Although Ai Dehua was still unable to verify the authenticity of this rumor, he had started to prepare since he heard it.
Since it was said that the "secret place" was in the wild, he must be prepared to go there.
Ai Dehua did not care about the unknown dangers in the wild for the time being. The first preparation he had to make was how to prevent the moonlight from shining in the wild.
Either he had a large number of soul coins to resist the moonlight.
Or he could create a mobile room … for example, a fully enclosed carriage.
Ai Dehua decided to prepare for both.
Not only did he have to store more soul coins, but he also had to build a fully enclosed, sturdy, and sturdy mechanical carriage.
In this way, even if he encountered a powerful beast in the wild, he could use the carriage's defense to resist. Moreover, the mechanical horse also had a certain combat power. Although it might not be of help, at least it would not be as troublesome as a live horse. If it was a live horse, it would be swallowed by a beast not long after leaving the house.
While preparing for both sides, Ai Dehua continued to inquire about the secret place.
He even borrowed a noblewoman's mechanical carriage to leave the Town of Yi and go to the nearby Spirit City and the Sacrificial Capital. These two were relatively large cities in the Yi World, and the population living there was more than six digits.
Because he did not have the household registration of the Spirit City and the Sacrificial Capital, he could only stay for three days at a time.
With only a few days, Ai Dehua constantly inquired about the "secret place".
She had accepted his custom-made "clients" and occasionally helped him. There was even a client who helped Ai Dehua get a library access card that could be used in both the Spirit City and the Sacrificial Capital.
Although he could not borrow the books in the library, he could enter the business world of the two Capital's libraries and browse through them.
Relying on this access card, Ai Dehua went from the Town of Yi to the Spirit City and the Sacrificial Capital almost every week to read the relevant literature and books.
Time passed by in a hurry.
Perhaps it was five years or six years.
After so many years, he finally relied on his own hands to earn enough soul coins that he could stay in the wild for half a year without being shone by the moonlight.
In addition, he also bought a mechanical carriage with amazing defensive power.
He could stay in the wild for a longer time.
Although Ai Dehua still did not find the exact coordinates of the secret place, according to some books, he could be sure that a secret place appeared in the southeast of the Town of Yi a hundred years ago.
In the past hundred years, there had been others who had searched for the secret place like him, but none of them had found it.
Even so, Ai Dehua still set his first stop as the Forest of Secrets southeast of the Town of Manners.
There was no path in the Forest of Secrets.
After all, there was no need for the people of the Yi World to go deep into the wilderness, much less the dense forest.
However, it didn't matter if there was no road. He could just use the strong and sturdy gears of the mechanical carriage to open a path out of thin air.
Ai Dehua originally thought that he would be able to stay in the Forest of Secrets for at least half a year.
However, the truth was that half a month later, the mechanical carriage was corroded by an unknown fog in the forest and was full of holes.
The soul coin was quite useful. It could still support the soul barrier and avoid this unknown fog.
But in the fog, the consumption of soul coins was very high.
Almost at a speed visible to the naked eye, the soul coins were melting, dissolving, and sublimating.
With Ai Dehua's soul coin reserves, he could last two to three months even in the fog.
But he couldn't bear it. The fog was just a disaster in the Forest of Secrets.
Ai Dehua encountered another evil wind disaster. The evil wind could also blow into one's soul, blowing one's soul into pieces and even corroding one's soul.
The soul coin was still very useful to deal with the evil wind.
However, the consumption of the fog and evil wind was frightening.
If he added the night moon and blood moon on top of the fog and evil wind … Ai Dehua felt that he was already a poor man.
Because of the consumption of the soul coin, he couldn't stay for long. In the end, his trip to the Forest of Secrets only lasted for a month.
A month later, he returned to the Town of Manners and continued to live as usual.
In the eyes of the others in the town, Ai Dehua had become a little numb and had probably given up on leaving. This was actually normal. In the beginning, people who were thrown into the Yi World constantly wanted to leave and search for secret places.
However, when he hit the southern wall, he understood that it was difficult to find a way out of the Yi World.
This was a sealed world, or rather, a sealed box.
One could only enter and not leave.
According to other people's guesses, after this experience, Ai Dehua wouldn't think about searching for secret places anymore. He would most likely get married and have children here like everyone else.
When the second generation was born, the newborn children would be completely imprinted in the Yi World.
To them, the Yi World was a mother's world, not a restraint.
Life would be reversed, and there would be no more backsliding.
