"Meow..."
A kitten's cry came from the grass by the roadside, and the girl carrying a schoolbag wondered if she had heard it wrong.
Pets had basically vanished from people's lives after the beginning of the Shelter Era. People could barely feed themselves, so how could they spare any thought for raising small animals? She had heard that many people in the Middle Class and Upper Class kept pets. In some promotional films, the wealthy residents of certain Private Shelters even had private zoos.
But in the lower levels of the Official Shelter, even if someone had really brought an animal inside, it should have long since become food and turned into fecal residue.
The girl withdrew her gaze from the grass by the roadside and had just lifted her foot to leave when another meow rang out, and her expression turned to delight!
She could tell that it was a kitten's cry.
Her family had kept cats and dogs before. She loved small pets, and if she could raise a cat, perhaps it would be the most wonderful gift God could give her. After all, her birthday was coming soon.
She turned and walked toward the grass. Crouching down, she stared into its depths and made "mimimi" sounds with her mouth, hoping to discover where the kitten was hiding.
There were parks in the lower levels too. In a sense, parks were places for the people of the lower levels to relieve their mental fatigue.
Actually, people did not love nature as much as they imagined. They liked being surrounded by nature only because they wanted to escape from work and life.
It was like choosing someone you did not particularly like as a partner. Your only purpose was to avoid choosing someone worse.
The park's landscaping was beautiful,