New Century Warriors

Chapter 32. Resurrection!

Lei Ye frowned, realizing that things were not so simple.

He turned to look at Ye Lei, tilting his head to stare at her, trying to question her with his sharp gaze:

What did you instill in my little dragon sister?

Thinking back to Aisi from Line 1, she was such a simple and innocent little girl. She couldn't even understand the vulgar jokes that Raino sometimes made in front of her, but now she can actually utter the word "ccb".

A surge of even stronger masculinity welled up in Lei Ye's chest than before, but unlike before, this time it was like an incompetent father watching his pretty-boy daughter being brought home one day by a blond-haired guy riding a ghost fire, yelling upstairs, "Hey! Old Deng, press the elevator button, and can my boyfriend's ghost fire stop here?!"

Lei Ye felt heartbroken, his hands trembled, and he was helpless.

and many more.

If Ais, who is living in seclusion here, only recognizes Ye Lei now, it means that Ye Lei has talked to her about CCB, otherwise she wouldn't know the term. The key question is... how did Ye Lei bring this up?

So, all that fuss was about the old man's daughter leaving him just so she could have sex with him?

Ye Lei even looked away, clearly feeling guilty.

Suppressing his anger, Raino approached Ais again, this time knowing how to explain.

"Here's the thing, we don't plan to have children, so we had her sterilized a while ago. You can rest assured that she won't get CCB if she moves in."

"What! Sterilization?...Why me? Can't you just get sterilized?"

"How can that be the same? If I get neutered, won't I become a turtle?"

"So you're going to make me the turtle, huh? Damn it, you're treating me like Loya! I'll strangle you!"

Without hesitation, Ye Lei rolled up her sleeves and grabbed Lei Ye by the throat, and Lei Ye retaliated without hesitation.

The two men started fighting like sumo wrestlers.

Ye Lei was surprisingly weak, and her skills were far inferior to Lei Ye's. She quickly fell into a disadvantageous position, but she used a very insidious move, delivering a knee strike to Lei Ye's groin.

That was ruthless; the solid blow almost made Lei Ye kneel down on one knee, but Ye Lei immediately supported his body and reached for his crotch with her other hand.

"Oh!" Raino exclaimed.

"Don't yell or dodge. I'm so sorry, I've gotten used to this move and subconsciously used it on you. That won't do, I haven't even had a chance to play with it yet. Let me rub it for you first."

"Is it okay to do this in front of children?"

"oops."

Lei Ye subtly glanced at Ai Si, who was not far away. Ye Lei understood and moved away with her hands behind her back, like a young girl who quickly distanced herself when someone saw her playing a little game between lovers. However, her gaze still lingered on Lei Ye's crotch. This somewhat lewd and sticky gaze made Lei Ye's heart pound.

"What do you mean by 'becoming a habit'? Do you practice this often at home? Who taught you this technique?"

"Of course it's you. After all, it would be dangerous for a weak woman like me to deal with those hot-tempered explorers, so I learned some self-defense techniques from you, and they've been quite effective, haven't they?"

You? Women's self-defense techniques?

Lei Ye really wants to complain; there are eight hundred things to complain about in this sentence.

But on second thought, it seems not impossible. At least in Lei Ye's eyes these past few days, Ye Lei has been just an ordinary, cute girl. An ordinary, cute girl would naturally need some self-defense skills to deal with all sorts of possible accidents when facing explorers.

"You two have such a good relationship," Ais suddenly said.

It's normal for them to have a good relationship, after all, they've been together for five years. They should have developed feelings for each other after raising a turtle.

But then I thought again, that sentence was referring to him, not the person on Line 2...

Thinking of this, Lei Ye paused for a moment. He felt that his feelings for Ye Lei were somewhere between hatred and fear. Not long ago, he was worried that his hostility towards Ye Lei would disappear, but before he knew it, his feelings for her had improved.

"...I'd like to go to your house, is it alright?" Ais asked again.

""sure!""

Lei Ye and Ye Lei spoke in unison, exchanged a glance, and then looked away. Lei Ye continued to ask.

"What made you change your mind? I'm a little curious. Is it that you're finally willing to rely on your 'family' or something else?"

"I think you two have a really good relationship, so good that even if someone else stays here, it won't affect your CCB," Ais thought for a moment and added, "and I kind of want to see you two CCB."

