Chapter 159: London

"Apao, I didn't expect you to really have a hand in cooking fish! Not bad, it's delicious!"

I don't know what kind of fish this fishman used, but it was indeed incomparably delicious. More than half of the fish on Xie Yaoyao's plate was snatched away by Lilisi.

"Thank you for the compliment, Lord. This is my grandmother's secret recipe. She hoped that I could become an excellent chef so that I wouldn't have to join the Lord's Deep Diver Plunder Squad, which would be much safer."

"Not bad, your grandmother is a fishman with wisdom! Alright, since your dream is to become a chef, then this shop will be given to you after we leave. You can open your own restaurant. It just so happens that Beili is next door, so you don't have to worry about being bullied by others."

After speaking, Xie Yaoyao turned his head to look at Lao Fulanke, who was standing quietly. The old butler now just wanted to take little Alice back to the real world, so how could he care about a shop in another world.

"Lord Viscount makes the decision! I also think it's not bad, just consider it as a reward for this delicious meal."

Not mentioning the grateful fishman, Xie Yaoyao turned his head to look at the robot standing quietly on the side.

"Wumusi, thank you very much for your protection of them. After we leave, you can go to Roman and let him open the shackles of your soul and set you free. I said it!"

The robot's unchanging expression finally had ups and downs. Without any words, Wumusi knelt down to Xie Yaoyao and bowed deeply!

"Alright, we should go! Little Alice!"

Lao Fulanke picked up little Alice, Xie Yaoyao hung Little Red Umbrella Annie on his arm, put one hand on Frank's shoulder, and took out the 【Gate Key】 with the other!

"Click!"

Except for Xie Yaoyao and the other two, the clothes hangers around them, the clothes beside them, the hats on the wall, everything became illusory, until finally they blurred into a piece and could no longer distinguish each other.

Xie Yaoyao and Lilisi on his shoulder looked around curiously, but Lao Fulanke and little Alice beside them became paler

Xie Yaoyao hurriedly channeled a wisp of natural force over; although the two had not fully recovered, their conditions had stabilized and did not worsen.

In the blink of an eye, the blurry colors around them gradually began to clear, dismantling and separating piece by piece, finally reverting back into various clothes hangers, formal wear, top hats, walking sticks, and so on.

Huh, why are we still in the formal wear shop?

No, that's not right!

The keen perception of a demigod immediately allowed Xie Yaoyao to notice the difference; although the placement and such had not changed, the styles and sizes of the clothing on display had changed—there were no tailcoats, most were suits, the sofa beside him was much older, but the brass chandelier overhead was quite new.

Turning his head to look, through the glass doors and display windows, the sky outside was already dark, with only the dim yellow light of streetlamps spilling onto the road, and young people in twos and threes strolling and chatting on the street.

They were indeed young people, young people in T-shirts and jeans, Western young people with high nose bridges and deep eye sockets.

This is... the famous London?!

We're back, we really are back!

Xie Yaoyao had used the 'Riddle Men's Clothing Store' as his anchor point; after all, this shop had traveled over together with Frank and Alice at the time.

It was just unexpected that there would still be a 'Riddle Men's Clothing Store' left in the original location.

Is this what a century-old shop abroad is like? One that specializes in custom formal wear? It really does have a sense of historical depth!

At this moment, Lao Fulanke and little Alice also came to their senses. When the two saw the flow of people on the street outside at the same time, Lao Fulanke's tears immediately flowed down, and only the bewildered little Alice reached out to gently wipe them for him.

"Grandpa Frank, don't cry!"

"Alright, alright, I won't cry!"

But the old man's tears still couldn't stop flowing down.

"Viscount, we... we are back, right?"

Xie Yaoyao smiled and nodded.

"Of course! I..."

A burst of urgent alarm sounds rang out from behind the counter, extremely piercing, interrupting Xie Yaoyao's words.

What is this?

Xie Yaoyao looked up at the surveillance cameras in the four corners of the shop and immediately understood.

Oh, the shop's alarm went off.

"Frank, Alice, look at Lilisi's eyes!"

"What?"

When the London police surrounded the 'Riddle Men's Clothing Store', only Frank and Alice, who had fainted on the sofa, remained inside.

A report that shocked all of London appeared: the Earl of Lorenz's young daughter and butler, who had been missing for three years, had suddenly appeared in a formal wear shop in London, and that shop was exactly the place they had last stayed before they went missing.

The London police stated that they had responded to the alarm inside the 'Riddle Men's Clothing Store', and no traces of a third person appearing were found at the scene, but the shop's owner, Old Mr. Riddle, stated that the surveillance footage of the moment the Earl's daughter and butler appeared was damaged—completely and utterly damaged beyond repair.

And the little princess of the Lorenz family and the butler, who had woken up, both stated that they had no memory of these three years, as if they had only stepped into the Riddle Men's Clothing Store for a short rest three years ago, and then woke up to find themselves in the present, three years later.

Regardless of the chaos in London thousands of miles away, when Xie Yaoyao returned to his own little shop, it was still morning.

The first thing he did upon returning home was to open the door and carefully clean up the fertilizer produced by the little ones in the shop. Lilisi, who truly couldn't stand it, even contributed a ten-minute burst of fresh air, which finally made the air in the shop fresh again.

As for Helai'er, who had been trapped in the shop, he was the first to fly out the door and sing loudly on the sign at the entrance.

"Gaa! Gaa-gaa! Gaa!..."

Fortunately, the little ones in the shop didn't pester Xie Yaoyao. Led by Huixing and Spark, they chased and played behind Lilisi. A greedy Anni also opened her umbrella and floated along behind them, which immediately caused a light, drizzling rain to fall outside the door. Fortunately, the light rain made the pedestrians on the road outside visibly decrease, so there was no fear of anyone seeing a little red umbrella floating in the air inside Xie Yaoyao's shop.

Xie Yaoyao ignored the interactions of the little ones. Walking to the front of the counter, he immediately saw a sticky note on his computer screen.

"I found a clue about my background, so I plan to go investigate it. It will take about two days. If you return, you can come to the back alley to find me! Ying!"

Ying, that's good then!

Xie Yaoyao had once made an agreement with Nie Yingying that if they left messages for each other, a single character meant she had a certain degree of confidence in what she was doing, or that the matter was not too dangerous.

If the message left was two characters, then the matter was more serious, and the other party could provide rescue or help within their capabilities.

Xie Yaoyao, feeling slightly relieved, opened the computer and clicked on the 'Dark Fairytale' website, only to have two bright red characters immediately pop up on the homepage.

"National War!"