Chapter 14: The Druid's Choice
The town’s morning market was much more prosperous than Yi Chun had imagined.
When Yi Chun walked into the soundproof door, he could feel the sound waves instantly rising by several decibels.
The noisy sounds seemed to raise the temperature around them a lot.
Just like the market many years ago, those who are active here now are basically over 40 years old.
During the years that he worked in the small town, Yi Chun had never set foot here.
However, the braised meat shop outside the morning market is a place that Yichun often visits.
With the town's updated cleaning system, the blood mixed with grease and stench was quickly cleaned up.
But even so, when there is a large flow of people, there is still inevitably some strange smell in the air.
After all, it is a vegetable market, and requiring it to be tasteless is a bit beyond the current standards of the small town.
Compared to these, Yi Chun could better feel the complex messages flowing in the air.
Fear, hunger, rage...
Compared to the monotonous and simple messages from plants, the livestock to be slaughtered send out much stronger signals.
Yi Chun passed by a shop selling meat rabbits. He could see some messages of desire in the eyes of the rabbits in the cage.
They were afraid of death - the short screams of their captured companions and the sound of the knife cutting their throats...
Everything is deeply stimulating their hearts.
Animals are not as intelligent as some humans think. In this world, humans' intellectual advantages are difficult to match by other creatures.
But not that stupid:
They know what death is...
"babble……"
As if noticing Yi Chun's gaze, the rabbit let out some meaningless roar.
Yi Chun knew why that was - under the power of wild identity, these beasts would maintain a relatively high level of recognition of him.
Simply put, he is a very pleasing person in the crowd.
But that’s all. When actual interests are involved, this simple relationship has no substantive significance.
"Buy a rabbit?"
When the rabbit shop owner saw that there was business coming, he immediately put down his bloody hands, wiped them and greeted them.
"These rabbits were brought from the ranch in the mountain next door. Go back and add some chili to them to keep them strong!"
Seeing Yi Chun looking at the rabbit, the boss opened the cage and picked up the rabbit.
"No, just take a look..."
Yi Chun turned and left.
In many people's understanding, druids are people who save animals and pick on lumberjacks.
Or in many fantasy novels, he occasionally plays the role of a prophet and victim of disaster.
But obviously, that's only part of the druid profession.
In the broader field, druids have their own unique colors.
Protect the core stability of nature and punish unstable factors that affect nature.
Beneath this vague theme lie more detailed and even contradictory philosophical ideas.
Yi Chun is just a beginner on this road now, and he has chosen a direction.
But it is just a direction, in that direction is there a wide road or dangerous mountains.
Everything is still unknown...
Yi Chun's family had a tabby cat, and it was a very fat tabby cat.
Yi Chun once thought that its fur color should be orange.
It accompanied Yi Chun's family for nearly ten years, and it runs through Yi Chun's almost entire childhood memories.
Then, one night it left and never came back...
From then on, Yi Chun's family no longer kept cats.
"I don't want to, and I don't need to, feed anything anymore..."
Yi Chun thought so.
When you raise certain creatures out of loneliness or other reasons.
You just need to understand that when the cold death takes it away, you will pay a higher price ...
If you drive them for profit, you don't have to pay anything.
Unfortunately, Yi Chun is not such a person...
Without any commotion, Yi Chun bought a large bag of shallot seeds from an old lady's stall at the morning market.
Due to the limitations of his current conditions, he could only choose this relatively convenient plant for the experiment.
Yi Chun was not impatient, he had now regained his composure.
It was as if the patience of hunting mice in the dark began to settle in his consciousness.
Then, Yi Chun started his day's work...
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A newlywed couple came to register today, and Yi Chun handled the marriage procedures for them.
To be honest, this is probably the position that gets the most dog food.
Of course, sometimes we can’t help but see some regrettable scenes.
Human emotions seem to be the most sincere and pure at this time.
Once upon a time, Yi Chun was quite envious of this.
And now?
Yi Chun transformed into an orange cat and walked around the room.
Sometimes he jumped over the small table in the room, and sometimes he tried to walk on the wall.
The cat's agility allows it to perform many actions that the human body cannot accomplish.
But it was obvious that the room was too narrow for a tabby cat.
Even for ordinary activities, it seems too narrow.
After hesitating for a while, Yi Chun pushed open the door leading to the balcony.
As the door slowly opened, the light from outside shone in.
As the light changed dramatically, Yi Chun's pupils suddenly changed drastically.
Compared to humans, cats' perspective is obviously much lower.
Those once clear images have become somewhat soft.
Yi Chun knew that this was probably due to the difference in visible colors between cat's eyes and human eyes.
Yi Chun rushed directly onto the balcony and squatted down beside the pot where he had just planted green onion seeds.
Then, he roared to the world for the first time in this body:
"Meow……"
The sudden sound of a cat's meow made the pedestrians downstairs look up.
After making comments like “This orange cat is so thin”, most of them left.
Yi Chun ignored them. He enjoyed this strange feeling.
Perhaps it is because cats' senses are somewhat different from humans', Yi Chun feels that the rough balcony is unusually comfortable.
Of course, maybe it’s because there’s still some warmth from the daytime sun on it.
As night falls, the ancient genes lurking in the cat's body begin to take effect.
Yi Chun began to feel energetic and not at all tired after half a day's work.
There seemed to be some strange smell in the air, which should be the smell of the pet of the neighboring residents.
Compared with those varieties that have been artificially genetically selected, Yichun, which is full of wildness, should obviously be eliminated.
Natural selection sometimes does not depend on killing and hunting ability.
After human civilization dominated the world, living beings had new evolutionary options.
However, this does not include Yi Chun...
"It stinks of rats..."
Suddenly, Yi Chun opened his half-closed eyes.
He seemed to smell something familiar...
