I Will Never Submit to Miss Grim Reaper - Chapter 338
Chapter 338: When Apologizing, Show Your Belly!
With the help of Ouyang Xue and Xiao Mo, the “graphics card consignment point” on the first floor of the cat living area was soon set up almost ready.
This consignment point consists of several parts. The main part is the small table I am responsible for guarding and the huge shelf behind it.
It is said that Jiang Wei and others will bring the newly packaged graphics cards from Jialan Company and place them on this shelf later. Then, some professional personnel will come over to help me sell the graphics cards and conduct live broadcasts on-site.
I’m not too concerned about the live broadcast, after all, over this past month, I have basically become accustomed to being watched. There are many cameras in the café, and I spend almost half of my day under the gaze of the audience in the live broadcast room. I no longer feel nervous about it.
What concerns me is how professional Jiang Wei and the “professionals” sent by Jialan Company are. After all, my understanding of graphics cards is only at the beginner level. At most, I can roughly judge the performance of a card based on its model, and it must be a mainstream model on the market. I can’t discern the performance of those very niche graphics cards just by their names.
Other than that, I really don’t know much about graphics cards. If a customer comes and asks me whether this graphics card has CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture), supports ray tracing, has DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling), whether it’s optimized for certain games, what kind of cooling it uses, how much power it requires, how many heat pipes it has, what kind of power supply it needs… I wouldn’t be able to answer any of these questions.
If Jiang Wei or the people sent over by Jialan Company are not professional, I’ll be embarrassed when asked these questions.
The most fatal thing is that Xiao Mo and Fei Luo don’t know anything about technology-related matters, so they can’t help.
So, I actually admire Ouyang Xue, who was able to start from scratch and create a virtual idol for a computer company before.
She must have been asked more of these questions, and computers are not just about graphics cards. There are so many questions just about graphics cards alone. When it comes to a whole computer, I guess the audience in the live broadcast room will ask her even more questions every day.
Besides keeping up with the hot topics and creating various program effects, learning various new updates and interacting with the audience, she also needs to find time to study such professional knowledge.
It’s precisely because of experiences like this that have made Ouyang Xue, the store manager, almost omnipotent now – of course, she doesn’t take care of herself.
“Nuo’er, could you also go upstairs and get that balloon down from there? It’s in the cat living area on the second floor.”
After tidying up the main things on the storefront side, Ouyang Xue gestured towards a small staircase behind me.
“You can only go through there.”
“Through there?”
I turned around and glanced at the small spiral staircase attached to the wall behind.
When the café first started, it was structured into two levels, with the first and second floors primarily connected by stairs near the house’s main entrance.
This staircase also has two levels, with a particularly wide middle layer. Moving forward first, then splitting into two staircases on the left and right sides, after a 180-degree turn, you go up towards the main entrance to the second floor.
On the surface, this is the largest and only passage to the second floor that humans can use.
But this is only for “humans” stairs.
In addition to this largest staircase, the little cats actually have their own “small stairs.”
And there’s not just one of these small stairs, but two.
It’s the two behind me, one on the left and one on the right, against the wall.
The cat living area is actually completely isolated from the customer dining area and relaxation area. Normally, there are three doors blocking access, and the rest are some cute soft style glass railings.
If customers want to enter, they must first cover their shoes with disposable bags at the entrance to prevent bringing outside items inside. Then they need to unlock the lock on the railing before they can play with the cats inside.
Although it seems that both sides are isolated from each other, cats, being creatures that often don’t follow the rules, are sometimes unstoppable. We have set the railing quite high, but some cats still manage to get out. Fortunately, most of the café cats are well-behaved or lazy, and they usually stay in the cat living area most of the time. Unless they are like Dingman, who has a good relationship with me, is very active, and jumps out from inside when they see me going to work.
Also, because there are specialized cat living areas on both the first and second floors, positioned towards the back, some cats have peculiar personalities. Sometimes they want to drink water upstairs, use the litter box upstairs, and then run downstairs the next day. So, the café has specially arranged small stairs for these types of cats.
The first small staircase is located at the end of the café’s corner, consisting of a rotating spiral cat climbing frame. The cats can directly climb up to the second floor by grabbing the climbing frame. The second small staircase is next to the food shelf behind me at this moment, it’s particularly small.
To facilitate the cats climbing up, each step of the staircase is designed to be very low, and the opening is also very small. If adults like Ouyang Xue or Li Chen walk up these stairs, they would get tired quickly and it would be inconvenient to enter and exit.
But I can.
Once, for convenience, I tried to climb through this “cat-exclusive staircase” without any pressure.
“Are there still balloons up there?”
I glanced at the small staircase behind me from inside the counter.
At this moment, many cats who had just woken up from their nap were leisurely walking around there. Some were scratching the climbing frame, some were playing with other cats, and some were simply lying on their backs with their bellies exposed, legs stretched out, completely carefree.
“Yes, I’ve already inflated them. Just take them down from there,” Ouyang Xue gestured slightly embarrassedly towards the aisle on the counter side, which was blocked by a heap of clutter, making it difficult to pass through.
“Anyway, it’s not a problem for you to go that way, right?”
