Marvel Salted Fish Kryptonian

The leash was also specially made. It was made of finger-thick iron bars bent into rings and strung together into a chain, not a regular rope. Henry wasn't worried about not being able to hold Katie, but he was worried about a regular rope breaking.

After everything was ready, Henry loaded the things into the car like an ordinary person.

Just as I put the tent and backpack into the trunk, I heard a sweet voice beside me: "Henry, are you going out camping?"

Turning around, he saw a beautiful blonde girl wearing an ivory dress, a small white handbag, and a large straw hat. Noticing Henry's gaze, she smiled sweetly and waved her hand.

...1, 2, 3. "Ah, Bobby. Long time no see."

Barbara Morse puffed up her cheeks in dissatisfaction, pouted her lips, and said, "Have you forgotten me? I said I would come to play with you during the holidays."

"No, of course I didn't. It's just that I thought you'd find a college guy, like a star quarterback, or some kind of athlete, to be your boyfriend. Those college guys are much better than me, and I'm not some big star."

Henry said it bluntly, almost grabbing the man by the collar and asking, "What are your intentions with me?"

Chapter 285 College Students on Summer Vacation

Barbara was not the shy type. She leaned directly against Henry, holding his arm tightly, squeezing his indescribable softness.

"Schools filled with the same old nerds or guys who were recruited and had steroids injected into their brains, what's the point of them?

"If you want to catch a sucker, you'd have to go to Harvard or Yale. Look at all that gear, are you going camping? That's perfect, take me along."

Henry didn't pull his hand out, not because he wanted to enjoy the romantic moment a little longer, but because he was thinking about a problem with a strange expression on his face.

: This girl, does she dare?

"I have a companion traveling with you. Would you like to see him first and then reconsider?"

"Companion?" Barbara released her hand and flicked her hair, which shimmered golden in the sunlight. She said proudly, "Who would reject a girl like me?"

Henry said honestly: "Well, it won't refuse you.——"

: After all, it can be used as emergency food.

"—but I can't say whether you would hold the same opinion."

Seeing that the girl was about to come closer again, Henry stretched out his hand to stop her and said, "Anyway, I'll pull it down first." Then he turned around and went back into the apartment building.

After watching the target leave, Barbara finally remembered to say hello to old Gary, who was sitting on a lounge chair in the sun not far away. "Hey, Gary, I'm here to play."

"Is college on vacation?" asked Old Gary.

"Yeah, we have vacation at the end of May. I only have one year left before graduation, and there are some things I need to prepare for. I've been so busy that I only have time to come and play now."

But when she saw Old Gary's charming appearance and Henry's mention of "leading," she was so excited that she remembered something very important! Could it be that Henry wanted to take his pet camping?

Sure enough, when Henry walked out of the door of the apartment building stairwell again, he was walking towards him with an iron chain leading a huge tiger with black stripes on a yellow background, which probably weighed no less than 500 pounds.

When Barbara saw this, her face turned pale and she took two or three steps back in fright.

Henry didn't get too close. Instead, he stopped at a certain distance, grabbed Katie in his arms, raised his front paws and waved, saying, "Hello, Bobby, I'm Katie. Nice to meet you."

This is the way the tiger is treated as a kitten or puppy, and the person is being spoken to in an anthropomorphic way. The tiger's expression of disdain is also quite remarkable, with its head held high and its back leaning back, as if it doesn't want to look people in the eye.

"Hello... Hello, Katie." Barbara raised her hand cautiously to greet her.

Henry didn't care about the little girl's feelings and took Katie by the hand and drove her to the back seat, locking the chain to the buckle installed on the car.

Take this aggressive pet out, no matter how well-behaved and kind it is at home. No one knows when it will trigger aggression, especially when it's a tiger.

If you hurt someone and don't say anything about it and regret it, the subsequent compensation issues will also be troublesome.

Even if they don't harm anyone, a ferocious animal like a tiger would be seen as a threat simply by strolling down the street. What's even more ridiculous is that this concern is extremely justified!

