Their commission was suspicious.

"Hmm?" Xi's heart stirred.

Xi initially thought Chen Luo was just making things up when he said he'd take her to find her older sister, but now that she was sitting here eating and Chen Luo was still talking about it, it seemed quite believable.

But Chen Luo didn't ask me if it would be a bit abrupt if I said I wanted to see my sister.

Xi's thoughts are very complicated right now. She wants to stay at home, but she also wants to see her older sister. However, she doesn't really want to move around...

Moreover, Xi is easily embarrassed. After decisively refusing and giving Chen Luo the middle finger, she was afraid that if she wanted to go with Chen Luo to find her sister, Chen Luo would refuse her.

"Speaking of which, how are we supposed to get there? You're not going to make me go find Big Sister alone again, and then summon you when I get near her, are you? You wouldn't be that cowardly, would you?" Nian suddenly became wary.

Because this is the process we follow when looking for Xi during the New Year.

"Don't say that. I'm actually very busy. You may think I'm very free now, but I haven't had a break for several days," Chen Luo complained.

"No, you have to come with me to find Big Sister. You can't let me go alone!" Before Chen Luo could even try to curry favor with Nian, she issued the commission.

[Ding! You have a new request!]

"...Alright then, time is tight anyway. If I haven't found your sister by 8 pm tonight, she'll probably start criticizing me." Chen Luo sighed.

Since the bar opens at 8 o'clock, Chen Luo needs to find his sister as soon as possible and wake her up.

"8 PM tonight? Are you kidding me?" Nian looked at Chen Luo in surprise.

“Do you know where my eldest sister lives? Do you know how far away it is from where she lives? Doesn’t finding someone require clues? Doesn’t it require investigation? Doesn’t it require traveling?” Nian said.

I really don't know exactly where my eldest sister is now, but I know she must be very far away.

"Are you kidding me? Who do you think I am?" Chen Luo raised his head.

"Are you going to use your magical bar?" Nian blinked.

"Uh...no." Chen Luo shook his head.

Generally speaking, Chen Luo can indeed open the bar door at will, but only if he places a teleportation anchor there. Otherwise, opening a door out of thin air will cost 20 Primogems.

Chen Luo could indeed spend 20 Primogems to quickly reach the location where his sister opened the door last time, but it would cost 20 Primogems...

Damn it, I should have just placed a teleportation point at your sister's door!

“However… I actually have a fairly quick way to get from here to Shangshu and find your sister in less than 10 minutes,” Chen Luo said.

"Then let's go quickly." Nian stood up abruptly.

"..." Looking at Chen Luo and Nian, who were about to set off to find her sister, Xi was now considering whether or not to speak.

"Let's go then." Chen Luo stood up as well, and with a wave of his hand, the hot pot and everything else disappeared.

"Then I'll go back to my painting." Xi stood up with a cold face.

"Huh? How can you go back? You're a crucial supporter of this method."

"I'm not going!" Xi crossed her arms.

[Ding! You have a new request!]

[Seeking Sister]: 300 Primogems + 20 Favorability Points for Xi

"No, you have to go. Hurry, Xi, draw a river." Chen Luo tugged at Xi's sleeve.

"I do not want!"

"I beg you."

“…Alright, for your sister’s sake.” Xi’s tone softened a bit.

With a few strokes of the brush, a long, dark river appeared before Chen Luo and the others.

“However, if I take you two to see your sister like this, it’s easy for something to go wrong if three fragments of time are gathered together. You don’t mind if I do something a little tricky, do you?” Chen Luo said to Nian and Xi after the river of time appeared.

Xi has done everything she can now, and has no further use to her.

"...What tricks are you going to pull?" Xi looked at Chen Luo with some wariness.

"It's nothing, just a little disguise for you. Don't worry, your sister will recognize you two at a glance, and she'll be very surprised. But we can talk about this on the way." Chen Luo waved his hand, and a small boat appeared, landing on the dark river.

"Come on up," Chen Luo said to Nian Hexi.

