After being busy in the town all day, Surdak just finished a meeting at the town hall in the evening.
Since he holds an important military and political position in a small town, he has endless things to deal with every day.
Walking tiredly onto the wooden platform of the riverside wooden house, Suldak felt that this riverside wooden house seemed a little different from before.
He stopped and turned around the cabin.
Only then did I realize that the several pillars that were originally erected in the river under the platform of the wooden house were actually covered by a thick layer of wooden boards. There was also a wooden step that was not too wide in the corner of the platform, and there was a building below.
Wooden house in the water.
It looks like a small dock.
But on the Dodan River, which can almost freeze over in winter, it is not a wise move to build such a dock.
However, Suldak also thought that in early summer, he could buy a small wooden boat and go rafting on the river. Thinking about it, he felt very sentimental.
He leaned on the wooden railing of the platform with one hand and stretched his head to look down the wooden stairs. The stairs seemed very narrow, and there was actually a lock on the door at the bottom.
Suldak held onto the fence of the platform, wanting to see if there were any small wooden boats below.
"Dak, what are you doing?" Xigna's sweet voice sounded from behind Suldak.
Suldak turned around and saw Signa standing quietly at the top of the stairs, staring at him with dark eyes.
"The dock below was renovated by Selina and you together? Is there a boat in there?" Surdak asked curiously.
"Do you want to go in and have a look?" Xigna asked with a sullen face, staring at Suldak.
"Of course, if you invite me." Surdak was a little curious.
"The stairs are a bit narrow, you have to be careful..." Xigna moved the stairs out of the way and gestured to invite him in.
Surdak was wearing hard leather armor. When he reached the top of the stairs, he stretched one foot inside and realized that the stairs were too narrow. If he wanted to walk in, he would probably have to turn sideways.
He stopped and said to Xigna: "I shouldn't go yet. I'm worried that I will get stuck in the stairway."
Surdak turned around and walked into the wooden house. As he walked, he asked Xigna behind him: "What's in it? I guess it's a wooden boat..."
Signa followed Surdak nimbly, tilted her head and asked him:
"Dak, why did you leave Dodan Town for so long?"
Suldak changed into a pair of soft shoes at the door of the wooden house, walked into the wooden house and sat in the living room, and said to Xigna: "I am planning to build a copper mine in the Invercargill Forest. If I have the opportunity, I can take you there.
have a look."
Signa walked in, walked to the open restaurant, poured a glass of water for Suldak, and brought it to him.
Suldak took the water glass and thought it was great to have such a well-behaved daughter.
"Dak, what do you think of the aliens?" Hig knelt on the chair opposite, holding the back of the chair with both hands, resting his pointed chin on it, with a trace of curiosity on his face.
Surdak was slightly startled and said: "I'm not sure what you are referring to? Meeting on the battlefield or meeting in peacetime? There may be two completely different results."
He then added: "If we meet on the battlefield, there is a high probability that we will be enemies, and I will kill them without hesitation. If we meet in the city, they will be either slaves or envoys, as long as they do not hinder me."
, I probably won’t do anything!”
He felt that he was a little hungry, touched his growling stomach, and said to Xigna: "By the way, tomorrow the Twin Goddess Temple will organize a celebration ceremony. Selena and Nika are both there.
I’m busy making the final arrangements, I’m afraid no one will prepare dinner for us, what should we have for dinner?”
"Dak, do you like fish?" Xigna asked with a serious expression.
Suldak thought for a while and then said: "It would be okay if there were no fish bones. You know I don't like to pick bones from those fish meat."
Xigna paused for a moment, looking a little nervous, and then asked: "Do you like big or small food?"
"The big one!" Surdak replied cheerfully.
He feels that such questions and answers between the two parties can enhance mutual feelings.
Signa looked a little nervous and asked Suldak: "Do you have any other requirements? For example, color, place of origin, etc."
Surdak patted his forehead and said: "It's best to live in the sea. I don't like those in rivers. As for the color, it's best to be golden or red, such as large yellow croaker or red grouper... Oh,
I will definitely take you to the beach if I have the chance in the future, maybe we can see the Janna Sea Tribe there."
