The night wind blew, and my hands and feet were cold, as if surrounded by an irresistible cold wave, and I could even clearly hear the sound of teeth clashing against each other in the trembling as I watched the two night watchmen who had quietly departed in the middle of the night, their black cloaks, almost merging with the night.In the entire province of Sloit, only half of the southern cities are suitable for growing roses, and it can be said that the rose garden in the northern suburbs of El is a famous place, which should be more delicate and colorful for the roses here.In the cold north, the summer is extremely short, only the roses in the rose garden in the city of El can bloom delicately in this cold land, many people are guessing that the owner of the rose garden is a botanist, he may have a very deep study of roses, has mastered their habits, and even changed the genes of roses, making them more cold-tolerant and drought-resistant.Unfortunately, countless people have tried to transplant some roses from the rose garden, but without exception, the roses that have been moved out of the rose garden have reverted to the appearance of ordinary roses.During my travels with the caravan, Old Kuru taught me a lot of knowledge about magical herbs, which made me prefer to pay attention to various plants, even if they were not rare magical herbs, I always liked to observe their growth characteristics, and which parts of these plants were edible or medicated.Depending on the region, each place has its own opinions and methods of using some common herbs, for example, the people in the city of El like to mash the leaves of a leaf of grass and mix it with wheat flour to make a thin and crispy salty cake, which has the fragrance of a leaf clover, and only the people of the city of El like to eat it this way.Later, I wondered what was so different about this rose garden that would make the roses in those gardens highly sought after, but one rose garden was far from the city, and it was not convenient to travel between the rose garden and the city of El.The second is that I like to be trapped in the attic by myself, and I have to practice manipulating those magic elements every day, so my mind slowly fades.I never imagined that after accidentally breaking into this garden, I would discover such an astonishing secret: under those delicate roses, there are some corpses of the dead buried, and the roses are so beautiful because they have absorbed the nourishment from these corpses.It was like a silent irony to me, and it suddenly occurred to me the thought, where did those bodies come from?
Excavated by gravediggers who live in urban sewers and cemeteries?
Just when I was thinking nonsense, Ying Li on the side suddenly asked me, "What are they doing?"
Funeral rites here in El City?
Jia, do you have a habit of burying your deceased loved ones in the roses?
”I even saw out of the corner of my eye that Becky was helplessly rolling her eyelids upward, and her originally sweet face looked particularly playful.Ying Li's eyes are not too big, and he always likes to be fascinated into two crooked crescents.Among the four of Yingli, Becky, Lagertis, and Helena, there is no doubt that Helena has a beautiful face that has brought disaster to the country and the people, except for the youth of her appearance, in terms of face alone, it is more exquisite than Sophie.Becky's figure is the best, although due to age restrictions, the body has not yet fully developed, but the chest and hips have begun to take shape, and the high upturned chest is like a bud waiting to be released.Lagertis always liked to cover half of his face with a veil, and there was always a mysterious charm, although I had seen that face more than once, but when I thought about what Lagertis really looked like, I could not say clearly, and I was confident that the pictures of Lagertis immersed in the sea of spirit would never fade, but I found that every picture of Lagertis was blurry.Among the four, only Ying Li looked a little ordinary and ordinary, but just like that, Ying Li's smiling face like a crescent moon left the deepest impression on me, she would always stand in front of the bookshelf, holding a magic rune drawing book and looking at it with a smile and a smile.She's an optimistic girl, she has her own style.The new students of these magic apprentices are just getting into the knowledge of magic runes, and those magic runes that have strict requirements for line thickness, pattern shape integrity, line smoothness, and pattern size specifications always seem miserable, even if they brow all day long to practice a magic symbol, it is difficult to draw them perfectly.When everyone was sad, only Ying Li could smile and send the crooked symbols he drew to the tutor.She has great courage in the search for knowledge."
We're no different here than anywhere else!"
I replied in a low voice.Becky, who was crawling on the other side of Yingli, whispered, "Are they gravediggers?"
”"It looks more like an ordinary night watchman, but this is the outskirts of El City" Before I could finish my sentence, Ying Li said excitedly, "Shall we quietly follow and see what they are doing?"
