Chapter 106
It was six in the afternoon, four hours since Shigure and Noah had left the wrong location they were teleported to.
The sky was dim, visibility was limited, and the temperature in the forest was dropping lower and lower. After resting well, Shi Yu volunteered to get down and cautiously followed Noah.
The ground became wet and soft after the rain. When walking down the steep slope, Shi Yu had to hold on to the tree trunks along the way as a buffer, and the cracked and rough bark left many scratches on his palms.
Shi Yu no longer felt tired due to her constant state of tension, but she knew she couldn't stop. If she did, her legs would become so sore and tremble, and she wouldn't be able to walk anymore, which would cause trouble for Noah again.
Noah would look up from time to time to observe the sky, and would leave marks after walking a certain distance. In order to make it easier to walk, the boy rolled up his sleeves and trouser legs. However, this capable and concise look, which was different from his usual appearance, seemed a bit disheveled because of his wet and soft silver hair and the mud left on his body.
Of course, Shi Yu was not in a much better condition. Her hair and clothes, which had just been soaked by the rain, were still wet. When the mountain breeze blew towards dusk, she shivered with cold and her face turned pale.
"Shigure, come here."
They reached another slope, and Noah turned around and handed his hand to Shi Yu. Shi Yu leaned against the tree trunk with one hand and held on tremblingly with the other.
But when she took the first step, her knees gave way and she accidentally slipped on some fallen mud. With her mind in a daze, someone pulled her arm hard and she fell into an embrace that smelled of cedar.
Noah not only needed to determine his direction, but also had to keep an eye on her condition. Furthermore, carrying Shi Yu on his back for over an hour on this road had expended considerable energy. Perhaps due to exhaustion, he stumbled while holding her and fell backwards.
“…”
Shi Yu was stunned for a moment, then he straightened his upper body by supporting himself on the mud beside his shoulders and asked in a slightly panicked tone: "...Noah?! Are you okay?"
Fortunately, there was soft soil behind, and Noah shook his head to indicate that he was fine.
Just now, in order to prevent the girl from falling out, he placed his palm on Shi Yu's waist and patted her gently twice, as if to comfort her.
"I'm fine. I just lost my balance. Are you hurt?"
"……No."
The scorching temperature lingered on the sensitive waist. Shi Yu blushed and lowered her head to stop his disorderly behavior, but the boy grabbed her wrist with his backhand, causing him to laugh weakly.
Shi Yu then realized that she was still lying on Noah. She got down in a panic, and Noah smiled and lowered his purple eyes slightly. He stood up with his elbows on the ground, then adjusted his clothes and looked down the mountain.
"I can see the buildings at the foot of the mountain, Shigure."
"Really?" Shi Yu instantly forgot the embarrassment just now, looked down carefully, and sure enough, he saw the lights and low buildings on the street in the hazy dusk.
She finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Great! Hopefully I can stay in the room tonight!"
"We can take our time the rest of the way. It's around half past six now, so we'll be at the bottom of the mountain by about eight."
"good!"
"Tired? I can continue carrying you."
Shi Yu was slightly startled, and turned to look at Noah's gentle and serious expression. After realizing that he really intended to do so, she couldn't help but stammer and scold him: "Don't carry me... You just fell, you should take care of yourself."
Noah smiled helplessly: "Ah, that's right, thank you for your concern."
I don't care!
Shi Yu bit her lip, not knowing why she couldn't say anything to refute. She always felt that Noah liked to tease her, but just now, his expression and voice were very serious.
As the sky grew darker, Shi Yu decided not to dwell on it and instead focused on his own path. Fortunately, they were nearing the foot of the mountain. After a while, they found the road and had a signal. After they each sent messages to their loved ones to let them know they were safe, they reached the foot of the mountain before eight o'clock.
The two of them randomly found a guesthouse. Shi Yu, wrapped in a blanket brought by the proprietress and resting on a wooden chair with a kettle in her arms, saw Noah coming back from asking for directions. She stood up and greeted him, asking, "How is it? How far is it from where we live? Can Yu Lai and the others come?"
Noah thought for a moment and said, "It's indeed not far from our previous hotel. However, due to the terrain, if they want to get there, they need to take the tram around the mountain we just came down from."
"Is there no hover car?" Shi Yu wondered.
Noah lightly touched his temple with his finger and explained helplessly, "No, Monte's terrain is not suitable for the popularization of hovercraft."
Hover cars usually run on elevated tracks and are currently the most mainstream means of transportation in the main galaxy. However, Monte is full of mountains...it is difficult to build an elevated track.
