The Last Cat in the Universe
Chapter 12
Yue An pointed its furry butt at the Marshal to protest.
Ji Xiuyun resisted the urge to rub its furry butt.
"I'm doing this for your own good."
The Marshal tried to persuade it.
"You can't even buy things if you can't read."
The Marshal tried to reason with it.
However, Yue An turned its head and meowed at him. It didn't appreciate his kindness.
Why don't you buy it for me?
Why are you talking so much nonsense?
Ji Xiuyun thought for a while and said, "If you can't read, you won't be able to understand those food recommendations."
"It's the same for buying energy crystals from the black market."
Yue An was shamefully moved.
Ji Xiuyun couldn't be free to accompany it all the time. After all, he was the Marshal of a country. His position was there, and his responsibilities were naturally equal to his position.
Yue An understood this quite well. Even its first owner, the little girl, had to carry a backpack to school on weekdays, let alone the Marshal of a country.
Yue An wasn't an ordinary cat that would die of loneliness when its owner wasn't around. It had a clear understanding that Ji Xiuyun would be busy with work in the future.
Therefore, it would be fine to ask him to translate the food recommendations and ask him to help buy energy stones from the black market once or twice, but it was obviously unrealistic to ask him for help every time.
Ji Xiuyun looked at Yue An's slightly raised tail and continued to say, "If you can't read, you don't even know how to make money."
"Meow!"
Yue An stood up and shook its fur.
So be it!
It was just learning how to read!
Back then, it had forced itself to learn how to read under the watchful eyes of a large group of human cubs!
It was just learning again!
Yue An puffed out its chest and slapped its paw on the childish book in front of it. It was obviously a book for preschoolers.
Then, the book said, "Sun."
Yue An was shocked. It jumped to the corner of the sofa and stared at the book as if it was facing a great enemy.
The Marshal turned to look at him, then reached out and gently tapped on one of the words.
The book spoke again, "Milky Way."
Yue An raised his head and looked at the expressionless Marshal, who was demonstrating the words one by one.
"Earth."
"Venus."
"Jupiter."
"Saturn."
Yue An: "…"
Alright, alright, I got it!
Ji Xiuyun watched as the frightened kitten ran back with its paws, poking at the audio book as if it knew how to do it.
After setting the parameters of the protective cover for the audio book, he turned his head with satisfaction and continued to think about the cat tree.
A light pen is a very useful tool for interior and environmental design.
It could draw directly in the air, and with special glasses, it could see what it had drawn.
The strokes drawn by the light brush had a very good light sensitivity. After choosing the built-in material effect and coloring, one could immediately see the effect after the renovation through the matching glasses.
Generally speaking, after having a rough design idea on paper, one could carry out a comparison of the actual design with the light ratio in mind.
However, no matter how useful the light pen was, it couldn't compare to Mr. Marshal's lack of design talent.
Ji Xiuyun wore the glasses and slowly walked around the small living room. Referring to the pictures of the cat tree, he painted half of the living room crookedly.
After finishing, Marshal looked around. He always had a mysterious confidence in himself. He turned his head and looked at Yue An, who had finished the six sets of questions on the protective cover and opened more than 30 bags of snacks.
Then Ji Xiuyun gently put one side of the glasses in front of Yue An.
Yue An, who was biting on a biscuit and poking at the words on the seventh page, was stunned, "Meow?"
Marshal bent over and picked him up, "Come and see."
Yue An curiously poked his head out.
Marshal asked calmly, "How is it?"
Yue An looked at the pile of crooked lines and wanted to say something, but stopped on second thought.
Ji Xiuyun turned his head and looked at him.
Yue An remained silent, "…"
Ji Xiuyun expressionlessly looked at the white ball in his arms for a while before he opened his mouth again. This time, the topic changed a thousand miles away, "What do you want to eat tonight?"
"Meow." Yue An turned his head and looked at his snacks.
"You haven't tried the staple food of Planet Sintes yet," Marshal reminded him.
Yue An turned his head and rubbed Ji Xiuyun's chest.
"Meow!"
Take me to eat!
"Okay."
Ji Xiuyun nodded lightly, put the glasses in front of Yue An again, and turned his little head to the cat tree he had painted.
He asked again, "So, what do you think?"
Yue An, "…"
Marshal said calmly, "The staple food of Planet Sintes tastes very good."
F * ck!
How can you be like this?!
You don't want the cat to think that your painting is ugly?!
Although his heart was filled with intense emotions, Yue An still rubbed Ji Xiuyun's chin and agreed against his will.
"Well, I think it's very good too."
