Chapter 440: The Land Forsaken by God (29) (1st + 2nd update) [VIP]
As the fairies hugged their wings and wailed, Hector looked at Enoch dimly: "Really? I don't believe it."
So far, Enoch has told three versions of his past.
When they first met, he pretended to be an old man with a white beard and said that before entering the city of Besser, he was an apprentice who studied under various wizards. He came to the city of Besser to study in the wizard tower of the great wizard.
The reason why he opened a shop in Besser City now is because he was rejected by the Grand Mage, so he planned to settle down here and fight the Mage Tower.
The second time, Enoch said that he was an ordinary alchemist registered in the Adventurer's Guild. After entering Besai City, he accidentally learned the whereabouts of the Grand Mage when he bought a magical material called magic sand. The reason why he hid in Besai City was that he offended many people when he was an adventurer and owed a lot of money.
The third time, that is, now, he said that he had received a commission from a client who had died, stole the fairy's alchemical items, and made enemies with the fairies. He lived in Besse City for a long time in order to borrow the fairy sword in the city lord's armory to cover up the fairy alchemical items in his hands.
Each of these three stories sounded like it was true, but Enoch changed his testimony three times in just a few days. He also had a history of pretending to be a white-bearded old man to deceive adventurers, which greatly reduced his credibility.
Guan Hongyan also crossed her arms and said doubtfully, "I don't believe it either. You must be hiding something."
If it was as simple as stealing something from the goblins and not daring to leave the city, then what was Enoch hiding when he was forced to wear women's clothes?
His friends didn't know that he had offended the goblin. From the perspective of his creditor and the spellcaster, he inexplicably borrowed money from everyone and then disappeared.
There's nothing wrong with saying this.
There must be a ghost.
"Really?" Enoch said earnestly under everyone's scrutiny, almost raising three fingers to swear. "I'm already in Alterac, why would I lie to you?"
He did swear.
"If I'm lying, you'll leave me in Alterac to be hung up and beaten by the goblins." He looked at Bai Jinshu with a pious tone.
"I understand," Xu Zichen nodded, "What you said now is the truth, and there are many more that you haven't said."
"Dermis," he looked at Bai Jinshu, "why not just throw him into the fairy kingdom and let the fairies hang him up and beat him."
Enoch: !!!
Enoch: "Everything I said is true. What do you want me to do to make you believe me?"
Guan Hongyan looked at him thoughtfully and said, "I don't know either, but there must be something wrong with you."
Enoch would not cry until he saw the coffin. If they had not accidentally entered Alterac in the Perrin Mines, no one would have been able to ask him about the origin of his relationship with Alterac.
If you want to dig out more information from him, you have to go deeper into Alterac.
And having said that, it seems that Enoch currently has little to do with the Grand Mage or the rules of this space.
It is better to forgive others when you can. There is actually no need to interrogate him.
Guan Hongyan made a gesture towards Yun Guang, who understood and tried to smooth things over: "Let's go find the missing miner first. So many days have passed and we don't know if he's dead or alive. Let's find him first."
Enoch quickly climbed up the pole: "Yes, yes, let's find the person first. I know there are many places in Oatlanklee where people can hide. I have experience. I will take you to find where the person is hiding."
"Can people hide in the fairy kingdom?" Bai Jinshu glanced at him.
"Yes," Enoch straightened his back slightly, "Alterac is actually very big. The range of activities of these goblins is only in the middle, and people can hide around it."
"Then the fairy just now said that it is impossible for outsiders to live in Alterac permanently..." Xu Zichen said in a puzzled tone.
"It's definitely not possible for ordinary people," Enoch rubbed his hands slightly, "but I know a little... a little alchemy."
Everyone looked at each other.
So Enoch was able to hide in Outlanklee because he had an alchemical item he made himself. Then how did an ordinary miner hide here for five or six days?
Or did this miner die long ago?
"Lead the way first," Bai Jinshu raised his chin towards Enoch, "Since you have lived in Alterac for a while, you should know a lot of places where people can hide, right?"
"Well..." Enoch rubbed his hands, "I can bring it, but that...that."
"Then this skirt I'm wearing," he winked, "can I change it?"
"Most of Alterac is forest, and the places I'm going to take you to are all kinds of caves, woods, and swamps," Enoch said with reason. "It's so inconvenient for me to move in a skirt! Teacher! Madam! Madam, look at how inconvenient it is to move in my skirt, Madam!"
In order to take off his skirt, he has abandoned his last bottom line.
"Hmm..." In the eyes of everyone who was "finally letting this kid find a bug", everyone saw that Delmis looked refreshed, "Since you call me your partner and mistress, then let's change it first."
