Wang Xiaole rejected the approach with a single sentence. He firmly despised the other person for two reasons, aside from their gender: the other person was not cute at all!
The beastman race can be divided into three categories based on their appearance: human-faced beast-bodied, beast-faced human-bodied, and human-like. The first two types of beastmen are easy to understand as they have natural appearances that clash with the mainstream human aesthetic. The third type, however, is completely different. They closely resemble humans in appearance, with only inconspicuous animal features, such as furry ears on their heads or soft tails standing upright behind them. These features of the beastmen are easy to hide and can completely transform into human appearances depending on the individual. The most famous examples are undoubtedly the cat, fox, and dog-eared gentlemen often mentioned by the gentry.
Although it is popular in the beastman kingdom to marry human girls, Wang Xiaole believes that these beast-eared girls are no less attractive than the beauties of their own race. Especially the cat and dog-eared ones, due to their petite size, most girls in their tribe are about the size of a pillow. These girls are known for being "gentle and easy to carry," which is a great thing for Wang Xiaole, a loli enthusiast.
Speaking of which:
It is precisely because Wang Xiaole has a longing for certain scenarios that he feels very regretful for not meeting a beast-eared little girl just now. He has imagined more than once: What if the leopard-headed man in front of him had a cute appearance and was a little beast-eared loli? If that were the case, couldn't he just take her home to raise her? It's not like now...
"Encountering a male beastman that he doesn't want to encounter, what a terrible mood!" Wang Xiaole, holding Lucia's hand, prepared to pass through the side of the leopard-headed man's body. However, the latter reached out and stopped him, moving sideways with his burly physique.
"Don't leave, beautiful lady! It's dangerous to wander outside looking so good. You definitely need a bodyguard!" By the way, because the history of the United Continent is ancient, and humans have had interaction with other races for thousands of years, the popularity of human language among other races is very high, so there's almost no worry about communication problems. Just like the leopard-headed man in front of him—it's apparent that he has studied a lot of human seduction books and is very familiar with flirting.
"Go away!" Wang Xiaole's expression was very resentful, which made his own patience start to diminish. However, the leopard-headed man was fascinated by the angry expression of the "beauty" and gleefully touched Wang Xiaole's beautiful face with his furry, meaty hand.
"You look so good when you're angry. How charming would you be if you smiled? Can you smile at me----"
Crack!
The leopard-headed man suddenly realized that the hand that was touching his face had severely folded inward towards his body, followed by an unforgettable pain. The change wasn't just in appearance, ever since Wang Xiaole had acquired this pseudo-girl face, his body's flexibility had become excellent. For example, he could stand on one foot, raise his adjacent leg high in a whip-like manner. The whip leg suddenly turned into a blur and swept towards the giant leopard head in an instant. In the next moment, the leopard-headed man's body flipped over in mid-air.
Wang Xiaole leaped up, raising his shoe sole high, and fiercely stomped down with the corresponding leg after catching up with his target in the air, launching a pursuit from a position two meters off the ground.
Dong!
The ground was impacted and sunk into a three-meter-deep pit, cracking further and eventually causing the entire ground to collapse;
Wang Xiaole jumped out from inside and no longer cared about the person buried in the pit.
"It's because of you! I never wanted my aspirations in my heart to be completely shattered by someone of the same sex like you..."
"What same sex? Weren't you a girl, dear?" Lucia had been silently standing beside Wang Xiaole until just now when she couldn't help but speak up.
Because of the sudden shout next to her, the person in question suddenly snapped back to reality and quickly covered it up by saying, "Same sex? Xiya, did you mishear? I didn't say those two words just now."
In the midst of "laughing it off," the girl's doubt was temporarily suppressed, and that was when Wang Xiaole breathed a sigh of relief.
He shifted his focus back to the main issue and gradually realized the current situation, noticing:
Did he cross the boundary? Otherwise, how could he encounter an orc dressed as a soldier?
Just as he was muttering this in his mind, a voice followed, providing an explanation for this question.
A few figures resembling humans and beasts approached from a distant shadowy area upon hearing the noise, walking straight towards Wang Xiaole without looking back or surveying their surroundings.
These approaching figures were all orcs.
Like the person lying flat on the ground, they all had human bodies and leopard heads, which looked extremely unfamiliar to the human eye.
A few orc soldiers all had a common duty, which was to guard the border!
Originally, when orc soldiers discovered intruders, they should either expel them or eliminate them on the spot.
However, this situation was different from usual because the orc soldiers were excited to find that:
This time, the trespasser wasn't the usual muscular and robust guys, but rather a medium-built, cute-looking black-haired girl.
