I Was Scammed By A Snow Leopard cub - Chapter 2

Chapter 2 – An Orc Cub With Genetic Defect

Xie Anxing curled up in the young man’s arms. A comfortable and pleasant scent enveloped him, slowly dispelling the darkness and driving away the uneasiness and fear in his heart.

Luo Yu felt the stiff body in his arms relax little by little. He waited patiently until the little fur ball in his arms turned into a soft glutinous rice ball.

After a long while, a few faint sobs came out of his arms.

The cries of the little cub were as sharp and thin as those of a kitten, intermittent and pitifully miserable.

Luo Yu frowned in pain and stroked the little guy’s back again and again.

“Be good, don’t cry, I’m here, the bad guy has been driven away.”

The young man’s voice, as gentle as jade, seemed to cast magic. After the little cub in his arms sobbed for a while, the crying gradually subsided.

After patiently waiting for the little guy to vent his emotions, Luo Yu stood up and took two tentative steps forward while holding the little cub. After finding that he did not resist, Luo Yu slowly walked out of the dark alley and returned to the bright road.

Finding a leisure chair on the roadside to sit down, Luo Yu changed his posture and held the cub on his lap.

He couldn’t see it clearly in the dark just now, but now in the sunlight he could see the cub’s true appearance.

It is a cute little ball of fur as big as a house cat.

Its fur looked gray and tangled, and the original color was not visible. But the black spots on its body and its sapphire-like pupils were very beautiful in the sun. But the little guy was in a very sorry state now, with its belly and four paws all black and covered with sand and dust.

There were many scars on the forelimbs and tail, like marks left by sharp objects, with one line after another, and it looked very miserable.

The ears and tail looked like a cat’s, but Luo Yu couldn’t tell which kind it was.

He took out a handkerchief from his pocket, wiped the cub’s tears first, and then wiped the dust off his body. While he was cleaning, Officer Lin, who received the alarm call, also rushed over.

The call to the police was not made casually to scare the strange man; Luo Yu really did make the call.

After all, a little guy who looks like an orc cub appeared alone in the town. His identity must be confirmed and his parents had to be contacted as soon as possible.

Officer Lin was an orc with the body of a leopard. He was tall and mighty. Luo Yu’s words on the phone were vague, but his nervous and anxious tone made Officer Lin think something big had happened, so he rushed over from three blocks away.

When he arrived, he looked aggressive and gloomy, and his strong body made him look a bit scary.

Luo Yu felt the little guy in his arms shrink back, and quickly said to comfort him: “Don’t be afraid. The police uncle is a good man who came to help.”

Officer Lin was a little confused when he saw this scene: “Luo Yu? You called the police? This is… your child?”

He was a little confused. He had never heard that Luo Yu had a partner, and the cub he was holding looked about five or six years old.

Although the call to the police was real, the location of the police station and the so-called “child’s father” were all fabricated by Luo Yu.

Noticing that Officer Lin looked at him strangely, Luo Yu quickly explained: “No, I just said it in a hurry… There was someone here just now, and it seemed like he wanted to hurt this little guy. I suspect this is a case of… trafficking.”

Officer Lin’s expression became serious: “Where is the person? What does he look like?”

Trafficking in cubs is a serious crime in interstellar law. Once discovered, the person will be detained directly and may even be sentenced to death.

Luo Yu shook his head: “It’s a man. He looked unfamiliar and shouldn’t be from our town.” He pointed in a direction, “He ran in that direction, please help us to deal with it.”

Officer Lin nodded: “That’s for sure.” He then quickly contacted other police officers, explained the situation clearly, and took out a police notebook from his pocket.

He himself was of leopard attribute, and after carefully looking at the cub’s exposed small ears and its tail, which was thicker and longer than that of ordinary cat cubs, he had an idea.

“A cub, right? It looks like a snow leopard, about five or six years old. What’s its name? Do you remember the contact information of its family?”

He picked up the pen to take notes, but after waiting for a long time, the little guy in Luo Yu’s arms still didn’t say a word.

Only then did Luo Yu feel something was wrong.

Generally speaking, orc cubs are born in beast form, and can switch between beast and human form flexibly after one or two years old. They cannot speak in beast form, and after their transformation stabilizes, orc cubs will be sent to cub schools to receive basic language learning education. However, this cub in front of him has always maintained his beast form and has never changed back to human form.

Luo Yu pondered: “Is it because he was too scared and stressed? Officer Lin, why don’t we send him to the medical center for a checkup?”

The little guy still has a lot of scars on his body, which need to be treated in time.

Officer Lin agreed. He reached out to take the cub from Luo Yu’s arms. A four or five-year-old kid was still quite heavy for a human whose body had not been strengthened.

But what he didn’t expect was that the cub in front of him kept dodging back after noticing his movements, burying its head in Luo Yu’s arms, and never even glanced at Officer Lin from beginning to end, silently resisting.

Officer Lin’s outstretched arm froze in mid-air, not knowing whether to extend it or put it down.

Luo Yu quickly tried to smooth things over: “Maybe he’s still a little scared… It’s okay, I’ll hold him, he’s not that heavy.”

Although the weight in Luo Yu’s arms is indeed not light, there should be no problem in carrying it to the clinic.

Just when Luo Yu and Officer Lin were about to leave with the cub, the little guy suddenly remembered something, flicked his tail, jumped out of Luo Yu’s arms, and landed lightly on the ground.