Marshal was finally satisfied.
He rubbed Yue An's head and lamented without any change in his expression and tone, "Silly boy."
Yue An, "????"
Let me tell you.
People like you would have been scratched to death if they were on Earth in the past.
Ji Xiuyun didn't even realize that this cute little cat was holding a grudge against him.
This marshal, whose heart was full of mischief, always liked to tease others about trivial matters. Then, he would look at the other party with a straight face and see them become uneasy because of his serious expression.
The commanders of the seven legions directly under him were the ones who had suffered the most from his evil schemes over the years.
Now, Mr. Marshal felt that his savior cat was particularly interesting. It was more interesting than the seven army commanders who had been trained to be wily old foxes. No matter how he teased them, they wouldn't budge at all. Their poker faces were exactly the same as his.
Ji Xiuyun sat back on the sofa with Yue An in his arms and ordered a bunch of things that Yue An couldn't understand.
Then, he took advantage of his free time to pet the cat and organize his communication device, which had piled up into a mountain of letters.
"It's all thanks to you …" The marshal said.
In the past, it was already a miracle that he had more than ten unread letters in his communication device.
Now, because of Yue An, people who had his communication device all popped up one after another.
Most of them asked him about Yue An.
Marshal didn't even open the letters that he knew were nonsense just by looking at the titles. He just deleted them.
Among the pile of questions, there was one title that was quite unique.
The sender was the Ministry of Information Security.
There was an attachment in the message, and the attachment said, "Final Review of the Release of Cat Information to the Public."
The general idea was for Marshal to browse through it, and if there was anything that needed to be changed, please take the time to reply.
Marshal paused. He didn't mercilessly delete it like he did with other messages. Instead, he opened it.
Then, he neatly crossed out a lot of information about the hunting methods and recipes of cats in the subfamily Felinae.
He only left information about ferocious large carnivorous cats.
He also crossed out the information that mentioned that cats in the subfamily Felinae were very weak. He only left an outline of how they were close to humans and how they were one of the most popular pets of ancient Earth humans.
All in all, looking at the remaining information as a whole, people would only think that cats were a kind of small and flexible carnivore with a cute and soft appearance. They were very close to humans, but their fighting abilities were very strong.
There was a certain risk, but the person who carried this risk with him was Ji Xiuyun, who was known as the God of War.
People wouldn't think of such a risk as a risk.
Ji Xiuyun deleted the information while thinking about the uniqueness of Yue An.
He wanted to give the ordinary people some psychological preparation, so that when Yue An broke out some terrible power, it wouldn't cause panic among the people.
Then, Marshal replied to the Ministry of Information Security with a lot of deleted information.
As for how the person who received the reply felt, it wasn't within the scope of Marshal's consideration.
Marshal was very busy.
He had to think about the education of Yue An, how to build a cat tree, where to take Yue An for dinner, and how to explain to the Empire what happened during his disappearance and why he came back unscathed …
As the marshal thought about this, he continued to clean up his inbox.
Then, he saw a very familiar sender that made him feel nauseous.
Ji Xiuyun expressionlessly clicked open the letter from the Scientific Research Department. Looking at the strongly worded letter asking him to hand over the ancient Earth's heritage to the country, he snorted softly, which was rare. After decisively replying with a "No", he decisively deleted the message.
Marshal had a deep grudge against the Imperial Research Office.
It had to be traced back to fifty years ago, when the young Marshal, who was only a colonel at the age of forty, was officially incorporated into the Empire's Expedition Army.
At that time, the young Marshal had just come to the Imperial Planet with his parents from a rural planet where the military registration was not very strict. Before that, he had not had a detailed genetic level test. Anyway, the outdated instruments on the rural planet only showed qualified and unqualified.
In the era of the big universe, the genetic level of most human beings was maintained between A and E. Those above B were basically stamped and could walk the path of the military.
Level A was excellent, and level S was the top.
Marshal Kevin, the Shield of the Empire, was a top level S gene body.
For humans, a large part of their genetic level was determined innately.
Although it was true that they could rely on breaking through their physical limits and certain drugs to increase their genetic level, the drugs were rare. Just breaking through their physical limits was almost equivalent to dying once.
Since ancient times, only the founding emperor of the Empire of Sintes could rely on his own strength to increase his genetic level.
The people of the Empire of Sintes did not know if the innate SS-level gene bodies were hidden by other countries throughout the universe. However, as one of the most powerful countries in the universe today, Ji Xiuyun was the only SS-level gene body.
The people of the Imperial Research Office were in an uproar at that time. They did not care about the Army's reputation and directly kidnapped Ji Xiuyun back to the research institute.
