Allergic To Furry Things But Can Pet Them Mentally – CH71

Chapter 71

The moment Shen Muhan received a fabricated body in virtual space, inspiration suddenly struck him—

In virtual space, a person’s appearance could be molded into any form that could be created. So why couldn’t he just give himself a pair of snow leopard ears and a snow leopard tail?

That way, little Rong could see this version of him ahead of time.

Last time, little Rong’s dad had even grown a flower on top of his head. Surely having snow leopard ears appear on his own head wouldn’t be difficult.

Once the thought came, he acted on it immediately.

Shen Muhan asked his father and mother to use the data from his snow leopard form to model ears and a tail onto his human form, preparing this surprise for Tang Rong.

After the initial shock, Tang Rong reached out with delight and grabbed the little ears on top of his head, rubbing them gently with his fingertips.

After rubbing the little ears, Tang Rong quickly moved behind him and grabbed the long fluffy tail.

The texture felt exactly the same as the little snow leopard’s, only larger, which made it even more comfortable to pet.

The only slight imperfection was that the ears and tail had no sensation, nor could they move. They were only decorative. When Tang Rong touched them, Shen Muhan felt absolutely nothing.

Logically speaking, when little Rong touched him, it ought to feel very nice.

Sure enough, a fake was full of flaws.

He needed to study hard and practice so that one day soon, even his real human form could grow ears and a tail too.

…

After leaving the learning pod, the two little cubs ate dinner as usual and then went together to Eldest Brother’s place.

Yun Yuan was already there waiting, ready to continue teaching Tang Rong how to use healing ability, while Shen Muhan was off to the side receiving training from Tang Zheng’en, who had turned into a little lion.

Over the course of this week, while Yun Yuan taught Tang Rong healing ability, he also used Eldest Brother Tang Yao as live teaching material for the little cub to “practice” on.

The facts proved once again that in the face of talent, everything else was just clouds floating in the sky.

Tang Rong had only just begun learning, yet under his soothing, Tang Yao’s spiritual power had not erupted even once again. It was just that the wounds on his body were too severe, so he still needed continued recuperation.

As for Tang Rong’s father, Tang Zheng’en, under a request from the emperor and empress, he had become the little crown prince’s temporary teacher.

To be fair, there truly wasn’t anyone on the entire capital planet more suitable than Tang Zheng’en.

Tang Yao was still young and somewhat inferior to him in comparison. Tang Hu’s ambitions lay elsewhere and he was lazy about training. Tang Qiu was the same.

And because the number of SS-rank spirit forms was relatively small, although the others were all formidable too, most had sparred with Tang Zheng’en before—and none had beaten him.

Now that Tang Rong had appeared and the issue of unstable spiritual power had been solved, Tang Zheng’en really was Shen Muhan’s best possible teacher.

When Tang Rong finished today’s lesson, stifled a little yawn, and pushed open the door to come out, what he saw was the little lion and the little snow leopard making a total mess of the flowers and grass in the yard.

Tang Yao didn’t come back to the capital often, so the yard was rather plain. It was covered with nothing but a layer of grass, with no flowers or trees planted there. Only a few flower seeds, dropped in by little birds, had managed to sprout into a few scattered blossoms among the grass.

Even so, the grass had been worn bald in several patches from the two little ones’ PK session, making the yard look even uglier.

The moment they noticed the little cub appear, both fluffies stopped moving.

The little lion had all kinds of grass stuck in its fur, and the little snow leopard’s mouth was full of grass too. Both little ones were grimy all over and not particularly clean anymore.

Smelling the strong grassy scent at the tip of his nose, Tang Rong strode over, made little fists, and lightly knocked each of them once on the head.

“Dad, baby, don’t destroy Eldest Brother’s yard.”

After that, Tang Zheng’en deliberately cleared out a piece of open land elsewhere in the villa district, set aside specifically for training and teaching, and built a sturdy platform there. He stopped tormenting the flowers and grass with the little snow leopard after that.

