Chapter 2223: Exploring the Trail of Shalan (61)

"Visiting a friend?" said Elaine, and Daniel couldn't help but wonder.

Although he didn't know what the origin of Elaine the White Bear Man was, he subconsciously felt that this guy, as a White Bear Man, should not have any friends in Great Britain. What's more, Elaine is in such a bad condition now, why should she choose to visit her friends at such a time, hurry back to where she should be, and lie in bed to rest?

"It's okay to visit a friend, but isn't it a long way to go?" Daniel asked, and though he tried to hide the impatience on his face, he knew to himself that the impatience must have been vaguely revealed in his own words.

"No, it's not far away. Soon. The White Bear Man insisted.

The seemingly unconfident White Bear Man in front of him was so insistent on doing something, and Daniel knew that if he didn't satisfy Elaine, the White Bear Man would definitely not give up. So the silver knight boy sighed and agreed: "Okay, anyway, I've been idle all day today, so how about staying with you for a while." ＂

"Thanks, thanks. You're such a nice guy. Elaine looked at Daniel with a grateful look on her face, her eyes sparkling.

Although the other party's thanks were very sincere, Daniel felt an inexplicable hair in his heart for some reason when the white bear man said this. I always feel like my heart stopped beating a beat just now.

"Then, let's finish eating and leave------ Daniel just wanted to urge the white bearman to finish the food he ordered, but he didn't expect that when they were talking, the waiter would naturally bring up the vegetable stew one after another, and Elaine the white bearman also poured the stew into his stomach one after another. The conversation wasn't over yet, and there were already five empty plates on the table.

"Well, what?" Elaine was still intently licking the plate of the last bowl of vegetable stew, trying to eat the last bit of food as well, and he didn't even hear Daniel's words.

"No...... It's nothing. Daniel got up from his seat, forcibly suppressed the green tendons that had been popping up from his forehead, and muttered, "Why should I care so much." Caring too much makes me look stupid. ＂

The White Bear Man couldn't understand the Silver Knight Boy's self-talk, so he tilted his head to look at Daniel.

There were five copper coins left after settling the bill, and Daniel held the rest in his hand, sighing in his heart that it was so dangerous------ he almost didn't have enough money to settle the bill.

"So, where do you go next?" he asked as he walked out of the store.

"Go to the research institute of Master Merlin. The White Bear Man replied.

"Huh?" Daniel was stunned for a tenth of a second, "Oh, the Institute...... Prime Minister Merlin did have such an institute before. But it's been suspended, haven't you heard? There was a *use* attack on the institute before, and the whole institute was burned. It is so badly damaged that it is still being repaired, and it is estimated that there is only one construction site left at the site. The people who used to work there have all moved to the temporary institute in Fort Elsen, and there will be no one else in the institute except the workers, let alone anyone you know?"

"I, I know. Elaine replied, "But that's it." ＂

"If you go, you can only see a group of workers repairing the burned research institute, so you want to go too?" Daniel became more and more confused: "If you don't go over, you can go as long as you like." ＂

"Thank you, thank you. Elaine replied, not knowing whether it was because of gratitude or because his body was hot, and his face flushed with a mystery.

Daniel hurriedly turned his face away, always feeling that his heartbeat was suddenly missing a beat at that moment just now.

Originally, Daniel thought that Elaine had eaten enough and sat down to rest for a while, and should have recovered a lot of strength and was able to walk on his own. As a result, the White Bear Man was still weak enough to need Daniel's support------ at least one hand pressed on Daniel's shoulder to borrow strength. The Black Iron Knight Boy is not too tall, and the White Bear Man is not tall in his race, Elaine is still quite tall for a human (especially a teenage human boy). Elaine pressed his hand on Daniel's shoulder to walk with strength, and from a distance, he really looked like an orc bullying a human teenager. If it weren't for the fact that Daniel was wearing a knight's armor of the Knights of Great Britain, it is estimated that the two of them would have caused a lot of unnecessary trouble walking on the road like this.

"You, you're amazing. Elaine suddenly asked, "Is it a heaven, a natural Hercules or something?" ＂

"There are some reasons for this, but the reasons are so complex that I won't explain. Daniel said casually. It would take hours to explain it, and Elaine the White Bear looked a little stupid, so it was a question of whether she could understand it. Did he have to explain to Elaine why he had the magic of both dragon blood and succubus, and had not been turned into a stone statue by dragon blood and poisoned by the magic of the succubus?

