Ragdoll Cat's Fragrance Warning
As Snowball inserted the gear key into the drawer lock, the pattern of a steampunk mechanical cat suddenly appeared on the metal surface. He turned his head to look at Xiaodou, his pupils glittering red. "Look here, hair-dropping monster—this is the true form of this AI."
The collar exploded, revealing a silver and blue mechanical skeleton beneath the ragdoll cat's white fur. It was the prototype of the Major General's spirit pet from the Star Wars arc. Snowball tapped the drawer with his mechanical claws, and a pile of interstellar energy cores fell out, each engraved with a different silhouette of Azuki.
"Are you...RoboCat No. 003?" Xiaodou thought of the AI in the StarCraft chapter that always loved to complain, and the gear fluff on its tail suddenly stood up.
Snowball (the robotic cat) pointed at Lin Shen with his laser pointer. "To be precise, I'm the inter-worldly assistant of the Three Souls Guardian. And this Doctor Lin Shen—" its mechanical voice suddenly tinged with laughter, "isn't a rat-fearer at all. He's just afraid to face the memories of his Three Souls."
Lin Shen's ears instantly turned red, and he turned his face away: "I, I'm just allergic to velvet..."
"Oh?" The mechanical cat tossed out a test report. "According to the Interstellar Veterinary Practice Standards, your nasal secretions contain a Foxfire Purification Factor, which specifically suppresses the energy fluctuations of the Concept Mouse. This means you're actively suppressing your affection for Xiaodou."
Xiaodou took the opportunity to rub Lin Shen's fingertips. Lin Shen stiffened, but didn't pull his hand away. The mechanical cat handed over a wet wipe: "The hair of the shedding monster contains the essence of sweet energy from the universe. It will be very effective in curing your 'rat phobia'."
For the next half hour, Snowball (the robotic cat) transformed himself into a "fur collector," swapping wet wipes for Xiaodou's fur and carefully placing it in a petri dish. Lin Shen, wearing an allergy mask, secretly slipped a piece of fur into Mingshu's sword tassel, causing it to instantly bloom with the light of an osmanthus flower.
"How do you feel?" Xiaodou poked Lin Shen's wrist with his tail.
The tips of Lin Shen's ears turned red again, and he said in a muffled voice: "...No more sneezing." A cup of steaming osmanthus tea appeared on his examination table at some point. The fragrance of the tea was exactly the same as the scent of Bai Yan's fox fire in the Demon World chapter.
The mechanical cat suddenly sounded an alarm: "An imbalance in the energy of the three souls has been detected!"
Lin Shen's eyes changed instantly—the sharpness of Ling Yuan's personality flashed, and he subconsciously protected Xiaodou with a tactical gesture: "There's danger!" The next second, the gentleness of Bai Yan's personality came over again, and he gently stroked Xiaodou's head: "Don't be afraid, I'm here."
Xiaodou was so shocked by the speed of the switch that a hair dropped from his head. He then discovered that Lin Shen's palm contained a candy bullet from the Steampunk arc, with the word "Abyss" engraved on it. The mechanical cat sighed, "Look! All three of your souls are desperately trying to protect this hair-shedding monster."
Lin Shen's desensitization diary was blown open by the wind, and the latest page read:
"Experiment #300: Xiaodou's fur can stabilize the Three Souls pattern, matching the energy frequency of the Concept Rat Clan's incubator. Could it be that the 'Three Souls Symbiosis Experiment' back then was essentially intended to protect him?"
Tucked into the diary was a fragment of Zhang Guyan's marriage certificate from the House Fight episode. The fox clan seal on the fragment perfectly matched Lin Shen's star mark. Xiaodou nibbled on the fragment, triggering a flashback—Bai Yan, dressed in wedding clothes, said to him in the Gear Prison, "When you grow up, I'll take you home."
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