A subjugated princess will never die a vagabond

"Who is yours?" Lily asked curiously from the side.

"..." Cloris thought for a while and said, "My only family."

"Could it be that you broke up with the family because you eloped because of your ex-girlfriend?" Bai Hu naturally asked this question.

"What family???"

"Uh, it's nothing, do you want me to read it for you?"

"Please."

Cloris doesn't care, it doesn't say anything about leaking information. Even if Mariana wants to trace the source, the Explorers Guild will not leak customer information on such insignificant matters. If someone from the upper world is sent to Guling If there is a court investigation, it will not be something that can be done in a year or a half.

325. Explorers Guild

The telegram with thousands of words was finally sent, and even Lily was amazed at how the calm and steady Cloris could break out so many trivial words.

Depending on the distance, there is also a price difference for sending telegrams. The telegrams of the Explorer Telegraph Bureau in Gulingting can be transmitted from the signal receiving tower to the branch in the lower fog layer at most. If Cloris pursues safety, please go down to the fog layer and then It needs to be transmitted once to reach the interface layer, and then it will be sent to the destination by the post office.

According to the geography of Gulingting in the Deep Realm, even if there were explorers from the Upper Realm, they would first come from the Holy Manro Empire, so it was more troublesome for Cloris to deliver her letters.It is too far away from the Kingdom of France and its colonies, and the Explorers' Guild is distributed all over the world to send telegrams so far.

At the same time, the telegram fee was unprecedentedly high. Ten words would cost [-] star dollars, and just one letter would cost Cloris close to [-] dollars!

But the girl doesn't care about these, what she cares more is whether Xia Xia can receive this letter.

Let the little guy know that she is alive and well, and one day, she will go up again.

"If someone bullies you, or begs for nothing to follow you, I will smash his hand with a water hose... If that old woman can't hold back, I will go up and tear her face..." On the way to leave the telegraph office, Baihu Lili Tasting these words repeatedly, she always felt that it was against the law. She asked Cloris, "Are you so fierce at home? I thought you were a shy and gentle little girl..."

Cloris sneered: "How long have you known me?"

Lily nodded: "That's right... But, if someone bullies my sister, I will probably do the same. Who is that old woman?"

"The person who took her away." Cloris' voice was suddenly sullen.

Lily's eyes flashed with pity, and she said, "Take her away... would you mind telling me what's going on? Telling a lot of things will make you feel better."

"I was born in the sea. My family runs its own territory in the lost country and also controls a small sea area," Cloris said sadly, "but a group of heretics destroyed my home!"

"Cultist...?"

"Holy Cult of Mercy, I heard that these bastards are quite powerful, have you heard of it?" Cloris gritted her teeth with a mournful expression.

"I've never been to Qunhai... It's not easy for you to come from such a far away place, Ci'en... I met an organization that called itself the Charity House in the Muye Plateau, but they seem to be different from what you said, they are all helping Good man of the poor, would rather starve himself..." Lily said uncertainly, "their nun was great, I mean, kind, I mean, I didn't sleep with her, uh, she died..." Bai Hu seemed to recall something more regrettable and sad, and said, "Sorry, she is not the same as the cultist you mentioned, but what about your sister? Why did someone take her away?"

"That old woman took a fancy to Xia Xia's talent!" Cloris clenched her fists. "The cult destroyed my home. That woman promised to protect her and give her a stable childhood, but..."

Lily asked softly: "She blackmailed you with this, right?"

Cloris said despondently: "I have to promise, I am facing a powerful enemy, and I will never die with that cult! So, Lily, do you know how I got here?"

"It will get better," Bai Hu patted the girl's shoulder pityingly, "As a friend, I can help as much as I can."

"Thank you..." Cloris grasped those fluffy paws with emotion. Although the animal appearance was far from her aesthetics, the soft pads were particularly comfortable to pinch.

This is the nature of many human beings. As long as they don't shed their hair, which girl doesn't like to masturbate cats.

