Legend of the Elven Investigator

There is a noisy crowd in front of you.

Chasing after the village chief Ryoichi, Shinpei followed to a two-story wooden house.In this open space, a dozen or so middle-aged men held torches and surrounded two women who were crying on the ground.

"What if something happens to my little Hal, I won't live anymore..."

"Ivan, Ivan, come back soon..."

The two middle-aged women hugged each other, crying hoarsely.Apparently, they were the parents of the missing boy.And the two men with ugly looks on the side, holding hunting knives in their hands, are the boy's fathers.

"Stop arguing, people who shout loudly won't come back, listen to what the village chief has to say!" one of the men yelled, he was so tormented by the two women's cries that he had a headache, and the volume couldn't help but increase a lot.

The voice of the woman who howled the most froze suddenly, obviously a man who was afraid of getting angry.And the other one didn't show any weakness, and immediately cursed: "It's not that your child is lost, why am I crying? If you have the ability, you can find them back!"

Seeing that the friction between the two sides with the same temper was escalating, the village chief Ryoichi immediately stepped forward to stop it with a dark face. What time is this, and he is still thinking about arguing.

"That's enough. I'll take a few people into the forest and try to catch those two little bastards before it gets dark." The village chief pointed to a few strong men and motioned for them to follow.

The crying woman stopped crying immediately, and followed to find whatever she said.

"Hey, you are a woman who only knows how to do farm work. What's the use of going?" The village head persuaded earnestly. It is already the limit for him to bring a few young and middle-aged people into the forest. If there are more people, maybe some terrible things will be attracted.

These men with torches and hunting knives still have room to resist against ordinary elves. Isn't this woman making trouble with them?

Shinpei said, "Village Chief, let me go with you. I'm a travel trainer passing by here, so I might be able to help."

The confused village head took a look, and found that the speaker was a strange-looking stranger, and then he looked at the traveler who had appeared in Kai's cafe.

Shinpei exposed the poke balls on his belt, and the five poke balls were neatly buckled on the belt, symbolizing his identity as a trainer.Seeing this scene, Ryoichi immediately beamed with joy. With the help of a genuine trainer, there is hope in finding someone.

"Thank you for your help, brother trainer. When someone comes back, our village will definitely be rewarded!" Ryoichi shook Shinpei's hand, and drew a big cake for Shinpei.

In such a remote village, the vast majority of people do not have elves. Even the village head Ryoichi and the cafe owner Kay, who have elves, do not have much experience in fighting elves.

At this moment, Zhenping undoubtedly became the savior in everyone's eyes.Especially the mothers of the two boys tried their best to say good things and begged the trainer in front of them to bring their children back.

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"Village chief, where are we going now? The village is surrounded by forests. It is unrealistic for us to split up." Shinpei asked Ryoichi on the side.

For safety reasons, he let Hao Li and Little Fire Monkey go together, while the other Ghost Stone hid in his shadow, ready for emergencies at any time.

A dozen or so people were carrying torches, and the rising flames blurred the figures around them, scaring away many elves lurking in the grass.

In fact, these torches were not intended for lighting at all.Even if it is remote, there are electric lights in the village.The biggest function of these torches is to drive away wild elves who are afraid of flames.

The unicorns, green caterpillars, thorntails and other insect elves living in the jungle are quite afraid of flames.Those troublesome bug nets can also be dealt with in the face of flames.

"Brother, there are only three exits from our village. I asked the people in the village, and someone has seen those two boys in the north of the village, so we should go along the road north to find the best chance." Ryoichi explained patiently. If he was a villager, he didn't need to explain. It was just a trainer's weight, so he had to be careful.

As far as he knew, there were some trainers who were eccentrics with eccentric tempers. Ordinary people didn't know when they would offend them.

The group quickly left the border of the village and entered the forest.

"I didn't expect to come back so soon."

