Lunch time is over.
"Are we... locked up here?"
Al sat on the bed with his legs folded and shivered.
It was a well-decorated double bedroom, and the bed was so soft that it didn't seem like a place for a prisoner to sleep.
But the emotions that the dark elf showed in an instant just now, no matter how simple the character of this high elf is, he can clearly feel that he is being "threatened".
"Sure enough, the stories that grandma told are true... We must be sold later." Al covered his long ears and seemed unwilling to accept the fact that he had fallen into the "thief's den" "Obviously I still Didn't finish the bar mitzvah."
"not yet."
Branch and leaves are not as flustered as Al, she came to the window of this bedroom and pushed the window open easily.
But the scenery outside the window is a bustling street, and the lively human voices outside are no different from bad news in the ears of Zhi Ye.
The windows were not locked and the door was open, so the dark elves clearly did not intend to put them under house arrest.
What is that dark elf trying to do? Or... what are these humans trying to do
Branches and leaves hid in the shadows of the windows and carefully observed those humans.
Although she kept her calm in front of Al, she couldn't deny that Zhiye couldn't think of a solution to the current situation.
"Al, do you remember what Grandma Enya said?"
Although Zhiye has read many books related to human beings, only the older elves have the real experience of contacting human beings.
"It's humans who will strip you naked and throw you into the iron cage." Al recalled carefully and then said, "Then force you to do all kinds of excessive things."
Without a word, Zhiye walked to the bookshelf in the bedroom, which was filled with various books. Zhiye hoped to find records related to the city from these books.
But her eyes were quickly attracted by a primitive spar, and in that primitive spar was sealed a leaf, a leaf of the tree of the world.
"Part of the holy tree."
Zhiye picked up the original spar and figured it out.
"Are the branches of the holy tree also cut down by those humans to make props?"
Al stared at the original spar with the leaves sealed in the branches and leaves, as if he was witnessing some kind of atrocity.
Al seemed to have made up his mind when he saw the "corpse" of the World Tree.
"Leave the branches to me here, you go to find the ice dragon and ask him to rescue the elder."
Silver-white inscriptions appeared on Al's hand, not only beside her, but also a lot of inscriptions on Al's cheeks and arms.
This is the proof that Al is protected by the holy tree, and it may be the reason why this girl dares to be so unscrupulous.
Although Al's combat experience is basically zero, she can inscribe inscriptions on all wooden objects, thereby summoning powerful "golems".
This summoning magic takes a long time to chant.
And half of the building is made of woodwork.
"Be safe." Branch Ye knew that this was the only solution.
The branches and leaves used magic power to attach to the original spar, ready to smash the original spar, and then take out the leaves of the world tree inside.
But this time the infusion of magic power not only did not smash the original spar, but also activated the original spar.
The light shone through the palms of Zhi Ye's hands and shone on the bookshelf in front of him.
For a moment, branches and leaves thought that they had activated some offensive magic, but when the light on the bookshelf gradually stabilized.
Only then did she see clearly that there was a painting on the bookshelf... a moving painting.
Al, who was singing a spell, was also attracted by the projection above.
"Frost... elves?"
Branch and Leaf recognized that the figure in the painting was a female frost elf.
The frost elf was sitting in a room facing them, and there was a white cat lying on the long table in front of the frost elf.
"That is the consciousness of the holy tree." Al recognized the white cat in an instant, and it was the same kind of existence as the white bird embodied by their family's tree of the world.
The atmosphere around the frost elf was… dim, and the lights around it were deliberately lit with candles, an ancient lighting tool.
There was even a stack of ancient books and a decayed human skull on the table.
The whole room was filled with a mysterious and eerie atmosphere. When the white cat lying on the table disappeared, there was a creepy feeling in the whole room!
Sure enough, as Al said, after capturing their kin, did those humans do something excessive to their kin
"Al, did those humans record these images?"
Zhiye looked worriedly at the frost elf sitting behind the long table.
The high elves also have some original spar stones that can play images, but those are creatures of their own family, recording some great things that their ancestors had done.
Branch and leaves did not expect that this great recording ceremony has not only been mastered by humans, but also used to record these things.
"Zhiye, can you close that original spar?" Al stopped singing the incantation while looking at the strange atmosphere on the screen.
The eerie atmosphere around the frost elves made Al more sure of the authenticity of the stories told by the elders.
She could almost imagine what terrible scene would happen next.
But Zhiye didn't listen to Ar's dissuasion. She hoped to get more information from this image. Maybe this frost elf would ask someone for help
"Well… "
Facing the silence of the branches and leaves, Al let out a whimper, and he could only close his eyes and concentrate on chanting the magic of the golem summoning, so as to prevent himself from falling into those illusions of persecution.
What will happen? Was he beaten with a whip, or was he thrown in a cage naked as Al said? Or something worse.
When Zhiye guessed what happened to this poor frost elf, a genial smile appeared on her face, and then she waved her hand.
There were no humans, and there was no strange torture. The frost elf seemed to greet everyone enthusiastically.
"Good evening everyone, I'm Taelin, it's one o'clock in the morning." Frost Elf glanced at the yellowed paper in her hand and said.
"I'm not going to share stories about the dead with you in the early hours of today. I recently received a particularly interesting story, which should have been more appropriate for Mr. Prouck to tell, but for reasons I like so much , so I want to tell the first one first, the name of the story is "Scarlet Research", which is a story about using knowledge and reasoning to solve various ... cases."
Wait... what's going on
Branch and leaves waited patiently for a while, and found that no human came out to do anything excessive to this frost elf.
