She raised her hand to touch the cage door.
Only to see a fluffy little paw.
Cen Yao: “...”
?
What was going on?
What kind of game starts with the player in a cage?
Was this a joke?
She stretched out her paw and nudged the cage door.
In the next second, a blue light flashed across the metal bars.
A fine current of electricity instantly surged through her paw.
Cen Yao's entire little body was shocked to the point of puffing up.
Her fur literally stood on end.
She stared blankly at her puffed-up little paw.
The paw pads were black, and it was tiny.
When she stretched, her claws splayed out like a little flower.
How cute—
Like hell it was!!!
Cen Yao felt completely out of sorts.
She knew something was very wrong.
What game starts with a player in a cage?
It turned out she wasn't just starting in a cage; she had also been stripped of her humanity!
Cen Yao irritably flicked the tail behind her, suddenly feeling the urge to bite something.
The tail was long and fluffy, making its presence very known when flicked.
She looked down at her body.
She had grayish-brown fur with dark spots and stripes, a darker face, round ears, and a slightly pointed snout.
Thinking of the dungeon's name—Cat Cafe—she pretty much knew what she was now.
She was probably some kind of cat.
Cen Yao twitched her ears.
Suddenly, she heard a very soft click, sounding like a camera taking a photo.
Cen Yao's cat ears instantly perked up.
“Orb, what are you doing?”
Inside the System Space, the orb froze.
It guiltily hid the camera behind its small body.
This was a cat Host!
How rare was an opportunity like this?
It wouldn't be a proper system if it didn't take a picture!
“Ah, n-nothing, Host.”
The orb's voice was incredibly sweet.
“I'm just looking at the quest panel!”
Cen Yao narrowed her eyes.
“Is that so?”
“Of course!” The orb nodded vigorously.
Cen Yao remained suspicious.
But she didn't have the time to investigate what the orb was secretly up to right now.
She had to figure out what kind of animal she actually was first.
“Help me check what kind of cat I am.”
The orb immediately looked up the data.
A few seconds later, it cleared its throat.
“Host, you are currently an Asian palm civet, of the family Viverridae, genus Paradoxurus, commonly known as a civet cat.”
Cen Yao: “Meow?”
A civet cat? She had never heard of it.
The moment the meow left her mouth, Cen Yao froze completely.
So, Cen Yao the cat manually covered her mouth.
She had accidentally voiced her thoughts just now.
Her image was ruined!
In fact, in a corner Cen Yao was unaware of, her image was already long gone.
The moment the live stream started, old and new fans flooded in.
Then, they saw the puffed-up, mouth-covering little kitty with its ears standing straight up inside the iron cage~
The bullet chat went silent for a moment.
In the next second, it went completely wild.
[Huff huff huff, look, it's a witch cat!]
[Ahhhh, such a cute Lady Witch!!! Witch cat, you are the cutest cat in the world!]
[Help, did she just meow? Did she just meow?!]
[Cats are the best! Quick, say hello to your auntie, and auntie will give you some canned food, okay?]
[Sweet baby, let auntie give you a big kiss, you're making me drool.]
[Oh my god, there's a bunch of perverts here.]
[Dare to kiss Lady Witch? Watch out, or she'll feed you a bursting fireball!]
[By the way, what kind of cat is this? I've never seen it before.]
[It's a civet cat. Before the game arrived, it was a Class II protected species. The civet coffee you guys like to drink comes from civets.]
[What?! Then in this Cat Cafe dungeon, isn't our witch cat going to be... forced to poop?!]
[...]
[You...]
[What a genius...]
[Don't worry, I've already taken a screenshot. I'll make sure the great Lady Witch sees it.]
[No, no, no, please don't! I was wrong, my mouth slipped before my brain could think, please spare me!]
[Kneeling won't save you now. I'm laughing my head off.]
[Who can relate? In the last dungeon, Lady Witch descended with the moonlight to judge the dark wizards, but in this dungeon, she starts as a puffed-up cat in a cage.]
[Horror Game, you really know how to play.]
Fortunately, Cen Yao wasn't reading the bullet chat.
If she were, she would probably explode with anger on the spot.
She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself down.
Although taking a breath now meant the damp nose of a small animal twitching slightly.
Cen Yao began to observe her surroundings.
Her cage was placed on a row of metal shelves.
There wasn't just her cage on the shelf.
To her left and right were many iron cages of various sizes.
Inside them were other cats just like her.
Most of them lay quietly in their cages.
Some had numb looks in their eyes, while others were trembling all over.
A few had sharp, vigilant gazes, clearly players like her.
In some cages, only a pool of dried blood and a few tufts of fur remained.
Cen Yao's gaze slowly turned cold.
Cat Cafe. Escape from the Cat Cafe within seven days.
She had thought it would be a cute and cuddly cat cafe dungeon.
From the looks of it now, this "Cat Cafe" was probably far from cute.
Just then, footsteps echoed from the distance.
They weren't human footsteps, as the sound was very light.
The animals in the cages tensed up almost simultaneously.
One civet was so terrified that it buried its head in its paws, its entire body shivering.
Cen Yao lay in her cage, slowly pulling her tail back to her side.
She looked in the direction of the sound.
A "cat" wearing a black-and-white uniform walked over.
It had a human body, but it was topped with a giant cat head.
A red bow tie was tied around its neck, and it held a stun baton in its hand.
The cat-headed employee stopped in front of the cages, its golden slit pupils sweeping across the caged animals row by row.
Finally, its gaze landed on the players, including Cen Yao.
It grinned, revealing sharp teeth.
“New civet cats.”
“Excellent.”
“The manager will like you.”
Cen Yao lay in her cage, motionless.
The cat-headed employee tapped the cage door with its stun baton.
Zzzzt.
Blue electrical arcs danced across the iron bars.
“Be good.”
“Starting tomorrow, you will have to work for the cafe.”
Cen Yao's tail twitched slightly.
Work? What kind of work?
Soon, the cat-headed employee provided the answer.
It spoke in a drawn-out drawl, its voice carrying an unpleasant sense of glee.
“At our Cat Cafe, we welcome little kitties who can produce premium coffee beans the most.”
“As long as you obediently eat the coffee cherries.”
“Obediently excrete the coffee beans.”
“And obediently let the customers choose you.”
“Then you'll get to live a little longer.”
Cen Yao: “?”
She slowly looked down, staring at her own little belly.
Then she slowly raised her head, looking at the cat-headed employee.
You absolute monsters!
She was absolutely certain.
This dungeon was seriously messed up.
Rate on N.U.
