At 4:38 pm, Ren Suo and Qiao Muyi finally arrived at Toyama Station and transferred to Nishi-Toyama Station on the JR Takayama Main Line.
There was a seat in the car, but Ren Suo was too tired to move after sitting down. He just leaned back in the seat and yawned. Qiao Muyi asked, "Are you tired?"
"A little bit." Ren Suo said honestly.
They took a train from Sakado to Hida City. In the game, they arrived via the 'slow route', but in reality, they did not take the fastest Hokuriku Shinkansen along the way, but only relied on the JR express trains at various stops, and then kept changing trains, and arrived at their destination slowly and leisurely - in China, this is basically equivalent to not taking the high-speed train, but only relying on the subway to cross several cities.
Ren Suo estimated that they had changed trains seven or eight times today, getting on and off trains and changing lines all the time. He was really tired - you know, to transfer at Fanying, you have to leave the station and then reenter the station, and the station may not even be close, so you have to walk several hundred meters to reach the transfer station.
At the end of the day, although they spent most of the journey sitting, a third-level cultivator would not feel tired, but Ren Suo was exhausted - the slowness was secondary, but it was really troublesome to change trains!
However, Ren Suo also knew that the people from the Spirit Hall might be focusing on searching for Shinkansen passengers. Like them, they relied on riding various JR lines without changing trains. Apart from the two black-armored warriors they met at Yuesheng Station, they did not encounter any other extraordinary people along the way.
Qiao Muyi said softly: "Do you want to sleep for a while? I will call you when we arrive at the station."
Ren Suo thought so and nodded, crossing his hands over his chest, relaxing his body and mind, leaning back in the chair, and soon falling asleep with steady breathing.
Qiao Muyi also knew that Ren Suo was very tired. Today, Ren Suo had been taking her on the bus, and she found it very troublesome to follow him getting off and getting on the bus and transferring. It was quite normal for Ren Suo to fall asleep as soon as he closed his eyes, as he had to pay attention to the arrival information and look up the map for transfers.
Qiao Muyi looked at him and shook the seat slightly, and Ren Suo's head began to droop to the side. Oh, what a coincidence, Qiao Muyi's shoulder was next to him, so Ren Suo's head gently rested on Qiao Muyi's shoulder.
Qiao Muyi just looked at him quietly, looking at his forehead, his eyebrows, his trembling eyelashes, his nose, his mouth, and his face, as if trying to make up for the previous five days.
After watching for an unknown amount of time, Qiao Muyi suddenly realized that she was very close to his face.
It was already getting close to evening, and there were not many people on the bus, and no one was paying attention to the two of them - Qiao Muyi wasn't afraid even if someone paid attention to her, because she was wearing Ren Suo's mask.
No one could recognize him except Ren Suo.
This sense of security gave Qiao Muyi great courage. She took a deep breath and moved her lips closer and closer to him, about to cross the final boundary...
"Um!"
Ren Suo suddenly sat up straight, startling Qiao Muyi: "What's wrong with you?"
No way, you don’t want to learn good things, but instead learn how to pretend to sleep?
When Qiao Muyi thought that Ren Suo had seen everything she did just now, she felt her face burning hot - fortunately she had a mask to cover it, otherwise Qiao Muyi would have wanted to stand up immediately and go to another carriage to calm down.
"I just woke up suddenly from a dream."
Ren Suo looked calm. He put his hands in his pockets, stretched himself, shook his slightly stiff neck, and asked, "Are we getting off the bus soon?"
Qiao Muyi looked at Ren Suo carefully and found that his expression was very normal. He thought that he was not so good as to keep his breathing unchanged while pretending to be asleep, so he breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Well, the next stop is Zhugu."
“Is that so…” Ren Suo closed his eyes, seemingly resting.
The thumb of his left hand, which was in his pocket, was rubbing the blue mark on his ring finger. In his mind, a picture of the coast appeared in Xiao Suo's Secret Diary.
