Chapter 47: The Return
By night, most of the people, except for a few people, had already woken up, and they were stunned at first, as if they hadn't reacted yet, but after talking to them for a while, they became much more normal.
Elsie told everyone what had happened, including the four companions who would never return, and as in Elsie's case, many of them were expressionless when they heard this, but their eyes were red.
After Mousse gradually resumed speaking, he also talked a lot less, it seems that it is not instinct but emotions that usually support his chatterboxy characteristics, and Lan Ruisha's grandfather has also returned, but to Elsie's surprise, this thin old man named Edwin and his granddaughter are not like him at all, but are silent and very serious, which is in strong contrast with Lan Ruisha.
Sure enough, as Ranressa said, Edwin had been there for so long to find food for a dozen people, and he looked short and thin, but he was carrying a giant beast that weighed almost two or three times as much as him, and Elsie didn't know its name, but thought it should be quite difficult to fight.
Edwin's shoulders loosened, and he put the beast on the ground, and the flesh slammed on the ground with a muffled sound, and he looked at the awake students who were watching him, and he didn't have a chance, silently half-crouched in place and began to deal with the prey.
Lan Ressa is a very approachable girl, she is like a big sister with a straight mouth, floating among the students, full of enthusiasm and happiness.
Doro also woke up, and Elsie sat next to him, and when he saw his eyes open violently, Elsie understood that he had just woken up from his worst nightmare, and grabbed his hand as if he were comforting.
Dora should have seen it, his eyes focused, he saw Elsie's face, sat up and pulled her into his arms, Elsie was violently held in his arms, against Dorao's chest, as if he was about to be crushed by a huge force.
"Huh... Ah, Doro?" Elsie gasped with difficulty and called out Doro's name, and Doro seemed to be more awake, slightly loosened his embrace, and buried his head in Elsy's shoulder socket, without saying a word.
Elsie was only frightened, it was rare to see Doro show such a look, Elsie stroked Doro's back in a distressed and wonderful mood, and comforted: "It's okay, it's all a dream, it's over." ”
After comforting her for a long time, Doro slowly let go of his hand, raised his head and stared at her without saying a word, as if to engrave her in his eyes. Elsie was a little curious about what Doro was most afraid of, but seeing Doro like this, she didn't want to stimulate him anymore, but didn't anyone who had ever entered "nothing" have some emotional deficits, and what kind of deep emotions made Doro so out of control? No one else knew except himself.
Lan Ruisha jumped up and down to distribute the cooked food to everyone, the students were bored, and they all slowly swallowed it in one mouthful, Lan Ruisha saw them like this, and pouted: "Be happy, isn't my grandfather's cooking skills bad? Although it's not easy to play here, hehe." ”
Elsie shook her head: "You saved us and took care of us, we really don't know how to express our gratitude." Lan Ruisha smiled and waved her hand: "Raise your hands, raise your hands." It's just that when she said this, Old Man Edwin glared at her for some reason, and Lan Ressa turned around and stuck out her tongue in embarrassment.
After everyone finished eating, Lan Ruisha stood up and said, "Okay, I know everyone is very tired, let's rest, my grandfather and I will protect you." I'm going to feed some water to the children who haven't woken up yet, and if you want to drink water, you can call me. ”
Elsie shouted, "I'll help you." Just about to stand up, she was pulled by Doro and sat back, she helplessly obeyed the young man's hair: "I'll go feed Lily and them some water, I can't trouble them all." Seeing that Doro slowly let go of his hand, Elsie stood up and took the improvised utensils and poured some water on everyone and moistened his lips.
As the night deepened, everyone who was awake couldn't resist the fatigue of their spirits except Lanressa and Edwin, and fell asleep again.
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The next morning, almost all the students were awake, and after asking everyone's opinions, Elsie decided to follow the grandfather and grandson to Lonely City.
There are still a few days to go from here to the city of Lonely Forest, and everyone communicates with each other along the way, and gradually gets acquainted, and the students of the academy learn that Lan Ressa and her grandfather Edwin are from an unknown country, and for some special purposes, they have been wandering around the various countries and cities in the area ruled by the Hernonian Empire.
This time I was able to save everyone, because it was a reason that I happened to encounter them during the journey, and more importantly, they were well-informed, otherwise I am afraid that I would fall into the terrible "nothing" if I couldn't save people, and Edwin was a ninth-order illusion magician, which was also the basis for them to survive when they traveled around the world.
As for the purpose of wandering around, Lan Ruisha always excused it as that the two of them were adventurous, and they would not say anything more if they asked.
The 32 squad experienced the danger of life and death, lost contact with the college, and was stimulated by the emotional loss and recovery, and the run-in between everyone became closer, the team that was originally put together because of the "suitable" was really like a team now, and everyone couldn't help but take care of and help the people around them on the way, although they experienced the grief of losing their companions, but they were also glad that more people survived.
