Hello, Arknights

"Are you there? Yes, it's me—what happened again?"

"Hasn't Ling arrived at Longmen yet? I calculated the time and it should be about time." Du Wa was carrying the fruits and vegetables he had just bought towards the small house he had temporarily rented in the town. Suddenly, his ears moved and he slowed down.

"...You wouldn't...let him go alone somewhere, right?" The voice from Longmen sounded ominous.

"Uh... not that serious, right? At least we have sent them to the border of Casimir." Duva saw a restless figure swaying out of the corner of his eye.

"Well, it stands to reason that it is true... but it's probably a different situation since we haven't arrived yet... I'll go out of the city on my own to see if there's anyone nearby. Dragon Gate City has also moved."

"But I still suggest you go or ask someone to go in the opposite direction to check. Maybe he has already run to Columbia..."

"That's quite troublesome. That old guy over there is under house arrest again... Let's not talk about it for now. I have to deal with my enemies here again. It will be troublesome to go back to my hometown."

"Be careful."

Du Wa felt a headache. This man patted his chest and said that it was okay before leaving. How could he go in the wrong direction? He also thought that Ling was accompanied by a little black wolf, so it should be okay. It seems that it is not that simple...

The first figure that rushed out of the forest was hit and flew away by him because he was prepared.

“It’s really troublesome.”

"It's really troublesome." Weisen looked at the coffee stain on his sleeve, his brows almost knitted together. Ling Dengxian asked cautiously, "Is it difficult to wash?"

"It's very difficult to wash!" Wesson was angry, pointing at a certain Carters who was cleaning the table and questioning: "Why is it that others... who are younger than you are fine, but you are the first to fail!"

"Surprisingly, unexpectedly..." Ling Dengxian tried his best not to look in the direction she pointed, because that outfit... really suited A'ran.

A'ran was still wearing the white cloth covering her eyes, which was undoubtedly very eye-catching, but Carters had never made any mistakes. She was only responsible for delivering coffee, and her ankle-length skirt did not cause much trouble to Ling Dengxian. The simple combination of black and white showed her elegant style. The more Ling Dengxian thought it looked good, the more he felt sorry for A'ran.

Then he accidentally knocked over a cup of coffee.

"Will my salary be deducted..." Ling Dengxian felt sad. After leaving school, he had a deeper understanding of financial independence. Before that, his life was dull and he didn't have much demand for pocket money. He bought the Texas card sticker because he liked it.

He felt quite sympathetic when he thought about someone who was still carrying a huge debt.

"Deduct wages? That's how much do the two of you get paid together... If you're going to spill a cup of coffee every day, you might as well just work for me for free." Wesson slammed the table in excitement, causing the potted plants on the counter to tremble. A few customers in the store glanced at him and thought he was scolding them, so they hurriedly paid their bills and went about their business.

"Don't mention deducting my salary. I want a guarantee: a guarantee that such a low-level mistake will not happen again."

"I promise you." Ling Dengxian felt as if he had been pardoned. A'ran also breathed a sigh of relief and continued to concentrate on his work.

"Hmm, a familiar face."

Hearing the unfathomable tone he had just heard not long ago, Ling Dengxian subconsciously turned around and saw a blue-haired Sakta. The other party's somewhat conspicuous black horns made her always mysterious.

The girl walked into the coffee shop leisurely. She looked at Ling Dengxian's identity-revealing clothes and was very curious: "Aren't you going to Yan Country? Why are you working now?"

"Hmm? Your friend?" Wesson immediately put away his anger and acted as if nothing had happened, looking at the guest naturally, "Horns, tail... are you a Sarkaz? No, there is a halo, are you a Sakta? The former is unlikely, so you must be a Sakta."

"That's it." The girl spread her hands. "Your name is Ling Dengxian, right? Are you short of money?"

"That's the truth. I have to earn money for my trip." Ling Dengxian was also very sad, but he immediately recovered. "Since you're here, would you like a cup of coffee?"

"Okay." The girl smiled like a cat. She turned around and saw Carters, who was watching cautiously on the side. She raised her eyebrows and seemed a little surprised.

"Don't look at him like this, he is more reliable than me." Ling Dengxian couldn't help but hold his forehead, hoping that this girl whose thoughts were difficult to guess would not figure out A'ran's true gender.

"Then you have to work harder." The girl smiled and stopped asking questions. She picked up the order and thought for a moment before deciding on her choice. "Then let's go with this. Two cups, one to go."

"Okay, okay." Ling went on with his busy work. Wesson watched him from the side to make sure he didn't make any mistakes. At the same time, he looked at the guest curiously. Her words, actions and unique appearance all showed that she also had a mysterious story, but she didn't want to ask about the guest's words.

Wisen's intuition told him that this girl was not so easy to trick and that she was not a simple person.

Ling Dengxian noticed the number of "two cups". It seemed that the man was not a lone ranger, and maybe not single. For a moment, he thought of his previous tragic interpersonal history and was a little touched. But fortunately, he now had friends: Fiona, Yeban, Triangle, and A'ran.

Chi Yu... counts as such.

When he handed the coffee to the girl, they looked into each other's eyes. The pair of deep blue eyes were still very attractive. He was very curious about what kind of person was traveling with her. He thought it must be a gentle person with a similar personality to her.

At this time, a pink-haired Liberi was debugging the somewhat scary crossbow on the rooftop of a low house across the street.

Ling Dengxian couldn't help but smile. While he envied others, he must have been envied by others as well. Passing by the people that each other envied every day might be another kind of journey.

The two of them just nodded again to end the conversation, and he didn't insist on asking the other person's name.

A'ran was originally doing his own thing quietly, but suddenly he froze, straightened up and "looked" in the direction of the store door. Several minutes passed until Ling Dengxian noticed that A'ran was abnormal, and then someone hurried in.

"Hello, I'll take a cup of coffee to go, thank you. That bastard didn't want to go out, so she had to ask me to bring her something to refresh herself." A black-haired Agor woman came into the store carrying some strange candy jars and found a place to sit down. It was obvious that she seemed a little tired.

"Ling Dengxian, I'm going to the bathroom." A'ran went into the inner room without waiting for his reply, and the Agor girl frowned strangely when she saw this:

"Boss lady, you hired a blind person, are you giving him enough subsidy?"

"What you said is that the most important thing for people doing business is conscience. Anyone who can run a business smoothly is either ruthless enough or has a clear conscience." Weisen smiled and expressed his attitude.

"But your coffee shop isn't a big business, right?" Gu Fan looked at the decoration of the shop and was surprisingly nice.

"In Colombia, there are two or three distant coffee shops within sight of me in every five cities. We're just getting started here in Tobrand," said Ms. Wesson with a flat expression.

"Madam boss, this is a chain store..." Ling Dengxian and Gufan said in surprise at the same time.

Carters behind the door listened quietly without saying a word.