I will never give in to Miss Death

On the contrary, the medicinal plant garden is located in the prestigious area which is reserved for the rich, and there happens to be a large golf course inside the garden, so it is not surprising to see luxury cars among the vehicles coming and going.

"Ah."

As I watched, Yin Xiamo nodded: "They came to the coffee shop once before and asked if you were interested in switching jobs there."

"It's them?"

After Yin Xiamo's reminder, I suddenly remembered: "Just those young masters?"

The coffee shop had just opened at that time, and these playboys came to the coffee shop early in the morning to wait for me, then handed me a business card and claimed that they could give me "triple salary".

Naturally, I disagree with this, because I instinctively feel that it is dangerous to be associated with such people.

Su Yunjin's explanation later confirmed my intuition.

Su Yunjin said that these people were the sons of a listed company, who were usually lazy and spent their time eating, drinking and having fun instead of doing their work. He suggested that I stay away from such people.

After that day, I thought specifically about the relationship between this "dandy young master" and the coffee shop, and asked Su Yunjin for some information about them. I finally came to the conclusion that there was some conflict of interest between the coffee shop and them.

This matter is a bit complicated to explain, but the general situation is... the companies of these young masters' fathers or relatives have more or less invested in some local entertainment institutions and real estate. They also know the role of coffee shops and the impact that the completion of the commercial street in Minaminagi District in the future will have on the surrounding market economy.

If the coffee shop really becomes popular under our operation, the commercial street in Minaminagi district is established, and the surrounding residential areas become lively, or even further, for example, if these people also learn about the construction plan of the Kamihama City Government for the next ten years and guess the existence of the "Maritime District", then the entire structure of Kamihama City will definitely change.

For example, if the commercial street here becomes very popular, either the sales of the food cities they invested in some remote places nearby will decline, or they may be found to have done something fishy and lose their official positions.

Or if a "cross-sea bridge" and a "maritime district" are built, various cheap residential areas and small villas will be built there, which may also shake up the prices of some previous houses.

There are a lot of waters involved here. After all, it's a project worth hundreds of billions of dollars. I can't understand it for the time being.

The only thing I know is that...some people in Kamihama City don't want the coffee shop to be popular, nor do they want the Minaminagi District Commercial Street and the subsequent "Sea District" to be built.

The people sitting in the sports car that just flew past Yin Xiamo and me belong to the group that "does not want the Nannai District to be developed."

"Ah."

Yin Xiamo kept looking ahead and frowned, saying, "I have a feeling they will come back."

"Amazing……"

I sighed, "Xia Mo, you even know who is in the car and what they are thinking?"

"Breath perception, a relatively advanced magic skill."

Yin Xiamo turned her head and smiled, whether it was self-proclaimed or sad: "At that time, it was because I didn't learn this magic early and didn't notice those people approaching from behind that he was..."

"Om-"

Before Yin Xiamo finished her words, I heard the roar of a sports car engine and saw that the sports car that had passed by us, headed straight for the golf course, and disappeared into the depths of the woods turned back and soon drove in front of Yin Xiamo and me and stopped.

"Buzz! Buzz!"

As if wanting to show off to us how valuable the car was, the person in the driver's seat kept the engine humming for a long time after parking the car.

"Hi, two beauties!"

Then, the lid of the luxury car opened, and the young man sitting in the passenger seat waved over here: "Why are you two dressed so beautifully today?"

"We'd better go."

Thinking that there was no need to waste time on such a person, I took Yin Xiamo's hand and turned to walk towards the exit of the botanical garden.

It was almost noon, the sun was a little hot on the road, and there was no one around.

My little girl instinct made me not want to talk to this kind of man at all.

If Yin Xiamo hadn't been beside me, I might have run away by now.

"Don't leave, ladies!"

Seeing Yin Xiamo and I turn around and leave without saying a word, three young men who had met in the coffee shop ran down from the car and said, "We were too picky before. How about this? Five times the salary. I estimated that you should be able to make about 10,000 yuan a month in that store. I'll pay 50,000 yuan and you come here. Our company will arrange an easier job for you. How about that?"

"No, I'm doing well there and I don't have any intention of changing jobs. Thank you for your kindness."

I shook my head: "I have already rejected you twice, and I have made it very clear. If there is nothing else...bye."

"Don't be like this, ladies. If you have anything to say, we can talk it over. Five times won't work, how about... eight times?"

