Neighbors in forbidden land

In the dark cave, there are only potholes and muddy ground.

The warm light of the goblin has disappeared, leaving only an overturned cave, with only broken roots and broken leaves buried in the soil.

I hurried in and turned over the dirt that had obviously been turned over with my own hands after a long time.

The current state is very similar to the loose land before planting potatoes, but it is a little messier than that.

The potatoes that were supposed to be harvested were nowhere to be found.

It was obviously watered well yesterday.

There was nothing on my hands but brown dirt and broken leaves.

"Is it ready to harvest?" Yimi who didn't know yet asked with a smile.

"Eh?" Xiao Gu also seemed to be puzzled by the emptiness in front of him, so Lan Xue squinted her eyes and looked around the entire cave.

"Yimi..."

"What's wrong, little black?"

"The potatoes... are gone?" After I said this, Yimi was obviously stunned, but quickly recovered her smile:

"What do you mean... gone?"

"……"I do not know how to answer.

Because "nothing" means "nothing", I stood up and walked to the depths of the cave. Although the light was seriously insufficient, I could still see that it was empty.

"Isn't this obvious." Lan Xue tiptoed and pointed to the footprints all over the ground, "Do you think these are human footprints or monster footprints?"

I took a closer look at the soil on the ground, and there were indeed many messy footprints there.

In fact, the answer has already been determined. Although the calamity has "disappeared", I have not seen any monsters who dare to approach here, and...even I am not interested in potatoes. I don't think any monsters will be interested in potatoes.

So these footprints...

"What's the matter?" Yimi's smile was tinged with anxiety.

"It's gone!" Xiao Gu pointed to the potato field with only dirt left, and the other hand grabbed Yimi's arm and kept shaking it, but he couldn't hold it firmly because his fingers were not flexible enough, "Those Something is gone!"

"Obviously it was taken away by other humans." Lan Xue spread her hands, "It's not my problem this time, is it?"

"...was taken away?" Yimi just asked.

"Well...it should be." The potato can't move, I still know that.

Silence, but this silence did not last long.

"Where's the goblin?"

"I don't know... Hey, I'm back." Just when I was about to answer, a small figure floated in from outside the cave, casting a faint light on the dark cave.

Yimi just raised her finger and twirled it around, and the little fairy slowly flew to her finger, the bright and dark flames flickered slightly.

"Let's go." Then, Yimi just dropped this sentence and dragged Xiao Gu, who was not very agile, turned around and left.

"Where to go?"

"Go get the potatoes back."

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It's time to resupply the food again.

We can't find anything that can be called food in this barren land, and the only reason why those things that can barely be called wild fruits can be swallowed is that they are not poisonous.In terms of self-sufficiency, we can barely find some kelp in the crevices of rocks on the seabed in the offshore area, let alone fish, there is not even a single fish bone.

So we have to arrange for people to go back by boat to replenish some food before the food runs out, and by the way, change the people who want to leave here with the people who want to come here.

Basically, the palace will provide some of the supplies, and Li Le applied for these supplies from the palace in her name. After all, we have not achieved any significant results here.

Apart from knowing that the Forbidden Land is really not a suitable place for people to stay, and that there is no movement or shadow of Calamity at all, I have no other thoughts.

Waking up in the middle of the night to deal with a leaky tent...that feels so good, no wonder.

Speaking of which, why didn't I go back with the supply fleet?What on earth am I doing here?I go to work for His Royal Highness Yimi during the day, and I have to work with Li Le at night. I always feel that it is really unreasonable not to pay me double wages at that time.

But in fact, I also know that I will not get the so-called wages at all.

It may be a good thing that we can't see the disaster. After all, what can we do when the disaster does appear?

A torrential rain can knock most of us to pieces. What can we do in the face of disaster, howl and charge forward with weapons?

