, and he looked at Ding Wei. He hesitated for a moment: "When I carried you out that day... your eyes weren't this color, were they? Yellow?"

Ding Wei turned his head quickly: "Color contact lenses."

"Color contact lenses? You wear color contact lenses when you sleep, and then take them off during the day?" Ji Xiao was quite surprised, and there was such a strange person, "You really have a personality... aren't you afraid of hurting your eyes?"

Ding Wei has never met a person with so many problems, even when someone with predestined relationship sees his real body, no one can compare to Ji Xiao's energy of a hundred thousand whys.

"I... will be late for school." Ding Wei really couldn't answer his question, so he turned around and left.

There was the sound of a motorcycle starting behind him, and then he heard the sound approaching again, Ji Xiao honked the horn: "Didn't you say you don't go to school?"

Ding Wei couldn't bear it at this moment, he turned around abruptly, pressed on the handlebar of Ji Xiao's motorcycle, his eyes widened: "You are very annoying, do you know that!"

"...I know." When Ding Wei's hand was pressed on the handlebar, Ji Xiao felt obvious resistance, and he couldn't tell that the kid was quite strong.

"Then shut up!" Ding Wei slapped the dashboard, turned his head and left, this person is so annoying, really annoying!

Ji Xiao is happy, it's really interesting, this kid is still angry, he is not in a hurry to get a positive answer to a bunch of questions, he refueled and chased after him: "Ding Wei."

"Go away!" Ding Wei stared at the road ahead and walked quickly, without squinting his eyes.

"Don't ask any more," Ji Xiao smiled, the car overtook him, stopped at the side of the road, pointed to the back seat, "Come on."

"What?" Ding did not stop.

"Aren't you going to be late, I'll see you off, come up."

Ding Wei didn't speak or move.He has never taken a motorcycle, and he has never taken any other means of transportation except buses, subways... and carriages.

He hesitated.

To be honest, when Ji Xiao asked him to get on the car, he was very excited. Although he didn't like modern things, the speed of the motorcycle made him very interested. No matter how fast he usually runs, it is impossible for him to run faster than this thing. quick.

Unless it is jumping from upstairs, which is why he likes to jump directly from the balcony in the middle of the night.

He likes the feeling that the hair all over his body is blown up by the wind... although he has no hair now.

"What are you thinking?" Ji Xiao raised his hand and waved in front of his eyes, "Are you afraid that I will abduct you and sell you off? The little girl is still worth a little money, but you can't sell it for a high price."

"Shut up." Ding Wei glanced at him, gritted his teeth and made up his mind, and stepped into the car.

Ji Xiao started the car and rushed out.Inertia caused Ding Wei's body to lean back suddenly, and he quickly reached out and grabbed Ji Xiao's clothes, and he pulled hard to stabilize himself.

"Catch here," Ji Xiao moved forward, pointing at the belt protruding from under his buttocks with the back of his hand, "you tore all the clothes."

"Oh." Ding Wei looked at it and reached out to grab it.

The early morning wind slid past his ears with coolness, Ding Wei squinted his eyes, this feeling was so comfortable, he raised his head, his hair was flying in the wind, making him want to meow A few impulses.

Before the cafe opened for business, Lu Kuan usually went down to take a look around, but today he didn't go down.After Ding Wei left, he turned on the computer, and the system notified that there was a new email.

He entered the mailbox, the sender was J, and there was no content in the letter. He frowned and clicked on the attachment.

A few photos slowly unfolded in front of his eyes. The pictures were large and very clear, but the content on the pictures made him feel sick, and subconsciously covered his mouth.

"Fuck." Lu Kuan quickly turned off the picture, thought about it, and deleted the letter from the mailbox.

I don't know who took a few photos and where they were taken, but the content is similar.He has seen a lot of dead cats, but someone will send such photos to his private mailbox, which shows that these dead cats are not ordinary cats.

They are nine-tailed cats, unformed nine-tailed cats, just like Ding Wei, cats who are still trimming their tails.

Lu Kuan stood in front of the window and finished smoking a cigarette, then wiped the flowers and plants planted on the window sill carefully, put on his coat and went downstairs.

"Boss going out?" The little girl had already packed up the tables and chairs in the store, and was busy behind the bar counter. It was a bit strange to see him walking out the door, as Lu Kuan rarely went out.

"Well, you only come back in the afternoon or evening, you have worked hard." Lu Kuan responded.

When Ji Xiao parked the car at the gate of the school, Ding Wei was still in the car for a long time before getting out of the car.

"I'm not late, let's go in quickly." Ji Xiao looked at it, and found that the child's family conditions are not bad, and he can go to this private high school.

Ji Xiao used to come to this school often, because his family's Sunshine Shen Yu High School was studied here, and he was asked by his family to pick up Shen Yu every day, so he had to rush all the way to school every afternoon after school, squatting at the school gate.

When he was in high school, his life would not be so good. My mother said, you can just go by the school district, wherever you are assigned.

"Thank you." Ding Wei smiled at him.

Ji Xiao was filled with emotion for a moment, it was the first time he saw a real smile on Ding Wei's face other than sneer and fake smile, the child was pretty good-looking, his eyes narrowed when he smiled, and his eyes were still crooked.

"You're welcome, I'm leaving." Ji Xiao waved his hand.

"Wait..." Ding Wei turned around, took two steps and then stopped, turning around and shouting.

"Ok?"

"Well, are you free to pick me up this afternoon?" Ding Wei looked at Ji Xiao, or at Ji Xiao's car, "I want to take this ride again."

Ji Xiao crossed his arms. He didn't expect Ding Wei to make such a request to a person who had only met twice and had a bad conversation. He tapped his chin a few times: "Why?"

"Forget it." Ding Wei said bluntly, turned around and walked into the school gate.

Ji Xiao was delighted, what a bad temper this kid is, he started the car, and shouted at Ding Wei's back: "I'll come if I don't have a mission."