"Dai Zi, go and pour a cup of hot tea."
Xu Milu, manipulating the lotus root figure, gave the order, and Dai Zi, who always took it upon herself to work in circles, immediately directed the vines to obediently pour two cups of hot tea and place them on the table.
—After all, for monsters, identification isn't based on appearance. Even if Xu Milu turned into an ant named Dai Zi, they wouldn't be surprised; at most, they'd be a little puzzled.
But in Ayasi's eyes, this scene was the best proof that the red-haired magician could control elves.
"Honorable mage, I did not mean to trespass into your territory. I was being chased by monsters in the forest and fled here in a panic. Please forgive my ignorance and foolishness, and do not blame my family—"
Ayasi immediately became apprehensive and didn't know what to do when Dai Zi placed the tea in front of him.
"No, no, no, my lord elf, how could someone like me dare to trouble you..."
He was about to take the teapot from Dai Zi's hand, but the gleaming teapot made him back down, and he rubbed his hands together helplessly.
Xu Milu didn't speak, but simply lay on the lotus root's head observing it.
The man had a typical European face: short blue hair, yellow eyes, and deep-set eyes. He wore a white turban wrapped around his head and cheap linen clothes. His fingers were rough, and his knuckles were noticeably swollen, likely from long hours of labor.
He carried a white, six-petaled flower in his basket. The flower was pure white and large, with thick, fleshy petals and tiny purple stamens at its center. At first glance, it looked somewhat like the magnolia flower found on Earth.
[Horse-jointed flower: A woody plant with a thick, fleshy ovary that possesses medicinal properties. It mostly grows on sunny south-facing slopes and is one of the common medicinal plants in the Tospa plane.]
The Tospa Plane?
Xu Milu nodded thoughtfully, controlling the lotus root to hold the main body in her hands and feed it water little by little, which even had a strange sense of harmony.
"You said you were being chased by monsters, which is why you ended up here?"
Xu Milu noticed that the other party mentioned the concept of "magician" several times, and realized that magic must exist in this world. Unlike the Food World, where magic is on the verge of being lost and is only controlled by elves and non-human creatures, most of the magicians in this world are human.
"Yes, my lord mage, I don't know why, but in the past few months, monsters have appeared around the village. Not only have the prey in the forest decreased, but there's hardly anything left to eat. My youngest daughter, Tana, my precious jewel, has a fever and needs to be cured with horsetail flowers, which is why I risked my life to enter the forest—"
Ayasi noticed that the lotus flower was staring intently at the knotted flowers in his arms. Perhaps he had misunderstood something, he gritted his teeth and pushed the basket of flowers in front of her.
"If you like it, sir—please don't hesitate to accept it! Consider it an apology for trespassing on your territory!"
"Ah...no, I'm just interested in these herbs."
Xu Milu was both amused and exasperated. Although she didn't know how magicians in this world were perceived by ordinary people, she was certainly not a troublesome devil who would steal medicine from others!
She explained with immense patience:
"No, you misunderstand. This is a restaurant, a place for customers to dine. I welcome every guest who comes here."
Ayasi's mouth gaped open, his face trembling violently with shock:
"A place to eat? Isn't that a tavern? A tavern run by a magician? Does that mean ordinary people like me can eat here?"
In his mind, a tavern should be a mess, filled with the smell of fermented alcohol and the sweat of mercenaries, with sliced bread, a large piece of goat cheese, and a spoonful of stewed beans—that would be the most delicious food in the world.
A tavern run by a magician?
No one will believe what he says.
"That's right, this is a novel eatery open to everyone, whether you're a magician or an ordinary person, you can enjoy delicious food here!"
Xu Milu smiled and said, but she did not let her guard down. The Mountain and Sea Restaurant has always been a one-way passage. Except for customers wearing the Migu doorplates she made herself, no one can enter the physical restaurant.
So Ayasi's sudden appearance here is rather strange.
"Hehe, hehe..."
Asia gave a dry laugh, her expression clearly showing she didn't quite believe Xu Milu's words:
"Yes, Lady Qingluan, I will tell everyone everything that happened here when I get back—but I don't have anything valuable on me. Oh right, this! Please accept it if you don't mind!"
He pulled a pendant tied with a hemp rope from his neck. The pendant was made of silver and had a cross pattern with a black bead in the center.
It was the kind of silver pendant most commonly seen in the market, crudely made and somewhat old, but it was the most valuable thing he owned.
Ayasi looked somewhat uneasy, clearly afraid that Xu Milu might do something to him.
Xu Milu was about to refuse, but after seeing the pendant, she swallowed back the words she was about to say:
"Okay, what would you like to eat? I have all kinds of ingredients here, guaranteed to be fresh and delicious."
"Really?!"
Ayasi was overjoyed. He could hardly believe that the other party would actually accept such a worthless pendant, but seeing the other party's gentle attitude, he finally mustered up the courage to try speaking:
"I... I don't want to eat anything. If possible, could you please, sir, clear out the monsters surrounding the village? Because of these creatures, no one can live a normal life anymore!"
Monster?
Xu Milu picked up the pendant on the table and indeed felt the familiar energy fluctuations—before this, in order to explore the new plane, she had used the system shop function to send more than a dozen Migu Tree locators into the void, and Ayasi's pendant happened to have one of them.
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