Chapter 64: The Needle of Memories
The people at the table of "......" looked at the talus that had completely stopped, not knowing how to calculate it.
Fayle shrugged his shoulders and said, "He moved all of a sudden, and you can hit it so coincidentally?" I didn't touch the table or this guy the whole time. β
"I didn't touch ...... either," Diarrando was the first to raise his hands that had not been placed on the table to show his innocence.
Zoya and Dan also raised their hands, only Kantu looked at the small bone sculpture on the table with a complicated face and was silent.
"If both parties agree, we can re-bet on it. Dan looked left and right, asking for the opinions of the two participants.
Before Diarrando could speak, Cantu, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly waved his hand: "No need, everything is predestined." Since fate has arranged so, then I will follow its instructions. I need to talk to him individually. β
With that, Cantu stood up and walked outside. His goal is the balcony outside the restaurant, where the rising sun has just jumped out of the water, and the golden morning sun illuminates the entire floating city in a gorgeous and dreamy way, and the scenery is so picturesque that people can't help but want to stay here for a long time.
Diarrando followed him and walked to the balcony, where the two of them stood at the water's edge, which was more than a dozen feet above the sea, and was empty above and below, not afraid of overheard.
"I see something moving the talus......" As soon as Cantu's words came out, Diarrando was shocked. In fact, he also saw that the sudden standing up of the Dreadhorn King was just a cover-up, and it was other forces that really made the talus move. If he guessed correctly, it should be Queen Allen who is secretly helping.
"What do you want to say?" Dearlando neither admitted nor denied. Instead, ask the other person rhetorically. Anyway, he was ready to get the result from this elf at all costs, even by any means.
Kantu raised his hand to the east and said slowly, "You see, the sunrise you see here is almost exactly the same as what you see in White Murdy." The sunrise seen today is the same as it was 2,000 years ago. When I first designed and planned that city with my teachers, I knew that someone would come and ask me for answers one day, so whatever caused the result, the result was the result. β
Dearrando immediately asked hopefully, "What is the Needle of Memory, and where can I find it?"
Kantu shook his head: "The Needle of Memories is not visible, it is just a coordinate, an anchor point. This allows you to combine it with other pointers to find the real place where the compass is stored. Do you know the secret of White Moody?" the blonde elf looked at Deirlandor with a sly smile. That seemed to mean that he was to be tested.
In order to save time, Diarrando directly told the secret he had discovered: "Standing on the top of the rock of the highest peak behind the Dome of the Rock, you can see the whole White Moody at sunrise. If you look at it with the dragon's gaze, you will find two particularly densely populated places, like two pointers. Anything else?"
The elf nodded: "It looks like you came prepared." My teachers had a drawing left behind by the dragon. When they were planning the city. Special ores and potions are buried in the ground, so that the people who live there will be very healthy and happy. So naturally, two particularly densely populated areas are formed. Of course, this effect is very subtle, and no one will realize that we are interfering with their living tendencies. β
"As for the architecture, in fact, the golden core and the red tile cloister of White Murdy were built with our participation, and you know, humans still like to listen to the advice of the elven architects, so of course we can make the city evolve in the direction we want. β
"Then where did you hide your things after all the effort, I really don't have time to listen to the history of White Moody slowly!" Diarrando was a little anxious, and couldn't help but interrupt the other party.
"You don't have a good temper, you don't know the cause and effect, how can you know the correct way to retrieve the Needle of Memory?" Cantu shook his head dissatisfiedly, his golden curls fluttering in the sunlight, reflecting a blinding light.
Seeing that the other party was not in a hurry, Dierlando's hand holding the railing clenched involuntarily, and then he grabbed a large section of the railing carved out of white marble. Dearlando immediately let go of his hand, but it was too late, and the artwork carved with beautiful dolphins and mermaids and corals was broken into three sections.
"Ah...... I'm sorry. β
"Forget it, I'll re-carve it when I go back, this thing has been here for more than three hundred years, and I'm tired of seeing it. Cantu waved his hand to tell Deirrando not to care, and then began to continue talking about the Needle of Memory: "Actually, I lost a very important thing to the Dreadhorn King back then, and without that, I wouldn't have been able to find the Needle of Memory. β
"Huh!?, what's that?" asked Deirlando, surprised.