"Do you want to take a boat?"

"But I only drew half of this river."

"Enough, enough. The cries of monkeys on both banks could not be stopped, and the light boat had already passed ten thousand mountains." Back then, after Chen Luo and Xi boarded the wooden boat together, Chen Luo gently slid the oars, and the whole world instantly changed its appearance.

Using boats as a vehicle and the river god's ability to appear on any river as a medium, a distance of thousands of miles can be covered in an instant.

Chapter 1612 Mercury Lamp: Want to be my mother? You're dreaming!

"..."

"..."

"You're telling me this is New Year's Eve?" Sitting in a pavilion, her older sister rubbed her forehead, looking somewhat troubled.

I woke up too quickly, I need to sleep a little longer!

"What's wrong? Is there something hard to recognize? Isn't it obvious?"

"Oh, I see, I must still be dreaming." Looking at Chen Luo's shocked face, Ling suddenly realized, and then went back to sleep.

Before going to sleep, he didn't forget to drink a shot of alcohol.

"Get up, get up. I specifically asked you to come to the bar. I should have come yesterday, but I accidentally forgot. Sister, you won't be mad at me, will you?"

“Nian and Xi wanted to come find you, but they didn’t know how. Wendy and the others didn’t even think of you, sister. Unlike me, I only feel sorry for my sister.”

"Stop, stop, stop! Judging from your sarcastic tone, you must be Chen Luo himself." Lingjie quickly stopped Chen Luo's sarcastic remarks.

"Stop fooling around." Chen Luo, having received Ling Jie's reply, did not look at Ling Jie, but instead grabbed Nian, who was climbing up his thigh, by the back of her collar and threw her aside.

When three fragments of the year come together, heresy will surely arise!

There certainly wouldn't be any problems inside the bar. Chen Luo couldn't predict what might happen outside the bar, and he didn't want to face it, so he could only give Nian and Xi a little disguise.

The final result is that, to Chen Luo's right is a very mischievous white-haired dragon-horned child, while to his left is a seemingly delicate black-haired dragon-horned girl...

On the way here, Chen Luo turned Xi Nian and Xi Xi into children, so there was no need to worry that the combined power of the three of them would cause strange phenomena.

After all, Nian and Xi are still just children.

Because Nian and Xi were born as fragments of a god, they did not have a childhood in the strict sense. Therefore, after the meaning of childhood was given to them, their strength decreased by a little bit.

This prevented the occurrence of strange phenomena, but it added a lot of burden to Chen Luo, such as how to get Nian and Xi to get along peacefully.

As a child, Nian was too mischievous, while Xi was too timid and weak, both extremely sensitive to any external stimuli. However, this doesn't mean that Xi is easy to mess with now.

"Wah!" Nian burst into tears.

Seeing this, Chen Luo quickly pinched Xi's little face, and finally took out a lollipop to trick Xi into letting go of her mouth that was biting Nian's little hand.

Xi is indeed a bit timid and sensitive now, but she is also very intimidating. For example, she was just bitten and immediately turned back into her original form, only to be childishized by Chen Luo.

Fortunately, [he's still a child], so this skill has no cooldown.

"Alright, let's hurry up and get to the bar, otherwise those two will just stay in childlike mode forever." Chen Luo summoned the bar door from a pavilion and then coaxed Nian and Xi inside like he was taking care of children.

Looking at this chaotic scene gave him a headache, so he took a swig of wine.

I wish this were just a dream.

But if even bars have appeared, then it can no longer be considered a dream.

After her sister had had enough time to herself, she went to the bar she hadn't been to in a long time. On the table closest to the bar entrance, a glass of fine Qiongyao wine was waiting for someone destined to taste it...

But this destined person definitely can't be Nian!

Your sister placed one hand on Nian's head, stopping the child from doing something indecent to the wine glass, then picked up the glass and drank it all in one gulp.

"Why haven't you canceled their abilities yet?" After downing a long-awaited drink and confirming that this wasn't a dream, Ling asked Chen Luo, who was teasing Xi.

