There were three local passengers from the town of Hepu on the carriage, their neatly combed black hair, well-dressed, and their skin not as fair as the elves of the northern forest, nor as dark as the inhabitants of the southern provinces, giving a very comfortable look. The passengers deftly stepped out of the car and politely nodded the brim of their hats to Griffith, who was waiting for the train.

A spontaneous, irrepressible, and inexplicable intimacy immediately spread through Griffith's mind. Suddenly, he realized that his destination was to visit the places where these people lived, which was a very natural and pleasant thing to do.

"Yo, little brother who is a soldier, going to Hepu?" the coachman poked his head out of his seat, "Come on, right?" ”

Griffith nodded and handed over a few raw pieces as fares.

"When you were young, you will be brought back by the memories of life on the island of Neopalis," the coachman waited for a while, and waved the reins when he saw that no other guests had boarded the car, "and it is a good time for you to come back now, not too hot, not as cold as in the north." Fresh fish and shrimp, young girls, the best time of the year. ”

Why do you want to put fresh fish and shrimp with the young girl?" Griffith frowned, not very satisfied with the coachman's frivolous words, "Are there any festivals in town lately?"

"Ha, Hanami Matsumori! Next week, according to the kingdom calendar, it's hard to calculate the time!" the coachman drove the carriage with joy, "and the girls put on their beautiful dresses, sprinkled flower petals, and danced by the campfire. Hey~ Who called me old. ”

Griffith leaned back in his seat, listening to the coachman's gossip without a word. His mind was taken to a distant place, with a familiar face, and slowly fell asleep.

......

"Bring your carry-on baggage," shouted the driver of the public carriage, "have fun, GI!"

Griffith woke up from his drowsy daydream, rubbed his face, picked up his backpack and stepped out of the carriage.

The moment he stepped out of the door, a hot wind hit Griffith head-on, nearly knocking him to the ground.

I'm not used to the temperatures of the southern islands!Griffith, dressed in double armor, was so hot that sweat dripped down his forehead and slid down his cheeks to the corners of his mouth.

There was a faint smell of fish, shrimp and seaweed soaked in the sea in the air!Griffith looked at the empty streets. The scorching sun embraces the quiet town in the afternoon, and groups of people sing the sun on the branches. A big yellow-skinned dog glanced up at him lazily from the shadows and buried his head again.

Hepu Town is a famous tourist attraction that tourists from all over the world will come to visit.

"This ...... Am I in the wrong place?"

The public carriage suddenly started at Griffith's side, throwing a face of dust in his face, and with a sting, he pulled away. Griffith stood still, unable to see the carriage turn the street and run out of sight.

"Griffith, are you Griffith?" a pleasant and cheerful girl's voice sounded beside her, "Why have you grown so tall! Daddy asked me to pick you up." ”

Griffith, sweating profusely, turned his head to find a young girl in a thin white dress standing not far behind him. The straps of the dress are tied at the back of the neck, revealing the smoothed and delicate shoulders. The girl's skin is a charming wheat color, which is pleasing to the eye in the bright sun. With her hands behind her back, she came up and down, and her long ponytail greeted Griffith with the girl's sway:

"Hey, hey, hey, I'm Ilody, Dr. Zion's first in line and chief assistant! Do you remember me? If you forgot something in the car, then you'd better die! Uncle Fuji was the champion of the Hepu Mountain Road Race when he was young!"

I remember such a person, but you were still a muddy kid back then. What is the first in line to the throne? Your father is only one of your children.

The girl's smile is as cute as a peach blossom. She wore beautiful sandals on her feet, and her slender ankles were tied with thin ropes, and the youthful vitality of a thirteen-year-old girl in bloom was suffocating.

Sweating profusely, Griffith's heart was as bright as a field of flowers in spring.

"Huh?" Seeing that Griffith didn't speak, the girl tilted her head in confusion, "I shouldn't have been mistaken~"

"I'm Griffith? long time no see, Iloti," the midshipman smiled widely, a few drops of salty sweat rolling down the corners of his mouth to his mouth, "how are we going home?"

"I'll drive! You sit in the co-pilot!" Iloti jumped into the blue pony next to her and patted the co-pilot's sun-soaked cushion. Come on, let's go now!!"

Griffith glanced at the pony cart on the side of the road, and saw a few cleanly gnawed watermelon rinds on the shelves, "Is this your car?"

Iloti grinned and waited for Griffith to sit down, then deftly released the brakes and raised her whip. The cart creaked to action under the tuk of two ponies.

"Hmmm, no, I borrowed it!" the girl raised her chin and looked ahead. Blue Comet?go!"

"Wait, do you have a driver's license at your age?"

"Uh-huh~hahaha!hahaha!" Iloti laughed three times in a very stiff tone.

The breeze blew on Griffith's face as he accelerated, saving him from the brink of heat stroke: "This little car is fine, there should be mountain roads by the sea in this area." ”

"It's just a car!" Iloti kept urging the pony to speed up, "the cart will drift and rush into the sea." ”

Drifting, what is it to rush into the sea!, Griffith was shocked. The pickup van was already whirring in the wind, and Iloti's long ponytail was blowing in the wind.

