Chapter 41 Watch the fireworks together next year
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"That, I'm going to go to that." Lina and Vivian held hands and walked around the streets, walking around. Catherine and Pannis followed behind the two girls side by side. Catherine had a tangled smile on her face, and she felt like she was shopping with two children of seven or eight years old. Pannis looked indifferent. After all, she had seen many creatures from other races, including a few long-lived races that lived one or two hundred years old but were not much different from those of humans in their hearts. So there was nothing to make a fuss about.
Looking in the direction of Lina's finger, seventy or eighty people formed a circle, with several old strength testers in the center of the circle, and several men were exaggeratedly moving their arms in front of the machine. Most of the people watching were women, and women of all ages made screams as the men punched the tester every time they hit the tester.
"Tsk tsk, not only do you want to hide your identity as a professional to participate in ordinary people's competitions, but if your strength is not as good as others, you will definitely cheat with the sacred power." Panis curled his lips and joked: "How boring are you."
"Am I bored?" Lina stared at Panis with her eyes slanted and said to a stadium on the other side: "Why aren't those two more boring?"
On the other side not far from the four, a ring competition is being held. Five wooden dummies stand beside the wall, each with a pointed wooden hat on the top of their heads. The five applicants are in groups of five rings, and each person has five rings. The ring in his hand is thrown out five meters away. The person with the most sets wins and can choose a prize from the prize cabinet next to it. If two people score the same score, the distance is ten meters and the competition is again until the winner is decided. In fact, the cabinet is also filled with some very common and cheap small accessories or ordinary dolls, but the appearance is beautiful, which attracts many young people or parents with children to watch and participate.
The two Lina mentioned refer to a person who is preparing to participate in the competition and her friends. Both of them are dressed as ordinary travelers, and the makeup on their faces makes them look ordinary and have no special places at all. However, if you use the professional's observation ability to observe carefully, you can see the beautiful faces hidden under the makeup and the perfect figure covered by the wide travel cloak. Even if the person who is preparing to participate in the competition is as expressionless as if he is wearing makeup, he exudes the temperament of not entering the stranger. The other person who chooses to watch on the side has rich expressions and a passionate aura. From the eyes of the participating person who frequently turns toward the competition, it can be seen that her goal is a doll hanging in the inconspicuous corner of the prize cabinet. The very ordinary doll is just a little bat, and is covered in gray and not adorable at all, so he is hung in the corner and has not been picked out yet.
"It's them." Panis sighed helplessly, "They are boring enough."
"Who is it?" Catherine also looked over Pannis's gaze and covered her mouth and laughed: "That's... Miss Indulgence? Who is the one who participated next to her?"
"Feeling." Panis explained: "I met them the day before yesterday, but I didn't expect them to have not left yet."
The communication between the four people did not deliberately lower their voices to cover up. Unexpectedly, they were heard by the passion and indulgence that were not too far away. The two seemed to have discovered them a long time ago and did not show any surprise. However, when they saw their cheating behavior being seen by people they knew, although the enthusiastic face was still expressionless, the look she quickly turned to other places could still show her embarrassment in secret. She was indulging indifferent, and secretly made a fierce expression to Panis and made a gesture to chase people.
"It seems that we are unpopular people." Catherine also saw the indulgent movement, smiled a few times, pulled Lina and Vivian away: "Go away quickly, don't disturb others' world."
After leaving the southern amusement area, the four of them came to the trading area in the west. There were very few stalls selling food and snacks from all over the country. Most food merchants have sold all their goods for generous rewards, and are preparing to take the last day to buy some special products from other places for sale. So in the last day, the main goods here have changed from food to special products from all over the world and some strange and uncertain special items, many of which are not even known to merchants. It is said that some people even bought a metal plate engraved with the poetry of the Golden Age from such stalls with three gold coins, and they received more than 100,000 times the return. Of course, this lucky special case is just a legend, and no one can confirm its authenticity.
