Throne Steps

two months later.

Yang Xiaoxiao finally let go of her courage and began to communicate with people normally.

What she hangs out the most is the clergy and volunteer teams, and even the children's classrooms and chorus teams.These people are generally patient and tolerant of her little quirks, even the youngest children are willing to teach her to write Raetia's common characters.

At the same time, she began to gradually stay away from the black swans.It's not because she has any negative feelings towards the black swans, it's just that the black swans don't seem to be easy to mess with, and they make her a little inexplicably frightened when they come into close contact.Although some black swans look no different from ordinary people, the vacuum created by others will always remind Yang Xiaoxiao: Oh, that's a black swan, here comes the black swan.

And Yang Xiaoxiao will not shy away from black swans, there are only three situations: one is Li Chen, because Yang Xiaoxiao believes that Li Chen is already one of her acquaintances in Letia, and Li Chen has always treated her very well. In order to take care of her, she felt that this young man was actually a very kind person; the second was the female officers and attendants who belonged to the Black Swan. Who is the black swan other than Alkina; the third is the only child in the black swan-Dominique.

In Yang Xiaoxiao's eyes, children are divided into little angels and bear children, and Dominic is put into the category of little angels, especially after comparing Brown, who looks almost exactly the same as him.

Brown's personality cannot be said to be bad, he is just a normal kid, but he has some differences.For example, he wears clothes that are very similar to Wiggins, and he can be seen at a glance among a group of children; he was taught magic by Wiggins himself, and he is different from other talented children when he makes a move; his daily life is also different. Arranged personally by Wiggins' waiters, living in a single room very close to Wiggins.

Although he was also adopted, compared to other children adopted by the temple, he seemed to be adopted and valued by Wiggins.Not to mention a child, even an adult will feel that he is different after getting used to this environment.

He and the other children have been estranged, or in other words, only in peace.

But Dominic is different, he has put a lot of effort into interpersonal relationship, because Li Chen once told him to do so.In just a few dozen days, Dominic became very close to the children in other temples.On the one hand, children are simple creatures who laugh when they are happy and cry when they are angry; on the other hand, Dominic has not been in the market for many years in vain.Not to mention among children, even among clergy, volunteers and believers, he is still at ease.

After all, Dominic was a child himself, who would be wary of a six-year-old?

Yang Xiaoxiao, who almost went to the temple with him, was one of the people who were not wary of him.

"Tang, come here, let's take a look at this together. The album of the new melting pot performance!" Yang Xiaoxiao raised her hand to greet Dominic, and Dominic ran over from not far away.The children around Yang Xiaoxiao made room for him, and when he came in, they asked him in a low voice, "Are you watching Brown practice magic?"

Dominic nodded slightly: "He looks very powerful."

The children were silent for a while, and finally someone said softly: "He is different from us."

At this moment, they almost forgot that Dominic from Black Swan was different from them.

Yang Xiaoxiao quickly smoothed things over, holding up the album in her hand and said: "Let's start reading the album, I finally borrowed it!" Of course, she didn't say that she asked Li Chen to borrow it.

Dominic glanced at the cover, but didn't say that he also had a copy, oh, it was a gift from Li Chen.Baby Dominic's picture book is so precious, it's almost stuffed under the pillow during the day, and it's hugged to sleep at night, and it's almost fluent.

He just listened to Yang Xiaoxiao read the words above with a slightly awkward accent, just like other children.

In the afternoon, it was time for Dominique's personal study.He said goodbye to the children and promised them to ask Black Swan more about their wonderful mercenary experience, then he walked quickly into Black Swan's territory and knocked on the door of Li Chen's study.

After entering the door, he found that besides Li Chen, there was another person he had never seen in the study.

A man leaned indistinctly on the sofa beside Li Chen. He seemed to be a little older than Li Chen, with a dusty appearance.He doesn't look like a black swan, or even a mercenary.Dominic quickly scanned his whole body calmly, secretly guessing the identity of the other party, and at the same time stood at the door, showing hesitation whether to go in: "...Master Li Chen?"

"Come in, close the door." Li Chen beckoned, and said when the child closed the door and approached, "Next time when you look at others, don't be so blatant. Don't you see people holding back their joy after they find out?"

Dominic was startled suddenly, lowered his head and said, "Yes."

"Hey, can't you scare a kid?" the man said cheerfully, "I'm not laughing because he looks at me, but because I think that even one cub in your black swan is taught to be so suspicious, and the style is really unified."

