Ch52.1 - It’s Not Worth Three Jin (Part One)

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As long as Cui QiChao refused to promise to return and get married, he wouldn’t be given supplies again. Now that his food supply was limited, eight jin was considered a lot. Even if he started planting sweet potatoes, it would take too long before they matured.

If he wanted to bring XiaoBai back with him, he would have to feed it everyday too… because of this, Cui QiChao hesitated even more.

This wasn’t the medieval virtual plane. Although technology here was more developed, his current predicament was much worse than what he experienced in Northumberland——of course, this was before Cui QiChao had sufficient food supplies.

Cui QiChao didn’t want to completely abandon XiaoBai, but it would be better if he just picked XiaoBai up from this woman in the future. The other party had companions, and it seems her living conditions were currently much better than his. 

Seeing Cui QiChao’s hesitation made XiaoBai want to die of anger. It meowed and rolled on the ground in protest, but in the eyes of the humans, it seemed to be acting in a coquettish manner towards its mother, and the mother cat pressed it down with one paw.

Son of a bitch Cui QiChao! Cui QiChao was not a human! He would rather own eight jin of grains than buy XiaoBai! Does that mean that it wasn’t more important than eight jin of grains!? XiaoBai crazily insulted Cui QiChao inwardly.

The girl looked at Cui QiChao’s expression and said again, “In fact, I also felt it was very strange. Why would there be anyone in such a predicament who…” She looked at Cui QiChao’s clothes and added, “Still wants to buy a cat. Hehe, in fact, if it wasn’t because our supplies haven’t arrived yet, I wouldn’t want to sell MiaoMiao’s children. If you don’t want to buy it, forget it.”

Cui QiChao wanted to agree to what she said without further ado, but he saw that XiaoBai seemed to be going crazy. It looked like it wanted to cut all ties with Cui QiChao if he didn’t choose it over the grains today.

To be honest, even though he usually likes to tease XiaoBai, after spending so many years together with it in each virtual plane, he held some fond feelings for it. Cui QiChao sighed and said: “…Can you charge less for it?”

XiaoBai: “……”

Bargain, he’s even bargaining! It wanted to vomit blood because it’s only worth eight jin, now how little should it be worth? And before he bargained the girl had already dropped the price down two jin!

This time Cui QiChao ignored the look in XiaoBai’s eyes. Even the cat couldn’t stop him from reducing the price. He frowned and said, “They are weaned and need to start eating food. You also don’t have many supplies left. If I take a cat, it will actually reduce your burden.” 

Originally, she thought this Omega was the kind of person that was rid of worldly desires. At first glance, she could tell from his temperament that he came from a good family. It would have been easy for him to change his mind and say he didn’t want to buy a cat, but the girl really didn’t expect him to start bargaining.

Cui QiChao’s words made sense though. The girl lowered her head and smiled, “Fine with me. I’ll give you a good price. How about three jin?”

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Cui QiChao shook hands with her and took three jin of food from the backpack behind him. In order to avoid going too far, or in case he was met with an accident, Cui QiChao took some food and drinking water with him when he went out.

“You’re quite tall,” Lisa added in passing.

Cui QiChao replied “Mm”. His height hadn’t changed, but his skeletal structure did slightly. He should be considered rather tall compared to a regular Omega.

Lisa took the food and measured the weight with an instrument. She determined it was exactly three jin and looked at Cui QiChao in surprise. She didn’t see Cui QiChao using any measuring instruments just now. He had just scooped the grains from his bulging backpack. In fact, the mode she inadvertently activated in the instrument was a high-precision measurement mode. It could measure up to more than ten decimal places. The measurement showed that it was three kilograms only, and the amount did not vary more than or less than one percent. All the decimal points remained at zero. 

Was this an accident? Judging from the actions the Omega took and the expression he had in front of her, Lisa didn’t think so.

“I told you my name, and what about yours?” Lisa asked.

“My name is Tristan.” Cui QiChao didn’t believe the girl’s name was Lisa at all. Obviously, she lied, so Cui QiChao casually gave her the name he used in the last virtual plane.

“Hehe… Knights of the Round Table, Tristan? It seems to me that you’re hoping to become an excellent Alpha.” Lisa also recognized that it was a pseudonym and hinted to him. 

She didn’t decipher that Cui QiChao’s name was fake from his expression. But under the A/B/O setting, the name belonged to an ancient knight, and the only ones who could become a knight at that time were Alphas.

However, the other party’s lies did not disgust Lisa, and instead, a feeling contrary to disgust surged within her. She generously picked up the struggling orange cat and said, “The money is fully paid. Here you go.”

Cui QiChao nodded to her and took XiaoBai.

“Meow!” XiaoBai began to scold him, but since it was only one month old, anyone who looked at it wouldn’t feel the slightest bit threatened at all. Instead, it appeared fierce yet adorable, and it even made Lisa laugh. 

Lisa took out a piece of cloth from her backpack, covered XiaoBai’s head with it, and said, “This cloth should smell like its mother and keep it calm. When it has just left its mother, it will always be uncomfortable. Please bear with it…” Her eyes darted to Cui QiChao and she said, “Generally speaking, cats still like gentle Omegas. Maybe it’s because you’re slightly like that.”

She didn’t say clearly that Cui QiChao’s posture of holding a gun earlier wasn’t merely for scaring people away. She kept another comment, out of politeness, to herself. Animals also have a certain sensitivity to pheromones. Cui QiChao’s pheromones made him so appetizing that kittens would be fiercely smelling it. Look at how defensive the cat had gotten.

