A bowl of dry biscuits soaked in broth was quite filling. After eating it, my body felt warm and my stomach was almost full. However, Riva believed that he could easily finish three more bowls of this delicious food.
But with so many people to share, even if two more pots were cooked later, there would only be one bowl for each person, except for the nobles.
Riva was well aware of his status. After eating, he just walked carefully to the fire, returned the bowl, and planned to walk away a few steps.
He heard that the nobles were a bit mysophobic and were not willing to sit with the common people. Besides, Riva had basically not taken a bath since the beginning of autumn.
Gao Yinsi looked at this lower-class citizen with interest, and when he saw that this guy was about to leave, he spoke.
"Sit here, you can warm yourself by the fire."
"OK!"
Riva agreed quickly and sat down on the ground beside him, but he still kept a distance from the nobleman.
Reaching out his hand towards the fire, the warmth made Riva feel extremely comfortable.
It was a bit wasteful for these noble lords, but the advantage of having such a blazing fire was that it was extra warm here.
On the edge of the Western Wilderness, the autumn wind in the mountains is particularly chilly after nightfall. Even when sitting by the fire, the wind blowing from behind is still chilly.
"What were you gesturing to the starry sky just now?"
Hearing Gao Yins' question, Riva fully demonstrated his attitude of knowing everything.
"I'm comparing the stars. I remember exactly where the meteor passed yesterday. I used Tiannan Star and Tianbei Star to draw a straight line, and then compared it with a few other dark stars that don't have names but are relatively fixed. I can roughly calculate where the star fell."
After hearing what His Highness and Riva said, the chatter around them died down.
Gao Yinsi smiled.
"Then can you determine the exact location where the star falls?"
There are not many opportunities to show off in front of important people, so Riva is somewhat relieved. After all, he is better than these people in some ways.
Patting his chest, he said, "That's right. Although the place where it landed must be very far away and I can't know exactly where it landed, I know the direction it fell in very well!"
"As long as you look in this direction, you will eventually find the stars. When I was a child, my grandfather told me that there is a lot of noise where the stars fall. As long as you find the right direction, you will definitely find it! This way I can prove myself!"
Riva clenched his fists, as if finding the stars was proof of the meaning of his life.
"By the way, Your Highness, why are you looking for the stars?"
Riva also followed the way people around him called this man with a strong aura "Your Highness". He felt that this was more honorable than the words "noble master".
"Me? Haha, maybe I also want to prove myself."
Gao Yinsi smiled, looked at the stars in the sky, and thought about many things.
"Legend has it that falling stars often represent some kind of significant meaning. I've only seen descriptions of falling stars in books on the kingdom's history. I'm very curious!"
"Just want to take a look?"
Riva asked.
"That depends on the situation!"
…
About a hundred kilometers to the east of the beautiful valley, thick smoke was billowing in the mountains surrounded by hills. A large pit that was more than ten meters wide and three meters deep was surrounded by the smoke.
The surrounding flowers, plants and trees were burning fiercely. The forest was already dry, and the flames from the falling meteors unsurprisingly caused a fire.
Despite being surrounded by thick smoke and flames, a ball of light with flowing colorful halo was silent in the center of the pit, and the light was like breathing, sometimes bright and sometimes dim.
If there is someone who knows what is going on and has good eyesight, they can see that in the halo, there seems to be a square box-like object, with borders on the bottom and all sides, and densely packed mysterious patterns, but the top seems to be hollow, and there is a fuzzy cylindrical object inside.
The burning flowers, plants and trees around them emitted wisps of white steam that flowed towards the center of the pit.
That night, in that quiet town in the beautiful valley, some people stood on a high place looking to the east, some were worried, and some children were dancing with joy.
Xiweier frowned, with lingering worry in her eyes, and Nono snuggled up to her. They stood in their attic and looked towards the east.
"Grandma... why is there a red patch of sky in the distance? Isn't it Sunday already?"
Although Sivir still looked beautiful, she was a grandmother after all, so she quickly hid the uneasiness on her face.
She rubbed her grandson's head and spoke softly.
"That's a forest fire. It's nothing. The Spinnosi Forest will not allow the burning to continue. The fire will be extinguished soon. Well, it's getting late. Go to bed, Nono!"
