Xu Ye repeated the name of the flower dog several times, feeling her mind begin to shrink again.
Some people, like Huo Shuyan, appear calm and handsome on the surface, but secretly design creations like the “flower dog,” a breed full of girlish charm.
Others, like Xu Ye, appear quiet and sweet on the outside, but secretly follow David and choose a red-brown Tibetan mastiff.
Xu Ye didn’t understand and was greatly shocked. She thought about taking out her phone to ask Huo Shuyan for his design philosophy but ultimately resisted.
This was the intellectual game Huo Shuyan painstakingly created to entertain the forum members and should be encouraged.
But how did that clever brain of his come up with such a human-unfriendly game model? Although this game was originally designed for cats and dogs, whose observation abilities are superior to humans, he should have at least considered human participants like Xu Ye.
The flower dog model was too small, and the forest map was full of fireflies and flower patches. The villain, Katie Meow, had the advantage of both timing and location.
Fortunately, only this cunning “Katie Meow” chose the flower dog character in this game. Otherwise, Xu Ye couldn’t even imagine whether her mind would still be clear after finding all seven flower dogs.
The game had started. Following the system’s prompt, Xu Ye controlled the Tibetan mastiff, labeled “Cat-Catcher Player · Xiao Bai,” and walked to the entrance of the map—by the fence at the edge of the forest.
Her character’s back was facing all the other players, and the 45-second hiding countdown began on the screen.
The game’s sound effects made Xu Ye feel as though she was right there. The sound of other players’ footsteps gradually faded as they moved away and eventually disappeared into the forest.
During the countdown, she couldn’t do anything, so she clicked on the player list in the upper right corner to see the player IDs.
In addition to David, she saw two other familiar names: “Lover of Butt” and “Fuli’s Store, Right Turn 50 Meters · Beautiful Snail Rice Noodles Shop · Welcome All Netizens with Their Humans to Taste, Tasty and Affordable.”
Lover of Butt was quite satisfied with its ID and had no intention of changing it.
A dog that loves its own identity and butt like this must be the only corgi present. Xu Ye hadn’t looked closely earlier, so she didn’t know if that corgi model had a heart-shaped butt.
Besides the top five players who were in position, the IDs of the three players at the bottom seemed to have gotten tangled up. The name of the Snail Rice Noodles Cat was too long, completely merging with the other two players’ IDs.
Below the player list were the words “Player Models,” and Xu Ye clicked the small arrow, causing a long list of cat and dog figures to pop up.
David occupied the largest part of the screen. Next to him were characters labeled as Corgi, Maine Coon, Flower Dog, Bombay Cat, Maltese, and Pomeranian.
Next to the word “Corgi,” it was indeed written Lover of Butt’s full name. The Snail Rice Noodles Cat chose a silver-white Maine Coon, which looked both majestic and noble.
The models only displayed the front, so Xu Ye couldn’t see the corgi’s butt.
The black cat, which looked exactly like the one Huo Shuyan had, was probably modeled after Xiao Hei. The player controlling it was named “Floating Life,” like a literary cat/dog.
As soon as Xu Ye saw this black cat, she suddenly remembered that she had actually seen it many times. Huo Shuyan had also mentioned that the black cat had brought her into this forum, which meant that the black cat knew there were humans in the forum. But she had never thought of asking the black cat for its ID.
It lived in a pet shop but had never appeared in any forum members’ photos, and no one had ever mentioned it in their posts.
Speaking of which, Dai Dai also lived in the neighborhood, and Xu Ye had never seen Dai Dai’s selfies either. The humans on the forum were just the three of them. Why didn’t Huo Shuyan tell Huo Yu about the forum?
Her “Xiao Bai” ID had already become somewhat well-known among some forum members. To avoid running into any players who had heard of “Good Ye changing to Xiao Bai,” she should probably change her name or register a new forum account.
Thinking of Dai Dai, her thoughts suddenly shifted to “changing my name,” and the question about Xiao Hei felt like a fleeting idea that was soon naturally pushed to the back of her mind.
The 45-second countdown had ended, and the system gave her 35 minutes to search. Xu Ye, unwilling to give up, raised the magnifying glass and controlled her coconut mastiff to walk down a small path to the left.
Maybe, if she were lucky, she could find a flower dog.
After hiding, the forum members continued to chat excitedly on the public screen, waiting for Xu Ye to catch them.
【Lover of Butt: He won’t find me, he won’t find me~】
【David: I’m rooting for you, don’t let up, I’m well hidden.】
【David: [Proud Cat.jpg]】
【Fuli’s Store, Right Turn…: I’m ready too.】
【Fuli’s Store, Right Turn…: Hey, why does my name only show half? Why did the most important part get folded up?】
【Lulu: Silly Snail, your name is too long.】
【Katie Meow: You definitely won’t find me, because right now, I can’t even find myself.】
Xu Ye, like a grandfather from the 90s with a magnifying glass reading the newspaper, carefully searched for the faint traces left by the forum members.