”"Forget it, it's so late, it's a little far from El City, and we're not familiar with it, so it's going to be dangerous!"
If it was just me, I wouldn't hesitate to follow and take a look, but there is Ying Li by my side, although she is a magician apprentice, but she is no different from an ordinary twelve-year-old girl, because she doesn't know how to use magic yet, only the identity of a magic apprentice."
Maybe Lagertis and Helena are waiting outside!"
Becky also obviously didn't want Ying Li to be in danger, and reminded Ying Li on the side.Seeing that Becky and I insisted on leaving, Ying Li gave up his bold plan and bowed his head in frustration.At this time, I found that the gate of the rose garden was in front of me to the left, and the entrance to the rose garden was in the opposite direction to the direction in which the two night watchmen had left, and standing on the main road in the rose garden, I was even in the dark night, and I saw the delicate pattern on the black-painted wrought iron gate, and the caravan of Ying Li was already waiting outside, and a dim gas lamp hung on the waterproof edge of the caravan, and under the lamp stood Helena, who looked anxiously at the iron door.There was no longer the mood to fold a few roses and bring them back, and the haze brought to us by those two night watchmen stained our mood with a layer of ash.I carefully dropped a dead branch on the main road, and the branch made a slight noise, which did not alarm any living beings, and I tentatively decided that it was safe, and then I walked out of the rose bush with Ying Li.As we walked back along the main road, I proposed, "Maybe it's a good idea to tell the Garrison about the situation here." ”Ying Li said to me, "Jia, could they be a group of murderers, but they are disguised as night watchmen, which is more convenient for them to act at night?"
”Then he added: "Perhaps the owner of this garden has some unsavory habits," and we walked to the gate of the rose garden, which was locked by an iron lock thicker than an arm, and the chains were made of ordinary gray cast iron, which was the worst of the metal, but it was too thick, and my wolf's tooth dagger was, after all, only a bone dagger less than a foot long, not enough to cut it, and I feared that it would damage the blade of the dagger.I tried to use the boning knife into the lock hole, the lock was pried open, but the lock cylinder of this lock was very astringent, the tip of the knife stretched into more than an inch, maybe it did not press the corresponding circlip, how could there be no way to rotate, I sighed, the magic power was injected into the iron lock little by little, and the internal structure of the lock was perceived with magic power, and then I found that the boning knife was not an excellent tool for picking the lock, and it was not as convenient as a thin wire.Ying Li's figure appeared behind me, and Helena outside the iron gate let out a long breath, kept patting her chest, and said with a slight cry: "You are all scared to death of me, Ying Li, are you all right!"
”When she saw that I had stabbed the lock a few times, but still couldn't pry it open, she turned to Lagertis and said, "Lagerdis, didn't you Hawkeye class learn lockpicking skills?"
”"But I haven't learned it yet!"
Lagertis sat on the wheels, jumped down with his hands propped up, and looked at the huge lock in front of him.At this time, Becky, who had been silent, walked up, grabbed the cast iron lock with one hand, and raised the other hand high, and the sharp round shield slammed into the giant lock, and the giant lock was smashed to pieces in an instant, and the door opened.Ying Li cheered, pulled Becky and ran out of the rose garden, leaving me standing stupidly with a dull face.I never thought that Becky had so much power.Just as I stepped out of the rose garden, I suddenly felt a breath of non-existent breath spreading from the rose garden, no!
It was originally in the rose garden, it was always watching us, but in the rose garden, we didn't notice anything, we left the rose garden, the breath was still following us, at this time, it was only noticed by the keenness.I stopped, turned my head to look into the rose garden, and it was pitch black, and I couldn't see anything clearly.Without hesitation, we climbed into the carriage and quickly left the eerie rose garden, and at the last moment, I seemed to hear a soft sigh from the depths of the rose garden.The night road is not easy to walk, the road is shaky, the caravan is not fast, after this middle of the night toss, the girls are a little sleepy, the folding bed in the caravan is very narrow, in order to let the girls can rest a little, tomorrow can have the energy to go to class, I am not convenient to continue to stay in the carriage, so I take the initiative to play the role of the emperor, although I do not know how to control the art, but these lions pulling the car are very well tamed, along the way, I did not see Lagertis wave a leather whip.Sitting in the Emperor's leather chair, my heart was still a little uncomfortable, and my mind always flashed the image of the two night watchmen burying their bodies under the rose bushes.I shook my head vigorously, trying to get the thought out of my mind, but then it was the patches of Night Charm that swayed in the middle of the night, and the countless sharp spikes in the huge mouth made me feel sick.The caravan slowly drove towards the city of El, and we were getting farther and farther away from the danger.I don't know when, Ying Li changed into a light yellow nightdress and pushed open the door of the caravan, walked out gently, sat on the wheel next to me, and asked me with a smile: "Are you sleepy?"