Everyone: ...You don’t even want to pretend anymore.
At least you said "Since the skirt is used to impress you, just change it", what do you mean by "Since she calls you her partner's mistress, just change it"?
Have some bottom line! Dermis!
A white light flashed, and Hector finally put on the long-lost adventurer's cloth armor.
Enoch also changed into the wizard robe he wore at the beginning.
"Thank you, teacher and mistress!" Enoch's eyes filled with tears after he confirmed that he had finally taken off his maid costume.
Enoch, with tears in his eyes, did not notice everyone looking away.
Xu Zichen looked away: "Ahem..."
Yun Guang pondered: "Hmm..."
Guan Hongyan suppressed her laughter: "Pfft..."
"Did anyone tell him?" Zhao Yinglai turned his head and said softly, "Dermis only took off his maid costume..."
Cat ears!
Cat tail!
The cat ears and tail are still there!
Moreover, the cat ears and cat tail were just decorations before, but they seemed to become real after removing the maid outfit.
Enoch, didn't you feel something shaking behind you when you were cheering?
Your cat's tail is wagging!
Hector quickly took a step back and grabbed the spell book in his backpack, becoming more determined to study hard.
He didn't want everyone to surround him and force him to become a cat girl next time.
It's good to be a human being. His father, mother and sister are all human beings. He has been a human being for more than 20 years, and his life plan is to be a human being in the future.
Everyone couldn't help but look at Dermis.
Dermis looked calm: "Any questions?"
"No problem." White Moth said weakly, "Enoch asked Dermis to remove his skirt, and Dermis only removed his skirt. It makes sense."
Who can be blamed for this?
Everyone looked at Enoch in silence.
He looked silently at the cat ears on Enoch's head and the cat tail behind him.
God bless you, poor child.
However, considering that in the native world of Delmis, he may have single-handedly challenged all the gods with names and sexuality, it is hard to say whether the Lord can bless him.
*
Alterac is a forest hidden by the fairies on the other side of the lake, separated from the territories of humans and other races. Only through them can one enter this kingdom of fairies.
Since goblins have a natural affinity for the wood element, many rare materials that cannot grow in the outside world can be found everywhere here. Many mages will reach an agreement with the goblins and send apprentices to pick materials at fixed times.
In exchange, the fairies would also ask them to bring some human magical products and industrial products, because they did not have humans' industrial conditions and affinity for other elements.
The above is what most people in this world know about Alterac.
"But there are several types of fairies in Alterac," Enoch said stiffly as he walked forward, "There are three types of fairies in Alterac. The fairies that like to play pranks are the kind we met before. They like to contact the outside world and like to make deals with human mages. Most of the fairies living outside of Alterac are of this type."
"There are also some fairy wizards who are responsible for making alchemical items. These wizards regard all creatures that try to take their alchemical items as enemies, and will chase them all the way until they die..." He stopped the narration stiffly and looked at Zhao Yinglai behind him, "Can you please stop touching my tail?"
"I'm curious," Zhao Yinglai stroked his tail, "So you can feel it?"
Enoch squeezed out a word from between his teeth: "Yes..."
"Then why don't you control your tail and leave?" Zhao Yinglai became even more curious, "I thought you really liked playing with me."
She shook her wrist, and the pink tail behind Enoch immediately came over.
"Look," she pointed to the tip of her tail, "your tail came here on its own."
"I can't control it..." Enoch's voice sounded gnashing his teeth, "Have you ever seen a cat that can completely control its tail?"
A cat's tail is like another species to a cat.
"How can you not control it?" Zhao Yinglai, who usually does two things at the same time and has half of his clone follow Lu Changfeng and the others to the outside of the Perrin Mine, withdrew his hand curiously, "Could it be that Delmis really turned you into a cat girl? Amazing."
"Catman! Catman!" Enoch corrected.
"That's about right," Zhao Yinglai said casually, "Aren't you Hector's sister?"
Enoch: "I'm not... Never mind I am, here we are."
He quickly ended this dangerous topic and stopped where he was: "This is the place where people can hide."
"Here?" Guan Hongyan pulled Zhaoyinglai's tail, who was still curious, and looked up. "In the tree?"
There are dense forests in Alterac. I don't know what kind of tree this is, but it looks like it blocks out the sun, so it's easy for one or two people to hide in it.
"No, underground." Just when everyone was looking up at the sky, Bai Jinshu suddenly spoke.
"Hidden underground?" The white moth lowered his head. "Where underground?"
Isn't this just an ordinary meadow?
"There's a hole," Enoch was the first to lie on the ground, groping around a big tree for a long time, and then he used his elbow to hit it a few times. With a few dull sounds of cracking soil, a hole half a person's width appeared, "This is it."
