Ch14 - Connecting to the Cat Class

Cats also have black technology

Editor: Vez 

—[Holy fuck, a cat that can play XF?!]

—[Xiao gege’s voice sounded super-duper nice!!! I’m horny now/]

—[I will not believe your crap]

As if to testify Xin Qin’s claim, Sparta sidled towards his face and rubbed against his cheek gently, sweetly meowing out. The Dragon Li cat’s cry travelled from Xin Qin’s headset to the livestream room, and the bullet screen instantly blew up. 

—[My god, there is really a cat!]

—[Ahhhh, it is a cat! I want to stuff my face into it, such a cute cry]

—[Turn on the camera! Turn on the camera!]

Scrambled Eggs also heard the cat and joked, “Your cat’s voice is much softer and cuter than I thought. Didn’t you say he’s a boy?”

“Yes, male cat.” Xin Qin answered as he tried to get Sparta to sit on his lap. Unfortunately, Sparta seemed to want to say something to him. The cat jumped onto the table, rubbed his face back and forth, and chirped sweetly and unctuously.

Miwu, stop playing! You should go to bed. I cannot go over my lessons if you do not sleep! Miwu, I am talking to you, Miwu.

We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.

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I don’t understand you, I don’t understand! Sparta angrily clawed Xin Qin’s trousers. If you do not listen to me, then how am I going to go to college? I would not be able to understand what you are saying if I cannot get into college. The human held him tightly as if he did not want him to jump onto the table. But Miwu should be sleeping, what kind of human do not sleep at this hour? The chickens are already asleep and the mice are out. Sparta put force behind his hind legs and stood up in the human’s embrace. He placed his paws on Miwu’s chest and cried out. 

Xin Qin hugged Sparta’s waist and freed up a hand to smooth the Dragon Li cat’s fur from top to bottom. Feeling that the cat in his arms was calming down gradually, he kissed the Dragon Li cat on the head. “Let’s make a deal, all right? You can sit on my lap and watch me play.”

Seeing that Miwu was ignoring him, Sparta sat down again on Miwu’s lap, puffed up his body angrily and turned his butt towards Miwu, biting the zipper on Xin Qin’s coat like taking his revenge.

Although Xin Qin muted himself in-game, the dialogue between him and the cat could still be heard in the livestream. The audience took great interest in Sparta.

—[No way, I also want to sit on xiao gege’s lap and watch him play] 

—[Don’t give up, we will all get a piece of the cat]

—[QQ, I actually have been following Sing God for a long time. I learned today that he talks to his cat more than to us]

The game was over half an hour later. With the cooperation of his teammates, Xin Qin maintained their winning streak. Too Wolf and Scrambled Eggs were overjoyed. They joked with Xin Qin by asking if his cat had been playing all the matches in his place.

Xin Qin also smiled. “No, he does not want to play for me. However, since I got him, I have not lost a match yet.” 

Scrambled Eggs exclaimed, “Holy shit, a lucky cat! Let me buy some cans for him!”

A faint cat’s cry came from Xin Qin’s side. After a while, he replied to Scrambled Eggs and Too Wolf, “Sorry, I have to get off. You guys have fun playing.”

Too Wolf was in high spirits. To maintain this, he promised to add a case of cans to Sparta if he gets four thousand points.

Xin Qin turned down the other party’s offer. “I can’t, my cat will start stepping on the keyboard again. I am calling it for the day. We can party again in the future.” 

Scrambled Eggs felt regretful, but what could he do but agree? Before Xin Qin went offline, he heard the other said to his audience, “Hey, if any of you want to smell Xin Qin’s cat, I have his Weibo ID here. Go and follow him.”

But there is only one picture of Sparta on my Weibo. Xin Qin thought as he raised his hands to hold the Dragon Li cat, who mewed and swung his tail. He was obviously angry at Qin Xin for not responding to him. “Alright, I won’t play anymore.”

As he walked out of his gaming room, he whispered, “What do you want to do? Are you hungry? Or shall we go to bed?” When he entered his bedroom, the Dragon Li cat immediately stopped crying as it broke free from Xin Qin’s arms, jumped onto the bed and took a small step to the side of his pillow. He sat upright and stared at Xin Qin, who chuckled. “Okay, we will sleep then. You smart little cat.”

Xin Qin quickly finished his nightly routine and went under the blanket with the Dragon Li cat in his arms. The cat nestled into Xin Qin’s arms with his flurry body and laid on his back with his front paws out. A low continuous vibratory sound came from the cat. Amidst these hypnotic purrs, Xin Qin soon fell asleep. 

After Sparta lulled the human to sleep, he quietly rested his eyes for a long time. When he confirmed that his human was fully asleep, he yawned and climbed out of the warm embrace. City cat’s lives were tough. Not only did he need to spend time with his family but needed to find time to study from his busy schedule as well.