"There's one more you today~ who might affect the pneumatics of the Blue Comet!" the girl turned her head and glanced at Griffith with her big pretty eyes, "You may not be able to see me at my best." ”

Pneumatics?What is pneumatics?Why should a small truck with watermelon rinds care about pneumatics?

The whirring wind was noisy in Griffith's ears. In the blink of an eye, the pickup truck burrowed out of the street and whizzed along the curvy seaside mountain road.

Iloti's carriage began to speed up, drifting nimbly along the mountain road, and the howl of the wind was already heard in his ears.

The blue pickup truck is flying along the cliffside mountain road. Griffith was almost thrown into the ocean at a turn.

The rough waves crashed against the reef dozens of meters below the mountain road, and the open view was filled with the blue sea. With the blue sky and sea within reach, even the most discerning traveler will be amazed by the pristine beauty in front of them.

Griffith, who had no time to admire, hurriedly grabbed the safety strap on the seat, and when he reached out, he didn't grab anything!

"This car doesn't have seat belts!"

"Yes, for the sake of extreme speed, Blue Comet has thrown away all useless weight!"

"Then why is there a watermelon rind in the back!"

The pickup truck takes Griffith on the mountain road, through the world of green mountains and the sea, and comes to the halfway point of the mountain overlooking the sea.

"Lalala!" the girl jumped out of her seat, pulled the pony and parked at the door of the two-story hut in the middle of the mountain, watched Griffith get out of the car with a sweet smile, stretched out her hands and drew a big circle embracing the world: "Welcome to Hepu!"

None of the luxurious, but elegant red brick houses stretch from the clean shores to the lush hills. Griffith noticed that although there were no pedestrians or vehicles along the way, the town's paths were all cobbled and very elegant.

"This is my house, you go in first!" the girl jumped into the van and beckoned to Griffith, "I'm going to go and get the blue comet back to the rearmament first, and remember to leave me a crab for dinner!"

Frightened by the sea breeze, Griffith picked up his backpack and knocked on the door.

Dr. Zion's villa was very spacious, with pots of orchids grown in small clay pots that circled neatly along the walls. The beautiful and delicate crystal flowers bloom proudly, which makes people feel refreshed.

Griffith picked up a pot of plants closest to the door and found a number on the pot.

“2887。 ”

It's not a good number. Griffith's mind came up with the Brownie of the Watch Castle. The guy finally took advantage of the chaos and fled, and I don't know if he escaped from the Whispering Forest.

Other canisters have similar numeric markings, all after number 2500.

Griffith knocked on the door.

"Oh, you're here!" said the bearded Dr. Zion, smiling at his nephew, "I haven't been back in years." Isn't the climate in Hepu quite pleasant, as evidenced by the fact that you were so afraid of heat when you were a child, and now you don't sweat. ”

I was just frightened, uncle.

Griffith changed into his shoes and walked into the living room, where he presented his uncle with a bottle of wine from Beyeland: "Excuse me, uncle. Are you using orchids as test subjects?"

"Because the genetics are stable, and the culture medium required is relatively small, a large number of cultivation does not take up space, except for orchids, there are some other plants. You've taken potions at Holmonwards, it's a promising science," the doctor pointed to the kitchen, "and there's juice in the ice cellar in the basement. ”

"Thanks," Griffith surveyed the room, "Did the research go well?"

"It's going well," Dr. Zion said in a relaxed mood, "without those old stubborn interference from Holmonwards, my experiments would have been clean." ”

"You've met Iloti," Dr. Zion walked toward the lab, "I'm going to work a little longer, and the little girl will come back at six o'clock to have dinner with us, and you can rest in the living room." ”

Griffith nodded, watching the doctor close the door and walk into his lab.

What is he working on...... Although he was not yet proficient in Potions, he knew that the larger the sample population observed in Zion's experiments, the higher the probability of success.

Leaving the state-of-the-art Potions labs, sophisticated research teams, and large-scale, systematic testing and breeding facilities provided by Hormonwarts, hiding in the countryside and doing what is like a small workshop behind closed doors is child's play, and it is as absurd as the plot of the story. Relying on the few circles of orchids planted outside the walls of the villa to get the desired result, even if it takes decades, it is impossible to succeed.

Dr. Zion must have come to Hepu Town for research for other reasons.

......

"I'm back!" Iloti knocked on the door a few times, "the door is not closed, aren't you afraid that the bear will come in and eat you?"

"Hello, assistant. The bears in the subtropical evergreen broadleaf forests have all been eaten by humans," Griffith glanced at the girl with the newspaper, "and you sent the carriage back?"

"It's not a carriage, it's a racing carriage!" The girl turned her head, shook her tail and went into the basement to take out a bottle of milk, and muttered to herself, "It's really stingy to not let me practice more when the race is about to start." ”

"Goo-dong...... Chilled milk is delicious!" The girl sat down beside Griffith with the chilled milk, and the youthful air made his mood excited.

