41, the text of the Centaurs
Syllable!
Hoffa gripped Aglaia's white wrist hard, his fingers touching the bottom of the tube, and he was about to exert himself.
But at this moment, he also lost his balance and fell from a great height, taking Aglaia with him.
With a high-decibel scream.
In the air, the two hit an oak branch and turned upside down.
Thump!
Aglaia's 35kg pressed on Hoffa.
Huo Fa, who fell this time, was tight-chested and short of breath, half of his body stood up, and he didn't regain his breath for a long time.
After the two looked at each other, Aglaia, who was obviously still protected by a meat pad, was in better shape, and she snatched her wand and pointed it at her leg.
"Stop!"
After lifting the Zombie Curse, she pulled her legs and rushed towards the school.
The potion was still in her hand, and Hoffa didn't give up, he rolled over and grabbed her calf, held it tightly, and dragged her to the ground.
They began to fight again.
Among the 11-year-old girls, Aglaia is considered to be tall, plus girls generally develop earlier than boys, and in the fight, Hoffa, who has not yet developed much, actually fell into disadvantage.
And yet at this moment.
Gotta get it!
The sound of horses' hooves was heard in the dark Forbidden Forest, and Joey rode the white horse out of the Forbidden Forest and stopped at the door of his house.
As a result, seeing the scene in front of him, Joey was stunned.
Hoffa half-sat on the ground, pulling a girl's leg while the girl held her thigh, trying to break free from Hoffa's grasp.
If it weren't for the deep disgust for each other on both faces, Joey would have even thought that these two were staging some kind of life and death drama.
Joey was surprised: "What are you doing here?"
Seeing that a teacher was coming, Aglaia subconsciously wanted to sue.
However, she immediately thought of Hoffa refining medicine in Joey's house, the two of them must be in a group, maybe this person is still instigating Hoffa to refine medicine, let him come to her to cheat the prescription, or .......
Various conspiracy theories flashed through Aglaia's mind.
She immediately put away the potion and made a pitiful appearance.
"Mr. Administrator, Bach, he bullied me......"
The mist rose in her eyes, which made people feel distressed to see it.
Hoffa barely stood up from the ground and said hoarsely, "Joey, stop her, she saw everything......."
Aglaia's face changed suddenly, and all the pity on her face disappeared.
"Hmph, the teaching staff is covering up students for violating school rules, a nest of snakes and rats, Hogwarts is really a garbage school!"
After saying that, she struggled to break free and was about to leave.
Joey, however, didn't care about Aglaia's meaning, he shrugged his shoulders indifferently, then turned to Hofa and asked, "Hofa, do you know the centaur script?"
Hoffa jumped to his feet in a hurry, Aglaia took the potion, and was about to report it to Goshak, but this thing came to ask if he understood the centaur script, was he serious?
"What the hell?"
After Hoffa cursed angrily, he limped after Aglaia.
However, something more surprising happened to him.
After hearing Joey's words, Aglaia actually stopped and turned her head to look at Joey in disbelief.
"What do you say, Centaur text?"
When Hoffa saw her stop, he was about to grab the potion.
Aglaia just leaned over and let go of his hand. "The centaurs left a message?"
Joey nodded, "That's right, I'm looking for someone who understands magical creature writing......."
"I understand, take me there. ”
Aglaia let go of Hoffa's palm again and said.
Hoffa: "What the hell are you talking about!
"Don't touch me!" Aglaia leaned against the trunk of the tree, one behind her back, and the other held Hoffa open.
"How can a mortal man like you understand the true value of precious prophecy? I'm going to see what the centaurs left behind, and then I'm going to the school to report you!"
After saying that, she held her head high and said to Joey, "Lead the way!"
Joey's eyes widened, but he wasn't angry at all, he found it funny.
"Is this your friend? ”
"It's not!"
The two spoke in unison.
Joey couldn't help but laugh: "Little girl, do you really understand the words of the centaurs?"
"I know everything. Aglaia said.
Joey said with interest, "What an active girl, come with me." ”
With that, he took a horse from the stable under Hofa's shocked gaze and handed it to Aglaea.
Aglaia turned on her horse, and her posture was no less skilful than Joey's.
Joey also got on his horse and said to Hoffa, "Why don't you go back first, and I'll persuade her on the way to get her back the medicine to you." ”
Hoffa glanced at the girl on the horse, with a eager expression, and thought to himself that Joey had thought things too simply, and he didn't know Aglaia at all. If this person can communicate normally, then mankind will not be far from the unity of the world.
Hofa silently pulled out the little black horse he usually rode from the stable, and he had to get the potion back himself no matter what.
Joey shrugged and turned the horse's head with a pull on the reins.
So, in the evening sunset, the three men and three horses entered the forbidden forest along the path, and none of them spoke along the way. There was no sound on the road except the snapping of horses' hooves on branches.
The trees grew thicker and thicker, and the daylight above them faded.
It wasn't until he couldn't see the shadow of the trail that Hoffa realized that he had already strayed from his normal path, which was not the same path as the last time he had gone to see Taras the Thunderbird.
The three of them went deeper and deeper, and the speed of the horses gradually slowed down as the surrounding area was densely covered with low branches and thorny vines.
The long hem of Aglaia's school uniform was tattered by the barbs on the thorny vine, she didn't care at all, and actually stared at it excitedly.
Apparently she was curious about the so-called centaur text.
