Techniques and Dao

Chapter 170 Azure Coast
Jane looked like she hadn't woken up yet.

She wanted to lash out, but seeing that Hana was also standing next to her, she didn't want to ruin her image as a well-mannered, top-performing magic student, so she had to swallow the rest of her sentence.

Mieying Xiaoqi urged, "You French people are so lazy! Get up!"

Jane rubbed her eyes and replied slowly, "A good night's sleep is good for the skin. This is my beauty sleep."

Hua Sheng was also getting a little anxious.

"Alright! Hurry up and get ready, we have important business to attend to later."

Jane yawned and said, "OK! Then wait a moment..."

"Okay, we'll wait for you in the lobby downstairs!" Hua Sheng was about to pull Mieying away when he asked again, "About how long?"

Jane counted on her fingers.

Mieying frowned and asked, "Do you need to cast a spell to calculate the time it takes to leave? How long exactly are you going to take?"

Jian calculated for a moment and replied, "Hmm... about two and a half hours..."

Hua Sheng thought he had misheard and blurted out, "Two and a half hours?"

"Yup!"

Hua Sheng pulled Mie Ying aside and pointed at her, saying, "Look at the girls from our Magic Academy, getting up so early, and they can be out the door in half an incense stick's time... no, five minutes! Look closely, she's even done her makeup! The girls at your Klin Magic Academy not only sleep until noon, but it also takes them two and a half hours to get out the door. How will they ever get married with that kind of efficiency!"

Jane ignored Hua Sheng, picked up her wand, recited a few words in French, pointed the wand at the mirror on the dressing table, and asked, "Magic mirror! Magic mirror! What are these two doing up so early?"

A deep, middle-aged man's voice suddenly came from the dressing mirror:

"Kiss."

Jane turned her head, raised her eyebrows, and stared at the two of them expressionlessly and without saying a word.

Mieying pointed at the mirror and asked Huasheng, "Hmm? Explain to me what this strange mirror is babbling about?"

"No, no, no...it's nothing..." Hua Sheng blushed and quickly tried to smooth things over, saying, "Where did she get this smart speaker from?"

The magic mirror immediately shouted, "I am a magic mirror! Not SIRI!"

"Alright, alright! Enough joking around! Hurry up and get ready, we have to go out!"

Hua Sheng quickly closed Jian's door.

Mie Ying angrily prepared to ram the door.

"What! Although I don't understand, didn't that broken mirror just say something offensive? Tell me to go and shave Jane and that broken mirror! Shave it..."

Flowers bloomed, blocking the entrance.

"Never mind, it's alright! Let's all go back to our rooms and wait for her..."

He quickly pulled Mieying away from the awkward scene.

It took Jane more than an hour to finally manage to slowly walk down the stairs.

Hua Sheng's buttocks were numb from sitting in the hotel lobby. She was buying coffee from the vending machine next to the lobby. She ordered three cans, but there were only two cans left in the machine.

Seeing Jane coming downstairs, he handed her a can of coffee and said, "We need to hurry and get going!"

Jane didn't reach out to take it, but glanced at the canned coffee in Hua Sheng's hand and said slowly, "I never drink canned coffee, I only drink hand-drip coffee."

Hua Sheng said irritably, "This isn't some fancy hand-drip coffee! I bought it for you out of kindness, and you're treating it like dirt. If you don't want it, fine!"

He turned around and handed it to Mieying, saying, "Mieying, do you want it?"

Mieying, who had been waiting impatiently, took it out on Huasheng, glaring at him and cursing:
"What do you mean! She doesn't want it, but you're giving it to me?"

Hua Sheng didn't understand why Mie Ying was so angry, so she took back the coffee in her hand. She handed him the coffee in her other hand, saying, "This can is mine, why don't you drink this one?" "What do you mean? Were you originally planning for you and her to each have one can?"

"No! That's because there were only two cans left in the vending machine."

"Shouldn't it be one can each for the two of us?"

"This……"

Hanamoto was completely bewildered and replied, "What's the difference?"

Shadow Annihilation roared, "Of course they're different!"

These words stunned Hua Sheng: "You two girls are so strange!"

But then Jian and Mieying said in unison, "What's strange is you!"

It seemed as if the two girls had suddenly become one, and Mieying didn't blame Jian for being late.

It all seems to be Hua Sheng's fault.

Less than two minutes after leaving the small inn, the three of them walked into the main seaside promenade along the coast, bathed in the bright sunshine.

The rounded shape of this seaside landscape resembles a pair of naturally formed, azure angel wings.

This road, lined with coconut trees along the "Angel Wings" seaside promenade, is locally known as "Angel Avenue." Various types of vehicles travel back and forth along this beautiful seaside avenue.

A gentle sea breeze caressed my skin, and the early spring sunshine brought a touch of warmth.

Hua Sheng watched Mie Ying walking lightly alongside her on the beach and suddenly had the illusion that she and Mie Ying were on a beach vacation.

Previously, he had almost no real understanding of the word "vacation." The idea of ​​leisurely strolling around a foreign country to experience different cultures and cuisines was unimaginable to him before.

After walking for about ten minutes, just as he was beginning to enjoy this vacation illusion, Jane, who was originally walking along the sidewalk, suddenly crossed the seawall and walked down the gravel path by the sea.

"Wait a minute! I'll go ask for directions."

The beaches of Nice were not what I had imagined. There was hardly a grain of sand on the beaches; instead, there were gray pebbles of various sizes.

Perhaps because it wasn't peak tourist season, only a few locals were strolling or jogging along the beach.

Jane walked toward the sea, with huge seabirds circling around her and making cawing noises.

She walked forward, the pebbles on the beach changing from dry to wet, ignoring her shoes getting soaked by the seawater, and continued walking into the sea with the waves.

Shoes got wet, socks got wet, until the seawater reached their knees and soaked their robes.

Only then did Jane stop. Facing the boundless ocean before her, she softly uttered a cry like a seabird.

She waved her wand like a conductor, calling out as she waved. Then she stood motionless in the sea, as if waiting for something.

Hua Sheng and Mie Ying stood by the sea, staring at her back.

After a while, Mieying leaned closer and asked softly, "What do you think she's doing?"

Hua Sheng tilted his head and looked at it for a while, then guessed, "I don't know, it seems to be some kind of religious ritual. It's a bit like the shamanistic rituals we had in ancient times..."

"This foreigner is performing a shamanistic ritual; he's completely motionless, which looks really eerie..."

"If it's a shamanistic ritual, it will seem very eerie no matter where it's performed..."

Just then, with a splash, half of a woman's head suddenly emerged from the sea in front of Jane.

"Oh my god! A corpse has surfaced from the sea!"

(End of this chapter)