Dragon God, immortal

However, the muscles of the shoulders, chest, back, waist and abdomen of adult male cat-ears are significantly stronger than those of females. Weight gain leads to increased physical strength but reduced flexibility, while females remain flexible...

This leads to a clear division of labor after adulthood. Adult males of the cat-ear tribe are often responsible for guarding the tribe and doing heavy physical work within the tribe... Adult females of the cat-ear tribe, if they do not participate in hunting, will cooperate with other women to raise cubs together...

By the way, the Sanhua tribe is a matriarchal tribe.

It is up to the female to choose her mate.

After giving birth, women do not live with men, but with other women and their offspring until they reach adulthood and then separate.

Therefore, the structure of this tribe is based on "nurturing", and individuals who cannot reproduce are difficult to integrate into it... Generally, when such individuals appear, they will be regarded as cursed by the ancestors and will be excluded and hostile...

Kumquat is such an individual. She is an orange female cat with a birth probability of less than one in four hundred thousand.

I can’t fit into the female circle, nor can I fit into the male circle…

She was driven out of her home by her own tribe and began to lead a nearly wandering life, which led to her mastering many hunting skills. She originally wanted to spend the rest of her life alone in the forest.

It was her grandmother who saved her from death...

Grandma Sanhua was very kind to her...

In the early morning, I wake up from the dream.

The sea breeze blows gently.

The winds were noticeably stronger outside the island.

After simply washing the kumquat with water, I put on apron-like clothes like those of the cat-ear tribe and went outside to prepare for work.

"I need to hire someone to take care of my farmland. They will provide food and lodging, and the compensation will be in the form of food. Also, if you want to use the farmland on the Palm Ball Island, well... you can, but half of the produce will be used as rent." The Dragon God said.

Then, the Dragon God came up with a contract... Uh, Jinju didn't know what a contract was, but she felt it was a contract...

There are four days off every twenty-eight days.

The sunrise and the sunset.

This went on for five years.

After five years, you can choose to renew your contract and stay working on Shougenqiu Island, or return to the Zhangqiu Island tribe.

The job is simple - to drive away harmful birds and patrol cornfields. If harmful birds or animals are hunted during this period, the prey belongs to the hunter...

The people of the Cat-Eared Tribe were somewhat resistant to Shushan's act of conscripting men, because they had all experienced the Undead Calamity, and their people had been forcibly dragged away to be cannon fodder...

Shushan also knew their concerns, so he asked the cat-eared people who were willing to go with him. After all, it was not like he would not let them come back, and I was not a capitalist...

I am a shovel-wielding dragon man!

Well, he’s a farmer.

At this point, there were only five cat people including Kumquat, following Shushan to Tegenqiu Island.

After building a row of stone houses for them, Shushan let them do whatever they wanted.

Well, it's just like letting Wuyun go free... Even if Wuyun got itchy and bit off one or two corns, the loss would not be much for him...

What he wanted was the whole corn plant. Among his more than 100 acres of land, only 20 acres would be left for seeds. The rest would be harvested and stored when the time was right and eaten for peace of mind.

Even in a hot and humid climate like that of Tegenkyu Island, corn only produces two crops a year. But if it is not needed, it can be harvested three times a year!

“Really, amazing food…”

Kumquat strolls around the outer circle of the cornfield.

With her height, she couldn't see what was going on in the cornfield because the plants in front of her were two meters high, and she was only 1.5 meters tall - only 1.8 meters if she stood on tiptoe.

Shushan took this into consideration, so he built watchtowers in certain places... But it seems that he built too many. Only five cat people don't need ten watchtowers...

"Ah! Sister Kumquat! Come up and sit!" A young voice came from the watchtower. Kumquat looked up and smiled slightly.

"It's Juanhua, why did you get up so early?" Jinjue held the ladder and climbed up the ten-meter-high watchtower in just a few steps. His agility was amazing.

"You can watch the sunrise here!" Juanhua shook his ears and smiled with squinted eyes.

"Sunrise..." Jinju nodded when he heard it.

The Scourge of Undead is accompanied by a miasma fog.

Plus the turbulent situation.

They hadn't seen the sunrise for a long time. Now that they had settled down, they naturally missed the sunrise.

