Chapter 423: Investigation In the City
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
As the soft glow of 'Amur' faded away, Cadeceus would be greeted with only a few minutes of dark night in the day. Everything was dormant in the dark, watching the last ray of light leaving the sky of the gas giant, then greeted with the glorious sunrise.
Cadeceus had only 16 hours a day. It was not the one having the shortest daylight time in all planes, but it was the one having a large population but the shortest day. So when people just came here, it would take them a while to adapt to the routine here. Hao Ren was still lying on the bed in the inn, burying himself in sleep. On the cupboard next to him, a tiny mermaid was already awakened by the sun. Lil Pea climbed out of the basin and greeted the data terminal next to her, "Good morning!"
Data terminal was watching Lil Pea all night to prevent the little kid running around after waking up. And when it heard Lil Pea's greeting, it got angry at once and said, "You little brat, don't learn from your father!"
Lil Pea did not understand what the brat meant. She thought it was a compliment, so she laughed and accepted the compliment, and then looked at the lively market outside, staring blankly at it. After a while, the little kid felt bored and started humming a little tune that Nangong Wuyue taught her.
The little kid's singing was completely disorganized, without any lyrics--Her teacher also could not remember the lyrics. It was good enough for her to be able to remember the melody.
Hao Ren heard a soft but very beautiful tune when he was half asleep. At first, he thought it was Wuyue humming downstairs, but opened his eyes to see it was his own fish girl humming by the window. Lil Pea was leaning against the window. Her little hands were holding the simple wooden panes, humming a ballad only she could understand with a tranquil expression on her face. The sun shone on the little kid's tail and circles of golden red radiance were shining brightly on her tail.
A little mermaid was singing to the sky in the morning sun. Hao Ren could not help holding his breath. He found that Lil Pea really belonged to the mermaid race. Even though she was so young, there was some kind of aura in her voice, and it made him feel that a faint halo could appear around her. Hao Ren did not want to disturb this short tranquil scene, he pretended to sleep and squinted at the little girl. Lil Pea was unaware of this, and still humming some tunes she knew. She hummed for a while, took a break and gnawed at the window frame, then continued humming.
Hao Ren felt that he had to wake up now… That's not his window!
"Dad!" Lil Pea noticed that Hao Ren got up and immediately jumped on him and slapped his face with her tail and said, "Food!"
Hao Ren looked at the broken window frame and thought that Lil Pea was growing now, and later he still had to explain this to the hotel boss... Wondering if there were mice in this world…
When they all met downstairs, Hao Ren found that Lily and Nangong Wuyue were still yawning. Apparently, the short night rest was not enough for them. However, the other three still looked energetic: Vivian was a vampire and could control her biological clock. Y'zaks and Lanina were not your ordinary creatures either. It was hard to tell if their main purpose of sleeping at night was to rest or out of boredom…
"Yawn... Landlord, I want to get more sleep..." Lily was the one who was the most badly affected by the biological clock. Now she was basically talking to Hao Ren with her eyes closed, relying on her nose to smell and locating the rest of them. She sniffed around and found a place at Hao Ren's feet, curled up her body like a puppy and said, "Two more hours of sleep... Just put the food in my mouth as soon as the meal is ready. I'll eat while dreaming."
Vivian dragged Lily up and said, "This moron... Once she was lack of sleep, her intelligence fell back to the old self again!"
"Let's go for a walk, Cadeceus's sunshine is very uplifting." Y'zaks loud voice suddenly woke them up. He stood in the doorway pointing out and said, "I have already checked out. Let's take a look at the inner city today."
Lily narrowed her eyes, looked at Y'zaks and the next second she fully awoke immediately and said, "Your face is such a pick-me-up!"
Everybody, "…"
"She had no idea what she's doing now…" Vivian mumbled, "Is that her brain also linked up with the biological clock?"
