Strange Life of a Cat

Zheng Tan followed the two men not far away, moved his ears, turned his head and looked back, and found that Heijin was following behind, but he did not follow immediately, but kept some distance away.

Dogs are not as convenient as cats in terms of stature and flexibility. Even if they are separated by some distance, they will not be discovered by the two people in front. If they only follow Zheng Tan, Heijin will not be lost.

The two people would also look around when they were talking. They didn't find anyone, and they felt much relieved.

But these two people don't know that sometimes, the stalkers are not just people, but also animals. Maybe they think that it's still daytime in winter, so there can't be any dangerous animals?

In any case, Zheng Tan's tracking operation was still very successful. He followed the two people in front of him to a two-story tile-roofed house near the foot of the mountain. From the outside, it looked relatively rough and unappreciative.

There were other people in the house, and the two men knocked on the door as they passed by, and the door was opened from the inside.

After Zheng Tan got closer, he hid in one place and observed. He found that there were cameras in two corners under the eaves. He walked around the house and memorized the camera locations. As for whether there were other more hidden surveillance equipment, Zheng Tan Sigh I don’t know. This house doesn't look very special from the outside, and it doesn't look valuable. Who would have thought that such a shabby house actually has cameras installed?

Zheng Tan looked behind him. Hei Jin was still hiding at a certain distance from him and did not move forward rashly.

The sound insulation effect of this house is good. Zheng Tan can't hear what the people inside are saying when he stays there. At most, he can only hear some vague sounds, but he can't hear clearly. Therefore, Zheng Tan decided to go there first to take a look at the situation. He always felt that he should be able to gain something here.

After taking a few steps, Zheng Tan looked back and saw that Heijin wanted to get up and continue to follow. He quickly raised a paw towards where Heijin was hiding, with his palm facing there. He originally wanted to wave his hand to tell the other person to stop. Down, but Zheng Tan suddenly realized that cats are different from people. Can Heijin understand it?

Heijin, who was about to stand up, tilted his head in confusion when he saw Zheng Tan's movements. After a few seconds, he lay down again, still staring in Zheng Tan's direction.

Seeing Heijin lying down again, Zheng Tan breathed a sigh of relief. Now he finally felt the benefit of acting with an intelligent animal. He didn't need to do too many behaviors to explain. Besides the language barrier, it would be useless to explain. It was still a matter of understanding.

After walking a few more steps, Zheng Tan quickly glanced behind him. He didn't see Heijin following him, so he chose an angle that the camera couldn't capture.

The wall outside has not been painted too much, and there is no such thing as tiles. Zheng Tan has climbed on this kind of wall before, so now these are nothing to him. He can flexibly start from the wall. Rushed up. There are three places that can avoid the camera. The reason why Zheng Tan chose this place is because it is backed by a mountain and faces the mountain wall. Because of this, this side will not be focused on. The two corners are installed. The camera can only focus on the distance and cannot see what is happening nearby.

The main reason is actually that there is a broken window with an iron grille. Maybe those people thought that the window was not important, or they thought it was okay to install the iron grille, so they did not replace the glass, but replaced it with a piece of glass. Knowing where a piece torn from a cardboard box is placed will at least serve as a wind-blocking effect.

Pushing aside the cardboard blocking the breach, Zheng Tan entered through the gap.

The room was filled with boxes of goods. Zheng Tan looked at the words and pictures printed on the cartons. "XX Brand Sandwich Candy", "XX Brand Milk Tea", etc. were all of the same brand. Zheng Tan had never heard of them. Judging from the name, it seems that it is not a regular manufacturer and is probably a knockoff. The logo is very similar to that of a famous food brand, but it is missing one stroke.

What made Zheng Tan even more amused was that there was actually an inspection-free sign printed on it.

However, if it is just a copycat product, there is no need to create such a situation. Senior Brother Walnut will not take risks because of this.

The cartons were all sealed with tape. Only a few boxes near the door were not sealed. Zheng Tan jumped up and took a look. He knew they were inferior products just by looking at the packaging.

The door of this room was also locked, and Zheng Tan couldn't open it because it was locked with an iron lock outside. No one outside came to open the door, and Zheng Tan couldn't even think of getting out through this door.

After looking around the room, Zheng Tan found a gap in the corner of the ceiling. Zheng Tan jumped on the boxes. The boxes were stacked a bit high, only seventy or eighty centimeters away from the ceiling. Zheng Tan stood on it, just in time to take a closer look at the gap.

Zheng Tan looked at it and found that there were bite marks on the edge of the gap, probably from rats. However, this gap could only let rats in, and Zheng Tan couldn't squeeze in.

The ceiling in the house is made of wooden boards, which are relatively cheap wooden boards. After a long time, there are obvious gaps between some wooden boards, and many black stains can be seen from the gaps. The wind outside was a bit strong at the moment, and Zheng Tan could feel the stale air blowing in from these gaps.

Zheng Tan stood on the edge of the cardboard boxes stacked on the upper level, jumped up slightly, and hooked the gap. The wooden board made a soft "creak" sound. This sound was nothing, and could only be heard in this room. Besides, when the wind outside was blowing hard, some sounds would also be made from the top, so Zheng Even if someone could hear the sound caused by the sigh, they wouldn't care.

Hooking the wooden board and hanging it there, Zheng Tan used one hand to push the wooden board next to him. Unexpectedly, he didn't know if it was because it was too old or if it had been pushed open when he was stacking goods. Zheng Tan used a little force. Pushed away a little.

Carefully push up the loose board next to it, making sure that the gap can be drilled into, Zheng Tan retracted his claws, grasped the gap and gap, and then pushed the loose board next to him with his head, some Squeezing up with difficulty.

