"How's the surprise I prepared for you?"
She casually sat on someone else's table and leaned over without the slightest awareness of a girl. She pressed her arms and most of her chest on someone else's shoulder and patted my other shoulder hard like a close friend. She said this with a cheeky expression on her face, as if this was a feat worth boasting about. On the other side, Uncle Zaku's face had already turned into a stone statue. Miriya carefully poked his waist to see if the uncle would be directly eroded into pieces. However, the latter did not react at all.
He was completely stunned by the sudden arrival of a reinforced company that looked like they were robbing a house.
"I'm shocked, but not happy at all."
Without hesitation, I dodged half a meter away. Icetis miraculously maintained a posture that defied the laws of balance as she drooped at the edge of the table. Even though the young lady's soft body and this fellow's ample breasts were things that were hard to give up, considering that half of the people around me could twist any matter into a dialect version and spread it to every street in the City of Shadows, I had no choice but to pay attention to the influence of public opinion.
Looking at the sight before me with a headache, I despairingly realized that the most troublesome people in the City of Shadows and the Macro World had been gathered here. Including Eleanor, Soul, Yakumo, Marisa, and the rest of the Fantasy Village tourist group, Magni, who was currently drinking with Ibuki Suika, was part of the group. Bronzebeard, Jaina, Saar, and the rest of the leaders of Azeroth were part of the group. There was also Tychus and Jim Reynolds, who were rummaging through the nearby 'trash heap'. Even more ferocious were the five Protoss Bars, Iersen who was shining with golden light, Lin who had just crushed the door … There might be a few honest and reliable people among them, but in this large group where no one could escape, even Zeratul could only choose to sit by the door with Kael 'thas and meditate silently.
I silently took out a bottle of 'quick-acting' from my pocket and passed it to Miriya so that she could force it down Uncle Zaku's throat if the situation wasn't right. I looked at Icetis with a heavy expression.
"Icetis, tell me the truth. Did you destroy my City of Shadows?"
"Why would you think that?"
Sister Bing tilted her head and asked. But this female hooligan's method of acting cute wasn't cute at all!
"If you hadn't destroyed the City of Shadows, would you have come here to cause trouble?!"
I shouted in exasperation.
"Oh, so that's how you think of me," Icetis said with a hurt expression. After noticing that I didn't fall for it, she shrugged, "Okay okay, I just wanted to help. Really, do you still see me as a friend? You didn't even call me when you came out to fight. Are you still a good brother? "
I knew that this female pervert had nothing else to say. I could only point at the group of troublemakers that were about to burst the living room (there was still a group outside): "Then what's going on with them?"
"I'm standing in the City of Shadows." Icetis stood on the table proudly. "Who wants to help Chen destroy the place with me? After that, they formed this team. "
"You're really here to smash things?!" Uncle Zagu almost choked on his breath. Milia began to clench her quick-acting buttons in a flurry.
I still had to hurry up and explain to him. Bryndis was really good at causing trouble this time. I would let go of this group of scourges for now. It was better to explain to the host. It was very obvious that when Uncle Zaku saw a reinforced company of troops under the leadership of a female gangster charging towards his home, he had already regarded us as out-and-out villains. The good impression that he had built up through Miriya had completely vanished.
I repeatedly stated that we were really just Milia's friends and that we had no ill intentions. Furthermore, the group of people surrounding the house were just a bunch of scoundrels. We promised that we wouldn't cause any damage to the host's house. However, after seeing Icetis step on his table and a golden-haired girl break his house's door, as well as other heinous acts of destruction, Uncle Zagu reserved his opinion on what I said. In the end, we could only make up nonsense. With the help of Shallow Shallow's quick thinking, this group of troublemakers became our adventurer team members.
"That's right. We are actually an adventurer team!" Shallow Shallow nodded her head and said to Uncle Zagu, who looked as if he had lost his parents. "Don't ask me about the name. I haven't thought about it yet. Anyway, Ah Jun will find a way for them to solve their own housing problem. Uncle, you don't have to worry."
Zagu looked at Sal who was smoking at the door. "Your adventurer team has a performance artist?"
"He's been eating too much vegetables these few days," Liliana explained with a bright face.
Zagu nodded. "Alright, I believe you."
At this moment, I was shocked. "No way? You believe such a ridiculous story just like that? Why do you trust us so much? "
Uncle Zagu squatted on the chair. "Because you have a lot of people …"
"Uncle Zagu, do you want some popsicles?" Eleanor saw the opportunity and squeezed into the crowd from under my armpit. She raised the box of popsicles and shouted.
Uncle Zagu shivered when he heard the word "eat". He blankly took the golden apple popsicle from the Ice Fairy's hand and looked pitifully at the hundreds of people inside and outside the house. "I want to add one more question. You won't be eating here later, right?"
"Uncle!!"
Her face was full of shame. But young lady, you have to understand that not everyone has the courage to entertain a group of freeloaders who might be related to Sandora after seeing her table manners.
