In the blink of an eye, many days passed.
The weather has become a little cooler, and the leaves of the trees in the forest are turning yellow and falling one by one. Standing on the hill and looking into the distance during the day, what you see is mottled, like a watercolor painting doodled by a child. .
During these days, Richard was not idle. While continuing to research magic pattern spells, he was busy making various things. Although there are a lot of various materials and instruments brought in the suitcase, there will always be a day when they will be used up, so you must plan ahead.
Therefore, Richard began to use chalk to make lime, use wood ashes to extract grass alkali and soda ash, use wood to carry out dry distillation to extract acetic acid, acetone and methanol, and use sulfide ore to prepare sulfuric acid.
During the preparation process, simple buildings also appeared in the open space on the hill, such as windmills, mixed feed shaft kilns, shallow pools, etc.
Pandora and Gregory neither expressed approval nor objection to these changes, and Richard continued to build.
During this time, Richard also discovered some other things. For example, Gregory did not always stay in the Dragon Cave, but would leave from time to time and fly to other places. It may take half a day to return, or it may take several days to return, and I don’t know what to do.
As for Pandora, there is still no verbal communication.
Generally speaking, even a truly deaf-mute person will make sounds such as "beep babbling", but after such a long period of contact, Richard did not find that the other party had any behavior that wanted to speak, and all the exchanges It was almost completed with just one look and one movement, and the meaning was expressed very clearly.
For example, "stay away", "further away", "further away", "don't talk to me".
In this regard, Richard couldn't help but guess that the reason why the other party didn't speak was not because he didn't understand or couldn't speak, but because...
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It was night, and darkness came from a distance like a tide. The entire sky was like a submerged beach, quickly dimming.
After studying the magic pattern spell for a day, Richard walked out of the castle and exhaled a breath of turbidity. I found that the open space in front of the castle was quiet, only the windmill was turning "squeaking".
Gregory flew away the day before yesterday and never came back, and Pandora didn't know where she went.
Although he knew that the father and daughter of the other party were very weird, at this moment, Richard couldn't help but think in his heart, is the other party so confident about him? Aren't you afraid that you will run away with all the jewels in the dragon's cave? Of course, it is very possible that there were no jewelry in Gregory's stinking dragon cave, but only garbage and gravel. .
Just thinking about it, Richard heard a sound of footsteps, "ta da da", it was Pandora. However, the footsteps were mixed with the sound of dragging heavy objects, "thorn rustling".
"Huh?" Richard turned to look, and then he saw Pandora dressed in purple walking up from the mountain, dragging behind her a huge tree that was several decades old, more than ten meters long and more than thirty centimeters in diameter. , there is still a lot of soil on the roots, and it looks like it has just been pulled out of the soil. Pandora coldly dragged the tree to the clearing on the hill and put it down with a "bang".
"What are you doing?" Richard wondered, "Are you going to transplant trees to add greenery to the hill? But...if you transplant them in autumn, the survival rate won't be high."
Pandora didn't make a sound, she just put down the tree and frowned slightly, as if she was thinking about something important.
After a while, he stretched out his hand and walked to the root of the tree. He broke off all the remaining roots with a few "click" sounds. Then he walked to the crown of the tree and started to break the branches of the tree with his hands.
"Kacha kacha..."
After a long time, only the trunk of the entire tree in Pandora's hand was left, looking like a huge wooden stick more than ten meters long.
Pandora used her two arms to hold up the tree trunk, and the next moment she swung it violently, and a whirlwind immediately blew across the entire clearing.
"call!"
Richard, who was standing nearby and watching, slightly licked his tongue. He was already sure that Pandora dragged the trees up and it was definitely not for transplanting, but what on earth was it doing? "
"Hoo! Hoo!" Next, Pandora took two more turns, as if she was trying out her skills. After a while, she hugged the tree trunk and frowned at the entire open space in front of the castle. She dropped the tree trunk with a slight disappointment, and turned around again. Walk down the hill and disappear into the darkness.
Not long after, Pandora came back, and as expected, she dragged back a tree again, which looked older and heavier.
Following the same pattern, Pandora quickly started to change the tree into the same shape as before, and started swinging again.
After a few rounds, he shook his head again, put it down, and walked down the mountain.
After repeating this several times, there were four large wooden sticks more than ten meters long in the open space, with different thicknesses and different weights.
Swinging up the last wooden stick, Pandora blinked and showed a somewhat satisfied expression. After thinking of something for a moment, he tilted his head slightly and looked at Richard next to him.
"Don't run around at night." Pandora said. After thinking for a moment, she added two words carefully, "Danger."
"Huh?" Richard raised his eyebrows. Hearing Pandora's words, he reacted after a brief moment of surprise. Then I figured out three things.
First, Pandora can indeed speak, at least like Gregory, and can speak the lingua franca of the current world.
Secondly, the reason why Pandora has been silent for so long is simply because... well, she is too lazy to say it. Or is it called... aloof? There is also a certain possibility that the weird environment has created the other person's special personality, such as autism. There are many examples of this on the modern earth. People who are autistic to a certain extent can go all year without saying a word, whether to strangers or relatives, completely closing themselves in an independent world.
In short, it's not that the other party can't speak, but that he doesn't want to speak. ;
Thirdly, Pandora had not spoken for so long and suddenly spoke today. Naturally, it could not be out of interest. Looking at the other party's strange behavior, you should understand that something will happen tonight, something very dangerous.
What could that be
In the darkness, Richard narrowed his eyes slightly and looked into the darkness below the hill. Long-term meditation has strengthened the body's perception to a certain extent, which made Richard keenly aware that after nightfall, the forest obviously did not calm down, but became more and more restless.
"Ouch-"
"Ho ho—"
"Hiss—"
The cries of various wild beasts came and went, and Richard heard all of them.
"Is this going to... a collective rampage? A tide of beasts?" Richard's eyes flashed slightly, and he looked up at the night sky with some sensitivity. A huge moon shines through the clouds and shines on the entire forest. I don't know if it's an illusion. Richard feels that compared to before, the moon at this moment is a little redder, as if it's stained with blood...