Deep in the black forest, there is a secret underground crack covered by vines.
In the black forest in this area, even the soil and rocks are black, and the concentration of black mist is extremely high. Even the monsters corrupted by the black mist are unwilling to set foot here.
And at the bottom of the dark crack, lay a pitch black kitten that was skinny and skinny.
If the kitten's body wasn't still heaving, I'm afraid anyone would think she was dead.
"The cat is moaning... ow... the cat hurts..."
The sleeping kitten's thin body suddenly twitched, causing her to roll on the ground in pain, and then kept scratching the rock wall with her claws.
Looking around, the surrounding rock walls were covered with dense scratches. It was obvious that this was not the first time this had happened.
The kitten vented its pain by scratching the rock wall. After struggling for more than ten minutes, it finally stopped.
The panting kitten was lying on the dirty ground, its dry eyes trying its best to look up at the gray sky, full of despair and sadness.
She is Platycodon, the fourth daughter of Isis.
It's just that no one can tell the connection between the smart and lovely cat lady in the past and this scrawny and dirty kitten on the ground.
The exhausted Kikyo lay on the ground for who knows how long, and finally gathered enough strength to get up with his thin paws to support his body.
The originally nimble civet body was now like a candle in the wind, swaying as it walked and could fall down at any time.
She crawled slowly, walking a few meters away for five minutes.
The end of the road is a small puddle deep in a crack in the ground.
A faint amount of water vapor will seep out from the surface of the rock wall several meters deep, and eventually it will condense into water droplets and drip down, forming a small puddle so shallow that you can drink it all in one sip.
Kikyo, who had no strength left, lay down on the edge of the puddle, reluctantly stretched out her tongue that had not been moistened for a long time, and gently licked the shallow puddle.
There was a pitiful amount of water in the small puddle, but Platycodon licked it persistently.
She didn't stop drinking until all the sediment at the bottom was licked into her belly, leaving only the bottom of the pool without any water.
After replenishing water, Kikyo's strength recovered a little, at least enough for her to perform some actions that required physical strength.
She raised her head and glanced at the sky, then licked her dry lips with her pink cat tongue.
The pitifully thin kitten used its extremely worn claws to cling to the rock wall and climb up bit by bit.
However, her goal was not to climb out of the rock cracks and gain freedom, but the moss growing on the surface of the wet rock wall above the pond.
The civets used to be carnivorous creatures, but during their wanderings, they were forced to learn to eat vegetarian food.
But Kikyo is even more miserable now - she wants to eat moss.
The thin kitten had to rest for dozens of seconds every time he climbed, but he finally managed to climb to the three-meter-high rock wall.
She used her almost flat claws to barely hook onto the rock wall to fix her body, and slowly gnawed on the black moss.
These black mosses are filled with a lot of black mist inside. Ordinary kittens would run away immediately upon seeing them, let alone eating them.
Platycodon gnawed a large piece of moss and suppressed the growling sound of his stomach before stopping.
She glanced at the remaining moss on the rock wall and estimated that if she ate it all, it would be the minimum energy required to maintain her body in cat form for two days.
"Are there two days left..."
The dirty kitten felt the vague pain deep in its body and flicked its tail feebly.
She raised her head and glanced at the gray sky.
From where she was, she could climb out of this narrow underground crack by climbing another two or three meters.
But Platycodon didn't do that.
She stared at the sky, as if trying to imprint the unchanging gray sky into her pupils.
But in the end she lowered her head, no longer lingering on the sky, slowly climbed down the rock wall, found a corner and lay down, closed her eyes and waited for the arrival of a new round of pain.
…
A few days ago, or exactly how many days ago, Kikyo could no longer remember.
She only remembered that it was a dark night, and a tidal wave of black mist poured out from the black forest and swept across the entire Civet Village.
Seeing that the kittens were about to be swallowed up by the black mist, she couldn't hold it back any longer, pulled out the burning firewood from the bonfire, and stood up to try to disperse the black mist.
The courage is commendable, but it is a pity that the weak civet tribe has no ability to resist in the face of such a supernatural disaster.
After rushing into the black mist, Kikyo quickly lost consciousness. When she regained consciousness, an unknown amount of time had passed.
And she discovered to her horror that she had a strong affinity for the black mist and would not be corrupted by it.
After realizing something was wrong with herself, Kikyo did not dare to return to Civet Village, but found an underground crack to lock herself in.
During this time, she often thought of leaving the cracks and returning to the warm village.
But she also strangled her thoughts to death again and again.
With that kind of black mist attack, there is no chance for Civet Village to survive. It is estimated that she is the last living civet in the world.
——Even if a cat survives by luck, it does not belong to her destiny.
Kikyo has seen kittens corrupted by the black mist and knows that they will attack their own kind crazily. She also vaguely senses that her mother Isis will help those kittens get rid of their pain.
Because of this, she didn't want to go back to the village and face an outcome that might cause her to collapse...
"Ms. Grace, the cat is so hungry and cold... the cat really wants to go home..."
Kikyo, who once again had the idea of going home, buried her head under her paws and started crying.
It's a pity that her prayers to the Mother of Night did not receive any response.
This is also the reason why Isis said that the Mother of Night has fallen into a deep sleep - as long as she is still awake, it is absolutely impossible to give up on the remaining believers of the civet tribe.
After praying to the gods of faith to no avail, Kikyo, who was tired and hungry, fell asleep exhausted.
But when she slept for less than half an hour, her thin body suddenly twitched, and then the scene from not long ago reappeared.
"Cat! The cat hurts so much... its claws hurt... its tail hurts... its bones hurt..."
Kikyo, who was in so much pain that she was unconscious, kept hitting the rock wall with her body, and scratched frantically on the rock wall again, praying that the pain would end as soon as possible.
Ever since she woke up, her body has experienced this symptom from time to time.
And the pain is becoming more and more frequent. It used to be once a day, but now it has become once an hour.
She didn't know how long she had been struggling, but when the pain in her body gradually subsided, she fell down exhausted.
The rock wall was covered in blood - Kikyo's claws were overwhelmed and completely shattered.
However, the pain of broken claws was no match for the pain inside her body, so she did not stop scratching the wall at that time.
"Maowu... mother... Bai Lu... Liuli..."
Kikyo, who had completely lost his strength, looked up at the gray sky, and the faint light in his eyes dimmed.
She didn't know what she was insisting on.
But the weak hope in her heart forced her to persist until now, surviving by drinking dirty water and eating moss.
It's just that she feels like she can't hold on anymore.
"Anyone can come...save the cat..."
