Chapter 97: Tail Ship 15
But soon, he discovered that the smoke was different from before. The figure emerging from it was indeed Xia Yi, but he didn't seem to be able to see himself like last time.
A long time had passed and he was still sitting there motionless.
Tightly furrowed brows, a look of hatred, and a sharp jawline...When no one else is around, he seems to have closed all the valves in his body, suppressing, enduring, and resentful alone.
As Jiang Yuelu was looking carefully, Xia Yi seemed to sense something. Through the thick fog, his sharp gaze made Jiang Yuelu sweat instantly. He quickly stepped back and hid deeper. When he stood firm, he looked back nervously, only to find that the other party had already withdrawn his gaze.
The figure sitting alone in front of the stone table seems to be separated by sand and fog, hazy but lonely.
Really can’t see?
He became a little bolder and walked out of the fog lightly, stopping and looking up every now and then. He walked to a few steps away from Xia Yi. Seeing that he still had no reaction, he really believed it. He walked up to him, stretched out his hand and shook it twice. Jiang Yuelu didn't even realize that the corner of his mouth was raised.
little things.
You wanted to catch me last time, and now I'm standing in front of you. Do you think I look like before?
After playing a trick on Xia Yi, he finally had time to look around the room. To be precise, this was a stone hall, simple and rough, and even primitive people would feel wronged if they lived in it. Except for the stone table, stone bench, and a stone slab that seemed to be a "bed", there was no bright color in this place.
It seemed that as the Ghost King came in, the weeds and flowers here died one after another.
However, it’s fine that there are no flowers or plants, but why can’t I even see a ghost? Isn’t Xia Yi the King of Ghosts?
Jiang Yuelu soon found out why.
"Sir..." A panicked voice sounded at the door, "There is a letter from Ghost Market."
"He's finally here." Xia Yi said coldly, "I thought he had forgotten my instructions and was concentrating on organizing his ghost market banquet."
"My lord...my lord, calm down."
"Bring it up."
The poor young general of Fangs then dared to come in, crouching, and presented the letter respectfully. The respected Lord Ghost King flipped it open, took a look, and threw it away in boredom, "Rebels? Extremely boring. This kind of thing is worth taking revenge on again and again."
"Sir, there's also the back." The young general whispered, "You haven't seen the back yet."
Xia Yi patiently flipped through the pages, and a line of small words came into view: The tail ship has searched everywhere, but has not found the person you are looking for. According to my guess, he may have gone to the Land of Despair and joined the organization that resisted the Ghost King...
"Resisting the Ghost King..." Xia Yi was so angry that he almost laughed.
Jiang Yuelu actually went to resist him!
"Sir, please calm down!"
The young general finally got a chance to play, and he started cursing: "Who does this kid think he is? Jiang Yuelu? Bah! The name doesn't sound like a good thing. Why is he so arrogant? He even wants to resist you, my lord. Consider whether you have the ability to do that!"
"Shut up!" Xia Yi turned his face and said ruthlessly, "Is he someone you can scold?"
"grown ups……"
The young general realized that he had flattered the horse's favorite thing, and he trembled and dared not say anything. Xia Yi was too lazy to argue with him. He read the letter that made him so angry, and his eyes were so red that they could almost spit fire. Jiang Yuelu was very lucky that he couldn't see her this time.
But why didn't he come in person?
Are you trapped by something?
Before he could think about it, the black mist dissipated, just like the last time, except that the order of the dream was reversed. The vast expanse of rippled space appeared again, covering him like a living creature holding a gem. As he took steps, transparent water ripples spread out under his feet.
It slowly solidified into a crying face.
Jiang Yuelu paused.
He didn’t get on the boat last time and didn’t think anything of it. But during the day he saw the marks of crying on his face in the mirror… There are crying faces and smiling faces in both dreams and reality. Are there really no connection between the two?
It's so quiet.
Unbearable silence filled the entire space, which was like a huge water tank universe, cut off from all connections with the outside world. In other words, it was not even as lively as Xia Yi's stone hall, because there, you could still hear him cursing.
"Rongrong...?" he asked tentatively.
