Twenty-five, the horror in the forest
Early the next morning, Xiao Tianjian left early, and before leaving, he told his granddaughter to stay in the room obediently and review the homework taught by the old magician. But what child will really be obedient? Minna had only been in bed for half an hour before she was ready to move.
She wanted to find her new friend yesterday, and although he had a bad temper, he was very good-looking, and knew a lot of things she didn't know, and besides, he seemed to be very good at climbing trees, and she wanted to compare himself with him to see who was better. It's been a long time since she's played with kids her age, and in such a strange place, and her grandfather isn't there, she really wants to make a friend.
However, she wants to be friends with Ladlow, should she say something? Yesterday she had seen the other party's collection of feathers and eaten his fruit, and today she should return the gift. But what did she have as a gift?
Grandpa wasn't there, she couldn't get anything out of the ring, and right now, she only had a few basic magic textbooks and some potions materials at hand.
Hey? Slow, potions? She remembered that before leaving Mount Toure, the old magician had quietly stuffed her with a lot of bottles, including several color-changing potions, which were originally for her to play with, maybe Lara would find it interesting? It's okay to use it to tease others.
Thinking of this, she immediately took out the box where the potions and materials were placed, intending to pick out a few potions with beautiful colors, and when she saw a bottle of scar remover, she hesitated, and then suddenly there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, she was startled, and hurriedly put a few bottles into the small satchel, and put the box back in its place.
In fact, the footsteps were only made by the people passing by the door, Minna saw that it was not grandpa, she breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the small satchel, and secretly walked out of the door, taking advantage of the fact that Lao Qiao was wrestling with a few half-elves, and did not notice herself, so she crept out of the door of the inn.
Who knew that after walking a few steps, she was blocked by Lao Qiao, and the half-elf uncle smiled and said to her: "Little girl, do you want to hide it from me?" You're still young. ”
Minna stuck out her tongue, climbed his arm and said coquettishly: "Uncle Qiao, I want to play with Xiaola, I won't do bad things." ”
But Lao Qiao was unmoved: "Your uncle said that he wanted me to take care of you, stay in the store obediently, and you can chat with us when you are bored." ”
Minna whispered: "You forgot about me when you talked happily, I'd rather play with Xiaola." She shook Old Qiao's hand: "Uncle Qiao, you let me go, I'm just playing in the town, I won't go far." ”
Several half-elves in the shop smiled and persuaded Lao Qiao to let her out, and one of them said, "She is Xiao's niece, how can she stay in the house obediently?" ”
Old Qiao hesitated for a moment and reluctantly agreed, but repeatedly told her: "Don't be mischievous, even if the little prince wants you to play a prank with him, you can't agree." Your uncle is a famous hero, don't bring his reputation to the background. Minna nodded repeatedly.
Outside, she remembered that she didn't know where Radlow's home was, so she had to ask a passing half-elf to find out that he lived in a treehouse at the end of town.
Walking to the treehouse, Minna realizes that it is the same place where her grandfather brought her yesterday, and it turns out that Radlow lives here. But isn't this where Grandpa's son lives? She climbed the wooden ladder to the first level of the treehouse, the door was locked, and the probe looked through the window, but there was no one inside.
Isn't Lara at home? Minna was puzzled, when suddenly a figure swept out of the corner of her eye, and it was Radlow, who was walking deep into the forest, and there was a white bird flying in front of him, with a long tail. What was he doing there?
Minna ran down the stairs and followed the impression in her mind, and after running for a while she saw Radlow's back, she rolled her eyes, smiled secretly, and followed lightly, carefully hiding as she went, lest her new friend discover her.
Radlow didn't have long to walk before he stopped, and in front of him stood two women, one dressed in black and the other in white, both with large wavy silver-white curls and crystal tiaras on their hair.
