Chapter 192: The Swamp (1)
"Ahh
Everyone looked at Leona, and she raised her fingertips in some embarrassment and touched her lips and then her nose: "I seem to be ...... Ahh......h Ahh
"Was she allergic to flowers before?" asked Kerryben. It's true that flying flotsams tickle, but Leona's reaction is much more intense than the others.
Birdwin recalled, he remembered seeing Leona walking down the hallway with her favorite bouquet of lilacs, and the hallways and bedroom floors that were always sprinkled with rush and dried lavender. He knew that some people would sneeze desperately at the smell of flowers, as was the case with one of his knights, so he never sent him out of Thundercastle in spring and summer, for his sneezes were like a thunderstorm, and like a shower of rain, and he trembled so much that he couldn't even grasp his weapon, but he had never found anything like it in Leona: "I don't know," he said, "I haven't seen her like that before." ”
"Maybe she's only allergic to white lint. "Do you have any light linen or silk?" and he asked Leona, "Cover your face." Then he said to the thief and to Memmie, "You too." ”
Leona nodded, her dimensional bag but also knew that it was larger than the one in Glenn or Cremar's waist, she knew that she would not be able to return to the royal capital in a short time, so she brought everything she could bring, among them were two tulle robes from the country of Seris, which were worn at bedtime in the middle of summer, and it was said that they were woven directly from silk instead of thread, and the texture was unusually soft and thin. Even if you fold it three times in a row, you can see a mole on your skin through the fabric, which is very precious. She reached into the seemingly ordinary bag and fumbled around. He pulled out the piece of fabric, folded it on his knee before anyone else could recognize its purpose, and tied a knot at the back of his head after covering his face with it.
Birdwin and Cremar didn't recognize it, Kerry lowered his eyes at the first sight of it, and Glenn only sighed in his heart, only Memmy kept staring at it, she knew the fabric. In her mother's temple of Flo, the temple's senior priest had a piece that had not been cut. She wrapped it around her only during the ceremonies and receptions of her most important guests, and usually kept it in a silver box filled with myrrh for embalming.
Glenn had already covered his face with a black veil, and his feet were rows of small silver beads that had been polished to a very smooth finish. There is also the coat of arms of the Lorenos family embroidered with silver and gold threads on the edge. It must have been "borrowed" by the thieves from one of Doling's daughters' boxes, but no one cared about it now, and Memmy narrowed her eyes and grabbed a linen handkerchief to cover her face, some tiny flying flakes dangled from her eyelashes, and after a few loud sneezes, Birdwin pulled the cloak above her head and fastened it with a pin. Keeping the flyers out, the elves and Cremar simply pulled up their hoods. The elves' sewn robes were accompanied by runes, and the flying flakes that rolled in with the wind did not affect them in the slightest.
"It's kind of unfair. The thief muttered, but he also knew that due to the xenophobia of the elves, many of their products could only be worn by those with elven blood, and Leona, the princess of the Norman Highlands, could only cover her face with the inner robe she wore when she went to bed.
"Are you alright?" asked Bodwin, and Memmy waved her hand weakly, "It's all right," she said, "just some flying flakes." ”
"It's unlikely that this will happen when we go deep into the swamp," said the Elven Ranger, "and the reeds and shrubs have grown well for the past two years, and they have made the wind messy. ”
The thieves slapped Pastor Flo her buttocks as they passed, and Memmy was startled to realize that they had moved on.
The rest of the journey was not as Meme had imagined, it was filled with filthy mud and black water at the beginning, and although the elves walked ahead, they never warned them to pay attention to their feet—"We haven't really entered the snow cover swamp yet." He said this, and the ground under their feet was as Kerry had ensured, soft but reliably supported, and the flowers of the white velvet fell only softly on the other plants, and looked less like a pile of snow than a hazy mist.
"How long will we have to walk through the swamp?" asked Berdwin.
"The swamp is constantly changing," said Kerribben, "and if the god of fortune, Tymorrah, is willing to bring her light upon us, it may only take us a week to reach the other edge of the swamp." ”
"There are countless beasts and monsters," the thief Glenn shook his head, "and the reason why the merchants are willing to walk from here is that there is no guild that can garrison the Snow Cover Swamp. He only wished that he would continue to encounter some goblins and the like, and if he ran into any more difficult creatures, one of them must be watched by poisonous eyes - the thief did not think that it would be him, he was only a mortal, and had borne the curse of a god - He swore that if he encountered the monsters that he should have seen at the end of the long narrative poem again, he would have managed to get rid of them, even if it had to deal with the Assassins sent by the Norman King of the Highlands alone - at least the new king would not hire a devil or a half-dragon to hunt down a lowly thief.
"Try not to disturb them. The elf said, "Most of them are asleep in the deep mire." ”
A large, colourful snake the size of a baby's wrist swam slowly past the thief's feet, its pitch-black body dotted with dark red spots, and its triangular white head with two black stripes that ran from its neck to its snout.
"That's the white-headed snake," said the elf, "be careful, it's very venomous." ”
But the snake soup was delicious, and the souls from the other plane regretted that they would have to spend the next few days in the snow-covered swamp, and the elves had said before that the creatures in the swamp were sensitive to sound, heat, and vibration, so in addition to the need to be quiet, they had to put up with hard bread and coarse dried meat for the time being. But it has probably the warmest sunshine in the entire Highland Norman. They didn't feel cold, and as Rosada's chariot reached the highest point of the blue sky, Kerry suggested that they rest on a dry grassy knoll for a while. The meadows are covered by a canopy of wild rush grass, interspersed with sheep's beard, moss, and grass, and one side is covered with thick and tall reeds.
