Chapter 9: I Am a Pervert!

Chapter 9 I’m a Weirdo!

"Miscommunication can be deadly."

"Information gaps can be deadly."

"Compared to Tianlan Star, even Dou E doesn’t seem so wronged. What an unjust disaster."

"This shows why learning a foreign language is so important!"

Sheng Qingquan’s thoughts were racing through his mind.

"If this incident blows over, the enthusiasm for learning foreign languages on Tianlan Star will skyrocket to an alarming level. Although this foreign language refers to an alien language."

"No one wants to repeat such a terrifying diplomatic blunder. It’s a disaster on the scale of the apocalypse at any moment."

Thinking of this, Sheng Qingquan couldn’t help but sigh.

"A weak country has no diplomacy, and the same goes for a weak planet."

"Ultimately, Tianlan Star is just too weak."

The bodyguards were also deeply troubled. Essentially, if Tianlan Star were powerful enough, they could have compensated, apologized, and avoided the situation spiraling out of control like in the novel.

Instead, no matter how much they apologize or compensate, the other side still feels it’s not enough. They couldn’t make up for the mental trauma their child endured. In the end, it led straight to the apocalypse.

"I still think it’s outrageous that a misunderstanding could lead to the planet’s destruction and the death of its people."

Since the alien child looks like a cat, Sheng Qingquan had a bad premonition.

"Usually, after picking up a stray cat, the first steps are deworming, isolation, and vaccinations. Then..."

"Did she get the cat neutered?!"

The thought horrified Sheng Qingquan.

"If that’s true, no wonder the parents lost it. I wonder what their planet’s medical technology is like—can it be fixed?"

"Probably not, or they wouldn’t be this furious."

The more Sheng Qingquan thought about it, the more frightened and chilled he became.

"This counts as causing a disability—it feels like there’s no going back."

"Wait, what if the other side just has a short temper? Things might not be that bad."

"I’d rather die knowing the truth."

Sheng Qingquan frowned and kept reading the VIP content he’d bought for 188 Qiankun Coins.

Throughout the process, the bodyguards were anxiously waiting.

"Found it, here it is."

"Before the cat's parents took action, they angrily announced the crimes of Tianlan Star. Accusing Tianlan Star of allowing people led by Jiang Zhilan to imprison and molest children, and even inhumanely abuse the child."

"Thank goodness, it didn’t mention neutering!"

"Probably didn’t have time to take it over yet. Thank goodness."

"However, I can understand the part about confinement and inappropriate handling."

What Sheng Qingquan found puzzling was the latter part.

"What is this abuse they're talking about?"

"Could it be referring to putting it in a pet carrier and using a leash?"

"You can’t take a kitten outside without these things."

"Wait, if this were done to an intelligent being, it would definitely be criminal."

Sheng Qingquan scrolled down and saw the cat’s parent angrily and tearfully listing the hardships their child had endured.

"Jiang Zhilan enjoys eating well, with all kinds of delicious, carefully prepared dishes that are visually appealing, aromatic, and flavorful. But what she feeds my child is just a bunch of random junk. My child is so hungry that his stomach growls constantly."

"Poor diet is bad enough, but she also physically disciplines the child."

"She bought a wooden board and made my child scratch it with his delicate little paws, and even set up a tall wooden frame without any safety measures, forcing my child to climb it. When my child refused and tried to run away, she forcibly picked him up and made him climb."

"The child was terrified but was forced to comply."

"When she’s not home, things are fine, but when she’s around, she often waves feathers and laser pointers around, making my child chase after them."

"This is abuse! Do you even understand what abuse is?!"

If Sheng Qingquan hadn’t known the cat was an intelligent being and that these actions could lead to catastrophe, he might have laughed at this point.

But now, as he read, he felt that every word was dripping with a sense of injustice.

"Officer Jiang doesn’t seem to cook. I often bump into her when I’m picking up takeout."

"So those delicious, visually appealing, aromatic meals are probably just instant noodles or takeout. And the random stuff fed to the cat is likely just cat food, treats, canned food, freeze-dried snacks, nutritional pastes, and hairball remedies."

"As for the so-called physical punishment, the wooden board is a scratching post, and the tall frame is a cat tree. She probably thought the kitten didn’t know how to play and brought it over to see if it would enjoy it."

