Three Philosophical Questions for Travelers

Islet called out to the door: "Goldfish, are you there?"

The door opened, and a thin orc came out. She saluted and said, "Mother, do you want to take a bath?" Her voice was very thin, not as rude as other orcs.

"Well, prepare two clean clothes for me, one of which is for my sister."

"Yes, my lord."

The orc walked up to Hyacinth and measured her height and length with the distance between his fingers. "You two go in first, I'll prepare the clothes and send them back later."

"Okay, it's work."

The two sisters came to the hot spring.It was a very large bath, which could accommodate hundreds of people.Not to mention bathing, swimming is more than enough.The pool water is surrounded by natural rocks, surrounded by colorful mushrooms, red and blue flowers and plants, and there is an artificial rockery in the center of the pool.Hyacinth excitedly ran to the hot spring. She squatted down to see that the water in the pool was cleaner than the water she drank these days. She scooped up a little with her hands. The temperature was a little hot, but this kind of heat was just right for taking a bath.

"This is the Ancestral Spring." Essrit said with pride in her tone when she introduced it, "It used to be a holy place for worshiping the Earth Mother, but now it is my private bath."

"Sister, you are amazing." Hyacinth's eyes straightened with envy.

Isrit smiled and said, "Come into the water." Then she took off her clothes and walked into the bath.Hyacinth also hurriedly followed, "Then I'll do it!" She jumped into the water like an excited monkey, "Bang!"

The hot water wrapped her whole body, activating every pore of her body.Hyacinth soaked in the water with her eyes closed for a long time before poking her head out of the water to take a breath.She let out a moan of pleasure, "It's so cool!"

"Enjoy yourself." Isrit said behind her, "Just treat this as your own home, sister."

"Yeah!" Hyacinth flicked her hair, and the water splashed everywhere, and then she plunged into the water again, having fun in the water like a big goose.The depth of the pool water is just right, the deepest part probably does not reach the chest.Hyacinth was so happy, she just swam in the water. She circled the rockery in the center with backstroke, freestyle, and dog planing.

Isrit leaned on the rock by the pool, facing the sky.Glowing moss grows on the ceiling, making it as bright as day.After lying down for a while, she said, "Bather, come and rub my back, and bring some more towels."

After saying this, there was a monkey's cry from the rockery, and then several big monkeys sprang out from the mountain.Hyacinth screamed in fright, and Estherite called her: "Don't be afraid! These are all bathers I raised, sister, come to me."

Hyacinth hurriedly swam to her side, she hugged Isrit's arm and asked, "What are you talking about? What are these monkeys?"

"It's the workers who serve the baths." Yisrit pointed to the monkeys and said in a commanding tone, "Stand at attention! Let my sister watch you."

So a dozen monkeys stood at attention in the water, like soldiers.These guys wore baggy hats, gloves on their hands and feet, their hair was neat, and their bodies looked very clean, not as dirty and wretched as the usual wild monkeys.

Estelle pointed to the monkeys and said to Hyacinth, "Sister, choose one."

"Ah?" Hyacinth was stunned, "Choose one, why?"

"Choose one to bathe you, and another one to give you a massage and health care." Isrit shrugged and smiled, "It's okay, these bathers are all very skilled, and they are all female monkeys. You can choose with confidence."

"Ah, but..." Hyacinth had never been served before, so she still didn't dare.

Swamp Maze, XII

Swamp Maze, XII

"No, I don't want to trouble others." Hyacinth was still a little embarrassed.

Yisrette laughed, waved her hand, and said, "Which monkey you pick, I will reward it later." After Yisrette said this, the monkeys all scrambled to shout, and in the pool Water splashes.

"Stand still!" As soon as Isrit threatened them, the monkeys immediately fell silent—not only the monkeys, but also the hyacinth was frightened.She's a queen after all, Hyacinth thought, and maybe that's what a queen should be, unlike me, who smiles with everyone.

Seeing that she was slow to choose, Estelle said, "If you don't like these, you can change them. Bathers not only have monkeys, but also orangutans, cat people and snakes."

How do cats and snakes bathe people?Hyacinth thought to himself.She looked at the monkeys and said, "Then let's go to the two of them." She pointed to the two on the side.

"Okay." Estherite nodded, "You guys stay, and the rest can go."