She just sat there with a pile of paper and told the story on it.
"Open... Has it started?" Al opened his eyes slightly and glanced carefully at the projected picture.
"Al, the situation of this frost elf seems to be different from the story told by Grandma Enya." Zhiye said.
While Al was chanting the spell, he looked at the frost elf in the picture again.
Although the layout of the rooms around her was very strange, there were no chains or scars on the frost elf.
Branch and leaves waited patiently and listened to the story narrated by the frost elves for a while, and found that what was told was that after a man named "Watson" returned from the battlefield, he was going to find a strange man named Sherlock Holmes to share the lease.
There are too many nouns that Zhiye can't understand, and the knowledge of magic and alchemy mixed together makes Zhiye sound a little headache.
"Al..."
Zhiye lost patience and was about to stay by Al's side. After she summoned the golem, she would take Al to escape.
But when she was about to stop pouring magic power into the original spar, the next line of dialogue on the screen made Zhiye's movements pause for a moment.
"It can be seen that you have been to the country of black sand."
It was supposed to be a dialogue spoken by a wise man, but it was a little awkward to say it in the voice of an elf woman, but this did not prevent the curiosity of branches and leaves.
At the point of the story, when the branches and leaves listened the most carefully, it narrated that Watson had participated in the war against the country of black sand.
Judging from the description of the country's name, it should be a country built by humans on the desert.
"How did you know?" Watson's line asked the same question as Zhiye.
In order to find out the answer, Zhiye continued to input magic power into the original spar, and after a series of narratives that made Zhiye feel a little big, Zhiye's doubts were finally answered.
"Your hairstyle and standing posture indicate that you are from a military background. Although this is Nolan, your words are obviously with the unique accent of the Klosky language of the country of steel, and your face and hands are tanned. , but the wrists were not tanned…”
Through the narration of the frost elf, Sherlock Holmes in the story told a series of so-called reasoning, and most of the contents were half-understood, such as the relationship and names between countries, but she had an inexplicable "very powerful". "a feeling of.
The things that Zhiye has come into contact with most in her own city may be books, stories and travel notes from the realm, and Zhiye has also come into contact with a lot, which is also one of the only ways for her to understand human beings.
But most of the stories in each book are based on the adventurer's adventure experience and the love-hate entanglement between the nobles. This kind of story is a bit boring to read.
In the story narrated by the frost elf, the concepts of Sherlock Holmes' reasoning, detectives, basic deduction methods, etc., seem to have opened a whole new door for branches and leaves.
Although the content in it is completely incomprehensible, the novelty brought by the reasoning is enough to drive the branches and leaves to continue listening.
"Zhiye, what is that frost elf talking about?"
Al stopped the chanting of the spell again, because she couldn't bear it any longer. Al could understand every word that the frost elf lady said, but the meaning of the connection was completely incomprehensible to Al.
"'Sherlock Holmes' is the full title of the book."
A voice answered Al in place of Branch and Leaf.
The moment Zhiye heard the voice, she took out the bow and arrow in her hand and aimed at the figure leaning against the door.
Dark Elf... She quietly appeared in front of Zhi Ye and Al again.
"This is one of my favorite stories. It's more interesting than stories like "Aladdin and the Magic Lamp" and "Rapunzel", so I recorded her, but unfortunately not many people appreciate it. I don't know how long it will take for some updates."
The dark elf ignored the arrows aimed at her by the branches and leaves as usual and said to himself.
"The next part..." Zhiye was stunned for a moment.
In order to use the bow and arrow, she put the original spar back on the bookshelf, but the original spar was still working, and the story of the frost elf really ended in the middle of the case.
"This is a video from three days ago. Taelin is busy holding a concert recently, and my employer is not willing to write the next part of the story."
After the dark elf complained about this, he looked at Al sitting on the bed, and the silver-white magic inscriptions gradually appeared on the wooden planks on the ground.
"Although I don't know what system of magic inscriptions you use, but using this method to repay your benefactor, is this what your high elves do?"
"We just want to get out of here," Zhiye said.
"In order to find the ice dragon that sneaked into Nolan?"
The dark elves suddenly revealed the true purpose of the two high elves.
At this moment, Zhiye inexplicably remembered the part where Watson and Sherlock Holmes met.
"This...is the so-called...reasoning?" This made Zhiye ask subconsciously.
"Inference? Guess wrong, I just have information related to you."
Although the dark elf is now a reporter, her predecessor was Nolan's biggest intelligence dealer.
The current intelligence network has expanded several times more than before. If there is any news in any corner of Nolan, the dark elves can grasp it immediately.
However, the information related to these high elves was provided to her by Joshua.
Joshua sent a message "The ice dragon brought three high elves to Nolan".
"I will take you to find that ice dragon."
The dark elf appeared behind Al in an instant, and placed his hands on Al's shoulders. If the branches and leaves shot the arrow in his hand, Al would definitely become a target immediately.
"But only if you stop chanting, high elves."
The magic chanted by this high elf is very complex, and if it is completed, it is likely to destroy the news society that the dark elves have worked so hard to build.
Under the dissuasion of the dark elves, Al could only obediently stop singing, and Zhi Ye was forced to withdraw the arrow again.
The two of them are not opponents of this dark elf at all.
"Why do you want to... help us." This is the most incomprehensible part of Zhiye.
"It's not that I want to help you, it's my employer."
The dark elf stroked Al's tender cheeks. She had no intention of saving the two high elves at first, but the dark elves knew that Joshua needed them.