Neighbors in forbidden land

"Okay, let's explain."

Right now, Yimi, a little frail, is using my shoulders as a support to stand beside a potato field, but it is no longer a potato field.

Because there are no more potatoes there.

The only potato plant was picked off and eaten roasted.

Of course it wasn't eaten by Yimi and me.

It was the human woman in front of me and Yimi.

She is taller than Yimi and I, and has brown hair that is much shorter than Yimi's. The length doesn't even reach her shoulders, and there is still a little sea water dripping down on it.She was only wearing a white dress that was so simple that it could barely cover her lower body with only a pair of underwear on. She was scratching her head and looking at Yimi and me while smiling.

Beside her, some wet clothes were hanging on the shelf above the well-burning fire, which should be her things. On the ground beside her were scattered various protective gear and weapons, and there was an open bag, the bag There are a lot of things that I don't know.

Then, of course, there are the potatoes with just a few scraps left.

"Well... can I ask a question first?"

"I think you should explain your behavior first. Those are potatoes that Xiao Hei and I worked so hard to grow."

Yimi's voice was unexpectedly calm. I thought she would lose her temper with the woman in front of her just like she did with me.

"It's a long story—"

"Let's make a long story short." Yimi interrupted her strongly, and I could clearly see that the smile on her face froze for a moment, but it immediately returned to normal, and she spread her hands with a wry smile.

"It was because I saw that the guild issued a reconnaissance mission in a forbidden place, and the reward was quite high, so I rowed here by myself."

"...And then?" I saw that Yimi's expression was a little stiff this time, but I still let her continue.

"Then the boat capsized accidentally when I was approaching this side, and then I swam over directly, so my clothes and equipment were all soaked, haha..." After she finished speaking, she narrowed her black eyes and smiled, but Yimi didn't have any other expressions, but I didn't know what expression to show.

It seemed that after realizing that Yimi’s expression was not right, she smiled wryly and continued: “But the bad news is that my food bag seems to have sunk to the bottom of the sea, so I want to look around to see if there are any wild vegetables and the like It’s all to satisfy our hunger, but it turns out that there is really nothing here like in the legend, hahahahahaha..."

Dazed, I could only stare at her face, while Yimi stared at her face with her eyes closed.

So her laughter became smaller and smaller, and finally she had to scratch her face and continued: "Then I kept searching and searching, searching and searching, searching and—"

"Then I found this place and found that there were potatoes here, so I just dug it up and ate it?"

"That's it, it looks like you planted it, thank you, it's really helpful-"

"Yeah, I really helped you a lot..." I could feel the vibration from Yimi's hand on my shoulder, which seemed to be a sign of Yimi's bad temper.

"Haven't you ever wondered how suddenly there is a potato plant in such a place?"

"Oh, I did think about it at the time, but it's because I was cold and hungry after soaking in the sea, so I... hehe, sorry——"

She clasped her hands together and bowed to Yimi and me.

"..." Yimi fell silent.

"..." I was silent, and because I didn't know what I was going to be silent about, I turned my head and looked at Yimi.

"I will pay for it!" After saying this, she suddenly raised her head and stuck out her tongue, "But I hope it won't be too expensive... I really don't have much money to do this task..."

I looked at Yimi, and Yimi took a light breath——

"It won't be very expensive."

"Really? That's a lot—"

"Xiao Hei, throw her into the sea."

"Eeeeeeeeeeeeh?"

"Oh."

"Wait, wait, wait, wait a minute!" As soon as I took a step forward, she took a step back suddenly, then stretched out her hands and shook desperately, "A few potatoes won't take my Fate and this one... This one won't be able to play for real with just an 'oh'. Besides, throw me into the sea now and I will freeze to death..."

"Oh? Really? I think these potatoes are more important than your life?"

"Sorry! I don't dare anymore! Leave me alone, Princess Yimi!"

Just after she clasped her hands together and kept nodding her head up and down to say this, Yimi's expression stiffened again, and she sighed softly:

"you……"

"Oh, after all, talking about the disaster that struck and snatched away the princess a few months ago has basically spread all over the city—"

When I heard the word "disaster", I looked at Yimi's expression, but she just covered her face and sighed heavily:

"What is this and what... how did I become a calamity snatched away..."

