I Will Never Submit to Miss Grim Reaper - Chapter 304

Chapter 304: The Best Sword of the Beast Ear Tribe

 

I really like sitting at the top of the Nanqi Tower like this with Xiao Mo, looking at the sea ahead. According to some official information from the Nanqi District of Shenzhen City, the height of the Nanqi Tower is 118 meters, just a little shorter than the tallest lighthouse in the world, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, by about ten meters.

 

And because the Nanqi Tower is built at the highest point of the surrounding terrain, with a slope below, the terrain difference between the Nanqi Tower and the coastal area is very large, I estimate it to be around 130 to 150 meters.

 

That means, standing on the top of the Nanqi Tower’s little umbrella cover, we are over a hundred meters above the ground. Usually when Xiao Mo and I come here, we descend from an area several hundred meters high. As long as it’s not a bright moonlit night, our shadows fly over clearly, and people on the ground don’t usually notice, which is normal.

 

To put it into perspective, most residential areas generally have buildings with 10 to 12 floors at most. Such buildings are usually about 40 meters high. For example, Ai Luodi’s old residential area only has 8 floors, with a height estimated between 25 to 30 meters. 118 meters is like stacking three of these buildings together.

 

Not to mention three buildings, even in Ai Luodi’s neighborhood, on the eighth floor, with the roof as the ninth floor, even if Xiao Mo and I were talking on the rooftop of the ninth floor, people passing by at the bottom of the building might not necessarily hear us clearly.

 

If we really want to see our way up to the Nanqi Tower, we would probably have to climb to the top of the huge mushroom roof of the Shangjing Cat Maid Café, then find a few taller ladders to climb up, and then use a super telescope to look in this direction.

 

It’s precisely because the Nanqi Tower is so tall, like a giant, and surrounded by forests and bushes everywhere, with the continuous sound of the waves crashing, Xiao Mo and I can do various things up there every day with peace of mind… including, um, those kinds of things.

 

And I’ve gradually gotten used to this feeling of ‘freedom’.

 

It’s just… not having to worry about being seen by anyone, it feels like the whole world is just the two of us, and sitting at the highest point in the world, we can enjoy the surrounding scenery. Occasionally, a car will drive by on the ring highway not far away, its headlights like ghosts in the late night, cautiously weaving through the woods.

 

Sometimes, a large group of fish will appear on the lonely dark sea surface, constantly splashing, sometimes chased by killer whales, sometimes startled flying fish.

 

Occasionally, the elderly living at the base of the Nanqi Tower will get hungry late at night, silently walk out of the building alone, pick up some firewood from around, light it up, pick a few tomatoes or some potatoes from the ground, cook something for themselves.

 

We can see all these scenes clearly from the top of the Nanqi Tower. Xiao Mo often says that my tendency to silently observe others from high places is very much like a cat.

 

“Perhaps thousands of years ago… it was probably when you met that little cat girl, oh no, it should be the hero.” On the tower, Xiao Mo said.

 

“That day we were originally planning to persuade the Beast Ear Tribe to join the Alliance. When we finally found the Cat Tribe, we found that… this race as a whole has no connection to ‘unity’ at all. For example, like a certain little cat, similar to some cats in the cat café, suddenly finding people missing, everyone was frantically searching, and she was happily watching from the tree.”

 

Indeed, such things often happen in the cat café. Almost every night when we finish work and every morning when we start work, we need to count the cats in the café to make sure nothing unexpected has happened.

 

Sometimes, some cats just can’t be found, which causes everyone to panic. Then occasionally, when you look up, you find that the missing cat is lying on the top of a cat tree or on top of an air conditioner, staring at you. It just stays there motionless, watching you search for it, sometimes for over an hour.

 

It’s like this when I watch videos of some cats in the cute pet section of Tongmeng Net. The owner comes home and can’t find the cat, rummaging through everything, calling its name, searching for hours without success.

 

Finally, when they check the surveillance footage, they realize that the cat actually came out the moment they arrived home, but it just lay motionless on the shoe rack by the door, not responding to calls, watching the owner roam around the house.

 

Cats are such animals that make people both love and hate them.

 

“The Beast Ear Tribes each have their own characteristics. The fox clan is more cunning, but when faced with a common enemy, they are quite united. The cat clan is basically like loose sand, unable to unite. However, it’s fortunate that they are very agile individuals. As long as it’s not a team action, sending a cat out alone for assassination or intelligence gathering is still reliable.”

 

“After all… if you play hide-and-seek with the cat girls, they might even lose themselves.”

 

“There’s a joke in our place that the world’s largest hide-and-seek society is deep in the Cat Girl Forest because the cats who originally founded the society still haven’t been found.”

 

Xiao Mo’s explanation left me feeling somewhat embarrassed.

 

“In the end, isn’t it because of you that I have a cat-like personality?”

 

And then, I tried to argue back, “You were the one who said I have cat girl genes in my body.”

 

Yes, that’s right. Like catnip and such, surely I, a human, wouldn’t like that kind of thing, right?

