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Chapter 140 Marco Polo
The slight shaking of the feet was accompanied by the boatman's "Miss, we are here!".Wen Yu staggered to the stairs next to the hull.

"That Marco should live in the third doorway on this street." The boatman pointed to a doorway in front of Wen Yu and said.

"Okay, thank you." Wen Yu nodded, and walked to the door pointed by the boatman with Mei Lin.

"Hello, does Mr. Marco Polo live here?" Merlin acted like an old man and asked the fat woman who opened the door.

"Are you looking for Mr. Marco? He lives at the corner of the second floor, and there are some ugly pictures on the door." The woman pointed out disinterestedly when she heard that Wen Yu and the others were looking for Marco Polo. Pointing to the stairs behind him, he turned around and started the cleaning in the room that he had just stopped.

The first floor of this small building is a large living room, and orange and light yellow woven carpets are spread in the middle of the hall.There is a circle of soft sofas around a coffee table.

The stairs leading to the second floor are right in front of Wen Yu and the others as soon as they entered the door.

"Corner? Do you mean here?" Wen Yu went upstairs and looked at a door behind the stairs suspiciously.

"It should be here..." Merlin rubbed the beard on his chin with one hand, while carefully examining the colorful paper pasted on the door.

"Ugly pictures? Are you referring to these?" Wen Yu also leaned over to the door to have a look, and drew childish graffiti-like lines on the red, green and green pieces of paper with various strokes. These stick-like things made Wen Yu It looks familiar.

"The painting on this picture looks a bit like an Egyptian mural...and the thing on this...why does it look a bit like a Dunhuang mural?" Wen Yu searched for the graffiti that he usually watched on TV. to the memory.

"You all recognize it?" Mei Lin was taken aback when he heard Wen Yu's words.

"Not all of them can be recognized, but some things look familiar." Wen Yu shook her head. There were some things on the stickers that she had never seen before, but she still felt like prehistoric stick figures.

At this time, the door "squeaked" and was opened from the inside.

An old man with curly hair and a gray face stood in the door and looked at Wen Yu and Mei Lin.After some cloudy eyes swept over the two of them, they finally settled on Wen Yu.

"What's the matter with you two?" A hoarse voice came from the old man's mouth.

Merlin quickly said, "You are Mr. Marco Polo?"

The old man nodded.

"Is that Mr. Marco Polo who has been to the East?" Wen Yu also asked.

The old man was stunned, his eyes kept scanning the faces of Wen Yu and Mei Lin, and finally took a step back as if he had made up his mind, and said, "Come in."

"I don't care where you heard it from, I'm already old, and I just want to spend my last few years quietly in my hometown." Marco let Wen Yu and Mei Lin into his hut.The room was not big, and the sunlight coming in from the windows warmed the ground.

There are always some adventurers coming to him recently. He has been locked up for the past two days. He only opened the door curiously after hearing what Wen Yu said just now to see who can recognize the stickers on the door. painting.

"We don't want to disturb your rest, we just came here to find out how to go to the East." Wen Yu sat on a somewhat worn-out wooden chair.

"...to the East..." Marco Polo looked at the slowly flowing river outside the window and said to himself, "Do you believe that I have really been to the East?"

"Huh? Why don't you believe it?" Wen Yu asked a little strangely, "Marco Polo's Travels" is basically anyone who has heard of "Marco Polo's Travels".

"...After I returned from the East, I did not return directly to Italy, but to a neighboring country. There, no one believed what I said. They thought I was crazy, that I was lying, and even accused of fraud. Put me in prison. Can you imagine?! I just told the truth, they don't need to believe me, but why should they lock me up because of their ignorance?!" He became more and more excited , and even jumped up at the end, walking around the room non-stop, bringing up waves of dust.

"I reported my route to the east. At first, the lord of that country was very polite to me. He sent someone to follow my map all the way east, but there was an accident on the road. I don't know why the terrain changed. The living people After I came back and reported to their lord, they thought I was a liar and went to them to cheat food and drink! I refused to answer their questioning because they only wanted me to admit that I was lying so that they could prove that they were Deceived, to deal with the families of those who died! So they poured all the dirty water on me alone, and finally locked me up!"