Lei Ye stared wide-eyed in horror. His feelings of disgust at his beloved daughter being corrupted by the blond-haired man reached their peak. He turned his head and saw Ye Lei trying to suppress her laughter. For a moment, Lei Ye had the urge to strangle her.

...

And so, when they returned, there was one more person on the airship: Miss Escacia, who had half-dragon blood.

Although Miss Ais is still closer to Ye Lei, it doesn't stop Lei Ye from worrying like a father. Unlike the situation on Line 1, without Antoura's help in obtaining the documents and making prior arrangements, he doesn't know if the people of Hillius can accept Ais.

Raino glanced back at Ais's horns and tail.

...Well, the Hillius people will definitely accept her.

Moreover, as Lei Ye watched Ye Lei take a guild card out of her storage bag and hand it to Ai Si, then quietly teach her how to use it, Lei Ye couldn't help but think of how he was very unhappy when someone suspected him of cheating on the guild card. What kind of shameless creator would do such a thing? He never expected that Ye Lei would actually do it.

She even forged the information on Ais's guild card. If the test were normal, Ais would undoubtedly become an SSS-level genius. However, according to the forged guild card, Ais is currently just a minor CCB-level explorer.

...Why is it CCB again? Is this never going to end?

So what we should be more worried about now is whether Ais can adapt to this city. Based on what Raino knows about her, it will take her a long time to gradually adapt to life among people.

As the airship approached the city gate, Lei Ye followed the two down the gangway. Just as Lei Ye had guessed, Ai Si's distinctive features immediately attracted a lot of attention. Perhaps because she was with Lei Ye and Ye Lei, he didn't hear any malicious discussions.

Ais was much better than when she first came to the city with Ye Lei. She held Ye Lei's arm and looked around with a curious gaze, like a country girl being brought to a big city by her mother for the first time.

Lei Ye, following behind, felt a sense of loss, like an old father, as if he had discovered that the blond-haired man his daughter had followed was actually not bad, at least more useful than himself.

The date was only just beginning, but Lei Ye seemed to be just carrying bags. Watching the two girls ahead of him keep buying things, including underwear, dresses, and cosmetics, he felt it wasn't appropriate for him to even join in.

After a long and arduous shopping trip that inexplicably took several hours, the two of them finally finished shopping and arrived at their last stop.

Explorers' Guild.

"This is a rare opportunity, let's form a team, honey, come on over."

Team up?!

"You remember you were supposed to be very resistant to me coming here, so how did we end up on the same team?"

"The reason I didn't want you to come here is that I didn't want your strength to be discovered by people with ulterior motives. Just like how I put so much effort into training you so that you could protect yourself, not so that you would jump around and show off in front of girls. But you have already made a grand appearance in the battle against evil, so there is no point in continuing to hide it. Speaking of which, you shouldn't have secretly gone to team up with pretty girls or anything like that, right?"

Lei Ye moved calmly to the counter, tapped the marble surface, and shouted at the saleswoman, "Team up! Didn't you hear my brother?! Let's team up!"

"Okay, okay...! Forming an explorer team requires at least two guild cards. Please place your guild cards here. Also, what should the team name be...?"

"Sen..."

Oh dear, I almost blurted out the team name on my own, but I can't.

Lei Ye glanced at Ye Lei, only to see that she was also glancing at him, and she let out a snorting laugh.

"It is called, 'Bitterness comes, bitterness.'"

"Why!!"

Bro, don't mess around. Although I understand you probably heard this word from another version of myself, I'm not sure if he told you that using this team name would most likely lead to disbanding.

Especially since you're a giant octopus...

Seeing Lei Ye's flustered state, Ye Lei smiled again and then sighed.

"Fine, since it's for you, it's better to use the name you like. Thank you, Miss Mei, please change it to Forest River."

"Okay, okay."

Ye Lei came in with her hands on her hips, looking smug.

"Haha, it wasn't you, Raino, who revived the River of Forest, but me, Ye Lei! And the first person to team up with Raino wasn't that B-Loya, but me, Ye Lei! Hahaha!"

They were laughing loudly there.

Now, even the wonderful explorer team from Lei Ye's deepest memories has been taken away... But considering that Ye Lei didn't dwell on how she managed to pull out a newly issued guild card, let her be smug.

