Chapter 17 (1/2)

When life becomes a routine, times passes quickly

Zheng Tan'strees and practicing ju

The Jiao family calendar was flipped to Nove Tan realize how much time had passed He had been here for five months now

Zheng Tan flexed his paws Sharp claws appeared These claws looked no different fro Tan knew, they were not the same At least, they were different frorinded his claws, nor did he cut it His claws grew, then his training wore theain

Cat claere indeed a veryThere were sharp, flexible and retractable Some said that cat claere like portable Swiss Ar his to becoh

Zheng kneas different from other cats He heard Papa Jiao say before that cats cannot taste sweetness, but he could distinctly taste it He could also eat a lot of things cats were supposed to avoid People debated whether cats were color-blind He didn't knohat it was like for other cats, but at least he could distinguish between colors

Then there was the issue of claws Even if other cats underwent continuous training, they would not experience the surge in strength Zheng Tan was experiencing, nor would their claws change drastically

However, that was about it He didn't experience anything th was now close to the level of an adult, he was not physically turning into a hu Just like even if he trained like aa monkey

Was this really what it was going to be like from now on?

Zheng Tan pondered these things while running Not only was he significantly faster, he could now afford to distract hihts He wasn't tired to the point where breathing was painful anyue, which went away after a bit of rest

After co Tan cae of carove in the eastern quarters and usually deserted due to its distance from classroos that had 'tooto build a new dor rapidly, and the old dormitories were filled up to capacity

Therefore, the area was frequented only by construction workers and construction vehicles Students and faculty living off cah the side door here Zheng Tan came here every day to climb trees after his run because no one was here to discover any peculiar behavior of his

Wei Lin had been helping that police officer recently Apparently, the case he was investigating was not yet solved Zheng Tan mostly ran and trained alone these days As for the other three cats, he gave up on trying to get them to exercise with him since the first day

After taking a short break, Zheng Tan began his daily tree-cli here was that the trees were larger, which

Zheng Tan hopped onto a big paGoda tree He scratched the trunk a few tiht He slipped off the branch, hanging his, then took a deep breath

His hind legs let go of the branch, leaving his His claws sunk into the tree, and he startedoutwards to the tip of the branch When he was al himself back onto the tree

He then looked around, selected a suitable branch within a reasonable distance He prepared hi onto the new branch and repeated the whole process again

When he first heard of this trainingTan had his doubts After all, he was a cat, not a monkey

Wei Ling acknowledged Zheng Tan's confusion He asked, ”Do you think it's not possible? Or that no cat can do it?”

”I had known a cat that could run through the woods with the agility of a monkey Itthe ground Ever since it learnt to climb trees, it had spent most of its time on trees”

”Remember, sometimes for cats, trees are your last lifesaver”

So, Zheng Tan began his training, hoping one day, helike a monkey

After cli Tan jumped onto an old Liriodendron tree He first noticed it, because of its oddly shaped leaves At the ti on its branches, when a leaf fell in front of him It looked just like a vest

Wei said that this tree was called Liriodendron and was a rare and endangered species In a city, it was seldoarden The fact that one of these existed on ca history

Liriodendron flowers looked like tulips Its English name could be translated to ”Chinese tulips”, but unfortunately, Liriodendron blosso the Jiao faether

Zheng Tan listened to the leaves rustle around hi his fur He looked side to side, the trees were slowly turning golden Soon, the teain Then, after a rainy or windy day, the leaves would start falling

Winter was co to Chuhua

It was still early Third period had just ended and Zheng Tan wasn't due home for lunch until the fourth period If he went ho around for food to be cooked

As usual, he decided to go to the lake

It seemed like calm, obedient aniuards, which hy people often vented to their pets That Zhuo talked to Zheng Tan soh She ain” or ”are you hungry?”

Once in a while, Zhuo would talk about stuff related to her field like Papa Jiao One tiot excited and tore a corner from her notebook She then tore the corner into even smaller pieces She closed her notebook with the torn paper still inside, then took out a pen with a rubber cap and rubbed it against Zheng Tan She put the pen close to the pieces of paper in her notebook and was able to attract paper scraps

Zhuo showed the pen, now covered in paper scraps, to Zheng Tan with a wide smile: ”Look, this is called the static electricity for friction! So what caused it? Letin our world is made up of atoms The atoed protons and neutrons ”

Zheng Tan almost wanted to choke when he heard ”Look, this is called static electricity from friction” Then he heard ”Let me tell you” He wanted to cry

Why did he always run into people like this!