Jonah blinked his eyes in disbelief. The light was still on his retinas, and the traces had been extinguished in the night. He didn't dare to waste a minute. While he still had an impression of the shape, he began to search for clues about the tail of the ghost Bahamas.
Ten minutes later, hope came again. At the bottom of a huge pit, he discovered unnatural traces of artificial carving. Someone had carved a door into the behemoth's skin, which was tougher than metal. The door was the same color as the skin. The hinges were tightly locked. If you didn't observe carefully, it would be difficult to find the gaps around the door. A door means a room, which means a safe haven and a chance of survival. At this time, Jonah was extremely surprised. Not caring about anything else, he tried knocking on the door and found no response. He took two steps back, raised Sila Fina and launched a direct attack on the star array.
After such a long time, Jonah's depleted spiritual pool at the Back of the Insect was fully restored, and the "Mushroom Farm Trident" spurted out from the top of the Gods' Seal, instantly piercing through the defense with a bang. After the steel door was blown to pieces, the astrologer's apprentice waited for a few minutes until the temperature of the red-hot iron dropped slightly before jumping over the remains of the door and entering this mysterious room.
After entering the door and turning a corner, you can see the whole room. Judging from the color and material of the walls, the house was artificially carved out of the ghost Bahamas' skin. I don't know what kind of tools the builders used to deal with the giant beast's hard and thick skin. The room was not big, and the star array illuminated every corner of the hut. "Food...water," Jonah shouted and ran forward.
The furnishings in the room are very simple. The two rows of wooden shelves on the left and right are filled with glass bottles of water, hard cheese and rusk. There are a few straw futons in the middle, which should be used for sleeping. Thick dust falls on the water bottles and food. , I don’t know how long it has been stored, but the dry climate of the desert will not cause the food to deteriorate. Yona rushed over and grabbed a piece of rusk, dusted off the dust and took a bite. The food as hard as iron slowly changed in his dry mouth. Soft, he picked up another bottle of water, unscrewed the cap, drank half of the bottle, and washed the food down his esophagus, "Huh..." Yona let out a long breath and sat down limply. Falling to the ground, the feeling of surviving the disaster was so wonderful. He could feel every crumb of dry bread being greedily absorbed by his stomach and turned into energy rushing in his blood vessels. Jonah slowly finished a piece After eating bread, a piece of cheese, and a bottle of water, sleepiness immediately hit him overwhelmingly. He barely pushed past a row of shelves to block the broken door, fell down on the soft futon with a plop, and fell asleep.
He did not dream. He slept until dawn. It took several minutes for the sleepy Jonah to remember where he was. The constant sound of wind in his ears reminded him that the ghost Bahamas was still moving forward at lightning speed. In such a world Jonah found it a bit incredible to have such a peaceful sleep in such a weird hut in a dangerous place.
The astrologer apprentice walked out of the room, stood at the bottom of the pit and looked at the sky. The sun was already very high, and it was a new day. He reached out and touched the rough and hard skin of the ghost Bahama, and felt a strange feeling in his heart. This giant beast Why does the beast keep running in the endless sand sea, and who dug a hut on it and lived here. Now, where has the owner of the hut gone? It seems that the moonlight elf in the bottle seems to know something. Thinking of this , Jonah took out the glass jar and tried to unscrew the cap, but no matter how hard he tried, he could not loosen the cap. It seemed that the cursed elf could no longer come out after saying the twenty words per day. This is such a strange curse...
Too many extremely strange things have happened in recent days. Jonah temporarily threw the genie in the bottle back into his deerskin bag and looked back at the cabin where he lived. Except for two rows of storage shelves and a few futons, there was nothing in the room. No, there are no personal items, no information left by the owner, the house has no windows, and if the door is closed tightly, it will be dark inside even during the day. It seems that the original owner of the room was a monk or a monk who was meditating.
Looking at the futons, Yona's heart moved. He used the end of the staff Sela Pina to push aside the futons, revealing the floor of the room. There was indeed something on the ground. There were some old things painted with red paint on the dark brown floor. It looked like a strange symbol that looked like both a graphic and a text. Jonah tilted his head and looked at it for a long time, not understanding what it meant at all.
The clues that the moonlight elf left for him last night have now been completely forgotten. The astrologer apprentice has eaten and drank enough, with food and water all over his body, and went out to continue looking for clues. It took a whole day, except for the steep angle. Outside the inaccessible edge area, he visited every corner of the ghost Bahamas tail and found no trace of artificial excavation. He tried to look down and was immediately frightened to the point where his hair stood on end and his legs and feet became weak. , although the height of the giant beast is not as high as the Backworm's Backbone, the sand waves raised by the astonishing speed of 50 knots cover the sky and the sun. The sand flow surrounding the Ghost Bahama is like a living rattlesnake, scurrying around and hissing, Jonah had no doubt that if he jumped down recklessly, he would be torn into pieces by flying sand in an instant.
