I will never give in to Miss Death

I leaned forward and asked, "Sister Ouyang's situation..."

"Oh, she's fine. The fever had gone away when she went there."

Li Chen breathed a sigh of relief: "Just in case, I asked her to do a blood test, and everything was normal. It seems that even the minor ailments she had before are gone. Everything is normal, just like a normal person. I thought I was seeing things."

I looked outside the door and asked, "Where's Sister Ouyang?"

"Although there was nothing wrong, I still insisted on helping her get hospitalized for two days of observation."

Li Chen gritted his teeth: "I'm really scared."

"Then why are you running here like this..."

I joked, "Aren't you afraid of what Sister Ouyang will say about you?"

"She was the one who called me here, saying that the coffee shop must be looked after these few days, and now is the time when we need help, so I have to come back."

Li Chen put his hands on his hips. "Damn it, I feel like she always says this. She said this when we were just laying the foundation, when the house was built, when the coffee shop opened, and now it's the Dragon Boat Festival... Oh no, the Dragon Boat Festival is over, but she still says this. When are we not short of people? When are we not critical?"

puff……

That seems to be true. Since I started working here, every day seems to be critical.

"How's the situation here?"

Li Chen looked around the first floor: "Nothing went wrong, right?"

"Basically no, except for a few customers complaining during the evening meal peak that there were too few tables and chairs, there were no major problems. Today's glutinous rice and rice dumplings are almost sold out, and there is a lot of rice wine left. There are also some half-fat and half-lean rice dumplings and yellow duck eggs in the kitchen."

I gestured towards the kitchen. "Have you had dinner yet? How about I heat it up for you?"

"I've eaten in the hospital, but the food in the hospital cafeteria... well, forget it. I'd rather eat in my own restaurant."

Li Chen walked towards the kitchen in a hurry: "I can heat it myself. You guys are tired after the day. Go back quickly. I'll watch over here."

I shouted towards Li Chen's back, "There are still many people in the basement. Su Yunjin is there!"

"Okay, I'll go down after I finish eating!"

Well, let's go back too.

I turned to Xiaomo and said, "When can you teach me that flying magic?"

"You can't learn it. The earth has no magic."

Yin Xiamo shrugged: "But in Elf Mode, you can run faster and jump higher than ordinary people."

That won’t work either. I still prefer the kind of magic that is particularly convenient.

For example, the one you used when you went to the Jing District before... a translucent magic circle like a piece of glass, which was both beautiful and practical, and it went up into the sky in a flash, and at an extremely fast speed.

"Xiaomo will have to trouble me to carry you again tonight."

"At your service, my princess."

After leaving the coffee shop, on the quiet tree-lined path outside, Yin Xiamo in front of me bowed slightly and stretched out her hands.

I fell backwards as usual, and was immediately hugged by Xiaomo like a princess.

Although I know Xiaomo doesn't care about this weight, I'm in elf mode now and my weight is much lighter. She... should also be a lot more relaxed, right?

"Sit tight."

With a relaxing reminder, the whole world flew up.

Holding me, he skillfully jumped onto the street lamp in front of us, then jumped again to a big tree that looked to be several decades old, and then jumped to the top of the tallest tree in front. Xiaomo, holding me, "flew" with me in the direction of Minami-nagi Pagoda, as usual, bathing in the moonlight.

This posture reminds me of the anime "Shugo Chara" that I watched a long time ago. There was a scene where Tsukiue Ikuto was holding the protagonist Hinamori Amu and doing a triple jump at night.

Hop Step Jump!

"..."

After a while, we arrived at the familiar top of Minami-nagi Tower.

What surprised me was that the Nannagi Tower, which had been deserted, was actually very lively at this moment.

"Xiao Fei, come and catch me! There are so many eggplants here!"

"Denghua, slow down! Don't trample on grandpa's crops..."

"A little bit..."

Behind the Nannai Pagoda, in the vegetable garden that had been carefully taken care of by the elderly who originally lived here, Li Denghua and Zhou Xiaofei were playing with each other, and the huge yard was filled with children's laughter.

