The System Mistook Me for a Cat

Chapter 48

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Let me share my experience about the adoption event at Jin City No.5 Senior High School.

I'm a local from Jin City, living near the No.5 High School. I discovered this "adoption event" while scrolling through short videos. I'm neither a fan of any big influencer nor an alumnus of the school. Initially, when reading the comments section, people were discussing things like "Isn't this just like crowdfunding?" "There aren't even any rare animals" "Why are first-year students doing this, do they have too much free time?" These comments piqued my interest.

I did some re

System: "I bought them in October!"

Chu Tingwu: Wasn't that when I was doing parkour?

System: "According to my basic algorithms, I can't directly provide high-level technology to societies of different technological levels, I can only guide indirectly, like through investments. I believe the research this hospital is currently doing has a chance of achieving a technological breakthrough, though it will be quite slow - for your safety, baby, we can be prepared!"

What to do when a young one is too lively and active? Can't bear to stop her and won't stop her, so the only option is to prepare doctors in advance!

Even though she hasn't been injured yet.

Chu Tingwu suspected that if she hadn't asked, the system would have silently prepared everything until the day she got hurt.

She couldn't help but laugh: "Then I'll try my best to get injured."

System: "??"

Chu Tingwu: "Can't waste your gift."

System: "I'll change it!"

How could a hospital be a birthday present! Better to build an amusement park, yes, an amusement park... It would definitely save up enough money!

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While Chu Tingwu was chatting with the system, Three-Five-Five perched high on the cat carrier, watching the moon outside, its tail swaying slowly.

When Chu Tingwu fell asleep, Three-Five-Five leaped to the window and silently opened its mouth to meow.

System: "?"

Although it didn't understand why the cat mother was going out in the middle of the night again, the system habitually opened the window.

But after going out, Three-Five-Five just crouched on the wall, momentarily motionless.

The system had never communicated with the cat mother alone before. After some thought, it deployed a drone, wanting to monitor her closely—

But the calico cat glanced at the drone, flicked her tail irritably, and even bared her teeth at it.

System: "=="

Alright, alright, no drones then.

It glanced at the kitten playing in the dream classroom and casually accessed a nearby surveillance camera. Three-Five-Five, unaware of the system's capabilities, waited for a while after not seeing the drone, then leaped down from the wall and began running into the distance.

At night, most shops were closed. Unlike Fallen Phoenix City, Jin City's streets were still filled with office workers who had just gotten off work. Three-Five-Five strolled past them; the workers merely glanced at her, or at most called out "kitty kitty," but she ignored them all.

The system watched the cat mother's route with confusion, observing as she hesitated at intersections, paused to sniff, then chose a direction and continued running.

The system pulled up a map to compare: "Huh?"

Three-Five-Five stopped here, lifted her head, and caught the scent of various dogs.

She nervously flicked her tail and jumped onto an electric gate, beside which was a sign:

[Jin City Police Dog Training Base]

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Late into the night, the calico cat tried to sneak around... but failed.

Almost as soon as she had entered, a flashlight beam caught her, and the dog handler with his police dog froze: "A cat?"

His first thought was that one of the police cats in training had escaped, but then he remembered there weren't any large long-haired calicos among the police cats. He then wondered if it might be a stray from nearby, but the collar on the cat before him proved otherwise.

Even if it was just a cat, the handler wouldn't let his guard down.

There had been cases of animals being used to steal data or hide cameras, and they themselves trained animals to do such things, so he pulled his police dog closer, about to give the attack preparation command.

Then he realized: didn't this collared calico look familiar?

"Three-Five-Five?"

The gray-black calico vanished from the flashlight beam.

Though the sound was faint, the police dog beside him immediately started barking in a certain direction. The handler swept his flashlight over but saw nothing at first glance. He made a confused sound: "Was that really Three-Five-Five?"

The system was equally confused.

Three-Five-Five had never been to the police dog training base before, so why was she suddenly running there in the middle of the night?

