"Give me a seat," the cat demanded.
Even in the Endless City where everything is available, it is extremely rude to greet a stranger like this. Toba didn't want to talk to the cat, but he didn't threaten or drive him away, considering that his voice was still very immature. The surrounding guests didn't pay attention, most of them were looking at the two high sugar peaks.
The leash cat has flown away from the dining table. It flew over all the tables like a trapeze artist. At the same time, all the cat attendants took out a very small potted blue trumpet flower from the bag on their waist. When the leash cat in the sky screams, its loud voice is heard from all the morning glory at the same time, so that it can be heard clearly in every corner of the square.
"Distinguished guests!" the leash cat shouted, "the sugar rice is being eaten!"
It shouted this phrase repeatedly in dozens of languages. The guests below were also passing messages to each other. The exclamations kept coming and going. There was a lot of movement of chairs being pulled up and inquiries being made. People are asking which table started the sugar and rice challenge. The people who were most anxious to watch the excitement had already taken off, but they were not high enough to overlook the entire square, because the Golden Lake in the Sky was actually very low. All the guests tried to get higher, so that the table suddenly became crowded.
"Hey! Hey! Don't be like this!" the leash cat shouted again, "Be polite, everyone! Please sit down! Leave some space for our queen's suitor! Don't worry! I guarantee that everyone will see this excitement! Oh, Sorry, did I just say 'the suitor'? That was my fault. I was totally wrong. Who said that if the sweet rice is eaten, we will have 'the suitor'? In fact - Two suitors!"
Its sound caused another stir. There's nothing funnier than watching someone else make a fool of themselves at a party. Fortunately, people who love to participate in festivals have rich experience in group activities and know that if they run around and cause chaos now, no one will have fun. So they all tried their best to restrain themselves and not to do any deformation that took up too much space. They just quietly installed themselves an electronic eye that automatically retrieved the image of Tangfan, or took out a high-precision acoustic analyzer to determine which area the noise had just come from. The place is eating sweet rice.
In this commotion, even though Toba was not far away from Wei, and the guests around him could directly see the two piles of sugar and rice with their naked eyes, it was still somewhat affected. All the guests are quietly adjusting their body functions so that they can better join in the fun. So the owner of the house can transform freely, but Toba cannot. It used to feel that its body was free enough.
Yes, in the dark wasteland of the exiles, it can be regarded as the freest form of life. In order to hunt for food or survive, or sometimes just out of boredom, it will spread itself out into a thin blanket of bacteria that stretches for miles. That cannot last too long, because the memory and storage of neural thinking structures are conditional. Relying on its unique mitochondrial structure, it can survive both on heterotrophy and photosynthesis.
His reputable accomplice therefore often refers to him as a plant, as if he thinks this helps to bring them closer, which is not humorous at all. Tuo Ba has already concluded that if Ji Xun and Jing Huang are indeed a family, then the entire family's sense of humor must be hopeless.
"Hey," someone said while it was busy watching the snow peaks collapse, "give me your seat."
Toba looked back again - it could have an extra eye directly on the back of its head, but it would be covered by the blouse, and the final image formed by the multiple eyes would be very uncomfortable. Its old nervous system was not adapted to discontinuous wide-area vision. If not necessary, it always prefers the most traditional approach.
Just as he thought, it was the short one-eyed cat who asked him to give up his seat. This guy, who was obviously smaller than his peers, wore a black eye patch, a metal set of blades on his claws, and the waiter uniform he wore was particularly loose. Its face is small and pointed, making its yellow eyes stand out. Another obvious toddler trait. So despite its rude gaze, it still looks cute.
"Go away," Toba said. The two snowy peaks three tables away were collapsing rapidly.
The kitten didn't go away, but it didn't continue to pester it. Instead, it poked the person sitting next to it with its sharp claws. It was a soft and whitish guest, like a translucent soft rubber ball, with more than a dozen hands with many joints. The customer was not angry when he was poked by the kitten, but turned around to look at him curiously.
"Hey, dead fish," the kitten said, "let me get up there. Otherwise I'll cut off all your stinky feet and stuff them into your stupid little asshole!"
The guest with the rubber ball body was amazed and used a dozen of his hands to stroke the kitten's furry cheeks and scratch its chin and forehead.
"Let me go up and take a look!" the kitten ordered with squinted eyes, "Don't waste time!"
The guest hugged it with his hands and carefully placed it on top of his body, making the kitten taller than the surrounding guests. This undoubtedly makes the kitten very satisfied. It spread its legs and slumped down on the soft rubber bed like a landowner, watching the duel of suitors that was about to begin, while enjoying the milk and mixed mint fed to it by its servants.
"More mint!" it said.
Tuo Ba, who heard it speaking, glanced coldly at his neighbor, and then continued to pay attention to Wei and Jing Huang. It never examines what the people in the square sleeping on their beds of nails are thinking. Maybe people in the past had this kind of hobby, so they arranged such a waiter at holiday banquets. No matter what, hobbies are free.
During the time when this little episode happened, the two people who had agreed to duel had almost eaten all the sugar and rice. The leash cats in the sky kept cheering them on and praising their passionate and persistent love for the Queen. It's a pity that the queen can only date one person at a time - the leash cat then added - but the loser can still wait until next time! The Queen will never refuse someone who wants to devote themselves to her, but be sure not to do anything wrong, otherwise her executor will come to your door. Woohoo! Terrible executor!
No one knows who the executor of the leash cat is, because the anniversary notice of the Ethics House will only explain the basic precautions for participating in the anniversary, the most interesting interactions and the biggest taboos. They would not provide residents with a detailed account of everything that happened throughout the era, because that would just make anniversaries a burden without surprises. However, as part of the period context, the cat attendants clearly understood what a cat on a leash meant. Almost all of them had fur sprouting, and their eyes were flickering and wandering.
"Executor." Toba heard the kitten next to him repeat, even sounding a little disdainful.
Suddenly, an unexplainable suspicion flashed in its heart. It couldn't help but start to pay attention to the cat attendants passing by, secretly comparing the differences between them and the kitten sitting next to it. But before it could find the source of the strangeness, Wei had already swallowed the last bite of sugar rice.
"I'm done!" he yelled. Then he suddenly jumped on the table and knocked over several dishes. But no guest cared about it. Everyone was busy cheering him on. Then Jing Huang swallowed the last bite and floated on the table silently.
"Let the duel begin!" The leash cat shouted happily, "In the first round, Sparkling Sparkling Lightning Transformation!"
