Thales sat down on the ground in a daze, staring at the cat-faced girl wearing glasses.
"I... I just want to find someone to ask for the way out of the Hall of Heroes. I am..." Thales paused for a second, but decided to stuff the identity information back into his throat, so he forced a smile: "I am here today.
We have just arrived at the Palace of Heroes."
"Oh." The girl lying on the ground shrank back and said timidly, adjusting her dusty round black glasses to make them more straight: "I thought no one would come here..."
The pair of dark and thick glasses were obviously too big and could only barely fit on the girl's ears. They looked particularly funny when paired with her dirty little face.
"Then... who are you?" Thales stood up, patted the dust on his body, and showed a friendly smile.
"I...I help people work here..." The little girl stammered, with questions and hesitation, and looked at Thales cautiously, as if she was a little scared.
It was like a little squirrel that had just encountered a falcon, hiding in a tree hole and shivering.
She was heard to say in a weak voice: "I...I think I heard someone from the kitchen say that many people are coming to the Palace of Heroes recently."
Thales frowned.
Help people work?
What did the people in the kitchen say?
Could it be...
An idea came to his mind.
According to the routine told by a girl in the late stage of chuunibyou:
In a strange palace, a young lady or a lolita appears suddenly and walks freely in an unattended area. No matter how sloppily he/she is dressed or how strange his/her behavior is - Thales expresses his deep feelings.
Suspicious, I glanced at the platinum-blond girl's outfit - she only had one identity.
"Are you the daughter of a noble family?" Thales narrowed his eyes and looked at the thin girl who was struggling to get up from the ground.
The little girl was stunned for a moment.
Sure enough... Thales nodded secretly: a routine is a routine.
However, at the next moment, the girl lowered her head timidly, and then - shook her head vigorously.
Huh?
Thales patted the dust on his arm and frowned.
The prince wanders around the Palace of Heroes, then gets lost, then meets a princess from another country, then something vulgar happens, and then all kinds of ambiguities happen - shouldn't the routine be like this...
wrong.
This girl - Thales glanced at the books on the ground, and then looked at the girl's glasses - she read, was literate, and even understood ancient imperial literature.
If you are not a noble, you will never have the opportunity to learn this.
There is no chance of being highly myopic.
And...in the Palace of Heroes.
Thales then smiled: "Your surname is Walton? Are you the granddaughter or grandniece of His Majesty Nunn?"
But to his surprise, the little girl waved her hands and shook her head as if she was frightened: "No, no, I'm just, I'm just a servant, and I was ordered to look for something here..."
Thales frowned again.
no?
As the little girl shook her head, her large black glasses slid down the bridge of her nose!
Fall to the ground.
The little girl with platinum blond hair was obviously frightened. She screamed "Ah", squinted her eyes, tried to catch the dropped glasses in mid-air, and started to flutter around.
But probably due to lack of eyesight or some other reason, she stretched out her hand randomly, but in her panic, she knocked her glasses away.
The sound of wind came.
Thales was startled, and subconsciously reached out his hand to catch the foreign object that flew towards his arms - the girl's glasses.
Yo.
Thales raised the corner of his mouth: It seems that my reflexes are good.
"Glasses!" The little girl lay down, squinted her eyes, and groped on the ground in panic: "My glasses!"
"Don't be nervous, I'm here." Thales comforted her while curiously raising the round black-rimmed glasses in his hand.
The frame of these glasses seems to be made of metal. No wonder they are so thick. Unfortunately, they have been damaged a lot.
The lenses are not thin, they are full of dust, and there are actually cracks. I wonder if there is accurate optometry technology and glasses manufacturing technology in this world.
Moreover, these black-framed glasses are not as round as they appear from a distance, but rather have a rounded rectangular shape, somewhat like those worn by a certain important person...
Gou Li...
Ahem - Thales chases away some boring memories.
"Excuse me..." The little girl seemed to be very pessimistic about her vision after losing her glasses. She lay on the ground, her eyes dull, and nervously moved in the direction of Thales.
"Don't move," Thales slowly walked up to the girl and sighed as he looked at the poor little guy who narrowed his eyes and tried his best to see clearly.
He squatted down in front of the girl. The girl's hand touched Thales' knee in panic, and she quickly retracted in fright.
"Don't be afraid," Thales tried to make his voice sound friendly and gentle: "It's okay."
Thales stretched out his hand and brushed away the little girl's platinum-blond shoulder-length hair, revealing her equally dirty left ear. His hand felt the slight trembling of the other party.
The little girl lying on the ground shrank and breathed heavier.
The time traveler opened the glasses and carefully put the brackets on the girl's ears.
Then she pressed the frame onto the bridge of her small nose.
Thales let go of his hand and smiled as he saw the little girl's eyes slowly widen behind her glasses.