The monkeys dispersed, leaving only the scrub monkeys and the massage monkeys.Then the two monkeys quickly climbed up the rockery, and pulled out two soft leather mattresses from the rockery.They spread their mats on the stone beds on the shore.

Yisriel dragged Hyacinth and lay down on the cushion.Two monkeys fetched two buckets of water, washed them over, and began to apply a scented liquid to their bodies.

"What is this?" Hyacinth asked.

"The cleansing products are prepared by me. They are very good for the skin." Isrit closed her eyes, and the monkey gently raised her arm to apply the liquid medicine to her underarms.After applying the liquid medicine, the monkey waited for a while, and then brought a brush to scrub their bodies.The burrs are a bit hard, but it is comfortable to shave on the body.The half-dried liquid medicine was scraped off by the brush, taking away the dirt on his body.Hyacinth felt the dirt being sucked out of every pore.

"If you... feel pain, tell them to be gentle." Israet spoke weakly.

"It doesn't hurt, you can focus more..." Hyacinth closed her eyes, her nerves relaxed.

After scraping off all the liquid medicine on the body, the body will be cleansed.The monkey poured hot water from the bucket over them to wash away the remaining dirt.Then began to sprinkle salt on them.Hyacinth didn't ask this time, she was too lazy to speak.

So comfortable, she looked at the bright moss on the ceiling and almost fell asleep.

Then the monkey gave her a full body massage, and then cleaned her body with milk.She was clean and exuded the fragrance of milk.Then the monkey made them sit up, put a basin of hot water under their feet, and gave them a pedicure with a foot massage.

Hyacinth didn't expect the bathers to know so much, so she asked Isrit: "How do you train these monkeys?"

"This is the power of liberal witchcraft." Isrit had already washed off the makeup on her face, she rubbed her face, and said, "Bather, apply some face balm to me." The monkey immediately went to get a blue ointment, and Isrit lay on the mat with her feet hanging down.One monkey smeared her face with mud, while the other massaged the soles of her feet.

"Do you want it? This is good for the skin." Isrit asked her.

"Me?" Hyacinth touched his smooth face, "I don't need it?"

Estherite snorted and said, "I really envy you. Your skin has always been so good. Girls in the south have such smooth skin, but I can't do it. These days my face is getting rougher and rougher, and I have to paint my face. Makeup, the skin is much worse."

Hyacinth couldn't help asking her: "Sister, do you usually live this comfortably?"

"How could it be? You don't know how much I have suffered this year." She sighed, "It took me only a few months to become the spirit of the Earth Mother. Before that, I was in danger. I often eat and sleep in the open. The most important thing is..." She sighed again, "What is the most important thing? I can't even tell myself."

Hyacinth asked her: "Didn't you say you were going to study at the academy at the beginning? How can you become the spirit of the orc's earth mother now?"

"This... this is hard to describe." In this steamy environment, people's brains will feel dizzy, and Estherite is also lazy, unwilling to speak.Hyacinth didn't ask her at all, just lay there and took a nap.After a while, the monkey squeaked. Hyacinth looked down and saw that the massage was done.

Esriette also sat up, she asked the monkey to help her wash off the face mud, and then said: "Let's go, let's go to the pool for a while, and I'll buy you some wine."

"it is good."

The two walked into the pool, and Estherite led her to the pool in the northeast corner.Hyacinth saw that there was a small pond surrounded by stones on the periphery of this place. The small pond was too small to enter, and there were boiling bubbles in it, and the temperature was very high.

There is a flowing water tank between this small pond and the big pond. The water level is lower than the pond, and it can be reached by hand.Around the small pool were long-handled iron pans, colanders, tongs, a plate of wine vessels, and some tableware.Hyacinth asked her: "Sister, what is this for?"

"Be careful! The temperature of this small pool is close to boiling water, this...is a pot."

"pot?"

Yisruite called the bath worker over, and said, "Two plates of shochu, one boiled egg, mushroom platter, fish balls wrapped in green leaves, hot stuffed dumplings." The monkey took notes one by one, and then went to the rockery to get the corresponding things Come.Then the monkey puts the ingredients into a small pot and a colander, and puts them in a small pond for cooking.Another monkey tied the wine bottle to a rope and hung it into boiling water to heat it.

No wonder she said it was a pot, Hyacinth looked dumbfounded.Estelle said to her: "You can cook it yourself if you want, it's more interesting. But be careful of burning."

