Chapter Twenty-Eight: Banhu Ant Clan Strife
"The plan to go to the Dark Forest this time must not be known to outsiders! Especially those stupid elven patrol cavalry! "Duo Qian was in the hall of the manor and gathered all the people in the manor. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Ban Hu and Xia Mei stood behind Duo Qian, Duo Qian had already communicated with the White Devil Wolf King, and the White Devil Wolf King promised to solve the matter of the wandering werewolf elves outside the manor.
Ban Hu noticed that the two bears did not come, and they were nervously guarding the gate of the manor.
"Therefore, you must do everything possible to keep your mouth shut, and if anyone reveals the slightest bit of information, I will throw them into the wolves! Also, the day-to-day affairs of the manor are entirely in charge of Lucy, the housekeeper! Duo Qian pointed to a slightly chubby middle-aged woman in front of her and said.
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After arranging the affairs of the manor, early the next morning. Duoqian, Ban Hu, Xia Mei, the two bears and Xiao Luo got on the road out of the manor together, and the salute and food were loaded on a black caravan. Duoqian and Natsumi each rode horses; Ban Hu drove the carriage - only he could drive the carriage, Xiao Luo's body had not fully recovered, and he was lying on the carriage temporarily, Xiao Hei and Xiao Huang had just passed the "Far West Manor" sign in the manor, and they turned into the form of a bear because of the curse, so they ran in front to lead the way. Not far from the Far West Manor, I saw an extremely steep cone-shaped mountain, more than 1,000 feet high, and a lush forest at the bottom of the mountain.
"Will your father go after us?" Natsumi, who was riding a little red horse side by side with Duoqian, asked worriedly.
Duo Qian, who was riding a little white horse, hesitated for a moment, then sighed and said: "There are father's eyeliner everywhere here, and he will soon know, so we must be fast, once he enters the realm of the Dark Forest, he is helpless, but going to the Dark Forest is full of dangers, and the Dark Forest is full of dangers!" Don't you regret going with me? ”
"Of course I don't regret it, the Dark Forest used to be my home, what reason should I be afraid? Especially with you to go with me, I have the confidence to take back my forest, my everything! ”
The group soon reached the foot of the lush, cone-shaped mountain. Regarding the conversation between Duoqian and Xia Mei, Ban Hu, who was driving behind him, of course heard it very clearly, and his hearing had reached the realm of being able to listen to ants singing.
"But the ant sings a little louder!" Ban Hu did hear an ant singing in a mournful song, and he looked in the direction of the song and couldn't help but gasp!
In a small poplar grove on the side of the road, an ant several meters long is watching them fiercely! Mindfulness in his mouth is the source of the "singing" that Ban Hu heard. This ant is surprisingly large, with huge jaws and powerful stinging needles enough to quickly tear apart a tiger!
"What is this place that has given birth to such a big ant!" Ban Hu thought to himself.
"Hello! Primary One! How dare you run here? Duo Qian actually greeted the ants and motioned for everyone to stop.
"Well, it turned out to be Her Royal Highness Princess Duoqian, and we are fighting in the nest again! No way, I'll go to your territory and be quiet! You don't mind! The ant's head, the size of a black millstone, showed a sense of sorrow.
"Of course you don't mind, you better go back to human form, don't scare my friends!" Duo Qian looked back and saw Ban Hu's surprised eyes, and couldn't help but feel funny, she then asked the ant, "Is there a whereabouts of your Zerg Queen?" It's not a way for you to fight back and forth like this! ”
The giant ant had taken on the form of a human—a swarthy, handsome young man of seventeen or eighteen—dressed in a black silk robe, with strong muscles, and a black steel fork in his hand, and a kind of compassion for the country and the people in his eyes.
"It seems that the Zerg are hopeless!" Ant Xiaoyi said sadly.
"I don't think so, what if your Zerg queen can come back? Why don't you look for somewhere? Or the election! Duo Qian comforted.
"Elections are out of the question! All the Zerg want to be kings, and our Black Ant Clan has just finished a battle with the Termite Clan, and although they have been defeated and fled to the Dark Forest, we are also greatly injured. I heard that their termite clan has formed an alliance with the spider clan in the dark forest, and we are also considering forming an alliance with other zergs, and now the chiefs of the ant clan are chattering about who to form an alliance with! ”
"So, you zergs are going to fight in groups again, hey, you know, according to the principle of non-interference in the elven city, we birds can't interfere in the interior of your zerg!" Duoqian also said helplessly.
