Nuojin Advanced Magic Academy Supermarket.
The three of them each pushed a small cart, picking and choosing from the dazzling array of goods.
Valerie had a truckload of candy and cookies, while Patika had a truckload of canned fish.
"No, I'm telling you guys, can't you be a little more balanced?" Xiao He asked with a serious expression as he pushed an empty cart.
“I’ve got a very balanced diet!” Valerie’s eyes widened. “Orange, pineapple, apple, strawberry, blueberry, grape, mango, and banana flavors—two kilograms of each, including one kilogram of hard candy, one kilogram of soft candy, and one kilogram of filled chocolate. Soda crackers, cookies, wafers, and whole wheat biscuits—three kilograms of each. And one thousand five hundred grams of each of the milk and chocolate filled biscuits…”
"Never mind," Xiao He said, raising his hand in refusal.
“I only like to eat fish,” Patika’s answer was fairly normal.
Xiao He glanced at her shopping cart.
Canned tuna, canned sardines, canned ribbonfish, canned crucian carp...
The variety is balanced, but almost all of them are labeled "extra spicy".
"You two have completely different tastes?" Xiao He said casually.
"And what about you?" Valerie asked, as if she had already finished.
Xiao He shrugged: "I'll get some canned meat too, since I don't know what else to buy anyway."
"Would you like canned fish too?"
"No, I don't eat fish, and neither does Xuefeng."
"Then let's keep going forward."
Patika found herself falling behind without realizing it, and as a result, she gave up on choosing because of her indecisiveness.
She grabbed a handful of canned fish of unknown origin, stuffed them all into her shopping cart, and then hurriedly followed the two people in front of her.
Xiao He adopted the air of a "housewife," preparing a wide variety of dishes, including meat, vegetables, salty, and spicy. Although she didn't understand sophisticated food pairings, her choices were, for the time being, quite conventional.
“We need to bring some water,” Xiao He said to Valerie.
The latter nodded quickly.
Patika doesn't need to carry much water, since she can just use a simple gesture.
Two hours later, the three returned home with their loot.
Since the number of slots in the system inventory is equal to the character's level, Xiao He's system inventory capacity has long since become unlimited.
Patika and Valerie also have their own storage items; the former has a bracelet, and the latter has a seashell necklace.
Tonight, the final preparations have come to a perfect end.
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The following day at noon, at Nuojin Port.
The "Nuogao 11" set sail with a whistle.
Since the capital city of Nuojin is located at the southernmost part of the continent, it would take at least three days for the spaceship to reach the center of the continent.
This was all under the condition that everything went smoothly and there were no obstacles.
"Sigh... If only the teleportation tower could be opened..." many people sighed.
Wang Xuefeng obtained the full roster of the expedition team from Lucadi.
Logically, Lucadi wouldn't let the band members see this list.
The list contains exactly one hundred people, including more than 20 pastors.
Excluding Xiao He, the entire group consisted of 26 orthodox priests, all of whom were skilled in forbidden spells or above.
Of course, only Xiao He reached level 99.
Wang Xuefeng's level was 87 at this time, which also ranked him 87th in the entire guild.
If he hadn't been constantly affected by rumors and gossip, he wouldn't have been noticed by so many people.
Now that she has publicly revealed her marital relationship with Xiao He, the attention she receives in the group has exploded.
"I never expected that the autistic boy whose chances of finding a partner were only slightly higher than Lucadi's would turn out to be such a slap in the face to us seniors." A man puffed on his pipe, looking wistfully at the two figures blowing in the wind on the opposite deck.
There were two other men beside him, their eyes also filled with extremely complicated emotions.
They were the ones who least believed in Wang Xuefeng in the past, and they are the ones who feel the most heartbroken now.
Even knowing that Wang Xuefeng was married and would no longer be a potential "competitor" for them, they still felt inexplicably sad.
"Melancholy, melancholy."
"What's there to be worried about? You just need to focus on running missions, making money, getting promoted, and getting rich. Why would you worry about not having a wife?" The smoking man snorted disdainfully.
"Really? But you're a deputy regimental commander, and you still don't have a wife, do you?"
"I call this prioritizing my career! After I retire, I can just go back to my hometown and get married, right?"
"Are you kidding me? Go back to your hometown and marry an ordinary woman, what common ground could you possibly have?"
"What does it matter? I'll just be an ordinary person then."
"Why?" The two looked puzzled. "Look at the other side, a couple goes to war, leaving nothing but barren land."
Upon hearing this, the man smoking let out a long sigh.
After a long silence, he finally spoke: "I don't want my wife to go to war with me, as that would affect my command. I also don't want her to go to war with another regiment, for fear that one day she might not be able to come back. I just hope that she and the children can stay safe and sound at home."
The two were speechless for a moment after hearing this.
His statement about "being an ordinary person" is easy to say, but the halo of "graduating from the High Court" means that he can never be an ordinary person.
Even after returning to his city, he still needs to shoulder the heavy responsibility of guarding the army.
But if, as he says, leaving his wife and children, who are helpless, at home really solves everything?
Moreover, even if the continent of Nuojin were to return to its former peace, could his family relationships truly remain harmonious if he could not see his wife and children for several days at a time while he was on the city wall?
In the blink of an eye, the three of them started arguing over this "disagreement"...
"You're afraid whether your wife is ordinary or extraordinary, whether she's by your side or not. You deserve to be single! Being single means you don't have to be afraid of anything!" A guy nearby couldn't help but retort.
Many people around burst into laughter.
The commotion finally caught the attention of Xiao He and Wang Xuefeng.
The two were originally studying the latest intelligence on Yanluo Military City, but when they heard them talking about themselves, they couldn't help but turn slightly to the side.
"Really?" Xiao He seemed to be talking to himself, putting away the sketch covered in annotations at any moment, and looking at Wang Xuefeng with an innocent expression, he asked, "What about you? Are you scared?"
Wang Xuefeng grinned and said softly, "Who isn't afraid..."
“Alright, but what can we do?” Xiao He shook his head helplessly: “Unless you’re dead, that’s how it is when you’re alive. You can’t just beg fate to let you off the hook, can you? Not everyone is so lucky.”
"Besides, men worry about the women at home, but don't women worry about the men who are fighting on the battlefield?"
Even when husband and wife go to war together, the wife will always be worried about her husband's safety. What if the order is to abandon the rescue? Can she really bear to obey it?
"Worry is worry, love is love, it doesn't matter whether you're a man or a woman."
Xiao He finished speaking calmly, but Wang Xuefeng, who was beside him, listened in silence.
Because that's from her perspective.
She is a wife.
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