Chapter: Chapter 310
Based on the clues she had gathered, Leticia could basically confirm that this world was the Sleeping Beauty story written by Zì Mèng.
Xiǎo Yǎ naturally played the role of the prince. However, as everyone’s eyes were not blind, arbitrarily pointing to a little girl and calling her the prince would definitely not do. Since the prince wouldn’t work, they would have to substitute her with a princess. This was quite simple.
In that case, as Xiǎo Yǎ’s older sister, Bái Líng’s role in this world was very suspect.
“A princess like Xiǎo Yǎ, or perhaps a king?” Looking at Bái Líng, Leticia muttered to herself. Although she didn’t seem to have the demeanor of a king or a princess, these were indeed the most likely options.
It wasn’t possible for the younger sister to be a princess while the older sister was just an ordinary person.
Alright, now here’s the problem. She knew Xiǎo Yǎ and Bái Líng’s general identities, knew the background of the dream she was in, and even knew who the mastermind BOSS was. Then, what was her identity?
There were two versions of Zì Mèng’s script. In the version Leticia was more familiar with, the princess and the witch were two different people. In the script that was ultimately performed, the princess and the witch were the same person.
If it was the former version, then it was highly likely that Qǐ Lā would play the princess, and the mastermind BOSS would simply be Zì Mèng.
Qǐ Lā is the princess, and as Qǐ Lā’s older sister, I can only be royalty. Hmm, a survivor of the Sleeping Empire?
“What are you thinking about?” Seeing Leticia lost in thought, Bái Líng couldn’t help but ask after waiting for a while.
Leticia shook her head. “I wasn’t thinking about anything, just some blurry things in my mind… I think our goal is probably the same as your sister’s.”
Mentioning her sister, Bái Líng narrowed her eyes. She didn’t even know what that brat of a sister was planning to do, so how did the black-haired girl beside her know?
This was abnormal, but Bái Líng didn’t doubt Leticia’s words. In her heart, the words of this black-haired girl had 100% credibility. She might even doubt her own words, but she wouldn’t doubt the black-haired girl’s words.
She didn’t know why, but her heart told her to believe this girl.
“Then should we proceed directly, or should we rest here for a while?” Bypassing all unnecessary communication, Bái Líng got straight to the point. “If we hurry, we might still be able to catch up with them.”
This person, don’t you doubt it at all? Leticia gave Bái Líng a helpless look. She had prepared several sets of explanations, waiting for Bái Líng to ask, but as it turned out, this person believed her without saying a word. Should she consider Bái Líng too naive, or should she be happy that her trust level with Bái Líng was so high?
Perhaps both?
Since Bái Líng didn’t ask, Leticia was too lazy to waste time explaining. There would be plenty of time to explain later. Moreover, rather than spending time thinking about how to explain, it was better to think about how to awaken Bái Líng’s consciousness.
That would be the best explanation.
“Let’s proceed directly. Do you have enough supplies?” Leticia nodded.
Then, in the next moment, she was carried in a bridal style by Bái Líng in full view of everyone.
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A large exclamation mark instantly appeared above Leticia’s head.
This was completely different from when they were rushing earlier. Earlier, no one else saw them, so she could still self-hypnotize. But now, with so many people watching, how could she hide like an ostrich?
Her delicate little face instantly turned bright red. Leticia really wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
Bái Líng didn’t care about that much. She picked up Leticia simply to save time and didn’t pay attention to Leticia’s reaction. She pushed off with her feet and rushed into the darkness at an extremely fast speed.
“This speed, this woman is simply a monster!” Watching the white-haired girl leave, holding the black-haired girl, the man with bandages on his head widened his eyes. Fortunately, he hadn’t gotten carried away just now, otherwise, he would have definitely suffered a second setback.
What he didn’t know was that he had to suffer this setback whether he wanted to or not.
