CH 15.2

Coming to Tong City was because of his friend encouraging him to. Since there was no way to gain new inspiration, why not wander again through the cities that he had once gone through, capturing these cities’ changes and progression.

An era of innovation, new changes, new high-rise buildings, they could also make people burst with a different kind of inspiration.

Liu Feng knew clearly; this tactic would be useless on him. But for the sake of his friend, he simply bought the train ticket, then aimlessly drifted in the city that was filled with new life and vitality.

Tong City, he had come here many times. Things that were familiar, things that were unfamiliar, none of them gave a different feeling to Liu Feng[1].

When Bai Xia Xia had just left the hotel, at that moment, Liu Feng had seen her. He was across the hotel eating wontons[2], big wontons with pure meat filling, bursting with soup when bitten.

Wontons

Clean Bai Xia Xia was particularly beautiful and eye-catching. Her snow-white fur was pretty like snow, her heterochromatic eyes were emerald green and azure blue.

The truth was that Liu Feng had no special feeling for cats and dogs, he had seen Persian cats before too, his friend was raising one in fact.

These two recent years, raising foreign purebred cats and dogs became popular among the rich, not having this kind of cat and dog seemed as if they would not be able to blend into everybody’s talking topics.

So much so that, there were those who skirted the law and raised unconventional pets.

Liu Feng remembered very clearly, Persian cats were expensive, delicate, and difficult to raise, they had to eat specially prepared imported cat food, and there were many things to pay special attention to when raising these cats.

Extremely annoying.

Normally, they were so valuable that they were kept at home, it was the first time that Liu Feng saw one going out by itself.

And it’s even running about the streets in high profile, who’s so laid-back, to actually not care.

This cat is very expensive! How could its owner leave it outside to let it run around without any scruples, and not be afraid of it being stolen by a thief.

Liu Feng also did not know out of what mentality, but he had just inexplicably followed behind, then slowly discovered that this cat seemed to be walking aimlessly, but its route was actually extremely straight, only main street.

Many people that were tempted, when they saw that there were lots of people in the street, they did not dare to make a move.

This cat was very intelligent, and not only that, but she also walked and stopped, occasionally looking at its surroundings, as if it was searching for something. Liu Feng then became even more curious, following the whole way, and then there were those photos from just now.

At that moment, Liu Feng had naturally pressed on the shutter.

Just like before, in those innumerable instants when inspiration burst forth.

Bai Xia Xia committed to memory the face of the person who had taken candid photos, then placed back her attention on the bodies of the three stray cats in front once again.

Since it’s been taken, then it’s been taken, this fellow won’t necessarily send it out either. I must first find cats to help pry into news from the southern block, rescuing people is the most important.

It was also unknown if Bai Xia Xia’s luck was good or bad, but after the interruption from the photographer, the vigilance from the three stray cats evidently dropped a lot.

Most of their attention was placed on that photographer, instead giving Bai Xia Xia this opportunity to communicate with them.

The tabby cat with a missing ear had a thin, long figure, when observing carefully, you would notice that it did not simply miss an ear. The fur above its left eye was bald, it had obviously been injured, and towards Bai Xia Xia’s try at striking up a conversation, it was completely unconcerned, there was quite the aura of a cool and aloof big brother from the underworld.

Every single strand of hair was striking a pose: I, extremely vicious!

The black cat’s body was the smallest, its whole body was dark like ink, and only the tips of its paws had a spot of white.

From looking at it, it seemed to be six to seven months old, it was the first one to respond to Bai Xia Xia’s question. After exchanging some words, Bai Xia Xia was able to find out that the small group composed of these three cats was very rational!

And they each had their own positions, the tabby cat was evidently the most vicious, occasionally giving her some looks, baring its teeth, as if it was transmitting signals that said, ‘I’m the most difficult to deal with, I’m very violent’.

Fighter plus bodyguard!

The big orange cat was silly, after talking not much with Bai Xia Xia, it took the initiative to move in front of her. Its temper was soft, easy to talk to, and foolish.

The only thing missing was having this written on its forehead: Cat, gluttonous but easy to deceive!

Before coming, Bai Xia Xia had prepared to fight a prolonged war, however, these cats were smarter than what she had expected, there were twists and turns in their communication, but they could understand her meaning too.

Maybe it was because of living in the city, stray cats had to manage the household from an early age ah! Bai Xia Xia thought about Da Hua and was disappointed at him for failing to meet her expectations!

After staying in Cuilian Mountain for a long time, Bai Xia Xia had met a lot of animals.

The truth was, her affinity with animals was extremely good!

She roughly had an insight about some animal’s IQ, just looking at the way they communicated was enough, there were high and low IQ responses from animals.

There probably existed some deviation in a human’s study of individual animals, but their research on the IQ of a community mostly matched, and it could be learnt from.

However, when it was about individuals, single specimens would appear, mm, and there was bound to be some which were particularly intelligent.

For example, this black cat in front of her that was bargaining with her, and that was even trying to become a temporary captain.

Bai Xia Xia: …don’t think that I don’t know what you’re thinking! What, you’ve even learned without a teacher how to stuff your own pocket?!

Sure enough, if animals know how to talk, then humans won’t have any use! Bai Xia Xia had thought that, fooling cats was easily done, but the heavy reality gave Believing Oneself Infallible . Humans Cannot Be Compared to Cats . Experienced at Fooling Others Bai Zhong Zhong[3] a slap.

Translator’s comments:

Xia Xia probably thought that all cats would be like Da Hua, since they’re felines too lol.

Translator’s notes:

[1] The author used Yang here, but it should be Feng from Liu Feng.

[2] Wontons are a type of Chinese dumplings.

[3] Bai Zhong Zhong, which is actually Bai Xia Xia with the two last characters replaced with a word meaning ‘heavy’, was probably used to express that Bai Xia Xia is clumsy and foolish.