Chapter 12 - Celebrity cat

Translated by Jun Shaoye

Edited by Cy

Proofread by Lore

The female store manager gave him a rundown of the precautions he should take note of, then stroked Xu Mao Mao, and left.

Shen Yu laid down in a daze for yet another two hours. By the time he felt a little less listless and arose, it was already midnight. The moment he woke up, he saw the sleeping cat curled up by his side.

Xu Mao Mao’s ears flicked up at his movement and it immediately scrambled up.

“Meow!” Male god, your complexion still seems unwell. Are you hungry?

Shen Yu’s eyes focused on the cat’s face for a moment, pupils enlarging as the fuzzy, fragmented memories gradually became more clear, suddenly recalling certain scenes. And that female manager…

“Oscar,” Shen Yu held him up and asked, voice uncertain, “Are you Oscar?”

A cat was able to buy medicine for him?! How could it do that?! When did it become so intelligent? Could it be that during these few passing days, there was an unexpected encounter that allowed it to suddenly gain wisdom? Moreover, he even dreamed that Oscar could speak the human language…

Shen Yu’s eyes clouded with confusion.

“Meow~” Xu Mao Mao called softly, rubbing his pink nose against his hand. He’s still a little hot.

Shen Yu picked up the cat, then carefully pried open its small mouth gently. He attentively observed for a moment before concluding there weren’t any differences—it was still his Oscar.

Sighing deeply, Shen Yu stroked the cat and muttered to himself, “Forget it. It was so hard to bring you home. What’s there to be suspicious of? You’re just an unusually intelligent cat.”

“Meow~”

Xu Mao Mao wasn’t exactly willing to reveal his real body either. Afterall, a cat transforming back into a human is way too scary, right? Furthermore, if he were to change into his human form later, there were still many things he was unsure of, so he was better off just leaving Shen Yu to his misunderstandings.

Fortunately, Shen Yu wasn’t aware that he used a voice changing potion to talk, otherwise this would be harder to explain.

Shen Yu went to measure his own temperature.

38.5°C. His legs still felt a little weak, but he still struggled and got up to open a can for Xu Mao Mao.

“Sorry, you’ll have to eat this for tonight. Once I get better, I’ll prepare a delicious plate of pilaf for you.”

Unexpectedly, Oscar didn’t even eat, and pushed the can towards Shen Yu.

“Meow!” Xu Mao Mao probably wanted to remind Shen Yu to eat something.

“Heh, you want me to eat this?” Shen Yu laughed.

“Meow!” No! You shouldn’t eat this! You must eat human food, and preferably something light on your stomach. Ah, if only I could change into a human now. Cooking congee is the one thing I’m good at.

Xu Mao Mao grabbed the can back, and squinted at him with both eyes.

Shen Yu misunderstood once again and said: “Okay, okay, I’m not going to rob you of your food! I’ll order takeout instead.”

“Meow!” It’s only right. You shouldn’t starve yourself.

Shen Yu picked up his phone. Xu Mao Mao quietly leapt behind his back and watched as he input the password: 034568.

So this was the password! I’ll have to remember it.

Shen Yu ordered congee with pork and preserved egg for himself, then turned around and saw Oscar staring at his phone screen.

“Do you want to play with this?” He asked, uncertain.

Xu Mao Mao held open his paws to touch the phone. Shen Yu felt a little puzzled, but handed it over and watched him paw at the screen. For that split second, Shen Yu thought this cat really had become clever. However, Oscar merely batted the screen, saw that there was nothing interesting, and returned the phone to him.

“Meow,” he grumbled angrily. His paws were too clumsy and he was unable to tap accurately. He definitely could not use a phone in that form.

After finishing his congee, Shen Yu returned to bed and continued to rest.

Xu Mao Mao still remained by his bedside, observing quietly as he curled up and prepared to sleep. Who knew notifications would spring up suddenly?

【Received Love Values from Amun-Ra +2】

【Received Love Values from Gay came to look +5】

【Received Love Values from Little Comrade’s Secret Garden +1】…

There were alerts from all sorts of strange IDs.

It was so noisy that Xu Mao Mao was unable to sleep. Then he touched the little bell and wanted to turn off the notifications. Unexpectedly, he entered the cat server.

【Arale】: Meow, I saw an interesting video today.

【Mi Gu】: 0.0 Mi Gu will watch too.

【Rice】: Reveal it, goddess. What is it? Where do we find it?

【Arale】: It’s related to someone of our cat race. It was just released tonight but already caught the attention of the entire cat world…I’ll send it to you.

【Arale】: Astonishing! Cat_bought_medicine_for_owner.avi

Xu Mao Mao’s eyes twitched and he tapped to take a peek at what it was. A short Youku video of his visit to buy medicine today played back onscreen.

【Rice】: Finished watching! Unexpectedly, he can write human words!

【Mi Gu】: My god, his strokes are so elegant.

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【Arale】: I only know “one two three”, yet he can actually write that many…

【Tiger Mimi】: He must be a linguist.

【Tian Tian】: What a great writer!

The remaining crowd of cats agreed, wholly focused on the crooked handwriting displayed on the paper. Though these kitties could chat as well, they were still using cat language. Xu Mao Mao, who had transformed into a cat, automatically understood it all. Therefore, he was equivalent to being a talented cat that was highly proficient in both Chinese and the Cat language now.

The corner of Xu Mao Mao’s mouth twitched and his whiskers trembled. At last, he typed out a line of words feebly.