In order to minimize the concerns of others and prevent the possibility of injury, Katie must be tied up properly. Henry did not want to end up having to kill Katie.

It's true that California hasn't yet enacted laws banning the keeping of wild animals, but animals injuring people is another matter entirely.

After making sure Katie was securely tied, Henry opened both backseat windows. The length of the chain allowed Katie to lean out of either window, but not so long that she could jump out.

Henry then said to Barbara, who had retreated a certain distance, "I'm mainly taking the tabby cat out. Do you want to come too?"

"Tabby?" Barbara said, her eyes widening in disbelief. "Are you sure?"

"It's just a harmless little kitten. Who can it scare?" Henry said as he pulled out its whiskers.

Katie flung her tiger head in disdain and bit the hand that was causing trouble for her sensitive beard, almost swallowing it whole. Then, she and Henry, who turned to look at her, made a deep, loving eye contact.

Even Katie's eyes narrowed, and the tiger chewed it with its mouth, but failed to hurt the Kryptonian two-legged beast at all.

Henry controlled his brow-veining smile, casually opened the tiger's mouth, and pulled his hand out. As he wiped it, he said, "It's just that sometimes my hands get stained with saliva, which makes it a bit troublesome to wipe."

Barbara was so frightened by the sight that she shook her head. What a joke! She was just an ordinary person. She didn't have bulletproof skin, and certainly not tiger-proof.

If you bite my hand, it will only make your saliva stick to it. But on my hand, it will be ready for a prosthetic limb...

If this meeting was purely for the sake of a mission, Barbara Morse might have backed off. But an inexplicable surge of courage from deep within her heart forced her to put on a forced smile and say, "If I get to know Katie better, she probably won't bite me, right?"

Well, does a tiger have a habit of not biting people it knows? Henry was thinking.

But he still said, "If you have nothing else to do and want to go camping with me, that's fine. Katie won't bite anyone casually. I'm just worried that most people won't believe it and will be afraid of it. But..."

After taking a look at Barbara's outfit, Henry said, "It's not convenient for you to walk in the wild in this outfit."

The clothes and straw hat are actually fine, but the most important thing is the pair of pointed high heels on Barbara's feet. Whether it is a direct kick or being stepped on by the heel, the shoes have a damage-increasing critical hit, but they don't have the ability to travel.

Henry planned to drive the car until it failed, then go deep into the forest and find a good place to camp. Although he didn't have a specific destination in mind, he didn't plan to just pick a campsite.

Unwilling to be abandoned, Barbara gritted her teeth and said, "Wait a minute!" Then she dragged her suitcase towards Old Gary. She shouted, "Let me borrow the bathroom," and broke into Old Gary's house.

She looked so aggressive, as if she'd kill anyone who said no. Old Gary just stared blankly the entire time, not daring to intervene. No better than a quail.

After a while, Barbara came out again, wearing a hot casual outfit.

The hem of her light yellow T-shirt was tied at the bottom of her tube top, showing off most of her slender waist. The wide neckline exposed half of her shoulders and the suggestive thin straps.

If the denim shorts were a few inches shorter, they might not cover anything, but now they just reveal her toned thighs, and combined with her tight, muscular calves, there's no doubt that she possesses the explosive power of a cheetah.

Under his feet were a pair of Nike running shoes with the distinctive swoosh logo. With the support of Michael Jordan, this sports shoe brand was challenging the status of traditional brand Adidas.

At the beginning of the year, I was taken to the Griffith Observatory to view the scenery, and unexpectedly I was invited to go on a 10-kilometer hiking trip.

Although the trip didn't happen, Barbara came prepared this time. "No matter where you go, I'll be there for you!"

She wore this cool outfit and looked at the man in front of her with pride, enjoying the admiring looks from Henry and Gary.

Chapter 286 Driving on the Road

The big straw hat on her head was replaced with a pair of sunglasses. Barbara, who was sitting in the passenger seat, leaned against the car window, enjoying the cool breeze blowing in from outside after entering the suburbs.

