In the long dark night and the endless trek, time became meaningless. Many times, Jonah had hallucinations in front of his eyes. He saw a scorching bonfire burning not far ahead. There was a grill on the fire. The suckling pig was sizzling with oil and the pheasant was brown in color and emitting an alluring aroma. Next to it was a pot of steaming meat porridge. A burly man wearing a small round hat stood up respectfully. He greeted shyly: "Zhan, Mr. Astrologer. I have just prepared meat porridge. Come and warm yourself up."
"Toba." The astrologer apprentice called the name of his loyal knight. "But you are already dead..."
"Yes." The head of the room was surprised. He took off his small round hat and bowed deeply: "Yes, I'm sorry, Mr. Astrologer. I completely forgot... I can't serve you in this life. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. …”
The hallucination disappeared. The tired Yona's feet were empty. Gudong tripped over a pit and fell to the ground. He struggled to get up and raised the Silapina lighting. Unknowingly, he had reached the tail of the giant beast and illuminated the star. The array drove away the darkness within fifty yards. After just one glance, he slapped his forehead in despair and sat down on the ground.
There is no road ahead. Standing in front of him are countless densely packed giant thorns. There is no road between the thorns that can accommodate people. Judging from the shape, this should be the tail of the ghost Bahamas. Jonah does not know that he is coming this way. What are you looking for? You only drive yourself forward with a slim hope. Now that hope as weak as a firefly bursts like a soap bubble. The astrologer apprentice gives up on himself and relaxes his body. He has no strength to move a step anymore.
The chill soaked into his body like mercury. "Is this it?" Jonah lay on his back on the uneven ground. He looked at the starry sky with confused eyes. The starlight of the endless sand sea was particularly bright. The familiar Milky Way stretched across the sky. He My old friend, the star No. 30 in the first house, "Bear", is shining in the northwest sky. "Oh, it turns out it's already midnight." Jonah murmured to himself. Judging from the position of "Bear", the new The day has come. He has been walking on the back of the beast all night.
I don’t know why. Looking at such a starry sky, Teacher Keshava’s face suddenly appeared among the stars. The strange old man wore a tall pointed hat. His hair and beard were messy and tangled. His bright little eyes were hidden between the wrinkles. "Your greatest advantage is diligence. You are a young man. Your biggest disadvantage is that you have nothing but this advantage." Teacher Keshava said vaguely. He threw the exercises on the dining table with a bang. "Today's There's no dinner left. Go and redo the exercises you missed. Then come to my lab to find me."
Little Jonah stood at the door of the restaurant on the ground floor of the Astrology Tower with an aggrieved look. "But, teacher, I can get the angle data of the interstellar lines without using Albert's equation. As long as the measurement is accurate enough..."
"You think you are very smart, don't you?" Keshava chewed his food and raised his eyebrows: "Smarter than me. Smarter than the old guys from the Astrologer Association. Smarter than the first mentor Gillbernaion."
"No, no. I didn't..." Little Jonah lowered his head and bit his lips.
"You can't even see the simplest things." Teacher Keshava snorted with disdain from his nostrils. "There may be many ways to solve the problem. But you only need one. The simplest and fastest way. , the easiest way to find the truth. There is only one. If all the ways seem to be useless, it means you have not found the right way. There is no answer without a solution. It is just that the answer has not yet appeared. Do you understand. Young people ."
Little Jonah lowered his head and held back the tears in his eyes. "I don't understand. Teacher..."
The strange old man spat out a piece of bone. He grabbed a napkin and wiped his mouth: "Forget it. Go back and do your exercises. You will grow up one day and face all kinds of things. Think about it then. I'll tell you. Let’s pass it.”
The astrologer's apprentice trembled all over. The image of his mentor disappeared without a trace. Teacher Keshava, if you were by my side now, what would you do in the face of this situation? There were messy thoughts in his mind. Jonah didn't Consciously opening the deerskin bag, he began to look for items that might be helpful to him. The same familiar items slipped through his stiff fingertips. "If all the methods seem to be useless, it means you have not found the right way... ..." Jonah recited the teacher's teachings silently. "It's useless... it's useless... it's useless... wait."
His fingers stopped on a cold and smooth surface. It was a glass jar containing a naked girl... According to Danny's translation, the green-haired girl with wings was a cursed moonlight elf. In the Queen of the Insects Deep in the ridge, the Moonlight Elf appeared automatically and helped them unlock the last words of the King of Sand Thieves. And now, trapped on the back of the ghost Bahama, can he get help from the genie in the bottle again?
