Chapter 6: Chapter 6 : The team begins to take shape
As soon as the next day dawned, Merry and Dao packed their things. After bothering them for one night, they have nothing to pay for the kindness. The two planned to leave first to find Cici, then to consider carefully before making any decision.
They could not resist the professor and Jason's enthusiasm to let them stay, and it was insisted that the two should eat and load the airship with enough fuel before leaving.
"What's your next plan." Jason asked Merry.
"Leave Avalon." Merry looked at the hearty food on the table and didn't have much appetite. The two days of change and running had not made her look in a very good mood either.
Now, in addition to her dad who must still be trying to find Dao, there was the bunch of people who came for the windfall yesterday. Once the news of Dao's exile got out, if she wanted to stay in Avalon, she was afraid she would have to live in hiding.
The only way Merry could come up with was to find a way to get out of Avalon and out of Western World, and Merry already had a plan in mind - she was going to take Dao to the Eastern World. That woman who wrapped her head in white gauze, revealing only a pair of deep eyes, thinking about her now, there was definitely more than reluctance and helplessness in her eyes, there must have been something else in her cloudy eyes to make the look so complicated. So to know Dao's life, she could only take him to the Eastern Continent.
Before leaving, a fight almost broke out between Merry and Jason, Merry was the kind of person who would not change her mind easily once she had made up her mind, just like she secretly thought that she and Dao would face the next journey on their own, she would not agree to Jason's idea of joining her. But Jason felt that it was his own recklessness that put Merry and Dao in a difficult situation, so he wanted to do something to make up for it.
When the two almost had an argument about it, Jason said something that made Merry feel the same way, saying, "No one who has a good reason to leave Avalon will stay on. Even if it wasn't for you, I would have left sooner or later."
Sooner or later. Merry knew the feeling that no one wants to stay at Avalon without being tied to it, something she had learned early on.
Despite the disagreement, it was basically agreed that Merry and Jason would each contact their friends and leave Avalon together for the Eastern World.
Cici is a friend of Merry's from early on, and her father is the mayor of Avalon, and Merry's father has been very close to Cici's father since his family's business grew. When she was young, she didn't understand what it meant when "government" and "business" were put together, she only knew that there was a girl of her own age at her family's party.
Merry sat by Cici's bedside, and the feeling that time brought change to nothing but people overnight came over her again. In just two or three days, she was treated like the plague who was constantly forced to run away, while Cici was still the pretty princess with the sweet smile, which made her feel distant from her once most familiar friend, or rather, the distance between her and her former self.
"Merry, do you, like, need my help?" Cici was still so understanding, her eyes were big and unadulterated, staring at Merry with a flash of light, like a pool of spring water suddenly appearing in the mountains of the secret land, shining out of her own dirty appearance after days of trekking, for a while, Merry didn't know how to answer.
"Cici, you know, I've always wanted to..." That's how people are, when the ideal they usually talk about is close at hand, they have the fear of "the nearer the home village, the more timid".
"You want to leave Avalon, I know." Cici sat next to Merry, reached out and gently clasped a hand on the back of Merry's clenched fist, "Is it now?"
"Yeah."
"Good. If you want to leave Avalon, what I said before still counts, I'm willing to join you." Cici looked at the sad-faced Merry and said, she knew Merry's plight. What's more, she also likes Dao very much, for her, Dao is her best friend just like Merry.
Cici and Merry both looked at Dao in the living room who was playing with Mimi, Cici's pet, a beautiful ragdoll cat, and Dao was stroking Mimi's freshly licked fur over and over again, causing Mimi to get a little angry and looked like she wanted to fight with Dao.
Merry discussed with Cici on how to leave Avalon, after all, it's a long way from the Western Continent to the Eastern Continent, and now that they were to leave secretly like this, they couldn't rely on their family. Finally the two reached a consensus to find a way to leave Avalon first.
"I've heard of Professor Wu, that Jason, is he reliable?" It has been a long time since the two girlfriends lay whispering together like this. Cici asked with some concern when she heard Merry talked about her previous experience and her intention to team up with Master Wu and Jason to leave Avalon.
"So far he looks like a nice guy, and he didn't know who I was before he took the initiative to get to know me, the point is, he didn't know Dao existed before he got to know him." While analyzing, Merry was also hesitating. On the one hand, it is like ships passing in the night, she did not know them much. On the other hand, if she wanted to leave Avalon now, the first step was to save enough money. In Loft, the fastest way to make money is to do the tasks in a team, and now she could only team up with Jason.
Cici soon fell asleep, but Merry had a bit of insomnia. The white light outside the window shone through the curtains in Cici's room. Cici's room was decorated with some delicate dolls and some well-kept plants, all of which wanted to be immersed in the beautiful night, and Merry looked at Cici's sleeping face, just like her favorite toys, Cici also had a delicate and lovely face.
It was heard that the real moon could be seen at night in the Eastern Continent, Merry fell asleep with this in mind.
For Jason, he didn't go so well. Bob's house was on the second floor of a vegetable market, where Bob's father ran a pork stall. since both of them dropped out of college, Bob has been helping out over here while fighting monsters in Attic to make money. Bob was a devoted Attic player, and in his eyes, Loft was not only a place to make money, but also a belief-like existence. Jason Joked about him, "Fat nerds who play games think the games they play are their beliefs." Bob was neither offended nor bothered.
