Chapter 120 Mother-in-law is coming. Xinglin opened her eyes.
Shi Wan tiptoed closer and heard Tangyuan whisper at her feet, "Jin Dian even brought fish! It looks delicious, meow!"
Shi Wan squatted down and asked Rou Rou in a low voice, "Rou Rou, Jin Dian has come to see you. Do you want to see him?"
Rou Rou turned her head to look at Shi Wan, then at the golden spots and fish outside the fence. Then she elegantly raised her front paw and began to slowly lick her fur, looking like she was saying, "I saw it, but I'm busy."
The golden dot outside the fence clearly noticed the succulent's reaction.
A hint of disappointment seemed to flash in his emerald green eyes, but he didn't move. He just let out another soft "meow," his voice gentler than before, with a hint of probing.
After licking one of its paws, Rou Rou looked up at Jin Dian and meowed in response.
But the voice was flat and indifferent, roughly translating to, "Oh, it's you. What's up?"
Shi Wan: ...
Rou Rou, isn't your attitude a bit too bland?
He's a father, after all, and he even brought fish. He seemed to have a good attitude.
We shouldn't hit a smiling cat, right?
But Gold Point doesn't seem to mind.
He nudged the fish forward with his nose, then meowed a few more times, this time more urgently, his gaze shifting back and forth between the meat and the warehouse.
“He wants to see the kittens,” Tangyuan said suddenly, then looked up at Shi Wan. “Jin Dian said he heard that kittens were born and wants to know if they are okay.”
Shi Wan suddenly felt a little unsure of what to do.
Should we let Jin Dian come in and see the kitten?
What if he gets excited and scares the kitten?
And it also depends on Rou Rou's attitude; her opinion alone doesn't count...
She looked at Rou Rou and tentatively asked, "Rou Rou, Jin Dian wants to see the kittens, what do you think?"
Rou Rou stopped licking its fur, tilted its head and thought for a few seconds, then did something that surprised Shi Wan.
She stood up, turned around, and walked gracefully toward the warehouse without looking back.
They're gone!
He left behind a cold, indifferent back view!
Jin Dian was clearly stunned; his posture while holding the fish in his mouth froze.
Shi Wan smiled awkwardly and explained to Jin Dian, "Well... Rou Rou might still be in postpartum recovery and her emotions are a bit unstable... The kittens are all fine and healthy, there are four of them..."
Jin Dian looked down at the fish she had brought, then at the direction where Rou Rou had disappeared, and her ears drooped down a little.
But he quickly cheered up, pushed the fish forward a little more, then meowed at Shi Wan with a pleading look in his eyes, asking her to take the fish to Rou Rou to eat.
This cat dad is quite dedicated...
Shi Wan thought to herself, but still nodded, "Okay, I'll cook the fish for Rou Rou. Thank you, Jin Dian."
Jin Dian seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.
He glanced one last time in the direction of the warehouse, then turned to leave.
Just then, Shi Wan had a flash of inspiration.
She whispered to Tangyuan at her feet, "Tangyuan, quietly follow Jin Dian and see where he lives, okay? Be careful and don't get caught."
Upon hearing about the "secret mission," Tangyuan immediately perked up. "Leave it to me! I'm a tracking expert from the Meow Meow Clan!"
He puffed out his chest and waited until Jin Dian had walked more than ten meters before quietly slipping out of the fence and following him under the cover of grass and bushes.
Shi Wan watched the two cats disappear into the twilight one after the other, silently praying in her heart.
Tangyuan, you better be careful, don't get caught...
If a fight breaks out, she can't say whether it's better to pay for medical expenses or take Tangyuan to the hospital...
She shook her head, picked up the fish that Jin Dian had left behind. It was quite heavy, with clear eyes and bright red gills; it was indeed a good fish.
Back in the warehouse, Rou Rou was already back in the birthing room, grooming her four kittens.