 

“Cat girl genes are just an excuse. In fact… before you acquired the ability of the Beast Ear and transformed into a cat girl, the influence of cat genes on you was very limited.”

 

Yin Xiamo said seriously, “The only thing that can influence you is your own heart, Nuo’er.”

 

“You must be kidding me.”

 

I protested, “What about the catnip then?”

 

“Well…”

 

Yin Xiamo, on top of the Nanqi Tower, turned around and jumped down from the tower, saying, “Wait for me a moment.”

 

“Huh?”

 

Before I could say anything, the girl had already “whooshed” down from a height of over a hundred meters.

 

This…

 

I tried to peek downward, only to see Xiao Mo had already disappeared into the forest ahead. Helplessly, I raised my elf ears and continued to listen to the conversation between the elderly man and woman by the seaside.

 

“Speaking of which, this place used to be all sea back then…”

“Yeah, a long time ago, it was all sea here. Later, I don’t know how, but it slowly receded, and the riverbed came down to here.”

“How long have you been waiting for me here?”

“I don’t remember, it should be around forty years.”

“Why not find someone else?”

“I’m afraid you’ll kill me when you come back.”

 

“……”

 

The convenience of the Elf Mode’s lies here: all sensory sensitivity is heightened, and even from a hundred meters away, I can hear clearly. The condition is that I must actively focus on capturing the direction of the sound source. If I don’t pay attention, it seems like my brain automatically filters out distant sound interference.

 

“Phew—”

 

Before long, Xiao Mo came back holding a bunch of grass, and directly brought the herb-like substance to my nose.

 

“Here, catnip.”

 

“What…”

 

Instinctively, I tried to move away, but Xiao Mo had already pressed the “herb” against my face, and I instinctively took a breath of the herb.

 

“How is it?”

 

In the moonlight, Xiao Mo slowly unbuttoned her clothes. “How about tonight… we do it again?”

 

“Don’t…”

My heart raced, and I felt the temperature rising on my face.

 

“Denghua… Xiaofei, they’re still below… and, it’s not the right time…”

 

“It’s okay.”

 

Yin Xiamo leaned closer, cupping my face in her hands. “Do you want to?”

 

“……”

 

After a brief silence, the girl in front of me slowly put her clothes back on. “Just kidding.”

 

“Phew…”

 

I breathed a sigh of relief, then felt a bit empty inside.

 

“How do you feel?”

 

Seeing my somewhat flustered appearance, Yin Xiamo casually held the herb in front of me.

 

“This isn’t catnip, it’s just ordinary wheat.”

 

“Huh?”

 

I was a bit dumbfounded. “Then you…”

 

“Catnip serves as a psychological suggestion, like… Nuo’er becoming a girl and feeling natural wearing girls’ clothes.”

 

Yin Xiamo organized her words slightly.

 

“Or… if one day a doctor suddenly tells a patient that they don’t have much time left and advises them to do what they want, the patient might calmly return to their true self, such as confessing to a beloved girl or boldly quitting their job to travel the world, even if they’re not terminally ill.”

 

“So…”

 

I tentatively asked, “Was the catnip before all your way of suggesting that I have cat girl genes in my body, making me… have that subconscious?”

 

“Not entirely, after all, Nuo’er, you do have cat genes in your body.”

 

Yin Xiamo smiled. “But at least now, in your elf state, the genes from the cat ear tribe don’t affect you. However, did you experience a rapid heartbeat and blushing just now?”

 

It seems… maybe… a little?

 

“Now the old man in this world has also received the best ending.”

 

Yin Xiamo brushed off the wheat leaves from her body, took my hand, and stood up.

 

“Let’s go, to Moon Orchid Island to meet those two little ones.”

 

“Two little ones?”

 

I was curious. “Do you already know who the other one is?”

 

“This space has become a bit clearer. Although not one hundred percent certain, it’s pretty close.”

 

Yin Xiamo yawned. “It’s someone from the Beast Ear Tribe.”

 

“The Beast Ear Tribe?”

 

I paused. “You mean… the one you mentioned earlier, the cat girl who hid in the tree thousands of years ago, watching the hero look for her?”

 

“That cat girl is also thousands of years old now, probably too lazy to even move. This time, it’s a younger presence, about the same age as Dolly.”

 

Yin Xiamo crouched down with her back to me. “I guess she should be Dolly’s friend, like a loli cat girl.”

 

A loli cat girl?!

 

I leaned onto Yin Xiamo’s back. “Why would a loli cat girl come here?”

 

“I’m not sure for now. Maybe Dolly impulsively invited her good friend to come play. You know, cat personalities are always changeable, it’s hard to guess what they’re thinking.”

 

With me on her back, Yin Xiamo leaped forward towards the sea ahead, flying towards Moon Orchid Island.

 

I turned slightly and waved towards the beach where the two elderly people were.

 

“Is it okay to let that little cat girl come over?”

 

“What’s the harm? There are already many people here, just one more pet.”

 

Yin Xiamo fell silent for a moment. “I only pay attention to you. You know that.”

 

Hmm…

I buried my little head into the girl’s shoulder.

 

“Me too.”

 

“……”

 

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