After taking the sky as the bed and the earth as the bed, by the time they arrived in Lonely Forest City, the students had become no different from their grandfather and grandson, like adventurers from afar.
When approaching Lonely City, Elsie, who already had emotions, couldn't help but praise it, Lan Ruisha was right, this is really a special and beautiful city.
Everything here is natural, with countless jungle trees rising from the ground. The whole city is built in the canopy of layers of trees, like a huge tree-shaped castle, it is even more rare to enter the city, although there are many races in the Hernonian Empire, but they are generally more humans, and the city of Lonely Forest is actually a city full of elves, as soon as you enter the city, the elves who shuttle through the leaves of the forest are some slender bodies, beautiful appearances, pointed ears and high noses.
The first time Elsie saw the elves outside of the book, she couldn't help but take a few more glances along the way, the elves were slender and tall both men and women, and they all looked mature and charming, even if they saw some of the elves who were underage people, because of their height and appearance, they looked much more mature than the students.
It was obviously not the first time for Lan Ressa and the others to come to the city, they were very skilled in navigating the paths and steps, and the elves around them were not surprised by this huge wave of human visits, they were obviously used to it, and only a few of the smaller ones would cast curious glances.
"Lan Ruisha, where are we going?" the students followed through the city, which was no different from the main road, they were all climbing up and down, and Elsie could clearly see that some of the students were already a little tired, they had not rested all the way to this place today, and she was no exception.
Lan Ressa saw that Elsie was also struggling to walk, so she grabbed her hand, turned around and shouted, "Hold on, everyone, it's coming soon." ”
Climb all the way to the top of the Lonely Forest, which is no more crowded and narrow than the one below, very wide, and even has a square, some houses, and the beautiful and somewhat excessive palace behind the square.
"This is here?" Elsie felt relaxed and happy as he climbed up and walked to the edge to see not only the whole of Lonely City, but even the endless stretch of jungle.
Lan Ruisha opened her hands and said happily: "The top of Lonely Forest City here, it is also the best and most beautiful place, and the square in front of it is called the Song of Eternal Life, which is also the destination of your trip." ”
Elsie and the others followed her hand and looked over, there was a high platform in the shape of an altar in the center of the Song of Eternal Life Square, and seeing the pillars engraved with patterns and inlaid with magic stones standing around the high platform, Elsie understood Lan Ruisha's words, that was the teleportation array of Lonely City.
Seeing the teleportation array, the students behind them all let out a cheer of surprise, they have experienced too much in this out-of-hospital practice, how can they not be happy to be able to return now? Some classmates can never go back.
Here Lily was about to jump up happily, but the people around her had already rushed over, and Lily pulled Elsie and shook wildly: "Elsy, let's go quickly~ I really want to go back to the academy." ”
Elsie put her arm on her shoulders to calm her down, and turned to Lanressa and asked, "What about you?"
Lan Ruisha smiled and put her arms around Edwin's shoulder, the old man glared at her, but didn't speak, Elsie almost didn't hear Edwin speak in the past few days, and felt that he was a serious old man, but Lan Ruisha told her that Edwin was hard-mouthed and soft-hearted, and Lan Ruisha couldn't bring everyone back without him.
"As for us, we have to go to the palace in front," Lan Ruisha pointed to the palace in front of the square, "not showing up here, this matter is not trivial, we must inform the people of Lonely City, and after that, stay here for a few days to complete our purpose, and then move on to the next destination." Lan Resa said.
"Are you going back to Cronor?" asked Elsie.
"The Four Main Cities? There's no reason to go there at the moment, I know what you mean, I'll see you again. Lanrissa smiled and touched Elsie's head.
Elsie said sincerely, "We don't know when we will be able to repay you for your kindness. ”
Lan Ruisha shook her body and rubbed her arm: "Don't say that, with a gesture, we have nothing to lose in saving you, okay, you go quickly, you are missing this time, not to mention the academy, the family must be in a hurry." ”
It's okay not to talk about this, as soon as he talked about this, Elsie remembered that he didn't know if Dylan knew about the disappearance of Team 32 in the academy, and if he knew, he would definitely find a way to get lost in the valley, and Senior Sister Xiaofei didn't know if she could stop him.
Elsie didn't say anything more, and bowed respectfully to the two, so frightened that Lan Ruisha jumped to the side at once, and the students who were still around Elsie and the students who had already run over also bent down and bowed deeply to express their gratitude when they saw this scene.
Seeing the students walk into the teleportation array one by one, Lan Ruisha put away her smile and said something to the old man beside her, Edwin nodded. The two of them walked together in the direction of the palace.
Walking into the teleportation array, asking the elf next to him to set the destination to Chrono City, Elsie closed his eyes, and in the pillar of light rising from the ground, his heart finally slowly settled down.
Went home.