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

"Should I...know? It seems so. I am the governor of Lentiheim. I should know why we reject communication with the outside world, but..."

Fuwenna's self-doubt suddenly stopped.

She made no more sound and moved no more. Like a puppet whose spring had run out of steam, the Archon stood there with her head lowered, falling into a silence that seemed eternal.

A moment later, under the gaze of Rachel and Charles, she suddenly raised her head and gave them a familiar, kind smile.

Then she nodded and said:

"According to what you said, those bards outside are really abominable, full of lies, and they even portrayed us elves like this..."

Just like repeating a conversation after reloading a save file, the Archon lady repeated what she had just said not long ago.

But she seemed unaware of it, she was even smiling - although this smile only made Rachel feel cold all over.

Is it some kind of cycle?

Or did she accidentally touch a new abnormal point just now?

So, after touching the forbidden anomaly point, the state of the lady consul in front of her was reset to the state before the anomaly point?

In this case, the anomaly is undoubtedly the question of "Why are the elves unwilling to communicate with the outside world?" But why? What untouchable taboo is hidden behind this question?

It was obvious that when she mentioned the concepts of "mistress" and "breeding room" to Fuwenna, she did not touch any taboos, and Fuwenna's status was not reset.

Also, leaving aside the existence of taboos, what exactly is Fuvenna, who will have her status reset due to violating taboos?

Some kind of program? A puppet controlled by someone? Or a real, living Archon lady who was implanted with some kind of suggestion and was familiar to them?

Many guesses popped up in Lacie's mind.

But she didn't dare to verify it rashly.

She had already reset Fuvenna's state once through taboo topics, and perhaps she could do the same to figure out what topics were okay and what were problematic.

But what if the so-called “reset” comes at a price?

If it is reset a certain number of times, will it alert the mastermind behind all these abnormalities?

Rachel isn't sure if she and Ciel can deal with the man behind all the anomalies in Lentiheim.

Although Charles is a really good fighter, she is not bad, but facing the mastermind who can create such a large-scale anomaly, even if they can win, they will probably have to pay a heavy price.

What's more, Rachel had no way of confirming whether the entire Lentiheim was controlled by the mastermind behind the scenes, just like the Archon in front of her - when Fuvenna's state was reset, she didn't even notice any abnormal fluctuations in magic power, which was really weird.

Therefore, she could only try her best to mobilize the muscles on her face that had become stiff, and managed to force a smile, and quickly replied:

"That's probably... probably because you don't often communicate with the outside world. Few people know about Lentiheim and the elves, so those bards can make up nonsense."

She consciously avoided the taboo topic that might cause Fuwenna's status to be reset, and continued:

"Who cares? Even if those damned bards continue to make up stories, it won't affect Lentiheim. Besides, don't you think they're actually quite interesting? For example, the legend of the Elf Queen..."

Lacele cleverly shifted the topic back to the poems sung by the bards.

She began to discuss with Fuwenna why the bards believed that elves must have a queen, and whether the existence of the elven mother tree was reasonable.

——These were all topics she had mentioned to Fuvenna before, topics that she had made sure would not touch upon taboos or cause Fuvenna's status to be reset.

But even so, she was still treading on thin ice, very cautiously, fearing that she would accidentally touch the taboo again.

Rachel even felt like she was defusing a bomb.

She needs to find the only fuse that won't detonate the bomb from a pile of wires and then cut it. However, if her hand shakes and she accidentally cuts the wrong wire...

boom!

The bomb will explode.

At that time, "Fvenna" would reset her status again, or even completely lose control, and would blow her into pieces of flesh and blood.

So we must be cautious and continue this fake conversation. As for the truth...

She felt that there would always be a chance to figure it out.

However, the brave man whose arm she was holding didn't seem to think so.

Charles stared at Fuvenna who was chatting and laughing with Lacie for a while, then raised his head and looked at the nursery not far from the three of them.

The function of the breeding room is to give birth to new elves from scratch, so they had seen the breeding pools and elf embryos in the breeding room under the guidance of the Archon.

The function of a nursery is similar to that of a human school. After a newborn is born, the elves will send the newborn here to receive unified training and education.

but……

Charles turned his attention to Fuvenna again.

Then he whispered:

"But where do newborns come from?"

His voice was too low and his words were too abrupt. Fuwenna didn't hear what he said clearly, so she subconsciously asked:

"What did you say?"

The hero stared at Fuwenna's face with his pure black eyes and asked seriously:

"Madam Archon, I want to know how you elves give birth to the next generation."