I don't know where the strength came from. Jonah turned over and sat up. He raised the glass jar and looked at it. The elf curled up in the jar and closed his eyes quietly. Even his posture did not change. He couldn't help but wonder whether his memory was caused by The hallucination caused by poisonous mushrooms. "Whatever. Give it a try..." The astrologer apprentice nodded secretly. He reached out and grabbed the bottle cap and twisted it gently. The cap was loosened.
Jonah unconsciously flashed back to guard against something strange happening. But nothing changed. The girl in the bottle still had her eyes closed. He strangely dropped the bottle cap, got closer and looked into the bottle. Suddenly there was a burst of green light. It dazzled his eyes. "Ah." Yona exclaimed. He took two steps back and rubbed his eyes. A dazzling green light appeared in the air... The moonlight elf woke up. It was difficult to catch with the naked eye. Flying through the air at a speed.
"Hello, hello. I am the astrologer apprentice D. Jonah II. I...I need your help." Jonah put his hand on his chest and performed a very formal courtesy. No matter whether the moon elf is good or evil. The existence of this amazing magical creature is a miracle in itself. The work of the Creator and Lord God Sheela.
The green light condensed into one point. The moonlight elf was hovering in the air. It stared at the huge human opposite with its sapphire-like eyes. Three pairs of wings vibrated silently behind it. Its snow-white skin reflected the starlight. It was like a piece of exquisite art. Taste.
"Hello. Do you understand?" Yona squatted down carefully and looked at the Moonlight Elf. "Except for the common language of the Western Continent, I don't speak other languages. You, do you speak Elvish? This morning ...No. It was yesterday morning. I heard you speak, and I understood it. Are you speaking the common language of the Western Continent?"
"contract."
After a long silence, the elf finally spoke. Her clear voice like a silver bell rang directly in the mind of the astrologer apprentice. Jonah was stunned: "What did you say?"
"...contract." The moonlight elf circled in the air and repeated with some annoyance.
"Oh, I know. A contract is a document that stipulates that one party must serve the other party for a certain period of time." Jonah said confused. "Then what."
"..." The elf flew around in annoyance, which made Yona's eyes blur. With a swoosh, the moonlight elf appeared between Yona's eyes. He stretched out his fingers like spring onions and pointed at his pretty face. . Then he pointed at the human’s eyebrows and said viciously: “Sign the contract.”
Only then did the astrologer's apprentice suddenly realize. Of course, there were similar plots in the knight novels he had read before. On the way to save the princess, the knight signed a contract with a powerful guardian and paid a certain price in exchange for the help of magical creatures. He did not expect such a thing. It really happened in reality. Until now, he seemed a little hesitant because Teacher Keshava had never mentioned the existence of this wonderful creature. "The Geographic Survey of the Western Continent" also did not describe the moonlight elf. Bottle Cap The seal on it also says "cursed". What if this charming-looking elf is actually an evil magical creature? Will you give up your soul to sign a contract with her?
Jonah, who had a weak personality, hesitated to speak. The impatient elves were flying around him. Bright green trails entangled his whole body like silk threads. "Ouch." Suddenly there was a pain in his head. Jonah stretched out his hand to touch it. No abnormality was found. However, he saw the angry Moonlight Elf stopping in front of him. As soon as he let go, four or five flaxen curly hair slowly fell down.
"Sure enough, it's an evil elf..." Jonah was shocked. He hurriedly squatted down to pick up the glass jar and bottle cap, trying to find a way to seal her again. The unbearable moonlight elf flew to his ear and pulled the astrologer's apprentice. He shouted in his ears: "Idiot. I can only speak twenty words a day."
Yona was staggered by the shock. The moonlight elf turned into a green light and flew into the bottle. The bottle cap automatically separated from Yona's hand and flew up. The seal written in the Elvish language glowed and slowly rotated. There was a click. The bottle cap It was integrated with the bottle body. The light went out. The moonlight elf was once again locked in the glass jar. The green-haired girl fell into a deep sleep. She looked like an exquisite handicraft porcelain doll.
"Uh... what did she just say? She can only speak twenty words a day. Is this the curse she has received?" It took a long time for Jonah to realize that there are still such strange curses in the world. It seems that it will happen. Asked her for details. She had to wait another day. Jonah smiled bitterly and looked at the sky. The stars were shining coldly. Did he still have one day left? In this giant beast with no food, water, and lack of shelter. Still... How long can it be supported?
At this time, the bright green trail left by the moonlight elf when it flew back to the glass jar began to gradually dim. The astrologer apprentice glanced at it, but his eyes were fixed. The ups and downs of the trail were clearly what he had passed along the way. The terrain...the shape of the Ghost Bahamas' back. The end of the trajectory. Draw a spiral downward curve. This is clearly a reminder. The terrain diagram left to him by the Moonlight Elf.
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