Chapter 31: Strange

Since Faye still had to go back to the lab, Selene could only stay in her dormitory for one night, waiting for the next day to turn back into a human before she went home wearing Faye's clothes.

Of course, during that time, she didn't forget to cut the live clip that Cat had translated earlier into a video and post it on the F-site.

When it was hard to get home, the first thing Selene did was to catch up on her sleep.

She didn't get enough sleep these days, and it was rare that she didn't have anything to do and could get a good night's sleep.

Selene slept until three in the afternoon.

She would have been able to go back to sleep, only she was still woken up by the message she received on WeChat.

Selene rubbed her eyes and reached for her cell phone on the nightstand, tapping on the message to find it was from Linda downstairs.

[Linda: Ahhhh Selene! Is your little orange the one on the internet that only presses the vocalize button?]

Selene froze for a moment, she thought that after Faye used her WeChat to send a lot of "orange emoticons" to Linda, Linda should have found out about this matter, but in the way of the social norms of adults, so did not look for her to speak out.

I didn't realize ... that her reflexes were a bit long and she's just now realizing it.

[Selene:Well, I'm doing self-publishing, I thought you already knew]

[Linda: ... I don't pay much attention to short videos, mainly because I sent my coworker the orange emoticon today, and she thought I liked oranges too, and was excited to discuss orange-related things with me]

[Linda: Don't worry! I didn't tell my coworker that I knew you offline!"]

Selene couldn't help herself and proceeded to type:

[Then please keep it a secret, you know, if the netizens know my real information, there will be a lot more unnecessary trouble.] [Linda: I know, I know!

[Linda: I know, I didn't realize that Netflix Cat was right next to me! I've seen your videos, and kittens that push buttons are really cool!]

[Linda: Where did you get that button? Can you give me a link?]

[Linda: Uh, I'm not trying to be self-promotional! I just kind of wanted to see if Bella could learn, and I'm so jealous that you can communicate with your orange.]

Selene rolled over, looking at the message from Sophie in deep thought.

She was going to make an instructional video on buttons anyway. She hadn't known what form of content to make it in, and now she seemed to have an idea!

Selene hurriedly typed.

[The link won't be sent to you, seafaring is more troublesome, but my side already knows that there are manufacturers doing it, in two days I should be able to get the first batch of samples here, and send you a set at that time]

[Linda: I don't think so. I'll pay for it.]

[Selene: It's okay, we need to test the samples anyway, so you can use them to give feedback to the manufacturer.]

[Linda: (cat heart.jpg) Thank you Selene, you're so nice!]

[Selene: (Cat tilts head.jpg) If you want to thank me, why don't you do me a favor?]

It was already 6:30pm when Faye got home.

As much as she wanted to go home early, there was just a bit too much juggling going on, and by the time it was all taken care of it would be this time of day.

"I'm home." Faye opened the door.

She had just taken off one of her shoes when she saw a cat's head emerge from the crack in the door. Those big eyes were slinking around, looking like they were making some kind of little plan.

Usually, Selene's expression meant that ... something "good" was waiting for her.

"... 'Faye paused for a moment, alertly backed up half a step, 'What do you want again?"

"Let's go, let's take you to a free dinner."

Faye frowned, puzzled, "... Free dinner?"

Before Faye could understand the meaning, the orange cat disappeared in front of her eyes again.

After a while, the orange cat pushed a large white canvas bag and reappeared in the doorway.

Faye looked at it and realized that the bag contained a bunch of pet AC buttons, a can of freeze-dried, and a camera bag.

"Come on, let's go to Linda's."

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As soon as Faye opened the elevator door, she was greeted by Linda.

"Come on, Selene I'll carry it for you."

Faye just felt confused, but she couldn't ask anything. She just followed Linda's lead and went through the door of her house.

Once inside, Faye realized what Selene was talking about when she said "free dinner".

