After resolving Amber’s affairs and arranging everything that needed to be arranged, Chen Miemie and Chen Miaomiao left the city together the next day.
They had barely gotten outside the city when the two climbed out of the Sedan Chair and embraced.
“Chen Miemie, let’s split up here. I’m heading north to take a look around. They’ve been having a cold snap up there lately.”
“Okay. I’ll head south and begin my seaside journey.”
Neither of them was the sentimental type. They waved goodbye, and that was that.
With a blink, Chen Miaomiao exploded on the spot and vanished completely, leaving behind only a pile of exquisite candies and little gift boxes.
The Rebel Broom had been stripped of its cleaning privileges at home and hadn’t been allowed to sweep for quite some time. It immediately seized the opportunity, rushing over to gather everything up and present it to Chen Miemie like a precious offering.
Chen Miemie didn’t look too closely. He divided the candies among everyone and had Origami put the little boxes away.
“Let’s go! Our destination is [Wavefoam Harbor]. Set off!”
Even with the Sedan Chair’s speed, traveling in fits and starts, the journey took more than three days.
[Wavefoam Harbor] lay in the southeastern part of the continent. As a frontier city of human territory, it was quite far away. Even the straight-line distance was equivalent to three times the distance between Six-Elephant City and Moon Library, and they even passed through two cities along the way.
Seven thirty in the morning.
The bearers stopped, and the Sedan Chair settled gently onto the ground.
The Sedan Chair reminded him softly, “Chen Miemie, we should be nearly there, but there’s no road ahead.”
Chen Miemie lifted the curtain and stepped outside.
The instant he left the Sedan Chair, the view ahead opened up completely. Several thousand meters away, a city stood in silence.
“Good grief, is this [Wavefoam Harbor]?” Chen Miemie’s spirits rose, and he felt that the journey had already been worth it.
Before this, he had thought Moon Library—with its citywide buildings shaped like books and its cars designed like schoolbags—was already exceptionally distinctive. He had never expected [Wavefoam Harbor] to astound him before he had even entered it.
The Sedan Chair hadn’t exaggerated when it said there was no road ahead. There truly was no road—not even any land.
What stood before Chen Miemie was a city that seemed to have been built from branches and cobblestones. Its overall shape resembled a gigantic bird’s nest, with the sky and sea as its backdrop. Flocks of birds circled overhead, while the entire lower half of the city was submerged in seawater.
Chen Miemie was standing at the edge of the water.
“How are we supposed to get across? Pure Water, can you take me there by swimming?” Chen Miemie didn’t want to fly over right away. It would attract too much attention when he had only just arrived.
Pure Water’s voice sounded from within Chen Miemie’s blood: “I can take you through the water, but you aren’t water. You—and everyone else on you—would end up completely soaked.”
“Ah, that won’t do.” Origami immediately cried out. As a paper person, it feared fire, of course, but water came second.
And it wasn’t just Origami. Because of its abilities, the various supernatural beings folded into tiny paper slips and hidden on Chen Miemie’s body couldn’t go into the water either.
Who would have thought that they would run into a geographic obstacle before even entering the city?
“Hm?”
Chen Miemie spotted a small, covered boat rowing toward him from not far away.
When it was several meters away, the old boatman called out, “Young man, is this your first time in [Wavefoam Harbor]? Come aboard. I’ll take you into the city.”
Chen Miemie was delighted. Talk about perfect timing.
He didn’t even wait for the little boat to pull alongside. With a light tap of his foot, he leaped over and landed steadily at the bow. The boat didn’t move an inch.
“What nimble footwork,” the old man praised. “My name’s Old Zhou. I’m a boatman here.”
“My name is Chen Miemie. And yes, this is my first time in [Wavefoam Harbor].”
“Haha, I could tell. Everyone who comes here for the first time reacts about the same way you did.”
“Could you tell me a little about the city, Old Zhou?”
Old Zhou was well past his youth, but he looked healthy and spoke in a loud, hearty voice. He was clearly in the mood for a chat.
“Of course. Our [Wavefoam Harbor] is also known as ‘the City on the Waves,’ ‘the City of Birds and Fish,’ ‘the City of the Tides,’ and so on.