"Fowl? Could it be that Princess Duoqian is a bird? Birdman? Ban Hu's head flickered, but he didn't dare to ask, if he asked, most of them would have a few bags on their heads, and it would be better not to mess with this delicate princess!
"Are these all your friends? Where to go? Xiao Yi asked curiously.
"That's right! Let's go to the Dark Forest, maybe we can find out my sister's whereabouts, hey, I miss her so much! Duoqian said sadly, it can be said that Duoqian was brought up by Duoxiu, even his father and mother didn't come to see Duoqian a few times, they were all busy managing the mess of the Elf City; And the family accompanies Duoqian the most, and the best for Duoqian is the eldest princess Duoxiu.
"Yes, Princess Duoxiu is the best person for you after all, but it's a pity that ......" Xiao Yi understands the position of the eldest princess in Duoqian's mind, and Duoqian will find the eldest princess even if she risks her life, at this time Xiao Yi suddenly thought of something, and asked eagerly, "Little princess, can you take me there?" Maybe you can find the Zerg Queen! ”
"The Zerg Queen? Oh, and the Zerg Queen is also said to have disappeared in the Dark Forest...... This is very dangerous along the way! ”
"So what! I'm not afraid, if I stay here, I can only kill each other with my brothers and zergs! I'd rather die on the way to find the Zerg Queen than kill each other with my brothers and sisters! Xiao Yi seemed to have made up his mind and said firmly.
"That's right!" Xia Mei couldn't help but say that she had met Xiao Yi a few times before and had a good impression of Xiao Yi, so she helped him and said, "Princess, just promise him, we are also many helpers!" ”
"Okay, but you'd better go home and talk about it, so as to save your family's worries!"
"Great! Wait a minute, I'll be back soon! After saying that, Xiao Yi immediately transformed into an ant, because in this way he could use his magic advantage - the huge ant body could easily climb the steep cone-shaped mountain on all sides!
After a while, the huge ant body began to appear on the sparsely wooded cliff at the top of the mountain—and Koichi sprinted down the hill as if he were walking on the ground.
Ban Hu, who was driving the carriage, saw this scene and was even more impressed by this strange world! He thought of his master's disappointment when he learned that the gate of the immortal realm of Tianmen Mountain had been closed, "Isn't this the immortal realm?" It's just the fairy realm of the elves, and the door of the fairy world of the human race is suddenly closed, will it have something to do with it? Since you happen to be able to come here, it's not impossible to go to the fairy world! Ban Hu suddenly thought, "And the key to this is the Blood Moon Curse!" ”
"I said, Banhu, you are dizzying to come to this world! Haha, this is not your Terran world, this was once the paradise of the Spirit Race! It's just that now ......"
"Princess, all of this is actually a conspiracy of the Dark Lord! Because of him, Princess Duoxiu and the Dark Wolf King were dismantled, and the Dark Lord has been trying to find a way to the fairy world! After knowing that this passage was in the human world, he tried his best to infiltrate the human world, and in addition, I also heard that the Black Devil Wolf King also colluded with the Sea Death King! As long as we can overturn the Dark Wolf King's conspiracy, everything can be restored! Natsumi said confidently.
"The Dark Forest must be full of traps under the painstaking management of the Dark Lord, and we only have these few people." Duo Qian said worriedly.
"Is there meat? Is there meat in the forest! As long as there is meat, I can give them a five-thunder bang! Xiao Luo, who was lying in the carriage, looked up and couldn't help but interject.
"How can it be as easy as you think, this is the Dark Forest, there are countless rare beasts of all kinds, and all of them are ruthless!" Natsumi said.
"Oh!" When Xiao Luo heard this, he lay down again disappreciatively.
Xiao Yi quickly followed the procession, and transformed into a human form, and after he put his package on the carriage, he also sat on the carriage.
"Hello, my name is Xiaoyi, what's your name?"
"My name is Xiaoluo, come up and sit next to me! Let's croak! ”
The greetings of the same elves are less red tape that only humans have.
Ban Hu deliberately stopped the carriage so that Xiao Yi could board the carriage. The two bears had apparently lifted their curse by entering the Dark Forest, and they were able to transform into humans again; But the two of them still maintain the form of bears, one left and one right, guarding both sides of Duoqian.
Along the path on the edge of the Cone Mountain, which was also the home of Xiao Yi, he was soon left behind. After a simple lunch at noon, everyone moved on. When the sun was still a pole above the ground, Natsumi, who was familiar with the place, motioned for everyone to stop, because after the hilly path ahead, it was the boundary of the Dark Forest.
