Chat Group: Starting by Body Swapping with Elysia? - Chapter 120
Chapter 120: You’re Not Trying to Save Money, Are You?
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Jiang Qiao: “Didn’t I ask her to book plane tickets?”
Although it didn’t matter whether it was ship tickets or plane tickets, at most it was just a difference in speed.
But the prerequisite for this was that the mother fox Cocolia hadn’t yet set her sights on New Zealand.
If they took a ship, and if the other party moved fast enough, by the time they got there, Cocolia might have already succeeded.
Regarding this issue, Miss Elf blinked her eyes, not having much of a clue.
She selectively looked toward Miss Dodo herself nearby.
“Ship tickets?”
“Cough cough… It’s not that I wanted to save money.”
Miss Dodo, who instantly understood what this meant, coughed twice. She definitely wasn’t choosing ship tickets because she thought they were cheaper than plane tickets!
She said somewhat helplessly:
“…Don’t look at me with those eyes. The airline companies in Nagazora City don’t have flights to New Zealand recently, okay?”
Although Raven really did want to save money, even with the black card reimbursement, her frugal personality had already become a habit.
But this time, to say she deliberately chose the cheaper ship tickets instead of plane tickets just to save money would be purely wronging her.
“?”
Regarding Miss Dodo’s explanation, a question mark vaguely appeared above Elysia’s head.
Although she was an undeniable homebody, she still clearly understood what kind of city Nagazora City was.
Located in the prosperous Far East region and being an international metropolis, Nagazora City should have flights to various destinations.
Although New Zealand wasn’t exactly a popular destination, Australia, which was very close to it, should be relatively popular, right?
“You don’t know, do you? Recently, the weather conditions in Oceania and its surrounding sea areas have been abnormally severe. Now not only does Nagazora City not have flights to that area, but flights from all over the world to that region have been suspended or delayed.”
“Having ship tickets is already pretty good. Even these ship tickets took me a lot of effort to get my hands on.”
Miss Dodo’s words carried some complaints.
The severe weather with strong winds and rough seas wouldn’t just affect airline companies; even shipping companies would be affected, and the impact might be even greater.
After all, extreme weather was actually more unfriendly to ships. It’s just that shipping companies had more relaxed regulations than airline companies, and some shipping companies were willing to continue operating despite the harsh weather.
Even so, shipping routes to Oceania were extremely rare. If it weren’t for being a mercenary who constantly traveled around and had extensive connections in this area, if it were someone else handling this? They’d suggest swimming there!
Save money… These damn ship tickets cost almost ten times more than top-tier flights!
Recalling the process of bargaining with her contacts and looking at those ship tickets, Miss Dodo pouted.
She had never bought such expensive ship tickets in her entire life!
“Ah… I see.”
After learning that she had misunderstood, Elysia suddenly understood, then actively wrapped her arms around the former’s waist and started nuzzling, taking advantage of being in a girl’s body.
“Thanks, Natasha.”
Look, this was just intimate friendship between girls. She was simply making full use of the advantages of the 【Kiana】 body!
Although Raven felt somewhat uncomfortable being hugged, because it was a girl’s body, her guard was lower. After hesitating for a moment, she took the initiative to say:
“Honestly, you guys don’t need to go to New Zealand.”
As a cadre of World Serpent, even though she had been assigned to Nagazora City by Gray Serpent and her adoptive father hadn’t told her much, through her own channels, Miss Dodo still knew quite a bit.
Next, the Serpent’s attention would be entirely focused on New Zealand, unlike the laissez-faire approach in Nagazora City this time.
To welcome back the Lord, Gray Serpent was determined to obtain the Gem of Desire.
If they went there, it would be equivalent to standing in opposition to World Serpent.
Although she wasn’t clear about what exactly that pink rogue was about, to have attracted so much attention from her adoptive father,
But if 【she】 and the Lord were placed on a scale for comparison, Raven didn’t think Gray Serpent would choose to side with that pink rogue.
In that case, as a World Serpent cadre, she would be in a very difficult position.
“…Sorry, I definitely have to go there.”
The white-haired girl’s muffled voice carried some depth, but more than that, it carried determination.
Just thinking about how the people in that place would be endangered because of Cocolia, she couldn’t continue staying in this city with peace of mind.
— Although Elysia wasn’t as stubborn as the Kaslana, when it came to the determination to protect people, the kind Miss Elf wouldn’t be inferior to those tenacious warriors.
How wonderful.
The desire to protect others, to protect humanity — such feelings seemed to be stronger in Kiana’s body than in others.
Not understanding what exactly Kaslana was, but now…
The girl gently touched her chest, able to feel the emotions brewing in that constantly beating heart.
It made one want to indulge…
“When bad Jiang Qiao was using my body, did he have the same feelings?”
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“Weather factors, huh.”
The pink girl leaning against the ship’s railing looked at the reason for the ticket change from plane to ship that Elysia had shared in the chat group. While understanding, her azure eyes reflected the distant gloom, flashing with some contemplation.
— Was it a coincidence?
Actually, it wasn’t just Miss Dodo who was troubled by weather and chose to change from flights to sea transport; she was too.
Although she would indeed have thoughts like — rather than taking a plane, it would be more interesting to take a ship and enjoy the ocean scenery — the reason she ultimately chose this method to reach New Zealand should be called a compromise.
Exploring the imaginary dark side center point of the Fourth Honkai eruption was something that would take considerable time. To save as much time as possible, choosing the fastest flight would be the most reasonable choice.
But—
Just like the predicament Miss Dodo encountered, the Previous Era’s Oceania region had also fallen into a situation with frequent extreme weather, which caused related flights to that area to be suspended or delayed.
With no other choice, she could only select the more lenient shipping method.
— As for using imaginary authority for a more convenient method of transportation?
This option had been passed over from the beginning.
Besides being really boring, the bigger reason was… this body couldn’t do it.
Even for the Herrscher of the Void herself, accurately opening imaginary passages between two distant places wasn’t an easy task. The greater the distance, the greater the difficulty.
Moreover, the current 【Elysia】 was merely the Herrscher of Origin.
To ensure 【Elysia】 completeness, the portion of imaginary authority extracted from the 2nd Herrscher core alone couldn’t support him in performing such high-difficulty operations.
Moreover—
A slender index finger lightly touched the strip of Imaginary energy, feeling the information being transmitted, eyebrows raised slightly.
He could feel it.
— The imaginary energy tidal strips were experiencing turbulence.