Chapter 5: The River Rises (part 2/3)
"Dean Bird, something happened" Bird, who was still asleep at this time, was directly awakened.
I saw Nishizawa, Mia, and a group of centaurs pushing open the door and squeezing in. Bird was also startled, and hurriedly got up, seeing everyone's panicked appearance, he hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"
"The water of the river outside the academy suddenly rose and began to spread in the direction of the academy" It was the first time Mia and the others had encountered this situation, but Mia calmed down a little and said, "We have discharged people to build an embankment outside the academy, but this is not a long-term solution, because the river is rising too fast."
Bird heard Mia say this, and quickly got up and walked out of the house before he had time to wash, and the sky was still bright and the stars could be faintly seen.
"When the centaurs who got up early to practice passed the river, they found that the water had begun to rise slowly. At first, the centaurs didn't pay attention, thinking that this was a customary hydrological change at the beginning of winter, but gradually they found that the river was rising too fast and too strangely, so they came to inform you" Along the way, Mia followed Bird's side and told Bird everything she already knew.
Bird hadn't gone far before he spotted a steady stream of men and horses moving blocks of earth and bricks to build a levee, and Antoine the Shepherd and Cory the Rook were already on the scene to command. Bird was about to complain that the embankment had been built a little too high, and when he took two steps forward, he realized that the river had actually spread to the stone path outside the college.
"At this rate, it will drown the academy in less than half an hourglass," Rook Corey reminded Bird.
"What is the reason for the cause" "It's not clear for the time being, we just didn't have a long time"
"Did you send someone out to check," Bird asked, turning to Mia.
"Not yet"
"Disperse all the wizards and send them out to see what is the cause of the cause."
"Yes" Mia hurriedly beckoned to the wizards who had arrived at the scene, and then returned to the academy to assign tasks.
"Has there ever been a similar situation in this big river before?" "I haven't encountered it, this is the first time" Crow Corey shook his head to indicate that it was the first time he had seen it, and Bird asked some other people around him, and they also shook their heads and said that it was the first time they had seen it, which was very strange.
"Nishizawa, you also follow those centaurs, and if you have any problems, you can take care of them at any time" Nishizawa was following Bird at this time, and he couldn't do anything at all, so he also sent him out, along with Nishizawa and the two black crow guards in the academy.
At the very moment when Bird arranged the manpower, the river spread up again at a speed visible to the naked eye, and indeed as Rook Cory said, at this rate half an hourglass would flood the entire academy.
Bird gritted his teeth and said to Rook Cory, "You contact the big crow and see if he has any solution", Bird shook his head and said, "No, you take me to find a black crow", Rook Corey hesitated a little, but finally nodded in agreement.
Seeing that Corey agreed, Bird handed over the damming and flood control to Erro, who had just arrived from Antoine, the shepherd.
"I will do my best to rush back, and if I find the source of this rising river during this period, then I will do my best to solve it. If the river rises and I haven't returned, then you should retreat to the high ground and wait for me to come back."
Antoine the Shepherd nodded in agreement, "Don't worry, I'll slow down the river," Antoine comforted Bird.
Bird turned and flew in the direction of the crow, and Antoine, the tree herdsman, wanted to follow, but now the situation was special and had to give up.
He also thought about leaving some tracking spell on Bird, but in the end he gave up, the risk was not proportional to the benefit.
"Go upstream first", Bird rode Rook Corey and just flew far before he told Rook Corey to go upstream first. Bird thought to himself that if he could solve this matter privately, without the help of the big black crow, he wouldn't owe the big black crow a favor.
But Bird was wasting his time in vain, with no source in sight, as if the rising river had grown out of the ground.
Seeing this, Bird had no choice but to give up his previous release, and flew in the direction where the big crow was under the leadership of the crow family.
"Why is it not going in the right direction?" Bird felt that the crow Corey was flying in a completely different direction, completely different from the way he had been sent back by the big crow before.
"It was only a temporary habitat before, and now I'm taking you to the real crow's lair," Bird quickly shut up when he saw Cory the crow say this.
The black crow Cory flew very fast, compared to the speed of the black purple horse that had brought Bird and the others back before, and Bird had other thoughts at this time.
The trees here were completely different from those Bird had ever seen, but were all red copper, from the trunk to the leaves, corresponding to the countless black crows in the sky.
As the crows flew in, some of the crows flew after them, and more of them stood in the trees and watched.
The copper grove was huge, and the crow family slowed down and moved back and forth in the woods, and from time to time Bird could see some of the crow's nests, some newborn fluffy crow cubs.
"It's coming" With a reminder from the crow family, a huge copper tree appeared in Bird's field of vision, and beside the huge copper tree grew countless trees as small as a person's arm, although I don't know what it was, but it was densely attached to the huge copper tree like a net.
The crow slowed down, but kept chirping as he flew, and in response to it, there were crows coming out of the huge copper tree, chirping, as if communicating something.
"The big black crow is in the hollow of the tree in front of you," the black crow Cory sped up sharply before he could finish speaking, but fortunately Bird held on tightly, otherwise he might have fallen all at once.
The hollow grows in a corner of a huge copper tree, and if you don't pay attention to it, you might overlook this place, the hollow is undoubtedly the same size, but it is only medium to small for the size of the crow.
And the direction of the crow Cory accelerated to fly towards the tree hole, just when he was about to touch the platform outside the tree hole, the crow Cory suddenly turned into a puff of black smoke, gently pushed Bird onto the platform, and then said "I'm waiting for you outside, I'll come to pick you up when I come out", Bird also saw the black smoke go around with him, and then flew into the distance.