"Later, when I was at a loss, I met the Church of the Sun and got salvation from the Bible, so I believe," Cloris nodded solemnly, "everything will be fine."

"But I heard that women who believe in the Church of the Sun cannot find women..." Lily became worried.

"It's just that you can't get married, and..." Cloris said firmly, "The Church of the Stars allows dual beliefs, so I am also a devout believer of the Church of the Stars. As long as it is beneficial to all people in the world, it is a good faith!"

"I didn't expect you to be so kind, Cloris," Baihu said with emotion, "so kind that I want to protect you from malicious harm." She looked at the guild headquarters not far away and asked, "Do you want to register?" As an explorer, you have traveled all the way through the seas, you should know that the identity of an explorer can provide a lot of convenience, but after submitting the review that day, it will take a few days to receive the assessment message."

"Go and see," Cloris said.

The Explorer's Guild regularly releases entrusted tasks, which can be roughly divided into [Investigation], [Sweep], [Gathering], [Hunting] and [Apprentice].

Among them, the apprenticeship does not mean that only explorers who have no experience can accept the commission, but that the matter is not complicated and does not involve matters related to exploration. It is about helping rich women find cats all over the city, and giving spiritual comfort to noble lords who have nightmares. this level.

Classified as [apprentice], even mercenaries and detectives without the status of explorers can accept commissions.

There is no other worldwide organization similar to the Explorers' Guild in the Deep Realm. Even if there are many mercenary guilds, the scope of activities is often limited to one place, and they must cooperate with the Explorers' Guild.

Many commissions even have to be outsourced to other organizations by the explorer's guild as an intermediary.

As Cloris just watched from a distance, it is not so much that the Explorers' Guild was built on the mountain, as it is embedded in the mountain and integrated with the mountain.It's hard to imagine that the huge building complex is owned by a "guild". Just the headquarters of the Explorers' Guild is comparable to an impenetrable city, and the places open to the public only occupy a very small part.

Becoming an explorer does not mean joining a guild. Explorers who truly belong to a guild will have an additional star mark printed on their nameplate.

There are three reception halls in the guild, and Cloris and Lily entered only one of them.This place is more spectacular than the girl imagined, far better than any hotel or bank lobby she has seen in her previous and present lives, and even ordinary palaces are hard to compare to, perhaps only the palace of the Hundred Officials Court Meeting can be compared.

Different from the splendor, the guild hall is simple, primitive, rough but grand, with giant wooden statues and carved stones.The hall is full of precious specimens and strange carvings. Just walking in it, the body and mind will immediately relieve fatigue and enter a state of ethereal clarity. Cloris feels that if she meditates in such an environment.The efficiency is at least ten times higher than before.

"Is this the effect of a miracle..."

Just as Cloris was feeling emotional, Lily was already waving to her from one side of the counter: "Hey, here!" After she finished speaking, she turned around and teased the orange long-eared goblin lady sitting in the counter, " Hi Lolo Lula, long time no see, would you like to have a drink with me after work today?"

326. Application for registration

There are more than [-] busy counters in the middle of the explorer guild hall. On the left side is the commission bulletin board updated daily, weekly and monthly. In the center and right side, you can go up to the common room on the second floor through the stairs. Explorers Here we can discuss tasks, recruit teammates or have lunch.

In addition, if explorers need the guild's help to prepare before departure, they can also apply at the counter. The staff at the counter will make an appointment through a communication device similar to a telephone line, and within half an hour a commissioner will come and talk to you. Explorer clients discuss work.

"Lily, if you have nothing to do, don't disturb my work!" The soft and cute goblin lady wears a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, with a serious attitude in her big clear eyes, and she doesn't care about the big white tiger who is more than three times the size. Fear, "Also, I have found a new girlfriend, and I will never go to nightclubs with you again!"

"Huh?" Lily's ears fluttered, she said, "I thought you liked me more..."

