"That is to say...this time, you didn't follow?"
In the narrow cabin, the blue woman who closed the door leaned against the corner of the wall, folded her arms and asked, "Did you fail again?"
"Ninglan understands what Mr. Tian is thinking now. Tianlai's novel Ww'W.'⒉" Facing the other party's doubts, the maid holding a broom still kept smiling: "So... Ninglan is not sad at all."
"What do you think now...it has nothing to do with me in the first place." Xu Yu Liushang chuckled: "I just want to find him as soon as possible."
"Ninglan has no such intention."
The maid bowed slightly: "Ninglan is also very supportive of Miss's plan, but..."
"OK OK."
Looking at the red girl standing at a loss, she whispered and raised her hand to interrupt the other person's words: "Since you are so soft-hearted, then... I'll do it myself."
"He went to the West City Gate, right?"
At the maid's nod, the blue woman lowered her head and exhaled a long breath, then picked up the sword she had just put down, turned and walked out of the place, leaving only the still smiling Ningyu Ninglan, and the still smiling The confused red girl.
"She, she..." After her lips trembled for a long time, Qian Zhihe slowly raised a finger: "What's her attitude?"
"Most of the people here are not ordinary people." The maid glanced at the girl, and then continued her cleaning work. It seemed that she did not intend to give any more explanations: "...except for the group leader."
"If you want to join our adventure group, you... still need to be fully mentally prepared."
"No, no, that woman just now..."
Thinking of the way the other party looked at her when she first entered this room, Qianzhihe, who felt inexplicable pressure, once again took back what she wanted to blurt out: "Uh... I mean, she, she, she looked like that What am I doing..."
"Based on the current situation, Miss Qianzhihe... you are not yet a member of our adventure group." The sound of sweeping the floor surrounded Ciyu Ninglan: "So... you who are still staying here will cause It’s other people’s misunderstandings.”
"……snort."
Some pictures appeared in his mind, and Qian Zhihe, who finally reacted, let out a groan from his pointed nose, then crossed his arms and ran away: "I don't want it, in my dictionary... But there are no words like "give up"! When will your group leader come back? I want to talk to her personally!"
"It may take some time for the leader to return. The specific time... Ninglan can't be sure. If you must wait..."
"……All right."
The red girl looked at the person who was cleaning the room with his head fixedly for a while, then responded with a dull sound, and slowly sat on the ground against the corner. She hugged her knees in a low mood, as if she was thinking about something, but after a while she got rid of this depressed mood, and began to look forward to the bright future in her imagination. At the same time, she also had a leisurely mind, and began to look at this. A small room that she had visited twice. Since it was arranged like an office, the only chair in the room had been taken and placed behind the small wooden table, and there was no resting furniture in the rest of the room. This made the girl sitting on the floor feel a little sad. She was unhappy, but looking at the maid who was holding a broom and seemed to have never stopped cleaning, her mood gradually changed, because ever since she started working as a housework, the maid's beautiful face had always maintained A charming smile.
With nothing to do, she started asking questions of her own.
"You...no, it's your adventure group...who is there now?"
"There are currently five people in our Fool's Adventure Group. You should know this." The maid with her head lowered quietly replied: "In addition to the few people you met yesterday, there is also a person named Xiao Hongchen. You haven’t seen it yet.”
"Laugh... laugh at Hongchen? This name seems not to be as high as mine..."
Secretly curling his lips, Qian Zhihe looked at the low ceiling and began to recall the scene in the wooden house by the river last night: "Then... where is that uncle? The one called the Smiling Butcher..."
"...According to the leader and others, the Smiling Butcher and...another player were originally members of the adventure group." The maid replied with a smile: "But later, due to various reasons, they all left."
"In this sense, they can also be regarded as the founders of this adventure group."
"Um……"
A long final note came out of her nose, and the girl looked at the maid who was spinning the broom in front of her: "Well, when did you come to this group?"
"Miss Xuyu Liushang and I found this place later." Enyu Ninglan whispered: "I'm glad that the leader can take a fancy to us and let us join here."
"Now that I think about it... Ninglan is really lucky."
"This..." the girl asked cautiously: "Are...the rules for joining your adventure group...difficult?"