"As for the feathers and laser pointers, those are just toys. If the parent hadn’t complained, Officer Jiang would’ve thought she was simply playing with the kitten."

"It’s all a misunderstanding. But even if it’s explained clearly, it doesn’t matter. To the parent, the child truly suffered."

Besides these, Sheng Qingquan also saw other accusations.

"Invading the child’s privacy and undermining their dignity."

"Jiang Zhilan has her own private bathroom, but my child’s bathroom is just a basin placed in the living room, visible to everyone. When my child needs to relieve himself, he has to do it in full view. Afterward, she inspects and cleans it."

"This is utterly humiliating. Even prisoners get better treatment than this."

"It’s outright humiliation! Not just humiliation—it’s sexual harassment. The child is so young; how can he possibly endure this?"

"A lifetime of psychological trauma!"

The cat’s parent became more and more heartbroken as they spoke, tears streaming down their face.

Sheng Qingquan was completely stunned by this.

"Again, if this were just a simple kitten, Officer Jiang's actions would be perfectly fine. The problem is, the other party is an intelligent being."

The bodyguards were at a loss for words. In the next room, Jiang Zhilan also heard Sheng Qingquan's inner thoughts.

She didn't realize they were inner thoughts, just assuming that the delusional guy from yesterday had started again today.

"But why does he always spin tales about people around him? Yesterday's protagonists were Ning Luoxing and Luo Huanian, the people from upstairs. Today, he's starting to fabricate stories about me?"

"Honestly, the story is quite creative."

"It would be better if the protagonist wasn't me, though. It's too jarring."

"It would be even better if he didn't read it out loud and bother everyone around. If he likes writing novels, he should just publish them online. No one's stopping him from changing the protagonist's name."

Jiang Zhilan, who was enjoying a rare day off, was really annoyed.

Sheng Qingquan, oblivious to the commotion, finished reading and clicked on the next chapter.

The familiar gray page appeared before him, with the text obscured by a gray overlay.

"Do I really need to buy VIP again already? I just bought so many chapters and finished them all?"

"My balance is already zero; I can't afford new chapters. When will another windfall come my way?"

"6666 yuan isn't too much, and 66 yuan isn't too little."

But beyond that, Sheng Qingquan suddenly jumped out of bed.

"Can't read the new chapter, don't know what methods the feline guardians will use to attack Tianlanxing. Nor do I know what Tianlanxing will end up as. But right now, there's still something I can do."

"I need to go next door and check on that cat. There's not much else I can do, but I can't let Jiang Zhilan take the kitten to be neutered."

"Although she didn't do that in the plot, what if! What if the butterfly effect kicks in here?"

"Wait, is the act really this convincing? Going this far just to spin a yarn?" Jiang Zhilan initially didn't take his words about coming over seriously, but soon enough, she actually heard a knock on the door.

Jiang Zhilan opened the door to see the young man from next door standing at her doorstep, hesitantly asking, "Um, I heard you have a cat. I want to get a cat too, so I was wondering what preparations are needed to raise one."

"I don't have a cat!" Jiang Zhilan said firmly, almost spelling it out for him.

It was precisely because of this that she didn't fully immerse herself in the story he was fabricating.

"No cat, how is that possible?!"

"So, is the cheat ability malfunctioning again?"

No cat means no cat, what cheat ability? Did he give me a cheat ability in his novel? Jiang Zhilan was puzzled.

Wait, did my neighbor just stay silent?

Not knowing what was going on in his mind, after the usual doubts about the cheat ability, Sheng Qingquan reasoned that it was more likely due to other reasons than the cheat ability malfunctioning.

"Could it be that Officer Jiang hasn't run into the alien stray cat yet?"

Thinking this, Sheng Qingquan couldn't help but confirm again, and after receiving an affirmative response.

Sheng Qingquan remained calm on the surface, but his inner self was already jumping for joy: "It's good you don't have a cat. You're busy with work, and it's not really practical for you to raise a cat."

"Good, nothing has happened yet, there's still time to prevent it. As long as the kitten hasn't gone through that ordeal, even if the feline guardians come, there's no need to panic."

Sheng Qingquan said goodbye politely to Jiang Zhilan and happily returned to his own home.

