Chapter 145
Chapter 145: Upheaval: Part 1
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
The sea breeze was refreshing yet noisy at times .
Lin Sheng combed his messy hair as he looked at the cargo ships calling into port .
He had calmed down by now .
“But I’ve been here for a while, why is it so deserted still?” He recalled this place usually had a lot of people milling about .
And now as he swept his gaze, a few cargo ships were unloading their cargo on the dock .
The dockhands moving the cargo were friendly and all smiles with their merchant counterparts .
The stories about the dockhands holding cargo hostage or striking was nowhere to be seen .
“Seems like much of the rumors are off the mark . ” Lin Sheng nodded . AT the very least, the port he was seeing is a totally different one .
He then stood at the railings for a while longer, before realizing it was time for dinner . Lin Sheng then turned away and headed off .
Half-way through his turn, his gaze swept past the girl . He remembered her already being there when he came .
And she was still there when he was about to leave, almost unmoving . Everything aside, that persistence was admirable .
What he did not know was, that gaze alone almost scared Xie Qiaoyue out of her wits as her legs threatened to give way .
She had been standing for far too long in a straight posture . Her thighs were already screaming murder .
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Lin Sheng, ever carefree, left the port as he hailed a cab and departed the place .
Only until the car had totally disappeared into the distance did Xie Qiaoyue heaved a huge sigh of relief . She then wiped her forehead, and found it drenched in sweat .
“I can’t deal with this… Oh, my poor heart . If this keeps happening, I’ll really die!”
She had been out and about the port area for three years now and was one of the veterans there .
She had a naturally sharp sense of danger, and that allowed her to prosper in this forsaken place, and rose to the leader of one of the thieves’ group .
And because of that, the terror and the urge to escape the moment she saw Lin Sheng was the strongest in her career as a pickpocket!
An unknown aura seemed to circle around Lin Sheng that drove fear into everyone, and that seemed to affect humans as well .
For her sharp senses, it was even more telling .
“Bloody hell!” Xie Qiaoyue let out another deep breath as she bent down to massage her stiff lower thighs .
Just as she bent down, a necklace with a pink color stone in the shape of a droplet fell out the cavity in her chest .
The stone seems to be jadeite but had a milk-colored hue in its core as intricate patterns were carved around it .
Xie Qiaoyue immediately stuffed the necklace back into her chest and adjusted it .
It was something she had stolen from a sorry foreigner ship captain a few days ago .
The necklace looked interesting and pretty at first glance, so she took it for herself . Later she found it even more pleasing to the eye, and decided to bring it along with her .
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While she may be just a petty pickpocket, she still knows the value of things .
While it may not look all that valuable, but its engravings probably meant it has some history to it . In case it was an antique, then it would be nothing but profit for her .
After patting her leg, she got up and stretched again . As she looked at the sea, she felt relaxed and refreshed .
“Hm? What is that?” Just as she was about to leave, her sight caught onto something floating on the surface of the sea .
It was a dark blue, almost gemstone-like blue sea hawk .
And what caught her eye was the neck and wings of the hawk had gold pattern to it .
If it was a normal sea hawk, she had seen it all too many times . She had grown up by the sea after all .
But a sea hawk that had golden markings on its wings and neck, that was a first .
“Sadly… this thing is so eye-catching I can just forget about it . ”
This place belonged to the Black Wolf Gang, and amongst those who had escaped before her, at least a dozen belonged to the gang .
With so many eyes seeing it, this unique sea hawk naturally was beyond her .
And so she stood by the railing and looked on as the sea hawk slowly floated over, unmoving .
What surprised her was that, until the sea hawk floated its way about ten meters before here, no one seemed to notice .
“What’s going on?” Xie Qiaoyue felt something was off .
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She swept her gaze around, and none of the passersby actually bothered with such an eye-catching sea hawk .
It was the size of a basin, with golden markings on it . Under the bright sun, it was particularly eye-catching .
“Something’s not right . ” Xie Qiaoyue’s face darkened .
This was something totally unusual .
She had noticed that no one near her seemed to have seen the sea hawk at all .
A sailor who had just gotten off his boat even walked past the railing above the sea hawk, and bent down to pick up a penny before leaving with a grin . He totally paid no heed to the hawk floating just right beside him .
As if he… did not even see it at all .
“Little one… you can see me?”
An old, calm voice suddenly rang out in her head .
She immediately froze as her muscles tightened, ready to make a run for it .
This unnatural phenomenon was beyond what she could take .
There was no one around there, yet it sounded as if someone was whispering beside her ears . Without any distance .
“Don’t worry…I’m wounded, badly . And I’m just on the surface just before you . ” That voice rang out again .
Xie Qiaoyue swallowed hard as she looked at the surface of the sea .
Then, to her surprise, the floating sea hawk had somehow had opened its eyes and was calmly looking at her .
She was just a simple pickpocket, and the strongest person she had seen since the day she was born was the boss of the Ironfist Society .
Never did she saw something like this before .
“Can you please help me? Little miss, and your reward, I can teach you something . ” The sea hawk spoke with an old man’s voice .
“Gulp…” Xie Qiaoyue swallowed her saliva hard, as she felt her throat dry…
What she did not noticed was, the stone on the necklace in her chest was letting out a faint golden glow .
The moment Lin Sheng got home, he went about training his holy power, and also meditated on the Ashen Seal until late evening .
After dinner, he accompanied Lin Xiao to watch some television before partaking in the supper his father had bought home . He then quickly washed up and went to bed .
As he had failed to find an exit and had drowned in the progress, he could not re-enter the dream in for two days and could only sleep normally .
He slept all the way until late at night before a faint firecrackers-like sound roused him from his sleep .