Dog barks echoed in the darkness. The handler who had spotted Three-Five-Five notified others, telling them a collared calico cat had entered the base. After some thought, he decided not to mention "it looks like the one Chu Tingwu raises," and everyone began searching the base for the cat.

Though the system didn't understand, it still helped Three-Five-Five by slightly modifying some details in the surveillance footage.

After searching everywhere, the handlers regretfully reported: the cat must have escaped.

Meanwhile, Three-Five-Five had already reached where the police cats were kept.

Although cats are nocturnal, most of the police cats-in-training maintained regular schedules. At this hour, only a few cats were still taking extra classes—

Cats' night vision could be put to good use, so the cats took turns having night classes. Currently, several cats were practicing point retrieval in darkness.

Some cats noticed Three-Five-Five and meowed restlessly, but she remained perched in her tree, eyes narrowed, watching the people and cats on the training field.

After a while, she batted at some pine needles beneath her paw. As they fell, she leaped down with a soft thud into the bushes, sniffing around, searching for that pine needle.

The system, struggling to observe through surveillance cameras in the corners: "?"

Could Three-Five-Five be here to... take extra classes?

As the dream classroom lesson had just ended and it was break time, the system mentioned this to the young one and showed Chu Tingwu the video feed of Three-Five-Five.

Chu Tingwu also: "?"

But after watching for a while, she pondered: "Three-Five-Five has been acting strange all week."

Specifically since... the last time she fought with the lion cat?

Although Three-Five-Five could beat the lion cat, she sometimes got scratched up. Meanwhile, Chu Tingwu, having the same quick reflexes but in a human body, could easily dominate through size advantage and achieve complete victory.

Just like how she couldn't beat the tiger in class (...), this was a natural disadvantage due to size difference. To achieve victory, she would need to learn various techniques and work hard to increase her strength.

After that, Chu Tingwu noticed Three-Five-Five constantly observing her.

Though the cat mother usually observed her too, that had been with a sense of protectiveness and motherly love, like watching over an innocent child.

Now it seemed Three-Five-Five had discovered Chu Tingwu had "grown up"—though the system would never admit it.

Cats are independent creatures.

Kittens around two months old are kicked out by their mothers to begin living independently.

Most felines are like this; they have territorial marking behaviors, so leaving the family when mature is normal.

But Chu Tingwu wasn't a real cat—

Three-Five-Five observed, hesitated, and judged whether the young one had "matured," until finally, she seemed to reach a strange conclusion:

It wasn't that the young one had grown up, but that she, as a mother, had become useless.

The young one was still a young one, but she could no longer teach her child anything.

So, piecing together bits of information she'd heard and smelled from Chu Tingwu, she had made her way to the Jin City Police Dog Training Base.

During certain difficult parkour moves, Three-Five-Five couldn't accompany Chu Tingwu because she now jumped higher and farther than her mother.

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When rock climbing, Three-Five-Five would sit watching from a distance, as the climbing equipment wasn't really suitable for cats.

Perhaps it was from that time that the calico began to think.

The calico curled up like a smoky gray ball in the bushes, listening to lessons, ears twitching, then turning to continue searching in the bushes for the pine needle she had scratched.

She dug in the soil, and when patrol staff approached nearby, the now-experienced cat hid behind trees: cats might freeze when caught in direct light. Dogs could be heard barking in the video, but the calico couldn't be seen on surveillance.

But Chu Tingwu knew she was there.

Without needing to say much more, the system ended the lesson, and Chu Tingwu got out of bed, getting dressed while calling the handler she knew:

"Sorry to disturb you, but did you see a calico cat tonight? Yes, that's Three-Five-Five."

"Yes, I'm coming to pick up my mom."

"It's not a slip of the tongue. Three-Five-Five has always thought she's my mother. I'm coming to pick up my mom."

After picking up the cat, she could use her connections to get her mom enrolled in Cat Adult University for further education... Considering she had once helped select students for Cat University, they probably wouldn't refuse, right?