The gravitational vortex of Rigel twisted into a Möbius strip outside the spacecraft window. Lin Feng's palm sweated around the bronze key, its kuí patterns pulsing red like a heartbeat. Lord Orange perched on the quantum navigator, its tail projecting a star map shaped like a giant cat teaser, pointing directly to: [COSMIC CORE - SUPREME CATNIP FIELD].
"Our imperial garden!" Lord Orange's whiskers vibrated with excitement. "Legend says it holds the Eternal Catnip that awakens the Cat God's true form!" Its paw slammed the warp button, hurling them into a rainbow wormhole filled with floating, glowing fur.
Lin Yu huddled in a corner, clutching clone test results. "Gege, something's wrong…" She pointed at the Grey Sparrow logo flashing in her DNA sequence. "Why do I have quantum-entanglement code in my genes?"
"Probably Dad spiked your baby formula with Golden Ear." Lin Feng pried open a can of fermented herring with the key—the stench triggered the ship's biohazard alarms. "Holy—! This smells worse than Wu Li's leaking mech-brain!"
Lord Orange suddenly yowled. The navigation screen flickered to life, showing Lin Jianguo's hologramin a floral-patterned jacket, munching corn on a black hole's accretion disk. "Son! Left you a surprise care package at the cosmic core!" A popcorn kernel flew into the wormhole, exploding like a mini supernova.
As the ship rocked violently, Lin Feng spotted Su Wan's mech-tentacles on the star map's edge—skewering twelve stars into a galactic kebab. "Foolish child! Only Grey Sparrow can break the catnip field's dark-matter barrier!"
"Mom! Your BBQ obsession needs rehab!" Lin Feng jammed the bronze key into the console. The keyhole glowed green. "Lord Orange! Do the laser scratch-dance!"
The cat's tail split into 16 glowing strands, carving esoteric patterns into the controls. The ship's nano-coating quantum-shifted, piercing the dark matter. What they saw next defied logic—the "catnip field" was a galactic-sized litter box floating in the void!
"Welcome to my masterpiece." Wu Li's mechanical voice echoed from the litter. She wore a maid outfit, scooping star-shaped sand granules. "This catnip can restore Lord Orange's true form—if you pass the 'Final Litter-Bearer Trial'!"
Reality warped as catnip crystals shattered. Lord Orange convulsed in the energy storm, its body swelling with each memory fragment absorbed. Lin Feng slashed through quantum turbulence with the key—until its emerald eye spoke: "Authentication complete. Activating God-Slaying Mode."
"DARE YOU?!" Lord Orange smacked the key away with its paw. "We are the true—" Its voice glitched, fish tail pixelating—Wu Li had activated Grey Sparrow's backdoor virus!
A holographic Lin Yu smirked. "Father anticipated this." She unfolded a star map, revealing a colossal grill at the cosmic core. "The Cat God's power belongs to Grey Sparrow!"
Lin Feng grabbed the key, spotting a micro black hole inside its shaft. "Dad! You backstabbing—!" He stabbed it into Lord Orange's data core. The black hole sucked Grey Sparrow's code into oblivion.
"NO—!" Wu Li's mech-body dissolved mid-scream. "My maid outfit collection was incomplete…"
Lord Orange reborn in the vortex, now planet-sized. Its fur shimmered with entire galaxies, tail coiled with dark matter ribbons. "Witness true divinity, mortals!" A flick of its claw rusted Grey Sparrow's grill to dust.
The cosmic core cracked open. Su Wan's mech-fleet and Lin Jianguo's square-dance army arrived simultaneously. Antimatter missiles clashed with "Little Apple" soundwaves, birthing rainbow mushroom clouds.
"Wife! Dance with me into the black hole!" Lin Jianguo moonwalked on gravity waves. "My new Black Hole Disco slaps!"
"Silence!" Su Wan's tentacles disassembled stars. "Once I claim the Cat God's power, you'll become a roomba!"
Lin Feng raised the key—its eye now showed Lin Yu's face. "Gege, use my genetic code!" He realized: The key's true power needed her quantum DNA!
Lord Orange howled. The catnip field's energy fused into Lin Yu. Her clones supernova-ed, DNA strands illuminating the cosmos. Grey Sparrow ships melted; Lin Jianguo's speakers exploded.
"It's over." Lin Feng plunged the key into the core. "By the Litter-Bearer's Oath!"
The illusion shattered—the "catnip field" was Lin Jianguo's cross-dimensional farm, each plant a mini-universe holding fragments of Lord Orange's nine lives across 990,000 realities.
"DAD! YOU MIXED SCI-FI WITH FARMING SIMULATOR?!" Lin Feng shook him by his tacky collar.
"Son!" Lin Jianguo hiccuped, holding catnip moonshine. "Golden Ear's secret is…" He belched. "Teaching all cats to scoop their own poop!"
Lord Orange shattered the bottle with its tail. "Our ROYAL DIGNITY?!"
Su Wan's mech-wreckage sparked. "The real catnip field is at—"KABOOM. Only a half-melted tentacle remained, pointing to the galaxy's edge.
Lin Yu's hologram faded: "Uploaded myself to the Meow Cloud… Burn some quantum spicy strips for me…"
Lord Orange licked its paw on the pilot seat. "Next stop: Sagittarius BBQ Academy!" Its tail marked new coordinates—with a footnote: [WARNING: DAD'S INTERGALACTIC SQUARE-DANCE MOB].
Lin Feng chugged the last of his herring-flavored nutrient sludge. "Let's go. But this time—" He shook the empty can. "—can we not eat recycled sewage?"
As the ship warped away, Lin Jianguo's singing echoed from Rigel: "Oh vast cosmos, my true love~ Endless kebabs stretch above~"