"But I can't accept sharing a girlfriend with someone else!" Lolo Lula smashed a scrap of paper with the pen in her hand, "You are very flirtatious, that's right, but what I want is a stable life and a lover , I hope she can come home four or five days a week to eat my cooking instead of partying with other women in the goddamn nightclub!"

"Who is that woman?" Lily asked.

"Mucie, that foreign girl you helped."

"She!" Lily suddenly realized, she rubbed her head and said, "Although Miu Xi is a little thin, she is very cute when she is shy. I didn't expect you to find her, um... It seems that the three of us happened overnight... She Has your household registration been processed?"

"Mucie has to be married to me for five years before she can apply for the approval of the Tianshu seal," Lolo Lula was particularly dissatisfied with Lily's forgetfulness, "I introduced her to work in the hotel and will be in charge of her life, so you, don't Haunt us again!"

"Okay, then..." Lily continued to ask, "Are you free tonight, would you like to go out for a drink with me?"

"Dream!" Lolo Lula raised her chin proudly, dismissing the big white tiger in front of her eyes, "If you have nothing else to do, just get out of the way, I don't expect you to take a break just because you are doing a commission. The one-month guy will give me a performance boost!"

"I really have something to do, Cloris, here!" Lily greeted the girl again, she let Cloris sit on the chair in front of the counter, and said, "This is my friend, I want you to register an explorer badge for her .”

Lolo Lula adjusted her glasses and asked, "If you just want to take a little girl on an outing in the wild, just apply for a short-term expedition certificate."

"She is not a little girl," Lily said, "Miss Cloris is my employer, if you give her the most decent treatment... I will complete three level 7 commissions this year, and I will accept all of them, how about it?" ?”

Cloris asked, "What's the difference between an expedition credential and an explorer's badge?"

Lolo Lula spread her hands and said to Lily: "The guild is undergoing system reforms, are you sure you want to apply for official status for newcomers who don't know anything?"

She looked at Cloris and said seriously: "The identity of an explorer is a passport that allows you to travel in most parts of the world, but the vast majority of explorers join the guild not to reveal the secrets of those unknown regions, but to support their families. , or make a fortune. At the same time, the geographical environment of the lower realm is complex and diverse. Most explorers will only explore in two or three fixed areas throughout their lives.

"According to the data of the past ten years, at least [-] experienced explorers have died in areas they are not familiar with-even if the guild's rating of those areas is even lower than the places they often wander. Some people with evil intentions use their identity as explorers to commit crimes and ruin the reputation of the entire industry. Therefore, the registration of official explorers will go through strict assessment and approval in the future. In the area of ​​hunting and gathering points, we will issue 'expedition vouchers' to those who have made a living here for a long time. From now on, such people who make a living will no longer have the status of explorers. , and it will be difficult to become an explorer in the future.”

In other words, the expedition credential shares some of the functions of the explorer badge.

Many people who are active in a fixed area do not actually need the identity of explorers, and villains with ulterior motives often use the identity of explorers to pretend to be victims, defraud bank loans, and rob passing business travelers...

For this reason, the Explorers Guild will adopt stricter audits on future registrants. At the same time, in order to prevent negligent explorers from dying in unfamiliar dangers, from now on, each explorer's badge will leave the explorer For the record, when you want to venture to a new place, in addition to the badge level requirements, you have to take a basic knowledge test.

Most of the relics and advance bases in dangerous places are monopolized by the Explorers Guild and its cooperative forces. Unless they can bypass their supply points and open up new paths, otherwise these will be the rules that all explorers must abide by.

"Of course, the content of the reform is still being perfected. If you insist on registering the explorer badge for this lady, as a golden-level explorer, you do have many loopholes to exploit, but!" Lolo Lula stared at Lily. "You have to be responsible to others, you can no longer use the explorer badge as a visa-free passport for transit, and you can't use it as a tool to show off when picking up girls!"

