Chapter 124
"Yaoyao, when we get there, you must stay close to your parents." Xu Jiancheng reminded her worriedly.
Standing next to him was his wife Bao Yunya, holding a little girl's hand, who was their daughter Xu Yao.
Both of them are elite players in Qingshui Town. They heard about Nuannuan Hot Spring earlier than the average residents. However, due to the long distance and the fact that they have children at home, they have never been able to go and join in the fun.
Now that the transmission channel is open, they want to take their daughter with them to visit the legendary Nuannuan Hot Springs.
Xu Yao is twelve years old this year, and it is the time for her to grow taller during puberty, but like other children growing up in the apocalypse, she is thin and small. In the past, she would have been in middle school at this age, but she looks like a nine or ten-year-old elementary school student.
Not only that, perhaps because she lacked a good growth and education environment since childhood and had few playmates of the same age, Xu Yao's personality was also very shy and timid.
One can imagine the hardships that the couple had to go through to survive the apocalypse with a two-year-old child. After watching many children of the same age die in the apocalypse, they doted on Xu Yao even more and almost gave her whatever they wanted.
We try our best to meet all of her requests.
Under such careful care, Xu Yao indeed grew up safely, but they soon discovered a problem that gave them a headache.
Xu Yao didn't dare to leave the city.
The experience of fighting in the wild with her parents when she was young left her with a deep psychological trauma. Since moving into Qingshui Town, Xu Yao hardly even left the house. When she was young, Xu Jiancheng and Bao Yunya didn't think it was a big deal. They just wanted their daughter to be safe. But when she was ten or eleven years old and was old enough to start coming into contact with low-level monsters outside the city, they suddenly realized that Xu Yao was so resistant to leaving the town.
The other children had already begun to learn to fight little by little, but the daughter would tremble uncontrollably at the thought of leaving the city, and was extremely reluctant, which made the two of them feel sorry and had a headache.
After so much delay, in the blink of an eye, Xu Yao will be thirteen years old next year, but he has not even learned his first combat skill.
What should I do?
The couple was so worried that they couldn't sleep well every day.
In fact, as elite players, as long as they work harder, they can leave a large amount of monster materials for Xu Yao, enough to support her future life - like an ordinary player, hiding in the city for the rest of her life.
But precisely because they are of high level and have seen more of the world, they know better that there is no real stability in the doomsday.
Today's Qingshui Town seems prosperous, but it is possible that one day in the future it will be flattened by a wave of monsters and turned into a wasteland. At that time, neither the house she had bought long ago, nor the monster materials or herbal resources could save Xu Yao. Only her own level and combat ability could help her protect herself.
But Xu Yao, who has not yet started leveling up, has already fallen behind in progress.
In addition, if they don't fight, they won't have the opportunity to exercise. Although many children are thin in childhood, their physique will naturally improve after they become combat players - after all, upgrading will bring increases in strength points and physical strength and blood volume. But Xu Yao was still at Level 1, and her physical strength remained at the initial stage. She looked so weak that it seemed as if a gust of wind would blow her away.
With so many problems piled up together, Xu Jiancheng and Bao Yunya became anxious even in their dreams when they thought that their child's future life would depend on others.
But they also knew that Xu Yao's fear of leaving the city was a knot in her heart that could not be forcibly resolved, so they could only be patient and think of various ways to help her overcome her fear of monsters and the outside world.
This time when the teleportation channel was opened, the hotel and the town repeatedly promised the safety of the journey. The two thought it was a good opportunity, so they got three teleportation tickets as soon as possible.
Although Xu Yao was reluctant at first, she changed her mind after tasting the pear soup which was served as a sample, and nodded to indicate that she was willing to go out and take a look.
This made the couple ecstatic.
At this moment, standing at the teleportation point of Qingshui Town, they had just heard the staff's instructions when they felt that they were engulfed by a dazzling white light. The next second, their position had changed.
Xu Yao let out a small cry of surprise and raised her head, the plum blossoms blooming above her head reflected in her pupils.
"Welcome to Guangming Town. The bus to Nuannuan Hot Spring will depart on time in three hours. Passengers who need to take the bus, please come here to buy tickets."
A gentle female voice drew her attention back. Most of the people present were experiencing teleportation for the first time. After being shocked, they slowly came to their senses and saw a young girl in a pink uniform standing next to the teleportation array. She was looking at them with a smile and her service attitude was exceptionally good.