"It was a small monocle, which turned out to be my belongings, with a set of coordinates etched on it, and when I wore it, I could immediately mark the proportions and heights of the surrounding terrain. One time I was drunk and made a bet with the Dreadhorn King, and I forgot what I bet, but I lost my glasses. β
"Are those glasses still in the hands of the Dreadthorn King? How can I use them to find the Memory Needle?" Diarlando thought about it, he didn't seem to see any glasses on the Dreadthorn King, and he couldn't figure out what secret place he had kept them, so where could he find them now?
"We have one for each of our elven architects, and my two teachers have for them, but they have been dead for many years, and their relics are probably no longer to be found. When you stand at the point where you can see the sunrise pattern, aim the dot in the center of the clock with the dot in the center of your glasses and look at the angle between the other two needles. Adjust the height and orientation of the head so that the pointer formed by the crowd and the two rays on the glasses are aligned, and observe the diffracted light reflected by sunlight from the lens. β
"At the end of that light is where the needle of memory is buried. Cantu gestured as he spoke, but Diarrando didn't understand it when he finished speaking.
"Since you know where it is buried, it would be nice to dig up there, why use this glasses to locate it?"
"Haha, do you think that the burial place is fixed? Let me tell you, it is not a dead thing that holds the Needle of Memory, but a half-living organism that has its own growth and operation cycle. It is closely related to the sun and the tides. We didn't know the specific rules of the thing's growth, but we adjusted it according to the dragon's arrangement. β
Dearlando asked curiously, "What half-life?"
Cantu smiled, pulled out the carving knife on his body and carved a vine-like structure on the stone next to him: "It looks like a petrified ancient giant vine plant, if you break it, it will also look like a stone, but in fact it will move and grow slowly, about a few inches a year, called away the vine stone." β
"If you can only move a few inches a year, wouldn't you lose it if you look at it every year?"
"Yes, it would be nice if it were that simple, but every ten years, this thing will molt a lot, leaving a relatively small active part, and then run in the mountains for a while, find a random place to continue to grow slowly. β
"Wait...... If it were a creature, wouldn't the needle of memory you bury it have been excreted or shed by its molt?"
Cantu shook his finger and signaled to Dillando that he was wrong: "Have you forgotten, I just said that the Needle of Memories cannot be seen, it is not an object, but a memory. I don't know how the dragon put that memory into the body of the vine stone, anyway, if we can find it, we can activate its memory, get a coordinate, and use that coordinate, and pull the line with the coordinates of the fixed point of Bai Modi's two pointers, and we can find the place where the dragon put the compass. β
"Oh...... Do you know what a compass do?" Dearlando suddenly realized that Cantu knew exactly what he was looking for.
The elf laughed cheerfully and tried to pat Dearrando on the shoulder, but suddenly realized that he couldn't touch it and withdrew his hand. "Ha, there are too many things that you humans don't know, in fact, this secret should be heard by elves over four thousand years old, and elves over four thousand five hundred years old have even been there. You're looking for the Forgotten Island, which used to be open to everyone, but then the Feather Clan stole the knowledge stored there, and it became a place that had to be found by a compass. β
He saw Deirlando's "how do you know" expression and smug explained, "Because I'm a proud protΓ©gΓ© of Amo and Lalati, and the two of them are one of the few elves who have been to the Forgotten Isle." It's a pity I didn't get a chance to go there once, I heard that there is a strange building there with a lot of magical things in it. If you find the compass, be sure to take me with you. That's what I'm going to do for you, how?"
Dearlando nodded in agreement: "Okay, it's a word." But the question at the moment is, how to find your little glasses. β
Cantu picked up his hand and thought for a moment and said, "I guess the Dreadhorn King will put his glasses in the treasure room of his Sky King City, after all, that city hangs high in the sky, and no one can approach it without permission. He knows the value of what I have, so he will definitely treasure it. Now the question is how to find the city of Klayati......"
"No need to look for it...... It crashed into the beach of Lalando...... Let's get there. Diarlando scratched at his hair, thinking that it was a good thing it wasn't far away. (To be continued......)