Read Novel Full Chapter 181.2
Chapter 181.2
The air of the forest was very clean, and it even carried the characteristic fragrance of the earth.
Bai Lixin was awakened by a knock on the door. As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw the silver-haired Dijia walking in with a few neatly folded clothes in his hands.
The man’s face was as meticulous as ever, and the warm sunlight spilled in through the window, falling on the silver hair, which looked as cold as the snow peaks on mountains, and it immediately became like a halo.
He was like an elf bathed in sunlight.
To be honest, this kind of truly serious and ascetic persona was a first for Bai Lixin.
Bai Lixin stared at him.
Dijia only gave Bai Lixin a faint glance and dutifully knelt on one knee in front of him, “Master, the clothes are ready, I’ll help you put them on.”
The man’s voice was cold, with a faint aloofness. He was like every good servant, strictly controlling the distance between himself and his master and not overstepping his boundaries in the slightest.
The man had already taken off the thick cloak, revealing the European-style waistcoat and tuxedo hidden inside. He carefully removed Bai Lixin’s soft robe.
The youth did not resist and allowed himself to be attentively served.
When the robe was completely removed, the youth’s creamy skin was exposed to the man.
The man had already turned his head away. His cold silver eyes only swept a glance before helping Bai Lixin get dressed without looking again.
While dressing, Bai Lixin kept watching the man.
Unlike his previous stoicism, Dijia seemed to have no real desire for him this time. Whether it was the movements or the eyes, they were unusually calm, and when their eyes met, there was no hint of desire, only the loyalty of a servant to a master.
This ……
Is it a change of sexuality?
So was it more appropriate to let this go, or to tease the other party in reverse?
Long, slender fingers lifted Bai Lixin’s foot, and toes as round and plump as grapes came into view.
The man’s head was lowered, and where Bai Lixin could not see it, cold silver eyes suddenly flickered several times. [Haha, I knew it!]
He bent down and carefully helped the youth put on his boots and lace them up before standing respectfully by his side and saying, “Master, let’s go. I will now take you to the sea monster.”
The man’s eyes were unusually earnest, so sincere that there was no hint of filth hidden in them; they were as clean and transparent as this fairy tale world.
For a moment, Bai Lixin even felt a little ashamed.
When Bai Lixin thought of the nasty thoughts he had before, his cheeks began to flush with shame.
When he thought about it, this was quite good. Although he and Dijia were very much in love, there was no need to be excessive in every copy.
Since his lover was so innocent, he could let him be innocent.
After figuring it out, Bai Lixin didn’t have any more entanglements. “Let’s go.”
Dijia made a teleportation array early on, and he brought Bai Lixin in front of it, saying, “The teleportation array can only take us to the seaside city. We’ll go to the seaside city first, and then go to find the sea monster.”
Bai Lixin stared at the shining teleportation array in front of him, and then at the lake not far away, and asked, “The sea monster appeared in the lake yesterday, but now we are going to the seaside to find him? Can’t the sea monster come here two days in a row?”
Dijia: “It’s possible, but I drove him back yesterday, so I don’t think he is coming back any time soon. If I had known I had to help you lift the curse, I wouldn’t have chased him away yesterday.”
“The forest is my home, after all. I should at least ensure your safety.”
Dijia suddenly looked down at Bai Lixin, his gaze pious. “Master, I’m sorry.”
Bai Lixin’s cheeks flushed slightly, and he quickly waved his hand, “It’s fine, it’s fine.”
Ahh, don’t use such an innocent expression; I’m really not immune to that kind of expression, ah!
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The waves lapped against the rocks, and in the distance was an endless sea. The azure water stretched to the farthest point and connected with the sky.
This was a small seaside city, and people were going about their business in seventh- and eighth-century European-style clothes.
In a narrow, inaccessible alley, two wild cats were fighting over the only fresh fish, and one of them, a large orange, raised its paw and was about to slap the black cat on the other side when a golden teleportation array suddenly appeared in front of the two fat cats.
The fat cats instantly ran away, and the big orange didn’t forget to protect the hard-earned fresh fish in its mouth.
Two seconds later, two feet stretched out from the teleportation array.
Then, two figures wrapped in black cloaks appeared on the narrow road.
Because it was a seaside city, the residents mostly lived by fishing, and the air was filled with the fishy smell of fish and shrimp.
As soon as Dijia smelled this smell, he immediately drew a bottle of perfume from his arms and gave it to the youth next to him, saying, “Use this, master it’s refined from the flowers in the forest, it will dispel the odor from your body.”
