What do you mean? Dirty things? As Arthur listened to Christina's shrill scream, goosebumps surged all over his body. He could not imagine anything in the world that was dirtier than killing, not to mention that Christina was only a civilian.
If it hadn't been a threat to his own safety, he would have let her go in the hole of Shijieming's tree.
Jie Lin knew better. She looked ahead without saying a word. After hearing Arthur's previous explanation, she knew that this seemingly harmless elf was just an ordinary investigator. Imagine if she was also attacked by an orc.
If you are caught like this, what will you do...
Jess didn't have much patience to listen to Christina's screams. He quickly held Christina's second finger. "I'll give you three seconds, one, two..."
"No, I didn't do anything wrong, just let me go..." Christina's original idea was very simple. Legolas had said that the murderer was suspected to be a human team that sneaked into the central area of the Elf Forest.
One of them, she naturally chose to trust the captain of the guard, Legolas, who was also from the Long-eared tribe. These humans seemed to be looking for something in Shi Jiemin's tree hole. Jace put away Shi Jiemin's handwritten letter and let Christina
She was even more confident that these humans had not found what they needed. As long as they concealed the clues they found, and these humans would not be able to forcefully break into the embassy again, she would be able to drag them alive to the escort team for rescue.
But Christina didn't expect that Jace was more cruel than she imagined. He had planned to kill her when he had the opportunity to search the embassy in the tree hole. Now they have no way to return to the embassy and can only rely on themselves to provide clues. Jace has no clues.
He didn't show any mercy and actually broke off his own finger.
"three."
Jess used force to twist off Christina's second finger, watching Christina writhing on the ground in pain. Arthur couldn't help it anymore and shouted: "Jes, what are you doing, you bastard? She is just an ordinary elf.
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With tears in her eyes, Christina held her twisted fingers and kept extending her hands to the cold-faced Docmundo who stood aside and looked at him with his arms crossed, "Save me... aren't you an elf? Help me...
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"Sorry, miss, I can't beat him," Docmundo spread his hands helplessly.
Not caring about Christina's desperate survival behavior, Jess counted the first seconds again. Realizing that it was impossible for Jess to let him go, Christina finally couldn't bear the pressure and had to compromise. "I told you, I told you everything.
You guys, please let me go...please."
Jess raised the corner of his mouth, said "very good", then got up and went to Lagdis' side to sort out the cloth bag brought back by the four people with him. There were nuts of various sizes in it. He changed to Buchlington and started again.
Squatting in front of Christina, "I don't want to explain to you why we didn't kill the ambassador. You just need to explain what else you discovered."
"Oil painting...I sensed that there used to be an oil painting in the ambassador's residence, but it's gone now..."
Buchlinton shouted in cooperation with Christina who was curled up on the ground, "It's just an oil painting. Maybe Ambassador Shi Jieming put it away or sold it?"
"No, what is painted on it is the portrait of the first Elf King, the Elf God Gauss Aesop..."
"What do you mean? It's just a portrait. Even if it's the portrait of the Elf King, what does it mean? Can you see that portrait?"
"No, I can't see it, but I can hear it." Christina wiped the cold sweat from her forehead with her good hand. "I heard the wind say... The Elf King in the painting was holding a stick in both hands.
Branches, in the shape of a prayer."
Pray? Isn’t the Elf King already the god of the elves? Then who is he praying to? Arthur wanted to ask Jie Lin beside him, but seeing Jie Lin’s blank look, Arthur turned to consult Doc who was pretending to think on the other side.
Mundo, "Do you know that oil painting too?"
Docmundo was immersed in his own world for a while. Arthur kept calling in a low voice to no avail. He only reacted when he reached out and touched Docmundo's shoulder. Arthur had to ask again: "Oil painting? I don't know, but that part
I seem to have heard branches... I can't remember... Why can't I remember..." Just after finishing speaking, Docmundo's eyes began to spin rapidly along his orbits, and when Arthur spun faster
Even the strange sight of completely black eyes made Arthur feel horrified right in front of Docmundo...