"The reason for keeping them outside the bar is to prevent them from revealing their true forms and causing trouble with the three fragments of the child's appearance. So they have to maintain their childlike appearance. Even if they turn back, they have to immediately turn back again."

"And now, because you can't hurt each other in a bar, you can't be hurt, so you can't turn back," Chen Luo said, shrugging.

"You just want to see those two kids acting like children, don't you?" Ling rolled her eyes at Chen Luo.

I'm a fool, not a fool!

This excuse might fool Xi, but it's a bit outdated to fool Ling.

"Hey." Chen Luo smiled sheepishly.

"I wasn't praising you. Hurry up and turn them both back," Ling said.

"No, I really like the way those two kids are. Let me play with them a little longer."

"Sure, then turn off that recording light cone you're holding first," Ling said meaningfully.

“…a cup of golden intoxication and debauchery,” Chen Luo suddenly said.

"Drunken Life, Dreamlike Death" is your sister's favorite drink.

Ordinary people would be in a drunken stupor after drinking this wine, but after drinking it, Ling felt sleepy but couldn't fall asleep, like being in a dream but not quite, which was quite strange.

“Those two are my brothers,” your sister said sternly.

They want to bribe me into giving up protecting my younger siblings, and all they'll give me is a cup of golden, decadent wine?

You're using this to test your cadres?

Two cups.

"And they are my dearest family and friends."

"Three cups. And one more cup of mixed wine personally prepared by the Oath of Judah."

"I didn't see anything." Seeing the golden wine floating in front of her, Sister Ling threw Xiao Nian, who was clinging to her and trying to steal her gourd, to Chen Luo.

"Heave-ho!" Chen Luo took the New Year.

Your sister has no worries about Nian and Xi's safety; Chen Luo's character is trustworthy.

Ling just hopes that the two of them won't do anything too outrageous while acting like children, so that they won't be unable to face their own dark past.

The rest is simple.

Children are often easier to win over than adults because adults know the world isn't worth saving, while only children dream of having it all.

That's right, the reason Chen Luo didn't turn Nian and Xi back into their child form was simply to increase their favorability.

Chen Luo desperately needs the dragon's friendship.

Chen Luo wants to be a dragon knight

Fortunately, Chen Luo had already helped Nian and Xi complete several tasks, earning them favorability rewards. Combined with the initial favorability boost from achievements like "Friend of Non-Humans" and "Dragon Tamer," he could easily raise their favorability simply by using his strongest weapon against the little girl—the little girl's lollipop.

So when Chen Luo used the angler to fish out the second item from the river, he successfully gained the friendship of the two dragons.

If the other party is a little girl, as long as Chen Luo doesn't make too bad an initial impression, it wouldn't be difficult to lower their favorability to 7% through various means, spending time with them, and using lollipops that little girls can never resist.

What if she's not a little girl?

Why not just turn them into little girls?

However, Chen Luo also paid a price – Chen Luo has now completely transformed into a cat tree.

Chen Luo is the frame, and Nian and Xi are the two cats.

"What is this thing?" Chen Luo examined the bar of soap in his hand, somewhat puzzled.

[Don't rush me, don't rush me, it's being tested.]

The user-friendly plugin began analyzing this item.

Chen Luo's investigative skills are really useful; they can be used to identify items.

Even if it's an item you've never seen before and it doesn't belong to this world, you can always identify it by analyzing it slowly after you get your hands on it.

The premise is that this thing shouldn't be too complicated, such as delving into the origins of the world, but this soap is not that type of thing.

[Soap]: This is a very slippery soap. If you accidentally drop it on the ground, someone will need to pick it up. But picking up soap is not an easy task.

In layman's terms, if this soap falls to the ground, the designated person will want to pick it up. However, if no one is designated beforehand, everyone who sees the soap will try to grab it. This effect will only dissipate if the soap remains in their hand for three seconds.

The good news is that this soap is a powerful control item.