"Haha, Uncle Xingshang, we're meeting again." Lina suddenly found a familiar person and rushed over and said excitedly.
"Ah, it's the priest." The merchant who once brought Lina and Panis a long way outside the village greeted him with a simple smile: "Haha, stop turning over, I really don't have a wolf hidden here. The priest is still so energetic. Speaking of which, I really scared me that day. I didn't expect that the priest who had been in my car was so powerful. He was the priest of the Harvest Festival. After I went back, I would tell Hero that experience that she would definitely envy me."
"Hehe, uncle is so praiseful to me." Lina said with a silly smirk, "Uncle, come on, let's go shopping elsewhere."
"Huh? Look over there." Catherine suddenly grabbed Lina and Vivian and said to Panis: "Look at those two people."
"That's? Rachel?" Vivian saw the people there clearly, was stunned, and whispered in surprise: "And Nicole."
Two ladies who had been rescued by four people were in a corner of the trading area, and the gunman Rachel stood behind the stall very unaccustomedly, and was not skilled in receiving guests who occasionally stopped in front of the stall. The mage Nicole crawled around in the convertible carriage behind the stall with no image. Although she looked impatient, she was still delivering various items according to Rachel's instructions.
"Hi, Rachel, Nicole, we're meeting again." Catherine thought for a while, but walked up to say hello to the two ladies: "I haven't seen each other for a while since we broke up in Kanzier Town, why are you..." and pointed to the stall.
"Ah, Catherine, Lina and Vivian, hey, Pennis is here too." Rachel was not embarrassed, wiped the sweat from her forehead and replied with a smile: "Nicole and I discussed it. I was a little tired of taking risks, so I decided to retire and open a store. A while ago, I spent a few days to allocate the public finances in the group to their families, and then I have been preparing for it. But we don't have much savings, and it's not enough to buy and rent a store at the same time, so Nicole suggested that we do some business for a while and accumulate some funds. This happened to be the harvest festival. Angus Village is the largest harvest festival in the southern part of the capital. Take this opportunity to make more money."
"Don't save much? Your team's funds?" Catherine was stunned. Logically, Rachel and the others used to be the Silver-level adventure team. The team's funds at this level would not be too small, and it was impossible for them to not even be able to rent a store. But thinking of the other party's dead teammates, Catherine suddenly said: "Oh, it's not evenly distributed, it's all distributed to their families?"
"Yes." Seeing his acquaintance, Nicole also climbed down from the carriage and said panting: "After all, we are lucky to live and have the opportunity to make money on our own, so we didn't ask for that. In fact, it's nothing. It's just a little harder at the beginning and will get better in the future."
"It's very good." Catherine nodded in agreement, and then asked, "What are you going to manage?"
"Ancient items." Rachel said. Ancient items store is a special store in the Yara world. It is more similar to an antique store. It specializes in purchasing some ancient items excavated from relics and has unknown uses or cannot be copied. Some adventurers or mercenaries, and even some lucky ordinary people like to take things that they find or pick up by chance in such a store that look like ancient items at a price they expect. The pricing power is controlled by the seller rather than the store. As for the store, you can also choose whether to accept it. A transaction between the two parties is established and you cannot repent any more. After the store purchases the item, it will identify the items and sell them to the customers you want. However, unless the product of unknown use is marked, once it does not match the product description, the purchaser can go to the business association to complain to the store or even apply for arbitration.
"Ha, it's very suitable for you." Vivian leaned over and said, "Rachel, you are a crystal gunner, you must have a certain understanding of ancient machinery and ancient technology. Nicole, you are a mage, and ancient magic items are your strengths. If you two cooperate, it will definitely be very smooth to run the ancient item store."
"We think so too." Nicole smiled shyly: "Let's go step by step."
