Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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Inside of the greenery.
Several grey-black, four-clawed, thin-tailed squeaking rats were having a meeting.
“Squeak!” You are finally here, right here. I have been smelling it since the day before yesterday~
“Squeak.” It really smells good! The rat people swallowed their saliva one after another, and their sensitive noses had already caught the scent that lured rats.
They then saw a gray mouse that was bigger than the other four holding a pile of melon seeds. He said, “Zhizhi.” I was eating melon seeds from the trash can just now. I was eating them happily. It feels boring now.
“Zhi.” Brother Da Zhi, let’s go steal it and present it to the boss?
The big mouse, known as Brother Da Zhi, had a look of fear on his face: “Brother Xiao Zhi, has your eyesight deteriorated again? Didn’t you see the cat?”
“Cat!” The other three mice repeated the term, each one panicking.
Xiao Zhi, the little brother, was very small and had always been protected before he reached adulthood. Although he knew that cats were their natural enemies, he had not yet understood the terror of cats. He shook his head and said: “But that cat looks very beautiful, docile, and very stupid.”
Xu Maomao, who was sitting on the window sill, sneezed inexplicably: “qiu~”
Meow, it seems that someone is saying bad things about me!
The sound sounded very delicate and lovely to the human ear.
However, the guilty rats were immediately frightened to the point of having their hair stand on end, and instinctively ran deep into the grass.
They shivered and stared nervously at the cat until a man came over, picked it up in his arms, and covered it with a blanket.
After a while, there was movement in the grass again.
“Did you see that? That cat is still afraid of the cold. He must be strong on the outside but weak on the inside. Let’s go over and grab it together. I don’t believe we can’t grab it!” The naive Xiao Zhi mustered up the courage to mobilize the elder brothers in the clan.
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard another sneeze from Xu Maomao, which frightened the four mice again. They scurried around, and finally huddled together.
“Squeak, squeak, squeak!” So scary, so scary! Without the boss here, we dare not go to QAQ!
Xiao Zhi: “Brothers are so useless…”
“Zhi Zhi!” You go ahead!
Xiao Zhi lowered his head to compare his small body, and suddenly became discouraged: “Zhi.”
“We definitely can’t get it.”
“Just give up.”
“…But that bone smells so good. The boss has been so busy recently with that human thing that he has lost weight. We need to make up for it.” Da Zhi said, “Let’s give it a try and see what the boss has planned.”
When the four mice mentioned the boss, they seemed to have gained a backbone, and even the fear that had scared them had subsided a lot.
Their boss, called “Sorghum Monster”, was the dominant rat in City B. He had lived here since the last dynasty before its collapse. He was very familiar with the streets and alleys here. There were rumors in every sewer and rat hole about its god-like glorious legend.
Rumor had it that the sorghum monster was the only mouse in city B that could fight a cat one-on-one. They wanted to ask if he was afraid of it!
As long as they thought of the beautiful figure of the boss, their hearts were filled with hope!
Then, the grass stirred slightly, and a rustling sound sounded, then disappeared into the weeds.
——Dongcheng Street Greenery
From a nearby manhole cover, a huge gray mouse was looking up at the sky at a 45° angle at the wellhead, revealing a bright and melancholy look in his eyes.
Its size was fully 1.5 times that of an ordinary mouse, and its hair was lighter than that of an ordinary mouse. At first glance, it looked a bit like a chinchilla, but its slightly pointed jaw and slender tail confirmed that it was just a mouse. According to the aesthetics of the rat world, it could definitely be considered handsome and strong, but what really made it unique was that it wore a metal ring on its paw, which made it look like an aristocrat among rats.
Yes, this gray mouse “dressed in gold and silver” was the sorghum monster.
However, the sorghum monster had not been so active in recent years. It had kept a low profile and seemed to have entered retirement life. If it hadn’t been for that human disturbing it…
After remembering its glorious years for two seconds, it sighed, and its bright little eyes tightened while staring at a cake shop on the opposite street that constantly smelt of butter.
This store had only emerged in recent months, but it was already very popular in B City, where there were many cake shops and pastry shops. It was famous not for its decoration, but for its exquisite shape, genuine raw materials, and strict hygiene requirements. The store was always equipped with various kinds of rat poisons that had mixed smells and could look like real ones. They had killed many brothers in the clan. They were the feared dragon and tiger den in the rat world in City B. It was said that as long as you could successfully eat a piece of cake from that store and… If you survive, you could become famous again. Now the sorghum monster was not as strong as before, and he didn’t want to get into fights, but he was still happy to find something to eat, so he decided to go out and bravely enter the “Deadly Cake Shop”!
It patrolled the store for most of the day, figured out the routes of the employees, and prepared to sneak in when the night was dark and windy.
However, before it got dark, it heard a series of chirping calls. Turning around, he saw, oh, it was his right-hand man, Da Zhi, Xiao Zhi, and several other little brothers.
“Boss!”
“Shh! Don’t make any noise. I’m about to go in and get the cake. Be calm. I’ll give it to you later when I get it.”
Da Zhi said: “Boss, don’t worry about the cake for now. We have found more delicious stuff that is bigger than the cake.”
The sorghum monster picked his ears and said, “What?”
There was a continuous “squeak” sound from the manhole cover, and the four little mice tried their best to describe to it what they heard and saw.
….
After listening carefully, the sorghum monster’s eyes lit up: “Is it really that fragrant?”
“It definitely smells great!”
“Then why don’t you steal it to honor me?” The sorghum monster was dissatisfied.
The four little mice held their faces in fear: “There is a cat!”
The tip of the sorghum monster’s tail twitched, and it was a little frightened when it heard that there was a cat, but it still asked: “Where is it?”
“No. XX, XXX Road!”
XXX Road No. XX? The sorghum monster stiffened its tail and widened its eyes: “Squeak!” It’s that area! That realm that humans told me about…
“Boss, do you want to go? We support you!”
“Of course I want to go.” If you don’t go, that human won’t let it go.
The four little mice didn’t know why, but they cheered collectively, gearing up to rush towards the “strong on the outside, but cool on the inside” cat on the windowsill.
“Yeah! The boss is going to fight with the stupid cat!”
The sorghum monster said: “…squeak.”
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