Chapter 3501 Starlight Jellyfish

Although Edward cannot tell the truth of this rumor yet, he has started to prepare since he heard it.

Since the "secret place" is in the wild, he must be prepared to go there.

Edward will not care about the unknown dangers in the wild for the time being. The first preparation he has to make is how to prevent being illuminated by the moonlight in the wild?

Either have a large number of soul coins to resist the moonlight.

Or make a movable room... For example, a fully enclosed carriage.

Edward decided to prepare for both.

Not only must he reserve more soul coins, but he must also make a fully enclosed mechanical carriage with strong and tight materials.

In this way, even if he encounters a powerful beast in the wild, he can resist it with the defense of the carriage; and the mechanical horse also has a certain combat power. Although it may not be helpful, it will at least not be as troublesome as a live horse. ——If it is a live horse, it will be swallowed by the beast soon after going out.

While making preparations for both, Edward is also continuing to inquire about the news of the secret place.

He even borrowed a noblewoman's mechanical carriage and left Yizhi Town to go to the nearby Lingcheng and Jidu. These two are relatively large cities in the Yi world, with a population of more than six figures.

Because he did not have a household registration in Lingcheng and Jidu, he could only stay for three days each time.

Relying on the few days he had, Edward kept asking for news about the "secret place".

The "customers" who had accepted his customization would occasionally help. There was even a customer who helped Edward get a library entrance card that was common to Lingcheng and Jidu.

Although he could not borrow books from the library, he could enter the library business world of the two capitals and read them by himself.

Relying on this entrance card, Edward would go from Yizhi Town to Lingcheng and Jidu almost every week to read relevant literature and books.

Time passed so quickly.

Maybe it was five years, or maybe it was six years.

After so many years, he finally earned enough soul coins with his own hands to stay in the wild for half a year without being illuminated by the moonlight.

In addition, he also bought a mechanical carriage with amazing defense.

He can stay in the wild for a longer time.

Although Edward still has not found the exact coordinates of a secret place, according to some books, he can be sure that a secret place appeared in the southeast of Yizhi Town a hundred years ago.

In the past hundred years, there have been people who have gone to find secret places like him, but none of them have found them.

Even so, Edward still set his first stop at the Secret Forest in the southeast of Yizhi Town.

There is no road in the Secret Forest.

After all, people in the Yi world do not have to go deep into the wild, let alone the dense forest.

However, it doesn’t matter if there is no road. Just use the tough and sturdy gears of the mechanical carriage to open a road out of thin air.

Edward originally thought that he could stay in the Secret Forest for at least half a year.

But the real situation is that the mechanical carriage was eroded by an unknown fog in the forest half a month later and was full of holes.

The soul coin is very powerful, and it can still rely on the soul barrier to avoid this unknown fog.

But in the mist, the consumption of soul coins is very large.

Almost at a speed visible to the naked eye, soul coins are seen melting, dissolving, and sublimating.

With Edward's soul coin reserves, he can last two or three months even in the mist.

But he can't stand it... The mist is just a disaster in the secret forest.

Edward encountered another evil wind disaster, which can also blow into the soul, blow your soul to pieces, and even erode your soul.

Soul coins are still very useful against evil wind.

However, the fog plus the evil wind, the consumption is scary.

If the night moon and blood moon are added on the basis of the fog and evil wind... Edward feels that he is already a poor household.

Because of the consumption of soul coins, he can't stay longer, and his secret forest trip only lasted for a month.

A month later, he returned to Yi Town and continued to live as before.

In the eyes of other people in the town, Edward has become a little numb and probably has given up leaving. ——This is actually normal. People who are thrown into the ritual world at the beginning are constantly thinking about leaving and looking for secret places.

But when he hits the wall, he understands that it is actually difficult to get out of the ritual world.

This is a closed world, or a closed box garden.

You can only enter, not leave.

According to other people's speculation, Edward should not think about looking for secret places after this experience. He will probably get married and have children here like other people.

When the second generation is born, the newborn will be completely branded by the ritual world.

For them, the ritual world is the mother world, not a bondage.

Life has been reversed since then, and there is no more hostages.

However, this is just the idea of ​​outsiders. For Edward, he still hasn't given up.