[To be continued]

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11. The fog has not yet cleared

Perhaps because Charles' question was too strange and too abrupt, Fuvenna did not answer immediately.

Lacey, on the other hand, raised her eyebrows first.

How bold!

what does it mean?

It is true that you can never judge a person by his appearance. She originally thought that Charles was an honest man. After all, in the past three years in the Brave Team, she had thrown herself into his arms more than once, but Charles remained calm.

But I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it -

Charles, a man with thick eyebrows and big eyes, is so frivolous! He even dares to ask Fuwenna such an immoral question in front of her!

Is it because her breasts are not as big as Fuwenna's and her figure is not as good as Fuwenna's?

So, Ciel has been indifferent to her all this time because he likes the older sister more?

Not fair! Rematch!

Weird.

Lacele never cared about these things. After hearing what Charles said, her first reaction was that Charles might have discovered something.

Then she felt a little unconvinced.

Why couldn't she discover what Charles could discover?

But after all, Charles had pointed out the direction for her - how did the elves give birth to the next generation?

Before the thick fog dissipated, the Archon lady who commissioned them to kill the Matron told them that the elves were born from the breeding room; and after the thick fog dissipated, the Archon lady in front of them now told them that the way elves give birth to the next generation is the same as humans.

Two completely different answers, two completely different concepts.

Lacey suddenly had an idea.

But this new conjecture was so bizarre that she even thought she might be wrong.

So she looked at Fuwenna, trying to verify her guess through the answer of the lady consul.

Facing the gazes from both the witch and the hero, Fuvenna was stunned for a moment, then smiled awkwardly and said:

"How else can they give birth to the next generation? Of course, it's the same as you humans... As long as two elves, a man and a woman, sleep in the same bed for one night, a newborn will be born the next day."

After that, she asked back in confusion:

"Isn't that the case with you humans?"

The answer from the Consul was quite childish, and it reminded Lacie of a long time ago, when she had not yet come into this world and was still young, and she indeed believed this.

At that time, she was still very innocent, like a blank sheet of paper, without so much yellow garbage in her mind - so to speak, perhaps the Fuwenna in front of her was also very innocent, so innocent that she thought that doing this would give birth to the next generation.

Of course, there is another possibility:

The elves' reproduction method is really just as Fuwenna described. All it takes is two people sleeping in the same bed to conceive a newborn.

But this is ridiculous.

It's as ridiculous as the governor of Lentiheim not knowing why Lentiheim doesn't communicate with the outside world.

Thinking of this, Lacie subconsciously took a deep breath.

She seemed to understand.

She finally caught up with Ciel's train of thought.

Ciel tells her that something is missing.

Compared to Lentiheim shrouded in thick fog, the city-state in front of them now lacks something... something very critical, something very important that affects every aspect of Lentiheim.

That is why there are so many anomalies here and Fuvenna’s status is reset due to logical fallacies.

After all, how can the right results come from a wrong foundation?

Thinking of this, Lacie looked at Charles with a complicated expression.

Charles shook his head and denied it to Fuwenna:

"No, humans are not like that."

After a pause, he whispered:

"...As far as I know, you elves are not like that either."

The executive lady was a little surprised when she heard this:

"How is it possible? It's obviously..."

Her voice stopped abruptly, like a precision gear in a running precision machine being stuck.

So she froze there.

Both Ciel and Rachel had a premonition of what would happen next, and the facts were just as they had guessed.

After a brief pause, Fuwenna started moving again like a clockwork puppet, and asked with some confusion:

"What did you say?"

Her expression and tone were exactly the same as before.

Needless to say, her status was reset again.

And Charles suddenly asked without thinking:

"Madam Archon, do you know the captain of the guard of Lentiheim, the elf named Mura?"

Fuwenna didn't understand why Charles asked this question, and she didn't know how Charles knew Mulla, but she nodded and answered:

"I know him."

"Do you remember his other name?"

"Another...name?"

"Yes," Ciel said softly, "Each of you elves will have a unique name."

He looked straight into Fuvenna's eyes and repeated the name that had puzzled him and Rachel:

"09527 - Madam Archon, Mula once introduced himself to us and said that his other name is 09527."

Fuwenna frowned when she heard this:

"No elf would name themselves after a string of numbers. I never heard M'la tell me that."

Charles nodded, seeming to accept what she said.

But Lacele let go of Charles' arm, walked forward and confronted Fuvenna.