It was impossible for me to leave over a hundred people in Miriya's house. I couldn't live with my conscience. Thus, I sent most of them to the invisible Empire Admiral in the high orbit. The remaining shameless ones could only stay here. Fortunately, Miriya's house was quite large. It must have been a mansion before it was filled with trash. Uncle Zagu was indeed the type who was cold on the outside but warm on the inside. Although he looked like he was having a headache, he still welcomed the uninvited guests. I believe that the number of people playing a decisive role in this process.
Over a hundred people gathered in front of Miriya's house. Such a huge commotion had naturally attracted the attention of the townspeople. The people nearby came to inquire about the situation. They mainly wanted to know who Zagu, who had always lived in seclusion, had offended recently. Later, Sandora had to use her spiritual interference to clean up the NPCs in waves. Meanwhile, Icetis and I were in a standoff.
"Can't you honestly be a graceful and cultured goddess?" I asked.
"No." Icetis shook her head.
The standoff was over.
Suddenly, a roar of an engine sounded from outside the door, interrupting my argument with Bryndis. It turned out that Bruna, who had gone to the market earlier, had rushed back. This great woman, who relied on her own hard work to support a completely unreliable man and a little girl who only knew how to eat white rice (Zaku's evaluation of Milia), was obviously shocked when she saw a few more unfamiliar faces in the living room. However, she quickly put this matter aside and quickly walked in front of Uncle Zaku, who was lying on the table and sighing. She threw a stack of documents on the table with a "Pa" sound.
"What?" Uncle Zagu raised his head in a half-dead state, looking both mentally and physically exhausted.
"Work." Luna's reply was even more blunt and direct.
Zagu raised his eyelids and glanced at the documents on the table. "Oh, where is the scene of the accident? Or is it an ancient battlefield that hasn't been cleaned up? "
He had a look of lack of motivation and ambition.
"This time, it's a historical site." Luna solemnly looked at her partner who was on the verge of becoming decadent. In the end, she nodded her head forcefully. "80% credibility."
Instantly, Zagu's expression became solemn. Then, he extended his hand towards the documents on the table. After holding them in his hand, he suddenly felt that the documents were extremely heavy. There were even two half-inch thick iron plates sandwiched between the quoted documents.
"It's an ancient metal, an ancient metal that has been modified." Uncle Zagu put the documents to one side and looked at the two heavily weathered and deformed metal plates with a complicated expression. He seemed to have recalled something. Luna nodded. "It is indeed an ancient metal. However, in this small place, I'm afraid that only the two of us know about it. A newbie sold it as a special alloy for an ancient battlefield. I managed to find out the source of this thing. You should remember where you've seen this thing … "
"Of course I remember." Zagu threw the two metal plates behind him. Eleanor, who happened to pass by, immediately cried out in alarm. "However, you can't have forgotten, right? We don't do this kind of business. I won't go to the ruins. "
He seemed to be very repulsed by the ruins.
"This kind of excuse again." When Milia heard the word 'ruins', her face became obviously happy. However, she became very dissatisfied because of Zagu's evasions. "It's the ruins. At least it's better than retrieving old engines and keels from accident sites all day long, right? It's not easy for a small team like us to get information about the ruins! "
"Silly girl, what nonsense are you talking about?" Zagu glanced at Milia. "You also know that a small team like us has no fate with the ruins, right? All ruins are dangerous. Maybe there are ancient sentries still operating. You want to explore the ruins with that old car of ours? Don't you know that people will die? "
"Isn't it just a guard?" Milia muttered. "I'm very good at fighting. Moreover, I'm stronger than Luna and I am. A mere guard won't …"
Uncle Zagu interrupted Milia impatiently. "Don't be too full of yourself. Exploring the ruins doesn't require a whole body of foolishness! No matter how strong people are, they will die in the ruins! "
Obviously, Uncle Zaku had made up his mind not to accept this business, even though it would be a waste of Luna's hard work for the whole morning. Moreover, it seemed to be a rare opportunity for an adventurer group that was operating miserably.
"Isn't the main problem that we don't have enough people?" Liliana suddenly said. "Is it enough if you count us?"
Zagu showed a surprised look, while Luna began to look up and down at this 109-meter-tall dwarf. She had always thought that Liliana was just a child in this team who came out to play with the adults.
"We are very interested in the ruins," said Liliana. "Aren't we all adventurer groups?" (Her face did not even blush when she said this). How about a cooperation? Even if you provide the information, we will provide the manpower and more equipment. As you can see, we have a lot of people, and all of them are very strong! "
Zagu looked at the bearded dwarf and the horned loli who were drinking at the entrance. Then he looked at the blue-haired little girl who was holding a piece of chalk and writing on the ground. She couldn't figure out what was wrong with one popsicle and two popsicles being two dollars. In the end, he felt that only the word "a lot of people" was credible.
However, we had already taken the initiative to express our intention, so Uncle Zagu had to show his attitude. I could see that he was still very resistant to exploring the ruins. However, Luna's increasingly serious gaze and Milia's nagging made him reluctantly nod. "Alright … You have a lot of people … Follow me. There is an airship in the underground warehouse. It should be able to take us to that place."
