Did Puppy Pick Up Fluffy Things on the Livestream Today? - Chapter 10

“Why use a homophone for ‘Autumn’? Because I really love autumn! It is the season of harvest, and there is so much good food.”

Momo finished venting his feelings while hugging the kitten. As he rubbed the little guy’s soft ears, he finally addressed the livestream comments he had neglected for a while.

“Have you guys noticed? Xue Qiu’s ears are a bit different from ordinary lions. They are pointed and rounded, like a lynx.”

“You are asking what a lynx is? A lynx is”

Momo found himself at a loss for words. Putting aside the fact that he did not know if lynxes existed on the Beastman Planet, even if they did, they probably had a different specific name.

“Anyway, it is just another kind of big kitty. You can search for the details yourselves.”

Momo winked at the camera, attempting to get through the moment with a “cute” distraction.

【Alright, alright, acting spoiled like that, huh!】

【Momo, put the kitten down. I can see it is about to fall asleep from your rubbing. It is better not to disturb it while it is recovering.】

【Puppy Momo, it is already afternoon. How are you going to deal with the crow you caught this morning?】

Seeing the reminder in the comments, Momo looked down at Xue Qiu in his arms. Sure enough, the kitten’s breathing was steady; it was clearly fast asleep.

Standing up cautiously, he placed the little guy back onto the stone bed. Momo then walked over to the large tree trunk at the cave entrance.

“Let us start by processing this trunk.”

“I want to divide it into three sections. Two will be kept as fuel for the fire, and one will be set aside to make some containers.”

The rims of his silver puppy-like eyes were still slightly red from his earlier sobbing. Momo inspected the trunk thoroughly from top to bottom. Once he made his decision, he brought over two large stones, preparing to get to work on the wood.

【Wait, Momo, what are you doing?】

【You are not seriously thinking of smashing a tree with a stone, are you?】

【Stones really are the universal tool for Momo, I am dying laughing.】

Watching the endless stream of question marks floating across the livestream, Momo looked at the large stone in his hand, then at the thick, heavy trunk.

“True, smashing it with a stone seems a bit unrealistic, and I might just break the wood.”

His long eyelashes flickered slightly as he pursed his lips in thought. A second later, Momo tossed the stone aside.

“I have an idea, just watch! Today I will show you all that I am not a ‘dummy puppy’!”

Momo gave the livestream a clever, crescent-eyed smile. Immediately after, a pile of beast-hide clothes lay on the ground, and the round, black puppy reappeared.

Standing at the one-third mark of the trunk, the puppy’s curled tail wagged. The next moment, he arched his back slightly and raised his front paws high. Sharp silver claws slid out from his paw pads.

Swish swish swish.

Thud.

Crack.

Accompanied by the somewhat piercing sound of animal claws grinding against wood, and amidst the disbelieving comments scrolling through the livestream, Momo the little black dog efficiently used his two front paws to scratch through one-third of the thick trunk.

【I am stunned.】

【As a resident of Planet Eris, I officially suspect this livestream is using special effects!】

【Huh? I have smashed my question mark key.】

【Are Momo’s claws really that sharp?】

【Guys, it should be real. I just checked; the scales of that spotted giant snake on the Beastman Planet are bought in bulk by the Rhodes Star military to make equipment. They are definitely several times harder than this trunk. If Momo could scratch through those, this wood is nothing.】

【Momo’s little paws look so cute, but the lethality is actually quite terrifying.】

【The ‘dummy puppy’ has a painful scratch; we do not have to worry about Momo being bullied anymore!】

With the first section of the trunk successfully detached, the black fluffy curled tail behind him wagged even more joyfully. Momo quickly ran to the middle of the second section and began scratching the rest with high spirits.

The cave echoed with the sounds of snapping and friction. Before long, with a crisp snap of wood breaking, the three sections of the trunk were completely separated.

Having solved the segmenting problem, Momo trotted back to the first section.

He wanted to keep this piece to make some containers. A wooden bowl would be best; he could define the shape first and then slowly grind the rest down with a stone.

At this thought, his little claws flashed with a sharp, cold light again. His silver vertical pupils narrowed, and with a few whooshes, he scratched the bark off the section entirely.

Next, his front paws began working simultaneously, up, down, left, and right. The puppy’s two hind legs moved back and forth on the ground, his tail tensed tight as he meticulously “fine-carved” the wood.

【Momo is so serious.】

【I really want to touch his tail! It looks so fluffy!】

【Momo’s tail could probably wrap around an arm several times!】

【Such a hardworking puppy. At this point, if you told me he could scratch out a new planet with those paws, I would believe you.】

He scratched for a long time until his little puppy paws felt sore. Finally, the trunk had transformed from a cylinder into two parts; one half was irregular wood scraps, and the other was a somewhat poorly shaped bowl.

Looking down at his pink left front paw, he stuck out his tongue to give it a lick. Momo then jumped to a corner out of the livestream’s view, quickly shifted back into his teenage form, and put on his beast-hide clothes.

“How is it? Pretty good, right.”

Holding up the wooden bowl that barely resembled a shape, Momo showed it off to the livestream.

“Although, that bowl looks like it will not stay upright.”