Of course, some perverts with loud voices are excluded. I found that no matter whether it is the scorching sun or the pouring rain, it seems that the leader can’t move at all, and Li Le can use magic to regulate her body temperature. I have been so hard to help her every night. Raising a torch, she occasionally uses magic to help me adjust.

Immediately, I thought it would be great if I could learn magic, but unfortunately I never had that talent since I was a child, so I mustered up the courage to ask Li Le, and she said that if I wanted to, she would not mind teaching me in her spare time, but The road will be long.

I think this is tantamount to advising me to stop this path, after all, where does Li Le have the spare time...

Since there is no way to deal with disaster, another reward is to bring His Royal Highness Yimi back.

……

I decided to follow the leader to challenge Calamity.

All in all, now I have to follow the team to run up and down the boat to carry all kinds of materials, which are relatively simple replacement daily necessities, mainly big boxes of food.

Basically, all kinds of dry food, vegetables and fruits. As long as I don’t help His Highness Yimi, I will occasionally go to the cooking tent to help cut vegetables and cook. After all, that’s all I can do.

After the supplies are basically moved to the warehouse tent, there will be a short leisure time.

There are a few time points here that are the most idle, at night, when the supplies have just been replenished, and when the supplies are about to run out and waiting for a new batch of supplies.

Except when there are sentry missions and when you have to get out of bed before dawn to help in the cooking tent.

Now, for example, those people gather around the fire to bake potatoes.Did the materials start to be used just after they were delivered... If the team leader and Li Yue hadn't re-planned the use of the materials, this kind of loose usage would have spread to the point of being out of control.

Looking at the fire that was not bright during the day, I couldn't help but think that there were a group of people sitting by the fire before, chatting about various gossips.

I've also heard some stuff that I don't know if it's true or not.

They said that the reason why His Royal Highness Yimi came here was actually a conspiracy in the palace.

His Royal Highness Yimi is the older sister, so in theory, if both His Royal Highness the King and the Queen passed away, His Royal Highness Yimi should inherit the throne.

But His Highness Yimi was not there, not only that, His Highness Yimi also came back at an extremely embarrassing time, and he also wiped out the enemy troops who invaded the border, and made a lot of contributions.Said that this is not to clear the charges at all, but to build popularity, and then replace Her Highness Queen Lily.

It's better to say that this world is really a coincidence. At that moment, disaster invaded our country inexplicably, and His Royal Highness Yimi also "just happened" to return to the forbidden place.

Because no one knew what the truth was that day, they felt that His Royal Highness Yimi did not choose to come here on his own initiative, but was forced to do so.

For a while all kinds of miscellaneous speculations floated into my ears, why the palace released this mission just to pretend that "we have not abandoned His Royal Highness Yimi", in fact there is no plan for us to bring His Royal Highness Yimi back , and some people laughed and said that if someone really took His Royal Highness Yimi back, maybe what they got would not be money but the guillotine.

I don't know what to say.

To be honest, that kind of intrigue between nobles has nothing to do with me, and I don't have the brains to sort out complicated relationships.

I just think, can't it be a simpler reason?

For example... for Little Black Sister or something.

In fact, I also know that even if I have contacts with Her Highness Yimi and the others due to various coincidences, what I see may not be the truth, there must be many things I don't know at all.

But I always feel that His Royal Highness Yimi's expression is not fake when he looks at Little Black Sister and the others. Gentle.

Although, I did not hear how His Highness Yimi mentioned her younger sister, who is now Her Highness Queen Lily of the Lane, but I always felt that it was because there was nothing to mention in front of outsiders like me.

It must not be the kind of relationship that those people guessed, intriguing and trying to put each other to death.

I, who was looking at these indiscriminately, seemed to be pulled by my sleeves by something.

I turned around and saw Liyue, who was still in a white robe.

"What are you doing standing here?"

"It's okay, I was just thinking about something."

For a moment, I really wanted to ask Li Le, because...she should be considered as a member of the palace.But after thinking about it, I gave up on this plan.