Juan Hua tilted his head and looked into the distance. The sun had risen now, and the sunlight was blocked by the thatch on the watchtower, bringing a bit of coolness into the tower.

Jinju looked down at the cat-ear tribe in front of him... Juanhua is the granddaughter of Grandmother Sanhua. She has rare curled ears, which come from the intermarriage between the Sanhua tribe and other cat-ear tribes. Her fur color is the same as Grandmother Sanhua, with the same color distribution as the birch tree... hence the name Juanhua.

Well, the women in the tribe...

Most of them are three flowers...

Kumquat is leaning against the edge of the watchtower. It is windy today and the cornfield is shaking with the wind waves. I guess the corns must be full of rich fruits, right?

Shaking her head, Jinju retreated back to the watchtower and used her free time to carefully polish the arrowheads… As a hunter, it was necessary to be proficient in using the bow and arrow, and the arrow in her hand was made of obsidian made by Lord Dragon God.

The arrow shafts and bows were made from wood. On the resource-rich island of Tegenqiu, it was not difficult to find suitable materials. There was no need to bother the Dragon God for help...

"Ah, I saw Master Shushan!" Juanhua pointed to a place in the east, which was a corner of the crater of Tegenkushima Island. "Ah, he came down...ah, he ran to the field...ah, he sat down!"

“Stop joking. Lord Shushan hired you to keep an eye on the cornfield, not to keep an eye on him…” Jinju smiled and rubbed Juanhua’s little head.

"If Lord Shushan is here, no harmful birds would dare to come near!" Juanhua's tail swayed behind him and rested on Jinjue's hand.

"Well...you are staring at Lord Shushan, but he can notice it." Jinju gently moved the tail that was resting on his arm away.

"Huh? Really? We are so far away from him! And we are so young, how could he even know that I was looking at him?" Juan Hua squatted down and looked back in surprise. She didn't want to be discovered slacking off by Lord Shushan.

"Well, it seems that when you look at him, he can feel a sense of 'voyeurism'. No matter how far away he is, he can realize that someone is looking at him... If you don't believe it, call him softly and see if he responds?" The cat whiskers on Jinjue's face raised and he smiled mysteriously.

"Eh..." Juan Hua exclaimed, then poked half of his head out of the watchtower and called out softly, "Master Shushan..."

In the distance, Shushan, who was in a daze, slowly raised his head.

He made eye contact with Juan Hua.

"Ah! He heard it!" Juan Hua quickly retracted his head. He didn't expect that such a small voice could be heard!

“It’s amazing, right? But Lord Shushan said that it has nothing to do with the volume of your voice… As long as you look at him and talk to him intentionally, he can understand what you are saying… But conversely, it is much more difficult for us to understand what he says.” Jinjue finished polishing, and in front of him were more than a dozen neatly arranged arrowheads. All he had to do next was tie them to the arrow shafts before they could be used.

"He looks so powerful. Then... did he hear what we said while eating at his feet before..." Juan Hua shrank his ears in worry, and flapped his tail anxiously, even hitting Jin Jue's feet...

"Hmm? I think you understand."

"That's it. I said I wanted his nails..."

Juan Hua sat down against the wall uneasily, hugging his knees with an uneasy look, and the force of his tail slapping increased by two points...

She was twelve years old this year, so when she first arrived at the Palm Ball Island, she was one of the cat-eared cubs standing at the foot of the tree mountain and eating corn cakes. Because they felt that the tree mountain could not understand or hear them, they discussed a lot of things while eating...

"I don't think Lord Shushan would mind," Jinju said, tapping his chin, "How about you ask him if he can give it to you?"

Juan Hua tilted his head in confusion, and then felt the light dim, as if there was a cloud above his head blocking the sunlight.

She slowly turned around and saw a pair of emerald green dragon eyes.

Yes, it was Shushan who came over after hearing the words.

He walks without making any sound...

"Wow!! Good morning, Lord Shushan! I, I'm not being lazy!" Juanhua quickly stood up and greeted.

"Haha, there are very few harmful birds in this season. At least they won't come in groups to steal food." Shushan sat down directly outside the watchtower, but even if he squatted down, he could only speak with his head down.

"Oh! So those birds won't come in the summer?" Juanhua said curiously.

"No, it's late fall."

“It’s still so hot in autumn…”

"This is the sea area near the equator. It's quite humid and hot all year round, but this climate is very suitable for growing corn." Shushan explained with a smile.

