Chapter 1018: Climbing Trees

After expressing his emotions, Vladimir suddenly asked Zhang Zian, "Do you think there is a god in the world?"

"Well... Sometimes I think there is, sometimes I don't; sometimes I think it should be, and sometimes I don't think it doesn't matter." Zhang Zian replied truthfully, which is actually the common mentality of most people.

He thought of the creator of the "Pet Hunter" game, and added: "I think there may be some higher-level existence in the dark, but it's not necessarily a god."

Vladimir smiled and said nothing.

Zhang Zian didn't know whether it was right or wrong for him to encourage it, but he felt that its efforts had indeed achieved results, and the stray cats who were scattered like sand were preliminarily united and concentrated their strength to do great things.

"Speaking of nature, you just asked the kitten why it can't come down after climbing the tree, right?" He brought the topic back to the original question.

"Well, so I think it is afraid of heights? But if it is afraid of heights, how can it climb so high?" Vladimir nodded with a strong thirst for knowledge, "Could it be that this is also the same as cats against humans?" A similar nature to meowing?"

Not everyone has raised cats, and among those who have raised cats, most of them have only one cat. Even those who have more than two cats rarely pay attention to the interaction between cats, especially Interaction between cats when the owner is not present. To put it simply, when there is no human being present, the cats basically don’t meow to each other, because there is no need to be cute to each other, even if they meow, there will be no food served...

Meowing is almost like a certain skill that cats have evolved to please humans, and I have to admit that this evolution is undoubtedly super successful, making humans willing to become shit shovel officers. This is probably Darwin conspiracy.

"Wait a mininute."

When Zhang Zian returned to the store, he saw that the clerks had also finished their meal and were taking inventory and packing up. He went up to the storage room on the second floor and found a folding ladder to carry them down.

The shop assistants were a little puzzled when they saw him carrying the ladder out, but he truthfully explained that there was a kitten stuck in the tree.

He carried the ladder back to the tree, propped it up, shook it to make sure it was stable, climbed to the top of the ladder, pushed aside the obstructing branches and leaves, and stretched out his hand to the yellow and white kitten.

The kitten is a little scared. After all, it is a stray cat. It has never had close contact with people, and there is no mother cat to teach it how to deal with humans. It shrank its body and tried to escape, but there was nowhere to hide among the narrow branches, and finally Zhang Zian clamped its armpit with both hands and hugged it down.

"Why can it climb up the tree but not come down? Look carefully at its claws."

Zhang Zian lifted one of its front paws to show Vladimir.

He bent his fingers like a hook and gestured: "The claws of cats, including those of other animals, are mostly hook-shaped and bent toward the palm. This is for the needs of hunting, preventing prey from escaping, and for climbing. and immobilize the body while jumping."

Vladimir lifted one of his front paws again, looked down, and nodded in agreement.

"The paws in this shape are very convenient for climbing up trees, so this kitten climbed to a high place easily, even though it may have never climbed a tree before... But, when it wants to get out of a tree There will be a problem when you come down." Zhang Zian pouted at Shu Nu, "Vladimir, you can try it yourself, practice is the only criterion for testing the truth."

Without thinking, Vladimir jumped to the edge of the tree, stretched out his sharp claws three times and then climbed up the tree.

"Come down now." Zhang Zian emphasized, "Be careful, don't jump, but climb down the tree slowly."

Vladimir was acutely aware of the problem immediately.

It also often jumps up trees and walls to climb higher, but it relies on its flexibility, and always jumps directly after climbing to the highest point. If it is too high, it borrows strength from a slightly lower place and jumps like a step. down. With its fiery temper, there has never been a precedent for it to go slowly.

At this time it tried to climb slowly down from the tree,

I felt awkward after changing several positions.

Zhang Zian reminded from under the tree: "You climbed up with your head up and down. If you want to climb down, you still have to go up and down and go backwards. Only in this way can your claws grab the trunk and bark."

Vladimir turned his body according to the words, as if he had recorded the movement of climbing up the tree and then played it backwards, and slowly climbed down the tree backwards.

"It's awkward." It said uncomfortably, "it's better to just jump down and feel comfortable."

"Of course, but kittens like this don't dare to jump directly." Zhang Zian put the yellow and white kitten on the ground, and when he moved the ladder just now, he took a can of cat food in his pocket, opened it and pushed it into the in front of it.

The yellow-and-white kitten wanted to run away, but when it smelled the smell of fish in the cat can, it couldn't help but lean over. After smelling it, it stuck its face into the can and started to eat it purring.