Xigna lowered her head and asked after a while:
"Dak, how far are we from the sea?"
Suldak drank the last bit of water in the cup, and then said: "We must return to Wilkes City from Dodan Town, return to Bena City through the portal, and then take the magic airship over there all the way east.
I heard that there is a magic airship bound for Haiyinsi City at the Bena City Airport Terminal. It takes about half a month to fly to Haiyinsi City."
"Is it so far?" Xigna exclaimed with a disappointed look on her face.
Surdak nodded and said: "If you don't take the teleportation gate, it may be very far. Bena Province is an inland city of the empire. Why do you suddenly think of asking these questions?"
"No...nothing. I just want to see the sea." Xigna said hesitantly.
Suldak thought for a while and said to Xigna: "It may not be possible now, but there will always be a chance in the future."
Then he stood up again, took Xigna's little hand, and said: "Let's go, I will take you to the town to see if there is anyone selling sea fish here. One of my best dishes is pan-fried sea fish..."
Xigna immediately followed Suldak's footsteps...
She simply didn't dare to ask any more questions.
…
Surdak did not buy the kind of fish buried in ice and salt that Surdak expected. He took Xigna to have dinner at a newly opened restaurant in the town.
Then the two of them went to the Temple of the Twin Goddess and waited for Selena and Nika to finish their work there before slowly returning to the riverside wooden house together.
The moonlight was like water, shining on the stone road in front of them.
Xigna and Nika walked in front hand in hand. In just a few months, the relationship between the two girls has become so close...
You must know that Xigna is a very introverted girl and very defensive. She is not so easy to get along with.
Back at the wooden house by the river, he and Selena hadn't seen each other for a long time, so naturally they had a conversation and lay down on the soft big bed again.
Suldak held a piece of soft fur in his hand, caressed Selena's smooth back, and couldn't help but express his doubts:
"When was a dock built down there?"
Selena curled up on the bed like a lazy Persian cat. She opened her eyes slightly and asked:
"What, you also discovered our new neighbor?"
"New neighbor? Do you know that room?" Suldak didn't quite understand why Selina said that.
Selena sat up from the bed hugging the thick blanket. Her bare feet and two long legs were exposed from under the blanket. She quickly walked to the window and opened the curtains. From here, she could just see the platform.
At the stairs leading to the wooden house below, she whispered: "Well, Xigna and Nika asked Aung San to build a cabin under the wooden house. How could I not know... But I guess you would never have thought that we would
There’s a new neighbor.”
Before Surdak could guess, Selina gave the answer: "It's a mermaid with a fish tail and a human body. I have never seen such a beautiful figure and scales."
"You mean the Janna mermaid lives in it?" Surdak said with his eyes widened in surprise.
"Didn't you even go take a look?" Selena asked strangely.
Suldak scratched his head and said: "Xigna told me that she owned a wooden house downstairs. They made the stairs of the wooden house so narrow that you could only squeeze in sideways, so I didn't go down to take a look.
"
As he spoke, he sat by the window and picked up the soft leather armor from the floor, quickly putting it on himself.
Selena was wrapped in a blanket and standing by the window. The moonlight poured into the room from her back, leaving a clear shadow on the floor.
"Where are you going?"
Surdak replied: "I plan to go see the Janna mermaid..."
"It's so late..."
Selina reminded her angrily.
Surdak immediately stopped and stood there awkwardly and said:
"Ha, that's right. I'm just a little curious. Why is there a Janna Sea Clan in the Bailin plane? Could it be that if we go further east from the Three Rivers Plain, can we see the sea?"
"How about we go together? In fact, I also really want to know..."
Selena moved closer to Suldak and encouraged.
They put on their clothes carefully, then quietly walked out of the wooden house, and the two of them walked to the stairs of the platform.
Before they both walked down the stairs, they heard a childish voice from behind asking: "Mom, Duck, where are you going?"