"Then I will do it myself!" Hyacinth liked to play.

So she took the skillet and cooked the food herself.Isrit pulled a mushroom from the pool for her and said, "Try cooking this."

Hyacinth looked at the large circle of colorful mushrooms around the bath, and said, "The mushrooms outside...are all edible?"

"I cultivated them all." Yisrit said, "By the way, the red mushroom can be eaten when it is half-cooked. Don't cook it too old, or it will be boring."

"No energy?" Hyacinth was very puzzled when she heard this adjective, and she ate half of the lipstick mushroom with suspicion.It was sweet and spicy in the mouth, and immediately numb the whole tongue.Then she saw Isrit showing a smirk.Within three breaths, Hyacinth felt a surge of drunkenness rushing to her head, and she hurriedly returned the cooking utensils to the monkey.

Isrit's voice became distorted and funny in her mind: "This is—is——magic—mushroom—mushroom... 咕咕咕咕咕咕..."

No wonder she said "boring".Hyacinth stared at the golden star, feeling a hot current filling her whole body, that feeling is very good, but also has an indescribable joy, really the same as being drunk.

It's a depraved life, Hyacinth thought.Sleep until you wake up naturally in the morning, go to the street to eat free food at noon, soak in hot springs, have a massage, and eat mushrooms in the afternoon...

unacceptable!The life of the spirit of the Earth Mother is too much!

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swamp maze, thirteen

How can there be such a thing?The king is not so comfortable, is he?Hyacinth thought dizzily, why don't I leave, and stay here as my sister's servant or something.It's not bad to eat and drink every day.

After half a minute, the momentum of the mushroom disappeared, and the hyacinth woke up.When she was thinking about getting a mushroom, she felt sick and didn't even want to take a second look.Islet said to her: "This thing can be up to three a day. If you have too much, you will feel nauseous. Have some shochu." She beckoned, and the monkey lifted the jug from the hot water, clamped the jug with iron clips, and gave it to her. They poured two glasses.

"okay."

The two toasted, the hot shochu once again stimulated the stamina of the mushrooms, and the hyacinth began to get drunk again.She fell into Isrit's arms and murmured, "This is heaven, right?"

Isrit pondered for a moment, then said, "Well... there are still some things missing."

"What else is missing?" Hyacinth asked her.

"It's missing a band." Estherite said with a smile.

"You are too much, sister!" After finishing speaking, both of them laughed.

Afterwards they ate some meatballs and sweets.After about an hour, the two of them had almost soaked, so they came out of the pool, put on their bathrobes, and went to rest on the stone bed. "Here!" Yisrit pointed to the ceiling and said, "The light moss is still not bright enough. I will hollow out this place later, so that the sunlight can come in directly. This way we can bask in the sun."

"I'm about to die..." Hyacinth tilted her head and said, "Sister, when we find Master Haiwen, let's take him in too. From now on, we will live here and live this kind of life every day."

Estelle looked at the ceiling and said, "That's not okay. Haiwen is not that kind of man, and it's fine to take a leisurely time in this kind of life. If you live it every day, you will be useless."

She was right, Hyacinth thought, if this goes on, we will become just like those nobles, stupid and lazy.

At this time, someone knocked on the door of the hot spring, and a woman outside said, "Mother, mother, the pigeon is back!"

"Ah? Are you back now?" Isrit immediately stood up from the stone bed. She let the orcs come in and asked urgently: "How many have come back, what color?"

The female half-orc named Bai Guo stood at the door, and she replied, "It's black and white."

Estherite said: "Oh, that's the pigeon going to Xiongshan City, Ginkgo, did you bring the crystal ball?"

"I have." Bai Guo handed her the crystal ball.Isrit took the utensil and said, "Okay! You go back first, I'll just look at it here."

"Yes, my lord." The orc retreated.

Isrit took the crystal ball back to the stone bed, and Hyacinth asked her, "Sister, what happened?"

"It's the pigeons that have returned, and the pigeons have brought back information from the north." She placed the crystal ball on the low table between the two of them, then sat sideways, looking at the crystal ball, "This is the Fama crystal, I can use it It shares the vision of the pigeon." Isrit chanted a spell towards the crystal ball, and the crystal ball gradually emitted light, and the light and shadow were projected on the water surface of the hot spring, turning into a real picture.