With the approval of Guangming Town, Nuannuan Hot Spring has now opened a simple ticket office next to the teleportation point. Because today is the first day of business, they have reserved some tickets for tourists from Qingshui Town. The hotel also has reserved rooms to avoid people making a wasted trip.
Everyone rushed to buy tickets.
Because they arrived early, they still had time, so they picked up their tickets and took a walk around Guangming Town.
Because different towns have different geographical locations, nearby resource points and possible spawning monsters are different, and fresh materials can often be found in the market, which is why there are business teams.
Most people were visiting other towns for the first time, so they took this opportunity to take a good look around. Thinking that I didn’t want to make a wasted trip as I didn’t know when I would be able to come next time, I didn’t hesitate much when I took action and earned a lot of new materials.
At the same time, the players from Guangming Town in the market were still confused.
They were setting up their stall as usual, but who could have imagined that a group of new faces suddenly flooded into the market. At first glance, there were at least dozens of people who rushed to their stall, bargained a few times as if in a hurry, and took away the materials that had not been sold for a long time.
Moreover, after visiting one stall, they would run to the next one with great interest, giving people the feeling of street shopping.
From time to time, there were a few shouts of surprise.
“Why is there even this?”
"Guangming Town still sells ore regularly? When does it sell? I'll come and stake out next time."
"There are actually materials for the Ghost Butterfly here! I've been looking for it for a long time."
As soon as the last player spoke, the player from Guangming Town who was trading with her raised his head and asked in surprise, "You need materials for the Ghost Butterfly? I still have a lot here. What else do you want?"
He quickly dumped out a bunch of materials from his backpack, dazzling the player. The player said complacently, "I know there's a forest in the leveling area nearby where there are a lot of ghost butterflies. I was leveling there a few days ago, and I got at least dozens of wings and one or two bottles of scale powder. If you need a large quantity, I can give you a discount."
The other party thought for a moment and said, "Give me ten wings of the ghost butterfly, and I'll take all the scale powder you have."
"Okay." The players in Guangming Town were ecstatic.
The ghost butterfly's wings are refreshed in large quantities, and usually they have to be kept for several days before they can be sold. Who would have thought that he was so lucky today that he met a big customer as soon as the market opened, and they were sold out in an instant.
One of them received the materials he wanted, and the other saved a lot of time. Both of them were in a good mood and chatted with each other.
During the conversation, the player from Guangming Town was a little surprised to learn that the other party was from Qingshui Town. Suddenly, an idea came to him, "By the way, do you have any bone spurs of the Nightmare?"
"It's like this, I collected a batch of materials to make a bow, but I have everything else except the bone spurs of the nightmare demon, which I can't get." He complained bitterly.
The player from Qingshui Town slapped his forehead and said, "I really have it."
The Nightmare Demon was not an A-rank monster that was particularly precious to them, and among the various materials stored in her backpack, there happened to be a few items dropped by the Nightmare Demon that she had not had time to use.
Unexpectedly, it was received so easily, and the players in Guangming Town were overjoyed.
The two of them completed the transaction quickly and looked at the materials in the backpack, grinning from ear to ear.
At the same time, similar scenes were happening all over the Guangming Town market.
On this day, the market's trading volume was particularly high.
…
Xu Jiancheng's family was also not idle, they also went shopping.
Bao Yunya has wanted to refine a piece of equipment for a long time, but as an elite player, the material requirements for equipment cards will be even higher. For example, it is normal to collect items dropped by a specific boss, etc., so she has given up.
But I didn't expect to meet him in Guangming Town this time.
Bao Yunya quickly snatched the material and was so happy that she even forgot to mention the price. It was Xu Jiancheng who urgently intervened and slashed the price down by 100 points.
The two men took their daughter for another stroll and unexpectedly came across two rare materials in succession.
"Is it my illusion? Why do I feel that there are so many drops from S-level monsters in the market here?" Bao Yunya was a little confused.
The player who traded with her enthusiastically introduced: "It's not an illusion. There are more and more elite players in the town recently, and there are also many elite players from other towns who live in the hot spring for a long time or rent a hotel in the town. When they have nothing to do, they go to the high-level leveling area near the hot spring, and they will trade the materials they get at the market."
Over time, the quality of materials sold at the Guangming Town market has improved significantly.
This was the case with Xiangyan’s team from Chihu Town. They lived in Guangming Hotel for a while and fully realized the convenience of living here. With the bus, it was very convenient to go to and from the high-end area, and they could also go to the hot springs when they had nothing to do. They simply didn't want to leave.
