Neighbors in forbidden land

The moment I saw her pair of golden eyes, I couldn't help being slightly startled.And I don't know why, I always feel that the temperature around me seems to be rising.

But when a gust of sea breeze blows past, this temperature seems to be an illusion, being swept away by the cold wind.

As a result, when I shook my body and looked at her again, she had turned her face away.

I couldn't see her face clearly... Besides the lack of light, the most important thing was her bright eyes that attracted my attention.

Do normal people's eyes look like that?I can't help thinking.

"Have you seen it before?" As a result, when she said this, I froze for a moment before realizing that she was confirming the previous question with me.

Text on the Forbidden Dome.

To be precise, for them it is text, for me it is just an incomprehensible symbol.

"Ah... I have seen it." I scratched my head with my hands a little at a loss, it was Little Heimei who took me to see it.

"How?" As a result, she took a step closer to me and asked me in an impatient tone.

Ugh...the bodies are too close.

I seem to be able to smell the smell wafting from her body. When I work for those who are relatively wealthy, I can see that they will use some expensive potions to improve the smell of the body. The mysterious girl in front of me seems to have a similar smell. smell.

But it doesn't look like an aroma, it's more like a simple and precipitated smell.

I always feel that I have smelled a similar smell somewhere, but I can't remember it for a while.

"What, what?" But her question made me a little puzzled.

"How about those words?" She was half a head shorter than me, but she was looking up at me, but she gave me the feeling that she was looking down at me, although because of the hood, only the white spots near her mouth could be seen from this angle. Skin... I always feel that her lips are dark and purple because the surrounding light is not enough, right?

"How... how do I answer this..." I couldn't help but turn my face away slightly when I couldn't see her eyes, carefully recalling the feeling at that time.

"Isn't it... spectacular?" If I were to ask this question, this is probably the most appropriate word.

There are quite a few mountains around here, but none as tall as the Forbidden Dome.

Looking up at the mountain peak piercing the sky, the densely packed texts all over the mountain wall like dancing snakes are far more shocking than the taboo stone dome itself.

This is the so-called spectacle.

"Is it spectacular..." She slowly walked away from me while muttering words, just when I thought this topic should end here, she popped out another sentence that made me feel that this matter If the matter is far from over, "Then it's decided, take me to have a look."

"What did you say?"

"I said you take me to have a look. It's not too late. Let's go." She grabbed my hand and was about to drag me away from the seaside.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait! What time is it now!"

"Scholarly inquiry does not care what time it is."

"It's not this question, okay! Even if you don't care about me, I don't care about academic research, I don't care about being a team leader, I still care about it!"

"Huh?" Her momentum of leaving immediately stopped at last, but she still held my hand and turned her head slightly to look at me, as if she couldn't understand what I said.

"You are the deputy team leader, you must have a lot of things when you just arrived here today." I have always wondered why she came here alone.

"Scholarly inquiry doesn't care about those things."

"I'd better trouble you to care about it..."

What's going on, I thought she was a mature, stable and intellectual person when I saw her look like she was academically proficient, strategizing, and not participating in physical labor... Why did she suddenly become like this...

"Academic inquiry—" The moment she spoke, the leader's voice sounded from the camp that was already lit up in the distance, in stark contrast to the gentle sea breeze.I don't know if it's my illusion, but I always feel that the grains of sand around us are shaking twice.

It's calling the deputy team leader.

"Did you hear that, the team leader is calling you, he must be asking you to discuss the plan..." Doesn't being the team leader and deputy team leader mean that even if other people can rest, they can't rest.

"Hmm..." In the end, she clenched my hand and shook it... losing her temper?

An illusion, it must be an illusion.

"Then when you're free, I'll take you there again, okay?" Regardless of whether she was losing her temper or not, she said that first...

"Is it settled?"

"Uh...um." Although it's a bit far away, there's nothing wrong with going there.

"Okay." After saying this, she turned back and extinguished the flame in her hand, waved at me, then turned and ran towards the camp.

I always feel that her steps are bouncing, and the book hanging on her waist is dangling in the dark night, as if she is very happy...

"Go slowly~" I waved my hand at her back, and she ran away without looking back.