"Well..."
Stopping her cleaning, the maid, who was leaning on the ground with one hand, straightened up slightly, and put the fingers of the other hand on her chin: "Ninglan originally thought that Captain Mengzhu was a very talkative person, but now it seems Looks like...she is not a team leader who leaves her team members alone."
"That, that..." The girl rubbed her hands uneasily, and looked at the other person secretly: "Is there any tips or something? For example, what does she like and what does she hate..."
"Ninglan doesn't know."
The maid looked at the other person for a while, then smiled brightly.
"Hey, forget it if you don't say it..."
The girl hugged her knees again and fell into an unspeakable silence. It was not until the maid who seemed to be immersed in cleaning finally put down the broom in her hand that she asked the next question in a dull voice: "You...you are now Where are you doing all the activities?”
"If you are referring to activities organized in the game such as killing monsters and upgrading, we don't have any activities."
"……ah?"
"Aside from making money and talking about business, the leader usually doesn't care much about us." Ciyu Ninglan picked up a rag that came out of nowhere and began to wipe the small square table in the corner: "So we usually I have more free time.”
"This, this...then how do you become stronger? No, before this...how did you survive? Aren't the prices of things here very high?"
"The problem of surviving is nothing to us." The maid answered with a slight smile: "Even the leader who travels back and forth just likes to make money."
"..."
The girl who was speechless again looked at the other party steadily for a long time, and seemed to have lost the focus of her eyes: "Your adventure group is really amazing..."
"Our adventure group is not famous at all now." The maid shook her head slightly: "We don't even have a station, we can only stay in this small room every day... However, Ninglan is still very satisfied. .”
"It's a good place and a good person." Ninglan showed a bright smile again and whispered in a low voice: "Ninglan will try his best to protect them."
Perhaps because she didn't know how to respond, the red girl fell silent again, and with her eyes buried between her knees, she quietly looked at the maid player who was happily cleaning the room, seeming to be thinking about what the other party had just said. If so, and the significance of this player dressed like this appearing here. The maid, who was still busy, didn't seem to care about the other party's intentions. Instead, she wiped everything in the room in an orderly manner, and sorted out the potted plants placed in the corner and the documents on the small wooden table. Then, in the near-noon sunshine, he took out a tea set like a magic trick and placed it on the square table in the corner with elegant movements.
"you……"
As the girl opened her eyes wide, Ciyu Ninglan brewed the liquid in the teacups in a few seconds, and then slowly brought it to her: "Miss Qianzhihe... do you want to taste it?"
"No, no, that, that..."
"This is a drink developed in Blue Island. It tastes like black tea." Looking at the flustered girl, Ciyu Ninglan smiled even sweeter: "Please feel free to taste it."
"No, no, no, I won't taste such high-end things." The girl smiled dryly and waved her hand: "It's better not to waste it..."
"Hey, is Miss Qianzhihe already hungry?" Ningyu Ninglan looked at the other party in confusion: "Or... I still don't like Ninglan's skills?"
"No, no, I don't mean that." The smile on the red girl's face became stiffer: "That, that... By the way, I'm just hungry. You see, it's already noon, and it's almost time. Hahahaha... …”
"...In that case, Ninglan should prepare lunch."
The maid looked at the other party for a while, then slowly straightened up: "You are also a guest now, we can't neglect you..."
"...Huh?" The red girl jumped up hastily: "No... No, no, no! I'm not an outsider..."
"If Mr. Qingshan finds out, maybe he will blame Ninglan." The maid who seemed to ignore her turned around and walked out of the room. Her voice became more and more distant: "According to Ninglan's understanding, you also have a big appetite." big……"
"Wait, wait a minute!" The red girl stood there for a second, then chased out with her robe in hand: "I can just do it myself!"
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No one else knew what happened at the end of the lunch, but the girl named Qian Zhihe did not come back. Dozens of minutes later, the maid with a smile returned to this place calmly. She looked around at everything in the room, put away the cold tea cups, and then stood quietly in the corner of the hut, as if Like a standing goddess, quietly waiting for the next person to arrive. Not long after, Mengzhu, who was wearing black leather armor, opened the door in a hurry and burst into the small room full of energy: "Hello, home! What's going on today...eh?"