Outside the camp, several knights who had received Bái Líng’s orders were already waiting quietly. They were like robots, waiting for the time specified in Bái Líng’s orders to arrive.
Their mission was also very simple. Bái Líng would not let go of anyone who dared to lay a hand on Xiǎo Yǎ, let alone these vicious bandits.
Eliminating harm for the people and helping her sister vent her anger, wasn’t this what an older sister should do?
Leticia naturally didn’t know about the orders Bái Líng had left. She was no longer in the mood to be shy. Compared to shyness, the experience of being the “Bái Líng-brand transportation device” was quite bad.
Oh, perhaps “quite bad” was not enough to describe it.
It should be described as extremely bad.
By the time Bái Líng slowed down for the second time, it was already dawn. Leticia’s eyes were basically filled with spiral patterns.
She was now in a state of “Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?” and she wouldn’t be able to recover from it anytime soon.
Placing the dizzy Leticia on the ground, Bái Líng put her hand in front of her mouth and coughed lightly twice.
As if by a miracle, two large packages suddenly flew out from the roadside jungle, landing precisely at Bái Líng’s feet.
The packages contained clothes for changing, drinking water that could be consumed directly, and good-looking food, essentially items customized for outdoor living.
But Bái Líng ignored these things. While Leticia hadn’t recovered yet, she quickly took a small cylindrical container from the package, opened it, and pulled out a small roll of white paper.
The information on the paper was very brief, simply telling Bái Líng Xiǎo Yǎ’s current location.
“Did these things fall from the sky?” At this moment, Leticia finally recovered from her out-of-body experience. She pressed her throbbing forehead and pointed at the two large packages on the ground, asking.
Could she be hallucinating?
They hadn’t brought these things before, but now these two large packages had appeared. They could only have fallen from the sky, right?
“There’s even clothes?” Taking out a light yellow dress from the bag, Leticia’s eyes twitched a little. This size, why did it feel like it was a bit suitable for her?
“Let’s eat something first. There’s a small town not far ahead, and we can use the things inside to clean ourselves up,” Bái Líng averted her gaze, as if they had fallen from the sky. It didn’t matter anyway, did it?
As soon as these words were spoken, Leticia narrowed her eyes. Bái Líng’s words indicated that these seemingly materialized supplies were inseparable from her.
If they were inseparable from Bái Líng, then these things were safe.
Yes, after knowing that these things were related to Bái Líng, Leticia lost the inclination to question further. What use was it to get to the bottom of things? Anyway, Bái Líng wouldn’t harm her, and there wouldn’t be any poison or anything in this food.
Since there was no poison, it could be eaten. Leticia happened to feel like eating something right now.
Although it was a dream, in principle, there was no need to eat. However, Leticia still felt the hunger from her stomach. She wanted to eat.
Putting the clothes back into the bag, Leticia took out a large piece of bread and started gnawing on it. There was a lot of food in the bag, and Leticia even saw sauces and the like. It could only be said that the variety was outrageously rich.
For example, when Bái Líng saw Leticia start eating, she didn’t hesitate either. She directly dumped everything from the bag onto the ground, then tore open the packaging and stuffed it into her mouth.
Well, this way of eating had the demeanor of Miss Bái.
After eating one piece of bread, Leticia felt her stomach was a little full. At this moment, Bái Líng had already eaten about three times as much food as Leticia, and her speed hadn’t slowed down. She still wasn’t full.
This was outrageous, but it wasn’t that outrageous when it happened to Bái Líng.
“Your appetite is still this good here,” Leticia’s eyes twitched uncontrollably. She really couldn’t understand why Bái Líng’s appetite was so large.
It couldn’t be explained by science or magic.
“Mm, what did you say?” Bái Líng heard Leticia’s mumble. She stopped what she was doing and asked curiously.
Her intuition told her that Leticia was mumbling about something related to her.