"Hey, why are you such a mother-in-law!" Lily was a little annoyed by Lolo Lula's criticism. After she retorted, she asked Cloris uncertainly, "Is there any problem?"

Blazing Gold...

Cloris remembered that Veronica's Angeline's identity was a Blazing Gold-level explorer, and the other guys hired by Carson Knorris probably also had this level.

"No problem," Cloris said.

"Okay then, give me your identity star emblem."

Lolo Lula took Cloris' identity star emblem and scanned it on a magic device on the right. The basic information of the girl appeared on the device, and the goblin muttered in an unreadable voice: "Hurricane Island, the city that never sleeps, eh , not very far, access records, Canary Firm, Phoenix-tailed Butterfly Big Bath, Phoenix-tailed Butterfly Big Bath, Phoenix-tailed Butterfly Big Bath, Phoenix-tailed Butterfly Big Bath...Damn it, this chick is as hot as Lily!"

"I heard." Lily complained from the side.

Cloris was ashamed, what happened to the big bath?Can't you just take a bath and play cards?This goblin is so familiar with Pteris, it must not be a good thing!

"Your identity star badge," Lolo Lula said as she handed the star badge back to the girl, "with the guarantor of a blazing gold-level explorer, your identity doesn't need much verification, but there will be a written test and ability test in two weeks. For the evaluation, please review according to the officially designated textbooks "A Collection of Explorers' Geographical Atlases" and "Code for Handling Abnormal Disasters", and be sure to arrive on time."

327. A chance encounter

The night sky of Gulingting reflects the Milky Way hovering over the sea of ​​floating stars. During the daytime, the gathering of stars will look dazzling, and the comfortable light from the stars will shine on the earth. But at this moment, the stars seem to flow to the back of the light, only a lazy thin circle Light promotes sleep.

The return train took more than half an hour to arrive at the hotel where Cloris was staying. After Lily agreed to meet at noon tomorrow, she bought a ticket to the Land of Pleasure from the airport near the Explorers' Guild without delay.

As a strong and energetic tiger mother, Lily can toss about three days and three nights without falling asleep. One side is separated from Cloris, and the other side takes a two-hour urban airship to go to a nightclub to have a party. When the beauty in the movie was still immersed in a drunken sleep, she methodically bought the return boat ticket and continued to work as a girl's guide in the city of Light Harbor.

Also as a Transcendent, Cloris, who has been meditating for a year, can also stay awake for a long time, but she certainly cannot have the inexhaustible vitality like Lily. When it is time to rest, the girl will enter a meditative state to recharge her batteries .

At eight o'clock in the evening, the number of passengers on the train is nearly twice that of noon, but they are not travelers and explorers, but workers commuting home. Denggang City is slightly larger than the city that never sleeps. Except for several main urban areas, the Gulf There are also a lot of people in the nearby suburbs, and some workers rent in the Bier district, which is [-] kilometers away from the east of Denggang City. Not only do they have to squeeze the trains every day, but the commuting time alone takes four to five hours.

Housing prices in the southern seaport are expensive, and the northern urban area close to the Explorers’ Guild is even more expensive. There are also many foreign workers in Gringing Court who do not belong to the local area. They do not have real estate, and often several people live in the cramped apartment Here, queue up to go to the toilet in the toilet that intermittently cuts off the water and can make people feel dizzy.

When Cloris came at noon, all the passengers she saw were in high spirits and spirits, but at night, everyone seemed sleepy.

However, although the traffic in Denggang City is busy, the road network is well developed, and there is a subway under the city, so the train is not crowded. At least for now, there are still several empty seats in the carriage.

Opposite Cloris sat a man wearing glasses, dressed in leather shoes, with a fat head and big ears, and his stomach stretched out his buttons. He carefully put his briefcase on his lap, and put potato pancakes and red bean syrup on the table. Finally he was able to catch his breath, and started to gobble it up.