The three people in the car caught up with him. The driver gestured to the sports car behind him and said, "Or I can let you get in and take a ride. Our car is worth more than 8 million. You can take pictures and post them on WeChat Moments at will."

"Yeah, do we look like bad guys? Let's talk business."

"That's right. It was difficult to talk before because Su Yunjin was there. Now there are fewer people here, so we can talk freely."

As they were talking, the three young men had quickly walked to a position less than ten meters away from Yin Xiamo and me. The largest and strongest young man among them even said threatening words like "there are few people like you".

"call out--"

I was still thinking about how to politely refuse them when Yin Xiamo, who was beside me, rushed over at a speed so fast that I could hardly see clearly. She was instantly wearing the Grim Reaper's hood and cape, and had a long sickle in her hand.

"Don't let me see you again."

Putting the sickle against the driver's neck, Yin Xiamo, who had been chatting and laughing with me like an elf girl, suddenly became murderous: "Otherwise, die."

"you……"

Feeling the gleaming sickle on his neck, the driver panted and slowly raised his hands, as if trying to push the sickle away: "Little... little sister, don't do this rashly. If someone dies..."

However, this person overestimated Yin Xiamo's patience. The moment he realized that the young man dared to move despite being pressed by the sickle, Yin Xiamo raised the sickle high up.

"Shhhhh-"

At this moment, the whole sky darkened.

The black silhouette of the Death Girl transformed into three sword lights, which slashed at the necks of the three young men respectively. The speed was so fast that even I could only see an afterimage.

"..."

When the bright blue sky reappeared in the sky, Yin Xiamo had returned to my side and took off the hood on her head.

"Walk……"

The next second, the three young men in front of us who had been planning to threaten us by saying “there was no one around”, after touching their intact necks, seemed to have been greatly frightened, and they all scrambled towards the luxury car.

"Let's go! Let's go!"

"Let's go! Get in the car!"

Then, the car hood was closed, the engine started, the driver stepped on the accelerator, and with a "buzz" sound, the car left the medicinal plant garden and soon disappeared into the distance.

"This……"

It took me a while to recover from the shock, and I said to the girl beside me who had thrown her hooded windbreaker and sickle into the cracks: "Did you kill them all?"

If I saw it correctly just now, the sickle had indeed slid across the necks of those three people.

Could it be that... after these dandies left, they were like Tom in Tom and Jerry, who felt nothing while running away and then broke into several pieces and died suddenly afterwards?

"No, killing people is a serious matter in this world. I just took away twenty years of their lifespan."

As if she knew what I wanted to ask, Yin Xiamo said casually: "And exerted some fear effects."

"what?"

I became even more curious: "Can you also take away lifespan?"

"To explain it in scientific terms... every living thing in this world has a theoretical lifespan limit controlled by its own genes. Because in the process of Earth's evolution, creatures with infinite lifespans and infinite reproduction have all become extinct, and infinite offspring have crowded out the limited space. Therefore, infinite lifespan is a wrong evolutionary path for living things. The ones that can survive are those with a certain lifespan and die quickly after reproduction. Genes control every cell in a living thing, causing them to age slowly."

"For example, telomeres in cells control the stability of cells and genes in the human body. Every time a cell divides, the telomeres become fewer, which is like a kind of 'wear and tear'. The fewer telomeres a cell has, the more unstable it is, the older it appears, and the more likely it is to become cancerous. When the telomeres are reduced to a certain level, the human body will die because it is too old."

Yin Xiamo explained, "I just pushed back the life span of those people by twenty years. You can think of it as breaking down the telomeres to the level of twenty years later, and leaving them with the mark of 'being afraid when thinking of Nuo'. These people and the people behind them probably won't cause trouble for you and the coffee shop in the future."

so cruel...

I quietly thought in my heart

I also know something about the telomere theory, which is considered to be a cutting-edge discipline at present. Human genes are just as Yin Xiamo said... a bit selfish.

For example, our human body can actually secrete "telomerase", which can repair telomeres, increase human lifespan, and even make people immortal, but the human body just doesn't repair it and just plays around. It also locks the working principle and mechanism of telomerase, making it impossible to guess after decades of scientific research, because the main purpose of genes is to make people reproduce quickly and then die, unless you find a bug.

