Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 125 Will the traveler in the forest be attacked?

After seeing off the joyful elves, Metien watched the little guys carrying their sandwiches and staggering towards the downstream of the river, just like ants carrying their prey back to their nests in groups. She was still immersed in the lucky magic and hadn't come back to her senses, while Alice had already swallowed the last bite of the sandwich and licked her lips.

The goblin Shemi sat on Metien's shoulder, looking at the direction where the dwarves were going away. With some confusion on his face, he muttered to himself: "Although it's a good thing, why would the dwarves appear outside the mountains? It's really strange..."

Metien, who was closest to her, heard her whispers and asked curiously, "Do dwarfs only live deep in the mountains?"

"That's not true."

Xie Mi shook his head. "It should be said that all the aliens in the Sosen Mountains now basically only move around in the innermost area of ​​the mountains. Because if they get too close to human cities, they are in danger of being discovered by the combined forces of the cults. Especially for the little dwarves who have little fighting ability, they basically have no ability to resist. So why would they take such a big risk to come to the outskirts of the mountain? It's really strange."

She racked her brains but couldn't figure it out.

If even she couldn't figure it out, then Metien, who knew only a little about the magical world, had no idea of ​​the answer. The pink-haired girl looked at the direction where the dwarves left with a worried look. At this time, the group of little guys had disappeared, and no one knew where they went: "So, will they be in danger?"

"If they are just staying for a short time, it shouldn't be a problem." Xie Mi's eyebrows were twisted together, and his cute face was full of serious expression: "But it looks like the whole tribe has gone out, it seems like they are going to migrate to another place of residence."

Metien clasped his hands together and said softly, "I hope they are safe."

After listening to the conversation between the two silently, Lingge turned his gaze to Saint Xia Liya, but saw the girl leading the sheep slowly shaking her head, indicating that she didn't know what was going on.

It sounded like a very simple logic, but the pink-haired little girl just believed it, so she curved her eyebrows, revealed a happy smile, and nodded vigorously: "Yes!"

But things in this world are often not as we wish.

"Don't worry!" The elf touched her cheek and comforted her: "The dwarfs can cast lucky magic, which means they are very lucky, so nothing will happen to them!"

The sudden appearance of the dwarf, his decision to leave his original place of residence despite the risk of being discovered by humans, seemed like he was avoiding something... I hope it's just an isolated case.

Such a thought flashed through the young man's mind.

After lunch at the river, although Alice threw a tantrum and said she wanted to digest the food and rest for at least eight hours before continuing on her way, Linger cruelly rejected her idea. They simply rested for a while before setting out on their way again.

We went along the upper reaches of the river, gradually going deeper until the already thin stream merged into the mountain wall, then we changed direction, stepped over the dense shrubs, mosses and mushrooms, stepped onto a section of thick aerial roots that protruded from the ground, and looked for a path trampled by wild animals in the woods. Sometimes the way ahead would be blocked by blue-black vines hanging from branches. They had taken root here for decades, with the ends deeply nailed into the ground, like a solid wall that could not be pushed away by hand, so we could only go around it.

This mountain is an ice-free mountain, so autumn is the end of the year. The fallen leaves in that season are now piled thickly on the ground underfoot. Under the slightly smelly decaying germ are crawling reptiles and spiders. Stepping on it is like being stuck in a muddy swamp. The dense ancient trees are tens of meters high, looking down at the pedestrians below like ants. The roots protruding from the ground are bent and arched, and the rough and hideous surface is like the four legs of a beast, carrying the city on its back. Adventurers ten centuries ago may have witnessed how the ancestors of these trees grew, or even cut down a branch from their bodies, built a camp, and burned it into a bonfire.

But nature's self-healing ability has overcome mankind's self-righteous conquest, so when they appear before the public, they still retain the same natural and wild flavor that has been consistent for thousands of years.

Although we were walking in the "wolf den" of the mainland, we did not encounter many large wild animals except birds and squirrels along the way. The closest contact we had was when we looked into the eyes of an elk in the forest from a distance of more than 20 meters. But it was just a quick glance, and soon it turned around and disappeared into the depths of the dense forest with a few leaps.

However, the strange creatures that Xie Mi said only lived deep in the mountains had come to meet them unexpectedly several times.

The previous two times were harmless aliens similar to the dwarfs: the little leaf man who wrapped his body with new leaves in spring and grew with them, and would change into a new leaf again in the spring of next year; and the gray boots who looked like a cat, with a black body except for its four gray paws, and liked to jump forward on tree branches.

They were quite friendly to humans, so when they encountered Lingge and his group, they did not act too aggressively, but they did not approach them like the dwarfs did before. They just watched silently for a while and then turned away. If Shemi had not recognized them, Lingge and his group would not have known that these inconspicuous little creatures were also members of the alien species.

As for the third contact, it was not so peaceful.

Those aliens named "Kapels" looked like the monsters with deer heads and human bodies that appeared in ghost legends. They were covered with black robes, but in fact, they were surrounded by cold mist in their bodies. They used this mist as a cover, silently shuttled in the shadows, and attacked Lingge and his group in the corners that were out of sight. They used arrows condensed from ice. When they flew past, the coldness emitted made the surface of the tree trunks covered with a thin layer of frost.

Arrows pierced the air, the wind pressure was agitated, and the fallen leaves on the ground were lifted up, floating in the air like falling butterflies. Lingge was the first to feel the chill from behind his head. He looked back and saw the arrows of ice gradually enlarged in his eyes. The speed seemed very fast, so fast that people's nerves could not react at all; and it seemed to become very slow, so slow that Lingge could think clearly about what he should do in the moment when his pupils contracted.

He subconsciously stretched out his hand, trying to pull Metien behind him, but at this moment, the ice arrows that were attacking them suddenly changed their angle without slowing down, and flew straight into the sky, as if an invisible hand was controlling their flight trajectory behind the scenes.

This is not a description, it is a fact.

Saint Shallia slowly withdrew her hand, and the golden thread that was plucked was faintly visible between her fingers, indicating some mysterious imagery from fate. At the same time, several ice arrows flying into the sky suddenly exploded, making a crisp sound, and countless ice-blue fragments fell from the sky, like fragments of crystal, reflecting the forest brilliantly and blurredly.

"Metien!"

Although the crisis had been resolved, Ling Ge still pulled his sister behind him, stared at the direction where the arrow was flying, and said without turning his head: "Hide well."

The pink-haired girl naturally had no objection and hid behind her brother obediently. Alice took out the game console, while the elf Shemi poked his head out and took a look. He found that the attackers hiding in the shadows had a terrifying appearance of a deer head and a human body, and their bodies were covered with black robe-like mist. The alien creature mentioned by the eldest sister suddenly appeared in his mind, and he overlapped the image in her description with the monsters in front of him: "Kapels!"

She cried out in surprise, "They are Capels!"

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)