Chapter 6: The Hunting Orange Cat
Wisps of smoke swayed in the wind, and from time to time one could hear neighboring farmers greeting each other across the ridges of the fields.
The content was mostly about trivial family matters, but it soon disappeared in the morning mist along with the noise of chickens and dogs.
A farmer was driving his sheep up the mountain, and the clear sound of a dog's bell was fading away...
Yi Chun was lying on the roof of a farmer's house, watching everything with his eyes wide open like copper bells .
Of course, he was not unfamiliar with all this.
The Federation's urban population center strategy has liberated the mountains and wilderness of this planet like never before.
Of course, this does not affect the fact that there are still a large number of towns scattered around the central city.
And looking from the even more distant horizon, it is filled with endless green.
However, not everyone likes the Federation's ecological strategy...
After all, under the theme of ecological optimization, contact between wildlife and humans will become more frequent.
For people living in cities, it is natural that they cannot imagine what it is like to have poisonous snakes living around their homes.
Even in today's advanced medical environment, venomous snakes do not necessarily become a fatal factor.
But there is no doubt that it is always inevitable that some unexpected events will bring about hidden pain that is difficult to dispel.
What's even more tricky is those seemingly inconspicuous bugs.
For example, mosquitoes, which have been active with humans to this day...
Basically, they are not beneficial or indispensable to the natural environment needed by human beings.
It has also resolutely transcended the years of civilization and has maintained its vigorous and disgusting vitality even today when there are many related insecticide methods.
The optimization of the ecological environment also means that they have a longer breathing opportunity...
“Buzz…”
A huge gadfly was flying above Yi Chun's head, and then was swept heavily to the ground with a bang.
Before it could recover from the heavy blow from the cat's tail strengthened by its human body, an orange claw completely killed it.
This thing has become less common recently. After all, the cattle-raising areas have enough professional equipment to drive away and eliminate these guys.
Yi Chun could smell all kinds of unusual odors in the air, which were a mixture of the odors of feces and livestock.
When these smells are in the human body, they are generally attributed to the word "stink".
But now, under Yi Chun's nose, those auras were clearly divided into several independent components.
When he was young, Yi Chun vaguely remembered having seen such a small village.
But now, although the economy of the town is not very developed, there are no such old buildings.
There is no doubt that this familiar-looking village is not on Yi Chun's planet.
Or perhaps, it is a microcosm of what this planet once was?
Yi Chun didn't know the answer. At this moment, in the farmer's house below him, there was a snotty-nosed baby staring at Yi Chun with his shiny black eyes.
Orange is a good protective color in nature.
But at this time, it is obviously quite conspicuous on the tiles with distinct colors.
"Where's the milk? There's a cat meow..."
The doll below shouted with a heavily nasal voice.
But at this time, Yi Chun had already run away with agility that was rare for a ginger cat.
The words this doll speaks have a strong dialect flavor.
Coincidentally, that seemed to be the dialect of the market town where Yichun worked.
As an intangible cultural heritage, the inheritance of dialects represents the context and direction of local culture.
Yi Chun seemed to have some vague guesses, but these had no practical significance.
For him now, he already clearly understands what he desires...
At this moment, perhaps some of his thoughts touched upon a certain keyword.
A new line of information began to refresh in front of Yi Chun's eyes:
“
Wild Instance: Rat Infestation on the Farm
Maximum stay time in the instance: 1 natural day (You can try to postpone your exit from the instance by completing some node events)
Dungeon-related wild elements: rats (displayed in green), poisonous insects (displayed in red), spirits (displayed in scarlet)
Tip: Killing is not a necessary factor for improving wildness, it only corresponds to a part of wildness.
”
Yi Chun licked the fangs that seemed to still have some grease on them, and things seemed to become more interesting...
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…
"squeak……"
The primitive and simple wooden structure house is the favorite residence of mice.
This is also the reason why many farmers in the mountains choose to keep a cat.
Those cats are certainly not lazy and cute pets in the city.
They are wild little killers and guardians, maintaining the peace and harmony of a family night.
In the East Asian region of the Federation, the tabby cat is the main element in constructing this rural-related theme.
Yi Chun has always loved tabby cats, which may be the reason why he changed into an orange tabby cat.
Cats actually have a very strong sense of territory, and that is why Yi Chun chose a family that did not have a cat.
As we all know, when the relevant fields of a certain area are blank, there will always be foreign things to fill it in.
According to Yi Chun's sense of smell, there are traces of a large number of active rats here.
In fact, they are so rampant that they come out during the day.
In many people's minds, a rat plague is a dense black torrent in the sewers.
But in fact, when the number of rats in an area exceeds a certain threshold, it can be called a rat plague.
This threshold will fluctuate depending on the capacity of different areas and the number of predators such as cats and dogs.
In fact, cats play a huge role in curbing the growth of rat populations.
Because even when they are full, they don't mind killing every mouse they find...
From a macro perspective, this is a manifestation of the disorder of natural balance.
Nature is balance, but it is not just balance...
At this time, the owner of the house was out.
Although the sky is not yet bright, mornings in the countryside are undoubtedly busier during the busy farming season.
Yi Chun jumped onto the roof beam from the darkness, then ran into the second floor where a mess of materials were piled up.
This kind of house is completely open to flexible creatures like cats.
The thick pads of flesh stepped on the dry beams, and everything went on silently...
For cats that act on instinct, a cat like Yi Chun who has human-like thinking is obviously more deadly.
Or rather, it is insidious...
If the mice had any relevant feelings in their walnut-sized brains, they might have let out a vile roar of anger.
But obviously, they don't have such an opportunity at this time.
Based on the differences in the intensity of the smells in the air, Yi Chun quickly summarized the mice's activity tracks.
This is not complicated, especially now that he is in a state where he has no distractions.
He doesn't have to think about work and interpersonal relationships, nor does he have to think about future development and marriage issues.
Now, he is just a cat, a cat eager to hunt!
