The meaning of flowing does not describe the softness of the cat. The weight it carries is more precious than the word itself.
The existence of pagan beliefs in the town of Vig is Him, and most of the residents in the town are His pan-believers.
"A god?"
Catalina looked at the silhouette painting and murmured. She had no special feelings for cats, but compared to the various gods in the deserted land, a cat would not make people too afraid.
She suddenly looked at Lu Li, who rarely showed an expression of recollection and thinking.
"What’s wrong with you?"
"I remembered something." Lu Li broke away from his memories and said calmly.
"Do you know this black cat?"
The store manager gave Catalina an unwelcome look for offending her faith.
"Maybe."
Lu Li looked at the silhouette painting and thought of the black cat that he and Anna took back to Wanghai Cliff after Ms. Merlin's death.
Lu Li also searched for the whereabouts of the Jimmy, Remi, brother and sister, Ampere, the statue, and even the Swamp Mother after leaving the underground, but they all disappeared like Anna.
The clue will surprise him in the black cat.
But Anna does like cats...
"Maybe the customer has seen it in other places. Black cats are not uncommon." The store manager smiled nonchalantly and ignored Catalina's offensive words. "By the way, don't hurt them in any way in the mountains."
"Hillevig's cat?" Katerina asked.
"Yes, it seems the guests know more."
Most of the guests who come here only know not to harm the cats but do not know their origin.
but……
The store manager looked vaguely at the group of people behind the counter.
Normally, the queue of tourists would not be so strange, nor would they ask for something like a map that is only needed after leaving the town.
Lu Li unfolded the sheepskin map, dust drifting from the light of the oil lamp in the old grocery store. He found the town of Nice on the southwest edge of the mountains and was calculating the distance from here.
Catalina comes from the habit of a hunter and talks to the store manager casually to conceal her true purpose.
"Is the train broken?"
Outside the window, beyond the crowd of cats, at the end of the street where they came from, the steam train was moving slowly on the rails. At this moment, the distance it moved was less than one car.
"It's always like this. The train will get hot when it passes by the railway, and they like to put their hands in their hands and lie on warm things. You have to drive them away while moving forward."
The store manager has long been used to this scene.
"How much."
Lu Li folded up the linen-like parchment map.
"Add this 10 shillings." The store manager put a brand new map of the Hilleweg Mountains on the counter.
"It's not worth the price." Catalina said.
"That's worth it. Maybe this is the only one in town." The store manager nuzzled at the parchment map in Lu Li's hand.
"I still have some questions." Lu Li said.
"Of course, you are customers." The store manager is not like Hades or the merchant, and he also charges a fee for information.
“Why was the town of Nice abandoned?”
"Because there's so much weirdness everywhere."
There is no hidden reason for the abandonment of the town of Nice. It is just that, like most towns in the weird era, it was forced to migrate due to its location and size. And its fate is slightly better than similar ones - most of the town residents were lucky enough to move to other places.
There are some people in Weig town who escaped at that time.
After asking if there were any residents of Old Nice Town that he could visit, the store manager named a few names and indicated that Lu Li could go to them and only need to pay a small amount of compensation.
Lu Li then asked about the location of the church. The store manager was wary of outsiders: "Why do you know this?"
"I want to know about the flowing cat." Lu Li replied.
After thinking about it, the store manager still couldn't tell this strange customer, and he didn't know much.
"You can go find Lame Bourne. He knows a lot and may be able to tell you."
He was a devout follower of the Flowing Cat. He was not yet a member of the church, but he knew a lot about the church and the Flowing Cat.
"Do you want to leave through the back door?" After paying for the goods, the store manager pointed to the cats outside the window to Lu Li and others who were about to leave. "It might not be easy to go out directly."
"Thank you." Lu Li nodded gently.
Leaving the back, there was only a gray cat lying lazily on the trash can lid and taking a nap. But when Lu Li passed by, it raised its head as expected and was attracted by Lu Li's breath.
Before it hesitated whether to get up and follow Zhong Luli, they disappeared around the corner.
There wasn't much time left before dark, and there was no time to hurry up the five-mile mountain road to reach the deserted town of Nice, and there was no need to go there——
Get a few names that you can inquire about, and you may be able to get clues from them.
"I have a good idea if you want to find the flowing cat." Every word of Evil Fall was hidden with malice.
"What."
"Kill a cat to draw it out."
Lu Li remained silent, and Catalina sarcastically asked, "Do you have the confidence to deal with a god?"
They first visited the former residents of the small town of Nice, where an old man was sitting on a bench on the street.
Although the mountains are withered, it is still a rare scenery.
The wild cats gathered around him again, and they followed the old man into his house.
"What is the relationship between Hillewig's Cat and Flow Cat?" The old man walked slowly and sat on the hardwood chair, looked at the shilling on the table, and said happily: "Those are indeed His incarnations."
Seeing that Shilling and the old man were always used to talking about the past, the old man told them everything he knew.
The story of Hilleweger's Cat is the same as the story told by the passenger on the Snow Moon cruise ship, but this time it is from the perspective of someone who experienced it, which is more detailed and clearer.
After that, Hillevig's Cat gradually became known as the Flowing Cat. He stayed in the Hillevig Mountains, was believed by people, and still appears from time to time until now.
Sometimes He is surrounded by wild cats, sometimes he sits on the treetops, sometimes he stays on the roof, and is accidentally seen by lucky people.
"Do you know him?"
After leaving the old man's hut, Catalina asked Lu Li in a low voice.
"Maybe."
"Why is it so?"
"Because we can't be sure." Lu Li looked back at the eaves.
Next they went to visit the devout believer, Lame Bourne.
It's a pity that the lame Bourne only knew the story of the flowing cat, the deified Hillerwig's cat. He preached many stories about the flowing cat protecting the townspeople, but none of them were what Lu Li wanted to hear.
Lu Li calmly looked out the window. The outside world was dark. There were no street lights in the town, only the light from the windows of the houses.
The flowing cat may be the black cat.
It follows Anna.
Anna could feel her breath and knew she was coming.
But she didn't show up.
Meow--
Suddenly, a cat's meow sounded from within.
Lame Bourne closed his mouth and looked outside the room with the others.
Squeak——
The door opened slowly as if pushed by an invisible hand.
A slender black cat squatted in the middle of the road.
"It's the silhouette... it's the flowing cat." Pusius said to himself in disbelief.
He sat crouching, as if waiting for Lu Li to walk out of the house and step into the dark mist that filled the street.
