Chapter 54: Suspicion Emerges
In the quiet and comfortable night, the starlight sprinkled on the green elf wooden houses, giving the elf mother tree a dreamlike color.
The door of a wooden house under the elven mother tree gently pushed open, and Arthur and Joan quickly swept out of the wooden house, and their bodies quickly disappeared into the flowering elven grassland.
Not far from the wooden house, there were elven guards who patrolled day and night, but several elven guards seemed to be completely oblivious to the actions of the two Terrans.
Arthur and Joan ran a kilometer away and met Captain Ollie, the elven who was already waiting there.
Although Ollie still doesn't trust the Terrans, he no longer hates Arthur and the others after getting along for more than ten days. In particular, Joan, who is loved by everyone, has no ill feelings, because he has a fairy-like handsome appearance and elegant etiquette.
So when Joan approached him and made a request, Ollie hesitated, and when Joan raised the offer to three pieces of enchanted equipment, Ollie was tempted. As intelligent creatures, elves also have their own selfish desires, not to mention that this matter is not risky, and Ollie's accompanying guide throughout the whole process is equivalent to surveillance.
Arthur and Joan joined up with Ollie and continued their rapid westward sweep. The Dream Forest wasn't too far from the Elven Mother Tree, and after more than an hour of rapid walking, Arthur knew he was where he was looking.
Arthur's eyes were a completely different forest. Most of the trees in the Elven Realm are tall green broad-leaved trees, and the trees in the forest in front of me are sparsely needled, and the trees in the forest are neither tall nor thick, most of the trees are less than the thickness of the calf, and the spacing between the trees is very large, and the trees are covered with clusters of umbrellas covered with various colored mushrooms.
These trees are the most well-known and expensive Celestial Star Trees on the continent, and these trees, as well as the accompanying Celestial Star Mushrooms underneath the trees, have the magical effect of absorbing starlight and magical elements. Deep in the jungle, close your eyes, as if you are wandering in the galaxy.
A strange aroma soaks into the nostrils, and the whole person feels as if he is in a colorful dream world, without pain, forgetting worries, forgetting himself, immersing himself in it, this is the origin of the Dream Forest.
In fact, this is a toxin emitted by the celestial star mushroom when it absorbs starlight at night, and it has a strong hallucinogenic effect. Therefore, even if the wood and gold magic elements in this forest were extremely strong, no elves would come here to cultivate.
"We can't go any further, or we'll get lost here and never get out. Ollie reminded Arthur and Joan.
"Do you elves often harvest these starwoods?" asked Arthur a question he had always wanted to ask.
Ollie smiled slightly, "I know why you ask that, the Star Tree is extremely expensive on the continent because of its ability to prevent the loss of magic, but the Star Tree grows very slowly, you see that these trees have only been so thin after thousands of years, so we elves will never cut down the Star Wood to trade with other races." ”
"Many years ago, someone gave me a small box of celestial starwood, and now I think that the box is also from the skill of your elves. I liked that box very much, but then I accidentally lost it, can I buy another box exactly the same as you elves? ”
Ollie frowned, "I'm afraid this is difficult, only with the permission of the elder group, only a dozen Celestial Star Trees can be cut down every year, and only elves who have reached the level of Elders, Great Magicians and High-level Warriors are eligible to get a small piece of Celestial Star Wood, and few people will sell the items made of it." ”
Arthur asked, "Then how did my little box of Celestial Star Wood end up in the Terrans?"
"Most of the Celestial Trees that have been exiled to other races have been robbed by our people after they have been killed in battle, and a very small number of them have been given away as gifts by our queen and elders. ”
"And what about the situation I used to be?" Arthur began to ponder with his head down.
Ollie said casually: "Since you have lost it, there is no way to judge. If it's still in your hands, you'll know what kind of situation it is?"
Arthur looked inquiringly at Ollie.
Ollie explained: "This is very easy for us elves, everything we make from weapons and equipment to all kinds of artwork will leave the name or mark of the maker in an inconspicuous place, and just look at the mark to find out its original owner." ”
Arthur's eyes lit up, and he began to recall the scene when Keynes gave away the little box. It was a little girl with flaxen hair, and she must have been a big girl now, and she might have hope to get the box back.
Joan gently touched Arthur in thought, "Let's go out, I'm afraid I'll hallucinate if I stay any longer?"
"Wait a minute, are there usually elves here?" Arthur asked a strange question as he stroked the starry trunk of the tree beside him.
"No one is going to come here unless it's a suicidal elf. ”
"Suicide, do elves kill themselves, too?" Joan interjected curiously.
Of course, although elves are optimistic by nature, there are also individual elves who choose to commit suicide due to illness, spirituality, and other reasons. As long as you keep walking into the depths of the Dream Forest, your spirit will be immersed in a dream without pain forever until your body is unable to support it and you die. ”
"Then we're in luck, a suicidal elf just walked in, are you going to go in and save him?" said Arthur, gesturing to the tree he was holding onto.
There were a few fallen Celestial Mushrooms that had obviously been trampled on by the elven footprints, and it would have been hard to spot them if it weren't for Arthur looking down and pondering.
Ollie hesitated for a moment and said slowly, "Since we found out, we still try our best to save people." Try to hold our breath, let's go another five hundred meters, if we haven't met the elf who walked in before, we will quickly exit, otherwise we will not be able to get out of ourselves. ”
The elf had not been in for a long time, and there were still some very shallow marks on the ground, and Arthur gradually walked deeper into the forest with his tracking ability.
Ollie helped Arthur calculate the distance.
When he was about to reach the limit of five hundred meters, and Arthur was about to hallucinate, a figure appeared in front of him, and it was a slightly bowed back, which looked like an old man.
Arthur poked Ollie and pointed forward.
Looking at the back, Ollie was stunned for a moment, rubbed his eyes vigorously, and couldn't help muttering, "Great Elder, why is he here?"
Arthur gently tugged at Ollie, "If you don't want to be found out tonight, let's leave quickly!"