It would be nice if a local came and told them what to do, but Akali didn't have that mind.

Now Akali has just stepped into society, and there are still some people who are low-eyed and low-handed, always thinking about defending their homeland against foreign enemies, but they can't even take care of their daily life first.

Karn didn't insist on it, let her suffer a little first.

"It's a pity, then we won't bother." He and Kai'Sa turned and walked away, heading for the village below.

"Wait, you're not going to tell the Noxians about this, are you?" Akali probed.

If she is exposed, the ancestral hall will not be able to stay any longer. She was unfamiliar with the land, and she had no money, so she could not use magic to weave living trees into houses, and it would be very uncomfortable without this ancestral hall to shelter from the wind and snow.

"No, we just came here hiding from the Noxians." Kai'Sa replied, "Everyone has secrets, and we don't want to be interrogated by the soldiers. ”

"Do you have something to do with yourself?"

Without an answer, Karn and Kai'Sa were already far away, their white cloth blending into the mottled snow.

When they were gone, Akali grabbed her arms and shrunk in her arms, shivering.

"It's so cold...... Gotta start a campfire. ”

But before lighting the fire, she noticed the pit she had dropped and walked over to pick it up and scrutinize it.

"It's amazing how good it can be to keep my kunai so intact with the kernel of the fruit! I don't know if there's any damage inside......"

Akali pulled out her scythe, crouched down and dug a pit in the cold snow, then buried the kernel in it.

She clapped her hands and muttered, "Whether there is any damage or not, it depends on whether the branches will sprout in the spring." ”

At this time, Akali did not realize that even though she had left the Equilibrium Sect, she still subconsciously followed the doctrine of Equilibrium, the education she had received over the years.

Eat a fruit, bury a pit; Cut down a tree and plant a seed;

The total number of living beings in the material realm does not increase or decrease, neither strong nor weak, and it is balanced.

Especially in Ionia, the boundaries between the different planes will become thinner here, so it is even more important to maintain the balance between the two realms.

No field should be overly powerful, otherwise a catastrophe similar to the Great Destruction will occur.

……

By the time they returned to the village, the Noxian soldiers had already gone elsewhere for questioning and did not stand in front of the inn.

As they returned to their room with the fruit, they passed through a door covered with rattan mats.

Through the translucent rattan mat, Karn saw the light and shadow cast by the two people next to each other in a strange posture, sitting and lying down, and from time to time there was a suppressed snort, which was easy to associate in strange directions.

"The Ionians aren't so open in broad daylight......"

Kai'Sa naturally understood what Karn was referring to, glared at him and whispered, "Don't look at it!" ”

However, she herself couldn't help but look at it a few more times, and then let out an exclamation: "The person sitting there seems to be a Vastaya." ”

"Ah, I remember that the union of Vastaya and humans was forbidden in Ionia!"

"Not really." Kai'Sa seemed to have discovered some big secret: "Isn't it taboo to combine somewhere else?" ”

"The angles are tricky, I don't know. Fortunately, we are human beings and don't have so many scruples. Kahn said.

"You can't ...... in this kind of place either."

"Huh? Something is wrong with you. ”

"I didn't mean that...... No, that's what I meant...... That's not right, forget it, I didn't say anything! ”

Perhaps the two of them didn't suppress their voices to hear it, and the people in the room stood up and walked to the door to open the rattan mat.

Only then did they discover that Vastaya was Bori, the shopkeeper of the inn.

"Sorry to interrupt." Karn pulled Kai'Sa away, but Borij smiled and spread his hands, motioning for them to come in and have a look.

Kai'Sa blushed inexplicably, and her eyes watched as Karn let him call the shots.

Karn wondered, maybe not what they thought?

Filled with curiosity, they struggled for a moment and followed Boriyi into the room.

He saw a woman lying on a rattan mat with her trouser legs up above her knees, revealing her bleeding calves.

Kai'Sa thought it was healing at first, but when she saw Bori's animal bones cut the skin on the woman's calf, the latter couldn't help but snort in pain. She realized that this was not healing the wound, it was creating the wound.

"What is this doing......

"Borij is tattooing someone else, he's a tattoo artist...... Karn noticed that the tool in his hand was made of hollow snake fangs, infused with natural pigments, and with the precise cutting threads being gently hammered into the flesh, only a few drops of blood oozed out.

As he brushed the blood drops with a page of old linen, a bouquet of plum branches came to life.

Bori's craftsmanship is superb, and he is definitely a master. It's hard to judge the age of the Vastayas, but Karn surmised that Borij must be quite old—he would never have been able to make such a delicate tattoo without decades of experience.

Although Bori's craftsmanship was as good as a painter painting on skin, Karn still felt the slightest fidget.

Previously, they had a preconceived misunderstanding of the tattoo master and his customers because of the angle, but now they feel embarrassed to think about it.

Without interruption, they put down a bag of fruit as an apology and quietly left the room.

Back in the room, Kai'Sa scratched her sideburns and breathed a sigh of relief: "It's embarrassing. ”

As if remembering something, she blamed Karn, "It's all your fault, for making me think of strange places." ”

"Why do you blame me?" Karn patted the bed and motioned for Kai'Sa to sit down, "You come and explain it to me." ”

It is said that it is a bed, but in fact it is a thick cushion, and the Ionians rarely cut down wood to make a bed, and spread the mat on the board to use it as a bed.

As soon as she sat down, Karn's trotters reached out, and her cold hand tried to burrow into her clothes to keep warm against her skin, but she hurriedly held them down.

"Hairy, it's all because you made me impure, otherwise how could I think crookedly."

"Hey, hey." With a smile, Karn hugged Kai'Sa, and this time she didn't refuse.

The house made of live trees naturally achieves the effect of warm in winter and cool in summer, although there is no heating in the room, but the doors and windows are closed tightly to prevent the wind from blowing in.

"I went to the market, and all the fruits I bought were given away." Kai'Sa sighed.

"Then I'll go again tomorrow, and buy another coat to wear by the way." I saw that the clouds outside were very thick, and I guess it was going to snow. Kahn said. The boy who sold the fruit was quite honest and slaughtered customers without seeing that they were outsiders.

When it comes to snow, Kaisha's first reaction is not to have a snowball fight or build a snowman, but to care about Akali.

"That little girl is still wearing a thin tank top, and if it snows, she won't be able to stand it, so why don't we buy her a coat to keep her warm?"