"Fairies are winged creatures. They usually fly in the sky, so they will naturally ignore the hole on the ground," Bai Jinshu looked down, "but this hole should not be natural."
"The holes where the rabbit rats store food," Enoch squatted beside him and explained consciously, "This kind of animal will dig holes in many places to store food. When I was hiding in Alterac, I lived on the food stored by the rabbit rats."
This kid has such a bad character that he will snatch the food stored in the corners of the house.
"This hole is the largest rabbit and rat food storage hole in Alterac," Enoch dug down, "It can probably hold one person. When I hid here, I expanded it a little bit."
"But there seems to be no one here now," he looked at the ground awkwardly, "and the food inside is gone. Maybe the rabbit rats found that this hole has been disturbed and stopped coming."
"Let me see." Xu Zichen squatted down and touched the soil around the hole. "This soil is hard. It must have been a long time since anyone opened this hole."
"That shouldn't be here." Enoch stood up regretfully.
"Not necessarily." Guan Hongyan squatted down and observed the surrounding soil. "When you were hiding in Otterlanklee, did you rely on the food stored by rabbits and rats to fill your stomach?"
"There are still some fruits on the trees," Enoch pointed to the sky, "but most of the fruits here are on the tops of the trees. It's dangerous to go up there."
The fairies are flying in the sky. If you go up to pick the fruits, you may fall and get hurt, and you may also be easily discovered.
"If someone hides here, they can only eat the food stored by the rabbits and rats, right?" Yun Guang thought for a moment, "Do you remember all the food warehouses of the rabbits and rats?"
"After so many years, a lot of places must have been moved," Enoch stood up and shook off the dirt. "You want to determine whether there are Tibetans around by judging whether someone has moved the dirt around the Rabbit Rat Warehouse?"
Yun Guang nodded frankly: "Well, as long as there are people hiding around, it is impossible not to eat."
If the miner is indeed still hiding in Alterac, there will be traces left.
To determine what happened in the Perrin Mine, we must find this miner.
"I know I should mobilize the fairies to help me find it," White Moth said after a while, holding his waist and complaining as he walked, "How many holes did the rabbit rat dig..."
"We can't mobilize the goblins," Enoch interrupted quickly, "If they knew there were people hiding in Alterac, it would be the end."
"What?" Guan Hongyan was surprised. "As long as you say it was a mistake, the goblin doesn't seem to be unreasonable."
"That's it..." Enoch scratched his head hesitantly. He was not used to the pair of cat ears on his head yet, and was frightened by the furry ears that popped out of his head. "There are often mages sneaking into Alterac, and they told me the locations of these caves."
After all, many rare magical plants grow here. Some people exchange them through formal means, while others try to steal them privately.
"Many magical plants on the black market are stolen by them," Enoch said with an embarrassed look, "so if the goblins knew about these places..."
"Thieves who steal magic plants will be caught?" Zhao Yinglai tried to answer, "Isn't that good?"
"The price of plants on the black market will go up." Bai Jinshu interrupted.
"By then, mages from all over the continent will try to find the man who has blocked this procurement route," he glanced at Enoch who looked guilty, "but it will be useless for him to hide in Besai City."
Before, he had only offended the goblin and his resentful friends, and these people could not enter the city of Besser, so Enoch could pretend to be a white-bearded old man in the city to deceive people for so many years.
But if he offends the wizards, he will not be able to die even if he has ten lives.
Many people also appeared in the barrage:
【The God of Virtue is very understanding. 】
[De Shen is a wild guy, he doesn't seem like the type to become a disciple, I guess he bought a lot of things on the black market.]
[To be honest, only the big wizard towers can make deals with the goblins and pay the price they want. For us little wizards, we can either buy them on the black market or wait for the little materials they leak out. If the black market disappears one day, I will also want to kill the wizard who leaked this matter.]
[But what on earth did this kid Enoch do in the first place? ]
[Yes, he knows assassins who kill people for money, and he also knows these black market hunters who come to the fairy kingdom to steal magical plants. He also knows this kind of unconventional alchemy spell. He doesn't seem like an ordinary adventurer.]
[There's something fishy about this kid. ]
[Wait, Enoch, don't be so weird, can someone tell me how to enter the black market? I've been learning magic for more than ten years, and I didn't even know there was such a thing as a black market! ]
[Forget about you. You have studied magic for more than ten years but you don’t know about the black market. Either you are unpopular and your friends and classmates didn’t tell you, or you are so well-off that you don’t need to go to the black market to buy materials.]
…
In the unknown space, although everyone does not have a good impression of these black market hunters who steal plants, the formation of the black market is obviously not simply black and white, right or wrong.
