The three-month-old cat jumped lightly from one side of the courtyard wall to the other, meowing and walking slowly into Jiang Qiao's yard.
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When I got home, I carefully stuffed the books Cheng Ruoxi gave me into my schoolbag and handed them over to the teacher tomorrow.
After that, he sat on the sofa and took a nap out of boredom.
In his dream, he vaguely saw the door opening towards him, and the inside was filled with the faint blue light emitted by the crystal lamp.
The witch Sylvie jumped out to greet him, continued to listen carefully to his story about the wonders of this world, and was shocked by the wonders of this world during his narration.
Jiang Qiao laughed proudly until a black charcoal monster suddenly appeared and crushed him with its kick.
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It was already dusk when he woke up again. Jiang Qiao opened his eyes in a daze, and his eyes were completely dark. He only felt a furry weight lying on his head, with its tail swinging back and forth on the tip of his nose.
This made him sneeze.
Lying on top of him was a black charcoal-like kitten.
Jiang Qiao recognized it at a glance. It was Cheng Ruoxi's cat, Cheng Xiaohei.
Xiao Hei, who was lying comfortably on his stomach, noticed the movement of the "cushion" underneath and jumped onto the sofa, rubbing Jiang Qiao's legs and continuing to lie down.
Could it be that Cheng Ruoxi brought it here?
Jiang Qiao looked around, but didn't find the girl. Moreover, if she were here, she would probably have said a few words, like "Aren't you afraid of catching a cold if you sleep here?"
The sky was full of sunset, and the huge sunset hung far away on the low houses. The twilight shone through the windows, making the houses dim.
Jiang Qiao took out his mobile phone, but no one sent him a message, except for some junk advertisements for junk software.
The stagnant loneliness almost swallowed him up. He was sitting on the sofa like a damn island, and any ship that came close to the island would sink to the bottom of the sea.
A person always feels melancholy when he wakes up in the dusk, so he walked out of the house and climbed up the low wall adjacent to the alley.
He watched the full moon rise, and watched the dark night calling the earth, just like a mother calling her child home.
Jiang Qiao looked back and saw that the little black cat was using its front paws to pick at the door that once connected the different space. It seemed to be quite curious about this door.
It suddenly occurred to him that if Cheng Ruoxi didn't know Xiao Hei's whereabouts, she would definitely be very anxious and would be looking for cats all over the world right now.
"Do you know where Cheng Xiaohei went?" He sent a message to Cheng Ruoxi.
"!" Almost at the same time, Cheng Ruoxi first sent an exclamation point, and then quickly dialed the phone.
"Hello?" A familiar voice came from the other end of the phone, but it seemed a little urgent. "Isn't Xiao Hei locked at home by me? Did he run out again? This child is really..."
Jiang Qiao listened quietly to the girl's complaints and smiled inadvertently: "Xiao Hei is breaking open the door of my house. Take him back quickly, otherwise he will break my door."
"Okay... no, I'm still busy outside. I won't be able to go back for almost an hour. Can you help me take care of Xiao Hei for a while?" There was a noisy car horn from over there.
"Oh, okay." Jiang Qiao didn't ask why Cheng Ruoxi suddenly hurried out, but just agreed. It just so happened that it wouldn't be boring if he had a cat with him.
A busy signal came from the other end of the phone, and Jiang Qiao put away his phone.
After chatting with Cheng Ruoxi like this, he felt much better, and even the dark sky became much cuter.
However, the next moment, a sharp cat meow stimulated Jiang Qiao's nerves. When he looked back, he saw the black cat flying out of the house like a frightened kite. It huddled in the corner of the yard, with all the hair on its body blowing up.
Staring at the door in the house with trembling.
Jiang Qiao followed the cat's eyes and looked over, and was surprised to find that the door was filled with golden flames, as if it was burning!
He was stunned. He didn't know when he came down from the courtyard wall, and moved towards the house step by step.
Entering the house and getting closer to the door, he discovered that the golden light was not a burning flame, but flowing, fine, and strangely shaped runes.
At the same time, the fire of hope that had been extinguished in his heart rekindled. He had hoped that his life would no longer be mediocre, but at least have some wonderful experiences.
The rune flames on the door separated tiny florets into the air, floating slowly, as if attracted by some special chemical signal produced by Cheng Xiaohei, and floated in front of the kitten.
The kitten was frightened by the flowing "flame", turned around and ran away for a short distance, but its amber cat eyes were still staring closely.
Then, it saw that the "flame" didn't seem to cause any real harm, so it scratched it forward with its cat's claws. Who knows, the flame actually melted into the cat's claws.
Meow? The cat took out its little paw and looked at it strangely.
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Jiang Qiao swallowed a big mouthful of saliva, and the flowing golden runes were shining brightly in front of his eyes.
Open it, open it, there is a new world behind the door! A voice in his heart said loudly.
At this time, the flow of the runes suddenly reversed, and the familiar blue light lit up in the gap in the door. A strong wind suddenly started blowing in from the window at the back of Jiang Qiao's house. With a bang, the door to the living room opened.
The whole thing is closed.
Jiang Qiao seemed to be in the eye of a crazy storm, with flying papers and books spinning around him at high speed.
Wow! The door opened, and all the runes turned into a big net, covering the door and separating the two worlds.
An unparalleled attraction burst out from the door, wrapped around his body like a chain, and then pulled him toward the door.
Jiang Qiao grabbed the wall next to him and barely managed to stay on his feet.
This was very different from the first time he opened the door. Would there still be that witch named Sylvie in the world inside the door? He didn't know.
The attraction gradually weakened and the strong wind gradually subsided.
There was only one door left open quietly, and the world behind it was still as quiet and mysterious as he was familiar with.
Jiang Qiao touched the edge of the door. At this moment, it was as if he had some kind of telepathy in his heart, and he understood how to connect to another world.
It turns out that as long as certain conditions are met, this door to another world can be opened.
He summarized the hints given to him by the light gate into two conditions.
Condition one is that it must be on a full moon night.
The second condition is that the object touching the door must have the breath of both worlds at the same time.
Only when these two conditions are met at the same time, the door to another world will be opened.
But Jiang Qiao couldn't understand why this door suddenly underwent such strange changes. How could there be an object with two auras?
At that time, he was sitting in the yard and didn't touch anything. Only that silly cat kept scratching...cat?
Is it Xiao Hei's problem?
Before he had time to think about it, Jiang Qiao touched the golden light, and then there was a powerful wave that bounced him far away.
It seems that he still does not have the qualifications to enter the magical world behind the door.
So he could only turn around and look at the world that Sylvie was in from all angles.
It is still the crystal lamp that emits a faint blue light, and it is still the quaint long table and some equipment used for magic experiments.
"Is there anyone there?" Jiang Qiao tried to ask.
The sound waves passed through the light door and echoed in the room, but no one responded.