It was much cleaner there too, so their fur wouldn’t get dirty and little Rong could still hold them right away.

For this, the Tang family had even specially requested some funds from the royal family.

Setting aside the cost of building the platform, just taking care of the little crown prince and providing sparring services naturally ought to come with some compensation.

…

And so, without anyone noticing, another half month passed.

After school and dinner, Tang Rong had just begun packing his little schoolbag, preparing to head to Eldest Brother’s place to continue learning healing ability, when he suddenly heard a knock at the door.

Because the villa district was absolutely safe, the fluffies had long since gotten into the habit of dropping by unexpectedly. Quite a while ago, Tang Rong had already told butler Uncle not to shut the courtyard gate anymore, so they could come by anytime with ease.

Now, anyone who came to visit would just walk into the courtyard and knock on the door directly.

As autumn shifted into winter, the days grew shorter and the nights longer, and it was getting dark earlier and earlier in the evenings. By now, after dinner, it was already pitch-black outside.

Tang Rong got up in confusion and opened the door—only to see no one at all outside.

Puzzled, Tang Rong closed the door again, only to hear it knock once more from behind him as soon as he turned around.

Tang Rong froze for a moment, then opened the door again.

This time, too, there was still no one there.

So frightened, he immediately slammed the door shut.

Suddenly, Tang Rong remembered that recently at kindergarten, the teacher had made each child tell a story. Qi Fu had told a very scary ghost story about midnight knocking at the door, which had directly scared Bai Tu into tears. Tang Rong had been frightened too, and that night he had clung tightly to the little snow leopard in his sleep.

It wasn’t even midnight yet, so how could there already be a ghost knocking on the door…

“What’s wrong? Who came?” Hearing the movement, the butler came over, with Shen Muhan by his side, still wiping his mouth with a tissue.

“Ghost… ghost…” Tang Rong ran behind the two of them at top speed and timidly peeked his little head out to look toward the door.

A ghost?

Question marks popped up over both the butler’s and Shen Muhan’s heads.

Shen Muhan stepped forward and opened the door.

Back when he had lived in Eden Garden, he had disliked bodyguards staying too close to him and often slept alone too. He had always been very brave and had never been afraid of anything.

The instant the door opened, Shen Muhan’s gaze landed on a little black wolf sitting on the ground.

It was just too black. Even its eyes were black. And it was so small that if you didn’t look carefully, you simply wouldn’t see it at all.

Tang Rong gripped butler Uncle’s clothes tightly and followed him to the doorway too, lightly catching hold of Shen Muhan’s hand, as if afraid a ghost might drag him away.

“So it was Eldest Brother who came,” the butler said with a smile.

Hearing the words Eldest Brother, Tang Rong stepped out from behind butler Uncle. Only after following the others’ gaze and looking carefully did he finally discover the purely black fluffy creature sitting neatly at the door, almost completely blended into the night.

The system, which had put itself on mute, was already laughing itself to death.

It had naturally discovered the little black wolf the first time Tang Rong opened the door, but when it saw that its host hadn’t noticed him, it had mischievously decided not to remind him and instead wanted to see how the situation would develop.

It had never expected its host would think it was a ghost knocking at the door.

Hahahaha, how could he be this adorable?!

Tang Rong rubbed his eyes. Realizing that he had mistaken Eldest Brother for a ghost just because he hadn’t seen him, he couldn’t help feeling a little embarrassed. He quickly crouched down and carefully lifted the little black wolf into his arms.

Tang Yao hadn’t expected something like this to happen either.

That very evening, after discovering he could finally turn back into his juvenile form, he had immediately rushed over to find his younger brother.

Lin Fei had said she wanted to give little Rong a surprise, so she had made him come alone rather than together with Little Uncle Yun Yuan. A servant in the villa district had only brought him as far as the door and then left. Even the knocking had been done by his own paws.