The news of the opening of the transmission channel was also widely publicized in Guangming Town. After they learned about it, they inevitably began to look forward to it, hoping that a transmission channel to Chihu Town could be opened in the future.
This will make it more convenient to go home in the future.
Unfortunately, Chihu Town was too far away, and the mayor was not very ambitious. He actually handed over the first opportunity to open a teleportation channel to Qingshui Town, which made the players from other towns bite their handkerchiefs and feel very disappointed.
However, no matter how envious and jealous other towns are, it does not prevent the players in Qingshui Town from enjoying their lives at this time.
Bao Yunya and his wife suddenly realized, "It turned out to be like this."
It seems that if I can’t get the materials in the future, I can choose to spend some money to teleport here and look for them in Guangming Town. Maybe I can find them. With this calculation, even if you add the round-trip cost, it is still cost-effective.
It is foreseeable that this transmission channel will bring more convenience to the lives of residents in both places in the future. The two suddenly recalled the old saying "If you want to be rich, build roads first", and they felt quite emotional.
Thinking of the hot spring owner who selflessly provided the minerals, even though he hasn't reached the Nuannuan Hot Spring yet, he already feels a little more grateful.
After strolling around for a while, seeing that time was almost up, the group started walking towards the city gate.
When Xu Yao walked to the entrance of the town, she was already reluctant to move. Looking at the snow-capped mountains outside the town, her face turned pale.
Bao Yunya quickly held her hand tightly with concern.
Xu Jiancheng had sharp eyes and caught a glimpse of a snow-white square object surrounded by a crowd not far outside the city. In order to divert his daughter's attention, he repeatedly called out, "Look, isn't that the bus we're going to take soon?"
Xu Yao turned around as expected.
Looking closely, the snow-white bus actually had a plush texture. Xu Jiancheng pushed his daughter closer, took a closer look, and was almost frightened to death.
Why didn't anyone tell him in advance that the so-called bus was actually an elite monster mimicry?
...You call this thing an Arctic fox? ?
Who are you trying to fool by giving it such a cute name?
Xu Jiancheng almost stuttered. He was fine, but when he thought of his daughter's phobia of monsters, he subconsciously stood in front of Xu Yao.
But he didn't expect Xu Yao to stick her head out from behind him.
She looked down and saw four huge, snow-white furry paws under the car.
Because the bus had not yet departed, in order to make it easier for passengers to get on the bus, the fox squatted down like a lying cat, with the round shape of its claws showing from under the snow-white and soft fur.
With its sharp nails retracted, it appears harmless.
That claw was half the size of Xu Yao.
Xu Yao: “?”
How come this is different from the monster she imagined?
Not only was it not scary...it aroused a strange instinct.
The instinct to jerk off.
She squatted down eagerly and touched the paw carefully with her hand. The falling snow from the sky fell on the fur and melted quickly, but the white fur under his hands was not wet at all and remained dry and soft.
Because Xu Yao was small, after she squatted down, Yao Yonghui failed to notice her in time. However, Xu Jiancheng and his wife next to them were so scared when they saw this.
This is an S-level monster!
In front of it, Lv.1 Xu Yao is nothing more than an ant, just a speck of dust, and can be killed with just a slap.
What is the difference between my daughter’s current behavior and touching a tiger’s butt?
They rushed forward, but the next second, the mimicry suddenly moved.
The bus opened its half-closed eyes, its azure pupils lazily glanced downwards, and then it raised the paw that had been touched again and again——
"No!!" Bao Yunya was so scared that she lost her voice.
She watched as the giant paw came to rest on her daughter's face, giving her a gentle push.
Xu Yao fell into the thick snow behind him, leaving a human outline.
Bao Yunya: “?”
They hurriedly dug their daughter out. Xu Yao was still confused. She wiped the snow off her head and took two seconds to react. She actually chuckled twice.
They both: “…”
They looked at Xu Yao worriedly: Was she scared silly?
Because they were too worried, they didn't even notice that other people in the team were looking at Xu Yao with envy.
They could see it clearly from the angle just now. She was pushed into the snow by the soft and pink pad of flesh... Her reaction was not that of being scared, but of being foolishly happy, right?
However, Xu Yao noticed the gazes of those people. Besides feeling shy, a faint joy welled up in her heart.
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The family of three took the bus to the hot spring. Although they were a little frightened just now, they still admired the owner for thinking of using anthropomorphic animals to transport customers.
