Chapter Twenty-Nine: Missing Rong Ruo
Rong Ruo woke up from freezing, and as soon as she opened her eyes, she saw Lan Yue huddled up and leaning on top of her, and the quilt was kicked under the bed by herself.
She and Lan Yue slept in the same bed last night, anyway, the two of them are not big, and this single bed can sleep. Rong Ruo still knows this point that she doesn't sleep well, her senior brother will take care of her when she is in the Elf River, and Sophia will take care of her when she is at home, so she has never cared about this problem, and as a result, Lan Yue and her have been frozen all night at this time.
If Xinghe knew, she would definitely be angry, she thought like this, and got out of bed with some weakness to pick up her life to help Lan Yue cover it, just at this time the other party also sneezed, so she was even more weak-hearted, but fortunately, Lan Yue did not wake up, so she breathed a sigh of relief.
After picking up her coat from the bed and putting it on, Rong Ruo walked to the window, it was still early in the window, but the early morning light was enough for her to see far away, and the window of this room was facing the fountain in the small square, and she could observe many places in Saku Village.
Last night's snowfall had made the snow in the village a little thicker, and against the white snow, the village didn't look as dark as it looked last night, but it was still very deserted. Smoke rising from the chimneys of several houses in the village showed that the villagers had woken up from their sleep, but she didn't see anyone going out to take care of the snow in front of their houses and on the roofs.
"Rong Ruo, what are you looking at?"
Rong Ruo turned her head and saw Lan Yue, who had just woken up, she was rubbing her eyes and muttering, "It was so cold last night, what do you think?"
"yes. Rong Ruo replied with some humility. At the same time, she walked back to the bed, picked up her clothes, put them on, and put Pixar, who was still asleep, in her pocket, knowing that she was a heartless person in the eyes of many people, and that this little guy was no better than she was in this regard.
Lan Yue sneezed another while getting dressed, which made Rong Ruo even more heartbroken, she quickly sorted out her clothes, told the other party that she was going to wake up the others and hurriedly left the room.
She went to wake up the two sisters Xiaoxin and Xiaorou first, and then went to Xinghe's room, while her mind was calculating today's arrangement. Remnants of magic are a lot of things, there are yes, there are no, there are no, so it won't take too long to go to the homes of those who are missing to look for traces of magic.
However, if Pixar detects the residual magic, it may take a lot of time to reverse the magic, but it will also be available before noon, because it is also a very considerable thing, knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing. Regarding the fact that his magic foundation is not as good as his senior brother, Rong Ruo is still very self-aware.
After that, there are some people in the village who should know about the route and patrol area of the villagers into the forest, but depending on the situation in the village, it may take a lot of effort to negotiate. But Jasmine should know a lot, after all, his husband was also involved in the search and rescue operation. If she could, Rong Ruo still planned to convince everyone to go into the forest to explore, she didn't think it was so scary about the magic that made the villagers disappear (if it was magic), although her body was temporarily out of some problems, but she used to be very powerful.
As for waiting for Sophia to act again, she also knew that it would be much safer that time, but it would take time, even if Sophia and Dad had a special means of contact, from the time she passed the news to Daddy, and then Daddy immediately sent her brother over, and it would be a few days before the senior brother arrived here, and the fact that Cherly's predecessor had died was urging her to act quickly, so that she could not be calm.
Rong Ruo stopped the battle between heaven and man in her heart, and pushed open the door of Xinghe's room, to her surprise, Xinghe was not in the house, and she had already gotten up?
Of course, Rong would not say the slander in her heart, so she ran to the bedside, ripped off the quilt from Anton and Shigego, and walked out of the room amid their strange screams. Doing so made Rong Ruodi's mood much better, and she rushed down the stairs, ready to find Xinghe.
When Rong Ruo rushed to the first floor, the scorch marks on the floor attracted her attention, and her face suddenly turned pale. She hoped it was her delusion, just because she hadn't woken up yet, but the magic in the air was so pungent that she could feel it without Pixar.
Rong Ruo quickly ran back to the third floor, rushed back to Xinghe's room, ignored Anton's scolding voice, and walked to Xinghe's sleeping place. The quilt there remained open, and she reached under the quilt and felt a coldness.
She had already guessed what was happening, but for a moment she couldn't accept it in her heart, and in the midst of everyone's puzzled gaze, she rushed back to the first floor and woke Pixar up next to the scorch mark on the floor. From the mouth of the little goblin, she knew that this was a not-so-powerful elemental magic, an arc of electricity, which was released four or five hours ago.
Rong Ruo stood in place, staring at the remaining traces on the ground. Of course, she hoped that her judgment was wrong, but after being an agent at Valhalla for so long, she also knew that expectations were useless, useful evidence and results.
