Beast Familiarity Starts with Raising Cats

"I heard that no one from the exploration team on the ninth floor has returned yet." The trading room on the tenth floor was full of people.

After a day of exploring, everyone returned to the building.

Now I am sitting in the room on the tenth floor, chatting casually about what I have learned.

The corridor extends from the door to the wall. There are two horizontal rows of small benches placed against the wall. There are also several large fire pots burning in the corridor. The air is filled with a strong smell of rosin.

"Maybe it was delayed because of something. Maybe it was a delay after hunting the prey and bringing it back?" These people were talking and laughing.

"Of course that's best," said the person who spoke at the beginning.

"No, no. My husband and the others usually don't explore so late. They usually come back before 12 o'clock at night at the latest." Leaning on the other side of the wall, there was a woman in her thirties.

He was clasping his hands on his chest, his eyes full of uneasiness. He kept mumbling in his mouth, his body was trembling slightly, his words were full of urgency, and his eyes were filled with tears.

Since the evening, she had been feeling a sense of depression lingering in her heart.

In a certain room on the ninth floor, the wife was holding her little daughter who was crying to see her father and comforting her. Her father would be back in a while. He must have picked some beautiful flowers for her today.

In the next room, an old man with handicapped legs and feet sat on the bed and looked out the window worriedly. From time to time, he took out a photo of his son and whispered softly that nothing should happen to him. If God really wants to take away someone, take him away first.

He is willing to suffer this for his children.

Other rooms on the ninth floor...

For them, this is a sleepless night.

"Brother Tong! Someone is looking for you." Zhou Daling walked in and said, followed by some people.

Tong Ji frowned and looked at Zhou Daling. He didn't know what kind of medicine Zhou Daling was selling in his gourd, so he brought so many people here.

Tong Ji then looked at the people behind Zhou Daling, and they looked familiar.

After thinking for a while, Tong Ji remembered the identities of these people.

They seem to be residents living on the ninth floor and belong to another exploration team.

It's just that he hasn't had much contact with these people. His only impression is that the fire expedition team on the ninth floor was one of the first hunting teams to catch fish in the creek at the foot of the mountain.

The leader was very thoughtful, because he went there relatively early, and with his good timing, it was said that he had a good harvest and caught a lot of fish in the stream at the foot of the mountain.

"Hello!" An old man in his sixties walked out from behind Zhou Daling. The old man had gray hair and looked very energetic. There were deep eye bags and dark circles on his face full of grooves, and his eyes were very tired.

"I only found out after asking around that you have a dog." As the old man spoke, his eyes fell on Dahei behind the statistician.

"Woof woof woof." Dahei felt offended by being stared at.

"Dahei." Tong Ji scolded, and Dahei immediately stopped shouting, but his eyes were still a little unruly.

Since eating raw bear meat, it seems to be much more wild than before.

"I want to ask you a favor." The old man said and handed over the clothes in his hand. "My son and the others, as well as our hunting team on the ninth floor, have not come back. Normally, they should have gone home long ago, but they have been out for a day.

One night, I was worried that something might have happened. These are the clothes my son just changed out the day before and haven’t had time to wash. I want to ask you a favor..."

Having said this, Tong Ji suddenly understood. He now guessed why the old man was looking for him.

Tong Ji wanted to refuse such a strenuous task, but seeing the deep helplessness in the old man's eyes and the expectant eyes of other family members behind him, Tong Ji sighed in his heart and reached out to take the clothes from the old man's hand.

"Okay! I can only say that I will do my best, but I can't guarantee you anything. If you don't find it in the end, it's better to blame me."

"Thank you, thank you!" The old man held Tongji's palm tightly with both hands, his eyes full of gratitude. "I won't let your work be in vain."

The old man greeted his wife behind him,

His wife raised her arm, holding two dried salted fish in her hand.

The salted fish are not big, each weighing just over a pound.

Tong Ji was not polite. After all, finding someone is a very labor-intensive job and a waste of time.

Tong Ji threw the salted fish to Dahei, who hummed while eating the salted fish.

After finishing one salted fish quickly, Dahei looked at the other one in Tong Ji's hand with unfinished interest.

"I'll give it to you when I get back." Tong Ji said.

Dahei wagged his tail and licked his mouth at the same time.

Coming out of the building, the group followed the strong smell on their clothes and walked in another direction after exiting the building.

This time there were a lot of people in the team. In addition to Tong Ji and the others on the seventh floor, including the family members on the ninth floor, there were also some people watching the fun and wanting to help who also set off together.

The total number of people was more than thirty, a huge crowd.

Just because there are so many people, including old people and women, the speed is inevitably a lot slower.

The big black nose was pressed against the ground, sniffing the clothes in Tongji's hands from time to time, and then chasing the thin smell in the air, rushing towards the destination. Unfortunately, due to the scarcity of water resources during this period, basically no one took a bath, at most

So I wiped my body with a wet rag, so the body odor was very strong.

Convenient for big black to follow scent tracking.

After walking for about three or four kilometers, Dahei's pace gradually slowed down. Then he led everyone to a place, and his speed became slower and slower.

Tong Ji knew that he should have found it.

Tong Ji trotted forward, keeping up with Dahei's footsteps.

Peng Xiuying in the team behind him ran forward. Tong Ji turned his head and saw Peng Xiuying on the right who was silent and said in a low voice, "Is there anyone you know?"

"No." Peng Xiuying shook her head, her tone a little low, "I just thought of something."

Tong Ji was silent for a moment, and then said, "This is life. We eat animals, and animals eat us. We just live in the forest."

After walking about a hundred steps, Tong Ji suddenly stopped with his eyes fixed. He saw some tattered clothes, vaguely broken limbs and white bones of several people in an open space thirty or forty meters away.

Peng Xiuying followed Tong Ji's line of sight and saw this scene.

The look in his eyes was extremely complicated. This was the worst ending. He looked back at the other people who were following him and didn't know who was following him.

Peng Xiuying lowered her head.

She thought of her husband who was also eaten by wild beasts.

The people behind him followed, and finally saw this scene. Various sounds came from behind, including screams, cries, and desperate wails.

The family members rushed over like crazy. No matter whether they were alive or dead, they wanted to confirm the truth. Tong Ji shook his head and turned his back, unable to bear to see this scene.

"dad!"

"Son~"

"Husband! You promised me to come back."

Heart-wrenching calls echoed in this mountain forest.

Upon inspection of the scene, a total of seven bodies were discovered.

There is also a trap pit, which should have been dug by these people.

There were also blood stains in the trap pit, and a large number of paw prints were found on the edge of the trap pit and next to the body.

By comparison, it was somewhat similar to Dahei's paw prints, and we finally concluded that this group of people should have encountered a pack of wolves.

"My son's body has not been found yet." The old man hugged his wife who was crying.

There are ten people in the exploration team on the ninth floor, and only seven bodies have been found so far.

There are still three people whose lives and deaths are unknown.