Chapter 172 Green Tea Shark and Trash Red Dragon (asking for monthly ticket)
The bloody dusk quietly fell into the dormitory, dyeing half of Li Qingping's face red. He stopped where he was, staring quietly at the little shark in the crystal ball.
The shark playfully showed its little fangs and grinned sharply, like a little naughty boy.
Li Qingping couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and asked in surprise: "Is it the friend that Your Highness wants to introduce to me?"
"Yes, it's the friend I want to introduce to you." Xizel smiled slightly.
"Your Highness Xizel, may I ask where this shark came from?"
"Its name is 'Agubaru'. Actually, I don't know what kind of creature it is."
"Agabaru?"
Li Qingping murmured to himself, as if thinking about something.
"Oh, that's right, this is Shark's name." Yagubaru snorted twice and raised his tail proudly. "Only aristocratic sharks like me deserve a name. Other sharks are morons and are not worthy of being in the same race as me."
Li Qingping looked at it in silence, and after a while he spoke: "No wonder... When I came here a few days ago, I felt that this shark was not right."
Xizel whispered: "I'm sorry for hiding it from you. The situation was special before."
"Li Qingping is such an idiot." Yagubaru suddenly said in Chinese.
Li Qingping and Xizel were both stunned.
"No way, Li Qingping, could it be that you really didn't hear me scolding you that day?" Yagubaru asked curiously.
It pressed its head against the glass, staring at Li Qingping with crooked eyebrows and squinting eyes, as if asking: Are you still human? Change to artificial.
Li Qingping was stunned at first, and then he said slowly: "Sure enough, it was you who scolded me that day."
"Who else can scold you?"
"The tone of your cursing was a bit like that of a friend of mine. I thought I was hallucinating at the time," said Li Qingping.
Xizel was stunned: "Wait a minute, so this means to curse?"
"What else?"
Xizel said slowly: "Yagubaru told me before that 'Li Qingping is a big idiot' is a compliment, so I want to learn how to compliment you."
Yagubaru didn't seem to expect that Xizel would betray him, so he was stunned for a moment and quickly defended himself:
"Mr. Xizel, if you want to verify whether a word is an insult or not, you need to consider it based on different objects. For example, if you call a pig a pig, does that count as an insult?"
Xizel shook his head: "Not really."
"Right, by the same token, when I call a fool a fool, I'm not scolding him." Yagubaru taught seriously, "To be more precise, the word 'fool' may be a compliment to Li Qingping."
It paused and said, "After all, no one would call a pig an idiot, only humans."
"We don't even know each other, why are we speaking ill of each other?" Li Qingping was puzzled. He thought to himself, not only did you call me an idiot, you also implied that I was a pig. How big a grudge is this?
Ever since he was in a bad mood last time and almost killed the black pupa in front of Gu Wenyu, Li Qingping decided to turn over a new leaf and be a good person in the future. No matter how he was provoked, he would try to remain calm and not let his emotions control his brain.
Otherwise he would have to pull this shark out of the crystal ball and give it a good beating.
Yagubaru thought for a moment and said, "Because I heard a lot about you from Xizel, and I feel that your IQ is no different from that of a pig. Do you know that in this situation, standing on Xizel's side is almost a certain death?"
Hearing this, Xizel remained silent.
Even if Li Qingping finally chose to back off, turn around and leave, or even stand against him, he would not have any complaints. From the very beginning, he had made up his mind to go to the end with Yagubaru.
Li Qingping said expressionlessly: "How can we know if we don't try? Besides, Her Majesty the Queen said that I should take him away from here on August 1st. Maybe they don't actually intend to..."
Yagubaru interrupted him: "The identification is complete. You are as innocent as Xizel before he turned evil."
It shook its head and muttered, "Fortunately, Shark has used the Evolution Stone to evolve him into a blackened elementary school student, otherwise his future would really be dark."
The little shark looked lonely. He gurgled and spit out two mouthfuls of sea water. His eyes were misty with tears. He then wiped his eyes with his tail: "Hey... I don't know why Xizel trusts you so much. Obviously... obviously it was Shark who came here first."
