The Coming Rain

Chapter.12

The inland mountainous area of ​​the Asian continent.

This is the mountain range that few people know about in this land. It is continuous and deep, and in the mountain area, the natural basin terrain makes this place have a warmer climate that is inconsistent with the mountain area. Here, the vegetation is lush and the animals live freely. , follow the laws of nature and grow.

In the center of the basin is a shimmering lake. The golden sunlight shines on the water surface, reflecting the eye-catching brilliance and reflecting the grass and bushes around the lake. Occasionally, a few water birds skim over the water surface, rippling and rippling. , the environment turns from static to quickly returns to calm, giving people a feeling of tranquility and beauty.

In Charlotte's words, it is "original ecology", "pure natural", but she has no intention of appreciating it now.

The black shadow that fell into the center of the lake from a high altitude splashed and scattered water, completely destroying this peaceful tranquility, a violent cough sounded, accompanied by rapid breathing, Charlotte wiped the water on her face, hurriedly Swim to shore.

"Cough cough, cough cough..." The glorious choking Charlotte crawled out of the lake, then lay down on the shore, coughing hard.

When she fell, she didn't realize that the place where she appeared would be a lake, so she choked up several saliva unexpectedly. A lot of water got into her nose and lungs, and she just felt a sharp pain in her head.

It's so painful, who is the contract partner this time!Why did she appear in the lake!

Although she was coughing, Charlotte still heard the sound of approaching footsteps, and speeded up not far from her, and it seemed that she was running towards her.Charlotte leaned on the ground with her arms and raised her head to look at the person coming.

"Hey, are you okay?" The young man who appeared in front of him had a soft face, but he didn't look weak, but had a very gentle and sunny temperament.Black hair and black eyes are exactly the same as Charlotte's previous owner—but it's just the color. She looks about 25 or [-] years old and has a handsome face. It makes people feel good when they look at it, and people can't help it to get close.

Almost letting go of her hand, Charlotte rushed towards the young man, her black pupils seemed to be full of stars: "Sign a contract with me and become my master!" Gentleness has always been her favorite type ah!

Charlotte, who is gentle and controlling, never thought of giving a good introduction first. As a result, the young man asked for a long time in a daze before he understood what was going on.

"How could such a thing happen? Do you want to recognize the first person you see as the master?" The young man frowned, unable to understand.

Charlotte curled her lips, of course this kind of thing happens, because Sheng Zhiying just likes to tease her.Of course, although she likes gentle people, she has only just met this young man, and she is uncertain about many things. For some reason, I want to recognize the person I see at first sight as the master and accompany me as a guardian.

It is unlikely that the situation of Kuroro would happen again. If it was not because Kuroro was surrounded by enemies at that time, she would not have simply asked Kuroro to sign the contract. He was only seven years old at the time, and in an emergency, he couldn't help worrying too much.

This young man was different. Leaving aside his adult status, Charlotte really had nothing to do with this type of person. He didn't want to force the young man to sign a contract with her at all.

Many times in the past, it was because she met this type of person that she had the courage to continue walking.

While the young man was thinking about it, Charlotte had a good chat with the young man about the situation.The young man’s name is Ainuo, and he has no surname because he is an orphan. However, he is only 25 years old, but he is a famous jewelry designer on the Asia continent. He has many excellent works, and he is also a mineral designer. Hunters have discovered many rare mineral veins.

When she heard that Aino was a jewelry designer, Charlotte was so happy that she was about to jump up, gems, her favorite gems!And since you are a mineral hunter, you must walk around to find mineral veins, right?Then you can travel anywhere!This master is definitely the master she wants most!

If Charlotte's friends were here, she would definitely ridicule Charlotte's "dragon attributes" - that is, she likes shiny jewelry very much, but she is not interested in some ceramic or scroll treasures.

After learning that if Charlotte didn't sign a contract with him, she would have to die and find a new master, Ainuo was quite surprised and almost urged Charlotte to complete the contract, which made Charlotte secretly label Ainuo a "good guy" in her heart Tag of.

"Although I am very happy to meet you, would it be too cruel for you to be the master? You are still a child..." Ainuo looked at Charlotte with apology, and it was clear in his black eyes pity.

"No, master, don't look at me like this. I've actually lived for a long, long time. If you think this looks too naive, you can make me into my 20s." Charlotte shook her arms with a playful smile. A string of silver rings hanging above made a crisp sound.

"Eh?" Ainuo opened his mouth wide in surprise, and stammered, "Is this okay?" Any normal person would never think about such a thing.Ainuo had heard that there were people in the Hunter Association who relied on the ability to become very young, but that was nothing more than a blindfold.

"Of course~" Charlotte replied with a smile.

"Then, let's be 22 years old." Ainuo thought for a while, touched Charlotte's head and said, "It's still a few years younger than me, and it's very convenient to take care of."