He forcefully shook his head. Once he was fully awake, he tiptoed to the door. The door was closed but that wouldn’t stop Sparta. This move was taught by his younger sister, Mi Mi. Many people in the countryside didn’t really lock their back door. Sparta being smart, it only took him two attempts to learn it. After he learned how to open doors, he could find something to eat in other people’s kitchens during off-season hunting. He aimed at the door handle, jumped softly and quickly pressed down on the door handle with his paws. Once a small crack appeared behind the door, he stuck his head through the door and wiggled to widen the gap before squeezing out.

His target was the tablet downstairs. He already knew how to turn it on. Now he needed to complete the second question of the handbook, which was to successfully operate the WC application. Dai Mochi told him that running the application on the tablet was much easier than on a desktop or laptop. First, Sparta would need to press the tablet’s circular button with his paw until he heard a beep sound, and then shout the following sentence to the tablet: mew, meow, miaow. The tablet will respond and automatically open the WC application.

This process was not a challenge to the smart Sparta. After the application was open, it automatically logged into the last account, which was Xin Qin’s. The flashing red prompt instantly drew his attention. He lunged at it repeatedly. After he determined all the red marks were removed, he finally remembered his task from the handbook, to find his cat class before adding friends. 

Once class started, and they were connected, they would be able to communicate with each other. He had to agree that the human who created all of these for cats was surely very smart, but that could not be the case for all the humans. At the moment, there were hundreds of friends in this magical green account, just as many cats on the streets of Maochun City. Unlike cats, humans seemed to be keen on making friends, but they often could not remember how many friends they have. Some are even without interaction after being added as friends. However, this created a great opportunity for cats. Those ghost accounts were left forgotten in the corner of the network. One additional or one less would not attract attention. As long as the traces were handled properly, people without attention to detail would not find them.

Sparta repeated step one, turned on the voice access and used the second secret command: Mewl mewl, meow meow. Very quickly, a strange cat voice came from the tablet. [Do you want to connect remotely with remote assistance, meow?]

Sparta tilted his head and suspected it was a human disguising and talking as a cat, but he meowed back to confirm.

Under the instruction, the tablet computer entered an unmanned…un-catted operation interface. Sparta could not understand. He stared at the constantly changing screen for a while. Finally, he could not resist and stretched out his paw to pat it. He slid through the screen with his paw pad, but the smooth touch did not feel very comfortable. He licked his mouth and took back his paw. Then the screen finally stopped and a meow came from the tablet. Sparta’s eyes widened and his ears piqued up. 

[Connection has been established, welcome to Cat Academy.]

Eh, did I do it?

[Preparing to enter voice control, please reply meow to confirm.]

He leaned closer and meowed. 

[Please enter your general information for Kitty Academy registration.]

Sparta got stuck in the name column after replying to other information such as the age of his father and mother. I don’t know what name Miwu gave me. He flicked his tail unhappily and chose to save and continue later. He could ask Dai Mochi next time he sees him. Although Dai Mochi said he could change his name after he could understand what his human call him, he wanted to attend school with the name given to him by Miwu. Although he did not know what his name was, he believed that his human must have given him the best and most powerful name!

Sparta did not expect that the chance to see Dai Mochi again would come so soon.

After dawn the next day, Xin Qin was not woken up by Sparta’s paws. The Dragon Li cat was not even in his bed. Finding this strange, Xin Qin went downstairs to look around and found Sparta sleeping on the sofa in the living room. The cat was on his back, limbs facing upward, with Xin Qin’s iPad underneath him. He was sleeping comfortably, maybe he was dreaming of eating something delicious. The Dragon Li cat smacked his mouth, closed it and the corners of his mouth went upward, as if he was smiling. 

Xin Qin found this funny, pulled out his phone to record a small session and uploaded it to his Weibo. Then he went to the kitchen to prepare their breakfasts. When he came out of the kitchen, he found that Sparta was still sleeping. Struggled between waking the Dragon Li cat or letting him sleep for just a bit longer, but recalling the clinic checkup appointment later, they had to get out of the door early. He reached out and pinched Sparta’s beanies, gently shaking them. Sparta remained unmoved and slept soundly. Xin Qin had no choice but to bend down and pick up the Dragon Li cat.

The sudden loss of ground instantly woke the Dragon Li cat from his sleep as it kicked his legs in confusion, looking up at the human in a daze. Miwu…He called out in bewilderment.

Xin Qin did not know if Dragon Li cat was a morning person or not so he held him firmly in his arms and gently caressed him, helping it wake up. “We are going to Eat Plenty later today. You remember Dr. Yu? The doctor who treated your paw? We are going to see her today.”

Miwu…The Dragon Li cat responded listlessly, putting his head on the human’s shoulders with half-lidded eyes. Last night, he was troubled by the issue surrounding his name for a long time, so he did not have a proper sleep from a stomach full of questions. He wanted to ask Dai Mochi, but he did not know the next time he could see the big black cat.