The black-haired boy walked toward the pile of clothes, just about to reach out and grab the cat when, in the next moment, someone beat him to it.
His black eyes looked even more spirited in the firelight, the red flames highlighting his sharp and handsome features.
Dressed in a clean, simple summer short-sleeve shirt, he gently extended his hands and cradled the cat, bowing his head and speaking kindly:
“Family, look, I found a cat.”
“How did you end up here?”
Mo Yidong held the cat up in the air, then turned his gaze coldly on the black-haired boy standing before him, whose face showed shock and fear.
It was as if he saw through the other’s inner nature.
His tone carried a trace of authority as he spoke seriously:
“Isn’t that the question I should be asking you?”
The black-haired boy’s eyes widened, staring at Mo Yidong in disbelief, his surprise as if he had just encountered an old acquaintance.
He quickly tore off a paper talisman stuck inside his vest, then, in the next second, looked around bewildered.
“How did I end up here? What’s wrong with me?”
Once the crisis was resolved, Mu Yiqiu placed the injured party in a safe spot and immediately approached Mo Yidong.
If he hadn’t been mistaken, right as the black-haired boy was about to catch the cat, a flash of light streaked across the ground, and Mo Yidong appeared immediately afterward.
“How did you get here?”
Mu Yiqiu looked carefully at the spot where Mo Yidong was standing and saw no teleportation circle, his curiosity piqued.
“Of course, I asked the Mountain God to send me over.”
“Did the Mountain God really manifest?!”
Mu Yiqiu’s face showed shock, but beneath Mo Yidong’s calm expression, his eyes revealed a slight joy.
“Yes.”
Mo Yidong looked at the silver-white short-haired feline in front of him, its round head topped with sharp black-blue eyes.
The cat’s dazed gaze seemed not fully awake yet.
Out of curiosity, Mo Yidong secretly raised it a little higher, looking at the cat with mild surprise and incredulously muttering:
“…No balls.”
“You’re the one without balls!”
Mo Yidong guessed that on the way to Mu Yiqiu, Xia Yu stepped on something that sent a surge of electricity through her body, putting her into full anesthesia.
Now her body felt numb and tingly.
The word “balls” was extremely sensitive to Xia Yu, and when someone dared to say she didn’t have any right to her face, she immediately retorted in anger.
She opened her eyes in fury, only to see a magnified version of Mo Yidong in front of her.
Xia Yu tried to move her legs and suddenly realized she was suspended in midair, seemingly cradled by Mo Yidong.
She lowered her head to see two fluffy short legs and immediately exclaimed:
“Meow meow meow meow, meow meow meow meow…!”
“Why does it keep meowing?”
“Thinks it’s still speaking human language.”
Mu Yiqiu leaned in closer to observe the cat’s form.
It looked like an eight or nine-month-old Silver Shaded Cat.
“By the way… is this Brother Yu?”
“Judging by the aura, it is.”
Xia Yu tried to get down from Mo Yidong’s hands, struggling all she could, but he held her firmly, and she couldn’t move an inch.
“What was that guy just now?”
Mu Yiqiu saw the classmate who attacked Xia Yu say some nonsensical things before leaving in a daze.
Worried he might come back, he kept glancing toward the direction the black-haired boy had left.
“Someone borrowed his body to appear here. But it’s fine now. That guy ran so fast; it seems he didn’t want to be recognized.”
Mo Yidong already knew who had possessed the body.
To capture the person fully, he needed to wait for the right opportunity.
To observe the cat more closely, Mo Yidong deliberately brought it nearer, noticing its angry expression was especially adorable.
“Turns out it’s a little sister.”
Mo Yidong said this as the Silver Shaded Cat seemed to understand, huffing at him and almost scratching his face with its paws.
“Even turned into a cat, still quite the temper.”
After teasing her enough, Mo Yidong held the cat directly in his arms, ready to leave.
But the cat didn’t want to be held like this and struggled a few times.
Mo Yidong deliberately tightened his grip and kindly warned:
“This is a fire scene. If your fur gets scorched, it won’t look good.”
After Mo Yidong’s words, the cat obediently stayed still in his arms.
“How will Brother Yu turn back?”
Mu Yiqiu stared at the obedient cat in his arms, worried that she might not be able to change back.
“When the effect expires, she’ll naturally revert.”
To make life more interesting, the market sells some Pet Transformation Tools.
Mo Yidong guessed that Xia Yu had stepped on something that caused this transformation.
[Injured successfully delivered to Rest Area. Xia Yu and Mu Yiqiu have completed the mission.]
The training ground Broadcast finally put Xia Yu and Mu Yiqiu’s worried hearts at ease.
“Did you finish your mission?”
“Done.”
Seeing Mo Yidong clean and fresh, Mu Yiqiu seemed to have gotten a relatively easy random task; otherwise, he wouldn’t have arrived at the fire scene so quickly.
“What kind of mission?”
Mu Yiqiu watched Mo Yidong mention casually,
“A task to chat with someone.”
Mo Yidong wrapped the cat in Xia Yu’s clothes and secretly brought it into the dorm while the Aunt Dorm Supervisor wasn’t paying attention.
Mu Yiqiu and Xia Yu’s room was 203, while Zhang Wenshan and Mo Yidong lived in 207.
Worried the person who tried to steal the cat might come back, it wasn’t safe to leave the cat with Mu Yiqiu.
Mo Yidong and Mu Yiqiu agreed to take the cat back to his dorm, though the cat seemed a bit reluctant.
Xia Yu tried to break free from Mo Yidong, but the moment she opened her mouth to say something, the cat’s mouth covered Mo Yidong’s hand.
“Shh, pets aren’t allowed in the dorm. If you don’t want to get kicked out, behave.”
Xia Yu didn’t want to sleep outside, glaring angrily at Mo Yidong sideways.
Seeing his sly smile, she truly wanted to give him another beating.
Mo Yidong pushed open the dorm door and saw Zhang Wenshan already back, along with a few male classmates chatting about what they saw at the training ground.
There were pale green plums on the table.
Zhang Wenshan grabbed a few and handed them to Mo Yidong.
“Picked these on the hillside on the way back. Washed. Want some?”
“Sour? If too sour, I’ll pass.”
“Not sour, try it.”
Mo Yidong took a plum, then noticed Zhang Wenshan staring intently at the clothes in his hands and asked curiously:
“Whose clothes are those?”
Zhang Wenshan saw the clothes in Mo Yidong’s hands were bulging, then suddenly a Silver Shaded Cat popped out and he exclaimed:
“Where did you find a cat?”
“Also on the mountain.”
It seemed no one cared about whose clothes they were anymore.
Several classmates gathered around Mo Yidong, curiously looking at the small creature in his arms.
“A stray?”
Some wanted to pet it, but Mo Yidong had no intention of letting anyone touch the cat, wrapping it up tightly.
“Look how clean it is. It must have been abandoned.”
Unable to stand being watched and treated like a pet, Xia Yu tried to hide back into her clothes, but the next moment Mo Yidong tossed the covering aside, holding her again.
“Be careful, you might get caught. Don’t even know if it’s sick.”
“You’re the sick one!”
Xia Yu twisted her cat head and hissed at the classmates who spoke.
“Such a fierce one.”
Zhang Wenshan and the others instinctively took a step back, carefully observing the little creature in Mo Yidong’s arms.
“You really like dealing with grumpy ones, huh.”
Mo Yidong looked down at the cat in his arms, reaching out to gently stroke its head, a soft smile appearing on his face.
“Something like that.”