Bai Lixin took the perfume, but instead of using it, he lifted his cloak and frowned as he took a sniff in the air. “Do you smell anything else hidden beneath this fishy odor?”
Dijia sniffed and frowned for a moment, “There is indeed a strange smell, like blood.”
Bai Lixin: “Yes, and it’s not the smell of fish blood.”
The system prompt rang out as the two talked.
[Ding! Congratulations to player Bai Lixin, for entering the new copy – [The mermaid girl]. Here is the background story for this fairytale world.]
*Since this fairytale is from China, I’ll share the link HERE. Just use Google Translate.
[Long ago, in the distant deep sea, there once lived a beautiful mermaid princess.]
[During a tsunami, the mermaid princess saved a human. Later, the man and the mermaid fell in love. But because they were different species, their love affair was doomed; the man could not turn into a merman and live in the deep sea, and the mermaid princess could only turn into a human for a short time; if she turned into a human for long, her body would die of dehydration.]
[But the two fell in love despite the obstacles, and the mermaid princess even got pregnant.]
[The mermaid princess became so weak because of the pregnancy, she tried her best to give birth to their love child, but eventually died in childbirth.]
[The man held his baby and endured the pain as he made a funeral for the mermaid princess. After that, the man raised his daughter alone.]
[But single parenthood was difficult. The man married a woman with two children so that they could take care of the family together. The man spent many years at sea fishing to earn money, while the mother took care of the three children alone.]
[However, this was not a virtuous mother, and the girl gradually discovered that she was treated harshly.]
[Although the girl was a combination of mermaid and human genes, she had no tail, no gills, breathed through her nostrils and lungs, had no scales, and had the same limbs as a human. She was completely human.]
[She couldn’t live in the sea, which is why the mermaid princess’s family was willing to give the child to the man to raise.]
[However, when the girl was eighteen years old and came of age, she split.]
[That day, the man was fishing at sea when his daughter split in front of her mother and two sisters.]
[The very next day, the mother offered the mermaid girl to the minister as a doorway to the royal family, who in turn offered her to the prince.]
[The prince fell in love with the mermaid girl at first sight. The two quickly fell in love, and the prince executed the wicked mother and her two daughters and, at the same time, brought the mermaid girl’s father to the palace. From then on, the mermaid girl and the prince lived happily ever after.]
[Ding! That is the end of the world’s background. The tasks will be released soon.]
[Ding!]
[Please find the invader.]
[Time: Unlimited.]
[Friendly reminder: Although there is no time limit, the invader will cause the fairy tale world to collapse, and once the fairy tale world is destroyed, it means the task has failed. The player will then be sent back to the time cage.]
[The chance to be reborn is not easy to come by, please cherish it, player.]
Bai Lixin carefully listened to the system’s background introduction, and asked, [Are there any hints? Like where do I go to start off or something like that?]
The fusion of three fairytale worlds had made things chaotic.
The invader inside Prince Rapunzel hadn’t even been found yet, and now he had to deal with the world of the mermaid princess.
Escape System: [I can only tell you that the timeline is now past the mermaid’s eighteenth birthday. That stepmother should have sacrificed the mermaid to the minister, but she changed her mind.]
Bai Lixin: [To what?]
Escape System: [She created a mermaid circus, and the mermaid is the protagonist of this circus. They plan to use the mermaid to make money, and then offer her to the minister when she is drained of her use.]
[The story line changed, most likely because of the invader.]
[You can start with the people who are connected to this matter.]
[But that’s not the most important thing, Master Bai Lixin. Please lift the curse before you do anything else.]
While he was communicating with the system, he didn’t stay idle.
He and Dijia walked off the road, and by the time the conversation with the system was over, the two had just turned a corner.
The moment they reached the pedestrians outside, Bai Lixin’s hand subconsciously grabbed Dijia’s wrist.
Bai Lixin did not notice Dijia’s body shiver slightly, his expression changed slightly, and quickly returned to normal.
Bai Lixin: “How did this happen?”
The colors of the pedestrians coming and going in front of him were already losing color. Their skin was not a malnourished, miserable white, but a paper white from loss of color.
But it was only their skin that had temporarily faded, their hair, clothes, and the things around them had not yet begun to fade.
Dijia frowned for a moment, “This world is worse off than my world, it has already started to lose color. This means that this fairytale world is gradually disintegrating. We have to find the cause as soon as possible to bring everything back to normal.”
