Chapter 119: Going South
Si Ye gave Sang Luo a map.
The territory of the Eastern Continent was even more vast than the Western Continent, with a land area almost twice as large. Various forces were intertwined, and its complexity far exceeded that of other continents.
The Eastern Continent could be roughly divided into five major regions.
The fertile plains of the Central region, the extremely cold ice fields of the Northern region, the plains and hills of the Southern region, the barbarian rainforest of the Western region, and the fiery plateau of the Eastern region.
The major races and King Beasts chose to inhabit the land, restraining each other, in a delicate balance.
Sang Luo had no idea where Yunhua City was, so she crammed some knowledge and, after finding the marked location of the city in the south of the map, looked surprised, "You're going to the south? But I heard that the south is sealed, and outsiders can't enter."
"Others can't get in, but they can't stop me." Si Ye snorted softly, "There's nowhere under the heavens I can't go."
"Really! I've always wanted to go to the south! If you can really help me go to the south, you'll be doing me a great favor!"
Listening to her sudden excited voice, Si Ye felt a surge of heat in his heart for some reason, and subconsciously asked, "Then how will you repay me for helping you with this big favor?"
"I'll give you a litter of cubs!"
Si Ye staggered and almost fell. His hands and feet were out of control. He thought he had heard wrong, "Wh-what?"
Sang Luo couldn't even wrap her arms around his neck. She put her mouth close to the feathers near his ear, rubbed it, and gently said in a delicate voice, "I said ~ How about I give you a cub?"
In the beast world, what reward is more precious than giving birth to offspring?
Fortunately, Si Ye was in beast form now. If he were in human form, Sang Luo would probably see the young man's face and neck turn completely red, and he stammered out, "I, I just said it casually, I didn't really want you to repay me..."
"But what if I want to have one with you?" Sang Luo smiled and reached out to touch his neck.
Si Ye's body became even stiffer. The skin that had been touched by the female became scorching hot. The two of them had only really known each other for a day, and even counting the time she disguised herself at the Precious Stone Pavilion before, it was only three or four days. How could she say such a thing so easily!
This female is really unrestrained!
Not reserved at all!
She! She must have said it to more than just him!
Just like that female… Once you get it, you don't cherish it anymore…
Si Ye's tone suddenly turned cold, "I promised to send you here, I don't need your reward!"
Sang Luo, "I'm serious."
"…"
Si Ye ignored her the whole way.
Sang Luo lay on his back boredly, like a frost-beaten eggplant, dejected, looking rather pitiful, Si Ye forced himself to take his attention away from her… After a while, she said that he was flying too fast and the wind was making her cold, so Si Ye subconsciously slowed down, delaying the journey by half a day.
As dusk approached, there were still hundreds of kilometers to go. Si Ye thought about it and decided to find a small town nearby as a place to stay for the night, so that Sang Luo could rest in the inn for one night. Females' bodies were relatively delicate.
The town was deserted, with few pedestrians on the desolate streets. Compared to the other towns Sang Luo had seen in the Eastern Continent, it was completely different.
Si Ye took her and searched for a long time, only finding a small three-story inn.
Sang Luo only found out after asking the innkeeper that the southern region had been turbulent, and the nearby border towns had also been affected. The orcs in the town had either died or packed up and left. Now only this inn remained in the town. The family had been rooted here for generations, and the innkeeper had no children under his knees, so he did not move away, planning to return to his homeland to settle down.
But in the past few days, many orcs had come from outside to investigate, and there was only one last room with a large bed left in the inn. If the two of them had come any later, they probably wouldn't have been able to grab this room with a large bed.
This time, there really were no rooms left.
Sang Luo turned to Si Ye and said, "There are only a few hundred kilometers left, otherwise we can travel overnight tonight, my body can handle it." As she spoke, she yawned, and tears welled up in the corners of her eyes.
"…You rest for one night first, there's no rush to travel, it just so happens that I also have something to do and need to investigate nearby." Si Ye hesitated and took the last room with a large bed.
The room was simple, less than twenty square meters. The furnishings in the room were just a set of wooden tables and chairs, and a large bed covered with a layer of white cotton quilt.
Si Ye stood at the door, looking at the shabby room, his handsome eyebrows furrowed so tightly that they could almost kill a fly.
"Um, I'll sleep on the floor." Sang Luo took the initiative to defuse the situation.
"…" There was no reason to let a female sleep on the floor. Si Ye forcibly pressed her onto the bed, "You rest first, I'll go out and scout around."
After saying that, he disappeared.
Sang Luo was indeed sleepy. She didn't have any rich-person diseases. Big beds, small beds, soft beds, hard beds, as long as it was a bed, she could sleep soundly. Not long after lying on the bed, she fell asleep, snoring.
Half an hour later, Si Ye returned from outside and paused when he saw Sang Luo sleeping soundly.
His eyes lingered on her fair and delicate face, the young man's face was slightly red, he turned his head to look out the window, it was the first time he had been in the same room with a female… No, this time, it should be the second time…
Si Ye didn't disturb her, put the things he bought on the table, pulled a wooden chair and sat down, and took a few books from the space to read.
…
Sang Luo was awakened by hunger. She hadn't eaten much all day, and as soon as she woke up, she smelled the aroma of food.
Si Ye moved a chair and sat by the bed, with the book covering his face, his legs crossed, resting with his eyes closed, his posture lazy and noble.
The moment Sang Luo woke up, he reached out and took the book off his face, revealing his superior and handsome face, got up and took the food from the table. The originally cold food became warm again in his hands, "You haven't eaten all day, you must be hungry, fill your stomach first, if it's not enough, I'll go downstairs to buy some more later."
Sang Luo was not polite and took the food and tasted it. The taste was not bad.
"Did you buy it for me specifically?"
"…I bought it on the way back."
"Then thank you." Sang Luo picked up a few green fruits and gnawed on them. Males usually don't like to eat this kind of fruit, it's usually females who like to eat them.
"By the way, you went out just now, what were you investigating?" No matter how slow Sang Luo was, she noticed the strange atmosphere in the town.
"The southern region is closed to the outside world, and I don't know what the internal situation is for the time being, but strange things have been happening in these border towns near the south recently. This town is called Si'an Town. In recent months, many orcs have died bizarrely, their bodies were abandoned in the wilderness, and their beast crystals were gone." Si Ye said in a deep voice, "I suspect that the abyssal demon beasts have come out to move again."
[Aze, what are abyssal demon beasts?] Sang Luo subconsciously asked Aze, the encyclopedia that had lived for a long time.
There was no reply for a long time.
Sang Luo had no choice but to ask Si Ye again, "What are abyssal demon beasts?"