“Momo, are you sure that bowl will not prick your hands?”

Seeing the doubts in the comments, Momo was not angry. He arched a thin eyebrow. “Of course I will not just use it like this. I will grind it down properly with a stone and try to make it look good and durable.”

With that, he set the wooden bowl down and piled up the other scratched-off wood. He placed them, along with the two logs intended for spare firewood, on the left side of the cave, surrounding them with other large stones to form a simple storage spot.

He brushed the wood chips off his body. Realizing the herbs on the kitten’s eyes had fallen off, Momo quickly headed out of the cave. He took the water bowl to the stream, filled it, and set it over the high part of the fire to boil.

After this back and forth, his forehead was covered in fine beads of sweat.

With a long sigh, he sat cross-legged and began to stare at the massive crow’s carcass with a furrowed brow.

“Alright, it is time to deal with you, you bad bird,” Momo muttered, reaching out to hit the crow with a small stone again.

The livestream was amused by his petty action.

【Hahaha throwing stones at the crow again. Momo really hates it when other things touch his hair.】

【Can this thing really be eaten? I do not think I have seen other beastman streamers eat crow before.】

【Find a way to pluck the feathers first.】

Momo did not focus on the livestream; his entire concentration was on the crow.

After being alone with the bird for a long while, Momo’s brow relaxed. He made up his mind, intending to handle this crow the same way he used to handle chickens.

He picked out a few of the sharpest stones and knelt beside the crow, beginning to pluck feathers starting from the tail.

The crows on the Beastman Planet were much larger than those on Earth, and even their feathers were three thick layers deep.

The surface consisted of smooth flight feathers, the second layer was soft feathers, and the last was down tightly adhered to the skin.

As Momo plucked, he could not stop spitting out stray bits.

Before long, it felt like the entire cave was filled with the creature’s feathers.

Looking through the livestream screen, Momo’s hair, already damp with sweat, was covered in flight feathers, and black down stuck to his fair skin. He looked a bit like a little crow himself.

“It stinks.”

After plucking for a while, Momo secretly sniffed his hands. A fishy stench rushed straight to his brain, causing his handsome brows to furrow even tighter.

“I have to find a way to take a bath as soon as possible.”

Momo loved being clean. Although he had simply wiped his body with beast hides during his first few days here, not having a full, thorough bath still made him feel very uncomfortable.

Finally, having plucked all the feathers off the crow, Momo collapsed onto the ground, wanting to cry but having no tears left.

“I am so tired.”

He could not help but shrug to loosen his aching neck and shoulder muscles.

He casually gathered the feathers from the floor into a pile on one side of the cave. In this difficult situation, he did not dare throw anything away, as no one could guarantee if these things might suddenly come in handy later.

Sizing up the completely naked crow, Momo decided to cut off a bird leg first to see how it tasted.

Coming here, he had no seasonings, let alone salt. He could only follow the method he used for roasting snake meat the previous two days, skewering it with a branch and roasting it directly over the fire.

While the meat was roasting, Momo did not want to waste time. He used a bit of hot water to wash his hands, ensuring there was no lingering odor. Then, he took another leaf from the Lingxi Grass, carefully crushed it with the help of hot water, carried it to the stone bed, and gently applied it to the kitten’s eyes and body wounds again.

Xue Qiu’s recovery speed was remarkable. In just over a day, the scabs on the shallower wounds had already fallen off, leaving only faint pink marks.

The two wounds on the eyelids still looked scary, but they were significantly improved.

After applying the herbs, he reached out to stroke the kitten’s back. The fur content had visibly increased.

“Your vitality is truly tenacious,” Momo could not help but marvel with a click of his tongue.

【Are beastmen’s self-healing abilities really this strong?】

【I do not think so. That Golden Lion beastman I follow took over a month to recover from a gash last time.】

【Xue Qiu’s recovery speed is a bit too terrifying.】

【The question goes back to the beginning. I still think this cat looks familiar!】

Having comforted and cared for the kitten, Momo sat back down by the fire. To him, perhaps beastmen simply had very strong self-healing abilities.

He used his foot to push the stinking crow a bit further away and began to seriously rotate the roasting “crow leg.”

Unlike the snake meat, the bird leg emitted a more fragrant aroma, perhaps because it was richer in fat.

Seeing the skin turn golden brown and fully cooked, Momo was filled with joy. With glowing eyes, he tore a small piece from the leg and placed it in his mouth like a precious treasure.

“Urgh!”

Upon entry, a fishy stench rushed straight to his senses, overwhelming his palate. Momo immediately spat out the bird meat and leaned over the ground, dry-coughing.

God damn it!

How could this cursed crow taste so bad!

He had worked hard all afternoon to process it!

At the same time, countless “Hahahahahas” erupted in the livestream.

【Dying laughing, finally I know why I have never seen beastmen eat this kind of crow!】

【Momo really looks like he was hit hard by the bad taste.】

【Even Momo, who could swallow snake meat, cannot stomach the crow. You can tell it is truly awful.】

【Hahaha how tragic! His hair was grabbed by the crow, he carried it back with great effort, and processed it for so long, only to find it is inedible!】

【Momo: I did not provoke anyone. Crow: So what if I provoked you?】

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