Firefinch (5)

The territory of Harunga is the southern border of Chune, and the ocean to the south is also under its jurisdiction.

At the southernmost tip of Qiu Nie, there is a large U-shaped bay sunken into the land. There are few winds and waves throughout the year, no high tides, the coast is flat and the land is solid. It should have been a good port for foreign trade. During the Age of Discovery, thousands of ships competed to cross the bay. However, due to the current tense situation among the three countries, it is still the territory of fishing boats.

Connected to this U-shaped bay to form an ellipse is a long chain of arc-shaped islands.

This chain of islands, which consists of many large islands and countless reefs, is officially called the Sea Island Reef Chain.

People in the south have a beautiful name for it: the pearl necklace on the South China Sea clavicle.

There are no indigenous people on these islands, but fishermen from the South China Sea sometimes visit them by boat because of this chain of islands, and the fishing harvest in the South China Sea is quite good every year.

But in recent months, fishermen in the South China Sea have been banned from visiting the islands.

When Alex and Inger came here to inquire, they were rejected outright by the fishermen.

So they dragged the freckled girl to the shore.

Alex grabbed her collar and said, "Say it, or I'll throw you into the sea."

The other minions unanimously pointed out that this girl was the only one who knew the origin of the virus, and she was also responsible for delivering and receiving the goods.

They all called her Alsophila rubrum.

The freckles on the face of the red tree also, a pair of drooping eyes, and a few tears can arouse people's sympathy.

However, at this moment, her eyes narrowed.

"I've said everything I can. If I knew how to get there, I would have gone there a long time ago. Is this the only way you can threaten me?"

Her voice is completely different from the adorable little girl before.

Alsophila rubripes the tree with an attitude that he is ready to kill you. "You said you would protect my safety. You were not lying, were you?"

Alex: "That depends on whether you like your life in prison or not."

"Whatever, as long as I can get out of this damn place."

The group of thugs from before were also sent to the county police station.

The red tree also just sneered at this.

Inger was still thinking about what happened before and couldn't help asking, "Why are you okay after eating?"

The red tree also sneered and said, "I am immune to all poisons."

Alex: “You lied again.”

Inger believed it: "Let's just assume it's like this for now. Actually, I put green moss in the food you ate before, enough to make you addicted. But you didn't react at all. Not only are you immune to all poisons, you probably also have no sense of taste."

The red tree also's face was a mixture of blue and red.

Inger looked at her and said calmly, "You know the harm this thing can bring to people, yet you still tricked others into eating it. You should realize that you have brought this upon yourself."

The three men stood on the shore, with the salty sea vapor blowing towards them, and fishing boats returning home one after another with full loads.

Alex knocked the red tree also unconscious and said to Inger, "Let's sleep here for one night and think of a solution tomorrow morning."

Inger nodded in agreement.

The two of them traveled for four or five days straight. The towns they saw along the way looked glamorous on the surface, but they all concealed a lingering sense of weirdness.

The two had dinner and took a shower in a seaside hotel.

Alex saw Inger sitting at the table, scribbling on a map and some manuscript paper.

"What are you doing?" Alex came over.

A drop of water from the hair fell onto the manuscript paper.

"Go away!" Inger quickly pushed his face away, "I'm measuring the distance, and we'll teleport over when the time comes."

"Ah? Can you do that?"

Not only Alex was shocked, but the red tree also lying on the ground with its hands tied up also widened its eyes.

You should know that the nearest island is at least ten kilometers away from the coast.

"I don't trust the scale of this map. There will definitely be an error of several angstroms (hundreds of meters) in the distance." Inger responded, scratching his hair.

"...Uh, what if we fall into the sea?"

"Then we can just float. It's only a few angdors away. As for flying there, it will definitely take more mana and time than long-distance fixed-point teleportation. And we'll probably be shot down by the navy as a target."

Alex looked at the map and the naval defense map of the South China Sea emerged in his mind.

Before he could say anything, Inger pointed to the shore outpost and said, "There are no wizards guarding the South China Sea border... What if someone uses a teleportation magic circle to invade like me?"

Alex said, "There is a magic detection network at the border. It's just that the network points are hidden. Foreign ships and people entering without permission will be discovered by the sentinels."

"...This detection device was also sent from the capital, right? When was the last time wizards from the capital came to the border to inspect the detection device?" Inger frowned.

"...I don't know." Alex was choked. But as far as he knew, the wizards in the capital would not be sent on business trips to the border unless it was a major event, let alone maintenance.

"And if there are no wizards guarding the border, if something goes wrong, it will be too late to rush in." Inger added lightly.

Of course, he also understood the feelings of those wizards who were reluctant to come to the border. Who would be willing to go to the border when they can sit in the office?

But for national defense, this is an oversight that cannot be ignored. Someone has to do these things.

