Alexander's Memoirs - The Trailblazers Chapter 21: The Companion of Neighbors
Time moved forward a little, and the captain led the others to the tribe or Ankaluo village. The village chief called on the women and children who were still idle and gave them a place to stay.
Noli put down the medicine in her hand and asked the technician if he had brought any medicine. Not only was there no medicine, but he also learned that Alexander and Sherlock had set off first. Logically speaking, they should have arrived first.
"At this time... it's difficult for horses to pass through the forest. It's probably difficult for them to do so if it's dark and the roads are messy." Noli looked at Freya, who was walking behind.
"It's difficult. The first is the road, and the second is the beast blocking the road. Do you want to deal with it? It probably came along the previous road. In fact, it is better to be tied up in the wilderness..."
"Maybe you want to transport something... shall we go now?" Noli asked the village chief and captain if they could bring a few more people, and then asked for a few torches. Susie followed Noli quietly all the time.
Listening to these conversations carefully, paying attention to the master's movements, ready to follow at any time.
"Then let's go, I hope nothing happens." Freya saw Noli bringing two soldiers over, took a torch and lit it, and then followed. The group of people rushed back along the path, hoping
Find Alexander and Shylock early.
Not long after, several people suddenly discovered that there were bloody thorns full of small flowers on the road ahead. How did this thing move to the road? These ghost plants were hugged into a ball and blocked in front of the people. They seemed to have a strong tendency to attack.
"G." Freya regretted a little and a strange word came out of her mouth, but no one was in the mood at this time.
"This thing should be afraid of fire." Noli attached great importance to moving plants, and used the Red Lotus Blade to attack with all her strength from the beginning.
The flames ignited on the sword made the plant's tentatively extended branches and thorns quickly retract, as if trying to escape. But the flames instantly ignited the upper part of the moving plant.
"Ouch..." Susie roared. Although it was of no use to the plants, the she-wolf approached the scalded thorns at a slower speed and the moving plants were unable to eat.
One soldier stepped forward and found the opportunity to swing his long sword to cut off one of the larger branches that was swinging randomly. The other soldier also followed the same method and achieved considerable results.
Freya opened and closed her arms and entered a certain state, and tentatively fired the few remaining fine gold flying knives at the thorn monster. The precise flying blade cut off three thinner branches in a row.
Even waving branches failed to extinguish the fire, but the continuous attacks did not make the moving plant lose its mobility. Perhaps realizing this, a large number of branches suddenly stretched out and knocked Nori away at the moment of precaution. At this moment
, several people shot an arrow wrapped with thunder and lightning from behind, nailing a thick branch in the middle of the thorn bush to the ground. The plant stopped moving, and was slowly turned into charcoal by the flames that were still spreading.
"Noli!" Seeing that the plant had lost its activity, Freya quickly put away the drawn sword and went to deal with Noli's injuries urgently...
"Ouch..." Susie hurriedly ran over and gently rubbed the unconscious Noli's arm. The emotion called worry shone in her dark green eyes.
"Phew, we caught up." After receiving treatment, Noli's breathing stabilized and the wound was properly bandaged. Freya finally breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems that my first aid skills are not too unfamiliar."
"Thank you for your help!" But the two soldiers looked over and saw no one. After being alert for a while, one of the soldiers showed Freya a broken black bloodshot crystal and an arrow used to kill living plants.
It's the same crystal that was brought back from the temple before.
"What was found in this monster's body, do you have any clues?" After saying this, the soldiers continued to be on guard. Freya had quickly treated the whipping wound, and judging from the appearance of the arrow, it was the same as the one used by Alexander.
…
On the other side, some time after the battle ended, the horses also stood up and stopped lying down.
"Ah, this horse is finally willing to get up. Sherlock, let's get going." Alexander walked over and took off the reins and set off.
After walking not far, Alexander discovered that the section leading to the forest path seemed to have been slashed with weapons by the captain and soldiers. It seemed that they were walking ahead, but why hadn't such traces been found before? In short, it was probably possible.
Moving forward at half the speed can be said to have greatly reduced Sherlock's workload of cutting grass.
"Let's go, let's go, I hope I can get back before dawn." Sherlock didn't care, yawned and walked at the front.
"Well..." Alexander looked in the opposite direction along the marks that looked like they had been slashed by the captain and the others. "We were obviously the ones who set off first, and they shouldn't miss the path they took... We're here.
Just ask me by the way." Suddenly Alexander discovered that there seemed to be traces of tree branches penetrated by powerful arrows in the direction of the previous battle, but it obviously had nothing to do with the road in front of you, and the trees were still there.
