Chapter 57

Ah! New book period! The results are pretty average! I really need everyone's support! Please recommend and collect! Begging, begging, all kinds of begging! ………………………… In this way, the main character, Miko, and Xiaobai lay in the snow like idiots, talking nonsense all night long. When they woke up in the early morning, they were almost frozen stiff.

"Truly like idiots... Being with an idiot, I've become an idiot too." The main character, Miko, complained while getting up and stretching her body.

"That's what I should be saying."

"Alright, alright," Miko stood up, patted the snow off her back, and then took out some dried meat and bread from her waist and stuffed it into her mouth: "Stop talking nonsense, Master, you're so talkative. We don't have enough time, let's hurry up and go."

"Who's talking nonsense? Who's talkative, who—"

"—Look, look, there you go again." Miko looked helpless and then walked to the front. After thinking about it, she realized she didn't know the way, so she let Xiaobai walk in front. The two of them, one in front and one behind, continued to head deeper into the ice sea. Unconsciously, the wind and snow started to get heavier.

"Anyway, Master, you should increase my commission this time, right?" Miko said.

"Are you raising the price?" Xiaobai frowned.

"Isn't it more work?" Miko shrugged.

"Let's see... " Xiaobai didn't dare to say it too firmly.

"Come on, let's agree beforehand to avoid any future conflicts. Since you used a fake name before, Master Daniel, we need to sign a new contract. Let's tally up the money you promised me." Miko said this while taking out an abacus, shaking it up and down, and then started calculating.

"First, fifty silver-gilded gemstone balls, two hundred gold coins each, fifty of them. Then—"

"—Those broken little balls are—"

"—Decorative, just decorative. Don't you feel better spending two hundred gold coins this way?" Miko said: "We agreed on two hundred gold coins before, right? Do you want to back out?!"

"… I keep my word." Xiaobai gritted his teeth, feeling like the biggest sucker in the multiverse.

"Alright, then the commission for the new contract—by the way, although you're not a girl, which is a bit disappointing, you should have a daughter, right? Introduce her to me?"

"No." Xiaobai answered firmly: "I'm not married, so I don't have a daughter."

"Ah, Master Daniel, you're really pitiful, at your age... Well, travel expenses, food expenses, and other miscellaneous fees... A sister would also be fine, whether she's married or not, I can go for an NTR—"

"—No! I'm the only child in my family!"

"Oh, oh, oh, no wonder your personality is so bad. Truly, the one-child policy should be reformed... Next, the compensation for lost work time and the bounty for killing enemies is—what about your mother, Master?"

"What the hell are you trying to do?!" Xiaobai's expression instantly turned terrifying, and he gripped his sword hilt.

"Ahahaha... Look at you, getting so worked up. We're such good friends, shouldn't we visit the old lady at home? What could happen..."

As Miko said this in a very casual tone, Xiaobai slowly relaxed again. Until Miko tore a page of the bill and handed it to him. Xiaobai took it and glanced at it, instantly bursting out:

"Twenty-seven thousand six hundred and fifty-two pure gold coins?! Where do you get so much money?! Are you crazy for money?!"

"Hey? Master, that's not right." Miko frowned: "This is hard-earned money. And you agreed, right? Look at your high status and great background, what with the vampire family and the thousand-year-old nobility. Just mentioning your name scares people. You, such a powerful person, would back out?"

"… But, this… When did I agree?"

"Just now, Master, don't you remember?"

"Did… I?"

"Of course, of course. How could I lie to you? Anyway, sign it, Master. Once signed, it's a contract. By the abyss above and below, whoever breaches it will suffer. This way, it's good for both of us." Miko said this while handing over the contract and an ink-dipped quill, pushing it into Xiaobai's hand.

Xiaobai looked at the quill, the contract, and then at Miko's expectant face, and finally, reluctantly signed his real name on the contract.

"Yes!"

Miko immediately snatched the contract and shook Xiaobai's hand vigorously: "Pleasure to work with you!"

As she said this, the effects of the human-like charm, hypnosis, and suggestion skills she used to support her bluffing skills wore off.

Xiaobai shook his head, not understanding what had happened for a long time. Miko, regardless, pulled him along and continued on their journey. The more Xiaobai thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. The more he thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. He felt his head getting bigger and bigger and bigger...

And so, another peaceful day passed. Miko grabbed two pieces of dried meat from her dimensional bag, ate a few bites with the snow, set up a tent, and soon fell asleep, snoring. Xiaobai, however, tossed and turned, unable to sleep. When he looked at Miko, anger rose in his heart, and he wanted to strike him with his sword.

Of course, Xiaobai was just thinking about it in his mind.

"Let him live a little longer. Hahaha, sooner or later, I'll make him regret offending me." Xiaobai said these self-deceiving words, self-hypnotizing. After that, his mood improved a lot, and he fell asleep.

The next day, Miko, while sleeping, felt cold—a very rare feeling.

Although Miko didn't have the resistance to elemental damage as a skill when leveling up, her constitution of eighteen points was still enough to resist the cold to some extent. For a while, she had been living in the ice sea like a fish in water. The feeling of "being cold" was actually the first time she felt it.

The moment she felt this, Miko opened her eyes and woke up. Then, she rolled out of the snow pile.

She looked around and found that the tent she had hidden in was gone. She exclaimed, "What the—?!" and then got a mouthful of snow.

"What the hell is going on?!"

In the strong wind, Miko's voice was intermittent. Beside her, Xiaobai, who was also wrapped in fur, shouted angrily:

"Didn't you say you were smarter? Show me how smart you are now!"

"Being smart doesn't help with the cold, Master!" Miko shouted back.

Because the sound of the wind and snow was so loud, they had to shout at the top of their lungs to clearly and completely convey their messages. Of course, this was also because both of them could fly and weren't afraid of avalanches.

"What's going on now?! I remember it was sunny and calm yesterday!" Miko shouted.

"How should I know?!" Xiaobai replied.

"Because you raped a she-wolf?"

"You raped a bitch!"

"Hey, Master, how can you curse like that?"

"You started it!"

They repeated this pointless conversation as they braved the wind and snow, continuing forward. After a while, Miko got annoyed.

Annoyed, annoyed, annoyed.

Impatient, impatient, impatient.

"Ah, ah, why am I accompanying a stupid Master, aimlessly traveling in a blizzard? This doesn't fit my aesthetic at all."

Thus, Miko started complaining.

At first, Xiaobai could tolerate it, thinking Miko would stop after a while. But how could Miko let him off? She kept complaining, and complaining, and complaining. Finally, Xiaobai couldn't take it anymore.

After Miko said, "Ah, so boring," for the three thousand seven hundred and fifty-ninth time, Xiaobai, who was leading the way, stopped and turned to Miko, shouting:

"You said it was fine before, and you even signed the contract!"