Although Edward is still unable to determine whether this rumor is true or false, he has started making preparations since he heard the rumor.
Since the "secret place" is said to be in the wild, you must be prepared to go to the wild.
Edward ignored the unknown dangers in the wild for the time being. The first preparation he had to make was how to prevent being illuminated by the moonlight in the wild?
Either have a lot of soul coins and resist the moonlight.
Or create a movable room...for example, a fully enclosed carriage.
Edward decided to prepare both sides.
It is necessary not only to reserve more soul coins, but also to build a fully enclosed mechanical carriage made of strong and solid materials.
In this way, even if you encounter a powerful beast in the wild, you can use the defense of the carriage to resist it; moreover, the mechanical horse also has a certain fighting power. Although it may not be able to help, at least it will not cause trouble like a live horse.
——If the horse is alive, it will be swallowed by a wild beast not long after leaving the house.
While making preparations, Edward also continued to inquire about the secret place.
He even left the town of Yi with the help of a noble lady's mechanical carriage and went to the nearby Lingcheng and Jidu. Both of these are relatively large cities in the world of Yi, with a population of six.
digits or more.
Because he did not have household registration in Lingcheng or Jidu, he could only stay temporarily for three days at a time.
With only a few days left, Edward kept asking for news about the "secret place".
The "customers" who have accepted his customization will occasionally help. There is even a customer who helped Edward get a library admission card that is common to both Lingcheng and Jidu.
Although you cannot borrow books from the library, you can enter and read them in the library business world of the two capitals.
Relying on this admission card, Edward went from Yi Zhi Town to Ling City and Ji Capital almost every week to read relevant documents and books.
Time passed by so quickly.
Maybe five years, maybe six years.
After so many years, he finally relied on his own hands to earn enough soul coins to stay in the wild for more than half a year without being illuminated by the moonlight.
In addition, he also purchased a mechanical carriage with amazing defense capabilities.
You can stay in the wild longer.
Although Edward still has not found the exact coordinates of the secret place, according to some book records, he can determine that a secret place appeared in the southeast of Yi Zhi Town a hundred years ago.
In the past hundred years, there have been others like him who have searched for the secret place, but none of them have found it.
Even so, Edward still set his first stop at the Secret Forest in the southeast of Yi Zhi Town.
In the secret forest, there is no road.
After all, there is no need for people in Yi World not to go deep into the wilderness, let alone deep forests.
However, it doesn't matter if there is no road. Just use the strong and sturdy gears of the mechanical carriage to create a road out of thin air.
Edward originally thought that he could stay in the Secret Forest for at least half a year.
But the real situation is that half a month later, the mechanical carriage was eroded by an unknown fog in the forest, leaving holes everywhere.
The soul coin is very powerful, and it can still support the soul barrier to avoid this unknown fog.
But in the fog, the consumption of soul coins is very large.
Almost at a speed visible to the naked eye, one soul coin after another is melting, dissolving, and sublimating.
With Edward's soul coin reserve, he can survive for two or three months even in the fog.
But I can't bear it...the fog is just a disaster in the secret forest.
Edward encountered another evil wind disaster. The evil wind can also blow into the soul, blow your soul to pieces, and even erode your soul.
Soul coins are still very useful in dealing with evil winds.
However, with the fog and evil wind, the consumption is terrifying.
If the night moon and blood moon were added to the fog and evil wind... Edward felt that he was already a poor household.
Because the consumption of soul coins could not sustain his stay any longer, in the end his trip to the secret forest only lasted a month.
A month later, he returned to Yi Zhi Town and continued to live as before.
In the eyes of other people in the town, Edward has become a little numb and has probably given up on leaving. This is actually normal. People who are first thrown into the Yi world are constantly thinking about leaving and looking for secret places.
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But when he hit the wall, he realized that it was actually difficult to find a way out of the Yi world.
This is a closed world, or in other words, a closed box garden.
You can only enter, but cannot exit.
According to other people's speculations, after this experience, Edward should no longer think about looking for a secret place. He will most likely get married and have children here like others.
After the second generation is born, the new child will be completely marked with the Yi World.
For them, the ritual world is a mother world, not a bondage.
Life has been turned around since then, and the reverse journey has never been the same again.
However, this is just an outsider's idea. For Edward, he still has not given up.