No... this seems to be right...

"That's right, I see that Princess Yimi is staying here well, which proves that there are indeed problems with the rumors, and this can be fed back as information—" It seems that I noticed that Yimi's face is not very good-looking , so she hurriedly waved her hand, "Of course it's the appearance that makes me recognize the princess, after all, if I see a girl so much prettier than me in this kind of place, then she will only be the princess..."

"Don't come here, can't you recognize me because I'm the only human being in the Forbidden Land?"

"This is one of the reasons..." She scratched her head a little embarrassedly.

"..." Yimi, who gritted her teeth lightly, fell silent for a while.

"Then... who is this one next to the princess?" She looked at me with a smile, her eyes were obviously circling on my single wing and tail.

I was thinking about how to speak, and Yimi answered first: "Her name is Black Pearl, mine, mine...that..."

As a result, Yimi, who hesitated for a long time, didn't say anything.

But didn't Yimi call me Xiao Hei?Seeing Yimi hesitated, the woman who looked back and forth between Yimi and me smiled softly, clapped her hands and hurriedly interrupted Yimi: "Oh! I see, Black Pearl Sister, right? Hello, hello."

Then she smiled and held out her hand to me.

"What?" I stared at her outstretched hand for a long time.

After a while, she smiled wryly again and took her hand back.

So what does it mean?

"Sister Black Pearl... isn't she a human?"

"...Mmm." Yimi's body trembled slightly, but she didn't say anything, and I nodded slightly.

"I don't ask too many questions... My name is Wu Shao, and I can be considered an adventurer."

"Ah, it can be seen that you are indeed adventurous."

"Can I ask a question?"

"Say."

"Then...why is Sister Black Pearl covered in blood? Was she injured?"

From the moment we met, Wu Shao's gaze had been gazing at me intentionally or unintentionally, but because Yimi kept asking her, she now asked this question as if she had let out a sigh of relief.

"It's not my blood." I explained hastily.

"We just... came back from hunting." This is Yimi's explanation.

"Hunting... Are there any animals here?" Wu Shao glanced back and forth between Yimi and me, and then said cautiously: "It can't be a monster, right?"

I nodded, and Yimi shivered slightly as if recalling what happened before.

"Aren't you going to wash it?"

"I'll do it for her in a minute."

"That's it, Princess Yimi, you really live a hard life here..."

"Isn't it? You ate all the potatoes you planted with great difficulty."

After a long silence, Wu Shao restrained his smile a little, and said quietly: "Princess Yimi planted the potatoes..."

"Yes."

"Princess Yimi, have you...have you seen the condition of this potato plant?"

"...You don't look good, do you?" Yimi seemed a little unhappy.

"It's better to say that it's not easy to grow this potato. Princess Yimi and Sister Black Pearl must have planted more than one potato, right?"

"...Yeah, what's the matter?" Yimi crossed her arms and faced Wu Shao's direction.

In the end, she didn't answer, but after glancing at the ground, she asked a question:

"Princess, have you paid attention to this land?"

"Land?" Yimi asked suspiciously, this time it was Wu Shao who sighed softly.

"Although I know Princess Yimi's eyes... Forget it, let me just say it, this potato plant grows poorly, small in size, and the number is small, although I can see that Princess Yimi and you are trying very hard to get it. Take some measures, let’s not talk about these rocks, that drainage ditch...it should be a drainage ditch, right? It’s also very problematic to dig.”

"..." Yimi and I were just silent, listening to her continue.

"Even so, it is not the main reason why this plant can grow, or only one can grow."

"...What's the reason?"

"The reason is this land." Wu Shao pointed at the ground, but she obviously pointed it to me, "These white powders on the ground... this is saline-alkali land, Princess Yimi, the untreated saline-alkali land is It's not suitable for Chinese potatoes, let alone Princess Yimi, your method must be problematic."

"How do you know so much?"

