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Chapter 400: Feeling Like a Cat

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

At long last, Zhao Youyue morphed into a cat in the novel world . She was a black Xuan Cat . Xuan also meant ”mysterious” in Chinese, and it aptly described the color of the cat which was pitch dark, so much so that it blazed in a fiery red . Legends told that Xuan Cat, a cat blazed in fiery black, was a spirit cat .

From ancient times until now, Xuan Maos were charms that warded off evil spirits . Yet, modern people often mistook them as something else . They were not merely cats with black fur . They warded off evil spirits, and that was why they appeared in times of calamity . Under the influence of modern storytelling and photography, people have been misled into believing that it brought nothing but calamity and misfortune . These cats were nothing but bad omens . In truth, they were holding the wrong end of the stick .

Zhao Youyue thought that black cats were cool . Perhaps she had been influenced by ”Zheng Tan” in ”Strange Life of a Cat . ” Just like Zheng Tan, she morphed into a Xuan Cat, curled up in a fetal position, fast asleep .

At last, Zhao Youyue experienced how it felt like to be a cat!

A cat's world was a completely different realm!

Cats had poor eyesights, similar to short-sighted humans . Almost everything was blurry . On top of that, they were color blind . Everything they saw was in black and white .

Fortunately, cats had rod-shaped photoreceptor cells on their retinas . Those cells were highly sensitive to light . They could see in near-total darkness . Instead of color, they saw the light . The brighter the light, the better they saw . It was the same way how black and white pictures were produced with differing densities of black spots . In a cats eyes, these pictures were three dimensional .

Despite their poor eyesight, they had extreme reflexes, and could zone in on just about anything, be it something as small as a c.o.c.kroach or mice . A cat would jump towards it, before a human even registered it being there .

Suspended strings drove them crazy . They would curl up on their hunches, prepared to pounce as if they were hunting prey .

The cat body gave Zhao Youyue a great degree of discomfort . She pitied those who had involuntarily morphed into animals…

After all these years of living as a human, it was not easy to adapt to the differences in an animal's body . The cat's sight threw her off . That was just the beginning of things, she had not even investigated the other senses yet .

Coincidentally, it was late at night . Zhao Youyue realized that the cat's night vision was incredibly sharp, and with incredible cat reflexes, as she leaped out of the pet shop with ease . The human anatomy had nothing on this…

Zhao Youyue had always been fond of new adventures and experiences . This was a unique experience for her . She simply needed to focus on her thoughts, and poof! Back to human form again . Very interesting!

Nevertheless, it had no practical usage whatsoever . She was merely a cat, and one without any destructive capabilities nor any special abilities . As a Xuan cat, she had expected to see etherial existences such as wandering souls and spirits . How disappointing .