Although Henry's Cadillac DeVille is nearly thirty years old, he had repaired the air conditioning system himself, so there will be no problems with it not being cold enough or producing strange odors.

But once you're away from the city, the breeze blowing in from the car windows is enough to dispel the summer heat, making you feel relaxed and comfortable. So no one wants to use the car's air conditioning, but rather enjoys the coolness that comes from nature.

Katie's tiger head was also hanging on the other side of the rear seat window, with her tongue half-loose, trying to dispel the heat in her body.

Although this Cadillac was stopped by the police several times because of the tiger head in the back seat.

But again, there's no current ban on keeping wild animals in California. As long as they don't harm anyone, the police have no authority to interfere. Not to mention the tigers are chained, so what additional measures do the police expect?

The music coming from the car stereo was another rock song by Queen.

Although lead singer Freddie Mercury passed away in late 91, the band did not disband. Not only did they continue to perform, they also continued to create new songs.

But it is undeniable that its peak is the moving songs left behind by the Indian lead singer before he died of AIDS.

At this time, the song "Radio_Ga_Ga" was playing, and both Henry and Barbara hummed a few lines along with the music.

In fact, at the beginning, Barbara was very wary of Katie in the back seat, fearing that the tiger's claws would scratch her at any moment, or that it would open its mouth and bite off the headrest along with her head.

Although the tiger was tied with a chain, the length of the chain only prevented Katie from jumping out, but it did not prevent Katie from running to the front seat.

However, tigers raised by Kryptonians are not as irritable as their wild counterparts.

Adhering to the principle of "a good child is made of a stick," it's a miracle that Katie has grown up safely. Even in the tiger world, she would be a brave warrior.

You have to remember that Katie is just an ordinary tiger, a tiger that the Kryptonians covet for their penis and bones. From the first day of raising her, her owner has been thinking about the tragic moment of her natural death.

He wasn't Krypton, the Kryptonian dog that was crammed into the escape pod and sent to Earth. Krypton had superpowers similar to Superman's, while Kitty couldn't even meow.

So, is it so hot-tempered? Does it dare to bar its teeth and claws at anyone it sees?

In the world Katie knew, all Twolegs looked the same. The one next to her was scary, so she naturally thought all Twolegs were scary.

Even if a tiger still has its instincts, it will classify those that can be eaten into one category and those that cannot be provoked into another.

In short, as a tiger, Katie's mentality is as steady as an old dog, even more so than the Kryptonian two-legged beasts who claim to live a salted fish life.

Katie was not interested in the female biped who had marinated herself with strange-tasting seasonings to make herself extremely spicy, so she had no desire to approach her.

In fact, this is also one of Henry's recent research results.

As Katie grew older, the furniture damage became more and more serious.

Although everything, including the computer and speakers, was covered with a protective isolation layer, Katie could only destroy the isolation layer and could not damage the internal equipment.

But Henry was fed up with the daily maintenance, not to mention the inconvenience of using it.

My previous idea was to find stronger materials and make things harder so that Katie couldn't easily destroy them. But there was a limit to this kind of behavior. I couldn't protect myself with tank-level armor.

But when he took Katie to the Sheep Cave Valley Laboratory one time, he found that the cat would actively stay away from some irritating chemicals, and Henry realized that he had gone in the wrong direction.

It is well known that infants and toddlers between four months and two years old have the so-called oral stage, where they instinctively put everything they can get their hands on into their mouths.

As a manufacturer of all-ages game consoles, how did Nintendo deal with the problem of game cartridges being too small to be a target for oral-stage infants and toddlers when designing the portable Switch?

A: The game cards are coated with denatonium benzoate, a bittering compound known to be the world's most bitter. As long as a child has a normal sense of taste, they will definitely spit it out the next moment they put it in their mouth; they won't hold it in their mouth or swallow it.

