Chapter 134 Is there something wrong with the snow dragon fruit? The return journey to the triangular wooden cabin...
The next day, Nonori woke up as expected. His breathing was steady and his magic was abundant. His waist-length hair was now ridiculously long, hanging down to the ground.
After Shu Xin woke up, she called Veranika, and together they went to visit Nonoli. When the golden feathers that served as doors retracted to the sides, the handsome elf, who seemed to glow, sat blankly on the golden feather bed, with long, satin-like purple hair scattered all over the floor.
"Your Highness!" Upon seeing the flower fairy outside the door, Nono quickly stood up. With her movement, her long purple hair slid gracefully, like a pool of shimmering magical water.
This is really a bit exaggerated. Shu Xin couldn't even get into the house. Does the snow dragon fruit really contain that much magic? She ate a big piece of snow dragon fruit, but her hair didn't grow a single centimeter.
"Are you alright, Nuonuo?" Shu Xin asked. She squatted down and tentatively reached for a handful of long hair flowing on the floor, trying to make room for herself. But she found nothing; the strands of hair had no substance.
"I'm fine, Your Highness, my hair..." Nono frowned. He pulled out his magic wand from his pocket and waved it gently. The purple hair that covered the ground disappeared in the next second. At the same time, the concentration of magic in the room suddenly increased.
Shu Xin then realized that the long hair that almost covered the floor was a manifestation of magic.
The reason why Nonori fell into a deep sleep after eating two large pieces of snow dragon fruit was because his body could not handle the high purity of magic contained in the fruit. After a whole night of digestion and absorption, the remaining large amount of magic was expelled from his body in the form of hair strands, which allowed Nonori to wake up.
Shu Xin suddenly remembered the story of the red rice fruit that Nonoli had mentioned to her before. At that time, she had just arrived in the Land of Sin and wanted to improve the food for the flower fairy slaves, but Nonoli dissuaded her. He said that a flower fairy noble had once given red rice fruit to the slaves, and all the slaves who ate the red rice fruit died.
She heard it at the time, but didn't take it to heart. After all, there was no red rice fruit in the Land of Sin, and even if there were, she wouldn't give it directly to the slaves. At that time, she only arranged for the slaves to drink barley leaf soup. But now she was thinking of giving the snow dragon fruit directly to the flower fairies!
Shu Xin felt a little scared at this moment.
The riverside fairy has a high need for magic. Even as a flower fairy, she couldn't resist eating more and more snow dragon fruit. If Veranika hadn't taken the second piece away, she definitely would have continued eating. Nonori, who had just been restored to his riverside fairy form, also naturally had an uncontrollable need for magic. That's why the usually composed and self-controlled Nonori ate two large pieces of snow dragon fruit in one go. If his body's protective mechanism hadn't triggered and caused him to fall into a deep sleep, Nonori probably would have continued eating...
Red rice fruit can kill flower fairy slaves, and snow dragon fruit can kill river elves!
In particular, now that Nonori has regained his normal size as a river elf, the amount of magic he can bear and store is far greater than that of a flower fairy. However, even he slept for a whole night after eating two large pieces of snow dragon fruit.
If the Snow Clan had given in yesterday and traded a large quantity of Snow Dragon Fruit to her, Shu Xin knew very well that she would have returned to the Land of Sin that very day. After bringing the Snow Dragon Fruit back to the Land of Sin, she would definitely have shared it with the Flower Fairies as soon as possible—it was truly a nightmare!
...Her understanding of magic and magical power was still too superficial.
"This is the first time I've ever seen a fruit with such pure magic," Xi's voice echoed in Shu Xin's mind. "But this is such a waste! If you can't eat it, don't eat so much!"
Shu Xin's lips twitched. Xi was indeed unreliable. Come to think of it, it made sense. As a demon from the Demon Realm, how could he possibly know so much about the specialty crops of a race in the material plane?
Nonori looked apologetic as well: "I'm so sorry, Your Highness, for causing you trouble..."
Shu Xin quickly waved her hand: "Don't say that. It's all thanks to you, Nuonuo Li. After I ate the Snow Dragon Fruit, I felt that my magic power was greatly replenished. I was thinking of buying more from the Snow Clan to bring back to the Land of Sin for the flower fairies to eat. If you hadn't fallen asleep, I definitely wouldn't have discovered the problem!"
The Flower Fairy's identity was indeed special. Shu Xin had originally thought that the River Fairy's constitution would be better than the Flower Fairy's, but the opposite was true. She could sense that even if she ate a whole Snow Dragon Fruit, she wouldn't feel any discomfort. Or perhaps, even though Nonori had regained her normal size, she couldn't truly be considered a River Fairy?
Xi was completely baffled: [The problem? What problem? Is there something wrong with the snow dragon fruit?]
"But if you say there's a problem, then there's a problem. Are you still going to buy the snow dragon fruit?" Xi asked, a little embarrassed. "I'd really like to try it and see what it tastes like..."
She would definitely still buy it; the problem wasn't with the snow dragon fruit. This time, Shu Xin didn't ask the Snow Clan to sell large quantities of snow dragon fruit to the Land of Sin. She only needed the Snow Clan to trade her one snow dragon fruit.