Shi Yu thought about the reason and nodded to show that he understood.
"If it takes a long time, then there's no need to send Youlai and the others over. Let's rest for a night and get up early tomorrow morning to take the bus."
It's already past eight o'clock and we haven't eaten yet. Shi Yu is really tired now and has no strength in his body. If he insists on going back tonight, he really can't bear it.
Noah also took their current situation into consideration and agreed to her proposal: "Then I'll go to the front desk to register."
Shi Yu reached out and took the coat he handed to her. When she was stunned for a moment and remembered something to remind the other party, she found that Noah was already standing at the front desk.
“…”
Noah quickly finished the registration, thanked the proprietress with a polite smile, and came back with the key.
Shi Yu glanced over and saw Noah holding two keys in his hand, and he breathed a sigh of relief quietly and inexplicably.
"I'll be resting next to you. If anything happens at night, remember to call me at any time."
Before handing her the key, Noah frowned slightly and gave her a worried instruction.
Shi Yu's earlobes blushed slightly as he took his key and said softly, "Thank you."
The B&B provides catering, and there are also many snack bars around. Sitting at the small open-air dining table outside the door, Shi Yu looked at the kebab shop with smoke curling not far away, and then looked at the stalls selling fruit wine and bread around, and couldn't help but find some of the feeling of eating kebabs with good friends outside in the past.
"Want something else to eat?"
Noah noticed her curious expression, dipped the skewer in the sauce, and handed it to her, asking with a smile.
It was so hard to get out for a trip, and since Noah said so, she didn't plan to treat herself badly!
…But Shi Yu didn't know what to choose. Coincidentally, the shop owner's daughter came over to serve the dishes, so she asked in a low and embarrassed voice, "Excuse me, do you have any other signature dishes or recommended dishes?"
"Oh, yes," the freckled Beta woman smiled. "Several beef and mutton dishes are good. I also recommend our fruit wine. Our wine is brewed using a unique secret recipe, and it definitely tastes different from other wines!"
"Would you like to try it?"
"Wine, wine," Shi Yu said, eyes wide open, a little conflicted, "I can't really drink..."
Last time, he just drank a little red wine that Alex put in his steak and passed out. Shi Yu had no confidence in his drinking capacity.
"The fruit wine has almost no alcohol content, so please rest assured. If you are curious but don't plan to drink too much, you can order our lamb chop set meal, which comes with two glasses of fruit wine for you to try."
If it's just a little bit, it should be fine, right?
Shi Yu struggled internally for a moment, but ultimately couldn't resist his curiosity and the temptation of the free drink, so he nodded and said, "Thank you for your help. This will be it."
"Have you ever drunk alcohol before?"
After taking the order, Noah smiled and handed over another skewer, asking with a hint of curiosity.
"I've had a few..." She had once secretly tasted some beer at a class reunion. Recalling the embarrassing moment she'd gotten drunk, Shi Yu sighed distressedly, "It's just that I can't hold my liquor very well, and I don't have good drinking habits either."
"In any case, it's better to drink less."
"Yeah... I'm only drinking a little this time. Fruit wine is basically a drink, so it shouldn't be a problem!"
Noah smiled and shook his head, not trying to persuade her any further. He said that fruit wine would cause minimal harm to the body, and if Shi Yu wanted to try it out of curiosity, there was no need for him to dampen her interest.
The lamb chop set meal and fruit wine arrived quickly. Shi Yu ate some grilled skewers and finished a few more lamb chops. Finally, he nervously set his eyes on the two glasses of fruit wine.
The wine was chilled, exuding a faint, slightly sweet fruity aroma and sending up tempting bubbles. Shi Yu looked at Noah and declared solemnly, as if seeking witness: "I drank it!"
Noah chimed in with interest, "Please?"
Shi Yu took a deep breath and then took a small sip. The fruit wine was cool, sweet, and had a bit of bubbling stimulation. It tasted like Sprite.
She tilted her head to taste it, but didn't taste any alcohol - so she took another sip.
...It tastes so good.
Shi Yu loved sweets, and the taste of the fruit wine was just right for her. After drinking many sips, Noah asked her how she felt. She just shook her head blankly and said, "Nothing... Does it count as delicious?"
Noah didn't realize the problem at this time.
As their meal was coming to an end, he stood up and sent the used plates to the kitchen. Unexpectedly, when he came back, he found a tall, wheat-skinned woman talking to Shi Yu.
