Act 427 Human Heart and Undercurrent(1/2)
Fang Zhu stood on the deck of Qihai Traveler and watched the direction of the canyon. The sunset had plated the entire canyon with a layer of golden red afterglow, creating a magnificent image. The markings of light and shadow penetrated into the canopy, and the tall falling feathered pine stood upright, leaving a jagged shadow in the forest.
The sun was sinking into the west side of the canyon, and it was a line of harvest. It was vaguely visible that a group of red storks fell in the direction of the cliff. The huge and beautiful birds spread their wings in the aftermath of the sunset, as if they were shining with golden light.
The candidates, the indigenous people, were moving in the valley, building houses and raising bonfires. The firelight formed light spots in the dim light, flashing and extinguishing, like the tail marks of fireflies. The smoke and dust rose straight upwards over the forest with Mars, leaving a trace of smoke.
Then gradually fade away.
The valley is still bustling with wood and stone. Others are responsible for designing and building. They build a slope of the house based on the red trunks and build a general framework based on the unique style of the island.
From time to time, people come in and out, and some callers leave the valley. The supplies are still scarce here. People need to go out to find food and new water sources, and even magical crystals and ores to supplement their magic furnace consumption.
However, Ian and the calendula told them that people would not leave the valley too far before nightfall. Naga's actions will be more frequent at night and it is not safe outside, which is why Odesa suggested that they stay here.
Ian and his group had no experience in activities outside at night, so Fang Zhu naturally followed suit. Although saving people was like putting out fires, the sailboat was the only hope for everyone on the island, and he had to consider everyone on the boat.
There were about a hundred people on the island, which was much more than they had expected before they came. There were two or three thousand indigenous people, but not all of them were gathered to come to this place. There were at least three villages scattered outside, nearly one-fifth of the population.
Even if you use the Qihai Traveler ID, these people will have to take at least several trips to bring everyone back. This will be smooth. If you encounter the Naga clan's interception or obstruction, the situation will be even more complicated.
Before they came, there were only two alchemists among the nearly 100 summoned callers on the island, and the lark was one of them. The two shouldered all the responsibilities of magic craftsmen, but they were still far from enough. Many people's equipment maintenance level was below the danger line.
After they came, news of an alchemist on the ship - one of them was the leader of the craftsman spread wildly, and many people came to see him. However, not many people actually came to find him, and most of them came to Cui Xisi.
Cui Xisi didn't refuse either. According to the Star Gate Regulations, the convener should have helped each other in such a situation, but she had the right to receive some rewards, but the lady of the Heavenly Girl from the Sacrament Guild refused, and she didn't care about the little money.
Fang Rong told Cui Xisi that if she couldn't get busy, she could ask her for help.
But the fairy craftsman looked at him and said lightly: "Thank you, but these daily tasks are nothing to me. In fact, this is also a kind of temper for an alchemist. Sometimes some difficult and complicated diseases can even increase my experience. I was also responsible for doing this during the Sacramentary Guild, and I was used to it."
Instead, she looked at Fang Ling and said, "The team leader only needs to maintain equipment for more than ten people in daily life. You should not be used to this intensity of workload, just leave it to me."
Fang Yu couldn't help but be stunned. If it were before, he would have boasted about his experience in the July War, including later in Fenris and in the Northern War, he did not become unfamiliar with his old career.
But I don’t know when it started, but instead he was indifferent to this kind of thought, probably the suffering of the ragged war refugees seen in the Battle of the North, or the deeper things witnessed by the Empire and his vocation, and the ancient and new changes.
He gradually became calmer, no longer like a big child, put away his past showing off. According to Alice, he became more like a superior and more majestic as a captain.
Fang Rong himself actually didn't understand whether this change was good or bad, but he would eventually grow up. When faced with Cui Xisi's words, he no longer refuted it. Instead, he heard the faint complaints about the past in the other party's words.
"I'm sorry, for having to leave there. I know that the Sacramentary Guild will have everything you were familiar with, and make friends and fight with companions for it," Fang Ling said: "But there was a small accident between you and Jita. Apart from that, I can't think of a better solution to everything."
He looked at the canyon that was gradually dimming in the dusk, and the light of the bonfire was becoming more dazzling.
Fang Ling replied: "I have to be responsible for everyone on the Qihai Traveler, and stop the loss in time before the situation deteriorates further; I don't want to leave hidden dangers in the relationship between you and the Sacramental Guild, so I force you to make such a choice - similarly, I would rather regard you as a member of the team than to go to the point of fighting in the future."