David’s size was the largest, probably the easiest to find. Xu Ye was full of confidence. The first one she would find is—
It is the Lover of Butt.
Xu Ye’s expression froze on her face as she silently stared at the giant heart-shaped butt on the magnifying glass.
The cute, clever, and witty lover of butt had its entire body hidden inside the tree hole, except for its butt.
A round tree hole had a round heart-shaped butt hanging on it, with fireflies on the tree providing lighting for the butt. In the dark forest for miles around, there hung a bright and fluffy Corgi butt.
[Lover of Butt: He can’t find me, he can’t find me~]
[Xiao Bai: …]
The Tibetan Mastiff hesitated in place due to the silence. After a moment, she walked over proudly, extended her dog paw, and pulled the lover of butt out of the tree hole.
[Lover of Butt: How did you find me? This place I hid is really super hidden!]
[Xiao Bai: I don’t know, you should ask your butt, see if it has any clues.]
[Lover of Butt: Huh?]
Confused, lover of butt was pulled out. The small Corgi followed the large Tibetan Mastiffs paw, and Xu Ye continued holding the magnifying glass as she walked on.
Next, she found a Maltese dog lying on a branch.
This player had hidden quite well, but the dog’s long fur made it particularly conspicuous against the brown branches and the green leaves.
[Lover of Butt: Oh my, the dog can climb a tree!]
[Lulu: First, I’m actually a cat. Second, this is just a game, even a pig can climb a tree.]
Lulu, as smart as someone about to take the college entrance exam, quickly realized the issue with her chosen model and said on the public screen:
[Lulu: In this map, picking a character with darker colors is more advantageous. The dog I picked is too light, and its fur is long. But this game has you choose the character first and then the map, so it’s kind of a luck-based game.]
The Tibetan Mastiff, with the Corgi little brother and the cat disguised as a Maltese little sister, caught a bright white butt in a flower patch filled with small white flowers.
The Pomeranian buried its head in the grass, wiggling its butt and pretending to be an ostrich. Xu Ye guessed its intention was to disguise itself as a small white flower.
[Little Cloud: I miscalculated, the flowers here are too small.]
[Lover of Butt: Hahaha, this is too funny. Is this how you play hide and seek?]
[Xiao Bai: That’s how I found you earlier. Your butt is even brighter than hers.]
[Lover of Butt: Ha.]
After pulling out the Pomeranian player, Xu Ye didn’t rush to leave but carefully observed the patch of little white flowers through the magnifying glass.
The gentle breeze caused the flowers to stretch their petals and sway their bodies, each one resembling a flower dog, but none of them were.
After watching for a full three minutes, Xu Ye, her eyes sore, lowered the magnifying glass and rubbed her brows. The Tibetan Mastiff carried the three small dogs and walked down another path.
Now, besides the flower dogs, only the Mastiff, Maine Coon cat, and black cat remained unfound.
Her big brother Mastiff, indeed, was a smart cat, choosing such a large model and still hiding so well.
The next one she found was the cat disguised as a snail rice noodle Maine Coon cat, who fully demonstrated how realistic the “Tom and Jerry” show could be.
The entire cat had squeezed into a thin hollow tree branch, with only its beautiful pointy ears sticking out, like a cat growing on the tree.
[Lulu: Friends, I don’t know if you’ve seen the post about Nai Nai’s toilet, but right now I just want to say one thing: cats are truly liquid animals.]
The snail rice noodle cat, once pulled out, lay on the Tibetan Mastiff’s large head. The group of five dogs/cats, with the Tibetan Mastiff at the center, squeezed together and wriggled forward.
It wasn’t until Xu Ye had walked two circles on the map that she finally found the other Mastiff and the black cat in the darkness.
The Mastiff blended perfectly into the shadows under the tree. If it weren’t for the black cat blinking its eyes on top of its head, Xu Ye wouldn’t have noticed them.
Xu Ye’s Tibetan Mastiff pulled out the other Mastiff, which was the same size as her, and the black cat on the Mastiff’s head “plopped” down into the flower patch, stretching its cat paw as if doing sit-ups, and rolled over in a round, clumsy way.
David, the Mastiff, was caught by Xu Ye, feeling both disappointed and happy:
[David: If you hadn’t blinked, the cat-catching player definitely wouldn’t have found us. Girl, you’re really impressive.]
[Floating Life: You think I wanted to blink? Didn’t you notice? Every ten seconds, this stupid model automatically blinks.]
After Floating Life said this, Xu Ye indeed saw the Mastiff’s dog eyes blink.
[David: The designer’s skills need improvement.]
[Floating Life: Yeah, the designer’s skills need improvement.]
[Lover of Butt: Huh…?]
The two cats hiding together soon reached an agreement and were sulking while fiddling with the newly emerged [Landlords: 54-player version] as Huo Shuyan sneezed twice.