"Why are you the only one?" The little girl shouted dissatisfied: "Where is Uncle Qingshan? Didn't you let him..."
"Mr. Qingshan went out to do a mission." The maid opened her eyes and replied with a smile: "He hasn't come back yet."
"Why did he go out again?"
The little girl with a pouted mouth walked slowly to the center of the room, and then sat behind the wooden table. She held her chin and thought for a while, and unconsciously picked up a stack of documents in one hand: "Hmm...how are things going today? Has anyone come to the door?"
"So far, only one person has been here." Ciyu Ninglan replied: "Mr. Qingshan has already talked with him, and the other party said... he will think about it again."
"...Well, after all, it was a temporary idea, so we can't expect too much." The little girl turned over the pages that Duan Qing had already flipped through before: "Then these...are all from before?"
"Yes, Mr. Aoyama and I have sorted it out a little bit." The maid smiled and nodded and said, "The commissions and work currently undertaken by our adventure group are all here now."
"What about the rest?"
"Miss Xuyu Liushang has gone out, probably to complete some of the commissions. Mr. Xiao Hongchen...has not come back yet."
"That guy...probably went to another place to run wild again."
Finding a piece of bread from the bag behind his back, Mengzhu curled his lips helplessly: "Where is Uncle Qingshan? Where has he gone?"
"West City Gate." Ningyu Ninglan quickly replied, "But whether it's still there now... Ninglan can't be sure."
"...Hmph, if I find out that he is lazy again or gets into trouble, let's see how I deal with him!"
After saying this with resentment, the little girl began to check the documents on the table while nibbling the food in her hand, confirming the existing commissions and tasks of the adventure group. The silent maid still stood behind her with a smile, trying her best to maintain the tranquility in the room. Then when the other party was about to finish eating, she once again took out her own set of teacups like a magic trick: "Master Captain."
"Um...thank you."
Subconsciously taking the tea cup, the little girl nodded in response, and then continued to look at the things on the table while drinking tea: "The goods in Fenghua Town... seem to be a bit far away Ah, the defense recruitment of the city guard...who would do such a thankless task! Collecting foxtail grass...where does this kind of grass grow?"
"In the Feron Plains, Commander."
"It's a war-torn area... No wonder the bid is so high." So the little girl threw it aside again: "Let them go to the imperial people to buy it."
Time passed slowly with such exchanges, until when the sun began to set, the little girl with her golden braid hanging down on the table finally panted and turned through all the pages: "Huh - why is it like this?" There are so many, and they are all so trivial..."
"Some of them are the backlog of commissions that you and Mr. Xiao Hongchen have accumulated in the past. The ones that have expired...we have disposed of them all." Ciyu Ninglan, who was still standing behind him, replied with a smile: "The remaining ones...are from the association. Daily commissions hanging in the halls.”
"What? Are you following them all?" Mengzhu said in shock: "If we can't finish it, we will be scolded by Freestone! If we don't make it right, we will be demoted..."
"Anyway, there is no worse outcome, so what if we take them all?"
There was a slight smile in the maid's answer: "These are Mr. Aoyama's exact words."
"Damn uncle..." The little girl gritted her teeth: "But there is some truth..."
"There are still some tasks that Ninglan and Miss Xuyu Liushang have. We have not included them." The maid continued to introduce: "Mr. Qingshan said... we should be able to solve it ourselves."
"I agree with this." Mengzhu nodded with satisfaction: "You two are quite good. I have searched all over the free world and I probably can't find a better player than you. Alas..."
"Sometimes I suspect that I am dreaming." She raised her head: "What's so good about our adventure group, why do you let you join..."
"We are not the only ones who want to come in." Encrypted Ninglan did not answer her question, but instead raised a finger: "Like Miss Qian Zhihe this morning..."
boom!
The door was pushed open again, and the two people whose conversation was interrupted looked up and saw a figure with a large sword dragging his body walking in unsteadily.
"I knew...that guy would be up to no good when he came to me."
Looking at the two women looking at each other, Duan Qing said slightly tiredly. (To be continued.)