"Okay, okay...... Seeing that Daniel had no intention of explaining further, Elaine did not continue to ask. Then there was an awkward silence between the two. In addition, in order to avoid people's eyes, Daniel tried to choose a sparsely populated path even if he walked in the suburbs, and neither of them spoke along the way, and there were few passers-by around, which was really uncomfortable.

Merlin's institute was actually just outside London, not too far from here. But because of the silence along the way, the ten minutes journey felt extraordinarily long. It wasn't until Daniel saw the building in the distance surrounded by engineering canvas and faintly heard the sound of clanging from the construction site that he finally breathed a sigh of relief. They've finally arrived.

Because today is not a holiday, the workers are going to work seriously. Watching it up close, the construction site can even be said to be a bit lively.

The so-called "restoration" is to use a special repair concrete to re-pour and consolidate the part of the building damaged by fire. If necessary, workers even re-weld and reinforce old steel bars that had been damaged by the fire, if necessary. In this way, after the old and the new are connected, the overall structure of the building will be mechanically strengthened. And because the rubble of the building, which had been half-burned in the heat but had not yet completely peeled off, needed to be cleared, the workers could be said to be destroying the general reconstruction, knocking down the unstable parts of the old rubble and filling it with new concrete. That's why the lively sound of the top knock in the construction site will be endless.

"It's noisy. Daniel, the silver knight boy, couldn't help but snort.

"It's okay, it's okay...... Elaine, the white bear, said. He had worked on construction sites before and was used to the noise of construction sites.

"And then?" because the noise on the construction site was too loud, Daniel raised his volume by a dozen decibels in an attempt to make the White Bear Man hear: "It's coming, it's coming, but it's really only workers here." Do you want to visit the workers here?"

"Let's go back to the backyard. Elaine instructed.

Daniel didn't say anything, silently helping the White Bear Man to move towards the backyard of the Institute. However, this institute actually does not have a strict front yard and a back yard, after all, the institute itself is a relatively modern building, the so-called front yard is just a parking lot enclosed by a concrete wall, originally seemed to be to facilitate the entry and exit of various large trucks------ Prime Minister Merlin's research here seems to need to transport in and out of various materials. The backyard of the institute is actually close to a forest area, almost not bordering the suburban forest, and only a few sparse fences block the trees in the backyard from the suburban trees. The meaning of this is perhaps only understood by Prime Minister Merlin himself. But it has to be said that Merlin was a very far-sighted person, and it was precisely because of these walls that when the institute was engulfed in fire, the disaster did not further evolve into a forest fire, and the burning was limited to the trees in the backyard of the institute.

"Hmm...... Seeing the backyard of the institute like this, Elaine, the white bear, acted a little worried.

"What's wrong?"

"Yes, should it still be there, ......right? Elaine muttered to herself.

"What are you talking about?" asked the Silver Knight Boy curiously.

"Hmm...... Elaine replied vaguely, not even paying attention to Daniel's question, more like he was concentrating on finding something in the burned backyard woods.

"Should we, should I not...... Is it really gone?" he continued.

"So what the hell is gone??" Daniel became more and more curious.

"Squeak------ something suddenly made a sound. It was a wonderful sound.

"Uh, it's still there!" Elaine exclaimed happily, "Come on, Liz." ＂

The thing that had been hiding in the shadows of the trees and making a strange noise had finally appeared. The shadow was in stark contrast to the black, which was charred everywhere, and it was a very beautiful white squirrel. Normally, squirrels do not have this snow-white coat color, and this squirrel growth is probably the cause of albinism. But its albinism did not rob it of the black markings on its back, and the typical squirrel markings remained. And unlike ordinary albinos, the squirrel's eyes are not a little frightening red, but blue, as beautiful as two sapphires.

"Uh, squirrel. Daniel seemed to understand something.

"Squeak!" the squirrel also recognized Elaine the White Bear. When Elaine called it that, it immediately came over familiarly, and without fear at all, it ran in front of the White Bear Man and the Silver Knight Boy in a few steps.

"I used to stay with my father in Master Merlin's research institute and ran into it by chance. Elaine looked at the deliberate white squirrel and said, "I've always wanted to raise it, but pets are not allowed in the research and research institutes, and my father also said that squirrels are wild animals, and the most, best thing is to return to nature." So, I didn't catch it as a pet, but brought food to the backyard every day to feed it and be friends with it. ＂

"Oooh. Daniel echoed perfunctorily. He finally understood now that the white bear man didn't have many friends at all, and only this little creature was willing to be his friend.