Chapter 34 part 4

When Bai Wei’s mother returned home from working overtime late at night, a black cat followed her secretly, trailing just a few meters behind.

At first, Bai Wei’s mother thought it was hungry. She even stopped and squatted down, planning to feed it before continuing home. However, after observing her for a while, the black cat approached and sniffed Bai Wei’s mother, but paid no attention to the food she offered. Bai Wei’s mother found it strange but didn’t think much of it and left the food on the ground before heading home.

Unexpectedly, the cat followed her all the way home and gazed affectionately at Zhuzhu through the door.

That night, Bai Wei’s mother even joked about fulfilling the cat’s infatuation by getting it neutered and keeping him with Zhu zhu.

Bai Wei’s father flatly refused this idea. A black cat wants to lay a paw on my precious daughter?.

Dream on!

Because their family lived on the first floor, cats often came to the yard and the cats meowed frequently. Bai Wei’s father never thought whether there was a coal boss inside. Now he thought that there must be one. Zhuzhu was so well-behaved that she would not walk without a leash even if the door was opened. She must have been tricked by the wild cats outside to elope!

No wonder the wild cats in the community didn’t eat the cat food they fed at that time. They originally planned to let the wild cats in the community help them find Zhuzhu…

Some cats are quite spiritual, and there have been many news stories online about stray cats helping people find their lost cats. Their family had also done this, clinging to that sliver of hope.

But it ended before it even began.

Now that they think about it, the black cat must have told them something. Those stray cats who used to eat their cat food felt guilty and avoided them during those days!

Is there really someone who goes to such lengths to seduce another person’s little darling?!

Bai Wei’s father looked at the coal boss with a very angry look, even though he actually liked cats very much.

Feeling Bai Wei’s father’s hostility towards him, the black cat, coal boss, became even fiercer, and righteously howled at him.

‘Chu Chu is my wife! No one can take her!’

Chu Chu looked left and right, then raised a paw to cover her eyes.

‘What could a little kitty possibly do wrong? Little kitty knows nothing!’

Watching Bai Wei’s father, who couldn’t help but start a shouting match with the coal boss, Kong Bi finally understood the whole story from Bai Wei’s father’s accusations, and stared at Coal Boss and Chu Chu in disbelief.

‘You two are truly a pair of extraordinary talents!’

One ran away from home to elope with a stray cat for more food, and the other went to great lengths to kidnap a little glutton at first sight.

No wonder it’s always so inseparable from Chu Chu, and gets so nervous when Chu Chu gets close to anyone else. It turns out it’s afraid someone else might follow its example and kidnap Chu Chu!

This is truly…

Kong Bi thought for a long time but couldn’t come up with a suitable adjective. It can only be said that it was eye-opening.

After all, according to Bai Wei’s father, to eliminate future troubles, the coal boss even took Chu Chu and eloped, running from the food-rich neighborhood to the remote wilderness of the suburbs. This level of cunning is more like a spirit than an ordinary animal

The coal boss showed no respect to his future father-in-law, arguing with him for over ten minutes, until Bai Wei’s mother couldn’t bear it anymore and stopped her emotionally charged husband from continuing the tirade. Kong Bi invited them to the cafeteria for lunch, and then they prepared to go down the mountain and return home.

Before leaving, Bai Wei’s father earnestly said to Kong Bi, “Director Kong, please get that black coal lump neutered when you have time. Otherwise, they’ll keep having litters of kittens in the future, and I can’t bear to see my daughter suffer like that. When you go for the procedure, please let me know. I’ll pay for it and personally take it to the best pet clinic for thorough neutering. Don’t worry, I definitely won’t do anything to it.”

Kong Bi thought, ‘Adding that last sentence actually makes me more worried.’

After Bai Wei and her family left, the coal boss, who had always been so elusive even when eating, suddenly appeared and sat down slowly one meter away from Kong Bi.

The coal boss is a proud and aloof cat, or perhaps, because Kong Bi only managed to keep it around with her technical skills, she only obtained its body but not its heart. Therefore, the coal boss usually only appears around Kong Bi but doesn’t actively approach, waiting for her to come over and pet it.

Then it put on the standard expression of a Japanese educational film, ‘I say no with my mouth, but my body is very honest.’

Kong Bi squatted down in front of it and tapped the coal boss’s nose. ‘You naughty kitty! Looks like you know you did something wrong, only daring to come out after they left?’

The coal boss covered its front paws with its tail, putting on a defiant expression.

Although Kong Bi didn’t understand the foreign language of cat language, animals don’t have human language anyway. Most of them express themselves through behavior. When a cat wraps its tail around its paws like that, except in winter, it means it’s wary of its surroundings and wants to keep its distance from others.

