Another Life: Elf Archer

The Household Registration Office is located in the southeast corner of the northern suburbs of Cherbourg. It is a tall brick building. The upper part of the exterior wall still retains the white paint color. The lower part - especially the meter of wall close to the ground - —has been stained into a greasy, rich black by passers-by, vendors setting up stalls, and impatient people with inflated bladders.

This building has two majestic bronze doors that are incompatible with the surrounding environment. Dulcinea deftly drove her little snowflakes to kick the door. Amidst the harsh sound of bearings that seemed to last for thousands of years, a line of golden typography appeared. The text comes into view:

Skla/verei ist Freiheit

As soon as Nian Nian saw that line of text clearly, those golden letters were split into squares, rearranged, and turned into another slightly different line of text:

Freiheit ist Skla/verei

"Humph, sooner or later I smashed this bad sign!"

Dulcinea swore angrily in a low voice, jumped off Xiao Xuehua's back, and extended her hand to Nian Nian in a very gentlemanly manner.

Nian Nian put his hand in her palm, and with the cooperation of Xiao Xuehua's slight bending of the knees, he slid lightly to Dulcinea's side, and thought of the meaning of this row of German words:

Slavery is freedom; freedom is slavery.

No wonder Dulcinea doesn't like it.

There is already a dwarf in a brown dress standing under the scrolling text. Although his skin is still white and tender, and his body shape is still like a human teenager, looking at his eyes full of vicissitudes of life, you can tell that this is an elder.

"Dear Knight Dulcinea, welcome to your arrival."

"Stop talking nonsense and get to work quickly!" Dulcinea waved her hand angrily and pulled Nian Nian over.

"Excuse me......"

After seeing Nian Nian's appearance, the dwarf was stunned for a moment, as if he was looking for some matching information in his life experience of nearly a hundred years.

"Why are you asking? I want a certificate of freedom, immediately, immediately, now!" Dulcinea mistakenly thought that he was looking for excuses to delay again, and said impatiently.

"Okay, okay, please provide your name, no, no, please stand still." After failing to find the information, the dwarf came to his senses, turned around and waved.

A younger dwarf hurriedly ran over, holding a strange square box in his arms and dragging a three-legged round stool in his hand. He stood in front of Nian Nian, placed the round stool, and stood on it with his head lowered and silently adjusting his hands. machine, the corner of his eye kept scanning the weirdo in front of him.

"Don't worry, this is a routine procedure, he wants to take a picture of you." Dulcinea walked out of the frame and smiled at Nian Nian.

Nian Nian stood there leisurely, looking at the shaking lens. Through the layers of glass lenses, he saw an eye that kept blinking.

So excited?Still nervous?

Nian Nian looked away and saw a little pity on the older dwarf's face, revealing a timid smile.

Seeing this, the older dwarf sighed heavily, glanced reproachfully at the proud Dulcinea, took out a piece of paper from his pocket, turned it over, put it in the palm of his hand and wrote something.

Click, click, click.

There were three sounds, and the bottom of the smoking camera spit out three photos one after another. The dwarf who took the photo carefully put two of them in his pocket, jumped off the stool, and handed the third photo to the older dwarf for inspection.

Seeing Nian Nian staring at the smoking camera, the young dwarf held the square box in front of his chest as if to show off, pressed the bulge on the side, threw away the small piece of bumpy crystal that popped up, and slowly replaced it. Got another brand new magic crystal.

Many precision machines of the dwarves need magic crystals to drive them, and such a small camera is no exception.

After replacing the "battery", the young dwarf raised the camera horizontally again, pointed it at Nian Nian and clicked it. However, without the height of the round stool, it is not clear what part he took in this photo.

"What's your name?" Two voices, an old one and a young one, sounded at the same time, one was a little excited, the other was full of regret.

"Cybele, CYBELE." Nian Nian replied.

The young dwarf took out the photo from his pocket, took the pen from the old guy's hand, bit off the pen cap, and wrote a few lines on the back of the photo.

After finishing writing, he diligently took the thin certificate of freedom from the old guy and handed it to Niannian's hand together.

