A journey to the heavens starting from the Red Mansion

Chapter 252
Not far from the south gate of Shimo City, it belongs to the downstream section of the underground river. This has become the place where laundry is concentrated in the city.

For some families who are not strong enough to hunt Warcraft, the women of the family help the mercenaries wash clothes to earn money and make ends meet.

Most mercenaries are rough and tough, living a life of licking blood from the edge of a knife, so naturally they are willing to spend a little money to save themselves some trouble.

At this time, in a place with little water flow, there was a thin figure washing a pile of clothes.

Unlike other people who were laughing and chatting, this was a vaguely excluded area.

The other women subconsciously ignored this place, and some even had obvious disgust in their eyes.

Even the mercenaries who came here to hand over clothes had similar emotions. It could be said that the guys around this silently working girl were full of malice toward her.

The weather in the desert was too hot, coupled with the continuous labor, a little sweat appeared on the girl's forehead, and she subconsciously wiped it with her sleeves.

This action accidentally exposed his snow-white wrist, and on this white wrist, the cyan scales embedded on it were revealed, shining brightly under the sunlight.

Facing this cyan light, the smiles of the laughing women faded away.

The chatting mercenaries did not stay here and left quickly.

These people all have one thing in common, they all have deep disgust in their eyes, but due to some pressure, they don't have the malice in Fu Xu's heart.

It turned out that the girl was listening to the chatter of these adults, with a slight smile on her lips.

But the sudden silence made her subconsciously raise her head and look around in confusion.

Then when she saw everyone's reactions, she seemed to understand something. The smile on her face gradually disappeared and she lowered her head again.

A series of tears fell silently on the clothes he was about to wash in front of him, blending into the water flow.

The girl subconsciously pulled her sleeves, completely covering her wrists, including the hint of cyan.

Then I started to starch the clothes again, not caring that my sleeves were wet by the river water, and just wanted to speed up the movements of my hands.

This helpless girl did not ask why these people blamed all their hatred on her. Now her only thought is to get out of here.

The girl who had been receiving cold looks lowered her head and completed her task, then neatly placed the washed clothes on the wooden tray, stood up and left while carrying the wooden tray.

But what she didn't know was that during this period, there was a figure standing behind her.

Those who were looking at her coldly were forced by this figure's sharp gaze and subconsciously shifted their gazes.

"oops……"

The girl obviously didn't know there was someone standing behind her, and with her head lowered all the time, she ran directly into the man's arms and subconsciously let go of the wooden plate.

"Feel sorry."

Lin Yao gently supported the girl's figure with one hand, and held the wooden plate with the other hand.

"I was standing behind you just now because I was afraid that I would scare you if I suddenly made a sound. I didn't expect this to happen. I'm sorry."

It was Lin Yao who spoke. His purpose in coming to this stone desert city was, not surprisingly, the girl in his arms.

"Master, I'm fine. It's all my fault this time. I accidentally bumped into you."

The girl kept apologizing and subconsciously took a few steps back for fear of offending Lin Yao.

Lin Yao gently held the girl's wrist to stop her from bending over to apologize.

"Your name is?"

Seeing that he no longer thought about the girl who was bending over, Lin Yao let go of her wrist, moved his right hand up to gently stroke her hair, and said softly.

This girl is still young, but her appearance is quite exquisite, and her simple decorations cannot hide her natural beauty.

The cute face reveals a bit of panic, like a frightened little rabbit. This timid character is endearing.

Feeling the gentle caressing palm on her forehead, the girl's original nervousness calmed down.

Instead, he subconsciously pulled at his sleeves slightly, fearing that his blue scales would frighten the big brother who showed kindness to him.

"I don't have a name for this young master."

The girl lowered her head and spoke in a voice as quiet as a mosquito.

"No name?"

Lin Yao put away his right hand that was on the girl's hair, slowly lowered his body, put down the wooden plate on his left hand, and then gently held the girl's wrist.

The girl trembled all over and subconsciously wanted to shrink back, but she stopped thinking when she recalled the warm caress just now.

Lin Yao carefully lifted up her sleeve with his right hand, and light green scales appeared on her arm.

"Quite cute."

When the girl saw that the big brother she felt close to saw this disgusting part of her, her cute little face instantly turned pale and her body trembled slightly.

But Lin Yao's words made the girl feel confused. This was the first time she heard other people praise her.Ever since she became sensible, she has sometimes felt scared when faced with her own features, but she never thought that anyone could really accept her snake scales.