Veranika seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and offered to give the river elf a snow dragon fruit for free. Shu Xin thought about it and accepted it, but she also asked Veranika to tell the chief that she genuinely wanted to do business with the Snow Clan on snow dragon fruit.
“No trade is needed.” Veranika said after sending the river elf out of the snow tornado. “As long as we can confirm that your people will not be harmed after eating the snow dragon fruit, we can supply you with snow dragon fruit free of charge.”
“I think the chief has already told you that the Snow Clan will be the River Elves’ eternal friends,” Veranica said earnestly.
Shu Xin smiled and waved: "Precisely because we are friends, we need to discuss the deal properly and not let our friends suffer losses! Goodbye, Veronica! I believe we will meet again soon, and I will bring good news!"
After bidding farewell to the Snow Tribe, Shu Xin and her group began their journey back, guided by the Ice Crystal Road.
On the way back, Shu Xin carefully reviewed the information she had gathered about the River Fairy.
Before leaving the Snow Tornado, Shu Xin asked Veranika about the normal lifespan of the River Elves. The Snow Clan member was puzzled by the question, but still answered Shu Xin's question, telling her that the River Elves were also a long-lived species, with a lifespan between five hundred and seven hundred years.
The problem is then quite obvious—
Since its founding, the Kingdom of Garnar has only had eleven members of the royal family who are flower fairies, including the king. Because the king, who has lived for more than three thousand years, is likely a true river elf, Shu Xin always thought that the lifespan of a true river elf would be longer than that of a flower fairy. However, the normal lifespan of a river elf is five hundred to seven hundred years!
This made it hard for Shu Xin not to suspect that the flower fairies were also modified spirits, and not by humans, but by the king. Thinking of the flower fairies who had been taken away by the patrolmen and never returned, Shu Xin couldn't help but sigh.
"What's wrong?" The little lamb lying on the fairy's lap lazily raised its head.
Thinking of something, Shu Xin asked, "Xi, what does Nuonuoli look like now?"
"Huh? Still a blockhead? What else could it be like?" The little lamb kicked its legs, blinked under Shu Xin's gaze, and reorganized its words, "It has plenty of magic, strong vitality, and a powerful soul. It looks especially delicious!"
Shu Xin raised her hand and slapped the little lamb on the head: "Is that what I asked? Didn't you always tell me that flower fairies were alchemical life forms? Now? Do you still see Nonoli as an alchemical life form?"
Xi paused for a moment, then looked up at the car curtain. Nuonuo was driving outside, and naturally she couldn't see him through the curtain, but that didn't hinder Xi's perception.
The lamb, having turned its gaze away, tilted its head: "How strange, how did it transform from an alchemical life form into a natural life form?"
"It has become a natural life form..." Shu Xin leaned back against the car wall in relaxation, and couldn't help but smile slightly. "That's really great."
Having transformed from an alchemical being into a natural being, Nonori is now a true riverside spirit, isn't she? But even the alchemical flower fairies, in the eyes of the Tree of Life, are all His children, just like the flower fairies.
Shu Xin thought to herself that no matter how hard she tried, coming from a technological world, she could never understand magic and magical power as instinctively and fundamentally as the natives of the magical world. But that didn't matter. Her goal was to improve the living standards of the flower fairies, not to become a great magician.
Upon returning to the Land of Sin, Shu Xin saw several small wooden houses already built next to the triangular thatched houses in the civilian settlement. Perhaps influenced by the thatched houses, the new wooden houses built by the flower fairies were also triangular.
The flower fairies were still busily building houses when Shu Xin, as usual, cast a concealment spell on herself, curiously approached, and carefully examined the little wooden house they had built.
Because the berry wood comes in various colors—reddish-brown cherry wood, light yellow ruby wood, dark green white moonwood, milky white blueberry wood, deep orange raspberry wood, and off-white blackberry wood—the flower fairies arranged and combined them in various ways according to their own preferences. In the end, the triangular wooden houses they built came in all sorts of colors, colorful and very cute.
Then Shu Xin discovered that the flower fairies had used the broad leaves of the reed in various creative ways. Some had finely chopped them into strands to hang in front of doors and windows as curtains, others had crushed them and spread them thickly on the ground as carpets, and some had even spread the whole leaf out and pasted it on the wall as wallpaper—how did they stick it up like that? Reeds don't have any adhesive properties, do they?
Entering the Flower Castle with a belly full of questions, Shu Xin first put the snow dragon fruit she brought back into the underground cold storage, then went to the kitchen to find Mei Meilin, telling her that she could use the snow dragon fruit to make sweet soup and specifically reminding her that it could only be used in small quantities. After that, Shu Xin wanted to find Peng Pengan to find out about the progress of the various projects in the Land of Sin, but she couldn't find Peng Pengan.
After asking the servants, Shu Xin learned that Peng Peng An had gone to the underground city.
Could it be that the demons are causing trouble again? Shu Xin instantly became alert.
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A note from the author: I had an upset stomach and hesitated between taking a day off and continuing to write, but ultimately decided to stick to my work.
I finished writing at 2 PM, only to realize I forgot to add the word count replacement. My little red flower is gone! [Screams]
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