It will not be able to move automatically.
"Well... damn, maybe these trees can really walk on their own. Let's go back to the tribe as soon as possible."
Sherlock looked back and said, "How is that possible? Let's go. I think you may be tired and hallucinating."
Not long after Noli's wound was treated, Freya looked around in caution. Not long after, she suddenly felt that the density of the nearby vegetation had become less dense. "Ouch!...Ouch?" Susie suddenly said
He roared in the distance, and when he saw that he was an acquaintance, he stepped back and stayed beside Noli obediently.
Then Freya and the soldiers were also seen with Sherlock and Alexander leading the horse behind them. "Are you okay? I heard that you set off before the captain and the others, why are you so late?"
"Ah, you came to see us?" Alexander led the horse over and said, "Is Noli okay? You look like you have been hit by these gray things on the ground."
"Well, let's talk about these things when we have time... It's getting late now, so let's hurry up and go back."
"That's right. Anyway, let's put Noli on the horse first. I feel like there's something wrong with this forest, so I need to retreat quickly."
"I'm a little tired too, let's go." Sherlock yawned again, it was indeed very late now.
On the way back, Freya also discovered traces of felling by the third pioneering team, but she didn't notice it when she came... What the hell, the leaves of the plants were also much sparser.
Finally, the soldiers took turns carrying Noli back to Ankaro Village. At this time, most of the people had already rested. However, a few tribal warriors were still patrolling conscientiously. In order to ensure that the clouded leopards were not interested in the horses, a few people were asked to keep the horses.
It was tied outside the door.
The soldier handed Noli to Freya and went to rest, and several people entered the door. At the end, Alexander heard a strange bass scream behind her, and then a violent impact erupted behind her.
Alexander was in pain, turned around and saw only a wooden arrow with a note tied to its tail on the ground.
She pulled out the arrow and looked at the direction it was shot from: "Who is it? Is there something wrong? Or is he here to cause trouble? Is there anyone who writes like this?" However, Alexander only looked at you and saw the leaves fluttering in the wind.
"Alexander, are you okay...let me take a look?" Freya was as worried as everyone else at first, but she was relieved when she saw that Alexander was not injured.
"Madman, just shoot me like this after a fight. If you hit the arrow harder, I will faint." Alexander said, unfolding the note and looking at it.
At this time, Sherlock came over and muttered: "What the hell is this? It's just blurry, I can't understand it at all."
There are some handwritings on the note that are difficult to see and need to be identified carefully, and they are written in two colors. It doesn’t matter, one of the handwritings is actually Alexander’s own, especially since she is very good at writing the letters q and w.
Unique and very recognizable.
The first is a paragraph of black text: "The development of the subconscious presents a highly symmetrical and indistinguishable state between dreams, and continues to use peripheral variables to transform ether and elements to derive repeated time and space."
Then there is a red text with large and messy letters: "The Dawnbreaker measures the chaos from the beginning and hides it."
Next came another scrawled black text: "Old memories invade the brain, and humans have no soul."
Finally, there are a few words in red letters but they are written correctly: "He and he have fallen into the last well, I hope all the links are sufficient."
Alexander murmured: "Isn't this handwriting my own... It's not so similar, how is it possible?"
She felt a chill running down her back: "And he also used a bow and arrow... Couldn't this be written for me by my future self?"
Sherlock touched his chin with his white-gloved hand, pretending to be a learned man. "I know a little bit about time reversal. It is said that if the future self is seen by the present self, it will cause the fallacy of time and space."
"Well, it sounds like my future self actually shot me. I don't think I would do that." Alexander shook his head: "Why didn't I shoot it on the tree next to me?"
"And what's written on this note is also very strange. I can't understand it at all. So why would the future me send such a note to the present me that she knows I can't understand?" Alexander didn't think so.
I was once a Riddler, and I shouldn't be one in the future.
Sherlock continued to murmur: "If your future self changes the past, it will cause the future you live in to change. This is wrong, so it can only be explained by parallel time and space. If your future self comes from the Alpha world to the Beta world, then the Beta world
The future of the Beta world will change accordingly. But even if the Beta world does not change, it may not be the same as the future of the Alpha world. Another saying is that no matter what people in the Alpha world do, the future of the Beta world will be similar to the Alpha world. The flow of the world
It won’t change much, but the individual will be changed by it.”
"What did you say?" Alexander looked at Sherlock in confusion.
"Actually, this is just what I heard, and I don't really understand it." Sherlock turned around and entered the door again. "But it is said that there is a group of people in a distant place who use this theory to do many great things."
