Alice in the Land of Steam

Is Chapter 577 Duzhang coming?

Are all Chapter 577 back?
The goods sold in the markets of deep-sea aliens are very different from those sold on the ground. Treasures such as crystal corals, aquamarine and crystal amber, which are priceless on land, are only used as decorations and lighting in their shops. The really popular goods are the rare sea beasts living in the bottomless abyss, the gray-scale worms that can detect tsunamis and underwater volcanic eruptions, and various native spices mainly used to mask the smell.

The only commodity that is equally popular in the above-ground world and the underwater world is medicine.

According to conservative estimates, the ocean area of the Mirror Star World is equivalent to five times the combined area of the eastern and western continents. In these vast oceans, the power of nature has given birth to more strange creatures, and the deep-sea aliens are not as ignorant and barbaric as people on earth imagine. They have mastered the basic properties and living habits of these creatures in thousands of years of civilization, and have begun to try to give them unique physiological and pharmacological effects.

If there is a book that covers the development history of all intelligent races in the Mirror Star World, then when you open the book, you will be surprised to find that the deep-sea aliens are far ahead of those people on the earth who claim to be the origin of civilization in the use and cultivation of natural species. When they had already regarded pharmacological knowledge as a professional discipline and carried out systematic summary and induction, the people on earth were still in an ignorant stage where they only knew the effects but not the principles. They regarded herbs that could cure diseases after boiling as "gifts from God" and understood the effective mechanism of drugs such as animal bones or insect powder as "beasts expelling enemies in their bodies"; the dragons called the three-leaf dragon-patterned grass growing in their nests dragon's breath grass, and believed that eating the dragon's breath grass that had accompanied them since childhood when they were dying could return the original breath to the heart, thus gaining another life; the giants would use salt and mud to stimulate the wounds of the wounded, and at the same time use natural hallucinogens to hypnotize their senses, believing that through this fierce and psychedelic battle they could kill the demons growing in the body... This chaos continued until the first great witch of the Moryas wrote down the characteristics and habits of thirty-six medicinal plants on his parchment, and the people on earth finally had a rudimentary herbology.

Unfortunately, due to the large differences between the two environments and the adaptability limitations of biological organisms, few people on earth come to the deep sea to experience the differences between land civilization and ocean civilization. A few lucky people will catch a glimpse of the dawn of deep-sea civilization by chance, such as Magellan, the navigator who mistakenly entered the "hometown of the dead" city of Yixu, but his description in "Yixu Township Observations" obviously focuses more on those ancient mysterious rituals and the strange and illusory atmosphere. The residents of Yixu who built churches in the world of the living and explored the mysteries of the afterlife, as well as the legends they passed down, such as the dead ceremony, the dead soul festival, the boat of the underworld, the soul habitat, the end of no return, and the immortal treasure, attracted countless explorers and adventurers to flock to it, and for a time, the chaotic sea, which once made people shudder, became the new favorite of navigators.

Now, another lucky person has come to the underwater world and witnessed the prosperity of the "Mirror City" Nereids with her own eyes. She is deeply fascinated by the appearance of it in front of her. She is a person who is fortunate enough to experience the huge differences between the two civilizations and is very likely to make some outstanding contributions to their integration in the future, although now she is just a little girl who is struggling with what to buy.

"Well, Moonlight Sand, it cures blindness, brain diseases and anemia. Long-term use can help you gain night vision, but you cannot take more than one gram at a time, and it must be mixed with the juice of Bile Grass. Rock Shedding, the shell shed by rock crabs, can cure a variety of leg diseases, but because rock crabs are difficult to catch and have a long molting cycle, they are quite expensive. And this, the tooth powder of the Thousand-Mouth Faceless Fish, uh, it sounds disgusting, but the effect is unexpectedly powerful. It can be added to any medicine as a neutralizer to enhance its own effect..."

The pink-haired girl hesitated for a long time in front of a store counter, but still couldn't decide what to buy. On the one hand, she was not familiar with some of the medicines and was afraid of wasting them; on the other hand, she wanted to buy too many things, and the total amount was not a small amount.

"Why are you so conflicted?" Xie Mi sat on her head, holding her chin with both hands, and asked in confusion: "Didn't Galene say that you can buy whatever you like and she will pay for it? In that case, just buy all the goods in this store. After all, she is a princess and should not be short of money."

As soon as these words were spoken, the boss, who looked like a bighead carp that walked upright and whose scientific name was the Fezero, immediately smiled and nodded repeatedly to show his agreement. He almost knelt down and kowtowed to Shemi to thank her for her great kindness.

Metien smiled bitterly and replied, "It is because Sister Galene said so that we cannot spend money recklessly."

"Why?" Xie Mi didn't quite understand. In her simple moral concept, if someone pays for her, then she should be as extravagant as possible. It's okay to save money for herself, but why should she save money for others?

"Uh."

Metien wanted to explain to her what "customer awareness" meant, but considering that the concept was rather complicated and Shemi's IQ probably had difficulty understanding it, he finally chose to fool her with an awkward smile, then turned around and pointed across the counter: "Please give me this, this, and this..."

Although the boss felt sorry for not buying all the items, he did not neglect these distinguished guests on the ground. Instead, he packed up all the items ordered by Metien at a speed that was extremely inconsistent with his fat body and handed them to Metien respectfully. As for the money, he did not take it. Anyway, after these guests left, the royal court would soon send someone to make up for it.

So Metien returned with a full load, and left the store with a lot of deep-sea specialties. When she went out, she saw Olvera chatting with Galene, and Leticia squatting beside her poking small insects because she didn't like the smell of medicine. She was about to go over and say hello, but she found that Sister Olvera suddenly stopped talking and looked up at the sky above the city. At the same time, the pink-haired girl also had an inexplicable premonition in her heart, prompting her to look up in a daze, her sight passed through the long white steps winding in the sky, and saw a huge sea beast that looked like a giant shark but had eight soft tentacles swimming slowly over her head. Judging from the direction it was heading, it should be heading to the Ice Water Palace.

There seemed to be several tiny figures standing on the back of the sea beast. When Metien saw a familiar silhouette among them, he blurted out without thinking: "Lingge is back!?"...

"Linger is back."

The princess of Beman raised her hand and yawned, and said in a sleepy, vague tone: "Then let's go back first. I don't want to go shopping anymore."

Hearing this, Galene asked curiously, "Lingge... is he the companion you are waiting for?"

"Yeah." Ovella casually lowered her head as a reply.

"Then how do you know he's back? It's so far away, Miss Avella, are you sure you can see clearly?"

"No."

Olvera's answer was clear and concise, without any hesitation. Then she turned her head and said to Galene, who was still in a daze, "But I felt it."

"Feel?"

"Yeah, feeling." Avella nodded and said seriously, "Feelings won't lie."

"Really? Then, I seem to have a feeling too?"

"What does it feel like?"

"It seems that Lorena is back too."