It’s not a problem, but walking through the staircase designated for cats… feels a bit odd no matter how you think about it…
Well, forget it.
Seeing that there was indeed too much stuff around, I didn’t think much and turned to walk over, pushing aside the cat treats scattered on the ground and climbed up to the small staircase.
“Meow?”
At this moment, Dingman, who seemed to have just woken up, saw me. This chubby cat first stretched lazily, then looked at me with some curiosity.
“Come and get something, you guys carry on with your work.”
I casually picked up a bunny-shaped toy for cats from the shelf and put it on Dingman. “Were you good last night?”
“Meow…”
Dingman yawned again and lay down on the ground, exposing its belly.
For some reason, seeing it like this, I suddenly had the thought of “should I also lie down and expose my belly to be cute?”.
Immediately, I dismissed the idea – I’m not that young anymore, acting cute, no way.
But then again, is it true that “when apologizing to animals, showing your belly demonstrates sincerity”?
With a mixed-up mood, I climbed down the stairs.
The texture of the hemp rope on the cat climbing frame above looked nice, should I scratch it a bit?
The ball on the teasing wand seems very round, should I squeeze it?
Ah… the world has become strange.
With ease, I ascended to the second floor via the cat-exclusive staircase, and upon exiting the cat living area on the second floor, I found the balloons and some of the advertising leaflets that Ouyang Xue requested.
“Yes, that’s it. Just tie them on both sides of this stand,” she instructed.
Back on the first floor, Ouyang Xue had just finished cleaning up the area. She gestured towards the table with the “not for sale” sign on it.
“Nuo’er, you’ll sit here today and create an effect like a beckoning cat.”
A beckoning cat? What nonsense! Wasn’t it said that selling graphics cards here doesn’t make money? And there’s still the need for verification later…
I silently complained in my mind as I watched Ouyang Xue move away some unwanted items.
It’s said that to prevent scalpers and some malicious competitors from disrupting the market, the café will verify the identity of the seller when selling graphics cards. Ouyang Xue mentioned it on the official account and in the group chat, and it’s indicated in the promotional videos by the official Jialan company and Jiang Wei.
Customers who have already bought all the other components or want to upgrade their components will receive priority purchasing qualifications as long as they can prove that they have a computer at home capable of installing the graphics card or have transaction records from buying the computer initially.
I’m not too sure about the specific procedures, as Ouyang Xue said, I just need to stand here and greet customers, acting as a mascot-like figure, and mainly focus on the cats.
“Nuo’er.”
Shortly after tidying up the counter here, I saw Xiao Mo walking over with a pair of earmuff-style headphones. She sat down beside me and lowered her voice.
“I was thinking just now, it might be better for you to directly admit your identity as a cat girl.”
“Huh?”
I was a bit puzzled. “Why?”
Admitting to being a cat girl… Admitting the existence of magic? Wouldn’t I be taken away if I did that?
“No, what I mean is… a fake admission.”
Xiao Mo gestured to the headphones in her hand. “Nuo’er is clever, you’ll definitely understand what I mean.”
I stared at the headphones Xiao Mo brought for a moment, then suddenly understood.
“I get it! Love you!”
Snatching the pink headphones, I planted a kiss on Xiao Mo’s cheek, then stood up from the chair and ran towards the employee lounge on the first floor.
Indeed, I didn’t need to hide my cat ears at all. Because no matter what, I couldn’t hide my tail. Acting like I did just now, wearing a hat to cover my cat ears, was as obvious as daylight.
I recalled a strange joke I once heard: If a boy turned into a girl in a large bathhouse and had only two hands, would he cover his thighs or his chest with the two rabbits?
The answer is… cover the face.
So now I don’t need to use a beret to block my cat ears. Blocking my cat ears not only affects my hearing, but even if my hair grows longer, it’s impossible to constantly hide the non-existent human ears on both sides.
My best course of action is to wear headphones to cover the “human ears”.
In the lounge, I faced the mirror, took off my beret, and then put on the headphones that Xiao Mo handed me.
These headphones have a girly style, with protruding cat paw patterns on both sides, very cute, and they match my current image perfectly.
As I took off the hat, my cat ears stretched out and instantly felt comfortable.
Alright, that’s settled.
I looked at myself in the mirror wearing the headphones.
This way, others would think my cat ears and tail are props, and since they can’t see my “human ears” because of the headphones, it’s perfect.
After a simple tidy-up of my appearance and adjusting my little skirt, I returned to the cat living area.
Just then, Jiang Wei and Ye Zi’s delivery truck arrived.
“Nuo’er, what’s with this…”
As expected, Ye Zi completely didn’t notice that the ears on my head and the tail behind me were real, looking rather teasingly, “Are you working so hard to help us sell graphics cards?”
“Of course!”
I proudly wiggled the ears on my head, “Do they look real?”
“They do. Are they battery-powered?”
Ye Zi chuckled behind her hand, “Wait a moment, I’ll go in with Brother Jiang Wei to bring the stuff in.”
“……”
Watching Ye Zi leave, I quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
Very good, the Catgirl disguised as a human plan, a great success!
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