36. Deer race
"Wake up... Hey, wake up, little Tang Ze. ”
“... Hmm, Dad, I'm sleepy. I'll call me later, before I can go to school..."
“......”
Asuka Tang Ze of the Lost Lake turned over and wanted to sleep again, but in just a second, she suddenly realized something, and her mind immediately sobered up a lot, and she sat up suddenly, looked at her side, and was squatting on the whale species hook kiss that looked quite helpless, so frightened that she took a step back and said,
"Ahh I'm sorry... I'm asleep in the lake, Mr. Hookkiss. ”
"It's okay, hey, eat this, you might use it later. We've already arrived at the Tree Continent, but it's not dawn yet, so it's okay for you to rest for a while. ”
"Oh... Oh. ”
Asuka Karasawa took the language gel handed over by Hook Kiss, and under his guidance, inhaled the transparent gel into her abdomen, and as her head became a little bit of a crystal line, her language could be understood by others, and at the same time, she could understand the words of other races.
In fact, just like the brain demon seed, as long as one of the people present eats it, it can ensure the smooth communication of the whole team, but in order to avoid someone being left alone or other special accidents, Helaire still prepares such things for everyone, anyway, Michael Angel is probably not short of these things.
Tang Ze Asuka was like swallowing a bundle of mint raw, from her chest to her brain, it was terribly cold, and she exhaled a few breaths of hot air before she eased up.
Hook Kiss went to the other side after giving her something, and at this moment, Tang Ze Asuka finally had a chance to look around, they seemed to have landed in a dense primeval jungle, the big tree next to it was thick and tall, twenty or thirty meters high, and between the lush green leaves, Tang Ze Asuka could see the dimness outside that was just before the dawn, and the huge world tree that was changing from translucent to golden.
This impactful picture instantly pulled Asuka Karasawa out of her ordinary life for the past seventeen years, and it wasn't until she fell to the earth at this moment that the difference between the two worlds was fully revealed.
She sat stunned and wiped her eyes, then sat up from the ground, in this quiet and peaceful jungle, Mihayel was sitting on the ground studying the map of the Tree Continent, roughly confirming their current location, while Helier was nowhere to be found, it seemed that Mihayel was more like the leader of this "birthday celebration" team in comparison.
"Good morning, Mr. Mikhaill."
"Well, good morning."
Mikhail was boiling water in the cup he had brought, and replied to her without raising his head, while the hook kiss in the distance was looking at the river with his waist bent over, and after making sure that the river could lead to the ocean, he took out the envelope in his bosom and put it in the water.
"Mr. Hookkiss, are you delivering a letter to your family... Can it go back automatically if it is thrown in the water like this, and how does it do it? ”
Tang Ze Asuka squatted on the edge of the river, looking at the envelope that sank into the water, not only was not crumpled by the water at all, but burst out with a little blue fluorescence, and then was carried forward by the river,
"I put some unique markings on it that are unique to our whale species, which can hear a lot of sounds that other creatures can't, so we can even communicate with most of the non-sapient creatures in the ocean."
Hook Kiss clapped his hands and stood up, and explained to Asuka Karasawa with a smile,
"My ancestors trained these creatures long ago to make our lives very convenient. For example, I often train a creature called the Haiqing Crab to be a mount, and it is a very large and friendly crab. Later, if you have a chance, I can give you one, and it's very cool to ride it! ”
“......”
Asuka Karasawa had a reluctant expression, even for a person from another world, it was a bit too strange to ride a very large crab as a mount, I'm afraid that only a guy with a clear brain circuit like Mr. Hookkiss would like this kind of thing.
She smiled, shook her head and declined,
"This is still... By the way, Mr. Hookkiss, where is Mr. Fisher, why didn't I see him? ”
"Hey, my wife doesn't like the crabs either, but I think... Forget it, don't talk about that. Fisher's words, he seems to be alone over there, he doesn't know what he's doing, he just says that he has something to do, you go and see. ”
"Hey, okay."
Asuka Karasawa stood up and walked slowly in the direction pointed by Hook Kiss, and finally saw Fisher's very deep hidden half of his body in the shade of a large tree, of course, she saw Fisher with an extremely obvious magic circuit on his limbs, he seemed to be engraved with something... On a leaf?
As Tang Ze Asuka looked at it, she saw Fisher's carving knife fall delicately and accurately on every inch of the leaf, which was extremely light and fragile, and landed a faint but strange ripple.
"Winter... Winter... Winter..."
"Something?"
For some reason, Tang Ze Asuka's ears seemed to ring the crisp sound of wooden fish that her father often knocked in her home Senju Temple, but in the next second, she was immediately interrupted by Fisher's words in front of her, she quickly stood up, and Fisher in front of her had stopped carving magic, and deliberately blocked the leaves with her wide palm.