Xiaomo and I landed on the Nannagi Tower silently, looking up at two old men sitting on a big rock on the seashore not far from our feet.

One on the left and one on the right, one man and one woman.

Both the man and the woman were very old. The man's hands were a little cracked, and the woman's hands were covered with wrinkles.

However, their hands were still tightly held together.

The woman leaned her head on the man's shoulder, and the two old people sat on the big rock, arm in arm, shoulder to shoulder, looking at the rough sea.

"Do you remember your favorite song back then?"

"Remember, do you want me to sing it for you?"

"Ah."

"Nothing can stop... your yearning for freedom... through the dark years... you also felt lost..."

"You're singing out of tune, let me..."

"..."

The two old men's vicissitudes of life singing echoed on the sea.

Xiaomo and I stood on the Nannagi Tower and looked at the two old people for a while, then sat down.

Almost instinctively, I grabbed the girl's hand next to me and put it on my thigh.

"The moon is so round tonight."

"Ah."

"..."

……

No. 304 The best sword of the Beast Ear Tribe

I really like sitting on the top of Minami-nagi Tower with Xiaomo and looking at the sea in front of us.

According to some official information from Minaminagi District in Kamihama City, the height of Minaminagi Tower is 118 meters, which is only ten meters shorter than the world's tallest lighthouse, the Tower of Alexandria. And because the place where Minaminagi Tower was built happens to be the highest point in the surrounding terrain and there is a hillside below, the terrain difference between Minaminagi Tower and the area around the coast is very large. I estimate it to be about one hundred and thirty to one hundred and fifty meters.

In other words, standing on the small umbrella cover at the top of Minami-nagi Tower, we were more than a hundred meters away from the ground. Usually, when Xiaomo and I came here, we fell from a height of several hundred meters. As long as the full moon was not shining brightly, our shadows would fly directly and obviously, and it was normal that people on the ground could not notice them.

To put it in perspective, most residential communities are usually capped at 10 to 12 stories high, and such community buildings are generally around 40 meters high. For example, the old community of Elodi has only 8 floors, and the height is estimated to be between 25 and 30 meters. 118 meters means three such community buildings stacked together. Let alone three buildings, even the community of Elodi has the eighth floor, and the top floor is the ninth floor. Even if Xiaomo and I were talking on the rooftop of the ninth floor, people passing by at the bottom of the building might not be able to hear us clearly.

If I have to say, the only way to see us on the Minami Nagi Tower is to climb to the top of the huge mushroom roof of the Kamikyo Cat Maid Cafe, then find a few higher stairs, climb up, and then find a super telescope to look over here.

It is precisely because Minami Nagi Tower is very tall, like a giant, and it is surrounded by forests and bushes, and there is the constant sound of crashing waves, that Xiaomo and I can do all kinds of things there with peace of mind every day...including, well, that kind of thing.

And I gradually got used to this feeling of "freedom".

It’s just… we don’t have to worry about being seen by anyone. It seems like there are only two of us left in the world, and sitting at the highest point in the world, we can enjoy the scenery around us.

Occasionally, a car would drive over from the nearby ring road, its headlights like a ghost in the middle of the night, carefully shuttling through the woods.

Occasionally, a large school of fish would appear on the lonely dark sea, flapping their wings continuously. Sometimes they were small sharks driven away by killer whales, and sometimes they were frightened flying fish.

Occasionally, when an old man living at the bottom of Nannagi Tower gets hungry late at night, he will quietly walk out of the building, pick up some firewood nearby, light it, go to the field to get a few tomatoes or something, dig some sweet potatoes, and cook something for himself.

We could see all these scenes clearly from the top of Nannai Tower.

Xiaomo often says that my personality of liking to watch others silently from a high point is very similar to that of a kitten.

"Thousands of years ago... probably when you and that little cat girl met. Oh no, it should be the hero."

