armyinform 【9】
【9】
The plane whizzed by in the blue sky, and Ed and Xiaojie walked out of the airport.
"I'm really looking forward to it. I haven't been back for half a year since I left home." Ed stopped a taxi casually.
The two sat in the car and went to a simple residential area in the city.
"This is it." Stepping out of the car, Ed looked up at a gray building.
"Hey, this is the house where Ed lived before." Xiaojie looked up curiously.
"Is it too shabby?" Ed was a little embarrassed.
"No, it feels like home!" Xiaojie smiled and walked there, he turned around and opened his arms towards Ed and said excitedly: "In Whale Island, everyone lives very far away. I'm really envious of living in such a place, where we can see each other just by walking a few steps!"
Ed also walked over with a smile. "You walk so fast, do you know where you are going?"
Following Xiaojie's words, his mood became more at ease.I thought Xiaojie would be a little disappointed in where he lived, but I didn't expect this kid...
[I seem to understand a little bit why Xiaojie's friends like him. ]
"Hey, you still have to lead the way, Ed." Xiaojie scratched his head.
[Really—in today's society, you may not find a second person like this. ]
"That's right there, I live in this building." Ed took the lead to enter the building.
"—Wow! (excited sound)"
[There is no other such a pure person.Someone who can be liked so much. ]
Standing in front of the door and knocking on the door, Ed couldn't help thinking, it would be great if he had a granddaughter, so that he could treat his favorite Xiaojie as his grandson-in-law.
After knocking on the door for a while, but no one opened it, Ed simply opened the door with the key and went in, then froze in place.Xiaojie poked his head out from behind Ed, and then a drop of sweat couldn't help but flow down.
Contrary to Xiaojie's imagination, the room is a mess.Dirty clothes were strewn about everywhere.
"What the hell is going on?!" Ed blushed, and then walked in angrily. When he saw a person lying on the sofa, he twisted his ears without hesitation and took him off the sofa. Pull up.
"Tres! Tell me why the room is so messy!!?" Ed yelled into the other's ear.
"—Wow!" The other party was startled at first, and then a little surprised when he saw Ed. "Oh, old man, you're back."
As soon as he finished speaking, his face turned to one side, and Ed directly slapped him on the face.
"I haven't seen you for more than half a year, and you are getting more and more unruly. You want to call me grandpa!"
Xiaojie really couldn't describe Ed's expression at the moment, it was really as red as a monkey's butt, but his face was full of anger.
But the boy in his hand seemed to be used to it and didn't care.Xiaojie could only see the back of his head, but his blue hair was curly like Ed's.
"Yes, yes, stinky—no, it's grandpa." The boy nodded reluctantly, then turned his head when he heard footsteps, looked at Xiaojie with raised brows and said, "Hey, why is there another kid, could it be grandpa?" Your bastard—"
Before he finished speaking, the other side of the face was also slapped with a 'slap'.The sound hurt so much that Xiaojie closed his eyes subconsciously.I also thought in my heart that I couldn't make Ed angry in the future.
And when Xiaojie opened his eyes and looked at him again, his head was on the ground, his buttocks were up, and he was severely repaired by Ed.
"Really, I made you laugh, my grandson is really giving me a headache." Ed scratched his head irritably, looked at the well-behaved Xiaojie standing on one side, and then at his grandson sitting on the ground.It's really a heaven and an underground.
"Well—" Xiaojie didn't know how to smooth things over, so he could only smile awkwardly.
"Where's your mother and your father?" Ed grabbed the clothes on the sofa and threw them on the ground around him. "Little Jie, sit here."
"it is good."
After glancing at Xiaojie, the boy stood up and sat down on the coffee table, but was kicked by Ed again immediately, and sat down on a chair beside him in a proper manner.
"I'm playing mahjong, as for your old lady—" After realizing that Ed was about to do something to him again, the boy quickly changed his words, "Grandma told me to go on a trip."
"After I left, didn't they respond?" Ed originally thought that the family would be reunited immediately when he returned home.
"You've been gone for half a year, how can you react?" The boy picked his nose and rolled his eyes speechlessly.
"..." Ed looked at his grandson, and then at Xiaojie who was beside him, feeling a deep—a deep sense of contrast again.
"Hey, what's your name? How old are you?" The boy suddenly focused on Xiaojie.
"My name is Xiaojie, I'm 14 years old."
(PS: When Xiaojie and Qiya met, they both said that they were almost 12 years old [Xiaojie complained in the comics, I will treat him as 12 years old here], and Qiya took the hunter exam for the second time, and the two of them It was 13 years old, and then the development of the manga plot came to the hunter exam, so it was 14 years old. Because the hunter exam is once a year.)
