I Will Never Submit to Miss Grim Reaper - Chapter 394
Chapter 394: Fooling People is Silly Loli
My conversation with Lizard Girl Nida has given me a deeper understanding of what I previously thought was the “thousand years of time.”
I used to think that the betrayal of the hero thousands of years ago, Xiao Mo being adopted by the hero, and learning thunder magic and marksmanship from the hero were all “open secrets”.
After all, in a world plagued by the demon lord for so long, everyone knows about the demon lord’s existence. They should also know about Xiao Mo, who has been fighting the demon lord for so long, and consequently know about the hero’s existence.
Now I realize that I still have many misunderstandings about the time span and the lives of the people in this different world.
Even in modern Earth, where everyone has a smartphone and can look up information online, no piece of information can possibly reach every corner of the world. For example, when the café caught fire previously and became a hot topic online with tens of millions of searches, in Shenzhen City, it’s still not easy to randomly ask someone on the street if they know “Yin Nuo’er” or “Yin Xiamo”.
With billions of people on Earth, tens of millions are really not that significant. Even if two countries were to go to war one day, if you were to ask the ordinary people in a small village who the president of a certain country is, they would probably answer that they don’t know.
Most ordinary people in this different world are in a similar situation. Moreover, here there are no smartphones, no internet, and there are still places like Nida’s father’s village, where it takes a very long time before they come into contact with humans from outside, and they don’t even know what a “hero” is.
I don’t remember who once said, “The more ignorant a person is, the more inexplicable confidence they have in their narrow views.”
It seems that I have fallen into such a dilemma because I don’t understand this different world, I don’t know the lives of the people in this different world, and I haven’t experienced much. I have always followed Xiao Mo, assuming naturally that everyone knows Xiao Mo and knows about the hero and what happened back then.
But the reality is — who are you?
Only scholars who pay attention to current affairs or are themselves worshipers of Xiao Mo would actively look up the specific information about Xiao Mo’s battle with the demon lord back then. Going deeper, they might look into Xiao Mo’s growth process, such as how she learned magic and her relationship with dragon tribe and beast ear tribe.
As for the hero… scholars like Nida only know a vague outline, “Back then, Xiao Mo came from a small team that led the alliance, and a lizard person betrayed someone in the alliance.” Ordinary people don’t even know about this person.
As for who the hero is? Whether they are male or female, and how it relates to me? I only know that Lady Momo is one of the heroes who saved the world.
Yes, my understanding has always been within the scope of being an “insider.”
Xiao Mo is directly involved and she definitely knows all the stories about the hero and herself. Fei Luo is close to Xiao Mo and has also had contact with the hero. Gabriel, likewise. Little Dolly is Dolly’s mother’s child and also has some impression of the hero.
“Your dad looks a bit like someone I know.”
Watching Nida’s father leave, to ease the awkwardness, I whispered behind her, “He also likes to say very sharp things, but he always does things very well.”
I wasn’t talking about Ai Luodi, although Ai Luodi does have a venomous snake attribute and is very conscientious in her work, she usually displays quite a bit of pretense.
There was a volunteer like this before in the orphanage, who spoke harshly, mocking us as “a group of unwanted children” every time, but that day a few troublemakers came to the medicinal plant garden, and this person was the first to rush out and fight desperately, even rescuing the child he usually scolded the most harshly from those people, ending up in the hospital with several hooligans, and even broke a leg.
“He’s like that, urging me to marry the big lizard in the next village when I was 120 years old, and every time he said he wouldn’t marry, he would let me roll out of the village, every time I was just scolding me for sending food.”
Nida came in from outside and gestured to the fruit basket.
“You eat, I’m not hungry… This isn’t just courtesy, I really am not hungry.”
“Thank you.”
Although I’m not very hungry either, out of politeness, I still took a fruit from the basket that looked a lot like a “strawberry” and started nibbling on it.
Mmm, this is delicious!
It’s a bit tart, but not the kind of tart I can’t handle. It’s somewhat like strawberries, giving off a “sparkling” feeling when you eat it.
“Do you usually… um, only eat fruits?” I casually chatted with the little lizard in front of me while eating.
If I remember correctly, my current body is at the level of “maximum poison resistance.”
On Earth, mosquito bites and attacks from venomous snakes or insects are no big deal. It’s said that almost all poisons and medicines with negative buffs on Earth have no effect on me, of course, except for alcohol in elf mode, where the dizzying effects of alcohol are considered a “positive effect” for elves, since most elves are wandering poets and artists, and a foggy brain is more conducive to creativity.
Even in this different world, most poisonous substances don’t affect me, let alone magic. Xiao Mo said I am inherently a “forbidden curse,” the highest level at that, and forbidden curses are the most advanced form of magic.