Disrupting this supply chain will cause a series of chain reactions. Their purpose here is not to rectify the atmosphere and punish evil, but to figure out the rules of this game world and then leave.
So the top priority is to find the miners or the miners' bodies and determine what exactly happened in the Perrin Mine.
But the way to find the miners was not smooth.
They searched almost all the rabbit and mouse food storage holes that Enoch knew about, but they couldn't find any signs that humans had been there.
"I think there's something wrong with our thinking," Guan Hongyan said as she leaned against a tree and patted the dirt off her hands. "The man who knew about these holes knew the black market hunters. If the miner was just an ordinary person, he wouldn't have known that there were places in Alterac where food could be found."
"So our translation of this is completely useless?" She put her hand on her hip.
"Hongyan, it's impossible for an ordinary person to hide here for five or six days without being discovered," Yun Guang said tactfully, "An ordinary person would have been trapped by the goblins long ago."
Just like the ones they had sent away before.
"Yawn——" Zhao Yinglai yawned.
"It's dark outside," she said, the only one who could connect with the outside world, "I'm sleepy."
"It's getting dark," White Moth shook his head, "It's always been daytime here, and I still feel like not much time has passed."
"It's been a long time," Zhao Yinglai said, sitting cross-legged on the ground. "The miners up there have all been sent back. The driver is contacting the person in charge of the Perlan Mine to ask what to do."
There is a road in the abandoned mine that leads directly to the fairy kingdom of Alterac. This matter is definitely not something that can be solved by just the person in charge. In the end, they will most likely ask the owner of the mine, the grand magician.
However, they knew that the Grand Mage had been missing for a long time, and this group of people would definitely not be able to get anything out of him.
I wonder if the Grand Mage had thought about this situation before he disappeared.
Just as everyone was staying around the last place where they could hide and taking a short rest under a tree, a fairy suddenly flew down from a tree not far away.
Unlike the ordinary fairies that everyone had seen before, this fairy had its hands full of various fruits and was flying unsteadily, not noticing the group of humans not far away.
"Why does this goblin have so many fruits in his hand?" Guan Hongyan said casually, "Isn't this the suburb of Alterac?"
Enoch said that most fairies lived in the center of Alterac, and they hadn't encountered any fairies during their time outside.
This makes the appearance of this goblin very strange.
"Maybe it's here to pick fruits?" Zhao Yinglai half-closed his eyes. "It has so many fruits in its hands, why doesn't it have a basket? And it's so far away."
"Hiss... That's right," Guan Hongyan suddenly stared at the monster, "Why doesn't it hold a basket?"
This fairy can't even fly steadily, and yet he's holding so many fruits. Normally speaking, if he comes here specifically to pick fruits, he should bring a basket, right?
"We have to follow and take a look," she stood up from the ground, "Dermis, I feel like there's something wrong with this fairy."
"Something is wrong." Before Guan Hongyan turned around, she saw Delmis taking the lead from behind her and walked over. "This is not a fairy."
Guan Hongyan: “Ah?”
Everyone looked at each other, then stood up and followed: "If it's not a goblin, then what is it?"
This looks no different from those goblins, doesn't it?
"Mimicry," Bai Jinshu paused, "This is... an elemental elf."
The elemental elf disguised itself as a fairy, holding a bunch of fruits and staggering to the edge of a low hill in the middle of the forest, and disappeared silently.
"Elemental elves... I remember we met one before," Yun Guang pondered, "at that time, the elf looked like a wolfhound."
Hector nodded.
"That's because it has only seen that kind of beast," Bai Jinshu said as he felt around on the stone wall. "It's the same with this elemental spirit. It turned into a fairy because it has only seen fairies."
"Will elemental spirits appear in the fairy's territory?" Hector asked humbly, "Teacher, you said last time that they can form in places with abundant magic power."
"Yes." As Bai Jinshu's voice fell, the stone wall in front of him suddenly shattered, revealing a small cave hidden in the stone wall.
In the middle of the cave, a middle-aged red-haired man dressed very similarly to the miners was looking at all of them in astonishment.
"But this is not the elemental spirit of Alterac," Delmis' voice sounded again, and as his voice sounded, the elf was bound in the air by the invisible wind, "This is the elemental spirit under the Perrin Mine."
The missing miner was able to hide in Alterac for so long thanks to this elemental elf.
The strange thing is that this is also a newborn elemental elf.
"Strange," Yun Guang expressed everyone's inner guess, "This is the second new elemental spirit to appear in the mine."
Why do so many elemental elves suddenly appear?
The author has something to say:
Friends who often keep cats know that cat tails and cats are two different species, and the same applies to cat girls.
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