"Wow, we are the same age, my name is Tres." After seeing the peers, Tres seemed a little curious. "Hey, you and this smelly—how did my grandfather meet?"
"We met when we were adventuring together in the City of Phantoms."
"Adventure?" Tres showed a surprised expression, "Just him? Is there a guide to take you to a tourist attraction or something, or dig sand in the desert?"
"That's enough!" Ed once again couldn't bear to punch his grandson flying.In front of others, especially Xiaojie, he really didn't give himself face.
But after thinking about it, he decided to clean up the house first.Since the grandson is the same age as Xiaojie, it is rare for him to be exempted from cleaning together, and let the two go to the room to play together.
"Ha, I finally got rid of that stinky old man." When he came to Tres' room, he put his hands behind his head as soon as the door was closed, looking unbearable.
"Ed doesn't seem like such a nag."
"Isn't that how people are, pretending to be in front of outsiders? Don't talk about it, can you play games?" Tres took out the game console at home.
"A little bit, but not good at it."
"Really? Then let's play tank battle together." Then the two played video games in front of the TV.
This is Xiaojie's first time playing this kind of game, and the difference from the one he played with Qiya before is that the rules and gameplay of the game are completely different.
[The rules of the game are really diverse. ] Xiaojie couldn't help thinking that way.
"Although you are very good at the beginning, you are quite good after playing for a long time."
"Hey, isn't it? But thanks to the early stage, you can hold on."
"Of course, I'm the best at playing games!"
Unknowingly, the two played for 2 hours, or it took Ed a full 2 hours to clean up the living room.
"Let's go, stop playing, we're going out to eat." Ed pushed the door open and came in.
"Eat wontons or egg noodles? When you go, just pack and bring me a copy. I don't want to go out on such a hot day." Tres leaned on the ground, playing games and eating snacks, looking very leisurely .
And Ed walked up behind him in a few strides, then held his ear and said to Xiaojie with a smile:
"Are you hungry, Jay? Let's go."
"Ah... yes." Looking at Tres who said 'pain pain pain', Xiaojie replied with some helplessness.
After that, Ed took them to a high-end restaurant in a taxi.
"Wow, you don't really get rich, do you?" Tres looked at his grandfather in disbelief, and then looked at Xiaojie, "Or are you the son of a family?"
"Ah, no." Xiaojie put his hand away in embarrassment.
"How was your hunter exam this time, did you pass it?"
"Well, that's all." Tress looked at the menu and said without raising his head.
"Hmph! Didn't pass the exam, right?" Ed really couldn't understand his grandson's personality, he didn't have any rules at all, and he really humiliated him in front of Xiaojie.
After hearing Ed's words, Tres fumbled and took out a card.
"Did you see it, the qualification certificate?" He turned the card while talking.
"Wow, hunter certificate!" Xiaojie didn't expect Tres to have a hunter certificate.
"..." Ed was stunned at first, he didn't expect his disappointing grandson to pass the exam, but seeing his smug expression made him unable to say any words of congratulations, so he coughed and coughed twice Said: "Xiaojie passed the exam a few years ago."
"Hey, are you a hunter too?" Tres was taken aback by these words, and stopped turning the card.
"Yes." Xiaojie took out the hunter card he carried with him.
"...Then you are really good." Tres couldn't help but give him a high look. "How old were you?"
"12 is old."
"Did you hear Tres?" Although Ed was still a little happy for his grandson, he still suppressed his mood.
"I heard—if you let me take the exam when I was 12 years old, I would have gotten this earlier." Trace's fair face showed a little displeasure. [This stinky old man always dislikes me, is it really my own grandfather? ]
"However, Tres is also very good at getting the hunter's license!"
"...Well, it's okay." [Is this guy serious about complimenting me like this?Obviously such a boring exam, well, forget it. ]
Not long after a few people ordered, a plate of big meals was served, and the TV on one side was playing the Kajin ship.
Xiaojie, who was eating with gusto, stopped what he was saying and looked at the TV.
"That Dark Continent, I was also invited by the Hunter's Association." Seeing that the two people's attention was on the TV, Tres said, "They also invited me to go with them."
"Don't go!" Ed said subconsciously, but then he looked at Xiaojie.
"Although I haven't decided yet, I will go if you say so." Tres pouted.
"...Then you go." He said cruelly, "Can you take Xiaojie with you?"
"That's not a place to have fun, how could I take it as I said?" Tres curled his lips. "Besides, how is he using his thoughts?"
Waking up from the dream with one word, Ed was stunned by Trace's words.
"Forget it, don't mention this during the meal." Ed buried himself in the meal, trying to skip the topic.
"I can't read anymore." Xiaojie replied directly.
"Huh? What do you mean you can't read." Tres raised his brows, puzzled.
