Mice are dichromats that only possess short- and medium-wavelength-sensitive cones. They don't see red light; they only see blue and green light, similar to a person with red-green color blindness.
That explains what I saw when my eyes opened. No, to be exact: I realized why my eyes seem to be not functioning as usual.
It is not because my eyes became vision deficient! But because,
"I, Wu Lei had turned into a fucking mouse!"
"By the Gods? Why did I turned into a mouse?!!!"
It is a fucking ridiculous situation. One second I was running away and then the next thing, I have turned into a fucking mouse? Would anyone believe me if I told them?
Scanning my surroundings, my pair of eyes could not believe the cloud of hairy butts grouped together like one happy bundle of fluff, huddling. The rats circled around me with bright red eyes as if they did not like my sudden appearance.
That's what I thought.
Amidst the unwelcoming stares of these pests, a fat mouse came over at my side bringing with him a smaller mouse at his side.
The smaller mouse took a small peek and is instantly delighted to see me. His small eyes contains excitement as it visibly enlarged and his tail swung left and right. At this point, I wonder what kind of relationship I had with this two.
'Do not tell me that this two are my family?!'
This is the only logical explanation based on how this two reacted. Even if the horde of rats at my sight all look the same, this two stood out from the rest.
Only them were rounder, and by that I meant that their cheeks were bigger, their hairs are more refined...
"And kind of like mine?"
'Fucking shit!'
Inwardly cursing, this is beyond my comprehension. Well, I am quite glad that this Yours truly is finally able to have a wife and a kid...
'But! This is fucking outrageous!'
It might be true that in the past I did wished to end with a peaceful family,
"But this?! Aren't the Gods too cruel?"
"So, I was never fated to date a woman... instead I received this?!"
Sobs and mournful cry, filled my thoughts.
'All those girls I tried to court, only to end up marrying a mouse?'
Complaining in my heart, there's nothing I could do if this is the case.
Not knowing whether to cry or to laugh, I prepared myself. Upon close inspection, the fat mouse is the first mouse I saw when I woke up. She's probably looking out for me and was worried sick.
'That must be the reason she's chasing me a while ago.'
Realizing this, I felt quite bad to this mouse's wife. When the two had reached me, the fat mouse began trying to communicate with me.
*Squeak! squeak!*
"Well, even with all that sound. I can not understand what you are trying to say."
I said out loud, hoping that she could understand me.
Although, it is difficult for me to know what she is saying. I kind of get or I have the feeling that I got what she is trying to say.
She is pointing out the smaller mouse beside her and she's probably introducing it to me. It is like in the movies when the husband was confined in a hospital and the wife visited him together with his kid. That sort of scene actually happened.
'Should I feel grateful to the Gods that I am still alive to experience this?'
"Sigh, if only this happened while I am still a human."
Regret is just one of the many words to describe what I am feeling. Regardless, there is nothing to do. Little did I knew that all my initial thoughts about meeting these two were actually wrong to begin with.
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It was during the night. A cold breeze mixed with the fragrance of flowers and plants brushed across an open window, making the curtains sway in response.
In just the blink of an eye, three swift figures appeared, moving fast away from another figure who seems like a gigantic human.
It is I, Wu Lei! Yours Truly is running with my family.
A couple of weeks passed by and by now, I think that my adjustment to this new body is progressing well.
We had just accomplished a very difficult task of obtaining food through stealing from that huge person who is currently chasing us.
Me, Huddlestone and Gerry is now performing our escape. Yeah, it is pretty difficult. Because for any moment we might die. During the couple of weeks that I acted strangely, it was Gerry and Huddlestone who aught me the ways of being a fully fledged mouse.
Along the way, we had cleared or I should say that my misunderstanding had been clarified.
Gerry is a boy, and he is not my wife for fuck's sake and for crying out loud, the small mouse behind him is not my child either or this mouse's child. I named him Huddlestone despite not being my kid because it is more convenient for me—him, having his own name.
It was like a heavy boulder was lift up from my back when I learned of this. As someone who is previously a human, the first thing I did is to observe the mouse, the rats and the mice.
I mean, everybody.
Gerry had a dick. And that's how I confirmed that he is not a woman. The only thing I am clueless about is why the hell did he looked concern when I first woke up. My guess is that, Gerry is perhaps a friend of the previous owner of this body.
'Well, what do you know? Mouse had a strong sense of camaraderie, I suppose.'
It felt like I belonged to a family.