Snake scales are one of the symbols of the snake people in the Tagore Desert.

The snake people have a human body, a snake tail, and snake scales.

This race is suspected to have migrated from the beast realm of Zhongzhou to the Northwest Continent. In the end, due to lack of strength, it was driven by the human race to the Tagore Desert where resources were scarce, and it became a unique race here.

Soon after the members of the Snake Tribe are born, the elders of the tribe will use secret methods to infuse the soul of a snake-shaped monster into their bodies.

As age and strength increase, this snake-like monster as a companion soul will slowly merge with them, and eventually they will become indistinguishable from each other.

This also caused the human characteristics inherited by their blood to be suppressed by the snake characteristics, and they had a snake tail that was different from the transformed monster.

However, the girl in front of Lin Yao had snake scales but no snake tail, so she was obviously not a snake person.

Instead, it is the crystallization of another tragedy in the Tagore Desert, the hybrid snake man.

In the Tagore Desert, the snake people were in this desolate place, so they naturally wanted to expand their living space, so they invested their energy in the surrounding countries.

Conflict broke out and the two sides started fighting.

The slave-catching teams among humans became more and more rampant in this chaos, going deep into the desert to hunt snake women as slaves. At the same time, there were also cases of snake warriors abusing human women.

But no matter what, the women on both sides became victims, and their tragic experiences would not gain sympathy from their fellow tribesmen, and the final outcome was miserable.

In terms of reproductive isolation, the possibility of pregnancy between snake people and humans is very low.

However, this is a fantasy world, and there is still an extremely slim chance of giving birth to a hybrid descendant of the two races.

A hybrid descendant of human and snake people, they bear the disgust and hatred of both parties.

But generally speaking, such children die young and rarely live past the age of two, but the girl in front of them is obviously an accident.

Hundreds of years of accumulation and active or passive experiences of the mercenaries in the desert have resulted in most of them having an indelible hatred for the snake people.

And this girl has half the blood of snake people. When she shows her scales, no one will sympathize with her experience. Instead, they will put negative emotions into her.

Obviously she is also a victim, but under the prejudice of the world, few people exude kindness, and the vast majority of people exude malice that can swallow up a person.

It is precisely because of the malicious glances cast around her that this girl becomes extremely sensitive inside, making it very easy to sense the goodwill and malice of others.

"Why are you worried that I'm afraid of it and hate it?"

Lin Yao gently stroked the girl's hair again, his eyes showing seriousness, as if this was what he was thinking.

This feeling of recognition for herself infected the little girl, causing her to raise her head and look at Lin Yao from time to time, and then lower her head in defeat.

Lin Yao came to the Tagore Desert. In addition to the strange fire, his other purpose was this girl.

A rather pitiful girl, even if she possesses the No. [-] Eye Technique in Dou Qi Continent, all she needs is the care of those close to her.

So straightforward, so simple.

The girl felt the warmth of the palm caressing her hair and the caring words, all of which turned into a ray of light that shone into her tortured young heart.

She responded subconsciously, raised her head slightly, and carefully let her hair have more contact with Lin Yao's palm.

Those eyes that were faintly exuding some strange charm looked at Lin Yao timidly.

"Are you alone now?"

Seeing that the girl didn't speak, Lin Yao asked again.

"Yes, since my mother died of illness, I have been living alone. Fortunately, sister Xuelan is willing to take care of me, otherwise..."

The girl finally spoke again, but her expression was a little sad when she talked about her family.

The girl's mother has been enduring the pain caused by the tragic experience and tried her best to raise the girl.

Just because this child is innocent, the child he gave birth to in ten months of pregnancy, his only sustenance after the great change.

After the death of this great mother, the girl lost her only support and the selfless light in her life.

When she was young, she suffered all kinds of discrimination because of her identity as a hybrid snake. Even though she worked diligently and worked very hard to wash the clothes clean, not many people were willing to give her clothes.

Fortunately, there are still some kind-hearted people in Shimo City and they did not implicate this girl who was also a victim.

Thanks to the care of innocent people like Xue Lan, she survived in Shimo City.

"Everything will get better. From now on, you will treat me as your brother, and I will take care of you and protect you as your sister, okay?"

Lin Yao came closer to the girl and looked at her bright eyes, which were slightly green. There were three extremely small green dots hidden deep in the pupils.

(End of this chapter)