Chapter 38 At this time, Lann was riding on the road.
They passed through a meadow dotted with sparse trees, passed through several misty and winding valleys, and crossed over wide forest meadows and dilapidated and withered forests. .
Dunka continued to use his familiarity with the forest to find traces of Ciri and point the way for Lan.
The petite dryad huddled in Lan En's arms, her almost naked upper body pressed against Lan En's chest. Fortunately, Lan En was wearing full plate armor, so he couldn't feel anything.
If it were any other person who was not so decent, he would have become distracted by this.
Suddenly, a skylark flew over here.
"Stop!" Dunka said to Lan immediately after seeing Skylark.
The skylark stopped on Dunka's wrist and chirped for a while. Dunka kept nodding, as if communicating with the other party.
After a long time, Dunka turned to Lan and said, "I found your princess."
...
The witty Ciri realized that she was actually not smart enough. Because she didn't run away in the end.
The dryad's control over the forest is truly extraordinary. When Brian woke up the next morning and found that Ciri was missing, he immediately started chasing her. Her tracking method was something Ciri had never heard of.
The whole forest is helping her! God knows creatures like dryads can communicate with animals, but the book doesn’t mention this!
After all, human beings' understanding of tree spirits is still extremely limited.
Brian not only chased him by himself, but also continuously summoned his dryad companions in the process to round up Ciri from all directions.
The tree spirit kept chasing, and Ciri kept running. If she chases her, run away; if she chases her, run away. As a result, Ciri chose the wrong direction and once approached the center of Brochlon.
This is also the reason why more and more dryads are surrounding her.
Ciri kept running, and the tree spirit blocked her all the way. If she ran, she would be blocked. If she ran, she would be blocked. In the end, she was really blocked.
What Ciri didn't know was that they were very close to the capital of Doon Karnar, which the dryads called Doon Karnar. She almost circled Brokiron in a half circle, wasting a lot of time going around and around, but in the end she didn't escape.
Dryad Dunka obtained this information from the mouth of Skylark and relayed to Lan what happened to Ciri during this period.
Lan En didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He seemed to realize what the problem was. Unexpectedly, what caused the setbacks was the self-help knowledge he taught Xili.
Fortunately, everything is back on track again.
"That is to say, we can just go directly to your capital now, right?"
So the two Lan's targets turned to Duan Kanal.
Waiting until sunset, Lan finally arrived at the Forest of Giant Trees under the guidance of Dunka.
Dunkar dismounted at the entrance and knelt on the ground, bowing his head in prayer.
Lan couldn't help but feel awe as he looked at the scene in front of him. In later generations, he had seen many modern buildings and various art scenes, but this was the first time he had seen anything like this.
Those trees—mostly oak, yew, and butternut trees—were more than a dozen yards thick, and their height was even more difficult to judge. The location of their sinuous and powerful roots that transformed into tree trunks was well above their heads.
This kind of tree belongs to the kind of tree that you can tell is a fantasy forest at a glance. It is very "natural" and even "magical".
Now they could move faster: there were open spaces between the huge trees, other vegetation could not survive in their shadow, and there was only a thick layer of rotting leaves on the ground.
Black Wind ran even more joyfully. It seemed to feel something and knew that it was very close to its goal.
They left the boundary of the forest of giant trees, and Black Wind, who was extremely energetic, ran wildly for another two quarters of an hour, and once again entered the damp beech forest in the canyon.
Dunka suddenly asked to stop. She took off her flower crown and turned to Lann and said: "Human, I will blindfold you for the rest of the way. I have to do this."
Lann took off his helmet: "I understand. Then let me control the black wind."
The two continued to move forward, and Lan could only feel the outside world through his ears. He heard the songs of various birds with different tones and the cries of squirrels; then he heard the sound of horse hooves treading the water, followed by the sound of fish splashing in the water.
Lann knew he had arrived at the real Brochlon. The end of the journey.
"Take off the blindfold, human. We are here." Thick fog covered Heifeng's knees, and Lan finally waited for Dunka's voice.
"This is Doon Canal, the land of oaks, the heart of Brochlon."
Lann looked over and saw a sinkhole here, completely covered by a vast green canopy. Mist and steam rise from the earth, rocks and hot springs.
At first, the sinkhole was completely silent, with not a shadow in sight. But not long after, they heard a loud and sweet whistle. There was a slender black-haired dryad, walking gracefully on the porous mushrooms arranged in a spiral on the tree trunk. Like other dryads, the color of her clothes is deceptive.
Of course, this deceptive effect may also come from their skin.
Dunka and the black-haired tree spirit began to communicate in a low-pitched tone. This is the dialect of the tree spirits. Not many of the tree spirits as a whole can communicate normally with humans. Only guerrillas like Dunka and the others can learn the common language.
Lan looked at Duan Canal. The capital of the dryad was actually a huge oak tree that "grew" from the bottom of the sinkhole.
On top of this huge oak tree, there are mistletoe-like masses hanging heavily on the branches and trunks. Some are very close to the ground, some are far away, and some are even placed on the top of the tree. These are the houses of the dryads, and these treehouses are living logs, "houses" that grow directly out of the giant oak trees.
Lann saw several larger buildings on the ground as well: huts made of intertwined branches, with roofs covered with leaves. He could feel the existence of life in those buildings, but there was no shadow of the dryad.
Dunka said: "Go in, human. Your princess is inside, and you will meet Queen Aina with her later."
Lann took a deep breath: "Goodbye, Ms. Dunka."
Follow Dunka In the direction of Card's finger, Lan walked into a wooden house. The walls and ceiling of the “house” filter sunlight, causing the interior to shimmer with a kaleidoscope of light.
He opened the door and seemed to hear an argument inside.
"Little rascal! I almost died because of you! Ha! You are so lucky, I can't get up now, otherwise I will definitely beat your ass! Because of you, my barony is over. Even if I walk out of the forest alive, my only The only destination is the gallows."
"You little villain! King Ewell is going crazy... Every message is more terrifying than the last one. He said that your grandmother sent an army to attack him. But who believes that you escaped on your own? Everyone knows what Evel is like, and everyone thinks that he... did something stupid when he was drunk, and ordered you to be thrown into the pond and drowned! We are about to go to war with
Nilfgaard, and now we have a contract with your grandmother The alliance with you has been ruined! Do you know how bad things you have done?"
(End of this chapter)