Arknights, Suika's Messenger Journey

As soon as she walked out of the street, a van came from behind and stopped beside her.

"Hey, little messenger, you're so lucky to even meet someone like this!"

Exia stuck her head out of the car window and said with a smile, showing no trace of the embarrassment she had felt before when she was suppressed by Xingxiong's aura and dared not speak.

"What are you doing?" Suixiang tilted her head and saw that there were a lot of things loaded in the back of the other party's vehicle. It seemed that they were also delivering goods.

"I'm delivering a big order and happened to be passing through here. Where are you going? If it's on your way, I can give you a ride!"

The Archangel said without any hesitation.

"Post Office, wanna go?"

"Of course, we are going to the north gate, that's perfect." Angelo clapped his hands, then opened the car door, and Suixiang got in without hesitation.

"Haha, you're quite brave! We've only met for the second time, and you're already getting in my car."

Exia was very surprised by Suika's behavior. She rarely saw such a bold child after leaving Rutland.

"Didn't you say you would give me a ride? What's there to be afraid of?" Suixiang leaned on the stool with her hands behind her back and looked around the car.

As a Terra technology, the car that is not powered by gasoline or diesel is free from the unpleasant smell of gasoline.

This is quite friendly to Suika, who suffers from motion sickness.

As the car was driven by a girl, although there was no incense in the car, there was still a faint fragrance, which made Cuixiang feel quite comfortable sitting in the car.

Soon the vehicle arrived at the post office door

As she got off the bus, Angel said

"The boss really hopes to see you again. If you have time, you can go to the bar to see him. Just think of it as caring for the empty-nest emperor!"

Exiah folded his hands and asked for help.

"Okay, I'll go if I have the chance." As the saying goes, don't hit a smiling person.

In addition, the people in Penguin Logistics all have good personalities, and Suika also wants to be friends with them, so naturally she would not reject the suggestion of Angelica.

After watching Texas drive away, Suika walked into the post office.

After dropping the letter off at the post office, she planned to take a walk on the street next to Penguin Logistics, which she had never been to before.

Not long after she walked, she stopped and looked up at the sign on the wall - Li's Detective Agency.

She was a little surprised that Lao Li and his office was here, not far from Penguin Logistics and also close to where she lived.

"Little sister, do you need any help?"

A figure who seemed unreliable just by the sound of his voice appeared behind Suika.

Turning around, Suika couldn't help but yelled in surprise

"Wow, a carp spirit!"

……

"That's called the ancestors, okay... Never mind, I'll just take it as a compliment!

Are you from Elafia?

No, ghost?"

Old Carp was speechless. He thought he was handsome and impressive, but this little brat turned out to be a carp spirit at the beginning... Is there any carp spirit as handsome as him?

But looking at the child in front of him, Lao Li, who always thought he was knowledgeable, was also a little unsure of the child's race.

In Lao Li's memory, only the Elafians had horns as exaggerated as hers.

But if you look closely, her big horns are somewhat different from those of the Elafians, and more like the style of the ghosts in the East.

"Yes, I am a ghost!"

Suika nodded.

"Well, little brat, do you need help with something?" Old Carp said that he was still holding a grudge against the carp spirit from before, so since the child was a ghost, he would label him as a little brat.

Chapter 25: The Good Carp Spirit

"what?"

Suixiang looked confused as to why she needed to go to the agency to do the work.

"Don't you need help?"

Lao Li was a little confused. Since he didn't come to the firm to ask for help to solve his problem, why did this little guy look at his sign for a long time without leaving?

"No, I'm just curious about what a detective agency is..."

Cuixiang pointed at the signboard and was a little curious as to why Lao Li gave his store such a weird name.

"A detective agency isn't a thing...

Ugh, a detective agency is a thing...

Hiss, that’s not right…

Don't worry about whether the detective agency is a thing or not. It's just an agency that takes money from people to help them solve their problems."

As soon as Lao Li opened his mouth, he successfully confused himself in just two sentences, and in the end he had no choice but to give up.

"Oh! That's no problem..."

Suika nodded and prepared to leave.

"Little brat, you're just leaving like that?" Lao Li thought about how he had just been tricked by a little brat, and he felt very unconvinced and wanted to get back at them.

"Otherwise, I have no money and I don't need help with anything, so why should I stay here?"

Suika answered as a matter of course.

"Uh..." Lao Li was speechless.

When the two were standing on the roadside chatting, the window above their heads was opened, and a chubby girl poked her head out from inside.

"Uncle Li, what are you doing?"

"Nothing, there's an interesting kid, I want to chat with her!" Lao Li was also bored, and happened to meet Cuixiang standing at the door, so he started a conversation. As a result, the more he talked, the more competitive he became.

After all, if my acquaintances knew that I didn't know how to respond to the words spoken by a little girl, they would probably die of laughter.

After lowering his head, he saw Suika's backpack

“Well, you’re the messenger?

The post office is quite far away. If I deliver mail frequently, will you be able to go to school in time?"

"Go to school? I don't go to school." Suixiang said that she is illiterate.

"Forehead…

How can you not go to school at your age?" Lao Li still disagreed after hearing what Cuixiang said.

“No way, I’m alone and currently staying at someone else’s house.

Although I have enough food and drink, I still can’t afford to go to school.”

Although Suixiang said it easily, Lao Li remained silent after hearing it.

Cases like Cuixiang's are not uncommon in Longmen.

Especially in the slums, there are even more people who have never been to school, read books or learned to read, and they can't even write their own names.

