Miss Witch Doesn't Want to be a Diva
Chapter 870 - 56: The Drifter's Encounter

The dormitory space was not large. The woman standing opposite Tilan had black hair tinged with brown, sallow skin, and slightly wrinkled fingers, probably from frequent soaking in water.

After Tilan asked, she responded somewhat unclearly.

"Yes."

Seeing that the other party was still somewhat nervous, Tilan shook her head, glanced at the large door open at the side, and simply raised her hand to have the maid by the door close it. The room then became quiet, with only the sound of two people breathing.

"You can sit by the bed, it will be a lot more comfortable." Tilan told her not to be so nervous, and then sat down herself in a chair beside the small table in the room.

"Yes, yes." The other person, still somewhat anxious, supported herself on the bed and slowly sat down, her body still a bit stiff.

Knowing that it wouldn't change immediately, Tilan no longer asked the other to relax.

"I'm just looking to understand your situation, not to punish you."

"Could you start by telling me where you're from?"

Under the soft and gentle reassurance of Tilan, the other person finally settled down a bit, barely lifting her head to glance at the extravagantly graceful Songstress Ji in front of her, and then quickly bowing her head again.

That fleeting glimpse of an almost celestial appearance and temperament lingered long in her mind, confusing her thoughts. It took several seconds to regain her composure and think about how to answer the question.

"I, I come from the Ten Longitudinal Star Domain, grew up on Xi Lun Star, and after graduating from high school, I came to work in the Central Star Domain. Initially, I worked in a tea shop, but the salary was not high, later I went to a high-end restaurant, and finally, I came here." As she started answering, her speech slowly became more fluent.

"How many years has it been?" Tilan asked.

"I was 19 when I came here, now I'm 28, almost nine years."

"How did you come to the Central Star Domain at that time? The travel cost should not have been cheap." The Ten Longitudinal Star Domain was very remote, located in the northeastern corner of the Federation.

"It was my uncle, my mother's brother. He works in the Central Star Domain. Knowing that I had graduated, he bought me a starship ticket so I could come over." Speaking of her uncle, her voice filled with dependence and comfort.

"Was the journey difficult?"

"Not particularly difficult, just somewhat uncomfortable on the way because I only have the strength of a Transcendent Sequence 3, and traveling on a superluminal starship for interstellar trips can be uncomfortable. But I've heard that some high-end starships are much better."

"After arriving, my uncle helped me find a place to live and then accompanied me to find a job. He gave me a lot of guidance, so I didn't have to take any detours." Speaking of her first job, her emotions visibly jumped, it seems she was genuinely happy back then.

"The people in the tea shop were very nice, sometimes I could even drink beverages for free, which tasted better than the fine wines my grandfather treasured at home. It was the first time I heard that some beverages could even help in cultivating the Transcendent Sequence."

Hearing this, Tilan became slightly curious.

"Over there in the Ten Longitudinal Star Domain, don't they have these kinds of beverages with transcendent effects?"

"I don't know, maybe the important people have them, but I've never seen them." Mai Desang shook her head.

"Just to have clean drinking water is said to be pretty good there."

"Every day in my house, we have to go to the town's water tower to fetch water. Usually, my mother would drive to tow, and during the holidays, my brother and I would also help drive and transport water."

"There's no direct water pipeline to your home?" Tilan thought for a moment.

"No, it was only when I came to the Central Star Domain that I realized that everyone could drink clean water without so much trouble."

"Later on, after checking some information, I understood that the Ten Longitudinal Star Domain's pollution was very severe, and if we were to lay pipes resistant to transcendent toxic erosion, the cost would be too high, so towns generally build water purification towers."

"Wait a moment, I remember that equipment capable of purifying transcendent toxins isn't cheap either." After all, Jade Skirt had given up on developing in the affluent area of the North because of this very reason.

"It seems so, but that water tower really was useful." Mai Desang indicated she didn't know either.

"If it's as you say, I suddenly recall that many people in my hometown indeed tend not to live very long; my grandfather was the oldest person in the town at 70 years old." After all, she had received a formal Federation education and had been in the Central Star Domain for many years; she was not foolish and quickly understood the reasons.

"Perhaps its effects are limited, but in such an environment, just being alive is already quite good."

"In the Ten Longitudinal Star Domain, are there many people like you who come to work in the Central Star Domain?"

"Not many, if it weren't for my uncle, I likely couldn't have come."

"Why is that?"

"To come to the Central Star Domain, at the very least, one must have received a formal high school education, and for interstellar travel, one needs at least the strength of a Transcendent Sequence 3 to ride on a superluminal starship."

"Many people don't meet these criteria, and even if they do, quite a few can't afford the starship ticket."

"Local people earn about 1000 Federation Coins a month in wages, while the cheapest starship ticket to the Central Star Domain costs 180,000 Federation Coins."

"Among my high school classmates, only I came to the Central Star Domain. The next best went to the adjacent Dark Harbor Star Domain, where the ticket there costs only 50,000 Federation Coins."

"After coming to the Central Star Domain, how much was your salary?"

"At first, it was only 3000 Federation Coins, after a year it went up to 5000 Federation Coins, and later in a high-end restaurant, I could roughly touch the threshold of 8000 Federation Coins per month."

"Now, at this hotel, it's around 9000 Federation Coins."

The wages in the Central Star Domain are a lot higher than in Four-leaf Crystal, Tilan compared in her mind.

A well-educated engineer of Sequence 3 in Four-leaf Crystal, earns a monthly wage of also about 6000-7000 Federation Coins, while in the Central Star Domain, a service worker's salary can easily surpass that; if it's the same Sequence 3 engineer, they can probably earn around 12,000 Federation Coins in the Central Star Domain, double that of Four-leaf Crystal.

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