The ocean in sunny weather is gentle, affectionate and compassionate.
The sky is vast and high, like an endless dome, under which the white sails spread out like clouds. The sea-blue face was shrouded in a warm sunlight that danced like fish scales broken gold.
The ship sailed away from the harbour with the sound of the "rustling" wind and sails, and entered the embrace of the real ocean.
Li Xin raised her hand and pushed open the window, and the moist sea breeze rushed in immediately, blowing her blond hair to the point where it scattered like a cloud in an instant.
She propped her small chin on the window sill, her large, clear blue eyes reflected the sun and the sea in the sky, and looked at the distant sea, which was endless.
The light and shadow hit the small, beautiful and fair face, and Xu Yan's originally downcast eyes lifted up unconsciously and gathered on it at some point.
Those eyes... He had never seen such a pair of eyes in more than 20 years.
Clear, ethereal, as soft as a mist of water when looking at you, and erratic like a mist of water... unpredictable.
Just like the girl with these eyes, strange and extraordinary beauty.
"Do you like the sea very much?" he asked suddenly for some reason.
"I don't like it." The corners of Li Xin's soft mouth curled slightly, she stretched out her hand to grab it in the wind, then closed her eyes and said, "But it's beautiful."
Xu Yan followed her gaze and looked out the window, the wind blew on his face, causing his eyes to narrow slightly.
"It's really beautiful," he said softly.
"What kind of riddle are you playing?" Jiuzhimei, who had just asked Chuan Niang for another glass of clam wine, turned around and heard these words, and looked over suspiciously, "What's so beautiful?"
"Sit back." Xu Yan frowned at him, "What does it look like."
The color of his eyebrows is very thick, and when he wrinkles, two shallow lines appear between his foreheads, and he looks so serious and rigid that it is easy to be fearful.
"Okay." Jiuzhimei shrank her neck and sat back on the chair to drink her own wine.
"Puff-cough-cough-cough, what are you doing?" Jiu Zhimei stared at the girl opposite who suddenly sat on the window sill.
The window was made quite large, just right to accommodate a slender Lixin.
"Huh?" Li Xin gathered up her hair and sat by the window with her legs swayed. She looked back at him suspiciously: "Can't you sit here? Then I'm going out."
Without waiting for Xu Yan and the two to react, she gently jumped from the cabin on the second floor.
Xu Yan didn't even think about it, most of his body stretched out of the window to pull, and suddenly realized that it was a game.
Fortunately, when Jiu Zhimei jumped over and shouted, his movements were not so conspicuous.
"Wow-Pear... Uh, Sister Pear, what are you doing?" Jiuzhimei raised her hand to her mouth and shouted.
Li Xin ran all the way to the deck, threw herself up high with a hook of her arms, threw it over the sail mast, and sat down cross-legged.
This is her preferred position, the wind is in a good mood, and she can see far away.
"Yoha—" Two or three sailor NPCs in leather armor sitting on the deck whistled at her jokingly.
"You can still play like this." Jiu Zhimei opened her mouth in surprise and patted the table: "Hey, I'll go too!"
After saying that, he jumped out of the window and ran towards Li Xin.
Xu Yan sat in the window silently watching the two of them.
"Give me a hand! Pull me a hand! Sister Li—Sister Li pull a hand!" Jiuzhimei, who had managed to climb to most of the way after a lot of hard work, blushed and screamed desperately.
Li Xin looked back at him, leaned back and hooked her foot on the crossbar, reached out and grabbed his back collar to throw the person upside down.
Jiuzhimei only felt a huge force in her neck, and she was already hanging firmly beside Li Xin, she quickly got up and gave her a thumbs up in awe: "Xie Zhuangshi."
This unpromising appearance provoked the following NPCs to shout at him:
"Oh! Soft eggs—"
Jiuzhimei was so thick-skinned that she ignored it. She stood up staggeringly, her arms swayed to akimbo, and she raised her head and smiled and let out a big white tooth: "Hey, take a picture. Sister Li, would you like to take a photo? "
Li Xin shook her head.
Li Xin and Jiuzhimei stayed on the mast for more than half an hour.
The sea breeze seems to blow away all troubles.
Jiuzhimei is a very talkative person, who can call out "Sister Xiaoli Xiaoli" in just a few sentences, and quickly chatted with Li Xin jokingly.
Just talk about the sea, how to make fish, and the taste of wine and juice.
Li Xin liked these topics quite a bit, and they answered each and every one of them.