"Congratulations on becoming a free man. This is where I can help you." The young dwarf winked mischievously and squeezed Nian Nian's fingers.

"Thank you."

Nian Nian was not angry because of this, so he nodded politely, took a few steps back, and looked at the happy Dulcinea.

"Let's go, let's take you to the main city. The last airship leaves in half an hour, so you'll definitely make it in time."

"Ah."

When Nian Nian stepped out of the bronze door, he looked back and looked at the older dwarf who still had a look of regret on his face. He remembered the row of golden slogans above his head in his heart.

......

Returning to Xiao Xuehua's back, Niannian thoughtfully chose to sit behind Dulcinea, looked down at the two pieces of paper in his hand, turned them over, and read the words on them.

On the back of the photo was Erste Wohnung in Huttengasse, an apartment in a place called Coat Lane; the free man proved that the back was Gehe direkt zu meiner Eisenbahn and asked her to go directly to the Mining Road.

"Don't pay attention to that old man. He doesn't want others to lose their slave status. In the end, he wants to persuade everyone to return to the mining area to work as laborers."

Dulcinea complained as if she had eyes in her back.

"Then where is this cloak alley?" asked Nian Nian.

"Ignore the place on the eastern outskirts of Cherbourg, you will definitely be allowed to work as a weaver." Dulcinea said firmly.

"Ah."

Put these two pieces of paper away every year.She actually wanted to ask Dulcinea if she knew where the slaves she had rescued before had gone.

The household registration office is not far from the airship landing station in this area. It only took about ten minutes for Xiao Xuehua to stroll along the street slowly.

Putting the little snowflake into the watch-like riding space, the two walked into the ticket hall of the same style, and received the same respect and courtesy from the faces of the similarly dressed staff.

Dulcinea seemed to be a little strapped for money, and in the end she only settled on the lowest-priced ordinary cabin.

She embarrassedly said to Niannian: "This airship ticket can only be purchased and paid for by myself. Payment on behalf of others is not supported."

"is it?"

The free man who plays with it every year proves that this new rule is very pertinent.

Sure enough, when she took out sixty gold coins, the staff member was obviously disappointed. She carefully checked the quality of these gold coins one by one, and tasted a mixed taste for each gold coin.

"I still want to take a good rest and change to a quieter cabin."

Nian Nian was probably aware of Dulcinea's thoughtfulness in choosing the ordinary cabin, and stretched lazily:

"I'm very traumatized by the experience of traveling long distances in an airship."

"Eh? Have you ever been on the Blue Whale? How was it? Was it fun?"

As expected, Dulcinea was distracted and allowed herself to pay for both of their airship tickets every year.

"It's not fun, it's very boring, and it's noisy..."

Nian Nian was talking casually, and his eyes followed the footsteps of the staff member, resting on a back figure in the rest area across the hall.

The staff member patted the back figure on the shoulder and said a few words of relief, and the two immediately started chatting, with a few understanding chuckles interspersed among them, which sounded very harsh every year.

Watching Dulcinea complain year after year about the difficulty of saving money, she decided not to tell her what she had heard.

......

Dulcinea was a very lively and interesting girl. After chatting for a long time, she realized that Nian Nian was rich - the ticket price for the Blue Whale was [-] gold coins.

Nian Nian did not say that he had occupied a special quota, and accepted her screams and envy by default, and watched Dulcinea change the topic into a rich persuasion meeting.

After listening to it in general every year, I extracted an outline of the main theme from Dulcinea's slightly confusing language structure. It just wanted her to be tougher and learn to control a man's temper, especially not to take it too seriously. It is necessary to distinguish the gap between virtual and reality.

As I listened, Nian Nian became distracted. Suddenly, I remembered the two sisters Qinghua Fuling I met when I first arrived in Chang'an City. I always felt that the three of them would definitely become good friends.

"Ah, ah, I'm sorry," Dulcinea covered her mouth apologetically, "I just talk a little too much, am I annoying you?"

"No," Nian Nian shook his head and smiled, "You also know that most people in the elves have social disorders. It's just the first time I've met such a talkative young lady like you. I don't know how to talk to her."

