Hotel on the mountain

In the suite of Liming No. 1, the sun shone on Dao'er's face, forcing her to open her confused eyes. But Dao'er turned her head to avoid the sunlight, closed her eyes again, and even turned her body over. Come here, twist a few times, and lie down in the center of the bed.

But suddenly, as if she thought of something, she sat up in panic. Her eyes swept around the house, and finally found the petite figure in front of the floor-to-ceiling window. So she called softly: "Xiao Nai, what are you doing?"

Xibinai stood upright in front of the window, holding her hands on her lower abdomen, and responded: "I am practicing."

Dao'er didn't understand. She opened the quilt, revealing her slender white legs and feet. She reached out and took out a white dress from the chair next to her and put it on her body. The white dress was very long, covering her naked upper body and buttocks. Her flaxen hair was scattered and she didn't take care of it. Anyway, she stood beside Xibinai with one hand on her hip, observing.

"Cultivation? Is there spiritual energy in sunlight that can be absorbed?"

"I'm cultivating my state of mind." Xibinai closed her eyes and responded softly.

"Oh." Dao'er scratched his head, changed his position and observed, and continued to ask: "Xiao Nai, how long have you been up?"

"Start when the sun hits your ass."

Dao'er smiled awkwardly - I don't know if this little girl's state of mind is stable through cultivation, but I can tell if she is "mature" enough in cultivation. But Dao'er immediately thought of a very serious problem, so she squatted down and looked at Xibinai at eye level and said: "Xiao Nai, why do you get up so early these days? Children shouldn't play after eating too much, and play too much Are you going to sleep now?”

"I am no longer a child, I want to work hard to become an adult." Xibinai's eyes did not open, and her body did not move at all.

"Why? You are only 7 years old."

"Because, because..." Xibinai opened her eyes with tears in her eyes. She pouted and whispered, "Because I miss daddy. It must be because I made daddy angry because of my misbehavior a few times before. Let’s go. As long as I behave here, dad will come back.”

Daoer's expression softened, and he gently turned Xibinai over and took her hand. She said softly: "Xiao Nai, I am just like you. I also missed my father when I was a child."

"Sister, your father doesn't want you anymore?"

Daoer smiled and shook his head: "My father has more important things to do than accompany me."

"But my dad often says that I am everything to him, so dads are all liars! Nothing is more important than us!" Xibinai also squatted down, putting his hands on his knees and his head hanging down.

"For all mankind. This is what my father wants to do." Daoer touched Xibinai's head, "He always said to me, 'You are my everything,' but he still left. Xiao Nai, do you know what happened next?”

Sibyna shook her head.

"I found a group of good friends who belong to me." Dao'er's face was filled with a happy smile, "I found Sith, I found Jetro, I also found other friends in the manor, we are together When we established our own little country, it didn’t matter whether we had a father or not because we were happy every day!”

"But, but I have no friends, I only have my father." Xiao Nai raised her head and looked at Dao'er helplessly with her big eyes.

"Then Sister Dao'er will be your friend! You can play with Sister Dao'er all day long!"

Xibinai's eyes showed a thinking angle. She pondered for a while and replied: "It's not fair! Sister Daoer has at least two friends, but Xiaonai only has one friend, sister Daoer. I also want to find another friend. !”

"What kind of friend does Xiao Nai want? Sister Dao'er will help you find him."

"I want a big flying dragon!" Xibinai jumped up and moved her arms in a big circle. "I remember that I sat on a big flying dragon. The flying dragon was so big. I even talked to it! I want a big flying dragon. Big flying dragon!”

"Okay! Sister Daoer will help you find a big flying dragon!" Daoer smiled happily, stretched out her little finger and said, "But Xiaonai must also learn to find friends by herself, learn to eat and sleep on time, and learn to be strong by herself! Yes! ?"

"Yes! I will definitely learn it!" Xiao Nai put her hands on her hips and was full of confidence, but she suddenly asked, "Sister, do you still miss your father now?"

Dao'er's expression darkened, but he quickly smiled again, shook his head and said, "I still think about it, but I have learned to be strong! Being strong will allow us to overcome everything!"

"Well..." Xiao Nai was a little confused, "My 'strongness' was taught by my sister, so who taught my sister's 'strongness'?"

"It's Ye Zi, oh no, it was Master Yetro who taught me." Dao'er paused, with memories appearing on his face, "He said, 'Strength is the only thing I have, and no one can take it away.' ”

"Oh, that uncle, does he also have the same sadness as us - about leaving dad?"

"He has it, otherwise he wouldn't come here. Oh! By the way! Did you just call him 'uncle'? Xiao Nai! Do you think he is old? He is the same age as Sister Dao'er!"

Xibinai rolled her eyes twice, blinked, and turned away without speaking. Daoer hugged her, and the two suddenly laughed "haha".

…

In Jetro's room, Daoer reported Xibinai's situation to Jetro, which gave Jetro a headache.

