Chapter 235 Intelligence Officer Preliminary List: The Magic Tree Caravan Goes Out...
Shu Xin's guess was correct.
Three thousand years ago, when the Garnar Plain was still called the Green Forest Plain, the people living in the center of the continent were not dragons, but elves.
The central sea area today was a vast, warm, and lush plain covered with dense forests three thousand years ago. This plain, which occupied two-thirds of the entire continent of Lefra, was the true Green Forest Plain.
At that time, there were no dragon races yet. The dragon race was small in number and lived alongside other divine races such as giant eagles and unicorns in the more humid and hot southern part of the continent.
The northern part of the continent is characterized by towering peaks and steep mountains, with relatively small plains and a complex and changeable climate. Many races live together here. Among them, the orcs occupy the scarce but fertile plains and have established several empires and kingdoms; the goblins live in various underground caves and reproduce in the form of tribes; while the snowmen, treants and other races either live on cold mountaintops or on steep cliffs.
The river spirits, born from the Tree of Life formed from the divine essence of the creator god, also live peacefully in the northern part of the continent.
Three thousand years ago, the human race was included within the orc race; the elf race also belonged to the goblin tribe.
Shu Xin had previously thought that the human empires and states with a history of ten thousand years were actually all inheriting the names of the former orc empires and states.
Let's do a simple deduction—
Three thousand years ago, the River Elves, who lived in a remote corner of the northern part of the continent, were discovered by human mages. Then, under the siege of the humans, the Tree of Life was severely damaged, and the River Elves were on the verge of extinction. The Great Horned Deer herd that came from the Green Forest Plains to rescue the River Elves was also wiped out.
The specific details are unknown, but from then on, most of the Green Forest Plains became sea. The entire Elf race migrated north, and after the Dragon race settled in the central sea, a huge number of wyverns were born. The Human and Fairy races rose rapidly and jointly occupied the plains and valleys around the central sea, constantly waging war. Meanwhile, the Orcs and Goblins, who were once powerful in the northern part of the continent, declined rapidly and all went to live in the remote southern part of the continent.
Shu Xin felt there was a 100% probability that this change was related to the divine status of the creator god.
She used to think that only the Blazeman Empire was the culprit among humans, but now it seems like everyone is a villain.
Bleitzman was originally the name of a river elf. If Bleitzman's memories are real and have not been altered, then the first human mage to discover the river elf was indeed Bleitzman's good friend, the water mage Delia, whose life had been full of ups and downs.
The more Shu Xin thought about it, the more she felt that the Bretzmann Empire was being pushed out to take the blame.
Of course, all of this is just her own speculation, but it's definitely not a problem to be on high alert when facing humans.
It's not like she's never been a person before!
Humans are indeed a fascinating species; their potential is as high as their potential is low.
Although the doubts in my heart have been temporarily resolved, more mysteries have emerged. As for what exactly happened back then, only King Ganar, who witnessed everything, can know the truth.
Shu Xin organized the information she could gather and then moved on to follow up on the selection and deployment of intelligence personnel.
Many flower fairies volunteered to sign up, but after being screened through layers of applicants, only six names were finally presented to Shu Xin: three flower fairy warriors and three flower fairy merchants.
The warriors' names are Bebelo, Totona, and Fufuna;
The merchants' names are Tetesen, Mengmengna, and Linlinan.
Shu Xin had an impression of Bei Bei Luo among the warriors. This flower fairy warrior with long pink and white hair fought extremely bravely. Her mother, Ya Ya Lian, was one of the original servants of the Flower Castle in the Land of Sin. She had a rare talent for miniature garden magic. Now, Ya Ya Lian has regained her elven form and is a high-ranking deacon.
Linlin An, one of the merchants, was also a semi-acquaintance of Shu Xin. She was the mother of Pepet, one of the current business officers of the Land of Sin. In the previous incident where An Anka's Golden Cloak caravan was attacked and fell into a coma, it was thanks to her Gray Feather caravan that the Golden Cloak caravan's abnormality was discovered in time, otherwise An Anka's group of flower fairies would not have been able to return.
Shu Xin didn't recognize the other flower fairy warriors and merchants.
Shu Xin did not interfere with the selection process of intelligence personnel, so she was unaware of the specific selection criteria. After receiving the list, she directly checked it using the Tree of Life.
It's fine for warriors to choose those who can fight, and it's also fine for merchants to choose those with strong mental and magical talents. But among these selection criteria, why is the most important one "priority given to those with few blood relatives or whose blood relatives are already independent and self-reliant"?
So Shu Xin checked the preliminary list in her hand and then went to the Tree of Life to find out the kinship between the six flower fairies.
