196.Chapter 196 Bad Water is Contagious
Chapter 196 – Bad Water is Contagious
As if some kind of shrill insect alarm sound instantly resounded throughout the building.
The wooden floors and staircases activated one after another, and the tree people patrolling everywhere were instantly sent to Ashitsuki’s room like goods on a conveyor belt.
Renee only froze for a split second before reacting.
“You’re going to regret this.”
She looked to Ashitsuki in disappointment before leaping out of the window.
Ashitsuki didn’t stop her, but watched her opponent do so.
She was suddenly cloaked in a silver-plated light armor when she was in mid-air, and then a crack tore through the space in front of her, and her entire body was sucked in.
“Are you alright?”
The security officer shot to his feet.
Graymoon shook his head and pointed toward the window.
“She escaped through here.”
“I’m glad you’re okay ……”
The elf breathed a sigh of relief, then began questioning, investigating, and finally placing Ashitsuki in a side room with a guarded doorway and window.
It wasn’t long before Ryan Antler went and returned.
It was obvious that the elder tree herder was a bit angry, but the look he gave Graymoon was one of relief.
“You did well, what did that Third Queen say to you?”
“She said some borderline stupid things.”
Ashitsuki grunted, like she was very dismissive.
“She said something about the Council of Elders wanting to imprison me in Mourning Wood City and make me a bouquet of flowers in a vase to be the ostensible hero.
“And something about dividing up the Blight Trail in the Whispering Forest as a territory and then working with me to heal the blight there.
“This is simply more outrageous than a fairy tale that fools children! Oh yeah ……”
Gray Moon added, “She doesn’t seem to intend to give up, saying that I’ll definitely regret it, and that my mind will definitely change the next time I see her …… I can’t understand it, are all the people of the royal family so arrogant?”
There was a noticeable stiffening of Ryan’s expression.
But his face was supposed to look like tree bark, so it wasn’t really noticeable.
“Their arrogance is innate.”
He spoke slowly:
“And unlike the royal family, which is closely connected to the people of gold, the backer behind her is the creator of the Magic Web, the mage of the Academy of Truth ……”
“Mage? She relied on mages to disappear out of thin air?”
“Yes, that’s the escape scroll.”
“What’s that?” Ashitsuki asked curiously.
Ryan hadn’t wanted to explain the chicken scratch, but now he had to appease the important people in front of him.
So he patiently said, “An expensive and extremely damaging spatial teleportation prop, and it must be anchored beforehand and prepared with the appropriate means of protection.”
In order to prevent the other party from continuing to open his mouth, he simply said, “I still have to go search for the location of their hidden anchor point in Mourning Wood City, you rest early.”
“Can I go around the city?” Ashitsuki asked, “This is my first time in Mourning Wood City, and I promised my crew that I would bring them something back.”
The question silenced Ryan for a moment.
“I’ll have someone secretly protect you.”
“Thank you so much then.”
Ryan saw nothing but sincere gratitude in her eyes.
He nodded and turned to leave.
Closing the door behind him, Ashitsuki stood for a moment before she went limp all of a sudden.
She gasped like a dehydrated fish, her chest heaving violently.
It was too exciting.
If it had been her old self, she might have followed Renee in a brainstorm.
But after experiencing that night at the Blight Trail and digesting Quirkus’ memories, her mind was vaguely changing.
Compared to that, Heine’s type of conversation was truly equal.
When he handed over the blade of Quirkus to himself, he also advised himself not to trust the “one-sided words” of others.
This is sincerity.
Like Renee said, they are indeed the same kind of people who only believe in themselves.
So this time, Gray Moon still believed in herself.
She threw the question back to the Council of Elders and added fuel to the fire by emphasizing that the royal family hadn’t given up yet.
That way, the council would have to reevaluate her.
It would be nice if the “size of the award” for her could be reduced.
She wanted nothing more now than to return to the Whispering Woods with her people.
She wanted to take them back to the Whispering Woods and live the good life of eating five meals a day, whoever she wanted. Judging by Ryan’s reaction at the end, she’d obviously succeeded.
The other party wouldn’t go too far, even if they still had thoughts about her.
