As the first rays of dawn pierce the fog that fills the jungle in the early morning, Mr. Druid's transformation time ends and he returns to his human form.

However, it was already very close to the town of Chiping, and Alvita was strong and strong, so he had no problem carrying Funes on his back to make the last trip.

The three guys on the flying carpet can't continue to fly in the air.

"Why don't I give him a ride?" Hao Yun proposed.

"Don't bother, I'm home."

Yolanda grinned and jumped off the flying carpet, landing her feet on a cobblestone path.

Elves can cross dense forests without roads, but camels cannot. The town of Qiping is in the border forest, which can be regarded as a developed business. As a result, close to the town, there are several such winding paths that lead into the distance, facilitating the transportation of goods to and from the town.

The elves love nature, unlike the ways of humans, which are incompatible with nature. The trail outside the town of Chiping is only arm's length, with patches of green grass emerging from the gaps in the red, red, yellow and yellow pebbles, and the trail is lined with oddly shaped white wildflowers. At first glance, it is rich in color, making it a great place to take pictures.

"Yolanda, what kind of flower is this?" Xiaobai picked up one, and the upside-down petals closed into the shape of a lantern, "What a special fragrance." ”

"It's called a lantern flower, isn't it special?" Yolanda looked at the father who was walking in front of him with Funes on his back, and didn't know how to break the embarrassment of the Cold War, and replied casually, "Castile is full of this kind of wildflower. But if you want to say something special, lantern flower is a very commonly used herb that can treat many diseases. ”

"I haven't seen it anyway." Xiaobai picked another one and put it in his own space as a collection.

This gesture won Yolanda's favor, which meant that the new friend identified with her hometown. Many guys from big places have their eyes above the top, but they can't look down on the "rural place" like Qiping Town, even if there is a single grass, they will feel that it looks ugly. Yolanda put her father's feelings aside for a moment and began to count them.

"Look at this river, don't look at it narrow, it's a tributary of the Chiping River, oh, in the summer, there are a lot of salmon."

"You see, it's all serpentine, and if you're brave, you can dig up a lot of mushrooms if you get into it. But don't eat the red ones, they're poisonous. ”

"By the way, there's this."

Yolanda leaped lightly and landed on a large tree beside her.

"This kind of wild fruit will be the leader of this kind of brigade, it's delicious."

As he spoke, he picked a few tiny red fruits.

"The taste is good~"

Xiaobai gave a thumbs up.

"Right."

After sharing the delicious food with Xiaobai, Yolanda carefully packed the remaining fruit into a special small bag and did not give it to Hao Yun.

"Ugh." The little brother was about to reach out and take it, but now he had to put down his hand.

In the novel, the world revolves around the protagonist, and unfortunately, he doesn't have the protagonist's life.

"Yolanda, are you on your home turf?"

Hao Yun asked sullenly, he felt that compared to last night under the stars, the female ranger was a little too active.

"Of course it's my home field, not me blowing it, around Qiping Town, I know the name of every tree."

"Oh, what's the name of that tree?"

Hao Yun pointed not far to the right, it was an extraordinarily tall and beautiful tree, with red and apricot yellow leaves, washed by the early morning mist, looking hazy and hazy, with a fairyland-like feeling.

He just asked casually, but he didn't expect the female ranger to suddenly blush when she saw the place he was pointing. After that, no matter what, he refused to speak.

"Did I ask about any taboos of the elves?" The little brother was inexplicable and asked Xiaobai in a low voice.

"I don't know, no." Xiaobai was also very strange, "That's a stream tree, it's very common, and there are many of them on Lindao." ”

After a few minutes of footwalking, turning over a small mountain bag, Qiping Town came into everyone's sight.

It is a medium-sized town established by the elves in the border forest, perched on several low hills with exposed reddish-brown rocks.

A river runs through the town of Chiping and winds around it for half a circumference, forming a natural moat. At the center of the town is a towering castle with thick bluestone piling up its walls, about twelve feet high.

At the four corners of the city walls, there were also four towers on which defensive weapons were placed. Unlike traditional human castles, elven castles are draped in green moss and dotted with flowers.

The hillside around the castle is dotted with elven dwellings. The elves did not build boxy dwellings and neat roads with bricks and stones, as humans do, but rather focused on being one with nature and scattered around.

A few semi-circular thatched roofs, plus a hollow giant oak tree, dotted with some vegetation, would make for a good home. There are also treehouses and stone houses, so it depends on personal preference. Hao Yun even saw several delicate earthen kilns.