The girl gulped down a large gulp of milk, a few drops of white liquid dripping down her delicate chin to the undulating curve of her neckline.

"Indeed......" Griffith turned his head away little by little, like a rusty tin man in a fairy tale.

While the two were sitting and chatting, dinner was served.

Iloti jumped to the side of the table and sat down, patting her next to her, "Come on, come on, sit here, here, this thing is called 'chopsticks'!"

"I'll use it!" Griffith gestured as he took the two slender sticks the girl had handed him, "and you're still nursing when I can use chopsticks." ”

Dinner is very simple, fresh crab, shells, prawns, simple green onions, ginger, cooking wine seasoning and boiling water to maintain the original aroma of seafood, the main dish is crystal and elastic rice, and the moment you eat it makes you feel the reality of life. Fresh water spinach and garlic are stir-fried together, and the aroma goes well with the seafood.

It's almost all seafood...... Aren't you afraid of gout if you eat like this? Griffith glanced at the only plate of vegetables on the table.

"Iloti, there's not much going on in the lab these days, take Griffith around," Dr. Zion stared at a plate of shrimp in front of him and ate slowly, looking absent-minded.

The girl raised the crab claws in her hand and saluted, "Griffith Griffith, I'll take you to see the seven incredible things in Hepu!"

"Oh, which seven?" Griffith raised an eyebrow, "I remember not saying that when I was a kid. ”

"Deadly Hurricane Headless Rider," Iloti counted as she cracked her crab claws.

Wait a minute! Why is the first one a Headless Horsemann? Is this an extraordinary or a mutant creature? Why didn't the garrison kill it? I'll organize an encirclement tomorrow when I go to the Church of Grace. Griffith found the first name unacceptable.

"Let's make a clear soup with a low water cape!"

This sounds a bit normal, but what's incredible?

"No Story Church of Grace!"

The Church of Grace is the stronghold of the extraordinary in the vicinity, the place where I work temporarily, who made up this strange combination of yours?

"Alandelle is not in love!"

This is a personal name! Do you have no opinion on the seven incredible parties who used it to make a small town? This time the combination is not too regular and does not rhyme. And not very polite.

"Tranquility and warmth have the end of the world!"

Oh...... Griffith moved his lips.

"How many did I say?" Iloti had no ladylike manners, and croaked and gnawed at the crab. In a less chewable position, she simply swallowed a small piece of shell.

"Five, um," Griffith gave the girl a chopstick of vegetables, "don't just eat seafood, aren't you afraid of gout later?"

"It's annoying——! listen to your weak tone!You're an old man!" Iloti glared at the water spinach in the bowl, "It's rare to eat such fresh seafood, of course you have to enjoy it to the fullest, otherwise what are you doing here!"

Wait a minute! What do you mean by a rare meal? Griffith exclaimed, "Listen to your breath! You haven't lived here for a long time?"

The dinner table suddenly fell silent, and Iloti, who was holding the pike crab and gnawing on it, froze, and slowly turned to Griffith's big eyes, and glanced at him weakly, "Hehe~"

"Why? don't you know?" Dr. Zion put down his chopsticks, "Iloti usually lives in the city of Pasha. ”

The Pasha is on the western continent, a few hundred miles away from the island of Neopalis......

"How many days have you been here?" Griffith raised an eyebrow.

"7 days ......" Iloti grabbed the crab and resisted, "Come 7 days earlier than you and be a senior!?"

"How old is the blue comet?"

"3......" The girl's voice lowered, "No, it's the 4th day!"

So I actually walked around the ghost gate today...... Griffith picked up his chopsticks and found an angle, and struck the back end on Iloti's head.

"Ouch!" the girl ducked, "but I'm a super fast learner! I'm the girl who wants to dominate the Hepu Mountain Road Race! Oh yes, there's also the incredible 'Harmony Race'!"

Griffith sighed, "There aren't many people in this town, right?"

"I don't know~" Iloti found that she seemed to have been let go.

"There are also incredible quiet, auspicious and full moon nights, fresh and elegant flower offerings," Dr. Zion added for his daughter.

Griffith found a new question: "Hey, isn't this eight? It's eight!

"You people from the big city are hypocritical!" the girl raised her chin, "Eight of the seven incredible ones are axioms known to the world!"

......

After Iloti finished dinner, he grabbed Griffith and put away the dishes and chopsticks.

"I can't see it, you look like you're washing the dishes," Griffith said, standing on the other side of the sink washing the dishes. Iloti stood beside him in an apron, the thin dress was obscured by the apron, and from Griffith's point of view, the girl's undulating curves, smooth shoulders, and slender arms were seen.

It's like wearing an apron......

"Well, what's wrong?" the girl looked up at the tall boy beside her, "Why do you feel that way?"

"No, nothing. Griffith turned his head and looked out the window at the moon hanging high above him.

The moonlight is so beautiful.