I'm the protagonist's dad, but the heroines want to kill me

Because the "airport" is quite far from the city, when Lin Ran's carriage entered the city, he was shocked by the prosperity and bustle of the city. The crowds were dense, the business was prosperous, and there were special roads for carriages and sidewalks. It seemed like there were some outlines of a modern city.

This made Lin Ran a little suspicious, wondering if he was not the only one who had traveled through time.

The carriage went to a hotel at the "airport" that specifically provides luxury rooms. According to the staff, we can stay there for a week, and then we have to pay for renewal.

After Lin Ran arrived at the hotel, he turned around and went out, deciding to explore how magnificent the capital of the Ji Dynasty was.

"Brother, do you want to forge a weapon? My blacksmithing skills are awesome!"

"Hey, would you like to try my tofu? My nickname is Tofu Beauty, and my tofu is very delicious. Do you want to try it..."

"Brother, do you want to..."

When Lin Ran walked down the street, he heard a lot of shouting on both sides of the street. There were even some women doing prostitution soliciting customers, and they were arguing with each other, trying to see who had the lowest price and the better service.

This scared Lin Ran. Sister, are you so competitive in this business? You're opening the book in the afternoon. Do you have to fight a price war in this business?

Lin Ran asked someone where the most famous and lively teahouse in the area was, intending to go there to collect some information. This was already his habit. He would collect some information before arriving at a place. If he was unfamiliar with the place and did not do his homework well, it would be easy to be cheated.

However, when Lin Ran arrived at the teahouse which was said to be the most lively in the area, he was still a little shocked. It was very noisy in there, with all kinds of people. The teahouse was like a small world.

"Sir, what kind of seat do you want? If you like a lively place or a quiet place, we have both!" A waiter came over to greet him with a smile on his face when he saw Lin Ran entering the store.

Lin Ran stroked his chin, thought for a while, then threw a few silver coins to the waiter and said, "Give me a relatively quiet seat by the window, and bring me some side dishes. The rest is a tip."

"Okay, sir, follow me!"

The waiter didn't expect to meet such a generous customer this time. In the past, not many customers were so generous.

When the waiter took Lin Ran up to the second floor, Lin Ran noticed that there were several large wooden boards in the middle of the first floor of the teahouse. Many sheepskins were nailed on them, and various demands and rewards were written on the sheepskins.

This made Lin Ran curious, and he couldn't help but ask the waiter: "What are on these boards on the first floor of your teahouse?"

The waiter was stunned for a moment, then he thought of something and said with a smile: "Sir, this is your first time here, right? This is a major feature of our Yong'an Teahouse.

We have gathered people from all over the world here, and there must be many people with various needs. If anyone wants to help, you can post it here after we review it.

If someone accepts the call, we at Yongan Tea House will charge a certain fee and provide a place for you to communicate and negotiate."

"Interesting. I can let Li Yuhan do something in this area in the future..." Lin Ran thought secretly.

In this way, we are actually taking over part of the work of the Mercenary Guild. After all, the Mercenary Guild of the Li Dynasty also does this, but it is relatively limited. This has many aspects. You can also recruit errand runners here. The Mercenary Guild may not have anyone who will do errands.

"This wall board of yours says Yong'an Teahouse. Is it a task issued by your teahouse? I noticed that one of the rewards is very high, and it is paid in spirit stones." Lin Ran immediately noticed the most conspicuous board, the task at the top. There was no way to avoid such a large poster and the amount of money.

Tens of thousands of high-level spirit stones is a huge sum of money. Lin Ran was tempted by it and wanted to take on the task.

"Ah, sir, your understanding is correct. It is indeed issued by our Yong'an Teahouse ourselves. However, I suggest that you don't touch the top task that offers a reward of spirit stones..." the waiter advised.

"Oh, why is that?" Lin Ran suddenly became curious.

The waiter looked around and asked Lin Ran to go to a relatively quiet place upstairs first, and then he would tell Lin Ran about it.

Lin Ran came to a seat near the window and opened it to look outside. The view here was really good and he could clearly see many details on the street, which made Lin Ran quite satisfied.

The waiter poured tea for Lin Ran, and stood aside respectfully and whispered: "This task was issued by our teahouse owner. His beloved daughter is a student of the five major academies. She wanted to return to the academy some time ago, so she took the space tunnel, but a lunatic destroyed the space tunnel.

This caused the space tunnel to become unstable, and violent space turbulence and rare space storms appeared inside the tunnel. The fate of those who entered the tunnel is unknown now!"

