Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 351 Does Xie Mi want to show off his skills?
In the forest, Xie Mi flew back and forth around a tall and sturdy ivy tree, looking up and down at the dark brown bark covered with bumps and knots, the thick and gnarled roots of forest pythons, and the solid branches that grew wildly. From time to time, he leaned over to touch it, nodded, and showed a satisfied expression, just like an experienced lumberjack who was selecting the wood he liked.

Metien was holding a few potion books in his arms, standing at the edge of the shadow cast by the tree canopy, looking at his friend with worried eyes, obviously not so reassured: "Is it really okay, Shaymi?"

"Don't worry, Metien!"

The fairy turned around and gave her a thumbs up. She smiled brightly, revealing a row of white teeth, proving that she brushed her teeth with nectar and dew every morning: "I am no longer the same person I was yesterday!"

Uh.

It seems that nothing has changed.

Metien wanted to say that, but he couldn't bear to dampen his friend's enthusiasm, so he held it back and hesitantly warned, "Well, you must be careful, okay?"

"What are you careful about?"

"Wow!?"

Suddenly, a familiar voice came from behind them, startling them both. They turned around and found Alice standing there, staring at them with strange eyes: "Metien, and Shemi, what are you two doing here sneaking around?"

"No!" Xie Mi crossed his arms and said confidently, "I have never been to school!"

The basic education popularization project for the traveler fairy tribe still has a long way to go.

The little goblin she pointed out puffed out her chest with pride, saying, "I'm so thoughtful, come and praise me."

In comparison, the primrose field is softer and more comfortable, just like sleeping on bedding. It also has a natural floral scent that helps you sleep, and even your dreams are colorful. The only flaw is... there are bugs.

"It's like this, Sister Alice." Metien stood between the golden-haired maid and the fairy maid, temporarily acting as a peacemaker between humans and fairies to prevent some fierce verbal exchanges from breaking out, and explained at the same time: "Didn't you say before that you wanted to use this sky island as our, uh, what? (At this time Alice reminded him) Yes! Is it the new base of the Gransefa Air Cavalry? In that case, we can't always sleep in the open air, and Sister Yieta's house is not very convenient..."

Alice saw a dangerous gleam in the fairy maid's eyes and said with a fake smile: "You must have been very popular among your classmates when you were in school, Miss Shemi."

But Alice did not praise her. Instead, she became more suspicious: "Build a house? Just you? Can you do it? I don't think you can even cut down a tree."

Do you mean to tell tales?

Later, with Metien's explanation, Alice knew why the two little girls were hiding here secretly.

Alice: "..."

Furious, Alice once tried to use the "Original Fantasy Four Heroes" cartridge against these annoying mosquitoes, but was stopped by Ringer and Saint Charlia, so it was considered an attempted crime.

"So?" She tilted her head, still confused: "What does this have to do with what you are going to do now?"

This is true.

How could there be no ants, spiders, lizards and other small reptiles in the vibrant fields? This is not the fairyland of fairies in fairy tales. And because it is close to the forest, there are many mosquitoes. They start to bombard in the middle of the night, making people unable to sleep with the buzzing noise. The sleep quality is not as good as expected.

Alice nodded: During the three days that the Whale Island hovered over Avion, everyone had been sleeping outdoors, after all, there was nowhere to live. Yieta's windmill tower room was habitable, but there was not even a bed in it. The stone floor was cold and hard, and sleeping for half an hour felt like being in prison for a day. No one could stand it, and no one knew how she had stayed there for seven hundred years.

"Who's sneaking around?" Xie Mi puffed up his cheeks in dissatisfaction, and his transparent butterfly wings fluttered vigorously behind him, looking like a furious moth. "It was you who suddenly appeared behind us and scared us, and yet you still said such bad things! I'll go tell Xiao Xia about you and say that you bullied a child!"

Metien pointed at Shemi and said, "That's why Shemi wants to build some houses on the island."

No wonder he's still so stupid even though he's two hundred years old... I mean, simple and naive.

"Yes, I have."

"Who said I was going to cut down houses and plant trees?" Instead of receiving the praise he had hoped for, Shaymi was questioned in front of his friends. He glared at Alice and said angrily, "You humans who don't understand magic would use such primitive and crude methods to build houses. We, the goblins, are elves born from natural elements, so of course we have to coexist with nature! So, what I have to do is--"

She put her hands on her hips, raised her chin slightly, and looked at the lush and tall ivy tree in front of her with a firm and confident look. She looked very proud, just like a captain who was commanding a battle on the Zero Arus: "Use the magical fairy magic to turn this ivy tree into a habitable tree house! Just like the sycamore tree in the fairy deep sleep hotel!"

