Stray Chapter 26: Sorry

Chaohu Lake is vast and the sky and water are the same color. I don't care about the scenery during the day. The lake at night is sparkling, reflecting the stars and moon.

It's a pity that Han Lingsha was so distracted today that her mind was full of other things, and she didn't have the heart to appreciate the scenery. Yuntianhe was a savage on the top of the mountain.

According to the former statement, it is to the extent that "this person does not leave the wild boar for three sentences, and he is no longer saved".

The reeds by the lake stretch in large stretches, and are generally more than ten feet high. The cool breeze at night blows from the lake, and suddenly there are thousands of heads moving, and there are regular waves. In the depths of the reeds, there was a dazzling fire.

There is a large flat open space that has been cleared out. A handsome young man dressed in animal skins and with a haircut that looks like a bird's nest, and a heroic girl in red dressed in neat clothes walking around the rivers and lakes are eating around a bonfire. Dry food, discussing something, the scene is warm and harmonious.

"This dry food is not tasty at all, it's dry and hard..." The mountaintop savage, who likes fragrant barbecue the most and dreams of eating all kinds of game, is not satisfied, and frowns when he sees the dry food in his hand .

Did the people at the foot of the mountain actually eat this kind of thing?

No wonder she doesn't look strong at all.

"Don't be so picky. If it wasn't because your father offended all the people in Taiping Village, and you were so valuable, how could we eat dry food in the wild tonight..." Han Lingsha whitened him at a glance.

"It's obvious that they are not good. They ask for that money and talk nonsense. I don't know whether to kill the bird or not. My father must not be able to stand them, so he lives in the mountains."

Yun Tianhe shook his head and said, without any self-consciousness about who it is.

This person didn't reflect at all!

The girl in red took a bite of the dry food: "Stupid! Why do people give you something for nothing? The mountain is different from the mountain. Whether it is food or use, if you want it, you have to exchange money for it. ..."

"What exactly is money? Can't you take it without money?" The Mountaintop Savage looked puzzled, this was a field he had never touched before.

"Money is... just... oops, so annoying! You don't understand it anyway! Just remember, if someone tells you it's for sale, you'll have to exchange it for money if you want it If you don't have money, ask me if I can, but I won't help you out if it's too much."

The girl wanted to explain, but she didn't know how to explain it for a while, and she glared angrily at the troublesome savage.

"If you don't have money, you mustn't take other people's things indiscriminately. This time, you're lucky. In case you get caught in a bureaucrat by eating and drinking for free in the city, you will be caught in the yamen and locked up. What to do!"

"What is Guan Jackal? What is the tooth gate? Can they beat me?" Yun Tianhe scratched his messy short hair in confusion, feeling that he had encountered too many strange people today. The new concept is unacceptable for a while.

"Don't always think that you are stronger than anyone else's fist. If you are against the government, you are alone, and a few lives are not enough."

Han Lingsha answered with quite a headache. She reprimanded the troublesome guy angrily. She suddenly felt that the future was a little bleak. It was the first day that she went down the mountain together, and she felt exhausted.

I always feel that if I continue like this, I may really have to usher in my own destiny ahead of time, but it is not a bad retribution, but I am angry to death by this guy in front of me...

"One person? Isn't there still you? Plus two lives." Yun Tianhe smirked happily and corrected Han Lingsha's statement.

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"You... you stop talking nonsense, I have nothing to do with you, why help you..." The girl in red was stunned for a while, before she realized it, with a rare blushing blushing, and stammering. .

"Lingsha, why are you blushing?"

"It's firelight!" the girl snapped, staring at him hard.

"Oh." Yun Tianhe shrank his neck subconsciously, and didn't doubt anything. He thought it might be like this. After all, how could people blush for no reason? It must have been the light of the fire.

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On the other side of the reeds, the blond and blue-eyed girl swordsman relied on the hidden stone guard he wore to restrain all his breath, as if he was integrated with the surrounding environment and could not be detected by anyone.

She didn't have a fire, but a strange hand-held lantern in her hand, the soft glow illuminating the reeds in a small area around her was a gift from the master a few years ago, um, maid Long also has one

In Artoria's eyes, the so-called lantern is actually quite understandable, just like a lantern-like cage-shaped lamp, even if it is a classical oriental style unique to this world.

And because it comes from the master, it will not be a really simple lamp, but a magic lantern with various magical effects.