"It's only three years old, so how convenient is it?" Charlotte stuck out her tongue.With the fall of the two silver rings, the 22-year-old Charlotte appeared in front of Ainuo.

Aino was slightly taken aback.

The woman in front of her was nearly 1.7 meters tall, she looked taller, her legs were straight and slender, she was wrapped in tight-fitting jeans, and the simple white shirt made the tall ponytail swaying behind her head more colorful, and her face was also removed. The childishness, the original fleshy round face has become an oval face, but the bright smile has not changed, but now it does not look pure and flawless, but pretty and bright.

To put it simply, it is finally not like a child who can't grow up, but a woman who can live independently.Judging from Charlotte's appearance, she is not a very beautiful woman, but she has a kind of anger that cannot be ignored, and it makes people feel refreshed at a glance.

It is said that the guardian of the cherry blossoms represents "life"...

"Stupid?" Charlotte stretched out her hand and waved in front of Ainuo's eyes. Ainuo came back to his senses, scratched his head in embarrassment, and said, "I just saw that you have some ideas about the new design..."

"Oh." Charlotte didn't quite understand these things, so she could only answer vaguely.

"That... can't you remove the things on your arms?" Ainuo asked because he knew what the silver ring and the flame mark were because he had established a contract.Restricting abilities and being burned by the soul, he felt that this was too cruel for Charlotte.

"I don't know." Charlotte answered honestly.

"Then I'll just give the order like this." As soon as Ainuo finished speaking, the two things on Charlotte's arm disappeared, which surprised Charlotte.

"Master is the best!" Charlotte threw herself into Ainuo's arms and shouted excitedly.So she is gentle and controlling!This kind of person who is good for others and doesn't care about what he gets at all, is really anyone would like it, right?

"Okay, okay, you are 22 years old now, don't be like a child." Having said that, Ainuo still smiled and patted Charlotte's head, subconsciously he still regarded Charlotte as a child.

After spending a few days with Aino, Charlotte learned that he came to this lake to find a kind of gem in the lake.Known locally as blue fluorite, this gemstone fluoresces blue in the dark.

Logically speaking, since it emits light, it should be easy to find at night, but this is not the case.In this lake, in addition to blue fluorite, there is also a kind of blue fluorite, which is affected by special geology like blue fluorite, and it will also glow like blue fluorite at night.This kind of snake is extremely poisonous, even for those with telekinetic ability, it will be quite difficult to deal with it.Both blue fluorite and blue firefly snake are rare, which also makes it rare in the market and difficult to manufacture anti-venom.

"Although it is said that blue fluorescence will be emitted, because the weather here is always good and the moon is very bright at night, it is not easy to distinguish blue light. I once found blue fluorescence, but found that It's the Blue Firefly Snake, if it didn't jump over the lake with the help of the burst of thought power and climb to the tree by the lake with the help of tools, it would have been poisoned deeply by now." Ainuo said helplessly.

"That blue firefly snake is so powerful?" Charlotte was a little nervous.

"Very poisonous, amazingly fast, small in size, strong in explosive power, and looks similar to ordinary snakes, except that the snake has blue spotted patterns on its body, and it is wild and unruly." Ainuo was even more helpless.

"However, is there really such a gemstone as blue fluorite?" Charlotte continued to ask, "Could it be that the blue fluorite snake was mistaken for a gemstone?"

"Yes." Ainuo said with certainty, and took out a photo as proof.

The photo is very old, it seems that it has been around for some years. The blue translucent oval gemstone in the photo emits a faint blue light in the dark background. It looks like there are blue flames surrounding the gemstone. The photo is obviously static Yes, the fluorescence inside looks like it is swimming, like a firefly around a sapphire.

At first, Charlotte thought that this kind of gemstone was similar to fluorescent stone, but when she saw the photo, she immediately changed her mind and decided to enrich her gemstone collection.

"...Well, master, have you ever guessed like this?" Charlotte's expression seemed very tangled, "The so-called blue fluorite is actually the egg of the blue firefly snake? Hatching, due to the accumulation of a large amount of special minerals in the body of the blue fluorite, may cause the eggs to become fossilized in advance after being placed for a long time. Is this the true face of blue fluorite?"

Ainuo took back the photo, frowned and looked at it carefully for a while, and replied: "It's not impossible for you to say that, that's good, according to the local records, it will be the mating period of blue firefly snakes soon, and there will be There are a lot of blue firefly snakes, we will see if it is the case.”

"Okay~" Charlotte nodded with a smile.

In fact, she was telling the truth.Without the shackles of the silver ring and the flame imprint, Charlotte can already use her abilities freely. She perceived the "truth" almost the moment she saw the photo, but in order to take care of Ainuo, she didn't say it directly. That's it.