Three-stream detection simulator

What made Hercule feel even more complicated was that the moment he controlled the body of the Devourer, the system prompted him that the side quest was completed.

[Side quest: Find the cat (II)

Quest status: Completed.

Mission description: Even if you don’t want to admit it... it has the appearance of a cat, the sound of a cat, and the habits of a cat, it is a cat!

Mission reward: No. ██ Universe reputation +100

Universe biological language translator: a product borrowed from Kryptonian technology. It’s best not to let Superman see it, unless you start making up stories now. He may not necessarily suspect you of stealing things, but he will definitely think you know other Kryptonians. 】

At the same time, since Hercule did not drive the owner away when he entered the subconscious island, just like Constantine could reply to him before, there are currently two souls in the cat’s body.

But one of them is still sleeping.

Hercule stood up carefully and tried to take a step - should the cat take the left foot or the right foot first?

He raised his front paw, supported the ground with his legs, and thought seriously for a long time. He came to the conclusion that the boss would not fire the cat for stepping into the office with his left foot.

The knowledge base of Bowen Qiangshi certainly includes how cats walk, but seeing pigs run and becoming a pig are two completely different things.

Hercule did not mean to call himself a pig.

But he admitted that he was not smart enough to do this.

After a few seconds, the black cat's front paw slowly landed on the ground.

Hercule raised the other hind leg while thinking.

Okay! Move!

He felt a bit like crawling, and his perspective was much lower than that of people walking upright. The walls of the trash can were like mountains on all sides. Hercule stepped on the bag and turned around several times. He always wanted to look up and see where the Yuanshen Beast was hiding outside, but he could not see anything.

Where is the cat simulator with a first-person perspective! It can't be sold!

It's not a big problem. Humans' advantage lies in using tools.

After a few seconds, he suddenly exerted force and stood up with the plastic bucket.

——It was still not as high as the wall of the tube, and I couldn't see outside.

Humanity was defeated.

Hercules began to think about how to jump up. Logically, the Devourer lying in such a place must have ensured that he could escape. He simulated the cat's jumping movement model many times in his mind. After ensuring that everything was foolproof, he bent down slightly and began to accumulate strength in his hind legs and waist and abdomen.

, two, one.

Jump!

The direction is right!

The strength is right!

The black cat in the trash can jumped high, its fur was smooth and shiny, its movements were smooth and free, and its muscle lines were elegant and powerful when its limbs were stretched.

Hercules saw the warm sunshine of Hawaii Island again.

Then he lowered his head——

He found that he was about as high as more than ten Devourers stacked up from the ground.

That is equivalent to a person falling to the ground from 18 meters.

Hercules froze, holding his throat without screaming, and fell from the air like a dried cat strip. At the critical moment, his eyes were blurred, and he felt as if he opened his mouth and spit out something, and the momentum of falling stopped instantly.

"..."

The cat opened its mouth and its lips split. Countless tentacles stretched out from its mouth, pressed against the ground, and supported it in mid-air.

How cute the back is, how terrifying the front is.

Is this the Yuan-devouring Beast? ?

Hercule fell into thinking about life.

At this moment, a cat's cry came to his ears.

"Meow?"

It was a low and hoarse voice.

Hercule's heart tightened. Think about it, seeing a fellow with tentacles in his mouth, what a big blow it would be to other kittens who have never seen the world. Would they think that they were born with disabilities, missing something, and developed an inferiority complex and could not face the world?

All of the above are secondary.

The problem is that Hercule doesn't know how to retract the tentacles, which is the key.

However, he looked at the ground with the current weird perspective, but found that there was no trace of cat activity. The only thing that fit the shape of a cat was his shadow.

The sound came from the cat's head.

The soul of the Devourer woke up from his sleep.

After reacting, Hercule immediately wanted to take out the "Universe Biological Language Translator" that he had just received as a reward for the side quest. But the hectic adaptation process was not over yet - the translator was not in his hand, and the cat did not have five fingers.

The game system has never included a storage function. This was the first time that he failed to find where it was immediately after receiving the reward.

Thinking of this, Hercule's stomach moved unconsciously. Or rather, the Devourer's stomach was rolling. It rubbed its throat and kept making vomiting sounds. At the same time, the urgent cat calls in Hercule's ears became one, as if the Devourer's soul was urging him to land quickly in his body.

Who can do this! !

He felt like a person who had just learned to spell words, but had to write an 800-word English composition in half an hour. The urge to vomit became stronger and stronger. Hercule was anxious and at a loss in the true sense of the word. It was not until a wet translator with a red letter "S" printed on it rolled down his throat and fell on the asphalt road next to the trash can that he was forced to retract his tentacles while retching and landed dazed.

Being a cat... no, being a meta-devourer is too difficult.

Hercule stumbled over and turned on the translator.

Then he gave up control of his body. The meta-devourer shouted loudly without any instruction: "Meow!"

It was still very low and charming.

It just hummed softly after the call.

A line of large characters appeared on the screen first:

"Meow! (Note: A Element Devourer is trying to greet you using the newly learned Earth cat language. But the expression failed, and the translator could not recognize the specific content.)"

Followed by small characters: "Is my pronunciation accurate? Why do adult cats on Earth still like to meow at people? I don't understand."

