1053 Bill (2/2)

He rubbed at his sore eyes, looking at the time. It was already his usual time to wake up, so he no longer purposefully stayed quiet. He connected the computer to the printer and printed the document out.

”What are you doing now?” Vladimir asked.

”It's just a bill, and not a draft for a new law. Besides, I'm a newbie to the Municipal Consultative Conference. How can I make sure that my bill will be taken seriously?” He pointed to the empty space below the document. ”I want to try and get as many people's signatures as possible. This is my biggest task today.”

Finishing, he first wrote his own name down neatly.

”I don't know how many people will be willing to sign this bill…but I hope I can at least fill up the empty space.”

He perused the paper, not too confident about it.

”Alright.” He stood to stretch and have a big, big yawn. ”I'm a little sleepy, but we have a lot of places to go, so let's leave earlier. I'll go wash up and change first. You woke up pretty early too, Vladimir. Go back to sleep.”

Vladimir shook its head. ”It's alright, I'll go with you.”

”You're coming along? We're going to visit all of the households in the neighbourhood, and we won't be driving,” he reminded it. ”It would be a hassle to start and stop all the time anyway. It's going to be really tiring.”

Vladimir showed a light smile. ”A cat's not afraid of a tough journey. The world's waiting for us.”

”...Alright then.”

Seeing that Vladimir had already set its mind to it, Zhang Zian no longer tried to convince it. He placed the bill on the table, going off to wash up.

”Jerk! I was just dreaming that I was staying in a palace! Why did you have to wake me up right now?”

Not too long later, Zhang Zian re-emerged from the bathroom amidst Sihwa's rage, his pajamas damp with water spots, looking rather unkempt.

”We'll leave after I change… Be careful. Don't dirty the bill.” Seeing that Vladimir was still standing on the table, he plucked out the bill from underneath its feet and blew on it. Vladimir was an outdoor cat, after all, and it wasn't as much of a neat freak as Fina. It wouldn't look good if the bill got dirty.

He took a look and found that it had still been stained. There was a paw print beside his own signature, but it was faint. If you weren't specifically looking for it, you might not even notice it, so he probably wouldn't have to print a new copy, right?

Even printer paper cost money. It didn't just fall from the sky.

After changing, he folded the bill and placed it in his pocket, leaving the second floor with Vladimir.

After they had left, all of the other elfins woke up as well.

Pi rubbed at its eyes and put on its spectacles. When it saw that the laptop was still on, it jumped off its rattan hanging chair and sat in the computer chair that still retained some body heat.

Its work today was a little heavier. Other than the usual updates, it had wanted to organize the plot summary. For an online novel with over a million words, if there wasn't a plot summary, it would be easy to forget the content in the beginning chapters the moment they got to the later parts.

All of the other elfins started to wake and wash up, livening up the area and passing by it. But all of this hadn't distracted it. It had gotten used to the noise in here, and they would start quieting down anyway. The battleground would soon move downstairs.

Time ticked by.

It focused on the outline, organizing the timeline according to each elfin's order of showing up. All the way from Zhang Zian downloading till today. Each elfin had their own important part in the outline, independent and yet interconnected with one another.

When it started to flesh out the details of Vladimir's part, Pi started to get a little tired, and it decided to get up and move around. There was still some time before they would get to this part, so there was no need to make a detailed outline. Just a rough outline would do.

So it gave it a thought and summarized the whole portion with a simple sentence. It was pretty satisfied, so it jumped off the chair and went to roam around indoors.

The bright logo said, ”Chinese cats are strangely ambitious, daring even to change night and day!”