Ban Hu got out of the carriage and unloaded the horse. Everyone else also got off the car and dismounted, ready to spend the night in this place.
After settling down, the group followed the path in the woods and climbed up the hills. Everyone actually walked towards the east all the time, so the sun was behind them.
Standing at the top of the hill, everyone couldn't help but be shocked by the dark green waves of the dark forest.
Ban Hu, Duo Qian, Xia Mei, Xiao Luo, Xiao Yi, and the two bears, Xiao Huang and Xiao Hei, all transformed into human forms, standing in a line in the north and south at the highest point of the hills. The sun behind them cast the huge figures of the seven of them on the dark forest sea in the east. A gust of wind blew, and the dark forest suddenly stirred up green waves like a surging sea, like a low roar at the Banhu and them.
"Look, Dark Forest! Even our shadow is afraid of them! …… There's nothing you can't conquer! ”
Duo Qian said as she stranded her hair that was blown away by the wind.
Night soon came, and everyone made a fire in the shelter of the hill. Natsumi turned into an owl and flew to the highest black pine on the hill to keep watch, and the others began to rest. Natsumi doesn't have to sleep, which is the characteristic of owls.
Duoqian slept in the car, and the two bears slept on both sides of the car. Others, including Ban Hu, slept around the fire. After a bumpy day, everyone fell asleep.
The night in the Dark Forest is full of eerie atmospheres. Natsumi stood on the branches of a towering black pine tree, looking at her former hometown.
A layer of earthy yellow haze floated above the dark forest, like a giant python coiling over the forest against the starlight. It was actually the volcanic dust that the Dark Forest was spewing from the five volcanoes. The volcano erupts every twelve years, and every time it erupts, it means that the climate begins to warm, and some elven scholars even deduce that the seasons in the elven city are controlled by these five volcanoes. The reason why the Dark Lord is domineering is because he controls these five volcanoes. What's more, these five volcanoes hide secret passages that can enter and exit the elven city and reach the human continent!
Ban Hu woke up from his slumber and felt the sound of horses' hooves on the ground. The people around him were still asleep, and Ban Hu stood up alertly. Because of the perennial Silk Road, bandits are rampant, which makes Ban Hu's perception extremely keen, not to mention that his body is full of master's lifelong mana.
"What's wrong?" Natsumi, who was standing in the tree, asked softly.
"It seems to have the sound of horses' hooves!" Ban Hu also replied in a very small voice, not wanting to wake up other sleeping people. With that, Ban Hu took out the ebony staff from his bag. Ban Hu was surprised to find that the ebony staff actually grew a leaf like a dead wood in spring!
Suddenly, someone patted him on the shoulder, and Ban Hu looked back and saw that it was Duoqian. It turned out that she was not asleep either.
"Let's go and see, it could be my father's man!" Duoqian said melancholy.
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Duo Qian guessed correctly, the person who came was really someone from the palace - the Eagle's Nest killed the knights!
The eight men were fully armed, each riding a red horse, and there were two black horses carrying food and weapons behind them. To Ban Hu's surprise, there were two white horses of flight attendants behind him for some unknown reason.
Whether it is Ban Hu, Duoqian or Xia Mei, they are all ready to fight, of course they can't fight to the death, after all, they are their own people, but the posture should still be there. But as soon as he saw Duoqian, Goshawk, the captain of the killing knights, hurriedly dismounted and bowed to Duoqian.
"Ordered by the queen, the Eagle's Nest kills the eight-person group and listens to the little princess's dispatch!"
"What's wrong?" Duoqian, Ban Hu and Xia Mei looked at each other.
"Aren't you here to stop us?" Duo Qian asked.
"Of course not! On the contrary, we are ordered to protect you, Princess Duoqian, and if you are the slightest injured princess, the Queen Mother will ask for us! The remaining seven members also dismounted.
Duo Qian let out a sigh, "It's still the mother's caring!" ”
So the eight knights rested that night.
The next day, before dawn, everyone got up. The dark forest was so wooded that the carriage was useless. So the salute on the carriage was carried by the four horses that pulled it. There was still a lot of luggage, so there were eight knights who each carried a little more. The two white horses brought by the knight were originally given to Duoqian, and Duoqian gave them to Banhu and Xiaoyi respectively. As for Xiao Luo, he rode behind Ban Hu. Huang and Hei are more accustomed to walking through the Black Forest in the form of bears, after all, the forest is the place they are most familiar with!