Of the three selected warriors, Bebelo adopted three children, but her only blood relative is her mother, Yaya Lian; Totona lost both her parents and has only two younger sisters, Totona and Totosa, who are also warriors in the Sinful Lands patrol; Fufuna is one of the few flower fairies from the royal city, and all her relatives are gone.
Of the three flower fairy merchants on the list, Tetson has five children, but he was once caught in a rainstorm on his way to trade and became a flower fairy slave. He only recovered after arriving in the Land of Sin. His wife remarried and took their children with her, and he now lives alone. Mengmengna is a celibate and has never married or had children. As for Linlinan, she has six children, but all six of them work in the Land of Sin, including her youngest child, Linlinte.
When Linlinte was a little flower fairy, she was still too young to go to school and needed her parents' company and care every day, let alone work. However, because of her extremely outstanding spiritual magic talent, Linlinte was sent out by Shuxin, who had no other choice, to take on part of the feeding work for the little snow sheep.
When the Land of Sin suffered a drought and experienced severe heatwaves, the Snow Sheep Farm was relocated to the Twin Moon Snowfield. Even then, young flower fairies like Linlinte remained steadfast at their posts. After the drought ended, the Snow Sheep Farm remained on the Twin Moon Snowfield and was not moved back. The young children continued to travel to the farm via teleportation array to comfort and care for the newborn snow sheep.
The magical concentration in the Land of Sin was gradually recovering, and food was plentiful, so a large number of female flower fairies chose to conceive. In addition, the gestation period for flower fairies is only three months, which means that at present, the vast majority of adult flower fairies have children to take care of.
...These six flower fairies on the list were probably carefully selected.
Shu Xin couldn't help but sigh.
Even with all the preparations made in advance, she still couldn't guarantee that all the intelligence agents who went to foreign lands would return safely to the land of evil. The flower fairies were well aware of this, and this selection rule was probably formulated with this in mind.
Ultimately, Shu Xin did not make any changes to the list.
The selection of demons was much simpler. These belligerent fellows even wanted to use the selection as an excuse to start a brawl. When the officers and clerks noticed something was wrong, they immediately reported to the Flower Fairy and received a solution—to place an order with the alchemy workshop to rush out a batch of alchemical anti-magic rings.
The Darkmoon Elves reluctantly donned the anti-magic rings and were forced into a friendly and polite sparring session in the dungeon.
After selecting a large number of demons who were skilled in disguise, good at hiding, and extremely fast at escaping, Shu Xin went to the Tree of Life for a second screening, from which she selected nine demons who had the best mastery of both Elven script and Chinese characters.
If the flower fairies gather any crucial intelligence outside, they can temporarily record it using elven script. However, if they want to transmit it to the Land of Sin, the demons will need to record it a second time using Chinese characters.
Shu Xin had meticulously verified with the Tree of Life that there was no other person in this magical world who had transmigrated like her, and that the Chinese characters were clearly the safest and most difficult-to-decipher cipher in the world.
After all the candidates were finalized, the appointment notices for the intelligence officers were secretly issued. On the surface, the Land of Sin formed three caravans led by wind sprites. These three caravans were all called Magic Tree Caravans. After the harvest month, the merchants and guards would leave the Kingdom of Garnar with various specialties from the Land of Sin to explore new trade routes.
Because of her overly aggressive fighting style, the warrior Beibeiluo, who always ends up in the medical room, teamed up with Linlinan, a meticulous and steady merchant who has been leading caravans on the road for many years.
The somewhat shy and introverted warrior Fufuna, with a gentle temperament and quiet demeanor, was assigned to the same group as the enthusiastic, outgoing, lively, and always energetic merchant Tetson.
The gentle-spoken warrior Totona is the youngest, yet she possesses a composure far beyond her years. She is responsible for protecting the oldest, but most lively and unconventional, merchant, Monmona.
In addition to the two flower fairies, each magic tree caravan also has three dark moon elves and five wind fairies from the Qinqinlar family.
The wind sprites were the biggest supporters of forming a magic tree caravan in the Land of Sin.
The time they spent living in the Land of Sin was enough for them to figure out the unique products of this territory. Almost as soon as Shu Xin expressed her idea of leading a few caravans on a journey, Qinqin Laer came to visit the Flower Castle with a well-organized catalog of goods.
The harvest month ended uneventfully, and the rainy season with its abundant rainfall also came to an end. What is coming soon is the dry season that Shuxin is more accustomed to.
Watching the ostensibly magical tree caravan, but actually an intelligence team, slowly disappear from sight, Shu Xin let out a long breath and asked the business officer Pepper behind her:
"Does the garment workshop have any finished products yet?"
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