Lunch time was over.
"Are we … locked up here?"
Ahr hugged his legs as he sat on the bed, trembling.
This was a well-decorated double bedroom. The bed was so soft that it didn't look like a place a prisoner would sleep in.
But when the Dark Elf revealed her emotions in that instant, no matter how innocent the High Elf was, she could clearly feel that she was' threatened '.
"Sure enough, the stories Grandma told us were true … We're going to be sold soon." Ahr covered his long ears, unwilling to accept the fact that he had fallen into a "den of thieves." I haven't completed my coming-of-age ceremony yet. "
"Not yet."
Twig wasn't as flustered as Ahr. She came to the bedroom's window and easily pushed it open.
But the scenery outside was a bustling street. The bustling human voices outside were no different from bad news to Twig.
The window wasn't locked, and the door was also open. The Dark Elf clearly didn't intend to put them under house arrest.
What was that Dark Elf trying to do? Or … what were these humans trying to do?
Twig hid in the shadows of the window and carefully observed the humans.
While she forced herself to remain calm in front of Ahr, she couldn't deny that she couldn't think of a solution to the current situation.
"Ahr, do you remember what Grandma En Ya said?"
While Twig had read many books related to humans, only the older elves had actual experience with humans.
"The humans will strip you naked and throw you into an iron cage." Ahr recalled carefully and said, "Then they will force you to do all sorts of outrageous things."
Twig walked to the bookshelf in the bedroom without a word. It was filled with all sorts of books. Twig hoped to find records related to this city from these books.
However, her gaze was soon attracted by an Origin Crystal. There was a leaf sealed in that Origin Crystal. It was a leaf from the World Tree.
"A part of the holy tree."
Twig picked up the Origin Crystal and studied it.
"The branches of the holy tree were also chopped off by those humans and made into tools?"
Ahr stared at the crystal sealed in the leaf as if he was witnessing some kind of atrocity.
The moment he saw the 'corpse' of the World Tree, Ahr seemed to have made up his mind.
"Leave the leaves to me. Go find the ice dragon and ask him to save the elder."
Silver-white inscriptions appeared on Ahr's hand. Not only her side, but Ahr's cheeks and arms also had a large number of inscriptions.
This was proof that Ahr was protected by the Holy Tree, and it might also be the reason why this girl dared to be so unbridled.
Although Ahr's combat experience was basically zero, she could inscribe inscriptions on all wooden objects and summon powerful 'golems'.
This summoning spell required a long chant.
Half of the building was made out of wood.
"Be careful." Zhi Ye knew that this was the only solution.
She used her mana and attached it to the Origin Crystal, preparing to shatter it and take out the leaf of the World Tree inside.
But this time, not only did the infusion of mana not shatter the Origin Crystal, it even activated it.
Light shone from Zhi Ye's palm and shone on the bookshelf in front of her.
For a moment, Zhi Ye thought that she had activated some offensive spell, but when the light on the bookshelf gradually stabilized, she saw a painting on the bookshelf.
Only then did she see clearly that a painting had appeared on the bookshelf … a painting that could move.
Ahr, who was chanting an incantation, was also attracted by the projection.
"Frost … elf?"
Zhi Ye recognized the person in the painting as a female Frost Elf.
This Frost Elf was sitting in a room facing them, and there was a white cat lying on the long table in front of the Frost Elf.
"That's the consciousness of the holy tree." Ahr immediately recognized the white cat. It was the same kind of existence as the Shiratori of her race's World Tree.
The atmosphere around the Frost Elf was very … dim, and the surrounding lights were deliberately illuminated with ancient candles.
There was even a pile of ancient books and a decaying human skull on the table.
The entire room was filled with a mysterious and eerie atmosphere. When the white cat on the table disappeared, the entire room was filled with a creepy feeling!
Was it really as Ahr said? Did the humans do something to their race after capturing them?
"Ahr, did the humans record these images?"
Zhi Ye looked worriedly at the Frost Elf sitting behind the long table.
The High Elves also had Origin Crystals that could play images, but those were the creatures of their race, and recorded the great deeds of their ancestors.
Zhi Ye did not expect such a great recording ritual to be mastered by the humans, and was even used to record these things.
"Zhi Ye, can you close that Origin Crystal?" Ahr looked at the eerie atmosphere and stopped chanting.
The eerie atmosphere around the Frost Elf made Ahr even more certain that the stories told by the elders were true.
She could almost imagine the terrible scene that would happen next.
However, Zhi Ye did not listen to Ahr. She hoped to get more information from this image. Perhaps the Frost Elf would ask someone for help?
"Ugh …"
Faced with Zhi Ye's silence, Ahr let out a cry. He could only close his eyes and focus on chanting the Summoning Spell to prevent himself from falling into the illusion of being harmed.
What would happen? Would the Frost Elf be whipped, or would it be thrown naked into an iron cage like Ahr said? Or would it be something even worse?
As Zhi Ye guessed the pitiful Frost Elf's fate, a warm smile appeared on her face, and she waved her hand.
There were no humans, and there was no strange torture. The Frost Elf seemed to be greeting everyone warmly.
"Good evening, everyone. I am Taylin. It is one in the morning now." The Frost Elf looked at the yellowed paper in her hand and said.
"In the wee hours of the morning today, I won't be sharing stories related to the undead with you. Recently, I received a particularly interesting story. This story should be told by Mr. Plucker, but because I like it too much, I want to tell the first story first. The story is called 'A Study in Scarlet'. This is a story about using knowledge and reasoning to solve all kinds of … cases."
