Chapter 488 Hay Fever and Iron Stone Cube
Chapter 488 Hay Fever and Iron Stone Cube
"Ah sneeze!!!"
After rubbing his nose, which had been itching recently, Leon, who was wearing a dark tuxedo, raised his hand to close the window of the carriage and complained to the female reporter opposite:
"I really don't know what the Highway Administration was thinking. They actually planted so many winter cypress trees on the roadside. This... A-choo! The winter cypress trees are all in bloom these past two days. When the wind blows, the pollen can cover half of the street. This is too much trouble!"
"Just bear with it for a while."
After taking out a handkerchief and handing it over, the female reporter, who was also dressed in formal attire, spoke to comfort him:
"The airship to the Kingdom of Korok has been arranged. There won't be so much pollen when you get on it."
"I hope..."
Looking at the winter cypress trees on the roadside, whose branches were full of light red cones due to the warming weather, Leon couldn't help but sigh with a headache.
Although the brothers and sisters are not really related by blood, they are surprisingly similar in that they will sneeze madly when they come into contact with pollen.
Moreover, because they lived on the street, the winter cypress in the capital began to release pollen in the past two days. The Ryan family had been sneezing from morning to night. Except for Anna who could adapt to it, the noses of herself and the two little bastards were always red. They were really tortured.
It seems a bit strange...
Looking at Leon who took the handkerchief and covered his nose, and finally behaved a little better, the female reporter opposite couldn't help but blink, with a hint of doubt in her expression.
The kingdom planted winter cypress on both sides of the road. Judging from the species, it should be the spherical cypress of the Kingdom of Ålesund. It is a very common urban green plant. There are many of them in the nine western countries such as Hesse, Morna, and Ålesund. The planting history is probably less than a thousand years.
After living with this plant for thousands of years, most ordinary people in the Western Nine Countries have become accustomed to the pollen of this tree. Generally, only people in the Eastern Three Countries across the sea will sneeze wildly when they encounter the pollen of winter cypress because they are not familiar with this plant.
"Leon."
After having some guesses in her mind, the female reporter couldn't help but ask, looking at Leon's black hair and eyes:
"are you……"
"beep……"
Just when the female reporter was about to say something, the carriage the two were riding in began to slow down slowly, and a melodious whistle sounded above the water tank, completely covering up her voice.
"what happened?"
When the steam carriage came to a complete stop and the whistle stopped, Leon covered his nose with a handkerchief and said in confusion:
"Did you want to ask me something just now?"
"..."
"nothing……"
After hearing Leon's question, the female reporter hesitated for a moment, then shook her head and said:
"I just want to tell you that there are no winter cypress trees in the Kingdom of Korok, and there aren't even many plants. You don't have to worry about getting hay fever when you go there."
Let’s not talk about it for now. Judging from the fact that Dongbaek causes him to have hay fever, and that he has black hair and black eyes, Leon does look a bit like someone from that country. But there are people in the kingdom who meet these two conditions, and it is somewhat arbitrary to infer his background based solely on his hair color and hay fever.
According to his understanding, because of Director Aquarius's experiment, Leon not only lost his original life, but even his memory. This incident is probably a permanent pain in his heart.
If I could rely on these two characteristics to find out Leon's original background and help him get back his lost life, then it would naturally be a good thing that everyone would be happy about.
But if I was just overthinking, or if my guess was not wrong but I still couldn't confirm his original identity, then it would be like tearing open the wound that had already healed in Leon's heart, making him feel hurt again while being disappointed, which was really a bit too hurtful. "Is that so? That's great."
He didn't know that the female reporter was thinking about finding his parents, and naturally he didn't expect that hay fever would make her think so much. When Leon heard her say that there was no pollen in the Kingdom of Korok, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Then, he got up and got out of the car with a look of relief on his face, followed the envoys into the boarding tower, and asked in a low voice with some curiosity:
"Nicole, the Kingdom of Korok is generally not allowed to enter, so the kingdom doesn't have many records about that place. Can you tell me what it is like there?"
The Kingdom of Korok?
The female reporter following behind Leon tried to recall what happened, then frowned slightly and began to narrate:
“I’m not quite sure how to describe it. Although Korok appears to be round from the outside, it actually doesn’t have a particularly fixed shape. If I had to describe it, it looks more like a giant Rubik’s Cube made purely of steel, earth and stone.
Oh, yes, the Rubik's Cube is a small toy with six sides, each with nine small cubes of different colors, which can be twisted around. Crook's children have been playing with it since they were young."
"Um...I have seen the Rubik's Cube before."
Leon couldn't help but blink when he heard this, and then continued to ask:
"I remember you said before that the core building complex there is a series of separate honeycomb-shaped blocks, which are connected to each other by slides and docking rails, and can also move up and down by floating crystals at the bottom.
Where is the palace of the Kingdom of Korok? Is it in the center of this hexagonal honeycomb cube? What about Atifi 01? Which block is it in?"
“Those neighborhoods will change, and it’s hard to say where exactly they will be.”
The female reporter shook her head and said:
"The blocks in the Kingdom of Korok are not in a parallel relationship, but can be stacked on top of each other. These blocks are roughly divided into six categories according to their respective uses: living, scientific research, residential, production, administration, and military industry.
In the absence of large-scale movement, these small hexagonal areas will be evenly distributed throughout the kingdom according to the direction of the twelve hands of the clock. On average, each "time zone" will have six blocks of each type.
In addition to the other half of the city that relies on floating crystals to reside in the upper layer and is distributed in the opposite direction of the lower layer, the entire Kingdom of Korok should have thirty-six blocks multiplied by twenty-four time zones, a total of eight hundred and sixty-four movable blocks.
The Korok Palace you asked about and the place where Atifi 01 is stored should be in the 144 'Administrative' blocks and the 144 'Scientific Research' blocks respectively."
"..."
It turns out that there are one hundred and forty-four multiple-choice questions with one choice, and I have to do it twice in a row... Should I go to the market for this?
After hearing about the desperately complicated street layout of the Kingdom of Korok, Leon, who had boarded the airship, couldn't help but rub his brows and complained speechlessly:
"Is the person who designed this thing crazy? It has more than 800 blocks, and it changes location from time to time. How do you people in the Kingdom of Korok find your way?"
"What's so hard about this?"
After looking at Leon with some surprise, the female reporter replied:
"These blocks were numbered, for example, the Twin Precinct was located in Administrative Block 38, and I lived in Residential Block 19 at the time.
Every day when I go to get off work, I just need to press the number of the block I want to go to on the navigation machine, and then follow the instructions all the way there."
"..."
(End of this chapter)