After Xu Ye asked the question, she lifted her eyelids and glanced at the kitten.
It was still in a crouched position, and the reflection on the glass door was too blinding for Xu Ye to see clearly whether it was looking at her or something else.
Could it be that the bowl of snail noodles she ate this morning had soaked into her scent?
The shrimp dumplings had already been finished, and someone had answered her question, offering a bid of fifty cents.
The answer suggested she bathe more frequently, change her clothes often, and clean the house more often.
Finally, they comforted her not to be discouraged: “Even though your current smell makes the kitten uncomfortable, someday you will regain everything that belongs to you. If you find this answer helpful, you can adopt it. [Kitten Please.jpg]”
Xu Ye looked at the kitten meme, adopted the reply as the best answer, and locked her phone screen.
She left the shrimp dumpling shop. After she walked away, the kitten turned a few circles at the spot, squatted, curled up, and comfortably fell asleep.
At this moment, the kitten was sleeping soundly, with its mouth moving slightly. It was clear now that it had been looking at her because of the strong snail noodle smell on her.
Xu Ye raised her hand, sniffed her sleeve, and decided to wash this shirt as soon as she got home.
Upon returning home, she opened the forum to see if any cats had complained about the smell on her.
No cat complained about her, but a cat had complained about Huo Shuyan’s “Hide and Seek” game.
This user had experienced the strange “Hide and Seek” game and bluntly said that in a game with ten players, nine of them crazily chose the Grain Dog:
【Hello everyone, I’m posting this thread mainly to criticize the designer of the Hide and Seek game.】
【2F: I just tried it out, and the experience was terrible. In this round, nine friends chose the Grain Dog, and only one innocent cat chose the Ragdoll Cat. I was that poor soul who picked the Ragdoll Cat. What made it worse was that I was assigned to be a seeker. Can you imagine? I had to find nine damn Grain Dogs.】
【3F: [Tired.jpg]】
Xu Ye couldn’t help but feel moved when reading this. She wanted to die on the spot after finding just one Flower Dog, let alone nine Grain Dogs.
Those were Grain Dogs the size of a cell nucleus!
【5F: Hide and Seek game? What are you young cats talking about? As an old grandpa, I can’t understand / Rose / Thumb】
【6F: It’s the latest Hide and Seek game mentioned by the admin. Lulu recommended it to me. She said after playing it, her cat life felt two years younger. I didn’t believe it at the time.】
【7F: So, does it work? If it does, I might give it a try.】
【8F: Hehe, it really does make you younger by two years. After playing just one round, I felt my brain had shrunk by half. Fifth-floor grandpa, this little sister kindly reminds you, cherish life and stay away from this Hide and Seek game.】
The Lulu mentioned here was probably the cat that chose the Maltese dog. This forum was so small that one could easily encounter familiar cats or dogs while browsing posts.
【9F: I just played a round too, and the models chosen by my teammates were all quite normal. What I’m more concerned about is whether you found those Grain Dogs.】
【10F: If you tell me this, I won’t be sleepy anymore. I didn’t find them until the game ended. In the end, I vaguely felt something was wrong and thought there was a white spot on my nose.】
【11F: So, was one of the Grain Dogs hiding on your nose?】
【12F: You thought that white spot was them? No! That white spot was just a piece of my epidermal keratin, they were curled up together hiding in my fur, and they were even smaller than that piece of keratin.】
【13F: I specially searched what epidermal keratin means, where did you learn such advanced words from?】
【14F: Lulu told me. She said it was what other players mentioned. This game isn’t fun. I advise everyone not to play it.】
【15F: Alright, after hearing you say that, I suddenly don’t want to play anymore.】
Xu Ye looked at the post for a while, took a screenshot, and sent it to the group:
【Xu Ye: Huo Shixue, look, even dogs don’t play this game.】
After sending this message, she felt it had an ambiguous meaning, so she recalled it and added a few more words:
[Xu Ye: Huo Shixue, look, even the forum users think this game is unreasonable.][mfn]Tl’s Note: Shixue means Junior[/mfn]
【Huo Shuyan: Alright, I’ll revise it tonight, I’m about to attend a seminar. I’ll delete the three self-created breeds, and you can take another look to see if there’s anything unreasonable.】
【Xu Ye: Besides the Flower Dog and Grain Dog… there’s another self-created breed?】
Could there be a model smaller than the Grain Dog? Or a Grain Cat? She and David directly selected the Tibetan Mastiff and didn’t check out any strange models on the cat side.
【Huo Shuyan: Wild Cat.】
【Xu Ye: This looks quite normal, no need to delete it, right? And I think there is actually an animal called a Wild Cat in real life.】
【Huo Shuyan: Not that kind of Wild Cat. It looks like this, and the picture shows the size comparison with the Tibetan Mastiff model.】
【Huo Shuyan: [Image]】
The comparison image he sent over shows a small yellow kitten, but there is only one kitten, no Tibetan mastiff.
Inspired by the flower dog, Xu Ye shifted her gaze downward and discovered a black lump at the feet of the wildcat.
She stretched out two fingers to zoom in on the image and saw a pair of ears above the black lump. Zooming in further, she saw the dog’s eyes and nose. It was a Tibetan Mastiff.
She shrank the image again and took another look at the enormous cat.
It turned out that when Huo Shuyan mentioned “wildcat,” he was referring to a cat as big as a mountain.
After being shocked by both the rice-grain dog and the wildcat, Xu Ye felt numb, silently closing the image.
【Xu Ye: Why don’t you just delete it?】
A model so outstanding, yet no one on the forum had mentioned it? She clicked on the post, loaded the game, and found the wildcat in the model list.
Here, the wildcat’s size was normal, its appearance ordinary, completely blending in with other cuter models.
The wildcat, thanks to its average appearance, avoided any criticism from the forum users.
Xu Ye marveled at Huo Shuyan’s extraordinary creation skills and decided to experience how a mountain-sized cat could hide and not be noticed before the wildcat model was deleted.
Or perhaps, she could go for something even more exciting—everyone could pick the wildcat and create a continuous “cat-mountain” chain.
Just as Xu Ye was about to exit the game and start chatting with friends, a new post urged her to abandon the game and crawl back off the sofa:
【There’s a stray kitten at the gate of the community, I talked to her for a while. She said she’s hungry, any kind-hearted cat out there willing to help?】
【2F: Is it this one in the picture? Looks pretty clean. A stray cat?】
【3F: Yeah, I live on the second floor, I talked to her while basking in the sun. She couldn’t speak clearly, but luckily, I’m a smart cat who attended preschool, so I figured out her past and the whole story.】
【4F: A cultured cat. OP, don’t lie on the balcony, it’s safer not to. I can’t go outside, but I’ll bump up your post.】
【5F: Thanks to the person above, we’ve installed a screen door, I won’t fall.】
【6F: How does OP know the kitten is unwanted?】
【7F: Let’s not go into that now. The main point is who can help? She’s too small, if she doesn’t eat, she might starve to death.】
The picture shows a small orange cat, curled up in the shade of a tree, smaller than the nearby trash bag.
This orange cat looked almost identical to the one Xu Ye had seen earlier in an eating video.
Tl’s Note: So sorry for the delayyy!! ( ՞߹ – ߹՞)
