Idle game leads to another world.

Chapter 22 Spring Forest
Leah hopped over the stinking puddles and headed for the tree house on the other side of the pond.

There is no green grass to be seen here anymore. All the herbs have turned yellow and some have even rotted.

Most of the trees have died, leaving only the lonely tree house without the shade of the leaves.

As the environment had changed quite a bit, Leah had to look carefully to recognize the way to her good friend Sanafi's house.

As the distance got closer, Leah heard a singing voice.

She followed the direction of the singing and quietly hid behind the trunk of a dead tree.

Not far away, a group of elves formed a circle. In the center of the circle, a pit was dug. An elf was lying in the pit, holding his bow and arrow, as if he was asleep.

'The Jade Court, your eternal home'

'White trees and green grass are your most reliable companions'

'Even if you are an elf, you will eventually die'

'You will be split in two'

'The soul returns to Ovando, but the body remains'

'The forest that raised you will also accept your end'

The song is completely a cappella without any accompaniment, but due to the elf's unique voice, it has an ethereal charm.

But Leah didn't like it, she thought it was too sad, so she just took a look and turned back, continuing her journey to her good friend Sanafi's house.

Soon she saw a small tree house hanging on the side of a huge beech tree. That was Sanafi's home.

And by looking up, he saw a pigeon flapping its wings and circling above the dead treetops.

Leah waved happily at the pigeon:

"noob!"

Although it is called Xiaobai, it is actually a gray pigeon, but the feathers on its belly are indeed whiter than those of ordinary gray pigeons.

The dove obediently landed on Leah's shoulder and rubbed her cheek affectionately.

"Xiaobai, where have you been? I prepared pine nuts for you yesterday."

The pigeon lowered its head intelligently as if to apologize, and then it raised one of its legs to show Leah.

"What is this? A necklace?"

A silver necklace with a pendant that looked like a slightly open hand was wrapped around Xiaobai's feet.

When Leah saw this, she puffed up her face and pretended to be angry:
"You've been stealing things from the city folks again, haven't you?"

Xiaobai turned his head away and said that I was wrong, but judging from his performance, he would probably dare to do it again in the future.

"Xiaobai! Look at me, you have to return it later, or I will be angry!"

The pigeon cooed twice to show that it understood. Leah rubbed it:
"Be obedient. Sister said that you can't take things from the city people. Come with me to see Sanafi first. I'll treat you to pine nuts later."

Leah climbed up the tree hole on the beech tree trunk, and when she passed by a family of squirrels, she took a handful of raspberries and stuffed them into the hole.

But for some reason, the squirrel family who always come out happily to get raspberries were very quiet today.

Xiaobai stood on Leah's shoulders. After a while, Leah climbed up and knocked on the door:
"Sannaphy! Are you feeling better?"

After knocking several times, there was no response from the house, and Leia was a little puzzled.

She pushed the door and quietly entered the room.

"Sannaphy?"

There was a chilly atmosphere in the room; even the sunlight that shone through the side of the tree house seemed to be filtered through a light blue filter.

"So you are home, Sanafi, wake up."

On the floor not far from the door, Sanafi was covered with a straw mat, her back facing Leah.

Leah put the basket on the ground and reached out to push Sanaphie, but the touch from her fingers was as cold as ice.

"Sannaphy? Aren't you cold?"

At this time, Leah finally realized something and reached out to turn Sanafy over. Her lifeless head hit the floor powerlessly, black and smelly blood oozing from her mouth and nose, and her skin seemed to have completely lost its luster and elasticity, becoming wrinkled like a mummy.

When Sanafie turned her head, her eyes fell out of their sockets and almost rolled to Leah's legs, leaving a conspicuous trail of sticky and smelly blood and tissue fluid on the wooden floor.

In her memory, Sanafete always laughed happily with her, and Sanafete who was almost rotting in front of her, the images kept echoing in Leah's mind, like a needle piercing her skull.

"No! Sanafay!"

Leah screamed unconsciously, and she stumbled back in fear. Xiaobai was frightened by the scream, and flapped his wings to fly off Leah's shoulder, leaving behind a few feathers that slowly fell.

At this moment, Leia's feet felt empty, and she unknowingly walked out of the tree house and fell from it.

The strong feeling of falling lasted only for a moment. When Leah opened her eyes, she saw the face of her sister Zoya. It must be that her sister who came and caught her when she fell.

Tears welled up in Leah's eyes. She hugged her sister tightly and cried:

"Sister! Sanafay! Sanafay she!"

"I know."

Zhuoya patted Leah's back gently and comforted her softly:

“I know everything…”

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After seeing off a group of children who came to the store to buy snacks, Li Chengxi returned to sit behind the cash register.

On the screen, Viola and the others were still escorting the bandits down the mountain. Considering that there were captives to be taken care of, it would probably take longer to go down the mountain than to go up.

There was no point in staring at them, so Li Chengxi moved the mouse, turned on the map mode, and prepared to see if there was anything of interest in the area newly explored by the scouts.

When he opened the map, Li Chengxi suddenly found a gathering place icon that had not been there before.

If you zoom in a little, you can see this gathering place icon appear in the Farthest Forest.

This made Li Chengxi a little confused.

“There wasn’t such a place before?”

Not long ago, he used the zoom function to watch the big bad wolf baring its teeth near this forest. At that time, there was nothing in the forest, but now there is an icon of a gathering place.

It didn't feel like a normal village, otherwise the scouts who were contacting local people in search of traces of bandits would have been there a long time ago.

Suddenly feeling curious, Li Chengxi zoomed in a little bit more and saw the name of the gathering place read "Spring Forest" Relations: Neutral.

In the list of population column, it says 'Tree Elf', 'Water Elf', 'Tree Elf', 'Pixie', 'Lantern Elf', 'Goblin'.

Although Viola's character attributes clearly stated that she was a "high-level demon", and many people in the city had a pair of horns on their heads, but other than that, they were no different from humans. Li Chengxi subconsciously regarded Viola and the others as humans.

But the elves...

This is the first time I've seen this.

Continuing to expand the picture, in a large dark green forest, light green grass appeared, and simple tree houses hung on the treetops.

"Oh! It's really an elf."

The pixelated man with two heads and a body is not very clear. Just click on the portrait and you can see more details.

The local elves are beautiful creatures with wheat-colored skin. Most of them have dark green or dark green hair, and a few have dark blue hair.

Other than that, these elves look pretty much like standard elves, with pointy ears and all being pretty.

However, these elves seemed to live a very primitive life. Their clothes were made of bark or leaves, and they wore straw sandals on their feet. They were never seen making fire.

Maybe this is the difference between tree elves and elves.

When the elves appear, the magical feeling immediately rises. Before that, it is more like a medieval simulator.

But then again, why did an extra settlement suddenly appear?
To explore the map, you need an NPC with piety to go there, no matter how much it is, you must have it.

The areas that have been explored so far were all run out by scouts with piety. But in a forest with dense vegetation, scouts on horseback should not run into it at all.

Li Chengxi kept clicking on the tree elf's ability panel in the settlement, and then his eyes were fixed on a pigeon that landed on the elf child's head...

(End of this chapter)