For example, after we know this characteristic of genes, we can freeze ourselves from time to time to make the genes think "the external environment is very harsh and cold, not suitable for reproduction, so secrete more youthful substances to make this person younger and not die too early", or eat until 70% full to make the genes mistakenly believe that "the external environment is scarce and not suitable for reproduction, so quickly increase this person's lifespan and wait until he finds a suitable environment and has children before dying", or exercise regularly -

"Why is the host out of breath while running every day? Is it because there are so many natural enemies outside and he has to run for his life every day? It seems that the external environment is not suitable for survival. As a gene, I must secrete more telomerase to keep him young forever and help him in all aspects."

By the same token, some people have too much sex and overdo it, and their genes will think, "This person has given birth to so many children, it's almost time for him to die, let's send him on his way," and then death will come.

Of course, these are some of the more marginal research in Kamihama City recently. I also read the popular science on Tongmeng.com, so I’m not sure whether they are true or not.

I guess the "immortality" of my body, aside from the blessing of magic, may... indeed have a bit of scientific truth in it.

But no matter what, I am very touched that Yin Xiamo can do so much for herself.

"I'm glad Noer is okay."

What surprised me was that even though I was the one who helped me, Yin Xiamo in front of me seemed to have been redeemed and grabbed my hands: "Don't worry, I won't make the same mistake again."

"Ah, that..."

I reached out and scratched my face unconsciously. “First of all, I am very grateful for your help and commitment. I am also very sorry for bringing up your bad memories, but here I want to ask a question that may not be very appropriate.”

"what is the problem?"

"What if you bully me?"

"Well...then let Nuoer bully you back?"

Yin Xiamo thought for a moment: "Whatever I do to Nuo'er, Nuo'er will do to me. Is that okay? I don't mind."

"I……"

I was speechless for a moment.

Why do I feel like I'm the one who suffers the loss no matter what?

"That means, can I push you down after we get back?"

"Is it possible?"

Hearing what I said, Yin Xiamo raised a very bright expression in the sunshine: "You are welcome anytime!"

"Welcome, damn it!"

I took out an umbrella from the rabbit backpack on my back, handed it to the girl in front of me, and then deliberately grinned and said:

"I'll take care of you when I get home!"

"How cute! The little kitten showed off its little fangs in protest!"

"What did you say?"

"Nothing, nothing, let's go..."

"..."

……

No. 156 To her beloved

After coming out of the Medicinal Plant Garden, I originally planned to take bus No. 7 to leave as I did when I came here, and then transfer to other buses halfway. Yin Xiamo disagreed, claiming that "this is my first date with Nuoer and we must leave a good impression," and directly called a taxi with her mobile phone.

After standing at the somewhat desolate entrance of the botanical garden for nearly ten minutes, Yin Xiamo finally arrived at the rental house she had called.

The taxi was driven by a female driver in her forties or fifties, wearing a pair of sunglasses, giving people the feeling of a "big sister".

"To Central Park?"

When Yin Xiamo and I got in the car, the driver in front of us closed the window and said, "Why are you two girls playing in this place?"

"We are taking a break today. I heard there are a lot of trees in the botanical garden, so I wanted to come and take a look."

I explained: "It feels like there have been a lot of changes here."

In fact, before leaving, I planned to go to the former welfare home with Yin Xiamo, but I always felt that it was not appropriate to go there with my current status.

After all, the name and identity of "Yin Nuoer" were made up by Miss Death out of thin air. Complete identity information and past records can be found in the public security system of the police station. If I remember correctly, the general life trajectory of "Yin Nuoer" is that she was abandoned since childhood, and then adopted by the Kamihama City Welfare Institute. She grew up like most children in the welfare institute, completed compulsory education, and entered society.

According to the setting, I am also the sister of "Yin Shiren".

If most people investigate "Yin Nuoer", the information they get is basically... Yin Nuoer stopped studying after completing compulsory education, which is high school. When she finished high school, her brother Yin Shiren had just graduated from college and was renting a house to look for a job, so the brother and sister lived together. Usually, the brother was mainly responsible for the rent and living expenses, while the sister did some odd jobs at home or worked part-time.

For example, writing novels online.

Finally, the brother fell ill and died in the hospital. His organs were donated. Without his income source, the sister started looking for jobs everywhere. She wrote books, worked as a poster girl at comic conventions, and worked as a maid in a coffee shop...

However, according to the naming rules of the welfare home at the Medicinal Plant Garden, if someone really goes to the welfare home to check my information, I will easily be suspected by the people there.