Clearly, the coal boss was not convinced by Kong Bi’s accusations.

Why should he apologize for the wife he won with his own abilities?

Kong Bi chuckled and said, ‘Do you know what a ‘ball-removal expert’ is?’

For animal lovers who frequently participate in stray cat rescue, almost everyone has a knack for neutering cats. After all, not all stray cats are suitable for adoption, but if they are left unneutered to survive outside, litters of stray kittens will be born one after another, so neutering is the best option.

Moreover, unlike humans, cats’ sexual organs are purely for reproduction. They cannot derive pleasure from the act itself. The barbs on a male cat’s genitals can actually cause great pain to the female cats they mate with. Therefore, neutering is actually a beneficial act for everyone.

At least, that’s the case in cities.

Kong Bi has been more animal-friendly since she was a child, and her family is not short of money. She has sterilized more than one or two cats over the years, so she doesn’t mind turning the coal boss into Chuchu’s sister in the future.

However, Wang Ling checked them when she dewormed and vaccinated them a few days ago, and Chuchu showed no signs of pregnancy, which means that the coal boss did not have sex with Chuchu for some reason after abducting her.

As for the reason, Kong Bi didn’t know. It might be because the coal boss didn’t bite Chuchu’s back neck when he wanted to do it before. Because of the barbs, male cats will bite the back neck of female cats when doing it. The reason is that female cats will instinctively choose to escape because of the pain, and biting the back neck can allow this reproductive behavior to continue.

It may also be because the coal boss is afraid of his own estrus.

Yes, fear. From the coal boss’s behavior, it can be seen that it may have reached the critical point of becoming a spirit. Creatures that can think and ponder more are bound to feel fear about abnormal physical changes and unknown changes. This behavior is not uncommon among newly spiritualized creatures. Bear spirits might wonder why they hibernate, and creatures in heat might fear why they feel a strange impulse towards those they usually disdain.

After learning to think, they can’t understand the meaning of their behaviors that they originally did based on instinct.

It also takes a period of adaptation to transform from ordinary animals into monsters.

Of course, in addition to these two reasons, there is also a possibility that the coal boss did not give enough food.

With Chuchu’s foodie nature, it might not even bother with the coal boss if the betrothal gifts aren’t sufficient…

Another possibility is that Chu Chu is actually smarter than the coal boss, so it’s the dominant one between them. Chu Chu might have repeatedly trained the coal boss to understand that only by bringing it more food can it go from a guard to a son-in-law.

There are simply too many possible guesses, so Kong Bi couldn’t give an answer. She could only wait and see what happens in winter.

Cats have two mating seasons a year, one in early summer and one in late winter. These two seasons coincide with times when food is relatively easy to obtain for pregnant cats and their kittens. This is a survival pattern that cats have developed through evolution to maximize the survival rate of their offspring. So if you want to know the answer, you can only observe during that period.

Of course, it doesn’t mean that cats only go into heat during these two periods. If there is enough food, they don’t mind getting pregnant and giving birth at other times. It’s just that this situation is relatively rare. After all, most animals have things related to life and death engraved in their genes and will not change them at will.

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With the departure of Bai Wei’s family, Li Da had a few more videos to post online, but the zoo returned to its usual tranquility, with no more visitors.

Kong Bi also spent her days training the other zookeepers on how to approach the green peacocks.

This couldn’t be achieved by food alone. The green peacocks had high standards. The zookeepers had to dance well, sing well, or have beautiful feathers. If any of these three conditions were met, they would allow the zookeeper to approach and feed them. Otherwise, they would rather find food themselves; it’s not like they couldn’t.

Kong Bi had learned this while playing the game. The little monsters were all very individualistic. Otherwise, they wouldn’t always run away from home for various reasons. But as the number of monsters increased, it would be impossible for Kong Bi to personally feed each one, so she had to train the zookeepers.

However, Kong Bi felt that the first two requirements were a bit embarrassing and socially awkward for people. After all, who would dance before feeding a peacock?

In comparison, the last requirement is easier to achieve.

This is completely different from the problems other zoos struggle with. Other zoos have difficulty feeding because the zookeepers are tall and large. After all, many animals appear small and cute compared to human size, so humans are very threatening in their eyes. Caution and fear cause them to reject the food in the zookeeper’s hand, and it takes time to slowly familiarize themselves with the animals before they can be fed.

But Kong Bi’s zoo is different. They are not afraid to attack creatures larger than themselves. In this case, to get close to them, you either have to subdue them or meet their aesthetic standards.