Chapter 9: Becoming an Army (2)

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Hades Hikari Sara had a day to remember.

She stood alone on the winged platform, and although she experienced unexpected twists and turns, she still opened the trial under the huge pressure under the eyes of everyone. The head of the Xiu Dye Fengdi Academy praised her, and all the people cheered at her, whether it was the children of high-ranking officials and nobles or ordinary students without surnames, they all looked at her with eager eyes, wanting to get to know her, and Xiao Jiao, who she cared about and worried about the most, did not hesitate to stand on her side although she had some misunderstandings about her. She wondered if this was not the smooth and smooth road that the gods had shown her. What else is there to worry about? Isn't it imperative to go to the dining room of the long-famous Jinwuin Temple to have a good meal, and by the way, show the new and old students the sassy and heroic posture of the trial students? Why did Xiao Jiao insist on going to the most boring place on Jinwu Island first? Who would have gone to the library tower on the first day of school? Avoiding that kind of place can not only be said to be one of the reasons why she started the trial, but it can even be ranked in the top three on the karma list! Therefore, after leaving the square of the wing, she didn't even drink a sip of water or eat a bowl of rice, and went directly to the disgusting book tower was really unacceptable to her!

But Xiao Jiao insisted.

Akari had no choice but to follow.

The air in the tower was damp and musty, and the floor between the towering bookshelves was narrow and cold, and Akari slept uncomfortably there. Xiao Jiao woke her up, and when the two of them came out of the tower, she was so hungry that she wanted to pull down the big rose on the rose wall and chew it. But Xiao Jiao, who didn't eat or sleep, was in good spirits as if she had eaten and slept beautifully, and she even said that she wouldn't go to the dining room, and went back to the corner building to clean up the room!

"If you're hungry, go eat by yourself, I'm not hungry yet. After eating, you go back to your room and sleep, you're so tired today. Get a good night's sleep and come back to me tomorrow when you wake up, anyway, we're already trial students, and we don't have any classes to attend. Xiao Jiao strode forward in the orange afterglow of the sunset, and turned his face slightly to Ah Hunt. There was a hint of ridicule in her understated tone, and Agari could already tell the difference.

"Who do you say is hungry? I'm not hungry anyway! She replied puffed.

"But your stomach kept screaming while you fell asleep in the book tower." Xiao Jiao responded with her unique style. Akari stiffly said the next sentence, "Who do you say is sleepy?" I don't want to sleep anyway. "Swallow it back into your stomach.

"That's because you read too intently and heard it wrong! When I closed my eyes and recuperated, I heard the crackling sound of the roof leaking! Ah Hunt caught up with Cheng Jiao and said seriously. Without waiting for Xiao Jiao to answer, she then asked, "Where are you going now?" I'll go with you, too! ”

That's why she's pacing around in this cramped single room at the moment. That's why she angrily blames what she sees.

"That can also be called a washroom? Have you seen it, Xiao Jiao! That's too small, isn't it? You can't even turn around in there! And the corners of the walls are full of green slime! Huh~~ I'm sick to death, don't you see? ”

"I saw it, it's just moss, just wipe it off. Didn't you just say that the table was too dirty and that the kerosene lamp should be thrown away, but now it's all clean. ”

Cheng Jiao said as he took out the books in the box. One by one, she carefully selected her favorites before leaving.

"The Tale of the Goddesses" - that is the book that her grandfather used when she taught her to read when she was a child. The words on the pages are printed large, and the words that the children want to remember will protrude from the pages. Grandpa took Cheng Jiao's little hand and depicted it on the font, each time it was four times, "Four is a lucky number, and after four times, we will write this word." Grandpa whispered the same words over and over again in her ear, teaching Cheng Jiao countless words.

