CHAPTER 116: CHAPTER 41: MYSTERIOUS CAT GIRL_2

went out in a huff, even though its wheels were covered in mud, 2569 didn’t care and opened the villa’s door, and seeing the sight, the entire robot’s aura was suppressed.

"Cat...cat..." 2569 short-circuited at the most inconvenient moment, while Du Xixi and Rob stood a distance away, hearing only these few words vaguely. Despite calling out several times, there was no response from 2569, so Du Xixi sent Rob to check who it was.

Rob considered its mecha persona to be aloof and composed, not inferior to that son-in-law Ke Lian who often engaged in battles of love and hate with its own master, but when it saw the tiny black figure squatting at the villa entrance, it almost short-circuited together with 2569.

"Cat...cat..." Rob opened its mouth to say a normal sentence, but like 2569, it only uttered these indistinct characters.

Du Xixi couldn’t help it anymore, seeing both standing idle at the doorway, she lifted her skirt and walked into the mud towards the door.

Minutes later, Du Xixi blinked and uttered a few very familiar characters:

"Cat...cat..."

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Du Xixi sat on the sofa, with 2569 tightly squatting at her feet, while Rob stood in front of the opposite sofa, looking curiously yet cautiously at the figure squatting on the sofa... a girl?

Calling her a girl wasn’t entirely accurate, as she was so slender and small that even squatting on the sofa, she only occupied a third of the double-seat sofa, seemingly looking like a teenager — according to the Star Era age of seventy being the adulthood.

Large eyes, delicate red lips, bright and vivid features, yet full of childishness, at most could be called cute. Although slim, her body proportions were excellent, her legs particularly long, showing an unhealthy paleness under the tattered fur clothing.

But what was most striking were the pair of black ears atop her head and a fluffy long tail behind her.

Yes, she wasn’t entirely human... or rather, she wasn’t completely human. Something like a cat yet not fully, resembling a human yet not quite, Du Xixi felt a throbbing headache for a moment, then slightly puzzled, she asked Rob, "In the Star Era, are there still beasts that can turn into human forms?"

Du Xixi wasn’t sure if she described it correctly, there might be possibilities of humans who can grow beast ears and tails?

Rob shook its head, its humanoid magnetic voice revealing some uncertainty: "According to records, nothing like this has appeared. But it doesn’t rule out possibilities of historical remnants or human body experiments."

Historical remnants mean that the transformation of beasts into humans or vice versa hasn’t been discovered, so it wasn’t recorded. Human body experiments refer to those deranged scientists attempting to transplant animal traits into humans, bestowing them with animal advantages.

This type of human experimentation has occurred before, but usually it was discovered, ending without success, or reaching a final point only to find it impossible to succeed.

As Du Xixi listened, she inadvertently met the girl’s cat-like, golden eyes. Staring into those clean, confused eyes, Du Xixi instinctively felt that such cruel experiment wouldn’t be arranged by heaven for such a pure girl.

"Rob, go and inquire discreetly about her, but don’t directly bring it up," Du Xixi sighed gently with her eyes lowered. Naturally, those people are the ones arranged by Chen Yin on CD-0329 Star to cultivate food ingredients; if they’ve seen her around, they might know something.

As to why not directly mention her. Du Xixi simply wanted to protect the girl a little more. If the staff haven’t seen this cat-eared girl before, and Rob asks directly, it might expose the girl’s uniqueness, causing trouble if ill-intentioned people discover her.

Rob immediately left, but its quick departure wasn’t just because of 2569 being there to protect Du Xixi, but also because it had scanned the cat-eared girl’s body, finding her severely injured, making it impossible to harm Du Xixi under 2569’s protection.

The cat-eared girl was highly alert despite no intentions from Du Xixi and 2569 to harm her, she still maintained a defensive stance, even though the posture made her feel excruciating pain, as if the few broken ribs were sticking into her flesh.

Rob returned soon, bowing to Du Xixi and said: "Miss, I asked around, seems like this girl has always lived on CD-0329 Star, ever since Master sent everyone there, they often see her out foraging..."