I didn't know what kind of trauma the exploration of the ruins had left on Zagu, but I knew that everyone, including Shallow Shallow, was very interested in this matter. Especially when they discovered that the two metal plates had extremely weak remnants of psionic energy. Even Sandora became happy. When they heard that there was an underground warehouse in such a place that looked like a garbage recycling station, and that there was an airship in the underground warehouse, everyone was quite surprised. This surprise evolved into shock when they saw the airship.
Uncle Zagu pointed at an oval-shaped aircraft that was barely symmetrical on both sides. The paint on the entire body had already peeled off, and his face was full of pride. "This is my Glory of Glowing Light! Don't look at it now. I guarantee that if its vortex accelerator was still here, this place would still be able to rotate! "
Milia covered her face. She almost couldn't bear to look at our expressions and Uncle Zagu's big, ignorant face. She squatted on the ground and said in a muffled voice that this broken thing was even more broken than when she saw it when she was four years old.
Everyone was very worried about the safety of riding this thing to explore the ruins. Currently, it seemed that the biggest threat to us (if there was one) wasn't the ruins' guards, but this magical transportation tool. If its design concept wasn't the same as my 700 billion, then it could only mean that Uncle Zagu's attitude towards life was too optimistic. Indeed, as Uncle Zagu had promised, if its vortex accelerator was still here, the rudder of this thing should still be able to rotate. However, you couldn't deny that this thing lacked more than just a vortex accelerator. In the next two hours, we watched as Uncle Zagu and Baruna busily collected parts and tools in the underground warehouse. Then, we let Milia go up again and again to take down the parts that seemed to be suitable and installed them on the airship. The entire repair process was terrible. Many parts had to be connected using glue, iron wire, and even shoelaces. I felt that Kappa would be more reliable than Milia's family at this time.
However, I had to admit that Uncle Zagu, as a veteran adventurer, was very experienced and innovative. When he discovered that the airship's acceleration device couldn't be repaired, he painted the acceleration valve red. He believed that this could increase the airship's speed by at least three times.
I had an urge to take out the Empire Shuttle and risk being surrounded by onlookers.
However, there were some things in this world that were truly called miracles. After nearly three hours of tinkling and clanking, Uncle Zagu finally wiped the black oil off his face and announced that the airship was ready to use.
"I think we can walk there," Liliana said in a heavy tone.
"Or we can let Lin carry everyone there?" Icetis muttered through the mental connection.
I felt that it was better to walk than Sister Bing's suggestion.
Zagu looked at the subtle expressions on everyone's faces and revealed a dissatisfied expression. He used the wrench in his hand to hit the airship's drainage board while swearing that it wouldn't fall before the passengers. Then, he spent another ten minutes to tie the drainage board back to its original position.
"It was just an accident!" Uncle Zagu vowed again, but this time he didn't dare to hit anything with the wrench in his hand. "The Glory of Glowing Light was an awe-inspiring warship when it was young! It's still the same now. As long as it doesn't crash, it can almost fly to the destination safely. Now, let's give it a full charge. Biruna, come and help us. "
"Are they husband and wife? Or a couple? " Shallow Shallow asked Milia in a low voice as she watched Uncle Zagu and Biruna start to charge the airship in a hurry.
Although one was lazy and the other was serious and diligent, when they were put together, they did look a little harmonious.
"No," Milia scratched her head. "Although they are always together, they don't have much contact other than work. I heard that Biruna and Uncle Zagu have known each other for a long time, but I don't know much about their past. "
While we were talking, the airship finally recharged. Uncle Zagu warmly invited us to board. Considering that we might not die even if we fell from the atmosphere, everyone happily agreed. What made me satisfied was that although this oval-shaped airship didn't look very good, it was still spacious inside. Our whole family, a few monsters who wanted to join in the fun, and Magni, who was seduced by Suika Ibuki's wine, could fit all twenty of us in the airship.
The airship glided into a tunnel at one end of the underground warehouse. It was said that the other end of the tunnel was connected to the outside of the town. That way, we wouldn't have to take off in a residential area. The airship's maneuverability was very good after going through tough maintenance. Apart from knocking over seventy percent of the shelves in the underground warehouse, it didn't cause any more damage. Uncle Zagu, who had been complaining about this mission, seemed to finally have the drive and persistence that an adventurer should have. He didn't stop the airship despite the damage to the underground warehouse. Instead, he sped up and rushed towards the blue sky — because the brakes were broken.
"Don't worry. As long as we bring out enough treasures from the ruins, we can totally build a new warehouse." Uncle Zaku encouraged himself as he rushed towards the exit of the tunnel that was gradually enlarging. "I can feel that the Glory of Glow is gradually returning to its former state. This is a good sign. Its engine is already burning enthusiastically!"
Uncle Zagu's judgment was correct. The airship overloaded after ten minutes in the air, and the engine was burning up.
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