Finding a Guide

"Whew, that feels so good!"

Panting heavily, Xiao Wu lay flat on the ground, turned her head to look at Romantina, whose chest was also rising and falling slightly, and suddenly stood up. Looking down, she saw her own ankle and couldn't help but twitch her eye.

It's been three years!

She still couldn't quite accept why she was developing so slowly... Her mother, after transforming into human form, had nearly half the amount of Romantina by the time she reached nine years old!

Could this be a side effect of refining two Soul Rings in a row?

However, Xiao Wu quickly put these distracting thoughts aside, pulled up Romantina, whose physical condition was somewhat worse than hers, and they brushed the dust off each other.

Although Romantina is older than Xiao Wu's physical attributes improved dramatically after Secondary Refinement her Soul Ring for the second time. In terms of physical attributes alone, she is the strongest in the entire team, even surpassing Zhou Qing.

"Alright!"

Zhou Qing clapped his hands to attract their attention. "Let's go have lunch, then explore the Abyss Ruins and see what's going on. You can also experience the Ascension Curse while you're at it."

Xiao Wu, Romantina, and Wang Sheng were naturally curious about the situation at the Abyss Ruins.

Bu Liu and Bu Qi stayed up there and told Nuoding Academy Dean, Mo Hen, and Bu Yi where they were going.

After the meal.

Zhou Qing and Tang San did not immediately set off for the Abyss Ruins, but instead first found the seventh dormitory building at No. 720 Ruozhi Primary School Big Cave Street.

They need a guide.

Admittedly, Riko only been to the first level, but the other Explorer are still in Abyss Town are either too old or don't speak the common language of the Douluo Continent.

Perhaps by spending some time exploring the entire Abyss Town, one could find a suitable guide, but given the language barrier, it would take a considerable amount of time.

Therefore, it would be better to directly find Riko can speak a "foreign language," as her basic theoretical knowledge should be quite solid.

"Ruozhi Primary School, is that what the common term for this academy in the Douluo Continent means?" Xiao Wu tilted her head, a little puzzled. "Ruozhi? Stupid?"

"Actually, it can also be called Smart Elementary School." Zhou Qing looked at the word "smart" and felt that Riko had used a more literary expression when translating it. But who would have thought that the common language of the Douluo Continent was close to the pronunciation of his spoken Chinese in his previous life?

The gates of Ruozhi Primary School were wide open, or rather, there were no gates at all, as if they were not afraid of strangers coming in.

So Zhou Qing and the others went in without any hesitation.

The college is not large; in terms of area, it is only equivalent to the square outside the teaching building of the Nuoding Academy. Combined with the various buildings around it, it seems a bit cramped.

The children in the open space were surprised to see strangers visiting, whose faces were completely different from theirs, especially Tang San and Xiao Wu, who were so exquisitely beautiful that they seemed to belong to a different world.

Romantina was not bad-looking, but her face was rather round.

Zhou Qing and Wang Sheng, needless to say, have ordinary and common faces, but they still stand out among this group of cute and healing-looking round-faced people.

Because of the language barrier, Tang San and the others couldn't understand what the teenagers were saying at all. On the other hand, Zhou Qing had a slight impression of English and could barely understand that these guys were asking about their identities, but he had to organize his thoughts on how to respond.

After all, written English and spoken English are two different things. The residents of Abyss Town will naturally use spoken English in their daily conversations, rather than in a formal way.

So, Zhou Qing finally took out paper and pen, drew a simple sketch of Riko, and then rattled off a whole bunch of nonsense—

The boys in front of him couldn't understand a word he said, but they still managed to figure out who he was looking for through his simple drawings...

"Qing Ge, you can speak their language too?" Tang San asked curiously.

"Of course, I'm a genius, I learned it in no time!"

Zhou Qing stood with his hands on his hips, his nose practically pointing to the sky.

But after Riko came over and said, "Yake just said that some weirdo who was talking about something drew my portrait and was looking for me. Oh, it was you guys," Zhou Qing immediately lost his composure and began to question his life.

Tang San chuckled to himself.

Xiao Wu covered her mouth.

Romantina went even further and Taunt Zhou Qing: "Oh, it seems our great genius isn't very good at learning Abyss Language."

Wang Sheng comforted him, "It's alright, Qing Ge. You see, I don't understand either."

Zhou Qing: "..." Brother Wang, really, you might as well not comfort me at all!

However, Zhou Qing quickly recovered, after all, he believed that his judgment was correct. The language spoken in Abyss Town was English, and the grammar of the spoken language was quite different from what he had learned in his previous life.

Different sounds every three miles, different tunes every ten miles.

Even with the Douluo Common Language being widely used throughout the continent, the villagers in different villages still have different intonations. What's more, Abyss Town still retains a language that has disappeared from the outside world in the past 20,000 years?

"I would like to ask you to be my guide to explore the deeper levels of the Abyss Depths."

Upon learning of the group's purpose, Riko overjoyed. She immediately went to the dormitory to prepare her adventure gear before hopping and skipping back to the group, indicating that they could set off now:(*▽*)

"So cute!"

Romantina and Xiao Wu squatted down and pinched Riko's round face, leaving Riko at a loss.

Even after Zhou Qing reminded them that Riko, was already 15 years old, Romantina and Xiao Wu still couldn't put her down.

"Do you want to go down?"

A blond, round-faced man emerged from a low hut. He was about 1.5 meters tall, but still quite short compared to Zhou Qing and the others.

A black whistle hung around his neck; he was a Black Whistle Explorer, and he was staring at Riko with a serious expression.

"That's right, I'm going to explore down there! I've always hesitated before. I wanted to explore, I wanted to find my mother, and I had a great curiosity about the Abyss, but because I wasn't capable enough, I didn't really muster up the courage. But now is the opportunity."

Riko at the other person, her gaze intense.

"Have you found a reason to go down?" The man smiled. "That's good. I hope you can find the answer, and I also hope you can find your mother. She was also my teacher, but I can't go with you. I need to take care of other people at the school."

"Thank you, Abel!"

Since the two were speaking Abyss Language, apart from Zhou Qing who understood a little bit, no one else knew what they were discussing.

In addition, both of them have round faces, making it difficult to guess their identities based on appearance alone.

"What do you think their relationship is?"

Wang Sheng inquired.

Tang San thought this man might be like Riko's father, since the people here all looked young, and height was one of the ways to distinguish their ages.