Chapter Twenty-Six: Red Luo's Nightmare
There was a chorus of surprise from the crowd. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoThey don't have access to the high places of power, so they are not very sensitive to these things, and they are a little flustered when they suddenly hear the lecturer say this. But I've been feeling the movement in the city for a long time through what has happened these days, and it all started from the moment I met Ellis. I'm sure other prominent nobles should have felt it to a greater or lesser extent.
It was still dawn, but the sky began to darken again, and dark clouds swirled in the sky, followed by a roaring thunder.
It's going to change.
I thought so, and glanced back at Ellis, who was standing tall beside us with no expression on her face.
I knew that the king must have noticed something, and he was afraid that someone would hurt his beloved youngest son, so he asked Ellis to protect him, but he couldn't be too obvious, so he just said that he was supervising the whole team. He is indeed old and can no longer control the overall situation, if it was him before, how could he tolerate such strange things happening again and again? The last time I entered the palace, I noticed that he had changed, and although he was still reprimanding me, perhaps he didn't notice it himself, and his rebuke began to soften. Perhaps deep down in his heart, he has begun to acquiesce to Rand and will rely on me to help protect him in the future.
I know that it must not be a coincidence that the second prince Aubrey and his son have had accidents one after another, and whoever wants to harm him can actually be known with a little calculation. I didn't even have the slightest sympathy at the moment, and even thought viciously about how good it would be for him to die in a coma like this, so that the eldest prince Arnold would inherit the throne, and Rand and I would have less trouble.
Rand was more or less aware that Ellis had been following him, consciously or unconsciously, and felt a little awkward. And my fears seem to be gradually coming to the surface, and they are about to become reality: whose power does Ellis belong to? I don't believe that she was just following the king's orders, because her eyes were not so innocent. Will she kill Rand this time in the outer forest? What should I do? ā¦ā¦ In fact, the best solution now is to cancel this training, which should be the same according to the character of the king. But what he couldn't do, I couldn't do either. You can only take one step at a time.
After the preparations were completed, we set off from the gate of the academy to the outer forest. Rand rode the unicorn Angel in a majestic manner, and stood out among us. And although Longde deceived and went out this time, as soon as it saw that there was no Aurilla on this trip, he lost his temper and refused to let him ride. I had to lead it all the way to walk.
When we were about to leave Dordro, Red Luo suddenly burst out with teary eyes, and he must go with us. I was already in a bad mood and wanted to tell her to stop messing around and go back quickly, and besides, I didn't know what would happen on this trip. But seeing that her expression was different, his heart softened and he took her again. Fortunately, Longde likes beautiful girls, and although Hongluo looks immature, it is still the kind it likes, so it is willing to let it carry Hongluo.
Because there had been a conflict between Hongluo, Ellis, and Guangxiu before, they didn't speak to each other, and the other teams were afraid that the royal power was far away from us, and it was especially embarrassing for our team to stay alone.
I know that although Hongluo is proud and simple, she is thin-skinned, and she quarreled with Guangxiu before and suffered a loss here with Ellis, so why did she have to come with her knowing that she would go with Ellis Guangxiu this time?
I whispered to her what was going on. She said aggrievedly: "I dreamed last night that something bad might happen to you when you went to the outer forest this time, and I was worried about you, so I came with me......"
"It's just a dream, and it's worth the long way you have to follow? You'd better go back! "I don't think it's a good sign in my heart if something happens and I don't want her to be involved.
"Rosa! Listen," Hong Luo was a little excited: "I've lived for more than two hundred years, and this is the first dream I've ever had an impression of, can't it explain anything?" My twin sister is a prophet, so I can see some clips occasionally, but not as clearly as a normal prophet......" She looked at me with wide eyes and tears in her eyes.
"Your sister is a prophet? And then...... Are you a witch? "I thought back to what she had just said, and I thought it was incredible.