However, this was only what outsiders thought. For Ai Dehua, he still hadn't given up.
After seeing the wider sky in the outside world, he couldn't stay in a small pond and be a fish in the pond.
On the surface, Ai Dehua was numb because he had to start earning money again. This was a numb and mechanical job. Even though making hair, dyeing hair, and putting on makeup were his hobbies, when a hobby turned into a job, even Ai Dehua would be annoyed and numb.
However, unlike his numb appearance, his heart was still burning with passion.
He had never erased his yearning for freedom.
In the following days, he purchased fur materials and custom-made wigs while continuing to explore the wider world. This was not referring to the wilderness, but to other big cities.
He had been to Bassac City, which was located in the oasis. The master here was no longer a human, but a sandworm.
He had also been to Black Smoke City, which was hovering on the mountainside. The people here were all made of smoke, and he didn't know where they came from.
He had also been to the Sleepless Evening Port, which was run by ghosts. These ghosts were not living souls or dead souls, but pure spirits. It was also a race that Ai Dehua had never seen before. He guessed that the creator of the Yi World had thrown them in from an unknown time and space.
In these cities run by various races, Ai Dehua used soul coins to open the way and obtain permission to stay for a long time.
He brought makeup and hair to the various races, and when he left, he took away the information of the various races' secret places.
Once he earned enough money, he would try to find secret places in the wild.
After using up the soul coins, he would continue to return to the city and bring everyone a little shock of makeup and hair.
This kind of daily ecology continued.
Ai Dehua had forgotten how many times he had been to the wild and how many disasters he had encountered in the wild …
He even felt that time was a little blurry.
Decades? Hundreds of years? Or had it been a thousand years?
No matter how long it had been, the only thing that Ai Dehua hadn't given up was his heart that wanted to be free.
Round and round, round and round.
Later, Ai Dehua returned to the Town of Yi.
This time, he came back because Ai Dehua was a little tired. He still didn't give up looking for a way to leave, but he planned to take a break and slow down his pace.
Therefore, he returned to the place where he first descended to the Yi World.
This was both the city of his heart and the safe place in his heart.
After he returned to the Town of Yi, he continued to run the hair and makeup shop.
Perhaps it was an unintentional planting of willows, but when he returned to the Town of Yi, he received a piece of news that he couldn't find in the past.
This news came from his customer.
This customer was a race he had never seen before. It was a light blue jellyfish surrounded by starlight.
This starlight jellyfish customer wanted to customize a wig that matched its temperament, and the material used for the wig was the jellyfish beard that it had shed.
Although the customization request was very strange, Ai Dehua still accepted it.
It was his first time using a jellyfish beard as a wig, but it wasn't difficult for him at all. One had to know that he had once customized a wig for a lava giant, and the material of the wig was the tentacles of a lava salamander.
Compared to the customization of the lava giant's wig, the jellyfish beard of this starlight jellyfish was nothing.
During the customization period, the starlight jellyfish had been living in the hair and makeup shop.
Although the starlight jellyfish didn't speak much — or rather, it didn't know how to speak the common language — Ai Dehua still got a lot of information about the starlight jellyfish through some simple communication.
It also came from the outside world, and it seemed to be a special world.
The place it lived seemed to have a strict time limit. This time, it only had two days to go out, and after two days, it would have to wait for decades before it could return.
It didn't like the place it lived, because it hated the life of a rich young lady, where it had to open its hands and open its mouth to eat.
When Ai Dehua heard the first few sentences, he didn't think much of it. When he heard that the starlight jellyfish didn't want to live the "rich young lady's life", he secretly thought that the starlight jellyfish was probably showing off in front of him.
He had seen many customers like this who loved to show off. When facing such customers, smiling was appropriate, and occasionally showing an expression of surprise and admiration would be enough to fool them.
However, the expression that had always been successful in the past was defeated by the starlight jellyfish.
When the starlight jellyfish heard Ai Dehua's agreement, it changed its expression: "I hate the rich young lady's life because I'm not a female! In the words of you humans, I'm a male! A male! A male! "
Ai Dehua was stunned.
It turned out that the starlight jellyfish didn't hate the so-called rich young lady's life, but it hated being treated as a female even though it was a male.
Hearing this, Ai Dehua felt that the starlight jellyfish's family was a little weird.
Almost all hairdressers had a passive skill that they didn't need to learn: gossip.
Ai Dehua's gossip skill was maxed out. After all, he had obtained a lot of information from his customers through his gossip skill. Including the secret place, it was all from his gossip.
