Another World Trip: Journey with My Cat and an Otaku Loli Goddess Chapter 156 - Flexing On Top Of A Shidashi Mao

Zhen Yong was confused for a moment before enlightenment dawned. “I know you. A-Aren’t you that Di Zhong?”

“I do hope that young master Zhen Paohui is doing well.”

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Unparalleled terror gripped everyone’s hearts as witnesses to what took place on the plains. Well, at least as far as I could tell.

Riding a Shidashi Mao was the coolest thing ever lemme tell ya. These things are hella comfy.

I was atop its head as it casually trod across the flatland. I don’t know how I looked, but if it starts with bad and ends with ass then I ain’t complaining.

It’s weird how apart those two words are something that no one should strive to be but together they’re what we all want to be. Teamwork makes the dream work after all.

“He’s a freak! A complete and utter freak!”

Yaomu Shou was shocked into madness, then sanity. Personally, I don’t see the difference.

She was now fearing for her mental well-being the longer she spent time around me. I regret nothing.

Not only her, but everyone inside and outside the carriage was stunned into silence as well. Out of all the weird, strange, and bizarre things that I did, I guess this one took the cake.

Again… personally… I don’t see it.

I saw that the closer I got to them, the more they were affected by the Shidashi Mao.

Vhwoom!

Everyone instantly felt as if they were trapped in an ice cellar. They could see oceans of blood beating upon the shores of a corpse-riddled land. Slaughter ran rampant upon the plains as a sanguine sky hung overhead.

That was what their expressions told me. I told you, cultivators’ expressions are very telling.

The Shidashi Mao’s killing intent was nearly corporeal, as Yaomu Shou and the others struggled to breathe.

I was afflicted by the same thing when I was fighting it earlier, but my advanced cultivation base offset most of its detrimental effects. It was not as thick or as overwhelming as the Di Ming though, then again, not many things could rival that thing.

Regardless, everyone was being affected negatively. Yaomu Shou in particular, who was at the top of the carriage, was pale and sweating buckets under its weight.

“Oi,” I rubbed its head a bit more aggressively.

“Purrrr!”

Following its purr, the wave-like killing intent withdrew like the receding tide, allowing everyone in the immediate vicinity to breathe easy.

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Wan Li

I am seeing something, but what I am seeing doesn’t quite add up. Am I dreaming?

My partner went to take that possible Yu Lang demon back to the family grounds. Now I’m all alone to be driven to madness by this child. It seems to have already happened with the young miss.

I was the one who told him to run via spiritual transmission after he ‘killed’ the Shidashi Mao the first time, so what is all this?

This child is riding something that is referred to as calamity incarnate.

“He’s a freak!”

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Long Di

“H-How are you doing this!?”

“What are you talking about?”

Yaomu Shou trembled as she asked this question and I wondered if this would be the same with everyone else. Cause if it is, I do be flexing.

“RIDING a Shidashi Mao!?” she nearly exploded before reining herself back in. She didn’t want to set it off.

“How do we ride anything in life? And whilst I am well aware that there is an adult joke hidden in there somewhere, we both know you’re not gonna get a real answer outta me.” She should’ve gotten used to me by now.

“I don’t get it. I heard that a Shidashi Mao is a harbinger of destruction and unpredictability. Not even beast tamers can tame them!” Zi Yu chimed in as she disembarked the carriage with trembling steps.

You know, to be fair, most cats are adorable A-holes that are unpredictably violent, moody, and whose whole vibe radiated with the energy of ‘I don’t give a fudge.’

Shidashi Maos on the other hand was a race that took all those traits and more but dialled up to a thousand.

With that said, it makes sense why Shidashi Maos are feared. I watched a video once where a cat beat the living turd out of a lion, a LION.

Now we have a creature that embodied all the characteristics and myth-like tropes of a cat rocketing through the skies and falling from the said sky like an internet influencer’s morality.

“Huh… makes so much sense now.”

Yaomu Shou heard this and asked. “What makes sense now?”

“Nothing, I was just having an inner monologue.”

“Are you not gonna tell us how you’re able to control that thing!?” Zi Yu asked, still at a loss.

“Can you not be so loud?”

“H-Hey senior apprentice-sister Feng Yu, what are you…” Shen Ling called out when she realised what her senior apprentice-sister was doing.

By this time, Feng Yu, who was in the carriage, came to the front and etched ever closer to the Shidashi Mao.

