Chapter: Chapter 110
The sun was bright, the air was fresh, and the cool autumn breeze brushed against the girl’s cheeks, lifting a stray strand of black, fine hair.
Withered yellow fallen leaves were plucked from the branches by the wind, drifting slowly to the ground like butterflies.
Autumn had arrived.
“It was quite hot before, I didn’t expect it to be so cold now.” Leticia, wearing her autumn clothes, shrank her neck as much as possible into her collar. She was a bit weak now and afraid of the cold.
“It’s already November, and Central City is located in the northern part of the continent, so the seasons are very distinct.” Xue’er held two suitcases, one in each hand, and followed closely behind Leticia.
Candice, full of curiosity, looked around. This was her first time in the human world, so her curiosity was a given.
The distance from the demon realm to Central City through the spatial portal was not short, and coupled with Leticia’s current poor health, the four of them had spent considerable time on the journey.
Leticia even suspected that the poor half-elf girl might have already passed away.
After all, a week had passed; the poison wouldn’t wait for them to arrive before manifesting, would it?
Once they entered the vicinity of Central City, Xue’er’s phone was constantly ringing. The maid had brought her own mobile phone when she left but not Leticia’s, it was unclear if it was intentional or if she had genuinely forgotten.
“Yes, yes, alright.” Xue’er hung up the phone.
To hang up, she simply pressed the hang-up button on her wireless earpiece with magic. Xue’er didn’t have a free hand to take out her phone at the moment.
“Your Majesty, should we call Miss Bai?” After finishing the last call, Xue’er let out a sigh of relief. Explaining what happened a month ago and why she had disappeared for a month was still a bit troublesome.
Those who had called were her business partners. To maintain their fragile trust, Xue’er had to repeat her fabricated story to different people over and over again.
Qixia had not told Xue’er the truth; she had only told Leticia what she knew.
When Leticia learned of the matter, she almost smashed her head against a block of tofu and died.
Putting away the restless divine hammer sounded like an incredibly troublesome matter.
If nothing else, Leticia had risked her own life to seal away that fog god.
The fog god wasn’t a particularly powerful deity. If she had encountered something like a war god, Leticia felt she would have been defeated in a few moves.
“Why call her? To bother me?” Regarding Xue’er’s suggestion, Leticia snorted, indicating that Bai Ling’s arrival would only make her, the patient, unhappy.
“Yes.” Since Leticia didn’t want Bai Ling to come, Xue’er naturally had no objections.
Thus, the four of them, carrying their belongings as if moving house, arrived downstairs at Leticia’s home.
“Xiao Ya?” Not too far from the door, near the exercise equipment, Leticia saw her sister Xiao Ya, whom she hadn’t seen in a long time.
Bai Ya was supporting a black-haired girl of similar age. Upon hearing Leticia’s voice, her eyes lit up, and she looked up, shouting at Leticia, “Qian Qian Jie, you’re back!”
“And Xiao Qi, where have you all been these past few days?”
“Ah, recovering from injuries,” Leticia replied. Then, she turned and whispered a few words in Xue’er’s ear, asking the maid and Candice to go upstairs first.
Xue’er nodded, pulling the curious Candice upstairs.
“But Qian Qian Jie doesn’t look injured at all,” Bai Ya said, pouting. “Oh, right, this is my new friend. She says her name is Qing Yu.”
“Lin Qing Yu,” the girl supported by Bai Ya added softly.
“A very cute little girl,” Leticia’s gaze swept over Lin Qing Yu, sensing a faint sense of disharmony.
This Lin Qing Yu should be the poisoned girl mentioned in Bai Ling’s letter. Leticia had initially guessed she was a half-elf, but after meeting her, Leticia couldn’t sense any elven aura on the girl.
Not only could she not sense any elven aura, but the girl also exuded an aura of extremely pure humanity, as if she were a pure-blooded human.
However, those verdant eyes were impossible to fake. How could a human possess such eyes? Only elves, and high elves at that, would have eyes that remained so perpetually verdant and moist.
“Green eyes, she must be a half-elf. But why can’t I smell the elven scent?” Leticia circled the girl a few times and found that she really couldn’t smell any elven scent. With a hint of doubt, she asked.
Lin Qing Yu’s expression stiffened, and after a long pause, she stammered, “I’m not a half-elf, I’m human.”
“What are you talking about, Qian Qian Jie?” Bai Ya chimed in from the side. “Qing Yu is definitely not a half-elf. Look at her ears; they’re round, not pointed.”
As she spoke, Bai Ya brushed aside the hair at Lin Qing Yu’s temples, revealing a pair of small, rounded ears.
Half-elves, as the offspring of elves and humans, generally inherited the elven characteristic of long, pointed ears.
“Then perhaps I am ill-informed,” Leticia glanced at Lin Qing Yu’s ears and then at the girl’s neck. “This necklace is very beautiful.”
“This is a birthday gift from my mother,” Lin Qing Yu quickly covered the necklace, as if afraid Leticia would snatch it away.
Strange, very strange.
Leticia caught a whiff of conspiracy. This Lin Qing Yu’s behavior was rather peculiar.
“Aren’t you going up to see your sister, Qian Qian Jie?” Bai Ya, sensing the awkward atmosphere, quickly tried to smooth things over.
Leticia shook her head. “No need, she’s already come down.”
Bai Ling had appeared at the main entrance at some point. She had her arms crossed, her face as expressionless as ever.
Upon hearing Leticia’s words, she lowered her arms and walked over. “Your complexion is still a bit poor.”
“It’s no wonder my complexion is bad when I’ve been cooped up at home all the time,” Leticia gave Bai Ling a forced, over-the-top smile. “What can I do? A certain Miss Bai has something she needs me for, so I hurried over here feeling unwell!”
“Mm, thank you.”
“Huh? Just a casual ‘thank you’? I’m not so easily appeased,” Leticia said with an air of arrogance.
“For your game, I’ve already helped you max out the items.” A faint smile appeared on Bai Ling’s face, and Leticia seemed to see a giant ‘rich’ character in it.
This Miss Bai is truly… wealthy.
