Chapter 92-92- Water destroys the city
The next year, one morning in midsummer.
Yvette lazily opened her eyes in bed, raised her arms, twisted her body on the not-so-spacious bed, and stretched out reluctantly.
She half-opened her eyes and looked out the window. What came into her sight was a sky that looked like it was painted by a god's brush.
The clouds maintained the posture of a whale leaping out of the sea, their fluffy edges a translucent porcelain white.
The azure sky is so pure that it makes one's eyes swell. The blue flows down the dome and spreads out near the distant horizon, turning into a watercolor-like light blue.
This is what summer should feel like... Listening to the chirping of cicadas outside and feeling the air conditioning in the car, she felt a little relieved. She thought of a summer vacation many, many years ago, when she was still a teenager, living a carefree life in her room with air conditioning, watching anime and eating ice watermelon.
She was only a teenager at the time, without worries or anxieties, and full of expectations for the future. She never imagined that many years later, the same cicada chirping would be chasing the tail tone of her electric scooter, and she would be busy running on the hot streets without a moment's rest.
Unconsciously reminiscing for a moment, she lowered her head and found a dark-haired beauty sleeping on the floor in the narrow aisle, her head resting on her small leather boots.
Then, after waiting for more than half an hour, seeing that Abella still showed no sign of waking up, she couldn't help but stretch out her foot, hesitated for a moment, retracted her foot, and instead reached out to gently rub the other person's hair.
There was no other way. The space in the RV was limited and the boots had been requisitioned. If the maid was not woken up, she would not be able to get out of bed and put on her shoes.
"Hmm... Is it dawn yet... Good morning, Master..." Abella yawned and sat up.
It was clear that over a year of apocalyptic travel had made the Spider Demon feel much more relaxed. For the first few months, she'd always been on high alert while sleeping, waking up to investigate at the slightest sign of trouble. Now, things were different. Yvette doubted she'd feel a thing even if she stepped on her head.
After putting on her boots and getting out of the car, Yvette woke up the snoring Black Dragon and Bingyu on the roof, grilled some fish she had caught by the stream yesterday for breakfast, and immediately prepared to set off for the next destination.
Judging from the map, the straight-line distance traveled by Yvette and the others over the past year or so was not very long.
On the one hand, because of getting lost and taking detours, the RV often took winding curves when moving forward. On the other hand, it passed through two puppet kingdoms along the way and stayed for two or three months in each kingdom.
While staying at the last Puppet Kingdom, Yvette heard about "Miss Bellflower from Cooks" and learned that she went to a Puppet Kingdom called "Water Tower Kingdom".
This is naturally good news. After all, I promised to deliver the letter for Tongpi, so it would be best if I could complete it as soon as possible.
So, after obtaining the approximate location of the Water Tower Country, Yvette asked Abella to speed up when driving to ensure that the mission could be completed earlier.
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Judging from the electronic map, the location of the Water Tower Kingdom has entered the territory of the Rustbone Free State and is located in a fifth-tier town called "Fos River".
Based on Yvette's experience of exploring other ruined cities over the past year, unless this fifth-tier town is like Cooks, which hides a mysterious underground cavity that attracts "extraterritorial demons" to occupy it, the returns are generally very low. At most, she can earn 1,000 to 2,000 points of distortion magic, which will not allow her to stay for long.
However, after activating the RV's floating mode and flying over a mountain range, Yvette was surprised when she saw Fusjiang's current appearance.
This place has turned into a flooded ruined city.
Looking down from afar, the entire Fus River resembles a water city built on a vast lake, its surface as bright as a mirror, reflecting the clouds and the sky. Rusty, tilted signal towers, along with the spires of countless skyscrapers, pierce the water like a steel forest suspended in mid-air.
The underwater street was about ten meters deep. Where the asphalt was once paved, it was now covered with aquatic plants, and schools of fish darted back and forth. At a bend in the river, a paulownia tree, nestled against a building, swayed in the breeze, sending tiny lavender blossoms drifting down, swept by eddies through the half-buried bus compartment. The seats had long been covered in moss, and fluorescent green spores drifted with the waves, looking from afar like a moving constellation of stars.
In the cab, Bingyu and Abela were soon fascinated by this rare scenery. However, Yvette quickly broke away and turned her gaze to the mountains next to them.
According to the map, Fusjiang is a city located downstream of a lake, with a well-known freshwater lake upstream on Kuroshio Island. If the dam hadn't been maintained for centuries, it would be reasonable for the flood to flood the city.
Then she noticed that there were many artificial bridges made of wood and steel between the buildings in the city.
This couldn't have been built by humans, so it could only have been done by the local puppets. If nothing unexpected happened, the Water Tower Kingdom would be the only puppet settlement she had seen that dared to establish its kingdom within the ruins of a human city.
A moment later, the RV and the black dragon entered the city and stopped on the top floor of a ruined building with a relatively intact load-bearing structure.
Yvette got out of the car and waited for a moment before she saw two puppets approaching from a small alloy bridge not far away. The leader was a young puppet who looked remarkably human. He walked over and said, "I am Ed, the governor of the Water Tower Nation. This is my lieutenant, Comet. The guests are..."
Then, noticing the three people's unfathomable "cultivation realm", the young man paused for a moment before changing the subject and asking, "Are you all masters of divine grace?"
"Not really." Yvette shook her head and said politely, "We are travelers traveling across the continent. May I ask if there is a lady named 'Bluebell' here from the city of Kux in the northwest?"
"Indeed there is this lady..." Ed nodded in surprise.
"My name is Yvette Losivia. When we passed by Kux, someone asked me to deliver a letter to Miss Bluebell. I hope you can pass it on." Yvette took out the letter and planned to hand it to the young puppet in front of her.
It seemed the mission was over, but soon she saw Ed shaking his head and saying, "I'm sorry, we can't do that."
After a pause, he explained with regret, "Miss Bluebell was caught in an attack by aberrant creatures long ago and died unexpectedly. The charismatics of the temple diagnosed her and told us that her spirit had dissipated. Even if her mind core was repaired, she would no longer be the same person. So, we buried her together in the back mountain."
(End of this chapter)
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