Chapter 493 Snow Country Train (Part 1)
The station was much more crowded at noon than in the morning.
After making arrangements for mutual defense with Li Yi and others, Su Jiu entered the inner passage. Feeling the noisy atmosphere again, she felt a little uncomfortable and couldn’t help but raise her scarf, covering her mouth, feeling a bit timid.
“Finally finished Qun (six) Lin / Er Er ⒊ ⒋ ⒏ ⑻ ⒋; I can go to the car and stay later.”
According to the location on her phone, she found Rancy, whom she had agreed to meet, among the increasingly crowded people. She felt the aura of Rancy, who had already reached the Initial Stage Battle King.
Su Jiu was slightly stunned, then quickly recovered and chuckled, “Congratulations, you’ve officially entered the ranks of Battle Kings.”
Rancy glanced at Su Jiu, her gaze swept over Su Jiu’s fluffy scarf, and she blinked. She didn’t ask why someone was missing. With a slightly helpless expression, she said, “I can’t compare to you. You probably have the strength to face High-Rank Battle Kings, right?”
When Su Jiu was fighting the [Yi], she was breaking through. Coupled with the fact that she had no teammates to contact, she had no idea about the opponent’s refreshed strength.
“It’s alright. To fight High-Rank Battle Kings, I need to use secret arts…”
Su Jiu thought for a moment and told the truth. In fact, her paper strength was only comparable to an Intermediate Battle King in the Late Stage, but it was another story after activating her ultimate abilities.
The two of them lined up in this not-so-long queue, and it was soon their turn. After Su Jiu’s ticket was inspected, she passed the inspection station and turned around with a smile, asking:
“Now that you’ve just broken through, you should be preparing Awakening Stones for your awakening, right? I can accompany you to the guild for awakening.”
Handing her ticket to the inspection station member, Rancy’s brows furrowed slightly. After a moment of thought, she slowly replied, “I might not have time to awaken.”
Su Jiu looked puzzled, but she quietly waited for Rancy, not asking any more questions.
“Let’s get on the train first.”
Rancy took back her ticket and beckoned to Su Jiu, walking towards the train. As she walked, she continued, “On my family’s side, Grandpa had a dispute with some minor nobles over territory, and Father seems to have gone with Duchess Catherine to search.”
“The weather seems to be getting colder.”
Following behind, Su Jiu paused slightly to look at the wind and snow blowing in, then touched her scarf and continued to ask:
“Shouldn’t the territory issues have been arranged by the Grand Nobles in advance? Logically, if there were disputes, they would have happened earlier.”
Rancy got on the carriage first and stood in the aisle. She turned to Su Jiu with a helpless expression and said with a wry smile, “It was indeed arranged like that, but… in an emergency meeting held a few days ago, Grandpa supported the resettlement of refugees from war-torn regions, and immediately reclaimed the land that our family had previously given to those minor nobles for free.”
She paused, and seeing Su Jiu walk over, she continued, “This reclamation completely angered those families. Citing the dignity of nobles, they all refused to accept Grandpa’s proposal using the most ancient method of [Throw White Gloves].”
“On the phone, Grandpa said that there was no one in the family who could fight. They couldn’t accept this kind of [Knight Duel]… When I go back, besides deterring them, I also need to sue the Snow Guard and get the land back.”
Listening to Rancy’s words, Su Jiu was stunned. What was wrong with reclaiming the land they had taken for free and getting their own things back? Wasn’t that self-evident?
These minor nobles were just being so arrogant because the Herb Family had no one around, right?
“It’s alright, I’m good at dealing with these ruffians who talk about rules.”
The two walked through the corridor, and Su Jiu said with a smile. She knew that people like them generally didn’t reason well; they only needed a little bit of force to make them a little clearer.
“Thank you.”
Hearing this, Rancy looked at Su Jiu gratefully and forced a smile, “However, leave the lawsuits to me. The Snow Guard here needs to be bribed.”
Su Jiu raised her eyebrows, feeling that Rancy was being troublesome. Ruffians were not afraid of lawsuits the most…
They soon arrived at a four-person compartment. Since Rancy bought discounted tickets temporarily, she couldn’t book the entire compartment and had to squeeze in with strangers.
“This cold wave is getting worse. In the middle of the day, everything is white.”
Sitting down, Su Jiu glanced at the crowds at the station outside, then tilted her head to look at the world outside, which seemed to be covered in silver. She then withdrew her gaze and shifted the topic to ask about the purpose of this round:
“Weren’t we saying last time that we didn’t know the good or evil of monsters? We got news from neutral races that the Ice Phoenix was trapped by monsters like the Ice Sky Vultures who were friendly to humans. It shouldn’t be difficult to confirm this kind of information, right?”
“Indeed, you just need to find any neutral race monster and you can confirm it.”
Listening to Su Jiu’s question, Rancy was stunned for a moment, then realized that this was a topic they hadn’t finished discussing on the train last time. She nodded, but her expression became a little solemn as she slowly said,
“But unfortunately, when Duke asked, those monsters acted as if they had never said anything. Their statements were surprisingly consistent – they didn’t know.”
After getting this answer, Su Jiu wasn’t too surprised. After all, how could the staff who handled problems not understand what she could think of.
After ordering a hot coffee from the attendant and looking at the people who had mostly boarded, Su Jiu continued to ask, “Do you know which forces caused the war in the western border of the Bear of the Snow?”
These forces were why the Bear of the Snow was in a hurry to find a guardian spirit, and they should also be related to the people Rancy’s grandfather took in.
“First, national friction occurred, and then some forces that profited from war, like the Ravens, appeared and fanned the flames.”
Rancy’s answer was very general, clearly indicating that she didn’t have much understanding of it.
“Ka—”
As the two were talking, the door was pushed open, and a girl with a golden double-spiral ponytail walked in with some arrogance. As soon as she entered, she lazily shouted:
“You two inside, go to the hard seats outside. I can pay one hundred thousand rubles for myself.”
Behind her followed a woman dressed as a noble. Her face was filled with the same arrogant expression: “Miss Filly, your father knows that you participated in the extermination of the Others this time, and he is very happy. He might even give you a small reward when you get back.”
Listening to their conversation, Su Jiu had a strange expression on her face, feeling like laughing but not knowing why.
Filly responded first, then her gaze swept over the scene inside, first landing on Rancy, who was at the entrance.
“Why is she here?”
Her brows furrowed, but thinking that this time the Others were annihilated, and the person was not present, her brows slowly relaxed. Just as she was about to say something mocking.
“Hey, are you guys also going west?”
A familiar yet unfamiliar voice sounded. Filly’s voice, which was at her throat, “cawed” like a duck’s. Her head mechanically turned towards the sound, looking at the face that had been made up to look purer.
She suddenly remembered the warm feeling between her legs…
