The System Mistook Me for a Cat

Chapter 69

Lian had chocolate in her mouth as she quietly peeked out to observe Chu Tingwu in the distance.

Chu Tingwu stood by the grass, seemingly lost in thought while gazing at the distant scenery, her eyes slightly narrowed as the wind lifted the ends of her hair. On the distant hilltop, two adolescent wolves chased each other, while a mature gray wolf watched from afar, then turned its head in their direction and let out a howl.

This was the second day since White had left the camp.

The three of them had successfully "deceived both superiors and subordinates," completing their first day's work independently, checking in at the camp before heading out again.

With their first success, all three seemed to have grown a bit bolder.

Throughout the journey, Lian kept watching Chu Tingwu.

Freckles might have thought Chu Tingwu was a "gifted one," just like Lian, naturally possessing some extraordinary talent that earned her a place on this team... but Lian didn't think so.

This foreign girl wasn't just gifted; what was most valuable was her ability to master her talents.

Lian knew she wasn't "exceptional" in the conventional sense. Apart from her extraordinary memory and mimicry abilities, she fell short of average people in many ways—because she had always been struggling with her own gift.

She wasn't sure if she had "hyperthymesia," but she had indeed been different since childhood. She could remember everyone's worst moments and perfectly recreate them when others had forgotten.

Her classmates called her a freak because she didn't understand what it meant to "forget," and she assumed everyone could remember everything as clearly as she could. So in her mind, they weren't "forgetting"—they were lying.

When others isolated her, Lian isolated them in return.

Later, she joined White's team and began to study animal behavior in depth.

She tried her best to "forget" everything unrelated to her re