Pet King

talking, giving it a glance.
She lowered her sunglasses and took a closer look.
This cat seemed a little familiar…

Where had she seen it before?

She couldn’t recall right then, but when she noticed the look of unbridled disgust in the blue cat’s eyes, her heart was yet again pierced sharply!

“This is Zhang Zian’s cat! Why did it run here?”

She was just talking to herself, and she didn’t expect Shi Shi to answer at all.

“Zhang Zian?” Shi Shi’s brain lagged a little before she figured it out.
“The pet shop owner that you were talking about?”

“It’s so far away from home.
How did it run here? Did it run away from home?” Zhao Qi guessed, “It’s probably because Zhang Zian’s too petty and didn’t feed it wet food, and now it can’t stand it anymore, so it ran out in search of a new life!”

Vladimir regarded her with dead eyes, judging the petite bourgeoisie for assuming the worst of others.

It sauntered before them before turning toward the side of the shop.
It didn’t enter.
Instead, it jumped onto the roof, even pushing out a paw and hooking it towards them as though trying to wave them in.

“Hehe! This cat knows how to wave!” Shi Shi laughed.

“What’s so special about that? Zhang Zian’s cats are all weird,” Zhao Qi scoffed at her best friend’s lack of knowledge, and by the time she turned back to look at Vladimir, it had already run off.

“This shop’s name is so weird.
What does it sell?”

Zhao Qi was still debating whether she should inform Zhang Zian where his cat had run to when Shi Shi suddenly pointed at the shop’s name.

“Back to the Old Days?”

Zhao Qi read the shop name, not knowing what they sold at first glance either.

“We have nothing else to do anyway.
Let’s go in and take a look!” Shi Shi pulled at her elbow, coaxing her.

Zhao Qi held many things in her hands and was tired of walking so much.
She had wanted to look for a hair salon to do her hair and rest at the same time.
She didn’t want to spend even more than what she already had, but she was defenseless against Shi Shi’s persuasion.
Their outing was a rare one to begin with, and she didn’t want to dampen the mood, so she got pushed into the shop by Shi Shi.

With the very first step she took into the shop, she had a strong sense of deja vu, like this had all happened before.
Like she had once stepped into a store when she had never intended to in the first place.

But no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t recall when or which shop it was.
Before she could give it more thought, she felt her vision turn dark and Shi Shi’s tugged to pull her in.

“Wow! What are all these? They’re so scary!”

The moment they stepped in, Shi Shi saw bird masks painted in angry red and white and decorated with bird feathers, looking fierce where they hung on the walls.

The room was dark, and their eyes still hadn’t gotten used to the sudden change in luminance yet.
They thought it was a monster at first.

Since Zhao Qi went overseas more often than Shi Shi, she was wiser too, and she explained after a closer look, “This looks like a mask from the Aztecs.
I’ve seen something similar before.”

After the huge scare, Shi Shi had no interest in staying anymore.
She frowned as she observed the weird things displayed all around her, tugging at Zhao Qi and muttering under her breath, “Qiqi, why don’t we leave this place? It’s dark here, and they didn’t even turn on the lights.
It feels weird.
What if there’s some cruel serial killer here?”

Zhao Qi pinched her back in anger.
“You’re the one that kept yapping about coming in, and now you’re the one that wants to leave.
You’re not toying with me, are you?”

Shi Shi sucked in a sharp breath from the pain.

But Shi Shi was right about one thing.
Zhao Qi felt something similar too, like she was being watched from somewhere… It was uncomfortable.
Besides, where was the owner?