Marco, who uttered a series of words in one breath, finally let out a long sigh: "Three months ago, after the previous lord died, the new lord released me. He didn't because he sympathized with what happened to me, but because They just won a battle, and there is almost no room for new prisoners in the prison. And to them, I am just a lunatic, a liar..."

Wen Yu and Mei Lin stared at Marco Polo who finally got the words out of his stomach with gaping tongues. For a while, neither of them knew how to speak.

"Why do you want to go to the East?" Marco, who finally came to his senses, remembered the purpose of the two people in front of him.

"Ah...we..." Mei Lin glanced at Wen Yu a little at a loss. Wen Yu was the one who wanted to go to the East, and he himself was just a servant. Of course, he would follow his master wherever he went.

"I'm an oriental person, and I want to find my way home." Wen Yu had no choice but to speak on the sidelines.

"Go home? Are you an oriental?" Marco Polo looked at Wen Yu's shining purple eyes under the hood with some doubts.In the past few days, there have been at least a dozen people asking about going to the East, but none of them can give him a suitable reason. Out of respect for the goddess, it is impossible for him to hand over the map to someone who is not worthy of trust of.

"...It may not look like it on the outside, but I am indeed an Easterner. I have no way of knowing how I got here, but my friends and family are indeed in the East. I just want to find a way to go back, That's why I came here to ask you." Wen Yu didn't know how to explain these things that happened to him to an NPC, so he had to explain vaguely.

"..." Marco didn't say anything, just turned around and went to the desk and opened the drawer. "Do you know what this is?"

Seeing the red thing in Marco's hand, Mei Lin showed a puzzled expression, while Wen Yu blurted out: "Window flower?"

The red paper is cut into a circle, and there is a goldfish playing in the middle. The aquatic plants and the body of the fish are intertwined, making the whole work extremely fulfilling.This kind of window grilles will be sold in the streets and alleys every Chinese New Year, and every household will stick them on their windows.Although the current life is very different from ten years ago, the habits of setting off firecrackers, hanging money, and window grilles are the same as ten years ago and have not changed.

"Ah... It seems that you are really from the East." Marco nodded, believing Wen Yu's words, "But... Although I have a map to the East, it is the same as what I just said. After I returned to Europe, the terrain on the road suddenly changed for some reason. The place that used to be flat land became an unreachable mountain, and scary monsters appeared in the forest where there were only some robbers..."

"You can rest assured about this." After hearing what Marco said, Merlin stood up calmly, "I am a magician, and my master is also a very potential magician..."

When Wen Yu heard Mei Lin's words, he couldn't help but despise him very much. What he meant was to tell others, "He Mei Lin himself is a great magician, and his master is now a little magician far inferior to him. "

"But... a magician is a person who has no physical strength, let alone the ability to protect himself. It's not that I don't want to help you, but if you don't have a way to ensure your own safety, I won't let you die in vain Yes." Marco Polo said firmly.

"...Indeed, the two of us are just magicians, but I still have a few pets, what do you think of their abilities?" Wen Yu thought for a while, released the unicorn and pointed to stand White and black on his left and right shoulders.

"Ah..." Marco was stunned when he saw the unicorn, "but...it...I know that unicorns are kind and powerful creatures, but they are not warlike..."

Xiao Hei glanced left and right, and felt that this room should be able to barely transform himself, so it returned to its original shape without saying hello...

"Little, little black...you... squeezed me to death!"

After the sound of ping-pong-pong tables and chairs being pushed down, Wen Yu's almost breathless voice squeezed out from under Xiaohei's stomach.

Xiao Hei quickly shrunk, and several living creatures that had been squeezed and pasted on the wall as photos were uncovered one after another.

"You... If you dare to transform without saying hello again, I will pluck all your hair!" Wen Yu pointed at Xiao Hei angrily, and carried out ideological education.

"Well...Anyway, that old man, do you think we can reach the east smoothly?" Xiao Hei shifted his gaze and brought everyone's attention back to Marco Polo, who was panting heavily, "By the way, just now The other old man who talked to you is Merlin who is known as the great magician... Do you think that under our protection, that so-called strength..."

Xiao Hei deliberately prolonged his voice, so as to give Marco a time to react, and also to give Wen Yu and Mei Lin a time to stare at it - in this case, they wouldn't blame themselves for transforming indiscriminately, would they?

(End of this chapter)