77 Probe 1 (1/2)
Chapter 77: Probe 1
Garen's heart skipped a beat. If his senior sister was only at the master level of Secret Martial Art, would it mean that he was comparable with his senior sister right now?
”However, why aren’t there any changes to my body after combining them? In any case, I spent two Attribute points! There should at least be ripples even if I threw it into the water...”
This was what he was most confused about.
At that moment, the girl sitting across him opened her eyes and slowly woke up. She sleepily looked toward the master and disciple sitting across her and friendlily smiled toward them.
Garen smiled back at her.
”Are you going to Hela City as well?” the girl whispered.
”That's right, are you heading there as well?” Garen replied.
”That's right, why are you going there?” The girl brushed away her hair that was covering the side of her face. ”With your age, are you going there to enroll?”
”Uh.” Garen did not know how to respond. Could he just tell her that he was going to participate in a martial arts exchange gathering? It was actually forbidden to divulge the martial arts exchange gathering to outsiders since it was confidential.
Seeing that he did not reply, the girl smiled and assumed that her guess was right. From the looks of it, she probably assumed that Garen was a new student being sent to school for enrollment by his father.
”What about you? Are you going to Hela for a vacation?” Garen asked as his gaze slightly sized up the girl.
With long silvery hair coming down from her shoulders, the girl wore a white lace dress and gave off the aura of a magnanimous and refined lady. Her skin was fair and tender like it was coated with a layer of white powder. It was fine and smooth to the point where there were almost no imperfections.
The girl was like a young lady who went for an outing and gave off a very cultured and pure feeling. Even though she was not very pretty, this sort of quiet and graceful aura was abnormally rare.
Garen was reminded of Felicity who had just left Huaishan a while ago. She was different from the girl in front of him. If you judged her from her appearance, you would think that she was a haughty, dazzling, and beautiful young lady.
However, he was slightly baffled by the fact that the girl in front of him had coarse hands, which was completely inconsistent with her aura and the way she dressed.
”We're not going for a vacation. We're also going to enroll at the school. However, we're going there earlier to learn more about the local culture,” the silver-haired girl smiled as she replied Garen's question.
Garen nodded in acknowledgment.
”Where did you set off from?”
”We started from Xining. Before you got on the train, we've been riding for over a day and a night.” The girl covered her mouth and lightly yawned. ”Oh… I am so tired. Even though I've been sleeping for so long, I still feel very tired.”
”If you've only been sitting like this, then it would definitely be tiring.” When Garen saw her yawning, he felt a little sleepy as well.
As the two of them had no other common topics to talk about, Garen turned his face over to look at the scenery outside of the window. A yellow beetle car was driving alongside the train at the same pace. The driver of the car was a man wearing an army uniform with aviator goggles on. He was glancing toward the train from time to time.
”That's the navy uniform of the Confederation. From the badge on his chest, this man should be a lieutenant in the Navy.”
”Navy of the Confederation?” It was the first time Garen saw a regular military personnel of the Confederation, and he could not help but glance a few more times.
The train gradually surpassed the soldier's car, and Garen was feeling slightly tired just from watching the scenery as well. He looked beside him at his master and discovered that Fei Baiyun was sleeping soundly with his head tilted to the side.
Garen drowsily dozed off and slowly woke up after an undetermined amount of time.
The sky outside of the window had already turned dark, and the interior of the train carriage was slightly noisy. In the middle of the aisle, an attendant was slowly passing by while pushing a food cart.
”It's time to eat!”
Within the train carriage, there was a sparse amount of passengers. Some of them were yawning, while some stood up to buy food, and there were others that took out their own food to eat. Garen even heard children's voice yelling in a dialect that he did not understand.
The silver-haired boy sitting across of him had already woken, but he was not as friendly as the girl. He only faintly glanced at Garen and his master and did not converse with them.
His master, Fei Baiyun, was taking out a small sack that contained some cakes, bread, and two bottles of tea.
”This is dinner. Take it yourself.”
Garen speechlessly looked at the cakes and bread that was crumpled together and almost could not differentiate between the two. He was completely without any appetite as he looked at it.
”Master… There's no reason for this… It's not like we don't have money...”
”What do you know!” Fei Baiyun glared at him. ”This is something that someone had kindly made for me! It's not about the money!” as he spoke, he seemed to remember something, and a slight redness faintly appeared on his face.
Garen had a slight urge to puke… Looking at an old man foolishly smiling while blushing was indeed a little disgusting.
However, he still took a lump of cake that looked like bread and a bottle of black tea and placed them on his lap.
”Master's second spring...” He already knew who made the food. It was obviously master's lover.
He lowered his head and looked at the thing in his hand. Garen was still hungry a while ago but no longer had any appetite.
The silver-haired siblings sitting across of them were currently eating exquisite-looking buttery apple cakes while drinking coffee from a porcelain cup. The redwood lunchbox contained all kinds of pastries that were neatly arranged. There were red cherries, baked banana chips, pink cream, light yellow sponge cake, and a few pieces of vegetables as decoration.
Just based on the appearance, it was far superior to the thing in his hand.