Henry couldn't use scent to keep Katie away from things he didn't want her to destroy. Kryptonians have very sensitive noses. If a tiger could smell it, there was no way Henry couldn't smell it. He didn't want to torture himself too.

So we can learn from Nintendo and develop a bittering agent that is harmless to animals and humans, so that Kitty won't bite it and can reduce its desire to destroy something.

As long as Henry didn't lick the painted parts, he wouldn't hurt himself.

Denatonium benzoate is actually a very good answer, but the downside is that it will get on your skin. If you get it on your skin before a meal, it's like adding a flavor to your meal, and it's the kind of bitterness that's so strong it makes you question your life...

And if there is no smell at all, Katie will have to try one by one to see what she can and cannot bite. This is likely to be an overreaction, and after one or two failed attempts, the little tiger will become afraid to touch anything.

Therefore, the paint needs to have a slight odor as a reminder, but not too diffuse. Then the odor will not cause discomfort to Henry, a Kryptonian, and it must be inert enough not to easily contaminate other places.

Considering the inherent element of serendipity in the creation of many new materials, Henry, with little experience in materials science, resorted to a crude method: finding common perfumes and other strong-smelling items on the market and having Katie smell them one by one.

Then, we search for specific substances in the scents that tigers resist, to see if they are chemically synthesized or mixed with other substances.

For Henry, this was almost like a chemistry test, exhausting all the knowledge in his super brain. He also came up with a bunch of incomprehensible inspirations, which were actually just random fantasies.

Finally, a combination of bitters, alcohol, camphor, and chili extract resulted in Henry's Tiger Repellent Paint. The scent, so faint it's hard to detect with a Kryptonian's nose unless you sniff it closely, only piqued Katie's curiosity but didn't repel the tiger.

Even the mice used in the experiment showed similar symptoms. However, when the mice consumed the substance, they immediately struggled like crazy, trying to escape from the experimental cage.

Subsequent physiological examinations of the mice showed that the tiger repellent paint did not cause any immediate harm. What remains is to observe the long-term effects.

However, before the long-term experiment results came out, Henry half-forced Katie to taste a little. Then the little tiger lived a boring tiger life for three days...

Out of curiosity, Henry tasted a little himself… and then, for the first time since waking up in Alaska, Henry couldn't eat for three days, even running out of the atmosphere to bask in the sun. Kryptonians' keen sense of taste contributed to all this.

In short, her house finally got rid of the tank-like armored design style, and Katie also learned what she could eat and what she couldn't.

But there is a side effect of this: when Katie meets someone who wears perfume, she will subconsciously dislike them and not want to get close to them. This is how Barbara is treated now.

After all, during the development of the tiger repellent paint, Kitty was often caught to smell the strange smell, which left a psychological trauma on the little tiger.

Regardless, this side effect is a welcome surprise. It's a good thing Katie won't pounce on people wearing perfume. It saves Henry from having to teach her not to pounce on people.

Although she didn't understand why the tiger hated her, Barbara gradually let go of her fear and vigilance towards Katie and truly enjoyed this unexpected journey.

Chapter 287 Walking

California Highway 2, a road that runs through the Angeles National Forest, had Henry left the road at some point and entered the forest. He drove until the car could no longer go any further, and then he stopped.

Barbara followed Henry out of the car, put her own suitcase on the hood of the car, and put the things she needed for camping into another small backpack.

Of course, she couldn't drag the suitcase around in the forest. Besides, not all the things inside were useful, so she could just put the unused ones in Henry's car.

Henry had packed his gear before getting on the bus, so now he just put his gear and backpack on his shoulders.

After everything was ready, Henry opened the back door and led Katie down. Because Barbara was there, Henry didn't untie Katie's chain directly, but still held her hand.

However, stepping on the mud instead of the cold cement floor still made Katie, the tiger, quite excited. She kept circling around the chain, even falling to the ground and rolling around a few times, just looking for a place to play in the mud.

Unfortunately, the chain, which was already long enough, still restricted Katie's range of movement. She couldn't pull the Kryptonian biped holding the other end of the chain.