Arknights, Suika's Messenger Journey

Just when Xi Gua fell into self-pity again, Xing Xiong reached out and lifted her up.

"Little devil, what have you been worrying about since the beginning?

Just tell me if there's anything you need me to do. Since we're both ghosts, I'll do my best to help you.

Also, where do you live? Do you still remember your parents’ names?

I have to report all of this for you so I can send you home."

Xingxiong, who had been patiently standing by for most of the day, finally woke up Xi Gua, who had been lost in her own world, hoping to send this troubled child home as soon as possible.

"My home, I have no home... I don't have parents either..." Xi Gua also wanted to go home, but he knew very well that he could not go back. Although he didn't know where Xingxiong had rescued him from, the other party definitely did not have the ability to travel through the world and send him back to his original place in the same exact state.

Chapter 3 My Stand-in is called——Cash Box

Hearing the words of the little girl in front of him, Xingxiong couldn't help but feel a headache.

"What about your name? You still remember your name, right?"

Xi Gua thought about it and realized that since he had already come to the fantasy world of this game and had become a member of it, there was no point in using his previous name.

Thinking of this, she stared into Xingxiong's eyes and said

"My name is Suika, Ibuki Suika!"

There are two reasons for choosing this name. First, my current appearance is that of the ghost king of Mount Oeyama in Dongfang who likes to hang a bow on his horns.

The second reason was to test Xingxiong and see if she, who was also a "ghost" and whose name was very fitting, had any related memories.

However, after she finished speaking, Xingxiong's eyes did not fluctuate with hers. Instead, he stood up and rubbed his hair in annoyance.

"Little ghost...stay home for now and don't run around. I'll go to the police station and ask those guys about your situation..."

Unable to get any other information from Ibuki Suika, who claimed that she had no parents, Hoshiguma decided to start from the other side and ask the human traffickers where they stole her from.

Just as the other party was about to leave, Suixiang said, "Excuse me, will you be back at noon..."

"At noon..." Xingxiong frowned. As a single police officer, she basically never stayed at home except for sleeping at night. But now she has a child at home, so she always has to eat.

“Here are three hundred Longmen coins. If you’re hungry, go out and have a meal at the Dong’s Fish Ball Shop next door.

I've put the door key under the second shoe on the second layer of the shoe cabinet outside the door. Remember to come back after dinner and don't run around, otherwise I'll take you to the Guard Bureau and put you in jail."

Xingxiong, who was worried that the child would run around and had no experience in taking care of children, deliberately scared the child.

Suixiang nodded, watched the other person leave, then rushed to the table and picked up the three hundred yuan.

Just now, after Xingxiong took out the money, she seemed to see a transparent cash box appear in front of her.

A voice from her soul told her that throwing it into the purse box would be of great benefit to her.

After grabbing the money, she waited for a while, making sure Xingxiong had left before looking at the cash box in front of her again.

Just as she was debating whether to throw all the money in or put it in one hundred at a time, the three chains behind her started to float up.

From the three different shapes at the ends of the three chains, she seemed to see...

首！

充！

特！

price!

Four characters.

She didn't make a decision in a hurry. She looked at the money box and found that the money box was actually the belt that Xingxiong mentioned that she couldn't take off from her waist.

The money box has three openings, corresponding to the directions of the three chains.

The first deposit only requires a minimum of 100 Longmen coins.

Of course, she didn't know what she could get.

But it doesn't matter. As a gamer who dabbles in all kinds of games, she is no stranger to the first recharge.

After all, which mobile game doesn’t have this thing nowadays?

But what she needs to worry about now is that she only has 300 yuan in her pocket. If she throws it all in, she will starve before Xingxiong comes back.

But who can refuse the first recharge... Anyway, she can't refuse it.

So she gritted her teeth and divided the three hundred Longmen coins into three parts and stuffed them into the three openings respectively.

When her hands were empty, Suixiang felt a sense of emptiness.

She is crazy about spending money on krypton gold and is as good as a Buddha, which is fully demonstrated in her.

Just when she was about to reach a state of spiritual enlightenment, the three chains began to shake violently.

Three beams of light shot out from the three front ends, two of which shot towards Suika herself, and the remaining one hit the table in front of her.

After the light dissipated, a gourd appeared on the table.

As for the remaining two rays of light that hit her, they allowed Suika to understand two abilities.

One of them made her understand how to control the density and sparseness of her body.

The other one allowed her to learn Ibuki Suika's unique signature skill - the Four Heavenly Kings Secret Technique: Three Steps of Destruction.

The acquisition of these two abilities did not surprise Suika.

After all, he now looks like Ibuki Suika, so it is natural for this weird trick of giving Ibuki Suika to the first deposit of the money box.

The former belongs to Ibuki Suika's ability or talent.

She can freely control her own density, making herself bigger or smaller, and in extreme cases, she can even turn herself into mist.

It's a pity that she can only use this powerful ability on herself. Otherwise, if she could manipulate the density of other objects or life, she would definitely be Che Wan's top combat force.

But even so, Ibuki Suika is one of the strongest among the demon clan.

Then there is the three-step destruction trick.

This is also a skill that only Ibuki Suika can use, because this move must be combined with his talent.

When she used the Three Steps to Destroy, she expanded a circle with each step forward, and her strength doubled. When she threw the punch with the third step, her strength reached its limit.

It can be said to be the attack with the strongest breakthrough and destructive power.

However, in order to deliver this powerful blow, Ibuki Suika's gradually expanding body also made her more vulnerable to the enemy's attacks.

Overall, it's not a loss to exchange a bigger flaw for a stronger fatal blow.

