Chapter 5: Are You Still Pretending?

"..."

Xue Jing's expression became subtle.

Hasn't this cat learned how ordinary cats meow? How can it be so naughty?

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 on earth is it? Why can it talk? What is the platinum tail ring on its tail? How can he find something similar? And why has this magical cat that can talk fallen to the point where it is almost killed in the world of stray cats?

However, the cat in front of him had an innocent expression on its face, as if saying, "I don't understand what you are talking about," just like an ordinary cat with nothing special.

"Meow~~"

"Stop pretending, I heard everything, speak 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 lower 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 buttocks lifting up involuntarily, and its limbs began to struggle, but Xue Jing held its neck firmly, unable to move, and it 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, with its eyes rolled up, 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 felt a bit uncertain.

Could it be that the divine absorption of the skill panel has absorbed its ability to speak human language? Has it really become an ordinary kitten? If it hadn't been for 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 the divinity it provided, 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, unpacked 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 jump to the cat food.

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 for not being delicious, but more like... the reaction of when the thing in front of it is not considered a part of its diet at all.

Xue Jing's mind flashed, and he suddenly realized.

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 for the information 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 of 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 in fact, there is 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 could originally speak human language and has become a cat. The biggest possibility is... the cat was actually a human.

Xue Jing narrowed his eyes, said nothing more, turned to the kitchen, and began to prepare dinner for today.

After he left the living room, the cat, who was not aware that Xue Jing had inferred a lot of information from its inadvertent behavior, immediately stood up from the sofa.

It jumped to the ground and silently came to the corner of the living room into the kitchen. It sneakily poked out half of its head, and secretly confirmed that Xue Jing was indeed cooking, and then it breathed a sigh of relief.

'I didn't expect that he would hear me when I spoke earlier.'

The cat was a little distressed and turned its tail and looked 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!'

The cat's face showed a very humane expression of gritting its teeth.

After a moment of incompetent rage, the cat withdrew its 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.'

Recalling the experience of being chased and bitten by various things 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.'

The cat thought in its heart.

'But... in order not to involve this kind-hearted boy, let me be an ordinary cat.'

It knows that if a kind person is willing to take this strange cat home and communicate with it and develop feelings for it, they will easily be involved in danger.

Therefore, this possibility must be cut off from the beginning.

There will be no excessive involvement without communication. When the time comes, it will just leave and disappear without a trace. 'Although he has heard me talking, it doesn't matter. All this is his fantasy. Just make him feel that he is just a cat-loving boy who likes cats so much that he will hear hallucinations!'

'As long as I don't admit it and pretend to be an ordinary cat, no one can expose me!'

Having made up its mind, the cat nodded with satisfaction, and its tail stood up and swayed because of its excitement.

...

Xue Jing worked in the kitchen for a long time and made three simple home-cooked dishes: spicy fried beef, bitter melon scrambled 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 Level 2 (318/500)]

Xue Jing opened the refrigerator, took out the leftover rice from yesterday, filled two bowls with it, and put it in the microwave. After it was heated up, he took it all out and put it 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 itself 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 at 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 rice while looking at it with a half-smile.

As if to say, are you still pretending?

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