Bai Lixin turned his head and gave Dijia a look, “Speaking of which, how did you know your world was a fairy tale world?”
Dijia lowered his head in confusion and turned to look at Bai Lixin.
Bai Lixin: “Let me put it another way. There is an old saying that goes like this, ‘I don’t know the true face of Lushan Mountain because I am on this mountain’. It is hard to know what kind of world you are in when you are living in it.”
“But you know that this world belongs to the world of fairy tales.”
“Why?”
Dijia’s silver eyes glinted slightly in the sunlight, and he blinked. “I didn’t notice it myself, but the prophecy left by the forest told me.”
Bai Lixin: “You mentioned the prophecy yesterday, I’m quite interested in it, can I take a look too?”
Dijia hesitated for a second, then put his hand in the air.
In a few seconds, he pulled a book out of thin air.
The cover was yellowed and even a little pulped, not quite thick, about three fingers thick.
Bai Lixin took it, and his hand gave a slight pause when he saw the design on the cover.
On this yellowed cover was a bird with a flower in its mouth. The bird’s wings and body were strange, not in the form of smooth feathers, but in the form of angular diamonds. It looked very much like a diamond bird.
Dijia spoke slowly: “This was passed down by the forest from a long time ago, I don’t know how much time has passed by the time it reached here it. Legend has it that a long, long time ago, a diamond bird descended from the sky, and although it was a bird, it could speak human language. It threw the red thorn flower onto the earth, and this book appeared on the earth. After leaving the prophecy behind, it took to its wings and flew away.”
The diamond bird, a red thorn flower…
Bai Lixin’s hand, stroking the lines of the diamond bird on the cover, trembled, feeling the rough texture that had been baptized by time.
Dijia had never appeared by his side from the moment he entered the time cage, yet he had always been by his side.
Had he predicted that he would enter this fairytale world and sent a prophecy in advance?
Thinking of something, Bai Lixin quickly opened the book.
Since Dijia had guessed that he would enter this place, had he left any message for him in this prophecy?
He turned it over quickly, even with some urgency.
Dijia watched the youth’s expression as if indifferently, without a trace of emotion in his expression or eyes.
The flipping of the pages soon stopped. He had reached the last page but could not find the words Dijia had left for him.
Bai Lixin had doubts, so he flipped through the book again, but there was still no message.
Was it because he was afraid of being discovered by the system, so he didn’t leave anything?
He closed the book with some regret and gave it back to Wizard Dijia, saying, “Here you go, thanks.”
Wizard Dijia: “Were you looking for something in this book?”
Bai Lixin looked at his lover’s face, and there was a helpless shrug. “Is it that obvious?”
Wizard Dijia: “Do you know the diamond bird on the cover?”
Bai Lixin suddenly looked at Wizard Dijia, “How did you guess? Even if it were obvious, no ordinary person would guess that, right? One is a legendary bird, the other is a person living in the present, do you know something?”
Dijia nodded seriously at this, his silver eyes becoming even deeper, “It is true that I got a little verbal message from the previous generation.”
“It was the words left behind by the Diamond Bird, saying that it needed to be passed on by word of mouth.”
Bai Lixin’s eyes snapped open, and he subconsciously grabbed Wizard Dijia’s wrist with both hands and asked, “What were the words?”
Dijia’s silver eyes fixedly stared at Bai Lixin. The youth in front of him was languid and indifferent from the moment he entered his sight, but only now did he suddenly become serious.
There were many messages left in the prophecy, two of which were already about the youth, so the youth was definitely not that simple.
Who was he, really?
Why did he know the diamond bird? And why did he show such a complicated look when he mentioned the diamond bird?
Dijia swallowed imperceptibly as he remembered what had been passed down and spoke slowly.
“My sun and treasure, though I may have forgotten you, believe that was never the intention. When the sun and the moon are connected in a straight line, the world will blossom with color.”
Dijia spoke slowly, trailing off as he spoke, and the words came out of his mouth as if they were a lover’s whisper.
After saying this, he added, “There is a saying that has been passed down among wizards since the olden days.”
“When a young man who knows the diamond bird appears, say to him these words in their original form and in the most affectionate tone.”
“So it must be you.”
“Half of this sentence is supposed to be a way to save the fairy tale world, but I don’t understand what the first half means. There was a time when I wondered if the phrase had changed as it got passed down, but this is how it was when it reached my generation, so I’ve said it as it is.”