Chapter 42
The night was dark, the moon was bright and the stars were sparse, the silver moonlight shrouded the earth, and the broad river surface was sparkling. Except for the low roar of the flowing water hitting the waterwheel, there was no other movement on both sides of the river bank.
Joan looked at the river near the waterwheel, but couldn't find the goblin, so he turned to the little tree elf, and asked her in the elf language, "Mila, can you call those two goblins hiding at the bottom of the river?"
The little tree spirit blushed and nodded slightly, walked to the riverside and sang softly. The singing voice is like an invisible string spinning and floating in the air, so slender and soft, as if it would be blown off by the night wind at any time, but it is also so long, resilient, and enduring.
There were two groups of small waves on the surface of the river. The one with long green hair like water plants surfaced first, and then two small heads emerged from the depths of the waves, looking curiously at Mira who was singing alone on the bank.
"Yo, it really is Nickelodeon!" Conti observed the changes on the water surface, with excitement in his eyes.
The two nixons quickly swam to the shore, first carefully observed the surrounding environment, they didn't seem to notice Joan and Kandy who were hiding in the shadows in the distance, they boldly went out of the water and landed, laughed and chatted around Mila, and chatted non-stop.
"Is this also the wood language?" Joan asked Kandy in a low voice.
"The Wood language is correct, although the accent is a bit weird." Conti explained with a smile, "Nick lives in the waters, and usually communicates more with aquatic creatures. Compared with the rarely used Wood language, they say ' Aqua language' must be much more proficient."
Joan nodded, deeply eye-opening. There are so many languages and dialects in a small family of goblins. If I want to systematically learn the languages of goblins, I am afraid that I will have to spend a lot of energy.
The little tree spirit Mira and her water-dwelling relatives seemed to have reached a certain consensus, and walked towards the direction where Joan and the others were hiding, holding a Nick in one hand.
"Let's go over and meet Mila's new friend." Kandy pulled Joan out of the shadows, waved to the goblins walking across, and greeted them in the wood language.
"Son of Nature, good evening!"
Joan took down Candy's pronunciation carefully, and imitated her tone to say hello to the nicks.
"Good evening, human friends!" Nick responded with a smile, and one of the female elves wearing a shell hairpin repeated it in Common Tongue.
Qiao An secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that the two goblins could speak human language, and the subsequent communication would be more convenient.
After some self-introduction, Joan now knows that these two Nicks are a pair of sisters and brothers. The elder sister is named Sissy, and the younger brother is named Jerry. Settled in the river near the town of Durling.
"Sissy, Jerry, why did you leave your hometown and move here?" Kandy asked in confusion, "If I remember correctly, human cities and towns do not conform to your living habits."
"There's nothing we can do about it!" Jerry said depressed, "The lake we used to live in was occupied by water ghosts, and those evil undead creatures not only robbed our beautiful home, killed our people, but also polluted the surrounding area. The waters that survived forced the surviving people to move to distant waters. Some people went to the upper reaches of the Delin River to find a new home. My sister and I didn’t want to leave our hometown too far, so we traveled downstream along the river and discovered the surrounding environment of this small town. It's not bad, just stay here for a while."
"The river water in Delin Township is very clear, and there are plenty of fish, shrimps and aquatic plants in the water for us to eat. The only bad thing is the big house on the bank, which makes rumbling thunder from morning to night, which is noisy to our ears. It hurts." Sissy pointed to the forge by the river, pursing her lips in disgust.
After hearing Sissy's complaint, Qiao An wanted to laugh but couldn't.
The "thunder" that Sissy mentioned was actually the noise made by the water wheel driving the forging hammer to strike the steel. Sissy didn't like this roaring noise, so with Nick's nature, she would naturally try to destroy the source of the noise - the transmission device of the hydraulic forging hammer.
After figuring this out, Joan's previous doubts were all solved.
Sissy and Jerry don't have enough strength to destroy the transmission, so they can only use magic to charm Tom to do it for them. When the transmission device was repaired, the hydraulic forging hammer roared, and the Nick Jing siblings were so annoyed that they simply repeated the same trick and used the spell of charming humans again to destroy the transmission device with the hands of Tom or other blacksmiths. After repeating this many times, Flint Anvil was finally angered and posted a notice offering a reward for the capture of the murderer who destroyed the machine.
"Sissy, Jerry, it's not appropriate for you to do this." Conti assumed the attitude of a big sister, and gently and seriously criticized the Nicki siblings, "Delin Town is the homeland of human beings, and this river beach belongs to the You townspeople who settled here before, no matter whether you like the human way of life or agree with human industrial civilization, you don’t have the right to break into other people’s homes and destroy them.”
Sissy and Jerry glanced at each other, and both of their delicate faces were ashamed.
After being silent for a while, Sissy looked up at Kandy with hope in her eyes: "Sister Druid, actually we don't want to be enemies with humans. If you can help us get rid of those evil water ghosts, Jerry and I will have a very good time." I am willing to leave Delin Town and return to the undisturbed lake deep in the dense forest to rebuild my home."
"This..." Kanti looked at Joan hesitantly, asking for his opinion with his eyes.
"How many water ghosts are there in total?" Qiao An asked Sissy.
"There are almost twenty of them." Sissy looked terrified, obviously fearful of the group of robbers who robbed her home.
Joan frowned. The water ghost is short for "aquatic ghoul", a cruel and cunning undead creature. With his current strength, he can deal with one or two water ghosts at most, even with Kandy who has 4 druid levels, he can't fight so many water ghosts. As for Mira and Nick, it's a pity that goblins are not good at fighting head-on, and most of the elves' spells are ineffective against undead creatures, so they really can't help much.
"Joan, I know it's very dangerous, but Sissy and Jerry are in such a pitiful situation, we have to try to help them." Conti's words showed sympathy from the bottom of his heart, "You and me, and bring Jerry Mi and Gray, there is still a chance of winning against twenty water ghosts, right?"
Joan remained silent, but frowned even more tightly. From the perspective of the comparison of the combat power between the enemy and the enemy, Conti's idea is quite reasonable, but traveling with Gray is too risky, and it will be troublesome if the townspeople find out, unless it is absolutely necessary, he does not want to involve Gray.
"Big brother! My sister and I won't let you help for nothing!" Jerry understands human nature better than his sister, and understands the principle of "no profit can't afford early". "At the bottom of the lake in our hometown, we can occasionally collect large If you are willing to help me and my sister drive away the water ghosts, I will give you the pearls stored at the bottom of the lake as a thank you!"
Sissy is not stupid, and noticed that among Kandy and Joan, although the druid girl seems to be stronger than the little mage, the latter is the one who has the right to make decisions. Instead of begging Candy help, it is better to try to persuade Joan.
"If you are not interested in pearls, respectable Mr. Mage, maybe you will be interested in two other magic-related treasures from our Nick family."
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