After getting familiar with his current body, Mu You wasted no time and hurriedly threw a few fish from the fishing net into the fish basket, and then headed towards the castle with the fish basket on his back.
There are a large number of creatures scattered along the road, not only humans and elves, but also various strange humanoid creatures.
What's even weirder is that everyone here has a smile on their face, but it's not a normal smile, but a very mechanical and cunning smile made by just stretching the facial muscles, as if everyone here is just smiling. They were like puppets, and looked extremely scary to a living person like him.
There was no other way, Mu You could only try his best to make the same expression so as not to look out of place.
While heading to the castle, Mu You was also quietly counting the number of elves present.
He found that there were quite a few elves alive here, and he saw at least twenty of them along the way. And judging from their appearance and actions, they all do relatively light work, such as watering flowers and maintaining plants, etc. There are no hard labor jobs. It seems that the status of elves here is not low.
"Stop idlers!"
Arriving in front of the castle, Mu You was stopped by two octopus soldiers in front of the door and asked what he was doing.
"Send lunch to Mr. Zubac." Mu You replied with a smile.
The two octopuses glanced at the fish basket behind Mu You and let him in without any embarrassment.
The interior of this castle is much larger than it looks from the outside. The various corridor carvings inside are extremely gorgeous. Even the entire floor and walls are carved with smooth and flawless gems. At first glance, it is not a castle that normal people can build. What's even more outrageous is that the castle only has normal space below three meters. The area above three meters is completely covered by sea water, and there is no obstruction from the area below. The sea water above will not submerge it, which completely violates physics. law.
However, considering that this is a dream after all, there is no need to wonder why it is unreasonable.
There are also many staff in the castle, and there seem to be more elves inside the castle.
Everyone he met along the road would greet Mu You with a smile and nod, and Mu You had no choice but to respond one by one, trying not to expose any flaws.
Mu You wandered around the castle. He didn't know where the kitchen was, and he didn't plan to go to the kitchen. He came here just to investigate information, and it only took half an hour. He had to hurry up.
But just as he was passing a corridor ahead, Mu You suddenly saw an octopus walking out of the corner.
This octopus is slightly larger than the octopus soldiers outside, and its skin has turned red. It wears a chef's hat on its head. In addition, there are some people in front of him carrying fish baskets, nodding towards the octopus. After saluting, pass by it.
Mu You secretly thought that it was bad, wasn't he just unlucky enough to meet the cook? He just walked around casually. He could also walk to the kitchen?
What Mu You doesn't know is that because this castle is too large and has many forked roads, it has a design to prevent getting lost. Anyone who enters it, even if they walk unconsciously, will only go to their work destination and want to go outside the work place. place is impossible.
When neither the Hermit Card nor the Invisibility Cloak could be used, he had already encountered Mu You and could not avoid it, so he had to keep smiling and keep walking forward.
When he passed by the Octopus Chef, he also followed the actions of the people in front of him, nodded and saluted, and then continued to pass.
At first, the red-skinned octopus didn't pay attention and passed by him, but just when Mu You thought he had passed smoothly, the red-skinned octopus suddenly turned around and called him.
"stop!"
Mu You had no choice but to stop. He thought it was because the octopus chef saw a flaw in his expression, but he saw the octopus chef walking up to his fish basket, looked inside, and scolded: "Why is there only half a basket of fish? At least it must be full." Come back with another basket, you bastard!"
The octopus chef cursed, then turned his gaze to Mu You's face: "I've never seen a face before, are you a newcomer? A newcomer dares to be lazy on the first day, so he should be beaten!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the octopus raised a tentacle and drew it towards Mu You.
However, this time "Octopus Whipping" was stopped in mid-air.
Mu You grabbed the octopus tentacle with one hand and his eyes turned cold.
This octopus seemed to have a high status, and there was no one on both sides of the corridor at this time. Mu You was already considering whether to directly kidnap the octopus and interrogate it from its mouth to get information faster.
"what you do?"
Octopus was stunned when he saw his tentacles being caught. When he looked at Mu You again, he found that the smile on his face had become slightly distorted, and there was a faint flash of abnormal meaning in his eyes.
"What's that expression on your face? You, do you want to rebel?" The octopus chef's tone became wary, with a faint hint of fear. He hurriedly tried to withdraw his tentacles, but found that the other party was stronger than him. Much more, like a rock holding its tentacles firmly in place.
This kind of octopus with special abilities has very weak combat power. When someone countered it, it suddenly started to panic, and Mu You's eyes became colder and colder.
However, just when the battle was about to break out, a voice suddenly came from behind the two of them: "Master Chef!"