"Dao'er! I asked you to take care of the child's emotions, but you promised to get her a dragon?! Or a flying dragon?! Do you know that in education, it is best to keep what you promise to a child? "

"Uh..." Daoer replied innocently, sitting on a chair, "I know."

Jetro looked at her and wanted to say something, but he could only smile and shake his head: "Forget it, taking care of children is not easy. You go ahead and do your work. I will find a solution."

"Then I'm leaving." Dao'er, dressed in scholar's clothes, skipped towards the door, her flaxen braids swinging behind her. As soon as she left Jetro's room, she returned to a steady figure. Scholar look.

"Huh", Jetro blew his bangs helplessly - he promised Thorad to take good care of his daughter, so when Xibinai showed the negative psychological factors of left-behind children, he hurriedly sent Daoer to stabilize Xibinai. Binet's mood - he swore that if he really got a flying dragon to be a friend of Sibinet, the debt would be put on Thorad's head.

But first, Jetro felt like he had to get busy with other things.

…

In the New World, it's a bit hot in August, and Chef Pavlov is teaching a new group of apprentices how to make ice using psychic energy.

"Now! Everyone stretch out your hands!" His thick voice made everyone's ears hurt. "Then! Gather your spiritual energy in your hands!" The palms of five or six apprentices all rose up. Pavlov took one look at the bright psychic energy, nodded with satisfaction, and continued: "Finally! Imagine that you are a block of ice."

As he spoke, Pavlov walked among the apprentices. Everyone could feel the chill emanating from his body. They saw him placing his hand on top of the bucket, triggering the spiritual energy to spread towards the water. The bucket of water turned into a bucket of ice.

He asked the apprentices to try it, but no one knew how to turn psychic energy into ice. Pavlov, the chef, was not very patient with his apprentices at all. He grabbed an apprentice by the collar and shouted: "Say! What are you?!"

"I, I am a human? Mr. Pavlov." The apprentice hesitated, and immediately received a spit from Pavlov - "Wrong! You are ice! Ice without emotions! "

He let go of the man's collar, turned around and grabbed the other man's collar, and continued to yell: "Say! Who are you!"

"I am ice!" The apprentice got excited and shouted directly into Pavlov's ear, which shocked the latter. Chef Pavlov adjusted his chef's hat and patted it. The apprentice said "well said" on his shoulder. Then he walked up to everyone and concluded: "If you want to make ice, you must first turn into ice. If you want to make fire, you must first turn into fire. If you can't learn how, I will send you to Qiu Guang." !" Pavlov put down his harsh words, found a chair and sat down with his hands on his chest, looking at everyone coldly. These apprentices had long known what happened to Qiu Guang, and they had not forgotten the fact that they were essentially prisoners, so they all worked hard to turn themselves into ice.

Buckets of ice were delivered from the kitchen and entered the hotel through the east door of the banquet hall of the Alpine Castle. Then from the back of the hotel, the banquet hall led to the atrium through several small doors into the hotel under construction. Alpine castle atrium.

The atrium of the Alpine Fort was originally a vast garden. The city walls guarding the Alpine Fort were integrated with the Alpine Fort starting from the atrium. So when you stand in the atrium and look to both sides, you will see the pitted low walls. Under the reflection of the rising sun, the vicissitudes of history are revealed.

The gap on the east side between the Alpine Fort banquet hall and the city wall was transformed into a temporary kitchen, while the air raid on the west side had not yet made any modifications. However, because the garden in the atrium is in dilapidated condition, with rubble and collapsed building debris everywhere, the kitchen cannot directly access the atrium. What Jetro wants is to clean up the atrium, so that after all the alpine forts are organized, the food in this temporary kitchen can be easily circulated between the alpine forts - this situation will continue to the kitchen of the main building. Until it is restored to use - and how to do it, the architectural designer Master Russell has already planned it all. He also returned to the Old World after leaving the design drawings.

A hundred workers were cleaning the atrium under the coordination of Gordon. Using psychic powers and some handling techniques, with sufficient manpower, they finally moved the statue of the first Duke Raya that had fallen from the top of the main building. - Its head had long been shattered, leaving only its broken body, blocking a large area of ​​the atrium.

Jetro stood aside, looking at the atrium and the dilapidated main building in the distance, thinking that when the Lanternfish launched its attack, they must have climbed up from behind and on both sides of the cliff - they didn't take the right path anyway. Although there were many damages and collapses in the original banquet hall, these were all partial damages, and subsequent renovations only required repairing the holes.

The atrium was in complete decay, and even the floor tiles had to be re-paved, not to mention the main building, which was basically just a shelf. Looking at the atrium, which was almost half the length and width of a football field, Jetro estimated that it would take these workers several months to renovate the atrium - he would also need a large number of people, Jetro thought. .

Many workers wear thin shirts to keep themselves as cool as possible. During breaks, they scoop some ice cubes from the ice bucket and mix them into water to beat the heat. They also say a few words of thanks to praise their willingness. A master who gives them good welfare. Jetro observed here for a while and then left.

