Hello, Arknights

"Yanyu? Are you from Yan country?" Fengdi widened his eyes in disbelief. "You don't speak Victorian, how did you get here?"

"I..." Ling Dengxian suddenly found that he didn't know what to say, because anything other than the truth would be a lie.

He was not good at lying, and few people believed him. No matter whether what he said was true or false, he was too lazy to learn the technique of lying, because some people were unwilling to believe him anyway. In fact, the answer woven with lies could only win trust for a short time, but he obviously could not leave here in a short time, nor could he get closer to Fangpi and let her forgive him. But if he did not answer, he might lose the opportunity to live in the present.

You can only choose the lesser of the two.

"I just..." Damn it, what's going on? His ears were burning, and Ling Dengxian felt uneasy. Was he still a child? Or had he not spoken for too long, and his tongue was rejecting the syllables?

"Hey, host, what's wrong with you?" Xiaoxie's voice lingered in the air. Ling Dengxian's mind suddenly became clear, his throat felt itchy, and he lowered his head and began to cough.

"Hey, what's wrong with you?" Fengdi was startled. She had no idea about the concerns of the strange boy. She just wanted to ask him why he had been stranded in a foreign country for so long, to see if there was anything she could do to help.

"No, it's okay." As if some mysterious power was causing it, after a pause of coughing, he finally understood.

Ling Dengxian took a deep breath, thought about it again, looked into the pair of blue eyes, and said, "Fangpipe, this is hard to explain, can I...can I not say it?

"I can only tell you that coming here is not my own will."

Fengdi was a little confused, feeling that it was the same as if he hadn't said anything, but she also understood his embarrassment and nodded: "Well, if it's inconvenient, don't say it. I've watched Yan Country's TV series, and you guys think about a lot of things, which is a bit complicated."

Ling Dengxian was a little surprised and really didn't ask any more questions. Instead, he started to wonder if this kid was a little bit stupid.

"Eh? That's not right. How come you can speak Yan language?" Ling Dengxian realized it belatedly.

"Ah, I have a college classmate who is from Longmen of Yan Country. She taught me the basics of Yan language." Fengdi smiled brightly, and seemed very proud of it.

"I see. Who is it? Also, let me ask you, what TV series are you watching?"

"Ah, let me think...it seems to be called "Longmen Wife Shang Shulang"."

“……”What’s going on with this damn familiar feeling?

"But, Miss Bagpipe, I am not from Yan Country."

Ling Dengxian was very lucky. He found that it was fortunate that he met Bagpipe. Otherwise, if it was any other class-biased Victorian soldier, he would have been deported to a more desolate area even if he was not detained. Bagpipe went through a lot of trouble to apply for a long-term residence permit for him, even though she didn't know his background.

"I'm sorry, there's really nothing I can do without a birth certificate and ID card." Feng Di still felt a little guilty, and Mou Ling felt ashamed.

Ling Dengxian was quite ashamed, but the China in his original world and the Great Yan in this world could not be equated. He had no identity proof in Yan Country. If he checked there, he would know that he was not a Yan citizen. There was no point in deceiving others.

"No, Miss Bagpipe has been a great help... Thank you so much, even though we don't know each other—"

"No, the captain is the one who takes care of most of the things. There are many things I don't understand, so if you want to thank someone, you should go to the captain.

"Besides, we are not strangers, right, Ling Dengxian? Just call me Bagpipe. 'Miss Bagpipe' always sounds weird."

"Well, then... Bagpipes - I don't know your captain either, so please thank him for me later."

Fengpi put away his tools and turned back to remind him, "I'll leave it to you today too. I'll try to come back as early as possible."

"Okay." Ling Dengxian looked at the mess in the yard caused by Fengpi repairing the tractor yesterday, and still felt a headache.

Bagpipe, you didn't come here just to get your car fixed, did you?

With the help of bagpipes, Ling Dengxian gradually learned some things. This town was newly built not long ago and was called Qicheng Town. The town was built by the water. The residents basically relied on farming and fishing for their livelihood. No one raised animals. It was a peaceful town. The most prestigious person in the town should be Duwa, the middle-aged man who delivered the letter for the messenger that day. It was also he who brought the news that there might be large wild animals nearby. This reminded Ling Dengxian to pay attention to the issue of his own strength.

Unlike the original world, this world is very dangerous. After the death of the old lion king, the dukes of Victoria are still powerful, and they are extremely oppressive to the infected, eager for war and full of domestic conflicts. The mysterious Yan Kingdom is similar to the ancient China in the original world, but it blends with the modern world. Sargon is in a three-way battle, and the ancient and repeatedly destroyed Kazdel... There are all kinds of races, all kinds of Originium skills, and all kinds of threats. From the perspective of the Ursus inner guards in the north, the terrifying demons in the far north are time bombs for the entire continent. The existence of ordinary people seems so redundant. A group of mice who have entered the maze, when they don't encounter traps or a road to death, maybe it's also a kind of luck to keep hitting the wall and go around in circles?

After gradually realizing how fragile his current physical fitness was in the face of potential crises, the young man became more or less anxious. There was an open space next to the house where Bagpipe was temporarily staying, and he would usually do physical training there after finishing his chores, but it was limited to basic training such as push-ups and sit-ups - because he actually didn't know how to develop his physical fitness efficiently.

Rather, he was trying his best not to sit and wait for death.

At the same time, after another ten days of getting along, Ling Dengxian became much more familiar with Bagpipe. Bagpipe himself was a Victorian soldier, but it seemed that he was not an ordinary soldier. He came here to perform a mission. This was not what he intended to know. Although he was surprised at first when he learned that this Vaifan girl was an elite soldier, but when he saw the huge weapon in Bagpipe's hand, he no longer had any doubts about Bagpipe's strength.

After all, he had already tried the weight of the weapon on his shoulders, which indirectly urged him to strengthen his physical training.

Looking at the silhouettes of mountains gradually becoming clearer in the distance, Ling Dengxian felt a kind of fatigue that was different from anything he had experienced before.