~： Extras - Fragments - After the dust settles

Warm winds began to blow across the plains. After the rain three days ago, the weather has become warmer and warmer. The lush vegetation has dyed the fertile land around the city. a long time.

Wycliffe bent down and stared silently at the green patch in the dirt. After a few seconds, he cautiously extended his fingers, and gently touched the metal-looking patch in front of him with the mechanical limb of the alloy. The weak blade of grass, a faint smile finally emerged from his face, and the thin wrinkles stretched into smooth arcs.

"...The influence of the dark blue magic power has finally completely subsided," he raised his head and looked at Camilla who was standing beside him. "The ecological environment around the Ancestor's Peak may completely return to its previous state within this year."

Camilla did not respond for a while. This heroic lady was looking at the distance in a trance. In the direction she was looking, she could see towering towers and rings rolling up and down at the end of the plain. It looked like a giant python crawling on the ground.

She didn't wake up until Wycliffe made another sound: "Huh? What did you say?"

"I said, the restoration of the ecological environment around here is the same as the recent analysis by ecological experts," the human king frowned, "Didn't you insist on pulling me out for inspection? Why are you so distracted now? "

Camilla's fluffy tail twitched in the air for half a circle, with a very calm expression on her face: "I'm also inspecting, have you noticed the direction of the sensor array ring? The red jade forest planted by the Druids three years ago has already It's gradually becoming a climate."

Wycliffe followed Camilla's gaze. He saw the lush artificial forest, but he paid more attention to the towering sensor towers and rings than the artificial forest. on the giant structure.

Those behemoths that used to be full of energy, buzzing day and night, and watching the starry sky with vigilance have now quieted down, standing quietly on the ground like silent giants, overlooking this now peaceful and prosperous kingdom.

They have been silent like this for five years, and the calamity of civilization that once stood in front of all beings in the world has ended for a full five years.

And it wasn't until today, five years later, that the last piece of land near the Ancestor's Peak that was eroded by the dark blue magic finally came back to life.

And with the slow healing of the land, there was the social order, food production, and economic activity that the Ogure Tribal Nation was once on the verge of reaching its limits.

"The alliance has fulfilled its original promise," Camilla whispered suddenly, "the hardest days are finally over."

"Yeah, the hardest days are finally over, but you seem to have said this when the barrier took effect," Wycliffe turned his head slightly and glanced at the warchief beside him, "It turned out that later facts proved that Surviving under the barrier of the home planet is just the beginning..."

"No one thought that the impact of the observation device would be so great," Camilla shrugged. "Fortunately, Ms. Gaota worked overtime throughout the entire process, so that the energy flow in the depths of the Ancestral Peak could be re-stabilized within the past few years."

"After all, it was made in a hurry. It should be thankful that it works properly." Wycliffe took out his pipe and lit it with his mechanical fingers, and then seemed to suddenly remember something, "By the way, Wen Where's Na? I didn't see her when I woke up this morning."

"Merry sent a letter yesterday..."

"Okay, you don't have to talk about it," Wycliffe shook his pipe and his face, "I thought the box that was delivered to Helm City yesterday was an engineering component ordered by Stella... So Wenna tomorrow Not going to the development meeting?"

"The meeting should still be attended. She can distinguish the importance of it, but..." Camilla said, and suddenly sighed, "The direct transmission of consciousness to the typewriter is really a sinful invention for Wenna, isn't it?"

"...It is said that she slept through the night when she first heard about the technology, and I didn't understand what she was worried about at first, until an article in Alliance Technology Weekly announced that one of the inventors of this technology was the child of Mei Li," Wei said. Cliff sighed as he spoke, "The child finally broke through the last bottleneck that restricted her ability to express."

Camilla smiled, but did not continue on this topic, but said thoughtfully: "Speaking of that child... It is said that Mei Li signed up for the Western Expedition Group? It should be in a few days. Are you leaving?"

Wycliffe took a deep breath on his pipe, and after a while, he slowly exhaled the smoke: "The Alliance needs to have a clearer grasp of the world we live in, scholars need to fill in the blank historical materials and dating techniques, and the elves need to find their way back. The origin and homeland of their lost civilization, and the gray elves...after all, are also one of the branches of the elves, as the future leader of the gray elves, Mei Li's participation in that exploration team has a special meaning."

Speaking of this, he paused and added: "Of course, what's more, she herself is already an excellent scholar now, and her abilities in the field of magic technology and transmission can be very useful on the 'Homecoming'. Great effect."

"Homecoming..." Camilla's ears shook slightly, and a faint smile appeared on her face, "The elves gave that air fortress a good name."

…

"Ah!"

A loud sneeze startled Verania, who was concentrating on checking the magic readings. The great astrologist raised her head from the pile of holographic projections and crystal panels, and looked at the little girl who was rubbing her nose with some concern. : "Are you all right? Did you catch a cold yesterday?"