Mu You looked up and saw a female elf walking towards her, holding a dinner plate in one hand and walking over with the same smile.
"Master Chef, what happened?"
"Meili, you came just in time!"
When the red-skinned octopus saw the elf, it was like seeing a savior, and he hurriedly said: "There is a newcomer here who doesn't understand the rules. Help me subdue him!"
"Okay, Master Chef." The elf nodded with a smile, and lifted the dinner plate to the side gracefully, so that the dinner plate hovered in the air.
Then the elf turned his eyes to Mu You, kept smiling, and rushed over in one stride.
Mu You subconsciously wanted to fight, but then the elf shouted: "Don't move!"
Mu You hesitated for a moment, and the next second he was thrown to the ground by the elf.
The elf's hands and feet were quick and he locked his hands behind his back in the blink of an eye and suppressed him to the ground.
This is of course not because the elf can follow his words, but because when the other party rushed over, the smile on the elf's face suddenly disappeared, and instead gave him a suggestive look.
This made Mu You immediately realize that this elf had autonomous consciousness!
That's why he chose to give up resistance.
"As expected of Meili!"
Seeing that Mu You was subdued by the elf, the red-skinned octopus nodded with satisfaction: "This newcomer must be suffering from amnesia and cannot distinguish between reality and dreams. Take him to the electrotherapy room and correct him. Bad habit!"
"Yes, Master Chef!"
When the elf looked at the octopus, the mechanical smile returned to his face again.
Then she tied up Mu You gracefully and lifted him up. After nodding and saluting with Octopus, she turned and left the corridor.
Mu You didn't resist and let her carry it forward.
After arriving at another corridor, the elf opened a door and walked in. After closing the door, he threw Mu You to the ground.
"You were able to get rid of the control of the dream on the first day. It seems that you are not an ordinary newcomer...Tell me, who are you?" The elf said, the mechanical smile on his face had completely disappeared, and he was pinching his cheeks with his hands, seemingly Move stiff muscles.
"I was entrusted by your elder Harrington Hugh to rescue those of you who were released from prison." Mu You said, fidgeting with his hands behind his back, and easily broke free of the rope on the back of his hands. The opponent just tied them up just for show, and they were not tied firmly at all.
The elf's movement of pinching his face stopped, his pupils shrank, and he turned his head to look at Mu You in disbelief: "What did you say? Elder Harrington? Is he still alive?"
Mu You shook his head: "He died three hundred years ago, his bones have turned white, and now there is only a trace of his soul left..."
Mu You did not hide anything and told the elf truthfully what happened to Harrington.
"It's actually like this..."
After hearing this, the elf's expression was a little painful, the kind of sadness that meant he wanted to cry but had no tears to shed.
The original prison escape plan was not perfectly designed. As soon as they sent Elder Harrington away, they were discovered by the Octopus King and sent out an army to hunt them down. In the end, no one escaped from the prison.
The elves all thought that Elder Harrington had been caught by the Octopus Soldiers and executed by the Octopus King after he was sent out. Unexpectedly, the Elder was still alive, living alone in a small space for hundreds of years, and had been Until my death, I was still thinking about them.
"What is this?" Mu You didn't give the elf girl any time to feel sad. He looked at the surrounding environment and quickly noticed the pool in the center of the room.
The octopus asked the elf to take him to the "electrotherapy room", and the so-called electrotherapy room in front of him was not a laboratory full of various electronic equipment as imagined. The room was empty except for the central place. There was a bed, and next to it was a huge pool. There was a three- to four-meter-long transparent jellyfish in the pool. It was slowly swimming in the pool, and electric sparks flashed from time to time on the whisker-like tentacles at the tail.
"This is the pet kept by Octopus King, an electrotherapy jellyfish. Its original function is to help people forget some bad memories, but it was cultivated by Octopus King into a brainwashing tool."
The elf explained: "There are some people with strong mental abilities who have a chance to recover their original memories after entering here for a long time. This is what the octopuses call "amnesia", and these people will be caught immediately." Get up, and after being shocked by this jellyfish, you will forget about your awakening, accept everything here again, and lose your resistance. "
Brainwashing jellyfish, and this kind of creature...
Mu You secretly gasped, then looked at the elf: "Then you have also been treated with electrotherapy?"
"I don't have it, but I am one of the people in charge of the electrotherapy room, so I have personally seen the pain of many compatriots when being treated with electrotherapy... These octopuses are very sensitive, and they will be brought here as long as they show the slightest sign of abnormality. Get electrotherapy."