The procedures were completed very quickly, in less than a minute. When Lei Ye took back his guild card, he checked it and found that there was some extra information on it.

(Team: Forest River)

Captain: Raino

Team members: Ye Lei, Ais.Skasha)

He patted his head, holding the guild card, his feelings complicated.

"A mission! A mission! Speaking of adventure stories, why isn't there any exploration? Something simple will do. Let's take on a commission and do it tomorrow! With Ais along, we can even beat a troll."

Ye Lei was in a great mood after receiving the guild card, behaving just like a newbie who was getting a guild card for the first time, and excitedly ran to the commission board.

Lei Ye wasn't keen on taking on the commission because he wasn't short of money and he was a bit tired these days. He wanted to rest at home and maybe nurture his relationship with Ai Si a little. But since it was something Ye Lei wanted to do, there was nothing he could do. Lei Ye could only follow behind Ye Lei to prevent her from choosing any outrageous tasks.

Ye Lei squeezed together with the explorers and reached out to pull them apart.

"Alright! This is it, goblin! I'm going to beat up the goblin!"

This is indeed an outrageous task.

"Goblin my ass! Give it back! Are you going to take Ais, who just bought new clothes, to that stinky place? Do you even know what goblin weapons are smeared with? Go beat up those goblins!"

"But you told me a lot about how the first mission for the rookie explorer team was to hunt goblins, and how the team was almost wiped out except for the warrior. After burying his teammates, the warrior would find a slightly flawed but beautiful girl in the goblin's sac room, rescue her, and then embark on a heartwarming and classic adventure. I'm really looking forward to that kind of adventure!"

"First of all, as an author, I have to tell you that such a story doesn't work. When readers read that the goblin's self-proclaimed flawed beauty is the female lead, they'll all vehemently condemn it as a cuckold story and run away. Besides, based on your story, we definitely can't choose this commission, right? Finally, why does your accent have that familiar corn stubble smell? Don't say that, it just scares me."

Lei Ye forcefully pasted the order form back on.

No matter how difficult the mission is, we are not afraid. Although this team only has three people, each of them has extraordinary skills. Their fighting spirit and endurance are amazing. So we can just consider it from the perspective of ease.

"What do you think of this?"

Lei Ye casually tore off another commission form.

(Commissioned by: Regional Exploration)

Now that the evil has been eradicated, previously forbidden areas are open. We are recruiting scout teams to venture as far as possible into these areas and assess the threats they pose. Guilds that hunt monsters in these new territories will receive double the standard price for their materials.

"Isn't this a good idea? We have airships."

"But since this is our first commission, do we really want to complete it by cheating with top-tier magical artifacts like this? I want to create some memories that have a more adventurous feel."

Just as Lei Ye and Ye Lei were about to start arguing, Ai Si raised her hand and whispered.

"Actually... I also think it's pretty good. When I was flying in the sky just now, I felt very happy."

Upon hearing Aiss's explanation, Ye Lei immediately agreed, and tomorrow's task was set as regional exploration.

It's very convenient because there's an airship, and this mission doesn't actually require defeating monsters, plus the reward is very high. This commission is simply perfect.

By the time I finished all that and got home, it was almost evening.

The lights were still on, and it was still warm and cozy.

Lei Ye was really tired after running around with the two of them all day. All he wanted to do was take a shower and get some sleep. It was rare that Ye Lei hadn't forced him to write anything or urged him to make up for today's training after he got home. He originally planned to sneak into the bathroom to take a shower while Ye Lei wasn't paying attention to him and then go to bed. But when he saw Ye Lei taking Ai Si directly to her room, he inexplicably followed behind and took a few more glances.

This house is indeed quite large, and there are many rooms prepared for guests. The small house that Ye Lei led Ais into is one of them. Venus takes care of it every day, so it is ready for people to move in at any time.

But for an ordinary home, reserving too many rooms for guests is a bit much.

"1, 2, 3..."

Lei Ye counted them one by one and confirmed that there were exactly eight guest rooms.

The number is the same as the number of mothers he encountered on Line 1.

Could it be that...?

"wrong."

Suddenly, Lei Ye thought of Venus. She also lived in a room like this. Eight minus one equals seven, so it wasn't what he thought.

Wait a moment.

What if we kick Loya out?