Strange Life of a Cat

Chapter 271 - 271 264 Theft Incident

?Chapter 271: Chapter 264 Theft Incident Chapter 271: Chapter 264 Theft Incident By the edge of the sidewalk, Zheng Tan was rubbing a blob of bubblegum on the ground with his paw. Every now and then, people walking by would hastily avoid him after seeing Zheng Tan, expressing their disgust and speaking a few words in fear of encountering a “crazy” or “spasming” cat.

Zheng Tan was already fuming for stepping on the bubblegum and hearing people call him a “mad cat” or “sick” made him so angry he wished he could kick them. Unfortunately, he couldn’t shake off or completely clean the sticky gum on his paw, which had picked up even more dust and gravel on the ground, making it more disgusting than when he first stepped on it.

Just as Zheng Tan was thinking about going back to Jiao Ma to clean it up, he noticed someone approaching him.

Looking up, he saw a young man in his late twenties coming over. Zheng Tan didn’t feel any malice from him, and while his paw continued to rub against the nearby flowerbed, his eyes remained fixed on the approaching stranger. Even without malice, caution was still necessary.

“Got something stuck to your paw?” the man muttered to himself before walking back to his table and tearing off some of the cheap paper towels from a roll.

Zheng Tan realized the man was likely trying to help. The man seemed decent enough, so Zheng Tan decisively lifted his paw, showing the bubblegum-stuck palm to the man.

“Huh?” The man clearly hadn’t expected the cat to be so cooperative. He was thinking about how to pry the cat’s paw open without getting scratched or bitten. He had encountered something similar before. Last month, a cat in the community owned by an old lady had a fishbone stuck in its mouth, and he was asked to help. After a lot of struggling, he managed to get the bone out but ended up with a lot of scratches on his arms, which had not fully healed yet. But now, it seemed he was worried for nothing. Not every cat was so uncooperative; this one was quite exceptional.

Zheng Tan watched as the man wrapped the paper around the piece of gum caked with dust and gravel and slowly peeled it off his paw, wiping it a few more times with a fresh piece of paper.

“All done!” The man tossed the gum-wrapped paper into a nearby trash can and even prepared to stroke Zheng Tan’s head, which Zheng Tan avoided.

Zheng Tan curled his paw and looked at it, flexing it, curling it again, then stretching it out. The gum was so sticky that, even though most of it was wiped away with the tissue, some residue remained in the fur of his paw creases. But it was much more tolerable than the previous discomfort.

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