Facing the starlight jellyfish's weird family values, Ai Dehua's gossip skill was activated again.
The starlight jellyfish had suffered for a long time, and it was rare to meet someone who was willing to listen. Plus, the music, candlelight, and atmosphere in the hair and makeup shop were all on point, and the starlight jellyfish's desire to talk slowly rose.
Through the communication with the starlight jellyfish, Ai Dehua found out that it wasn't a rich young lady, it was just acting as a rich young lady.
The rich young lady was a role, and the starlight jellyfish had to play this role, and there couldn't be the slightest disharmony.
Once there was disharmony, there would be a disaster.
As for what the disaster was, the starlight jellyfish didn't say.
However, the starlight jellyfish's so-called "role play" made Ai Dehua confused: "Do you live in a family of actors? Or are you actually an actor in a certain troupe? "
Otherwise, why would it do role play?
The starlight jellyfish shook its head: "Neither."
Then, with a very soft voice, it whispered: "It's all to go out, otherwise, who would want to act as a rich young lady."
Its voice was very soft, and if it weren't for Ai Dehua's sharp ears, he might have thought that he was hallucinating.
"Go out?" Ai Dehua caught a key word: "Go out where?"
The starlight jellyfish didn't speak.
Ai Dehua was a little disappointed, but he vaguely felt that the starlight jellyfish's "going out" might be related to leaving the Instrument World.
This conjecture was very inexplicable, even without any reason, as if it was excessive association.
But as a wizard, Ai Dehua felt that his association shouldn't be aimless, maybe it was a kind of … inspiration?
But how to grasp this inspiration?
Force the starlight jellyfish to answer? Not to mention that he didn't have the strength to force it, even if he did, the other party might not answer him truthfully.
And if he asked directly, Ai Dehua felt that it might be counterproductive.
He thought about it and decided to use a tactful way to beat around the bush.
His method was … to act pitiful.
Ai Dehua didn't continue to ask the starlight jellyfish, but talked about his own affairs: "Different people, different races, in fact, have their own difficulties. You have it, I have it too … "
Through this sentence, he deliberately attracted the starlight jellyfish's attention.
Then, Ai Dehua said a few words of "heart to heart".
For the first time, the starlight jellyfish fell into the human's glib words, and asked Ai Dehua: "Do you also have troubles?"
Ai Dehua nodded immediately, and under the gaze of the starlight jellyfish, he quickly revealed his troubles.
And his troubles, without a doubt, were limited to the Instrument World and couldn't go home.
However, Ai Dehua didn't express it so directly, but focused on his own "efforts" over the years. He talked about his experiences over the years in detail: searching while walking, going to various capital cities to look for information, and then selling his skills. Once he had money, he went to the wild to look for secret places.
"… Going around in circles like this for hundreds of years, I got nothing."
When Ai Dehua talked about it emotionally, small pearls floated in the corners of his eyes.
This was not an act, but a true expression of his feelings.
After listening to Ai Dehua's words, the starlight jellyfish didn't express any opinions, but seemed to be very silent.
It silently waited for Ai Dehua to make the hair.
It silently chose the hair color.
It silently put on the delicate and beautiful wig.
Just when Ai Dehua thought that the starlight jellyfish would silently turn around and leave, it suddenly sat down and sighed deeply: "Actually, the castle … No, I still lack a hairdresser, are you willing to be my hairdresser?"
Ai Dehua: "You want me to be your personal hairdresser?"
The starlight jellyfish's body was floating up and down: "You can say that. However, if you become my personal hairdresser, you may not be able to earn too many soul coins, but … "
After a pause, the starlight jellyfish continued: "But, you may have the opportunity to fulfill your long-cherished wish."
What was Ai Dehua's long-cherished wish?
Without a doubt, it was to leave the Instrument World.
If he could really become the starlight jellyfish's personal hairdresser, he could leave the Instrument World. Even if he had no money, Ai Dehua was willing to do it!
But, was it really possible?
Ai Dehua hesitated: "Do you know what my long-cherished wish is?"
The starlight jellyfish: "Didn't you just say that you want to leave? If you become my personal hairdresser, you will have a chance to leave. Although the chance is not too big, it is definitely much better than you staying here. "
Seeing that Ai Dehua still had a trace of doubt in his eyes, the starlight jellyfish continued: "The place where I live is called the Knight's Castle. In your words, the Knight's Castle should be the so-called … secret place."
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