Chapter 340 : Your Proof
Volume 6: The Exploration Team of the Vast Sea
"Hmm... should I tell everyone about going directly to the Drowning Mist Archipelago?"
Although she had finally received work that could prove herself, Lonis felt somewhat apprehensive deep down.
Because what if everyone didn't agree?
After all, that Vast Sea seemed to be extremely dangerous.
(No, calm down! Lonis, you're a man, how could you give up?)
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After steeling her courage, Lonis prepared to go find Zhou Suling.
After all, the friend she had known the longest was this cute pink-haired girl, and if she were to explain things to her, it should be more convenient.
But Lonis hadn't expected...
Before she could even knock on Suling's door, she heard crying coming from inside.
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"Wahhh!!! How could this happen!!!!!!"
"Suling, you're not a little kid anymore, you shouldn't make such a big fuss over this kind of thing."
"But that's Little Shi! It's Little Shi who accompanied me for so long, who was always living healthily!"
"Little Shi lived for such a long time, it was already remarkable. It had to leave eventually."
"Woo woo woo, but I didn't even get to see it one last time! Woo woo..."
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Hearing the voices of Zhou Mixue and Zhou Suling inside the room, Lonis didn't dare barge in.
Because she had heard Suling mention before...
When this pink-haired girl was little, she actually loved eating slime jelly.
But when a slime escaped into her home, she began to deeply doubt her own choices.
Could she really eat such a cute little animal?
Suling fell into confusion at that time, and the decision she ultimately made was to raise that slime as a pet.
"Since you escaped from the slime ranch, that proves you have the wisdom and courage to want to live~"
"Then I'll adopt you."
After that, Suling named the slime Little Shi and lived happily with it.
It was only later, when she had to attend school and live in the dormitories, that Suling couldn't keep raising the slime.
She could only entrust the slime to the servants at home to care for, and because she often worked part-time at the maid café, she rarely went back home.
And now?
Although Suling still had the opportunity to bring the slime aboard the ship, having a slime on the ship would be really strange... it would easily affect others, so Suling still didn't do it, only bringing some stuffed animals instead.
Counting on her fingers, from leaving Academy Island, to guarding the royal capital Insolania, to now traveling all the way to Ruins City, nearly two months had already passed.
And during these two months, Suling naturally had no opportunity to see Little Shi.
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"Hah..."
Lonis had just taken a deep breath when the argument inside the room still hadn't stopped.
Suling was still crying, and said to her sister:
"I, I know! It must be me, Little Shi must have died because it resented me."
"Suling, what are you saying?"
"When Little Shi was small, I held it to sleep every day. I also played ball with it, but after it grew up, I rarely held it anymore, and now I don't even visit it."
"......"
"Little Shi must have died because it resented my fickleness, woo woo woo!!!!"
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Hearing Suling say this, Lonis also felt incredibly sad.
With this kind of thing happening, she couldn't possibly tell Suling about the Drowning Mist Archipelago matter.
So...
Let's find someone else first.
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Thus, Lonis left this place and walked toward the kitchen.
But perhaps because her mood was somewhat heavy, when passing around a corner, Lonis didn't pay attention and just like that... bumped into someone else.
"Ah woo?!"
"Eh?"
Fortunately, with the support of her tail, the little fox didn't fall flat on her face. But even so, the sudden impact still made Lonis feel dizzy, and it took her a while to recover.
"Eh, it's... it's Princess Sethilu?"
"It's Lonis? Sorry, are you okay?"
Sethilu seemed to have also been caught off guard by Lonis's collision. She quickly stood up and tried to help Lonis up.
"I'm fine... Princess Sethilu, what happened?"
Lonis stood up. She keenly noticed that Sethilu's expression seemed somewhat panicked... otherwise, with this girl's usual attentiveness, she definitely wouldn't have been knocked down by her.
"Well... actually... it's nothing, nothing major?"
Princess Sethilu shook her head, as if she didn't want her mood to affect others.
However, the princess's expression made Lonis even more worried. Because Sethilu was a very good girl who never put on princess airs and didn't like to trouble others.
So something very bad must have happened.
And just as Lonis was speculating like this...
Candel suddenly appeared from the other side and said: "Sister Sethilu, hurry up... once we pass this area, we'll be outside the transmission range of Ruins City. It'll be too late."
"Um... that, Princess Hero! I'm very sorry, but I need to go handle something over there first..."
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What exactly happened?
It turned out that just now, a message had come from Bright Ember Kingdom.
The condition of Miss Lingli had suddenly worsened.
Originally, Lingli was receiving joint treatment from Dean Cuibia and Senior Yan, and the disease in her body was under stable control... and the Tree of Causality that could purify Exotic Decay had grown in the royal capital Insolania territory, with everything developing in a positive direction.
But recently, no one knew what had happened.
Lingli's condition had suddenly worsened considerably... Originally, Lingli had insisted on concealing her condition, not wanting her situation to affect Princess Sethilu who was fighting.
But now the battle had ended, and Lingli's condition had worsened to the point of unconsciousness.
With no one in charge within the kingdom, Guyanis had no choice but to connect the signal and tell Princess Sethilu everything that had happened in the kingdom.
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"Sister Guyanis, even Dean Cuibia doesn't know what to do?"
"Yes, we've already given Lingli the most advanced treatment. But currently we can't see any medicinal effects."
"In that case..."
Sethilu took a deep breath, her gaze filled with anxiety.
"Princess Sethilu, although I don't want to make the worst assumption, but just in case, do you have any words you'd like me to convey to Lingli?"
"I..."
Sethilu's expression looked as if she was about to cry.
But in the end, this strong silver-haired princess still didn't cry, and instead said: "Please help me convey this... 'I love you, big brother.'"
With this happening, Lonis was completely stunned.
Now without thinking, she knew everyone definitely wouldn't want to go to the Vast Sea!
After all, if her own Elucia were to die, how could she be in the mood to go to a completely unfamiliar place?
(What should I do? What can I do now?)
Lonis clenched her fists, seemingly completely cornered.
And now, there seemed to be only one last thing she could do.
That was...