The Last Cat in the Universe
Chapter 37
Yue An was startled by Marshal Ji's movements.
The young man's face was exquisite and could be said to be magnificent. It was as if he had been kissed by the gods. Every inch of his face revealed a clear spirit. His hair was clear and snow-white, setting off his beautiful face to the point that it was almost transparent.
He had a pair of light and beautiful blue eyes. They were round and the ends of his eyes were slightly raised. His white eyelashes were the same color as his hair and they were long and thick. They were trembling slightly as his eyes moved.
He was like a newborn cub, timidly and curiously peeking at the world.
Yue An was looking up at Ji Xiuyun. When he caught sight of the white hair in front of his forehead, his face showed a look of realization. The snow on his head, eyelashes, and eyebrows were instantly dyed black. His clear and bright eyes had a hint of cute slyness.
People couldn't help but hold their breaths in anticipation that he would smile at them.
The magnificent young man's movements were not coordinated as he sat up on the fluffy carpet. As he moved, he vaguely revealed the white and naked young body that was hidden under the sofa cushion.
Marshal Ji suddenly crushed the fork in his hand into a pile of scrap metal.
Here, we need to emphasize something.
Marshal Ji was a man.
A normal man.
A normal man in the prime of his life.
If he didn't have any reaction in front of such beauty, he definitely had an unmentionable disease!
Marshal Ji didn't have an unmentionable disease. He was just used to venting his energy on training and the battlefield.
But there was no training ground or battlefield right now.
Ji Xiuyun calmly adjusted his sitting position.
Yue An didn't notice Marshal Ji's reaction. He lowered his head and uncomfortably opened his paws … No, he opened his five fingers and then clumsily controlled these five fingers. He slowly grabbed the cushion and wrapped himself tightly.
He sat on the carpet and looked up at Marshal Ji Xiuyun who was sitting on the chair. He opened his mouth and was about to meow, but he was shocked to find that he couldn't meow!
A cat's vocal system was quite different from a human's.
Yue An, who had been in human form for less than three days and seventy-two hours, was at a loss. He had no idea how to speak in human form.
After all, the last time he transformed into a human was more than a hundred years ago. He looked at himself in the mirror, and then he followed a few other nine-tailed cats who had also transformed into human form to try to buy catmint in a human city. In the end, they were all defeated and almost had their corpses picked up.
Since then, he had never transformed into his human form again.
Yue An was dumbfounded.
Yue An was at a loss.
Yue An was at a loss.
He looked at Ji Xiuyun, whose expression and eyes had turned blank, and felt a little anxious.
Didn't you want to see the human form?!
Why was there no reaction at all!!
The Yue An wrapped his cushion tightly around himself and propped himself up with one hand, trying to lift his two front paws off the ground like his original form.
The kitten, whose ability to transform into human form was rather weak, couldn't adapt to the human's four paws … No, because it couldn't adapt to the length of the human's four limbs, he fell to the side before he could stand firm!
Marshal Ji stood up reflexively, reached out his hand, and grabbed the young man's waist to prevent him from falling face first onto the ground and dying on the spot.
Yue An, who was saved by Marshal Ji and avoided falling face first onto the ground, hit the corner of the dining table with his knee. Not only did he break the corner of the table, but he was also in so much pain that he hugged his cushion and curled up into a ball.
Marshal Ji, who was holding Yue An's tight and slender waist, looked at the cloth ball in his arms, who was sniffling and looking very wronged. Countless thoughts flashed through his mind, but in the end, before he could sort out his thoughts, the tight and slender waist that was pressed against his arm turned into the familiar furry ball at lightning speed.
Ji Xiuyun: "…"
???
No.
Wait a minute?
What happened?
Where was the person who was here just now?
Naked.
Wrapped in cloth.
Very nice to look at.
He was so big.
How did he turn into a cat?
Yue An's little paws rubbed the back of his leg that was hit by the table. He was looking for an exit in the cushion, feeling very wronged.
Marshal Ji's mind was still filled with philosophical questions like "Who am I? Where am I? What happened just now? Did I raise a cat that turned into a human or a cat that turned into a human?"