Lucia?
Unfortunately, she was collectively ignored by the orc soldiers.
In the orcs' consciousness, the current situation of "cuteness is in charge" was generally acknowledged;
A typical mature and elegant woman like Lucia was instead classified as part of the "non-mainstream" group in the orc nation and easily disregarded by orcs with mainstream aesthetic taste.
Similar to the person who had been knocked down, the gazes of these few (or few heads) of leopard-headed orcs were far from the focus—they were completely locked onto Wang Xiaole.
"Hush, hush, hush!"
Whistling to pick up girls multiplied by three, the corresponding pick-up lines had already been figured out in the heads of these leopard-headed orcs.
On this easily committed crime night, the flirtatious orc soldiers spoke a set of unoriginal lines:
"Beauty, it's dangerous for you to wander around so late at night. How about we be your bodyguards for a while?"
The orc soldiers failed to realize:
In this situation, it would be safest for the "black-haired beauty" in front of them if they collectively disappeared.
However, Wang Xiaole clearly couldn't expect that:
After he said a few words, these pick-up artists would obediently leave.
Since it was difficult to guarantee peace and quiet, he decided to take the initiative, seizing the opportunity before the group of leopard-headed orcs noticed their fallen comrade, and starting the conversation first:
"Lucia and I are two companions who were originally planning to go to the Dibiles Empire. However, we got lost and ended up mistakenly entering here."
The beauty's confession naturally received serious attention from the leopard-headed people. Just as they were immersed in listening, Wang Xiaole suddenly pointed to the ground, using a sobbing tone to accuse the unconscious man: "It's him! We sincerely came to ask him for directions, but he not only didn't tell us, but also attempted to do something beastly!" Is the scolding excessive? Lucia, who was acting with her lover, didn't think so at all. After all, the person lying on the ground was originally a beast! If he was called a human, there must be something wrong with that. After some emotional persuasion, the group of leopard-headed people chose to believe in "beauty" and immediately despised their own compatriot. "Beautiful lady, you're completely right. We've already felt that this guy isn't a good person!" When the conversation reached a point of indignation, some of the leopard-headed people even lifted their feet and viciously kicked their companion on the ground. Wang Xiaole deeply felt that placing more importance on desire than friendship was not a privilege exclusive to humans.
"Oh, something's not right?" After having their fun, a cunning leopard-headed person suddenly realized something and raised his strong head to ask: "Miss, you said this guy assaulted you all? Why is it that he's the one lying down in the end while you all are still standing unharmed?" Regarding this matter, Wang Xiaole couldn't come up with a reasonable lie at the moment. But it didn't matter if she couldn't think of an excuse, she could just change the topic, right? So, in the following conversation, Wang Xiaole displayed the qualities of a "top performer of the brothels" and pretended to cry with her hands covering her face, her voice choked with sobs: "We were extremely scared at the time, only concerned with self-protection. How could we have the leisure to pay attention to that beast? Also, aren't you good beast people? Why would you do something that touches the scar in a young girl's heart..." Seeing this, Lucia admired her lover more and more, thinking that he truly had the potential to become a "disaster-causing beauty". Under the influence of the few drops of tears squeezed out forcefully, the leopard-headed people not only had their IQs decrease but also willingly threw their brains out later. Enthralled by that tearful face, one by one they hurriedly surrounded Wang Xiaole, doing their best to console her. The performance went even more smoothly than expected! Now, what Wang Xiaole wanted was to quickly deal with these guys and then find a way back with Cyia. But before that, he had to try to get as much information as possible from these leopard-headed people. After arriving in a new country where he was unfamiliar with the surroundings, gathering information was undoubtedly important. For this reason, Wang Xiaole specifically changed his way of addressing them: "Several handsome orc guys, do you know that guy lying on the ground?" "Oh, we know, he's 12580." "What does that string of numbers mean?" "Miss, you don't know? We all come from the border garrison, and 12580 is this guy's identification number. He's an ordinary soldier in the army." "So you guys are his comrades?" "How is that possible? We are all mid-level officers. We just happen to know this guy, but it's impossible for us to be his comrades." With the conversation reaching this point, Wang Xiaole could confirm: he and Cyia had indeed crossed the border! If it weren't for the fact that he discovered that these were several male orc people, the border guards would have probably gathered in large numbers by now. Now, Wang Xiaole must be cautious. Because with one wrong move, he would become the one who initiated the war.
And once it reaches that point, the deeply rooted orcish sense of homeland will inevitably lead to a great war with humans for revenge. It will not be a good situation for either country, Inran or Dibiles, that becomes a "bullet target."