Suldak was startled, but Selina obviously had a better psychological quality. She turned to Xigna and said: "Of course we want to visit your new friend..."
"But it's so late." Xigna protested softly.
"Xigna, aren't you going to introduce your new friend to us?" Selina asked standing at the top of the stairs.
At this time, the wooden house under the stairs was pushed open by a pair of white and delicate hands. The mermaid Siya poked her head out of the wooden house and said apologetically to Selena and Suldak on the platform: "I'm really sorry.
, I have been staying at your house and haven’t taken the initiative to say hello to you. It’s really rude..."
Siya always seemed to be singing when she spoke, and her delicate face revealed through the door was so soft and beautiful.
Before Selina could say anything, Suldak looked at Thea in surprise and said, "Why is it you?"
"Do you know each other?" Selena asked doubtfully.
Suldak touched his nose and explained to Selina: "Well, I saw her twice in Wilkes City, oh no, it should be three times."
"The first time was at a private auction. I originally wanted to buy a group of dwarf slaves, and the last lot was this mermaid lady."
"The second time was on the arch bridge of the inland river in the northern part of Wilkes City. I obtained the right to develop the Invercargill Monster Forest and was about to return to Dodan Town. At that time, I saw this mermaid lady in the inland river.
He was being chased by a group of guards."
"The third time was at the gate beside the moat at the North City Gate. I was waiting to leave Wilkes City at the city gate. There was a carriage blocked on the moat drawbridge. She was right next to the fence at the water outlet. I felt
She shouldn't be locked up in that city, so a magic dagger was thrown at her."
"I thought she might be able to swim into the sea without being captured, but I didn't expect that she actually swam from the Wilkes River to the Dodan River..."
Surdak recounted how they met.
The mermaid Siya was also very surprised. She didn't expect to see the noble who saved her here. It turned out that he was still a lord.
Thea blinked her beautiful blue eyes and wrapped the sacred bath towel a little tighter. She sat in the warm bathtub, with a fire-gathering magic rune board spread under the bathtub.
It is estimated that Xigna and Nica must have put a lot of thought into buying this metal rune plate.
"Thank you, Lord Suldak. If it weren't for you, I'm afraid they would have captured me back in Wilkes City that same day."
"Hey, Miss Siya, make no mistake, I just accidentally dropped a dagger into the moat, and it has nothing to do with saving you. Of course, you don't need to thank me, but if you picked up that dagger,
As for the dagger, can you return it to me if it’s convenient?”
"Of course!" Although Siya was a little reluctant to part with it, she still returned the exquisite magic dagger to Suldak.
Surdak took the dagger and put it back into the magic belt bag.
Then he asked Miss Mermaid:
"I also want to know, if you went downstream along the Wilkes River, shouldn't you have gone to the sea or a big lake? How did you end up here?"
Siya had an inexplicable liking for Surdak and answered truthfully:
"The end of the Wilkes River is a bottomless abyss. It's not a lake or ocean at all. I swam from that side and got lost in a dense canyon. I didn't expect that the river I chose would kill me.
Bring it here."
"It turns out that the end of the Wilkes River is the bottomless abyss..." Suldak did not expect such an answer.
However, he is also very interested in the lower reaches of the Dodan River. After all, one-third of this large woodland north of the Thorny Mountains belongs to his territory. In addition to the Dark Worm Valley in the north, there is Anya in the west.
swamp.
Of course, he also wanted to know what was downstream of the river, but he only knew that there was a large Three Rivers Plain to the east of the Thorny Mountains.
Listening to Siya's story about his adventure, Surdak couldn't help but exclaimed: "You mean there are a lot of monsters in these rivers?"
"There are many monsters in the river downstream, so I hid here..."
Thea said truthfully.
"Miss Siya, thank you for bringing us so much precious information." Suldak said.
Suldak and Selena looked at each other, and finally said: "You have become friends with Xigna and Nika, so you can stay here temporarily, but you should try your best not to be discovered by other people in the town.
Once your information is published, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to protect you..."