"The Ancient Ruler of the Isle of Mars" - it was a book she picked up when she was a child on the way to the Isle of Mars with her mother to attend the inauguration ceremony of the Valley of the Champ de Mars. The book was old and thin, with pages curled in the corners, horizontal lines in ink and childish fonts that read "run," "chase," "catch," and marks that looked like broth. But these do not detract from the fact that it is a particularly interesting book. It introduces a variety of ferocious animals on the island of Mars. Some of them survived the "great destruction" before the return of the gods, longer than humans have spent on the Isle of Mars! Along the way, she was sick, and when she had a fever, her father and mother would take turns to hold her in her arms and read her stories about sand lizards, sand crocodiles, flowery-eyed leopards, blue wolves, and long-clawed beasts on rock walls. Interesting stories can relieve her headaches a little.

There is also a strange book "The Dream Controlled by the Goddess of Fate" that she exchanged with the children in the same class when she was a beginner, a notebook bound by her father, the most complete and reasonable lingua franca and the character comparison table of the eight lost languages that her mother found for her, her favorite "The Biography of the Heroes Who Climbed the Mountain", "The Hidden History of the Glory of the Divine Land" and so on.

"Little Jiao, I don't understand you! You still endorse it?! Akari followed her step by step, and said endlessly, "Do you think that the mountains of books in the book tower with the largest collection of books on the Glory Five Islands are not enough for you to read?" Still not worth your watch? ”

To Ah Hunt's teasing, Cheng Jiao just smiled slightly.

She knew that Akari was still upset that she was going to the library tower without explanation. She and Akari are like brothers, but just as her hands don't force her feet to carve patterns or fold paper, or her feet don't ask her hands to measure the land or kick a ball and a horse, she doesn't intend to explain her obsession with books to Akari. When you have a familiar book by your side in an unfamiliar place, you can flip through it in your leisure time and get an incomparable sense of security as if you were in the warm bed of your room. Not only because these books are her powerful and intelligent friends, well-informed, calculating, and never arguing with her. Also because there are precious memories of her in these books. The sweet and sour orange that her grandfather handed her when she was reading, the smile on her father's face when he picked up the book and handed it to her, and the way her mother read to her gently but absentmindedly...... Turn to the familiar paragraphs, follow the path paved by the words, and the beautiful past will unfold around her one by one.

Watching Cheng Jiao carefully place the books in the recesses on the wall, Agari had a disgusted expression on his face. That's exactly what she looks like, turning her face to the side, her eyebrows and the corners of her mouth are downward, just like when she was a child. Cheng Jiao remembered that when she was more than three years old and spent the summer on Medicine God Island, she saw the nanny dragging Ah Hunt to see Uncle Long Ran, and Ah Hunt was this disdainful look at that time.

The nanny angrily recounted the whole process of tearing down the temple book and taking it to origami, and complained to Uncle Long Ran, "How many times have I suggested it to Miss Hunting. Miss Kari should read it, not destroy it! But she always thought she couldn't hear! ”

"That's the way it is, but next time, let's keep the book away from Agari." Uncle Long Ran's words were full of deep love for that naughty little daughter. "My daughter! If you don't like to read, forget it. It's not bad to be a warrior like her father! ”

Knowing the daughter Mo Ruo's father! Uncle Long Ran obviously gave the most valuable comment more than ten years ago, why did Cheng Jiao forget it? She picked up a thick handwritten notebook at the bottom of her suitcase and shook her head helplessly.

The agitated warrior was now sitting in front of the fireplace, splitting wood with a dagger. "It's also called a fireplace? The charcoal braziers are bigger than it, okay! ”

"My room is small, what do you want such a big fireplace!" Cheng Jiao found a new box of matches on the mantelpiece.

"Ahh It's been so long, and I've finally heard you tell half the truth! Agari raised his voice exaggeratedly, "So you know it's small here!" If you want me to say, this place is uninhabitable! I'll tell you, the fireplace in my upstairs room alone is bigger than yours! Xiao Jiao, I really don't understand you! Why don't you report your full name? Show your last name and choose the two corner rooms! Why do you want to pick a matchbox to live in on this floor! ”