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Act 1: Overture to the Phantom Forest Chapter 48: Prisoner's Diary

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    It has been a full month since I became a prisoner of war in a daze. At first, Lord Quin was still in a dream, and he couldn't believe that the glorious military exploits in his fantasy had become prisoner's shackles.  .  .The vast gap between ideal and reality left him in a daze for a while.  Accepting the reality as if he had swallowed a dead fly, his brain was filled with shame and anger. He, Lord Quin, could not be said to have great military exploits, but he was also a famous general under the Duke of Essinkleton.  One of the marshals, the "Eagle Head War King", had fought in battles. Even if he was captured, he should have fought vigorously, displayed his talents and courage and was surrounded by tens of thousands of enemies, and then faced the enemy with his head held high rather than being defeated inexplicably.  "You can't be a hero and you can't be a laughingstock. Lord Quin cursed loudly and tried to snatch the weapon, hoping to take a sword heroically so as not to bring shame to the family.  At least there won't be rumors about the "useless" and "careless" Quinn in Pilsen. With luck, maybe the Prime Minister will call him a martyr.  Faced with the excitement of the important prisoner, the Tias did not fulfill his wish and did not torture him to extract a confession. They just tied him up and starved him for two days, and immediately stopped making trouble.  It wasn't hunger that defeated Quinn, it was just the loss of blood.  The army belongs to the family, and the honor belongs to Essien. Only life belongs to you, and there is really no need to involve yourself in it just for the sake of fame.  He also has three energetic sons waiting to inherit the family property. He has a dozen wives and daughters to kill. Even if he gets a bad reputation and disperses the family wealth to smooth things over for the Imperial Council, the worst he can do is return to the countryside and become a manor owner. He will be arrested anyway.  It’s not like he is the only one The more he thought about it, the more he felt that he had been wronged, and the more wronged he felt, the more his spine was worn away, so Lord Quin began to be a competent prisoner.  Two thousand five hundred people were divided into four or five groups and imprisoned in unknown locations in the forest.  Along the way, he also harbored the idea of ????paying merit for his crime and carefully observed the enemy's situation.  The elves' main combatants are easy to recognize. Although they are not majestic in body, you can see the obvious muscles. They pass through the forest quietly and kill people without mercy. The most obvious thing is that when they look at the captives, they have evil eyes.  .  He had heard rumors about killers in the forest. He used to think it was just rumors spread by ignorant people, but now he has seen it. These Tia rangers walk smoothly among the branches and vines that are difficult to walk on. Their long and short bows and a small number of compound bows are extremely exquisite in workmanship.  It combines strength and beauty at the same time. It is not the wild man in the woods as rumored by Pilsen at all, and Quinn feels even more cheated.  The place where Lord Quin and the five hundred people were imprisoned was neither a dungeon nor a wooden cage, but a lush forest glade.  The elves drove the captives to the center of the clearing, then scattered several layers of seeds in the outer circle, and then left.  Quinn and the knights looked at each other, but there was no guard?  A soldier boldly took a few steps outside without anyone noticing.  His head of the family urged him to continue walking, and he carefully walked to the place where the elf had just sprinkled the seeds. Suddenly, several flower buds popped out from the soles of his feet. The flower buds opened at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then he let out a heart-rending scream!  The soldiers were horrified and rolled back, and the prisoners made a move in a circle, as if the flower could eat people.  The flower, which was less than a palm high, screamed for dozens of seconds, which was extremely harsh, and then withered.  Everyone looked at each other, and then forced the soldier to move forward. The soldier took a few steps frightened, and found that the flowers that grew did no harm except scream, so he ran wildly.  "Whoops!" The arrow pierced the left Achilles tendon, and the soldier fell into the flowers, mingling with the screams of the plants.  But he foolishly did not go back, but struggled to crawl out, and then was stabbed through the throat by an arrow.  “The human captives now know that it’s not that there are no guards, they just can’t see it.  Hidden jailers are more difficult to deal with than visible jailers. They do not accept bribes or tricks, and the only language they respond to is arrows.  The first sentence shoots through the foot, the second sentence kills, and the third shot is never needed.  During this period, Lord Quin was in deep torment. He had already asked other people and knew that the other party had defeated his troops with a strange hypnotic flower scent, but he didn't understand how he did it.  The panicked prisoners kept discussing. Some said that the elves worshiped the evil god, and some said that this was a conspiracy of the Crimson Federation.  