Chapter 541 (1/2)

Hao Ren had read about how cats repay kindness from the stories long time back, the traditional version and the cat girl version. The former involves catching rats for the owner while the latter becomes a cute girl who treats her master like a king. He never thought that his cat was the third kind: she had turned into a cute girl, but she still insisted on catching rats…

It was obvious that she was a mishmash of the two orthodox versions, but Hao Ren felt something was off…

But Rollie wouldn’t know what her master was actually thinking, and she actually thought that she had did something commendable. Happily, she ruffled against Hao Ren’s leg. “Boss Cat, Boss Cat! A rat for you to eat! It’s still moving!”

The dumb cat raised her hand to gloat before Hao Ren, in her hands was a big fat rat. The latter was obviously not fully dead, and still let out a faint whisper. Goosebumps immediately ran all over Hao Ren as he recoiled backwards. “Stand there, and don’t move!”

The cat girl gave Hao Ren a puzzled look. “You’re not happy nya?”

“Where did you get that from?” Hao Ren kept his distance. “Throw it out now!”

“I caught it on the plains back home. Beardy Cat said I cannot go to town.” the dumb cat swung the rat like a pendulum, her face looked rather dejected. “Why don’t you want it? Are you nyangry?”

Hao Ren had thoughts to disciplined the dumb cat, but looking at her innocent face, any anger inside him was immediately extinguished. He knew that the cat girl was still a cat to the bone, and a few days as a human was not enough to teach her all she needs to act like one, and her clumsy actions was all to make him happy. Sighing resignedly, he said, “I’m not angry, but… humans don’t eat rats.”

The cat girl lifted the rat and looked at it. Seeing so Hao Ren quickly added. “You’re not eating it either.”

“I’m not eating that.” The cat girl shook her head. “It’s not as tasty as biscuits and fish jerky.”

Hao Ren glared at her. “Then what do you mean by feeding me that?!”

“It’s because you don’t know how to catch a rat!” The cat girl’s had that ‘Duh’ tone to it. “So it’s up to me to catch them for you.”

Hao Ren was speechless as he tried to reconcile the fact that he was seen as a weakling in the eyes of a cat…

At the very least, Rollie had threw the rat away and as per her usual habit of following behind Hao Ren around the house – like she was inspecting her own castle. After a circle she reached the hall and went for her cushion by the staircase to snooze. Hao Ren sighed again as he saw it. “Do you really have to sleep here? Didn’t I prepare a room for you?”

Rollie simply just gave him a lazy stretch before curling into a smaller ball.. Her tail wagging at Hao Ren with as she meowed at him.

That meant, ‘Your royal highness is sleepy and wants her royal nap, so make yourself scarce’.

Hao Ren sighed again, as he went upstairs to contact Raven12345.

For once, the Goddess was actually not skipping work and the line connected immediately. Hao Ren briefed her on the progress of the research on the First Born and also brought up the matter of creating a space station in the Plane of Dreams for long term research of the First Born.

Raven12345’s voice was chirpy as always. “You’re getting good at this, kiddo. You’re really thinking outside the box now. Guess my choice was right on the money….Go ahead with your plan.

Hao Ren then carefully posed a few questions than worried him the most. “Will this large migration affect the balance between the Surface World and the Plane of Dreams? Using only a dimensional rift, is it possible to build such a big space station? Can I claim expense for that?