Chapter 61 Cat Clan Secrets

Chapter 61: The Cat Clan's Secret

It was two o'clock in the morning.

Kailin placed Xiao Guai into Meng Shu's arms, patted Xiao Guai's head with a smile, saying, "His Lordship the Hero needs you to do something today. This is your honor! You have to cooperate!"

I won't cooperate!

A human who is in cahoots with the Demon King Cat Head!

In front of its owner, Xiao Guai still had to put on an act, but as soon as Meng Shu carried it to the backyard, it immediately leaped out of Meng Shu's arms and landed lightly.

It bared its teeth and hissed at Meng Shu, its fur standing on end.

Strong hostility.

Meng Shu crouched down to look at it, hesitated for a moment, then let out a meow.

"I've already learned the Cat Clan language."

Xiao Guai always kept a safe distance away from him, and when it finally spoke, it had a raspy smoker's voice, like a grizzled old man.

It was a male cat, but that didn't stop it from acting cute and rolling around.

After all, humans couldn't understand what it said.

Meng Shu thought to himself, so he'd been arguing all this time with a dude who had phlegm in his throat?

He sighed and attempted to reason with it, "I don't want to keep fighting with you. Let's settle this once and for all today, okay? Before, I couldn't understand you, but now let's talk. What the hell do you come to my doorstep every day to yell about? My cat is isolated from the world and never leaves the house. What did he do to make you so angry?"

Xiao Guai rolled its eyes, turned its back to Meng Shu, and raised its tail high.

Meng Shu could see its butthole at a glance. If he couldn't understand cat language, he wouldn't feel awkward.

But the problem was, this cat could talk to him, and it was showing him its butthole. He really felt awkward!

"Um, Xiao Guai—"

Xiao Guai said fiercely, "Call me Scar Bro!"

"Oh, oh, okay, Scar Bro." Meng Shu played along and asked politely, "Could you please turn your butt away? Ahem, we're both men here. It's kinda inappropriate for you to point your butt at me, don't you think?"

Xiao Guai raised its tail even higher. "Someone like you can only talk to my butt!"

"..."

Meng Shu was speechless and rubbed his forehead. "Fine, fine, whatever you say. Scar Bro, let's talk things out."

Xiao Guai snorted.

It had no intention of listening to him.

If it didn't cooperate, Meng Shu couldn't learn about Ling Qingjue's past.

Meng Shu said, "If you don't tell me, I'll tell Kailin about you cursing at my doorstep."

"You're a shameless jerk! She'll never believe you!" Xiao Guai's fur stood on end instantly. "You humans are truly despicable, vile, and evil!"

"If you play nice, I won't say a word."

Xiao Guai gritted its teeth and bared its sharp claws at him. "Let me tell you, I'm strong! If you dare to say anything, I'll claw your face off!"

"Oh?" Meng Shu gave it a sly smile, and a longsword appeared in his hand out of thin air. He flicked his wrist, and a sharp gust of sword energy swept past Xiao Guai's cheek.

It sheared off one of its whiskers.

It froze in place instantly, not daring to move.

Meng Shu smiled at it. "Don't be scared. I just wanted to help you trim your claws, but I didn't have the right tools. How about I use my sword instead?"

Xiao Guai: "..."

It turned its butt away from Meng Shu, and its tail drooped, its ears flattening into airplane ears.

Meng Shu's eyes crinkled as he gave a gentle smile. "If you play ball, I'll let Kailin trim your claws. If you don't, I'll have to use my sword to trim them for you."

Xiao Guai was silent for a while, then stood up and paced irritably.

"Since you're so damn eager to know, fine."

Xiao Guai walked over to him, its furry head gently resting against Meng Shu's forehead. "Close your eyes."

Meng Shu teased, "You're not going to scratch my handsome face while my eyes are closed, are you?"

Even so, he closed his eyes.

...

"You are about to enter a special event."

"You have triggered the 40-affinity event for Ling Qingjue."

"Entering spirit form."

...

"Hey bro, wake up."

Something wet touched his cheek. Meng Shu slowly opened his eyes and wanted to wipe his face.

But his body didn't respond; instead, it stretched.

"You do not have control of your body."

Meng Shu was stunned. If he wasn't mistaken, a cat had just licked his face.

And this cat was huge! Like, really huge!

It was an orange cat, sitting in front of him, licking its paws. "Mom told you to go to the Cat Clan academy. Why are you skipping class again?"

Meng Shu said, "The weather is so nice. I don't want to go to class!"

No, better said that the cow cat Xiao Guai was answering.

Meng Shu inhabited its body but had no control, only able to observe the world from its perspective.

The orange cat said, "If you keep skipping class, when all the other cats learn to transform into human form, you'll be the only one who hasn't."

Xiao Guai lay on the grass, hiding under a tree for shade.

It lazily replied, "What's so great about being human? So many cats haven't transformed, and I don't want to either."

The orange cat was a bit frustrated. "The Young Master learned to transform a couple of days ago, and he's only three! As a human, you can eat lots of delicious food, and you can use magic to catch fish. We won't have to catch them one by one anymore..."

"Mm-hmm..." Xiao Guai, listless, yawned. "The Young Master is so smart, I'm not like him."

"If you learn Transformation Magic, once you get an owner, you can chat with them and even help them out."

Xiao Guai was still uninterested, "Why would I help my owner? As long as I don't know how to do anything, my owner will always take care of me."

"Oh, come on. You're so lazy, you'll never find an owner!" The orange cat looked very angry.

No matter what the orange cat said, Xiao Guai remained indifferent.

It just didn't like magic and didn't want to transform.

Being a lazy cat that just ate and slept was fine too.

The orange cat couldn't persuade it and angrily whacked its head with its tail. "I'm going to class. I want to transform quickly. Mom and Dad said once all of us siblings learn to transform, they'll take us to live in the human world."

"I'm not going." Xiao Guai didn't even open its eyes. "I want to stay a cat my whole life."

The orange cat snorted, "I'm done with you."

Then it tiptoed away silently.

Meng Shu stayed inside its body, unable to do anything, and could only lie on the grass and nap alongside it.

The scenery here was beautiful—blue sky, white clouds, swaying tree shadows, and the air was filled with the scent of grass.

Was this the cat's world?

Meng Shu also dozed off without realizing it.

Until a massive explosion sounded from the sky above.

The blast stirred up a fierce wind, roaring in, and blew Xiao Guai over, sending it tumbling several meters away.

It scrambled to grab a tree, nearly swept away by the strong wind.

The wind was so powerful that by the time it finally stopped, all the slender young trees around had been snapped, and even the giant tree Xiao Guai had hidden behind was stripped bare, leaving only a few sparse leaves.

It felt as if a layer of its fur had been scoured off, and it dazedly poked its head out from behind the tree.

Meng Shu sensed something was off. This sudden wind was no ordinary storm.

There had been a terrifying surge of magic a moment ago.

Xiao Guai's legs went weak, and it stumbled along the path home.

"Meow—"

"Meow—"

All the buildings along the way had been destroyed. Xiao Guai cried out even more mournfully and ran faster and faster, "Meow—meow meow—"

"Sister! Dad! Mom!" It stopped in front of a charred tree hollow, its voice trembling, "...Mom?"

The tree hole was made from a hollowed-out stump, where Xiao Guai and its family lived.

Now the tree hollow had turned to charcoal. With just a gentle touch, it crumbled into ashes and collapsed with a crash.

Beneath the ashes, the black charcoal still faintly revealed their shapes.

They were two cats embracing each other.