Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 441 Do you blush when you are praised?
"So, how did you end up here, Leticia?" Amid the strong smell of blood, Nevi'er let go of her hand and focused on a question she had previously ignored. She said seriously, "If I remember correctly, before we separated, I should have told you to stay outside the swamp and not to walk around casually. But you seem to have ignored my words, Leticia, when did you become such a disobedient child?"

"I didn't!" Leticia shouted subconsciously. Facing her grandmother's stern gaze, she flinched at first, but soon she mustered up the courage to defend herself: "I came to save you, grandma!"

"help me?"

"Well, I heard that the werewolves from Silver Moon took you away and spread the news about the Eternal Fang in the swamp. I knew they had no good intentions, so I was worried about your situation and came to rescue you. I didn't mean to be a bad kid, grandma."

At the end of her speech, she pursed her lips and looked at Nevile pitifully.

Her aggrieved expression made Nevill unable to say the words she wanted to reprimand. She could only rub Leticia's head and said guiltily: "Then I misunderstood you, Leticia. It was indeed my fault for not explaining the situation to you in advance. I'm sorry. But how did you get in here? Aren't the combined forces of the cult and the guys from Silver Moon fighting fiercely outside? They didn't hurt you, did they?"

Gentle hands gently stroked the girl's body and limbs, and groped her entire body, but no obvious injuries were found, which made Nevile feel relieved.

"No!"

Leticia also boasted proudly: "I sneaked in secretly, and no one found me! Those people are deaf and blind, they can't hear my voice, nor can they see where I am. As long as I avoid their warning circles, I won't be discovered. Oh, right! Grandma, can you see the warning circles on them?"

"A warning circle?" Nevile frowned. "What is that?"

Leticia then realized that her grandmother couldn't see Alice and the others, so she replied honestly, "I'm talking to the spirit behind me."

"Yes, don't worry, grandma, they are my friends. They used that... game magic to help me sneak into the castle and come here to find you. So, they are all good people."

This is a bit troublesome. Leticia originally wanted to take her grandmother back the way they came and escape from the castle. But if her grandmother can't see the warning circle on the enemy, does it mean that she can't sneak like Leticia? Whether being discovered by the werewolf of Silver Moon or being entangled by the mad dog of the Balance of Order, it is a big trouble. The explosion countdown in the prompt box is only 20 minutes.

"So, I hate this kind of NPC escort mission the most." Alice sighed, "NPCs are useless. They can't help at all and attract monsters everywhere. They are useless except for raising people's blood pressure."

She began to evict the illegal tenants in her mind as a landlord. Alice, who had not paid the rent, whistled and pretended not to hear her - of course, the whistle failed to sound as usual, as she did not seem to have activated this skill.

"A ghost behind your back? Is that some new kind of ghost? I've never heard of it before."

This was the insight she had gained from her many years of gaming experience, but Leticia was very upset. She felt that there was some malicious implication in her words, so she shouted angrily, "Shut up! You are not allowed to say bad things about my grandma! Alice, you are so annoying, get out of my mind!"

"Humanity!?"

Apparently, she was invisible.

"Well, no, they're human—mostly human."

Nevile looked at the girl in front of her in surprise: "Leticia, who are you talking to?"

Alice expressed mixed feelings about being suddenly given the nice guy card, but others - especially Lingge - were used to it.

"this--"

Nevile's expression was still half-believing and half-doubting, which was normal. After all, it involved her only relative, and no one could easily accept such an unexpected situation. Leticia was about to tell her grandmother in detail what happened, but in her mind, Lingge reminded her: "Time is tight, the specific situation can be explained later, and now we should leave this castle quickly." Leticia realized that there were only a dozen minutes left before the explosion, so she quickly explained the situation to her grandmother and hurriedly asked her to run away with her.

"The mad dogs of the Balance of Order are planning to blow up the Forloze Castle?" Nevi'er frowned slightly after hearing this, but soon relaxed her brows and chuckled, "This is really a brilliant idea. Even I want to applaud them. I'm sure the werewolves of Neoersu will be more excited than I am when they know about this. After all, in this era, they have nothing else to show off except the history of this castle."

She was still in the mood to tease her old rival. Leticia was so anxious that she kept jumping up and down: "Oh, grandma, stop saying such things now, and leave quickly!"

"Leticia, you don't have to be so anxious. After all, I... Never mind. It's nothing." Nevelle wanted to say something, but seeing the nervous and anxious expression on Leticia's face, she finally shook her head and didn't continue. She turned and walked towards the room: "Wait for me here. I'll be back soon."

"What else does she want to do at this time?" Alice muttered softly.

But Leticia absolutely trusted her grandmother, so she stood at the door and waited obediently. However, the smell of blood coming from the side was a bit pungent, and the body of this guy, Borrefa, lying on the ground was also very ugly. The girl looked into the room and confirmed that her grandmother did not notice the movement outside. Then she suppressed her nausea, grabbed Borrefa's collar, and dragged him away with a grunt. After throwing him to the corner of the corridor, she returned to her original position and continued to wait obediently.

So when Nevelle left the room, the body of Breffa had disappeared. She glanced at the girl with a half-smile, and the latter's eyes wandered, and she stammered: "The body, uh, the body was eaten by rats..."

"It seems that the current situation of the Neoesu family is not very good." Nevi'er suppressed her smile and said seriously, "Even the rats in the castle can't be fed, which is why they are so hungry that they even want to eat corpses like this that are already rotten and smelly inside. Look, they even don't let go of the bones. Aren't they afraid of being poisoned to death?"

This sentence mocked two people at the same time, and it was so sarcastic that Alice couldn't help but shudder: "Why do I feel that this grandma has a sharp tongue? So scary."

"Don't say bad things about grandma!"

Leticia reprimanded quietly, then raised her head and said nonchalantly, "Grandma, can we go now?"

"kindness."

Nevile nodded gently. She wanted to hold Leticia's hand, but before that, Leticia had already held her hand and pulled her forward, saying without looking back: "Then let's go from here, grandma! There are fewer enemies here. The direction I came from is full of werewolves from the Silver Moon and mad dogs from the Balance of Order. But it doesn't matter even if you encounter enemies, because I will protect you, grandma. I will kill them all, just like I killed that disgusting vampire... Um, no, I was wrong. Actually, he committed suicide..."

Nevile didn't care about Leticia's slip of the tongue. She looked at her child quietly, with a warm smile in her eyes.

When did the girl who once cowered and hid behind herself learn to protect others?

No, that shouldn't be said.

It should be said that I have always been protected by her.

She suddenly said, "Leticia."

"What's wrong, grandma?"

"Thank you for coming to my rescue."

The girl didn't speak, but her neck was flushed like a drunk, and it went all the way to her ears. In the distance, the blood-red moonlight poured down the corridor, penetrating into every gap between the mottled bricks and the dull square stones. The empty footsteps seemed to travel far away and would never stop echoing. At this time, Nevelle heard a faint mosquito-like answer: "Yeah."

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)