Chapter 48 Finding a Cat I found a cat, and it's willing to come home with me! ...
Chapter Forty-Eight
It was the Fallen Being that Du Yu had seen outside the temple when the two of them had just built the initial temple and their auras had not yet completely dissipated.
Another degenerate that can speak human language!
Compared to when Du Yu first saw it, this giant black cat looked much more disheveled. Its head was enormous, and its leopard-like body was covered with bite marks. Strange, pale gray gas occasionally leaked from the wounds.
Du Yu's eyes flickered slightly. She didn't have a particular fondness for furry animals, but her friend Wen Xi especially loved cats, and she had watched a lot of cat videos with her.
Wen Xi once said that after graduation she wanted to open a nail salon and raise six cats so she could pet them all at once. Du Yu even laughed at her, asking if she wanted to open a nail salon or a cat cafe.
But graduation was just around the corner, and the end of the world came first. She, Wen Xi, and Shi Wei stumbled and wandered all the way, and Wen Xi never mentioned raising a cat again.
Memories flooded back, and the lazy winter sun shone through the glass, casting its light on the potted succulents on the dormitory windowsill. Wen Xi rolled over on the top bunk, muttering as she pulled the blanket over her eyes. Shi Wei rolled her eyes and slammed the curtains shut, cutting a narrow strip of the rare winter sunlight onto Du Yu's face.
At the time, she only thought it was a coincidence, but now, looking back, she feels that the scene is so distant that it seems like a lifetime ago.
"call--"
After not receiving a reply for a long time, the nine-tailed black cat impatiently scratched the ground, its neck fur bristled, it bared its teeth, and hissed threateningly.
Du Yu snapped out of her daze and glanced at the nine-tailed cat with a hint of regret. Fallen beings with such a low level of mutation were rare, but unfortunately, she desperately needed the elemental core...
Du Yu put away the black corpse oil, narrowed his eyes, and was about to make a move when the system suddenly appeared:
[Ding dong, memory elements [Nail Art] and [Cute Kitten] detected. Congratulations, player, you have triggered the prerequisite quest for the weekly mission!]
[Quest Rewards: Soul Fragment Revival Crystal *3, [Six-Star Holy Grail] Fragment *3]
What the heck? Du Yu glanced at his bright green fingers, looked up at the ferocious-looking nine-tailed cat, and then at the mission prompt. He couldn't help but start to doubt his own eyes.
"Beautiful" nails?
A cute little kitten? Has this system finally bugged?
Once the task rewards were revealed, Du Yu's urge to complain intensified. Not to mention the ultimate nested problem of the prerequisite tasks for unlocking the task, how come the system also has Holy Grail fragments?
Did the Holy Grail explode in the sky and scatter to all corners of the world? How come fragments of the Holy Grail can be found everywhere?
Despite the complaints, exchanging one elemental core for unlocking weekly missions is still a worthwhile investment.
Du Yu looked at the task requirements:
[Prerequisite Quest [Wenxi the Believer's Wish]: As a casual game, how can it be without an adorable mascot cat? Quest requirement: Subdue an cute little kitten.]
The task requirements are quite simple...
Du Yu turned off the system panel and conveyed the order to capture them alive to the two through the mental link.
After threatening for a while, the nine-tailed cat saw that the human opposite was very unreasonable and was about to openly rob it. It felt a strong sense of danger all over its body, and it had never felt such a strong sense of danger before!
"roar!"
It lowered its body, arched its back, and assumed an attack posture, but in the next second, the nine-tailed fox spun wildly and ran away in the opposite direction without looking back!
Five minutes later—
"Bang!"
"Meow!"
The nine-tailed cat failed to escape for the fifth time and was slammed to the ground by the shadow. It glared angrily at Xiao Yi, but was only enraged by the confused and innocent look she gave it.
"Cunning humans, what exactly are you trying to do!"
Du Yu glanced at the nine-tailed cat lying on the ground cursing and unable to move again, and was also puzzled.
Whether this fierce-looking nine-tailed cat is cute or not is another matter. She has caught this cat five times already. This time, she even managed to tie it up tightly by Xiao Yi, making it impossible for it to escape. Doesn't that count as subduing it?
[Ding dong! Congratulations to the player for finding a stray kitten~ I, the kitten, also want a home, but a stray cat will only become an owner's cat if it wears a collar~]
Du Yu was disgusted by the system's sudden attempt to act cute. He glanced at the nine-tailed cat, whose mouth hadn't stopped and whose curses were quite vulgar, and then looked at the last rather wavy tilde in the system notification. He was speechless for a moment.
System, you're absurd.
Du Yu glanced at her backpack. She naturally wouldn't have a pet collar, a niche item, but crafting items wasn't difficult in the cracks littered with "trash."
They instructed Xiao Yi to watch the cat, and Tian Yinuo watched Xiao Yi. They both rummaged through the nearby garbage heaps and found some long, thin metal fragments.
With his mental energy focused on his hands, Du Yu exerted a little force to break the various-shaped strips into rings, then flattened the metal rings vertically with his bare hands, and casually sketched a few lines.
The description of these items on the composite page has finally changed from "plain metal strips" to "crudely made, ugly collars".
Ignoring the system's subtle criticism of her aesthetic sense, Du Yu happily crafted a bunch of simple collars and started synthesizing them on the spot. After several attempts, she finally obtained collars that were barely usable and had no side effects.
