When Luo Binhan found Yaleriga, she was helping Jing Huang tidy up his appearance. While she was combing the hair that Luo Binhan had messed up last time, she listened to Luo Binhan complaining about the dangerous encounter with a vampire that she almost died from.
"She must want to eat Marin." Luo Binhan complained angrily, "She hooks up with young men from good families in broad daylight. She is not a serious woman at first glance! This trend must be cured, otherwise no innocent man would dare to go out!" "
Yaleriga gave him an unreadable look and put the comb back into her small bag.
"A black cat saved you?" she said. "Pure black?"
Luo Binhan couldn't give a definite answer. He only heard the cat meowing and saw an afterimage, but he couldn't even tell that it was really a cat. And among all the vampire legends he had heard, none seemed to emphasize that vampires were afraid of cat calls.
He asked Yaleriga, and the answer he received was also negative. Yaleriga first told Luo Binhan that cats could not restrain vampires, and then after a moment of reflection she said: "Cats and owls are both friends of witches."
"Why? Because they butt heads?"
"The cat is the messenger of Ruthelaise, and the owl is the guardian of her eldest son."
"So why does the cat have trouble with the vampires? Do they have any grudge?"
"It's not fighting the vampire. It's saving you."
Yaleriga corrected. There was a kind of assurance in her tone, which made Luo Binhan realize that she was not speculating, but actually knew the origin of the cat. He immediately pursued her, suspecting that this matter had something to do with Yaleriga's ex-boyfriend.
"It has nothing to do with the Silent School." Yaleriga vetoed, "I had never seen it before meeting the captain, but I did hear of its existence."
"Does this cat have an origin?"
"If it is indeed the one I know, you may have seen it once too."
Luo Binhan didn't understand what she meant. So Yaleriga said again: "Gate City. It led us to the theater at that time."
This incident has almost disappeared from Luo Binhan's memory. He tried to remember, and finally remembered the strange black cat that had let a large number of lizards loose in the market, and then slipped away in front of them.
The image of the black cat gradually became clearer with memories. Luo Binhan asked in disbelief: "That thing? It has been following us since Mencheng? What does it want?"
Yaleriga did not answer, but repeatedly assured Luo Binhan that the black cat would not pose a threat to the members of the Silence. And since Wuona, a vampire, has also seen the black cat, she will never take any dangerous action against Luo Binhan again.
Luo Binhan was quite suspicious of the latter, but he was sent back to his room by Yaleriga. He sat on the bed in a daze, feeling a little dizzy, feeling that only this small closed room in the entire universe belonged to him. And the room itself is constantly changing. Nowadays, it is filled with Luo Binhan's various clothes, several entertainment magazines dug from the warehouse, comic books collected by Momolo, the Echo Flower and the small mirror given to him by Blue Magpie. He grabbed the mirror and took a look, but Lan Que still didn't reply to him.
He put down the mirror and noticed the stuffed pigeon hanging on the wall. The cursed object aimed at the wise man was staring at him strangely, as if it was secretly planning some kind of conspiracy. Luo Binhan couldn't help but think of the warning the old woman gave him: Be careful of pigeons.
"What do you want to do?" he said to the pigeon.
The superstitious pigeon continued to stare at him secretly, but said nothing because of the distance. Luo Binhan felt even more uncomfortable, as if something was missing in the whole room. He put back the bag of gold that he had no chance to use, and did not plan to touch the game Star Wars again for the time being.
But he still felt something was missing. This feeling forced him to walk around the house until he saw an empty cage, and he suddenly realized what he had lost.
He immediately began to think back to when Fina had gone missing. He must have taken it into Sugar Land and met Uona and Marin. He also brought it into the restaurant, but Fina obviously hated sweets, and she always lay motionless on his shoulder, maintaining a neutral appearance. Although he almost completely ignored Fina's existence during this period, if there was an obvious change in the weight on his back, it was impossible for him to not notice it. And if there was a certain period of time when he was no longer aware of Fina's existence - that was after he was awakened by Uona.
Luo Binhan quickly called ∈ and confirmed with him that Fina was not in any corner of the Silence. Then he ran to Marin and Joel Farman and asked them if they remembered the time when Fina was with him. Both of them turned out to be pretty much useless. The Ghost Paralysis Lizard is really good at hiding.
He confirmed the possibility that he had thought of, and his face gradually became ugly. A possibility that made him struggle internally surfaced: just before he woke up, Fina had been kidnapped by Uona.
"I have to change pets." He said sadly.
Joel Farman looked at him disapprovingly: "You can go directly to her and ask."
Marin had already taken out the candy wrapper with Wuona's address written on it, and Luo Binhan immediately slapped his hand back firmly.
"She must be trying to frame me, torture me, and humiliate me." He said nervously, "I won't go. Next time, just get a dog."
That obviously cannot be considered a responsible statement. Joel Farman began to drag him towards the cabin door of the Silence. She persuaded Luo Binhan to go back to the Sugar Land to make sure that Fina was not drunk in some rum. Although Luo Binhan didn't believe it, he still followed her. As they walked out of the Silence, a small black shadow immediately fell from the sky and landed in front of them.
Luo Binhan thought it was a bird at first, but when it landed, he saw clearly that it was a bat with agile eyes. It also had a folded black paper in its mouth. When Joel Farman drew the long stick from his back and pointed it at it, it spat the paper on the ground and flew away quickly.
They picked up the paper and smelled the slightly bitter agarwood from it. The handwriting on the paper seemed to be written in mercury, elegant yet correct:
To Mr. Zhou Yu:
On my way back, I unexpectedly picked up a cute scaly girl. According to Mr. Dadatuba, she was not an original creature in Sugar Land. I fed her some of my food and she seemed to like it so much that she followed me all the way to the boat. She is currently doing well and getting along well with me.
Since Mr. Marin once told me that you have a special pet, I speculate that you may have brought the scaly girl. If the situation is true, please come to my place to take her away. And if she has nothing to do with you, I will send her to a more suitable place in a week.
Also, I am not sure that the food on this ship is suitable for her to eat in large quantities. Please come and claim it as soon as possible.
Your loyal Uona
Luo Binhan stared at the letter and almost rushed back to the ship to find Yaleriga. Joel Farman grabbed him and said, "We have to go get Fina back. We can't let her be abandoned in a strange place."
"You're talking like it's an underage girl."
"She was an introverted beauty," Joel Fineman said solemnly.
Luo Binhan complained a little, but finally admitted that Fina should not be abandoned like this, but at the same time he seriously distrusted Wuona's intentions. He ran back to the Silence and told ∈ about the incident and asked him to tell it to Yaleriga.
A few minutes later ∈ gave him a reply: an automatic robot holding two sets of dresses. One set is a high-cut dress with a metallic texture that is embellished with silver and filaments; the other is a men's dress paired with a hat and gloves.
"She asked you to dress up before going." ∈ said.
