Free Web NovelAlthough Yingwu Zhou is one of the lower four prefectures, it is very important in the entire Green Field Star.
This is not only because it connects to Wanglan, the central prefecture, and borders the three prefectures of Green An, Yingyu, and Green Lian, but also because it has a naturally solidified Mystic Ground.
The Mystic Ground is called Endless Sea, and this Mystic Ground has no land, not even reefs.
The entire Mystic Ground is a boundless ocean.
The Endless Sea Secret Realm's passage opens regularly from the 1st to the 9th of March, June, September, and December each year, making it a semi-open Mystic Ground. Although it is under official jurisdiction, it is open to all alliance humans and Transcendent creatures.
That's right, as long as you can afford the price and pass the consciousness-prohibiting test outside the Mystic Ground passage, whether you are human or ghost, an identity-less fugitive, or a ferocious creature that eats human brains and chews raw meat, you can enter the Endless Sea.
On her first day in Leguang City, Mingxi hired a professional local guide at a high price.
It was September.
Local guides are really expensive.
8,000 star coins per hour.
Per hour!
That's equivalent to a common wage earner's monthly income.
But there's no other way; they have the confidence.
Local guides here can only be Leguang City residents; outsiders are not allowed to do it, not even privately. If caught, they go straight to jail.
So, even though they are from the lower four prefectures, Leguang City residents have extremely high happiness. When first met, almost everyone's face was smiling, looking completely non-aggressive.
The local guide Mingxi hired was named Lalai.
Don't let the name sound cute; he's actually a short old man.
Lalai is not only a local of Leguang City but also an indigenous inhabitant of Green Field Star.
After the Blue Star colonization, the Green Field natives were collectively referred to as the Kabu Clan.
The Kabu Clan and Blue Star humans are generally not very different; they don't have three heads and six arms. Both have one head, one torso, two arms, and two legs, just like Blue Star humans.
The most obvious difference is that the Kabu Clan's hair is always green—various shades of green: light green, mugwort green, apple green, pine green...
In short, any shade of green you can imagine can be found on the heads of Kabu Clan members.
Moreover, the greener their hair color, the stronger their physique and the higher their beast-taming talent. It is said that the current Kabu Clan chief's hair color is a deep green so dark it's almost black.
And their hair color only gets deeper; it never gets lighter.
Mingxi's local guide, Lalai, is an ordinary person, and his hair color is very light, to the point of being sorrowful, which indicates that his hair color at birth must have been even lighter. freewebnσvel.cøm
If described using the traditional colors of her previous life's Great Huaxia, his current hair color should be 'heartbreak green'.
Based on Mingxi's shallow understanding of the Kabu Clan, a hair color that is too light would lead to discrimination within the clan, not to mention their status.
For someone like Lalai, whose color is so light it's almost invisible, life from childhood must have been very difficult.
Even though Green Field Star is now colonized by Blue Star, and Blue Star humans are truly in charge, the deeply ingrained customs of the Kabu Clan will inevitably influence Blue Star humans subtly.
After all, Blue Star also adheres to the principle of 'the strong are respected'.
However, Lalai did not show any timidity, cowardice, inferiority, or sensitivity when facing Mingxi. Although the old man looked ordinary, his demeanor was generous and composed.
"Mimi'er, would you like to look around, or do you have another direction in mind?"
Green Field Star has been colonized for 20 years, and the old man's Dragonflower Country language was very fluent, almost without an accent. His smiling eyes gave off a kind and amiable feeling.
Mimi'er is a Kabu Clan word, meaning a budding flower under the morning sun.
It used to be a term used by Kabu Clan elders to address young girls in their families, but later it became more generalized. Any elder, upon seeing a beloved Xiao Guniang, could call her 'Mimi'er'.
In short, it is a term of affection and delight.
As for his question, it was also quite insightful.
To 'look around' means simply to sightsee, in which case he, as the local guide, could make the decisions.
'Other direction' implies other objectives.
Mingxi's smile was equally bright, and she replied, "Ada, I want to enter the Endless Sea Secret Realm in a couple of days."
'Ada' is also a Kabu Clan word, meaning grandfather.
Lalai's smile deepened by three parts sincerity and three parts respect.
He said, "I understand. Then, how about we go to the Deputy Vocational Experimental Center first?"
He hadn't actually expected that this girl hired him for the Endless Sea, which was also the most familiar business for their Leguang local guides.
It was almost the start of the Green Field Fairytale University's academic year, and the moment he saw this girl, he knew she had just arrived from Blue Star.
The environment of Green Field Star is different from Blue Star; the air here contains a substance called 'Yuetide'.
After spending a long time on Green Field Star, both humans and Transcendent creatures will more or less develop faint red marks on their keratin protein substances.
The most obvious is the fingernails; generally, after two months on Green Field Star, fish-scale-like patterns will appear on the surface of the fingertips.
Whether human or Transcendent creature.
So, on their Green Field Star, it's actually very easy to distinguish between locals and outsiders.
His new employer's nails were clean and neat, like ten beautiful jade pieces, so it was clear without asking that she had only recently arrived on Green Field Star.
He had already asked his new employer's name earlier.
Yan Luoxi.
To him, a Kabu Clan member, it sounded quite awkward.
Although awkward, it was somehow pleasant to hear.
Yan Luoxi's appearance was very ordinary, and she should not be over twenty years old.
Her personality couldn't be fully discerned yet, but the fact ◆ Nоvеlіgһt ◆ (Only on Nоvеlіgһt) that she dared to stay alone in this unfamiliar place without parents or relatives accompanying her, with the Endless Sea as her destination, showed that this girl had considerable courage.
And she was very rich.
Not everyone could afford their kind of local guides.
A day's pay would be anywhere from thirty to fifty thousand, or even over a hundred thousand, star coins. Even if a child from an ordinary family spent lavishly, they would absolutely not be able to hire a local guide.
But wealthy families rarely let girls of this age travel alone.
Such a contradiction could only mean that either someone was secretly protecting this girl, or the girl herself possessed formidable strength.
Either way, it indicated that this girl was not ordinary.
Moreover, although the girl's appearance was not striking, her temperament was very unique. She had an aura that made it impossible to ignore her, especially her eyes.
Every time his gaze met hers, he felt as if he was looking into the eyes of the old clan chief.
A delusion?
But he trusted his intuition more.
This was also the reason for his change in attitude.
Mingxi, of course, also noticed the old man's change in attitude and could probably figure out the reason; the old man was a smart person.
And she liked smart people.
Of course, she had no one following her; the people sent by Jinhui Group to assist her had withdrawn the moment she boarded the spaceship.
Dragonflower Country wanted to cultivate her, not pamper her like a delicate young lady.
Flowers in a greenhouse would always remain just flowers.
And Mingxi wanted to become a towering tree that bloomed, beautiful and strong!
So, there were no protectors; don't even think about it.
Every day on Green Field Star, she could only rely on herself.
