Chapter 22 Spring Woodland
Bounced, Leah jumped over the smelly puddle and headed to the tree house on the other side of the pond.
There is no longer any green grass here, all the herbs have become withered and yellow, and some have even rotted.
Most of the trees are dead, leaving only a lonely tree house without the shade of its leaves.
Because the environment changed a lot, Leah had to identify carefully before she could recognize the way to her good friend Shana Fei's house.
As the distance got closer, Leah heard a burst of singing.
She followed the direction of the singing and quietly hid behind the trunk of a dead tree.
Not far away, a group of elves formed a circle, and a pit was dug in the center of the circle. There was an elf lying in the pit holding his bow and arrow as if he was asleep.
‘Jade Royal Court, your eternal home’
‘White trees and green grass are your most reliable partners’
‘Even elves will eventually come to an end’
'You will be cut in two'
‘The soul returns to Orfando, but the body remains’
‘The forest that nurtured you will also accept your end’
The singing is completely a cappella without any accompaniment, but it has an ethereal charm due to the elf's unique voice.
But Leah didn't like it. She felt it was too sad, so she just looked at it and turned back, continuing her journey to her good friend Shanna Fei's house.
It didn't take long for her to see a small tree house hanging on the side of a huge beech tree. That was Shannafe's home.
The action of raising his head also allowed him to see a pigeon flapping its wings and hovering above the dead treetops.
Leah happily waved to the pigeon:
"noob!"
Although it is called Xiaobai, it is actually a gray pigeon, but the feathers on its belly are indeed whiter than those of ordinary gray pigeons.
The dove landed obediently on Leah's shoulder and rubbed her cheek affectionately.
"Xiaobai, where have you been? I prepared pine nuts for you yesterday."
The pigeon lowered its head intelligently as if to say sorry, and then raised one of its legs to show Leah.
"What is this? A necklace?"
A silver necklace with a slightly open hand wrapped around Xiao Bai's feet.
Leah puffed up her face as soon as she saw it, pretending to be angry and said:
"You secretly took things from people in the city again, right?"
Xiaobai turned his head and said that I was wrong, but judging from this performance, he probably would dare to do it again in the future.
"Xiao Bai! Look at me, you have to give it back later, or I will get angry!"
The pigeon cooed twice to show that it knew, and Leah nuzzled it: "Be obedient, sister said, you can't take things from people in the city. Come with me to see Sanafy first, I'll wait for you later Please eat pine nuts.”
Leah climbed up the tree hole in the beech trunk, and when passing by the squirrel family, she took out a handful of raspberries and stuffed them into the hole.
But I don’t know why, but the squirrel family, which always happily comes out to get raspberries, is very quiet today.
Xiaobai stood on Leah's shoulder, and after a while Leah climbed up and knocked on the door:
"Sanafe! Are you feeling better?"
After knocking several times, there was no response from the room, and Leah was a little puzzled.
She pushed the door open and quietly entered the house.
"Sanaphy?"
There was a cold atmosphere in the house, and even if the sunlight came in from one side of the tree house, it seemed to be covered with a light blue filter.
"So you're at home, Shana Fei, wake up quickly."
On the floor not far from the door, Shanna Fei was covered with a straw mat, her back to Leah.
Leah put the basket on the ground and reached out to push Shannafei, but the touch from her fingers was as cold as ice.
"Sanaphy? Aren't you cold?"
At this moment, Leah finally noticed something and reached out to turn over Shana Fei, whose back was facing her. The head that had long since lost its vitality was knocked weakly on the floor, and black and smelly blood oozed from the mouth and nose. The skin seemed to have completely lost its luster and elasticity, and became as shriveled as a mummy.
When Shanafy turned her head, her eyes fell out of their sockets and almost rolled to Leah's legs. The sticky, foul-smelling blood and tissue fluid left a series of eye-catching traces on the wooden floor.
In his memory, the image of Shannafei who was always laughing happily with him, and the almost rotting Shannafei in front of her, kept reverberating in Leah's brain, like an awl stabbing her skull hard.
"No! Shanna Fey!"
Leah screamed unconsciously, fear making her stagger back. Xiaobai was frightened by the scream, and took off from Leah's shoulders with flapping wings, leaving a few feathers slowly falling down.
At this moment, Leah's feet were empty. Unconsciously, she exited the tree house and fell from above.
The strong feeling of falling lasted for only a moment. When Lia opened her eyes, she saw the face of her sister Zoya. She must have been caught by her sister when she fell.
Leah's eyes suddenly filled with tears, she hugged her sister tightly and cried:
"Sister! Shanna Fei! Sana Fei!"
"I know."
Zoya patted Leah's back gently and comforted softly:
"I know everything..."
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After sending away a group of children who came to the store to buy snacks, Li Chengqi returned to sit behind the cashier.
On the screen, Viola and the others were still escorting the bandits down the mountain. Considering that there were prisoners to guard, going down the mountain would probably take longer than going up the mountain.
There was no point in staring at them. Li Chengqi moved the mouse and opened the map mode, ready to see if there was anything of interest to him in the newly detected areas by the scouts.
When he opened the map, Li Chengqi suddenly discovered a gathering place icon that had not been there before.
Zoom in a little and you can see this gathering place icon appearing in the Far Forest.
This made Li Chengqi scratch his head a little.
"There was no place like this before?"
Not long ago, he used the zoom function to see the bared teeth of wild wolves near this forest. At that time, there was nothing in the forest, but now there is an icon of a gathering place.
It didn't feel like a normal village, otherwise the scouts who were in contact with the locals in search of traces of bandits would have been there long ago.
Suddenly curious, Li Chengqi zoomed in a little more. The name of the gathering place read "Spring Woodland". Relationship: Neutral.
In the list in the population column, it says 'Tree Elf', 'Water Elf', 'Tree Elf', 'Pik Elf', 'Lantern Elf' and 'Little Elf'.
Although Viola's character attribute clearly says 'high-ranking demon', and many people in the city can see a pair of horns on their heads, but other than that, she is no different from humans. Li Chengqi subconsciously Viola and the others saw them as human beings.
But the elves...
This is the first time I've seen it.
Continuing to expand the picture, in a large dark green forest, light green grass appeared, and simple tree houses hung on the treetops.
"Oh! It's indeed an elf."
The pixelated figure with two heads is not very clear. Just click on the vertical painting and you can see more details.
The local elves are beautiful creatures with wheat-colored skin. Most of them have dark green or dark green hair, and a few are dark blue.
Other than that, these elves are almost the same as standard elves, with a pair of pointed ears and everyone is handsome and beautiful.
However, these elves seemed to live a very primitive life. Their clothes were all made of bark or leaves, and they wore straw sandals on their feet. They were not seen making fire.
Maybe this is the difference between tree elves and elves.
Seeing the elves appear, the magical flavor immediately came up. Before that, it was more like a medieval simulator.
But having said that, why is one more settlement suddenly displayed?
To detect the map, you need an NPC with piety to go there. No matter how many, there must be one.
The areas being explored now are all scouts with piety running out. But in a forest with dense vegetation, a scout on horseback should not run into it seeking death.
Li Chengqi kept clicking on the ability panel of the tree elf in the settlement, and then his eyes were fixed on a pigeon that landed on the head of the elf child...
(End of chapter)