The former had her back to Minna, and she couldn't see what she looked like, but there was a faint flow of pearlescent light on her clothes, and her figure was graceful. And the latter showed half of his face, just this half of his face, it was so beautiful that people couldn't breathe, even a little girl like Minna was stunned, but this beauty frowned lightly between her eyebrows, and seemed to be a little sad.
Radlow lowered his head in front of the two women and said a few words, Minna couldn't hear clearly, but was startled by the ensuing angry rebuke of the woman in black: "It's so hateful! How dare you pluck Cher's feathers?! Who taught you this prank?! Don't you know shame? Even your bastard father wouldn't do such a nasty thing! ”
Radlow's head hung lower, and the beauty in white persuaded her, but the woman in black didn't listen: "Sister, you are too indulgent to him, it is because of this that this child will become more and more excessive, and last time he actually went to pluck the hair of the silver wolf." If he doesn't teach him a lesson, he won't know what he'll do next time! ”
The white-clothed beauty frowned, and she whispered a few words to Ladlow, and when she saw him nod her head violently, she was relieved to leave with the woman in black. They had only taken a few steps away when Minna saw Radlow with tears on her face, and her feet moved, and she stepped on a branch and clicked.
"Who is it?!" The woman in black turned her head quickly, and it was an extremely beautiful face. Minna couldn't dodge, so she had to stand obediently, lowering her head and not daring to speak. A trace of disgust flashed on the face of the woman in black: "It's actually a human being." ”
The beauty in white smiled gently: "It's a child, it's with your family, right?" She suddenly seemed to remember something, and with a smile on her face, she reappeared: "Are you here to find Radlow?" Come back to town with him, it's deep in the forest. ”
Minna secretly glanced up at her, and felt that this woman was almost like a fairy, beautiful and kind. She has pointed ears and golden eyes, she must be an elf, right? But even if it is an elf, it is more beautiful than all the elves and half-elves he has ever seen, and compared to the woman in black next to him, he has a gentle and watery temperament.
The woman in black, on the other hand, ignored Minna, and just said coldly to Radlow: "You will only mix with half-elves and humans, what's the point?" Radlow's face turned red, and the beauty in white looked at him worriedly, and whispered to her companion: "Let's go, we didn't bring an escort today, it's autumn now, it's better to be careful." ”
When the woman in black heard this, she ignored the two children and left with her. Minna watched them go away before running to Ladlow's side: "Are you alright?" Who are they? ”
Radlow quickly wiped away a handful of tears and replied in a gruff voice: "It's none of your business!" What are you doing here? ”
"I'm here to play with you, you ran away all of a sudden yesterday, why? Am I saying the wrong thing? ”
"It's fine." Radlow sullenly raised his feet and walked back, not answering whatever Minna asked along the way. Minna sensed that he was in a bad mood, so she said, "Okay, okay, I won't ask, I brought a few bottles of potions today, it's very fun, it can change the color of people's hair and eyes, let's play." ”
Radlow gave her a blank look: "I'm silver-haired and golden-eyed, the color of the noblest elves, why change it to something else?" ”
Minna tilted her head: "Don't you change?" That...... I also brought a bottle of medicine, which was specially given to you, so you can ......"
Before they could finish speaking, a white light suddenly shot out from the forest behind them, hitting the trunk of the big tree next to them, and the entire trunk suddenly froze and made a clicking sound. Both children were stunned and didn't react at all.
The next second, another white light shot out from the forest, this time hitting the trunk of the tree farther away from them, but the ice quickly froze a small bird perched on the branch. Minna watched as the bird froze and fell to the ground and shattered.
Radlow suddenly jumped up: "It's a snowfield monster!" He quickly grabbed Minna's hand and hid behind the nearest tree, and just as he left the spot, two white rays of light hit the ground where they were standing. The forest shimmered white, mixed with green and blue glow, and the sound of the wind and falling branches.
The forest suddenly darkened, the wind blew around, the leaves kept shaking, the sunlight seemed to be blocked out, and the forest gradually became cold.
