I will never give in to Miss Death

"Hey, stop making trouble, and eat first."

After pouring some juice into her cup, Lan Jiajia stood up and said, "Come on, everyone, cheers!"

Even though my face was a little hot, thinking that today was Xiaomo's birthday after all, I still stood up with the girls around me and raised our glasses.

"cheers!"

"Happy birthday Yin Xiamo!"

"..."

"Okay, okay, it's getting late, let's eat."

"Little Zhou Xiaofei, there's no need to be so restrained. Just pick up whatever you want to eat. If you don't have enough, there's more in the kitchen."

After the routine ceremony, Lan Jiajia stood up and walked towards the kitchen: "I'll go get some crab dipping sauce."

"Noel."

Watching Lan Jiajia leave, Yin Xiamo pulled the small chair a little closer to me and whispered in my ear -

"Just now, Filo and I went to investigate the matter of the old man in Nan Nagita. Filo is a dragon and has the ability to judge a person's relatives by sensing his breath."

"Filo just told me that this little girl named Zhou Xiaofei smells like the old man Nan Nagita. She is very likely his granddaughter."

"..."

……

No. 211 offers blessings for a beautiful world

In addition to its location by the sea and some unique and magical regulations in the city, the city of Kamihama is also very famous for its many urban legends.

Like the "Elevator Legend" in Mingzhu Plaza where Jiang Weipipi and I held our first author gathering, "The End of Alone", and the "Old Man and the Sea" legend in Minami-nagi Tower.

The protagonist in the legend of The Old Man and the Sea refers to the nearly seventy-year-old man who is still watching the sea under the Minami Nagi Pagoda.

This legend is actually not romantic at all - more than 40 years ago, when Kamihama City was still a small place, there was no Minaminagi District in the city, and Minaminagi Port had not been built. The area around Minaminagi Tower was all wilderness and the sea was very fierce. In addition, everyone was very poor in that era, with no place to live and nothing to eat. The old woman and her husband were part of a large wave of wanderers, penniless, who came to the suburbs of Kamihama City from other cities. When they saw the sea, they felt hungry, picked up some stranded seafood on the beach to eat, and thought the scenery here was pretty good, so they found a place to live.

Then one day the old man's girlfriend was swept away by the sea. In order to wait for his girlfriend to come back, the old man settled down on the seaside where they had lived, and lived there for more than 40 years.

The old man and the sea, the old man and his wife, a simple yet very sad story.

The act of "going to the sea" is still very fresh even today. There are many legendary "Sanhe Gods" who came here from afar to live in seclusion because of the "slow-paced life" in Minaminagi District of Kamihama City.

There are even many "city rankings" on the Internet that are suitable for "lying down" and "living in seclusion", among which "Minaminagi Ward, Kamihama City" ranks fifth on that list.

"Lying down" is easy to explain. Now "lying down" means going to work and working without working overtime every day. Do not care about work after work. Do not participate in the construction of any work projects or browse content during non-working hours. Usually, only the most basic living consumption is maintained, such as eating and buying daily necessities. Even on weekends, no socializing, no romance, no house buying, and concentrate on living your own life.

A cup of tea, a bed, and a broken mobile phone to browse all day long - this is the current society's definition of "lying down".

The nature of "reclusion" is much more than "lying down" and being a salted fish. The hermits don't even have a job. They find a place to settle down with the few thousand yuan saved from working, and live off the land and the water. Just like here in Nannai District, they find a piece of land in the suburbs and go to the city at most once a year to buy all the needed rice, vegetable seeds, matches, etc. It doesn't cost them more than a hundred yuan. With five thousand yuan, they can live in seclusion for fifty years. They build their own house and cultivate a piece of land at the back to grow vegetables. They can go around the surroundings and find any prey they can eat at night. If they can't find any prey, they will just eat rice and boiled vegetables all day.

One advantage of living in Minaminagi Ward, Kamihama City is that the sea here brings up a lot of seafood almost every day after high tide. As long as you have healthy hands and feet, you can pick them up and cook them to eat. For hermits who like to eat meat, it can be said to be a "perfect retreat".

And this old man in Minami Nagita is the "old hermit" of Kamihama City.

Since I met Yin Xiamo and our lives became stable, we would go to Nannagi Tower to watch the sea and chat almost every night after get off work.

Xiaomo held me in her arms and we flew all the way, bypassing the people jogging at night nearby, all the way to the top of the tower.

There is a relatively flat open space on top of the tower, and Yin Xiamo and I are relatively small in size, so we can even lie on it and look at the stars without any problem.

During these nights, whenever Yin Xiamo and I went up to the tower to enjoy the view, the elderly people downstairs would often turn on the radio, light a kerosene lamp, and stare at the sea in a trance while listening to the broadcast.

