Xia Yu had considered that, in order to avoid being discovered, the old lady might send him to the countryside, sell him off, or simply leave with the cat.
But he never expected to return to the pet shop.
Was it because that police officer had investigated?
That should have been impossible. The old lady seemed shrewd and wouldn’t make the same mistake twice after one slip-up.
Lying inside the cage, Xia Yu couldn’t figure it out.
He sighed.
Anyway, his Tina-brand cat house was gone.
After lying in the cage until nine o’clock, Xia Yu saw two shop assistants come for work.
Chattering and laughing, the two assistants took all the cats out of their cages to the backyard. When carrying Xia Yu, they even affectionately pinched the soft paw pads on his feet.
What exactly was going on? Why were they so calm?
Xia Yu couldn’t understand. He began thinking again about the importance of learning foreign languages.
If only this world offered English classes, he wouldn’t be limited to understanding only simple sentences.
He would likely encounter other people’s bodies from different districts in the future. He should find a way to acquire a foreign language skill.
“Meow.” A voice interrupted Xia Yu’s thoughts. It was the newly arrived blue cat.
The blue cat tried to rub against Xia Yu’s body, but Xia Yu slapped it aside.
Unlike the previous blue cat, this one was male.
He needs to find a cat owner and leave this place.
After all, this was a pet shop. Staying unsold for too long was not good, and there was also a blue cat with ill intentions toward him.
Narrowing his eyes, Xia Yu thought about getting rid of this blue cat sooner rather than later.
When a customer came by, Xia Yu deliberately bullied the blue cat. Seeing the pitiful blue cat, the customer indeed felt sympathy and chose it.
Back to peace and quiet, Xia Yu lay on the flowerbed, marveling at his own cleverness.
After a while, the back door opened again.
Turning his head to look at the door, Xia Yu was startled.
Coming in was a little girl with golden hair and blue eyes. Her name was Tina.
Entering the yard, the girl scanned the area and happily picked up Xia Yu.
The shop assistants exchanged a few words with her and then went to lie on a nearby lounge chair to sunbathe.
The shop assistants occasionally let children come inside. As a pet cat, it was necessary to interact with humans and play with them. But since the assistants were too lazy to play with the cats themselves, they used children as free labor.
After Tina, a little boy also came in.
Lying on Tina’s lap, Xia Yu yawned.
The shop assistants treated Tina like the previous children they had used for labor, meaning she probably didn’t know that Xia Yu had previously been taken to Tina’s house.
That meant Xia Yu hadn’t been brought back because he was discovered.
In that case, Tina wouldn’t have the nerve to come again.
Had she released him back at night?
Xia Yu recalled the conversation he had overheard between Tina and her grandmother. Judging from their expressions and gestures back then, it was probably Tina who wanted to return him.
After the police officer had come once, the girl had realized how the white cat had come to be with them, so she asked her grandmother to return him.
But leaving him back in the yard at night still carried some risk. The old lady herself wouldn’t take such a risky action.
Gently patting Tina’s head, Xia Yu offered some comfort.
Now that he was back, he didn’t want to go back to the girl’s place. Although he had many ways to turn her family into a modestly comfortable household capable of affording to keep him, it was still too much trouble.
If he had to work hard as a human, that was one thing, but even as a cat, working so hard wasn’t worth it.
Just like the black cat, enjoying good food and drink every day and occasionally playing with his hamster—that was the life a cat should live.
He would look around these days for some cute and rich young ladies and follow one of them home.
Xia Yu wasn’t being arrogant. He was confident that no matter which customer he set his eyes on, even if they originally wanted a Totoro, he could make them change their minds and fall for him, a white Persian cat.
Tina stayed for two hours and then left at noon. In the afternoon, more customers came, but Xia Yu didn’t find any suitable ones.
He saw the two shop assistants looking at him while speaking in a language incomprehensible to cats. He couldn’t tell what they were planning.
Indeed, he really needed to learn a foreign language.
After eight hours, returning to his own body, Xia Yi continued playing the piano while thinking about this matter.
Were there any people he knew who were particularly good at foreign languages?
He had heard of a few famous translators, but they were all middle-aged or older. He couldn’t determine whether their skills came from talent or hard work.
Only talent could grant special abilities; hard work could not.
After finishing the piano piece, he went to Kong Hanyue’s place to continue studying POD042. Xia Yu didn’t have time to think deeply.
Actually, POD042 wasn’t too difficult. The main challenge lay in the various techniques and their continuous, complex sequences.
Xia Yu had also asked why this piece had such a strange name. The reply was that it was composed by the predecessors of the Hua School to commemorate a computer, with the name being the computer’s serial number.
It was said that there was another piece written for another computer, but it remained unfinished due to various reasons.
Who knows why they would compose a piece for a computer.
Although the motivation seemed suspicious, the piece itself was genuinely excellent.
This was only the foundational piece for that “ultimate technique.” He was curious about what the piece called “E-Ending” by Kong Hanyue and Liu Rulan was like.
He had asked both Kong Hanyue and Liu Rulan, but the two were secretive, only telling him the name was “E-Ending.”
This didn’t stop Xia Yu.
He opened a search engine, typed in “E-Ending,” and flipped through the videos that appeared until he found Liu Rulan’s performance.
It was a much more technically dazzling piece than POD042, with an impressive and mournfully beautiful atmosphere.
In terms of technique, it was almost a continuation of POD042, but the difficulty level was vastly different.
At Xia Yu’s current level, he probably wouldn’t master it before the finals.
At ten o’clock in the evening, after leaving Kong Hanyue’s house, Xia Yu took the subway back home.
Sitting at his desk, he continued thinking about foreign languages.
Anyway, he no longer needed to go to An Siyao or Xu Youxiang to learn anything. Trying out among the group of translators to see who had a talent for foreign languages was still feasible.
The current issue was that he had three slots: An Siyao, Xu Youxiang, and the white cat. To freely select other bodies, he needed at least one empty slot.
He needed to delete one.
The deleted one could be restored through free selection, but free selection required him to have seen the person in person.
The white cat was in District 2, and he had no way of going to District 2 to meet the white cat, so it seemed the white cat couldn’t be deleted.
But what if he had An Siyao send someone to District 2 to buy the white cat?
However, he had already revealed too much to An Siyao.
Unable to reach a conclusion, Xia Yu fell asleep.
Over the next two days, he continued to enter the white cat’s body to scout for potential cat owners and think about whether he should involve An Siyao.
In the end, he gave up on the idea.
Even if the white cat was brought to An Siyao’s place, after deleting the white cat, he would still need to meet the white cat at An Siyao’s villa to select it again. However, An Siyao’s villa seemed even harder to enter than District 2.
Unless he revealed his identity to An Siyao.
But online chatting was fun until you actually met in person.
Who knows if An Siyao’s attitude might change? If that happened, he would be in serious trouble.
On the third day, Xia Yu once again entered the white cat’s body. He spent the day looking for a suitable owner but still hadn’t found one.
For some unknown reason, Tina hadn’t come by these days.
Xia Yu’s mood was somewhat low, and he began to consider whether he should just settle for someone adequate.
At that moment, a bright red sports car pulled up in front of the pet shop. Amidst the astonished gazes of passersby, a foot wearing a shoe adorned with small diamonds stepped out from the driver’s seat. An elderly woman wearing an extravagant long dress emerged from inside.
The old woman used a finger decorated with five gemstone rings to remove her pure gold-framed sunglasses, picked up a bag bearing the logo of a famous luxury brand, and walked into the pet shop.
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