Alex immediately took out a piece of letter paper and said, "I will start writing to report this to Ola now."

Inger picked up the magic wand and stunned the squirming red tree also next to him, then took out the mirror from the suitcase.

"You write first. I'd like to try it out after you finish writing it."

Alex smiled and said, "Another experiment?"

"Turn your head away and write yours."

Inger brings magic to the mirror.

After a while, the other party responded.

Nolihua appeared in the mirror wearing a red dress, looking like she was going to a party.

Her hair was neatly done up and adorned with clear crystal tassels, and her make-up was stunning.

Inger saw that she was holding the magic stone between her fingers, holding a goblet between her index finger and thumb, with sweaty hair and a breathless look. He felt a little embarrassed: "...Are you busy?"

Norihua hurriedly closed the curtains and ordered the wizards around her to set up a soundproof barrier. After letting everyone leave, she sat on the sofa in the lounge, tucked her slightly messy hair behind her ears, and smiled, "Other things are not as important as yours. Tell me, what experiment do you want me to do with you?"

Inger quickly wrote a string of spells in the air in front of the mirror.

[Real-time media delivery] [Media a mirror to media b mirror] [Delivery object: letter paper]

Of course, it was all written in Chinese, which Norihua couldn't understand at all.

Norihua was an ordinary economics student who had never learned any spells. In addition, the two ideograms looked like ghost paintings. It made no difference whether he hid it or not.

Of course, the most important thing is that Inger has basically given up hiding it from his own people. Anyway, it will be known one day, and he may even need to teach them to use the language of the other world in the future. Alex and his companions are people who can be trusted, so there is no need for him to hide it deliberately.

The spell words floated in the air, and under the guidance of the magic wand's power, they formed two circles and a teleportation formation was formed.

Mirror A and Mirror B are themselves magic devices and have a real-time link binding spell added.

Alex quickly finished writing the letter and sealed it with wax.

"Give it to me." Inger took the letter, stamped an anti-theft magic seal on it, and handed it to the two small magic circles.

The part of the letter that passed through the magic circle disappeared into thin air until it was completely swallowed up.

At the same time, Nolihua on the other side hurriedly caught the letter that came from afar.

"My goddess!" Noriha exclaimed.

Inger then laughed.

Alex rubbed his eyes and looked at Inger. Just as he was about to say something, he saw Inger had already lifted up a stool with great interest.

"Let's try to see how big the object can be."

Noriha jumped up directly from the opposite side.

Alex laughed and raised his hands to help him.

However, a stool that is much larger than the mirror cannot be teleported.

Inger tried several more times with ready-made props, and finally came to a rough conclusion: only objects whose cross-sectional area does not exceed the area of ​​the mirror plane can be teleported. Teleportation has nothing to do with the volume, mass or length of the object, but the magic power consumed is proportional to the mass of the object.

The energy consumed in transporting the magic stone is smaller, but the weight of the magic stone itself will be consumed by about 0.01 noli (noli ≈ gram).

"This is really the first time I've seen this. This is a big breakthrough!" In this dark room, Norihua's amber eyes shone like two warm lamps, and those eyes were filled with the smell of copper.

"Is there anything I can do for you? If not, I'll hang up." Inger felt that this video call was more convenient and easier to use than he had imagined. After explaining the whereabouts of the letter, he did not hang up directly but asked politely.

"Wait! Wait until I finish!" Norihua spoke quickly: "The power plant and power line construction is about to begin. Do you have any opinions?"

Inger thought for a moment and said, "If you need funds, contact Jason. He will help you arrange to withdraw the money. Ask the accountant to keep good records. Do not lay the wires underground. If a government official intervenes, tell a few people to reveal my name. Do not lay them on a large scale at first. Try it in a small town. Leave the quality of the lights and generators and the wire materials to Ditsu. The electricity bill and the price of the lights cannot be too high..."

At this point, Inger paused, and said, "I'll leave the rest of the details to you. I don't know much about them..."

Norihua rolled her eyes, stopped writing, and said with a smile, "If this is not enough to understand, then no one can say that they have talent."

"The letter must be delivered safely to the eldest princess." Inger ignored her compliments and reminded her again.

"Got it!" Norihua suddenly seemed to remember something. She waved her hand, but it was towards Alex behind Inger: "By the way, Your Highness the Ninth Prince, your friend was bullied in the academy and didn't dare to fight back! I even helped him secretly!"

Alex became serious: "He's not hurt, is he?"

"He had some minor scratches, but nothing serious. He didn't say a word and just let them bully him. He just ran away when he couldn't stand it anymore. I showed him a path that no one else takes." Norihua sneered, "Those little brats who never grow up."

Alex smiled. "Well done. Thanks."

He did not ask Kunpewu to fight for a moment, which was unrealistic. He only told him not to pay attention to those noble children who were looking for trouble, and to protect himself and run away if he could.