When Jason arrived at Bob's house, there was no one at Bob's pork stall, it was the granny from the vegetable store next to it who was helping to look after the store. Jason had been here many times, but this was the first time he had seen this granny, unlike other old ladies in the slum, she had a kind look. The granny told Jason that Bob was attending a game in Attic.
Jason went upstairs and wanted to sit aside and wait, but then it suddenly occurred to him that the last time he just got a big prize, he was being chased and hadn't had time to buy the equipment, so he also logged into Attic.
What Bob was participating in was a not-so-difficult monster-fighting task, the opponent was a one-eyed, red-horned monster, and by defeating it, he could randomly obtain the equipment, including some equipment of great value.
Jason spent half a day in the shop and saw nothing he wanted, thinking that Bob should be finished soon, he was going to leave.
As he was about to leave, Jason saw a guy following him. There were tens of thousands of players coming in and out of the shop of Attic every day, and even Jason, who thought he knew people very well, did not dare to brag about it. But the figure that flashed by just now was obviously with bad intentions.
Jason didn't know what the guy was from and whether there were accomplices, so he thought it would be better to leave as soon as possible to meet up with Bob.
Unexpectedly, upon he left the shop and hadn't taken a few steps, someone stopped him.
"Kid, you got quite a lot of bounties last time!" It was a stern and arrogant female voice.
Jason was speechless on the spot, why so persistent, how could it still be so relentless after so long.
The moment Jason turned around, he almost spurted out a nosebleed - behind him was a hot girl, dressed in a black leotard, wearing a black cat mask, carrying a huge broadsword in her hand that did not quite match her body shape and appearance but unexpectedly reasonable in the look, anyone who saw her would praise her sexy.
"Hi beauty, I have spent the last bounty." Jason tried to fool her.
"Cut the crap, hand over the money, I will spare your life, or I'll also kill you." She looked like she was not easy to be fooled.
"I'm content to die in the hands of a beautiful sister." Jason roughly weighed up, he should be able to spar with her a few times, so he continued to be garrulous.
Without any further ado, seeing Jason like this, she drew her broadsword and cut up, and Jason rushed to dodge.
A martial arts adept, Jason thought to himself. Players could not only get equipment and gold coins by fighting the monsters, but also obtain some boxing, sword secrets by exploring secret lands, some would even found some spell secrets, raising their experience value and combat capability to several levels up at once. This one in sight, obviously has practiced some martial arts secrets.
Jason had to mobilize his arsenal of weapons to deal with. The two fought a few rounds, Jason was obviously at a disadvantage. Seeing Jason's hand movements at a disadvantage, she put away her broadsword and took out two daggers. Before Jason could react, she had already approached his body. It turned out that it was an appetizer just now, but now it's her specialty.
Jason responded while trying to find a way to get out. At the time when Jason was about to despair, Bob happened to end the task and rushed over. Seeing that she alone was not enough to defeat them, the catwoman left in anger.
After asking Jason why he came, Bob was a bit reluctant at first. He fed Rum the vegetable leaves while rambling on and on, roughly saying that he was content with his current life and didn't want to leave at all.
Jason didn't forcefully persuade him either, because he knew Bob too well. Like himself, he was not even less determined to leave Avalon than he was. "Team up with Master Wu and Robo." Jason said lightly.
"What! Why didn't you say so earlier." Jason knew this trick would work, Master Wu was not very attractive, but teaming up with a player like Robo, who was top-notch in intelligence and force, had a fatal attraction for Bob.
"Wait, I have to make a plan!" Bob was getting excited.
"Let's first rendezvous with Master Wu tomorrow and we'll take a long look at it." Jason urged.
The next day at dawn, Bob urged Jason to hurry up and get going, he couldn't wait to do tasks with Robo.
The food court was already bustling with life when the two went out. Bob told his father that he needed to go out for a while, and his father was burying his head in chopping a pig that had blocked itself tightly behind the stall. Bob hurriedly and silently blocked the eyes of Rum in his arms with his hands, he saved Rum from such a tragedy, if Bob had been a step later, the little Rum would have been made into a roast suckling pig.
The two planned to buy some ingredients from the market. Close to Christmas, it was time to prepare for the first team rendezvous.
"Auntie, I'd like some fresh chicken, please also help prepare some toppings." Bob brought Jason to the old lady who helped him look after the store when Jason came in yesterday. The old lady was old, but her action to kill the chicken was very crisp. She neatly picked up a long machete, "click", the chicken's head fell to the ground, and then, she pulled out a dagger, with a few moves, the chicken was cleaned up.
Jason looked at the familiar movements of the old lady's hands, he was a little confused...
"Wait, you are, you are the catwoman that robbed me yesterday!" A lightbulb went on over Jason's head, no wonder the movements in her hands looked so familiar. Upon the words, all the three froze. The air froze for three or five seconds before the old lady smiled and said, "Ah ah, if I had known it was Bob's friend, me the old lady would not have done it. I am short of money, forgive auntie." She had a kind expression on her face, which made her completely unrecognizable as the slash-and-burn female killer from yesterday.
"It really has infinite possibilities!" Both Jason and Bob exclaimed at the same time.
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