Chapter 00056: One Dared to Speak, One Dared to Listen
# One Dared to Speak, One Dared to Listen
Chapter 56
Novel: AFK Game: Portal to Another World
Chapter 56: One Dared to Speak, One Dared to Listen
That morning, Li Chengxi took a broom and swept the dust and trash bags in front of the convenience store to the side of the wall.
The power outage had only lasted for less than thirty minutes, which was truly lucky.
Otherwise, never mind whether he felt hot, all the popsicles in the freezer would have turned into drinks...
Logically speaking, power outages were rare nowadays.
In Li Chengxi's memory, they used to happen when he was a child, but there hadn't been a single occurrence in the last ten years.
As expected, no one from property management was on duty.
They only replied to his WeChat message this morning, saying that the technician sent to check the electrical box reported that everything was normal.
The power outage was baffling; even the electrician couldn't find any problem.
The electrician was bothered by this, perhaps starting to doubt his own professional skills, but Li Chengxi didn't really care.
He had just swept the trash to the side of the wall when he saw a delivery truck stop at the entrance of the convenience store.
Li Chengxi was overjoyed at the sight and hurried over.
"Brother Zhang, your family is finally back."
"What's wrong? Didn't we just go out for a few days?"
"It's been more than twenty days! You have no idea how I've survived these days. If you didn't come back soon, I would have starved to death."
These days, besides instant noodles, Li Chengxi had only been eating the offerings from Viola and the others.
He had long been missing the set meals from the small restaurant next door.
"Haha, Little Li, you'd better learn to cook for yourself."
"Even if I learned, how could my skills compare to yours, Brother Zhang?"
Brother Zhang's cooking certainly couldn't compare to the chefs in big hotels, but it had a home-cooked flavor.
The children from the nearby school and the merchants on this street were almost all regulars at his family's small restaurant.
"When will you open?"
"Don't be anxious. We still have to visit the kid's maternal grandmother's house. Probably in about a week."
"Alright, I'll be waiting."
"You should hurry up and find a girlfriend. Do you really have to eat instant noodles all day? I can tell from your expression you won't listen even if I say it. Forget it, I'm leaving."
After waving goodbye to Brother Zhang's family, Li Chengxi turned and went back into the store.
Just as he sat down, Lei Lei walked in again.
For the past two days, Lei Lei had been showing up at the convenience store almost every day.
Li Chengxi figured it was because she had just moved and was lacking all sorts of things.
Yesterday she bought popsicles, and today Lei Lei bought a pile of snacks like potato chips.
"I have good news, Brother Zhang and his family are back."
"Brother Zhang?"
"The family from the small restaurant next door that I mentioned before, the one with the delicious food. I heard they'll be open in a week."
"Really? I've been wanting to try it for a while."
Lei Lei put on an interested expression to play along, and as she watched Li Chengxi scan the items, she said:
"Brother Li, are you playing Minesweeper again?"
"Well, Minesweeper is entertainment for old folks like me. It's all packed for you. I'll give you a few extra pieces of bubble gum. Go back and do your homework properly. School should be starting again soon, right?"
"Mhm, thank you, Brother Li."
Lei Lei thanked him with a smile that was sickeningly sweet, then left holding the bag of snacks.
But as soon as she stepped out, Lei Lei's brows furrowed.
Last night's power outage was, of course, not due to natural causes.
It was done by Lei Lei using magic.
While Li Chengxi was rummaging around looking for an emergency light, she was actually standing at the base of the wall downstairs, listening to the movements inside.
Lei Lei had thought that a sudden power outage would make Li Chengxi reveal some flaw, but she never expected him to act so 'in character' that she couldn't detect any opening at all.
Although they had interacted more now and their relationship seemed to have grown closer, Lei Lei still hadn't noticed any problems.
Based on the information she had gathered so far, Li Chengxi was just an ordinary person who liked to sit behind the cash register all day playing Minesweeper.
At most, he could be considered a rather enthusiastic ordinary person who got along well with his neighbors.
But the increasingly dense spiritual energy around him definitely couldn't be faked.
Where was the flaw?
This left Lei Lei completely baffled.
Meanwhile, Li Chengxi, who remained in the store, was clearly unaware that he had been tested again.
Just like usual, he opened his laptop to check on the situation in the game.
After last night's fierce battle, the winter wolves had been completely routed.
The remaining survivors had all returned to the snow region.
However, Viola and the others were not yet ready to lead the army back.
The wounded and the dead needed to be dealt with, and the corpses of the winter wolves also had to be handled.
Otherwise, attracting other carnivorous monsters would be even more troublesome.
Due to the four-hour time difference, it was 8:30 AM on Li Chengxi's side, which meant it was 4:30 AM in the game.
Usually at this time, Viola would still be sound asleep in bed.
But when Li Chengxi opened the game, he discovered that Viola was already awake in the temporary camp at Silverwhite Pass.
Or perhaps, she simply hadn't slept at all last night.
She was inside a large tent, with her Royal Guards and Reina by her side.
In front of her, a small, white-haired person was kneeling on a rug.
Since they were chibi-style figures, the simplest and most direct way to distinguish characters was by their hair color.
There were a few white-haired people in the Royal Guard, so at first, Li Chengxi thought it might be a Royal Guard who had made a mistake and was being reprimanded.
But when he clicked on the white-haired figure kneeling on the rug, the artwork that popped up from the side of the screen showed a teenage girl he had never seen before.
She didn't seem like a member of the Royal Guard.
He then opened the ability panel.
The name field read 'Renia Scrix Mogul'.
Wait a minute!
This seems to be the white dragon from last night!
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"Renia, you need to understand, you are now a servant of the Lord. You cannot casually take horses from the army and eat them!"
"I know, I won't casually eat horses next time."
"And not people either!"
Because of the holy light that had descended from the heavens, Viola felt that the Demon God seemed to be planning to spare the white dragon.
So, she used Holy Light to heal both the wounded soldiers and the white dragon.
Of course, since it was the lowest-level group healing spell, its effect on the white dragon was rather mediocre.
But a dragon's body was truly robust.
After some simple treatment, it could already move freely, but its injuries had not fully healed, so it had not yet recovered to a combat-ready state.
As for turning into a human form, this was a standard ability for dragons.
Any true dragon could transform itself into a human form.
At most, there would be slight differences in hair color between different types of dragons.
A white dragon, naturally, would have white hair.
This ability made it convenient for dragons to blend into mortal society.
They often used this form to enter cities as travelers and then scout to see if there was any profit to be made.
A dragon's love for precious metals was irrepressible, but dragons weren't idiots.
Snatching them by force would definitely attract trouble.
This operation was equivalent to casing the joint beforehand, to see if it was an easy target.
Appearing in human form had another benefit: the injuries on their true body would be temporarily suppressed.
This was a transformation effect that completely changed their body into a human shape, and it could also reduce their food consumption.
It was just that some dragon habits couldn't be changed, for example, grabbing an army horse to eat when hungry...
That was why Renia was getting a stern lecture from Viola right now.
It was truly a case of one daring to speak and the other daring to listen.
The surrounding Royal Guards were all amazed that Her Highness the Princess could scold a dragon until it was speechless, and also amazed that the white dragon's intelligence was indeed not very high...
(End of this chapter)