Ah...it really is a mysterious person.

I took a bite of the cold dry food. Although it is very dry and difficult to swallow, food cannot be wasted.

I raised my head and looked slightly to the north. Under the night sky was the darkness covering everything, and there was a huge shadow hidden in the darkness.

In fact, as far as the line of sight is concerned, if it is daytime, I can see the taboo stone dome from my position, which penetrates the clouds at a height and stretches for an unknown number of meters.

But those words are engraved on the stone wall in the north, which means that we who are located in the south have to take some detours.

But...why is it so dark around here?

Oh, by the way, just now the deputy team leader put out the fire and ran away.

Well, yeah, isn't it normal to be dark in a place like this where the sun has already set and there is no light yet?

"Don't run and wait for me, I'm afraid of the dark!"

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After I returned to the camp full of flames, I learned that the deputy team leader, the team leader and several people were indeed having a meeting in the conference tent. It looks like they are discussing something.

Because sometimes the leader's voice would leak from the tent... I always felt that it could be called shouting, but I really don't know how the deputy leader could bear the volume.

"Can you add me?"

"Beauties and others are of course welcome!"

A few people sat around a bonfire in the open space in the center of the camp, and I greeted them as I had nothing to do.

It was obvious from the boat when they came, and they were still able to communicate.

A man dressed as a mercenary raised his wine glass to me, and then patted the ground around him.

I chose to sit in the other direction.

"Hey, little girl, where did you go just now?" Also sitting by the fire, a female mercenary who looked like she was also nervous greeted me with a smile. There were two machetes beside her. , the blade reflecting the fire seems to be dancing.

Because there were not many women here this time, and because she may have a brighter personality, when we met for the first time, she called me Little Sister, and I called her Big Sister.

"I just went to the beach for a walk to blow some air." I stretched out my hand, feeling the temperature of the flame.

"It looks like a woman with a sense of elegance. It's a pleasure to meet you." A gentle man sitting next to the eldest sister gently plucked the strings of the lute in his hand, and the crisp string sounds seemed to touch the flames. The simple timbre seems to be swaying with it.

"What do you mean, that I'm rude?" The eldest sister looked at the man with hanging eyes, with resentment on her face.

"Where, praising one person does not mean exposing others' faults. I hope this lady will not get it wrong."

"Sure enough, bards are different from us vulgar people. Let's have a drink!" The mercenary man raised his glass and shouted with a smile.

"Then respect is worse than obedience." The bard put down the qin in his hand, raised a wine glass on one side and saluted the mercenary man.

"Refreshing! It's different from those sour guys who pretend to be reserved!" The mercenary man drank the wine in his glass, and then looked back and forth at me and my eldest sister, "Why don't the two beauties have a drink?"

"No need, I have to go to the guard post later." The eldest sister just sighed and looked helplessly at the wine glass in the man's hand.

"Me too." Speaking of which, I don't like drinking very much.

"Ha! What a pity!" The hugging man said so and put down his wine glass, not intending to continue drinking.

"May I ask, what is the guard post to guard against? According to the information Miss Wu Shao brought back last time, there are no monsters here, right?" The bard held Qin in his hands again and asked us solved this problem.

"It's a mercenary's habit. After all, if she didn't meet her, it doesn't mean we won't meet him. In addition..." the eldest sister said while checking her equipment, "The biggest problem here is not the monster."

"Precautions before they happen, so the biggest question...is it disaster?"

"Ha! When that thing moves, landslides and ground cracks! Still need a guard post?" The mercenary man slapped his thigh in disdain and laughed loudly.

"Who knows." The eldest sister just glared at him and continued to organize her equipment.

"Indeed... If it's that disaster, there is no need for a guard post, maybe the leader should be cautious." The bard nodded lightly, and moved his gaze to the conference tent, "I was lucky enough to see this legendary Monsters really live up to their reputation, and you can feel that they have a strong oppressive force just by looking at them from a distance."

"If that's the case, why do you still follow us here? You shouldn't be good at fighting, right?" Although I'm not qualified to say that others are...my weapons and skills are fine against rogues and thieves, but monsters... Do blood bats count?