The most basic lighting function is of course not to mention. As long as the user enters a small amount of special energy, the soft candle light can be directly lit inside the lantern, illuminating the surrounding area of ​​several feet. And if the user wants to, the candle light can be seen only by the person holding the lantern.

Others cannot see the light unless they are in physical contact with the user.

Artoria is using this function right now, watching the boys and girls over there from a short distance.

Of course, if that's all there is to it, it's a little weird at best, and it's nothing. So in fact, this lantern has a lot of strange functions.

For example, it can allow the holder to track the whereabouts of the target object through a pre-locked breath within the range of candlelight; it can also make ghosts appear directly through candlelight... and so on.

And one of the most important effects is that when the lantern activates the ability through specific rituals and usage methods, it can help the bearer to channel the yin, transit through the gaps in space, and pass from the world to the underworld.

It is a very powerful auxiliary item. The reason why it is so powerful is that Xia Ran's craftsmanship is superb, and he has integrated the advantages of manufacturing skills such as alchemy, enchantment, and infusion.

Secondly because...the lantern itself is a living thing, essentially a kind of ghost unique to this world, its name is "false moon".

It is said that it is the guiding light that ghosts use to travel between human and ghost. On the seventh day after human death, the false moon will appear and guide the soul to leave the body and enter the ghost world; otherwise, the soul will wander forever in In the human world, become a lonely ghost and cannot survive.

There is also a saying that whenever the ghost gate opens, the ghosts will return to the world through the guidance of the false moon, enjoying the worship of their families... Even because the false moon usually appears in the cemetery, some people have higher spiritual vision You will see a miserable green light, so it is also called "ghost fire".

According to these legends, it must be directly seen that although it is not strong, it has very good characteristics.

Xia Ran happened to meet a group of them a few years ago, so they caught them all, refined them, affixed incantations, and used them as lanterns.

Anyway, for this peculiar ghost, they were originally lanterns used by ghosts.

And Xia Ran just turned them into the same utensils that living people can see, touch and use. Basically nothing has changed in other aspects. They were lanterns before and are still lanterns now.

Artoria held the lantern in her hand and maintained this posture, quietly paying attention to the two people in the firelight on the other side. Although she was very patient, she couldn't help but complain at the moment:

"That girl is very good, but unfortunately the boy is too slow and seems a little unsettled..."

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"Master? Are you listening? Is there anything wrong?" Because there was no answer, there was only silence in the mental network, Saber tilted his head subconsciously, and then heard a familiar voice in his own Sounded in consciousness.

"Oh, this... I'm listening, but I just encountered something shocking, so I didn't respond to you..." Xia Ran's tone was a little weird.

"What happened?" Arturia froze slightly, and even her own master would be shocked. Could it be that something happened, she subconsciously cared.

"It's just that my maid told me a bad joke, so I couldn't react for a while, and I was a little shocked..." Xia Ran snorted and replied with a dry smile. In a sense, he Very honest.

"Charlotte? Telling a bad joke?" Aber was also stunned, and his expression became strange. If this was the case, she would be able to understand her master at once.

Maybe there is something fundamentally different from Irisviel. Charlotte has been cold and cold for so many years, and has not seen any feelings. Even though she has always been devoted to her duties, she has become more and more versatile The feeling of a maid.

And Xia Ran's original intention to create her at the beginning had other arrangements

It's just that I met two lost people who were very talkative and wanted to make friends, so instead of the original head maid's arrangement, the two twins could pay attention to the two protagonists or even the three main characters at the same time in Shouyang City. the movement of the protagonist.

So the head maid stayed by the master's side all the time. After such a long time, maybe she actually has an emotional function, but her personality has always been cold, and it is difficult for others to determine?

Alturia thought this subconsciously, and felt that she seemed to have found a reasonable explanation, but she couldn't figure out the situation where the head maid would take the initiative to tell a bad joke.

"Yes, yes, but let's not talk about that, you pay attention to that pair of happy friends..." Xia Ran sneered again, and changed the subject without a trace, "The two of them are like this, an arrogant and charming one. , a dull..."

"It's like you and Yukinoshita-san?" Saber blinked, remembering the portrait the other party drew a few days ago, and for some reason, he asked subconsciously.

"No."

The boy across from him flatly denied it.

"Yun Tianhe is really stupid, I'm pretending to be stupid, why do you think I'm as slow as him?"

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How did you get so proud? Arturia silently closed the channel to speak.