After seeing the broader sky outside, I wanted him to stay in a small pond and just be a fish, but he couldn't do it.
Edward is numb on the surface, because he has to start making money again. This is a numb and mechanical job. Even though hair making, hair dyeing, and makeup are his hobbies, when the hobby turns into a job, even Edward
It will also be very annoying and numb.
However, unlike his numb appearance, his heart was still hot.
He never lost his yearning for freedom.
In the following days, while purchasing fur materials and customizing various wigs, he continued to explore the wider world - this does not refer to the wild, but other big cities.
He has been to Basak City, which is located on an oasis. The owners here are no longer humans, but sandworms.
I have also been to the black smoke city that hovers on the mountainside. The people here are made of smoke, and I don’t know where it comes from the outside world.
I have also been to the Sleepless Night Harbor run by ghosts. These ghosts are neither living souls nor undead spirits. They are simply a tribe of spirits. They are also a tribe that Edward has never seen before. They are probably the creators of the Yi World, who came from unknown time and space.
Throwed in.
In these cities run by various ethnic groups, Edward used soul coins to clear the way and obtain permission to stay long-term.
He brought beauty makeup and hair to all tribes, and when he left, he took away the secret information of each tribe.
Once he makes enough money, he will try to find secret places in the wild.
After the soul coins are used up, I will continue to return to the city and give everyone a little shock of beauty and hairdressing.
This daily ecology continues.
Edward himself has forgotten how many times he has been to the wild and how many disasters he has encountered in the wild...
Even the time was a little blurry to him.
Decades? Hundreds of years? Or has it been a thousand years?
No matter how long it took, the only thing that Edward never gave up was his heart that wanted to be free.
Round and round, round and round.
Later, Edward returned to Yi Zhi Town.
The reason he came back this time was because Edward was a little tired, and he still didn't give up looking for a way to leave; but he planned to take a rest and slow down his pace.
So, he returned to the place where he first descended into the world.
This is not only the city of his original intention, but also his inner safe place.
After he returned to Yizhi Town, he continued to run a makeup and hair salon.
Perhaps it was due to unintentional planting of the secret place that he could not find in the past, but when he returned to Yi Zhi Town, he got a piece of news.
This news still came from his guests.
This guest was a species he had never seen before, a pale blue jellyfish whose body was surrounded by twinkling stars.
This starlight jellyfish customer needs a custom-made wig that suits its temperament, and the material used in the wig is the jellyfish whiskers that it sheds.
Although the customization request was very strange, Edward still accepted it.
This was his first time making a wig from a jellyfish, but it didn't bother him at all. You know, he once customized a wig for a lava giant, and the material of the wig was the tentacles of a magma salamander.
Compared to the lava giant's custom-made wig, the jellyfish whiskers of this star jellyfish are nothing.
During the period of customization, the starlight jellyfish has been living in the makeup and hair room.
Although the star jellyfish doesn't speak much - or in other words, it doesn't speak the common language - Edward still got a lot of news related to the star jellyfish through some simple exchanges.
It also comes from the outside world, and it seems to be a special world.
The place where it lives seems to have strict time restrictions. It can only go out for two days this time. If it exceeds two days, it will take decades before it can go back.
It doesn't like the place where it lives very much, because it hates the life of a young lady who only has clothes to wear and food to open her mouth.
When Edward heard the previous sentences, he didn't think much about it. After hearing that Starlight Jellyfish didn't want to live a "young lady life", he secretly thought that Starlight Jellyfish was probably showing off in front of him and engaging in Versailles.
He has seen many customers who love to show off. Faced with such guests, he can fool them by smiling politely and occasionally showing expressions of surprise and admiration.
However, the unfailing expression in the past was completely defeated by Starlight Jellyfish.
When Starlight Jellyfish heard Edward's agreement, she put on a face: "I hate the life of a young lady because I am not a female! In your human terms, I am a man! A man! A man!"
Edward was stunned.
It turns out that what Starlight Jellyfish hates is not the treatment of the so-called eldest lady, but hates being treated as a female even though she is a male.
After hearing this, Edward felt that the star jellyfish family was a bit strange.
Almost all beauty and hairdressers have a passive skill that does not need to be learned: gossip.
Edward's Bagua skills are also full. After all, he has obtained a lot of information from his clients through Bagua skills. Including things about secret places, they all come from gossips.