"After being fortunate enough to see the legend pass by, it's only natural to want to take another look."

"do not think so."

"do not think so."

"do not think so."

"You guys really don't give me face..." The bard just smiled wryly, and then his face was intoxicated, "Also, the legendary princess of our country also chose to leave the country on that day and go to the forbidden land. It is necessary to personally confirm this story that everyone can only guess, and then spread the truth... This will definitely be a beautiful story."

"You're a lunatic."

"You're a lunatic."

"..." I don't know how to interface.

Their information comes from what they saw with their own eyes and the notification from the guild. I did not tell the guild about many things His Highness Yimi told me, but simply said that I met His Highness Yimi, and His Highness Yimi lives in a forbidden place. with.

Little Black Sister and Little Gu...uh...I didn't tell them about my sister because I really couldn't say it.

And now there seem to be more and more "monsters" around His Royal Highness Yimi... There is no way to report the fact that monsters can speak human words and obey human beings...

"Then why did you come here?"

"Me? I just want to see if there is anything valuable here, and by the way, see if you can take our little princess back, so I can get some money, haha!"

"Sir, please be careful with your words. His Highness Yimi is already the eldest princess." The bard reminded at the right time.

"Haha! I'm not like you, how can I know so much!"

"My words... I just want to meet that princess." As a result, the eldest sister who gently inserted the scimitar into the ground said something surprising, and the three of us all put on curious expressions for a while. Listen to her go on.

"After all, it's hard for me to imagine how a girl younger than me made such a decision after carrying so many burdens... She was clearly a hero who quelled the chaos of war, but she gave up all of this and came to this place where everything is impossible." no place."

Speaking of His Royal Highness Yimi, all I know is that many people were accidentally killed because of the awakening of a powerful magic called the magic eye, but the palace still sentenced her according to the law, and then brought her back from a long distance He made meritorious deeds and quelled the aggression of neighboring countries.

To be honest, I think Her Highness Yimi is far away from people like me. Her experience is like a legend to me, a legend written in a story.

But when I saw her... she would be shy, willful, and lose her temper, which was far from the cold and majestic image I imagined.If I really want to say, His Highness Yimi's younger sister, the newly appointed Highness Queen Lily of the Lan, is more in line with this image.

"Sure enough, no matter what kind of occupation they are in, women have a delicate heart."

"So you guys never regarded me as a woman from the beginning..."

"No, if I really showed that intention unintentionally, let me play a song now as an apology."

"Your guy's piano should sound good, I hope it's not just a decoration like those guys in the tavern, creaking."

"That's natural, please listen quietly."

At this moment, their voices were just drifting back and forth vaguely in my ears, and I was thinking, His Royal Highness Yimi...what is it for?

Sure enough, it was because of... Little Black Sister?

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"So that's why you called me out at night..."

"I feel like this is the only time I'm free these days."

"Then go later..."

"Academic inquiry waits for no one."

"I still have security missions!"

"Someone has been found to replace you."

"..."

I used the flame in the deputy leader's hand to discern the road ahead while complaining as I walked forward.

The deputy leader pulled me out of the tent after I was about to lie down and rest, and asked me to lead the way to the Forbidden Stone Vault... Read that text.

"Isn't it good to go during the day... Can I see it at night..."

"Day and night don't matter."

"Words can't run, what's the hurry..."

"Academic inquiry is more urgent."

"..."

I feel that I can't say no to her anyway. After that, I can only give up struggling and move forward. Fortunately, besides the flame lighting, it seems that there is some kind of magic blessing. I always feel that she and I run much faster than usual, and also Very labor-saving.

It feels good too.

At night, rush to the edge of the Forbidden Stone Dome in a straight line, and then walk along the edge of the mountain wall to avoid getting lost and go around to the north.

So it didn't take us long to get to the bottom of the mountain wall carved with a bunch of strange characters.

Just at this time--

I saw the little black sister standing in front of us, her long white hair tied into a single ponytail and the brown and white skirt fluttering in the night wind, her expression was hidden under the night, and she couldn’t see clearly at all. But at this moment, the single wing and the spiked tail looked extremely ferocious under the darkness.