67: Chapter 67 Re-registering as an Explorer
"Hello, Uncle Yao Dong."
Lin Fan nodded slightly.
He did not feel awkward about addressing his elders.
Having worked in a convenience store in his past life,
he was long accustomed to being polite to older people.
Besides, these people would be his seniors on the team in the future.
"Haha, good, you're polite! If you need anything in the future, just come to me."
Yao Dong said happily.
After Lin Fan thanked him,
he looked back at Aunt Mi Xue beside him.
He stared at her face for a long time, his expression somewhat hesitant.
Aunt Mi Xue noticed.
Her exposed eye curved slightly, carrying a hint of mischief.
"Why are you staring at me like that? Could it be that you've fallen for your auntie? Your mother will be angry, you know."
Lin Fan froze.
His cheeks turned bright red uncontrollably in an instant.
It was inevitable for a teenage boy to have fantasies about mature women.
He was no exception.
But it was absolutely not because of that!
"N-no, it's not! Please don't talk nonsense!"
Lin Fan stammered incoherently.
Yao Dong and Aunt Mi Xue burst into laughter.
"Don't mind it, the captain is just like that; you'll get used to it."
Yao Dong helped smooth things over.
He also felt internally that this teenager was just too easily embarrassed.
Lin Fan quickly averted his gaze, not daring to look at Aunt Mi Xue again.
Get used to it?
He was afraid he would explode on the spot before he could get used to it.
With Aunt Mi Xue's aura, who could handle it?
"Alright, alright, I won't tease you anymore... at least not today. What exactly did you want to say earlier?"
After Aunt Mi Xue had laughed enough, she asked.
It took a long while for Lin Fan to calm down.
His complexion finally returned to normal.
"Your eye... what happened to it?"
He looked at the eye patch and asked softly.
Even though he knew it wasn't very polite, he just couldn't help himself.
He always felt that there must be a story beneath that eye patch.
Aunt Mi Xue was slightly stunned; she slowly raised her hand and gently touched the eye patch.
Lin Fan watched with great anticipation.
"Hmm? Who said there was something wrong with my eye? My eye is perfectly fine."
She suddenly pinched the eye patch with two fingers and flipped it open... revealing a perfectly intact eye.
Lin Fan: "..."
Yao Dong, who was driving, couldn't hold it in anymore.
He laughed in a low voice.
Lin Fan suppressed the complicated emotions in his heart.
He asked her why she wore an eye patch if there was nothing wrong with her eye.
And Aunt Mi Xue's answer
was even more shocking to him than the fact that her eye was fine.
"Because it looks cool and makes me seem experienced."
Aunt Mi Xue beamed with a bright smile.
Lin Fan sighed deeply.
He felt like he had received too much shock today and wanted to rest right there.
Yao Dong saw his expression of utter despair in the rearview mirror.
He couldn't hold it in anymore and burst into loud laughter.
Aunt Mi Xue put the eye patch back on.
She leaned back comfortably in her seat.
The car quieted down.
The vehicle sped along the busy streets.
Before long,
they arrived at the Alliance Building.
Yao Dong parked the car, and Lin Fan and Aunt Mi Xue got out.
"Wait for us here; we'll be back soon."
Aunt Mi Xue instructed.
"Understood!"
Lin Fan followed Aunt Mi Xue into the Alliance Building.
Just like last time,
it was bustling with people, and the receptionists were extremely busy.
Lin Fan noticed that quite a few people were secretly looking at them.
To be precise, they were looking at Aunt Mi Xue beside him.
"It seems she is quite famous, being a Tier 3 Mage after all."
Lin Fan thought to himself and turned to look at Aunt Mi Xue.
At this glance, he was completely stunned, almost thinking it was another person.
Just a moment ago at home and in the car, Aunt Mi Xue was gentle, cheerful, and loved to joke around.
But now, there was not a trace of a smile on her face.
Her gaze was cold as ice, and her posture was straight, like an unapproachable ice beauty.
The eye patch added a touch of mysterious and dangerous aura.
Lin Fan was completely shocked.
How did she seem like a different person the moment she entered the Alliance?!
"Lin Fan, come with me."
Aunt Mi Xue had already started walking forward, and Lin Fan quickly followed.
The two walked to a temporarily vacant reception desk.
The receptionist was a young woman in her early twenties, not a mage.
She saw Aunt Mi Xue and was instantly startled, her attitude immediately becoming respectful.
"Hello, how can I help you?"
The receptionist bowed slightly and then took a secret look at Lin Fan, her eyes full of curiosity.
"Register him as an explorer."
Aunt Mi Xue's tone was flat, devoid of any emotion.
"O-okay!"
The receptionist hurriedly took out a form and a pen, placing them in front of Lin Fan.
Aunt Mi Xue stood quietly to the side, waiting.
Lin Fan picked up the pen and began to fill it out.
The content was similar to when he registered as "Chen Ping" last time.
Except that last time, he was served by Fang Bin.
Lin Fan felt a bit strange.
He only found out later.
Fang Bin was one of the two administrators under the branch manager of this Alliance.
Why did he personally handle his registration last time instead of leaving it to a receptionist?
He temporarily suppressed his doubts and quickly finished filling out the form.
There wasn't much to fill out, just basic information like element, name, and rank.
Unlike last time when he deliberately left most of it blank,
this time he filled everything out truthfully.
"Come to think of it, Fang Bin didn't ask why I left the information blank last time either."
Lin Fan thought to himself as he handed the form back to the receptionist.
The receptionist said, "Please wait a moment."
Then she took the form and walked into the back office.
While waiting,
Lin Fan asked Aunt Mi Xue casually if it was possible to not fill in all the information when registering as an explorer.
"It's not mandatory. Most mages have secrets, and the Alliance understands that."
"Besides, the card has limited space, and it can't print too much information anyway."
Aunt Mi Xue answered, her tone much gentler than it had been with the receptionist.
Lin Fan understood.
So that was it; no wonder Fang Bin didn't ask more questions last time.
Not long after, the receptionist returned and asked if they would wait on-site or come back tomorrow to pick up the card.
Lin Fan originally wanted to say he would come back tomorrow.
After all, that was what he did last time, thinking that making the card took time.
But Aunt Mi Xue said directly that they would wait on-site.
The two walked to a corner and sat down.
"Doesn't making the card take a long time? Don't we need to come back tomorrow?"
Lin Fan asked with confusion.
"No, a few minutes is enough."
Aunt Mi Xue said.
Lin Fan nodded in understanding.
As for the last experience, it could only be considered a special case.
More than ten minutes later,
someone hurriedly brought the card, handed it to Lin Fan, and then quickly left.
Lin Fan looked at the person's hurried retreating figure, and his heart stirred slightly.
Were they afraid of... Aunt Mi Xue?
Not just the person who delivered the card, but the people around them as well.
Although they hid it well, whenever they passed by them, they would deliberately keep a distance, as if afraid of accidentally angering Aunt Mi Xue.
Lin Fan took another look at the woman beside him, shook his head slightly, and cast this thought aside.
In his view, Aunt Mi Xue was clearly easy to get along with and nothing to be afraid of.
Of course, one day was not enough to truly understand a person.
But at least for now, he didn't feel there was anything to be afraid of.
Perhaps she was just like him?
Usually gentle and friendly, and only when truly pushed would she do extreme things?
After getting the explorer card, the two stood up and left.
On the way out,
Lin Fan took a look at his card.
It was almost identical to the one for "Chen Ping."
Only the name, element, and date were different.
The age and other detailed information were not printed on it.