At the foot of the hill is a lively bazaar, where the townspeople barter. But they were not without money-based trade, and caravans from outside drove huge moose through the streets of the bazaar, shopping for the town's specialty: the border red.

Before the Doomsday War, the Chiping region was already famous for its lead red. This is a red dye extracted from stone flowers, and the dyed cloth has a beautiful color and is not easy to fade. The savanna meadows around the town of Chiping are full of these small flowers that are endemic to the area. Tenacious wildflowers that bloom all year round spread out red ribbons that adorn this elven town.

"Xiaobai, you said that you should make more money by opening a farmhouse here."

Hao Yun couldn't help but sigh when he saw this beautiful natural scenery. There are mountains and waters, flowers and grasses, the folk customs are simple, the air is fresh, and it is a good place.

"It was a nice first time I saw the town of elves. Xiaobai, is your home the same? He asked his girlfriend.

"My home is a big island, and it's not like here." Xiaobai was also looking around in surprise.

In the beautiful natural scenery, the elves' buildings do not look obtrusive at all, and they are clean. If it is a classical human village, it will always feel a little gray, and the air is also filled with the smell of cow and sheep dung.

The two of them spent a few days wandering around Calikhli in Gryas, the capital of the kingdom of Trich, one of the largest cities in the world. But it's still a dirty mess. Xiaobai and Hao Yun couldn't stand the wanton flow of sewage, and then simply hid in Princess Tilin's suburban villa and never came out again.

"Well, it's very good, but as a settlement of elves, it's too lively here."

Xiaobai is a pure elf and has the most right to speak. Compared to Lin Island, where Xiaobai was born, or other elven towns that he has visited, Qiping Town is simply a human farmer's market, and the population is too large.

Generally speaking, elves live in tribes and do not develop many large cities. And even if there were, it was only relatively. The reason is very simple, because of the poor birth rate of the elves.

The population growth rate of the immortals is always hovering on the verge of extinction, which is the law of nature: if elves can give birth to the same as humans, then what else is there for humans?

But Qiping Town, Xiaobai frowned in confusion, there are too many children. When he was at the outpost, Funes talked about having a younger brother who was fifty years old, and Xiaobai was a little surprised. In the perception of the elves, she gave birth to two children in fifty years, which is definitely a heroic mother.

I didn't expect this to be the norm in Castile, not long after entering the market, Xiaobai saw several bare-bottomed elf children running around.

You know, elven children are very rare. Xiaobai remembered that her body was in Lindao, and when she was a child, almost everyone loved her super much, for fear that she would be hurt a little bit.

Because she is the only toddler in Lindao for more than 100 years.

Throughout her youth, including traveling around the continent, she would be accompanied by one or two powerful and wise elven heroes. Educating her is one aspect, and protecting her is the main job of these heroes who shook the continent.

How can there be such a thing as Qiping Town, let children run around and play, and no one will look at it. What if I fall somewhere?

Xiaobai saw a little boy who rolled down from a large wooden barrel and was almost trampled on by a stupid horse passing by. Her heart jumped at once.

"Yolanda!" The soft girl almost screamed, pointing to the child on the ground and asking, "Don't you Ero elves care about children!" You are sinning! ”

"Huh? Yes? Yolanda didn't hear what Xiaobai was saying clearly, in fact, not long after he walked into the market, the clothing manager of Qiping Town was entangled by several young people.

They surrounded the Ranger and offered her small gifts, including beautiful stones, unknown feathers, and even shiny enchanted daggers.

Yolanda is a long-sleeved dancer who skillfully maneuvers among the male elves of the right age, but neglects his new friends.

"What did you say, Xiaobai?" She sent away a few handsome elves who were reluctant to give up, and came over to take Xiaobai's hand, "What do you think of Turin, it's that tall, thin man with yellow hair." ”

"It's okay, it's just that the nostrils are a little big." Xiaobai made a fairly fair and objective evaluation.

"It's not his fault, the Yankees are all nostrils." Yolanda defended the young man, who was still looking back from time to time, "Turin is from Raintree, which is as far north as I have never heard of. ”

At this time, Xiaobai realized that he had been led astray.

"Yolanda! There's a kid here who doesn't care! She pointed to the little boy.

"Huh?" Yolanda was a little baffled. By this time, the little boy who had fallen had already patted his ass and stood up, but both knees were broken.