Looking at Sheng Qingquan's closed door, after her recent observation, Jiang Zhilan became certain: "He didn't speak just now, yet there was a voice. And when he spoke, I simultaneously heard two voices."

"What he said didn't match what I heard."

Jiang Zhilan concluded, "I can hear his thoughts." Sherlock Holmes once said, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

She had just observed that the thoughts matched Sheng Qingquan's micro-expressions. Moreover, Sheng Qingquan clearly wasn't carrying any recording devices, like a voice recorder.

There was no possibility of pre-recording and playing it back at the right time. Both his hands were exposed, clean, and empty. Without someone controlling it in sync, it's hard to play back every sentence so timely.

The possibility of someone remotely controlling it wasn't out of the question. But Sheng Qingquan's expression was natural, though a bit nervous, clearly about whether she had a cat, not the guilt of committing a crime in front of a police officer.

In summary, have I encountered someone with superpowers? Then those stories he fabricated...

They definitely aren't true. It must be that my inference is wrong; I'm not very good at this aspect when handling cases. And today is a day off; I didn't immediately get into work mode.

Jiang Zhilan was reluctant to believe the facts. The bodyguards, who had been paying attention to the situation all along, sent two over to 'cruelly' reveal everything.

"So it's true that I can hear his thoughts?"

"He has superpowers; if not true, it's almost the same as true?!"

Forced to accept the truth, Jiang Zhilan still wanted to struggle a bit, but ultimately, she had to accept everything. What else could she do?

After the conversation and seeing off the bodyguards, Jiang Zhilan covered her face with her hands: "How can there be such unscientific things in the world?"

"This must be a dream—a unique nightmare. I must still be in the dream; I'll be fine when I wake up." Jiang Zhilan rubbed her face hard; the pain made her sober.

"It's actually not a dream; how can it not be a dream?!"

"Ahhh I can't face anyone anymore. Damn it, how did this happen."

"If the thoughts have a prophetic effect, does that mean I will really pick up a cat in the future?"

Before Jiang Zhilan could be happy about having a cat, she thought about her behavior in the novel.

Then she thought about the consequences of her usual inability to move her legs when passing by cat cafes.

Whether it's picking up a cat, poking the kitten's nose with her finger, drowning it in various praises, kissing and praising it, blowing rainbow farts saying it's the most beautiful cat in the world, the beautiful cat deserves to be kissed unconscious by her, then kissed awake;

Or burying her face in the cat's soft belly, taking deep breaths, gently rubbing back and forth, saying she's going to be enchanted to death by the cat's belly;

Or lifting one of the cat's paws, letting it hit her, feeling the Q-elastic paw pads hitting her face, shouting for more, more, it's not enough yet, the crazy look;

And picking up the cat to check its gender, if it's a male cat, she would also covet those two wonderfully textured furry peaches, occasionally taking advantage of the cat's inattention to touch them...

In private, it's fine, in cat cafes everyone does this, she blends in without standing out, and doesn't feel anything.

But now, Jiang Zhilan is so ashamed she can't lift her head: "This is too socially dead?!"

Especially, she's like this with cats in cat cafes, if she had her own cat, Jiang Zhilan knows herself well, she would only become more excessive.

The more she thinks about it, the more she feels she can't face herself.

Especially, being like this with cats is one thing, but that cat is actually an intelligent being.

Then the originally 'perverted' behavior, isn't it even more perverted?!

What makes Jiang Zhilan most ashamed is the consequences of her actions.

She was almost the one who nearly doomed Azure Star.

Even though she didn't mean any harm and acted out of pure love for the little kitten, would that be enough to save Azure Star?

Fortunately, nothing had happened yet.

Jiang Zhilan breathed a sigh of relief.

But soon, others who shared her relief soon realized something.

"Wait, if the kitten has already ended up on Azure Star, and it hasn't been adopted by Jiang Zhilan, can it still survive?"

Consider the high mortality rate among stray cats.

Moreover, this alien can't hunt and clearly wouldn't stoop to rummaging through trash bins—it's not even a real cat.

Sheng Qingquan couldn't help but shiver.

"If treating it like a real cat and caring for it properly led to that outcome, what if it dies..."

Sheng Qingquan couldn't bear to think about it.

"We need to find him, fast!"