Quinn couldn't talk to them, and his mind was filled with the ridicule of Pilsen's powerful people after the incident, and he could imagine that the gang would call him "Sleepy General" or other more insulting nicknames.  "It's been a month, and the main force has already fought against the elves." "For sure, I just don't know how the fight will go. If they win, they will come to rescue us" "Come on, those guys won't step on us.  Thank you to the gods. The big men of Pilsen will definitely despise us for being defeated by the forest savages." "You know that the elves are not savages! Look at their army and their plants. Gods above.  "What kind of evil monsters are these?" "Calm down, my friend, of course I know that the elves are very powerful, but the people in Pilsen don't know that. It would be great if the main force was also defeated, so that it wouldn't just be""Laughing at us" Quinn's brows twitched. He was angry that someone would say such selfish things, and even more angry that he actually had a small approval in his heart. Just when he was about to stand up and stop, suddenly a young man who was less than 20 years old suddenly  The man stood up and said, "Everyone, I have a way to escape from here!  " Everyone was shocked and saw who was despising him. This young man's name was Aglaia, the heir to a manor in the west of Essien. He was the guy who shouted at the pre-war meeting that Essien was invincible. These days, he is still unwilling to give in.  , every day a private soldier of the family was forced to go to the grassland, half of them died and half of them were disabled. Both the nobles and the soldiers regarded him as a retard. Aglaia said with a proud face: "I have tested it, and every day I go to the grassland."  There are three groups of rangers guarding the area, but they have been reduced to one group in recent days. It should be that Tia's rebels are short of troops on the front line.  The guard is actually some distance away from us, and he will rush over only when he hears the sound. Now is the time when no one is watching.  He shook the rope made of dozens of pieces of clothing, pointed to a dead tree outside the grassland, and said, "As long as I climb over with the rope, I can avoid the spirit ring of the screaming flower and escape from the forest to the east."  Report to our troops.  " After saying that, he enjoyed the shocked expressions of everyone. The prisoners changed their attitude and complimented them: "So this is your plan for letting people cross the grass every day. It's so smart" Everyone rushed to climb the tree with ropes first, completely  Leaving behind the dozens of soldiers who sacrificed their lives for this, Quinn said nothing as he scrambled for the rope made from the clothes of the dead. The prisoners who had nowhere to go these days were shirking the responsibility for their current situation.  Over his head, the prestige was greatly reduced. Aglaia shouted: "I have learned professional rock climbing and rappelling. If you are not afraid of being thrown to death, you can follow me.  "With such a shout, everyone fell silent. The young man has never been so glorious in his life, and was collectively saluted by so many powerful people. As for the private soldiers who died under his command, they will die, they were recruited.  Being loyal to the lord, anyone who disobeys him will be punished with death. He swung the rope out and hung it on the dry branch, then climbed over step by step, while being cautious about the possibility of a ranger jumping onto the dark ground.  He wondered why there was a stalagmite-like dead tree in the forest, but it didn't matter. When the prisoners in the distance saw Aglaia successfully leaving the enclosure, they excitedly shouted to him who I was and who I belonged to.  , remember to inform the family to redeem me. Aglaia was so proud that she stood on the tree and responded to the supplicants one by one. In fact, she didn’t remember a single name, she just enjoyed the gaze of everyone.  The unshaven Lord Quin suddenly shouted: "Jump down!  quick!  "The young nobleman did not react. He saw the prisoners below suddenly fell silent, and their faces were pale. The stalagmite-like dead wood opened its dim single eye, revealing a large, swirling mouth with sharp teeth, and three or four brown-black vines.  He was tied up like lightning, wrapped tightly in circles, and then squeezed out the blood like a rag, causing the internal organs and broken bones to burst from everywhere. “Ahhhhhhhh!  "The dead wood-like monster ate the mess all over the ground, then closed its eyes and returned to its original state. After the deathly silence, most of the prisoners lost control of their emotions, crying and yelling, or fighting. Quinn looked pale and hid in the distance, hating  How could he be so stupid and come to fight without guarding the checkpoint? How could the pointed-eared elf be so cruel and terrifying? After two hours, the physical exhaustion was almost over, and the elf who brought food to the captives came and gave him two meals a day.  Mainly bread and nuts, with a small spring water in the open space to swallow. The leading female elf naturally attracted Quinn's attention. She was wearing a religious costume shaped like leaves and flowers, holding a thin hand.  The wooden staff looks weak, but her status is obviously not low. Every time the unruly ranger sees these elves in robes, the female elf will look at the pieces of meat scattered on the ground and talk to the prisoners in common language.  Said: “Don’t let the Tree Rope Monster eat too much.  "The non-threatening words led to great fear and another cry.)
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