Cui Xisi was stunned for a moment, with a little light flashing in her eyes. She had to compare the new leader in front of her with the two empires, especially Juno among the two stars.
The two stars of the Empire are undoubtedly more shining. Even if they are slightly inferior to the man in the mainland league, the guilds, clubs, the first division and even the Empire themselves are footnotes behind them.
Even she herself was proud of all that.
The things she yearned for changed quietly. An unexpected accident forced her to come to this boat. She had some agreement with the S.O.L.I.D alliance, but in the final analysis, she was more like an abandoned child.
This made it difficult for her to be free from resentment.
But the difference is that the original leader, Changxing among the Gemini, would never talk to her like this.
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"The leader of the group kept this to others," Cui Xisi felt a little angry for some reason and replied hard: "But since as a member of this team, I have to say something. The leader can stop and wait for others, but no one will stop and wait for us."
Fang Yu was slightly stunned when he heard this.
The girl finally added: "I have nothing to be dissatisfied with. At least I have good luck with you. I have gained a lot of experience in the past few days, but good luck will never favor us."
"The world behind this star gate is not that warm."
Alisa looked at the back of the fairy craftsman leaving and smiled: "It seems that she is a little dissatisfied with the style of "Governor Captain".
Fang Yu turned around and watched her walk up to him, thinking for a while, but had a different view on this, "She was willing to say this, at least she had already regarded herself as one of us."
"Can you still see this?" Alisa was a little surprised.
"Okay, stop teasing me," Fang Ling said: "Is there anything wrong?"
"The islanders plan to hold a grand bonfire party to welcome the goddess' messenger, that is, us," Miss Nightingale couldn't help laughing when she saw Fang Zhu gradually frowning. "The leader of the regiment will not refuse at the first time. We have to stay on this island for a while, and this is an opportunity to effectively enhance relationships."
Fang Yu scratched his head: "Is this necessary?"
Alisa advised: "Of course, even if the leader of the group doesn't think about himself, please help me get information in the crowd better. Our arrival has brought them a lot of supplies and established a good initial impression among the islanders and the conveners. However, at this time, it is not advisable to be too alienated, otherwise all the previous efforts will be wasted and arrogance will be left with superior arrogance."
She said again: "But that is not actually our true thoughts, why do you have to cause misunderstandings for some unnecessary reserve?"
"Okay." Fang Yu sighed. He was really not good at these things and always felt a little troublesome, but he didn't want to smear Miss Nightingale's intentions. He also knew that the other party was also thinking about the Seven Seas Brigade, and it was not appropriate to leave seeds of suspicion among the summoners on the island at this time.
In a sense, they faced their common enemies, and these calls on the island were their natural allies.
Fang Ling asked everyone's wishes again. Unexpectedly, most people agreed, and even Cui Xisi did not object. Her views were surprisingly consistent with Alissa, thinking that this was a good opportunity to win over local conveners.
Only Dalier volunteered to stay and see the boat. Miss Catman seemed to keep a necessary distance from all unnecessary social activities. Tianlan joked that Miss Dolls only liked the "little nest" on the boat, just like a cat - she ended up snatching a thunderbolt.
There was also a mage position on the ship, so Jita did not get off the ship. The sailor also claimed that there was no need for his old arms and legs to join in the fun. He had seen too many storms on the Hokage Sea, but instead took it lightly.
The rest of the people got off the boat.
The islanders piled up huge piles of firewood in the clearings in the middle of the valley, lit them at night, and bright flames illuminated everyone's face, and even the surrounding forests danced in the flames.
The valley is also coated with rose color.
When May saw this scene, he couldn't help asking, wouldn't this attract the attention of those dark creatures?
But Ian and his group told them that the valley was safe and that the Naga clan had not yet penetrated into the holy mountain and could not see such a far-reaching fire.
The islanders beat strange instruments and played exotic music, sang ancient hymns around the bonfire, and praised and enthusiastically offered to the goddess Audesa they believed in.
Some young girls walked out of them to offer courtesy to the "Envoy of God". The girls with wheat-colored skin were coming to people, holding flowers and strange crystals produced in the sea of the sky.
The indigenous people still seemed to think that Fang Zhu and his group were chosen by the goddess and the envoys who came to save them. The girls hardly dared to look up at these people, and shyly handed the gifts to everyone in the Qihai Brigade.