These ships have two sources of kinetic energy, one is the energy on the ship, and the other is the "pull fish" under the ship - a common sea mount. As a result, the ship moved quickly, like an arrow leaving the string.
After half an hour, the people on the boat had a faint shadow of land at the end of their field of vision.
"Passengers are informed that the vessel is about to arrive at its destination - Port of Bagia."
Accompanied by a long whine, the sweet voice of the ship's mother resounded in every corner of the whole ship.
Li Xin lightly jumped down from the mast, and turned back through the window to the second floor of the cabin.
As she stepped over the edge of the window and returned to her seat, Xu Yan, who was opposite her, watched quietly. After a while, she couldn't help pursing her lips and said, "It's not a good habit to open the window."
"Oh." Li Xin took a sip from the cup on the table and nodded.
Xu Yan's eyebrows twisted into a fold.
There may be many dislikes from time to time, but he has never really spoken out to unfamiliar people. You can never convince someone that you are wrong, he knows that.
But now he doesn't know why he has such a mouth, and it doesn't seem to be because... he doesn't like it.
"Wow—the ship is about to enter the port of Bagia."
"Huh." Jiu Zhimei sat down panting, "It's here..."
"Sister Xiaoli, we have to go now, it's fate to meet you once, add a friend." He smiled and said to Li Xin, and pointed to Xu Yan next to him: "Come here, all three of us will be added."
Li Xin shook her head.
Jiu Zhimei was stunned, "Why? It's not that bad." He turned to look at Xu Yan: "—Boss, you offended someone at such a short time?"
Xu Yan: "...No."
Li Xin only said: "I can't add it. I will add it later."
The ship shook and docked.
Li Xin stood up, thought for a while, turned her hand and took out a large firework from her bag and handed it to the man in front of him, looking into his eyes and said earnestly: "In the past month, if you need to ask me for help, set it on fire. , I will find you."
Xu Yan stared at the so-called "big firework" in the shape of a colorful mushroom that was handed to him for a long time, and under Li Xin's unblinking gaze, he stretched out his hand to take it.
"Help? Hey, help." Jiuzhimei said: "Our boss really needs help - looking for ~ looking for ~ a ~ wonderful ~ love ~ love!"
The second half of his sentence is a humming song, a tone that sounds like a coherent crowing of chickens.
"I think he needs help now." Jiu Zhimei held back a smile and tried to make a serious suggestion: "Why don't you have a meal together, go shopping, drink some wine, take a walk, and then find a place to put it together. What about the fireworks?"
"Shut up." Xu Yan said coldly.
The three of them left the cabin along the flow of people and walked all the way to the port exit.
"Unlock the map: Baggia Port, the map is being perfected..."
As soon as I left the cabin, the "salt smell" in the air began to seriously exceed the standard - there was always a special smell of salty smell.
The crowd was bustling, Li Xin stood under the sign "Bagdiya Port Waiting Hall", looked back at Xu Yan, raised her hand and waved: "Goodbye."
"Goodbye Miss Xiaoli, are you really not going to have dinner with us?" Jiu Zhimei said with a puffed face.
Li Xin smiled and shook her head.
Looking at the girl's figure and taking a few steps, Xu Yan suddenly said, "Wait."
Jiu Zhimei stared wide-eyed in surprise as she looked at her own hair, and then she had a very excited expression on her face.
Li Xin turned back.
Xu Yan's lips straightened, and after a while, he said, "At your age... you should try to play as little games as possible, and don't waste your studies. Have you been to school? Although there are a lot of online classes, it's better to go to a real school. "
Li Xin: "..."
She froze for a moment, then nodded with a wink, "I see."
A blond girl pulled her hood up and quickly disappeared into the crowd.
Jiuzhimei: "...? Xu Yan, are you okay? Can you hear what you said?"
He collapsed: "It's here again. Any girl who confesses to you in the game will be taught by you... How can you have a relationship like this? Pull it down!"
Xu Yan glanced at him with a cold expression, and walked away quickly.
…
"..." Kerian stared at Li Xin all the way with strange eyes.
"Who is that man?"
"The one with short hair."
"You smiled at him... tsk."
He followed a step behind, and the questions popped up one by one in a low voice.
Li Xin looked back at him: "Hurry up."
Before leaving, Augus had specially instructed the two of them not to go to any church in the southern continent without authorization, whether to register, check information, or seek help.
This means that the two have to rely entirely on their own abilities and thinking to check.
And say, don't trust the one who's left.
