Chapter 41: Doris's Tenderness
Under the seabed with a water depth of 4,000 meters, there are no waves or sounds, only a hazy halo, and a boundless silence, dead silence. Only by moving forward along the halo and entering the majestic underwater temple can you feel the unique vitality of the world. The world under the sea is not divided into day, night, cold and heat. All year round, twenty-two hours a day, there will be priests and priests in the temple responsible for receiving pilgrimage from all the seas of the Yara world. Outside the temple, there are often some intelligent creatures with huge bodies that cannot see the whole picture clearly. They will always shrink their bodies at the door and transform into human form, and then climb the stairs of the temple step by step.
Although there is no day and night at the bottom of the sea, the priests of the temple need to rest. Therefore, in the priests living in the backyard of the temple, there will be priests who change shifts and rest on every time of the day. It is precisely because of this that the residential area always remains quiet, and no one will make a big fuss here to affect other companions. This good habit also makes the entire residential area one of the closest places in the temple to the quietest underwater world.
In contrast, the temple priests of the sea clan prefer to rest in a waterless environment. In the sea clan's perception, the fluctuations of the sea water will be transformed into sounds and fed back into the brain through their special auditory organs. When resting in the sea, the ubiquitous undercurrent makes the sea clan feel like it is in the noisy wind. Although it is not noisy, it will always bring some troubles.
In the lounge area, the room made of coral was not soundproofed, but after the magic was strengthened, the sounds made during normal work and rest in the room would no longer interfere with others, which also brought convenience to the people of the adventure group. Since there were not many worshipers from the temple in recent times, each of the five people in the adventure group was assigned a comfortable room as a residence. However, after the family dinner, the girls whose work and rest time were already a little chaotic were exhausted, but they still couldn't fall asleep immediately. The five people gathered in Vivian's room to kill time.
"Why must it be in my room?" Vivian lay on a large mattress made of sea beast leather and soft Haupuis algae. The mattress with the unique fragrance of algae plants is said to have a soothing effect, thus making people sleep more peacefully. It was once very popular among land races. It is an important part of the shore-sea trade. However, despite the comfort of Haupuis algae, Vivian still complained helplessly: "Go back to your room to play, I want to sleep."
"You complained again that you couldn't sleep." Catherine rolled her eyes and said, "What's wrong with letting us stay for a while?"
"I want to think." Vivian said reluctantly: "You will interrupt my thoughts."
"I don't think your thoughts will be interrupted." On the big bed, Lina was sitting beside Vivian in a soft sea silk gown, and her fair and delicate feet sneaked out from under the gown. She swayed rhythmically. Since there was no outsider, Lina threw away her glasses, closed the book in her hand with a snap, and suddenly leaned over and looked towards Vivian with her nose against her nose and eyes: "When you don't want to be interrupted, you never care about the situation around you."
"You go away." Vivian pushed Lina away with force, and the two girls immediately tangled and wrestled each other and rolled into a ball on the big bed.
"It's still so lively, it hasn't changed at all." On the other side of the room, Catherine and Freya sat opposite each other across a small coffee table, with an adventure chess spread on the small coffee table. This is a popular entertainment activity among the nobles among humans. On the contrary, few real adventurers can play, and Vivian and Lina won't. Freya fiddled with the chess pieces and whispered: "You haven't changed either. You're still so careful. You can think of such details, and you don't want anyone to feel neglected."
"All of all my family, of course I have to care a little bit." Catherine smiled casually: "We are all so familiar with each other, and we always take care of each other habitually."
"I'm always worried that sooner or later you will be exhausted." Freya's fingers were shaking inadvertently, and the sturdyness of her fingers did not affect their sensitivity. Chess pieces made of artificial crystal kept flying on her thick fingers: "Don't you feel tired all these years?"
"The opposite." Catherine gently pushed three pieces and said with a smile: "I just feel more and more pitiful in this family. I never feel tired. Ha, I will complete the third task first, you will lose."
"Hey, no, you are too cunning." Freya widened her eyes and said dissatisfiedly: "This step doesn't count. You attacked me while I was distracted. I want to go again."
"That won't work. Regret is not something a lady should do." Catherine slapped Freya's hand that reached out to her chess piece, and smiled happily: "Remember our bet. If you lose, you will accompany me in a while and run fifty laps around the temple."
"Oh my God, why?" Freya muttered with a sad face, "It's very tiring to run under the sea."
"Who told you to eat so much supper?" Catherine refused to give in at all: "I said that you must strictly control your food. Since you are greedy and eat too much supper, you must consume this food for me."
