novelraw Chapter 81
Chapter 81
Chapter 81: Valuable Item is the Brave Hero
“This is…”
“This is the subway.”
Standing at the entrance of the subway elevator, feeling the wind whistling from the depths of the earth.
Lucia stood in the wind, looking disheveled.
She knew that the humans in this society had a strong construction ability…
But she never thought that they would actually build tracks underground!
Humans living underground… wouldn’t that make them goblins, more or less?
“Goblins…”
Office workers, who were called goblins, walked out of the subway entrance with briefcases in hand. Lucia muttered something under her breath and shrank closer to Xia Li. “What nonsense are you talking about?”
Xia Li lifted Lucia’s sheep hat, revealing a pair of warm little ears.
“Let’s go. We’ve already wandered to the subway entrance. Let’s take the subway today.”
As Xia Li spoke, he started walking down. Lucia quickly followed.
Standing on the escalator, Lucia watched the scenery gradually sink and couldn’t help but swallow.
It felt like she was entering some kind of dangerous underground labyrinth…
Speaking of which, was this how Xia Li felt when he explored with his teammates before?
Lucia secretly glanced at Xia Li’s profile.
The white lights in the underground labyrinth shone on his face. His gaze was calm. After noticing Lucia’s gaze, he turned slightly to look at her.
“…”
Lucia immediately looked away, pretending to look at the billboard advertisement behind Xia Li.
“Don’t run around. I’ll go buy the tickets.”
Xia Li settled Lucia in a corner and took out his phone to buy tickets.
If he were taking the subway alone, he could just scan the QR code.
But with Lucia, who had neither an ID card nor a mobile phone, he could only buy tickets manually.
Xia Li’s fingers pressed on the hot screen. The evil dragon behind him curiously peeked over.
A map of the human world’s labyrinth?
The destination Xia Li chose was…
Central Pig City!
“Hold onto the card. We’ll swipe it together to enter the station later.”
Xia Li bought a ticket to Central Home Furnishing City.
He put the rectangular plastic ticket in Lucia’s hand.
Thinking of this dragon who couldn’t ride a train, a high-speed rail, or a plane, and even got dizzy in a car…
The only places Xia Li could take her were probably the places reachable by bus and subway in Qingcheng City.
The subway system in Qingcheng City was not well-developed, with only four crisscrossing lines.
There would be new lines built in the future, and these unbuilt urban planning maps were the farthest places Lucia could reach in the future.
Sighing, Xia Li led Lucia into the station, saying as they walked.
“This is called the subway. It’s an underground transportation system hidden beneath the human city. It’s more convenient and comfortable, but the station is too far from our home. We need to walk a long way.”
When they arrived at the security checkpoint, Xia Li stopped and let Lucia go first.
Since neither of them had backpacks, they only needed to scan their bodies to pass security.
Lucia, wearing a sheep coat, was patted down by the security lady for the first time.
She looked at the rude human beside her in shock, then at Xia Li behind her, who was unfazed.
“…I’ve been looted!”
Seeing Xia Li walking over with a smile, Lucia’s little face was still a bit frightened.
“She was just checking if you had any prohibited items in your pockets.” Xia Li smiled.
It’s good that nothing happened.
It would have been troublesome if the alarm had gone off when Lucia’s body was scanned.
It seemed that there was nothing strange inside the body of a dragon in human form.
“Prohibited items?” Lucia tried to understand the word. “Are the humans who come to the underground labyrinth… the subway, all bad?”
“It’s called taking precautions beforehand,” Xia Li said. “If someone brought a knife or gasoline in, the casualties in the entire train would be very serious.”
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If a riot really broke out… it would be serious no matter where it was.
Just as Lucia was thinking this.
A serpent-like steel behemoth sped past her.
“Rumble rumble…”
The subway tracks made a dull roar, finally stopping with a series of sharp friction sounds.
The carriage doors opened, and the steel behemoth revealed its bright and clean interior structure.
Lucia was stunned.
“Let’s go, get in,” Xia Li said, extending his arm.
“I’m holding onto… you hold onto me, or I’ll get lost later.”
If you want to coax an evil dragon to hold hands with you, you have to go along with the dragon’s wishes.
As Xia Li expected, as soon as he extended his arm, Lucia hugged it.
“It’s dangerous here.”
The warm air of the subway blew on her face, and Lucia’s little face was particularly serious.
She now understood why Xia Li said to take precautions beforehand.
The belly of this steel behemoth called the “subway” could probably hold a thousand people.
If a thousand people were in a confined space at the same time, if there were thugs here…
Lucia swallowed again.
Thinking that this was like locking a dragon in a sheep pen.
Standing in the not-yet-crowded subway, the train patrol officer walked quickly through the carriage with a loudspeaker in hand.
After hearing the voice from the loudspeaker saying “Take care of your valuables,” Lucia hugged Xia Li’s arm even tighter.
Valuable items… Xia Li.
“I’ll take good care of you,” Lucia said seriously.
Xia Li smiled helplessly. “Okay, okay, you take good care of me.”
Holding the subway handrail with one hand and feeling the embrace of the soft little dragon on his other arm, Xia Li thought greedily, why was she only hugging his arm and not him?
He should have coaxed her a bit more.
There were quite a few young couples hugging and cuddling on the subway. It wouldn’t hurt to have one more.
“Xia Li, Xia Li… there’s danger.”
Xia Li was planning the map of the Yan Kingdom in his mind when his arm was squeezed by the soft little dragon.
Looking in the direction Lucia was pointing, Xia Li saw a white-collar worker in an OL outfit waiting at the carriage exit. She seemed to be getting off at the next stop.
There were several other passengers waiting to get off next to the OL woman, one of whom, a man wearing a black plush hat, was standing very close to the OL woman’s shoulder bag.
It looked like he was being squeezed by the people around him, but from Xia Li’s angle, it was clear that he was leaning over on purpose.
Xia Li watched as the man in the black hat reached a pair of silver tweezers into the OL woman’s half-open bag.
A subway pickpocket?
He looked down at the little dragon beside him.
The little dragon’s intuition sensed the malice and danger before Xia Li, but she couldn’t decide what to do at this moment.
Xia Li had always wanted Lucia to establish the correct values for this society, and this person in front of him was undoubtedly the best teaching material.
Without much hesitation, Xia Li walked over and grabbed the man’s wrist.
“What are you doing?!”
The man in the black hat obviously didn’t expect his hidden actions to be discovered. He turned around in horror. After seeing the young man next to him, he instinctively tried to pull his hand back.
But he found that the other party’s strength was not on the same level as his own.