Shut up, brave man! I don't want to atone for my sins to you!

Rachel shrugged.

"I was just saying it casually. I don't think the elves would do such a thing, but other than this reason, I really can't think of why they are so obsessed with returning to their homeland."

Charles was silent for a moment, then suddenly lowered his head and carefully took something out of his pocket.

It is heavy, delicate and small, and it is still running "click-click".

——It was a pocket watch, which was given to him... and Rachel personally by Lentiheim's guard captain, Mura, as a token of their friendship.

Mulla had told them that his wish was to become a watchmaker, and he seemed to have the talent to become an excellent watchmaker.

The pocket watch he repaired was extremely accurate, with almost no errors, and always faithfully displayed the current time for its owner.

Whenever Charles took it out to check the time, he couldn't help but think of the handsome but slightly confused, brave and conscientious elf.

Although individual cases cannot represent the group, the elves he and Rachel met in Lentiheim seemed to be as upright and kind as Mura. In this respect, they were indeed no different from the "elves" described by the bards.

Thinking of this, Charles suddenly felt confident for some unknown reason.

He held the pocket watch in his hand, raised his head and looked at Lacier again, then told her calmly:

"No, the elves would never do such a thing."

"what?"

Lacee tilted her head, staring at Charles for a while with one eye big and the other small:

"Are you serious? How can you say something so damning? What if the elves…"

At this point she suddenly paused, suddenly realizing something, and her expression became subtle:

"Wait, you're not going to tell me this is your intuition again?"

"Ah."

"This..." Lacie hugged her arms in dissatisfaction, but finally sighed and admitted, "Well, I have to say that you are really lucky. As long as you follow your intuition, it seems that you have never made any mistakes..."

"Then just trust your instinct for now," she announced quickly, "The elves are not cowardly lizards. There are other reasons that prompted them to plan their return home—"

"In that case, I have to ask," Rachel had already pulled out her wand without her knowing when, "Let me ask Fuwenna to see if they know that there is no magic in the starry sky."

Seeing that the others had no objections, Lacie used an illusion spell to make it appear as if they had finished selecting the cabins and were gathering again.

After all the illusions were in place, she lifted the illusion spell, then raised her head and looked at Adele's "eyes" on the ceiling.

"Hello," she said, "Please help me contact Ms. Fuwenna. I have something to ask her."

Adele answered "yes" and began to help her contact Fuwenna - soon, Fuwenna's voice rang in everyone's ears:

"Ms. Rachel? What do you want from me?"

Without hesitation, Lacier asked:

"Ms. Fuwenna, you should know that there is no magic in the starry sky, right?"

Fuwenna seemed stunned for a moment, and after a brief pause she replied:

"I know."

"Then aren't you afraid that the Homecoming, which can only be maintained normally with the help of magic, will collapse directly due to lack of magic power in the starry sky?"

There was another short pause, and then Fuwenna replied in a calm tone that did not sound abnormal:

"No, Miss Rachel, because we are ready."

[To be continued]

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27. Some kind of connection

"Well," Lacielle thought, "I knew it!"

Since the elves are planning to repair the starship and fly it into space, how could they not prepare a comprehensive and detailed plan in advance?

Stepping into the starry sky is never an easy task. It usually takes countless generations, astronomical resources, and an extremely long time to achieve it.

And that is usually just the baby crawling out of the cradle, standing up unsteadily, and taking the first steps.

Exhausting the human mind, from physics, chemistry, mathematics to metallurgy, energy, programming...

Those big guys that carry human ambitions, desires, aspirations and aspirations are themselves the crystallization of all the wisdom of the entire civilization for thousands of years.

The fact that the elves were able to restore the Homecoming to this state in just two months was a miracle in itself. Even though most of the functions of the entire starship were still in a state of suspension, and it could only be regarded as a mere appearance, a large hull with nothing to show for it’s use…

Even so, the elves should be proud of it.

Because they may be the first pioneers in the entire Pangaea to try to leave this planet and step into the starry sky - although their goal is not to explore the unknown and mysterious starry sky, but to return home.

If their departure did not lead to a catastrophe for the existing civilization of Pangaea, Lacele felt that she would definitely see them off as a friend and sincerely wish them a safe return home.

But things in the world are not always as we wish.

Lacey sighed silently with a slightly melancholy look, exchanged a few words with Fuvenna, and finally hung up the phone.

Since Fuwenna claimed that they were ready for it, she had nothing more to say.

The witch lowered her head, turned to face her companions again, shrugged and said:

"Okay, now we know that the elves have long considered the fact that there is no magic in the starry sky, and have come up with a corresponding solution - but God knows how they solved this troublesome problem."

"Perhaps it is the legacy left to them by the mistress?" Godot hesitated and made a guess. "Didn't you say that the mistress of the elves came from... uh, a civilization with extremely advanced technology?"

"It may be advanced, but it can't be this outrageous, right?" Lacier couldn't help but mutter, "It can be considered Zenithal technology!"

The others didn't understand what she meant by "Zentra technology", and Lacielle didn't intend to explain it to them. Instead, she moved closer to Charles, not wanting to avoid Adele's "eyes" and "ears" above her head, and asked directly:

"What do we do next?"

Charles understood that Rachel wanted him to cooperate in the play - a play for the ship-borne host Adele, and Fuvenna behind Adele.

So he told them part of the plan they had just discussed:

"Leave the Homecoming for a while and go to the city of Lentiheim. I think the visiting delegation sent by the White Tower should stay in the city, right?"

Lacey called out the ship's host computer at the right time and asked:

"Adele, may I ask if the visiting delegation from the White Tower is now on the Homecoming or in Lentiheim?"

The shipboard host gave a quick and concise answer as always:

"In the city—they're stationed near the forge, you'll find them easily enough."