"I'm really so happy, I didn't realize you were willing to let Orange teach our two little ones the vocal buttons, did you bring your camera? I don't have it with me I have it at home, and so does the stand!"

"Have you eaten dinner yet, no just happen to eat at my house, I just made a big table! Don't be polite to me!!!"

Faye was inexplicably ushered into the dining room by Linda, and was pressed into a chair with an extra set of dishes in her hand.

She was eating Linda's cooking and talking to Linda before she realized what Selene had hit on.

She told Linda that she was going to record a video series on the theme of "Button Teaching Class", and that she wanted Linda's two cats to be Orange's cat students, and that Orange would teach the two cats how to sound out the buttons.

I don't know how Selene managed to convince Linda that she didn't think it was strange for one cat to teach another cat how to push the sound button.

Faye looked at Linda's happy face with more than a little sympathy in her eyes.

Another classic case of being crippled by her sister's neglect.

After dinner, the two of them took their equipment and went into Linda's cat room.

At this time the three little ones inside were sitting in rows, with the orange cat at the head, followed by Bella the Ragdoll cat, and finally Oliver the blue cat.

Seeing this scene, Linda was even more admiring: "Worthy of being Mr. Orange! Bella and Oliver you guys have to learn well! Mom believes you guys will be able to do it!"

Faye: "..."

Faye shook her head helplessly and honestly acted as a tool person. She first spread the non-slip mat on the floor, then set the vocal buttons in order, and finally set up the camera stand with Sophie and switched the camera to camera mode to point it in the direction of the buttons.

In the camera, the three kittens were already crouching in front of the colorful buttons.

Bella, the Ragdoll cat, was crouching at this point looking at the buttons in a very new way, asking the question, "Is this the button you said all the smart kittens would push? What does it do?"

"Of course it works." Selene said as she raised her paw, "Watch this."

As the orange cat's paw fell, the button made a sound.

"Snack."

Hearing the sound, Faye almost reflexively pulled a freeze-dried one out of her canvas bag and threw it in the direction of the orange cat.

Selene caught the freeze-dried with just an easy jump, and as she chewed on it, she said, "Get it, learn this button and you can make requests with humans."

"This button is for snacks."

Just after these words were said, Bella the ragdoll cat didn't have much of a reaction yet, but Oliver the blue cat on the side had already rushed over to Selene with great excitement, "Is it true what you said! Just press down on it!"

Selene blinked, "Or you can try it and see if I'm lying to you."

Oliver immediately raised his paw and tapped the "snack" button, then turned his head to look at his master expectantly.

Linda was touched by this scene, and immediately ran to the storage room to get the blue cat's favorite freeze-dried food.

Oliver ate the snack he had been longing for, and immediately admired Selene: "Orange! You're so smart too! I'm going to learn! There's no button to make my master throw the pom-poms for me."

"Of course there is!" Selene walked over to two more buttons and pressed them.

"Play." "Balls."

Selene turned her head and looked at Oliver, "Try pressing these two."

Oliver half-heartedly went in front of the buttons and did as he was told, tapping both buttons like Selene.

As a result, Oliver realized that as soon as he pressed them, his master immediately appeared in front of him with his favorite blob.

Linda was about to shed hot tears, "Oliver let's play ball!"

Seeing Oliver run off with his owner to throw and pick up the ball, Bella couldn't sit still either, "And what do these buttons mean?"

Selene pressed one of the buttons and introduced it, "You should normally hear that word from human mouths all the time, this one means mommy."

Bella gave a confused look and questioned, "I did hear it, but I thought it was her name, mom? But she's not my mom, she's human eh."

Selene was adorable by the kitten's simple mindedness as she patiently explained, "But you two are no different than her children in her eyes, so she thinks she's your mom."

Bella froze for a moment, then glanced up at Sophie, who was still playing ball with the blue cat, and chortled back, "Okay, let's listen to her then, what about these two?"

Selene looked at the two buttons next to the 'mom' button that Bella was pointing to.

