Chapter Seventy-Two: The News I Heard in the Restaurant
Even though he hasn't been here for several months, Lin Jue does miss the delicacies of the Big Banyan Tree Restaurant, no matter how unappetizing the dishes here are, compared to the food made by humans in this world, these vegetarian dishes without oil and water in the Big Banyan Tree Restaurant are already delicious.
Lin Jue's staple food is a mushroom pot, which tastes sweet, and the feeling of eating it is more like tasting a cake-like dessert.
The drink I ordered here last time was mead, and this time is no exception, after all, the elf's menu is translated in Chinese, at least according to Lin Jue's experience of this world, he can only understand the meaning of the name of this drink.
However, Lin Jue, who visited this restaurant this time, did not pay attention to the deliciousness, and today he felt that there were other things that attracted his attention more than food.
As soon as he stepped into the restaurant, Lin Jue noticed something. Although the atmosphere of the restaurant was still relaxed and cheerful, all the elves had sad faces on their faces.
Such an obvious feature is naturally eye-catching, in fact, not only Lin Jue, but also other people, the strangeness of these elves, driven by curiosity, everyone is attentive.
Fortunately, the elves did not intend to deliberately hide such sadness, and when Lin Jue and the others were dining, they listened to the chats between the elves, and probably understood the things that made them sad.
Something strange seems to have happened in the Elven Kingdom, although it is strange, but nothing major has happened in the Elven Kingdom recently, as usual, the Elven Kingdom has been enveloped in a peaceful atmosphere, and nothing has changed in this peaceful place.
The reason for their sorrow is precisely because of the peace of the elven kingdom, and this time the calm is somewhat abnormal and unpredictable.
There has been a strange phenomenon in the Elven Kingdom recently, and there seems to be something wrong with the Kingdom's communication with the outside world.
This is not to say that the elven kingdom has been cut off from the outside world, it can be said that it is difficult to explain.
Although the elves have no quarrel with the world, it does not mean that they will not have contact with the outside world.
Perhaps in the eyes of everyone, elves represent longevity, beauty, handsomeness, wisdom, and tranquility, after all, this is the first impression of this mysterious and noble race from the outside world, after all, the vast majority of elves are like this, which is understandable, so people will summarize this race with these words.
Perhaps because of this, even though the elves are almost indistinguishable from humans in appearance, people prefer to separate them from humans, after all, they have no resemblance to humans in personality.
In fact, these are just wishful thinking on the part of people from the outside world who don't know about the elves, and in fact, there is nothing wrong with such a view, but it is also incorrect.
In fact, elves and humans can be compared, in fact, the two races have too many similarities. The elves, before they grow up to a hundred years old, are completely no different from humans during this period of time, they will still be sad, sad, happy, laughing for a trivial matter, and they will still be enthusiastic, not as the outside world understands.
When the elves reach the age of 100, their mentality changes dramatically, and they become no different from the elves in the human understanding.
Just like a young man, and an old man in his last years, among the elves, one hundred and two hundred years old, there is not much change in the body, the only thing that has changed may be their state of mind, one grows in childishness, and the other dies in maturity.
And the reason why people in the outside world have such an illusion is because of some of their characteristics, such as longevity, and poor reproductive ability, to put it bluntly, the elves are aging very seriously.
The elves' reproductive ability is very poor, resulting in a very large population difference between them and humans for thousands of years, perhaps the population of the entire elven kingdom is not as large as the number of registered residents of the Orlante kingdom in Oasis City.
It is precisely because of the sparse population and extremely poor breeding ability that the number of elves under the age of 100 in the same era may be less than 1,000.
Perhaps when God gave the elves the advantage of longevity, they deliberately deprived them of their reproductive ability for the sake of balance, so that after this time, most of the elves were after the age of 100 years old, resulting in only a very small part of the elves having the same heart as humans.
And this part of the elves who are in their youth, compared to the quiet elven kingdom, they yearn for the world outside the forest, and the human beings who have a lot in common with them have naturally become the first target they yearn for, even though in the eyes of most elves, human beings are more unbelievable than dwarves.
Elves under the age of 100 yearn for the outside world, and young elves yearn for the west coast of the Haber Continent where humans are located, to communicate with humans, and there are definitely a lot of elves in human territory.
This strange phenomenon may have to start from half a year ago, when the fleet of the Orlante Kingdom first arrived in the Eastern Continent.
At this time, the elves discovered a strange thing, all the compatriots who returned to the elven kingdom from the human world from that time, no matter how big or small, have never returned to Dawning City since they set foot on the way home, not a single one.
Gradually, everyone began to wonder if something had happened to the elven kingdom, otherwise how could no one have returned.
But this suspicion is untenable, because although none of the compatriots who returned to the elven kingdom since that time have returned, there are other compatriots who have set out from the elven kingdom and come to the human world.
They informed the newcomers of their doubts, and the answer they received was that the elven kingdom was still the same as before, unchanged.
If something really happened to the Elven Kingdom, it was impossible for these compatriots who had just left the Elven Kingdom not to know about it.
To this day, although he still can't figure out what happened, Lin Jue can come to a conclusion from all the known circumstances and what happened to Tulip, and he can come to a conclusion that the elf kingdom is closed by the jungle goblins, and he can't enter or exit.
It's just that the elves don't know this, although they vaguely feel that something is wrong, because the information they have is not a little worse than Lin Jue's, and it is impossible to think that far away without any basis, and it is even more impossible to think that the powerful elf kingdom will be cut off by the jungle goblins who are supposed to help them defend the frontier.