After clearing Type Moon, start fighting for a better world

Unlike him, Tesla had been thinking about catching Xia Chuanhu these days and making him tell her all the knowledge he knew, so she was looking for him every day. Unfortunately, the Golden Courtyard was the territory of the World Serpent, and it was not easy for her, an anti-entropy person, to look for someone in a high-profile manner. As a result, she didn't find him at all.

He was not caught until now.

"I really didn't expect you to actually forget it!"

People have almost reached the shore.

Tesla, who was still angry, crossed his arms and tapped the ground with his toes. "If I hadn't seen your conspicuous blond hair in the crowd, you would have escaped."

It’s strange to say, although there are many people with blond hair in Europe, and it can even be said to be a common hair color, Xia Chuanhu is much more conspicuous than others, as if he himself is shining.

"I have a lot of things to do here as well." Xia Chuanhu explained with an apologetic smile, "But I am indeed in the wrong this time. I will find a way to make it up to you when I am done with my work."

"Is there something urgent?"

Unlike Tesla's dissatisfaction, Einstein looked very calm: "A man like you will forget the agreement between us. Although I don't think it is something worth your special attention, you have never broken the agreement in the past few years, so I wonder if you have encountered some urgent matter that you cannot inform us."

"Thank you for your understanding, Aiyin. In fact, some unexpected situations did occur. I will find time to discuss the technique between us later."

"Regarding this, I just heard that some of you will stay in the UK for a while?"

Einstein asked, "In fact, in addition to participating in the trial operation of the Golden Courtyard, Dr. Tesla and I also came to the UK for some business - no, to be more precise, there are things to deal with in Cocolia, right?"

Cocolia?

Xia Chuanhu couldn't help but look at Cocolia who hadn't interrupted him: "What are you doing in England?"

"There is a welfare home here that I cooperate with. I come here to check on the situation normally. You know, I will visit orphanages in various places from time to time to see how the children are doing. I haven't been to this one in the UK for a long time." Cocolia explained, "Dr. Einstein, do you want to invite Xia Chuan to join us?"

"Not exactly. We plan to stay in England for two days, and since Xia Chuan is also planning to stay, our free time should coincide... What do you think, Xia Chuan?"

"Okay."

Xia Chuanhu agreed immediately: "Let's make it tonight. I have classes the day after tomorrow, and I have to go back to Tianming tomorrow. If I am free, it's only tonight."

"That's better than the other! This time I'm going to squeeze all the knowledge out of your head! Be prepared!"

"Dr. Tesla, you are a beautiful lady, please be careful with your words. This is a public place after all."

"Don't try that on me!"

Is this a good thing or a bad thing? In terms of age, Tesla and Einstein are undoubtedly grandmothers, but they still maintain such a young and positive state in their minds, which is really rare.

But when he thought that the two of them were old enough to be grandmothers of Kiana and Bianca, Xiachuan Hu felt that something was strange.

On one side——

"Um, um... Boss, can we go now?"

Seeing that the conversation had come to an end, Padufils mustered up the courage to interject, "If we don't leave now, it will be dark by the time we get there."

"Well, okay, let's go. Please lead the way, Padu. See you in the evening, Dr. Tesla, Ain. I will take the initiative to find you later."

"Thank you. Where are you going?"

"Hmm~~~ It's quite a coincidence. I'm going to an orphanage as well." Xia Chuanhu explained, "I talked with Padufils a few times before, and with my own intelligence network, I think the director of the orphanage where she came from should be an old friend of mine, so I want to pay her a visit."

Xia Chuanhu’s old friend?

This statement made the three people from Anti-Entropy pay attention to it. If Xia Chuanhu could consider someone as a friend, then he must not be an ordinary person, right? You know, even if it was Tianming and Anti-Entropy, there were only about ten people on both sides who could be considered friends by Xia Chuanhu.

Now suddenly an old friend shows up...

"Actually, he just went to see his old lover~~~"

Next to Xia Chuanhu, Vita bluntly revealed the truth: "And she is his old lover whom he has known for a long, long time. He even said that they are old friends~~~ When they meet, it will be exposed directly."