The people in the Ministry of Scientific Research usually used the pretense that they would bow down to the essence of life until death. However, they did some inhumane experiments in private. Others did not know, but how could Ji Xiuyun, who had seen and even experienced part of it with his own eyes, not know?
They dared to think about Yue An without thinking about whether they had the ability to do so.
Unlike him, who had a high genetic level but was still a human, Yue An was not human, nor was it an ordinary cat. It was a character that ate energy crystals without batting an eye.
If Yue An was unhappy, it could directly strike the entire Ministry of Scientific Research with a thunderbolt. Ji Xiuyun did not think it was a big deal. He would even feel good about it.
None of the higher-ups in the Imperial Research Office were good people. They had been in conflict with the military and the military science class for a long time.
The Marshal had long since shed all pretense of cordiality with this group of people. He even gave them face in front of the media.
Everyone in the Empire knew that War God Silver Blade didn't like the Empire's scientific research department. If there was a problem that couldn't be solved by military science classes, he would rather look for a reputable private science academy than the Empire's scientific research department.
Refusing to hand over Yue 'an to the other party would only make the relationship even worse.
The Marshal looked at the notification that the deletion had been completed. He slowly blacklisted the new account.
He opened the blacklist list. All the accounts were neatly named Imperial Research Office. They were very friendly to people with OCD.
Yue An squatted on the Marshal's lap and carefully poked at the children's book in front of it. It was not attracted by Ji Xiuyun's movements at all.
The Marshal watched as his cat chewed through two pages of words in a short 20 minutes. It answered the questions related to the protective shield system and successfully received ten bags of snacks.
Our Yue An's IQ was very high.
He turned his head and looked at Ji Xiuyun. The ten bags of snacks were placed in a row. The cat's blue eyes were as clear as the sky.
"Meow!"
Yue An was very proud!
It was so proud that the tip of its tail was wagging!
The Marshal thought for a while, then rubbed Yue An's head and praised him, "Good job."
Even though the Marshal was very perfunctory when he praised someone, Yue An was already used to his way of speaking. He happily accepted the compliment.
The white furball put the unopened bag of snacks into Ji Xiuyun's hands. It opened its belly and wagged its tail, waiting to be fed to it.
The Marshal opened the bag and clicked on the social media page. He paused when he saw the various copyright requests that the platform had sent to his account.
It seemed that he still had to consider getting Yue An an optical computer and opening an account.
However, an optical computer and an account had to be bound together with an ID. Considering Yue An's current public identity, it was not appropriate to get an independent ID.
Also, Yue An had not learned all the words yet. It was not realistic to open an account for him.
Therefore, the account had to be registered under his name.
When the time came, he would have to go to the Household Registration Department to apply for an optical computer and an account that belonged to him. It would be specially for Yue An to use.
As the marshal thought about it, he casually stuffed the thing in his hand into his mouth.
"Meow!!!"
Ji Xiuyun snapped out of his thoughts. He lowered his head and saw Yue An's pained and complaining eyes.
"…" Oh no.
The Marshal kept a straight face and pretended that he did not notice anything. He opened another bag of snacks and stuffed Yue An's mouth with it.
He then used his Level 99 ability to change the topic.
"Yue An."
The Marshal dragged the screen in front of Yue An and pointed at the terms on it. "Copyright application."
Yue An chewed on the snacks. "Meow?"
"I will give you a share of the money. See if you agree." The Marshal pointed at one of the terms. "This is a copyright application for your product image."
He then moved to the next term. "A commercial copyright application for your photo."
"This is about you …"
The Marshal listed the terms one by one and stopped at the last term. "A commercial copyright application for your derivative works."
"Meow." Yue An poked the last term in confusion.
"It is using your image …" Ji Xiuyun clicked on the example page for him.
His words stopped abruptly.
The man and the cat looked at the erotic picture of the Marshal and the beautiful cat-eared and cat-tailed boy on the example page and fell into a dead silence.
Ji Xiuyun was speechless.
I shouldn't have changed the topic.
I should have chosen to watch Yue An howl and be pounded on the chest by the little pink pads.
Tsk, I miscalculated.
Yue An was speechless.
What's wrong with you humans?
Do you think I won't give you a Nine Yin Meow Claw?
I will teach you what honesty, friendliness, and professionalism means!
The man and the cat did not speak.
The situation was very awkward.
After a long while, the Marshal raised his hand and rubbed the head of the kitten in his arms. He then clicked on the report button.
Then, as if nothing had happened, he calmly pressed the reject button for Yue An.