Shinpei came to the village to take a break from the dangerous environment temporarily. He had just drank a cup of moo moo coffee and returned to this dangerous area.

Perhaps because of the large number of people on his side, Shinpei didn't encounter any powerful elves along the way.Most of the weak elves, such as green caterpillars and walking grass, took the initiative to avoid running after sensing the movement of a large group of people.

The weak elves want to survive in the forest, so they can only avoid strange movements as much as possible.

Only wild elves who think they are strong enough will take the initiative to find trouble with strange existences.

"Hey, everyone, hurry up and take a look. Does this footprint look like a human footprint? Judging by the size, it should belong to those two boys!" A person in the team shouted, and found a human footprint in the mud pit beside him.

These forest mud fields sometimes have stagnant water, so stepping on them will leave a very obvious mark.

"Let me take a look! Is it my son's!" Hal's father pushed away the crowd, crawled on the ground, and tried his best to distinguish some vague footprints.

He looked at it for a while, and suddenly said excitedly: "Yes, yes, I bought him a pair of shoes before, and the pattern on the soles is like this. They must have passed by here and moved on."

Ryoichi, the village head, secretly heaved a sigh of relief, as long as there are clues, although it is most likely to go north, no one is sure whether it will be accurate.

Liang said: "Since there are footprints, it means that we are chasing the right one. Children are not so strong in their feet, and they have to rest after walking for a while. Let's continue to search along the road. Maybe they want to come back when they are overjoyed."

Ryoichi's reasoning is not unreasonable. If the two teenagers really just wanted to leave home for a trip because of their hotheadedness, then they might come back after their enthusiasm cooled down.

Shinpei stared at the puddle calmly. The water in the puddle had already settled, which meant that the time of the footprints was definitely not just now.This place has completely escaped from the sphere of human influence and entered the sphere of activity of wild elves.

With a quick glance, he saw a few obvious paw prints on an obvious big tree.

Judging by the appearance and height of the paw print, the elf who left the paw print may not be small.

In such an environment, how far can two human boys go.

Shin Ping had a bad premonition in his heart, but when the big guy was in high spirits, no one would listen to him pouring cold water on him.

Everyone was unwilling to admit the fact that something might have happened to those two teenagers.

People with different thoughts continued to advance in the forest.This time, Shinpei felt more eyes swept over him.

Among them, several extremely cold eyes swept across.He just chose to retreat under the deterrence of the fire and the sound warning from humans.

Following the footprints in the puddle, the second human trace was found by the crowd again.

A shoe stuck in a mud puddle.

The shoe was absorbed in the mud pit, and there were some holes pressed by humans on the side.

Looking at this scene, Zhen Ping brain made up a picture of a teenager who accidentally stepped into a mud puddle, exhausted all his strength but couldn't pull his shoed feet out of the mud puddle, and could only choose to give up the shoes and move on.

Since they couldn't even pull out their shoes, their physical strength must be running low.

Shinpei judged, but he couldn't figure out why the two teenagers were so persistent in leaving the village.Without shoes, it is difficult to move forward in this complex jungle.

At this time, the man holding the shoe suddenly broke down emotionally, muttering something.

"It's all my fault. I have clearly promised Hal that as long as he is 12 years old, I will let him travel. But when the time comes, I go back on my word. I want him to take over from me and continue to live in the village and live an ordinary life. It's all my fault!"

For ordinary people, letting children travel with elves is not as practical as staying at home and working.It was precisely because of this idea that this father intensified the conflict with his child.

Shinpei sighed in his heart, this is also related to the closed environment, if it is those big towns, even small towns like Huarui Town, people living there have seen the outside world, and it is not uncommon for their children to travel.

At this moment, Zhenping suddenly understood why the alliance had to build elf centers everywhere.

Without an elf center, it would be impossible to bring information from the outside world. For people in many isolated places, they may follow the way of life handed down from ancient times and live from generation to generation.

Such a life is hopeless.