Tang Ze Asuka read the cover of his body language, and suddenly lost her sense of proportion, feeling that it was her gaze that did not greet in advance that offended Fisher, so she hurriedly apologized,
"I'm sorry... I just, just saw Mr. Fisher's body light up... Soul? ”
Looking at her cautious appearance, Fisher also realized that maybe his cover-up just now was a little blunt and unkind, so he put the leaf in his pocket, looked at the magic circuit on his arm that was extinguished a little, and nodded,
"That's right, you have it on yours, you saw it that night."
"Well, did Mr. Fisher say that night... My soul is no deviation from the humans of this world, but why does Mr. Fisher's magic circuit look so strange? ”
“......”
Fisher didn't expect her to notice this deviation, after all, she should be a layman who didn't know anything about it, she didn't expect her to have such delicate observation, hesitated for a moment, Fisher didn't explain too much, he just said,
"I'm a little different from other humans, otherwise I wouldn't be so much stronger than them. But the magic circuits of humans other than me are the same as yours, and the magic circuits of each race are different, which symbolizes the difference in their souls. ”
"That's right..."
Tang Ze Asuka was obviously still confused, but Fisher didn't mean to say more.
It wasn't that he was too stingy with knowledge, or he wouldn't have been generous enough to teach Rafael and Jasmine magic before, but what he was really worried about was a problem for those who were transferred.
Babble.
He had known that the transferred people had been bewitched by the whispers from outside the world, so he had obtained the forbidden knowledge recorded in the manual, and he couldn't be sure of the specific process of these whispers targeting the transferred people, but his intuition told him that it was definitely not as simple as the auditory hallucinations that appeared in his ears when the soul completed the manual out of control, it was the consequence of his reading the forbidden knowledge that led to the reduction of his mind, not the whispering itself that gave the forbidden knowledge...
Before he figured out the principle of this matter, he actually planned to keep a polite distance from Asuka Karazawa, after all, the matter of fate was too mysterious, and there was room for explanation.
On the positive side, it may be that it is precisely because of his appearance that he brought about the magic that does not exist in this era, which gave birth to the birth of the "Magic Secretary", forming a closed loop of time; On the other hand, this is another opportunity, an opportunity for oneself to correct the many disasters that have caused future generations.
In short, neither Renee nor herself knows much about this mysterious and mysterious rules of fate, at least for the moment, the less things to do, the better.
Asuka Karasawa couldn't know what he was thinking at the moment, the immature young girl was still struggling with whether her rash action just now was offensive or not, and the natural sensitivity of women made her feel Fisher's extremely faint trace of alienation, but she didn't know the specific reason for it, and of course she couldn't say anything to alleviate this feeling.
She glanced at Fisher secretly, and the sound of the wooden fish ringing in her ears just now was like a hallucination in her ears when her heart was beating faster, and just as she was about to say something, an extremely comfortable voice suddenly came from the tree behind her,
"Ah, I have to say, the air in the Tree Continent is really fresh. The sun on the ground is also much better than the Sanctuary, not bad. ”
"Huh?"
Tang Ze Asuka looked up when she heard this, but saw the barefoot Herer slowly floating down with his hands behind his back, it turned out that Herel had been staying on it just now, no wonder Tang Ze Asuka had never seen her.
Fisher also stood up, glanced at Helaire, and complained,
"Don't you angels need to breathe and feel the freshness of the air?"
"Absolutely... Or rather, only an angel like me who loves life and doesn't focus on forging can. Other angels were too attracted by the rules of creation, and seekers like them had a little private interest, such as Angel Michael, but that was not enough. You have to be like me and enjoy life and everything with all your heart. ”
“... So, we can go? ”
"Of course you can, but you still need a little preparation, like a water source or something. Little girl, can you please help me get some water, just the river, don't worry, the water here is very clean. ”
If Heraire asked Fisher to do it, he would never move, but unfortunately, Tang Ze Asuka looked like "no problem", patted her chest and took the four buckets handed over by Helaire and ran to the river to fetch water, looking hard-working, and Fisher also glanced at the surrounding jungle and asked,
"From here to the World Tree, you should pass through a lot of elven feudal countries, I don't believe that you can pass through these countries casually... After all, it sounds like the elves you are talking about the 'etiquette', and they should hate unruly people like you. ”
"Well, that's right, so I don't think the elves and I get along. And I can't make a casual move along the way, I represent the Holy Domain, and there will be serious consequences if I make a move in the Tree Continent, so I can only rely on you guys to show your magical powers along the way. ”
"Huh."
Working with an angel like Herel was definitely not a blessing, at least that's what Fisher felt, and any of Heriel's actions had no effect other than fun and blood pressure raising, giving him a lot of headaches.
Just as now, she crouched by the river and watched the fish swim in it, and she had to poke the tail of the fish with her mischievous hand, and then force it to the door of the other predators' lair, and then when the predators thought that the food had been delivered to the door, Herel picked up the innocent little fish again, and dragged the larger predator fish out and dragged it to the shore.