Faced with the weird family values of Starlight Jellyfish, Edward's gossip skills come online again.
Starlight Jellyfish may have been suffering for a long time. It is rare to find someone who is willing to listen. In addition, the music, candlelight, and atmosphere of the makeup and hair salon are all in place, and Starlight Jellyfish's desire to talk is slowly rising.
Through communicating with the starlight jellyfish, Edward realized that it was not a big lady, it was just pretending to be a big lady.
The eldest lady is a role, and Starlight Jellyfish must play this role without any violation.
Once you violate it, you will encounter disaster.
As for what kind of disaster it was, Starlight Jellyfish didn’t say.
However, the so-called "role playing" of Starlight Jellyfish made Edward confused: "Are you living in a family of actors? Or are you actually an actor in a certain theater troupe?"
Otherwise, why do role-playing?
Starlight Jellyfish shook his head: "None of them."
Then, in a very light voice, he muttered: "It's not just to go out, otherwise who would want to play the eldest lady."
Its sound was very small, and if Edward hadn't had the tip of his ears, he might have thought he was hallucinating.
"Get out?" Edward caught a key word: "Go out where?"
Starlight Jellyfish did not speak.
Edward was a little disappointed, but he vaguely felt that the starlight jellyfish's "exit" might have something to do with leaving the ritual world.
This conjecture came out of nowhere, even for no reason, as if it was an excessive association.
But as a wizard, Edward felt that his association was not aimless, but perhaps a kind of...inspiration?
But how to grasp this inspiration?
To force the starlight jellyfish to answer? Not to mention whether he has the strength to force it, if he does force it, the other party may not answer him truthfully.
Moreover, if asked directly, Edward felt that doing so might be counterproductive.
He thought for a while and decided to use a tactful way to make subtle remarks.
His method is...to sell miserably.
Edward did not continue to ask about the star jellyfish, but talked about his own affairs: "Different people and different races actually have their own sufferings. You have it, I have it too..."
Deliberately attract the attention of the star jellyfish through one sentence.
Immediately afterwards, Edward said a few more "heart-to-heart" words.
Starlight Jellyfish, who fell into the arrogance of humans for the first time, followed Edward's words and asked: "Do you have troubles too?"
Edward nodded immediately, and under the gaze of Starlight Jellyfish, he quickly revealed his troubles.
There is no doubt that his trouble is that he is trapped in the world of ritual, unable to transcend and unable to go home.
However, Edward did not express it so straightforwardly, but focused on his "efforts" over the years. He detailed his experiences over the years: searching while walking, going to various capitals to find information, and then selling his craftsmanship.
If you have money, go to the wild to find secret places.
"...I've been going around like this for hundreds of years and found nothing."
When Edward talked about the emotional point, small shining pearls appeared in the corners of his eyes.
This is not an act, but a true expression of emotion.
After hearing what Edward said, Starlight Jellyfish did not express any opinion, but seemed very silent.
Waiting silently for Edward's haircut.
I chose my hair color silently.
She silently put on an exquisite and beautiful wig.
Just when Edward thought that the starlight jellyfish would silently turn around and leave, it suddenly sat down and sighed deeply: "Actually, the castle... no, I still need a makeup and hair stylist. Are you willing to come?
Will you be my makeup and hair stylist?”
Edward: "You want me to be your personal makeup and hair stylist?"
Starlight jellyfish dotted the floating body: "You can say that. However, becoming my personal makeup and hair stylist may not allow you to earn too many soul coins, but..."
After a pause, Starlight Jellyfish continued: "But, maybe there will be a chance to fulfill your long-cherished wish."
What is Edward's long-cherished wish?
There is no doubt that it means leaving the ritual world.
If he could truly become Starlight Jellyfish's personal makeup and hair stylist and leave the Yi World, Edward would be willing to do it even if he had no money!
But, is it really possible?
Edward hesitated and said, "Do you know what my long-cherished wish is?"
Starlight Jellyfish: "Didn't you just say that you want to leave. By becoming my personal makeup and hair stylist, you have a chance to leave. Although the chance is not too big, it is very slim. But it is definitely much greater than if you stay here.
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Seeing that there was still a trace of doubt in Edward's eyes, Starlight Jellyfish continued: "The place where I live is called Knight's Castle. If you use what you just said, Knight's Castle should be what you call... a secret place."