Chapter 68: Hu Li's Hometown Memories

A beautiful black-haired girl with clear eyes wearing ill-fitting men's clothes walking on the street, looking around curiously, and holding a Gothic doll that emitted a strange aura as if it had died with grievances in her arms. Such a combination was really eye-catching in a place with a lot of people—to be honest, Yu Sheng felt that he had underestimated the "difficulty" of taking both Hu Li and Irene out at the same time.

He had already lost count of how many curious gazes had been cast on him along the way. Some of them were of course on Hu Li, who was looking around, but the other half were on him.

But Yu Sheng had to brace himself and accompany the fox girl beside him, because she really didn't understand anything.

She didn't even know what the money in this world looked like—in fact, it was already good that she knew that she had to spend money to buy things. This was thanks to the fact that she had lived in a civilized society many, many years ago.

And on the other hand, the difference between the social order in Hu Li's memory and Boundary City would always bring unexpected trouble.

For example, when they passed by a parking lot, she was particularly curious why there were so many "immortal vehicles" parked inside, and why they were so quiet, and those cars were so patient—to be honest, when her question first came up, Yu Sheng didn't even react to what she meant.

"In my hometown, cars, boats, and ships all have tool spirits. The tool spirits of transportation tools are mostly fond of running and jumping, and most of them are not willing to stay quietly outside the mountain gate," Hu Li explained to Yu Sheng in a low voice. "So over there, when immortals and demons go out and have to stay in one place, they will hand over their cars and boats to the manager. The manager is responsible for taking the cars and boats to 'run around' nearby. There is also a kind of large field with a small universe inside, where you can put the cars and boats in and let them run around freely. That's called a 'self-service parking lot'…"

As she spoke, she pointed at a car on the side of the road that looked like it was being driven by a novice driver and couldn't park in the parking space for a long time. "This one is very clumsy. In our place, it would be laughed at by the children's bamboo horses."

Yu Sheng quickly pressed down the fox girl's hand. "This place is different from your hometown. Don't point randomly."

Hu Li nodded in confusion, "Oh."

Yu Sheng silently wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. He was suddenly very curious about what the fox girl's hometown was like—when he first met Hu Li, he thought her hometown was that kind of classic immortal and demon cultivation civilization, but then the tour guide immortal came out, and then "several hundred security immortals surrounded and arrested the great fox demon who violated the mountain and forest protection law and sentenced her to five hundred years" also came out, and now even children's toys (bamboo horses) with artificial intelligence (tool spirits) came out. He felt a little dazed in his head, and always felt…

The style of this fox girl's hometown was a bit hard to imagine.

Was this really something that a normal universe could nurture?

However, it was a pity that Hu Li herself couldn't clearly describe what her hometown was like—not only because she was still young when she left home, but also because of the long torture in the Otherworld, which had made her forget many things.

"I don't remember many things. I just remember the old man said that my hometown was not like that originally," Hu Li recalled the yellowed and blurry hometown in her mind and tried her best to tell Yu Sheng. "It was the sudden arrival of a 'heavenly person' with great power who enlightened the originally fighting sentient beings on the ground. And then after a long time, we finally lived a life of 'traveling across the stars in a flash' with the heavenly people. I still remember the old man said that the stars in the sky would change their positions every few years. That was the heavenly people adjusting some kind of channel… my father also worked on the channel. His task was to push out the things that broke into the channel, and then give them a ticket…"

Speaking of this, the fox girl became a little excited. "My father would drive a particularly, particularly large 'immortal shuttle,' bigger than a building! He said that was called a 'star boat.' The tool spirit of the star boat was even more powerful. Only one person needed to lie in a pool in the star boat and give orders to the tool spirit, and that thing could fly up. It could catch things faster than light, with a kind of magic weapon called… a moon-front-circling-to-death-breath…"

Yu Sheng listened with a stunned expression. He turned his head and glanced at Irene, who was being held in Hu Li's arms, motionless and pretending to be an ordinary doll. He muttered in his heart, "Can you understand?"

"I can't," Irene's voice came from the bottom of Yu Sheng's heart. "You really believe her? She's probably just making it up… I suggest you wait a couple of months for Hu Li's mind to stabilize before asking her these things. Maybe the version will change again by then."

Yu Sheng frowned. He also had some doubts about the authenticity of the fantastic things that Hu Li described, but he felt that if this girl's mind was really still confused, she would not be able to make up such an imaginative and "well-set" story.

