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The king raised his hand: "Excuse me, the horse you just rode was not skinny."
Elf girl: "Because we rangers are familiar with the habits of wild animals, we have been taking it to eat rich grass."
"I understand." The wizard put down his hand, "You continue."
Elf Girl: "Then I arrived nearby and found a burning village."
Ralph became alert. "A burning village? Where is it? Can you point it out on the map?"
As he spoke, he took out a map from the bookshelf next to him and spread it out on the table where Wang had just recorded the experimental results.
The elf girl walked forward and immediately pointed to a point on the map.
The king exclaimed: "As expected of a ranger, your ability to read maps is superb."
Rangers usually serve as guides in the team. Of course, wanderers can sometimes serve as guides, but they are not as skilled as rangers.
Ralph identified the location pointed out by the elf and immediately ordered: "Yankee Village has been attacked, send cavalry to check it out."
After the messenger left, Ralph muttered, "The mountain blocked the smoke, so we couldn't see it."
Wang Ze looked at the elf and asked, "What happened in this village? You just said that you had only two encounters with humans."
The elf nodded. "Yes. I saw a child crying beside his dead parents. When he saw me approaching, he suddenly rushed over and said, 'You have pointy ears. You must be the goblin in the legend. Please help me punish the monster that came out of the underground!'"
The wizard carefully observed the elf's body shape, especially the pair of strong long legs. He looked at them several times and said, "Your body shape is quite different from that of a fairy."
Elf girl: "Indeed. I think that child has never seen a real fairy, nor has he seen it in a picture, so he thought I was a fairy. I think this should improve my archery, but it may be a bit dangerous to go underground alone, so I finally decided to report to the local lord. I heard that the human lord will avenge his people."
Ralph smiled bitterly. "I wanted revenge. But it's hard for us to just hold back the enemies that are coming. But the wizard and his team next to us really intend to solve the problem of the cavemen. Because they suspect it's related to the world-destroying crisis."
The elf girl asked in confusion: "So what exactly is the world-destroying crisis?"
The members of the Princess Team looked at each other, and finally looked at the Mage together.
Wang cleared his throat and began to tell the story from the beginning, starting with the investigation of missing stray cats and dogs. Of course, he omitted some of the political struggles, after all, that had nothing to do with the world-destroying crisis.
After hearing this, the elf girl exclaimed, "Isn't this... the opportunity to practice archery that I've always dreamed of?"
Flint suddenly spoke up: "You are a ranger, and you still need to practice archery? Is your archery skill very bad now?"
The elf girl said nothing. She took the bow and arrow in her hand with very smooth and quick movements, drew the bow and shot the arrow in one go. With a pound, a feathered arrow hit the wooden door frame of the room's door.
The dwarf looked hesitantly at the arrow whose tail was still trembling: "What did you shoot?"
The king moved closer to the feathered arrow.
"A fly. She shot a fly." The wizard pulled out the arrow and showed what was stuck on the tip to everyone.
Dwarf: "How can you improve your archery skills?"
The elf girl replied seriously: "I can only achieve this kind of accuracy at close range, so I have developed the habit of close-range shooting. I hope to be able to shoot the orc wolf riders at a distance of one thousand meters or even farther like my teacher."
Dwarf: "Why orcs?"
Xiaobai: "Why a wolf?"
Elf Girl: "Because my teacher shot this. Oh, and also shot underground creatures in the open space underground in the Underdark, and climbed onto the Mengsk war elephant and shot through the elephant's brain from the back of the head."
Wang: "Your teacher has also traveled?"
Elf girl: "Of course. Elves have to travel the world before they reach adulthood. We will visit the settlements of halflings and the associations of druids living in the forest, and try to avoid large settlements of humans, dwarves, or orcs as much as possible."
After a brief pause, she added: "But sometimes, we also team up with humans."
King: "I heard that it takes a long time for elves to make friends with humans. Elves and dwarves can be friends, but with humans, it's usually just 'your grandfather was once my friend'.
"That is to say, by the time the elves realize that the trust is friendship, the human is almost dead, or has already died of old age. So the elves can only take care of his children and grandchildren to commemorate this friendship."
The elf girl thought about it and nodded: "I have indeed heard of such a thing."
Wang: “I also know that in a certain dimension, there was a powerful elven wizard who spent ten years with her teammates saving the world. Then she continued to travel around the world. It was not until the human warrior who was the captain died of old age that she suddenly realized it.
"Then the powerful wizard retraced his journey and found that the farsighted human warriors had left traces of their existence everywhere. The journey was full of the sea that the warriors had sown casually."
Elizabeth wiped her tears and said, "Isn't this too romantic?"
Wang: "? Isn't it sad?"
Elizabeth: "Romantic! And sad, of course."
The wizard scratched his head.
"Anyway," he said, "this is the situation, so...what should I call it?"
He looked at the elf girl.
The elf tilted his head: "My nickname is Nini."
Wang: "Nickname? It's a nickname for humans, right? Isn't it inappropriate to call you that?"
The dwarf explained: "When an elf is 105 years old, he will announce his official name. This name must be completely original and different from everyone else's. Some elves will use the name of their most proud work of art as their own name, and some will make a deformation of the name of the person they admire.
"Some people, in order to choose a meaningful name for themselves, will start traveling."
The elf girl looked at the dwarf and said, "You know elves very well."
Flint smoked his pipe. "It's all old time. Even for a dwarf, it's too long ago."
