Beng San, I have an unfinished date with her

"Nothing is clear."

"The only thing I know clearly is that I have great power. After waking up, I dealt with some Honkai beasts."

"that's it,"

"Just a ghost looking for a home."

Qianjie said, putting down his wine glass.

Brand new branches: 289. Cats on Twilight Street

After this drinking party, Qianjie seemed to be more active.

He really took on the responsibility of providing meals for the traveling team.

He is very positive.

He was even so active that he would stop Takashi and Alicia every time it was time to eat, and ask Takashi to bring out various ingredients and make various kitchen utensils.

Then Long and Alicia were standing by, listening to his roar of laughter and the clanging of pots and pans.

Waiting for the food to be served.

Three meals a day, every time.

It’s really a thousand calamities of passion.

The only problem is - you can only call him Master Qian when Qianjie is cooking. If you call him at other times, a big ball of flame will inevitably hit your face.

But this is of no use to Takashi and Alicia (laughs)

In more than ten days, Qianjie demonstrated his skills and various dishes.

It's amazing - no idea where he learned all his kitchen knowledge.

In this way, they walked along this road and came to a gathering place of humans.

......

"This place... is quite dilapidated, but there seems to be a lot of life activity." Long got off the roof of the wooden cart and said to Alicia.

This wooden cart is very simple, just like an ordinary four-wheeled flatbed carriage, but it can move forward on its own without an obvious power source. Shilong made it using forest resources halfway, so it naturally provides energy for moving forward.

A group of people usually sit on it, just like traveling to enjoy the scenery, and move forward at the normal speed of bicycle riding. When encountering wind and rain, they just put down the waterproof curtain.

Alicia sat in front of the wooden cart, with her hands on her sides, and her legs swayed slightly as she moved forward.

Naturally, she also discovered the gathering place ahead.

The sun is about to set on the horizon, located at the boundary of the world, encompassing the gathering place of mankind.

This caused the human gathering place to look so desolate under the bright red sunset.

Alicia raised her hand to shield her forehead from the sun, looked ahead and said to Takashi beside her: "I remembered, I have been here before~"

"Have you been here before? Does Alicia know the name of this place? It feels weird. There are obviously not many people living here, but the buildings are so poorly maintained, as if no one is managing them."

Alicia sighed: "In a sense, there is really no one to manage it."

"why?"

"Because it's called Twilight Street."

"Twilight Street?... Sounds bleak."

"Yes."

After a while, near Dusk Street, a group of people got off the car and walked. Long just took back his strength and left the intact car board to the destined person.

When they entered this small town called Dusk Street, people on the street cast surprised glances.

It's simple...this group of people is enough to attract attention.

Whether it's Long who appears in physical form, beautiful Alicia, or Qianjie who looks very untouchable with a mask - and their travel backpacks.

People in Dusk Street are wondering why outsiders and tourists come here.

Long felt a little strange. He thought for a moment and looked at Alicia's side face.

Alicia always had a slight smile on her face, which was hard to fathom.

[On this journey, is Alicia re-taking her journey? 】

[Alicia has said that she has passed by many human gathering places along the way. 】

Long looked at Qianjie again: [I see... Alicia wants to make up for what she failed to do in the past. 】

Thinking like this, it flew to Alicia and proactively said to Alicia: "Ellie, let's find a place to live."

Alicia blinked, not expecting that Long already understood her so well, so she happily agreed.

Qianjie had no objection, he just wanted to see more places.

In this way, after persuading (Qianjie Physics) a rental landlord who wanted to raise the price, they established a foothold in Dusk Street.

Although it was just an inconspicuous, dilapidated two-story house on a side road.

Soon after entering, everything inside was transformed under the guidance of Alicia and the power of Long.

Next, it’s time to think of ways to buy some daily necessities.

Twilight Street is chaotic, but this chaos is mainly reflected in the lack of government administrative departments, lack of security agencies, lack of legal departments... and so on.

But people here still need supplies to survive, so shops and commercial activities still exist, and those who can survive are not ordinary people.

So, in this store with a ruthless boss, Long and Qianjie were purchasing the things they needed.

Alicia was attracted by a group of kittens by the wall.

"Meow~~~"

"Meow--"

I saw four or five cats of various colors coming near Alicia and acting coquettishly in front of Alicia. Their intention was very clear, they wanted to ask for things and get close to Alicia.

"Oh my, you are indeed a kitten on Twilight Street, so not afraid of people~?" Alicia smiled and squatted among the cats, touching their heads, chins, and soft bellies - no cats resisted, love Liscia's affinity for small animals is too high.

But the hunger of cats cannot be filled by stroking their chins.

The cats around Alicia sat obediently, meowing and opening their mouths, which made Alicia understand.

