Chapter 331: Hwi’s Hunting Lesson

Although the game displayed the status panel in front of him, even the unfamiliar words on it would instantly make him understand what they meant whenever he looked at them.

However, a kitten’s curiosity had always been directed only toward things that could move, so naturally, he had no interest in studying the things the game had brought them.

Not to mention that this game did not have any beginner’s guide. Even if it did, Hwi might not have paid any attention to it anyway.

At this moment, he was walking very cautiously ahead of Joo Joowon. From time to time, he would turn his head and look back, and there was an unusually clear glimmer of intelligence in his eyes.

Before they left, Byeol had chattered away at him and given him some emergency training, and Hwi had remembered every single thing he said.

Byeol had told him that two-legged creatures without fur like Joo Joowon had a very difficult time surviving in the wilderness. They were different from cats like them.

Therefore, whenever they encountered danger, he absolutely had to take him and run as fast as possible. He had to remember the enemy’s scent, and after he returned, they would come out together and send that enemy to its grave!

In short, Byeol had rambled on about a whole lot of things, but the central idea was simply that he absolutely could not let Joo Joowon take risks while hunting.

The way two-legged creatures hunted had always been different from the way cats hunted. That kind of hunting method was simply unsuitable for the current environment.

Besides, Joo Joowon did not even have fur to protect him. Back when they were at home, he had needed to help catch mosquitoes everywhere himself before Joo Joowon could sleep peacefully. Even those tiny things could hurt him, so there was even more reason to worry about the big creatures outside now.

In Byeol’s eyes, Hwi could get injured, but Joo Joowon absolutely could not.

His hunting skills and experience were truly so terrible that even a cat could not bear to watch. Saying that they were full of mistakes and oversights would not be an exaggeration.

Although he was not lacking in courage, and it seemed that he could perhaps rely on sheer strength to create a miracle, he could still make basic mistakes during the hunting process. He really needed to be watched over carefully.

After all, if something went wrong during a hunt, the price could very well be their life.

When animals hunted, they always tried to avoid getting injured. In contrast, they were more likely to suffer serious injuries when fighting members of their own species over territory.

As for Hwi, his hunting experience was not inferior to Byeol’s at all. Therefore, Byeol was not particularly worried about him. As long as he did not die, then it was not a big deal. He could simply stay home and recover for a few more days without going outside.

Byeol had much more confidence in Hwi than he did in Joo Joowon. They had grown up together since they were young, and they were also of the same species. Just from their scents, they could determine whether the other was strong or not.

It was different when facing humans. From a person’s scent, a cat could only distinguish whether that person was bad or not, and whether they were worth approaching. Other things were not something they could distinguish very well.

Since this concerned Joo Joowon, Hwi listened very seriously as well. He did not feel that there was anything wrong with Byeol making him face danger. Instead, he listened with a worried expression.

If even mosquitoes could cause harm, then Joo Joowon really did need to be watched over carefully. He had practically forgotten how Joo Joowon had killed enemies just a few days ago.

Joo Joowon had never imagined that Byeol would put such a strange filter over him. He had always thought that he had a very impressive image in Byeol’s eyes. The only time he had deliberately shown weakness was after the apocalypse, when he wanted Byeol and the others to take the initiative to attack. Before the apocalypse, he had never done that.

Unlike those cat owners who never brought food home, every time Joo Joowon came home from work in the past, he would bring a cat treat stick or buy some food outside and take it home, pretending that he had hunted it himself, trying to earn Byeol’s admiration through it.

Therefore, in his mind, he was definitely a very powerful figure in Byeol’s eyes.

As for being bitten by mosquitoes, that was entirely because of the countless conflicting pieces of information he had seen online. Some people said that if you had cats at home, you should avoid burning mosquito coils, while others said that mosquito repellent liquid was bad for cats.

Joo Joowon had no way of determining who was right, but he felt that Byeol’s body had undergone surgery. Although the results of his hospital checkup had shown that he was very healthy, it was still better to be careful. Naturally, Joo Joowon did not dare to use mosquito repellent products.

However, perhaps because he had type O blood, Joo Joowon had been favored by mosquitoes ever since he was young. At the beginning, not using mosquito coils during the summer naturally resulted in him being bitten so badly that he could barely stand it.

Later, after the mosquito net he had ordered arrived, he also developed the habit of setting the air conditioner temperature very low, and the situation improved greatly.

After all, with a cat at home, small things like mosquitoes, flies, and cockroaches normally could not survive for very long anyway. At most, Joo Joowon would occasionally get bitten, which was still within a range he could tolerate.

Otherwise, there was no way Joo Joowon would have been willing to make his own life miserable just for the sake of raising a cat.