【Oscar】: That’s me…

A crowd of cats: Astonished.jpg

【Oscar】: It’s true. My poop shoveling officer exhausted himself sick in order to find me.

【Rice】: A dark horse~

A crowd of cats: Prostated themselves on the floor.

【Oscar】: @Arale , How did you see this video? Is it from the human race’s website?

【Arale】: I bought the link rights from the human race’s website.

【Rice】: Goddess, doesn’t buying link rights require ten million per month???

【Arale】: Ah, yes.

【Mi Gu】: Sister, you’re so awesome. How can you possibly have so much?

【Arale】: Actually, I am an internet celebrity. Bashful.jpg

【Mi Gu】: What’s an internet celebrity?

【Rice】: I know. it means you’re very popular in the human servers.

【Arale】: Pretty close. It’s just that my poop shoveling officer took many pictures of me and posted them online. A lot of humans follow me on that account.

The crowd of cats couldn’t help but sigh enviously—why didn’t their poop shovel officers also take photos of them?!

Xu Mao Mao suddenly realized why Arale was the only rich cat. Calling her “a goddess” wasn’t too much of a stretch.

【Arale】: However, Oscar’s also quickly becoming an internet celebrity~

【Oscar】: ………………

【Mi Gu】: I admire Brother Oscar, you’ll be our next local tycoon!

Xu Mao Mao later realized after some thought that there really was a way to earn love values quickly… by becoming an internet celebrity!

【Oscar】: Internet celebrities just need to take pictures?

【Arale】: Something like that. The poop shoveling officer also does live broadcasts for me.

Live broadcast? That kind of live broadcast where a pretty girl wears heavy makeup and gaudy dresses, popular with degenerate men? Obviously, Xu Mao Mao’s knowledge about the contents of live broadcasting was only at version 1.0. He felt that it was necessary for himself to find an opportunity to go online at least once to understand the conditions of becoming an internet celebrity.

Taking advantage of the sleeping Shen Yu, he sneakily went to paw at his phone. Unfortunately, despite his strenuous attempts, the very inflexible cat paws were unable to unlock it.

When Shen Yu woke up in the early morning, his fever had already completely subsided and he felt energized. He nimbly made breakfast for Xu Mao Mao. Later, he discovered his own cat seemed to be obsessed with his phone. When it was free, it would leave the phone on the sofa to play. Although it technically wasn’t doing much more than pressing random keys on the lock screen.

Shen Yu thought about it and took out a tablet from inside one of his drawers.

“Come, play with this instead.”

“Meow!”

Xu Mao Mao cheered with his two paws held high, as though he really wanted to take it from him.

Shen Yu held the tablet and clicked on the “Whack-A-Mole” application, personally demonstrating how to play the game.

Xu Mao Mao was just a cat now, afterall. He lacked resistance towards the jumping rats on the screen and got carried away with playing after a while. Moreover, since he was a cat, he had incredible reflexes and quickly reached the next level. Shen Yu, who was prepared to teach and go through several rounds of practice, was also dumbstruck.

Is the cat’s IQ really that high?

Somewhat absent-mindedly, he went out to the gate while calling Qiao Ling Feng.

Qiao Ling Feng picked up and said to him, “I was just about to call you. Did you know that your Oscar almost became famous?

“What do you mean?”

“Hey, didn’t it go to the pharmacy below your house yesterday?”

“How did you know? I was just about to talk to you about that.”

“Those shop assistants took a video and uploaded it to Youku!”

Shen Yu’s eyebrows twitched. “What’s the name of the video?”

“Don’t bother, you can’t find it anymore. Since that video carelessly exposed your address, I just found an administrator to delete it.”

“…”

“Hehe, tell me honestly, is this a self-directed act?”

Shen Yu went silent.

“Wahaha, didn’t expect that you would do something so silly!”

“…Qiao Ling Feng, I think Oscar awakened his spiritual sense.

“What?” Qiao Ling Feng burst into loud laughter, “This isn’t supernatural fiction.”

“…A moment ago, I taught it to play Whack-A-Mole”, Shen Yu spoke slowly, “it learned it in one go.” Moreover, the way he played wasn’t bad!

Qiao Ling Feng tutted disdainfully, “What’s the matter? My Da Mi can do that too.”

Shen Yu didn’t know how to reply. He only knew intuitively that his cat was truly extraordinary.

Qiao Ling Feng continued, “Stop thinking about trivial things and reflect on what you can do in the future. You were too careless, so it went missing a second time. You better put a GPS locating collar for it.”

“I know.”

“You can install surveillance cameras at your house. Otherwise, you won’t know what it’s doing at your house during the day.”

“…It might break it.”

“You can buy the concealed types! Hey, I can’t talk to you now, I have to make an announcement. How annoying, Brother Wu gave me too much work!”

After hanging up, Shen Yu massaged his forehead and earnestly searched for information about the collar and the surveillance cameras.

The author has something to say:

His disguise isn’t that easily exposed. But once the surveillance camera is installed, his disguise might really get torn ahahaha

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Jun’s corner:

I’m sorry for being unable to update for more than a month. I was busy with my real life and my studies. The updates maybe became more slower after this; I will enter hiatus  perhaps after my trial exam until my spm exam. But before that, I will update and I will try to update more frequently after I adapted into my recent busy lifestyle.Thank you for your patience!Thanks for kofi, JenniferKLee!