Chapter 99 Break Time (XI)

"Miss Forna, are you back so late today?"

Forna's ear tip twitched slightly, and she shouted to the landlady who was over fifty years old and looked out from upstairs.

"This is my new friend, landlady, is there any extra room with bedding ready?"

Ji Lin followed the elf lady Forna through the small streets and into the alley with glass lamps.

Compared with the houses and shops along the street outside with various conspicuous colors as the exterior walls, the buildings inside the block seemed much more casual, or in other words, not so bright and beautiful.

The houses built with various stones and wooden buildings were not much more advanced in external decoration than the houses in his territory. They looked a little quaint under the erosion of time. The wear and tear on the wall edges and the black marks on the wooden pillars showed that these buildings had been through decades of rain and wind.

The only thing that can prove that they are related to the buildings outside is the common double nested rings, and the rune lights that appear from time to time on the outer edge of the building, emitting a faint yellow warm light.

It gives people a feeling that this city should be composed of such buildings.

It's really rare for her to find such a place.

Very good.

"One room, thank you."

Xu Shan didn't come to find her, but with the ability of a dean, Ji Lin didn't need to worry about him. Ji Lin suspected that he could live well in this city even if he suffered a serious injury.

The special profession of dean is extremely rare.

So, one room is enough.

"This is not a hotel, just a private residence, very cheap for a month! Food included!"

Seeing Ji Lin's eyes shifted to her, Forna thought he was doubting whether it was a hotel, so she explained.

"And the landlady's cooking is super delicious."

The landlady smiled and led him to a room next to Forna. The house was not big. Only the first and second floors were occupied by the landlord, while the third and fourth floors were provided to tenants... In fact, Forna was the only one.

Now there was a temporary addition of Ji Lin.

He thought Forna would take some safeguards for the sapling, such as locking it with a magic circle, but she didn't.

The tree was placed in the elf lady's bedroom like an ordinary indoor potted landscape. From the outside, it looked no different from an ordinary sapling, or it was indeed a sapling.

A very small sapling, only the thickness of the index and middle fingers, was different from other saplings he had seen that had brown-green bark early. It looked more...green on the outside?

The leaves were full of energy and curled up.

The special features... couldn't be seen at all now.

After Forna pledged allegiance to him, the system popped up an item analysis interface for him, allowing him to confirm the true appearance of this tree species.

Miss Elf did not lie to him.

[World Tree (Undetermined Branch) Tree Species]

[In the right world, it will shine again. ]

[Sheltering thousands of spirits, it once touched the stars, but disappeared. ]

"It's amazing, according to my parents, it has been like this for almost a thousand years."

Forna squatted down and fiddled with the branches and leaves of the sapling, which swayed slightly under her teasing, as if responding to her.

"Even if it's a thousand years for the elves, it will disappear under the erosion of time, but it has not changed at all."

Ji Lin's sight is still on the tree species of the world tree called the undetermined branch.

"And in the past few years in the Holy City, it has grown a full two centimeters taller!"

It seems to be worried that Ji Lin does not believe in himself.

Miss Elf confidently took out a ruler to show him. She also showed Ji Lin a notebook with the ruler. It was the length of the sapling growing every week. Even though it had not grown for ten years, she still recorded it diligently.

She was very happy, thinking that she had finally found a piece of land suitable for planting trees. She devoted all her energy just for a piece of land in the Holy City.

It was undoubtedly extremely exciting to finally see the end of the long journey.

All the land in the Holy City of Tran was regarded as the promised land of God, and it was not given to outsiders without reason.

But with her efforts, the other party was finally willing to sell her a piece of land of 100 square meters for her to plant her own trees. The price she offered was the money she could earn by not eating or drinking for ten years.

"Maybe, it will grow in my territory?"

He was not sure. This was a lie.

Ji Lin had not been exposed to the cultivation technology of the World Tree series, so he could try it.

Different branches of the World Tree will have their own growth conditions.

If it really cannot grow, in order to keep the exploration mission, Ji Lin will also pay a price to keep Forna, at least enough for her to buy the land she wants in the Holy City.

The World Tree is just a bonus, and a first-level exploration mission is his real goal.

However, if there is a senior priest who acts as a lobbyist, can he buy a larger piece of land and pay less money?

Ji Lin fell into deep thought.

Although the territory is a little richer, resources cannot be wasted at all. The investment in infrastructure is too much. The stone pavement of more than ten kilometers alone makes him lose most of the stones he just got.

Back to the room prepared by the landlord for him, it has obviously been tidied up when he visited Forna, and new clean bedding has been put on. All the dust except the windowsill has been wiped clean.

Simple washing and changing clothes.

Ji Lin lay on the bed.

He didn't feel very at ease.

He extended his vacation time for an extra week until the end of the Holy Festival, and Chongshan said in a long-distance call with him that there was no problem. The territory has now entered a self-circulating state, and it can run stably in its current state for a period of time without their excessive interference.

And he will meet Alicia at the pastry shop early tomorrow morning.

As agreed with her, Forna said she still had work to do, and she would work persistently even if she took the 100 gold provided by Jilin, and make the final handover.

He took out the pocket watch and looked at the long pointer on it that was slowly turning, and the needle tip was moving along the edge of the roulette wheel one circle after another.

Nine fifteen.

He himself didn't expect that this top-level prop in his hand would become the simplest timekeeping tool.

But as a timekeeping tool, it will never go wrong.

Yes, this place is so developed, he realized that he should buy some clocks to tell time for his territory. The current timekeeping method in the territory is still the traditional sundial, an extremely simple timekeeping tool that requires sunlight and infers time based on the angle of incidence of sunlight. The sundial is still useful during the day, but it has little effect at night.

Write it down.

Use part of the funds to purchase a device to confirm the time, but I don’t know if the mechanical clocks in the Holy City are expensive.

(9.2, thank you everyone! So I’m currently in arrears, thank you)