Yue An popped his head out of the cushion. His ears were erect, and his beautiful blue eyes were wide open. There were even traces of tears in his eyes. He meowed pitifully at Marshal Ji as if he was being abused.
Marshal Ji lowered his eyes and looked at his cat for a long time. He threw the small steel ball that was the remains of a fork in his hand to the side, picked up his cat, and placed it next to the hole in the dining table, ready to have a good talk with his cat.
But his cat wasn't ready to have a good talk with him.
Yue An, who had hit his leg and hadn't been comforted, turned around and faced Marshal Ji with his butt. He stopped wagging his tail and pressed it under his body, burying his face in his furry tail. He rejected Ji Xiuyun with a capital letter.
He was really throwing a tantrum.
Marshal Ji, who had never learned how to coax a cat, glanced at the pastry that had fallen on the carpet.
"…" Perfect. The only thing that could divert Yue An's attention was gone.
Marshal Ji thought for a while and reached out to touch Yue An, who had curled up into a cat ball.
Yue An turned his head and slapped him away with his paw. He jumped down from the dining table angrily and went into the small hole in the cat tree with his three remaining catmint reagents.
Marshal Ji, who had been abandoned, thought for a long time in the dining room and decided to cook for himself.
Of course, he wasn't going to cook.
Instead, he seriously reflected on what had just happened.
In fact, Ji Xiuyun's first reaction was that this was Yue An's hallucination ability, which could directly affect people's minds.
When he had been in the research department, Yue An had noticed that he was in a bad mood, so he had replaced the pale walkway with a vibrant archway filled with the fragrance of flowers.
But this ability directly affected the target's mind, so it had no effect on machine detection. When Yue An had been practicing his special ability, Marshal Ji had been standing next to him with all kinds of detection equipment, recording it at any time.
Marshal Ji turned on the surveillance camera in his living room and rewound for three minutes. He saw the appearance of the beautiful young man clearly appear on the screen. Then he silently turned off the screen.
It had been recorded by the surveillance camera.
So it was real.
Ji Xiuyun was silent. Just in case, he deleted the video that recorded the abnormal scene. His expression didn't seem to change at all.
He turned around and glanced at Yue An's cat tree.
It shouldn't be, he thought.
How could a normal cat turn into a human?
But all cats seemed to only have one tail.
Yue An had eight tails.
The eight tails might be an evolution. The reason why it turned into a human's appearance was probably because of mimicry. For example, Yue An's hair had turned from white to black. It was probably also a type of mimicry.
Marshal Ji tried to use science to explain why Yue An had turned into a human.
Then he spat at himself in his heart.
Have you ever seen a mimicry that could mimic another species?
Looking at Yue An's clumsy movements, he guessed that it wasn't a mimicry. Mimicry was usually used to defend against natural enemies or to hunt. He had never seen a mimicry that would drag itself down.
Marshal Ji didn't even think that Yue An was a spy from another country.
Regardless of which country would be stupid enough to use an ancient Earth creature as a spy, have you ever seen a spy that didn't keep a low profile? Instead, it would broadcast itself every day, eat delicious food, and be raised by clouds. In front of tens of billions of viewers on the Star Network, it would twist its body into an S shape and play mahjong?
If such a person could become a spy, the person in power in that country should twist off the head of the spy agency and kick it like a ball.
Ji Xiuyun wondered why his cat had become so fat. At the same time, he opened the database of the Information Security Department and went straight to the Ancient Earth Intelligence Data Area.
Then he entered two keywords: eight tails and cat.
Yue An squatted in the cat tree and waited for a long time, but Ji Xiuyun didn't come to coax him.
Ji Xiuyun had changed.
He wasn't like this before.
In the past, he would chase after him to rub his head and belly.
Yue An completely forgot that he had slapped away Ji Xiuyun's hand. He felt wronged.
Sure enough, the aesthetic standards of humans in this era were completely different from those on Earth.
Ji Xiuyun was so ugly, but in this era, he was the dream lover of hundreds of millions of young boys and girls.
According to the aesthetic standards of this era, his human form must be very, very ugly. Otherwise, Ji Xiuyun wouldn't ignore him.
But Ji Xiuyun was the one who wanted to see his human form!
