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69. Shein's Promise and The Ginger Girl
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"Here is your meal, Shein," Greg said gently, placing a plate of piping hot mushroom soup and a juicy chicken skewer in front of her.

Shein responded with a faint smile, her silver hair cascading down her shoulders. "Thanks, Greg. I don't know how to repay your kindness to me."

The two sat outside a tavern in a suburban food stall in the Kingdom of Iskandarien, lying on a patterned carpet and gazing at the vast starry sky. It was strange how they ended up in the southernmost kingdom in Terraria.

As Greg opened his eyes, he found himself surrounded by curious people from Alexandria, lying in the middle of a desert.

"Hey, look! He's wake up!" one of them exclaimed.

"Are you okay? You passed out right in the desert. Did you get separated from your herd?" asked another.

Greg was still too dizzy and weak to answer their questions.

Then he heard someone say, "Look, the young girl here has also come to her senses!"

(Young girl?)

Upon hearing those words, Greg got up from his sleeping positio
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