Chapter 5 Are You Pretending Again?
"..."
Xue Jing's expression was a little subtle.
Has this cat never learned how ordinary cats meow? How can it be so tight?
What are you pretending for?
Xue Jing inserted his hands under the cat's front paws, lifted it up, and looked at it at eye level.
The cat had an innocent expression on its face, just like an ordinary kitten.
"..."
"You can speak human language, right?"
Xue Jing was frank and planned to have a good chat with the cat, what exactly is it, why can it speak, what is the platinum tail ring on its tail, how can it find the same thing, and why it, a magical cat that can speak, has fallen to the point of being almost killed in the world of stray cats.
However, the cat in front of him had an innocent expression of "I don't understand what you are talking about at all", just like an ordinary cat with nothing special.
"Meow~~"
"Stop pretending, I heard everything, talk properly."
"Meow?"
"Just ask, tell me how many dried fish you want."
"Meow~"
The cat licked its paws, indifferent.
Xue Jing raised his eyebrows: "Are you pretending again?"
He put the cat on his lap, one hand pressed on the back of its neck, and the other hand reached to the base of its tail.
This is one of the most densely nerved parts of a cat's body. Most cats like to be touched here, and they will be so happy that they can't help but lift their backs.
Xue Jing's five fingers turned flexibly, scratching the fur at the base of the tail, and the little black cat's eyes widened instantly.
"Meow!!!"
It made an almost tragic cry, its hips lifted up involuntarily, and its limbs began to struggle, but Xue Jing held its neck firmly, unable to move, and could only meow non-stop.
After a while, Xue Jing stopped what he was doing. The cat had given up struggling and was lying on Xue Jing's thighs. It was weak, sticking out its tongue, rolling its eyes, panting, and looked like it had been played with.
However, even though it was tortured like this, it still didn't say a word from beginning to end, and always looked like an ordinary kitten.
Xue Jing was a little unconfident.
Could it be that the divine absorption of the skill panel had absorbed its ability to speak human language? Has it really become an ordinary kitten?
If it hadn't made the extremely tight meow after it woke up, Xue Jing would have really believed it.
But Xue Jing really couldn't do anything about it.
As long as the cat didn't intend to communicate with him openly and honestly, he would just pretend. He couldn't really torture it to force it to speak.
Xue Jing had just benefited from someone else, and no matter how flexible his moral bottom line was, he couldn't do such a thing.
Shaking his head, he said, "Okay, let's do this for now. Are you hungry?"
The cat meowed weakly.
Xue Jing just assumed it was hungry.
He put the cat on the sofa, then stood up, went to the kitchen to get a big bowl, came to the table, opened the supermarket bag, took out the bag of cat food, tore it open from the opening, and poured it into the bowl.
Putting the bowl full of cat food in front of the cat, Xue Jing thought that the cat, who had suffered a lot in the stray cat world, would immediately show off.
Unexpectedly, the cat just glanced at the cat food in front of it, and actually made a sound of "tsk", turned its head without hesitation, and didn't even look at it again.
"Huh?"
Seeing this scene, Xue Jing's heart suddenly moved.
This reaction... is not right.
This is not like the reaction of a picky cat who dislikes the food. It's more like... the reaction of the thing in front of it is not considered in its diet at all.
Xue Jing's mind flashed, and he suddenly understood.
He may have misunderstood from the beginning.
He recalled what the cat had said before.
"I didn't expect... the world of stray cats... to be so cruel."
There are two possibilities in this sentence.
The first is that it is a domestic cat that has never wandered outside, so it is not familiar with the world of stray cats.
It was also because of hearing this sentence and thinking about this, coupled with the fact that it was so weak that it was bullied by stray cats, that Xue Jing subconsciously felt that it was essentially a cat, but for unknown reasons, it learned to speak human language.
But there is actually another possibility... It is not familiar with the world of stray cats and the reason why it can speak human language is because it is not a cat at all, but a creature that can speak human language and has become a cat.
The biggest possibility is... human.
Xue Jing narrowed his eyes, said nothing more, turned into the kitchen, and began to prepare today's dinner.
After he left the living room, the cat, who was not aware that Xue Jing had inferred a lot of information from his inadvertent behavior, immediately stood up from the sofa.
It jumped to the ground, walked in a cat-like manner, and silently came to the corner of the living room leading to the kitchen. It poked out half of its head stealthily, and after secretly confirming that Xue Jing was indeed cooking, it breathed a sigh of relief.
‘I didn’t expect that he had heard what I said before. ’
Maomao was a little distressed, and turned his tail, looking at the tail ring at the top.
‘GOD-1391 Cat Tail Ring… That bastard, he took so much money, but he didn’t explain the specific effect of this divine relic clearly. After the transformation, you can’t change back! ’
Maomao’s face showed a very anthropomorphic expression of gritting his teeth.
After a while of incompetent rage, Maomao withdrew his thoughts and looked at the environment of the house.
‘This is a good place to hide. The people of the security company will not think that I have turned into a cat and hidden in an ordinary person’s home. ’
Thinking back to the experience of being chased and bitten in the territory of stray cats, it shuddered.
‘Just stay here and wait until I get used to this divine relic and can change back before leaving. ’
Maomao thought in his heart.
‘But… in order not to involve this kind-hearted boy, let me be an ordinary cat. ’
It knows that if a kind person who is willing to take this strange talking cat home communicates with it and develops feelings for it, it will easily be involved in danger.
Therefore, this possibility must be cut off from the beginning.
If there is no communication, there will be no excessive involvement. When the time comes, it will just leave and disappear without a trace, and the two will never meet again.
‘Although he has heard me talking, it doesn’t matter. It’s all his fantasy. Just make him feel that he is just a cat-loving boy who likes cats so much that he has auditory hallucinations! ’
‘As long as I don’t admit it and pretend to be an ordinary cat, no one can expose me! ’
Having made up his mind, the cat nodded with satisfaction, and his tail stood up and swayed because of his excitement.
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Xue Jing worked in the kitchen for a long time and made three simple home-cooked dishes: spicy fried beef, bitter melon fried eggs, and tomato and meat soup.
[You have finished a dish, cooking experience +20]
[You have finished a dish, cooking experience +21]
[You have finished a dish, cooking experience +20]
[Cooking Lv2 (318/500)]
Xue Jing opened the refrigerator, took out the rice left over from yesterday, filled two bowls, put them in the microwave, and after heating them up, he took them all out and put them on the dining table.
He didn't say anything, picked up one of the bowls of rice, and started eating.
The cat, who had been hungry for two days and was forcing himself to eat cat food, stared at the delicious food on the table.
The aroma turned into a charming little hand, pinching its nose, making it involuntarily approach the dining table, and it didn't even notice that it had kicked over the bowl of cat food.
When it came to its senses, it found that it was already sitting on the dining table, and in front of it was another bowl of white rice brought out by Xue Jing.
It turned its head awkwardly and found that the good-looking boy was eating while looking at it with a half-smile.
As if to say, are you pretending?
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