"Green tea shark." Li Qingping commented expressionlessly.
"Trash red dragon." Yagubaru gritted his teeth fiercely.
As if sensing Li Qingping's hostility towards Yagubaru, Xizel smiled silently and said:
"Don't worry, Li Qingping. It's the one that's been protecting me these days, otherwise I might have died several times. Even if it's a bad guy, it's a bad guy that's good for us."
"Is that so..." Li Qingping pondered, "The eldest prince and his men have already taken action against you."
"The Queen Mother is in cahoots with them." Xizel was silent for a moment and said in a low voice.
Li Qingping was slightly stunned, and only came to his senses after a moment: "I see... I just guessed that there is this possibility before, but I'm not sure yet."
He paused, then looked up at Agubaru: "But with just the power of a Nobe shark, it shouldn't be able to protect His Highness César from the assassins they sent, right? Does this shark have any magical abilities, or can it change its appearance?"
Yagubaru straightened his chest and suddenly became proud. He said aggressively: "Compared to this, why don't you ask yourself what you have been doing? If it weren't for Shark, Xizel would have died long ago. Since you want to protect Xizel, can you show some determination?"
Li Qingping said expressionlessly: "Didn't I give the Phoenix feather to His Highness Xizel?"
"What's the use of that bird feather?" Yagubaru tilted his head and looked at Li Qingping sideways, "Doesn't it still take Shark's help?"
"I want to ask that, too." Xizel said, casting a curious look at Li Qingping.
"Your Highness will know then." Li Qingping didn't seem to want to explain.
"No way! This is the first time I see someone acting as a riddle teller to his own people." Yagubaru said.
"Is your shark a bit modernized?" Li Qingping said, "Not only can you speak Chinese, but you can also use Internet slang."
"Don't underestimate the wisdom of the shark nobles, arrogant human." Yagubaru said disdainfully.
Li Qingping shook his head and stopped arguing with this green tea shark.
"That's enough. Anyway, let's stop chatting here for now." Xizel said, "Li Qingping, can you accompany me to see my father?"
"Of course." Li Qingping nodded, "Let's set off now. There are not many people in the palace at this time, and the eldest prince and the second prince should not have woken up yet."
Xizel nodded, picked up the crystal ball, followed Li Qingping out of the floating castle, and headed for the largest island under the sky of the box garden. When the guards saw Xizel and Li Qingping, they half-knelt to salute them.
The two men walked through rows of half-kneeling guards and entered the brightly lit interior of the palace. Under the scarlet blood sky, this huge palace presented an enchanting color, like a woman wearing loose ancient clothes with exposed shoulders.
Soon, the two arrived at the bedroom deep in the palace. Looking up, they saw a large bed with luxurious decorations shrouded in an invisible barrier.
The king was lying quietly on the bed. Black blood vessels were throbbing on his face and the back of his hands, like little black snakes wriggling. His lips were pale, and his whole body was bloodless. The exposed skin was alternating between black and white.
Anyone who saw this scene would think there was a dead body lying on the bed.
The dormitory window was open, and outside the window were rows of blood-red trees. A leaf fluttered and fell into them, cutting the sunset into pieces.
Cesare lowered his eyes and looked quietly at the king's sleeping face.
The fallen leaves were blown by the wind and approached the bed under the king, but were burned to ashes by the barrier in an instant.
At this moment, the king was holding a dark white scepter in his hands. It was the legendary "White King's Scepter", a divine weapon that could suppress all the wonders of the generational level and below. The barrier protecting the king was generated from the scepter.
No one knows when this barrier will disappear, perhaps the day the king dies.
At that time, the White King's Scepter will change hands again. Whoever gets this scepter will have the right to rule the box world.
The little shark in the crystal ball licked its fangs and wondered if eating this would help it grow bigger.
Li Qingping half-knelt silently behind Xizel, never raising his head.
"Father...long time no see." Xizel looked at the old man and spoke softly.
However, what echoed him was still dead silence. The blood-red leaves outside the window swayed in the wind, and the whole palace was shrouded in the rustling sound.
