The rescued villainous lady wants to go home with me

In front, some unknown fruit trees appeared in patches, bearing ripe and green fruits on them.

Lorraine has also seen similar fruit trees in their village in Leradi, but not as many as before.

Residents outside the Aino Forest can survive on the resources of the fringe areas, not to mention the elves in the depths, but they have to consider more dangers.

When the other elves were about to put down the baskets on their backs, there was movement from the side, and a bear with brown fur came out from behind a tree, looking at Leradi and the others with those eyes.

The elves also noticed it, and they became vigilant one by one, holding the weapons in their hands to prevent the giant bear from rushing towards them at any time.

Just when the scene was about to stalemate, Lieradi took a step forward, took out the arrow from the quiver, and prepared to make a posture of drawing the bow and strumming the string.

When the bear saw this, he immediately turned around and left.

Seeing the giant bear leave, Lieradi also heaved a sigh of relief.

"Is this all right?" Lorraine stepped forward and asked.

Just now Lorraine saw that Lieradi was just acting intimidating, and he didn't really want to shoot the bear with an arrow.

"Well, it's okay, that's all." Lieradi said, "If it is really hurt, it may be more troublesome."

"But wouldn't it be more troublesome to let it go?" Lorraine worried that the bear would come back again.

"No." Lieradi shook his head, "It is enough to let it know that we will pose a threat to it. As long as we don't do anything excessive, it shouldn't do anything to us. "

For so long, the elves living in Aino Forest have always followed such a principle, whether it is for wild beasts or monsters, as long as they can be forced away, they will never be hurt unless they actively attack.

If the elves take the initiative to attack these guys for no reason, in addition to making them fearful, it will also make them hate the elves.

Never underestimate the vengeance of these guys. Maybe because of a wound, a certain beast or monster will become a long-term trouble for the elves.

Now forcing them to retreat like this can be regarded as a better step for both sides.

I also dealt with elves many times. These guys are basically very knowledgeable, and they almost walked away after a few glances.

They also don't want to do thankless tasks.

Lieradi also put down the basket and said, "Wait for me to get down first, I will help pick some fruits, and then I will take you there."

It is also one of Lieradi's tasks to find out what happened inside, but before that, he still has to help here.

"It's okay. I'll help too," Lorraine said.

This was originally a matter for Lorraine to trouble Lieradi. If he and Xueni hadn't followed, Lieradi might have been more relaxed.

Chapter 28

焦土

"All right."

Putting the last ripe fruit into the basket, Lieradi clapped his hands and said to the rest of the elves, "I'll continue to check the situation there, you wait here for me. But if something happens, You go back first and try to be safe."

"Hmm." The other elves nodded.

If something goes wrong, even if you take the things back in the end, it will be completely meaningless.

"Then let's go." Leradi turned and said to Lorraine.

"Okay." Lorraine looked at Xueni, and found that Xueni was also looking at him with a smile.

Although it helped Leradi and the others to pick the fruit, whether it was Lorraine or Xueni, they seemed somewhat jerky and unskilled, and generally speaking, they didn't help much.

Compared with before coming, Lorraine could find that Lieradi suddenly became vigilant, as if he was preparing for something that would come out at any time.

After continuing to move forward for a while, Lieradi stopped, looked at everything in front of him, and said, "Here, it starts from here."

In front, it was no longer a lush and vibrant scene, but a tree trunk that seemed to have lost its vitality.

The trees full of green leaves behind and the dry trunks in front formed a sharp contrast, and Lorraine and the others were now standing on the dividing line.

"What's going on here?" Lorraine stepped forward and touched the hanging branch.

After he touched it, the upper branch immediately broke due to being too dry.

It seems that some catastrophe has happened here, which caused these trees to become like this. Even the ground under their feet became loose, as if it had been burned, and it was completely unsuitable for any plant to survive.

"We don't know either." Lieradi looked solemn, and this was something they wanted to figure out.

Not long ago, it looked normal here, but these dry trees appeared one after another from the inside, like a wave, constantly moving towards the outside.

Because of this change, the wild beasts and monsters that originally lived inside had to come out of it and move towards the outside.

Many guys have even left Aino Forest.

And according to this speed, it will soon affect the elf tree, which is why some elves are considering whether to leave their original places like those wild beasts.

Being pulled, Xue Ni squeezed Lorraine's hand slightly. Even if she had never seen the scene in front of her, she felt that something was wrong.

"Then we're going to move forward." Leradi said, "If there's anything wrong, you have to go back immediately, go back to the place just now, and then tell them."

After living in Aino Forest for such a long time, it was the first time they had seen such a situation, and they didn't know what went wrong inside.

Led by Lieradi, Lorraine and Xueni followed him and continued to walk inside.

If the trees with green leaves just now gave people a feeling of relaxation, then the dry tree trunks and the dry river that can't see the end now make the whole atmosphere suddenly depressing.