A faint breeze blew in the empty fish tank. He did not move, but a series of ripples spread out under his feet. Smiling and crying faces of all sizes were connected together, like a mutant centipede worm that appeared, with each section of its back inlaid with weeping and laughing human faces.
“Woo woo…”
"Why?"
“Woo…”
There were sobbing sounds coming from under my feet.
The girl seemed to have fallen into a light sleep. Even when she fell asleep, she was still thinking about something, so much so that she even muttered in her dream: "I'm sorry for leaving... me behind... I'm not... God?"
Jiang Yuelu squatted down, "Rongrong?"
The name was called out softly, and it went deeper among the ugly human-faced worms. Almost in an instant, it was swallowed up. How deep and dark was that place? Not even the sound could be conveyed. And there was a mysterious girl who had lived here alone for a long time.
Even if it might be a dream, he couldn't bear it.
"Rongrong, Rongrong?" He raised his voice.
"God...my..."
Seeing that she was still murmuring, Jiang Yuelu could not help but change her words, "The Lord God... is here, you still don't want to wake up?"
Hearing the name she had been thinking about day and night, the girl's eyelids twitched slightly and she opened her eyes, "Is this a dream... You finally showed up."
"I don't think it's a dream." He didn't know where Rongrong was, so he could only smile at the water where the voice appeared.
The friendly smile seemed to dilute the dull and stagnant atmosphere of the [fish tank], bringing a warm breeze.
"Yes, it's different from before, there's wind... You're really here, this is not a dream!" The girl burst into tears, "I thought I had done something wrong, I thought you had forgotten me and would never come to see me again!"
Halfway through her crying, she suddenly stopped talking as if she had woken up.
The Lord God has finally come back, she can't make any mistakes.
Rongrong, you can't cry.
You can't be willful or throw a temper.
You have to remember your job...work?
The words that suddenly popped up in her mind made her slightly startled, but she was soon drowned out by the smiling faces that rushed out. She no longer insisted on those trivial things and asked nervously, "Have you boarded the ship yet?"
"Yes."
"Great!" Rongrong almost wrote "The great savior has finally arrived on his stern ship" in her voice. She tried hard to control her excitement. "Then... have you been to my house?"
Jiang Yuelu: “…”
Boy, he had totally forgotten about that.
The main thing was that he had never thought about seeing this girl again. It was just a dream, wasn't it? He didn't want to deceive the child, so he confessed his doubts about her.
I was expecting the girl to curse at me, but I didn't expect her to be so understanding.
"I understand. No one can have absolute trust in someone who suddenly appears. It's normal for you to have these concerns. But... during this difficult time, I still had some suspicions about you." The girl regretted it very much. "Compared with your honesty, I am really too narrow-minded."
"I'm sorry." Jiang Yuelu said sincerely, "Your home is in Mansion No. 1, right? I will remember to go and take a look next time."
Jiang Yuelu paused. He suddenly remembered his current situation.
"…But I'm afraid I'll have to stay in Despair for the time being. When I get a chance to go out, I'll definitely go to Happiness to see if there's a place called No. 1 Mansion. We've agreed on that this time."
The only place on the ship with a mansion is Happiness Land, and the ghosts in Despair Land have no houses to live in. Drake told him this after he came in.
But Rongrong sounded confused, "Desperately, what is that place?"
Jiang Yuelu was stunned.
"And Xingfuli, my home is not there." The girl found it difficult to understand Jiang Yuelu's words, "Are you really... on the sternboat?"
Jiang Yuelu couldn't understand what she said either. An unexpected dilemma lay before them.
"Rongrong, the sternboat you mentioned, is it a round boat?"
"Yes!"
"That should be correct." Jiang Yuelu muttered to herself, and suddenly remembered, "By the way, how old were you when you boarded the ship?"
"Eight years old." The girl answered quickly. She was smart and understood what he meant. "Many years have passed. I was locked up, so I don't know the changes in the outside world..."
But there is a loophole in this explanation, that is, the time does not match.
According to my father, he was driven out not long after he boarded the ship. At least at that time, the two initial models of the Land of Happiness and the Land of Despair had already been formed. Later, as groups of ghosts entered, the group gradually solidified, and slowly the two separated places took shape.