“The entire city is built in a bay. We have a huge tidal range, with two high tides every day. When the tide comes in, seawater covers the foundations of every building. The city seems to sink beneath the waves. When the tide goes out, everything is exposed again, the roads reappear, and the city comes back to life.
“Generally speaking, the water level rises when the moon comes out and begins to fall when the sun rises. Every day, around ten in the morning, the water has more or less completely receded. Once dusk passes, it slowly begins to rise again.”
Chen Miemie found it fascinating. “So the city is underwater half the time. How do people get around?”
“You take a boat whenever you go out.”
“No little cars?”
“We have them, but not many. Once the tide goes out, the roads are exposed and cars can drive on them.”
“Hm? Old Zhou, that doesn’t make sense. If cars can be driven when the roads are exposed, why are there so few?”
Old Zhou chuckled and actually pulled out a cigarette, lighting it for himself.
Chen Miemie waved a hand, indicating that he didn’t smoke, and politely declined the cigarette Old Zhou offered him.
“There are two reasons why cars are uncommon.
“One is geographical. Our roads are all made of cobblestones, like walls laid flat, with steep slopes and lots of ups and downs. Driving—or riding in a car—is an unpleasantly bumpy experience.
“The other is economic. Cars themselves aren’t expensive, but they can’t be left in the water. There’s nowhere to park them on the ground, and rooftop parking spaces are limited. Building passages to connect those rooftops to the streets below also costs extra, so parking spaces are extremely expensive. Most people can’t afford them.”
Chen Miemie nodded, somewhat impressed.
“So, it sounds like life in [Wavefoam Harbor] moves at a rather slow pace. It must take a long time to get anywhere.”
“Compared with other cities, it is a little slower. But we mainly rely on ocean resources, so although the economy isn’t as developed, life is quite comfortable once you get used to it.”
As they chatted, the covered boat drew close to [Wavefoam Harbor]’s city wall.
The wall was made of stone, and barnacles, oysters, and seaweed grew all over it.
When the little boat was still several hundred meters from the city gate, several plump seagulls suddenly swooped down from the sky and landed in a neat row at the bow.
The lead seagull called out to the two of them with a series of “caw, caw” cries.
Chen Miemie didn’t understand bird language, so he looked at Old Zhou in confusion.
Old Zhou chuckled and pulled several small dried fish from a cloth sack at the bottom of the boat.
“Here you go.” Old Zhou tossed the dried fish into the air.
The seagulls immediately flapped their wings and flew up to snatch them.
Those that caught a fish flew away at once. Those that came up empty-beaked returned to their original spots and continued crying “caw, caw” at Old Zhou.
Only after every seagull had received its share and flown away satisfied did Old Zhou explain to Chen Miemie:
“These birds are part of our city. They’ve lived alongside us in harmony for thousands of years.
“In the beginning, the city’s earliest form was built by seabirds. The birds carried branches and stones in their beaks to build nests, creating a dense cluster of them. Later, people began living and building beneath the nests. They gathered bird eggs, droppings, and feathers, and little by little, [Wavefoam Harbor] became what it is today.
“Nowadays, the seagulls serve as the city’s gatekeepers, helping us identify dangers. To enter the city, you have to pay a ‘dried-fish tax.’ It isn’t much. For the two of us, we needed to treat six seagulls.”
Chen Miemie nodded, thinking that he had learned something new yet again.
Before the two could continue their conversation, a hazy, ethereal voice drifted over from somewhere unknown.
“Yoo-hoo~”
The voice was soft and melodious, low in volume yet remarkably penetrating.
Old Zhou immediately stopped rowing. He lifted both hands from the oars, folded them across his chest, and bowed his head and body in a gesture resembling a formal salute.
Several minutes passed before the voice faded away.
Only then did Old Zhou solemnly introduce it to Chen Miemie:
“That is the song of Lady Sea Siren, the protector goddess of the ocean. Whether they are ships sailing across the sea or creatures swimming beneath its surface, all are under Lady Sea Siren’s protection.”
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