"so……"

Lacier responded casually, then deliberately raised her voice and said:

"Then let's leave the Homecoming and go take a look in the city. Before I came here, Old Deng told me not to forget to go to the visiting delegation and see if Mr. Broda and his men need any help!"

Then she asked the ship's host again:

"So, how do we get out of here? Can I use the warp spell inside the Homecoming? Or do I have to follow the guide signs to a specific location before I can leave the ship, just like when I boarded the ship?"

"You and your companions need to follow the guidance signs to a specific location and use the jump device to leave this ship." Adele replied, "Then I will take you to the jump device closest to the furnace."

"So thoughtful." Lacey said casually, "Then let's go?"

The same obvious guiding signs lit up on the ground of the passage as before - but this time they were blue instead of green.

Several people left as soon as they were told.

They began to move forward along the blue guide signs, and soon they came to a jump device.

"It seems that there is more than one jump device installed on the Homecoming? This jump device is obviously different from the last one. The location and distance are different."

Lacier made another new discovery. Although she didn't know what the information was useful for, she still wrote it down silently.

Maybe it will come in handy in the future.

Then they boarded the jump device under Adele's guidance.

After a subtle buzzing sound and a brief feeling of dizziness, they arrived at the city of Lentiheim through the jump device in the Homecoming.

The jump device in the city was obviously built in a hurry. It even looked a little too simple. It was not even painted, revealing the cold texture of the original metal color and the complex and sophisticated structure that made people dizzy.

Others were not interested in these details, but Joseph noticed them. He even squatted down in front of the heavy machine, asked his sister Xirui for the head-mounted magnifying glass that she had, and observed the structure of the jump device attentively for a while.

After a while, the muscular man slowly stood up, took off the head-mounted magnifying glass and handed it back to his sister.

"It is worthy of what Lacier said, a creation of an unknown civilization with extremely advanced technology," Joseph said, shaking his head, "I don't understand the structure of this jump device at all."

At this point, he seemed to have thought of something, so he added:

"Before, after I got the information that 'the assassin is likely to come from Victoria', I spent a lot of money to get a prototype from the black market that was said to be made by Victoria and whose purpose is unknown. The boss should have seen it, but at that time, the prototype had already been disassembled into parts by me."

"The prototype from Victoria and this jump device give me exactly the same feeling..."

Joseph sighed:

“I don’t understand it at all.”

"I am quite knowledgeable in mechanics, even though it's just my hobby. But logically speaking, I shouldn't be... I shouldn't be so amateurish, right?"

Judging from his expression, Joseph was almost doubting his life.

"What the hell," he muttered, "Sometimes I can't help but doubt, whether it's Victoria's prototype, or the elves' Homecoming, or the jump device or something..."

“Should these things really appear in our time?”

Lacey was delighted after hearing this:

"That's because they don't belong to our era. Victoria's prototype is probably from a previous civilization. The Homecoming and the jump device are from another civilization deep in the starry sky. Speaking of which, the limited wish-granting machines owned by the major powers were actually made by previous civilizations. Isn't that thing even more exaggerated and confusing?"

Joseph nodded when he heard this, and suddenly smiled with relief:

"That's true. But if that's the case, our native civilization of Pan-Continent doesn't seem to be inferior to the unknown civilization deep in the starry sky. After all, I can imagine how to use machines to launch people into the sky, but I can't imagine how to build those wish-making machines..."

Lacey thought, yes.

What Joseph said makes sense.

Compared to the starship in front of them, those wishing machines did sound more outrageous.

However, this does not necessarily prove that the previous civilization is more valuable than the unknown civilization that gave birth to the elves - after all, even if the previous civilization could create a wishing machine, it could not step out of the Pan-Continent and into the starry sky, right?

Anyway, Laciel feels that a civilization that can step into the starry sky has left its infancy.

According to this standard, even if they created those wish-granting machines that were far from the mark, the pre-civilization was still a child bound to the earth by the atmosphere, magic, and gravity.

Its childhood is far from over.

"But if I go back to the White Tower now and make a wish to the limited wishing machine in the White Tower, saying that I want to go among the stars, how will it fulfill my wish?"

Rachel suddenly had such a wonderful idea.

As we all know, although limited wishing opportunities charge a high price to the wisher, they will eventually fulfill the wish for the wisher with great loyalty no matter what.

So if Laciel really made a wish to the limited wishing machine, she should be able to go to the stars as she wished - but it is hard to say in what way, after all...

Who says that if your ashes are scattered into space after death, they don’t count as going among the stars?

Or maybe, she would be turned into a human cannonball, launched into space, and die in the harsh environment there.

Thinking of this, Lacie lowered her head unconsciously, and at the same time raised her hand to clench the trapezoidal octahedron that was hung on her chest like a necklace.

This limited wish-granting machine obtained from Diesel has been completely shattered by Charles' sword, and apart from the previous civilization, no one will be able to repair it.

Lacie didn't know how many limited wishing machines the previous civilization had made, but no matter what... one limited wishing machine was permanently missing from the world, and there was no possibility of recovery.

And if her guess was correct, the limited wishing machine was created by the ancient civilization to deal with disasters such as the Slender Man, then...

"Will the lack of a limited wishing machine affect the future of our civilization in this season... or the end?"

She wasn't sure.

She could only pray that this was just her assumption and not the truth.

But if this is true...

She couldn't be sure whether this weak civilization could survive when the disaster that destroyed the previous civilization came back in the future.

"But speaking of which..."

Rachel suddenly had a very wonderful idea:

"Speaking of which, as artifacts from the previous civilization, the holy sword, the witch, and those limited wish-granting machines - these artifacts are most likely used to deal with disasters. Do they have some kind of connection?"