Soon, they arrived at Itoya Station, the southernmost station in Toyama Prefecture, ready to transfer to the Takayama Main Line in Gifu Prefecture.
It is very strange to say that although Toyama~Itoya and Itoya~Hida both belong to the Takayama Main Line, the former belongs to the "Nishihanzakura Railway" and the latter is the "Central East Railway". The operators are different, so a transfer is required.
When they passed the transfer passage, they found a group of people standing under the screen in the station watching TV - generally, the TVs placed in the station play various advertisements in a loop, and also broadcast disaster news, but few people will stop and watch.
But when they got closer, they found that an extraordinary video was playing on the big screen!
No, it’s live broadcast!
"Come on, magician!"
"Defeat the monster, magician!"
"Magician, charge!"
Many children were watching and shouting, while other passengers were standing aside and watching quietly. In the picture, the white-haired magician under the World Tree led eight female magicians to fight a spear-wielding fishman nearly 200 meters tall on the sea!
Even though the scene was shot on the shore, quite a distance away from the battle site, the size of the beast was so shocking!
In comparison, the magician looked so weak. If the magician could not take away a large piece of flesh and blood from the murloc every time he flashed, no one would think they could win.
The host held the microphone, pointed at the extraordinary war in the distance and said to the camera: "...This is 'Original Unknown' in Itoigawa City, Niigata Prefecture. We are the production team of TBS's "The Wandering Traveler Live" and we met..."
"Parents do not know, and neither do children" refers to a 15-kilometer-long coastline in the northeast of Fanying. Because the road is lined with alternating cliffs and sandy beaches, with countless cliffs, reefs and caves, travelers in ancient times often had accidents on this road, which is known as a famous landscape and dangerous place.
Ren Suo had known for a long time that the magician was fighting the sea monster, but he didn't expect that there was someone doing a live broadcast in that place, and happened to encounter the battle between the magician and the sea monster... However, the place where the sea monster appeared was very close to the human city, so it was normal to have human habitation.
He pulled Qiao Muyi and said, "Let's go, we still have to catch the bus."
"Wait a minute." Qiao Muyi stared at the screen and said softly, "That sea monster... is the source of the chaos."
"Yes." Ren Suo knew what she was thinking and said, "So, the extraordinary organizations such as the Fairy Palace and the World Tree will not let the murderer behind the scenes do whatever he wants. Just relax and investigate carefully."
At this time, the host said loudly: "...The magician of the World Tree fought against the terrifying sea monster to protect the peace and people of Itoigawa City. Please allow me to express my respect to him here!"
As he spoke, the host bowed deeply towards the grand scene in the distance where the sky was collapsing, the earth was cracking, and the sea was churning, and dragons were sucking water, paying the highest tribute to the nine magicians who were fighting hard.
The passengers who were watching TV also bowed 90 degrees, paying respects from a distance of thousands of miles. At this time, Qiao Muyi pulled Ren Suo and prepared to bend down and bow. Ren Suo was surprised: "We want to bow too?"
"The magician helped me, shouldn't I thank him? It would be a great comfort to me if there is one less person harmed by the source of the disaster."
Qiao Muyi pressed Ren Suo's waist, but failed. She then looked at Ren Suo pitifully, and even the "blur" could not hide the movement in her eyes.
She said nothing, but just sighed softly. She didn't force Ren Suo anymore and bowed to the screen.
“Alright, alright.” Ren Suo said in anger. He was the one who sent the magician out! The time spent on the “Clear Spring Flowing Sound” was also his! He even spent money to train the magician!
However, he couldn't explain these words to Qiao Muyi, so he had to bend down and bow to the screen reluctantly, and Qiao Muyi chuckled.
At the same time, a hearty male laugh suddenly burst out from the screen, and the host said in surprise: "The magician's laughter has reached us over such a long distance... The magician has accepted our respect!"
Damn, magician, you are such a pig. How dare you eavesdrop on my thoughts?