Alvin (2)
Alvinâs exquisite tanned skin was naturally beautiful, it was aesthetically pleasing.
Perhaps many would even say he looked like a girl. That wouldâve been true in the world of humans, but if he was truly an elf, then it would be quite normal.
âIâm not really an elf, Iâm half-elf!â He explained.
âEven if you didnât tell me, I wouldâve also guessed you were an elf. You have very weird earsâŠâ Ye Lang said while he looked at Alvinâs strange ears.
This was why Ye Lang offered to help restore Alvinâs ears to normal. He wouldnât have offered if they were just elven ears though.
The problem wasâŠ
When Alvin said his ears were normal, Ye Lang immediately interrupted to say, âThis is what you call normal? You have a human ear and a pointy elf ear on the other side, that doesnât look normal no matter how I look at it!â
ââŠâ Alvin suddenly became quiet.
âIt doesnât matter if youâre only half-elf⊠Offsprings usually inherit a complete set of their parentâs traits⊠Both their ears would be the same! Not like yours⊠Alvin, I think you might be a special kind of half-elf!!â Ye Lang continued.
Silence.
âAnyway, I still think itâd be better to make your ears the same, Itâd make you look so much better!â offered Ye Lang again.
âNever!â refused Alvin, shaking his head.
âAlright, alright. Itâs unique anyway, something special only you have!â waved Ye Lang. Not once did he mention the ears again that day.
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The name âAlvinâ was also a topic of controversy between them. Back when Alvin said his name, Ye Lang wasnât paying attention and it sounded vaguely like Alvin to him.
And since Alvin didnât disagree, the name stuck.
Seven days later, Ye Lang and his team were finally approaching the Holy Mountain. They had passed numerous villages, passed many people who thought theyâd never make it this far.
There were many too who thought it might take a few more days to arrive. To their surprise, they were already there!
Very soon, Ye Lang and two thousand of his men met with the other refugees. They found the other refugees easily, too easy.
There were over a hundred thousand refugees, how hard could it be?
Ye Lang was astonished at the size of the crowd. Looking at all of them, he and all his men felt tiny compared to all of the refugees.
âI knew there would be a lot of refugees, but I did not expect so many of them here!!â blurted Ye LangâŠ
It was easy to imagine what a hundred thousand refugees would look like. However, when they were there, right in front of his eyes, everything felt very different.
âI agree with you sir, then what do we do now?â Alvin and the rest felt powerless. All confidence in being able to help them vanished, including those who wanted to help and even the ones who wanted to play the hero.
Looking at the crowd, they felt hopeless.
âWe will do everything we can! It is not about the quantity, but about the quality! Weâll do what we are able to, and that will be enough!â Ye Lang confidently said.
Everyone got to work to help anyone who needed them!
Ye Lang and his two thousand men drew the attention of people living around Holy Mountain. All the refugees, the believers of the Holy Mountain, and even the spiritual workers living in the area came to meet them.
They all thought it was weird at first, for Ye Lang and his followers did not look like refugees at all, rather people who wanted to help refugees. But who in the world would be able to recruit two thousand people to help refugees?
The strangest part was, who would think that the people in Holy Mountain needed help? What was there that they could not achieve?
Their questions left as quickly as they came when Ye Lang did something very surprising⊠He had Little Xin empty out their rings and arrange everything nicely.
After that, what was once a plain field became a land of gold and riches. Everything you could ever think of was there!
The number of goods on the ground was unbelievable to their eyesâŠ
At this moment, no one wondered how Little Xin was able to arrange everything at such speed and within such a short period of time. They only cared about one thingâŠ
What the hell, did they move an entire city here?
Are they going to build a new city here?
They must be so richâŠ
If it wasnât for the fortune he received from the emperor of the Vermillion Bird Empire, Long Anyang, Ye Lang wouldâve never been able to afford all this. He didnât want the gold at first- it was the money for the magic cube- but he was tricked by Princess Longji into accepting it!
Only a person like Ye Lang would have to be tricked into accepting money!
When the Vermillion Bird Emperor gave Ye Lang the gold coins, he did not give it in the exact amount, throwing in a little extra.
Ye Lang didnât mind too much at that time. He even insisted on accepting only the gold coins, saying it felt better when he spent in gold coins. It definitely shocked people.
Who wouldâve thought heâd spend every single gold coin from this fortune? And not only that, he completely emptied his own personal fortune too! Even at the end, he still wasnât sure how much gold the emperor had given him.
Oh, how the emperor cried when he heard this storyâŠ
âThatâs odd, why do I feel like theyâre trapped?â Ye Lang suddenly noticed a huge boundary separating a portion of the people from the rest of the crowd.
With a rough estimate, there were about fifty to sixty thousand people in the middle!
If you looked closely, not only would you see segregations within the alchemy formation- there was also something separating this entire crowd of hundred thousand and Sheng City.
All these refugees were locked outside the city, no one could get in!