The sky was getting dark, and the astrologer apprentice dragged his tired body back to the cabin, blocked the door, and sat down in a daze. He could not find any way to escape from the back of the ghost Bahamas. If he walked towards the head, the wind would become stronger, and still There was no hope of escape. Jonah suddenly remembered the shape of the spiral. If the Moonlight Elf was guiding him to escape, then there must be something underground in this room.
Do you want to blast it open and take a look?
Jonah tightened his grip on the staff, and then slowly loosened it, repeating this process several times. In the end, his cautiousness defeated his impulsiveness, "Anyway, I have something to eat and drink, so what's the point of waiting for one more day? It's past midnight, You can summon the Moonlight Elf and ask her." Yona, who has a small farmer mentality, looked at the shelves full of supplies with satisfaction, found a comfortable position to sit down, and looked through the "Geographical Calculation of the Southern Continent" by the light of the star array. Night after night, he has discovered that there is no danger on the back of the ghost Bahama. This giant beast seems to have forgotten his existence, and there is no external force that can harm him.
Time passed quickly. When he went out to check the stars for the third time, he found that the "Bear" constellation had moved to the northwest sky. A new day had arrived. Jonah returned to the room excitedly, took out the glass jar, and sure enough, he twisted the cap. As soon as he opened it, the moonlight elf whizzed into green light and circled upward, hovering in front of him.
"Don't talk and listen to me," the astrologer's apprentice stared at the elf and said, "I understand. You can only speak twenty words a day. That is the curse you have received. Is that right? If so, just nod."
The genie in the bottle nodded with relief and waved his wings in appreciation.
"Is there any way to help you lift the curse? What can I do?" Jonah couldn't help but ask.
"Contract," the Moonlight Elf repeated the word again.
Jonah nodded, "I understand. If I sign a contract with you, I will be exposed to the curse, right? How can I sign a contract...and you must first tell me why you were cursed and why you were sealed in this bottle. Will you cause any harm to the contractor, for example, the exchange condition is my soul, etc."
The elf started another dazzling flight, and then landed on the top of the staff Sila Pina. The green-haired elf sat on the staff in distress, holding his cheeks with his hands, and looked at the human opposite him angrily.
Jonah didn't know what to say, and the Moonlight Elf seemed to be thinking about how to make good use of the remaining eighteen words. The two stared at each other, and neither of them spoke for a while.
"Right," the astrologer's apprentice suddenly had an idea. He took out the "Geographic Survey of the Southern Continent" from his deerskin bag, casually opened a page and spread it on the ground, pointing to the words in the common language of the Western Continent: "Where do you fall? The words represent the meaning of each word, so you can communicate without speaking."
The Moonlight Elf glanced at him disdainfully: "Yeah, this kind of childish trick can also deceive the God of Ice and Snow, Sardi." As soon as the words came out, she regretfully covered her mouth with a look of collapse on her face.
"Three, four, five, six...nineteen..." Jonah counted on his fingers. This very nervous elf said nineteen words again today. He put down the big book and said, "Your It means that even if the information is conveyed through other means, it is still within the limit of twenty words, right?"
The green-haired elf covered his mouth tightly and nodded violently with tears in his eyes.
"...What can be done with one word? We have to wait for another day." Jonah spread out his hands without any idea. The moonlight elf lay on the staff and looked at him with a frown. "Otherwise, you can use the one you used yesterday." "How about you draw a map and tell me how to leave the Ghost Bahamas, and then tell me how to sign the contract tomorrow," Jonah suggested.
The Moonlight Elf shook his head.
"...You are afraid that I won't sign a contract with you after I leave. Is this a condition of exchange?" the astrologer's apprentice suddenly realized.
The moonlight elf nodded.
The two people stared at each other again, not knowing how to deal with this embarrassing situation.
"Wait..." After a long while, Jonah suddenly raised a finger, "By the way, there is no chapter about you in the "Geographic Survey of the Western Continent". Maybe there is in the "Geographical Survey of the Southern Continent". I forgot to check it. The entry for Moonlight Elf is here, please wait a moment."
He opened the big book, and then searched according to the catalog according to the light of the star array. The green-haired elf was suspended next to him, looking at the astrologer apprentice in confusion as he turned the pages. Disappointingly, there was no encyclopedia in the Southern Continent. There was only a few words about the Moonlight Elves, but the entry "contract" appeared in the catalog. Jonah turned to that page, moved his lips, and began to read silently.