Chapter 99 Break Time (XI)
"Miss Forna, are you back so late today?"
Forna's ear tip twitched slightly, and she shouted to the landlady who was over fifty years old and looked out from upstairs.
"This is my new friend, landlady, is there any extra room with bedding ready?"
Ji Lin followed the elf lady Forna, walked through the small streets and alleys, and walked into the alley with glass lamps.
Compared with the houses and shops along the street outside with various conspicuous colors as the exterior walls, the buildings inside the block seemed much more casual, or in other words, not so bright and beautiful.
The houses built with various stones and wooden buildings were not much more advanced than the houses in his territory in terms of external decoration. They looked a little quaint under the erosion of time. The wear and tear on the wall edges and the black marks on the wooden pillars showed that these buildings had been through decades of rain and wind.
The only thing that could prove that they were related to the buildings outside might be the common double nested rings, and the rune lamps that appeared from time to time on the outer edge of the building, emitting a faint yellow warm light.
It gives people a feeling that this city should be made up of this kind of buildings.
It's really rare for her to find such a place.
Very good.
"I want a room, thank you."
Xu Shan didn't come to see him, but with the ability of a dean, Ji Lin didn't need to worry about him. Ji Lin suspected that he could live well in this city even if he suffered a heavy loss.
The special profession of dean is extremely rare.
So, just one room is enough.
"This is not a hotel, just a private residence. It's very cheap for a month! Food included!"
Seeing Ji Lin's eyes move to her, Forna thought he was doubting whether it was a hotel, and explained.
"And the food cooked by the landlady is super delicious."
The landlady smiled and led him to a room next to Forna. This house is not big. Only the first floor of the third floor is for the landlord himself, and the second and third floors are for tenants... In fact, there is only Forna.
Now there is a temporary Ji Lin.
He thought Forna would take some security measures for the sapling, such as locking it with a magic circle, but she didn't.
The tree species was placed in the Elf Lady's bedroom like an ordinary indoor potted landscape. From the outside, it looked no different from an ordinary sapling, or it was indeed a sapling.
A very small sapling, only the thickness of the index and middle fingers, different from other saplings that had grown brown-green bark early on, it looked more...green?
Three leaves were full of energy and tilted up.
The special feature... couldn't be seen at all now.
Except for the item analysis interface that popped up for him after Forna pledged allegiance to him, he could determine the true appearance of this tree species.
The Elf Lady did not lie to him.
[World Tree (Undetermined Branch) Species]
[In the right world, it will be revitalized again. ]
[Sheltering thousands of lives, it once touched the stars, but died again. ]
"It's amazing, right? According to my parents, it has been like this for nearly a thousand years."
Forna squatted down and fiddled with the branches and leaves of the sapling, which swayed slightly under her teasing, as if responding to her.
"Even if the elves are thousands of years old, they will perish under the erosion of time, but it has not changed at all."
Ji Lin's eyes are still on the tree species of the world tree called the undetermined branch.
"And in the past few years in the Holy City, it has grown two centimeters taller!"
It seems that she is worried that Ji Lin does not believe in herself.
The elf lady confidently took out a ruler to show him. There was also a notebook placed with the ruler. She also showed it to Ji Lin. It was the length of the sapling growing every week. Even if there was no growth for ten years, she would diligently record it.
She was very happy and thought that she had finally found a suitable land for planting trees. Just for a piece of land in the Holy City, she devoted all her energy.
It is undoubtedly extremely exciting to finally see the end of the long journey.
All the land in the Holy City of Tran is regarded as the promised land of God and cannot be given to outsiders without reason.
But with her efforts, the other party was finally willing to sell a piece of land of 100 square meters for her to plant her own trees. The price offered was the money she could earn by not eating or drinking for ten years.
"Maybe it will grow up in my territory?"
He was not sure. This was a lie.
Ji Lin had never been exposed to the cultivation technology of the World Tree, but he could try.
The World Trees of different branches have their own growth conditions.
If it really cannot grow, in order to keep the exploration mission, Ji Lin will also pay a price to keep Forna, at least enough for her to buy the land she wants in the Holy City.
The World Tree is just a bonus, and a level 7 exploration mission is his real goal.
However, if there is a senior priest as a lobbyist, can he buy a larger piece of land and pay less money?
Ji Lin fell into deep thought.
Although the territory is a little richer, resources cannot be wasted at all. The investment in infrastructure is too much. The stone road surface of more than ten kilometers alone makes him lose most of the stones he just got.
Back to the room prepared by the landlord for him, it was obviously tidied up when he visited Forna, and new clean bedding was put on. The dust except for the windowsill has been wiped clean.
Simple washing and changing clothes.
Ji Lin lay on the bed.
Not very at ease.
He extended his vacation time for an extra week until the end of the Holy Day celebration, and Chongshan said that there was no problem in the long-distance communication with him. At present, the territory has begun to enter a self-circulating state, and it can run stably in the current state for a period of time without their excessive interference.
And he will meet Alicia at the pastry shop early tomorrow morning.
As agreed with her, Forna said that she still had work, and even if she got the 100 gold provided by Ji Lin, she would still insist on going to work and make the final handover.
He took out the pocket watch and looked at the long pointer on it that was slowly turning, and the needle tip passed through circles along the edge of the roulette wheel.
Nine fifteen.
He himself did not expect that this top prop would become the simplest timekeeping tool in his hands.
But it will never go wrong as a timekeeping tool.
Yes, this place is so developed, he realized that he should buy some clocks to facilitate timekeeping for his territory. The current timekeeping method of the territory is still the traditional sundial, an extremely simple timekeeping tool that requires sunlight and infers the time according to the angle of incidence of sunlight. Sundials are okay to use during the day, but they are ineffective at night.
Write it down.
Use part of the funds to purchase a device to confirm the time. I just don't know if the mechanical clocks in the Holy City are expensive.
(9.2, thank you all! So I owe seven more chapters at the moment, arms akimbo)
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