Chapter 97: Times Have Changed

The train sped across the highway. One could see the clear blue sky when looking out.

Green hills, clear water, white clouds, even his mood became cheerful… no way.

Su Hao moved his stiff butt and yawned.

It would take too long for the high-speed rail to travel from An City to Changlin Province. He also needed to transfer trains later.

He had wanted to take a plane.

But…

Emmm sprites generally weren’t allowed to board the plane. Su Hao also understood this regulation. After all, entry-level sprites were too destructive. If an accident happened, the plane would be destroyed and people would die.

He took a look at the time and prepared jade powder food for Reverie Butterfly and Flaming Cloud Crow. Then, he walked to the dining car to have a rather unsatisfactory lunch. After that, he returned to his seat and sat down before swiping across the screen of his cell phone.

Whoosh.

There was no signal.

“If I had known, I should have downloaded a few movies first…”

Su Hao thought hard about ways to pass the time.

Reverie Butterfly hugged the tablet computer that it had finally gotten its hands on and felt equally helpless.

What’s the use of this lousy tablet without WiFi, gurgle ~!

Only Flaming Cloud Crow that was good at daydreaming….ah no, thinking, didn’t find it boring.

He stood on the seat and stared at the sky outside the window. One look and an hour passed.

Su Hao flipped through his suitcase.

There was a laptop, some clothes for change, and daily necessities.

He searched and suddenly paused. He actually found a deck of poker cards.

Who knew when he stuffed it into a suitcase.

He looked.

He, Reverie Butterfly, Flaming Cloud Crow… It was just nice. This was heaven’s will.

“Why don’t we play Fight the Landlord?”

“It’s easy to learn. As long as you do it this way and that, you’ll win.”

…

Half an hour later…

“Gurgle~!”

Reverie Butterfly got the trump!

Su Hao’s face turned red.

“Impossible! It doesn’t make sense! It’s not sprite!”

After playing more than ten rounds of Fight the Landlord, apart from the first three rounds, which he won while the two sprites were unfamiliar with the rules, he lost all the rounds after that.

Well, that wasn’t very accurate.

He lost when he was a local lord, and when he was a farmer… he won.

He was led by Reverie Butterfly.

He felt even more depressed.

“I suspect that you cheated, but I have no evidence.”

“Gurgle()〈))=凸”

“Gurgle, gurgle!”

“Continue? No, no, no. We should strike a balance between work and rest. After playing cards for such a long time, it’s time to learn something.”

Although Su Hao didn’t bring any learning materials with him…

Did he really need it?

He wrote down the training method of the unique skill “Psychic Shield” right away.

After the battle with Old Chen, Su Hao was envious of the skill, Psychic Shield.

The thick shield could be repaired continuously, bringing him sufficient security.

Theoretically…

With the outstanding spiritual power of Reverie Butterfly, learning “Psychic Shield” was not difficult.

There was a saying that illusionary thoughts were closely related. It was just that the power of the Psychic Shield cast by illusion type sprites was a little weaker.

However, Reverie Butterfly didn’t have any illusion attributes now, so it was the same.

The little rascal was confused.

You were the one who wanted to play cards, and you were the one who didn’t want to play now.

How can you do this!

Schemes, they ‘re all schemes!

“Gurgle~!”

It, Reverie Butterfly, was going to rise up today and overthrow Su Hao’s rule, gurgle!

Sprites will never be slaves ~!

The little rascal looked at the jade powder in Su Hao’s hand and was silent for two seconds.

Maybe next time.

Suddenly…

Chaos came from the front. Su Hao, who was worrying about being unable to shake off Reverie Butterfly who was addicted to playing cards, saw that there seemed to be a conflict. He immediately got up and walked towards the source.

Then, he saw a big man pushing a middle-aged woman so hard that she stumbled. She didn’t fall only because someone held her from behind.

Su Hao frowned.

He smelled strong alcohol.

He looked over. The big man grunted and sat down. He was lying on his side, lifting one foot to hang on the seat beside him.

He alone occupied two seats.

Apart from the middle-aged woman, there was also a young man who was angry but didn’t dare to say anything.

Neither seat belonged to the big man.

A frowning train attendant was dissuading them.

The big man tapped his nose.

“Get lost!”

“Did you write your name on the seat? I’m just going to do this, what can you do to me?”

“If I sit here, this seat is mine. Why should I allow you to check my bus ticket?”

The expressions of the surrounding passengers were very ugly. Some wanted to pull the big man up, but after comparing their own figures and the big man’s strong arms, they held themselves back.

Su Hao looked at his fist and clenched it hard. He felt that it was filled with power, enough to kill a…calf.

He shouldn’t be that weak compared to the big man.

He took a step forward and paused again.

Sprite Trainers would never stand beside a dangerous wall.

He said to Reverie Butterfly, which had flown to his head at some point, “I’ll leave it to you.”

“Gurgle~”

At this point, the big man was very impatient. He stood up again, his words filled with vulgarities as he waved his thick arms around wildly.

The train attendant hurriedly retreated, but she didn’t have time to see the swinging arm aimed at her.

When a big beautiful butterfly appeared in front of her.

Meeting eyes with the big man.

The big man froze. He hung his arm in mid-air, and couldn’t move his body at all.

His eyes were filled with fear.

Su Hao casted a glance at the Sleeping Owl who seemed to be preparing to attack, and shook his head slightly.

Did they know that the number of Sprite Trainers had increased sharply in recent years?

It was no longer possible to be all muscular.

Times had changed.

…

“Hello, my name is Tang Xin. Can I take a closer look at your Reverie Butterfly? Please.”

The girl was wearing a light-colored sweater with a scarf wrapped around her neck. Her long hair was let down, and her hands were pressed together as she looked at him.

Su Hao’s gaze paused on the girl’s pretty face for an instant, then moved to the little bird with gray and green feathers on her shoulder.

Sleeping Owl — The evolved form of the Silk-Cotton Owl.

It was also one of the very few wood-element sprites that had a slight affinity with the Illusion element.

It was quite difficult to learn unique skills such as “Sound of Slumber” and “Slumbering Song”.

Hearing the cute girl’s request, of course, Su Hao…

Asked for Reverie Butterfly’s opinion first.

“Gurgle, gurgle.” The little rascal flapped its wings magnanimously and started chatting with the slumbering owl.

“Thank you so much.”

The girl, Tang Xin, looked at Reverie Butterfly as she took out a notepad and a pen to write and draw.

From time to time, she would praise it with words such as “Wow”, “Oh”, “So impressive”.

She asked, but also seemed to be talking to herself.

“Hey, have you read the evolutionary thesis on Reverie Butterfly?”

“The author of the paper was actually able to deduce the evolution conditions from a little performance. How impressive.”

“I’m really curious about the final form of the Reverie Butterfly. I wonder when it’ll evolve.”

Su Hao was rendered speechless.

Don’t you know that the real author is right in front of you?

But it was precisely because he was praised when she didn’t know his identity…

It felt twice as good.

Since you’re so good at praising, I’ll lend Reverie Butterfly to you for a longer time.

“Gurgle???”

…

When the high-speed train reached Dragon City, Su Hao transferred to Changlin Province through Dragon City.

By the time he took a taxi to a small town relatively close to his destination, it was already eight to nine at night.

“I still have to walk more than ten kilometers tomorrow…”

Su Hao looked at the map and felt a little dizzy.

They couldn’t get a taxi on the last stretch of the road at all.

He could only rely on his legs.

This made him even more determined to contract a mount.

Times had changed.

Even the Sprite Commandeering Illustration Book had been updated to V2.0.