Chapter 382: The City
Angellot didn't wait long in the room, and Miselle quickly returned to her with good news. In fact, the girl was not worried about being rejected at all, because even if she was rejected, there were many ways for her to go to the World Tree on her own through the teleportation array, and she couldn't stop it.
As a young bear child, Angelot is naturally qualified to mischievous those old monsters.
"Durga has agreed. Miselle walked up to Angelot and reached out to gently rub her little head and smiled, "But on the surface, you didn't take the Otherworlders to the sacred birthplace of our race, you know what I mean?"
The elf girl immediately popped up a huge question mark above her head, but soon replaced it with a light bulb and bloomed, and her right hand clenched her fist and slammed her left palm hard and said, "Do we want to wrap the whole person in a cloak to cover their faces before we can pass?"
"That's right. Even so, the dress is still very conspicuous, so Durga will arrange for his own guards to meet and escort you, so that you don't get blocked by curious civilians or something. If you really can't, you should be a criminal who was escorted once. β
It is customary for pointy-eared criminals to cover their faces with cloaks when they are imprisoned and even executed, although there are not necessarily many criminals in this race.
Angelot didn't care much about this, as long as she could take Nangong Rong and his party into the World Tree to investigate the specific situation, it didn't matter how she got in and what kind of treatment she received on the way in. All they had to do was sneak in, find out where the source of the infection was, hand it over to a teenager to clean it up, and then leave quietly and everything was fine, without any need to alarm anyone other than Duga.
"Okay, let's do it. Angelot said and took the initiative to stand up, apparently about to leave, "I'm going to make preparations, so I won't continue to drink tea with you." Also, thank you, Mistress Micel. β
"Go ahead. β
Miselle kept a kind and gentle smile on the girl, and did not change in the slightest until she closed the door outside the house and left.
As for what kind of change will occur on the aunt's face after the door closes, Angellot is not very clear. All the elf girl wanted to do now was to rush to Nangong Rong and the others as soon as possible, use her cloak to dress them up as suspicious elements, and then go to the World Tree through the teleportation array, of course, she herself would also be dressed up like that.
Therefore, the girl did not pay much attention to Miselle, and even if she did, she probably did not notice the abnormality of the other party - after all, the aunt had always behaved quite perfectly, and there were no flaws at all.
A few minutes later, Angelot appeared in front of Nangong Rong and the others with several sets of cloaks, and threw them on the bed in their room.
"What is this, cloak?" the young man picked up a cloak from the bed and held it in the air and looked at it seriously and wondered, "Could it be that those big guys above didn't agree to your application, so you took these magical cloaks that will be transparent and invisible after wearing them, and plan to quietly play a big trick?"
"I'm sorry that I can only bring some ordinary cloaks that don't have invisible abilities!" Angelot snorted angrily, pouting angrily, "Don't get me wrong, the application has been approved, but at best, it's just a secret decision between the two elders, and on the surface, I never took you to the World Tree." β
Octavir understood this quickly, and immediately grabbed the cloak and draped it over herself, nodded her head and said with a very approving expression on her face, "That's why you chose to use the cloak to cover our faces?
"Now. Angelot immediately replied without hesitation, it seemed that the World Tree might have been infected by the abyss, which made her feel very uneasy, "Go over early and end it early, maybe we can still have dinner in time for dinner in the World Tree." There's a shop there, but it's very famous, so why don't you try it?"
Lin Weiyin, who had a drowsy and bored expression, woke up instantly when she heard this, and desperately widened her shining eyes and went straight to the elf girl: "Strawberry pie!? β
Angelot subconsciously shrank back: "Well, I don't know your specific standards, but at least every elf who has tasted strawberry pie in that store will nod their heads and give a thumbs up." β
"That's it. Also, can you buy many portions at a time and take them away? And does this strawberry pie need some kind of special drink to go with it? Is there any seasoning to your taste?"
Nangong Rong, who finally couldn't stand it, decisively stepped forward and grabbed the back collar of his cheap sister and dragged her back: "We're discussing how to clear the abyss infection, how can it be pulled to the dessert? β
The smiling elf girl first refused the escort of the guards, and then took the boy and the others to the teleportation array, and then everyone only felt that they had changed their position as soon as they saw it, and came to a room that was also equipped with a magic array, but with completely different decorations and patterns.
A team of more than a dozen guards guarded the entrance to the room, making sure not even a single fly could fly in.
"Lord Angelot, I've been waiting for a long time. A handsome young man came up to greet him, apparently the captain of the guard, "Lord Durga is not able to greet you personally, so he instructed us to come and assist in our entirety. Of course, the adults didn't say exactly what we should do, but just let us do what you tell us. β
"Thank you very much. Just take us to the root of the World Tree, and this guy (pointing to Nangong Rong) will be in charge of the rest. Angelot said as she turned to the group behind her, "Put on your cloaks, keep your head down, and don't do anything that will attract attention." β
A few friends silently took out their cloaks and began to cover their bodies, while Nangong Rong asked suspiciously: "Now, why do you want to go to the root of the World Tree to check first, it should also have a core, right?"