Those flowers and crystals are actually not of great value, but when Silmide took it, he smiled and gently put it away.
She looked at the islander girl in front of her. The girl was blinded, and her long dark and soft hair half covered the tightly closed eyes. She turned her head slightly and looked a little uneasy when facing the gaze of the ship's officer.
"Daniele!"
When the marigold saw the girl, he held the other person's hand and asked, "Why are you here?"
She looked at the lost eye with some pity, and then explained to the others: "She is Daniele, it's me, Ian and the friend of Lark. She is a poor girl. We knew her when we went to the island."
"... She was not like this at that time, but later when Naga invaded, she, her sister and her parents were lost, leaving her alone here."
Fang Zhu looked at the girls who came up to offer gifts to them, most of them left with various disabilities. In order to take good care of them, the "Envoys of God", the island must have carefully selected these girls who presented gifts to them.
Naga has just arrived on the island, but the cruel and bloodthirsty creatures have profoundly changed everything here.
Others didn't expect that there would be such a story in between, and they couldn't help but think of the scene I had seen in Otrek Port before - the man whose eyes were blinded and his throat was cut off, and his body was nailed to a high wall and dried.
Even Alisa looked at these girls and seemed a little silent for a moment.
Tianlan even quietly pulled Silmide's sleeve, "Sister Silmide."
"Don't add pressure to the leader, we will help these people as much as possible," Silmide sighed. "Among those who are wandering away from home we are going to bring back, maybe Daniel's parents and sister are among them."
Tianlan then breathed a sigh of relief.
"Uncle Yake asked me to come," but the islander girl named Daniele was not very sad about what happened to her. She just looked at Fang Yu and her group carefully and whispered: "He told me that you are back and are still with God's envoys."
"They are not God's envoys, they are just foreign guests." explained the Calendula, "like us, they are here to help you."
The female witch looked at Fang Zhu and others.
Seeing Fang Zhu nodding slightly, she continued: "They might help you find your sister and your parents."
But Daniele shook his head: "My eyes were given to me by the goddess. Now I will return it to the goddess. This is what I should do. Don't be sad about what happened to me, Alier, all this is the Goddess's grace--"
"It's like sister, mother and father. If they really don't come back, they'll just return to the embrace of the goddess. All this is destined," said Danieel, "It's the fate of our clan. But I'm really happy that you can come back."
Ian explained to Fang Ling and his party that "Eriel" actually means the Saint Selected in the words of the indigenous people, but they do not use this title to refer to each of the Summoner, which is a very intimate title.
Daniele seemed to be sincerely happy for the return of Ian and the other two. He was pulling the hand of the marigold and whispering to ask, and occasionally glanced at Fang Zhu and others.
The calendula quickly brought her over.
The girl looked at Fang Yu with shyness and fear, lowered her head and bowed respectfully to him: "Sir God."
"The islanders believe that you are the envoys chosen by the goddess," the female witch sighed and looked at him helplessly, "She insisted that I bring her to see you."
Fang Yu was so amused that he had to give him a souvenir. He actually had nothing valuable to him, and finally found a clockwork fairy he had transformed himself, which was unique.
Daniele accepted the gift in surprise and quickly took it back to show off to other girls, causing bursts of surprises.
The entire bonfire party was spent in such an atmosphere. As Alissa expected, they actually had no substantial contact with the islanders. The backwardness and ignorance created a gap between the indigenous people and them.
Except for Daniele, the indigenous people dared not approach them. After all, they were the envoys of Goddess Audesa. Whether it was arousing wrath or attracting the attention of the "big figures", they were not able to bear it.
But the callers did not have this understanding. After getting to know each other, the two sides quickly became closer. Fang Yu also learned that most of the callers on the island came from the second division, and a small number came from the fourth division and the outer sea.
But strangely, there is no choice from the first and third divisions. It seems that those portals are not accidental, but have certain choices.
The conveners also introduced the situation on the island to Fang Ling, whether it was inside the Central Mountains, the outer areas, including the Autrik City, and the villages that were lost outside, and what happened when the Naga tribe went to the island.
Although Ian and the other two have told them all, they have different gains from different perspectives.
However, those social activities were roughly divided into several circles, the Papara people and the box were the most popular and got along with the others. Mei also had several curious people, and some players from Rotao recognized her origin in the ancient Knights and surrounded her to ask questions.
To be continued...