"I will definitely survive," he whispered, "and live more freely than anyone else."
Yagubaru blinked, and at this moment it suddenly heard a sound of light footsteps.
It turned over in the sea water and looked behind it, only to see a woman dressed elegantly and noblely walking in. She had a golden bun on her head and her long skirt dragged on the ground like a bird's tail feathers.
"Xizel, my child... I heard from the guards that you came to visit your father." Kaliliana said as she walked.
"Mom, are you disappointed that I'm not dead?" Xizel suddenly asked.
Kaliliana was startled.
"It's okay... I don't hate you." Xizel said calmly, "I will leave here on August 1st as promised, and will never set foot in the small garden again. If you still have even a little bit of affection for me, please let me and Li Qingping leave together..."
He paused and said, "You are the only one who can convince the two brothers, right?"
Kaliliana remained silent for a while before she spoke: "What are you talking about, kid?"
She paused, then looked down at Li Qingping who was half-kneeling on the ground: "Li Qingping, I heard that you took the initiative to ask to withdraw from the Royal Court Team. Don't you know how much the king values you? Even after you left the box garden without saying a word, he still kept the position of deputy captain of the Royal Court Team for you... But after he fell ill, you resigned from the position immediately."
Li Qingping remained silent.
His face was cold, and his dark eyes were reflected on the ground, as if he refused to answer her words.
"Forget it..." Kaliliana whispered, "You all should go back and let the king rest in peace."
Xizel turned around, his white hair falling down, covering his eyes. He silently passed by the queen holding the crystal ball, and Li Qingping followed closely behind.
If it were a different time, Li Qingping might choose to capture Kaliliana to threaten the Royal Court team.
But now the legendary whale has not landed yet, so there is no point in doing so. Instead, it will give them an opportunity, an opportunity to label him a "traitor" and take action against him openly.
On the way back, Yagubaru muttered quietly: "You trash Red Dragon, if you want to make friends with Shark Shark, you have to pay a friendship fee."
Li Qingping was not only puzzled, but also very unhappy.
He was about to open his mouth to choke the shark, when César beside him suddenly explained:
"The friend fee that Yagubaru mentioned is the odd story fragments. It seems that it can become stronger by eating odd story fragments, so in order to break through, I have been feeding it fragments these days."
"Did you hear that, you small fry red dragon?" Yagubaru squinted his eyes and slapped the sea water with his tail.
"Green Tea Shark..." Li Qingping said calmly, "But it's not impossible for me to feed you some garbage."
As he spoke, he summoned the atlas of strange stories, quickly took out some fragments of strange stories that he would never use on a daily basis, and threw them into the crystal ball one by one, as if he was feeding a pet.
The little shark's eyes were shining like Astro Boy. It used its tail to open the lid of the crystal ball, opened its mouth, and swallowed the fragments thrown by Li Qingping like eating potato chips, then touched its belly with its fin.
It burped contentedly, "Li Qingping, you are the best... Since you have paid the friendship fee, I, Shark, will no longer call you a trash red dragon. I am very kind to my friends!"
Yagubaru paused and lowered his voice:
"Green Tea Red Dragon."
"Trash shark."
Li Qingping said this expressionlessly as he put away the atlas of strange stories floating in the air.
Seeing that the man and the shark were getting along well, Xizel looked away from them without any worries. For some reason, Li Qingping seemed to like the shark very much, as if he thought it had some similarities with one of his friends.
During this short journey, Li Qingping fed Yagubaru a total of 10 popular-level wonders that he had no use for, and 5 general-level wonders.
[Has swallowed 10 "popular-level" odd story fragments and 5 "general-level" odd story fragments, triggering the effect of the exclusive training system "Odd Story Gluttony", your real body size increases by 22.5 meters. ]
[Unit 3 - Eternal Shark "Akubaru" changes in size: 124.5m → 147m. ]
Yagubaru patted his round belly with his fins and licked his small fangs: "Shark, I can't help it... I'm going on a killing spree."
"Green tea." Li Qingping said.
"Trash." said Little Shark.
(End of this chapter)
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