Good old friend?

Cocolia's eyes suddenly became sharper and more energetic.

Xia Chuanhu quickly slapped Vita on the forehead: "Stop making up rumors, okay? At present, I only know that there is an acquaintance of mine there, but I don't know who it is. If it's a man, would you say he is my old lover?"

"Haven't you already admitted that the other person is a woman?"

"Is that woman my old lover?"

"You nodded yourself in the bathroom the night before last."

"..."

This is really hard to refute.

Cocolia's expression became increasingly strange as the two talked.

Then, suddenly, Cocolia thought of a possibility that might be too coincidental: "Miss Pardo, can I ask the name of the orphanage where you came from?"

"Hmm? It's called the Twilight Sanatorium." Padufils turned around and said, "But it can also be called the Twilight Orphanage, the Twilight Welfare Home, anyway, it's just [Twilight]. It seems to be the name of the street where Nia's mother was born."

dusk.

This name made Cocolia's nervousness disappear at once, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of her mouth: "This is really a coincidence, it seems that we can always go the same way, Tiger."

"Ah? Could it be that——"

"Yes, I am also planning to go to the Twilight Welfare Home. What a coincidence."

After taking two steps forward, Cocolia leaned close to Xiachuanhu's ear and whispered in a voice full of charm: "After that, please introduce your [old friend] there to me."

3. Just like the dusk street back then

The starting point and end point of the Golden Courtyard are the same. You are there when you board the ship, and you will naturally return there when you disembark.

If she hadn't discovered this through investigation (eavesdropping), Padufils wouldn't have dared to get on board so easily.

After leaving the port, with the guidance of Padufils and Cocolia who already knew the way, Xia Chuanhu and his group quickly passed through the city and gradually approached an area slightly away from the city center.

Xia Chuanhu had been to London many times before. In the 18th and 19th centuries, he lived in London for more than years in total. He had been to every district in London.

He felt that the surroundings were somewhat like the East End of London, or the famous slums of London. Of course, it was only a relative position. It was the 21st century, and the urban area of ​​a big city would not fall to the level of the 19th century.

Not to mention that this is Britain, a country with a huge influence of destiny and a fairly advanced development process.

Compared with the bustling city center, the retro atmosphere is more obvious when a group of people walk on this street, or it can be said that there is a sense of age unique to the old city.

There are a lot of creepers on the walls on both sides of the street, and occasionally you can see some faded graffiti...

“It feels like I’ve gone back to the last century.”

Vita exclaimed, "Little Padu, how far are we from your home?"

"It's not far, not far. It's just around the corner."

Padofelice, who had already untied her tail, walked in front with her hands behind her head, looking very relaxed. According to her own words, she didn't pay much attention to it when she was a child, so everyone in the area knew that she had a cat's tail, and with the help of "Mother Nia", it was still regarded as a special decoration until now, so she could let it out without any hesitation.

(It’s a pity that she hasn’t been noticed by Tianming until now.)

A tail grew behind him.

If this kind of thing was noticed by Tianming, then Padufils would definitely be invited to Tianming headquarters for tea and to cooperate in some research. Apart from anything else, if Xia Chuanhu himself knew about Padufils without knowing anything, he would probably be very curious about her tail.

(Is it because the World Serpents are covering for her? Or is it that Nia’s mother has been helping her all along?)

If it was the latter, then Xia Chuanhu would be somewhat relieved. After all, this meant that the old friends he was about to meet would probably not be those super noisy ones.

“We’re here!”

Just as Xiachuan Hu was thinking this, Paduafilis was the first to turn the corner.

After catching up with her, Xia Chuanhu and others immediately saw the welfare home located on one side of the street. From the outside, it looked no different from an ordinary urban orphanage. The only eye-catching thing was the small spire protruding from the other side of the wall, giving people the feeling of a small church.

On the wall next to the door there is an iron plate with five large characters "Dusk Sanatorium" written on it.