Being carried by this elite monster, the monsters on the road dispersed visibly, and almost no one dared to provoke them. It was much more comfortable and pleasant than walking on two legs in the leveling area.
What they didn’t know was that before the super S-level monsters came to the hot springs, there would occasionally be monsters coming to cause trouble. But ever since that monster started running into the shop, the Mimic had unknowingly picked up the aura of many elite monsters when it was wandering around in the hot springs. Those monsters not only didn't dare to approach, they were simply terrified at the mere mention of it.
He quickly dodged from a considerable distance.
We rushed to the hot spring at lightning speed. When we got off the car, the first thing we saw was the newly built viewing pool.
"Hey, this is beautiful!"
Bao Yunya took Xu Yao out of the car, her eyes lighting up.
In the center of the viewing pond, a rockery is made of stones and a small waterfall is made. Below is a green hot spring pool. The waterfall falls, stirring the pool water, and a layer of misty hot air floats on the water surface.
The hot air touched their skin, and together with the rising temperature within the barrier, the residents of Qingshui Town who were visiting the hot springs for the first time were all refreshed.
Xu Yao even clung to the railing, staring intently.
Before the bus arrived at the hot springs, she had already seen many things she had never imagined before: fairy-tale-like monsters that could transform into vehicles, vast scenery that flew by at high speed, and a hot spring park that suddenly appeared on the snowy plains like a paradise...and when the bus entered the barrier, she was dazzled by everything in front of her.
Everything he saw and heard was fresh and interesting, so much so that Xu Yao didn’t even have time to think about the fact that he was in the “outside world” that he had tried to avoid in the past.
The couple stood behind their daughter, not daring to disturb her, but exchanged relieved glances.
After Xu Yao had seen enough, they entered the main building, waited in line at the front desk for a while, and successfully booked a family suite. According to the girl at the front desk, the lake view not far away can be seen directly from the room, which made the two of them more excited.
"This is the park introduction brochure and map of Nuannuan Hot Springs. All the buildings are marked on it."
When the girl with dimples handed them the room key, she also handed them a trifold leaflet that looked like a brochure.
After unfolding it, you can see a hand-drawn bird's-eye view of the hot spring park. This was drawn by Xie Qingyun specially after Shu Mo planned all the parks, and then handed it over to the system for mass printing.
"It's so big?" Xu Jiancheng was speechless.
"Commercial street, camping area, leisure area, residential area, entertainment area... there is even a waterfall?" Bao Yunya was also shocked by the scale. "All areas and buildings marked on the map can be visited freely without worrying about safety issues... this..."
The shock they felt was so great that they didn't even know how to comment on it for a moment.
In addition to the hand-drawn color map, the introductory brochure also provides detailed travel suggestions for each area, such as opening and closing times, or what special products are available, and it is recommended to queue up in advance to buy them.
For example——
【Attractions: Snow Mountain Waterfall】
【Tickets: Free】
[Opening hours: 8:00-23:00 daily (hotel guests: all day)]
The melted snow from the snow-capped mountains converges into a torrent here. You can enjoy the spectacular waterfall with a height difference of dozens of meters, the unique rime landscape along the mountain trail, and taste the special grilled sausages on the top observation deck while overlooking the entire hot spring beauty. 】
For example:
【Store: Fresh Food Supermarket】
【Location: No. 08, Middle Section of Commercial Street】
【Opening hours: 9:00-17:00 every day】
[We provide freshly grown fruits and vegetables, freshly caught fish of the day, fresh eggs, natural wild honey, etc. There are many varieties of goods and the quantity is limited, so remember to queue up in advance! 】
besides:
【Featured area: planting area】
[Location: Behind the bamboo forest on the west side of the B&B area]
[Opening hours: 8:00-23:00 daily (hotel guests: all day)]
[The supply source of the fresh food supermarket, here you can appreciate the planting process of potatoes, tomatoes, strawberries and other fruits and vegetables, and give your children a unique educational lesson. Note: Please take good care of your children when watching and do not make loud noises to avoid scaring our lovely cuckoo chickens. 】
In addition, there are camping experiences, fish feeding, fishing and boating experiences by the lake, special activities on Saturdays and Sundays, fish barbecue meetings and weekend markets, all of which are clearly marked.
The family of three put their heads together, stunned.
After a long while, the couple raised their heads and looked at each other.
Bao Yunya hesitated and asked, "Should we adjust our schedule?"
Looking at it this way...it seems like it’s impossible to finish playing in two days? !
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