Hoffa's eyes were fixed on the medicine tube reagent in her hand, not knowing if there was any evil spell that could make the white-haired crow shut up forever.
But Joey doesn't know about Hoffa's concerns, and he still explains to the two of them on horseback.
"There was originally a tribe of centaurs here, with seventeen centaurs. Their leader is called Nancrossbow, Hofa you've seen it. But just yesterday they sent me a letter of arrows. ”
As he spoke, he drew a short-feathered arrow from his quiver and handed it to Hoffa.
In the afterglow of the setting sun, Hoffa saw a row of words carved into the arrow.
[Leave the Forbidden Forest, hurry up and leave this land.] 】
Leaving the Forbidden Forest?
Hoffa didn't understand.
After reading it, Joey handed the arrow to Aglaia again.
Unexpectedly, she just glanced at it and threw the arrow aside.
"If you don't come, you won't write to you in English. This creature leaves only one kind of text. ”
"Huh?"
Joey's expression was bewildered.
Finally, when Joey and the two of them barely passed through the protective net formed by the thorn vines.
They came to a clearing full of fallen leaves. It had been a centaur settlement, and Hoffa could see improvised tools, pots and pans, wooden bows and arrows scattered on the ground.
At the top of the clearing, the mottled setting sun fell through the cracks in the trees, shining beams of Tyndall light.
In the center of the clearing, is a gray rock.
The rock was no different from the normal stone of the Scottish Highlands, round with a few cracks and moss.
The only difference was that it was engraved with a lot of yellow characters, and those characters were unlike any human language that Hoffa had ever seen.
Joey: "When I got the news, I went here in the afternoon and looked at it, and there was nothing but this row of text that I couldn't read. ”
Aglaia didn't care what Joey saw, her blue eyes lit up when she saw the rock. He hurriedly put the potion tube in his pocket, then turned over and dismounted, and walked briskly over.
Then, she got down on one knee and began to caress the rock face.
Hoffa had never seen her look like that, one that was a mixture of obsession and curiosity.
After touching the stone for a while, Aglaia turned to Joey and said:
"There's a lot of information on the stone, but if you summarize it simply, it means panic, murder, and war! ”
Hoffa turned his head to look at the characters on the stone, he couldn't read them, and he didn't understand how a row of words could carry strong emotions.
"Space is flooded," Joey said with a frown, "Can you be specific, what happened." ”
"No way," Aglaia shook her head, "the centaur script is different from the human script, it is not a carrier of clear information, it is more like a hazy feeling, like the existence of musical notes. If you want to know exactly what's going on, you'll have to ask a centaur to ask. ”
Searching for a centaur?
Joey frowned and looked at the sky, it was getting late at the moment. The sun had already set halfway, and the clouds were red and red.
"Forget it, you can take a look at it again, if you can translate, you can translate, if you can't translate, I'll take you back later, don't stay in the Forbidden Forest for too long. ”
Aglaia continued to study the stone.
Hoffa wasn't interested in what was on the stone, and most of his mind was on Aglaia, ready to talk about the potion under her robe.
Let her take the potion back, according to Goshak's ruthless style of recognizing reason and not recognizing people, she is afraid that she will suffer a little again.
Seeing Joey dangling in the glade between the trees, he frowned from time to time and picked up the bow and arrows scattered on the ground to take a look. Aglaia, on the other hand, delved into the stone with a look of fascination, as if it contained millions of jade stones.
Hoffa saw it as a good opportunity.
A good chance to retrieve the potion.
He crept around behind Aglaia and entered the phantom state.
At this moment, Aglaia fell to her knees, sometimes running her fingers across the rough surface of the stone, sometimes with her ears pressed against the stone, closing her eyes, as if feeling something.
Hoffa didn't care what she was playing with, he stood behind Aglaia, bent down.
Reaching for her waist, holding her breath, he lifted her robe, and pulled out his potion little by little.
Aglaia didn't react at all.
Having retrieved the potion, Hoffa sighed and was about to destroy the potion immediately.
But he found a few shallow footprints among the fallen leaves on the ground. The footprints were very inconspicuous, and if he hadn't squatted down, they would never have been visible.
The footprints were large, left by adults, and somewhat messy.
This surprised Hoffa.
This is a settlement of horse people, so it's not surprising that there are horses' hooves. But why are there people's footprints, to say that it was left by Joey, that's not right.
Because Joey is just a person, and he and Aglaia are children.
But these footprints were apparently left by several adults.
Could it be that there is someone else in this place?
Hoffa slowly straightened up and followed the footprints two steps.
When he came to a fir, he stopped, for the footprints parted and went in different directions.
Hoffa felt a little bad that the centaurs wouldn't disappear for no reason. It's not a good idea to chase it down. Get the potion yourself, it's time to go back.
As soon as the thought came to him, Hoffa was about to retreat.
However, a slight hissing in the air interrupted Hoffa's steps.
He looked up, and his attention was drawn to a few green fruits on the branches.
The fruit was dark green in color, and it looked very hidden in the dense canopy, but it was somewhat familiar.
They have some pointed bumps on their bodies that look like green thorn balls hanging upside down from the branches, trembling slightly.
There was an inexplicable hissing sound in the air.
Hoffa lifted his illusionary state, moved to Joey's side, and asked in a whisper, "Joey, what is that fruit on the tree, do you know?"
Joey followed Hoffa's finger and looked over.
However, with just one glance, Joey trembled and said in shock:
"Damn, it's a curled demon, why is there such a creature in the Forbidden Forest!"