Lisa had too great of an imagination. XiaoBai was just angry with Cui QiChao at the moment. Cui QiChao knew that very well. He wrapped XiaoBai’s head with the cloth given by Lisa so that its claws wouldn’t be able to claw him. Then, he put XiaoBai in his pockets. This way, it would feel warm since the kitten’s coat was not particularly thick.

After the transaction was completed, Cui QiChao and Lisa looked at each other and parted. After retreating to a certain distance, Cui QiChao disappeared behind a space vehicle that fell from the skies in an unknown era. 

Today, he didn’t plan to continue scavenging. Firstly, it was because most of his food was given to Lisa. Secondly, XiaoBai was going nuts now.

However, he had still gotten lucky today. First, he met XiaoBai. Then on his way back, Cui QiChao saw a four-wheel scooter buried in the sand. He dug it out and discovered that it was powered by electric energy, and it could be used to travel short distances so that he didn’t have to walk. Since he was stationed on such an unmanned planet, he didn’t have many places he wanted to go. It was enough for him to travel around the surroundings to do whatever he intended to.

Cui QiChao checked the scooter. It doesn’t have much of a problem other than a little age and no energy in it. The main problem was that the electrical lock was gone. Clearly, this wasn’t considered something valuable and was abandoned by someone straightforwardly in the beginning. In fact, it should work after he takes it back to repair. At present, Cui QiChao still needs the missing equipment.

Cui QiChao pushed the scooter back together with the cat. XiaoBai was placed on the seat of the scooter so that he wouldn’t need to carry it. 

At first, XiaoBai kept swearing and yelling. Later, when it scolded so much that it was tired, it laid down and muttered a few sentences. After calming down, XiaoBai suddenly discovered a very important problem:

It seemed that Cui QiChao was an Omega!

At first, XiaoBai didn’t notice because when Cui QiChao appeared, he acted as hateful as he did previously. It wasn’t until now when the faint scent of the five cereals lingered that XiaoBai suddenly realized it.

XiaoBai felt a little dazed. How did Cui QiChao become an Omega? It’s too funny! It's even more funny than XiaoBai becoming an orange cat! 

Cui QiChao glanced at the crazy XiaoBai and said nothing. Fortunately, he read some animal husbandry knowledge before he came, but he didn’t know whether he could find medicine if XiaoBai got sick. If he couldn’t find it, he would have read that knowledge in vain.

XiaoBai didn’t know that he has been referred to as a crazy cat by Cui QiChao. He laughed wildly at the bottom of his heart and felt somewhat awkward…

This setting wasn’t very good for male Omegas, and whether he was facing male Alphas or female Alphas, he would be on the weaker side. It was very uncomfortable for XiaoBai when it thought of Cui QiChao having sex with another person when he went into estrus.

Even though he strongly wished for Cui QiChao to meet with something unfortunate, if he met with this kind of situation, XiaoBai wouldn’t feel happy at all. Why would he feel happy about Cui QiChao suffering like that under such weird settings? 

Wouldn’t it be better for it to transmigrate as a giant cat and raise Cui QiChao as a pet on a planet where cats were intelligent creatures? At that time, it would also give Cui QiChao a shoebox, train Cui QiChao to comb his hair and maintain his claws. It would ask Cui QiChao to roll, and Cui QiChao would roll. It would ask Cui QiChao to shake its hands, and Cui QiChao would clasp its left and right hand. Every time Cui QiChao goes to the bathroom, it would urge him to hurry up nearby…

XiaoBai was still immersed in its improper thoughts when they arrived at Cui QiChao’s space station.

There was only one person and one cat in this place. XiaoBai was relieved. It seemed that there was no possibility of it seeing obscene scenes for the time being.

The life that Cui QiChao was leading became more and more horrible. There wasn’t even a horse here. Oh, and he had nothing but a kitten. 

Cui QiChao found two bowls for XiaoBai to use as a water bowl and a food bowl, and said, “I will have to wrong you. I didn’t expect that our lives in the interstellar age would be worse than our lives in the medieval age.”

It was then that XiaoBai remembered that it was angry because it was only worth three jin. He knocked over the empty bowl with one claw, indicating that he was still in a bad mood.

Cui QiChao lost his smile, picked up XiaoBai and held it in his hands. “Honestly, I behaved that way just now to bargain with Lisa. How can I really not want you, you little guy? You have a bad temper. Come on, be good.”

Ah, he’s sweet-talking, sweet-talking. XiaoBai squinted at Cui QiChao. 

Cui QiChao gazed at XiaoBai a few times. “You look like DaJu.”

XiaoBai remained motionless as it glared at him.

XiaoBai waited for a long time for the second half of Cui QiChao’s sentence, which he didn’t speak out. Logically, the second half of the sentence should be, “But you look much better than DaJu”.

XiaoBai became angry again. XiaoBai rolled here and there, throwing a tantrum. 

Cui QiChao lay in bed with XiaoBai as if nothing had happened and let it lie on his chest. “But the starry sky of this planet is very beautiful. Look, we see a different scenery from this earth.”

Truth be told, it is also XiaoBai’s first time visiting an unmanned planet. It pressed on Cui QiChao’s chest and looked through the sunroof. It could really see the brightly shining stars through the transparent window.

XiaoBai took a look at the stars and at Cui QiChao. It felt a little uncertain whether Cui QiChao was sincerely apologizing or whether Cui QiChao didn’t realize what it was feeling, and felt that it had already forgiven him regardless.