Chapter 52 Will travelers in the forest be attacked?
After seeing off the happy elves, watching the group of little elves carrying sandwiches swaying towards the lower reaches of the river, just like ants swarms carrying prey back to their nests, Metien was still immersed in what he just said.
In the lucky spell, Alice did not come back to her senses, but Alice had already swallowed the last bite of the sandwich and licked her lips.
The little elf Semi sat on Metien's shoulder, looking at the direction in which the elves were going away, with some doubts on his face, and said to himself: "Although it is a good thing, why do the elves appear?"
What about outside the mountains? How strange..."
Metien, who was closest, heard her murmur and asked curiously: "Do elves only live deep in the mountains?"
"That's not true."
Semi shook his head: "It should be said that all the aliens in the Sosen Mountains now basically only move in the innermost area of the mountains. Because if they are too close to a human city, they will be discovered by the sect.
Danger, especially demon spirits with little fighting ability like elves, which are basically defenseless. So why do they take such a big risk and come to the outskirts of the mountain? It's really strange."
She racked her brains but couldn't figure it out.
If even she couldn't figure it out, Medien, who knew little about the magical world, didn't even know the answer. The little pink-haired girl looked at the direction where the elves were leaving with worried eyes. At this time, the group of little guys had disappeared.
I don’t know where they went: “Then, will they be in danger?”
"If it's just a short stay, it should be fine." Xie Mi's little eyebrows were knitted together, and his cute face was full of serious expression: "But it seems that the entire group of them is out, and they are simply moving to their place of residence.
It looks like.”
Metien clasped his hands and blessed softly: "I hope they are safe and sound."
"Don't worry!" The elf touched her cheek and consoled her: "The fact that the elf can cast lucky magic means that they themselves are very lucky, so nothing will happen to them!"
It sounds like very simple logic, but the pink-haired little girl happened to believe this, so she arched her eyebrows, showed a happy smile, and nodded vigorously: "Yes!"
After listening to the conversation between the two in silence, Linge turned his attention to Saint Xalia, but saw the girl holding the sheep slowly shaking her head, saying that she didn't know what was going on.
The sudden appearance of the elf, leaving its original place of residence at the risk of being discovered by humans, seems like it is just hiding from something... I hope this is just an exception.
Such thoughts flashed through the young man's mind.
But things in the world often don’t go as people wish.
After having lunch by the river, Alice rolled around and said that she wanted to eat after the meal and rest for at least eight hours before starting again, but Ringer cruelly rejected it. Everyone simply rested for a while, and then started again
Embark on the road forward.
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Along the upper reaches of the river, we gradually go deeper, until the already thin water flows into the mountain wall. Then we change the direction, cross the bushes, moss and fungi all over the ground, and step onto a section of thick aerial roots rising from the surface.
, looking for the paths trampled by wild beasts in the forest. Sometimes the front will be blocked by green-black vines hanging down from the branches. They have taken root here for decades, and the ends are deeply nailed into the ground, as if standing tall.
A solid wall cannot be pushed by hand, it can only be bypassed.
This mountain is a mountain that does not freeze, so autumn is the end of the year. The leaves that have fallen in that season are now thickly piled on the ground at your feet, and they are stagnant under the rotten vegetation with a slightly fishy smell.
Reptiles and spiders, stepping on them, is like being stuck in a muddy swamp.
The dense ancient trees are often tens of meters high. The pedestrians below them look like ants. The tree roots protrude from the ground and are curved and arched. The rough and ferocious surface is like the four legs of a beast, carrying the city on its back as it moves forward. Ten centuries
Previous adventurers may have witnessed how the ancestors of these trees grew, or even cut off a branch from their body, built a camp, and burned it into a bonfire.
However, the self-healing ability of nature has defeated mankind's self-righteous conquest, so when they appear in front of everyone, they still retain the same natural and wild flavor that has lasted for thousands of years.
Although I was walking in the "Wolf's Den" on the mainland, I didn't encounter many large beasts other than birds and squirrels along the way. The closest contact was with the forest at a distance of more than 20 meters.
An elk looked at each other, but it was just a quick glance. Soon it turned around and disappeared deep into the dense forest with a few leaps.
However, the aliens that Xie Mi said only lived deep in the mountains had unexpected encounters with them several times.
The first two are harmless aliens similar to elves: the little leaf man who wraps his body with the new leaves in spring, grows with it, and will replace it with a new leaf next spring; and the little leaf man who looks like a cat,
The whole body is dark, except for the four paws that are gray, and the gray boots that like to jump on the branches.
Their attitude towards humans is quite friendly, so after encountering Ringer and his party, they did not act too radically, but they did not get close to each other like the previous elves. They just watched silently for a while, then turned and left.
. If Xie Mi hadn't recognized them, Ringer and the others wouldn't have known that these inconspicuous little creatures were also members of the alien species.
As for the third contact, it was not so peaceful.
Those aliens called "Capels" look like monsters with deer heads and bodies that appear in ghost legends. They are covered in jet black robes and are actually formed by the cold mist surrounding their bodies. They use these
The mist served as a shield, silently shuttled through the shadows, and launched an attack on the unaware Linge and his party from a corner that was invisible to the sight. The arrows used were arrows condensed by ice, which were emitted when they passed by quickly.
The coldness caused the surface of the tree trunks to be covered with a thin layer of frost.
The arrow missed and broke through the air, the wind pressure surged, and the fallen leaves on the ground were lifted up, falling in the air like zeroing butterflies. Ringer was the first to notice the chill coming from the back of his head, and looked back, only to see the frozen arrow missing.
It gradually enlarged in the eyes, and the speed seemed to be very fast, so fast that the human nerves could not react at all; but it also seemed to become very slow, so slow that Ringer could think clearly about what he should do in the moment when the hole shrank.
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He subconsciously stretched out his hand, trying to pull Metien behind him, but at this time, the ice arrow that was heading towards them changed its angle strangely without slowing down, and turned straight towards the sky.
, as if there is a pair of invisible hands controlling their flight trajectories behind the scenes.
This is not a description, it is a fact.
Saint Xalia slowly withdrew her hand, and the plucked golden thread loomed between her fingers, indicating some mysterious image from fate. At the same time, several ice arrows flying into the sky burst suddenly, making a crisp sound.
With the sound, countless icy blue debris fell from the sky, like fragments of crystal, reflecting the forest in a bright and confusing way.
"Medien!"
Although the crisis had been resolved, Ringer still pulled his sister behind him, stared at the direction of the arrow, and said without looking back: "Hide."
The pink-haired little girl naturally had no objections and hid behind her brother obediently. Alice took out the game console, while the little fairy Xie Mi stuck his head out and took a look and found that the attackers hiding in the shadows had deer heads and bodies.
With a terrifying appearance, the body was covered with a black robe-like mist, a strange creature mentioned by the eldest sister suddenly appeared in his mind, and the image in her description overlapped with the monsters in front of him: "Capers!" She cried out in surprise: "They are Capers!"