“Eh? You finally woke up.” A sweet voice rang in the ears of Shi Hao. It was crisp, clear and pleasant to hear. People would never forget it and lose themselves in it.
Shi Hao opened his eyes. This is! What the hell? He was actually lying in a small dilapidated wooden house, and there was a young girl in rags next to him. Upon a careful look, that young girl’s age should be in the early teens, but her figure was already tall. Even her appearance was equally good! As for her voice, there was no need to say anything more. Everyone should already know.
“Where is this?” Shi Hao blinked his eyes and cautiously asked. He wouldn’t lower his guard just because this young girl seemed weak and small. He knew that Seafloor World was different from the three continents from the Bizarre Signs Record Book! Anyone of the seafloor, including the historical NPC that spawned here, their initial level wouldn’t be lower than 70. As for the level of Shi Hao, it was 15! What a big joke.
Speaking of which, all NPCs of this place were restricted to go to the three continents and the NPCs of the three continents were restricted to go to this place because of this reason and to avoid the serious disorder in level matching. Moreover, the players couldn’t choose the Seafloor World as their birthplace. Therefore, Shi Hao was the first player to arrive here.
“This is a garbage dumping site…” That young girl explained the situation to Shi Hao in detail.
As it turned out that this young girl’s name was Mina, and she was the most popular girl of this place, not one of the most. The place where he was located now was Seafloor World’s Striped Stone Village. The Seafloor World was a small land separated by a layer of water curtain. And Striped Stone Village was the poorest village of the Seafloor World, not even one of the most. Striped Stone Village was also the only village that didn’t even have a village chief. The previous village chief had taken the initiative to abandon this village! In this place, you can’t see hope, rainfall and a rainbow. Practically everyone picked up garbage to make a living. However, one shouldn’t look down upon the garbage of this place. One should know that although the Seafloor World was not considered big, almost all villages send all kinds of garbage to this place for processing. One might even find some dirty gold among the garbage of this Stripped Stone Village. And one gold was enough to eat a meal for a week!
“So that’s how it is! Thank you very much.” Shi Hao laid down and secretly watched the recorded video taking advantage of the time when Mina had temporarily left after explaining the situation to him. But after watching it, he felt that it was better off not watching.
It was basically just a black screen in the video until he fell out from the other end of the portal (inside Striped Stone Village). There were some scenes after he fell out. Unfortunately! Those scenes were all just the recording of people picking up garbage. And Shi Hao was also picked up when Mina was picking up garbage. When she picked up Shi Hao, she excitedly yelled, treasure, a treasure!
Eh? Why did Mina say that Shi Hao was a treasure? Could it be that Mina took a liking to his equipment? Fortunately, he determined that it was not the case after careful consideration. It might be that Mina had never seen anyone who was so weak like Shi Hao. Shi Hao was indeed a baby that could be bullied by anyone. [TN: the Chinese character for treasure and baby is the same (宝贝)]
Shi Hao felt as though his head could explode. Now, he had only one thought, return hastily. In any case, the Divine and Mighty Alliance had just asked him to explore the way. And this much was already more than enough. But even if Shi Hao wanted to go back, he might not be able to go back immediately.
Shi Hao sneaked out of Mina’s dilapidated house, and found the teleportation portal according to the video information.
However, a group of fierce fellows was gathered in front of the portal. They looked like a bunch of local tyrants.
“Hey! Today, someone told me that a person fell out of this place, and that person’s things were very beautiful. Did you see that?” One of the local tyrants asked someone who was just passing by.
Obviously! The person these local tyrants looking for was Shi Hao. However, their search for Shi Hao was not a good thing. They were not Mina! Shi Hao could understand even thinking with his toes. They definitely wanted to extort him. Moreover, he felt that they might even sell him as a slave.
“Sh*t! that damned Bizarre Signs Record Book is so treacherous. How is this awful place harmonious?” Shi Hao complained inwardly and returned to Mina’s small dilapidated house.