I didn't despise him for being ugly. How could he despise me?
Yue An felt wronged and curled up into a ball. He didn't even suck the catmint anymore. Instead, he curled up in a small corner of the cat tree.
Young, pitiful, and helpless.
When Ji Xiuyun walked to the edge of the cat tree and bent down to have a good talk with Yue An, he saw Yue An curled up and looking at him pitifully. His beautiful blue eyes seemed to be shining with tears.
Ji Xiuyun, "…"
Ji Xiuyun, "???"
What's going on??
"Yue An, come out." Mr. Marshal reached out his hand and put his palm on the entrance of the cave. "Can we talk?"
"Meow!!" Yue An screamed miserably.
This person must have thrown me away because my human form is too ugly!
I was wrong about you!
Yue An curled up and hid inside the cave.
Ji Xiuyun was stunned by his scream for two seconds. After noticing Yue An's resistance, he didn't force him to come out. Instead, he sat down on the ground.
"I found the information." Marshal Ji said very calmly, "You are … a monster."
"You are a nine-tailed cat. You used your ninth tail to save me, right?" Ji Xiuyun asked again.
Yue An was stunned. His drooping ears suddenly shook, and he stood up alertly.
In the era of the universe, these mythical words were less and less common. For the people of this era, the myths and legends that troubled people in ancient Earth could be explained by science.
For the people of this era, the mystical side had completely disappeared. The theories and concepts of gods passed down from ancient Earth were regarded as a kind of appreciation for others and a classical romantic culture.
For example, Ji Xiuyun, who was known as the God of War.
This title was just the people's respect and praise for the Marshal of the Empire. It also showed that they recognized him as a general.
God knows how Marshal Ji understood the non-scientific concept of a monster. Anyway, he was very calm and composed.
"Your wish is … to become an immortal?" Ji Xiuyun said these words unskillfully.
Yue An looked at Ji Xiuyun. Its blue cat eyes stared at him without blinking. It was vigilant and guarded.
On one hand, he felt that Ji Xiuyun was not the kind of person who would forcibly detain a cat. On the other hand, he remembered the old man's lesson about how humans were all bad.
Ji Xiuyun understood why his cat had such a reaction. If the myths and legends he had read were true, Yue An's reaction was not difficult to understand.
Growing a tail in 20 years could make any wish come true.
Fairy tales nowadays didn't even dare to write about it.
"Is your wish to become an immortal?" Ji Xiuyun asked again.
Yue An was silent for a long time. Then it got up, got out of the cat tree, squatted in front of Ji Xiuyun, and meowed seriously.
Ji Xiuyun had a sense of responsibility for Yue An.
It was he who broke Yue An's wish to become an immortal. It was he who brought Yue An to the human society. It was he who publicized the identity of Yue An as a treasure of the ancient earth. Even though the latter two things were agreed upon by Yue An, Yue An didn't want to meet him in the beginning.
"I will make your wish come true."
He took advantage of Yue An, so he had to return the favor no matter what.
He just wanted to make a wish to Yue An in 20 years and let him become an immortal. Compared to dying when he was in trouble, he still had several 20 years to live through Yue An.
"Now let's talk about your transformation into an adult."
Marshal Ji recalled the beautiful face that could be described as a heavenly treasure. It was no wonder that in the legends of the ancient earth, there were always people who fell for the beauty of monsters.
That level of beauty was simply against the rules.
Ji Xiuyun squeezed Yue An's little paw, and said, "Don't transform into a human."
Otherwise, if he walked out in cat form, he would definitely be taken away by people who were obsessed with his beauty!
However, Yue An didn't receive Ji Xiuyun's kindness.
He widened his eyes and howled angrily!
You really think I'm ugly!
Bah!
You are ugly!
I didn't even think you were ugly!
How dare you think I'm ugly!
I don't accept it!
Yue An was so angry that he slapped the cat tree under his butt with his paw, jumped into Marshal Ji's arms, and turned into a human without any warning. He sat on Ji Xiuyun's lap and angrily snuggled into Marshal Ji's arms.
You think I'm ugly!
You think I'm ugly!
I'll make you ugly for a while longer!
Hit me if you dare!