I remember Li Le said that she spent most of her time in the palace in that royal library, and perhaps she didn't know about these "non-academic research" issues.

And, what if she knew?If I ask so abruptly, will she answer?

I am a real "outsider", if I ask such a question just out of curiosity, then my relationship with Liyue will definitely be affected.

So, I still gave up, and I always felt that such words did not make much sense.

I just need to know that His Royal Highness Yimi I met, I just have a little relationship with her, and she just has a little relationship with me, nothing else.

If it's gossip, don't worry about it.

"You seem to be preoccupied. Have you encountered an academic problem?"

"Do I seem to be so preoccupied...and I'm not you. No matter how preoccupied I am, it's impossible to be because of academic difficulties..."

Those things are not enough to make me worry, because with my IQ, I am afraid that I will never touch those things in my life...

"That's right, what a pity." She lowered her hand from my cuff, always feeling that she was expecting me to ask her "academic problem"... Is it my illusion?

"Yes, yes, how is the interpretation of those texts?" This is the only academic problem I know. I heard from Li Le that some people who came here brought back some texts, and it seems that they interpreted this from inside. the past of the world.

Even if I haven't read much, I know something.

For example, human beings used to have a very brilliant civilization, and even the land we are in now is the territory of human beings, but all of these were destroyed by the disaster on that day.

It is said that "even history will be destroyed together". Human beings have survived and recovered to this day, but there is no way to completely record the past history.

Many things were lost in this process, whether it was magic or civilization, only barrier magic, the most important magic that has been protecting the remaining human beings, still retained its high level in the past, and everything else was destroyed.

Although I always feel that even if it is interpreted, it is meaningless... The past has passed, so what if we know what happened in the past.

And it's very strange, it is obviously a disaster that can destroy the world, why did it only destroy the blocks on our road that day?

And the words Miss Lan Xue said that day were written by Calamity...

Ahhh, my head hurts, as expected, these problems should be left to Li Le and the others to study...

"There has been a lot of progress." Hearing my question, Li Yue said with his fists clenched in excitement, "If you can judge the source of those words, you can basically confirm that human civilization in the past was destroyed by -"

"Hey! You guys! The food has just arrived and you are in a hurry to eat it! Are you going to eat soil at the end of the month?" The leader's loud voice drowned out Li Le's words in an instant, and I couldn't help turning my head to look over there. The leader was found standing by the fire and shouting at the potato bakers, and the flames flickered as if shocked by the leader's voice. "That's not it!" One of the men who was holding a potato that had been bitten off half of it shouted, "It wasn't delivered this time, we managed to find it here from outside!"

"Are you kidding me? Potatoes can grow on this kind of land?"

Yes, it grows in this kind of soil—wait a minute.

"What did you just say!" I rushed to the fire and grabbed the man's shoulder, "You said you found this potato from outside?"

"Yes, yes, what's the matter!" The man seemed shocked by my sudden action, but I didn't have time to worry about it.

"Where did you find it!"

"It's in a cave to the north...Although I wonder why potatoes grow in the cave, yes! There was originally a glowing thing, but unfortunately I ran too fast so I didn't catch it—"

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah! You also know how potatoes grow in caves! It's a dead end!" I threw off his shoulders and fell into confusion for a while.

"What's the matter? Calm down." Li Le walked to my side and asked me softly, and everyone around looked at me with strange eyes.

"Why are you so calm... this is—"

"Who!" My words were interrupted by the leader's loud voice.

It was the first time the team leader yelled this sentence with a somewhat serious voice, which attracted our attention.

For the first time, I feel that His Royal Highness Yimi is worthy of being called "Your Highness".

Her light orange long hair is like battle armor, her beauty is like a sharp knife out of its sheath, even in this kind of place, her black dress is still noble, she just holds her hands gently, step by step Approaching, her self-confidence seems to be carrying a mighty army.

She has no eyes, only her red lips are lightly parted, full of supreme majesty:

"If I'm not mistaken... it was you who stole my potatoes?"