Chapter 283: Gathering the Women
Two months. I don't know the time in space, but I didn't expect it to take two full months to make a round trip. In other words, he hasn't escaped from this small "solar system" for a month, and the simple space magic is really far from controlling the laws of space. This trip he verified a conclusion, that is, the time of the two worlds should be synchronized, there is no concept of time difference, but he has not yet figured out the problem of 6000 years and 1000 years, so he simply ignores it.
Lin Qian stayed at the teacher's house for a few days, chatting with this old man for a while, and finally the Phantom King of Ten Thousand Soldiers saw that he was absent-minded, so he urged him to go home, don't keep accompanying him as an old man. Lin Qian felt apologetic for a while, but he did miss Xiao Yi and them a little, especially when he saw the earth a thousand years later, and he had the idea of accompanying them well in his lifetime.
Bidding farewell to the Endless Forest, Lin Qian appeared in front of the gate of Mercenary City almost instantly. He didn't want to teleport in directly, because he hadn't seen this city for a long time since he left here more than a year ago, and even if he had returned a few months ago, he couldn't go inside because of his size, and he had never looked closely at the city he had built with his own hands.
In just a few years, the stone road is no longer smooth, and it is stained with a lot of dust, revealing a breath of time. Because of the people coming and going, there is no moss, and there are only a few places that are slightly loose or cracked, and if it rains, I am afraid that if you go down, you will splash a lot of water.
There are many shops in the city, mostly places to eat, drink and play, and even some places for fireworks, and most of the mercenaries after the hard adventure come here to give the gold and silver in exchange to the women with heavy makeup. It is the place where some inns live, and from time to time some dusty women twist their waists in and out, which makes the shopkeeper frequently look sideways and secretly disdainful at the same time.
Further inside is the city within the city - the magic city, here there is no stone road anymore, instead there is a crystal land paved with magic crystals, and at the same time, there are those worldly things. The clear moat blocked the way, and a suspension bridge crossed it, it was all made of crystal, not to mention hard, and the stability of the magic array, but when it was lowered, the side that was originally high above was still stained with dust on the stone pavement, connecting the two completely different worlds.
Except for the wedding day, since the construction of the magic city, Lin Qian has never set up any sentry to stop people outside, anyone can stride into the mysterious magic city to find out, but obviously the world here is not suitable for ordinary people. Most ordinary people lose interest after a visit, everything here does not belong to them, or the mercenary city outside or the farmland cultivated outside the city is more suitable for them.
As soon as you get off the drawbridge, a strong magical aura will come to your face, this is the innermost barrier, testing the strength of each entrant, if there is someone who is too strong, it is likely to be focused on as soon as you enter. The enchantment was also something built on top of the law, so it was useless for Lin Qian, who completely controlled the law. He was transparent, and after passing through this invisible barrier, he didn't cause any response from the barrier, and no one noticed him.
Step by step into the magic city, from the trade area, to the artisan area, to the housing area, and finally to the academy area, the number of magicians is getting smaller and smaller, and the noise is getting smaller and smaller, but when Lin Qian walked towards the mage tower in the center, he saw what the noise was. There is no magician here who usually speaks softly, because if this is the case, I am afraid that I will not be able to hand over the task for the rest of my life. The surroundings were so noisy that even the staff inside the window had to shout so that people outside could hear clearly.
The bulletin board is still full of a bunch of mission announcements, and among the miscellaneous tasks, the most conspicuous and top-level task is an SSS-level mission, looking at the layer of dust on it, I'm afraid that no one has cared about it for a long time.
"Find the trail of Princess Elena of the Blue Empire, provide major clues or help the finder, and win ten thousand gold. β
Lin Qian's heart moved, this should have been a task six months ago, not to mention the rich rewards, just completing the task can directly promote to the first SSS-level mercenary (regiment), this task is full of temptation. However, to this day, this task is still not completed, and it has even become an existence that no one wants to touch.
He suddenly remembered what the Phantom King had mentioned before leaving, four months ago, Elena had come to the Elven Palace, and had a brief conversation with the queen, but then she disappeared from the world and disappeared. Thinking of what happened at the beginning, the girl should be in deep self-blame, after all, she killed her by mistake...... It shouldn't be, it's just her father-killing enemy, at most half a teacher, and the relationship between Neuer and Lipsus is of the same nature, why she can't figure it out until now.
"Lord...... Your Excellency?"
A voice suddenly pulled him into reality, Fradai was sent down by several sisters to do things, and as soon as she went downstairs, she ran into Lin Qian standing in the passage, but she only saw his side face from this angle, so she couldn't believe it.
Lin Qian turned his head, the corners of his mouth rose at a 45-degree angle, and then his body also turned around, opening his arms, ready to meet a body impact from Fradai. As he expected, when he saw Lin Qian, where would he take care of anything else, he threw himself directly into Lin Qian's arms, his arms tightly wrapped around Lin Qian's waist, and his half-closed eyes were also bursting with tears.