"What happened?" Minna was a little dazed. In the depths of the forest, several more white lights shot out one after another, two of which passed through the bushes and shot in the direction of the town, and the sound of doors and windows closing and screaming and shouting were heard in the distance, and the people of the town were probably alarmed.
"It's the Snow Monster here." Radlow gritted his teeth, "How could the patrol not find out about letting them get here?" ”
Minna had heard of this beast: "But aren't they on the north side of the forest?" I listen to you...... Uncle said that they were north of Elven City, and they were still far from here. ”
"That was in the past, ten years ago they had already taken over the entire northern part of the Elven Forest, and sometimes they were only forty or fifty kilometers away. But how did they end up here? It's not winter, they're not at their strongest, and we have patrols! ”
A burst of blue light erupted from the depths of the forest, and then silence fell. The two children thought it was all right, and poked their heads out to look, but they were almost not frightened - a white light suddenly shot at them, Minna instinctively pulled Radlow and pounced, the white light hit the ground behind their feet, quickly freezing the entire ground and extending to the surrounding grass, Minna hid a little slower, and the shoe on her right foot was already frozen.
Radno quickly pulled her up and hid aside, and said, "Strange, why doesn't it have a definite direction......" Before the words fell, a female voice screamed from the depths of the forest, and Radno froze: "It's Mom!" He couldn't care about anything else, and jumped up to rush into the woods.
Minna hurriedly hugged him: "There are demonic beasts there, it's very dangerous!" "But my mom is there!" Radlow broke free of her hand and stumbled deeper into the woods, but he skilfully avoided the white light on the way.
Minna was outside, anxious, looking behind her, there was still some distance from the town, and the light in the forest was dark, she didn't know if she could escape with the white light flickering, and ...... Radlow was already her friend, how could she leave her friend and run away alone?
Minna, your grandfather is an epic hero, do you want to be a coward?
She looked in the direction in which Radlow had disappeared, took a deep breath, gritted her teeth, and rushed out. Just like when she came, she hid behind the tree all the way, avoiding two white rays of light. She quickly figured out the trick, those white lights have a certain height, and her small body like her, as long as she lies down or crawls on the ground, she will never be hit. In this way, she half-crouched and half-crawled to the place where the light was at its highest.
In the clearing in the forest, the woman in black that I had just seen was fighting with a demonic beast, she kept emitting blue or green light, hitting the demonic beast, obviously a kind of magic, but the lethality was not strong, and she could barely hold back the footsteps of the demonic beast.
That demonic beast is smaller than the silver wolf, but its whole body is covered with gray-white hard armor, its head is similar to that of a toad, its two big yellow eyes are constantly turning, a bloody mouth is large, sharp teeth are deep, and a mouth will spit out a cloud of liquid, hitting any object, it will make it freeze, it is the truth of that white light. The beast seemed to be injured, its body was shaking, and the white light it spit out to the woman in black often couldn't be seen accurately, but it caused all the flowers and plants in the forest to suffer.
Not far behind it, by the stump of a half-tree, there was a huge tail with a section of gray-white hard shell, and a foul black blood was flowing from the end, apparently cut from the demonic beast just now.
Minna hid behind a tree and soon found Radlow, who was dragging aside the white-clothed beauty, who seemed to have fainted.
Minna caught a glimpse of the monster spitting in the other direction, so she quickly slipped over to her friend, helped him drag the white-clothed beauty behind a big tree, and saw a large pool of green liquid flowing from her forehead, so she asked, "How is she?" ”
There was crying in Radlow's voice: "Mom is injured, hurry up and stop the bleeding." He hurriedly pulled a handkerchief from his body and tore his clothes, trying to wipe the blood from his mother's head.
Minna suddenly remembered the scar remover in her small satchel, I wonder if it is effective in treating injuries? She quickly took out the bottle, dipped it in a handkerchief, and covered the head of the beauty in white a few times. The wound gradually healed, but the bleeding did not completely stop.