"It seems to me that you just want to enjoy the trip more purely if you don't make a move, and you're here for a vacation."
Fisher sighed, pessimistic about the trip, and Helaire heard his sigh, and immediately turned his head to look at him with a smile, and said,
"That's right, but unfortunately there is no reward... But I'm not completely unemployed, we're going to meet him in Tsubaki's palace now, and he will give the elven king a signal of our arrival, so that we will have the customs clearance paperwork, and there is a high probability that an elf messenger will come to pick us up. ”
She lifted the predator void that had been dragged ashore, and laughed out loud as she watched it struggle in mid-air.
"Moreover, being my bodyguard is not completely in vain, I am not an angel who is good at drawing cakes, of course I will come up with a little practical payment..."
"For example, can I help you advance to the Mythic Rank?"
Fisher opened his mouth slightly, and was speechless for a moment, and the fish in Heriel's hand, which he turned to look back, also swinged to the ground, and she then waved it back into the water, causing a ripple.
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......
Besides, Asuka Karazawa, who carried a few kettles to the rivers upstream to fetch water, unscrewed the cap of the kettle and then aimed it at the flowing river, waiting for the kettle to fill automatically.
The plants around her grew wide, just half a human high, obscuring the view of their resting place in the distance, Tang Ze put his hand in the water, feeling the slightest coolness brushing the back of his hand, and within a few seconds, she saw several translucent round things in the water, as if they were the body of the river, poking out of the water with half their heads, looking at her stupidly, blinking incessantly.
At first, Tang Ze Asuka thought that thing was some kind of bug, which startled her, and quickly took out the kettle in her hand, but the round little thing in the water did not look surprised at all, but kept looking at her, and the flowing river seemed to be one with them, filling their round bellies into bubbles and gurgling out.
These creatures... It's like the water itself, it's magical.
"What are you?"
Asuka Karasawa tentatively stretched out her hand to the little thing in front of her, and the group of round things lying in the water glanced at her fingers, and then slowly put her head on her fingers, which were as cold and slippery as water balloons, and it was very decompressing to pinch.
"Goo."
They shouted so cutely that Asuka Karasawa rubbed their heads again.
"They're water spirits, haven't you seen them before?"
"No, we don't... Ay? ”
Suddenly there was a gentle female voice with a strange tone in her ears, Tang Ze Asuka subconsciously replied, but soon realized that something was wrong, she looked up, and saw a somewhat strange-looking creature standing on the other side of the river.
It was a half-humanoid female creature with a somewhat short stature, with obvious feminine characteristics, the overall height was only about 1.6 to 1.7 meters, except for the face, she was covered with a layer of brown hair, and the lower body was a petite body with four hooves, like a fawn, looking timidly at Asuka Karasawa in front of her.
She wore a linen robe on the upper half of her body, and held a long wooden stick in her hand, the end of which was attached to a basket, which seemed to contain something, and her face was immature, and she looked much younger than Asuka Karazawa, with a pair of long, hairy ears on each side of her cheeks, no horns on her head, and black hair tied up in a standard hairstyle.
Asuka Karasawa has never seen such an existence at all, even in her world, such inhuman works are not popular, and this time she can be scared enough, and she sat on the ground and screamed,
"Ahhh Don't come here! ”
"Goo!"
Several innocent water spirits in her hands were lifted up by her movements, and the fat Dudu's body spun around in mid-air a few times and fell into the water, swimming away in the distance with a "coo".
At the same time, the frightened Tang Ze Asuka subconsciously recalled the state when Fisher helped her activate the magic circuit that night, and the magic circuit on her body also lit up little by little, making the deer-like girl in front of her also think that she had hit a ghost, and screamed as soon as her hooves flipped over.
"Ahhh
A few people in the distance immediately ran over when they heard this, and they saw Tang Ze Asuka and another strange creature half human and half deer lying on each side of the river, and they were all scared enough.
Hellel smiled and looked at the half-human, half-deer girl with her teeth and claws, and said,
"That's right, we're all ghosts, we're here to eat you!"
"Ahhhh Father! ”
Hook Kiss sighed, and quickly turned to Helaire and said,
"Don't make a fuss, Hellaire Angel, this is the deer race, a sub-species of the Tree Continent, generally the retainers of the elves, because the elves believe that the deer people are a symbol of luck... This deer species is still so small, and it is impossible for it to come out alone. ”
Fisher didn't answer, he just kept staring at the poor fawn man who was crawling and sobbing on the ground, as if he had seen something interesting, and he couldn't take his eyes off it for a while.
It seems that there are many differences with the centaur breed, such as hair or something?
And Mikhail, who was silent behind him, flashed the fluorescence in front of his eyes, and he immediately looked around with a change of face, and whispered,
"Nearby... There are a lot of people. ”
Fisher slowly took his eyes off the little deer girl, glanced at Asuka Karasawa again, and then looked at the dense forest around him, and in the light of the sky, he clearly saw the shadows standing in the forest and approaching.