"Forget it, in short, I don't want her to be seen by me regardless of whether she is the future or not. Let's just stick to the original plan." Alexander felt it was not safe and decided to find a place to tie the horse in Ankaluo Village: "Get ready to rest.
, I have to go on a journey tomorrow.
Alexander couldn't sleep that night. She even got up and went for a walk at the door. She didn't find anything wrong. Those patrolling tribal warriors, several groups of clouded leopards, and a soldier from the third pioneering team were awake leaning against the wooden wall. At the end, there was nothing.
After other news, she went back to sleep, and Freya couldn't support herself and fell asleep because she had taken care of Noli until late at night. As for Susie, she showed her protective spirit and stayed by Noli's side, and she didn't sleep all night.
zzz...zzz...zzz, it seems like it's already dawn? Noli woke up first.
Perhaps because he was preoccupied, Alexander woke up early, got up, walked to the spot where an arrow was shot last night, and then walked in the direction of the arrow to look for any traces.
Noli, who was recovering from her injuries, was woken up by the sound of getting up. After spending a while to go through the last period of memories in her mind, she got up and looked around.
I really suspected that the wizard was affected by supernatural forces before he fainted. Unlucky, unlucky, unlucky. Thinking of this, Noli touched Susie who was nestled aside, and the latter started to rub her thigh excitedly.
I suddenly felt that it was good not to remember anything. Watching that kind of ghost thing really affected my appetite, mainly because my activities slowed down... I was also concerned about Freya's occasional sleep talk next to me and Sherlock's slight snoring in the curtains beside me.
Li ignored it, pressed her head to clear her thoughts, and let her chaotic thoughts clear up.
"Ouch..." Susie nuzzled her master gently again, curled up next to her legs and lay down and closed her eyes. Noli gently stroked the heartfelt she-wolf, feeling that perhaps losing memory is the body's instinct to protect itself. If
If everyone saw something as terrifying as the underground monster before... But thinking about it carefully, this is unlikely.
Walking into these unnamed rainforest trees, Alexander found some traces that had been deliberately erased. Although the other party had cleaned up the footprints, Alexander carefully stepped on the most compacted part of the soil and compared it with his own shoe prints.
size comparison.
It can be said that the sizes are basically the same, but the shoes are different, which cannot be used as strong evidence. It can only confirm the previous conjecture.
"Do it, no way. Is it really the future me? Will the future me do such disgusting things? That doesn't mean anything." Alexander frowned and shook his head, looking to see if there was any future nearby.
I may have dropped or left something behind, but in the end I found nothing else, so I had to go back to have breakfast. Survival is more important than thinking about the weird messages conveyed by unknown helpers.
The dried meat reserves in the camp were merged into the tribe's portable food storage. A large number of red berries were provided here. The sweet and sour taste was not bad. Although it was not full, it was very nutritious. Besides, it could only be eaten simply.
A little bit, it’s inconvenient to move around after you’re full.
The village chief and captain seemed to be discussing the next cooperation matters. Alexander didn't see them, so he picked up a handful of berries to eat, and went under the house to listen.
The two of them also turned off the volume. After all, it was not confidential information. It was probably like this - the village chief asked the captain if he wanted to join them temporarily, although this might cause some soldiers to be dissatisfied. Considering that there were dozens of soldiers who had returned to the embrace of their ancestors, it was also
A few rooms were left empty. Perhaps considering maintaining the integrity of the team, the captain did not agree immediately, but he still hoped that the tribe would help them build a camp near the new station to form a mutually beneficial relationship.
This compromise plan is pretty good. After initially finalizing the general scope of cooperation, the captain discussed today's itinerary with the village chief. Alexander heard that the current location will be used as an outpost in the future, and a lot of supplies will be left behind, and he will bring
But not that much.
Considering the speed of women and children, it would take about four days to reach the new station through three transfer stations. Alexander ate and listened under the building, feeling that there was no need to express his opinion for the time being.
That area was an area that Ankaro Village explored long after the current village was established. The terrain is very suitable for defense, the water source is safe and sufficient, and the food source is abundant. An outpost has been established there before, and there was a resting place in the past.
place.
The noise of children at breakfast time woke up Freya and Sherlock from their sleep.
"Good morning, Noli." Freya yawned and got up, then went to wash up. After finishing, she took her own portion of food, and then went to say hello to other teammates.
"Good morning." Alexander walked back to the curtain where he had slept: "After breakfast, get ready to leave. It is said that the journey will take four days." This chapter has been completed!