novelraw #444 - Chapter 443: Sand City Hero
#444 - Chapter 443: Sand City Hero
"Our father was the ‘Hero of Sand City.’ He was an incredibly powerful Esper who used his abilities to build this great city of sand.
Originally, we lived a good life, but two years ago, a large corporation moved in. They brought new technologies that allowed cities to be built in the mud, shifting everyone's focus to living in the otherworld.
Our father didn't think much of it, and he was happy to see everyone benefiting more from the mud and living better lives.
But, but a few days ago, they actually killed my father! My father did nothing, yet they still secretly assassinated him and spread the word that they would hunt us down, more evil than Satan!"
Tan Zuoyin was quite surprised after listening to Tu Dudong's story.
She didn't expect these two Black siblings to have such a background.
Tan Zuoyin had just looked up some information about Sand City and had a general understanding of it.
It could be said that without the 'Hero of Sand City,' there would be no Sand City today. He was the greatest figure around this otherdimensional gate.
The otherdimensional gate in the Sahara Desert appeared eleven years ago. When it appeared, people from various major countries immediately found it, defending against the aliens inside while also trying to obtain more benefits.
But after exploring for half a year, they discovered that this otherdimensional gate was full of mud. Besides capturing some mud-dwelling alien beasts, there were no benefits to be gained, so they all withdrew.
Since these major countries couldn't find any benefits, the local government certainly couldn't either.
Therefore, besides the most basic alien beast defense and early warning devices, almost no one managed this otherdimensional gate, let alone had residents living here.
Until about eight years ago, a man named Tu Tan came here, and everything changed.
He used his sand-coagulation ability to slowly build a city in this desolate desert, thus being hailed as the "Hero of Sand City."
In just eight years, he transformed a village that could only accommodate a hundred people into a city that could accommodate a million people with his own strength! Attracting many starving people to come and live here.
Although there weren't any significant benefits to be gained from this otherdimensional gate, being able to go to the otherworld to catch some alien beasts to eat, get some water from the mud, and have free windproof and sandproof houses to live in was already a dream come true for these people.
Therefore, even though the increased population later attracted several large companies to do business and build tall buildings, Tu Tan, the "Hero of Sand City," was still known and respected by everyone here.
However, even with such high renown, he still expanded Sand City every day as before, using his legs and abilities to build houses and expand the sand barriers little by little.
Until Tan Zuoyin checked the information just now, his latest news was that he was still building houses outside the city, with no news of his death.
She didn't expect him to die so silently, and his son and daughter were being hunted down. The world is truly unpredictable.
Tan Zuoyin asked in confusion:
"Why did they kill your father?"
Tu Dudong's face was full of hatred:
"They want to completely dominate the reputation here, so they had to kill the greatest hero who built Sand City, so they assassinated my father."
His sister could have grown up safely, but because of these bad people, she had to flee with him and almost died.
If it weren't for these three kind people in front of them, they didn't know what a tragic fate would have awaited them.
He hated it!
"It's okay, I'm not afraid of them. If they dare to provoke me, I might be able to help you get revenge."
The time of this so-called Hero of Sand City's death coincided with the time of Xiao Fifteen's clone number 486's death. Qi Jing had reason to suspect that his death was related to the Dwarf Society.
However, this plot is so familiar.
The protagonist happens to save someone while traveling, and this person happens to be a prince/princess whose country has been invaded, and then happens to help him/her restore the country, and finally successfully helps them seize the throne and leaves gracefully.
Classic, too classic!
Could it be that this little girl is going to fall in love with me?
Thinking of this, Qi Jing quickly retreated again and pushed Liu Ersi forward.
If you want to repay the favor, find him, don't find me.
This is not a harem novel.
"Thank you, I want to become your adopted father!"
Tu Dudong knelt down again, and Liu Ersi pulled him up again.
Who taught them these words? Do overseas students like to adopt sons and grandsons so much?
Qi Jing cleared his throat and said:
"Ahem, the premise for me helping you get revenge is that they will continue to hunt you down and provoke me, or that they are the people we are looking for. I won't actively help you investigate and avenge you."
He wouldn't bother with this and that for no reason. His purpose in coming here was simply to kill the dwarves.
If the people who killed Tu Tan were not from the Dwarf Society, Qi Jing would not be interested in attacking their company's door to avenge these two siblings.
Of course, if he could finish killing the dwarves within four days, he might be generous...
Tu Dudong and Tu Duoduo felt a little disappointed after hearing this, but not too much.
After all, they had already been saved once. Even mud puppets would not be able to repay this kindness, let alone have the right to ask their benefactor to avenge them.
Tu Dudong knelt down again:
"Become my adopted father!"
"Get up, don't say that word again in the future, and don't kneel anymore, I don't like it."
Tu Dudong stood up:
"Become my adopted grandfather!"
(￢_￢)
......
After picking up these two people, Qi Jing turned off the convertible mode of the chariot.
Fortunately, Xiao Bian's cleaning mode was powerful, otherwise they would have to sit in a pile of sand to enter the city.
The car slowly drove into this desert city with the number 20 otherdimensional gate under Tan Zuoyin's unlicensed driving.
Looking at this city with a sand-yellow main body in front of him, Qi Jing sighed:
"The architecture here isn't that bad."
Tu Dudong, who was sitting in the back seat, immediately said:
"My father was a master architect before he came here. He designed many great buildings, the Floating Louha Palace, the Jia Cong Treasure Hall, and the Bulun Continent Heart Lake were all designed by him."
"Uh, never heard of them."
Qi Jing wasn't a knowledgeable person. The only foreign buildings he knew were a few famous ones, and he didn't know anything else.
However, it could be seen that Tu Dudong admired his father very much, and his tone became solemn when he said these words.
"By the way, what's your ability? Why did you become a mud guide instead of learning from your dad and becoming an architect?"
Tu Dudong was silent for a moment, and then slowly replied:
"My ability is 'Not Sinking in Five Meters of Mud.' I can only walk on mud that is more than five meters deep. It's useless for building houses, and I can't be an architect at all."
This ability was very useful for the mud guiding industry, but his dream was to become a great architect like his father, so he was very frustrated about it.
Seeing Tu Dudong's bitter face, just when Tan Zuoyin thought Qi Jing was going to comfort him, Qi Jing said:
"Not sinking in five meters of mud? Sounds like a guy who knows Chinese taught you to say that."
No, isn't your focus wrong? Is that the point?
Tu Dudong didn't expect Qi Jing to ask this question. He blinked and said:
"Well, an oriental tourist came here before. He taught me that when I was his tour guide."
Cannot sink into more than five meters of mud, these were the words he heard when he awakened his ability, which he initially translated into "Won't sink into mud more than five meters deep."
But that tourist said it didn't sound good, so he gave him such a name.