Trotting to the door and pushing open the half-open European-style iron door, Padua Felice shouted directly: "Children! Your sister Padua is back! ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

Halfway through her speech, Padufils' voice suddenly turned into a miserable scream! It reminded people of the sound a girl would make when she saw a ghost in a haunted house!

Without any hesitation, Xia Chuanhu rushed into the welfare home!

"Pado! You—"

Before he could finish his words, Xia Chuanhu was shocked for a moment because of the situation in front of him.

Behind the door of the sanatorium was a relatively open space. There was a small truck parked there, with the compartment half open. A lot of boxes could be seen piled up inside. They were probably the supplies purchased by the sanatorium, right? After all, judging from what Padovich had revealed earlier and Cocolia's explanation, there were quite a few people here, so it was natural that a large amount of supplies were needed.

But this was not what surprised Xia Chuanhu.

What surprised him was the people who were moving boxes there at the moment.

Although the clothes he wore were different from what I remembered, they were common casual clothes, but the mask on his face...

"——Thousand Tribulations?"

After feeling the power in the other person's body for a while and confirming that it was correct, Xia Chuanhu let down his guard: "You... why are you here?"

“That’s the question I wanted to ask.”

Gently putting down the box filled with supplies, Qianjie adjusted his mask and asked coldly, "What are you doing here? Are you here to adopt some unwanted bastard?"

"...You are still the same as always, your tone of voice is so bad."

"how?"

Although separated by a mask, Xia Chuanhu could feel that Qianjie's gaze suddenly became ferocious and sharp, like a tiger ready to attack at any time.

And just then...

"Scared, scared me to death~~~~~!"

Getting up from the ground and brushing the dust off her butt, Padufils looked as if she had just survived a disaster: "Brother Jie! You should have told me before you came here today. When I came back and saw your scary mask, I was really scared to death!"

"Humph, you are a coward, why do you blame me?"

"Pado, do you know him?"

"Of course I know him!" Padufils said with a smile, "He's Brother Jie, his real name is Qianjie, and he's a porter who has only been here for the past two years - that's what he says, but he does all the hard work! He's a bit fierce, but Brother Jie is actually a very nice person, and the children all like him very much!"

The sixth of the Thirteen Heroes of the Fire Moth came to a relatively remote welfare home in the UK two years ago to work as a porter?

(No, wait, I remember Qianjie in the pre-civilization period seemed to be... Does this count as returning to the starting point in another sense?)

Xia Chuanhu's eyes turned meaningful when he looked at Qianjie.

And the moment he sensed the change in his eyes, Qianjie glared back with an even more ferocious look - the two grown men just stared at each other through their masks in the open space in front of the welfare home.

Then...

Click~~~

"Qianjie, what happened?"

Along with the sound of the door opening, an extremely soft voice came from the welfare home.

Upon hearing this voice, Qianjie curled his lips immediately, put away his gaze from confronting Xia Chuanhu, bent down and picked up the box: "Nothing, the kitten was just scared by me. Besides, you have a guest."

"Is that so? Thank you for your hard work."

"Humph."

With a cold snort, Qianjie carried the box and walked into the welfare home. The owner of the voice then came to Xia Chuanhu and the others and said, "I haven't seen you for a few days, Phyllis. Where did you go to make trouble this time?"

"No, no! I'm not fooling around. I went out to work, Nia's mother! I made a lot of extra money this time, just in time to buy some fun and delicious food for the children!" Padufils explained quickly, "Oh, by the way, I also brought the boss who helped me find a job. He said he wanted to meet you. He's your old friend! See if you know him?"

"Um......"

His gaze shifted to Xiachuanhu. The woman, who was wearing thick nun clothes and gave off an abstinence-like feeling, smiled slightly: "Indeed, I know her - long time no see, Your Excellency."

"Yes, it's been a long time. For you, it's been more than 50,000 years, and for me, it's been more than seven years."

Xia Chuanhu also smiled back.

"What should I call you now?"

"Is it [Aponia]? Or... [Joan of Arc]?"

4. Joan of Arc Years Ago

A short while later, in the reception room of the dusk sanatorium.