In other words, the concepts of "happiness" and "despair" appeared decades or even centuries ago. This does not match the time it takes for a girl to grow from eight to more than ten years old.
But he didn't ask any more questions.
"…Anyway, I'm sorry for forgetting to look for you earlier."
The girl was stunned: "...No, no, no! How...how can you apologize to me?!"
"Why can't you apologize?" Jiang Yuelu said, "Gods make mistakes occasionally. They have to admit their mistakes, so that they can grow up and become good gods."
"is that so?"
"That's right."
"Well then..." The girl nodded. She couldn't question the way God did things. And she was happy to hear the story about God himself. "Then...you haven't grown up yet?"
Jiang Yuelu thought about the believers he had found in the previous copy, and the shrine he had obtained inexplicably. It had been... only ten days.
He pretended to be serious and said, "According to your concept of the human world and the underworld, it has only been born for ten days."
"So you are a little god."
Hearing the girl's laughter, Jiang Yuelu couldn't help but laugh too.
He never took the matter of worshipping himself seriously, and regarded the use of the shrine as a joke, but he could not say these words to Wen Han and Tong Mian who had been educated by wizards for a long time. But at this moment, here, he could treat it as a fairy tale to cheer up a lonely little girl.
"Sir...what are you laughing at?"
"I suddenly feel that being a god is quite worthwhile." Jiang Yuelu suddenly realized, "What did you call me just now, sir?"
"Hey, I omitted the first two words."
But Xia Yi's subordinates also called him Sir, especially after they had just met him and received this title... It always felt like something was wrong, as if Xia Yi himself was still in this dream and had never left.
Jiang Yuelu changed the subject, "Ahem, anyway, to apologize, just punish me..."
"No! How can you punish yourself?"
"...Then I have to listen to you, okay? Last time you said that you stayed here the whole time and no one talked to you. Why don't you tell me your story?"
The girl still felt something was wrong, but she couldn't resist the temptation.
Communicating and chatting with people is a luxury during her long period of autism, even more luxurious than the rising sun.
"Can I tell you about my mother?"
"sure."
"My brother?"
"no problem."
"What about my dad?"
"Go ahead."
The girl's voice became happier and happier. "Can I tell you the story of the Little Bird?"
"Little Bird?"
"right!"
Jiang Yuelu felt that this word was very familiar, but because he was in a dream, his reaction was not as fast as it was during the day. The girl was already immersed in her own story.
"Little Bird is the name I gave to the sternboat. When it was still a tiny little boat, I called it this name behind my father's back. Later, my father equipped it with wings so that it could fly high and freely. Look, the island hovering in the sky looks like a bird that has escaped from its shackles..."
The rumbling thunder rang in his ears—Little Bird!
He had indeed heard this name during the day!
This was the former name of the sternboat. Before it was launched into the sky, Will's little daughter gave it the blessing of freedom. But as Will's family died in the sea, the ship became an isolated island trapped in the sky...
Now, the little girl who entered his dream accurately said the name of the bird!
Jiang Yuelu felt like her brain was about to explode.
"Rongrong...what's your mother's name?"
The girl didn't quite understand why the god was interested in this, but she still answered politely: "My mother has a very nice name. Her surname is Jiang and her name is Liu, which means water and tree."
—Will's wife is of the same kind as you.
——It turns out that the sternboat was built by a foreign couple.
"And your father?"
The girl burst into laughter.
"Will! His name is Will!"
The black fog around him was slowly dissipating bit by bit. This was a sign that the dream was about to collapse. He was about to leave here and return to reality.
"God... God? Why are you silent?"
Jiang Yuelu hadn't recovered from his shock yet. He took a breath and said, "Listen, Rongrong, I have to go back first."
The girl said anxiously: "No matter where you are, please remember to come to me as soon as possible, okay?"
As if she wanted to shout out her final struggle, she no longer cared about etiquette, her voice was so sharp that it broke, and she cried palely, "You must come to find me... I don't know how long I can hold on, but as long as you can come, I can still hold on - I still want to go to the fields with Mom and Dad to bask in the sun -"
The rapidly approaching faces instantly overwhelmed her.
Come to an abrupt stop.
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