Thinking about this, and thinking about what Renee had said about the secret, she had mixed feelings for a moment.
There was a time when Mourning Wood City and the Council of Elders, these words were all sacred in her mind.
She didn’t realize that this place also hid dirt like this.
She couldn’t help but think of General Sa.
No wonder that big senior named some people to be taken away from here ……
Could it be that he also saw through this place long ago?
“It’s amazing that the living aren’t a bit purer than the dead English souls.”
Gray Moon sighed before quickly pulling herself together and leaving the room.
……
Late at night, inside the heart chamber of Oak Irukus.
A lumpy mass of roots suddenly rumbled up from the ground, then transformed into a figure.
He walked over to Ryan Antler, who had his eyes closed:
“My lord.”
Ryan opened his eyes, “She went back?”
“Yes, my lord.”
“Where has she been all this time?”
“She first went to Oak Square, and then arrived at the Garden Market along the Elders’ Path ……”
The subordinate reported one by one.
Gray Moon’s whereabouts resembled that of a country bumpkin entering the city for the first time.
But the difference was that she started from the inner city and wandered outward.
“…… There’s a little something in the meantime that might interest you.”
“What is it?”
“She was particularly interested in some of the younger children, such as a vaudevillian named Stylanis in Timber Lane, and a hotel where there was a little girl named Sangress, and she inquired about their ages, and took down their names, and left them some money, and seemed to have a pull at them.”
Ryan froze for a few seconds, “Who were those people?”
“Unimpressive little characters. Basically the children of mercenaries, single parent or even parentless families. Age and strength prevent them from registering as mercenaries, so they can only make a living this way. As far as I understand it, the personnel of the Cui Ye Court are basically screened in this way, and she’s probably suffering from an occupational disease.”
Ryan pondered and suddenly asked, “Are there many young people like them in the city?”
“There are over a thousand of these teens under the age of fifty in Woodland Lane, and at least triple that if you go out further, places like Phantomwood Bay and Nardolan Valley, most of them unregistered exiles.”
“Has there been a qualification check?”
The subordinate nodded after a slight hesitation, “This part of the city has basically been done, the ones with excellent qualifications have been absorbed by the forest guards, the population outside of the city can’t be registered, making it difficult to carry out the work, but the talent can’t be covered up like a shoot that breaks out of the ground, so there’s usually no slip-ups.”
Ryan nodded slightly, contemplating before speaking slowly:
“The ordination ceremony is put on hold for now, cancel all official publicity efforts, and use Timber Lane as a boundary to put the word out there that the blight in Whispering Woods has been solved and that the heroes are in the city.
“In the meantime if she intends to leave, put the word out that the hero who defeated the blight is returning to the battlefield.
“If there are many people following her at that time, we’ll help her out by granting her that area in the name of the Council of Elders.
“If there aren’t many, then let her go.”
Subordinate: “Yes, my lord. One more thing, the sentry guards found the stealthy blimp, but the Ancient Tree Guard didn’t manage to leave it behind.”
Ryan frowned, “Why?”
“We don’t know, but it did evade the attack, but thanks to the samples brought by Lady Graymoon this time, we found corrosion marks similar to those on the Stygian Guard’s armor on the falling wreckage of the blimp, so we judged that they applied the phasing technology to the blimp.”
“They can already do this to this extent? ……”
Ryan muttered, then waved his hand.
“Stand down.”
“Yes.”
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The western stronghold of the Blighted Trail.
Terra Feather falls from the sky, it has a man on its back and two skeletons clutched in its claws.
It was none other than Chief Sa and Mr. Xia who accompanied Heine to squat for information on the Blighted Trace.
Heine guessed that the Trail of Blight would be repeatedly patronized by multiple parties in the near future, so every time he went, he would bring Mr. Xia with him, so that he could wander around and explore the situation first, and then go to the Heart Chamber himself.
The appointment with Hui Hui was in the latter part of the night, and the reason for choosing such a netherworldly hour was also to prevent accidents from occurring in the middle of the day.
As soon as he landed, Carl greeted him and said excitedly, “Anything today?”
(End of chapter)