Ladlow was overjoyed, hurriedly snatched the potion from Minna's hand, and poured almost half a bottle on her mother's forehead, this time the wound completely stopped bleeding, and the beauty in white gradually woke up. Suddenly, she tore the two children apart, and a three-foot-square light shield quickly formed in her hand, reflecting a white light onto the tree next to her. Minna was relieved to know that she had just escaped.
The white-clothed beauty's shield quickly disappeared, and she gasped with a pale face: "My magic power is almost exhausted, you guys run away and go to the patrol people." ”
"No, Mom, I will never leave you." Radlow hugged his mother violently, "I can help, I can ask the plants to help." He let go of his mother, pressed one hand on the trunk of the tree and the other on the grass, and gritted his teeth. I saw that the grass in the clearing in the forest and the vines on the trees suddenly grew wildly, entangled the hands and feet of the demonic beast, restricting its movement, and the woman in black took the opportunity to send a few wind arrows and poke a few more holes in its body. But her face was also gradually pale, and it was clear that she couldn't support it for long.
Although the beauty in white was pleasantly surprised by Radlow's performance, she saw the cold sweat on the child's forehead, and knew that he was just barely holding on, so she couldn't help but burst into tears: "Child...... Don't push yourself...... You have a future ......."
Radlow gasped: "No, Mom, I can ......"
The growth rate of grass and vines gradually slowed down, and the monster was about to break free. Minna looked at Radlow, whose face was getting paler and paler, and her heart was extremely nervous.
What can she do? She had to do something about it, too.
Rummaging through the bottles in my bag, they are all color-changing potions, and there is nothing to use, what should I do?
Hey? The golden-red potion didn't seem to be used to change color, she remembered...... It's fire venom juice! It's what was left over from Grandpa's creation of the Fire Poison Arrow! Grandpa Sennet had put it in a potions box in a special silver-capped crystal bottle, and she didn't know how to get it out.
Grandpa said that this poisonous juice can kill the Snow Monster. That's it!
She quickly took out the bottle of potion, looked left and right for something that could be used as an arrow, and was suddenly pressed on the head, and as the white-clothed beauty said "Be careful", a white light fell on the grass beside them, and in the blink of an eye, it froze the ground four or five meters square nearby. Minna felt a tingling pain in her right foot, as if she had been hurt by the cold, and hurriedly retracted her foot.
The white-clothed beauty was about to dodge with her two children, but at this time, the surrounding trees were almost all frozen, and they finally came to the back of a large tree slightly closer to the center, and Radlow gasped and began to control the grass vines to entangle the demonic beast again.
Minna found that several bottles that had been in the bag had been broken, and the potion seeped out, staining the satchel and the grass to change color, and suddenly had an idea. She looked up at the tree in front of her, then at the monster still spitting around, and at the other three pale and crumbling faces, took a deep breath, put the poison juice back in her bag, and began to climb the tree.
The beauty in white let out a soft cry, although she didn't understand what the child was going to do, she still barely stretched out the protective shield to protect her son, and occasionally sneaked up on the monster a few times to let her sister take a breath.
Holding back the pain in her foot, she instinctively felt that her solution would succeed, and she climbed the trunk of the tree, then turned to a thick branch facing the beast. Looking at the monster in front of her, her feet were a little weak.
Radlow seemed to understand what she wanted to do, and used the last of his strength to trap the beast in place. At that moment, Minna shuddered and took out the bottle of poison juice.
She doesn't have the accuracy of Ra, but she should be able to hit her target......
The crystal bottle landed on the monster along a parabola, and the hard carapace shattered the bottle, and the poisonous juice quickly seeped into its body. The monster felt a huge pain all over its body, let out a roar, and with it as the center, a strong wind blew around.
The branch under Minna shook, her heart tightened, and in the next second, the branch broke, and she fell down. And in front of her, the demonic beast was staring at her intensely, opening its bloody mouth.