After seeing the wider sky outside, he can't stay in a small pond and be a fish in the pond.

Edward is numb on the surface, because he has to start making money again, which is a numb and mechanical job. Even though hairdressing, hair dyeing, and makeup are his hobbies, when a hobby becomes a job, even Edward will be annoyed and numb.

However, unlike the numb surface, his heart is still burning.

He has never erased his yearning for freedom.

In the following days, he purchased fur materials and customized various wigs while continuing to explore the wider world - not the wild, but other big cities.

He has been to Bashak City on the oasis, where the owner is no longer a human, but a sandworm.

He has also been to the Black Smoke City hovering on the mountainside. The people here are made of smoke, and no one knows where they come from.

He has also been to the Sleepless Night Port run by ghosts. These ghosts are neither living souls nor dead souls, but simply a spiritual family. They are also a group that Edward has never seen. It is estimated that they are the creators of the ritual world and thrown in from unknown time and space.

In these cities run by various tribes, Edward used soul coins to open the way and obtain long-term stay permission.

He brought beauty and hairdressing to each tribe, and when he left, he took away the secret information of each tribe.

Once he made enough money, he would try to find secret places in the wild.

When the soul coins were used up, he would continue to return to the city to bring everyone a little shock of beauty and hairdressing.

This daily ecology has been going on.

Edward himself has forgotten how many times he has been to the wild and how many disasters he has encountered in the wild...

He even has a vague idea of ​​time.

Decades? Hundreds of years? Or has it been a thousand years?

No matter how long it has been, the only thing Edward has not given up is his desire for freedom.

Going around and around.

Later, Edward returned to Yizhi Town.

This time he came back because Edward was a little tired, and he still did not give up looking for a way to leave; but he planned to take a break and slow down his pace.

So, he returned to the place where he first came to the Yi world.

This is not only the city of his original intention, but also the safe place in his heart.

After he returned to Yizhi Town, he continued to run a makeup and hairdressing shop.

Perhaps it was an unintentional act, and the secret place that he had been unable to find in the past, but when he returned to Yizhi Town, he got a message.

This news came from his guests.

This guest was a species he had never seen before, a pale blue jellyfish surrounded by twinkling stars.

This starlight jellyfish guest wanted to customize a wig that matched its temperament, and the material used for the wig was the tentacles of its shed jellyfish.

Although the customization request was very strange, Edward still accepted it.

It was the first time for him to make a wig with jellyfish tentacles, but it was not difficult for him at all. You know, he once customized a wig for a lava giant, and the material of the wig was the tentacles of a magma salamander.

Compared with the customization of the wig of the lava giant, the jellyfish tentacles of this starlight jellyfish were nothing.

During the customization period, the starlight jellyfish lived in the hairdressing shop.

Although the starlight jellyfish didn't talk much - or it didn't speak the common language very well - Edward still got a lot of information about the starlight jellyfish through some simple communication.

It also came from the outside world, and it seemed to be a special world.

The place where it lives seems to have a strict time limit. This time, it can only go out for two days. If it exceeds two days, it will have to wait for decades before it can go back.

It doesn't like the place where it lives very much, because it hates the life of a big lady with everything provided for it.

When Edward heard the previous few words, he didn't think much about it. When he heard that the starlight jellyfish didn't want to live a "big lady life", he thought to himself that the starlight jellyfish was probably showing off in front of him and doing Versailles.

He has seen many guests who love to show off. Facing such guests, smiling and agreeing, and occasionally showing an expression of surprise and admiration, can fool them.

However, the expression that was always successful in the past was defeated by the starlight jellyfish.

When the starlight jellyfish heard Edward's agreement, it put on a face instead: "I hate the life of a big lady because I am not a female! In your human words, I am a man! A man! A man!"

Edward was stunned.

It turns out that the starlight jellyfish doesn't hate the so-called big lady life treatment, but hates that it is obviously a male, but is treated as a female.

After hearing this, Edward felt that the family of the Starlight Jellyfish was a bit weird.

Almost all makeup and hairdressers have a passive skill that does not need to be learned: gossip.

Edward's gossip skill is also maxed out. After all, he has obtained a lot of information from customers through the gossip skill. Including the things in the secret place, they are all gossiped.

