Douluo Jueshi: I Don't Want to Be an Evil Soul Master

Chapter 165 Willful

"Shall we rest at the beach tonight?"

Lin Xiao's eyes looked even more strange. "You can't even bear the current temperature, and you still want to rest at the beach?"

"It should be better on the ground." Orange completely ignored Lin Xiao's gaze and looked at the ground with a hint of excitement. "I heard that there are ordinary people living near the coast of the Ice Sea. Even they can live here. We just need to rest for a night, so it should be fine."

"Oh right, let's find out if there are other people living nearby. The fact that people here can live nearby must be related to where they live. We won't be afraid of the cold if we live where they live, right? We are soul guides after all."

If Lin Xiao hadn't been able to communicate with Electrolux in his mind, he would have suspected that he had fallen into some kind of illusion.

Although Orange had a complicated expression when she came to see him a few days ago, she was no different from the Orange he knew.

However, since she went out this time, she seemed like a different person. Sometimes I could feel that she was hiding something, and sometimes I felt that she was a little too optimistic, making her completely unpredictable.

After flying along the coastline for a distance, the two actually saw a small fishing village. Although the population was small, each house was built quite solidly.

Lin Xiao didn't know much about architecture, and couldn't figure out the specific mysteries behind it, but the buildings that could adapt to such places were probably the result of the accumulated experience of countless generations.

The two did not land directly near the village. They found a secluded place to land and then walked towards the village. Before they got close, some people looked over curiously.

Lin Xiao glanced around and found no trace of other soul masters. Instead, Orange came forward to greet them in a very familiar manner.

"Excuse me, we are from far away. It's getting late. Can we rest here for one night?"

When the villagers heard what Orange said, they all looked at the people around them, but no one stood up to respond.

"Forget it, let's go." Lin Xiao stepped forward and spoke softly.

"Stay." Lin Xiao's words seemed to be heard by the villagers, and finally a deep voice came out, "You will freeze to death if you go out so late."

As the voice fell, a tall man pushed his way through the crowd and walked out. He was wrapped tightly in clothes, so his appearance and age could not be seen clearly. However, judging from his figure, he should be a native of the Sun-Moon Empire.

"There aren't many people at my house. If you don't mind, you can come and stay at my house."

"Thank you." Orange looked back at Lin Xiao and walked towards the village first.

Lin Xiao really couldn't figure out what Orange was trying to do, so he followed with a frown.

The wind in the village was much weaker, but still not very warm. The man walking in front suddenly sighed, "You two should be soul guides, right?"

"Is it obvious?" Orange took a look at his clothes.

"With the average person's strength, if you had come here on foot, I would have been able to spot you from a distance in the village. As for those who have the money to buy mounts, they wouldn't come to our place. I just saw a flying soul guide flying over in the sky, so it must be you."

"Although our place is remote, it's not completely cut off from the outside world. Soul guides have come here before." Seeing Orange's somewhat surprised expression, the man quickly looked away and explained, "Watch your step. This is my home."

As the man spoke, he led Lin Xiao and the other man into the courtyard. The courtyard was not very large, and only one room looked relatively intact. The other rooms were missing doors and windows. Through the gaps, you could see miscellaneous items piled up inside and some frozen sea fish.

As soon as he entered the house, Lin Xiao saw a painting hanging on the wall opposite the door. There was no light in the room, so he could only make out someone fighting a sea soul beast.

There was a long table right below the painting, and there seemed to be some offerings on it, but they had become hard after not being there for long.

"And who is this?" Lin Xiao suddenly asked.

After returning to the house, the man, or rather the young man, no longer protected his face. He didn't look that old, at most about the same age as Lin Xiao.

Following Lin Xiao's gaze, he also looked at the painting on the wall.

"This is what my grandmother hung here. She said it was for the sea god to bless me with safe voyages. But it never works."

"Don't talk nonsense." A voice suddenly shouted from the inner room, "You will be punished for saying this in front of the Sea God. Why don't you apologize to the Sea God right away?"

"I'm sorry, my grandma is in poor health and can't catch a cold." The young man said, and shouted to the inner room, "I know."

Sighing helplessly, he still bowed as the old man instructed.

Poseidon?

Lin Xiao took another careful look at the picture on the wall. The man called "Sea God" only occupied a small part of the picture, while the huge body of the soul beast occupied most of the picture.

"Where did this painting come from?"

"I don't know about that. My grandma said this painting is older than she is."

Lin Xiao didn't ask any more questions, just nodded.

"I'm sorry, you two are soul masters, and we don't have anything worth showing off at home."

"It's okay, we already ate when we came here, and we don't need to sleep. Just give us a place to shelter from the wind." Orange responded while looking around.

"Excuse me, both of you." The young man felt a little embarrassed after hearing this. "If you don't mind, you two can rest here. I'll go and squeeze in with grandma."

"We are the ones who disturbed them." Lin Xiao smiled and nodded, watching the man enter the inner room. Soon, a whisper came from inside, as if explaining something to his grandmother.

Lin Xiao's expression turned serious again and he turned around to look at Orange who was already sitting next to him.

"What exactly are you going to do?"

"Do you think I'm a little willful?"

Lin Xiao did not respond, but silence was also a kind of answer.

"I just want to be willful like an ordinary girl for once." The happiness in Orange's eyes had completely disappeared, as if she had become the Orange that Lin Xiao was familiar with again.

"I've always wanted to see what the sea looks like. I also want to experience the lives of ordinary people and imagine what life would be like if my parents hadn't died."

"I want to be like in the stories my father told me... and feel the sea breeze with him, and cook for him with my own hands."

Orange's voice trembled a little. "But after this time, it will never be possible again. I will become the Crown Princess, I will become the Empress of the Sun and Moon Empire, but I will never become what I imagined as a child."

"And for all this, I don't even know who to hate."

(End of this chapter)