On the high tower, Xiaomo said softly, "We were originally going to persuade the Beast Ears to join the Allied Forces that day. But when we finally found the Cat Girl Tribe, we discovered that... this race as a whole has nothing to do with 'unity'. For example, a certain little kitten, like some cats in the cat cafe, suddenly found that people were missing, and everyone was anxious to look for them, but she was very happy to watch from the tree."

This kind of thing does happen often in cat cafes.

Almost every night when we get off work and every morning when we go to work, we need to count the cats in the store to make sure nothing unexpected happens. Sometimes some cats just can't be found, and we get anxious and worried. Then occasionally we look up and find that the missing cat is lying on the top of a cat climbing frame or on an air conditioner looking at you.

It really just sits there and watches you looking for itself for more than an hour.

I usually see some cat videos in the cute pet section of Tongmeng.com and they are the same. The owner can't find the cat after coming back, so he searches everywhere and calls the name, but can't find it after several hours. When he finally checks the surveillance video, he finds that the cat had actually come out the moment he came home, but was just lying on the shoe rack at the door, motionless. It didn't respond when the owner called it, and just watched the owner walking around the whole time.

Cats are such animals that people both love and hate them.

"Each tribe has its own characteristics. The fox tribe is more cunning, but they are relatively united when they encounter a common enemy. The cat tribe is basically a loose group and cannot unite. Fortunately, they are very flexible as individuals. As long as it is not a team action, it is still very reliable to send a cat out alone to assassinate and obtain intelligence."

"After all...if you play hide-and-seek with cat girls, they might even lose themselves."

"There's a joke in our area that the world's largest hide-and-seek club is deep in the Cat Girl Forest, because the cat that founded the club has not been found yet."

Xiaomo’s explanation made me feel a little ashamed.

"After all, isn't it because of you that I have a cat-like personality..."

Then, I tried to retort: ​​"You said it yourself, I have the cat girl gene in my body."

Yes, that's right, like catnip or something like that, it's impossible for a human like me to like that kind of thing, right?

"The cat girl gene is just an excuse. In fact... before you obtain the Beast Ear Heart and transform into cat girl mode, the cat tribe's genes have very limited influence on you."

Yin Xiamo said seriously: "The only thing that can influence you is your own heart, Xiao Nuoer."

"You must be lying to me."

I was unconvinced and asked, "What about catnip?"

"Um……"

Yin Xiamo, who was on the Nannagi Tower, turned around and jumped off the tower: "Wait for me for a moment."

"Eh?"

Before I could say anything, the girl jumped down from a height of over a hundred meters with a whoosh.

This……

I tried to look down and saw that Xiaomo had disappeared into the forest ahead.

In desperation, I had to prick up my elf ears and continue to listen to the conversation of the old man and the old woman at the beach out of boredom.

"Come to think of it, it seems like this place was all sea back then..."

"Well, a long time ago, there was only sea there. Then, somehow, it slowly went down, and the riverbed retreated to here."

"How long have you been waiting for me here?"

"I don't remember, it should be forty years."

"Why not find another one?"

"I'm afraid you'll beat me to death when you come back."

"..."

This is the convenience of the Elf Mode, Heart of Nature. The sensitivity of all senses is enhanced, and I can hear clearly even from a hundred meters away. The prerequisite is that I have to carefully capture the sound source in that direction. If I don’t listen carefully under normal circumstances, my brain seems to automatically block out the sound interference from such a distance.

"call--"

After a while, Xiaomo came back with a handful of grass in her hand, and directly held the herbal stuff in her hand next to my nose: "Here, catnip."

"Varied……"

I habitually wanted to dodge, but Xiaomo had already put the "herb" against my face, and I habitually took a breath at the herb.

"How about it?"

Under the moonlight, Xiaomo slowly undressed herself: "How about we do it again tonight?"

"Don't……"

My heartbeat quickened rapidly and I felt the temperature on my face rising: "Denghua... Xiaofei and the others are still playing downstairs... and, it's still a while..."

"it does not matter."

Yin Xiamo came over and held my face with both hands: "Do you want to do it?"