"This one is 'Bella' and that one is 'Oliver', those are your names."

Bella instantly pouted in dissatisfaction, "Can't we just take out Oliver and just leave Bella!"

"Pfft."

Bella exploded, "What for! Humans like you who don't have to share themselves with other kittens don't understand my plight."

Selene couldn't help herself, "But isn't it usually Oliver who plays with you when the humans aren't around?"

"..."

The Ragdoll cat twisted his body around, leaving Selene with nothing but a fluffy tail.

Gee, the kitty had quite a temper.

However, even the most temperamental kitty couldn't escape from a cunning human like her.

Selene spoke leisurely, "Let me teach you a way to make your mom happy, do you want to learn it?"

Sure enough, the ragdoll cat's ears perked up at once, and it didn't last more than three seconds before it turned back to its body, its eyes full of curiosity.

"What way?" It asked.

"Here, just press this button, then that one, then this one next to it."

"Really?" Bella looked suspiciously at the orange cat in front of her, "Why do I think you're lying to the cat?"

But the suspicious orange cat just nodded and looked at it sincerely, "I'm really not lying to you, just try it and you'll know."

"Alright, if you lie to me, I'll never ignore you again." Bella pressed the first button as Selene had instructed.

"Bella."

Well, this one it knew, the orange cat had just said it was its name.

The second was this one ...

"Love you."

The word was a bit familiar. It seemed like it had heard humans say it a lot, but it didn't know what it meant.

The last word is "mommy."

It's a word that smart Bella has also learned.

Would pressing those three buttons make the humans happy?

Bella looked up in disbelief, but was surprised to find her human standing still, looking at her, but instead of looking happy, she looked like she was about to cry.

Bella turned around angrily and was about to call the orange cat a "big liar" when she realized she was suddenly suspended in the air and her entire body was wrapped in a warm embrace.

Her human hugged her tightly and muttered something, she only understood the words "mommy", "love" and "Bella", although she didn't understand what she was saying, her tone sounded very happy. Although she didn't understand what she was saying, she sounded happy.

Humans are so strange, they can shed tears even when they are happy.

-Mason was carrying a delivery from downstairs.

Mason returned home with the takeout he had picked up from the delivery counter downstairs.

He put the takeout on the dining table and took another box of frozen meat and put it in the microwave, before turning around and walking in the direction of the study, ready to call his brother for dinner.

However, just as he opened the door to the study, he saw a golden fur sitting on a computer chair, its head lowered as it intently looked at the tablet on the table, with a contented smile on the corner of its mouth.

"...?"

Mason felt like he sensed a lot of things were off from his brother this time he came back.

Just like ...

Although he would also show a smile when he turned into a dog before, it was all very introverted, and you couldn't even tell that he was smiling unless you looked closely, completely unlike what he was doing now, so happy that he was even wagging his tail around merrily, a complete springtime swagger.

It was also too strange.

Thinking about this, Mason decided to sneak off to see what his brother was looking at.

He gently pushed open the door to the study, slowed his pace, and tiptoed in the direction of the computer desk.

According to the dog's hearing, normally his brother would have been able to notice his proximity, but now that he was walking next to the computer chair, the man was still oblivious to the fact that he was intently watching a video.

Gee, he'd like to see what he was looking at. It couldn't be a picture of some pretty young lady.

It's not easy, this iron tree has finally blossomed.

Mason lowered his head and fixed his eyes on the video, only to realize that the video playing on the tablet looked a bit familiar to him, and the main character in it looked familiar too, the cat next door.

Wasn't that the cat-cat video Selene had just posted this morning?

"... Brother?"

Rowan twisted his head to first see his cousin's complicated eyes in a word.

Immediately after, he saw him say with a pensive face, "Even if you're a dog to the point where you've degraded yourself and decided to like a non-human species, then at least you have to like one that looks the same as you, you can't cross species!"

Rowan: ...

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