But in any case, everything that Hu Li described to Yu Sheng ultimately left a deep impression on him.

"Alright, don't think about it," Irene's voice came from the bottom of his heart, interrupting Yu Sheng's rambling thoughts. "You'd better hurry up and get Hu Li a more normal set of clothes—it's your turn to be challenged."

Hearing this, Yu Sheng's face immediately turned bitter.

Many things always seemed to be very smooth when he started to make a plan, but once it came to the point where he had to consider the details, the troublesome part would come.

He didn't know how to pick girls' clothes! He had never even been in a shop that sold women's clothes!

However, he could only brace himself and go—he was the one who had said he would adopt Hu Li, and it was useless to regret it now.

But just as Yu Sheng was leading Hu Li and walking into the shopping mall with a resolute attitude as if he were going to his execution, a familiar figure suddenly flashed past the corner of their eyes.

It was a slightly petite short-haired girl, seventeen or eighteen years old, with her lips pursed, and a silence and maturity in her appearance that was slightly inconsistent with her age.

At first, Yu Sheng didn't recognize the other party. He just felt that she was somewhat familiar. After two or three seconds, he finally reacted to where this sense of familiarity came from.

It was the girl who called herself "Little Red Riding Hood"—she was not wearing the dark red clothes today, but had changed into a brightly colored coat, which made her unrecognizable at a glance.

Yu Sheng immediately knew that he had met his savior.

And at almost the same time, "Little Red Riding Hood" who was walking on the other side of the road also noticed the gaze on her. She immediately looked up—for a brief moment, her eyes were as alert as a wolf.

But the wolf-like gaze was fleeting, so short that no one could notice it. She saw Yu Sheng's appearance, and a look of slight surprise appeared on her face.

Little Red Riding Hood quickly crossed the traffic and came over. She looked at Yu Sheng with a trace of surprise and sized him up for a few seconds before she said, "…You're also shopping?"

"…Is it strange that I'm out shopping?"

"Ah, sorry, I just feel it's a coincidence," Little Red Riding Hood noticed that her words were a bit inappropriate, and immediately lowered her head and apologized. However, the doubt in her eyes did not diminish at all—

Because she already knew that Yu Sheng lived in an Otherworld called 66 Wutong Road.

The moment she left that Otherworld, she had guessed that this "human" who called himself "Yu Sheng" was very likely to have a very low human content. The extremely real human words and deeds of the other party were very likely to be a kind of "mimicry."

She really didn't expect that she could see this "person" who lived in an Otherworld for a long time running out to buy things on the street.

…Could it be that this guy could also eat human food?

Little Red Riding Hood couldn't help but have such an absurd (she thought) thought in her mind.

Then she noticed Hu Li standing next to her, and the doll being held in Hu Li's arms.

Little Red Riding Hood frowned slightly, and after a moment of reaction, she recognized Hu Li's face. Then she pointed at Irene, who was motionless and even had no highlight in her eyes.

"This one, dead?"

Yu Sheng saw that Irene's eyes almost recovered their highlight—the little doll moved slightly in Hu Li's arms, and then he heard the other party's fierce birdsong and fragrant flowers in his mind. "She's dead! She's blown up in the sky eight hundred times! She's %￥￥%#—Yu Sheng! Scold her! Scold her back for me!"

"She's scolding you," Yu Sheng pointed at Irene, who still dared not move, and said calmly to Little Red Riding Hood. "It's very ugly. I'm a cultured person, and I can't say it."

Irene immediately cursed even more uglily.

Little Red Riding Hood couldn't hear it either.

But she could imagine it.

"You guys are… quite creative," she couldn't help but look at Irene up and down several times. "You can actually use this method to take her out in public… by the way, judging by your lineup, are you going to buy clothes for her (referring to Hu Li)?"

"You've guessed it," Yu Sheng spread his hands and directly shielded himself from the continuous babbling from Irene's side. "I was just worrying about it, and I didn't expect to see you—can you help me?"

"I can probably guess what kind of help you need," Little Red Riding Hood reacted in less than two seconds. Her gaze swept over Hu Li's obviously ill-fitting clothes, and a smile appeared on her face. "This is… indeed something I've never experienced before."

Yu Sheng's eyes lit up. "You agreed?"

Little Red Riding Hood looked nonchalant. "Of course, it's just a small favor—but you have to help me with something later."