Xu Ye had already caught all the players except for the Flower Dog. Just as she was about to look for the Flower Dog, she saw a system notification pop up:
【Congratulations to the Catch Cat Player for catching all the cats! The next round’s Catch Cat Player: Fuli’s Store, Right Turn…, the game will start in one minute!】
【David: Wait, that avatar of the Flower Dog has already been found?】
【Lulu: No, she’s not with us. Flower Dog, where are you?】
【Katie Meow: I don’t know. From the moment the countdown started, I lost myself.】
【Floating Life: Wait, that Pom named Little Cloud, don’t move, I think I saw something.】
【Floating Life: What’s that on its right ear?】
Sure enough, the vision of humans and cats cannot be generalized. Xu Ye held a magnifying glass close to the Pom’s ear, squinting to see, and finally discovered a tiny Flower Dog on its snowy white ear.
【David: Ha. If you hadn’t said anything, I would have thought that was Little Cloud’s epidermal keratin layer.】
【Floating Life: You really know a lot.】
Xu Ye immediately took out her phone and sincerely gave feedback in the group:
【Xu Ye: Brother Huo, this Flower Dog is really tiny.】
【Huo Shuyan: This isn’t even the smallest one.】
【Xu Ye: Huh?】
【Huo Shuyan: There’s also a rice grain dog.】
【Xu Ye: Ha.】
If she needed a magnifying glass to find the Flower Dog, the rice grain dog would probably be smaller than her cell nucleus. Xu Ye sincerely suggested to Huo Shuyan, “Please take care of the silly human players,” and Huo Shuyan humbly accepted her feedback, asking her to hang on for just two more days.
In the next round, Xu Ye, David, and Floating Life seemed to have a tacit understanding. The three of them took separate left, middle, and right paths when hiding and ultimately chose the same shadow to hide in. Floating Life was the first to hide there, but Xu Ye didn’t notice and directly pounced on it with her dog paw. The last one to arrive, David, saw the black cat avatar of Floating Life flattened like a cat pancake, shuddered and, following the local custom, stacked on top of Xu Ye.
【Floating Life: Heh, what a suffocating game.】
The three cats or dogs and human, piled up for a while before being found by the snail rice noodle cat, who also happened to find the Flower Dog — Katie Meow, who had lost herself right at the start of the game and was unknowingly made to wear a flower on her ear by the clueless Tibetan Mastiff.
After this round, David wanted to take a short nap. He bid farewell and the other players also left the game one after the other.
Xu Ye put on her shoes, grabbed her keys, and prepared to go out and buy some groceries for dinner. After a week of takeout, her guilt had grown to the size of a Flower Dog.
She bought some hairtail, tomatoes, and other nutritious vegetables at the neighborhood entrance. Passing by a snack shop, she paused at the entrance on the tiled floor, peeking inside for a while, and eventually couldn’t resist, buying a large portion of shrimp balls.
Xu Ye mentally scolded her greedy self but happily brought the large portion of shrimp balls to her table. She chose a seat at the entrance again, just like before, and once again, as she was eating, she made eye contact with a kitten lying on the glass door, watching her eating show.
The orange kitten, smaller than the dog-bite bangs cat, lay on the steps, its paws pressing on the glass door, staring at Xu Ye as she opened her abyss-like mouth and devoured the string of shrimp balls skewered like sugar-coated haws.
Its mouth was slightly open in an inverted triangle shape, its round face and big eyes filled with emotions that Xu Ye couldn’t understand.
This scene felt strangely familiar. She hesitated, glanced back. The menu in the shop didn’t have anything like stinky but tasty snail noodles, only shrimp balls and oysters.
Xu Ye’s cheeks twitched, and the little orange cat’s cheeks twitched in sync.
Confirming their gaze, this cat was definitely staring at her.
She secretly took out her phone and searched “Do shrimp balls smell bad to cats?” The search result came up: “Cats can eat shrimp balls without seasoning to supplement protein.”
So, it wasn’t the food, it was her?
Otherwise, why did the cat only stare at her that day in the snail noodle shop?
Very concerned about her image in the cats’ eyes, Xu Ye lost confidence, sighed, and posted a question on the encyclopedia:
【It seems like a little cat thinks I stink. What should I do? Online, urgent.】
Author’s Note:
Floating Life: I was squashed, this game sucks.
Katie Meow: I can’t even find myself, this game sucks.
Xiao Bai: Rice grain dog, this game sucks.
Fuli’s Store, Right Turn…: Where’s my ID? This game sucks.
Little Cloud: Silly happiness.
Lulu and David: A few normal cats with a touch of absurdity.
Huo Shuyan: Hardworking.
Orange kitten: Why am I looking at Xu Ye?
Author: Escaping. This story has no conspiracy theories, it’s wholesome to the core, just a little quirky, like a Flower Dog (＾－＾)V The corgi is smart, its butt being exposed is due to the game issue, not its fault (firm).
David mentioned siblings in the last chapter because in previous chapters, they built a close relationship in a game called “King of Glory,” where David chose “Sister” for Xu Ye, and Xu Ye chose “Big Brother” for David.
Tl’s Note: So sorry for the late update, university have just started so i may not be able to update daily. I’ll try to update at least twice a week, stay tuned!
Thank you for reading this novel!