Can't even see any animals here.

"I feel so strange." Xue Ni said.

"What's wrong?" Lorraine stopped, thinking that Xue Ni was feeling unwell.

After a pause, Xue Ni stretched out her other hand and murmured a few words beside her mouth, but found that nothing appeared in her hand.

"I can't seem to use magic anymore."

"Ah?" Lorraine looked at Xueni in surprise, making sure she wasn't joking with herself.

The reason why she doesn't know magic is because the bookmaker disappeared inexplicably, but Xueni learned it by herself, and it belongs to her own power.

"I don't know what happened."

This is a situation that Xue Ni has never seen since she learned magic.

Lieradi also turned around, "I'm like this too."

He discovered this problem when he first came here, and thought it was his own problem.

But now when I heard Xueni say this, I realized that I was not alone in the strangeness.

But after leaving here, it will return to its original state, not completely unable to use magic.

"So be careful," Lieradi continued.

Now the wild beasts and monsters here have basically left, but people have to be careful about not being able to use magic.

Walking to a cliff, Lieradi stopped and looked around, "I came here before, and I found that thing here."

It was here that Leradi found the page, and because of the cliff, he didn't see the road to the opposite side, and it was almost night, so he had to go back.

"I'll see if there's another way around."

After saying that, Lieradi began to look for a way.

Xue Ni leaned her whole body towards Lorraine and said, "I really don't like this place."

She didn't understand why Lorraine wanted to come to this place, was she simply curious?

In fact, not only Xueni, but Lorraine, who doesn't know magic, also feels very uncomfortable because of the strange atmosphere around her.

Lorraine looked around, and in the gray-stained scenery, a page of a book seemed out of place on the withered grass not far away.

"It's this again." Lorraine frowned, he came here just to know what's going on.

Pages are not something the forest would produce on its own.

Walking over with Xueni, Lorraine picked up the pages and looked at them carefully. Like the previous one, one page was blank, while the other page was filled with dense words.

"What is this?" Snowy asked.

She followed Lorraine for a while, and found that she couldn't understand the words on it at all.

"Story," Lorraine replied.

As before, Lorraine also didn't know these words, but when he scanned them, the meaning they expressed would come to his mind again.

"what story?"

"The knight rescued the princess, and the dragon who kidnapped her escaped."

The last page gave Lorraine a rough idea of ​​what story it was about, but this one was more like the end of the story.

Xue Ni couldn't figure it out, and couldn't understand what Lorraine wanted to express.

I thought that this page would disappear out of thin air just like last time, but after waiting for a while, the page was still in Lorraine's hands, and there was no sign of it disappearing.

Lorraine looked at the page again and said, "Is this different from the last one?"

If it wasn't for the meaning of these words that came to his mind, Lorraine might think that these are two unrelated pages, but from the above description, it is obvious that they are interrelated.

Chapter 29

Dragon

Just when Lorraine was wondering what was going on, Lieradi, who was looking for the way, came back.

Before Lorraine could ask, he shook his head, saying that he hadn't found the way.

"It seems like we can only go here again."

Lieradi sighed, he thought he could go to the other side of the cliff this time, and he thought it might be possible to find the reasons for these situations by getting there.

Of course, it's just a possibility and doesn't rule out other situations.

Seeing Lieradi's distressed look, Lorraine didn't know how to respond to him.

To be honest, he also wanted to know what was going on.

On the contrary, Xue Ni beside her felt relieved. Regarding this strange place, she didn't want Lorraine to go deeper. She always felt that something dangerous would happen.

"But I picked this up on the road." Leradi took out the thing that he had kept behind him just now.

It was a heavy looking book, but for some unknown reason, the cover of the book looked burnt.

"this......"

Lorraine took the book, opened it, and found that the title page had also been burnt, and no writing could be seen on the page.

"Do you know this thing?" Leradi always felt that Lorraine was very concerned about this.

Xue Ni also stared at Lorraine, watching his face become serious.

After flipping through several pages, Lorraine's eyes finally fell on the last page, where there were obvious traces of torn pages.

Lorraine hesitated, and then pieced together the pages he found just now.

Under their gaze, the pages of the book are connected together like broken branches of a tree trunk.

"Eh?"

Xueni and Lieradi looked surprised, because the situation in front of them was a bit too strange, and it could even be described as weird.

When they looked to Lorraine for an explanation, they found that the expression on Lorraine's face was similar to theirs, or could only be said to be slightly better.

"What's going on?" Xueni leaned against Lorraine. Although she sometimes felt that Lorraine was strange, it was the first time this kind of thing happened to him.

"I don't know too well," Lorraine said.

Just now I was thinking that the page with the end of the story on it might be the last page of this book.

But he didn't expect this to happen either.

It can only be said to be a coincidence.

Just when Lorraine was about to flip through the book again to see if he could find anything.

Suddenly there was that familiar voice in my mind.

"Hide away."