Let Me Ruffle Your Fur a Little

"Where's my person?" Bai Yao directly stepped over the sea otter Mu Mu'er on the ground, and looked around, "Where did a person as big as me go?"

Mu Mu'er heard it, she became more energetic, and immediately moved her body to lean over, patted Bai Yao's trousers with her paws, raised her head and blinked at him, wondering why he couldn't see her.

Bai Yao squatted down, grabbed Mu Muer's tail and shook it, "You change back for me."

After finally teaching him how to transform, he turned back into a sea otter without paying attention. I was really tired.

Mu Muer groaned, turned around in dissatisfaction, pulled her tail out of Bai Yao's hand, and pretended not to understand.

"Hurry up, do as I taught you, otherwise..." Bai Yao tried hard to think about how he could threaten him, saying that he would not give him food, but he had just eaten, and he probably wasn't hungry now, so he just thought of one Conditions that can be used, "...otherwise I will watch you take a shower next time."

Mu Mu'er looked disgusted, turned her head away from Bai Yao, and nearly rolled her eyes and gave it to him.

Yep, he was discriminated against by a sea otter.

For animal spirits, maintaining a human form requires constant concentration, and it is indeed a bit uncomfortable when unskilled.

Bai Yao made a joke with a killer whale friend in the town. Maintaining a human shape is a bit like a girl sucking her belly for a long time to look good. If you are not used to it at the beginning, you will often forget it, but after you get used to it, you will be able to tighten your abdomen unconsciously without deliberately distracting yourself.

Of course, it is more complicated for animal spirits to maintain a human form, but the principle is the same, and they all need to concentrate on practicing. After you are proficient, you can maintain it without thinking too much, and you won't suddenly change back to your original body even when you sleep.

But in fact, for them, living in the original body is more comfortable and natural.

Bai Yao understood that Mu Mu'er might not understand why he had to change form, so he thought he could explain it to him.

"Sit here, and I'll tell you." He sat down by the bed and pointed to the carpet in front of him.

Mu Mu'er came over slowly and lay down on the carpet, with a bored face and no interest at all.

"Transformation is very important to us, you know?" Bai Yao said softly, stretched out his hand and pinched his paw, "It's inappropriate to casually transform back into a little sea otter in society, and others will laugh at you."

"Like me, I'm not human, but I don't show myself. We just hide and pretend we're human."

Mu Muer didn't listen carefully at all, just like a pupil who was absent in class, she quietly looked around, wanting to see if there was something interesting.

He was lying on the carpet, he saw something under the bed out of the corner of his eye, his eyes brightened, and he rubbed forward. It was the abalone shell he brought upstairs at noon, and accidentally dropped it under the bed when he was learning form.

After finally finding something to play with, he stretched out his little paws to reach under the bed.

The sea otter's forelimbs were too short, so Mu Muer squeezed half of her head under the bed before she fished out the abalone shell, held it in her paws, and played with it.

He thought he was cunning, and Bai Yao didn't notice it at all, but he didn't know that he saw all his little moves.

Bai Yao felt like a teacher leading elementary school students in class, his voice was hoarse, and the audience below were still snickering and passing notes to each other. He bent down resolutely, confiscated the abalone shell in Mu Muer's paw, hid it in his palm, stared at the little sea otter's eyes and raised his eyebrows.

The toy in his paw was robbed, Mu Muer looked up at Bai Yao, then lowered his gaze pitifully, there was nothing in his paw now, so he had to rub his two paws together, and finally put his head on it to cover up disappointment.

Obviously he did nothing wrong, but Bai Yao felt like a jackal who robbed the dog's bone.

He had no choice but to touch Mu Muer's head twice as comfort, and coaxed him: "Change back, be good."

"I'll return the shell to you when I change back."

Mu Muer narrowed her eyes and looked at Bai Yao for a while, as if thinking about the truth of his words. Finally he made a decision, took a light breath, and gradually grew in size. After a few seconds, the sea otter on the ground turned into a boy.

Bai Yao chuckled, and kept his word and returned the abalone shell to Mu Muer.