But there is no doubt that they are also an important part of the dragon gate.

Just like Huai Hu who just emerged, although her family is not poor, if she had not met me, with her irresponsible father, I am afraid she would have become an unlearned person.

"Wait, you're not feeling sorry for me, are you? That's not the case. Xingxiong found me a ton of books. Reading and writing are no problem for me, but I can't get a degree.

But what’s the use of that? I have real work experience now, and I can even exchange it for seniority…”

Cuixiang noticed the change in Lao Li's eyes, just like when she saw those stray kittens and puppies, so she took the initiative to explain.

It was fine at the beginning, but by the end, Lao Li could hardly hold it in any longer.

Although the courier job has age and status restrictions, it does have seniority requirements, just as Suika said.

When she grows up and joins the post office as an intercity postman or a natural disaster messenger, all these years of work experience will be counted, and her salary will be much higher than that of people of the same period.

Of course, the former is easy to do. As the organization responsible for delivering letters to various places in Da Yan, intercity postmen only need to have a clean background, special skills, and be down-to-earth and capable. A little girl like her who has worked in the post office since childhood can choose to join it when she grows up and can even enter directly with a letter of introduction from the local post office.

As for the Scourge Messengers, it's different. As members of an organization that operates across Terra, tracking and forecasting scourges and delivering messages to various places, they need more than just the ability to deliver messages.

You also need to know astronomy and geography, and be able to judge the size and scale of natural disasters.

Basically, only people with sufficient education can take on this task.

But in Lao Li's opinion, it's still too early for Suika.

"Well, my girl, the one who just spoke, is called Huai Hu. She has good grades in school. If you have any questions, you can come here and ask her.

I'll talk to her. She's also a helpful person and would probably be able to ask you for some advice on studying."

Perhaps because he was worried that speaking too clearly would arouse the child's intense emotions, Lao Li used a rather tactful method to tell Cuixiang that even if she could not go to school, she could come to the office to ask Huaihu.

Cui Xiang looked at Lao Li in surprise, and after a long while, she managed to say something.

"Uncle Carp Head, you are a good man."

After saying that, she turned and ran away.

Of course, this was not because she was moved by Lao Li, but because she was worried that Lao Li would catch her and force her to study with Huai Hu.

It’s not that she hates studying, but in her previous life she had just graduated from college and escaped the bitter ocean of studying, but now she plunged into it again. Isn’t this just asking for trouble?

On the other side, Lao Li didn't expect that his kindness would be rewarded with a good guy card. He smiled helplessly and walked up.

After finding where Lao Li was, Suixiang thought about the two organizations on Longmen that would have contact with Rhodes Island in the future, one was the Li Detective Agency and the other was Penguin Logistics.

As for other scattered personnel, she was too lazy to look for them. After all, Longmen was not small, and it was not an easy task to find a needle in a haystack here.

As a member of the Kaibaike party, Suixiang believes in fate. If these people are destined to be with her, then sooner or later there will be a chance to meet them. If not, even if she searches all the way, she may still miss them.

Back in the house, she thought for a moment and picked up a Chinese textbook for elementary school students that Xingxiong had brought back and that was kindly sponsored by Officer Chen Huijie, who did not want to reveal her name, and began to read it.

After all, Dayan uses Chinese, but the font is still more inclined to small seal script, and many of them are traditional Chinese characters. Cuixiang needs to re-match many of them with the characters in her mind before she can read other books smoothly.

In addition, Cuixiang also has a set of Victorian books that Chen used when he was studying in Victoria. She flipped through them a few times and then stopped reading them.

Because among them is, unsurprisingly, English.

This made Suixiang feel a little relieved. After all, she thought that her English level should be pretty good since she could understand TV dramas and movies from both Britain and the United States.

She calculated that she could understand three languages at least. If she could learn how to detect the weather, she might be able to become a natural disaster messenger and happily travel around Terra at her own expense.

Chapter 26: The Indescribable Penguin Scream

But Suika discovered something horrifying.

Whenever I wanted to study, as soon as I picked up a book, a void evil demon called sleepiness would keep drilling into my forehead.

I had only turned two pages of the book when my head unconsciously drooped several times.

Shaking her head, Suika looked at the book in front of her in confusion with a shocked expression.

This is horrible, I need a drink to calm down...

When Xingxiong came back, he saw him lying on the sofa with his arms and legs spread out, reeking of alcohol, with a primary school Chinese textbook on his face.

……

Hoshiguma took the book off Suika's face, carried her into the bedroom, then came out and tidied up the messy table outside before washing up and going to bed.

The next morning, Suika told Hoshiguma that she had a dream in her daze the previous day. She dreamed that a facehugger kept pressing on her face, making it difficult for her to breathe.

It took her a long time to remove the facehugger.

Xingxiong raised her eyebrows after hearing this. Based on her contact with Suika during this period, she could probably guess what the facehugger she was talking about was.

"What are the characteristics of the facehugger?" Xingxiong asked calmly after glancing at Suika, whose mouth was covered in grease from eating so much.

"Hmm, let me recall... I think there were two big words on that guy's forehead. But you know it was just a dream, so I couldn't make out what was written on them."

Suika looked as if it was a matter of course. After all, everyone knew that dreams were fake, and they were just telling them for fun.

"Two big characters, right... Let me guess, are those two big characters these two?"

As Xingxiong said this, he took the Chinese textbook that Suika had from yesterday from the side.