Who could have guessed that the surprise would directly turn into a fright?

The second time the door opened, he had wanted to lift a paw and catch his little brother’s pant leg to remind him—but little Rong had slammed the door shut so hard that the paw he had just stretched out had almost been hit by it.

Thinking about it now, if he really had grabbed little Rong’s pant leg, his little brother might have thought it was a ghost hand grabbing him and gotten even more frightened.

Mainly, in spirit-form state, he didn’t really like making sounds. Howling and yipping was too stupid. It made him seem even more like a little black dog. Otherwise, he could have immediately thought to give a bark as a warning.

When he was little, Lin Fei often said that whenever he made noise, he sounded like a dog, and she would even imitate barking at him. Gradually, he had developed the habit of not making sounds.

It was all Lin Fei’s fault.

Tonight, he definitely needed to have a proper reckoning with her.

Curled in the little cub’s arms, the little black wolf obediently rested its head on his arm, feeling comfortable all over.

After nearly a month of recuperation, most of the wounds on his body had already healed. Today he could finally successfully shift back into his juvenile state, and he could even shift into human form too.

All of that was thanks to his younger brother.

Tang Rong carried the little black wolf over to the sofa and sat down. Under the bright lighting of the living room, he could finally carefully inspect him from head to toe.

He really was purely black all over, from beginning to end—even his paw pads were black.

In the dark, it really was too hard to notice his presence.

But perhaps precisely because of that, he felt all the more unique.

Suddenly, Tang Rong thought of something, and his eyes lit up brightly. “Eldest Brother, you look so much like Wangcai.”

Wangcai was that little black dog whose tail had once wagged itself right off.

Of course, the little black dog’s real name was not Wangcai, and even his nickname wasn’t Wangcai. Wangcai had just been a fake name the doctor casually made up back at the hospital in order to answer the little cub.

Later, when the little black dog himself learned about that, he had gone silent for a long while.

Fine. It was still better than being called Little Black. At least Wangcai meant wealth and good fortune.

The little black wolf turned a questioning look toward the butler, asking with its eyes who exactly this “Wangcai” was.

Actually, from the name alone it could more or less guess, but it still wanted complete confirmation.

“That’s Xiao Xi,” the butler explained.

The little black wolf immediately refused to accept it.

He was a wolf. Xiao Xi was a dog. Yes, they were both black, but how could that possibly make them the same?

A speech bubble instantly popped up above the little black wolf’s head:

[We are not the same.]

Then, through AI text-to-speech, it started giving the little cub a full science lesson on every difference between black wolves and black dogs—from appearance, to strength, to instincts—not leaving out a single detail.

In short, apart from fur color, everything was different.

Right after that, it directly placed a video call to Xiao Xi, urging him, who had just gotten home, to change back into his spirit form on the spot so the little cub could compare the differences between them in real time.

Xiao Xi thought this was for the sake of teaching the little cub some basic knowledge about different animal species. Without hesitation, he immediately changed into little black dog form and obediently submitted to his superior’s instructions.

Tang Rong was completely stunned by the impromptu science lecture, and it was hard to tell how much of it he truly understood. Some of the terms were rather advanced—even Shen Muhan, whose knowledge and experience were broader, couldn’t fully understand them either.

Although what Eldest Brother said did seem to make a lot of sense… he still, still thought they looked rather alike.

If he had to draw the little black wolf and the little black dog on paper, he suspected he would probably draw them exactly the same.

In the end, it was still a phone call from Sister-in-law Lin Fei that brought a stop to this straight-man science lesson.

“Idiot dog, if little Rong says you look alike, then you look alike. Got it?”

“Looking alike doesn’t mean exactly identical. Search your conscience—don’t you think you look alike?”

“All you ever do is explain things logically. Tomorrow you’re going to go substitute at the military academy. There, you can have all the stage you want.”

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