There are actually quite a few people who, after losing their pets, panic and rush to the police station to file a report seeking help.
Officer Xiao Hu has encountered countless such individuals.
In such situations, if the police station happens to be busy, the officers usually choose to outright refuse to help search for the lost pet. After all, they have more important matters to attend to and can't be bothered with such trivial matters.
If the police station isn't busy, the officers might help check the surveillance footage, but that's usually the extent of it—they won't send out personnel to search for the missing pet.
Cases like Xu Mo's, where he directly agreed to help find a cat, are actually quite rare.
Especially since Xu Mo's unconventional approach left Officer Xiao Hu utterly dumbfounded.
Xu Mo actually attempted to talk to the cats, asking the stray cats at the police station entrance to help find the missing stray cat!
"Captain Xu, is... is this really going to work?"
If anyone were to say that cats can understand human speech, Xiao Hu would be the first to disbelieve it. After all, that's just impossible!
Xu Mo smiled and said, "Whether it works or not, we won't know until we try. I think these cats at the station entrance are quite perceptive. Maybe they can understand me."
At that moment, the stray cats Xu Mo was feeding were just as bewildered as Xiao Hu.
Because they had understood Xu Mo's words, the stray cats momentarily forgot about the canned food and were so startled that they backed away repeatedly.
"Don't be scared, I'm not going to eat you. Hurry up, one can per cat. After you finish eating, go help me with a task," Xu Mo said, glancing at the woman beside him.
"Miss, do you have a photo of your lost cat? Show it to these cats."
The woman was stunned for a couple of seconds before she took out her phone, found a photo of her "son," and held it in front of the stray cats.
"See? This is the cat. Go find him. After the job is done, I'll give each of you another can... no, two!" Xu Mo said to the stray cats.
The stray cats looked at Xu Mo, then at the cans on the ground, meowed, and then walked over to the cans, devouring them ravenously.
Although the officers and passersby occasionally fed these stray cats, making them quite plump, the most they ever got were things like ham sausages. Cat food cans, being a "luxury item," were something the stray cats had never tasted before.
In no time at all, each of the stray cats had finished a can.
After eating, the cats stared longingly at the bag of cans in Xu Mo's hand, meowing as if to say they hadn't had enough.
"Go on, go do your job first. Find the cat, and then you can eat more," Xu Mo said, putting away the bag of cat food cans.
Xiao Hu couldn't help but chuckle to himself, thinking there was no way these cats could understand Captain Xu!
Besides, although these stray cats were often fed, they still lived a life of feast or famine. Having tasted the cat food cans, there was no way they'd leave—they'd definitely pester Xu Mo for more cans. How could they actually go and help find the cat?
However, to his surprise, after Xu Mo finished speaking to the stray cats, they indeed meowed and then turned and left.
Moreover, the stray cats split up, each heading in a different direction. At first glance, it really did seem like they were going to help find the cat.
After the stray cats left, Xu Mo temporarily deactivated his upgraded "Language Master" skill.
This skill could only be used for ten minutes a day, and it could be turned off when not needed to communicate with animals—quite user-friendly.
Seeing this, Xiao Hu's eyes widened. Could Captain Xu really communicate with cats?!
But as soon as the thought crossed his mind, he shook his head. How could that be possible? Humans talking to cats? That's ridiculous!
It must be a coincidence... yes, a coincidence!
But the woman who had lost her cat didn't think so. She believed that some people could communicate with pets.
She often came across videos online posted by pet bloggers, where the pets were incredibly smart, immediately following their owners' commands.
In the comments sections of these videos, people often joked:
"Tie me up in your house and send your pet to school instead. Don't let it waste its potential."
"That's not a pet—it's smarter than my college classmates!"
"I feel like it could easily get into a top-tier university with that IQ."
"..."
Half an hour later, a large group of stray cats, numbering at least thirty or forty, gathered at the police station entrance.
Right in the middle of the group was the woman's missing pet cat!
The cat didn't enter the police station but stayed at the entrance, meowing incessantly.
Xiao Hu was the first to notice the group of cats outside.
"Holy... Miss, look at the entrance. Is that your cat in the middle?"
"Let me see... Oh my gosh, it is!" The woman took a look, then immediately stood up and called out as she walked toward the door, "Duoduo, come to Mommy!"
Xiao Hu sat frozen for a few seconds before running to Xu Mo's office and knocking on the door.
"Come in."
"Captain Xu, your method actually worked! The cat was found!"
"Really? I didn't expect it to actually work," Xu Mo feigned surprise before walking out with Xiao Hu.
When they reached the entrance, they saw the woman holding her "son" Duoduo, stroking him repeatedly, her eyes welling up with tears of joy.
"You really worry me, you know that? Mommy was so scared!"
However, the cat looked utterly annoyed, pushing the woman away with its fluffy paws while meowing irritably.
After scolding Duoduo, the woman noticed Xu Mo standing beside her.
"Thank you, Xu Mo. I wouldn't have known what to do without you," the woman said sincerely.
"No need to thank me," Xu Mo waved his hand.
The next moment, the woman took out a stack of cash from her handbag. "Thank you for finding my cat. This money..."
Before she could finish, Xu Mo quickly pushed the money back.
"No, no, I can't accept this. Please take it back. It wouldn't look good if someone saw."
Seeing that Xu Mo refused, the woman switched tactics and used a food delivery app to order a lot of fruit. Of course, to prevent Xu Mo from rejecting her gesture again, she deliberately didn't mention it.
At that moment, the most excited ones were the stray cats at the police station entrance.
They surrounded Xu Mo, meowing incessantly.
Xu Mo immediately understood what they wanted.
"Don't worry, don't worry. Everyone will get some. Move away from the entrance; you're blocking the way. Come over here to eat."
Xu Mo took out the bag of cat food cans again, leading the stray cats away from the police station entrance to a shady area, where he gave each cat two cans. The bag was emptied just as he finished distributing the cans.
Meanwhile, Xiao Hu stood there, utterly baffled.
No way! Can these cats really understand human speech?