Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 551 Is it really amazing?
Linge couldn't help but ask, "Why do you think so?"

Saint Shallia put her hands behind her back, her eyes fell on the strange fish specimen in the glass display case, and said slowly: "Because you seem to care about her."

"How do you know that?"

Saint Xia Liya tilted her head when she heard this, and after thinking quietly for a while, she suddenly said, "Feeling?"

Lingge was speechless.

When a woman starts talking to you about her feelings, it means that no matter what you say, you can't change her mind. Although Saint Xia Liya is not an ordinary woman, Ling Ge feels that she seems to be no different from ordinary women at this time. In this case, it is better for him to remain silent.

However, his willingness to remain silent did not mean that Saint Shallia was willing to let him go, so the girl asked, "So, is my feeling correct, Lingge?"

"Of course you are right, my dear Miss Saint Charia. As soon as I saw that Lorena, I was attracted to her. Her hair, her eyes, her smile, and her life, which was as fragile and dazzling as glass, were all like fireflies in the dark, so bright, ah, deeply attracted me..."

"you shut up."

Lingge glared at Alice who was dubbing at the bottom of her throat behind him. It was unknown when this girl heard the conversation between him and Saint Shallia, and she inserted her voice into the conversation to make things more complicated. She looked like she was just here to watch the fun.

There was a hint of contempt in her eyes.

I thought I was doing a summer activity, but I didn't expect to run into a side quest. You say Alice is not sleepy anymore.

"Besides," Ai-chan put her hands on her hips and said confidently, "Saint Chariah is right. Don't you care about Miss Rorona? You forgot about your old companions after you got a new beautiful girl. I didn't expect you to be such a person who loves new things and hates old things. I really misjudged you, Lingge!"

Lingge was speechless: You have even used "also", do you still think you are qualified to say this?

"Hehe." Ai-chan saw that her little trick was exposed, so she gave up her hobby of dubbing for Ling'er's psychological activities and apologized with a smile. From this insincere laugh, it can be heard that she herself does not think there is anything wrong with her actions. Anyway, she is just livening up the atmosphere. Besides-

“I guess so.” Ling Ge subconsciously avoided her gaze. Although the young man didn’t know why he avoided her, he explained, “I just think she’s a little weird.”

"Oh?" Alice was obviously interested: "What's strange about it? Tell me in detail?"

After saying that, she raised her eyes, and stared at Lingge quietly with her clear golden eyes, as if she expected to hear a simple "hmm" from his mouth.

At this time, it was Saint Chariya who spoke up for Ling Ge: "Don't say that, Alice, I believe Ling Ge is not that kind of person. He cares so much about Miss Rolena, he must have his own considerations, right?"

Of course, the main reason is that Miss Lorena is a beautiful girl. If it were a rough man, Alice would not be interested in caring about his life or death.

Any plot involving beautiful girls will be brought to justice by Ai-chan!
Linger shared his suspicions with his two friends. His main doubts focused on the illness that Lorena deliberately concealed, and the strange items she made: a sign that could be read without language barriers, a prosthetic leg that could replace a real leg using only wood and gears, and the various props that the old man in the hotel had mentioned before, which she made for the residents of the surrounding streets, did not look like the goods sold in a normal store.

"It's simple, because it's not a normal store." Alice expressed her profound opinion: "It's Rorona's magical workshop!" She felt as if she had told a very interesting joke, but Ling Ge and Saint Shalia just looked at her silently without saying a word. This silent oppression quickly defeated Alice and she raised her hands in surrender: "Ha, ha, I'm kidding, you guys continue, you guys continue."

"In that case," Saint Xia Liya retracted her gaze and asked Ling Ge: "Do you want to investigate?"

Although they were outsiders with no local connections or resources, it was indeed difficult for them to investigate a mysterious store hidden in a dark alley. However, the words of the old man in the hotel had pointed out a way for them: just ask the residents in the nearby streets who had received the favor of Lorena.

