Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 61 Will the reunion take place at the dining table?

It was already noon when they returned to Tianxin Church. Alice never expected that after experiencing a thrilling battle, the first thing Lingge did was to prepare lunch, and he even ordered her, the general who had just made great contributions, to wash the vegetables.

What is this? Her main job is a maid?
She picked up the carrot in the basin indignantly, imagining it was her holy sword, and swung it vigorously twice, muttering to herself: "Slash with courage, slash with courage! Kill you, the black-hearted employer who exploits the maid..."

Just then, Lingge walked into the kitchen.

A few drops of water splashed on his face.

He looked at Alice expressionlessly. The maid who was caught in the act seemed a little embarrassed. She laughed dryly twice, threw the carrot back into the basin, and began to scrub it vigorously. As she scrubbed, she said, "I'm not lazy. I'm just testing the quality of this carrot. You know, there are two criteria for choosing carrots, one is crispness, and the other is hardness. I have liked eating carrots since I was a child. They are nutritious and healthy. Everyone calls me the King of Carrots..."

Lingge was too lazy to listen to her nonsense. He wiped the water off his face and walked past the maid to get the seasoning from the cupboard. Today's lunch was carrot stewed beef, salt-roasted mashed potatoes, and grilled trout. Except for the first dish, the others were bought on the way home and were emitting steam on the dining table.

Alice was relieved when she saw that Lingge ignored her.

Then he asked curiously, "Where's Metien?"

"On the second floor." Ling'er's answer was still as concise as ever: "Review."

She is such a good kid who listens to her brother. It’s hard to say that she doesn’t have a brother complex.

"You should put it another way, Miss Alice." Linger glanced back at her and said, "Which normal brother would want his sister to be involved in such an incident? Moreover, she almost lost her life."

Alice heard some resistance in his words: "You seem to not want Metien to be involved in this incident?"

Hearing this, Ling Ge stopped what he was doing, turned around and stared at Alice. His calm gaze made Alice feel a little guilty: Are they really going to kick me out? I was just joking, do you have to take it so seriously?

Of course, Lingge also has his own reasons.

A new idea popped up in Alice's mind, and she blurted out without thinking: "If you really think so, you should kick me out of this church now, right?"

While waiting for the negotiation results, he was involved in an extraordinary incident. When fleeing the scene, he was chased by an evil vampire. The evil vampire turned out to be a reporter who had come to the church not long ago to interview him. When his life was hanging by a thread, he was saved by a mysterious girl who suddenly appeared. In the end, he turned defeat into victory with the magical operation of the maid at home... If it were Alice, she would have to at least post a thousand comments on the forum to describe this series of ups and downs, but the pink-haired little girl just went to review obediently?

"Ah this!"

"She needs to calm down." The young man said, "I can understand that girls of her age are longing for all kinds of fantasy stories. If she experiences them in person, she will have more reason to be excited. But she should understand that this is not entirely a good thing."

It's a very rational consideration, because Lingge is a rational person.

Blood moon, magicians, vampires, night elves... these are indeed cool elements, full of mysterious meanings, which fascinate ordinary people. But is it appropriate to pay the price of life for them?

Alice found herself speechless.

She, a visitor from another world who fell from the sky, is even more unscientific than the so-called vampire.

If it weren't for Saint Xia Liya who suddenly appeared and activated the cassette for Alice, they would all have to be handed over to Fei Yali today. Based on this premise, Ling Ge naturally didn't want his sister to be curious and explore such events. It would be best to learn a lesson from today's experience and avoid it in the future.

"but."

"So cruel?" Alice blurted out in surprise: "After something like this happened, you actually asked her to review?"

But Lingge only looked at it for a while and then looked away. He said, "If you had asked me to do so at the beginning, I would have certainly granted your wish. As for now, I don't have the habit of chopping down the hibernation tree with an axe."

"Cut the axe on the hibernating tree" is a slang circulated in the countryside of the North, which can be roughly understood as repaying kindness with evil.

Alice was confused and didn't understand what he said, and Linger didn't want to explain. In short, the girl just needed to know that Linger didn't plan to drive her away for the time being.

She took the washed carrots out of the basin and handed them to Lingge, who took them, peeled them with an apple peeler, and cut them into small pieces, ready to put them into the pot and stew with the beef. Alice was a little bored after finishing her work, so she lay on the edge of the dining table, staring at the fragrant salt-roasted mashed potatoes without blinking, and calculating the time for dinner.

Behind her, she heard the sound of Lingge chopping carrots. The fruit knife made a "crackling" sound on the chopping board, which echoed rhythmically. Alice suddenly admired him a little. After experiencing such an exciting incident, he could still stand here and chop carrots calmly.

"Don't you have any opinions?" she asked Lingge, "Are you not curious at all about magicians, vampires, and that mysterious world you don't know about?"

"Not curious."

Alice then recalled the evaluation of Lingge in the game console, and said with great agreement: "He is indeed a rather boring human being, and he is not at all like a protagonist."

"Because you and Metien are too young, you always have unrealistic expectations for life." Linger poured the chopped carrots into the pot, covered it with a lid, turned around and said to Alice, "But life should be peaceful. People live in this world to live a peaceful life. Too legendary experiences only enrich your death. If you ask this question to the homeless and beggars on the street, I'm afraid they will answer you the same way."

"How realistic." Alice muttered softly, "But life can't always be peaceful. Accidents can happen at any time, just like today, regardless of your wishes, and drag you into it. What are you going to do then?"

"..."

Lingge remained silent and did not answer.

He had heard similar sayings before. It should be a girl with long blue hair and golden eyes who told him. She said that the fate of the world is predetermined, and the golden apple is a symbol of destiny. Anyone who eats the golden apple by mistake will be involved in a fate that does not belong to him.

Thus, the peaceful life that should have belonged to Lingge was broken: "Religious Decree", shepherdess, visitors from other worlds, blood moon anomaly, game world, narrow escape from death...someone is manipulating fate and guiding Lingge to another path, even though that is not the path he wants to take.

In fact, Lingge could understand the thoughts of Metien and Alice, because he was also a person with ideals. But after that incident, the young man swore in front of Mr. Yanke's tombstone that he would protect his sister and let her live a peaceful life.

Therefore, he was unwilling to accept the guidance of fate and wanted to return to his original path, but now he just lacked a method.

Lingge thought of Saint Xia Liya. If it was her, she should know the answer. However, after leaving the game world, no one knew where she went.

Will we meet again somewhere one day in the future?

dong dong——

Suddenly, someone knocked on the door of the chapel. The sound reached the kitchen and was heard by Alice. She subconsciously looked up at Lingge. The young man said calmly, "Go open the door, Alice, and ask her to come in."

He was not surprised at all, as if he already knew the identity of the visitor.

Because the goddess said that all encounters in the world are destined.

……

A few minutes later, at the dining table.

Lingge, Alice and Metien sat on one side, and the girl with long green hair and golden eyes sat on the other side. The two sides looked at each other silently, with the freshly-cooked carrot stewed beef, salt-roasted mashed potatoes and golden roasted trout between them. The aroma filled the kitchen, making people very appetizing.

"Baaaah!"

The cry of the lamb broke the silence. The girl leaned over, gently held it in her arms, and asked in a gentle voice: "It seems a little hungry."

"Can you give it something to eat?"

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)