“Oh! It’s good that you came back.” Mina looked somewhat nervous as she said: “Just now, when I went out, I found that Arnold was looking for you with his men. And when I returned, I didn’t see you, so, I thought that you were already taken away by them. They are terrible. If you are caught by them, you will definitely be forced to do hard work. However, Arnold is actually a good person. You also can’t blame him. He is powerless in this matter. In order to strengthen and protect this village, Arnold worked very hard…”
Mina briefly introduced those local tyrants.
The leader of those local tyrants was called Arnold. They were all villagers of Striped Stone Village. They had gathered together to form their own team. Since there was no village chief and also no soldiers, it could be said that the greatest combat power of Striped Stone Village was Arnold’s team.
Speaking about it, Arnold’s character was not that bad. Although his team always committed crimes and forced everyone to work hard, when outsiders come to bully Striped Stone Village’s people, Arnold’s team would always be the first to protect the village. Arnold also prevented many people of Striped Stone Village from being bullied.
For the Striped Stone Village, Arnold was the indispensable local tyrant who shouldn’t be offended.
“Ohh! Since that is the case, why are you helping me? Arnold’s team is so powerful and is also important to Striped Stone Village, but I’m just a stranger to you, isn’t it?” Shi Hao pretended to hesitate and asked a probing question. He had to do this. If he couldn’t figure out the real reason, he couldn’t feel at ease in such an environment where a sword was hanging above his head. No one could save him here. Moreover, Mina seemed to be very close to Arnold!
At this moment, Mina blinked her eyes a few times. Her eyes were burning with hope.
Mina lowered her voice: “I know, you came from the continent, right?”
Shi Hao frowned. Beyond his expectation, Mina had already seen through his origin. This proved that the people of Seafloor World also know the existence of the continent! But Shi Hao considered that Mina shouldn’t have any ill intention towards him, so he nodded, responding to her question.
“I knew it! You really came from the continent. After all, your clothes are too strange. We definitely don’t have anyone with such attire here.” Mina was so excited that she jumped three times. She then added: “We cannot see the real sun from here. The sunlight of the Seafloor World comes from a light ball. Although that light ball is said to be similar to the sun, it rises and sets, in the end, it’s just a light ball. Do you know? I want to go up and see what the real sun looks like. Can you take me there?”
Eh? Shi Hao just realized now. As it turned out that there was a light ball above the water curtain of the Seafloor World. One had to say that, it was truly difficult to distinguish whether that light ball was the sun or not without intentionally paying attention to it.
Shi Hao looked at Mina’s eyes. Her eyes were very pure. With such sincerity, anyone wanted to help her. Unfortunately, Shi Hao couldn’t help her. NPCs couldn’t go through the portal, and Mina was an NPC. Even if Shi Hao told her a way to go to the continent, it was meaningless.
Shi Hao had to say cruelly: “I’m sorry! My name is Shake the Heaven. You can’t go from the place I came. Only people like me can go back. Do you understand?”
Mina was a bit disappointed. However, the disappointment didn’t last long. Mina had already been disappointed many times. This was not her first-time getting disappointed in her ‘memory’. Mina thought, even though she couldn’t see the real sun, she still had other hopes. Life had to continue.
Mina quickly cheered up and said: “You should stay here in my place for a while. Arnold still takes care of me. He will not come here to make trouble for me. You will be safe here. After some time passes, Arnold and others will forget about you. At that time, even if you go out, you will be fine.”
Mina’s kind reminder made Shi Hao relieved. He could go back safely as long as he hid here for a few days. After returning, he could still go to find Su Xiao and also get a generous reward from the Divine and Mighty Alliance. Thinking of this, Shi Hao smiled. As long as he endured these unlucky times, they would pass.
However, sometimes, there were things you can’t avoid even if you want to avoid! A few days passed without any issue. Arnold didn’t find Shi Hao and he also indeed no longer cared about Shi Hao.
But it was not because he had forgotten the existence of Shi Hao, rather he had encountered a difficulty himself. And what was that difficulty?
As it turned out that Mina was imprisoned! And Arnold was going to rescue Mina…
