Chapter 2073

Thinking of this, Joan suddenly realized a fact—compared with the human cities in the civilized world, subconsciously, he felt that living in the dark underground world was more comfortable and more at ease.

If this is the case, from a rational point of view, I should move to the underground world to settle down. Otherwise, if I continue to stay in human society, wouldn't I be asking for trouble?

This thought made him feel an inexplicable panic, and he quickly forced himself to give up the idea of ​​going to the "Underdark Region", thinking about whether there is a better place to go.

After much deliberation, he decided to go to "City of Clouds" again to visit "Papa Ancient Book" and "Five Sisters and Brothers of Activation Mantra" to see if there were any new 6-ring spells from Papa Ancient Book to learn.

After making up his mind, Qiao An took out the "Navigation Compass", locked on the current coordinate point of "City in the Clouds", and cast "Teleportation", turning into a beam of light soaring into the sky.

...

The junction of the "Elemental Plane of Wind" and the "Elemental Plane of Water", above the clouds, is covered with snow.

The towering castle surrounded by high silver walls stands tall in the clouds, like a giant overlooking the earth.

In front of the gate of Yunyun Manor, a glowing teleportation array suddenly appeared, and human figures loomed in the beam of light. After a while, a handsome young man in a black robe with gold trim walked out of the teleportation array.

Joan looked around. The quiet and beautiful scenery was no different from the previous two visits. In this pure world, the passage of time seemed to be static.

He walked to the inscribed stone tablet next to the gate, bowed to the handwriting left by the legendary cloud giant archmage Vavrunir, then turned and walked towards the gate, raising his hand to press the closed door.

When he first visited Yunzhong City, Qiao An used the 2-ring "knocking technique" to open the gate, but inadvertently touched the restriction attached to the gate, which aroused the vigilance of the guardian beasts in the manor.

When he visited Yunzhong City again at the beginning of last year, Qiao An gained a lot of wisdom, did not touch the gate, and directly cast a spell through the wall to enter, but did not trigger the alarm.

After a year and a half, Joan came to Yunzhong City for the third time, so he didn't have to be sneaky like the previous two times. He knocked on the door calmly, and the heavy metal door creaked, slowly opening in front of him. wide open.

Joan has already obtained the right to live in Yunzhong City from Daddy Gushu, just like the half owner of this manor. Of course, when the owner returns home, it is aboveboard.

Entering the manor, Joan turned around and snapped his fingers. If the gate was spiritual, it would close behind him.

Standing on the spacious avenue leading to the castle, looking around at the giant gardens blooming all year round on both sides of the road, the vegetable gardens and woods with huge melons and fruits, Joan felt much better, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his lips.

In this manor far away from the hustle and bustle and in peace with the world, his anxious soul seemed to be healed, which made him feel very relaxed.

Walking along the avenue, Joan looked up at the "red lantern" hanging on the fruit tree, and remembered that when he first explored Cloud City, Shrek, the ogre king, was hit on the head by a big apple that fell from the tree. It attracted a large group of mythical griffins and mythical owl bears to hunt down and kill him, scaring himself and his companions to flee desperately. Looking back on the thrilling scene at that time, after four years, I only find it funny.

In the past four years, Joan has not been in touch with Shrek or Casio.

In fact, sending a "short message" to an old friend to inquire about the situation after the farewell is just a piece of cake for him.

He should have done this at the beginning of the separation. For various reasons, he could not send a letter of greetings at that time, and he planted the seeds of guilt in his heart. The longer the time dragged on, as Sir Custis said, the more embarrassing he became I took the initiative to write a letter.

Of course, normal people don’t have such troubles, and there’s no need to get entangled in such small things. Qiao An can only admit that she has a weird personality, and even herself finds it annoying. Although she has been working hard to correct it and has made some progress, but the recent Annoyances hit him again, and he even suspected that no matter how hard he tried, he would not be able to truly be humane, live a life of peace and justice, and at the same time satisfy the people around him.

Sighing, Joan let go of his thoughts, jumped up and wanted to pick an apple to eat, but there was not enough...

Damn, this tree is too tall.

It doesn't matter, is Yalfheim's "monkey mage" just for nothing?

Time to show off your fame stunts!

Joan rolled up his sleeves, climbed up the straight trunk, straddled a thick branch, hugged a red apple as big as his own head with both hands, picked it off with all his might, and wiped the apple with a handkerchief The dew condensed on the surface, gnaw it down!

so sweet!

Joan nodded with satisfaction.

At this time, there was a buzzing sound of wings beside him, and a big brown-red beetle flew over, twice the size of the apple in Joan's hand, folded its wings and landed on the branch of the tree where he was perched, excited vibrating tentacles.

Joan gnawed on the apple while looking at the big beetle. The more he looked at it, the more familiar it became.

"Master, you are back!" The big beetle took the initiative to send telepathy to him, showing joyful emotions.

"Oh... I remember." Joan rubbed his forehead, "You are the petrified beetle in the library on the 4th floor of the castle, right? Later, I cast a spell to de-petrify it, and I was enlightened by the way."

"That's right, you gave me new life and wisdom, esteemed master, thank you for remembering me."

The Enlightenment Beetle said gratefully.

"Well, it's easy to do, you're welcome." Joan handed the apple to it, "Do you want to eat it?"

"The master eats the pulp, just dig out the seeds and give me a reward." The beetle replied.

Joan nodded, picked out three seeds the size of walnuts from the apple core, and held them in his palm.

The Enlightenment Beetle came over, flexibly used its pincer-like jaws, picked up an apple seed from his hand, and swallowed it whole.

"Is it delicious?" Joan asked curiously.

The beetle nodded repeatedly.

Joan was a little skeptical, so he tried to take a bite of the apple seeds himself, only to find that the skin of the seeds was as tough as leather, and he couldn't bite at all. It seems that the food that insects like may not be suitable for humans.

"From the day you were enlightened by me, you have lived in this forest for more than a year. How are you doing?" Joan asked the beetle.

"Not bad, there is food and drink, no natural enemies, just a little boring." The Enlightenment Beetle said quietly.

Joan heard that it seemed depressed, and then asked: "You don't have a companion, or a friend?"

"There are many Coleoptera insects similar to mine in the woods, but they are too stupid, they have almost no thinking ability, can't speak, let alone telepathy, and I can't communicate with them." The Enlightenment Beetle sighed and continued. , "Perhaps in their eyes, even though I look similar to them, I am also a strange creature with a sick mind, not a real beetle."