Chapter 3284 The Story of the Forest Guard

【However, why are eggs and apples?】

When Xia De sat in the living room and looked at the interior furnishings and decoration curiously, "she" asked softly again, and Xia De replied:

“Because I don’t have packaged milk or boxes of cereal porridge.”

Therefore, sometimes the ideas of foreigners are really hard to understand by others.

Although Professor Reinhardt was not at home, after hearing that Shade wanted to see his research results on the island, Mrs. Reinhardt took out some of her husband's collection of books and manuscripts from the study for Shade to read.

According to the legends and stories of the Fatu people, the professor sorted out the history of the Fatu people in a chronological manner. This work was carried out when Miss Reinhardt left the island and it still has not ended today.

Of course, although the work is still in progress, the general framework of the chronology has been built, and the rest of the work is to constantly fill in the content according to time.

The starting point of the chronology is "unknown ancient times", which refers here to the time when the Fatu people moved to the local area. The last major event recorded was the Fatumonster Island earthquake about 60 years ago, or the "Fallen Star Bay" earthquake.

Xia De intended to find records of the Fatu people's worship of "snakes" in it, and then he read some of the contents. Professor Reinhardt's research on this matter was inferred based on the details of the remaining local ancient murals and the decorative patterns on the remaining ancient buildings.

Although the professor was unable to find the specific literature, when sorting out the stories and myths passed down from generation to generation by locals, he found that many stories involved creatures such as "big snakes" and "two-headed snakes".

As for whether something was buried below the snow-capped mountain, Professor Reinhardt's investigation was quite vague. It was not that there was no record at all, but that although a few words were mentioned, he would avoid this topic every time he went to a key place.

So Shade still wants to talk to Professor Reinhardt in person to see how much he knows about the Fatumonster Snow Mountain from outsiders.

While Xia De was reading these texts in the living room, Miss Reinhardt also helped organize them. However, after a while, the witch was called away by her mother. Although she said she was going to the kitchen to help prepare lunch, Xia De guessed that the lady wanted to ask about her identity.

At 11 o'clock in the afternoon, Professor Reinhardt still did not come back, so Mrs. Reinhardt arranged for the three of them to have lunch first:

"I left him food in the kitchen."

Because there were guests visiting, the lunch was very rich, but the witch was a little worried after lunch, and she didn't want to waste time:

"Mother, where did my father visit my friend? Mr. Watson and I will go to find him. Since he hasn't come back for lunch, he may decide to have a meal at his friend's house temporarily."

"He went to visit Old Haman who lives in the mountains. If you go, remember to remind him not to drink."

The so-called "Old Haman" is actually a forest ranger living in the mountains, or a "mountain guard" arranged by the Fatu people in the mountains, responsible for patrolling the mountains and guarding the animals in the mountains.

This kind of profession is usually passed down from generation to generation, and people in the tribe admire them very much, and they often know many things that others don’t know. So Professor Reinhardt met the old Harman and became friends during the process of obtaining materials. When the witch was a child, she saw him visiting her home, but she did not have a very deep impression of him.

Forest rangers usually live at the foot of the snow-capped mountains of Fatumonster. If ordinary people don’t know the location, it will be difficult for them to find them in the vast primeval forest. The elderly Professor Reinhardt did not walk over with his legs. He has a donkey cart for pulling goods from the dock at home, which is the professor’s transportation tool today.

“The island cannot be compared with the big cities.”

Miss Reinhardt sighed boredly on the way to the next destination. Xia De did not comment on this. He was more concerned about the owl that flew over the two of them just now.

Xia De was originally worried that Professor Reinhardt had encountered any unexpected situation when he did not go home at noon. Based on the current local situation, it was very possible, but his understanding of the professor was indeed not as good as his wife - Professor Reinhardt was actually drunk while drinking with his old friend.

It seemed that all the locals knew the witch. The two knocked behind the door of the forest guard's cottage hidden in the cedar forest. The strong old man wearing a cotton hat opened the door was stunned for a moment, and then smiled and greeted Miss Reinhardt:

"It's Little Claire. I've been missing for many years. Your father talked to me in the morning and talked to you."

Then he looked at Xia De behind the witch, so Miss Reinhardt introduced him again with "grandfather's friend". The forest guard Lao Haman nodded in understanding:

"A ring warlock is it?"

