Chapter 123: Laetus Forest (1/2)

Swallowing back his laughter, Xinya watched as Melting Snow rushes out of the kitchen, his white fluffy tail wagging behind him as he left. Biting his lip, to keep from smiling at the adorable sight, Xinya began to tidy up the kitchen.

The process was quite fast unlike when he does it in real life, all he had to do was wipe down everything with the game's kitchen cloth and in a matter of seconds, all the dirt and grime around him faded away. Before he knew it the kitchen looked sparkly clean like it was completely new.

Putting down the green cloth, Xinya left the kitchen, preparing to go find Melting Snow and the rest of his party. Seeing that they weren't inside the houseboat, he went out onto the deck, only to be hit by a passing breeze of saltwater that was in the air.

Walking over to the railing of the ship, Xinya looked down to see a couple of large pinkish fish with purple specks, playfully swimming around in the beautiful clear water. How he wished he had time to relax and go fishing, he bet that he would catch some very unique fish.

While Xinya was in the midst of staring at the interesting looking fish, that was swimming below, he heard the pitter-patter of feet coming towards him. Xinya turned away from the water to see who was approaching, only to catch sight of Melting Snow running up to him as Wei and Wandering Sound followed behind.

”Drifting Cloud, guess what?!” Melting Snow asked when he was in front of him. ”Wandering Sound says that we are about to arrive.”

Xinya looked over Melting Snow's head to Wandering Sound, seeing the man nod in agreement, Xinya said, ”I guess it's time to begin our treasure hunt than.”

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Walking into Laetus forest was like walking into another type of game, or so Xinya thought. It was completely different from the other forests that Xinya been inside. For one thing, it didn't look like a normal forest, but something that came out of a four-year-old's imagination.

The forest was a hodgepodge of enormous, radiant, and brightly colored fir trees. Coiling glowing plants, were wrapped around many of the trees, thus lightening up the space and a variety of flowers, which glittery shined were found hanging on different parts of each tree-like ornaments, it was like something out of a fairytale.

The colors of the trees are what most stood out to Xinya, with them being a very dazzling shade of canary yellow, bubblegum pink, and sky blue. These three colors were spread across the forest as far as his eye could see. The vividness of the colors of the trees was difficult for Xinya to stomach.

”My eyes!!” Melting Snow said he felt blinded by how horrendously bright the forest was. ”How could the devs make something like this.”

”What's wrong with it, I think it's very pretty,” Wei said, looking around in awe, at the beautiful looking trees.

Rolling his eyes at her, Melting Snow said, ”Of course you would think so.”

”What are you trying to say?” Wei asked, defensively.

”Nothing, nothing.” Melting Snow said, holding up his hands in surrender. He knew better than to start an argument with a girl. That would be more trouble than it was worth.

”He's saying that this place looks like a unicorn ate a rainbow and threw it up on this forest.” Xinya honestly told her.

Melting Snow looked at Xinya in awe, wondering how he knew what he was thinking, while Wandering Sound silently agreed from behind Wei's back. Xinya, on the other hand, was worried about Wei's eyesight and was considering taking her to get them checked.

”Come on, individually these colors are really pretty,” Wei said, trying to get him to agree with her.

”The keyword is individual,” Xinya said while looking at her. ”If you ever buy something for our apartment, please run it by me first.”