After the battle was over, everyone walked to the side of the cage that held the little white chick. The little white chick in the cage looked very excited. It kept flapping its wings and cawing non-stop. Of course, no one knew what it was talking about, but they could guess that it was something to do with its father, the big white chick.
"Should we let it out first?" Unchanged asked.
"Let's give it a try," the Jade Emperor said.
As soon as the cage was opened, the little white chick dashed out at an insane speed. In the blink of an eye, it had arrived at the side of the big white chick lying on the ground. Then, it began to converse with it. After a series of cawing sounds, the big white chick seemed to suddenly understand something. It looked at Li Huailin and the others with a look of surprise.
"Caw …" The big white chick perked up a little, then suddenly stood up and walked in front of Li Huailin and the others. However, they were not very nervous. The name of the big white chick was still green, so it should not attack them.
As expected, the big white chick suddenly nodded at Li Huailin and the others, then cawed a few times. It seemed to be expressing its goodwill. After doing this, the big white chick suddenly waved its head, then walked to the side. The little white chick came over and pulled the Jade Emperor with its beak.
"He seems to be hinting for us to follow him." Eternity Unchanged understood what was going on.
"Nonsense, do you think we won't follow if it doesn't tell us to? We haven't even completed the quest, "the Jade Emperor said." Anyway, let's follow it first. "
And so, the five of them continued to follow the big white chick. Of course, there were no wild monsters along the way. It was likely that the big white chick had driven away all the wild monsters. After following the big white chick for about ten minutes, everyone suddenly saw a convoy in front of them.
To be precise, it was a convoy that had been destroyed. It seemed that the convoy had been attacked by something. The four cars on the ground were all over the place, and the goods on them were scattered all over the ground. There were also many corpses on the ground.
The five of them went forward to check. There were actually five cars in total. Four of them should be trucks, which were used to load goods. All of them were collapsed on the ground, and the things on them were scattered all over the ground. The fifth one was a human car. This car was already on a tree not far away. It looked like it had been thrown up there, and the person in it had fallen down the tree and died. These carriages should have been pulled by horses, but now the horses were gone. They were probably scared away.
Looking at the corpses on the ground, there were about 20 of them. Among them, there were armored soldiers who looked like guards or mercenaries. There were also people who wore civilian clothes. They should be workers or merchants in the convoy. Anyway, they were all dead, and they should have been dead for a long time, at least a day.
"So, this is the Condal convoy transporting the treasure." The Summoning Jade Emperor said, "It looks like it. The emblem on this carriage is different from the Human Empire's emblem. If it's not the Merchant Guild's emblem, then it's the Condal Kingdom's emblem."
Indeed, there was an emblem on the carriages, and it was different from the Nasser Empire's emblem. According to the development of this quest, this should be the Condal Kingdom's convoy that had gone missing. The big white chick should have been the one who had attacked them. Otherwise, it wouldn't have known about this place. There were also many chicken paw prints at the scene.
However, what was strange was the big white chick's attitude. Why had it brought them here? Could it be that the little white chick had told the big white chick that they were the ones who had brought it back, so it had brought them here to thank them? However, if the little white chick wanted to go home, why had it gone to the City Lord's Mansion? Couldn't it have just come to the forest?
The merchant group's tribute items were all on the ground. There were coins, cloth, and other valuable items, but there was no notification of the quest being completed. It seemed like it was something special. Li Huailin and the others were about to look for it, but the little white chick suddenly started searching through the goods. It seemed like it was looking for something special.
Li Huailin and the others waited for a while, and the little white chick looked for it on its own. After waiting for a while, the little white chick seemed to have found something. It stood in an overturned carriage and started squawking.
As if it had heard the little white chick's squawking, the big white chick immediately walked over. It stretched its head out of the carriage and took out a box. It placed it on the ground. Li Huailin and the others also walked over. It seemed like the quest item, but the box looked like a classic treasure chest. There was a lock on it.
"We don't have a Thief …" said the Jade Emperor. In the game, Thieves had the skill to pick locks. Only Thieves could open locked treasure chests.
"Ka!" Before the Jade Emperor could finish his sentence, the big rooster suddenly raised its leg and stomped on the box. Of course, the force of the stomp flattened the box, and the lock was broken.