The Nannagi Tower is very high, so high that even with my now very sensitive hearing, I can hardly hear what is playing on the radio of the old man on the first floor. The old man is very old, and it is even more impossible for him to hear the conversation between Xiaomo and I so high up. So even though we can say that we can basically see the old man moving around around the Nannagi Tower every day, he doesn't know about Xiamo and I on the top of the tower.

It is impossible for a normal person to climb to such a high place, and the old man has lived in Nannagi Tower for decades. These decades of experience and habits probably make him very confident that... he is the only one nearby.

I have always been very curious about what happened to the old man’s “girlfriend” forty years ago. Was she washed away by the sea and drowned, or did she drift somewhere along the sea, survive, and start a family?

Now, Yin Xiamo told me that Zhou Xiaofei, whom she had met at Xingguang Primary School, had the aura of that old man, which made me think of the legend of "The Old Man and the Sea" in Nannai District almost immediately.

Zhou Xiaofei has the aura of that old man. According to legend, the old man has not remarried since his girlfriend was washed away by the water forty years ago. He has been guarding the tower ever since. It is unlikely that he will have any descendants.

The only possibility is that... the girlfriend of the old man who was washed away by the water was pregnant, survived, and gave birth to Zhou Xiaofei's father or mother.

Anyway, no matter whether it was the father or the mother who gave birth to the child, based on the current situation, Zhou Xiaofei's "grandmother" is still alive.

This means that the old man’s “girlfriend” back then should still be alive.

"Today is Xiaomo's birthday, so we have a very rich dinner here."

After the routine "cheers" before the meal, Lan Jiajia took the initiative to move the small chair closer to Zhou Xiaofei: "Come on, kid, you're welcome, take whatever you want to eat. This is roast duck, and this... This is Orleans roast chicken roasted by Nuoer, which Nuoer tore by hand. This child often surprises me in some strange places, and I haven't even learned how to tear a chicken by hand."

After putting a few pieces of roast duck and shredded chicken on the small plate in front of Zhou Xiaofei, Lan Jiajia picked up a hairy crab and put it in Zhou Xiaofei's bowl: "Do you want me to help you peel the shell?"

"No, I can do this."

Under Lan Jiajia's gaze, the little guy picked up the hairy crab, tried to pull off a crab claw, opened his mouth, and "clicked" his little canine teeth against the crab claw.

"My grandmother... when she was very young... caught crabs and snails like this and cooked them for me to eat."

After easily biting open the hard shell of the crab claws, Zhou Xiaofei looked a little proud: "Grandma's teeth were not good, and I helped her with them back then."

"Wow, what a filial child."

Lan Jiajia sighed: "Your grandma must be very happy, right?"

"Well... my grandma said that her life was saved by grandpa."

Zhou Xiaofei said in a baby voice: "If grandpa hadn't pulled grandma out of the water at that time, grandma would have been washed away. There would be no mother, and there would be no me. That's why grandma was so good to me."

"Ah... Sorry, you should eat more and bring some back to grandma later."

With some relief, Lan Jiajia picked up a crab, snapped it in half along the mark in the middle of the crab shell, and handed one half to me: "Here, Nuoer, I can only eat this much, you guys take care of the rest."

I took the crab: "Understood."

To be honest, we did cook a bit too much tonight.

Several hairy crabs, a fish head tofu soup, a roast chicken, a steamed chicken, a roast duck, and two servings of vegetables...

The large dining table was filled with a variety of dinners, but there were only a few of us eating here tonight.

I am relatively small and have a small appetite, so Zhou Xiaofei and I should be counted as one person. Lan Jiajia is an adult now, so she should be counted as one person. As for Yin Xiamo... her appetite is similar to that of an ordinary girl, so she can also be counted as one person. Only I don't know how much Philo eats.

With this calculation, we need a "diners" lineup of three people and a giant dragon to handle so many dishes.

If Philo's appetite in human form is similar to that of an ordinary person, then the amount of food on the table can be said to be more than twice the appetite of four people, not to mention that we will have a birthday cake to eat later.

Ah...I definitely bought too much.

I felt a little embarrassed for a moment as I was cracking the crab shell.

I have never had a similar birthday party, and before this I didn't have a good friend like Yin Xiamo who I could confide in and whose birthday was worthy of celebrating with great fanfare, so I didn't have a specific idea of ​​what dishes to buy or how much to buy for the birthday party. I just simply thought that even if I bought more, I couldn't buy less.

"Click——"

Just as I was thinking depressedly about how to deal with this big table of food, I instinctively broke off a big claw of the crab handed to me by Lan Jiajia and put it in my mouth to take a bite. At that moment, I felt a distinct pressure in my mouth.

Ok?