"Oh! Then I'm going to sleep, grandma!"
"Don't forget to drink the flower water your mother made."
"Um!"
…
The exhausted star-hunting team has been entering the dense mountains for 10 days.
During the 10 days, even with Riva, a fairly competent guide, and even though they had horned helmets and brought a lot of supplies, the entire team suffered terribly, especially the nobles.
They are usually spoiled and cannot bear such hardship. Not only is the road bumpy, but they cannot sleep well at night.
Various insect bites and the strange calls of animals at night made it impossible for them to sleep well as they were used to the comfortable environment of home.
Physical strength is also a problem. Although these nobles have learned swordsmanship courses, these are two completely different concepts. Even though they can ride on horned beasts most of the time, horned beasts also need to rest and their endurance is not very good, so they have to walk in many places.
The consumption of dozens of people is huge, especially in the mountains and fields, which seem lush and green, but water sources are actually not easy to find, especially when it is difficult to tell the direction when entering the dense forest.
On the third day, Gao Yinsi did not have the luxury of using water to wash himself. Not only did he do so, he also told other young nobles not to waste water.
“Crack, crack…”
Riva climbed up a high slope, somewhat out of breath.
"Hu...Hu...I suggest...that we rest here tonight...I need to check the stars to make sure we are on the right track...Hu...Hu..."
After saying that, he collapsed on the slope and rested.
A young nobleman looked unhappy. He clenched his fists, turned over and got off the horned beast and walked to Riva.
Riva felt a shadow covering his head and subconsciously opened his eyes to look, only to see a black shadow.
“Woo~~Pah~”
"ah!!!"
Riva shrank back, holding his face and crying out in pain, his face was burning with pain.
"How dare you, a bastard, tease us!? You've been leading us around in circles in the mountains for 10 days?"
The young man sneered and raised the whip in his hand high up again, but when he wanted to put it down, he found that he could not move it.
A burly young man grabbed his wrist.
"Fangni, don't stop me. I'm just teaching this bastard a lesson. I won't let him die!!"
Vangni looked at the noble young man with a sneer.
"I don't think it's wise to fight a guide at a time like this, Your Highness!"
Gao Yins was sitting on a horned beast, also looking over here. The young man waving the whip shrank back when he met Gao Yins's gaze, angrily broke free from his arm and walked away.
During the whole process, Riva only cried out in pain at the beginning, and then just covered his face and said nothing. He instinctively felt that it would do him no good to speak out at this time.
After this brief farce ended, Gao Yins looked at Riva expressionlessly, then gave the order to camp.
That night, Riva reassured them that they were on the right track.
But Riva couldn't explain why sometimes it seemed as if they were taking a detour. Everyone had this feeling, and even Riva himself often wondered if they had taken the wrong path. But the guidance of the stars always strengthened his confidence.
He assured me again and again that this was just an illusion created by the complex environment of the mountains and forests. If you really walked in the direction you thought was a straight line, you might actually be taking a detour.
But in fact, after walking for such a long time, Riva felt more and more unsure, because he thought before that the stars would not be too far away from the city. But even if he was unsure now, he would not show it. Anyway, no matter who asked him, he would say with a firm face that he was absolutely right.
The situation changed at noon the next day.
The team advanced in a vertical line in the forest. The pioneers led by Vangeli and Riva were at the front. The entire team of dozens of people dragged for dozens of meters, and in this forest, the front and back could not see each other.
But now, those in the front stopped.
Riva opened his mouth and looked ahead, not knowing what to say. Vangeli also had a strange expression on his face, and the guards holding knives were not much better.
"Quick, let His Highness and the others come to the front and take a look!!"
"yes!"
Soon, all the nobles and others behind came over.
In front of the entire team's marching direction, the forest formed a clear dividing line!
On their side, the grass was withered and the ground was covered with fallen leaves, and some of the trees were already bare.
But from what I could see, there was only a winding stream between us, and the trees in the forest on the other side were still green, and the vegetation was lush and vibrant, not at all like it was late autumn.
It would be fine if it was only in a few places, but looking left and right along the direction of the stream, the entire woodland on the opposite side is like this.
"Where is this place?"
Gao Yinsi's lost murmur was also a question in everyone's mind.
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