There was silence for a moment. After a while, Alice turned around and asked Metien: "Is she serious?"

The pink-haired girl nodded hesitantly: "I think, should, yes?"

"So today is April Fool's Day?" Alice pinched her chin and said as if talking to herself, "Shaymin, who is not even proficient in fairy magic and can only act as a spy for the enemy, actually said that he would turn trees into tree houses? I think this joke is pretty good. I will share it with Ling Ge later. Do you think he will laugh out loud? I have never seen him laugh before."

"Well, I don't think so?" Metien said weakly, while quietly observing her friend's expression, fearing that after being bullied like this, she would be unable to think straight and would fight Alice to the death. To be honest, there was still a slight gap in the fighting power of the two sides.

What was shocking was that the little demon Xie Mi, faced with such humiliation, actually remained amazingly calm! Her resolute expression seemed to be silently saying: Just a few rumors and lies, don't think of disturbing my mind!
That's right, just as she said to Metien before, today's Shemi is no longer the Shemi of yesterday! In her life... her first adventure in the fairy life, she gradually realized the importance of the pilgrimage passed down from generation to generation by the traveler fairy. Finally, as her two sisters expected, she grew up in the experience and learned to be strong in the tempering! Now, she will no longer lose her mind because of some words from others, especially a shameless, mean, greedy, sinister, stingy, evil and corrupt golden maid.

She will use practical actions to prove who is right!

"Just wait and see, Alice."

She glanced at Alice with contempt. "You will regret saying that!"

I go!

Alice's body suddenly trembled, and she was terrified: Thirty years between land and sea, thirty years between land and sea, don't bully the poor goblin! Did I accidentally anger the real protagonist of this world? It's so scary, is it too late to bow down and offer my knees now?

Too late!
It's too late!

"Fairy magic, do whatever you want, strange changes!" Along with Xie Mi's tender voice, the soft light of fairy magic descended on the forest and enveloped the lucky ivy tree. Then, this majestic old tree, which was estimated to be at least a hundred years old, really underwent unexpected changes in Alice's panicked eyes.

The solid branches intertwined and stretched into two thick arms, with the ends forming a palm-like part, as solid as a rock; the lush and dense crown slowly lifted up, shaking off the dust and dead vine roots in the sky, and several unknown birds flew out from the branches where they were perched, flapping their wings and fleeing in fear; the already sturdy body gradually lifted up, pulling out the roots that were still covered with mud and insects from the soil, and finally twisted and entangled into a dozen pairs of strangely coiled, strong root feet covered with moss and tree fungi.

The next moment, the rough and uneven bark on the surface of the tree near the top of the trunk was torn and cracked by an invisible force, as if six pairs of narrow and sharp eyes opened at the same time, with ochre-yellow eyeballs symbolizing vitality rolling in the eye sockets, all focusing on the two stunned people and the goblin in front of them. Their eyes revealed a solemn and heavy demeanor, an awe-inspiring demeanor without anger, as if an elderly and stern elder was examining his incompetent junior and was very disappointed.

Finally, these gazes passed by Alice and Metien and all fixed on the shivering elf Shemi, because it had a vague premonition that it was this traveling elf in front of it that woke it up from more than a hundred years of peaceful sleep.

So, without hesitation, he raised his arm made of twisted tree trunk and pulled it down with force.

"Wow, what are you doing? Why are you hitting me?!"

"I was staying here peacefully, but you, an ignorant little girl, suddenly turned me into this state, causing all the roots I had worked so hard to plant over the past hundred years to be separated from the soil. Do you know how long it will take to rebuild the root network? You still dare to run? Stop now, and let me slap you a dozen times to calm you down!"

“Wow, how could this happen? I didn’t know it would turn out like this, I’m sorry, I’m sorry!”

"Don't use fairy magic carelessly if you are not proficient in it. Didn't your parents tell you this?!"

"Wow, wow, I'm sorry!!!"

Watching the lively chase in the forest, Metien gradually fell into a daze. Alice thought about it for a while, and then thought, what the hell does this have to do with me?

Turn around and leave.

"Sister Alice, where are you going!?"

"Go back and play games."

"What about Shemy?"

"Who is Shemi?"

"!!?"

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)