"No kidding, the World Tree is a naturally grown plant, how could there be such a thing?" Angelot also put on a cloak for herself as she spoke, this gray and crude cloak obviously had a rather magical special effect to cover up all the beautiful girls' figures, if it weren't for the boy watching the girl put the cloak on, he would have thought that in front of him was a miscellaneous soldier made by a third-rate game painter who was seriously lazy," The root of the tree is the most important part of the World Tree, and if the Abyss wants to infect it, it can only start from there. β
Recalling that the Chimera had also infused the abyssal energy into the inside of the Tree of Life by biting the roots of the tree, Nangong Rong had no choice but to agree with the Elf Girl's decision. Besides, this person is not familiar with the place, even if there is anything he wants to investigate, he has to rely on others to lead the way, right?
"Remember, after exiting this door, none of you are allowed to speak until you reach your destination. Angelot gave a final warning to the boy and the others before leaving, her expression was quite serious, "Judging from the ability to spread and infect the Tree of Life, the Abyss has probably controlled some of the functions of the World Tree, and if we go over with great fanfare, it is likely to cause some unnecessary trouble." Moreover, if a few of you are seen by civilians here, it will also cause a headache for the Elders, after all, it is the core area of our clan. β
Everyone nodded earnestly in understanding.
"Very well, let's go. β
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Observing the inside of a huge object and standing in the distance to admire the whole view of each other are two fundamentally different things, but Nangong Rong can still feel the difference between this place and the Tree of Life. I thought that what the boy saw in the tree of life was not very spacious corridors and rows of rooms, and it made him feel like he was inside a ship, and he always felt a little cramped and oppressive.
But what did Nangong Rong see here? The road as wide as a two-way carriageway, flanked by a dozen or so storey buildingsβthough all of them were woodenβthe high ceilings covered with a large number of glowing plants, illuminating everything, and the boy even saw some shops and restaurants that occupied the entire building, and the streets were very bustling with people, and occasionally a few chocobos carried pointy ears at high speed, which looked like a city no matter how you looked at it.
In fact, it is a city, except that it is not made of the steel and concrete that humans are familiar with.
While Nangong Rong was quietly looking around, the nearby elves were also looking at their strange team suspiciously. Fortunately, the general attire of the escorted criminals and the neatly armed guards next to them made ordinary citizens choose to stay away, but no one from the second middle school came over to find out what happened to Nangong Rong and the others.
There is no teleportation array at the root of the World Tree, because there is an incomparably surging leyline energy not far away, and a small fireball may explode, not to mention the teleportation spell that is creating spatial instability itself?
Nangong Rong thought that the group would have to walk for a long time, but the young man obviously forgot that he was inside a tree, and it didn't take long for a huge wall to appear in front of him.
No way?As soon as the thought came to him, the boy saw the young captain of the guard take his staff and tap it on a pattern that he had decorated the wall, and then a movable hidden door quickly opened, revealing the spiral staircase behind it.
Well, sure enough, there are spare stairs in addition to the elevator (teleportation array), no matter what world you are in.
The civilians living nearby were apparently aware of the existence of the secret door and the building, and were not at all surprised by the actions of the captain of the guard. So under their indifferent gaze, Nangong Rong and his entourage quickly entered the building, and then closed the secret door from the inside.
"Don't take off your cloak yet, not all the guards know you're coming. Angelot stopped Lin Weiyin's attempt to free her head from the hood to take a breath, and at the same time motioned for the guards to take a step towards the steps below, "This is already the lowest level of the residential area, how about it, Nangong Rong, do you feel the other party's existence?"
When the guards didn't know that the abyss existed, the elf girl naturally didn't dare to mention it casually.
"No, I've been looking at beautiful women along the way...... Sorry, I mean didn't notice anything special, everything was normal. Nangong Rong said and raised his hand to touch the wooden wall lightly twice, as if he was feeling something, but in the end nothing happened, "Either we thought too much about the worst thing and didn't happen, or the other party was very good at camouflage and hiding." Anyway, since the roots are the most important part of the World Tree, I guess I will be able to figure everything out when I get there. β
Can the young man not put on an expression of "I'm working hard] to try to fool people, didn't you see that Octavir and Lin Weiyin's cloaks showed two red terrifying lights respectively, as if the devil had suddenly awakened in the shadows, and if he didn't fool around in order to fool the young man, he would definitely be beaten.
Angelot naturally didn't care about whether Nangong Rong would be beaten by the two girls, she just motioned to the captain of the guard to lead the way in front, and after walking down the steps for about ten minutes, she finally stopped moving forward before a certain teenager was about to faint.
This time, there was really no road ahead. The staircase had reached the very end, and after the same secret door was opened, what greeted everyone's eyes was not a scene such as [City in a Tree Cave], but a wider space.
The darkness is full of all kinds of colorful lights, and the starry sky at night is so gorgeous that this "starry sky" is so close to everyone that Nangong Rong even has the illusion that he is walking in the Milky Way.
Of course, this is not outer space, but in underground space. The secret door that Nangong Rong and the others had just passed through led to the outside of the World Tree, and they were standing on the surface of a huge tree root at the moment.
I don't know why a bubble-like space has been formed, and it is not completely buried by the soil, but when it is illuminated by the starlight, it seems to have been excavated by hand.
"This is where we use the roots of the World Tree to collect leyline energy. Angelot gave an explanation before the boy and the others asked, and then pointed to the root of the tree at his feet and said, "If the other party has a trick, the suspicion here is the greatest, let's start working now." Remember, don't take off your cloak. β
Nangong Rong shrugged helplessly: "Okay, you are the boss, you have the final say." β