She smiled and put down her backpack and took out the food.

As the cats meowed excitedly, Alicia fed them one by one in order to prevent them from grabbing the food.

And just a few minutes later, the cats, who were full and satisfied, surrounded Alicia and exposed their soft bellies, prolonging their voices in an extremely lazy tone.

A shadow came to Alicia's side and quietly explored the backpack, taking away various goodies such as food and sundries inside.

Alicia paused and smiled slightly, but did not turn around directly to arrest the shadow.

Soon, the shadow disappeared.

As the noise of Qianjie and the boss came, Long and Qianjie walked out of the store and walked towards Alicia. The cats also ran away in a strange way.

The breath of Qianjie is too scary for small animals that live by instinct.

"Alicia, let's go back." Long's voice came.

Qianjie was standing by the wall, holding a large box.

Alicia looked at the scattered figures of the cats, clapped her hands, stood up and responded: "Okay~" She picked up her travel bag and the expression on her face changed.

Long noticed something was wrong and flew over to check: "There is something missing?"

Alicia flipped the contents and nodded at the same time: "Well... there is a lot of food missing, canned food and the like. Eh?"

"what happened?"

"Well..." Alicia's face was full of embarrassment... She didn't expect that little guy Pado took away more than just food.

She looked at Long apologetically and stammered: "Long...I'm sorry...the crystal flower you gave me..."

"Is it broken? Don't worry, I can fix it." Long came over to take a look, but he didn't see the pink-purple crystal flower in the small compartment in the travel bag...

"this-!"

Alicia touched her face and said awkwardly: "Probably, maybe, maybe...it was stolen."

"..." For the first time, Long learned what it meant to feel angry, but not towards Alicia, but towards the thief.

But it immediately suppressed its emotions and said: "It's okay. The crystal flower was made by my hands. I can feel its position. Wait until I get it back - that is the first gift I gave you. .”

"Qianjie, please take your things back and I'll find someone."

Before Alicia and Qianjie could say anything, Long quickly flew into the sky and disappeared in front of the two of them.

After Qianjie was stunned for a moment, he began to walk towards his residence, and at the same time mocked: "You kid, you can't even take care of your own things."

Alicia looked at the backpack speechlessly... She really didn't expect that Padofelis's hands and feet were much faster than she thought. It seemed that after entering the Fire Chaser, Felice was indeed It has become much more restrained.

"Too bad..." Alicia suddenly muttered to herself as she was thinking about it.

After all, that was the first gift Long gave himself - a crystal flower hairpin.

Brand new branches: 290. Alponia’s orphanage

"Hehe - we won't be short of food today, or even for several days."

"Yeah! I can have a few lazy days again~"

The brown-haired girl looked at the food around her and cheered happily in the secret base of the tin house in the corner of the town.

This corner is located where the windowless faces of several houses converge, resulting in a wonderful leakage of useless land.

And this inaccessible location has become an excellent secret base for her and the stray cats - of course, she has many secret bases.

"(>^ω^

"Haha, thank you very much, well done."

She said, touching the kittens that were also surrounding her.

They curiously looked at the things the girl took out and rummaged around, but they didn't find a way to open them.

After all, they were all full just now.

After the brown-haired girl finished touching, she divided the food around her into several portions and counted them with her fingers.

"No, no... I was too excited just now."

"If it's all, I can rest for six or seven days."

"But if you give some to the orphanage, well...three or four days."

"If you give me more...eh? I can only rest for a day or two!"

"Ah~~~? How is this possible? It's not like we always have such good goods delivered to our door."

"How about giving half away?...Hmm——"

"Ah!! It's so annoying. I don't want to think about it anymore, so that's half the problem!"

"Meow?" The cats looked at the brown-haired girl's inexplicable irritability and were surprised.

The girl didn't say much, but took out a crystal flower hairpin in her pocket and looked at it carefully.

She said to herself: "What is this? What a beautiful hairpin, shiny."

Light came in from the small window, and she held the crystal flower up to the light to observe.

"Wow -" the girl's surprised voice echoed in the hut, including the cats, who also came over, and some clever ones even tried to climb up on her shoulders and arms to take a close look at the sparkling lights in the light. Beautiful crystal flowers with hundreds of glossy surfaces refracting light paths.

The girl had never seen anything so beautiful...

She thought again of her beautiful sister squatting among the cats... who was the owner of the crystal flower that she had stolen.

She turned her fingertips, causing the crystal flowers to refract various kinds of light, which made the entire cabin seem to change color.

The girl said aloud: "She is so beautiful... I guess that sister is worthy of her."

At this moment, she suddenly seemed to recover from the illusion.

Put the crystal flower in your pocket.