She opened her mouth wide and stared blankly at the strange boy in front of her.
Through the dirty lenses, Thales noticed that the little girl's green eyes were crystal clear when seen up close.
"Be careful," Thales said with a smile: "You'd better change to a pair of glasses, this pair is too big."
The little girl suddenly reacted. She quickly got up from the ground, then raised her hands and fixed the glasses on her nose.
Then he raised his head and looked at Thales stupidly.
But she finally stopped shivering timidly, and the hostile reaction she had just felt like an animal exploding thorns had also reduced a lot.
"So, are you really just a servant?" Thales raised his eyebrows and shrugged helplessly, determined not to ask further questions.
The little girl closed her mouth and nodded slightly.
Thales looked at the helpless little girl in front of him and sighed: "Can you please tell me how to get to the Hall of Heroes?"
The little girl raised her hand timidly: "Go out, go straight, turn right, turn left, go downstairs, turn right..."
The incoherent narration made Thales' head spin.
"Stop!" Thales reluctantly stopped her words and sighed: "Forget it, I'd better go find it myself..."
The little girl lowered her head in grievance: "I'm sorry..."
"No, it's not your fault, it's just that I'm too crazy...wait a minute," Thales, who was about to turn around and leave, shifted his gaze to the little girl's body: "What you're looking at..."
Thales's face became solemn.
"What book is it?"
But he had already seen the page that the little girl had opened.
The traveler's heart sank.
"Ah, this?"
The little girl hurriedly pulled the big book out from under her body. With a sullen face, she struggled to lift the cover and faced Thales.
Thales quickly reached out to help her.
"'Dawn of Heroes'!"
At that moment, the little girl's eyes behind her glasses suddenly became bright, and her words suddenly became confident and fluent: "Telling the stories of several different human leaders during the End War, one named Cahill
·Written by the Elf of Fallen Leaves!"
Thales watched the girl's transformation from cowardice to fanaticism with some surprise.
This guy……
Wait, let's bring our thoughts back to the topic.
"The end of the battle..." Thales took a deep breath.
"There are many books talking about this matter. The so-called unknown monster led the traitors of the world to launch a war, and we fought hard to resist..." Thales' eyes became sharp:
"Is there anything different about this book? In addition to telling about the strength of the enemy, the difficulty and sacrifice of the battle, and our inexplicable victory in the end like "Endgame"..."
"You have read "Endgame"! I heard that it is out of print. It was written by an imperial man! Only the stars in the south survive." The little girl's eyes lit up, her mouth curled up, and a dimple appeared on the left side of her face:
"And this book tells a lot of special things!"
Thales looked interested.
The little girl's eyes showed enthusiasm and excitement:
"For example, it talks about the endless internal strife and frame-ups between countries from the east to the west in the early days of the war. Even the Church of the Holy Sun could not suppress it, and even asked the God of the Holy Sun to appear in person to stop these internal strife;"
"It also talks about the later Renaissance King. Prince Tormund issued a highly controversial order during the war, giving up hatred and old grudges, and using his reputation to recruit orcs, bonemen, mermaids, and even immortals.
All races united all forces to fight against the enemy, and this order made him dissatisfied by many people, so that he was deprived of military power; "
"For another example, Humble's 'General Maple Leaf' was actually better at escaping than fighting. The ones who faced off against the Army of Disaster were actually Prince Shengxuan and Chen Jian, while 'General Maple Leaf' led the only remaining ones in the east.
The troops hid in hiding for six full years. Through sneak attacks and calculations, the troops became stronger and stronger as they fought; "
"For example, Feng Wang Chenjian, who was later rumored to be amazing, was just a prisoner before the war. He was being imprisoned in the capital of triumph and was about to be executed. On the eve of the war, suspicious people broke into the cell and let Chen Jian and Chen Jian go.
his companions;”
"It is said that at the most critical moment, someone opened the door to hell, signed a contract with the seven terrible monarchs, and successfully brought the devil into our alliance to fight against the disaster;"
One message after another bombarded Thales, who was a little overwhelmed, but he still adhered to his purpose and asked calmly: "Did you talk about how those powerful monsters and those disasters came about?
of?"
"It is said that they are the enemies of God. I don't know the details," the little girl patted the cover of the book, her face glowing red. "The book says that there is nothing that can fight against those monsters."
Thales showed doubts: "Then how did we win?"
But the little girl didn't seem to listen to his words and continued to talk happily:
"The book says that in the early stages of the war, we were completely powerless. Facing the strength of those monsters—it didn't seem to say what kind of power those monsters had—we could only use bloodshed and sacrifice to slow down the enemy.
, until some kind of terrible weapon is invented..."
Thales sighed.
"What's more," the little girl pointed to one of the pages in the book, her eyes shining: "Until a defector appears among the enemies..."