Chapter 2: New Century (Epilogue)
Chapter 382: Heading to the Phileon Mountains
Faced with Connie’s question, Xi Wei did not answer immediately. He absolutely could not let on that he knew the origin of this dragon milk. So, after exchanging glances with Connie for a moment, he nodded.
“It’s delicious, but Connie, do you know where this milk comes from?”
Being questioned back by Xi Wei, Connie’s pretty face instantly turned red, and her body went limp, almost making her fall off the windowsill. She flapped her wings to steady herself and darted her gaze from her toes to Xi Wei’s face. She always felt that Xi Wei seemed to know everything. However, Xi Wei was now acting as if he knew nothing at all.
“Um, I know, I know where it comes from… but…” Connie wanted to say that she couldn’t get such milk today. But then she saw Xi Wei pull out the soft stopper from a crystal bottle and write something on it with a quill.
“Here.” Xi Wei handed the stopper to Connie. Connie picked up the stopper and looked at it, her round eyes widening. On the back of the stopper were the four large characters: “One More Bottle.”
The next day, early in the morning, Xi Wei was woken from his sleep by a rustling sound on the windowsill. He opened his eyes to see a petite figure flash past the window. He only caught a glimpse of a pair of light pink wings. On his desk, five bottles of dragon milk were already neatly arranged.
Stretching and rolling over to get out of bed, Xi Wei walked to his desk and found a note with delicate handwriting next to the five cans of dragon milk. “Yesterday’s production was unusually high because the supplier had stocked it for a long time. The normal output will be much less than that from now on. I really tried my best, QAQ – Connie.”
Xi Wei looked at the note and could almost imagine Connie’s face flushed red as she toiled away in her room, diligently kneading dough. The joke from yesterday seemed to have gone a bit too far. Although he had gotten away with it, the Silly Dragon seemed to have taken it seriously, and from this situation, it seemed she intended to bring five cans of dragon milk every day. What if she became malnourished over time?
Just then, light footsteps echoed from the corridor outside the door. Xi Wei’s expression tensed, and he quickly put the five cans of dragon milk into the cabinet next to his desk.
“Knock, knock, knock—”
“Master, are you inside?”
It wasn’t Loli’s voice. The person at the door was Bai Yao. Before Xi Wei could say anything, the boisterous Bai Yao had already pushed the room door open. She then saw Xi Wei, who was shirtless and looked astonished.
“Ahhhhh!” Bai Yao covered her flushed pretty face and retreated step by step, her sharp voice scaring the mountain finches outside the window into a panic, causing one to spray bird droppings on the windowsill.
“You… You, you, you, you, why aren’t you wearing any clothes!”
“I’m in my own room, what clothes should I be wearing?” Xi Wei picked at his ear and glanced curiously at Bai Yao, who had retreated to the wall. “Besides, aren’t I wearing pants?”
“Then why aren’t you wearing a shirt!” Although she said this, Bai Yao’s hands still left a small gap, and her shy gaze cautiously appraised Xi Wei’s strong upper body.
“I told you, it’s my room. It’s my right to not wear anything at all,” Xi Wei spread his hands.
“You… This is immodest! Shameless! Pervert! A creepy uncle who deliberately exposes himself for little girls to see!”
Xi Wei: “…”
Helplessly, he had to put on his clothes, or this topic would likely never end. Seeing that the man opposite her had finally put on his clothes, Bai Yao felt her wildly beating heart gradually calm down. For some reason, she felt a hint of disappointment as Xi Wei put on his clothes…
“Did you need me for something?” Xi Wei lazily sat back down in his office chair. His broad shoulders just managed to block all five bottles of dragon milk behind the cabinet. It wasn’t that he was reluctant to give Bai Yao a drink. It was mainly to avoid any future awkwardness or trouble if the truth came out, so he, the King of Winter, would bear this embarrassment and guilt alone!
“Didn’t you call me to come see you this morning yesterday!” Bai Yao wrinkled her delicate nose and put her hands on her hips.
Xi Wei looked at Bai Yao for a while and finally remembered. Before he went to sleep yesterday, he had asked a Little Radish to pass on a message, asking Bai Yao to accompany him to the Phileon Mountains today to resolve an issue with a lightning field. According to the information reported by his ministers, many alchemists and hunters who lived near the mountains and made a living by gathering herbs and hunting were almost unable to survive because of this strange lightning field.
“Indeed, there is something I need your help with.” Xi Wei nodded sincerely and explained the general situation to Bai Yao. Upon hearing that it was trouble related to lightning, Bai Yao’s pretty face immediately broke into a confident smile.
“Hmph, hmph, then you’ve found the right person!” she leaned cockily against the door frame, her arms crossed and arcs of crackling electricity sparking around a strand of hair on her head. “You know, the people of Winter City call me the Queen of Lightning! Don’t worry, you won’t have to do anything when we get there. I can resolve both the electric field and its source all by myself~”
“That’s wonderful!” Xi Wei praised sincerely. “When I learned about this matter, you were the first person I thought of. I knew you would have a solution!”
“Really!” Bai Yao’s eyes widened, sparkling. “Do you really think so?”
“Of course~”
“Hmph, hmph!” Bai Yao blushed shyly, but the wings fluttering up and down behind her couldn’t hide her inner joy. “Since you’re so sincere, I’ll cooperate with you fully this time. So, when do we depart?” She couldn’t wait.
The Phileon Mountains were very far from Winter City. To save time, Xi Wei first took Bai Yao to Gray Stone City via Griffin, then took a teleportation array from there to Dragonflame City, and finally bought a carriage from a down-and-out noble. The Dragonflame City at this moment still looked somewhat dilapidated. Engineering scaffolding had been erected at the city walls, and the collapsed towers were still buried in the mud in front of the city gate. Through the pitted city walls, one could see the mottled streets and sparse population within the city. That earth-shattering sword strike had left irreparable scars.
Returning here again, Xi Wei was filled with emotion. He found that under the governance of the new City Lord, this city, which was gradually rebuilding from ruins, had a hint of life. Take that impoverished noble, for example, who had just come out of Dragonflame City. He had lost almost everything in the Dragonflame City casino, with only a carriage left. It was said that in order to quickly obtain city construction funds, the City Lord had personally funded the construction of a massive casino, offering the lure that anything could be gambled, attracting many gambling nobles and wealthy individuals from surrounding cities to patronize it.