"Haha, actually I am usually very stern," Dulcinea said with a straight face and straightened her back, "After all, I can't destroy Xiao Xuehua's holy and elegant temperament."

Nian Nian nodded understandingly.A mysterious and pure creature like the unicorn is indeed not suitable for a fast talker.

"It's over, it's over, you don't think I'm worthy of Xiaoxuehua, right?" Dulcinea shook Niannian's arm pitifully and pouted.

"No, the handsome female knight is versatile. Speaking of which, I have seen a dwarf using a big mouse as a mount. It was colorful and ugly."

"A big, colorful rat?" This description was a bit unimaginable, and Dulcinea was suddenly curious.

"Yes, and it's a big rat with two heads and five claws..."

If two girls find the right topic, it will only take ten minutes for the two girls to become close friends. When the two of them stood in front of their respective cabin doors on the airship, this brief separation also felt a bit reluctant.

"I'll come to you soon." Dulcinea said solemnly.

"Well, I'll wait for you in the cabin." Nian Nian said goodbye.

After closing the cabin door, Niannian lowered her head and pulled out the communication crystal before sitting down, and wrote a letter to Qi Youfeng explaining her experience of being saved by a hero.

As he wrote, Nian Nian turned his head to look at the door of the cabin and flicked his fingers.

It seems quite thick, so the sound insulation should be pretty good?

Nian Nian smiled mischievously and added another paragraph to end his letter, regardless of whether Qi Youfeng would want to bite someone after seeing it.

The communication crystal exudes a soft light, and the letter paper floating on it is covered with flowing light. I think of the origami I learned as a child every year, and try to fold the letter paper into a heart shape, but feel it is too childish, so I take it apart and fold it into a heart shape. Ordinary paper airplane.

The paper airplane was gently blown by the young man, flew out of the window in a smooth parabola, and dissipated in the air with the wind.

Only then did Nian Nian take a look at the layout and furnishings of the cabin, and secretly thought that the fare of thirty gold coins was indeed worth it. This was actually a small suite.

Too lazy to explore further, Nian Nian leaned carelessly on the lounge chair under the window. As soon as he closed his eyes, he felt as if he was standing upright on his head and feet.

Does this recliner also swivel?

Nian Nian opened his eyes suspiciously and found that he was sliding down uncontrollably, and the glass wine glass on the small square table nearby was also moving on the metal table, gradually approaching the edge of the square table.

Nian Nian jumped up quickly and rushed to the cabin door in a few steps. With the crisp sound of the glass falling to the ground, gravity reversed and the whole person hit the wall next to the window with a clang.

The horizontal horizon outside the window also tilted at an acute angle of 45 degrees, pointing sharply at the high zenith. In an instant, the orange-red light of the huge light ball on the zenith of the cave burst into the narrow window, reflecting the dusk in the room.

Nian Nian had already used the buoyancy of his cloak to move away from the window. He rushed towards the hatch and pulled hard, only to encounter Dulcinea, who was swaying around while holding on to the wall.

"Cy! This airship has capsized! We are going to fall!" Dulcinea said in panic, holding Niannian's hand tightly.

"Yeah, hold me tight."

Nian Nian pulled her along, put her arms around his waist, looked back at the small window in the cabin, and carried Dulcinea along the corridor outside the cabin to the floor-to-ceiling window at the end.

"You, you can fly?" Dulcinea looked up at her in surprise.

"Look down."

Nian Nian raised his hand and pressed the back of Dulcinea's head, protecting her in his arms, turning the angle of his body, and quickly slammed into the floor-to-ceiling window.

wow-

bang——

The shards of glass were like splashes of water, or like dots of stars, sparkling under the hot sun.

This is hundreds of meters deep underground. There should be neither stars nor sunshine here.

Unless this is man-made again.

The huge air wave formed by the explosion will lift Nian Nian away, and the whale-like airship has turned into a blazing fireball, smashing forward with the last trace of inertia of the dying struggle.

Ahead is a tall city wall that isolates the main city of Cherbourg from the other four suburbs.

The moment the airship collided with the city wall, amid the loud noise, Nian Nian seemed to hear a shout:

Fur Freiheit!

for freedom!

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