The wooden board made a crisp sound, but Zheng Tan listened carefully and saw that there was no other movement outside, so he continued to squeeze up. While squeezing, Zheng Tan looked around. Apart from a few corpses of small insects that had been dead for who knows how long, there was thick dust and spider webs.

After squeezing in, Zheng Tan carefully allowed the board to return to its original position without making any loud noises, and then tried to walk on the board.

The material of the wooden board is not very good, and it is some years old. It is estimated that it cannot bear the weight of an adult. Even a small grapefruit will hang on it, but for Zheng Tan, this is enough. No matter what, these The wooden board can bear the weight of a cat.

It was relatively dark inside, but the light coming from the gaps between some tile joints and the wooden boards below was enough for Zheng Tan to see clearly the layout above.

Maybe it has been built a few times, so it feels a bit messy, and it looks like it has been dealt with. From here, Zheng Tan can go to the rooms on the second floor to take a look. The rooms above are not completely blocked, even if they are Zheng Tan could also try to squeeze through a gap between bricks, and some places were directly connected.

Compared with these, Zheng Tan was more troubled by the wooden boards he stepped on. Although these wooden boards could bear his weight, sometimes they would make a creaking sound when he stepped on them. If there was someone in a certain room, he would hear a creaking sound. Even if you don’t immediately think that there is an intruder above, you will guess that it is a bird or mouse and pay special attention to it.

Zheng Tan carefully stepped on the wooden board and walked through several rooms one after another. He didn't see anyone. They were probably all on the first floor. However, when he came to a room above, Zheng Tan noticed something different from the previous rooms. Looking down through the small gap between the wooden boards, Zheng Tan discovered that there was a person locked in this room.

The room is not big, and there are not many clutter around it, so the object in the middle is particularly conspicuous.

In the middle of the room is a chair with a person tied to it. Looking from above, Zheng Tan can't see the person's appearance. What's more eye-catching is the burgundy hair. The hairstyle can no longer be seen. It's very messy. . The man was wearing a green cotton-padded coat, which was still patched, and the cotton inside was torn in several places. There is a lot of dust on the jeans, and the hiking shoes on his feet... If the pattern is authentic, this person should have some worth.

Zheng Tan carefully took a few steps forward to look at it from a different angle. It's a pity that the man lowered his head as if he was sleeping, so he couldn't see his face clearly.

At this time, Zheng Tan heard voices outside. Someone went upstairs, and came towards this room.

After the sound of unlocking the door, the door to the room was opened. Three people walked into Lai, two of whom Zheng Tan had seen before, and the other should have been in this house for a long time.

One of them, wearing a gray coat, walked towards the man tied to the chair, grabbed the man's hair and shook him.

Then, Zheng Tan heard a sound like killing a pig.

"Shut up!" Gray Coat slapped him.

The man's screams stopped, and then came the cry, which was still in four-note rhythm. The first tone was rising, and the next three were falling. The first and fourth tone both had a drag sound, and the two middle ones Relatively short. Although it was still unpleasant, it was at least much better than the pig's cry just now.

Zheng Tan has always felt that those who cry like this are either children who will not grow up, or they are pretending to be bigger. He has only heard some children in the compound cry like this. This is the first time he has heard it. When an adult or adult man cries like this, I always feel goosebumps rising.

And when the gray coat grabbed the man's hair and raised his head, Zheng Tan saw that the man was beaten until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, and his face was covered with snot and tears from crying.

"Is this the person you caught?" one of them who had just come down the mountain asked.

"Yes, that's him." Gray Coat loosened his grip on the man's hair.

The person who asked the question looked at an ID card in his hand, then clicked his tongue, "At first glance, he looks like a kid from a rich family. The things he has on him are worth a lot of money, right?"

The gray coat chuckled, "The above just said to lock people up for the time being. It didn't say not to sell things."

Seeing the person asking the question frowning, the gray coat added: "I just sold a mobile phone and a camera. I didn't sell them locally. I had a special way." This meant to reassure the other person that he would not cause trouble.

"You've seen the contents of the wallet. As for his leather jacket, I just wore it downstairs. It's quite warm. Oh, this guy also has a lot of good pictures on his phone. If he sends them out, It's probably another X-door news. There's nothing in the camera. As for his luxury car, I've hidden it and haven't dealt with it for the time being. When the matter is over, I can make some money by selling it."

"Yeah." The frown on the person's face calmed down a bit, "Don't let him die yet. He looks timid, but he has a good family background. Let's see what it means when the time comes." Not too much lately. It's going well. The people above don't seem to want to cause more trouble, so they will calm down the matters during this period.

"Of course we know this. This guy always needs to go to the toilet."

"Then save some food." Gray Coat said.

This means that as long as you don't starve to death, you don't need to give too much food.

The tied man began to cry again. They repeatedly promised to give him a large sum of money if they let him go back, but unfortunately these three people ignored him. After asking a few more questions, he left, and the sound of the lock being jammed was heard outside the door.

Zheng Tan opened his ears. He heard the three people talking about moving people to another place when they left. After all, they would be transporting goods tomorrow.

I couldn't hear the people behind me clearly, but the three people had already gone downstairs. Zheng Tan was about to find a place to go down to the first floor to listen to the conversation of those people, but when he raised his feet, he saw through the gap between the wooden boards below the person who was tied to the chair and was crying with snot and tears a moment ago. He had already stood up from the chair. At some point, the ropes tied to his body had been cut, twisted into a bundle, and stuffed into the pocket of the ragged cotton coat.

After putting on his cotton-padded clothes, the man walked to the corner and picked up a half-steamed bun that had fallen there. This was the unfinished breakfast in the morning.

After tearing off the dusty dough, the man took it and started to chew it. He looked quite calm and leisurely, not at all the coward he was just now. While eating, the man came over, his eyes always looking at where Zheng Tan was standing.

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