“Nothing, have we entered the territory of the Sleeping Empire now?” Leticia shook her head. She couldn’t tell Bái Líng that she was cursing her as a glutton behind her back, so she wisely chose to change the subject.
This time, the topic change was very effective. Bái Líng didn’t think much and replied, “That’s right, we’ve entered the outskirts of the Sleeping Empire. If we keep walking this way for a day or two, we’ll reach the capital, probably.”
“Probably?”
“Yes, probably.” Putting the last remaining food into her mouth, Bái Líng stood up and looked into the distance, saying, “No one has ever been there. No, it should be said that everyone who went there never came out again.”
Those who went in never came out, so there was no news from inside. The internal situation of the Sleeping Empire was a complete black box. No one knew how this country, which once stood proudly in the world, was doing after such a long time.
“However, it’s probably possible to infer. The small town ahead of us has been explored almost completely. When that disaster broke out, not a single resident of this small town escaped, and they are still in a state of slumber.” Bái Líng paused before saying the latter half of the sentence, “It has been nearly a hundred years.”
Not only had the residents of the small town not changed, but the town itself seemed to have been frozen in time, standing unmoving in the long river of time.
To be able to withstand nearly a hundred years without maintenance, and to have encountered many bandit raids during that time, it could be called a miracle that this small town could still be preserved intact.
Walking into the town, Leticia couldn’t help but widen her mouth. She hadn’t been very clear about the situation of the Sleeping Empire before, but now she saw it clearly.
The Great Slumber must have happened during the day. The people scattered on the town streets were evidence. It wasn’t as if these people liked to wander around at night, right?
“Are these people sleeping here like this, are they really going to be alright?” Leticia carefully stepped over a man lying on the ground, fearing that she would accidentally step on him and kill him.
“No, if something were to happen, these townspeople would have been moved away by those bandits long ago.” Bái Líng shook her head. She didn’t know much about this place, but she knew some common sense.
For example, although these people looked like ordinary people lying on the ground asleep, in reality, their state was closer to being frozen. Everything from the outside world could not interfere with their state, and they could even be considered the hardest things in this world.
They couldn’t be cut by a knife or burned by fire. This small town was so magical.
Telling Leticia about some things here, Bái Líng sighed, “Up to now, we still don’t know what happened here. we only know that everything here was frozen at the time of the disaster a hundred years ago.”
“Then why did you say we could take a bath just now?” Leticia raised her hand and asked.
Since everything here couldn’t move, how could they take a bath? She couldn’t tell Leticia that there was a natural bathing place nearby, right?
“There’s a hot spring in the town, and that should be the only thing in this town that hasn’t been frozen,” Bái Líng said, her eyes flickering. “It’s naturally sourced. Everyone who has bathed here says that the hot springs here are the best in the world.”
Leticia fell silent. She didn’t expect there to be such a thing.
But isn’t this very strange? In a frozen town, there is a spring that hasn’t been frozen. Furthermore, since this hot spring is so good, why hasn’t anyone come to bathe here?
Bái Líng saw Leticia’s confusion and explained, “After all, this is a forbidden area. Besides those bandits who lick blood on the tip of their knives, only adventurers come here, and these people are not interested in this kind of thing.”
They were more interested in finding valuable items that could be taken out and sold, such as the currency used in the Sleeping Empire, or jewelry in residents’ homes. This spring couldn’t be taken outside, and its effects were similar to ordinary hot springs, so it naturally wouldn’t attract any attention.
“In fact, this small town has almost been emptied out. All that’s left here are the sleeping townsfolk and their houses,” Bái Líng sighed.
She couldn’t expect those bandits to be reasonable. If it weren’t for the fact that the houses here couldn’t be destroyed, those bandits would have probably chosen to smash the houses as well and transport the broken pieces outside to sell as stones.
Although it wasn’t valuable, it was still some income, right?
“Tsk.” Hearing Bái Líng’s explanation, a nameless anger surged in Leticia’s heart. “They will get their retribution.”
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