What a powerful witchcraft, Hyacinth thought, this is simply clairvoyance.

There are two screens played by the crystal ball, and Estherite let the screen on the left play first. "That's what the pigeon that went to Bear Mountain saw," she said.

Hyacinth stared at the picture, and the center of the picture was Xiongshan City. "This is Bear Mountain Castle! That's right!" she said in surprise.Then she saw countless sea god soldiers wearing blue robes below the city.She also saw the demon monk Putin and the sea god descendant Lorelai. She pointed to them and said, "Sister, it's them! They are the ones who rebelled on Bear Mountain!"

Estelle nodded slowly, "I see." She stared at the picture, her eyes focused on one point, as if she wanted to see the person in the picture dead.

In the picture, the demon monk Putin seems to be giving a speech to mobilize soldiers.Maybe the pigeons flew too high, so the crystal ball only had pictures but no sound, and they couldn't hear what the man said.After a while, the screen changed, the army set out, and a long steel dragon was heading north.

"Looking at the route, are they going to attack the Northern Guards?" Yisruite said in an unbelievable tone, "The two cities of the Northern Guards are the strongest fortresses in Middle-Earth. Why should they fight?"

Hyacinth said, "Maybe they will take a detour to go somewhere else?"

"There is no other way to go," Isrit shook her head. "If they take a detour, the flanks of the troops, especially the supply troops, will be exposed to the attack range of the Acropolis. Most of the west roads are plains. It is suitable for cavalry to gallop, when the knights of the north will teach them the rules of war."

The first picture is the picture of the march, and then the pigeon flew to the middle valley and hovered over Hesse for a while.Yisriette said: "The soldiers and horses in the Middle Valley and the Hessen Valley are also gathering. They want to surround the Sea God Cult's army."

"Hessen Valley?" Hyacinth heard the name familiar, "Where did I hear it?"

Isrit thought for a while and said, "I remember Haven said that he wanted to exile Dreyer to the Hessen Valley."

She subconsciously said, "Oh... it's Mr. Butler."

Estelle said: "You still call him the housekeeper?"

"Well...he is very kind to us, but he..." Hyacinth bit her lip and didn't continue.

Isrit nodded silently, and said: "Actually, I don't hate him either. But Haven told me that he can understand Delaire's actions, but he must also punish this traitor. Everyone must be responsible for his actions Yes, Hyacinth, there is no other way."

Isrit stared at the army in the Hessen Valley and the Middle Valley, and said: "That is the moon night flag of the Florus family, and the gray wolf flag of the Claus family. Most of the leading young knights belong to the Claus family. Son, the middle-aged man next to him should be the Marquis Jiuguang Flowers, or maybe his brother."

Hyacinth didn't even know those flags. Haiwen asked her to recite the family crests and battle flags of the various nobles before, but she was lazy at that time and didn't memorize them. .

Esriette continued: "These guys should be going to support the Northern Guards, and their marching route is from south to north. In this way, the Sea God Cult's army will be attacked by both sides. They...they are dead In this way, the people of the Sea God Cult will definitely die."

"It's a good thing," said Hyacinth, "they are our enemies. I wish they were all dead."

"But the northerners and the little trident are not our friends either, sister." Isrit stared at the crystal ball, "I just hope they will fight a few more times, for a few more years, until both sides are hurt. In this way, My horned children have had time to thrive."

Swamp Maze, XIV

Swamp Maze, XIV

"Did the pigeon see so much?" Hyacinth asked her.

"Most of them are useless things. I'm..." She slid her finger on the crystal ball, "I'm looking for useful pictures."

At this time, another screen lit up.That is the picture of the Sea God Cult army, the army is slowly advancing, there are many wooden carts in the middle of the army, and there is a huge square object on the cart, which is covered with black cloth.Hyacinth asked: "What is this?"

"I don't know, but it's definitely not a good thing. Maybe this is what the Sea God Cult relies on?" Isrit guessed, "Look at it." She slid the crystal ball with her finger, zoomed in on the screen, and the sun and moon rose and fell rapidly.The convoy on the screen also ran wildly.At this moment, Hyacinth's eyes suddenly caught a detail. "Stop!" she said to Isrit, "Sister, can you fall back?"

"Okay." Isrit played the screen back a little bit, Hyacinth stared at it closely, and at a certain moment, she said loudly: "Stop, look here!"