Hao Ren thought of the window that was gnawed by Lil Pea, hurriedly dragged Vivian out of the hotel and said, "Let's not talk about the biological clock. We still have something more important to do…"
The short day-and-night alternation of Cadeceus was difficult for the foreigners to adapt to it but the locals had already familiar with it. At the moment, the downtown area of Cadessar was now busy and lively. The merchants and travelers from all over the country formed the main stream of people in the downtown.
Except for the predominantly permanent resident population in the inner city, most of the people in the outer areas were actually foreigners like them.
The fixed stores and the various stalls and booths were the most common things on the streets. Even the elves and Ethereals who seldom appeared in public also sold their own ethnic crafts here, which was hard to see elsewhere. They walked along the broad avenue that ran through the inner and outer districts, and along the way, they frequently stopped at those stalls. On the one hand they were curious, and on the other hand, they were trying to look for more information.
After all, Y'zaks and Lanina had left this world for a long time. After the end of the war, the world had developed rapidly and they had been very much behind the current situation, it was necessary to know the situation of the different races and species in the human world. It was not realistic to ask about the allies, but there was a lot of useful news from these people from all over the world: you could always piece together the whole world from the rumors they heard on the grapevine. This was the power of gossip.
"Although I don't want to admit, the development of civilization of human world is indeed far beyond the demons," Lanina, pretending to be a servant behind Hao Ren, muttered, "Every time I go to the human world, I marvel at the prosperity and change... The demon world is always the same without any progress, chaotic and messy. Those guys aren't interested in building anything until Wang built an empire that looked like the human world that brought a little change in the demon world."
Vivian paused in front of an elf's booth, fiddling with the wooden ornaments curiously. "What is this?" she asked.
"The amulet blessed by the forest," explained the elf, who was so handsome that they could not tell if he was a man or woman, "It's been blessed in the holy spring of my homeland, to exorcise the scourge and protect..."
"I'll take it!" Vivian bought it without hesitation, and then pointed to another bead next to it and asked, "This is…"
"The amulet blessed by my ancestors," the elf said and smiled. Apparently, living in a human city made him a lot different from his own conservative peers who never left their homes. He was obviously an experienced businessman. "Blessed and handmade by our elders, they can be worn to against evil spirits…"
Vivian's eyes instantly shined bright just like when Lily saw meat bone and said, "I want this!! And this…"
Hao Ren hurriedly stopped this vampire and said, "OK, the two is enough--we still have to keep the money for travel expenses, okay!"
This unlucky lady had never given up using amulets to reverse his bad luck in fortune. However, those amulets were useless to her, why didn't she accept the fact? Even Raven 12345's hand-written couplets did not stop her from losing money in front of the house. Vivian's bad luck in fortune was clearly the order of the universe, and she could not fight it…
They wandered around the city and did not find much important information, but at least they understood some of the changes in the world after the end of the war: After the war, the allies directly resided in the Demonic Plane and there were no signs of mass withdrawal. Among the seven heroes, except for Uruk, the Dwarf King, who was seriously injured, had come back, the other six heroes had not yet returned. It was said that the human hero, General Grigory and the elf, General Kastina were most likely the highest leaders of the next generation of their own race, and currently, the old High King was drawing up the process of abdication. Suddenly a large number of people of a few kingdoms that were completely destroyed by the demon king's legion claimed themselves to be the pure descendants of the royal family, and they were striving for the recognition of seven of heroes to recover their lost kingdoms. Dark elves and orcs had created new friction at the border, but under the call of their respective heroes, friction was quickly eliminated. The two races may hold a special meeting. They decided to talk about the perennial problems of the two races calmly, and many were optimistic about the meeting…
After hundreds of years of invasion and domination by the demon king's legion, there were many planes of the human world that needed to be rebuilt. The reconstruction of culture and the fading of demonic influence were also very important topics in the recent marketplace gossip.
Y'zaks heard these things and said, "It seems that the world will not stop rotating for anyone."