"Okay." The Jade Emperor spread its hands, then lowered its body and opened the box. Everyone's eyes immediately focused on the box to see what was inside.
"What … What is this?" The Jade Emperor took out a strange item from the box. It looked like a piece of green cloth. It looked like it was woven from leaves of an unknown plant. It was rectangular, and it was about the size of a desk.
"What is this?" Millennium Unchanged asked curiously. "Is it a woman's shawl?"
"How is this possible?" The Jade Emperor immediately said. "Look at the material. I don't know what it's made of, but it's so rough that the skin will be worn off if you put it on your body."
It was just like what the Jade Emperor had said. The material of the green cloth was too poor. The surface was like sandpaper. If it was rubbed a few times on a person's body, a piece of skin would be peeled off. It shouldn't be clothes.
"Then … tablecloth?" Feng Yiliu asked. "Look, it's about the same size."
"It's possible." The Jade Emperor nodded. "Although it's anti-slip, it's also troublesome to spread it on the table. Won't it hurt your hand?"
"Quack, quack, quack …" While everyone was guessing the use of the green cloth, the little white chick suddenly became excited. It kept jumping around as if it wanted to say something.
"Oh? Oh, oh, oh! " Suddenly, Li Huailin seemed to understand something. It felt like a light flashed across the sky. "I understand! This time, I really understand what's going on! The puzzle has been revealed! "
"Again?" The Jade Emperor said, "Last time, you let me kiss a chicken. What do you want this time? Although I don't have any clues, can you please tell me a more reliable answer to the riddle? "
"No, no, no …" Li Huailin immediately said, "I think I understand. What I said last time was 80% correct. There are almost no mistakes."
"…" The Jade Emperor was silent for a moment. "Then, we still have to find a real princess to kiss the chicken?"
"No, no, no, I said 80%." Li Huailin said immediately, "As I said before, this game seems to be very fond of fairy tales, and this mission really has something to do with fairy tales. All of our previous deductions are correct, but the only mistake is that we got the fairy tale wrong."
"Huh?" The Jade Emperor was slightly stunned.
"Then, I'll come out and say it again." Li Huailin said, "First of all, this chicken and this big chicken both have crowns on their heads. At that time, we inferred that they might be some kind of prince or king, right? But we guessed the story of the frog prince …"
"Yes, then?" The Jade Emperor said.
"I was wrong. The hint for this mission isn't about a chicken that croaks like a frog, but the thing in your hand," Li Huailin said. "Do you know what kind of plant this is woven from?"
The Jade Emperor shook her head. Of course, she couldn't tell what kind of plant it was. She wouldn't even recognize a living plant in front of her, let alone one that was woven into cloth.
"This is a nettle." Li Huailin said, "Anyway, you've seen the characteristics of this plant. It's just that it's troublesome to touch it. If it were in reality, your hand would probably be pricked red. Let's not talk about this for now. Let's go back to the story. Now, the keywords are clothes made of nettle, prince, and white … Uh, think of a white bird first. With these keywords, the story that you can think of is … "
"Huh?" The Jade Emperor was stunned, but Feng Yiliu realized it first. "Uh … The story of wild swans?"
"What?" The Summoning Jade Emperor was taken aback. Feng Yiliu's reminder reminded her of the story as well. To put it simply, there was a princess whose 11 brothers were turned into swans. She then weaved 11 clothes made of nettle, which would allow her brothers to return to their original forms. Then, they fought against their evil stepmother together.
Indeed, in this story, there were clothes made of nettle and a prince, who was also the princess' brother. But the problem was … Wasn't this story called wild swans?
The Jade Emperor looked at the two white chickens, one big and one small. No matter how she looked at them, they were chickens. "What the f * ck is going on? You're telling me that these two guys are swans? Do you think I haven't studied?"
"No, no, no … This requires some imagination …" Li Huailin said.
"Imagination my a * s. How am I supposed to imagine this! What does the game's art designer do? "The Jade Emperor shouted.
"Calm down, calm down." Li Huailin immediately said, "No matter what, according to the story, if my deduction is correct, they can turn into humans if they wear these clothes. I think I remember that it takes an hour."
The Jade Emperor looked at the two white chickens. The big one definitely couldn't wear the clothes, but the small one could. "Let's try it first."
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