What's going on? Arthur quickly turned Docmundo to face him with both hands. In just a blink of an eye, Docmundo's pupils returned to normal, and he looked at Arthur in confusion. Arthur had to smile and let go of Docmundo.
Mundo.
Turning his head and facing away from Docmundo, Arthur was sure that it was definitely not his illusion. Docmundo's eyes were indeed spinning out of common sense. After coming out of Tommy Town, although he was in a coma for a long time, he got along normally.
Docmondo definitely didn't behave in such a weird way. Jie Lin probably didn't notice Docmundo. Buchlinton was still interrogating Christina. Recalling the weird scene just now, Arthur didn't know whether to talk to him or not.
Other team members said, what if it was an illusion... He took half a step closer to Jie Lin.
Buchlington then asked Christina: "What is that branch, and what is its significance? Why do you find it strange?"
"You humans... you should also know that just like the Brighton City area was the activity area of the earth goddess Gaia in the old calendar, the Elf Forest... was also the first generation Elf King, and the Elf God was also the seat of Gauss Aesop.
The reason why we elves betrayed the Elf God Gauss Aesop is because in his later years, Gauss Aesop obtained two items in the abyss of the Elf Forest. After that, he was no longer the Gauss Aesop we knew."
The abyss of the Elf Forest... Arthur thought of the terrain that went downwards towards the center of the Elf Forest and the bottom of the bottomless cedar trees in the central area where the Butterfly Wings lived, where there was endless darkness.
"Then, what did he get from the abyss?" Buchlinton's Adam's apple rolled. He knew that he was in contact with the history of the elves. Unlike Gaia, the first elf king Gauss Aesop is mysterious to humans and will last forever.
Incomprehensible.
Christina paused, her white lips trembled, and her robe was wet with cold sweat. It seemed as if what she saw was a borderless purgatory, as if it was the place of atonement with God." He got...the branches of the original tree.
and..."
Christina couldn't hold on any longer. She even forgot about the pain in her fingers. Her eyes rolled back and she foamed at the mouth. She passed out.
Buchlinton stretched out his hand to protect the fallen Christina, only to hear two exclamations behind him. When he turned around, Docmundo's body collapsed. Thanks to Arthur's quick reaction, he caught him. "What happened?"
Lin's startled breath attracted Lagdis and Jace, and they took alert actions, fearing that this was an enemy attack from the escort or something else.
Arthur put Docmundo to the ground. He understood that this was not done by anyone else. This was what happened after Christina and Docmundo heard the words "Branches of the Original Tree". Could it be another relic of God?
Object? But why is the name different from what I knew before, and it sounds like Gauss Aesop got it from other places. Abyss, what is under this Elf Forest?
"What should we do now, captain?" When they didn't know what to do, Jie Lin and Arthur looked at Buechington at the same time. This behavior has become a habit.
Now the special team still doesn't know what force the person who really killed Shi Jieming belongs to. Even what they learned from Christina's mouth is that an oil painting depicting the Elf King that Shi Jieming collected has disappeared. But the deep meaning is:
What, Buchlinton roughly guessed, this is related to the relics of God. The rumors of relics of God that he had heard in more than ten years in the army were not even as many as those he heard in just two months. This made Buchington
Bucherington always felt that something big was about to happen. After considering the contents of the handwritten letter Arthur told him for a short moment, Bucherington decided on his future goals:
"The mission cannot be given up. Although I tried not to mention it along the way, we are responsible for the safety of Brighton City, and the elves are not stable internally. I suspect that the orcs have placed secret sentries in the Butterfly Wings to request the elves to
We probably won’t be able to help us anymore. The resources we have now should be enough to support our operations for half a month. Let’s go directly to Nozil City to see who the goblins around Savali that Shijiemin bribed are.”