【Crafting Item Name: Fully Automatic Cat-Catching Collar】
[Grade: C]
[Note: No way, no way, no way, you don't even have your own cat yet? Let me help you!]
【Instructions for use: Shout "Cat come!" at the cat-like creature. There is a chance to forcibly obtain a pet. The weaker the pet's resistance, the greater the success rate.
Criteria for identifying cat-like creatures: They are furry reptiles with ears and tails.
In your game, do all the items that generate items refer to kidnapping a cat as "picking up a cat"?
Du Yu's lips twitched, deciding to ignore the flawed "criteria for determining cat-like creatures." If you really followed this standard, there probably wouldn't be many reptiles that weren't cats.
Du Yu took the cat collar and went forward, but unfortunately she couldn't hide her aura yet. As soon as she got close to the nine-tailed cat, it started to bristle and struggle desperately. She tried several times but couldn't succeed.
Fortunately, as a devout follower of her own, the items under Tian Yinuo's name were automatically classified as her own by the system.
Tian Yinuo took the collar and leaned closer, carefully stroking the nine-tailed cat's large head. "Come here, cat!"
The nine-tailed cat seemed to have exhausted itself from struggling, or perhaps it looked down on Tian Yinuo. It flicked its tail and looked at her with disdain, but did not stop her from approaching.
"Huh???"
But the disdain in the black cat's eyes quickly turned into shock. Its ears tilted back, and its pupils shrank to a thin line. But it couldn't move under the damned broken circle. It could only watch helplessly as the broken circle flew over its head. The sudden golden light made it instinctively close its eyes.
"Meow?"
Wow, what an adorable kitten!
Tian Yinuo couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, and couldn't resist scratching the kitten's chin. The kitten on the ground looked slightly smaller than an average adult cat, and wore a golden collar around its neck. At this moment, all the wounds on its body had disappeared, and apart from the nine tails on its back, it looked no different from any other ordinary kitten.
At this moment, it looked completely bewildered, and the way it frantically moved its body in circles made Du Yu's eyes twitch.
This ring is only C-grade. Even though the Nine-Tailed Cat was injured, the fact that it could turn a Fallen Species into this state is clearly due to the system's twisted sense of humor.
Clearly, no matter what kind of pet Yu came up with, when the mission is completed, the pets with collars will be transformed into cute kittens.
[Ding dong! Congratulations on completing the prerequisite quest and obtaining a pet, a super cute kitten~ Come and name your kitten~]
Du Yu could see that although the Nine-Tailed Cat's body had shrunk, its strength had not changed. However, due to the system's suppression, it could not harm its master. At this moment, it was being held in Tian Yinuo's arms and being frantically squeezed with a humiliating expression.
She glanced at the nine-tailed cat, which was entirely black except for a little white fur on its forehead, but lacked inspiration. She looked at her two companions and asked, "If you're going to raise a cat, you need to give it a name. What would be a good name?"
"The black ball?"
"Mimi?"
Du Yu and the nine-tailed cat froze for a moment. Birds of a feather flock together; a person who is bad at naming will only be surrounded by another person who is bad at naming.
Under the oppressive weight of the terrifying name "Black Ball," even the Nine-Tailed Cat gave up struggling and shouted, "You foolish humans, what kind of lousy names are these? I have a name! Call me Lord Kujou!"
"Very good, then you can be called Xiao Jiu."
Du Yu rubbed the cat's head, ignoring the nine-tailed cat's desperate resistance, and happily made a decision.
"Meow!"
After taking Xiao Jiu for a walk, perhaps because the nine-tailed cat was cursing so fiercely, not a single fallen creature was attracted. Having had a fruitful day, Du Yu carried the cat back to the temple.
Upon entering the temple, the nine-tailed cat, who had been cursing and swearing all the way, even started cursing Du Yu, suddenly froze, its eyes wide, its tail between its legs, not daring to move an inch.
When Tian Yinuo picked it up and placed it in the makeshift cat bed made from old clothes, it didn't resist at all and was incredibly well-behaved.
Du Yu instructed Tian Yinuo to take care of the nine-tailed cat and check its catch for the day.
With a thought, Du Yu produced three crystals shimmering with a faint purple light in her hand. She carefully followed the system prompts and used the fragments on Wen Xi's soul fragments.
Du Yu held his breath and watched for a while. After absorbing the crystal, the fragment grew a little larger and swam faster in the [Dream Petri Dish]. He was disappointed to find that Wen Xi showed no signs of waking up.
Phew, after all, it's damage to the soul, so it's understandable that the recovery is slow.
Suppressing his disappointment, Du Yu let out a long breath, and with a backhand, took out three fragments of the Holy Grail metal and merged them into the Bloodthirsty Holy Blade, whose blade was becoming increasingly cold and menacing.
[Ding dong, the player's current [Six-Star Holy Grail] fragment collection progress is (34/99), which is over 30%. The location information of a Holy Grail fragment has been unlocked~]
Du Yu clicked on it out of curiosity, and her eyes widened slightly the next second. She hadn't expected to see a familiar face in the clip provided by the system.
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Author's Note: There was a slight error in pasting the ending, but it's been corrected. Here's a little Jiu's fluffy paw for you all.
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