What if I'm a Bad Artist? I Lie Down and Win with a Divine Brush

After six years in the apocalypse, Xi Xi tragically died at the hands of her aunt's family. Unexpectedly, she was reborn on the day the apocalypse began. Just as she was preparing to leverage h...

Chapter 95 The Sinister Nature of Humanity

[Item Description: A typical night-clothes outfit. Can partially conceal your presence in the dark, reducing the chance of being attacked (can only reduce the effect, cannot make you invisible)]

The clothes were pretty much as Xi Xi had guessed. She picked up the night clothes, which were about the same color as the black roof of the car, and held them up to the light.

Although this garment doesn't block out sunlight, its soft material feels really nice to the touch.

In a sense, this night-clothes outfit can reduce the frequency of using invisibility charms at night. If used in conjunction with other charms, the concealment effect may be even better, and there is no fear that the charms may suddenly expire during the operation, thus revealing the true form too obviously.

Xi Xi nodded silently, neatly folded her night clothes, and put them into the storage bag behind the chair.

She gazed at the tangerines on the table, carefully separating the seeds one by one and storing them away cautiously.

In short, let's dig up some soil first to test it out and see if it's possible to plant it.

With that in mind, Xi Xi immediately took action. She parked the car on the shore again and then quickly used the workbench to make a brand new stone shovel.

Xi Xi pushed open the car door and had just stepped out when, without noticing, Aura darted past her feet and slipped out.

Before she could even open her mouth to call out, the little white duck flew away.

The ducks, naturally adept at swimming, gracefully leaped into the river and swam happily. Aura, however, mistook the duckweed for land and, without warning, tumbled into the water, splashing around wildly.

Xi Xi pulled Aura out of the water, speechless. "Look at what you can do! All you do is eat and sleep!"

Since she was going to take a bath anyway, Xi Xi carried the soaking wet Aura to the base of a large, sturdy tree and gestured for it to play by itself.

Just as she turned her head to choose a fertile spot, a strange voice suddenly entered her ears without warning.

"I know so much, meow! With my unparalleled, delicate claws, that stupid duck could never learn them even in its next life!"

Who's speaking?! Xi Xi, who was holding a stone shovel, suddenly jumped up and looked around.

The voice sounded like that of a four- or five-year-old child, with a childish tone and unclear pronunciation.

"Look at these sharp claws! This place will fall apart without me, meow~ What will happen to that stupid and cowardly silly duck!"

The surroundings were quiet, with only the rustling of leaves in the breeze. Xi Xi looked at Aura, who was clinging to the tree trunk and sharpening her claws, with a hint of suspicion.

After sharpening its claws, Aura quickly ran to the riverbank and meowed twice towards the middle of the river.

The little white duck came running in response, a small fish in its beak, and swallowed it.

"Screw you! How dare you eat alone?! Have you forgotten how your cat brother always protects you?"

Xi Xi was shocked. She walked towards Aura and the little white duck with wide eyes. Sunlight shone through the branches and leaves, and Xi Xi finally saw the heart-shaped necklace that was shimmering around Aura's neck.

Isn't this the Cupid synesthetic necklace she used to wear around the little white duck's neck? When did it end up on Aura?!

"Why is this necklace on your neck?" Xi Xi asked, crouching down to remove it. Kittens are active; even a collar can strangle them, causing suffocation, let alone a long, thin necklace!

"Meow~" Aura meowed sweetly, dodging Xi Xi's attempts to catch her, and then went around into the grass to chase the butterflies.

"It's because the little duck was uncomfortable wearing it. It took me a lot of effort to take it off, meow. This silly thing is such a hassle. I'll just have to put it on for it, alright."

Now Xi Xi was certain; this was truly Aura's innermost thought! Her hands froze, and she stood there stunned.

So, this synesthetic necklace can actually communicate with each other's thoughts?

Xi Xi reached out and covered the synesthetic ring on her left index finger, feeling a surge of heat. She concentrated her consciousness into the ring, thinking to herself, "Aura, don't go too far!"

The little black and white cat's steps faltered, and the butterfly it had almost caught escaped.

"It really is possible to communicate with consciousness!" Xi Xi looked at the ring in her hand with great joy. This feeling of being detached from consciousness was very unique, like an indescribable sense of mental power.

"That's strange. Why didn't she say a word when Little White Duck was wearing it?" Xi Xi couldn't help but think to herself. Then she realized something and quickly disconnected her consciousness from her own.

She could eavesdrop on the kitten's thoughts, but didn't want to reveal her own for the time being.

The kittens are innocent and naive; it's time for them to experience the wickedness of humans.

"What else could it be? Because its head is empty, you'd think it's mute." Fortunately, Aura wasn't very smart. It continued chasing the butterfly while mentally responding to the question, completely unaware that its master was communicating with it through consciousness.

A little while later, Aura returned, her face covered in pollen, still meowing and rubbing against Xi Xi's feet in a spoiled manner.

"I'm tired, hurry up and carry me back home, meow!"

Seeing that Xi Xi didn't react, Aura immediately flipped over onto her back, her meows becoming even louder.

"Alright, I'll reluctantly let you touch me first... Woman, if this isn't enough to win you over, huh~"

Aura called out in a high-pitched voice for a long time, but seeing that Xi Xi still hadn't stopped shoveling soil, she couldn't help but stand up and take a few steps closer.

It ran to Xi Xi's stone shovel and rolled over again, even raising its paws and gently patting Xi Xi's trouser leg with its pink paw pads.

"What's going on? You're not touching me yet?! Have you ever been through drug rehabilitation?!"

Aura looked up at Xi Xi with some confusion, and for some reason saw a hint of pity in Xi Xi's eyes.

At this moment, Xi Xi felt both amused and annoyed.

She just suddenly realized something.

She wondered why Aura, a five-and-a-half-year-old, almost six-year-old cat, was still so childish in his mind, which would be almost a forty-year-old man in human years.

Her gaze involuntarily drifted downwards, landing on the empty lower half of the black and white cat's body... Suddenly she understood—the eunuch's voice in the palace was also different, wasn't it...?

Aura, who had long forgotten her neutering experience, suddenly felt her hair stand on end under Xi Xi's gaze, assuming that her owner was angry again.

Although it didn't know what it had done wrong, Aura still swayed and straightened up. It whispered cautiously towards Xi Xi a few times...