"'Equator'? What is the equator? A place name?" Juanhua's curiosity was aroused. She found that she could understand the language that Shushan couldn't understand, but... understanding is one thing, and comprehending is another.

"The equator is the largest latitude circle on the planet beneath our feet. The sun shines directly on it twice a year, so it is a hot place all year round." Shushan explained simply.

"What is 'weft'?" Juan Hua asked, shaking his ears.

"Here, look at this." Shushan scratched his cheek and pinched the ground with his claws to make a mud ball.

He drew lines of longitude and latitude on the sphere.

The location of the Cat's Paw Islands is also marked.

Well, this is a model of a planet. Its inclination angle is very similar to that of the Earth but slightly different. The approximate longitude and latitude can be calculated using the trajectory of the sun.

Tegenkyu Island in the Cat's Paw Islands is located a little north of the equator, so it is not wrong to call it a tropical island.

There are craters around Tegenkyu Island, and in the center of the depression is a freshwater lake, shaped like a bowl.

In this way, as long as the edge of the central freshwater lake is slightly higher than the surrounding land, fresh water can be easily guided to various fields... Although only a small piece of land is used now, more food will be grown here in the future...

The next half day was spent with Juanhua asking Shushan questions and the answers were given to him. Shushan was also happy to share these astronomical and geographical common sense.

Because I won’t share anymore…

He is going to return it to the teacher!

"...That's right. If you go to a place like the North Pole or the South Pole, the sun won't rise for half a year." Shushan put down the mud ball model in his hand. Only then did he realize that it was getting late and human vision could not see clearly in such an environment.

"Wow, I really want to go to the North Pole..." Juan Hua looked up with admiration and kicked his feet while holding the handrail of the watchtower.

“This might be a little difficult…”

Shushan smiled and said.

He looked down into the watchtower.

At some point, the other cat-ear tribesmen also came here to listen to the lecture. Including Jinju, a total of five cat-ear tribesmen were here...

This made Shushan very worried... What he just said should be correct, right? Does it conform to the common sense of this world? Although he has confirmed these astronomical and geographical knowledge through practice...

"...Well, if you want to do it, just do it. I am not omniscient and omnipotent. You should go back to the dormitory before it gets dark." Shushan coughed lightly with concern, then left without looking back.

Shushan had just taken a short nap not long ago, and he was able to stay awake for the next five or six days, and his eyesight didn't matter whether it was day or night.

Kumquat watched Shushan go away.

But my heart is digesting the knowledge.

Although in Shushan's own opinion, what he said was just bragging, but to the ignorant Beast Ear Tribe, they were like a beacon of light...it turns out that the world outside is so big!

"I didn't do any work today..." Jinjue held the arrowhead belatedly. It was a weapon prepared for hunting harmful birds, but he didn't fire a single shot. He was just listening to the lecture blankly...

. . . . . .

The next day, still in the watchtower.

Shushan came to the watchtower again.

A row of five cat-eared people sat in a row, their eyes filled with a thirst for knowledge, which made Shushan Alexander, who was only half-baked, feel...

Even if you look at me like this, there is only so much I can say... Well, there are some things I am confident about...

"Do you want to learn magic?" Shushan asked after squatting down.

"Magic?" Juan Hua tilted his head and asked, "What is it?"

"Huh? Don't you know magic?" Shushan was shocked. Such common sense stuff was actually... Oh no, it was his preconceived notion that it was normal for ordinary people to not be able to come into contact with magic, or even not know about it...

Shushan touched his chin and looked at Kumquat.

Jinju understood, shook his tail and said:

"I heard that there are wizards among humans who can use magical powers. Are you talking about the powers they use, Master Shushan?"

"Probably. I don't know what the human magic system is like... But if you want to learn, I can try to teach you..." Shushan closed his eyes and nodded. He knew very little about magic and relied almost entirely on instinct.

Now that I don't have to worry about food, it's time to study my abilities...

Chapter 10 The Crying Curly-eared Calico Cat

As the saying goes, science and technology are the primary productive forces.

When magic can be analyzed, replicated, and utilized, it also becomes a "discipline" in a macro sense.

There was no magic in Shushan's previous life, so he was very interested in the abilities he possessed.