Luo Yu was startled, remembering the scars on the cub’s limbs, and immediately reached out to grab it. But the little guy was very agile and ran into the alley in a flash, and ran back before Luo Yu could catch up.

This time there was a black gem in his mouth, sparkling in the sunlight.

The little fellow ran to Luo Yu’s feet again, rubbed his legs, and made a few vague cat-like noises. Luo Yu understood and leaned down to pick up the cub again.

Officer Lin looked at the extra gemstone and said, “Is this his own stuff? It doesn’t look cheap.”

He subconsciously moved closer to take a closer look, but the cub suddenly let out a few warning growls from its throat.

Somehow, Officer Lin suddenly felt a chill on his back.

Some kind of instinctual pressure from the food chain and bloodline made him immediately retract his gaze. Seeing the little guy’s alert look, Officer Lin touched his nose awkwardly.

“Okay, let’s take him to the medical clinic first.”

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In the town’s only medical clinic, Beiya, who was on duty, looked at the unresponsive genetic testing device with a troubled expression.

“Brother Luo, Officer Lin. This little male fellow doesn’t seem to be… an orc cub?”

Since orc cubs cannot transform when they are young, in order to avoid confusing them with wild animals, scientists developed a gene detection device hundreds of years ago. This device can identify orc genes and automatically enter them into the database. Each orc’s genes are unique, so as long as they are registered at birth, the identity and family of the orc can be quickly identified.

However, the little cub in front of him had been placed there for two minutes, but there was no movement from the genetic testing device.

Officer Lin immediately denied it: “Impossible! This must be an orc cub. I can tell from the scent. Is there something wrong with your machine?”

Beiya: “It was just inspected yesterday. There can’t be a problem with the machine. From a medical point of view, this is not an orc cub.”

Officer Lin: “That’s impossible. There must be something wrong with your judgment.”

Beiya was a little annoyed. As a doctor, what she hated most was people questioning her professional level. “How can it be impossible? This is the fact. Besides, I checked and found that this little guy only had some skin injuries. All his physical signs are completely healthy. If it is an orc cub, why hasn’t it transformed yet?”

The atmosphere in the clinic suddenly became tense, with both sides insisting on their own views and refusing to give in.

Luo Yu was caught in the middle and had a headache.

He was about to persuade both parties to calm down, but he noticed that the little guy, who was originally resting peacefully on the examination table, shrank his head and buried it in his paws.

The tail that was originally swinging behind it also stopped, as if it had suddenly lost its vitality, and hung motionlessly behind it.

Somehow, Luo Yu immediately felt the little guy’s emotions.

He is feeling inferior.

The way he had carefully held on to him and leaned against him all the way, as well as his reaction of hiding himself after hearing the quarrel, were silently telling Luo Yu how fragile and sensitive the injured little guy in front of him was.

Luo Yu frowned and interrupted their quarrel. His usually gentle voice was unusually cold and hard.

“It’s OK, Officer Lin, Dr. Beiya. This little guy can understand what you are saying.”

There were two meanings in his words. On the one hand, he meant that the cub could understand what they said and must be the offspring of orcs. On the other hand, he was also euphemistically reminding the two to be careful with their wording.

Beiya realized her mistake and said, “I’m sorry.”

If this little guy is really five or six years old as Officer Lin judged, then a cub that is healthy but unable to transform is most likely born with a genetic defect.

Even though medical technology has advanced a lot in the past few hundred years, it cannot completely cure the genetic defects of orcs. Such cubs are regarded as a shame in families with rigid and old-fashioned thinking, and are often abandoned at birth.

The atmosphere in the clinic froze. No one spoke, and everyone looked at the cub curled up in a ball.

The little cub buried his head low. Luo Yu reached out and gently touched his round ears.

“Don’t worry, I will definitely help you find your parents and send you back. Okay?”

The magical power appeared again, turning his promise into a reassuring candy. Xie Anxing, who was originally feeling depressed and inferior, slowly raised his head.

For some reason, he particularly wanted to trust the young man in front of him.

The other party rescued him from the bad guy, carried him to the medical center, and never let go when treating his wounds. The gentle embrace, gentle voice, and the other party’s kind and warm eyes from beginning to end made Xie Anxing unconsciously want to rely on him, let down his guard, and curl up in his arms at ease.

Xie Anxing plucked up his courage, raised his head, and gently licked the other’s fingers.

The soft touch made Luo Yu feel relaxed. Feeling that the little guy had regained his spirits, he continued to talk about business.

“Officer, the most urgent thing is to find this child’s parents, right?”

Officer Lin: “That’s right. But if we can’t detect the genetic information, it might be… a little difficult.”

With the lesson learned, he spoke very tactfully this time. But after the three people present looked at each other, they knew what he meant.

To say “some” is an understatement.

In fact, after thousands of years of exploration and expansion, the entire interstellar space is as vast as the ocean, and the planets are as numerous as stars. If the little guy is a native of their planet, it would be fine, but Officer Lin himself is a leopard. His family has lived on this planet for more than a hundred years, and he has never heard of any snow leopards.

Considering the gemstone that the little guy always carries with him, it is very likely that the cub was abandoned here by a large family. Finding his parents without genetic information is more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack.

Moreover, there is another more realistic problem facing us.

“If we can’t contact his family, we’ll have no choice but to send him to an orphanage.”

Orphanage?

When Luo Yu heard these words, he immediately frowned.