A woman in business attire came over. She glanced at the vacant seat, curled her lips when she saw the fat man eating fat, and finally chose to sit next to Cloris.The woman seemed to be very sleepy, and after a while, she swayed and fell to Cloris' shoulder after trying to brace herself.

"At night, there will be a lot of thieves." The man glanced at Cloris and whispered.

"Ah!" The woman suddenly "woke up", she raised her hand and saw a slight bloodstain on her palm, then looked down, and two cloth hands densely packed with needlework emerged from Cloris's pocket. The doll crawled out from inside, its twilight-like gemstone eyes glowed with a strange light, its stitched lips parted with needles and threads, and it looked up and smiled.

The woman woke up immediately, and she was too frightened to speak, but when her eyes were wide open, how could there be any scary dolls?She yawned deliberately, stood up staggeringly, and went to the other carriages restlessly.

"Thank you." Cloris smiled.

The man didn't respond, he just ate his food in silence, and hurriedly got off the train as soon as it arrived at the station, looking through the window, Cloris saw him continue to climb down the stairs after arriving at the station, presumably he was going to transfer to the subway.

Compared with the city that never sleeps, the traffic in Denggang City is more convenient, but it may not be so friendly to social animals who need to commute every day.

The girl thought of the Oberan door opener, but this kind of teleportation array can only span a few kilometers at most. If you want to shuttle to a farther place, you need to build more door openers as connections in the middle, but the cost of the door openers is high. It will fail, otherwise the teleportation array might really be able to make a deal.

Cloris marked many ordinary people with spirituality. Before the spirituality dissipated, she could enter the dreams of these people from a greater distance, arouse their subconsciousness, and collect relevant information about Gulingting.

As the man got out of the car, more commuting workers squeezed into the car, and a couple sat opposite the girl. She put Mr. Little Duke next to her, and the puppet turned its head from time to time and smiled at passers-by. Makes people afraid to sit down in the creepy chill.

Mr. Little Duke turned his head 180 degrees and suddenly turned towards the door.

A woman in a bathrobe wearing a fox mask walked onto the carriage barefoot, her two hip-length ponytails swaying gently, her ears were slightly pointed, she looked around and found the only vacant seat in the already full carriage.

It is the elf of the day. Although the woman is barefoot, electric sparks linger under her feet, keeping a slight distance from the ground, free from dust. Her voice is very young: "Hello, can I sit here for a while?"

Cloris looked at her and said, "You have to ask Mr. Little Duke."

The fox mask turned towards the puppet. She felt that the extraordinary person in front of her had some mental problems, so she flinched: "Uh... I think it's still..."

"I'm just kidding," Cloris put away the puppet and signaled him to sit down. She briefly hypnotized the couple seated opposite her and asked, "Aren't you being wanted? Why are you showing up in a public area?"

The elf glanced at the two couples with blank eyes, and instantly became vigilant. The color of the fox mask changed, which was a sign of mental attack.

Her eyes behind the mask stared at Cloris for two seconds, and said, "Oh——you are the one in the daytime!" She immediately apologized, "I'm so sorry about bumping into you!"

Just about to turn around and leave.

"Gu—" a hungry voice sounded.

"Do you need me to order for you?" Cloris asked, "Do you think that my partner helped you during the day, and I will be against you?"

The elf thought about it, and it seemed to make sense.

So she sat down generously and said, "Who are you?"

Cloris replied: "Well... Although I am not professional, I am probably a businessman."

The gaze under the mask suddenly became serious, and the voice became tense: "Businessman?"

"I'm from Ubud Nur. At the moment... I'm going to the Lake of Watching to sign a contract in a few days."

"Where is Ubu Noor?"

"The airspace in the northwest of the Sea of ​​Floating Stars is about ten kilometers above the sky."

"It turns out that you are not from Gulingting!" The elf suddenly realized and relaxed, "Can you buy me a piece of bread? I can be a temporary worker, serving dishes, washing clothes and sweeping the floor. I can be ten people by myself!"