Chapter 281 Departure for the Royal City, the air filled with the fragrance of fruit...
Shu Xin remained silent for a long time, calming her overwhelming sadness caused by the memory, and focused her attention on the scene she saw before losing consciousness—
It was an endless white sea of fog, and in the vast white mist stood a huge withered tree. Clearly, this tree, with only dry branches remaining, was the Tree of Life.
Indeed, many cocoons of light hung from the withered tree of life!
But it could absolutely not be a fruit of life born from the Tree of Life. The message conveyed by the Key of Life clearly stated that the Tree of Life had suffered severe damage and was temporarily unable to give birth to new life.
Using illusion magic, Shu Xin carefully examined every detail of the scene in her memory. She quickly discovered that the light cocoons had no contact with the branches of the Tree of Life; they simply floated around the Tree of Life. Most importantly, there were exactly nine light cocoons.
The Kingdom of Ganar has a total of eleven royal members who are flower fairies. Apart from Shushuxin, who was exiled to the Land of Sin, and King Ganar, there are nine remaining flower fairies.
Thinking of the king's hatred for the material world, the magic tax that the flower fairies had been paying year after year, and the message from the Tree of Life, "Please save us," Shu Xin had a vague sense of foreboding.
Dispelling the magical illusions before her, Shu Xin decided to head directly to the royal city. She planned to see for herself what the Tree of Life was really like once she arrived.
During this period, teleportation points built with the Tree of Life as the coordinates spread from north to south, covering four-fifths of the entire Kingdom of Ganar. The more teleportation arrays were built, the more convenient it became for caravans to travel. Whether it was transporting supplies or transmitting messages, the efficiency became higher and higher, and the construction speed of teleportation arrays naturally became faster and faster.
But after learning this, Shu Xin found it even stranger.
Every place that has built a teleportation array, whether it is a big city or a small village, will abolish the magic tax. However, the king clearly attaches great importance to the collection of magic tax. So much time has passed, and the harvest month is almost here again, but Garnar has not made any response. This is very abnormal!
Comparing the message on the Tree of Life with the one that made her feel extremely uneasy, Shu Xin became a little anxious. She immediately found Mimi Lan, handed over her work, and left Bobomo City that same day.
"Vivina! We should get going!" The fairy, still in her flower fairy form, flew over and landed on a thick green leaf that swayed gently in the breeze. She raised her voice and asked her companion below, "Is the merchandise all packed?"
The elf, who had also shrunk in size, squatted in the open space in front of the fruit house, busy counting the space stones: "Ah, Huhulin, you're here! I'll be in a while! By the way, have you seen the White Feather Bird?"
"I've seen it, I've seen it! Duoduo has finished feeding the white-feathered birds, and she's preening their feathers. What else are you still counting? Is it over here...?" Huhu Lin replied as she flew down to help count the space stones.
Shu Xin stood on the roof of the small house made of fallen fruit, looked at the busy caravan members under the vines, and then looked at the sky that was about to brighten. By the time the sun rose, the caravan would be almost ready to set off for the royal city.
The elves in the caravan were actually quite efficient at their work, but Shu Xin was in a bit of a hurry and was getting anxious while waiting, wishing she could help out herself.
Finally, she looked away from the merchants' overly meticulous inventory and began to examine the round fruit house at her feet.
This magical plant, called the Fallen Fruit, is a vine with sturdy tendrils that climb in all directions, and leaves that appear exceptionally large and heavy compared to the size of a flower fairy. The fruits it produces are all short and plump, which, in Shu Xin's eyes, are exactly the same as the pumpkins in her original world.
The only difference is that the otherworldly magical pumpkin is larger and redder. However, Shu Xin remembers that there is a type of pumpkin with red skin, so this is probably the magical red-skinned pumpkin.
It's likely that the flower fairies named this magical plant "Fallen Fruit" because these magical red-skinned pumpkins fall to the ground after they grow up.
This small village is nestled in the fields of fallen fruit trees. The flower fairies living here naturally adapt to the local conditions. The green leaf salads and green leaf soups they eat are made from the tender leaves of the fallen fruit trees. The woven baskets and furniture they use are made from the thin vines of the fallen fruit trees, and the houses they live in are made from the fruits of the fallen fruit trees.
The little house under Shuxin's feet is a complete fallen fruit. After hollowing out the pulp and thoroughly drying the peel, and finally opening the door and windows, a beautiful, all-natural fruit house is formed.
As for the magically sweet and delicate flesh of the fallen fruit, the flower fairies rarely get to taste it—
The vast majority of fallen fruit pulp is used to pay magic tax, and the remaining pulp is used as a commodity to exchange for necessary medicines and weapons. Only when the harvest is particularly good will there be extra pulp. This pulp is often dried, ground into powder, and stored away to be boiled into a soup for wounded soldiers when the harvest month arrives.
But things are different now. The Flower Fairy has abolished the collection of the magic tax!
When Shu Xin teleported over, the flower fairy-like elves were having a blast cooking big pots of sweet soup, and the air was filled with the sweet aroma of fruit.
This small village, which is famous for its fallen fruit, is located at the southernmost end of the teleportation array. If you go any further south, you will leave the coverage area of the teleportation array.
The Blue Fruit caravan that is currently preparing to set off is the first caravan to be teleported here. As for the Fallen Fruit caravan that helped the villagers build the teleportation array, they originally came from this small village. After returning to their hometown fully loaded with goods, they will rest until the end of the harvest month before setting off again.
The Blue Fruit caravan was also returning to its hometown, and the Blue Fruit, which was used to name the caravan, was one of the specialties of the royal city.
Actually, Shu Xin originally planned to teleport directly to the royal city, but unexpectedly she couldn't get the accurate spatial coordinates of Ganar City.
The information provided by the Tree of Life is that the spatial coordinates of the city of Garnar are changing every moment.
The elves were completely unaware of this strange phenomenon—
Shu Xin was overjoyed to learn that the Blue Fruit Caravan came from the Royal City. She immediately asked the caravan members for the coordinates of the Royal City, but each elf gave her a different spatial coordinate.
If you ask again after a while, the coordinates given by the elves are different from those they gave before, and although the coordinates they each reported are completely different, they act as if they heard the same coordinate information.
Shu Xin could only accept this helplessly, since she could use confusion magic to interfere with the elves' perception, and Ganar could obviously do the same.
Unable to teleport directly, Shu Xin had no choice but to follow the caravan. Although the coordinates of the royal city reported by the elves were changing in real time, this also indicated that the elves could sense the true coordinates of the royal city. As long as she followed the caravan, she would definitely be able to enter the royal city.
As the sun rises, the light morning mist that lingers in the forest slowly dissipates, and white-feathered birds flap their wings, passing through the shadows of the trees and the sunlight, and fly towards the sky.
Shu Xin concealed herself and followed the flock of birds at a distance.
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