After I came to my senses, I took out the big pliers and took a look at it, then tried to open my mouth and bite it again -

"Crack!"

The crab shell remained motionless.

Isn't it?

I cautiously glanced at Zhou Xiaofei who was happily eating crabs opposite me, feeling a little confused.

She is so much younger than me, but she can still bite it at will. How can a strong man like me not be able to do anything about it?

I was a bit skeptical, so I put the big red crab claw in my hand into my mouth again, and tried to bite it with my front teeth and canine teeth, and even put it deep in my mouth and tried to use my whole cheek to bite it hard.

"Crack!"

"Pfft hahahaha..."

Yin Xiamo, who was sitting next to me, put down her chopsticks with a smile and stretched out her hand to me: "Let me do it, little kitty."

"There's definitely something wrong with this crab."

I handed the crab claw to Yin Xiamo unhappily: "This claw of its is definitely a mutant!"

"No, it's just that you are not strong enough, Nuoer."

Taking the crab claw, Yin Xiamo put the hard thing into her mouth and bit a hole in it right in front of me. Then she pulled it apart easily in her hands, pulling out the tender white meat inside with a "crackling" sound, and handed it back to me: "Now you know how powerless your canine teeth are, right?"

Eh?

I remembered the times when I bit Yin Xiamo's hand whenever I got angry.

Is it really true that it doesn’t hurt at all when I bite someone?

By the way, does this count as an indirect kiss with Xiaomo?

“These are delicious.”

I was still in a daze, but Philo had already started the "swept away everything" mode, drinking wine while putting the Orleans roast chicken I made into the pot: "The wine is very good, and this... the meat is also very good."

Zhou Xiaofei was similar to Filo, peeling the crab shell with one hand and picking up the dishes with the other hand, her little face flushed: "Yeah, this roast duck is delicious."

"Don't be so anxious. Nuo'er, Xiaomo and I can't eat much. This pile is for the two of you."

The two people's appearance amused Lan Jiajia. She seemed to be still immersed in the "shocking" remarks made by Elodie's mother just now. She seemed a little dizzy when she spoke: "If it's not enough, go to the kitchen to fill it up."

"Xiao Mo."

I decided to ask how much Filo can eat. After chewing the crab claw as elegantly as possible, I leaned over to Yin Xiamo's ear and pointed at the black dragon girl: "How much can she eat in this form?"

"It's basically no problem to finish all of this. There's not much here, and it's as big as a dragon. It was Filo who drove us back when we were on the island before."

Yin Xiamo explained in a low voice: "If others want, no matter how much they eat, they can immediately convert it into body energy or magic power. The efficiency of converting energy into magic power in this world is too poor. I guess Filo should choose to convert it into ordinary energy for the body, but there is a disadvantage to this."

I subconsciously asked, "What are the disadvantages?"

"Filo's human form... If the food he eats is to be converted into body energy, it will either be stored as fat like humans and make him fat, or... according to the body pattern of the dragon race, it will be transformed into a substance unique to them. Obviously, Filo will definitely not choose to gain weight."

Yin Xiamo continued in a voice that only we could hear: "The energy here is already seriously overloaded for the human form of the dragon race. If Filo eats half of it, she will definitely transfer the absorbed energy over."

"What?"

"It's the one you drank today..."

Yin Xiamo lowered her voice even lower: "Dragon milk."

"Eh?"

"So Nuoer, you have to be prepared tomorrow. Just eat something filling for breakfast and drink a glass of milk to basically guarantee your energy supply for the whole day."

Yin Xiamo said: "This is estimated to be about three days of milk, which is about 300 milliliters."

Eh eh eh? !

Although Filo's dragon milk is delicious, it's okay to drink several hundred milliliters in one breath, but that thing really doesn't suit my body...

"So if I drink dragon milk every day..."

I subconsciously asked, "Will I gain weight too?"

"She will appear a little chubbier than she is now, just a little bit, so that Nuoer doesn't look so skinny, but she will definitely not be fat. After all, this is already a level three energy conversion."

Yin Xiamo hesitated for a moment: "And it might also make your breasts bigger, Nuoer."

There is such an effect?!

"Dragon milk has always had this effect, otherwise why is it called soft gold from another world?"

As if seeing the expression on my face, Yin Xiamo smiled and said, "What's more, this is the milk of Filo... the Black Dragon Princess, the only Dragon King in the world. Dragon King is not just a title. All dragons recognized by the dragon clan will be baptized by the 'Dragon Vein'. Dragon King milk is the best milk there, bar none."

If I drink this every day, wouldn't it be...

"Noer is moved?"

"No!"

I turned my face away: "How could I be moved!"

I am an old man, a macho man. Does it matter to me if I have big or small breasts? It doesn’t matter!

Rather, I wish my breasts were smaller, so it would be more convenient!