The cat and two humans of the You Zui Hunting Team did not have to wait long in the cold, gloomy surroundings.
Before long, Maodou returned with his spoils.
The black cat's smile had barely begun to rise when it froze on his face at the sight of that grayish bundle. Doggy had not brought back the black-robed wizard, nor any piece of the wizard, such as a sleeve or hem. Instead, he had brought back a dry, hardened clump of grass, its edges stuck with a few scruffy gray feathers—some unlucky little bird's nest.
When the black cat stuck a paw into the nest to feel around, he even got a bit of bird droppings on it.
That made him even more annoyed.
"Wrong! Not this... Try again!" he snapped at Doggy. With his tail hanging low and his eyes full of innocence, Doggy whimpered twice, then obediently turned around and vanished back into the night with a soft pop.
Dylan kindly summoned a ball of water to help the black cat wash his paw.
"Aren't you being too harsh on him?"
Mr. Vampire Werewolf showed tremendous sympathy for his quarter-blooded distant relative and spoke up for him. "At the end of the day, that wizard's scent is far too mixed up. Maodou didn't actually make a mistake... If it were us, we might not even have found this bird's nest."
One strand of the bird's nest scent matched the wizard's scent, which was why Doggy had happily carried it back.
"If it were us, we wouldn't be picking a fight with a bird's nest in the first place!" After washing his paw clean, the black cat held it up in the air to dry. Hearing that, he irritably tugged at an ear and shook his whiskers. "Instead of