Chapter 32: 'The Way' and the Gift

That night, Lily tried to invite Liu Shiqin and the orphanage to dinner together, but was refused on the grounds that she was not feeling well, and only asked Lily for some compressed biscuits and water.

Closing the door, Lily couldn't help but sigh, knowing that she had proposed to eat with her in Shiqin's room, so that she would have a chance to talk to Shiqin a little.

"You can't rush, you can't rush." Lily whispered a few reminders to herself.

Although the longer John's disappearance drags on, the more likely it is that John's team will completely lose the opportunity to rescue him.

But this matter is the business of Lily and the Saint Lance Orphanage, not Liu Shiqin's business, for Liu Shiqin, everyone in the orphanage is a stranger, and she can't force the other party to do anything.

And Lily has now figured out a little bit that the reason why Liu Shiqin is willing to share so much information with her in the morning is already to repay the orphanage for helping her.

If you want to get more information, either become her friend, or, in exchange for something.

Lily, who figured this out, didn't continue to stay in front of Liu Shiqin's door, and went straight down to the common area on the third floor to look for Aiden.

Aiden is most familiar with the underground "garbage" dump, and Lily wants to try to exchange something with Liu Shiqin for useful information, after all, as early as the information explosion era decades ago, the important new information gap is already self-evident, not to mention that the world has become so strange and incomprehensible now.

As long as Liu Shiqin is willing to reveal more, the help to everyone in the orphanage is unpredictable.

It's just that Lily couldn't find Aiden, but the Natasha Natasha sisters pulled the corners of the skirt.

Lily adjusted her mood, squatted down the two sisters in her life, and asked with a smile:

"Natasha Natasha, good evening, how can I help you?"

Natasha and Natasha didn't speak, but after each tugging and pulling each other's hands, Natasha took out an envelope from her cake skirt with her other free hand and handed it to Lily, and Natasha said at the right time:

"This is what the dark-haired sister gave us in the afternoon, let's give it to you Sister Lily after dinner."

"Miss Liu Shiqin's letter?" Lily was a little stunned, reached out and took the envelope, and felt that it was probably only one or two pages inside.

What does Miss Shiqin mean by this, why did she write to me, and she had already said it to me in person this morning, so there was no need to write another thank you letter...... Could this be some custom in the Xia Kingdom?

Lily was full of question marks, but she still thanked the two sisters Natasha and Natasha seriously, and then took the letter and walked to the gym area in the public area on the third floor, where the children were relatively few and quietest.

The seal of the envelope was not sealed, but it was simply folded in half, and Lily easily pulled out the letter inside, and sure enough, it was two pieces of letterhead, which were neatly folded.

Taking a slow breath, Lily unfolded the paper and began to read.

Good evening

Miss Lily.

I'm sorry to say goodbye to you in such a way.

Lily's eyelids jumped when she saw this, and she wanted to rush to Liu Shiqin's room on the fourth floor immediately to make a confirmation, but in the end she endured it and decided to read the letter.

I'm sorry to say goodbye to you in such a way.

The reason why I don't have the ability to describe the 'guest' to you in detail is because I have decided to try to make a 'visit' to my original destination tonight, and whether it succeeds or fails, I don't think you will be able to find me in the guest room. ”

The ability of 'guest' can be understood as teleportation in Western terms, and as far as I know, all orphanages in Xia Kingdom that are wrapped in fog tornadoes will have at least one 'guest', so I was so surprised when I learned that there were no 'guests' in the Saint-Lance orphanage.

I'm also surprised that your orphanage knows zero about the 'journey'.

The only explanation I can think of is that the government of the British Empire deliberately withheld this from you, and that I had borrowed your "Detailed Treatise on the Fog of the Two Points" from the two little girls, and that there were many plausible parts of the version I had read in the Xia Kingdom.

I believe you are aware of the fact that the world is no longer the same as it used to be, and that we, the Chosen Children, will be the first to see a real corner of the world.

On the second piece of paper, I have given a brief explanation of some of the abilities and outward manifestations corresponding to the 'journeys' I mentioned during the day, hoping to help you at the Saint-Lance Orphanage.

Nice to meet you, Miss Lily, you speak really good Chinese, which surprised me.

Liu Shiqin

Lily didn't rush to see the second piece of letter, but took the letter to Liu Shiqin's room on the fourth floor, raised her hand and knocked on the door.

No one answered.

Lily smiled wryly, turned the handle, and pushed the door open.

Sure enough, there was no Liu Shiqin in the room, the bedding of the bed was neatly folded, like a tofu block, the pillow was quietly placed on the "tofu", the window of the room was open, and the curtains swayed gently with the night breeze.

The moonlight filtered through the mist like a thick, translucent gauze on the only table in the room, half of which was faintly floating and half completely hidden in the darkness.

Lily was just about to leave, but suddenly noticed something flashing on the table, hesitated for two seconds, she still went to check, and found that it was actually a small and delicate wooden stick, this wooden stick has a large head, but the tail has been shaped like a round cone, the head of the wooden stick has been carved into a beautiful shape like a cloud, and the body of the stick has the undulations and deformations that are unique to wood.

Reaching out and picking up the small stick, Lily suddenly felt that it was a bit weighty, which made Lily almost think that she had made the wrong material.

She didn't know what it was, but she thought it was really good-looking, and she liked it.

"Did Miss Shiqin leave this to me?" Lily thought silently.

After all, the first person to come to her room was probably the one who was sent to her by Miss Shiqin and the two sisters.

After two seconds of silence, Lily looked up at the hazy moonlight outside the window and whispered:

"Thank you for the gift, Miss Shiqin, I like it very much."

Looking at the folded futon again, Lily exited the room and closed the door again.

She was going back to her room to read the second piece of paper, and maybe she could figure out which one her 'journey' was, but she remembered the demeanor and words Shiqin had used to tell her about these 'journeys' in the morning, and Lily felt that there seemed to be more than a few 'journeys', and Shiqin was more like giving Lily an example when she listed them for her.