They didn't expect them to know more than the old man at the Seabird's Rest Inn, but at least they could piece together a more complete image of the girl from different angles. Most importantly, Lingge and his friends were disguised as "Miss Rorona's guests" and were not afraid of being suspected of having ulterior motives.

Linger seriously considered Saint Shallia's suggestion, and ignored Alice who kept encouraging him. After keeping thinking for about half a minute, he nodded gently: "Okay."

……

While Ringer, Alice and Saint Charlia were leisurely traveling in the distant city of Rotdana, their companions who stayed behind on the Cloud Whale Sky Island were also experiencing an adventure that was far more incredible than encountering the magical workshop in the alley - they were diving into the mysterious and magnificent deep sea with the help of underwater breathing and deep-sea adaptation techniques.

As the cloud whale swam toward the bottom of the sea, it was dark at first, with no light visible. But soon the darkness disappeared, and the world became bright again. Along with the soothing sound of the tide, a beautiful and dreamy world appeared before everyone:

The rock layers in the deep sea extend to the end of the sight like the continents, outlining vague outlines in the darkness, like the giant shadow of a sea beast crawling here, which makes people feel afraid at a glance; some of these rock layers are exposed, showing the obsidian color of steel or the cold gray color of ice, while some places are covered with sand. These rough and dull sea sands hide many traces of life, a few shells opening and closing, or a twisting sea worm; strange seaweeds and other unknown plants thrive in the vague waves, making the desolate and dead deep sea area full of vitality; on the black or gray reefs, fiery red or blue corals compete for splendor...

Metien leaned against the window of the hotel, watching and listening to all this curiously. She had never seen such an incredible sight in her past travels. After all, she mostly traveled in cities, and her footprints were no farther than the mountains or the countryside, which were areas that humans had developed, inhabited, and explored for many years. The deep sea, from the ancient times to the present AD era, has never been conquered by humans.

This is the underwater world, an unknown area that is completely different from the world on the ground.

The races on earth were rampant on the sea with their huge fleets, thinking they had conquered the sea, but they never expected that the true mysteries of the sea were hidden deeper.

Only marine life and deep-sea races can leave their footprints here.

She saw a school of dark fish gathering like prehistoric monsters, swimming in the water to look for food. Suddenly, there was a splashing sound, and predators attacked, startling them and making them flee back. The huge waves raised by the school of fish were even more shocking than real waves. She saw a small crab waving its two claws and acting arrogantly on the beautiful coral reef in the distance, and a creature similar to a moray eel was staring at it in the shadow behind it. She felt that deep in the rough and dark mud, there was a huge black ray. It seemed to have been lurking here for a long time. Its eyes, which occasionally opened, rolled around, showing a bit of cunning and spirituality...

She also saw traces left by humans, but most of them were traces of submission to the ocean: a half-broken scimitar lay silently in a dense seaweed forest, reflecting a slightly cold light; an old-fashioned three-pound cannon, most of its body buried in mud and sand, the black barrel facing upward was occupied by shells, starfish, jellyfish and other creatures, leaving no space for the cannonballs to be fired; several horrible skeletons, still wearing tattered clothes, including linen shirts, sailor shirts, captain's clothes and a black triangular leather hat with a hole in it; the pink-haired little girl even saw the remains of a sailboat, which lay between several towering rocks and several steep stone forests, like an ancient relic lying in the wilderness. The octopuses, jellyfish and even sharp-nosed sharks that occasionally swam in and out of the broken ship holes were the guardians of the ruins, guarding a bronze door leading to the civilized era, but under the sea three thousand meters away from the mainland, it would never have the chance to be opened.

This is the world unknown to human beings.

Metien's hands, which were grasping the window sill, could not stop shaking. She took a long breath, then exhaled gently, turned her head, and said to the two friends next to her very seriously, her eyes sparkling: "Ocean——"

"It's really amazing!"

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)