After taking in the knowledge in her mind, Suixiang turned her gaze to the gourd in front of her.

When she saw the gourd, she felt as if she saw her family.

I picked up the gourd and opened it, and a scent of wine came out of the gourd.

After subconsciously picking up the gourd and taking a sip, Suixiang held it and sat on the stool in a drunken state, rubbing the gourd and grinning foolishly.

This gourd is exactly the Ibuki gourd that Suika Ibuki always holds in her hand in the setting.

There is endless wine in Ibuki's gourd, which Ibuki Suika can drink at any time.

However, the alcohol from the ghost tribe is quite strong, and an ordinary person can get drunk with just a small sip.

It was because Suixiang's current ghost body was strong enough that she was only slightly tipsy.

A few minutes later, she stood up and walked towards the door. When she got close to the door, her whole body turned into a ball of mist and then slipped out through the crack in the door.

After coming outside, she floated into an empty alley and then reunited with her original form.

Then she hung Ibuki Hyoriya around her waist, fiddled with the bow on the corner that was a little crooked because of the mist, and walked out humming a little tune.

Walking out onto the street, Suika took in her surroundings.

Xingxiong lives on the edge of the slums, which is considered an urban-rural fringe area.

Walking towards the central area is the increasingly bustling main urban area, while walking towards the suburbs is the slums with a mixed crowd of people.

Suixiang didn't choose anywhere, but planned to stroll around.

Because she has lived in a safe society for decades, she has no belief in fighting with others.

Having read the game settings, she knew very well that even in a well-developed dragon gate, there were still many bugs hiding in the dark.

Chapter 4: The Warmth of the Villagers

Although she was a little nervous, Suixiang was still quite curious about Longmen.

Walking on the street, she vaguely felt like she was stepping into Guangdong in the millennium.

When she went out, she glanced at the Xingxiong family calendar, and the time on it was 1093.

The exact time is unclear, because from the dust on the calendar, it can be seen that Xingxiong rarely looks through it, and there is no record on it.

But after going out, she touched her shoulders and was sure that it was definitely not summer.

Because even though the sun is high in the sky now, the wind still feels cold when it blows on your face.

She looked at her skirt that revealed a large part of her arms and calves, and then at the passers-by around her who were wearing long sleeves and long pants. For a moment, she felt as if she didn't fit in.

Noticing that some people were looking at her because of her inappropriate clothing, Suixiang walked to the side of the street and hid herself in the shadows.

Because she was petite and deliberately avoided the crowd, those who had noticed her before only suspected that they were seeing things after they found that the thinly dressed child disappeared in the blink of an eye.

But when she passed by a snack stand, she was stopped by someone.

"Whose parents are so careless... Oh, my dear girl, are you cold..."

An old lady with a kind face took her hand, frowned and cursed softly after seeing her clothes, then took out a thick cotton jacket from the back of the snack stand cart.

"Come, let me put it on you first, don't get cold." The old woman put the cotton coat on Cuixiang's outside, then touched her hand and said

"Look at your cold hands...

Come sit by the stove and warm yourself up."

After saying that, she moved back a bit so that Suika could squeeze in.

At first, Suika instinctively thought that the person in front of her had some intentions towards her, but after sitting for a while, she realized that this grandma really just wanted to help her because she was too thinly dressed.

After all, the two of them were sitting on the curb of a busy street, with countless people coming and going around them. Many people asked Wang Po where she got her daughter when they saw Cuixiang.

Every time someone asked, Wang Po would angrily say that she didn't know which family was so careless that they let a little girl run outside alone in a single skirt in such a cold day. She was worried that the child would get sick from the cold, so she took her to the stove and asked these people to help find out who the child came from.

"By the way, Wang Po, have you asked the girl herself?" a passerby asked after hearing what Wang Po said.

Hearing his words, Wang Po slapped her forehead with a cry of "Ouch".

"I forgot, little girl, what's your name? Where do you live? If it's not far, I can take you home."

As she spoke, Wang Po brought the cooked white porridge next to her to Cuixiang, and then took out a box of white sugar and a pot of something that looked like sour cowpeas from under the stall.

"Just drinking plain porridge is bland. I have sugar and pickled mustard greens here, both go well with the porridge. Which one do you choose?"

This Wang Po kept talking, and Cuixiang tried to get in several times but failed. She could only watch as she brought the hot white porridge to her.

"Uh, sugar!"

"White sugar is good, children all like to eat sweet things... but eating too much sugar can cause tooth decay, so only put a little bit!" Wang Po said as she put a spoonful of white sugar on the white porridge.

Cuixiang took the white porridge and took a sip. White porridge has no taste, just a faint rice aroma.

After adding sugar, it has a hint of sweetness, making the porridge taste less bland.

"My name is Ibuki Suika, and I'm currently staying at Sister Hoshiguma's house.

My sister went to work, so I came out for a walk."

"Xingxiong, that tall girl who works at the Guards Bureau, I think she's pretty hardworking, so why is she so bad at taking care of children?

Ibuki Suika, this is an Eastern name, right? No one from Dayan would use such a name, but there are many such strange names in Eastern movies."

After listening to Cuixiang's self-introduction, Wang Po began to talk to herself again.

After sitting for a while, Suixiang stood up

"Grandma Wang, can I go out and play?"

The old lady nodded and lovingly reached out to help Cuixiang tie the big bow on her head.

"Go ahead, don't take off your clothes, or you'll catch a cold and have to take medicine. Let me tell you, that medicine is really bitter..."

Suika shook the coat that didn't fit her and looked a little funny on her, but she didn't take it off.