Lifting his head, Xia Yu looked toward the source of the sound. What he saw were two Caucasians with reddish-brown hair.
Had he arrived in Europe or America?
After listening more carefully for a couple of sentences and catching words like “what” and “god,” he speculated that he must be either in District 5 or District 2.
So he had actually been swapped to another district.
Thinking carefully, it was normal to end up in another district; after all, the game never said it would only select bodies within District 1.
Surveying his surroundings, Xia Yu realized he was currently inside a pet store. Around him were many cats.
Letting out a yawn, he lay down inside the cage and continued thinking about his new traits.
Elegance, telepathy, and calming.
Elegance wasn’t particularly useful, yet it wasn’t completely useless either. This kind of trait related to charisma could only make him more attractive.
However, humans were often members of the “looks club,” so having an attractive appearance could be beneficial in many situations.
He decided to set that aside for now.
Then he focused on telepathy and calming. Xia Yu fell into deep thought.
What exactly was telepathy? Why would a cat have telepathic abilities?
He recalled ancient sayings about animals possessing spiritual connections.
Animals could sense certain information that humans couldn’t perceive, which sometimes made them display abilities that seemed like “foreseeing the future” to humans—for example, animals often showed signs of warning before an earthquake.
Was telepathy this kind of ability?
Putting this trait aside as well, Xia Yu turned his attention to the final trait: calming.
The meaning of calming was straightforward. Xia Yu often used the calming skill on Youxue; all it required was petting her head or pinching her cheeks, which could relieve Youxue’s inner tension and help her relax.
However, obviously, a cat couldn’t use its paws to pat someone’s head or pinch their cheeks to perform this ability.
So, was it licking?
Or perhaps extending its paws to let someone squeeze its paw pads?
Or maybe it was about being petted along the fur?
Xia Yu couldn’t come up with an answer.
As he was thinking, a shop employee approached his cage.
“Oh￥％％……&”
What kind of gibberish was that?
In this world, the First District school system didn’t include English as a subject. Foreign languages were optional electives in college, and English was rarely used in everyday life. Xia Yu’s English skills, which had originally been at the CET-4 level, had now completely deteriorated.
He couldn’t understand a word the person was saying.
Fortunately, the person didn’t expect a cat to understand human speech anyway.
The employee opened the cage, took Xia Yu out, and carried him to the backyard, placing him inside a fenced enclosure.
The enclosure was less than fifty square meters, with grass and trees planted inside.
Was this a cat-walking session?
After setting Xia Yu down, the employee went back to fetch other cats. Dozens of cats ran wildly around the yard, creating a chaotic scene.
Xia Yu jumped onto a flowerbed in the center of the yard and resumed thinking.
Since he didn’t understand how telepathy and calming worked, he couldn’t practice them right now. He could only start with elegance.
He jumped down from the flowerbed and began walking around the yard.
Elegance, he thought, probably referred to a cat’s graceful gait.
At noon, when the sun was directly overhead, a bell rang.
Two employees held rattles and shook them.
Most of the cats in the yard spontaneously walked toward the employees, and the remaining few followed.
The employees placed small bowls in front of each cat and poured cat food into them.
So it was time for lunch.
Was the cat food tasty?
Xia Yu hesitated slightly.
As he hesitated, a blue Persian cat approached him from the side.
The blue cat lowered its head and tried to bite into Xia Yu’s cat food.
Xia Yu extended his paw and pressed down on the blue cat’s head, preventing it from succeeding.
At the same time, he was thinking.
Did cats have bullying behavior in their society too?
Was this blue cat trying to start a fight?
Without hesitation, he raised his paw and slapped the blue cat aside.
The blue cat cried out a few times, “Wuwuwu,” looking pitifully at Xia Yu.
Then it tried again to eat Xia Yu’s cat food.
“???”
Holding the blue cat’s head down, Xia Yu thought for a moment before using his hind paw to place the blue cat’s bowl directly in front of it, pressing its head down to eat.
The blue cat obediently began eating its food, no longer causing trouble.
So this cat had just been unable to tell which bowl was its own?
What an idiot cat.
Sighing, Xia Yu lowered his head to eat his own cat food.
At that moment, a soft laugh came from the side, and a hand reached out, taking Xia Yu’s food bowl away.
Lifting his head, Xia Yu looked at the owner of the hand. It was one of the two employees. She held Xia Yu’s cat food bowl while chatting and laughing with her colleague.
Needless to say, she had witnessed the previous incident and now wanted to have a bit of fun at Xia Yu’s expense.
Xia Yu had seen many such boring humans before.
He had no interest in playing along, so he went to the blue cat’s side and used his paw to drag the blue cat’s bowl toward himself.
“Meow?” The blue cat looked at Xia Yu in confusion.
Xia Yu pointed toward the bowl in the employee’s hand, and the blue cat immediately changed its target, walking to the employee and meowing pitifully.
Seeing Xia Yu happily eating the blue cat’s food and the blue cat meowing at her feet, the two employees’ faces showed astonishment.
They placed some cat food down for the pitiful blue cat to eat and stroked it gently.
They then tried to pet Xia Yu, but he timely ran off with the bowl in his mouth.
After lunch, Xia Yu continued pacing around the yard. In the meantime, three people came to look at the cats, and one of them took away an orange cat.
Within less than an hour, a new orange cat joined the group.
This pet store had a fast restocking speed.
Xia Yu sighed in admiration.
At four in the afternoon, the two employees herded all the cats back into their cages. At this time, Xia Yu returned to his own body.
He opened his skill panel.
[Music Lv4, Dexterity Lv3, Intimidation Lv1, Night Vision Lv1, Programming Lv1, Painting Lv1, Video Games Lv1, Elegance Lv1, Dexterity Boost Lv1]
Seeing the newly added Elegance Lv1, Xia Yu felt extremely satisfied.
It was Sunday, a holiday when he didn’t need to work, and he was at home.
He decided to go find Youxue and test his Elegance skill.
Opening the door, Xia Yu saw Youxue lying on the outdoor sofa reading a book.
He went to the kitchen, poured two glasses of juice, and walked toward the girl.
As he approached, recalling the feeling of being a cat, Xia Yu activated his Elegance skill.
Elegance was a kind of temperament. Temperament wasn’t an abstract or intangible thing; it was based on real, physical aspects such as posture and expression, which created a certain impression on others.
Xia Yu slightly widened his eyes, pulled his elbows slightly inward toward his waist, and subtly changed his gait.
He approached Youxue and handed her the glass of juice.
“Thank you, big brother.” As Youxue lifted her head, she felt her eyes were momentarily dazzled by sunlight from the window. For a moment, her older brother seemed to be enveloped in sunlight.
Her hand loosened, and the juice spilled onto her clothes.
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