That is, Lu Zhigui.
This information has already indicated that this task should involve a large number of objects.
Li Xin did this task by himself, and the one that Lu Zhigui had received was the opposite task, which was a part of this big task chain.
He was an opposing mission in the previous link, and this one is very likely to be the same.
The object noun given by Augs is "Turuno family".
According to Lixin's many years of experience in the miracle, usually want to get some not-so-secret news, the easiest way to get it in a local free market.
News is also sold as a commodity.
However, this kind of non-physical information sales in various places requires a series of pre-tasks to participate.
[Bandia Port Free Market]
"I really don't like the smell of dead fish in the air here," Corian complained in a low voice.
As a port city, the commodities sold on the first floor are naturally mainly fish and other seafood. Therefore, the strong fishy smell in the air is naturally inevitable.
Li Xin circled around the hall on the first floor, and then circled again. When she turned to the third circle, Kerian stopped her with a sullen face: "What are you going to do?... I can wait outside. Are you—I'm going to go check around."
"Whatever." Li Xin left a sentence and walked quickly towards a place in the hall. She found a possible mission access point.
Generally, the sales point of ordinary news will be in the booths of two or three NPCs that give people "divination". There are various ways of divination, such as light balls, hanging signs, certain leaves, flowers, or medicine.
This is the "hanging sign".
Behind a small booth sat two NPCs over half a year old, one with brown hair and one with red hair. Hundreds of signs were hung densely on the booth.
"Fortune-telling, ten copper coins at a time." Seeing Li Xin coming over, the brown-haired NPC lifted his eyelids.
"Ding."
Li Xin raised her hand and threw thirty copper coins on the table.
"Ask." The brown-haired NPC finally opened his eyes completely, and his cloudy old eyes glanced at her.
"Bu, can you know what I want to know?" Li Xin said.
"Three questions?"
"It's all this."
"Charlie." The brunette NPC was silent for a moment, then said hoarsely, "This is for you."
The red-haired NPC on the side raised his head and grinned, revealing a broken tooth, "I'm hungry, you can buy me a blackened fish from the Holly Fish Shop in the west of the city."
"Received a task: go to the west of the city to buy smoked black fish."
Li Xin nodded and left quickly.
…
"Turuno? In fact, there are a lot of Turunos in Bagpipa." The red-haired NPC Charlie nibbled at the smoked fish, "The strong Turuno people have some beast-like abilities, and everyone likes to hire them... As for Headquarters, they are outside the city."
Li Xin spent about two hours being sent around by him and completed a small task chain before finally obtaining the qualification to "buy news".
"The shell beach." Charlie marked the final address, continued to dabble, and said lazily: "For the sake of this delicious smoked fish, let me remind you that they have been a little active recently... If I It's you, I won't act rashly."
"Okay, thank you." Li Xin nodded, pulled down her hood, walked out of the free market, and walked towards the restaurant she had agreed to meet with Kerian.
The restaurant's name is "Hathaway's", which means the back garden of the ocean.
As the name suggests, the garden outside the store, the ground inside, and the table are all filled with potted plants of various colors.
The sweet or rich floral fragrance effectively dispels the fishy smell in the air. The decorative tables and chairs in the store are all made of pure white sea stones, and the environment is quite quiet.
In the box, the blond Corian boy was already waiting.
"I feel better staying here," Corian complained. "I don't know how the people here survive in such a smell."
"What's the result?" He got up and poured a glass of water for Li Xin, and asked sideways.
"Have the address." Li Xin sat down in the chair.
"I heard that there are a lot of people from the Turuno family in this city, and they are quite popular." Kerian recounted his harvest: "They seem to be very active recently."
"Ding dong."
The waiter who brought all kinds of sea fish cooked and delicious pushed the door in.
"Are we going directly?" Corian picked up a deliciously cooked scallop.
"Contact Mr. Augus once." Li Xin lowered her head and peeled the shrimp with a focused expression.
The author has something to say: Me: Li, they asked why you didn't tell Xu Yan about your Aunt Du
Li Xiaoxin with fox ears (dazed): ? Why say it
Me: Isn't that asking him to recognize you!
Holding a giant axe Li Xiaoxin (frowning): ? Why do you want him to recognize me? It's my own business.
I can.
All I can say is Li Xin, she is not a girl with a normal way of thinking in the traditional sense.
After I write a character out, she is not completely under my control. I often think about what she will do, what she is thinking and saying, what will she look and act like...
They live in my mind, you just have to watch them.