Chapter 22 (2/2)

“And Professor Zhuang’s research regarding practice and demonification might be the only existing research in the world. I think you should just raise her for now. Didn’t Professor Zhuang leave coordinates with all the information? Perhaps he hid the results of his research there. If we find that information, we might be able to heal Elsa.”

“That’s right! You and I are thinking the same thing. I can only focus on taking care of Elsa for now…” Suddenly, Zhou Bai screamed, “Elsa! Come back!!!”

Christina watched Elsa raise her leg and pee on the bed. She snickered to herself and said, “That’s the deep-rooted savagery of dogs: They pee on beds. I would never do something like that.”

Zhou Bai told her, “Shut up, it’s not like you need to eat or poop.”

“If you’re unhappy, you can think about it from another perspective. Although she looks like a dog, she’s actually a beautiful maiden. Having a beautiful maiden pee on your bed like this… Isn’t that exciting?”

Zhou Bai tossed Christina out of his mind with a swoosh and then grabbed her tail and flung her onto the ground.

“Wait a—” she protested, when her head hit the ground.

Looking at the dizzy cat in his hand, Zhou Bai pointed at the shiba inu before him and said, “From now on, you’re responsible for raising the dog.”

Christina responded, “But I’m a cat! You’re humiliating me!”

Zhou Bai was adamant. “If you won’t do it, I’m going to use you to wipe the pee.”

Christina walked over to the shiba inu looking very unhappy. The dog and cat barked and meowed at each other for a while. Zhou Bai didn’t understand what they were saying or whether or not they could understand each other at all.

Then he watched Christina getting louder and louder until she finally leapt up and slapped the shiba inu’s head with her paw. Elsa whined and began nodding.

Zhou Bai looked at the messy bed and laid on the couch. He said to Christina, “Oh yeah, don’t forget to change the sheets for me, and wash them, too, if you can.”

A few minutes later, Christina cursed Zhou Bai in her mind while she scrubbed the sheets. “Cruel b*stard! You even exploit cats… Is that even human? Wash the sheets… I’m going to make you wash them to death in the future.”

–Laziness +10–

As Zhou Bai laid on the bed watching his 10-point increase in Laziness, he was very content.

“So that’s how it works…”

He looked at Christina, who was helping him wash the sheets, and then at himself, lying on the couch and getting ready to sleep, when an idea popped into his head. “No wonder when I was given this system it also came with a cat. Is this how I’m supposed to use her?”

Christina shivered and said to no one, “Why do I feel like something’s wrong? Does someone want to hurt me?”

Zhou Bai happily used his 10 points of Laziness, and his Primordial Spirit Value increased to 72 points.

The next morning, Zhou Bai went out to eat at the arranged time and then waited for the car headed to Donghua City.

Christina had already returned into Zhou Bai’s mind, and Elsa followed at Zhou Bai’s side, a dumb smile characteristic of a shiba inu on her face.

The vehicle headed to Donghua City was a massive two-story-tall flying car pulled by 12 bronze horses. Although it looked outdated, it could hover three feet off the ground and ran faster than even high-speed rail.

With the antipollution formation on the flying car, as well as the passengers’ own primordial spirit adjustments and rune immunities, as long as they didn’t leave cities or forts for more than seven days, they had an extremely low risk of infection.

Zhou Bai couldn’t help exclaiming, “This world’s Taoist technologies seem even more primitive than Zhou Bai’s old world in some lifestyle aspects, but they’re much more advanced than his old world in other fields.”