"what?!"

When Lin Ran heard the news, he crushed the teacup in one fell swoop. He ignored the tea dripping from his hands and asked hurriedly, "What about the new students from the five major academies? Are they also in this batch?"

Lin Ran even stuffed a gold coin into the waiter's pocket and said seriously, "Can you tell me all the details?"

When the waiter saw the gold coins in his hand, his eyes widened and he quickly put them in his arms. He answered all of Lin Ran's questions without hesitation.

Hearing that the freshmen of the five major academies had entered the space tunnel earlier than this time and had successfully reached Jiezhou, he was somewhat relieved. However, he still had to go to Jiezhou to see Lin Chong in person to feel at ease. He would have to get something that could tell whether Lin Chong was alive or dead. If he had known earlier, he would have asked Li Yuhan to bring one back. He had missed this.

"Then is there any way to get to Jiezhou now?" Lin Ran asked.

"This is why I suggest you not to take this mission." The waiter recalled some things and said with some fear: "Because the space tunnel was destroyed before, although it has been repaired, it is not stable. Many people went in and did not receive any reply.

Only a small number of people successfully reached Jiezhou, but some were injured or disabled, and some even seemed to be frightened silly!

Those guys above are worried, because it seems that no one has been able to make this space tunnel as safe as before, and they are already hiring people everywhere.

"The space tunnels nowadays are terrifying and very cold!" The waiter said with an exaggerated expression.

Lin Ran did not expect to receive such "good news" just after arriving in the Ji Dynasty. There are not many space tunnels that can go to Jiezhou in Liezhou. Without space tunnels, he can only choose the more dangerous space travel.

This is also an option, by riding a space vehicle, crossing space barriers and space turbulence to reach Jiezhou, but to be honest, this is also quite dangerous. If you are unlucky and encounter some space storms, it will be no different from a plane crash.

And there are a lot of tricks involved. A good space travel team charges a price much higher than a space tunnel. Others have been traveling for many years and have a safe road, and their space ships are strong enough. If you want to save money and go to some unprofessional ones, then you have really bought a ticket to hell.

Lin Ran caught the waiter and questioned him for a while before letting him go. He then asked some passers-by and found out that there was indeed such a big event. Even now many people are still discussing when the space tunnel can be repaired, which is really delaying things too much.

Lin Ran found a shop that specialized in inter-continental communications, went in to ask, and learned information about the five major academies. It was said that students from the five major academies in the states had already taken the space tunnel to the academy long before, and some later students did not dare to take the space tunnel, but chose other methods.

At this point, the boss chatted excitedly and said to Lin Ran, "Brother, do you know the daughter of the boss of Yong'an Tea House?"

"Oh, what's the story?" Lin Ran pretended not to know and asked deliberately.

The boss also became interested and said, "You don't know that the daughter of Yong'an Teahouse is as beautiful as a flower, like a fairy. She was also a very famous beauty in Ji Shui, the capital of the Ji Dynasty.

It's a pity that he was buried in the space turbulence. No matter how much money is offered for the teahouse owner, it is impossible to find him. During this period, whenever anyone discusses the space tunnel, this matter will definitely be mentioned. Alas!"

The boss was obviously a sentimental person, sighing at the early death of such a beautiful woman. Lin Ran became curious. He asked many people, and they all said that the daughter was as beautiful as a fairy. He was also a little curious and asked, "Boss, do you have a scroll to show me the beauty of the daughter?"

"How can a painting show her beauty? Wait a minute..." The boss turned and walked inside. After a while, he took out a scroll and spread it out in front of Lin Ran. Lin Ran saw that the scroll did indeed depict a peerless beauty, but what made Lin Ran a little strange was...

Lin Ran pointed at the necklace the daughter was wearing and asked curiously, "Why is this daughter wearing such a strange necklace? It looks like an eye."

“I don’t know about this either. Someone has mentioned it before, but it seems to be left by Qianjin’s mother. It may have some commemorative significance.

But now that you mention it, I find it a bit strange that there are people who make this kind of necklace with an eye. This is too unlucky, hahaha!" The boss was not very clear about this either.

Lin Ran laughed and shook his head. After a while, he suddenly asked, "What's your daughter's name?"

"The owner of the teahouse is surnamed Lin, and this daughter's name is Lin Shishi!" the boss replied.

"It's a nice name. Boss, please come back another day. I have something else to do!"