Would you like to go to sleep?
”。
I shook my head, but I was silent, and my heart was a little heavy when I came out of the rose garden.The rose garden, which was originally admired by the people of the entire province of Sloit, actually contained secrets unknown to the world."
Still thinking about the garden?
We went straight to the security department in the morning and told the people of the Order about it, and they will take care of it, so we don't have to worry too much about it at all!
”Ying Li said to me.Ying Li tucked his long loose hair behind his ears, squinted his eyes and smiled and asked me, "Hey, tell me about things in the wasteland, you must have been through a lot." ”I took a deep breath and thought of the caravan of the stewards of Leepas, of the thunderous rhinos, of old Kuru and Kuz, of Kig and Katarina, of Fred and Singh, of the blue sky and snow-capped mountains within reach, of the icy Ulutu River, and that images kept flashing in my mind, but I didn't know where to start.I said it was a mess, and I basically said something when I thought about it, and she and I took me on a swim in the Star Lake, and a trip around the wasteland on a ride on the Ark Beast, where low-level magical herbs grew everywhere like weeds.The sheep there are like white clouds in the sky, slowly drifting in the green sea.She always liked to ask the orcs of the orc tribe about the sheep shepherds, and her eyes would brighten whenever I said that the orcs could ride argali, and gallop around the wasteland.She sat beside me with her hands on her knees and asked me, "Did you learn all about herbology from that old orc?"
”I looked up at the bright night sky, the two stars intersecting in the sky, and I said, "His name is old Kuru, and he first taught me orc, and then he was very lazy to throw me bundles of sheepskin scrolls and let me read what was written on them, and you know, I didn't know all orc words at that time, so I struggled to read them, and sometimes relied on rote memorization." ”Ying Li said enviously: "That is their inheritance, the orcs will never easily reveal their secrets to others, especially since they are prejudiced against the people of our Green Empire!"
What that old orc can teach you is to see you as his child!
”I laughed at myself and said, "He just wants me to help him decoct the herbs so that he doesn't get confused with those herbs!""
When I think of old Kuru, I will feel that at least there is someone worth caring about in the distance, and I don't know if he is still fierce in his dry smoke."
We're coming!"
Every time I was in different directions, I looked up at the star map in the sky.Ying Li covered his mouth and said in surprise: "Do you know the mystery of the star map?
Oh my God, you learned the art of astrology from the orcs, and my grandfather said to me: only the orcs have the ability to look at the stars in the sky to discern their own position!
That's their secret!
”I said in my heart, I even grasped the mystery of their totem, the mystery of the werewolf bloodline, the star map?
Every orc child knows how to read this thing, how can I not learn it!
Before dawn, we finally returned to the north gate of the city of El, where the caravan was parked on the main road outside the gate.I don't know when, I actually fell asleep.When I felt my body shaking and opened my eyes, the sky was already bright, and the sun had jumped out of the horizon, and it was gradually fading its red coat to make itself appear more dazzling.The dazzling sunlight made me squint, and the noisy shouting on the side of the road was so familiar, and I liked a snack called vegetable paste porridge, just like the salty porridge in my memory, with the taste of hometown.The caravan had already driven into the city of El and I was leaning against the railing at the door of the caravan, with a woolen blanket draped over me, and the figures of Lagertis and Winley were in front of me, sitting side by side in leather chairs, talking and laughing, their voices were soft, as if they were worried about disturbing me.Familiar streets, familiar buildings, familiar cries of hawking, I know it's not far from home, and I don't know if Fanny will be so worried that she can't sleep all night.