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Chapter 525 Reunion
At the same time, the layer of 'superficial dust' that covered Xu Si's sequence, belonging to his contract with Wang Yanhua, disappeared.
"You don't need me to take you back, do you?" Xu Si asked.
He's in a hurry to get Jiao Jiao home.
Let everyone in the team know this good news.
"No, no, that's fine!"
Watching the massive body of the 'Eerlong' repeatedly fall and rise among the mountains, it seems it will take some time before it can take flight.
Xu Si can't help with this.
"I'm leaving," Xu Si said.
Erlong paused for a moment, its massive head slowly turning towards Xu Si, a complex emotion appearing in its murky, dark yellow vertical pupils.
"Thanks," Wang Yanhua said.
This time, his voice was filled with only a calm, almost sincere gratitude.
"Each takes what they need," Xu Si said.
He turned away, no longer looking at the high-altitude life struggling to adapt to its new body in the mountains.
Starlight gathered beneath his feet, lifting him up as he sped toward the Tiger Caravan camp.
The journey home with Jiao Jiao was nothing but noise.
Perhaps it was because she had heard a lot about the City of Fire from Fu Qiangmin that Jiao Jiao started asking more questions.
Xu Si felt that answering those questions was even more tiring than the dragon hunt.
"Red Hair, does our caravan really have its own city now?"
"have."
"Is it possible to grow food now?"
"able."
"I'd like to eat strawberries, do you have any?"
"...I don't know that."
Anyway, Xu Si had never seen it.
"By the way, where did your memory stop?" Xu Si asked.
"...I don't know." Jiao Jiao's cheeks flushed, as if she had remembered something.
"Where's my aunt? How is she?"
"Su Su? That's good!"
Xu Si has been too busy lately, so busy that he hasn't had much time to pay attention to the other members of the team.
"Hehe, wait till I show up in front of her, I'll give her a real scare!"
"Don't forget what I just said!" Xu Si said.
"Understood. Don't reveal the sequence to anyone, and don't use the sequence property within the city! Don't worry! Even if I do use it, I'll be careful!"
How could she resist using the high-order sequence?
How can you surpass the red-haired guy without using it?
The name of this Plague Lord is just too lame.
Wouldn't it be better to call her the Plague Princess?
"Plague Princess" isn't good either; "Artistic Princess" would be much better.
It's decided, from now on her title will be "Literary Princess".
"Pfft..."
Seemingly realizing that her behavior was too childish, Jiao Jiao burst out laughing first.
"What are you laughing at?"
"Mind your own business when it comes to the princess! By the way, did that brat really become Jackie Chan?"
"That's for sure!"
"It's all your fault! If I had gone, I could have made friends with the dragon!"
"..."
As dawn broke and the sky was fully bathed in light, the outline of the City of Fire finally appeared on the horizon.
Jiao Jiao's breath caught in her throat for a moment.
The emerald green World Tree, like a towering pillar, made Jiao Jiao shut her mouth briefly!
Xu Si was also shocked. The World Tree was several times taller than when he left, changing almost every day.
"That is..."
"The World Tree," Xu Si said.
Jiao Jiao opened her mouth, then closed it again.
"This is way too big!"
Then, her gaze shifted from the towering tree to the figures patrolling back and forth on the city wall, to the well-arranged stone houses and orderly streets within the city, and to the white jade stone tablet at the city gate inscribed with the four characters "City of Fire".
"City of the Flame"
She whispered those four words.
Xu Si did not disturb her.
He simply hovered in mid-air, quietly waiting for Jiao Jiao to process everything before her.
"So..." Jiao Jiao finally spoke, her voice carrying a complex emotion.
"How long have I been dead?"
"A long time," Xu Si said.
Actually, it wasn't long, just a few dozen days and nights.
"Let's go," Xu Si said.
Then his figure began to descend, the starlight receding beneath his feet, like a bird slowly folding its wings.
Jiao Jiao followed behind him, her gaze shifting from the World Tree to the figures patrolling back and forth on the city wall, and then to the faces she recognized and those she didn't.
Then, she saw a familiar face that instantly brought tears to her eyes.
At the same time, Su Su also rode on [Immortal Mist] and rushed towards Jiao Jiao in the sky.
"Auntie—"
When Jiao Jiao's voice was squeezed out of her throat, it already sounded like she was crying.
She flew past Xu Si like a cannonball and crashed into Su Su's arms.
Su Su's [Immortal Mist] swayed violently in the air, almost losing its balance.
She held the girl tightly in her arms, her usually calm eyes now churning with complex and unreadable emotions.
Shock, ecstasy, disbelief, and a sense of relief that had been suppressed for too long and could finally be released.
"You...you...you really..."
Su Su's voice was trembling.
Her hands repeatedly stroked Jiao Jiao's back, as if confirming the body's temperature, confirming that the porcelain-like cracks had truly disappeared, and confirming that the lively little girl in her arms was not a hallucination.
"Pinch me! Pinch me now!" Jiao Jiao looked up, her dark gray eyes filled with tears, but her mouth was stretched wide, with a smug expression that made her want to be punched.
Su Su should have said that, but Jiao Jiao was clearly eager for Su Su to confirm it.
Su Su didn't pinch her because she knew Jiao Jiao had really come back.
She simply hugged Jiao Jiao tighter, resting her chin on the top of her head, her lips moving several times, but ultimately she couldn't say anything except for tears.
Xu Si stood not far away, watching this scene.
His expression remained unchanged, but his crimson star-like eyes reflected two figures embracing tightly, the emerald green canopy of the World Tree, and the City of Fire awakening in the morning light.
He did not disturb them.
It simply hangs quietly in mid-air, like a statue gilded by the morning light.
On the city wall, the members of the patrol convoy stopped.
"That's... Jiao Jiao?" someone whispered.
"It seems so."
"It's Brother Dao, it must be Brother Dao!" Xiao Luo was very happy and waved to Jiao Jiao from afar.
"Sister Jiao Jiao..." Xiao Shi, Xiao He, and a few other little ones who rushed up the city wall upon hearing the news were also overjoyed.
"This girl!"
Even this big guy, Tashan, was wiping away tears when no one was watching.
When it comes to feelings, he is no less affectionate than anyone else; Jiao Jiao and Su Su are girls he has watched grow up.
In his heart, he had long regarded them as his younger sisters.
After a brief exchange of words, there was a tacit silence.
No one stepped forward, no one disturbed them; everyone just watched from afar, as if witnessing a long-awaited reunion.
Fu Xiaojian, standing at the entrance of the city lord's mansion, was also extremely gratified.
"Veteran, pass the word: extra food tonight!"
"Alright, the third crop of wheat has just ripened, this girl has caught a lucky break!"
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