Apocalyptic life from scratch

Chapter 1046 The Drifting Bottle in the River
"Your Highness, look quickly, what is that?"

As soon as they entered the market, the two were immediately dazzled by the bustling scene surrounded by crowds of people.Along the way, Asuo, who had never been to such a place, kept pulling the boy's arm and asking questions excitedly.

"That's steamed bun fish, a specialty of the human race..."

The young man spread his hands helplessly: "Asuo, didn't you agree that you can't call me Your Highness here?"

"what!"

Asuo also reacted immediately, sticking out his tongue with a smirk.

"I, I forgot again..."

This is not the first time the boy has reminded her, but whenever she is distracted by new things around her, she will subconsciously call out the name of His Highness.This title is almost ingrained in her bones, and it can't be changed just because she wants to.

Thinking of this, Asuo couldn't help but muttered like complaining: "But, people can't change their words..."

The young man also sighed helplessly. He originally planned to pretend to be a brother and sister traveling with Asuo, but unfortunately, Asuo seemed unable to adapt to calling him brother at all. Along the way, she called her His Highness His Highness Come here, there are quite a few people who have heard it, and they have been noticed frequently.

There is no way, the boy can only change his mind now, and change the characters of the two into a prince and a maid who came out to play from a small country.

Anyway, there are too many countries of the human race, and it is difficult for the human race to count how many countries they have. The chaotic state-building mechanism has led to a town-sized city-state that dares to call itself a kingdom as long as it becomes independent. Therefore, in the cities of the human race, It is normal to see one or two foreign princes and princesses everywhere. As long as they are not princes from a big country, their status is about the same as that of ordinary nobles, and they will not attract special attention at all.

"Give."

The boy stuffed the grilled fish he just bought into Asuo's hands.

Asuo looked down at the paper bag in his hand. Inside the paper bag were a few round pieces of grilled fish, which were shaped like steamed buns. The fried egg and vegetable leaves on the top were still slightly steaming. appetite.

Asuo looked at the grilled fish in his hand, and couldn't help showing a smile on the corner of his mouth. He was a little touched, because she just took a few extra glances just now, and His Highness bought it for her without hesitation.

"Thank you, Your Highness..."

Asuo raised her head and said something with a smile, but then she suddenly said with a serious face: "But Your Highness, please don't waste money in the future, we didn't bring much money this time, and we have to be independent next time." In terms of living, there are a lot of places to spend money, to buy ingredients, oil and salt, and to buy clothes, yes, there are outdoor supplies, healing ointment..."

Asuo nodded his fingers seriously and counted everything.However, she soon discovered that she had been talking for a long time, but there was no movement in front of her.

Asuo couldn't help but looked up, only to find that her highness had already left her side, ran to a small river not far away, and was fishing for something from the river.

"Your Highness, are you listening... um, Your Highness?"

Asuo pouted and ran to the side of the boy, just about to complain, but when she got closer, she realized that the boy was holding a small wet bottle in his hand, which seemed to have just been fished out of the water.

"Huh? This... Could it be that someone threw the drifting bottle?"

Asuo's eyes lit up. There have always been legends about the spirits in the lake in the Warcraft Continent. It is said that as long as young men and women with wishes write down their wishes in drifting bottles and put them in the river, they will have a chance to get the lake. With the favor of the spirit in the lake, if the drifting bottle can be picked up before it sinks to the bottom, then the spirit in the lake will connect the two of them. The person who picks up the bottle will eventually meet the person who left it behind, and Fulfill each other's wishes.

Of course, for more people, this is just a legend to coax children.

What's more, there are various versions of legends about the lake elves. Some say that the lake elves are transformed from the Holy Grail that fulfills wishes. When they meet, a wish can be fulfilled. Some say that the lake elves are sword guards and have been guarding them all the time. The legendary holy sword is only waiting to be entrusted to the real predestined person, and it is said that the lake spirit is actually a monster that eats people, and the so-called legend of the lake spirit is just a trick to trick young girls into falling into the net... …

In short, the sayings and sayings about the elves in the lake are basically different in every country, and the drifting bottle is only one of the sayings, and it is not mainstream.

Asuo also saw the story of the drifting bottle in a strange novel, so he was deeply impressed by it. In fact, ordinary people would not be interested in this kind of folklore at all.

"Your Highness, take a quick look, what's written on it!"

Asuo hurriedly grabbed the boy's arm and urged.After all, it was the first time for her to come out to play, and she couldn't hide her excitement when she suddenly encountered such a romantic legend.

The boy did not live up to her expectations, he directly opened the mouth of the bottle and took out the note in the bottle.