Wait … What's going on?
Zhi Ye waited patiently for a while, and realized that no humans came out to do anything to the Frost Elf.
She just sat there with a pile of paper in her hand and narrated the story.
"Has … has it started?" Ahr opened his eyes slightly, and carefully looked at the image on the screen.
"Ahr, the Frost Elf's situation seems to be different from the story Grandma En Ya told." Zhi Ye said.
As Ar chanted the incantation, he looked at the Frost Elves in the image once more.
Although the layout of the room around her was very strange, there were no chains or scars on the Frost Elf's body.
Zhi Ye waited patiently for a while to listen to the Frost Elf's story, and realized that the story was about a person called 'Watson' who returned from the battlefield, and was going to find a strange person called Holmes to share a house with.
There were too many terms that Zhi Ye could not understand, and the knowledge of magic and alchemy mixed together made Zhi Ye's head hurt.
"Ahr …"
Zhi Ye lost her patience, and prepared to stay by Ahr's side. Once she summoned the golem, she would immediately escape with Ahr.
But just as she was about to stop instilling magic power into the crystal, the next sentence in the screen made Twig's movement pause.
"I can see that you have been to the Kingdom of Black Sand."
It was supposed to be said by a wise man, but it sounded a little awkward coming from a female Elf's voice, but that did not stop Zhi Ye from being curious.
At the end of the story, which was also when Zhi Ye listened the most, it described that Watson had participated in the war against the Kingdom of Black Sand.
From the description of the name of the country, it should be a country built by humans on the desert.
'How did you know? 'Watson asked the same question as Foliage.
To find out the answer, Zhi Ye continued to infuse mana into the crystal, and after a series of descriptions that made Zhi Ye's head hurt, Zhi Ye's doubts were finally answered.
'Your hairstyle and posture indicate that you're a soldier. Although this is Nolan, you're obviously speaking in the Iron Nation's Kroskian accent. Your face and hands are tanned, but your wrists are not …' 'You don't have to worry about that.
Through the narration of the Frost Elf, Holmes gave a series of deductions, most of which Zhi Ye did not understand, such as the relationship between countries and their names, but she had a strange feeling that it was very powerful.
The things that Zhi Ye came into contact with the most in her own city were probably books. She also came into contact with many stories and travelogues from the Land, which was one of the only ways she understood humans.
But most of the stories in the books were adventures of adventurers, and the love and hate entanglements between nobles. Zhi Ye was a little tired of reading such stories.
In the story narrated by the Frost Elf, Holmes' reasoning, detective, basic deductive methods, and other concepts seemed to have opened a whole new door for Zhi Ye.
Although Zhi Ye could not understand the content at all, the novelty of reasoning was enough to drive her to continue listening.
"Zhi Ye, what is the Frost Elf talking about?"
Ahr stopped chanting again. She could not hold it in any longer. Ahr could understand every word that the Frost Elf said, but the meaning was completely incomprehensible to Ahr.
"The Detective Collection of Sherlock Holmes. That is the full title of the book."
A voice answered Ahr on behalf of Zhi Ye.
The moment Zhi Ye heard the voice, she took out the bow in her hand and aimed at the figure leaning against the door.
The Dark Elf … She appeared silently in front of Zhi Ye and Ahr again.
"This is one of my favorite stories. It is more interesting than stories like 'Aladdin and the Magic Lamp' and 'Rapunzel', so I recorded it. Unfortunately, not many people know how to appreciate it. I don't know when the next chapter will be released."
As usual, the Dark Elf ignored the arrows aimed at her from the branches and leaves and spoke to herself.
"The next chapter …" Zhi Ye was stunned for a moment.
In order to use the bow, she put the crystal back on the shelf, but the crystal was still working. The Frost Elf's narration ended halfway through the case.
"This is the recording from three days ago. Taylin has been busy with a concert recently, and my employer is not willing to write the next part of the story."
After the Dark Elf finished complaining, she looked at Ahr who was sitting on the bed and the silver-white magical inscriptions that gradually appeared on the wooden floor.
"Although I don't know what system of magical inscriptions you use, is this what you High Elves do to repay your benefactor in this way?"
"We just want to leave this place," Zhi Ye said.
"To find the Ice Dragon that infiltrated Noland?"
The Dark Elf suddenly revealed the true purpose of the two High Elves.
At this moment, Zhi Ye inexplicably remembered the encounter between Watson and Holmes.
"This … is the so-called … Basic Deduction Method?" Zhi Ye asked subconsciously.
"Deduction? You guessed wrong. I only have information related to you. "
Although the Dark Elf was now a reporter, she used to be the biggest information dealer in Noland.
The current information network was several times larger than before, and the Dark Elf would be able to know any news that happened in any corner of Noland.
However, the information related to the High Elves was provided to her by Josiah.
Josiah sent a message, "The Ice Dragon brought three High Elves to Noland."
"I will bring you to find the Ice Dragon."
The Dark Elf appeared behind Ahr in an instant and placed her hands on Ahr's shoulders. If Zhi Ye shot the arrow in her hand, Ahr would definitely become the first target.
"But only if you stop chanting, High Elves."
The spell that the High Elf was chanting was very complicated. If it was completed, it would very likely destroy the news association that the Dark Elves had painstakingly built.
Under the Dark Elf's persuasion, Ahr could only stop chanting obediently, and Zhi Ye was forced to withdraw her arrow again.
The two of them were no match for this Dark Elf.
"Why do you … help us?" This was the thing that Zhi Ye could not understand.
"It's not that I want to help you, but my employer."
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