The elf girl Nini glanced at the king and said, "Just as the dwarf said, naming myself is also the purpose of my journey. I am 100 years old this year, and in five years I will declare myself an adult and name myself."
Xiaobai: "I think calling her Nini is nice. It feels like I have a new sister."
The dwarf teased, "Her legs are twice as tall as you."
"Wait a minute!" said the elf Nini, "I haven't said I want to join you yet! You are really a bunch of liars, trying to trick me into joining your group!"
Wang: "Based on your reaction, I can tell that you are indeed very easy to be deceived."
Dwarf: "Indeed, after all, a 100-year-old elf is too young, still a child."
The king gently poked Elizabeth's waist.
The princess immediately understood and smiled at the elf Nini: "Why don't you join us in fighting the cavemen for a while? Aren't you worried that it's dangerous to go underground alone without anyone to cover you? Maybe we can build trust after the fight."
Nini frowned and said, "I didn't say we had to fight the cavemen. I just came to report to the lord."
Princess: "That poor child asked the fairy to avenge him. Are you going to betray that child's expectations?"
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The elf girl nodded: "Yes, that's right. I even accepted a copper coin she gave me. I had already used up all the elven gold coins I brought with me when I bought the horse."
The wizard frowned. "Finished? How much did you use?"
Elf girl: "A small bag, which contains the money I earned from selling my crafts and the travel expenses given by the teacher."
Wang: "How many gold coins exactly?"
Elf girl: "There are always a few hundred. I thought it might not be enough, so I asked the old farmer to count them. The old farmer weighed them and accepted them directly. There are still kind people among humans."
Wang and his team members looked at each other.
Xiaobai: "The wizard is very smart, and you are a fool. The two of you and Dabai together cannot make up a brain."
At this time, the elf girl suddenly realized: "So I was cheated, right? That horse is not worth so much money? But I think a horse should be more valuable than the handicraft I made myself, right?"
Flint blew out a smoke ring and said leisurely, "Elf handicrafts are very valuable in the human world. When humans capture elf slaves, they will not send them to brothels even if they are very beautiful. You know? It is better to let you make handicrafts and make more money. Of course, sometimes some masters like elves, so it is more profitable to sell them to them."
The elf girl took a few steps back in fear, her long legs leaning against the wooden table: "You! Humans are really not trustworthy! Are you trying to trick me into selling it, too?"
Wang: "No, we really need a ranger."
The girl stared at him suspiciously.
Elizabeth took a step forward, intending to capitalize on the good first impression she had made on the elf.
At this time, Wang spoke first: "You, being suspicious like this will not help you improve your ability to prevent fraud. Look how many times you have been suspicious since you came in. To be honest, I am fed up with it. Why don't you do this and actually get cheated once, then you will know how humans can deceive others."
Elizabeth was shocked: "What are you talking about? Isn't this the same as admitting that we are lying to her?"
"That's logically true, but you see, she was cheated out of money by an old farmer using a skinny horse. After this experience, he won't be cheated out of money by skinny horses again. On the other hand, if she is kidnapped by us once, won't she know how humans kidnap people? She won't kidnap people next time.
"The life span of an elf is so long, it doesn't matter if she is tricked into being a slave for a few decades. After all, when all the slave traders are old and dead, she will be free. After that, she will not be kidnapped in the long years to come."
Elizabeth's jaw dropped so much that she almost thought of her secondary sexual characteristics. To be honest, the wizard's words this time were indeed a bit outrageous.
However, the elf girl Nini actually started to think seriously.
"It seems... to make some sense."
"Right?" The wizard said more vigorously, "So you might as well give up this suspicion. I guess you are not a person who likes to be so suspicious."
Nini nodded: "Well, I don't like it either. But Master said that humans have many cunning scammers and do not have the elegance and honesty of the elves."
Wang: "Did your master say that there are noble, loyal and trustworthy companions among humans?"
"No, but he always has a nostalgic expression when he recalls his companions who went on adventures with him. I think he must trust those companions very much. I know that among them there are humans, dwarves and halflings."
"That's right," Wang snapped his fingers, "Why don't you just follow along? If you get cheated, you can gain experience. If you don't get cheated, you'll be like your master and gain a trustworthy human partner. Either way, you'll win!"
The elf nodded thoughtfully: "That makes sense."
The other members of the team looked at each other, speechless at this development.
Xiao Bai suddenly touched his chin and said, "Wait a minute, let me recall the process of my joining... Hmm? I was also kidnapped?"
The elf girl turned her head and looked at her: "You too?"
Xiao Bai: "No, I'm not. I was originally going to investigate the world-destroying crisis, and then I remembered that it was a task assigned to me by the Druid Society Greenfield in Langdon City. I just played with Dacongming because we had the same goal."
Nini looked at everyone and asked, "You all gathered together because of the world-destroying crisis?"
Wang: "Yes. At first we thought it was just a simple search for a cat, but no one could have imagined that it would lead to a crisis."
Nini: "Since you asked the legendary wizard relevant questions and he gave you some hints, why didn't he come and solve this problem himself?"
"Because it was a test given to me by the teacher." Wang shrugged.
"Using a world-destroying crisis as an exam?" The elf girl was shocked.
Wang scratched his head: "My teacher firmly believes that this is a problem I can solve, so that's it. But the crisis of world destruction is definitely there."
The elf girl thought for a few seconds, seemed to accept this statement, and then asked: "You just said that you got a clue after killing the minions of the cult. What kind of clue was it?"
Wang took out the dimensional bag and prepared to take out the picture he copied from the photo frame.