She then reached out her hand to touch its nose.

The beast abruptly shook when it saw this, causing Feng Yu’s hand to pause whilst prompting me to tighten my grip on it. What was this?

“Easy…” I was interested in this, but wanted her to be careful. Why approach something that everyone else is apparently afraid of?

Yet, as her hand resumed its movement and landed on the Shidashi Mao, it began purring under Feng Yu’s touch, causing the latter to reveal a gentle smile.

Well, screw me from the inside cuz I did NOT see that coming.

When Yaomu Shou saw what was happening, I could tell that her remaining brain cells were in danger of being eradicated when a startling thought came to mind, causing her to gape at Feng Yu.

“Crap! Don’t tell me you’re a—”

C-Creak!

The massive gates of Thousand Emo Valley that were tightly shut before opened up with a deafening groan.

The gates were two colossal structures that stood at a towering six hundred and odd Long Dis (3000 ft). But were only as wide as about four horse-drawn carriages each. They were made of a type of metal that was indiscernible due to the coat of rust that covered them.

However, the rust did very little to take away from their grandeur.

The gates were attached to two great walls that were built into the side of the mountains that ensconced the settlement and place known as Thousand Emo Valley.

The minute the gates fully opened, the entrance into the valley came into full view. A squadron of soldiers exited the city with practised precision. Their movements were totally in sync as they moved swiftly and efficiently.

Yaomu Shou quickly made a move and slapped Feng Yu’s hands away from the Shidashi Mao before anyone could see anything awakening the latter from a somewhat trance-like state.

It didn’t take long before the squadron surrounded us with swords and spears drawn. However, Yaomu Shou wore a bored expression, while Zi Yu bore one that said ‘how dare you offend me?’

Shen Ling, Feng Yu, and Jia Yan were serious and entered a battle-ready state. Xiannu Liang became extremely wary and had her cloak drawn up to hide her face, hair, and other features from view.

The soldiers that saw us didn’t know what to make of us. One couldn’t be more disinterested if she tried, the other one made it seem as if someone told her about her mother, the others were acting somewhat expectantly, whilst the last one was acting like an escaped convict.

Nevertheless, their biggest threat was me, the eleven-year-old child who sat atop the Shidashi Mao.

“Surrender peacefully!” a soldier, one who appeared to be the captain of this particular squadron, shouted.

His facial features couldn’t be made out due to the obstruction of his helmet, but his military demeanour was unmistakable.

“You’re saying I’m not peaceful?” I asked him.

“You’re a human riding a Shidashi Mao!” The captain replied justly, as if that said it all.

“Your power of observation is stunning,”.

The captain’s expression soured when I said this. I wish I cared.

“So you admit to having malicious intentions!”

I felt my brow beginning to ascend. “Come again?”

“Men, take him down!” the captain ordered.

However, his men didn’t dare to get any closer to the Shidashi Mao. Though they had no idea how I was able to get one for myself, especially when we were fighting it not ten minutes ago, they didn’t wish to trigger it.

Of course, the captain also saw this and grit his teeth in irritation. He was about to command his men to instead arrest the group travelling with me when he spotted the resident Yuan demon in the group and took a step back in intense fear and trepidation.

Though her gaze held no malice, if she was that which those of her race normally were, then he was dead, no other way about it.

“Y-You-” he was about to hold up a trembling finger before he grabbed it with his other hand. This was not an existence that he could afford to offend any more than he already had.

The problem here was that he was riding a tiger and couldn’t get off. He came out here so strongly, and now he was to shrink back? How could he face others in the future?

Idiots, the lot of them. The things they would die for.

In addition, Yaomu Shou, a Yuan demon, was being low-key, which was unusual. He believed this meant that Yaomu Shou was no longer a member of the Yaomu family, but at the same time, her appearance betrayed her pureblood heritage.

Such a person wouldn’t be allowed to leave the family so easily and he, being a soldier of rank, would have known about something as important as a member of the Yaomu family being banished.

With all these thoughts swirling in his head, he decided to bite the bullet. Even though those didn’t exist yet.

“Men!” he was about to give the order, throwing caution to the wind. “I command you to—”

“Halt!” a shout from within the city stopped the captain from being a redemption-less idiot.

Looking in the direction of the shout, we all saw a black armoured soldier marching our way with a company behind him.

When the captain saw who it was that stopped him, his expression quickly changed.

“Captain Zhang, who gave you the order to act!?”