"Hey, what are you doing early in the morning?" Anton helped the handrail down the stairs.
Rong Ruo glanced back at him and said with a solemn expression, "Go and see if Jasmine is there?"
Anton didn't react, "What's wrong, what's wrong with her, oh, by the way, did you see the galaxy?"
"Go and see if Jasmine is still there!" Rong Ruo couldn't help but roar.
Anton was taken aback, and at this time the others also descended the stairs, and they apparently heard her shouting as well. Xiaorou asked her a little worriedly, "Rongruo, what's wrong?"
They were less sensitive to magic than they were, and they didn't notice the slightest trace of magic left in the air. However, she didn't have time to explain to them in detail, and directly said her conjecture: "Xinghe, it may be missing." ”
Lan Yue turned around and ran upstairs after hearing this, the others were shocked, and Anton laughed miserably and said, "Hey, Rong Ruo, aren't you joking again, this joke is not funny." He called out the name of the galaxy twice, but no one in the house answered him.
A few of them finally realized the seriousness of the matter, and Xiaoxin said, "I'll go find Jasmine." Then he also ran upstairs, and Lan Yue could be heard crying at the top of the stairs.
Rong Ruo led the rest of the people to search the first floor, but she found no trace of magic except for the only scorch mark left on the floor. There were no signs of a struggle in the house, only a small pit in the wall at the entrance of the staircase, as if it had been smashed by something, and judging from the wall powder, the small pit should have been newly smashed.
Half an hour later, all the children gathered in the living room of the house to sum up their findings. Xinghe is missing, it is a sure thing, his coat is still left in the upstairs room untouched, and Jasmine is missing with him.
In the kitchen they found two bowls of unfinished soup, one half-drunk, one untouched, and half-eaten brown bread. The doors and windows of the house are intact, there are no signs of intrusion, and combined with the findings in the kitchen, the people who come in are either put in or have the keys to the house.
As for Xinghe, he was supposed to be stunned at the top of the stairs, someone hit him with something but didn't hit him, and then stunned him with electric shock magic. The whole process must have been so fast that he didn't get out of the cry for help.
What kind of role Jasmine played in this process, Rong Ruo didn't know. Although it seems that Jasmine is just a poor person who has lost her husband and daughter, but after being an agent for so long, she knows very well that she can't judge a person by appearance, and under the available information, Jasmine's suspicion is not small.
Rong Ruo once again put forward the proposal to enter the forest, but this time it was not to find clues, but to find the galaxy, unlike before, this time it was unanimously approved.
However, Xinghe's disappearance also made Rong Ruo sober up a lot, one of their companions disappeared under her nose, and the danger of Saku Village was greater than she expected, it can be said that her single-mindedness caused Xinghe's disappearance.
Rong Ruo couldn't let the others go missing, and she was a little longing for her lost spell-casting ability. She has no regrets about saving Pixar, and if she were to go back in time, she would still choose to do so. If there's one thing you regret, it's probably to fool Pixar away from the Pale Tree.
Maruzat said that what belonged to her would not disappear, but that she could not use it for the time being, but when would she be able to use it? If she still had the same powerful spell casting ability as before, she could now protect everyone from such distress.
But she also knows that distress will not solve anything, and the most important thing now is to come up with a reasonable solution. They don't know the situation in the forest, they can't rush in, at least the people who enter the forest must have the ability to fight and not lag behind, and people need to be left outside the forest to receive reinforcements who don't know when to arrive.
Based on this consideration, Rong Ruo proposed the idea of dividing the troops, and the first to respond to her was Lan Yue, who said in a firm and unrefusable voice: "I'll go, I'm going to find my brother." ”
Originally, Rong Ruo wanted Lan Yue to stay outside, after all, she was not very good at magic and had not learned a magic so far, but she couldn't stop her, and her fist and foot kung fu seemed to be very powerful.
As for the others, Shigego, who doesn't know magic like Arazuki and can't do it yet, was put on the team left behind. Although Anton was fat, he didn't expect his skills to look okay, and he also learned a few fancy magics, so he was incorporated into the search team. As for Xiaoxin and Xiaorou sisters, they were divided into two sides because they knew a teleportation magic, Xiaoxin followed into the forest, and Xiaorou stayed outside the forest, and the two agreed to contact each other every hour.
After delineating the team, they counted the equipment they could use, four crystals that could provide shields, three for those who entered the forest, and one for the two who stayed behind. In addition, from Jasmine's house, they found two longbows for hunting, and a boning knife from the kitchen, and after distributing them, it was time for them to set off.