"Well-meaning people outside the wall, I need help, if you found the bottle, can you please come and help me?"

It was written in crooked fonts on the note.

Asuo stared at the handwriting on it a few more times, nodded his chin, and said with some uncertainty: "This kind of tone, it should be a girl..."

"no no……"

The boy waved his hand directly, pointed to the writing on it, and said confidently: "Look at his ugly handwriting, he must be a boy!"

Asuo couldn't help rolling his eyes, and said with a smile: "Your Highness, don't judge others by your own standards..."

Her Highness is good at everything, but her handwriting is so-so, no matter how hard she practices it, she can't do it well.Asuo, on the other hand, has very beautiful handwriting.It just so happened that among the blood clan peers they were acquainted with, a few girls had very beautiful handwriting. After a long time, they developed the cognition concept of 'girls are born to write beautiful calligraphy'.

Outside the wall?

The young man looked up and saw that there was indeed a high wall on the opposite side of the small river, and it extended hundreds of meters along the upper reaches of the river, which can be said to be a building covering a fairly large area.

Looking upstream along this small river, sure enough, a similar small bottle can be seen every not far in the river, slowly drifting downstream.

"Let's go and have a look."

The two walked upstream along the river, with the drifting bottle on the way as coordinates, so that they would not go in the wrong direction.

Soon, they came to the end of this high wall.

Amidst the sound of rushing water, the two looked up and realized that the building in front of them seemed to be the outer wall of a knight academy run by the human race. From the outside, they could faintly hear the sound of neat training from inside. .

The two looked at each other and chose to wait in place for a while.Sure enough, not long after, a small hand protruded from a gap in the wall, aimed at the river below, and carefully threw the bottle in his hand.

At this time, inside the wall, a thin figure was shrinking by the wall, throwing out the just-made drift bottle as before.

However, this time, she did not hear the sound of the bottle falling into the water as usual.

The girl was taken aback, and hurriedly looked out through the small crack in the wall.

All I could see was a pair of teenagers and girls standing by the opposite river, and the teenager was holding the bottle she had just thrown in his hands.

The girl was suddenly pleasantly surprised, and hurriedly ran to the steps, using all four limbs, nimbly climbed to the top of the building, poked her head out, and looked out of the wall.

"Are you guys here to help me? Great!"

The girl exclaimed happily.

The two people outside the wall also immediately noticed the voice. Qiqi looked up, only to see that the person protruding from the wall was a child wearing the uniform of the Knight Academy, green clothes and trousers, and a little black hat on his head. , very simple dress.

The young man took a few glances at this man, his gaze skipped over his dirty little face, and finally fell on his flat chest, he immediately turned his head to Asuo who was beside him, and said triumphantly, "Look, Ah Suo Suo, I said it was a man!"

"A boy..."

Asuo stared at the child a few more times, lingering on the other's eyebrows for a few more seconds, and then murmured noncommittally: "Who knows..."

The young man didn't notice Asuo's muttering, he took a step forward and asked the person on the top of the wall, "Who are you? What do you want us to do for you?"

"I, I want you to help me escape!"

The girl had a pair of beautiful light blue eyes, and a few faint strands of sand-blond hair were exposed from the hat. She looked at the two figures below, and a pleasant smile burst out on her small face.

"Then why do you want to escape?"

Amidst the rushing of the river, the boy's black hair fluttered with the wind, and his bright black eyes seemed to be shining like stars.

"Could it be that you committed something in school and you want to be punished, so you want to run away?"

The girl felt that she was attracted by his eyes all of a sudden, and her heart became more and more expectant. At this time, she hurriedly shook her head and said, "No, I just... don't want to marry someone I don't know, so I want to run away!"

"Oh?"

The young man froze for a moment, rubbed his chin, and said suspiciously: "Could it be that, like me, you were asked by your parents to marry a woman you don't know?"

"Ah? You too... yes, yes, that's it!"

The girl froze for a moment, then nodded again and again.I didn't expect that the two people I happened to meet had the same experience as her. This is really a coincidence, but in this way, the chances of them helping her will be greatly increased.

"Hey, we are going to adventure on the mainland next, do you want to go together?"

Sure enough, after thinking about it for a while, the boy suddenly extended an invitation to her.

"Uh-huh."

The girl nodded again and again, and shouted expectantly: "So please, two kind people, help me escape, I want to be free!"

"Your Highness, do we... really want to help?"

On the side, Asuo saw that the young man was ready to act, and suddenly asked with some concern.The two of them escaped this time, and their identities are extremely sensitive. Is it really okay to just bring someone they don't know by your side?

(End of this chapter)