Hugging and hugging in broad daylight is not the norm in this world, so soon many people began to gather around and point, and some people saw the identity of Fradai's elf, and guessed who these two people were.
"Okay, Dai'er, come with me to see Xiaoyi and them. Fradai could still shrink into his arms without looking at the faces of the people around him, Lin Qianke had a big face that was not covered, he looked around and suddenly had an unnatural feeling of being watched, for fear of being recognized.
"Lin, you're back!"
I'm really afraid of what's coming, if you want to say familiar, or your own staff knows what the boss looks like, hurry up and inform the above, Sophia will space magic, and naturally a teleportation will come down.
"Lin, Mo is not Lin Qian...... I don't know who exclaimed, and the entire crowd of onlookers immediately exploded, recalling the appearance of the giant outside the city four months ago, but it was not the appearance of the person in front of him.
Lin Qian nodded a little embarrassedly, he still cared a lot about what the world thought of him, after the elf clan was despised by a maid with an alternative eye, he decided to establish a good image, and also create a model for the young magicians, but in broad daylight, he hugged the opposite sex, and was recognized, this image of the gentleman is afraid that it cannot be erased. This is the magic city, there are hard crystals under his feet, there is no crack in the ground to drill, so he simply grabbed the two girls and used the laws of space to disappear directly into the air, leaving everyone with a surprised face.
"This is the legendary space magic, and you can take people through space together?"
"Alas, the path of magic really has no end, and we are still far from President Lin!"
Lin Qian didn't expect that the little trick he inadvertently used shifted the focus of a group of people's discussion to magic, which can be regarded as saving a little image, after all, in this world, the strong are always respected.
said that Lin Qian took Sophia and Fradai directly to the office, and Xiao Yi and Ysera were about to go down, but they were stopped by Lin Qian.
"Okay, let's not talk about anything else, I'll leave everything to Boris today, and we'll talk back to our room. β
Before the four girls could answer, they were taken back to the living room on the top floor by Lin Qian in an exclamation, and the sisters Salandis and Winnie Betty came out of the room when they heard the movement, and the sisters were still holding a child, and now everyone was here.
"Still so old and still hugging?" Lin Qian, who is so used to his eldest daughter, can't get used to it, and he doesn't want to make the atmosphere vigorous when they just meet, so he casually started a conversation.
"Dad!" Lin still opened his eyes and saw clearly that it was Lin Qian, and hurriedly struggled to get off the ground.
"Huh, do you remember your husband after all this time?" said Betty strangely as she slowly put her down.
Lin Qian was happy in his heart, and he was very proud: "My daughter naturally recognizes me." β
Xiao Yi was picked up by Lin Qian as soon as he walked half a step, and the girls suddenly knew that he couldn't spoil him, but in fact, he had already regarded him as a baby in his heart, for fear that she would take one more step and fall into it.
After teasing for a while, Lin Qian raised his head from the place, gave the girls a smile, and then said solemnly: "Okay, four months apart, I miss everyone very much, I will never leave for so long in the future, and I will make amends to the ladies here for the previous things!"
He was talking not only about his departure four months ago, but also about his disappearance a year and a half earlier, and now he especially regretted his decision, which not only saved him a year of time with the women, but also temporarily lost news of Elena.
"Childe ......", "Lin ......", "Lin Lang ......" ......
A variety of names followed, and each one was called differently. Xiao Yi is used to calling Childe, and has no intention of changing it, Sophia was engaged to Lin Qian at that time, so she was naturally kindly called Lin, Ysera was added to Lang because of the habit of the dragon clan, Fradai still called her Lord Divine Envoy, Salandis is the most strange, may not be suitable for normal life, every time she talks to Lin Qian, she does not have a title, as for Winnie and Betty, they have always been called Childe before, but when they came here, they found that this title had been occupied by the eldest lady, so they changed their name to Husband, which seemed more formal, and there was an absentee, that is, Elena who called Brother Lin all day longγ
Lin Qian didn't say anything, got up and kissed each one by one on the face before returning to their seats, which made the women feel embarrassed for a while. As soon as he looked down and saw the movements still staring at him curiously, his heart moved, and he kissed her little cheek.
"Husband, what about her......" Winnie shyly pointed to the second daughter in her arms, who had just woken up and was clamoring to breastfeed.
"Well, don't you have a name yet?" Lin Qian remembered that she had just been born and left herself, as if she hadn't taken a name yet.
"No, you don't dare to take it if you're not with us. Ysera teased, at least in this family, they all regarded Lin Qian as an authority.
"Seeing that she is so quiet, let's call Lin Anran, how about it?" Lin Qian said smugly.
"Hmm...... It's good, it's just ...... I wonder what it has to do with silence?" said Winnie hesitantly.
Lin Qian reacted, and smiled bitterly in his heart, too, how can he explain this name in the words of that world, and no one here can understand it, it seems that he will have to completely integrate into the life of this world in the future, and say goodbye to Mandarin from now on.