Facing the weird family values ​​of the Starlight Jellyfish, Edward's gossip skill is online again.

The Starlight Jellyfish may have suffered for a long time. It is rare to meet someone who is willing to listen. In addition, the music, candlelight, and atmosphere of the makeup and hairdressing shop are all in place, and the Starlight Jellyfish's desire to talk is slowly rising.

Through communication with the Starlight Jellyfish, Edward realized that it was not a young lady, it was just playing a young lady.

The young lady is a role, and the Starlight Jellyfish has to play this role, and there must be no disobedience.

Once it is disobedient, it will encounter disasters.

As for what kind of disaster, the Starlight Jellyfish did not say.

However, Edward was confused by the so-called "role-playing" of Starlight Jellyfish: "Are you from a family of actors? Or are you actually an actor in a theater?"

Otherwise, why do you want to do role-playing?

Starlight Jellyfish shook her head: "Neither."

Then, she muttered in a very low voice: "It's not for the purpose of getting out, otherwise who wants to play the role of a young lady."

Its voice was very quiet. If it weren't for Edward's sharp ears, he might have thought he was hallucinating.

"Go out?" Edward caught a key word: "Where to go?"

The starlight jellyfish didn't speak.

Edward was a little disappointed, but he vaguely felt that the starlight jellyfish's "going out" might be related to leaving the instrument world.

This conjecture came very inexplicably, even for no reason, as if he was over-associating.

But as a wizard, Edward felt that his association should not be aimless, perhaps a kind of... inspiration?

But how to grasp this inspiration?

Force the starlight jellyfish to answer? Not to mention whether he has the strength to force it, if he really forces it, the other party may not answer him truthfully.

And if he asks directly, Edward feels that doing so may be counterproductive.

He thought about it and decided to use a euphemistic way to insinuate.

His method is... to play misery.

Edward did not continue to ask the starlight jellyfish, but talked about his own affairs: "Different people and different races actually have their own sufferings. You have, I have..."

Through one sentence, he deliberately attracted the attention of the starlight jellyfish.

Then, Edward said a few more "heart-to-heart" words.

For the first time, the starlight jellyfish fell into the human's rhetoric, and followed Edward's words and asked: "Do you have troubles too?"

Edward nodded immediately, and under the gaze of the starlight jellyfish, he quickly confided his troubles.

And his troubles, without a doubt, are that he is confined to the ritual world and cannot transcend and cannot go home.

However, Edward did not express it so bluntly, but focused on his "efforts" over the years. He described his experiences over the years in detail: walking and searching, going to various capitals to find information, and then selling his skills, and going to the wild to find secret places as soon as he had money.

"... Just going around like this for hundreds of years, nothing was found."

When Edward was moved, small pearls of light floated in the corners of his eyes.

This is not acting, but a true expression of feelings.

After listening to Edward's words, the Starlight Jellyfish did not express any opinions, but seemed very silent.

Silently waiting for Edward's hair.

Silently choosing the hair color.

Silently putting on the exquisite and beautiful wig.

Just when Edward thought that the Starlight Jellyfish would turn around and leave silently, it suddenly sat down and sighed deeply: "Actually, the castle... No, I still need a makeup artist. Are you willing to be my makeup artist?"

Edward: "Do you want me to be your personal makeup artist?"

The Starlight Jellyfish nodded its floating body: "You can say that. However, becoming my personal makeup artist may not make you earn too many soul coins, but..."

After a pause, the Starlight Jellyfish continued: "But, maybe you can have the opportunity to fulfill your long-cherished wish."

What is Edward's long-cherished wish?

Without a doubt, it is to leave the ritual world.

If you really become the personal makeup artist of the Starlight Jellyfish, you can leave the ritual world. Even if there is no money, Edward is willing to do it!

But, is it really possible?

Edward hesitated and said, "Do you know what my long-cherished wish is?"

Starlight Jellyfish: "Didn't you just say that you want to leave? Becoming my personal makeup artist, you have a chance to leave, although the chance is not too big, very slim; but it is definitely much greater than if you stay here."

Seeing that there was still a trace of doubt in Edward's eyes, Starlight Jellyfish continued: "The place where I live is called the Knight Castle; if you use what you said just now, the Knight Castle should be what you call... the secret place."