Chapter 224 Uzzah’s Pumpkin Cart

No one can kill a cat in Uzzah.

This is not only because the laws of Ursa City strictly prohibit the killing of cats, but also because some divine and great eyes always look after these furry guys, giving them a transcendent status in this city.

"It is said that this law was first introduced because of an old couple who liked to torture and kill cats." On the way to Usa City with his two companions, Xiao Xiao kept telling his companions everything he had learned:

"The farmer and his wife used traps to kill every cat that came near his house for fun. One year, a caravan came to Usa. In the caravan there was a little boy, an orphan, and a little boy. The black cats depended on each other. On the third day of the caravan's arrival, the boy disappeared and the people in the town secretly told him about the old couple's bad habits.

"The boy cried, was silent, thought, and finally began to pray."

"He used words that no one could understand and prayed for help from an existence that no one knew about. That day, everyone saw the sky tearing, the clouds twisting, and a dark, hazy figure reflected in every corner of the city. . Then all the cats in the town disappeared."

"After the citizens hesitated for a few days, the cats reappeared. But by this time, their bodies had become smooth and shiny, they had grown fat, and their eyes had become lively."

"The mayor took the notary, the police chief and the doctor to the old farmer's house. There was no living person in the house, only two white skeletons lying in front of the fireplace, with not a trace of flesh left on the bones."

“From this time on Uzzah had this unfamous law.”

Zheng Qing felt a little bored while listening to this little scary but not so scary story - except for the fact that when the little black cat in the story appeared, it scared him for a second and earned him a weird look from the witch next to him. , I never felt anything new again.

In contrast, the pumpkin cars occasionally speeding past on the road aroused his interest more.

"Where are we going now?" After he patiently listened to Xiao Xiao's story, he finally found the opportunity to start a new conversation.

"Usa City Museum." The fortune teller of the Exoneration Hunting Team replied.

"Hmm?" Zheng Qing raised his eyebrows: "Another museum?"

"To be precise, it's a temple in the museum dedicated to the old gods." Xiao Xiao held his notebook and turned the quill in his hand. His eyes wandered around to capture the fresh pictures on the left and right, and his voice was a little lazy: "...that temple The priest here has lived a long time and knows a lot of things. It won't hurt if we go talk to him."

"Why don't you wait until the fat man and the elders arrive?"

"Waiting for the hunting team to gather? We need to get down to business...Have you forgotten the reason for coming to this world?"

Of course Zheng Qing will not forget - the reason why he entered the fantasy dreamland was because the faceless demon pretending to be Liu Feifei's pet snake escaped into this world? In addition, Zheng Qing and Zhu Si had agreed, and Mr. Wu had arranged for him The prophecies made are pulling young public-funded students to re-enter this dream world.

"Can we sit in those pumpkin cars?" The public-funded student changed the subject again, pointing to an orange car that just passed by the three of them? He asked with great interest.

"As long as you have dried fish." Xiao Xiao's answer was a bit baffling.

Zheng Qing stopped and fumbled in his gray cloth bag for a long time. Finally he took out a handful of dried mackerel and raised it in front of the doctor: "What are you doing with such a small fish?"

Xiao Xiao adjusted his glasses and glanced at him in slight surprise.

"I thought only Fatty's watch would store food anytime, anywhere." He obviously didn't expect Zheng Qing to find a handful of dried fish.

"Just in case." The young public-funded student twitched his lips and answered vaguely.

Now that we have dried fish? Of course, we don’t need to continue walking.

Xiao Xiao pinched the tail of a small dried fish, raised it in the air, and shouted "meow" in a serious manner!

Zheng Qing shuddered involuntarily.

"What are you doing?" He dragged Jiang Yu and took a few steps away from the doctor.

Xiao Xiao glanced at him: "Call a taxi."

Before he finished speaking, a bright yellow pumpkin car whistled in front of the dried fish. A furry paw reached out from the front of the car and fished the small dried fish into its paw.

"Parking fee collected! One piece of dried Spanish mackerel!" The coachman shouted in a lazy, somewhat sticky voice: "Where do you want to go?"

Zheng Qing stared blankly at the pumpkin car.

The appearance of the car is not much different from the pumpkin car in the wizarding world. It has four wheels, the two steering wheels in the front are smaller, and the two load-bearing wheels in the back are large. The carriage is made of giant pumpkins, with pumpkin vines hanging on the top that are not completely dry. ? Several small orange lamps are hung on the edge of the small window dug out of the melon body, emitting a natural fragrance from the inside out.

What’s different? It’s the driver and puller of the pumpkin cart.

The driver of the pumpkin cart is a tabby cat wearing a hat, with a round face and stripes, and shiny fur all over his body. His thick tail is wrapped around its waist like a whip.

The carts were pulled by several strong 'big rats'.

It is not accurate to say that it is a mouse. After all, Zheng Qing has never seen a mouse with pointed ears. It's just that these brown-furred creatures have the sharp beaks and outlines of mice, so we can temporarily identify them as mice.

"The last time I saw a mouse pulling a cart was last Christmas." Zheng Qing always felt that the cart pullers looked familiar, so he took a few more glances: "The pumpkin cart sent by the Qingqiu Mansion, the coachman and the cart puller sent by the underground rats." Rats...remember those bad-tempered 'Christmas rats' who always wrapped gifts in socks and threw them around?"

Both companions ignored Zheng Qing's memories.

"They are not mice," Xiao Xiao first corrected the wizard's improper use of words: "This kind of creature is called 'Zug'. It is a creature unique to the dreamland. It belongs to the order of magical creatures Rodentia in the Wizard's Encyclopedia. Zuko is a very unique series...but because they look like rats, many people also call them 'Charming Rats'."

"Okay, okay, I know you can memorize the entire encyclopedia." Zheng Qing rolled his eyes and raised his hands in a gesture of surrender.

Jiang Yu tugged at the sleeves of his robe.

"The creatures that were spying on us in that oak forest must be these guys." She stared at the brown outlines of Zugo, her voice a little uncertain.

Zheng Qing squinted his eyes and finally understood where the familiar feeling from just now came from.

"The Enchanted Forest is an oak forest, and it is also the place where the Zuge tribe is most concentrated." Xiao Xiao confirmed the witch's guess, and added: "As for these cart pullers, they were given to the Usa City cats by the Zuge tribe. Tributes... In normal years, cats will command them to pull carts, but in times of disaster and famine, they are still the best food.”