The main reason is that in his eyes now, these are just children's pranks and there is no need to take them seriously.

But Inger saw things differently. He was a former teacher, and he said to Alex seriously, "Don't forget, he's still a child. If you keep teaching him to be tolerant, it will only destroy his confidence."

Alex looked at him in surprise, rubbed his chin with his fingers, and nodded thoughtfully, "Yeah, you're right."

Norihua looked at the two children, who were both under sixteen, with strange eyes.

Seeing that she had nothing important to do, Inger unilaterally hung up the phone.

A gust of warm, fishy wind blew in from the open window.

"Ah!" Inger sneezed suddenly.

Alex went to close the window and said, "It's getting a little hot in the south. We've been traveling for days and the temperature changes a lot. You're weak, can you bear it?"

"It's OK."

Gu Shu grew up in the south and was used to the hot and humid air and seasonal temperature changes, so he naturally thought there was no problem.

That night, Inger watched over Alex for a while until he fell asleep before going to bed.

The next day, he was so feverish that he was unconscious and couldn't even open his eyes.

He forgot that this body had lived in the capital city in the north for many years, and the sequelae of the previous poisoning had caused the body's resistance to be very poor, so this fever was a fatal one.

Alex was so anxious that he called a doctor, but neither physical cooling nor medication was effective.

After Inger regained consciousness, he reached out to Alex and whispered, "Magic wand."

The sound was so weak that one could only hear it if one put one's ear close to it. Alex quickly took out his wand and placed it in his hand.

[Cooling down]

The air in the room dropped suddenly, which made the pain in Inger's head worse.

He continued to chant spells with his brain turned to pulp.

[Absorbs body heat]

The high fever in the body is because the immune function is working, and the medicine has been taken. All that is left is to prevent the high temperature from burning the body.

The temperature of the body was gradually transferred to the wand, the wand became hot, and the temperature of the body slowly dropped.

"Give me a glass of water."

Alex thought he wanted to drink water, so he put a glass of water to his mouth.

Inger turned his head away, held the cup with his left hand, and touched it with the wand in his right hand.

[Transfer]

Water has a better ability to absorb heat.

The wand's temperature was no longer rising, and he couldn't let go of it at this moment.

"Alex... help me... let me hold this cup in my hands... I need to transfer the heat."

Inger's eyes saw three or four double images, his eyelids were struggling to twitch, and his hands were almost powerless.

However, it takes time to cool down, so he has to hold the cup all the time.

Alex understood what he meant, and held his hand holding the cup with his palm, letting Inger lean on his arms, "I'll help you, don't hold on, close your eyes and go to sleep."

Inger really didn't care about the posture. When he heard this, he leaned on his shoulder with peace of mind and closed his eyes.

But during the fever, my head just felt endlessly swollen and painful, my bones felt weak, and I felt hot and cold by turns. I struggled between being extremely sleepy and being unable to fall asleep.

But he could also feel a pair of hands covered with long silk cords on the back of his hands. The chest was solid and warm, giving him a sense of security and reliability.

He almost fell into a sleep.

Alex didn't dare to leave and asked the clerk to help deliver the items.

He wiped the sweat from Inger's forehead with a towel, and then he stopped wiping.

Half of his long hair was wet with sweat, and stuck to his neck and face in a mess. Looking at him closely, his face looked even paler, like flesh and bones covered with a layer of crystal-clear skin, and the blue and red bloodshot underneath were clearly visible. He had also lost a lot of weight.

Alex saw more clearly than anyone the fear that Inger was feeling after his death.

The foresight brought him not a blessing but a constant fear.

Alex looked at him with mixed feelings, as if he was holding a glass doll, and his muscles were a little tense.

None of his comrades, partners, and enemies he had ever met were like Inger.

Lanmore is the weakest, but much better than Inger. The only one who can be compared to Inger is Christine. But it is said that now that she can stand up, she has gained some weight, runs and jumps everywhere, and even started riding a horse.

Inger was afraid of pain and fatigue, and always emphasized that he would not fight with him, but secretly helped him and his future partners to the best of his ability.

A person who is tough on the outside but soft on the inside.

A weak yet strong person.

A sober and kind person.

Alex was born a natural knight, but never thought about existing as a human knight.

He owes allegiance to no one, dedicating his strength to all of humanity.

This love is broad and this determination is unwavering.

His comrades followed him, fought alongside him, trusted their backs, and did not need his protection.

Inger Neka, for some reason, was unwilling to face up to his own excellent magical talent.

He is an excellent wizard, and can even compete with knights of the same level. In this respect, he can never be said to be weak.

But, this was the first time, Alex felt a strong desire, like an ancient knight, to protect a specific person.

Alex never wanted him to experience the pain, war, blood and violence that he had experienced.