"When I was young, I planted it with my family... You must know that we can only guarantee our life by planting these things..."

"..." Yimi fell silent.

Seeing Yimi's serious expression, I thought about it and asked:

"Is there any way?"

"Yes, so what I mean is..." She suddenly changed to the previous smile, "If I help Princess Yimi, can it be considered a repayment? Look, after all, there is only so much you can eat. A few are still so small... To be honest, I'm still a little hungry now—”

"Xiao Hei? Just throw this kind of ignorant person into the sea and feed it to Xiaogu. No, I guess Xiaogu won't eat it either?"

"Don't! Although I don't know which little sister that 'Little Gu' is, please let me go... But then again..." Wu Shao's voice suddenly dragged on, and he put away his smile and looked around Around, "So Princess Yimi...Although I don't think the rumors are credible, what happened to that disaster?"

"..."

"..."

"If I hadn't seen it from a distance that day, I would have thought it was just a legend..."

How to answer this...

If there is a question in the answer, even Yimi will...

Because in the end I still didn't tell the whole truth, and I didn't tell Yimi the fact that I was a disaster.

Because I can't find a suitable time.

As a result, it was Yimi who spoke first:

"What's going on, it's just a coincidence." Yimi's voice was extremely calm, with little ups and downs, "I don't know why the disaster suddenly attacked us that day, I just took advantage of the chaos and left the palace."

"But there are rumors that princess you are—"

"I did go with the monster? Isn't she?" Yimi raised her finger and pointed at me, and continued, "From the perspective of outsiders, it is no different from snatching it? Others just I didn’t know that Xiao Hei could communicate in words.”

"Indeed, after all, rumors are based on groundless exaggeration of a certain reality... It's like the fairy tales in my childhood that there is a great goblin in the extreme north who can only help human beings realize their wishes." Wu Shao revealed a thoughtful look. What kind of expression, but why do I feel that something seems to be right?

"So it's not that there are no disasters here. The vibrations generated when she moves will be transmitted here. It's just that Xiao Hei takes me to avoid it every time."

"..."

"Sister Black Pearl is very powerful."

"...It's nothing..."

Really, nothing.

"Although there hasn't been much movement recently, but if you think about it carefully, the world is so big, how can disasters keep wandering around here?"

No, no, actually, I was wandering around here... "That's good..." Wu Shao pressed his chest and exhaled, "Actually, before you guys came, I was wondering if I should give up if disaster came All the equipment is only wearing this one to escape..."

Wu Shao smiled wryly and pointed to her body. There was only a white top and underwear on her body, and the other clothes were hanging on the fire to be roasted. It seemed that her clothes should be soaked to do so. , human beings are prone to catch a cold when wearing wet clothes, this is what Yimi told me.

"Although this place is not as dangerous as imagined, since you are all so uncertain...you still take such a dangerous job?" Yimi raised her eyebrows and asked softly.

"After all, the reward is high. You must know that the last disaster caused such huge damage. The crops in many places have not been harvested due to the deterioration of the environment. Now the whole country is desperately repairing the magic barrier. This task is willing to do There are few people, and the salary is high, and if I get it, I can help reduce the burden on the family, so I rushed here, and now I see... Isn't it a bargain?"

Seeing Wu Shao say these words with a smile, I also understood that maybe I really caused a lot of trouble.

We are struggling here for the situation of the potato, but if you think about it carefully, isn't it the same for the humans without the protection of the magic barrier?

"But...there is basically working on the restoration work at full capacity, and it is also thanks to you, Princess Yimi." As a result, Wu Shao suddenly said such a sentence, not only did I not understand, but even Yimi was stunned one time.

"I?"

"That's right... Princess Yimi put down the rebellion on the border, right? Although it feels a little scary, if you think about it carefully, she is the lovely little princess who protected our country after all."

I shifted my gaze to Yimi who was silent. She never mentioned this matter to me.

As a result, Yimi was silent for a while.

"Little black."

"I'm here."

"Throw her into the sea and let her experience the consequences of talking nonsense."

"clear."

"Don't...don't..."