The little thing is quite slippery now.

Looking at Mu Muer, who was sitting cross-legged on the carpet and playing with shells contentedly, Bai Yao suddenly thought of a question, and asked him curiously: "If you smell my breath, can you know what I am?"

Animals recognize each other's species by their breath, but for humans, they can't smell anything. Breath is not a superficial smell, but a deeper signal, like the smell used by the animal kingdom to convey information.

Mu Mu'er tilted her head slightly, not quite understanding the meaning behind Bai Yao's words, let alone how to answer them.

He understood the three words "you smell me". After thinking for a while, he cautiously leaned forward a little bit, put the tip of his nose on Bai Yao's clothes and sniffed.

Bai Yao tensed all over and looked down at the boy's movements. Mu Mu'er was so close that her face almost touched his chest. From Bai Yao's perspective, he could clearly see the boy's trembling and slightly longer eyelashes and the light freckles on his cheeks.

Quite cute.

There was a shallow scar on Mu Mu'er's forehead near the hairline, and his forehead was always blocked by bangs. He only saw it when he moved closer to Bai Yao. The scar was a few centimeters long, slightly lighter than the rest of the skin, pale pink, and slightly raised.

There are not many scars on his body, but the scar on his forehead is a bit conspicuous, and it seems to be slightly different.

Bai Yao hesitated for a moment, and was about to ask how the scar came about, but Mu Mu'er had already identified it, so she stepped back a little, and her hair covered the scar again.

"It's fragrant." Mu Mu'er nodded, and said seriously, afraid that Bai Yao would not believe it, she added, "Oranges and lemons smell good."

Bai Yao: "..."

Not for you to smell me...

"I'm a snow leopard, you know?" Bai Yao emphasized the word "snow leopard," "a kind of leopard."

Mu Mu'er understood half of what she heard, but only heard the word "hug" at the end. She tilted her head, thinking that Bai Yao wanted to be hugged, but after thinking about it carefully, she would not lose anything by giving him a hug, so she opened her arms , reluctantly give him a hug.

"What are you doing?" Bai Yao didn't know what to do. He put his elbows on his knees and didn't move.

Mu Muer put down her arms a little disappointed, didn't she want to hug her.

Bai Yao thought he didn't understand, so he patiently explained to him what kind of animal a snow leopard is and what its characteristics are.

After hearing this, Mu Muer began to desert. He had lost his patience ever since he heard Bai Yao say that the snow leopard lived on the mountain. He was more interested in the abalone shells in his hand. He kept thinking about the delicious seafood curry and fried rice tonight. He didn't eat enough, and he didn't know if he would have a chance to eat it in the future, but he still wanted to eat it.

The color of the abalone shell in his hand is very beautiful, the inside is a fluorescent pearl color, and the outer layer has a faint blue light. If you hold it up and look at it under the light, you can still see some transparent lines on it.

When she was in the sea before, Mu Muer always threw away the shells after eating. She hadn't studied whether her food was good-looking, but only now did she realize that abalone shells are so good-looking.

"The furry ones, who like to eat sea otters, snow leopards." Bai Yao slowly explained to Mu Muer bit by bit, seeing that he wasn't paying attention, he finally shouted, "Snow leopards!"

Mu Muer trembled from his yelling, her hands shook, the abalone shell almost fell to the ground, and she looked up at Bai Yao timidly. He didn't listen carefully just now, and now he can't figure out what he did wrong to be treated like this.

Having said so much is nothing but talking, Bai Yao narrowed his eyes slightly, and licked his teeth.

Mu Mu'er saw that Bai Yao's face was unkind, and she didn't respond for a long time, so she looked around quietly, and finally lowered her head, her eyes fell on the things in her hands, and she suddenly realized. He thought that Bai Yao wanted the abalone shell in his hand, so he hurriedly handed it over, his eyes wandering a bit.

He was a bit reluctant, but Bai Yao gave him a lot of delicious food, and it was okay to exchange his precious toys.

Bai Yao looked at the stuffed shell in his hand and began to regret it.

Scared the little sea otter.

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