"..."

Science magazines say that kittens will stop using meows to communicate with each other after they become adults, and only cats that grow up with humans will retain similar habits.

It seems that the Element Devourer really met a lot of domestic cats and humans during the time he wandered on Earth.

Otherwise, it would not have left a cat head island in the sea of ​​human subconsciousness.

Hercule took back control of his body and opened his mouth, but found that the Element Devourer's vocal cords could not make human language. He had to use his claws to scratch on the ground: I am an Earthling.

The translator can recognize the written gestures. This time it did not translate into text, but directly sent voice. Hercule couldn't understand the language of the Elemental Devourer, and only thought it sounded similar to the purring of ordinary cats.

The Elemental Devourer licked his paw and purred back.

You can't stop the owner of your body from eating your hands!

Hercule tried to ignore the wet feeling on his paw and looked down at the translator, which read: "So you are a human! I told you earlier that I am not very good at learning Earth cat language. The native cats who are competing with me for territory here always don't understand how I scold them, which is very annoying.

But the translator is quite useful, brother! It is not easy to find software on the market that can translate our extinct minority language. Many intelligent races that have developed later think that Elemental Devourers don't have their own language. How about you lend it to me for two days? I want to take advantage of the tail end of spring to seduce the Earth female cat who lives next door to me."

You are so social, Brother Cat.

And the tone and voice don't match, how can you express so many words with two purrs?

Without waiting for Hercule to answer, it said: "We have pocket dimensions in our stomachs, which can store things. I was startled when your translator suddenly appeared next to my food storage - oh no, it didn't jump up, then you controlled my body... wait, how can you be in my body??"

Brother Cat, you don't have much wisdom, Brother Cat.

Hercule apologized to it and briefly explained the cause and effect of SHIELD's search for the whereabouts of the Devourer.

After listening, the black cat squatted on the ground and swung its tail, forgiving him generously: "It's okay, you also brought me a translator. In addition to my own kind, I can finally meet a species that can communicate, so we are even. But I don't really want to follow the people of SHIELD. It's still comfortable to live a free life. Just now you said that you are a detective, so you must help them catch me? If I pay twice the money, can you help me stop them?"

It actually understands the concept of "money", it is indeed not an ordinary kitten.

While talking, the Devourer half lay down and began to tease itself with its tail. Suddenly, a light flashed in the brain of the Devourer, which had a small capacity, and it said cunningly: "I can even share my body with you. Don't look at my short stature, I'm actually very capable. The only requirement is that you control the tail whenever you are free, and I control the claws. You hide from me and I catch you, how about it?"

"..."

Hercules was dizzy because of it, and took away half of the control with a cold face, but it was the claws: "I can't move my tail, humans don't have tails."

"Earthlings have degenerated a lot. My ancestors said that you still had tails more than 20 million years ago. And the lizard people on a planet a few trillion light years away swing their tails very well!" The black cat said excitedly, "But it's okay if I get the butt!"

Brother Cat seems to be very long-lived.

I don't know if it is a young Devourer, or a middle-aged person with a childlike heart.

To outsiders, the cat half lying on the ground is like a lunatic playing with himself. Although the scene was very chaotic, a normal cat might not be incapable of doing this, so even if it was seen, it was at most worth filming and posting on TikTk.

It is said that cats react seven times faster than humans... but humans have more than seven times the IQ of cats. Hercule saw the pattern of the Devourer's tail shaking, made a prediction in advance, and pressed the tip of its tail. Then he said, "I don't need to help S.H.I.E.L.D. capture you, just tell them where you are."

"Oh, they will die of exhaustion and never find me. Just tell S.H.I.E.L.D. directly, don't worry about me, and remember to ask for more money." The black cat had enough fun, shook his fur, stood up, and did a difficult move - scratching his face with his hind legs.

Hercule felt that he would twist his waist sooner or later, and even suspected that he saw something that needed to be mosaiced in the fleeting glimpse when he lowered his head and leaned over. As a result, the Devourer stood firm as if nothing had happened and said:

"But you shouldn't be in a hurry to leave, you can stay and accompany me... ahem, accompany me to expand the territory. Just think of it as me hiring you, detective, the puzzle is the building in front, I wanted to go in and play for a long time, sorry for the slip of the tongue. I mean, to explore the unknown in the universe. And you are a professional puzzle solver, my God! I'm not saying, brother - a detective with a translator but who can't wag his tail is a perfect match for our Devourer race!"

In contrast to the endless snoring, the black cat stood up calmly. Its every move revealed the aura of a king who was sure of victory, and it was completely different from the one who was still indulging in self-entertainment five minutes ago.

Hercules followed its line of sight and looked at the building in front.

It was an unfinished building that did not conform to human aesthetics, but might be very suitable for the exploration of the Element Devourer. It was about one floor high, and the outer shell of the red brick wall was missing a corner, revealing a platform covered with dust and a small amount of garbage. It was far away from the city and tourist areas, and there were not many living people. Even the black plastic bags in the trash can were only a thin layer.

The brick-red walls of the unfinished building were painted with brightly colored graffiti, some unclear English patterns surrounding the sea, and people fishing with their backs to the wall at the beach, adding a touch of lively and vivid color to the desolate edge of the city.