The elf shook his head and sighed: "Maybe it's my luck. When I woke up, I happened to be in the electrotherapy room, and I was witnessing the process of an elf sister being electrotherapy. The excessive panic made me control my emotions and relied on His acting skills deceived many octopuses, and he has been performing for hundreds of years since then, and has not yet shown any flaws..."
Mu You looked at the elf woman in surprise. She could wear a mask of pain and act for hundreds of years without breaking down. This woman's psychological quality was incomparable to that of ordinary people!
"So you have restored the memories of all the elves here?" Mu You asked again. The other party happened to be in charge of the electrotherapy room, and he had awakened his memory again. It was supposed that he would definitely let his fellow people loose in the future, so that they could also recover their memories.
The other party's answer surprised Mu You.
"No. When I meet people of my own race who have recovered their memories, I will take them for electrotherapy as soon as possible..."
"Why?"
The elf shook his head helplessly: "The body of the Octopus King is the "Nightmare Octopus", a creature that feeds on biological dreams. Although it devours us, it will not kill us in a short period of time because it still relies on us to produce dreams. "
"Even if the compatriots are revived, there is no hope of escape. It will only make them suffer mental torture in vain. It is better to just sink into the dream without remembering anything, but there will be no pain."
After the spirit sighed for a while, he looked at Mu You: "What about you? How did you awaken your memory? It usually takes more than ten years for people to have a chance to awaken here. People who awaken on the first day after coming here, I still can't. Never seen it before."
"I have some special means that allow me to keep my memory and exit the dream at any time..."
Mu You did not say much on this issue, but stepped up and asked: "Now I need to know, how many elves are left imprisoned here? Where are they imprisoned in the Octopus King's body?"
"There are still sixty-seven living elves. As for their positions...it is said that the positions of those imprisoned in the Octopus King's body are not static, but will slowly move toward the center over time. Seven hundred years have passed now. It's probably near its heart."
Mu You was overjoyed after hearing this. It was no coincidence that the heart was in trouble. He just happened to get a blood-sucking bottle to suck the blood from the heart. He could kill two birds with one stone.
The problem now is how to move to the heart of the Octopus King without disturbing it.
The elf didn't know what Muyou was thinking, and looked at him thinking deeply.
Zi, suddenly said: "If you want to save us, then there is no need. It would have been possible seven hundred years ago. At that time, the Octopus King's dream was still in the establishment stage and was not stable. We would often wake up and return. Only then did I gain the opportunity to escape from prison."
"And now we people have been sleeping in King Octopus's body for seven hundred years, and our bodies have been completely entangled deep inside by King Octopus. It's impossible for you to save us without alarming King Octopus, and how could King Octopus let it go?" The prey was taken away?"
"So, if you really have the ability to come in and out of here at any time, I hope you will leave immediately, go back and tell Elder Harrington that all the clan members swallowed by the Octopus King have already died, so that he no longer has to worry about us, and then send the Great Elder and his Bring the bones back to the clan. I believe the elves will pay you enough for the bones and soul of an elder."
Following the female elf's words, a new reminder suddenly appeared in Mu You's mind.
[You have triggered the optional mission: Elf Mellie’s request. 】
[Mission content: Find the elder Harrington Hugh, and use a white lie to deceive him, telling him that all the elves here have been killed, and bring their remaining souls and bones back to the elves, so that they can be transformed into elves. Chance. 】
[Task reward: Harrington Xiu’s elder token, and unknown rewards from the elves. 】
[Note: "Elven Mellie's Request" is an optional mission, and you can only choose one of "Harrington Hugh's Last Wish" to complete. 】
Seeing the optional mission description in his mind, the first thing Mu You noticed was not the mission itself, but the last sentence of the mission content: the opportunity to transform into an elf!
"Can an elf that has been dead for many years be transformed into an elf?" Mu You hurriedly looked at the elf Mei Li and asked.
Mei Li was stunned for a moment, not expecting Mu You to ask this suddenly, and nodded: "Yes, but it needs to be an elf that died naturally, and it must be a pure soul without regrets and worries, because after transforming into an elf, You will lose all your memories and become a brand new life form. If you are concerned about it, the transformation will not be successful."
Mu You asked this because he remembered the dead ancient tree of knowledge at home. That tree needed the fusion of an elf to be resurrected.
And now looking at the description of this new mission, the dead elf elder on the third floor seems to meet the conditions for being transformed into an elf: he did die of normal old age, and his only thoughts were only these imprisoned elves.
If you can help him solve this only concern, you may be able to persuade him to go to the earth and actively merge with the ancient tree of knowledge!