"But how do you know?" asked Vladimir.

He laughed and said: "After all, I run a pet shop, this is common sense, and I have seen many cats like this, climbed up to a high place but got trapped, and would not come down by themselves, if there is no mother cat to teach them. "

This yellow-and-white kitten probably separated from its mother very early. Its mother did not have time to teach it the skills of climbing and climbing trees. , just jump off like Vladimir.

After climbing to a high place, people know that they should head up and down and then climb down the same way, but cats are not used to backing up. Even when they come down from a high place, they always want to go up head down, but the shape of their paws determines their You can only move your butt down slowly with your head up and down, otherwise you won't be able to hook the bark.

The yellow-and-white kitten wanted to climb down the tree, but found that its paws couldn't hook the tree, and it always wanted to fall down. It didn't dare to jump, so it was trapped on the tree.

Zhang Zian stared into the distance and recalled: "When I was young, my parents told me a story. It said that a long time ago, cats were the most powerful animals in the forest. Even tigers that were much bigger than cats worshiped cats as their teachers. , learn the skills of foraging, fighting, and survival from cats. Cats are rigorous in their studies and good at teaching, and tigers are also very serious in learning, and they have almost learned all the skills of cats. Tigers have bad intentions, and after learning skills, they will become kings in the forest He wanted to dominate and even wanted to eat the cat, but the cat had been prepared for a long time, and deliberately didn't teach the tiger how to climb the tree. When the tiger came to eat it, it climbed to a very high tree, making the tiger stare blankly under the tree. Later, people made up an allegorical saying based on this story, "The cat teaches the tiger - keep one hand."

This story has been widely circulated and various versions have been derived, but the main plot is the same.

Vladimir listened carefully and with great interest.

Zhang Zian smiled and said: "When I heard the story, I thought it was incredible. What is so difficult about climbing a tree? Why do you have to teach me a cat? A cat can go up, but a big tiger can't." But in fact it does need to be taught, otherwise you may be trapped after going up, even the tiger of the king of beasts, after all, the tiger is also a cat. The person who made up this story is not purely making up, at least it is Live life carefully."

Vladimir suddenly said, "It's a very interesting story. When I encounter cats trapped in high places in the future, I can show them how to climb down, so I don't have to go back and find you to carry the ladder."

"Master!"

"Manager, we're done packing, let's go home first! The store door is unlocked."

The clerks finished today's work and found that Zhang Zian hadn't come back yet. They walked out of the store and saw him standing under a tree not far away, so they raised their voices to him.

"Understood, be careful on the road." Zhang Zian also waved in response.

The clerks left together, and as usual, they sent Lu Yiyun back to the rental house first, and the remaining three went back to the school dormitory together.

Vladimir turned his head and looked at the distance of the street, and said to Zhang Zian: "It's getting late, you go back first, I still have things to do, just leave me a window as usual."

"Okay, be careful too, don't be brave, if you encounter something you can't handle, you can come back to us for help." Zhang Zian was still quite worried whether it would encounter the statue of the cat god alone at night, even though it was full of confidence, but After all, the cat god statue is not easy to deal with.

It smiled slightly, "Don't worry, death doesn't belong to meowists."

After speaking, it turned and left with brisk steps.

"By the way, there is one more thing." Zhang Zian raised his voice slightly, and said to its back: "Vladimir, if you want to do something, just let it go! Even if you make any mistakes, I and everyone I will do my best to make it up for you!"

Vladimir paused, without looking back, but raised a front paw to show he knew.

"Also, if possible, come back as soon as possible." Zhang Zian finally added.

It was noncommittal this time, without pausing, and ran straight into the darkness in the distance.

At some point, Lao Cha appeared next to Zhang Zian, stroking his beard and squinting his eyes to watch Vladimir's receding back, and said slowly: "Sure enough, it's a new generation of cats replacing old ones. Only a few cats can be saved, and at most thousands of cats can be saved with the help of Femas, but Vladimir can save tens of thousands of cats... In this era, there is no need for knights. "

Zhang Zian smiled and said, "Master Cha, you are too modest. There is no need for knights in this world, but the spirit of chivalry is eternal. As long as you have chivalry in your heart, everyone is a knight."

Old Cha nodded in relief, leisurely fascinated.

Vladimir stopped suddenly when he was running out of sight. It turned around in the shadow of twilight, and the sound came from afar.

"I think you are wrong. There is no god in this world! Even if a god appears in front of me, I will let him taste the iron fist of meowism!"