Chapter 38

With the mystery of the disappearance of supplies solved, Jiaxiya also restored his innocence as he wished.

Xia'er gathered the children in the village, and Mali personally testified for the boy, resolving the misunderstanding among the children, allowing them to make up as before.

After they left, the half-elf girl picked up the basket full of alfalfa grass beside her, intending to go out to feed the goats.

She noticed that Mali also walked out of the house, looking into the distance under the cherry tree.

"Are you leaving?" the girl asked.

"How did you know?"

"You have been looking into the distance whenever you have time these two days, or you have been discussing alchemy and history with Master Lievre." The half-elf girl paused here. "You seem to be a bit confused. Have you encountered any difficult things?"

"Mm, the world is a bit different from what I imagined," Mali admitted.

Hearing this, Xia'er put down the grass in her hand, straightened up, and asked curiously, "What kind of world do you hope it is?"

"I don't know either," Mali shook his head. "Maybe I just want an answer."

"What answer?"

"Where did everyone go?"

The half-elf girl obviously didn't quite understand Mali's meaning. She tilted her head and thought for a while. "If you are talking about Suoluo, he left two days ago and went back to Yingzui City, but Huodun told me he wanted to stay.

"Because that, uh, nickname... he couldn't find any work in Yingzui City either, so he planned to stay and help harvest wheat. Although the village has no money to pay him, Village Chief Daimengde promised to find him a place to live, and we have enough food, at least enough to let him survive this winter safely.

"Weier and Melissa, I haven't asked them yet. Maybe when Weier can lift his sword again, they will leave the village. What about you? What are your plans?"

"I'm preparing to go home."

Although she was mentally prepared, Xia'er still felt a sense of loss inexplicably when she heard this. The half-elf girl managed to squeeze out a smile. "Your hometown must be very far from here."

"Not far," Mali said. "I told you, it's in that Red Mist in Black Stone Canyon."

Xia'er was stunned. "You are not joking?"

"No."

"So... you mean, there is still a large group of people living in the Red Mist? They have been accompanying us for decades, but no one in the village knows?"

"There is only one person there," Mali added. "At least for now, there is only one person."

Xia'er seemed to have thought of something, and her mood soon improved again. "So you will come back?"

Mali nodded. "Two or three months, maybe a little longer, or maybe earlier. It depends on when I am ready."

"Ready for what?"

"Travel around the mainland. The most important thing is to earn some money first. Without money, nothing can be done. I originally had a plan that should have been able to easily get a lot of money, but now this plan doesn't work, so I can only find other ways to make money."

"We can be adventurers to earn money!" The half-elf girl's eyes lit up. "My dad was an adventurer, and he always told me stories of his adventures. From that time on, I thought that when I grew up, I would also become an adventurer."

Mali shook his head. "But I don't want to be an adventurer. That's too dangerous for me. I know that danger is everywhere in this world, and I can accept taking certain risks sometimes, but I don't want to make a living by adventuring."

"Oh, then what do you want to do?"

"Business, I suppose."

Mali didn't come up with this idea on the spur of the moment. In fact, he had ideas in this regard as early as when he was in Yingzui City, but at that time he thought relatively simply: pull out the things that were not used in the supermarket and sell them on the mainland.

If they could all be sold at the price of alchemical creations, then his second half of life shouldn't have to worry about money.

Unfortunately, when he found that the items brought out from the Red Mist would disappear, this plan obviously wouldn't work.

Fortunately, the problem wasn't big. Just make some modifications to the original plan.

He had a car, could purchase goods from one place and pull them to another place to sell, earning the price difference, just like a traditional merchant, but much faster, and this also meant that his money-making speed would also be faster.

In addition, Mali planned to change to a car, a larger car, which could hold more oil, pull more goods, and the guards could also ride together. Let's see if he could find some weapons and equipment.

Speaking of guards, the half-elf girl also became interested. "Do you think I can do it? I killed four goblins this time."

"Don't you want to be an adventurer?"

"That's right, that's my dream, but being a caravan guard is also good, and I can go to many places, right? The most important thing is that we can continue to be together," Xia'er said excitedly.

"I will do my best to protect you and your goods. Before my sword and bow break, no one can hurt you!"

When she said this, her cheeks turned red, but she thought of the battle that happened in Zhandou Castle.

Mali almost effortlessly knocked down the powerful warrior named Hente.

Does such a person really need her protection? Xia'er thought to herself. The person who had always been saved and protected was clearly her, not only in Zhandou Castle, but also in the Black Stone Canyon incident, it was Mali who stood up.

But the half-elf girl soon cheered up again. She was still young, still growing, and had infinite possibilities.

Just like the sentence her dad often kept on his lips, every experienced adventurer came from a rookie.

As long as she persisted in practicing and accumulating experience, one day she would be able to be useful and make Mali look at her with admiration.

Of course, the premise was that the latter had to be willing to take her. Fortunately, Mali's answer didn't disappoint her.

"Then I'll leave it to you. By the way, there's also Huodun. Help me ask him if he wants to join."

"And us, we also want to join."

Melissa came back from the direction of the forest, holding the herbs she had just picked, and was preparing to change the medicine for her brother. She stopped after hearing their words.

Mali looked at her amber eyes. "Are you not going to be adventurers anymore either?"

"My brother and I discussed it, and we might not be suitable for this line of work."

"The chance of running into a wild boar while clearing goblins is actually not high," Xia'er kindly reminded. "In general, those guys run away before you get close."

"It's not because of the wild boar," Melissa sighed. "It's our own reason, especially my brother. He is a bit too... simple and not good at dealing with interpersonal relationships, especially dealing with people at the bottom."

"You are not commoners, right?" Mali said.

"How did you know?" Melissa was very surprised.

"Master Lievre told me. He said that your and your brother's speech and behavior might be of noble origin. Are you really siblings?"

"That's right, we have eyes of the same color."

"Why did you become adventurers?"

"That's a long story." Melissa didn't seem to want to talk about this topic. "In short, my brother and I discussed it, and he also felt that following an alchemist had more prospects than continuing to be an adventurer."