The Man Who Searched for a Century

Only then did Zhang Yuanqing lift his head from his bowl and look back at the girl in front of him. "Introductions? Oh, that girl just said 'new partner,' right? I thought I'd misheard."

The girls in the channel had been speaking in a foreign language.

In New Covenant County's Chinatown, the commonly used languages were the Soup Province and Fortune Province dialects, as well as foreign languages. Mandarin was used comparatively little.

Therefore, Chinese Americans born and raised in New Covenant County, like Cao Qianxiu, tended to have rather poor Mandarin. They could say "Eat shit, you bastard" with perfect pronunciation, but not "Eat shit, dumbass."

They normally communicated either in dialect or English.

"My Spirit Realm ID is Unfettered Sword Immortal. I'm from Songhai, and my class is Scout. That concludes my introduction!" Zhang Yuanqing's tone and expression were straight out of a military manual.

"Wow, your Chinese sounds so nice—so standard." Snow White giggled.

A lively little girl. Zhang Yuanqing said flatly, "Introducing yourselves to one another is basic courtesy."

"My Spirit Realm ID is Snow White. Judge Cao and I are classmates, and I'm a level-two Wind Mage. There are six people in Group Six altogether. Our leader is Self-Improvement, a Knight. Knights are as rare in District One as giant pandas, just like Night Wanderers in your District Two. Knights are the fairest class, you know. If you run into any trouble in the future, you can ask Self-Improvement for help. As long as it isn't illegal or against the rules, he'll help without hesitation. Well, except for lending money."

If he wasn't willing to lend money, what kind of good person was he? Didn't every hardship in this world stem from not having enough money? Zhang Yuanqing grumbled inwardly.

Snow White continued:

"Besides the