Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 100 Is he an ordinary person?
"Okay."

Shesta's voice echoed in the kitchen: "Then let Shemi go out and gain some experience."

"Sister, you can't spoil her too much. It's not good to let her stay in the hotel all the time... Eh?" Xie Liya was suddenly stunned and hadn't reacted yet: "Sister, what did you say just now?"

"I said yes."

Shesta said slowly, "Although the outside world is dangerous, the yearning for distant places and freedom is the nature of traveller fairies. Just like the old proverb of our tribe says, there is no temper without wind and rain. As her sisters, if we cannot avoid it, we can only support her with all our strength."

She smiled at Xie Liya again and said gently, "Or, in your mind, am I the kind of bad sister who dotes on my sister, wants to tie her down to myself, and doesn't want her to grow up, Xie Liya?"

"Alas!?"

The bartender's scalp went numb, and she felt a chill running straight from her spine to her brain. She was so scared that she shuddered and shook her head quickly: "No, there is no such thing. Big sister, you know me well. How could I have such disrespectful thoughts?"

"Huff, that's true." Shesta seemed to believe it, her eyebrows curved into crescents: "Because Xie Liya has always been a good girl, from childhood to adulthood. Well, when she was fighting with boys when she was young, she was a little too heavy-handed..."

"Alright, alright, big sister, that's enough!"

"Maybe." Shesta smiled, showing the composure of an elder sister. "Don't forget, although she looks weak, she is a stubborn child at heart. The situation in the hotel is not optimistic now. If we ask her to complete the pilgrimage at this time, will little Shemi feel that she has abandoned her sister and everyone and ran away alone?"

It's just that she hasn't encountered anything that requires persistence, so she is weak more often than she is stubborn. This makes Xie Liya, the second sister, inadvertently ignore her true character when thinking about problems, which makes her seem a little one-sided.

Xiesta just smiled and didn't explain why she chose Lingge. She calmly changed the subject: "It would be great to ask Xiaoxia for help. She probably won't refuse. But how do we convince Xiemi?"

"Eh?" Shesta blinked her beautiful green eyes in confusion, and said uncertainly, "You mean Xiao Xia... I thought you were going to say Mr. Ling and the others."

It's worrying.

Xie Liya nodded: "I would like to ask Xiao Xia for help to take Xie Mi away from Rostin."

"That's right."

"It's difficult. Even I'm not sure."

When Xie Liya heard this, her expression was even more confused than her elder sister. She asked curiously, "Why Mr. Ling? Although he is a good man, he is just an ordinary human being. It is not appropriate for Xie Mi to follow him, right?"

"..."

Seeing that her dark history was about to be teased again, the bartender, who looked heroic but was actually shy, quickly stopped it and forced the conversation back to the point: "Anyway, since you want Xie Mi to go on a trip, why not find her a companion? That way, they can take care of each other during the trip."

"this--"

"That's a good idea indeed." The proprietress agreed, "Do you have a favorite candidate, Shelia?"

Does this still require convincing?
Xie Liya wondered: "She has wanted to leave the hotel and embark on a journey for a long time. She should be very happy after knowing this. Will she refuse?"

"Then what should we do?" Xie Liya pinched her brows, feeling a little headache: "Think of a way to convince her?"

Xie Liya was speechless for a moment, and then subconsciously felt that this was indeed something that could happen.

Because just as the eldest sister said, their younger sister is a girl who looks weak but is very stubborn at heart.

"Have."

If the eldest sister, Shesta, can't do it, then the second sister, Shelia, will be even more helpless.

Is there really nothing we can do?
His heroic eyebrows were deeply knitted together.

"Don't worry, Shelia." Shesta comforted her, "Before convincing Shemi, we have to discuss it with Xiaoxia first." "But I don't know where Xiaoxia is now..."

baa—

Before Xie Liya finished her words, they suddenly heard the soft cry of a lamb, which floated into their ears.

Almost as a reflex, they all looked up at the same time, in the direction of the sound, but they only saw a wooden wall, blocking their view. Therefore, they could only judge based on the subconscious thoughts in their minds, and then they got the result: the person they were discussing finally appeared.

……

In the hall, Ling Ge also heard the sheep cry and immediately realized something. He looked back and saw the hotel owner and the bartender came out of the kitchen one after another. The former walked towards the exit of the hotel, while the latter walked towards him. After approaching, she lowered her voice and said to him, "Xiao Xia is back."

really.

Lingge got the answer he had been waiting for. He couldn't tell what his mood was like. Maybe he was very calm, or maybe he was a little turbulent, because he had a premonition that some kind of destiny was about to return to its normal track.

The young man who came here at the call of the golden apple drank a sip of ice water in the cup, trying to cool the inexplicable throbbing in the depths of his heart, but failed. This shows that fate is not something that can be suppressed artificially. It flows between people's fingers, but there is a sense of loneliness that transcends sensibility and rationality.

It was as if someone was watching me from behind the fog.

In a trance, Lingge saw the fog and those eyes. They seemed gentle, yet cold. Images more complex than human emotions were depicted in them, as if they were just born.

The potted chandelier on the ceiling suddenly flickered vigorously, and the light seemed to hurt his eyes, so the young man lowered his head slightly, letting his eyelids cover those broken golden thoughts, and still maintained a calm tone: "I am very happy to hear the news, because it is not too late now."

Shelia observed his expression, then pointed out directly and without reservation: "But you don't look happy at all."

Ling replied: "Maybe this is an error in expression."

His answer was a little obscure, and Shelia thought for a while before she suddenly realized: "Is this the polite phrase you humans often say?"

Lingge fell silent.

Xie Liya looked at the human in front of her and suddenly felt that he was a little strange. Not only was it strange for an ordinary person like him to appear in the fairy hotel, but it was also strange for him to appear at this banquet, because he was completely out of tune with the atmosphere of the banquet. When everyone else was enjoying the fun, he was the only one standing here, waiting for someone who didn't show up at the banquet.

If waiting is the only purpose, does that mean he won't consider other things before waiting?

It’s weird.

Xie Liya's eyes flashed with confusion. She wanted to leave, but somehow, the conversation with her elder sister in the kitchen just now suddenly emerged in her mind. She remembered what she said, and thought she would choose Lingge...

But why did I choose him? Why did I feel that I would choose him?

Choose an ordinary person to help the traveling fairies complete the most important pilgrimage of their lives.

Not to mention whether an ordinary person like him can protect Shemi from the pursuit of the Night Watch, even if we simply discuss the meaning of travel, in the long pilgrimage of the traveler fairies, the distance they have traveled is calculated in units of ten years, and the pace of never stopping far exceeds the accumulation of a human's lifetime. In other words, the traveler fairies are destined to go to more distant mountains, plains, forests, deserts, wastelands, swamps... and some people will never leave their city or their country in their entire lives.

Is he such an ordinary person...?

Xie Liya fixed her eyes on the young man's face, and suddenly asked without thinking, "Mr. Lingge, what do you think of Xie Mi?"

"..."

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(End of this chapter)