Gülen dug out some reed roots, put them in his mouth and bit them after a brief wipe.
"I saw that the bushes over there looked like smut currants. Carey Ben said.
"But they don't bear fruit until July at the earliest," Leona said, though she would love some sweet and sour berries.
"I can talk to them. Kerry said it in all seriousness, but he did quickly pick up a handful of juicy little black fruits. Crush them on torn bread and they won't be too hard to swallow.
They also had the dried meat and minced lamb tripe that the uncle and mother of Lord Mullen had brought out for days with their daughters and the last remaining servants, the latter of which had been made easy to preserve by adding a lot of salt. They cut them into thin slices to replenish the lost salt - Cremar threw his balls of purification into a skin bag filled with water, and the muddy water, which had been stored for several days, quickly became clear, sweet, and warm. They take turns taking small sips and sipping them.
"It's such a good thing. Mei Mi said sincerely: "I will also buy one when I have the opportunity in the future." ”
"It's expensive. The thief said.
After only a little gooseberry. He began to study the small red branches of the branches he had broken off earlier, and found that their red did not belong to them, but mosses that clinged to the bark of the trees, and where there was plenty of water they showed a red like blood, and the dry mosses were much more discolored, and easy to peel off, like iron powder stuck to the branches, and when the breeze blew through them, they fell in patches.
Belch. There are also large clusters of flying flotsam.
The caster stood up and looked into the depths of the swamp, where they could now see large patches of grassy hills, reeds, and bushes along the way. And then there are the jagged trees—their torsos as slender and blackened as the shadows of thieves cast on the ground, and their leaves sparse and shriveled.
After a short rest, they continued on, and the trees gradually became a handful, and the grassy knolls and shrubs were no longer so coherent, but like pearls on chains, with small intervals but nevertheless, and as they passed through one meadow after another, they could no longer avoid stepping their feet into the swamps, but fortunately they had changed into soft leather boots that reached the base of their thighs, and fastened them with three belts above their knees, so that not only could the water enter, but even the wind could not find a crevice. The princess was intrigued by the shiny, silky, almost flawless and wrinkled leather, but out of courtesy, she did not ask too much about the details, otherwise Birdwin and Carey would not have known how to answer her—it came from a special part that was only visible to males.
As they went deeper, it became evident that the originally changeable but gentle wind became single and swift, coming straight from the north and blowing southward, and at its most violent it was as if someone was pushing them forward from behind, and the white velvet flowers were swept up into the sky and into the distance—if they had not been stuck with the damp water and the marsh—the air became clean and fresh, and even Leona had removed her veil, but it also meant that the danger lurking was approaching them— The elf paused slightly, he raised his hand, and Glenn, who was immediately behind him, took a step back, and he felt a noticeable stickiness as he lifted his foot.
The elf chose another path, and as he passed by the place just now, the caster curiously threw out a branch, and he didn't use much force, but the branch, which was only the thickness of his little finger, suddenly lost its top, and two or three white velvet flew up because of this abrupt visit, and the caster pinched one and examined it carefully. The flowers of this plant are more like catkins when they are entangled, but when there is only one you can tell that they are more like dandelions, with a small stalk underneath and a ball of fluff on top, only a quarter to a fifth of the size of a dandelion, and the fluff is as thin as powder.
The mage touched it lightly, and it burst into flames with a thud.
And this swamp, nearly 300,000 hectares, is covered with this delicate and rich fluff.
"Don't worry about that," said Kerryben, "though I don't quite understand what this is all about, but it has been tried for a long time, and even if it is burned with a torch, the white velvet will never burn more than fifty feet in radius, perhaps because the earth below is too wet and cold." ”
"What's that?" asked Leona suddenly.
They saw that on the snow-white plains, suddenly there were round huts that looked like mushrooms or potatoes covered with powdered sugar.
"The abode of the black-footed halfling. "But these must have been abandoned, and they're always on the move." ”
As he said, when they approached, they found that the huts were empty, and some of them had collapsed. They built these houses out of reeds, the reeds would rot and rot constantly, and once no one replaced the broken ones, the whole house would return to the swamp cycle, and one of the largest houses might belong to the leader of the halflings, even the ground was covered with thick blankets made of reeds, and a few bushes of donkey's hoofs and low elms in the corners of the houses were full of life, and for the halflings who were born and grew up in the snowy swamps, these plants used by humans as medicinal herbs could be used as staple food, and the elves could almost imagine a halfling with heavy black hair wrapped in his feet, lying here in a happy moodIn the "spacious" room, he lived a simple and happy life, and he could eat his stomach without stretching out his hand.
But with this "spacious" room, Berdwin would feel suffocated even when he sits.
They didn't change much—the halfling's reed house was built in a very simple way, they tied up several hugs of reeds, inserted them into the reed field face to face, about six feet apart from each other, bent the tops of the reeds until they overlapped, then filled the gaps with a wall of woven reeds, and finally smeared them with moist earth, and when the earth was dried by the sun, the light and warm hut was made. All the elves and Berdwin had to do was lengthen the arched reeds and spread them with reeds, and they didn't even need to use the wet mud, as they would only stay here for one night.
After the house was remodeled, a new trouble came.
Many, all kinds of small insects, crawling and flying, rushed into this small, warm space with plenty of food.
Kerry certainly had a solution to this little problem, he had some seeds with him, and the bitter smell of a certain rattan would make most of the insects shy away, but before he could take out the seeds, a small spiky tail protruded from Plum Mi's chest, and shook slightly, and the uninvited villains fled frantically, and there was not a single one left.
"What's that?"
"My ...... Magic Pet. Mei Mi said. He reached out to protect his chest. (To be continued.) )
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