"Brother, take care. Be sure to chat with me when you have the chance in the future!" said the boss.

After all, there are very few listeners who are patient enough to listen to his gossip. Now that he has caught one, the boss is still a little reluctant to let him go.

"Next time definitely!"

Lin Ran waved and walked out of the store.

After the boss saw Brother Lin off, he glanced at the scroll and couldn't help but laugh, "The daughter's surname is Lin, and so is yours. What a coincidence! Is this necklace really that strange?"

The boss remembered what Brother Lin had said just now, and once again carefully looked at the necklace worn by Lin Shishi in the scroll.

"Eh?" The boss made a puzzled sound, rubbed his eyes, looked at the scroll again, and said strangely: "This is obviously a butterfly-shaped necklace, why did that guy say it was an eye? But I just..."

The boss remembered that what he just saw was also an eye. Could it be that his memory was confused?

"I've been really tired lately. Maybe my eyes are blurry. After all, it looks a lot like eyes..." The boss shook his head indifferently, attributed it to physical fatigue, rolled up the scroll, turned around and went back to the room to put away the precious thing.

While walking on the street, Lin Ran thought about what had just happened and felt it was a bit strange. Would a rich girl wear such jewelry?

Could it be that…

While Lin Ran was thinking, he suddenly subconsciously felt that someone was staring at him from behind. He quickly turned around and looked over, but he only saw a crowd of people. Someone even bumped into Lin Ran and cursed, "Why are you stopping here? Don't you know you're blocking the road? Really!"

The man walked away cursing. Lin Ran shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Maybe you are too tired. Go back and have a rest!"

Today, maybe I was worried about Lin Chong's safety, which made me overly nervous.

But in the direction Lin Ran just looked at, a woman in a light blue Taoist robe and a veil stood in the air, with a pair of bright eyes flashing with deep blue light. An almost invisible blue light shot towards Lin Ran's back. On the back of his neck, which Lin Ran couldn't see, there appeared the same eyes he had seen in the scroll just now, engraved on Lin Ran's body like a tattoo. After doing all this, the woman's figure became transparent until she could no longer be seen...

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Chapter 71

The next morning, Lin Ran slowly opened his eyes, sat up, and pulled open the curtains in the room, allowing the bright sunshine outside to shine in.

Lin Ran looked out the window and couldn't help muttering, "I'll go to that space tunnel today to take a look. Otherwise, it would be a waste of time to go to other space tunnels."

With a deep sigh, Lin Ran washed up, then went out and headed straight towards the space tunnel.

The streets in the early morning have a different feeling, especially since the fantasy world has not been polluted much. The air in the early morning is fresh and natural, refreshing and invigorating.

There were many shouting sounds early in the morning. The shops on both sides had already opened for business, vying to attract customers. There were also many specialty breakfast shops. Lin Ran went into one and bought something to fill his stomach. In fact, it was mainly because he was greedy. He wanted to eat it as soon as he smelled the fragrance. It was impossible for a breakfast assassin to appear at breakfast, right?

The space tunnel was located in a huge square, which was paved with a special stone that could store energy. There was a powerful force of space surging on it. On the stone platform in the center of the square, in the center of the air, there was a black hole that was more than ten feet wide and seemed to be able to swallow up a person's sight. The endless darkness and the faint whistling sound of the wind made people feel frightened.

The black hole seemed to be rotating faintly, and powerful and astonishing spatial energy was overflowing from it, which moved people a little. However, the black hole was very strange. Sometimes it would shake violently for a few times and then return to calm.

The stone platform below the black hole had silver runes on it that surged with terrifying spatial power, but the stone platform was missing several pieces. Even after they were filled, it seemed that due to some other reasons, the space tunnel would fluctuate from time to time.

There is a house near the square, which seems to be the ticket office.

An official staff member inside was dozing off out of boredom. In the past, this place was busy and crowded with people, but now it was so cold that even the fallen leaves were unwilling to stay here for long, but drifted away with the breeze.

Now that he was here, Lin Ran went to the ticket office, knocked on the table, and woke up the staff member.

The staff member opened his eyes impatiently and said unhappily, "If you want to take the space tunnel, you don't need to buy a ticket, just go directly. We also provide spaceships for free."

In the view of this staff member, sitting in the space tunnel now is basically a sign of wishing one's life is too long, so they deliberately find a fresh and unconventional way to relieve themselves.

"I'm not taking the space tunnel. I just want to ask when this space tunnel will be repaired?" Lin Ran asked with a smile, and handed over a few silver coins as a tea fee to the front desk staff.