"Don't you know? Both the prophet and the witch are the products of the combination of humans and the gods, and the prophets inherit the ability of the gods to see the heavens and see the future, but they are more than scheming and therefore only have the lifespan of humans. Witches are close to nature and care more about the connection with the earth, so they are familiar with all kinds of living beings, good at alchemy, and generally live a long life. My sister and I are twin sons, so even though she has been dead for many years now, I can sometimes perceive some very scattered fragments. Whether a human or a Protoss child is a prophet or a witch is random, but it's rare to see twins like my sister and I. Hong Luo said and said a little unhappy: "Why am I so far away from you?" Anyway, it's dangerous for you to come out this time, and I'm going to protect you! ā
Rand also thought it was strange when he listened to it, because in our literature, prophets have always been regarded as human beings with special functions, and witches are a different category, but I didn't expect that the two are actually the same.
"And what do you see? In your dreams...... What did Ellis do again? I glanced at Ellis and asked in a whisper.
"Ellis? I didn't see her......" Hongluo whispered, "I only vaguely saw you enter a forest, and then it snowed...... And then there's a ruin of bare rock...... Although I don't know if that forest is the outer forest. ā
I stopped, and I had a bad feeling. If what Hongluo saw was true, then it would be wiser for us not to go to the outer forest this time. But even so, what about next time? Prophets can only foresee uncertain times in the future, maybe not this time? It's impossible for Rand and I to never leave a human town for the rest of our lives.
I thought about it carefully, and finally decided to keep this matter in my heart first, and take one step at a time, after all, I have to face it sooner or later.
We walked for about three or four hours, and finally reached the depths of the outer forest.
In addition to the wars and killings between different principalities, our human race also needs to resist the invasion of other races. Therefore, in addition to human warfare, it is necessary to master the methods of fighting against other species. In recent years, under the leadership of the king, the Duchy of Salander has fought everywhere and expanded its territory, and has become the largest principality of the human race. The king began to become complacent, no longer satisfied with roaming only on the mainland of the Duchy of Sarandel, and began to covet the neighbors of other races. Fortunately, in the past few years, the king has become tired and old, and he has begun to become powerless in many things, and the human race really knows nothing about other races except for the elves of Merlin Forest, so he has stopped his conquest for a while, but the military training and research for other races have not stopped. And the only thing that humanity knows about the Forest of Merlin has fallen out of the way.
Because most of the magical creatures in the Forest of Merlin are docile and weak, the king has ordered the army to recover the border between the Forest of Merlin and the Terran settlement since more than ten years ago, and began to collect the woodland there little by little for his own use, which is how this outer forest came about.
And our practical training this time, to put it bluntly, is to go to the border of the outer forest to mine enclosures and encircle magical creatures with the border guards who are already working there.
When we arrived at the garrison of the army, the teacher communicated with the generals of the garrison for a while, and then took us to the place where they were working and developing.
The land here is not as beautiful as it was imagined, the towering trees have been cut down to the ground, and the shimmering streams have been blocked and filled in, turning into flat land; The empty horses and other large magical creatures were encircled in the dirty fence, scarred; The petite elves are locked in cramped cages, struggling and suffering. Perhaps it won't be long before they will be dressed up clean and beautiful, and transported to bustling cities for people to buy and sell for fun.
Some of the girls couldn't stand the scene in front of them, which was completely different from the scene we saw when we summoned our mounts to the Forest of Merlin. Hong Luo blushed and looked very worried, she was originally from the Forest of Merlin, and she was naturally close to these magical creatures, and she couldn't stand such a scene; Rand also seemed to feel a little uncomfortable, and his expression became a little unnatural.
I glanced at Ellis, who looked at the scene in front of her with a blank face, obviously used to such things, and perhaps she had been ordered to lead the army to "expand the territory" like this. And many more people seem to take this for granted, and although they are a little surprised to see such a scene at first, they all immediately become eager to try.
We worked in groups according to the teacher's arrangement, and then we would go with the soldiers to a high slope in the outer forest to catch a giant beast that had been disrupting the progress of the project for a long time. The temperature in the highlands plummeted, and the environment was unknown and full of uncertainty.