"Come to find us, No. 6 Forks Street, St.," Catherine thought for a moment and looked up and said, "It just so happened that the lease of a shop in my place has expired. The owner is preparing to develop in a more prosperous commercial area, so the store is vacant and rented to you. In this way, you don't have to work hard to do business. Ancient items are not suitable for business. As for rent, you can allow you to settle the whole thing after half a year."
"This..." Catherine's proposal was very attractive, but the two ladies who had received great favors from the Adventure Group were hesitant and did not want to continue to trouble Catherine and receive greater favors from the Adventure Group.
Catherine waved her hand and said domineeringly: "You owe us favors, so you have to accept the conditions for renting our real estate at a high price, and you are not allowed to refuse."
"Puff." Rachel was amused by Catherine's words, bit her lips and nodded, "Okay, thank you. I really don't know when I will pay back what I owe you."
"That's all, remember, No. 6 Fox Street, you are not allowed to come." Catherine also smiled and reached out to pat Rachel's arm: "We have fought together, don't be so polite."
As he was talking, a commotion began to spread from a distance and quickly came to this side.
"It seems that the fireworks performance is about to begin." Catherine looked away and said with a smile: "We're going to see the fireworks, come on, I'll wait for you."
The four left Rachel's stall, but did not follow the crowd to the northern area, but instead turned the crowd and went further and further. This was because Catherine said in advance that when looking at the fireworks, the closer they were, the better. When they were close, they were crowded and noisy, and there was no difference in visual effect from far away, so the four decided to go out of the village to see it early.
The more you go out, the fewer people are. When you get to the location outside the village, there is already silence around you, and only a faint noise comes from the distance.
"Swoosh." The first fireworks rose into the sky and exploded in the sky. Then, colorful fireworks shot into the sky at the same time, illuminating the sky brightly. The girls sat quietly on the ridge of the field, snuggling together, staring at the splendor of the distant sky. Panis stood behind the girls, looking at the distance without saying a word, not knowing what they were thinking.
"So beautiful." Vivian murmured in a dreamy tone: "I saw fireworks once when I was a child, but I didn't feel that it was so beautiful at that time. Sure enough, the sooner I was to lose it, the more I cherish it? I really hope that time will always stay at this moment."
"Next year, we must watch the fireworks together next year." Lina suddenly reached out and hugged Vivian's body tightly, lowered her head and said with a choked sob: "I want you to swear, we must watch with me next year."
Vivian was stunned for a long time, her eyes were slightly red, but she nodded firmly and said, "Okay, I swear, I will definitely watch with you next year."
Katherine reached out to hug the two of them at the same time on the other side, and the girls hugged each other.
"Thank you, Panis." Vivian suddenly turned around and said to Panis: "If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have the chance to see such a beautiful scene. This is my happiest moment."
Penis shrugged and pointed to the sky in the distance: "Now is not the time to say polite words, now is the time to enjoy it."
Vivian bit her lips and thought for a while, suddenly reached out to draw in the air for a while, and then shyly turned her head and continued to look at the sky. But at the position where she was painting, a magical light suddenly appeared. The magic energy condensed into thin lines in the air, outlining a three-dimensional avatar of a woman. The portrait had a mature charm, but it still had the shadow of Vivian, as if it was Vivian's growth. The avatar hovered in the air for a moment, approached Pannis, and kissed Pannis gently on the face.
Panis opened his mouth in silence, touched the kissed position on his face, and looked at the avatar in front of him in surprise, but a spark suddenly burst out from the avatar and completely disappeared into the air.
"I actually attacked Vivian and looked very intoxicated." Catherine said leisurely.
"Birds and beasts." This is Lina's evaluation.
"I didn't even let go of the kids."
"abnormal."
"Hey, hey." Panis came to his senses and protested loudly: "I did nothing, it's not my responsibility."
"I actually want to shirk responsibility."
"Scum."
Panis, who was about to cry without tears, lowered his head in despair and said in a muffled voice: "Forget it, just say whatever you want."
Chapter completed!