When she saw Shi Wan bring in the fish, she merely raised her eyes and continued licking the fur on the little spotted head.
Shi Wan placed the fish next to Rou Rou's food bowl and tentatively asked, "Rou Rou, this fish Jin Dian specially brought for you, but I feel like you don't really want to see it?"
Rou Rou stopped licking its fur, looked at the fish, then at Shi Wan, and then let out a meow with a complex meaning.
The voice roughly translated to, "Oh, just leave it there, I'll eat it later."
Shi Wan: ...
Even though it's my own cat, why does it inexplicably seem a bit like a jerk?
But then I thought about it again, and realized that cats have a different worldview than humans.
Perhaps in Rou Rou's eyes, Jin Dian was just a fleeting romance, and now she has a more important responsibility: taking care of the child.
Furthermore, postpartum hormonal changes in cats can also cause fluctuations in their personality.
"Okay, okay." Shi Wan gave up trying to understand the cat's emotional world. "Then I'll take the fish first, and bring it to you when it's cooked, okay? I still need to go check on Tangyuan."
Rou Rou nudged her hand with her head as a sign of affection, then lay down to breastfeed the baby.
Shi Wan walked out of the warehouse and looked in the direction where Jin Dian and Tang Yuan had disappeared.
As dusk deepened, the farm lights gradually came on.
Meanwhile, a few kilometers away, outside a farmhouse, Tangyuan was hiding behind a clump of azaleas, staring wide-eyed at the two-eyed creature.
He saw Jin Dian jump over the courtyard wall and enter the small courtyard, which was a very beautiful self-built villa.
Tangyuan scrambled up a big tree nearby in a few quick movements, while the dog watched furtively.
Jin Dian effortlessly jumped onto the second-floor balcony.
The balcony door was open, and warm light shone from inside.
A young woman in pajamas walked onto the balcony, saw Jin Dian, squatted down, and patted his head. "Oh, Jin Dian's back? Where have you been all day? You're never home. Is this your house or your hotel? Hey? Why do you have fish scales in your mouth?"
Golden Spot rubbed against its owner's hand and purred contentedly.
Tangyuan pricked up her ears, hearing the hostess continue, "By the way, Aunt Wang next door said that someone from that farm to the west asked if anyone had seen a Bengal cat, saying they left a breeding stock on their farm? You're always running around like this, could it be you, Jin Dian? Have you run into some romantic entanglements outside? Are they looking for their mother-in-law everywhere?"
Jin Dian blinked its emerald green eyes innocently, meowed, and rubbed its head against its owner's palm, looking like it was saying, "I'm a good baby, I don't know anything."
The woman was amused. "Alright, alright, I'll let you off the hook tonight. I'll go to the farm tomorrow and see if it's your kitten... sigh, then we'll have to take responsibility."
Upon hearing this, Tangyuan understood the situation.
He quietly retreated, preparing to slip back to the farm to report the news.
But as he turned around, he accidentally knocked a leaf off.
On the balcony, Jin Dian's ears perked up instantly, and its emerald green eyes swept over, precisely fixing their gaze on the glutinous rice ball hidden among the leaves.
sweet dumpling:……
Why do I feel a little awkward for some reason...?
Tangyuan pretended to be nonchalant and licked her face twice with her paws. Suddenly, she got interested and washed her face.
After he finished washing his face, he saw Jin Dian sitting upright under the tree, looking up at him.
Tangyuan blinked and jumped down in two quick leaps, landing right opposite the golden dot.
Jin Dian looked wary. "What are you doing here?"
Tangyuan remained calm. He felt that Jin Dian couldn't beat him, so he became arrogant and said, "Hey, let's see whose cat you are."
Jin Dian was somewhat puzzled. "And then?"
Tangyuan was stunned for a moment, but Wanwan didn't tell him what to do next.
So he said in a very annoying way, "Mind your own business."
Golden Point: ...
How could Meatball have such an annoying clan leader!