"Two dogs!" Yolanda gave the boy a fierce look and threatened, "You're naughty again!" Go home and find your mother! ”

The elf cub named Ergouzi looked at the eldest sister suspiciously, and then ran away without saying a word, but in the opposite direction from home.

Yolanda spread his hands: "The current post-0000~~"

She saw that Xiaobai was still very angry, and she didn't know why. But the big-hearted ranger didn't care, she triumphantly took out two coins.

"Little White Haoyun, please eat the best food in Qiping Town."

After Alveta led the group into the town, the five of them split into two ways.

Alverta takes Funes to Chipin Castle, where the César garrison will listen to the two and decide on the next course of action for the entire town.

Yolanda was assigned to send Hao Yun and Xiaobai to the Liddell medical station, where the Liddell was considered absolutely safe. Yolanda would then have to wait at the door of the medical station, and after a debriefing, Alveta would send Funes over for further treatment by the Liddell machine.

The druid's rejuvenation technique is not a panacea, it does not fight bacteria and does not restore damaged nerves. The druids didn't understand modern medicine, but it was right to be sent to the medical station for serious injuries.

Before splitting up, Alveta hesitated and took two coins from her pocket and handed them to Yolanda.

"You buy something to eat." "Then he went home and collected the eggs." ”

After all, it was quite hard to run all night.

Yolanda ignored her father, and the two of them hadn't spoken since their quarrel at the outpost, but she took the money anyway.

This is the end of the cold war between father and daughter.

But the Ranger uses the money to take it upon herself to invite her new friends to eat, instead of going straight to the medical station as Alveta instructs.

"This is the best Magic Rain Frog sweet ball in Qiping Town, you can't eat it anywhere else."

The female ranger brought two large wooden bowls to Xiaobai like a treasure, and the three of them sat on a huge log on the side of the road and ate it. Although I don't know why Xiaobai is upset, but you should be happy when I invite you to eat, right?

Hao Yun looked at the contents of the bowl and tasted it again. Not...... It seems that the elven diet is not useless, and the marching dry food of cold water soaked raw bread does not represent the food culture of Castile. But......

"If it weren't for the Lantern Festival, you would have pinched me to death."

Isn't it just a wine-brewed Lantern Festival, but the taste is okay.

"Uh-huh, it tastes okay." Xiaobai took a sip and made a sound that was okay.

"Yolanda, you're going home to collect eggs?" Hao Yun asked curiously.

"Yes, I haven't been back for a few days, and the aunt next door is helping to feed it. But the aunt's eyes are not good, there must be a lot of eggs in the corner, and they will break if they are left there all the time. Yolanda grumbled as she ate, "Oh, if you're not in a hurry to get to the medical station, go to my house, and I'll give you a basket of eggs." Our eggs are some of the best in Chiping Town. ”

Hao Yun didn't agree yet, but the elf uncle who made sweets smiled and said, "Yolanda, you haven't sent me eggs here for a long time." ”

"Uncle. I just have a few chickens, and I want that too, where is enough! ”

"Yolanda." Xiaobai asked while eating, "There are so many children in your town, do the Elves of Eero put the elves in the village to be fostered in the town?" But no matter what is wrong with children, there will be retribution! ”

"You will suffer retribution if you eat others like this and curse others at the same time." Hao Yun accurately sent a barrage to criticize Xiaobai. He took a sip of the drink from the dry wooden bowl, the magic rain frog sweet ball is it, yes, go back and join the luxury reserve food package.

"Ha, elf thing, you mere human can shut up." Xiaobai's barrage was-for-tat, she gave the male ticket a slap in the face, and then continued to ask Yolanda.

"Hey, Xiaobai, are there very few children in your tribe?!" Yolanda asked curiously.

"Ah...... Before...... Children of Elves...... are very few. ”

Before Xiaobai could answer, there was a slow voice from under the buttocks of the three people, and then the logs under him began to shake. The three of them were startled and quickly stood up with the bowl.

The huge log turned over, revealing an old face, which turned out to be an old tree man.

"Very little...... Very few ......"

"Master Knut, you're awake." Yolanda held the bowl in one hand and patted the treeman with the other, "Get us a chair to sit on." ”

"Oh."

Old Man Knut slowly stretched out a knotted arm, which squirmed and turned into three small chairs with backrests. There are also small tweed blooming on the back of the chair.

It's much more comfortable to sit down now. After taking his seat, Yolanda remembered that he had seen in the history books that the Elva elves on his side were indeed thinly populated.

But then, the arrival of the Lidders changed all that.