Although the old man guarding the mountain is an ordinary person, it is impossible for him to know these things, so Xia De nodded directly:

"Yes."

The cottage is made of stone, with a fire pit in the center, and a pot is being heated on the fire pit. A faint smell of alcohol spreads in the room, and Professor Reinhardt is lying on the bed in the corner of the wall and is drunk and unconscious.

"My father is not an alcoholic, he is just not good at drinking, but he always likes to drink."

The witch explained a little embarrassedly, and Xia De walked up to check the situation.

Professor Reinhardt is a middle-aged man with black hair, with his glasses crooked on his face. Although he was lying on the bed, Shade could tell that he was not very tall, at least not as tall as his wife and daughter. In other words, Mrs. Reinhardt was much taller than her husband.

However, after meeting the couple, Xia De believed that their appearance advantages were all concentrated on Miss Reinhardt. The only color of her hair did not come from her parents' inheritance, otherwise she should have black hair or pure blonde hair.

Although there was a donkey cart parked outside the door, Professor Reinhardt was so drunk that he was obviously not suitable to return to town now. There are many ways for the ring warlocks to relieve their drunken state, but the witch is the kind of girl who doesn't like to use the ring warlocks' methods on ordinary people.

So she just took out a dark black gem that looked dull and handed it to Xia De, asking Xia De to activate the magic trick in it to relieve her father. The magic trick stored here should be some kind of magic trick to relieve the negative state, but the magic trick was very weak. Xia De guessed that this was probably made by Miss Larson when she was practicing.

Because the hangover effect is very weak, it will take some time for Professor Reinhardt to wake up. Xia De and the Witch and Old Harman gathered next to the fire pit while drinking tea and chatting.

Xia De mentioned that his purpose of coming to see the professor was to know about the snow mountain. The old man guarding the mountain also told him and the witch about the strange things he had encountered in the woodland at the foot of the mountain.

He saw corpses that came to poach but died tragically in the mouths of wild animals. He had seen strange warlocks fighting at the foot of the snow-capped mountains, and had seen strange people from other places who came to ask for directions. He had even seen several roads that he didn't know suddenly appeared in the snow-capped mountains.

"Can you talk about this in detail? I heard Elder Harald say that the actual area of ​​the snow-capped mountains is much larger than what we can see."

The old forest guard smiled and held the teacup:

“I don’t know much about this, I just have some stories about myself.

That happened about twenty years ago. Claire, you were less than ten years old. That winter, it snowed very heavily. After the snow stopped, I thought I would take advantage of the good weather to patrol the mountain, but I didn’t expect it to snow again on the way to patrol the mountain. I saw that it was too late to go back, so I found a cave nearby to hide."

He saw that the young people listened very carefully:

"I clearly hid into the cave from the foot of the southern foot of the Snow Mountain, but when the snow stopped, I found myself in the southeast of the Snow Mountain. I thought I was possessed by evil spirits, so I took a hunting rifle and carried a steel fork on my back and wanted to return to the town first, but it started to snow again on the road. At that time, I had nowhere to hide and could only continue to set off.

After the sky turned completely dark, even the trees around it became sparse. I saw something glowing white in front of me, so I subconsciously followed me, and then I arrived at a towering castle made of ice and snow."

The old man kept sighing:

"The white light disappeared. At that time, I thought I was dead. After all, the story said so. But I hid in the city tower and slept all night. I quickly left after dawn and stumbled until noon before returning to the town.

When I took the people to look for it again, no matter whether it was a cave, a white light or an ice castle, I found nothing."

"At that time, my grandfather was already a priest. Did my grandfather know about this?"

"I know. He also participated in the action of following me to retrace that road, but we only found some strange animal footprints on the snow, so the incident that only came from being lost in the wind and snow, and then found a temporary shelter with animals such as snow leopards or rock sheep, and hallucinations appeared because of the cold - to the outside world.

But the elders all believed that what I was telling the truth, and my experience should be true, but no one knew what was going on."

He told the story of his youth with nostalgia:

"For me, I at least believe that the white light that guided me to find the castle in the dark is not my imagination. I have always wanted to find it to repay it for years. Oh, and I also brought something from that snow castle at that time. The elders said that it was just an ordinary item, so I kept it myself. Do you want to see it?"
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