But he was a good-natured gentleman, so he suppressed the urge to punch him twice. "My master is going to see Rou Rou tomorrow."
Tangyuan immediately bristled, "That's my clan cat! Wanwan won't let you take the kitten away!"
After saying that, it fiercely breathed on Jin Dian and then ran away.
Golden Point: ...?
What's wrong with him?
Tangyuan stormed back to the farm, found Shi Wan in the main house, and embellished the story.
While stewing fish soup for Rou Rou, Shi Wan calmly listened to Tang Yuan's little tantrums.
As for her glutinous rice balls, you have to wait for a discount to listen to them.
Little Tangyuan has a great talent for storytelling, especially when it comes to tattling; she can exaggerate even the smallest anger into a great deal.
However, it seems that Jin Dian is not the kind of irresponsible scumbag cat. She still remembers that in the past, every spring, she would see many pregnant female cats in the neighborhood. They were still kittens but had already conceived babies because they were in heat.
What's most infuriating is that after the female cat gave birth to her kittens, she was emaciated and still had to nurse them, while the father cat was nowhere to be seen.
This led to her having a predominantly scumbag impression of the little male cat.
Fortunately, the golden needles don't seem to be too bad; it's her succulents that are bad...
Forget it, how can I call my own child a jerk?
Her succulents are not rotten at all; they work so hard!
After a very brief hesitation, Shi Wan firmly stood on her child's side.
However, Tangyuan said that Jin Dian's parents will be coming to visit tomorrow.
Ugh, she had a headache again. What if Jin Dian's parents wanted a kitten?
She absolutely will not give it to me!
In the world of data, time flows on a scale that is beyond human comprehension.
Xinglin's consciousness seemed to have fallen into the deep sea, sinking deeper and deeper in the silent darkness.
He was torn apart so thoroughly by the erosion of nightmares, the strangulation of the main system's chains, and the overload brought about by his desperate attempt to guide the energy resonance, that he almost completely dissipated.
It was the repair code left by the doctor that urgently enveloped the sliver of light at his core at the last moment.
It was the continuous flow of energy from the farm that, like the finest thread, held this ray of light together, preventing it from being completely extinguished.
The dormant Star Descendant has no concept of dreams, but some fragments of perception will occasionally surface.
Sometimes it's the warmth of a ray of sunlight, sometimes it's a few indistinct meows from a cat, and sometimes it's intermittent words.
These fragments are illogical, like blurry light and shadow seen through a thick layer of frosted glass, or inaudible whispers.
But they kept coming, becoming anchors in the darkness, reminding Xinglin that there was a place he needed to return to, and someone was waiting for him.
During the seventy-third standard cycle of dormancy, changes quietly occurred.
The repair code left by the doctor completed the first phase of basic refactoring.
Like the most intricate loom, it uses the energy of the farm as thread to meticulously re-weave the broken consciousness structure of the Starfall.
This process is so slow that it is almost imperceptible.
But Xinglin began to sense more.
He "felt" that he was gradually taking shape from nothingness.
He "felt" that a warm light was shining continuously from a certain direction.
He "senses" that there are other beings around him who are busy, communicating, and protecting him.
He even "senses" that in the farthest reaches, countless once-dim lights are now shining again.
"I still... exist."
This realization emerged like a new bud in spring.
Next is the second understanding.
"There's a place... I need to go back to."
The third one.
"Someone is... waiting for me."
The repair code sensed the initial revival of the core consciousness and automatically initiated the second phase.
A deeper level of "healing" has begun.
Fragments of past memories began to surface.
Crops under the sun.
Glutinous rice balls on the windowsill.
The song Shi Wan hummed while bending down to plant flowers.
Cats can be seen everywhere on the farm.
These images are so clear, so heartwarming.
"What I want to protect... is this."
At this moment, Xinglin's consciousness completed the most crucial self-anchoring.
In its 121st standard cycle of dormancy, Xinglin "opened" its eyes.
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