Chapter 22 Spring Forest
Bounced and skipped over the stinking puddle, Leah headed for the tree house on the other side of the pond.
There was no green grass here, all the herbs had turned yellow, and some had even rotted.
Most of the trees had died, leaving only the lonely tree house without the shade of leaves.
Because the environment had changed a lot, Leah had to look carefully to recognize the way to her good friend Sanafi's house.
As the distance got closer, Leah heard a song.
She followed the direction of the song and approached, quietly hiding behind the trunk of a dead tree.
Not far away, a group of elves formed a circle, and a pit was dug in the center of the circle. An elf was lying in the pit holding his bow and arrow as if he was asleep.
‘The Jade Court, your eternal home’
‘White trees and green grass, your most reliable companions’
‘Even elves will eventually have their end’
‘You will be split into two’
‘The soul returns to Ovando, the body remains’
‘The forest that raised you will also accept your end’
The completely a cappella singing has no accompaniment, but due to the unique voice of the elves, it has an ethereal charm.
But Leah didn’t like it, she felt too sad, so she just looked at it and turned back, continuing her journey to her good friend Sanafi’s house.
Soon, she saw a small tree house hanging on the side of a huge beech tree, which was Sanafi’s home.
And the action of looking up also made him see a pigeon flapping its wings and circling above the dead treetops.
Leah waved happily at the pigeon:
“Xiaobai!”
Although it is called Xiaobai, it is actually a gray pigeon, but the feathers on its abdomen are indeed whiter than those of ordinary gray pigeons.
The pigeon obediently landed on Leah's shoulder and rubbed her cheek affectionately.
"Xiaobai, where have you been? I prepared pine nuts for you yesterday."
The pigeon lowered its head intelligently as if to apologize, and then it raised one of its feet to show Leah.
"What is this? A necklace?"
A silver necklace with a slightly open hand pendant was wrapped around Xiaobai's feet.
Leah puffed up her face at the sight and pretended to be angry:
"You stole something from the city again, didn't you?"
Xiaobai turned his head away, saying that he was wrong, but judging from this performance, he probably would dare to do it again in the future.
"Xiaobai! Look at me, you have to return it later, or I will be angry!"
The pigeon cooed twice to show that it understood, and Leah rubbed it:
"Be obedient, my sister said that you can't take things from city people. Come with me to see Sanafy first, and I will treat you to pine nuts later."
Lia climbed up along the tree hole on the beech trunk, and when she passed by the squirrel family, she took out a handful of raspberries and stuffed them into the hole.
But for some reason, the squirrel family who always came out happily to get raspberries was very quiet today.
Xiaobai stood on Leah's shoulder, and soon Leah climbed up and knocked on the door:
"Sanafy! Are you feeling better?"
After knocking several times in a row, there was no response from the house, and Leah was a little puzzled.
She pushed the door and quietly entered the house.
"Sanafy?"
The house was filled with a cold atmosphere, and even the sunlight shining in from the side of the tree house seemed to be covered with a layer of light blue filter.
"So you're at home, Sanafy, wake up."
On the floor not far from the door, Sanafy was covered with a straw mat, with her back to Leah.
Leah put the basket on the floor and reached out to push Sanafy, but the touch from her fingers was as cold as ice.
"Sanafy? Aren't you cold?"
At this time, Leah finally realized something and reached out to turn Sanafy over.
The lifeless head knocked weakly on the floor, and black and smelly blood oozed from the mouth and nose. The skin seemed to have completely lost its luster and elasticity, and became wrinkled like a mummy.
When Sanafy turned her head, her eyes fell out of her sockets and almost rolled to Leah's legs. The sticky and smelly blood and tissue fluid left a series of eye-catching marks on the wooden floor.
In her memory, Sanafy, who always laughed happily with her, and Sanafy, who was about to rot in front of her, kept echoing in Leah's brain, like a spike piercing her head.
"No! Sanafy!"
Leah screamed unconsciously, and fear made her stagger back. Xiaobai was frightened by the scream, flapping his wings and flying off Leah's shoulders, leaving a few feathers slowly falling.
At this time, Leah's feet were empty, and she unknowingly left the tree house and fell from it.
The strong feeling of falling lasted only a moment. When Leah opened her eyes, she saw the face of her sister Zhuoya. She must have been caught by her sister when she fell.
Liya's eyes were filled with tears, and she hugged her sister tightly and cried:
"Sister! Sanafy! Sanafy she!"
"I know."
Zhuoya gently patted Liya's back and comforted her softly:
"I know everything..."
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After sending off a group of children who came to the store to buy snacks, Li Chengxi returned to sit behind the cashier.
On the screen, Viola and the others were still escorting the bandits down the mountain. Considering that there were captives to be taken care of, it might take longer to go down the mountain than to go up the mountain.
There was no point in staring at them, so Li Chengxi moved the mouse and turned on the map mode, ready to see if there was anything of interest in the area newly detected by the scouts.
When he opened the map, Li Chengxi suddenly found a gathering place icon that had not been there before.
Zooming in a little, he could see that this gathering place icon appeared in the Farthest Forest.
This made Li Chengxi scratch his head.
"There was clearly no such place before?"
Not long ago, he used the zoom function to watch the big bad wolf baring its teeth near this forest. At that time, there was nothing in the forest, but now there is a gathering place icon.
It doesn't feel like a normal village, otherwise the scouts who contacted the locals everywhere to find the traces of the bandits would have been there long ago.
Suddenly a little curious, Li Chengxi zoomed in a little more, and the name column of the gathering place said "Spring Forest" Relationship: Neutral.
In the list of the population column, it says "Tree Elves", "Water Elves", "Tree Elves", "Pixie Elves", "Lantern Elves", and "Little Elves".
Although Viola's character attributes clearly say "high-ranking demons", and many people in the city can see a pair of horns on their heads, but other than that, there is no difference between them and humans. Li Chengxi subconsciously regards Viola and the others as humans.
But elves...
This is the first time I have seen them.
Continue to expand the picture, and in a large dark green forest, light green grass appears, and simple tree houses hang on the treetops.
"Oh! It's really an elf."
The two-headed pixel man is not very clear, and you can see more details by clicking on the portrait.
The local elves are beautiful creatures with wheat-colored skin, most of them have dark green or dark green hair, and a few are dark blue.
Other than that, these elves are similar to the standard elf image, with a pair of pointed ears and everyone is handsome and beautiful.
However, these elves seem to live a very primitive life. Their clothes are made of bark or leaves, and they wear straw sandals on their feet. I haven't seen them making fire.
Maybe this is the difference between tree elves and elves.
Seeing the elves appear, the magical flavor immediately rose. Before that, it was more like a medieval simulator.
But then again, why was there suddenly an extra settlement?
To explore the map, you need NPCs with piety to go there, no matter how many, you must have them.
The areas that have been explored now are all run out by scouts with piety. But in a forest with dense vegetation, scouts on horseback should not run into it for the sake of death.
Li Chengxi kept clicking on the ability panel of the tree elves in the settlement to check, and then his eyes were on a pigeon that landed on the head of the elf child...
