Chapter 932: Confirming Status

The fat cat spoke.

Hearing the voice of the Fire‑Chasing Heroic Scion from the mouth of a tricolored fat cat, the absurdity of this scene is about equal to finding a talking roasted sweet potato in a trash can, and that roasted sweet potato even remembers your name.

Heimu crossed arms, tilted her head slightly, and her dark‑purple eyes scanned the fat cat from top to bottom.

Pa turned into the shape of a canned good; this direction of change, like Kesi Mo's gender shift and Hua's body swelling, belongs to the same series, all caused by an abnormal condition of Past World Paradise that made Yingjie's appearance deviate.

But Pa's degree of deviation is the most outrageous among all Yingjie Li; she went directly from a human to a cat, changing species entirely.

Aha's randomness in this set of joyous entries, Heimu only today has attained a complete Cognition.

"Pa."

Heimu confirmed the identity of the fat cat in a Calm tone.

"Right, right, right! It's me! It's Pa Duo Felice herself! Black Curtain Lady, you finally came! I've been hanging here—haven't known how long! My tail's almost been snapped! Please put me down, I beg you—!"

The fat cat's speech speed was like a machine gun; by the end her voice cracked, sounding just like a house cat whose tail was stepped on howling at the moon.

Her four paws began to dig wildly again, her whole body swaying left and right in midair, the amplitude making the rope creak.

Heimu gave no reply, raised her right hand, and casually flicked her index finger in the air.

A violet‑black energy blade shot from her fingertip, slicing precisely through the middle of the silver‑gray rope without a sound; the rope snapped into two smooth, flat halves.

The fat cat, together with the half rope, fell straight down from midair.

"Waaah—!!"

A muffled thud.

The face hit the ground first.

The round belly bounced from inertia, the four legs traced a perfect arc in the air then flopped softly onto the ground; the tail finally freed from the rope's grip, slapped the ground with a pat, and the stiff hairs at the tip twitched.

She stayed in that pose on the ground for about five seconds, then laboriously lifted a front paw and rubbed her flattened round face with the paw pad.

"Pain—pain pain pain pain—my nose—my nose still there? —Ah, still there, thank goodness, not broken."

Pa circled her face with both front paws, confirming each feature was in place, then exhaled a long breath that stirred a small cloud of dust from the ground.

Then she lifted her round head, amber‑colored eyes gazing at Heimu, the pupils surrounded by a ring of sparkling water‑light; grievance and relief clashed on her face: "Black Curtain Lady, your move was too swift, at least give me some time to prepare, but thank you! You're my reborn parents for today! Whenever you need me, just ask, I'll give you a discount, ninety‑nine percent off!"

"... Ninety‑nine percent off."

Heimu repeated the number, tone flat.

"Ninety‑eight percent off! Ninety‑eight percent off works, right? Can't go lower!"

Pa propped herself up with both front paws, sitting just like a canned cat—no, exactly like a canned cat; hind legs splayed, front paws together on her chest, fluffy tail lazily looping half a circle around her feet.

In this sitting pose her figure appeared even rounder, the soft flesh on her belly sagging a layer under gravity, the tricolored fur glowing a warm matte hue in the green light; the overall visual effect was summed up in one word: fat.

Heimu crouched, her gaze level with Pa.

At this distance she could see the human‑like expressions on Pa's canned face—brows furrowing, mouth corners tilting, even whiskers shifting with emotional swings.

She extended her index finger and gently poked Pa's forehead; the fingertip sank into the soft cat fur, feeling almost identical to a real cat.

Pa leaned back from the poke, then rubbed the spot with a front paw, blinking: "What are you doing?"

"Confirm your current status."

Heimu withdrew her finger, her gaze lingering a moment on the faint glowing green markings on Pa's face.

Like Wei Er Wei, Pa's face also bore Corrosion scars, located below the left eye, extending from the corner down to the lower edge; the lines were finer than Wei Er Wei's but darker, almost merging with the surrounding fur under the green light.

Heimu reached in and brushed aside the small tuft of cat hair beneath Pa's left eye; Pa reflexively squinted the left eye but didn't dodge, merely emitting a vague "gulu" sound from her throat.

"When did you start looking like this?"

Heimu withdrew her hand and asked.

"Well—"

Pa lifted a hind leg and kicked her own ear, a motion identical to the head‑scratching habit she had when still human, only now on a cat's body it resembled a certain arthropod's courtship dance. "I can't pinpoint when exactly, but I was walking fine in Letu, then ran into Sister Wei Er Wei. Sister Wei Er Wei! The chibi style! About this tall—"

She raised a front paw and gestured at about knee height above the ground, then realized her current stature made the gesture inaccurate, so she corrected, "Anyway I'm tiny! I just greeted Sister Wei Er Wei, saying you look so cute today, where did you get that outfit, and she laughed—her laugh was so wicked I can still recall it after nightmares. Then she pulled out something; I didn't see clearly what it was, just a flash of silver‑gray, and I felt the world spin, and when I came to, I was like this, still tied to a tree by that bastard as a decoration!"

Pa's voice rose again at the end, her front paws flailing angrily twice in the air, her tail snapping behind her with a "pa‑pa" sound, kicking up a small puff of dust from the ground.

Heimu, after listening, mentally compared Pa's condition with the transformations of the previous few individuals.

Ying's appearance rewound to her student days, but her Memory and core personality remained intact.

Ge Lei Xiu's body grew while her mind stayed the same, a partial change.

Kesi Mo's gender shift is a fundamental physiological alteration.

Hua's physique swelled after her panel was modified in the Painted World, a change caused by external intervention.

But Pa's transformation is the most thorough; she turned directly from a human into an animal, even the species tag was rewritten.

Yet despite the large magnitude, her core consciousness is intact, memory clear, and no signs of personality alienation.

This aligns with the states of the others.

"Compared with your previous companions, your degree of change is the greatest, but fundamentally your situation belongs to the same category as theirs."