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Chapter 90 Moving Figurines
Several chaotic paths of luminous dust motes meandered across the mottled wooden floor of the warehouse, eventually converging into a clear trail of light at the door.
Luo Lan followed the red and blue light trail, pushed open the door, and walked out of the warehouse.
Before leaving, he remembered the landlady's instructions and closed the door behind him.
The trail of glowing dust left the kitchen warehouse and spread crookedly along the dirt road in the village.
Just as the orc shopkeeper had said, apart from her warehouse, all the other houses in the village had also been "visited" by pranksters.
The same trails of red and blue glowing dust extended from the houses of other villagers.
The scattered points of light crisscrossed the dirt road, winding its way through the ashes of the village blacksmith's furnace and the wooden racks for drying salted fish and dried meat.
The tracks gradually converged into one, pointing out of Gray Rock Village.
Luo Lan followed the conspicuous red and blue lines in this [True Vision] and walked slowly forward.
The sight of the scene stirred up memories of a role-playing single-player game I played on Earth in my past life.
The main character often does the same, using his extraordinary vision to guide the way and solve tasks by following the glowing lines.
Keep walking, keep walking.
Beyond the piles of abandoned iron lumps at the village entrance, this glowing trail begins to wind its way through the barren rocky landscape of the [Gray Rock Canyon].
The base color of the limestone canyon is a bluish-white, similar to bone.
The gray rocks gleamed from the wind, and several clumps of drought-resistant, withered thorny vines squeezed into the cracks.
The sun, unique to Akquade, with its dense sunspots, gradually rises into the sky as time goes by.
The sunlight shone brightly on the stones, and the fluorescent glow of the elemental powder was somewhat suppressed in the intense sunlight, but the red and blue light trails in [True Sight lv.1] were still quite clear.
The trajectory is very long.
Unbeknownst to her, Luo Lan had already walked several miles along the red and blue glowing path.
In the barren landscape of the limestone canyon, a clump of ferns, about half a person's height, suddenly sprouted from a crack in the rocks.
Then came the second clump, the third clump...
The surrounding rocks, which should have been dry and gray, began to recede step by step as they were pushed aside by green plants.
The gray landscape was gradually covered by a deepening green.
Luo Lan parted a clump of waist-high ferns, and a surge of greenery instantly rushed into view.
Unlike last night when Luo Lan passed through the ghoul-infested, withered forest shrouded in a gloomy atmosphere of chaotic miasma and decay, this time...
Everything here is green, exuding a vibrant life force. The roots of the giant trees hang down from above, entwining with unknown vines, on which bloom a few pretty little flowers with white petals and yellow stamens.
After crossing a gentle slope, Luo Lan pushed aside a banana leaf that was blocking her view, and a crystal-clear spring suddenly appeared in her sight.
A spring gushed out from the cracks in the rocks, forming a shallow pool about half an acre in size. The water was so clear that you could see every grain of coarse sand at the bottom.
The spring is surrounded by a large area of extremely dense trees, forming a natural oasis.
When Luo Lan's gaze finally broke through the obstruction of the trees, the scene before her eyes truly took her by surprise.
[Huh? A vegetable garden?]
On the open ground beside the spring, rows of vegetables were neatly planted in the leveled black soil.
Cabbage, carrots, shallots... row after row are neatly arranged, with dewdrops still clinging to the leaves after they've been watered.
Whether it's cruciferous vegetables, solanaceous vegetables, or even root vegetables covered in mud... every vegetable thrives under the sun.
These materials are clearly the lost inventory from the warehouses of various households in Gray Rock Village.
However, they seem to have been revitalized by some powerful yet gentle natural force, transforming from food rations packed in bags back into plants growing in the ground.
[The vegetables have turned into a vegetable garden, and the fruit... could it be... these trees outside?]
Luo Lan turned her gaze to look around.
Only then did I notice that the spring was surrounded by fruit trees with lush foliage but no fruit yet.
Presumably, all the missing fruits and vegetables in the town have made their home in this hidden woodland, which was created by an unknown force.
At this point, all the stolen items in the village had been found.
But the tiny, glowing scales on the ground continued to extend into the depths of the dense forest along the spring water.
Luo Lan continued walking in, parting the leaves of a dense clump of fruit trees.
On a warm, sun-baked patch of green in the woods, the "prankster thief" who had caused so much panic in Gray Rock Village finally revealed his true colors.
She had long, sky-blue hair that cascaded from her head to her waist, the ends of which were styled very smoothly and shimmered with a soft, lake-like sheen in the sunlight.
The butterfly wings, red on the right and blue on the left, extend from the shoulder blades. The red one has flame-like patterns, while the blue one is covered with frost-like veins.
Its pair of bright eyes are also heterochromatic, red on the left and blue on the right, which happens to be the opposite of the color of its wings, creating a striking contrast.
She wore a wreath of about ten small flowers on her head, the petals still damp with morning dew.
She was wearing a blue and white off-shoulder dress with a cutout at the back so that the wings could pass through.
On their feet were wooden sandals woven from the tender bark of some kind of vine.
Her small face was exquisitely beautiful, with slightly upturned ear tips.
She has a well-proportioned and slender figure, which is the golden ratio of a young girl's body.
She looks like a perfect beauty, almost flawless.
But this is on the premise that her size is ignored.
She is so young.
It's about the same size as the 8:1 resin figurine that Luo Lan had on his desk in his previous life on Blue Star.
At this moment, the tiny figure, slightly larger than the palm of a hand, was relaxed, half-squatting on a large, bright red mushroom.
With her delicate hands supporting her chin, she tilted her head to look at Luo Lan, who was parting the bushes, a bright smile on her face, her eyes seemingly filled with anticipation for praise.
This little one, when not moving, clearly gives off a very serene feeling.
Once they open their mouths, they chatter and make a racket:
"Wow! Someone finally noticed my good deed and came here?"
Her voice was as clear and crisp as a swaying wind chime.
"Heh heh, come on, don't be stingy with your gratitude! Come and praise the kind and beautiful Emily Wei Yu!"
Luo Lan was momentarily stunned:
"Stop, stop, stop! What nonsense! What good deed are you talking about? I'm here to catch a thief."
Upon hearing Luo Lan's words, the girl who called herself "Emily" jumped up from the giant red mushroom.
With a flap of its wings, it hovered two feet off the ground.
Red and blue phosphorescent powder fell softly from the butterfly's wings. It made a circle with its hands, clenched its fists, and looked around.
"Where? Where's the thief? I'm going to beat the bad guy!"
Looking at the excited expression on the other side, Luo Lan felt that there were so many things to complain about that she didn't know where to begin.
Helpless, he reached into his storage space and pulled out the [Fairy Painting - Hot Fireball].
Holding the edge of the paper, Luo Lan held the doodle up to Emily in mid-air:
"Did you draw this?"
Emily's heterochromatic wings flapped rapidly, and she tilted forward in mid-air.
She looked the rough graffiti up and down, then put her hands on her slender waist, nodded proudly, and her tone was full of smugness:
"Yes! How is it? Isn't my drawing beautiful? Look at this little figure, isn't it exactly like me?"
Luo Lan was speechless for a moment:
"...That thief, it was you."
In an instant, a dazzling flash of light appeared.
Emily was several meters away one second, and the next second she had flashed right in front of Luo Lan's face.
Her delicate little face was almost touching Luo Lan's nose.
A pair of heterochromatic red and blue pupils widened, their eyes filled with disbelief:
"Huh?? What did you say?!"