"For some reason, I can no longer use Nian now."
"Then you're out of the game, and you definitely can't go. If you don't read it, it's useless at all, and maybe you need someone to protect you." Tres picked up a chicken leg and said, "Unless you have other specialties, such as medical knowledge or history experience or something."
"I don't have any other specialties." Xiaojie thought about it seriously and then asked, "But this time the ship carrying Kajin will only go to uninhabited islands near the Dark Continent?"
"...Does the hunters know about this, um—— indeed. The people who will go to the Dark Continent in the future are carefully selected by the association and V6."
"V6?"
"Because Kajin Nation announced to go to the Dark Continent without authorization before, so under the circumstances, V5 also added Kajin Nation, and now it is V6."
"V5?" Xiaojie was puzzled again, which made Tres ashamed to explain V5 again.
"Now you understand, only the chosen ones can enter the Dark Continent."
"And what about the princes of Kajin?"
"After all, their identities are different, so it's no problem to let the Hunter Association and their own guards protect them." Picking up a chicken leg again, Tres continued: "But since you can't use Nian, you don't have such a noble status, Not to mention special skills, to put it bluntly, it’s impossible to get in.”
"..."
[Sure enough, that person was right.But the fourth prince... still has the mind pot...]
"Well, it seems that you still have a lot of questions like this. Let me say in advance that I don't know much, and more of them are classified. After all, I am also a hunter now." Tres changed his expression this time. Be serious. "Although you are a friend of Grandpa, but the task belongs to the task, I can't tell you more information."
"That's it, it's all right."
[In this case, who should he ask about the fourth prince and the Nianhu? ]
"But, Xiaojie... Xiaojie... That's right! Are you the Xiaojie that Leorie mentioned in the association before?" Tres suddenly realized.
"Huh? Do you know Leorio?"
"Ah, it's really you!" Tres showed a startled expression, "No wonder I always wondered where I've heard this name before, but I didn't expect that you couldn't read it."
"Well, don't talk about this matter first."
[In case it gets to Qi Ya...]
"...Don't worry, I don't talk that much. But if you want to know something, maybe you can ask Leorie again. He is now a member of the Twelve Branches, and he might know more than me."
"Twelve Branches? Leorio became a member of the Twelve Branches!?" This time, it was Xiaojie who was extremely surprised.
Then he immediately called Leorio, and the call was connected quickly.After knowing the ins and outs of the matter from Leori (only told Xiaojie the reason why he entered the Twelve Branches, Leori was not clear about other things), Xiaojie asked him:
"Leo Li, do you know the Nian Pot?"
"Nian Pot? Let me think about it... No, I have been in the medical department since I joined."
"Is that so..."
"But I can ask Kura for you, maybe he will know something."
"Kura? Is he okay?"
"This guy is now a member of the fourteenth prince's guard, but he may not be able to contact him soon."
"The fourteenth prince's guard?" Xiaojie didn't expect that Ku La would go there...
"Yes, I heard that the eyes of the Kuluta clan are with the fourth prince, so he participated in this matter. However, the other party seems not so easy to get close to."
"The fourth prince?" Hearing the prince's name again, Xiaojie couldn't help paying attention.
"Yeah, he must be a pervert anyway, otherwise why would he keep his eyeballs. But when I meet Kura later, I will ask him for you."
"No need, Leorio, I was just asking casually."
The current Xiaojie is sure that what the man said is almost true.The fourth prince is indeed a pervert, but if he wants to join the journey of the dark continent as an 'ordinary person', it is only up to him.
If you tell Leorio and others the truth of the matter, let alone how they will worry and search for you, just say that you will have no way to go to the Dark Continent.
Although his main purpose is to obtain super-long-lived food, according to Leorio's description just now, it seems that all he got during this journey must be dedicated to V6, so this food must also be handed over after discovery .If you want to act without authorization, you must first obtain a permit to enter, and then leave as if you were deemed 'dead' or eat this thing unknowingly, or hide it.
Of course, among them, the Nian Pot must also be figured out, whether such a thing really exists.Only on the basis of the Nian Pot can he have a little confidence in going to the Dark Continent, otherwise he will simply die.
Of course, facing the fourth prince who may be perverted, this in itself is sending him to death, and everything he faces after that may be sending him to death, but——
[The first thing after seeing Jin is to introduce Qi Ya to him and tell him that this is my best friend. 】
He has to give it a try.
"..." Tres on the side silently watched Xiaojie's expression, and then looked away. [It seems that this kid has other plans.Do you want to take care of this matter? ] He glanced again at Grandpa. [Forget it, it’s the old man’s friend anyway, so let him go.If something happens, it is also the association's business, and it is enough for me to take care of myself. ]