Therefore, theoretically, I’m not worried about this remote lizardfolk village trying to poison me. The most important thing is that they don’t have the means to poison me, nor the time to prepare. After all, these people couldn’t possibly have known in advance that Xiao Mo would use forbidden curse magic to bring me here, right?
“We mostly eat fruits, unless the weather has been bad in recent months with thunderstorms or scorching sun, affecting the surrounding forests and our crops. Then we go out hunting.”
Nida gestured with the spear in her hand, “We catch small rabbits, wild chickens, and sometimes eat frogs.”
In this different world, there aren’t exactly “rabbits” or “wild chickens” as strictly defined as on Earth. I’ve roughly translated these animals based on their approximate forms in Elven language into Earth languages.
For example, in Elven language, a “rabbit” is a cute creature that likes to hop around in grasslands, herbivorous, burrows, somewhat resembling a groundhog but not quite a mouse. And “wild chickens” are ground-walking birds, different from Earth chickens, but it’s okay to use the term “wild chickens” as a general term.
“We lizards here are omnivores with a leaning towards vegetarianism. In the neighboring village, they are strictly carnivorous lizardfolk.”
Nida jumped onto the table next to me and explained, “My dad is a strict vegetarian lizard, but because my mom is human, I occasionally eat meat too.”
“Your mom is human?”
Now I was curious. “So… where is your mom?”
“I don’t know where she went. I haven’t seen her since I can remember,” Nida sighed lightly.
“My dad has been drunk a few times and talked to me about Mom. They apparently met in a small forest in the outside world. My mom was a healer in that squad. They encountered a horde of monsters at the time. My dad saved Mom and they hid in a cave for several months… and, well, they ended up together. My dad said Mom kept crying and saying we were going to die, surrounded by monsters and all, she seemed so hopeless. They didn’t know how…”
“But my parents eventually got reinforcements and both were saved. By then, Mom was already pregnant with me. But it seems she was embarrassed about the whole thing. After giving birth to me, she left, and my dad brought me here to raise me.”
Nida reached for a fruit from the basket and gestured to her fair little hands.
“See, because my mom was human, I’m quite short and my claws aren’t sharp. Without a spear, I can’t even fight off a wild wolf. But the good news is, it seems I can learn magic. I’m different from other lizardfolk. My body responds to magical runes.”
No wonder…
I observed Nida’s hands and feet.
Her hands were very fair, and her legs… extremely long, giving that feeling of being much longer than usual. Her feet were large, giving a stable stance, but you could still tell they belonged to a girl, unlike mine, where both hands and feet were small.
Just now, when we entered the village, I noticed several lizard sentries and a mother lizard caring for little lizards in a small hut, and I became curious why Nida was so different from the others here. It turns out she’s a half-blood.
“Dragon! Dragon!”
“Tam! Tam!”
As we were chatting, suddenly there came a sound from outside the village, resembling an alarm. In that moment, I felt the ground beneath me shake noticeably, and all around there were footsteps like “thud thud thud,” as if nearby lizardfolk who were originally inside their houses had all rushed out.
“Tam is here?”
Nida heard this and looked a bit flustered. She grabbed the spear beside her, but then seemed to sense something amiss and set the spear aside.
Nida turned to me and said, “Diwu, stay here and don’t move. Tam might be coming to ask my father about something outside. He recently went to a human city and hasn’t reported back yet.”
“Oh…” I was worried. “Are you sure it’s okay?”
Tam… was that the red dragon that flew overhead just now?
“It’s okay. You’re not from here, so he won’t bother you. Stay here and finish eating what’s in this plate. We’ll be back soon.”
As Nida was about to go outside, the sound of a strong wind blowing across the open space reached us. Shortly after, a blaze of fiery red light illuminated the area, accompanied by magical fluctuations similar to those when Fei Luo transformed into human form.
“You don’t need to come out, I’ll handle this myself.”
In a somewhat authoritative tone, a woman with long red hair and scales only covering key areas of her body, her figure strikingly attractive, walked in from outside.
“Are you the source of that strange magic from earlier?”
After entering the room and seeing me nibbling on fruit on a stool, the red-haired woman frowned. “Speak up. Who are you and what are you doing here?”
“I’m Diwu,” I hesitated. “I… I actually made a mistake with magic and got transported here.”
“You better speak the truth.”
The red-haired woman appeared impatient. “While I’ve been tasked with overseeing these half-human, half-lizard things for hundreds of years, hoping they all die off, if someone is causing trouble in my area of responsibility, I will intervene.”
“It’s true,” I earnestly replied. “Deceiving you would be foolish.”
The red-haired woman paused, then snorted. “Hmph.”
“You, and you.”
She pointed at me and Nida, then gestured towards the lizardfolk outside gathering to watch.
“Come with me, we need to talk.”
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