"You're not the only one who has asked this question. I also want to know when it can be repaired. If it's not fixed, I will have no money to eat!" Seeing Lin Ran's attitude, the staff member stretched out his hand to hold the silver coins, dragged them to his side, and slid them into his other hand under the table. He was very professional.

The staff member basically answered all the questions Lin Ran asked next.

From these people, Lin Ran learned more accurate news, that is, the Ji Dynasty was particularly anxious because this space tunnel brought them huge profits. Now that it has been shut down for such a long time, they don’t know how much money they have lost.

Many employees were also laid off, and even those who stayed at the ticket office were only given a meager salary. This made it impossible for the common people who relied on the space tunnel to support their families to speak out their grievances, and they could only curse the gang of lunatics who destroyed the space tunnel.

"Didn't you catch the madman that day?" Lin Ran asked curiously.

He heard many people cursing that group of lunatics, and talking about that group of people, but no one said what their whereabouts were now?

The staff member spread his hands helplessly, shook his head and complained: "Who knows what those people from the Ji Dynasty are doing? The space tunnel was destroyed openly, but they didn't even find the figure of the madman, and they tried to cover up the fact that they didn't catch him, not letting many people know that they didn't catch him."

The staff member suddenly remembered something, looked at Lin Ran warily and said, "Don't spread it out, or we will be in trouble!"

"Of course I won't tell it. I keep my mouth shut!" Lin Ran laughed.

"It's better this way..."

After leaving the square where the space tunnel was located, Lin Ran felt a little strange. Was he being targeted by some strange thing? Why did everything go wrong as soon as he arrived here?

Lin Ran took out the map of Wangdu Jishui that he bought yesterday, to see where the spaceship was traveling and to go over there to take a look at the situation.

When Lin Ran joined the crowd and headed towards his next destination, not far behind him, a woman wearing a veil and a light blue Taoist robe was standing in the middle of the crowd, like a shadow.

Many people walked right past that figure, as if no one saw her at all, as if she didn't exist in this world, as if they could see her... but also as if they couldn't see her...

It was not until Lin Ran disappeared at the street corner that the woman completely disappeared...

Lin Ran arrived at the official shipping agency in Wangdu Jishui that specializes in space travel. He learned from the counter that because of problems with the space tunnel, many people now choose their method of travel. Their boat tickets have been sold out, and not a single ticket is left.

They wanted to add more trains but couldn't because there have been a lot of space turbulence and space storms recently, and they also suffered minor losses. For the sake of safety, in fact, in order not to damage their reputation, they decided to maintain the existing trains and not add more.

What bothers Lin Ran the most is that the boat ticket, which originally only required some gold coins, has now soared to be measured in spirit stones. The price is still rising higher and higher, and it is estimated that it will not come down. Where can a poor guy like him get spirit stones?

Coming out of the shipping office in dejected mood, Lin Ran found a teahouse to sit in and thought seriously about what to do next. He suddenly remembered that the jade pendant that Jiaer left for him seemed to be called the Dragon and Phoenix Jade.

He can also use spiritual power to transmit sound. After he got it, he didn't try it much. Now it's just right that he can ask Jiaer for help. With the ability of Jiaer and his Celestial Clan, they should be able to know Lin Chong's current safety.

Taking out the half jade pendant from his arms, looking at the phoenix on it and touching the warm jade pendant, Lin Ran closed his eyes, poured spiritual power into the jade pendant, and conveyed what he wanted to say.

……

The Celestial Clan, this ancient race, may not be known to anyone in today's Kyushu Continent where this mysterious race is, but if you climb into that extremely cutting-edge circle, you will learn about the Celestial Clan.

I know that there is a powerful and ancient race in the sky, which has been occupying the sky and overlooking the entire Kyushu...

In the deep blue sky, among the thick clouds, there are many sky islands, with civilizations and races different from those on the mainland.

On one of the sky islands, it is quiet but sunny here. Beautiful flowers like sunflowers are facing the sun, absorbing the sun's energy and transforming it into refreshing floral fragrance.

The fragrance of the flower actually glowed with a faint golden light, as if it was purifying the world.

At the highest point of the sky island, there was a girl in a light blue dress, standing tall and graceful, with her soft black hair tied up casually. In her hand, she held a blood-red jade pendant. Her face was elegant and beautiful, without much emotion. Her eyes were as calm as a well, quietly looking at the vast white clouds.