Li Chen squinted at him: "Why don't you say that you don't look like a good person?"

"Good guy? Come on." The man was even happier. "Compared to the black swan, I'm definitely a good guy. I still have the confidence in that."

Li Chen didn't pick on him anymore, but turned to Dominic: "This is the young master of the head of the chamber of commerce, Mr. Amoya. Just remember the name, and you don't need to face it."

Dominic greeted obediently: "Lord Amoya."

"Don't say it's because I'm shameless." Amoya sat up a bit, and leaned over to add a cup of tea for herself, "I'm not like you, the shape-changing potion can be drunk as water. Next time I see the children with my true face Then, let me introduce myself again."

Li Chen turned to Dominic and said, "Why don't you introduce yourself?"

Before Dominic could speak, he heard Amoya say: "It's been a few months, who doesn't know about your adoption? If I don't know his name, wouldn't I be blind? "

He said to Dominic again: "I heard that you like the story of mercenaries, so I specially brought some 'spiritual food' as a gift, I hope you like it. Oh, by the way, there is also a legendary interpretation of the black swan in it."

Li Chen pointed to Dominic where the books were, and signaled that he could move them away by himself later, then turned his head and mocked Amoya: "Oh, young master, you can just give a few books as gifts, which is worthy of your wealth." ?"

"No way..." Amoya shrugged helplessly, pointing in the direction of the opposite desk, "I almost broke my fortune just to take a picture of that thing."

Dominic stood beside Li Chen and turned his head to look curiously.

Li Chen stretched out his hand and patted him: "Go and take a closer look."

So Dominic leaned over to the table and carefully observed the objects placed upright.

This is a one-foot-square transparent box, inside which is a tree-shaped ornament made of unknown origin, which is transparent and exquisitely handcrafted.The canopy is fluffy and dense, the branches and leaves are vivid and distinct, the trunk texture is clear, and the roots are intertwined at the bottom.Its material is bright and colorful, and its shape is lifelike, which is really ingenious.

Dominic stared blankly for a moment, and didn't even notice Li Chen walking beside him.It wasn't until the four walls of the transparent box and the top cover were removed from the top that Dominic suddenly came back to his senses and looked at the people around him.

Li Chen didn't care about his loss of focus just now, and while putting the transparent cover beside him, he asked, "How do you feel?"

Dominique was still a little dazed, and replied: "...It's very beautiful."

"No other description?" Li Chen smiled, "For example, compared to the most exquisite part of the Ainuma Temple, how about it?"

Dominic hesitated, not knowing how to answer.Li Chen didn't embarrass him, but just stretched out his hand to Amoya: "You said you are not redundant, you insist on adding a cover, and you ruined the good beauty."

"I'm protecting you, okay? Even if one of these leaves falls off, I'll be very distressed!" Amoya came over and put a small spar-shaped thing in Li Chen's hand, "And this thing, It takes a lot of magic crystals, and of course there is no way to make it work all the time."

Li Chen winked at Dominic, said "Look at it", and stuffed the spar into an inlay hole on the base of the ornament.

Neither Amoya nor Dominique could see it. At the moment when the spar was embedded, a beautiful palm-sized wind magic light array flashed across the base.

Li Chen showed a slightly interested smile.

All Amoya and Dominique could see was that the crown of the small tree was trembling slightly, and then the whole tree slowly and steadily floated up.

Yes, it just soared into the sky and went up.As the breeze circulated, the leaves swayed slightly but did not fall off. The roots that were originally folded on the base slowly stretched until they roughly formed a spherical shape, leaving only a few particularly slender ones falling to the bottom.When the spherical root system rose to about [-] centimeters from the base, the tree stopped and just suspended there.

Dominic stared dumbly.

"... Awesome." Although it was not the first time Li Chen had seen such a decoration, he still had to say with deep emotion, "It is also supported by the magic crystal. This technology is much more advanced than the Road of Light in the temple."

"I agree." Amoya also admired, and then turned to look at Li Chen, "So, maybe you can explain to me now, who made such a poorly crafted work of art?"

Li Chen raised his eyebrows: "How can you ask me about the things you photographed?"

"I can't see the seller. This is said to be the highest-level secret of the auction organizer. Although all intelligence agencies may be looking for it now, but..." Amoya chuckled twice, "You asked me to prepare extravagant He suddenly said that he didn’t need to do business, and it didn’t take long after he finished talking, something like this appeared...you still want to pretend to be stupid with me?”

Li Chen looked at him.

Two seconds later, Li Chen raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Sit."