He frowned, and when he got closer, he not only found that the woman was an Alpha, but also heard their conversation clearly.
"Are you here alone, little Omega?"
"Yeah...yes!"
"How come no one is here to accompany you?" The woman held her chin up in her hand and squatted in front of Shi Yu with a smile. Even so, she was taller than the sitting Shi Yu. "Come and play with me? If you don't have anyone around, you can stay at my house. I will treat you well."
"Oh," the girl seemed to react for a moment, and then a dull and soft voice came over, "Is there any fruit wine?"
"If there's wine to drink, I'll go with you!"
Noah: “…”
Hearing this, the young man's smile almost faltered. He slowed down again and again, and finally, maintaining a superficial politeness, he walked over to them, pulled Shi Yu up, and nodded, saying, "I'm sorry, I didn't keep an eye on the child just now. She's drunk now, so please don't bother her any further."
As soon as he finished speaking, Noah turned around with Shigure.
The female Alpha was startled, then stood up. She was surprisingly much taller than Noah. She took two or three steps with her long legs and walked in front of Noah, blocking his way. "Your Omega is a liar, right? How can you smell like you've been marked?"
Then, she blinked and said in a knowing, teasing tone, "You and I have the same goal, right? In that case, let's do it together..."
Shi Yu didn't understand what was happening and was still smiling sweetly at the female Alpha. Noah pulled her behind him with a dark face and warned in a low voice: "Please respect yourself."
"Why are you pretending to be a good person? This is an Omega..."
The female Alpha paid no attention to the Alpha who was clearly invincible, and reached out to grab the girl's shoulder. However, before she could finish her words, the rest of her voice was choked in her throat.
Noah raised his arm, raised the silver gun, and pointed the gun at the female Alpha's forehead.
"Do you want to try it?"
The slender boy with silver hair and purple eyes held the Omega he had just met with great luck tightly behind him, and his soft purple eyes narrowed slightly as he looked at her.
He was looking at her, but it didn't seem like he was looking at her. His cold, condescending gaze was as if he was looking at an ant or a beast.
When the negative emotions reached their peak, Noah chuckled again, and in a gentle voice, as if to dispel the female Alpha's fear, he whispered, "I have a legal license to carry a gun, and I have the ability to make you disappear from here quietly."
"If you still want to shamelessly pester me, please trust my integrity. After this, I will not be punished in any way."
Shi Yu was sent to the room in a daze.
The fruit wine was gone, and when she reached the second floor of the B&B, she was still clinging to the wall and didn't want to leave. Noah expressionlessly clamped his arms around her waist, forcing Shi Yu to move forward with her feet dangling in the air. She slapped him uncomfortably and aggrievedly, "What... are you doing!"
Noah didn't answer him. He took out the key from Shiyu's pocket, opened the door, and put Shiyu on the bed.
Then he turned around and turned on the light. He pressed the switch and the light flickered twice before finally going out.
Noah: “…”
Noah crossed his arms and rubbed his brows. He realized that his emotions were not right and his expression was not in line with etiquette, because after Shi Yu got up from the bed, he had been staring at him, as if he had never seen him like this before. He raised his hands excitedly and made a booing sound.
"Noah, Noah, are you going to say again that this is something from the countryside?"
Noah was startled, then looked at her with amusement: "Did you hear it today?"
"You said that when we teleported to the wrong place!" Shi Yu puffed out his chest proudly. "You were very angry at that time. I could feel it!"
When the transmission accident happened today, Noah was indeed a little angry, just like now.
It was true that the teleportation could lead to the wrong place, but it was also true that it led to a place Noah had never expected - his original intention at this moment was to use the teleportation transposition to separate the unnecessary people and go directly to the fifth scenic spot with Shi Yu, where he had other arrangements.
He had made a lot of preparations in advance for this, and even the first thing he did when he got on the spaceship was to mention the scenery here to Shi Yu. However, the facilities in a place like Monte Star were really unexpected, and he should not have pinned part of his plan on such things.
In the end, both he and Shi Yu were in such a mess.
"Don't be angry, don't be angry..." Shi Yu comforted him, "Try pressing it again!"
Noah glanced at her and shook his head: "No."
The wooden door closed tightly, and the last ray of light coming in from outside disappeared.
When footsteps came, Shi Yu looked around confusedly in the darkness until someone held her hand.
Shigure: ...?
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Noah's home!
I was going to write about Noah's mischief, but I can't finish this chapter. I'll do it tomorrow~
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