Chapter 26: 25. Night Talk

25. Night Talk

Zoe had a faint smile on her face: "I thought about Dad's notes, and then thought about the words we said earlier. Suddenly, I felt that I was very..."

Her voice stopped. She might have thought that Li Ang didn't want her to say she was "bad," so she weighed her words again.

"I feel like I thought everything wrong.

"The words Dad wrote, although I can't quite understand them, but... I feel that he was very concerned about me, right?"

Li Ang nodded to her.

"But I said I hated them..."

The young girl pouted.

"But, thinking that they didn't come back, I really, I felt very uncomfortable inside. Is it wrong to be like this? I don't understand at all."

"This isn't your fault," Li Ang said softly: "No matter what the relationship was before, the relationship between people needs to be maintained. You and them being separated for too long isn't your reason. Even if they had hidden difficulties, you can't blame yourself."

The young girl showed a soft smile to Li Ang: "I knew Li Ang would say that. I felt sad and hurt, but after listening to your words, I feel very warm and relaxed."

"Ah, right, where is that notebook?" she suddenly realized.

"When dueling with that monster, the scene was too chaotic, and it was buried by the collapse. We were going to clean it up tomorrow anyway, so we'll find it along the way."

The young girl nodded with slight worry: "I need to rethink Mom and Dad's matter, and then—"

Speaking of "then," she seemed to have not made up her mind again and didn't say the specific part.

She seemed to have thought of something else, and her drooping eyelids lifted rapidly. Her clear red pupils looked at Li Ang earnestly.

"I said those words, but it doesn't mean that what I said about liking Li Ang yesterday doesn't count, okay?"

Before Li Ang could have any reaction, she stretched, and put on a lively smile again.

"Tell me about adventure in the airspace? Why does everyone want to leave the sky island and fly into the sky?"

Li Ang thought for a while and said: "I'll start by talking about the face of this world."

The origin of the Newbis world is untraceable. It is distant and ancient. In countless millennia, countless civilizations have risen and fallen, the natural world has turned upside down... even the earth has sunk into the scarlet horizon, and even the oceans have evaporated without a trace.

All existing civilizations are located on sky islands in the sea of clouds. People can only travel between islands with the help of airships.

With only one means of transportation, there is a threshold for travel. If an accident occurs, the island may fall into a state of isolation.

Before the invention of airships, most civilizations were in a state of isolation.

Therefore, in many airspaces, there are no particularly powerful unified countries or forces.

Long-term isolated life has worn down many people's will. Many people no longer fantasize about the splendor of the outside world, just repeatedly tilling a piece of land in front of them.

Occasionally, people who yearn for the unknown appear; they are adventurers. But in the long passage of time, they have always been marginalized people. In the eyes of the residents of those prosperous sky islands, they are marginalized people and second-rate people.

Until the appearance of the Sky Knight Guild.

Sky Knight generally refers to people who travel by airship all year round, which is basically the same meaning as adventurer.

But three hundred years ago, after several of the most powerful Sky Knight groups took the lead in establishing a giant guild organization spanning almost the entire airspace, Sky Knight specifically referred to adventurers registered in the Sky Knight Guild.

The guild took over part of the functions of the sky island nations. If residents of the entire sky want to achieve their wishes, they no longer need to beg friends and relatives who are equally incompetent or local forces; they only need to prepare the reward, issue a commission to the guild, and have it handed over to adventurers to complete.

In just three hundred years, Sky Knights rapidly became a heavy color in the sky.

Countless people rushed to the blue sky one after another. Regardless of whether they pursued fame and glory, or heavy wealth, or even just a free life, they could achieve it through this identity.

"Did Li Ang get glory and wealth?" Zoe asked.

The young girl shrank into the quilt, holding the edge, revealing only half of her little face.

The two chatted from the yard until they went to bed.

"Did I... get it?"

Li Ang smiled with a complex expression.

"I originally thought I had, but in the end, it just benefited others."

He looked at his palm, then slowly clenched it into a fist.

"From now on, I want to grasp the part that truly belongs to me."

Zoe looked at him, thoughtful in her eyes.

"... So, is adventure just for these things?"

Li Ang turned his face and met the eyes of the young girl looking down from the bed. There was no concept of any glory or wealth in her eyes.

If she goes outside, will she integrate? Or will she retain her current purity?

Li Ang shook his head: "Pursuing these things is one reason. However, although people don't say it themselves, I feel that most people's true thought is to control their lives."

Li Ang lay on the floor mat, looking at the ceiling, as if looking at a more distant place.

"Each of our lives has parts that we think are imperfect.

"In the past, perhaps it was a lack of courage, perhaps it was not anticipating it, but we were all hurt by this imperfection.

"These pains, some may turn into a scar, often aching faintly, some may become a thorn stuck in the heart, wanting to pull it out at the risk of life.

"Because we have been in pain, we don't want to be in pain again. Because we have been low, we want to make life high-spirited.

"We carry hope and run into the blue sky, wanting to truly decide why we live. But the sky is too vast, and perhaps we don't know where to go, so the first step is to want to get fame and money, right? With these, other things are easier to talk about."

"What kind of life does Li Ang want to control now?"

Zoe crawled into the quilt, her voice coming from inside, buzzing. After asking, she revealed her head again.

"I want to rebuild the adventure team, find partners, and stand at the peak of Sky Knights. As for what kind of life I want, I might figure it out on the road, or I might think about it after success. Anyway, when that day comes, I won't be bound by anything, right?"

Zoe listened intently. The warm light of the adventure lantern made her ruby eyes shine incomparably.

Li Ang smiled at her: "Sleep early, it will be hard tomorrow."

"Mm, I hope I can also control my life. Good night~"

The young girl smiled like a flower.

Early the next morning, it was also the fifth day Li Ang returned to Satus Island. The two put on their equipment, carried as many spellcasting materials as they could collect, and came to the basement.

With their physique, cleaning up the rubble didn't take much effort. Soon, the well mouth was found, and after some effort, Zoe's father's notes were found.

Li Ang patted the dust off the notes: "We'll read this when we rest on the road."

"Mm."

After putting away the notes, the two followed the well mouth in the basement and walked into the darkness that seemed endless. ===== CHAPTER 27 =====