Chapter 714: Home (2/2)

He fished out yet another bronze plate and placed it on the table. “If you want to survive here, you have to earn or rob it yourself. This is a ticket to the Eastern Desolace. You’ll get a room on the ship, barely enough for your group and things. If you want better arrangements you’ll need to pay more. They’re short of people on the Eastern Desolace, so they’re offering fairly good terms. You’ll get a piece of land there so long as you’re willing to go. You can ask for more land if you think your share is too small, but that way, you’ll die earlier.”

Qianye knew nothing about the neutral lands, but to him, it was the same everywhere. Hence, he reached out to take the bronze plate, but the young man pressed the plate beneath his palm with a meaningful smile and wouldn’t let go.

Qianye gave it some thought and realized the point. “How much?”

The young man revealed a brilliant smile. “Smart! I like talking to smart people. Fifty gold coins and this ticket is yours.”

There were many currencies flowing about in the neutral lands—imperial gold coins, black crystals, Evernight silver coins, blood crystals, demonic cubes—everything was fair game. Qianye produced a pouch and weighed it in his hands before passing it over. “Forty-seven is all I have.”

The young man snatched the pouch and stuffed the bronze plate into Qianye’s hands. “That’s enough, that’s enough!”

Qianye knew he had overpaid, but he didn’t mind since taking a loss was unavoidable as a first-timer. After asking where the airship was parked, Qianye headed to the docks with the others in tow. Red Pipe remained leaning on the counter without any movement. His job had been completed after sending Qianye here.

The smile on the young man’s face disappeared entirely as Qianye left the hall. A middle-aged man who had arrived from the side watched Qianye’s receding figure and said, “He’s just a rank-eight fellow. Do you really need to send him to that place?”

The young man glanced at Red Pipe. “Didn’t you say he’s hidden his strength? How much did he hide?”

Red Pipe didn’t answer this question. He took two deep puffs from his pipe and said, “That isn’t important. If he’s hidden enough, it’ll just cause more trouble for those people. Isn’t that good? The Wolf King isn’t that easy to deal with.”

The young man revealed a mysterious expression unbefitting of his young age. “You’re still just as evil. Perhaps we should reconsider our next cooperation.”

Red Pipe pointed at the pouch of gold coins and said, “You earned quite a bit too, didn’t you?”

The young man weighed the pouch in his hand. “But I suddenly feel that this money is going to be troublesome.”

On the other end of the docks, Qianye had finally found his airship, an ancient-looking vessel. Many of its steam pipes were on the outside, and its two chimneys were puffing out rolling black smoke. The airship could barely fit its massive steam engine—no one knew how much space there was left for passengers.

Such an antique airship was a rare sight even on Evernight Continent.

Qianye handed over the bronze ticket and obtained permission to board. The cabin was, as expected, quite small. After stuffing the boxes in, the group could only remain standing. It was fine for Zhuji since the little lass could sleep in any position, even upside down. So, she jumped directly onto the ceiling and fell asleep in a hanging position. The old man sat on the boxes while Qianye and Nighteye simply went up to the deck, prepared to spend the journey there.

The time to set sail arrived pretty soon. Hissing and screaming, the airship left the dock with great difficulty and drove away.

Even though the flight was between landmasses, it took an entire two days to arrive at the destination. This was an exceedingly big piece of land at the periphery of the neutral lands. Looking at it from the void, Qianye reckoned it was the same size as the floating continent, or maybe a bit bigger.

Throughout the journey, Qianye at first wanted to ask about matters related to the Eastern Desolace, but everyone—from the captain down to the crew—avoided the topic and weren’t willing to utter a word regarding it. Even when Qianye offered them a couple of gold coins, the money was stuffed back into his hands.

However, Qianye did manage to obtain some basic information. Most of the Eastern Desolace was covered by a huge lake—only a fourth of its surface area was land, while the rest was water. The lake was so large that it extended thousands of kilometers and could rightly be called a sea. That was why the Eastern Desolace was also called the Eastern Sea.

The ancient airship gradually approached land. Qianye and Nighteye stood at the bow, gazing at the mysterious but dangerous-looking land. Nighteye suddenly leaned on Qianye’s shoulder with a sigh.

“What’s wrong?”

Gazing at the fast-approaching continent and its vast, deep sea, she said, “I have a feeling that this will be our home.”

Qianye held her tightly and said, “Very well, then this shall be our home!”

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