When entering the hotel through a small door from the noisy construction site, a world of etiquette and passion returned to Jetro's vision - the service staff coming and going were young and beautiful, and they patiently guided guests to check in, gathering in groups of twos. The hunters gathered together and talked and laughed, mostly discussing who would share a room with whom to save money. Some curious people looked at the strange chandelier and began to close their eyes to appreciate its beauty. Occasionally, a young man who had just taken up the job was walking through the crowd comically with his tray, and accidentally bumped into the closed ones. When the person realized the magic of "heirloom", he immediately apologized.

This is still an immature hotel, but it's still a good starting point.

Jetro was wearing a white shirt, and in order to maintain the dignity that a nobleman should have, he still wore a blue scarf that made his neck feel sticky. When everyone saw this man with short blond hair and luxurious clothes, they would naturally think that this was the owner of the hotel, Jetro Raya. So many people would come over to say hello to him, but many hunters were not familiar with the words in social situations. Most people would just say "hello", and Jetro nodded and smiled in response. Afterwards, it successfully left a good impression on the guests.

He walked all the way out of the hotel door and came to the front yard. This place called the "Hunting Square" by the hunters was already filled with the corpses of many monsters and some living creatures.

There is a row of wooden sheds that are transparent on all sides in the corner of the "square". The first batch of Jetro's direct personnel who came to the New World are responsible for purchasing materials and other related matters here. Although the scene is noisy, it is still orderly.

The people in the kitchen will directly butcher the food here when they collect it, so that this facade that should have left a good first impression now looks like a high-end meat market - but this kind of environment is very suitable for a hunter-type residence. guests, so until other kinds of guests come to the New World, Jetro is not prepared to change this style.

It was just that Jetro had to pinch his nose a few times when he walked through the vestibule, because the smell of blood, monsters, and excrement had spread a little.

He took an overview of the prey in the hunting square and found that many of the monsters were low-star, and even the last batch of popular Barbarian Jaw Dragons were missing. Jetro thought about it for a moment, and it was right. The overall level of this batch of hunters brought by the ocean-going sailing ship "Lisbon" is similar to that of the previous batch of hunters - those who came to the New World are all low-star hunters. Their abilities can only hunt low-star monsters, so they will be 150 % of the price of materials, and high-star hunters have the ability to hunt monsters that endanger human territory in the Old World - the locations of those monsters are very clear and the prices are very high. Compared with the complete vagueness of the monster's habitat In the New World, high-star hunters still make more profits in the Old World, unless some of them like to see the scenery, but which hunter hasn't seen enough scenery?

After passing through the crowded vestibule, Jetro came to the gate of the Alpine Castle. After taking his mount from the stable next to it, he and Mengzhi headed to Pearl Lake together.

There were two arrow towers erected on the three-story building gate. The guard guard had already opened the iron gate of the town gate. The two of them galloped down the north slope, turned a slight corner, and passed through Lingding Pall. The hunters returning with the morning dew rushed straight towards the Pearl Lake in the southwest.

The powerful horse's hooves swept through the knee-deep weeds, and the frightened insects and scattered spores fluttered towards the surrounding grass piles in the sun, and were swallowed by the herbivorous dragon. Pearl Lake is only about half an hour away from the Alpine Fort, so the slow-moving herbivorous dragons on both sides of the road have become accustomed to the "new species" running back and forth. They do not avoid them, and let the dust stirred up by the horses rush towards them. The tip of their nose is so that they can snort happily.

When Jetro stopped his horse on a small slope and looked at the wooden stakes inserted into the lake in a straight line, he found that Qiu Guang was still young, but he could always think of some torturous ideas - Qiu Guang Guang Zheng led fifteen hunting team members for morning training. He asked the hunting team members to hold a torch in their hands and then rush through the wooden piles as quickly as possible to the other side of the lake.

The walking lantern fish that got up early had just spit out bubbles when it noticed bursts of "fire" signals coming from its skin. They smashed it twice with their ferocious mouths, then swung their tails and rushed towards the "light source" like a cannonball.

The first student who walked on the wooden pole obviously had his own unique skills. The hand holding the torch was like a matador's red cloth, and he always avoided the bite of the lantern fish by a hair. Jetro watched quietly and found that Qiu Guang was holding a bow in his hand. The bow and arrows were completely iron-black and without any decoration. They were obviously those that Simba forged casually and threw in the corner of the blacksmith shop.

Whenever Qiu Guang thinks that the students have no chance to dodge the bite of the lantern fish, he moves extremely quickly - he draws his bow and shoots arrows to blow the fish's head, all in one go. And every time he takes a shot, all the students have to run around the lake with heavy weights. . Jetro only stood there for a moment before he realized that the group had to run around the lake all day.

However, Jetro thinks this training method is very good. This group of felons only lived among people before, and they were only cruel to people. Now they live among monsters, and they must know how to respect monsters and be cruel to monsters. .

"Qiu Guang!" Yetro shouted, "Let everyone prepare, let's go into the forest!"