"Woo, you have changed." Freya hugged her head and turned her comment less than a minute ago: "You are like a demon now, so terrible."
"Hu." Panis sat quietly beside him, playing with a shell relief in a daze, and suddenly stood up and walked towards the door: "I'll go out for a walk."
"Yeah." Catherine said without raising her head: "Go to see Doris?"
Panis, who was about to push the door, froze and laughed dryly, "Ha, ha, just go out for a casual walk, no purpose, haha, no purpose."
"I said when you first came, don't ask about the past, so we won't over-question what happened in the past. Everyone will have secrets, and we are no exception. When you think you can tell us, you will naturally tell us. We are not in a hurry." Catherine finally raised her head and looked directly at Panis, and said seriously: "I remember to come back."
Penis held the door handle and was silent for a while. He pushed open the door and whispered: "Of course, how could he not come back."
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Panis had his hands behind his back, as if he was wandering around the temple aimlessly. The clergy he met had already received a notice. Seeing that he was just nodding from afar, no one went up to ask.
After walking around the temple for a while, Panis familiarly turned into a small door and came to a small courtyard that was also open air, no, exposed under the dome of the sea. The courtyard was very empty. There was only a colorful coral tree in the middle, and the air was filled with the smell of the forest. Doris sat under the coral tree. The long fish tail was spread flat on the ground. When Panis walked in, he showed a gentle smile: "The smell of the forest was specially chosen for you. I remember you like this the most. Or do you want to change it to the smell of the vineyard?"
"No need." Panis paused and shook his head, "I dare not smell the smell of the vineyard now."
Doris smiled docilely and shook her head, patted the position beside her, and the tail fin of the fish tail also habitually patted the ground: "Come and sit with my sister for a while, we haven't talked to each other for many years."
"That's my honor." Panis sat down next to Doris, and habitually leaned back, lying on the ground with Doris' fish tail pillowing.
"Poor Kyle." Doris gently stroked Panis's short golden hair, like a loving mother comforting her scarred child: "What happened back then has made you feel depressed until now? Why don't you come to find your sister when you are in pain? Is it because my sister didn't go to help you together?"
"No. I'm just hating myself." Panis's self-deprecating smile was filled with indescribable grief: "Because of my incompetence, fear of death and despicability, I killed Neli. Oh, I dare not see any acquaintances. I don't want to get any comfort. I just want to die quietly in a place where no one knows."
"You have hurt Neli, and you regret it. Do you want to continue to hurt other people who care about you?" Doris gently patted Panis' forehead to show punishment: "Do you know that the two noisy birds and the elf have been sad for you and Neli for a hundred years? They said that others are also sad. Do you know that for the past hundred years, I have been looking forward to you coming to me every day? But you just don't come. Sometimes I worry if you are no longer in the world. Who would have thought you were because of such a stupid reason?"
"Yes. I know I did something wrong." Panis sighed: "I will live well in the future until the final judgment comes."
"The final judgment?" Doris rolled backwards, as if holding Pennis in his arms: "Kyle little fool, who do you think will judge you, Nellie? Do you think she will hate you before she dies?"
"My behavior is unforgivable," Panis said gritting his teeth, "She won't hate me."
"You, you have never really understood women, nor have you ever understood what love is." Doris pinched Panis's face like a lesson: "Women in love will never really hate the ones they love, no matter what their lover has done to her."
"How do you know?" Panis smiled bitterly: "You don't even know what happened."
"Because I love you and trust you, and it's still the same thing until now, I know exactly what Nellie is thinking." Doris looked down at Pannis' eyes, her long hair scattered on his face: "And don't forget, I am a god's agent, and I know much more about many things than others, although I can't tell you, hehe."
Panis directly ignored Doris' second half and whispered: "So even if you know I'm sorry to Nellie, even if you know I'm no longer the reliable Kyle, do you still have to leave such an important thing to me? Just because of you..."
"Yes, because you are my favorite brother." Doris leaned over and gently kissed Panis's forehead: "Even if he would fail in the end, even if he would eventually become a sinner of the sea clan, I hope my brother will tell me."
"What a cunning, sister." Penis sighed: "Are you putting the responsibility and burden on me again?"
"Sister has always been so cunning." Doris patted Panis on the shoulder like a child sleeping, and said softly: "Would you like to carry it on? Do you bear this responsibility for your sister with your new friends?"
"We have already carried it on our backs, aren't we?" Panis closed his eyes and said in a dreamy way.
Chapter completed!