"Ah, I'm fine! It's just that my nose is a little itchy," Mei Li Baizhi rubbed her nose vigorously and said while waving her hand, "Have you finished the examination? Is there something wrong with the reading?"

"As you said, the echo of the second energy line has an abnormal peak, but it's just a false alarm caused by the interference of the return line. The problem has been solved," Verania said, stretching hard. Look at the somewhat stiff waist, "However, even a small problem needs to be treated with caution, especially at the critical moment on the eve of departure."

Mei Li Baizhi nodded lightly, then turned around and slowly came to the edge of the nearby platform.

A thin cloud of mist lingered around the platform, undulating slightly like an invisible sea of ​​illusoryness. Mei Li looked down and saw the glittering edge armor belt of the air fortress gleaming in the sun, and the forest on the distant ground was lush. The Homecoming Long Bridge reflected the sunlight at the end of the forest, and at the same time, some small lightweight aircraft were taking off from the base near the Long Bridge, lined up and flew towards the anti-gravity fortress at her feet.

That is the team that transports supplies and personnel, and it should be the last batch.

"How do you feel?" The great astrologist Verania came over at some point, and said with a smile behind the young grey elf, "This is the first time you have seen the Long Bridge of the Homecoming, right? You came here by boat before. I didn't see it when I was there."

"It's beautiful. I've only seen it in books before." Mei Li smiled inwardly.

Although she has gradually become accustomed to the "normal social interaction" of dealing with people over the years, in front of the famous "Great Astrologer" who even personally participated in the design of the first modern anti-gravity air fortress in the Silver Empire, she still will Feel nervous every now and then.

"Yeah, it's beautiful... The forerunners of the silver elves built it in ancient times, when my mentor's mentor was even an apprentice who was new to magic."

The great astrologist said slowly with a trace of memory, and the expression on his face was quite emotional.

"...It was a glorious era. We built magnificent long bridges and royal cities with abundant resources from our hometown, as well as factories and forges around these facilities, but it was also the era when the sinking began...Behind the false glory , is a larger number of elves scattered between the forest and the wasteland, and gradually out of sync with the civilized world.

"For thousands of years since then, we haven't been able to build anything like Homecoming's Long Bridge."

Mei Li Baizhi blinked. Although she is also an elf, the grey elf and the silver elf have long been different subspecies. The mood of a great astrologist at the moment.

But she can understand the emotion of the other party at the moment.

"Now the Silver Empire has created the 'Homecoming'." She said seriously.

"...Yeah, the era of sinking is finally over." The great astrologist was stunned and smiled slowly. Her eyes swept over the brand-new deck equipment around her, as well as the functional buildings on various platforms in the distance, her expression a little bit for a while. Trance.

Compared with the former Temple of the Stars, this anti-gravity fortress built by the modern silver elves can almost be called a "pocket product". However, the first sky fortress built by the Cecil Empire many years ago, "Dawn of the Earth".

But it was soaring in the sky at the moment, new, solid, and full of power.

As Verania has imagined in countless dreams over the past thousands of years.

Such a flying ark is enough to undertake the mission of allowing elves to cross the ocean to find their hometown.

The great astrologist suddenly came back to her senses, and she smiled apologetically to the young grey elf scholar in front of her: "Sorry, my mind wanders... After living for a long time, it is always easy to fall into emotion."

"But you still look young," Mei Li said calmly. "In my opinion, you are at the age to attract the attention of good men..."

"Don't compliment me on this," Verania's expression suddenly became a little weird, and then she quickly changed the conversation as if to avoid embarrassment, "By the way, you have learned about the 'Xinghaizhi' of the Alliance's Interstellar Foreign Affairs Office recently. Touch the 'plan?"

Mei Li was stunned for a moment, then recalled what she saw in an internal journal not long ago, and said thoughtfully: "You are talking about the plan to establish a wider communication with Noi Society? I have a general understanding. a little."

"Yes, the Kraken has made great breakthroughs in the restoration and reconstruction of superluminal communication technology in the past two years. We and Noy are planning to increase the bandwidth of interstellar communication on this basis, and open up a part of civilian use, The test qualification for normalized communication," Verania said with a smile, and the big astral master smiled brightly, "As a measure to further mutual trust and mutual understanding between the two civilizations, a group of people will be selected to meet the Noi people. 'The Chosen One' in the

"Pen pal?" Mei Li Baizhi raised her eyebrows, "Ah, do you want to participate?"

"Maybe I will be the first batch," the great astrologist smiled reservedly, "I just don't know what kind of 'friends' the Noi people who will establish communication with me will be..."

Mei Li Baizhi blinked again, and nodded her head in confusion.

Behind them, in a corner that neither of them noticed, the Silver Queen Belsetia, who happened to pass by, stopped thoughtfully, and a smile gradually appeared on her face.

…

Three days later, the news that "Ms. Verania, the great astrologer, has finally lost interest in men on this planet after a long single life, and turned her attention to aliens" spread like wildfire...

(End of this chapter)