Chapter 781: Can't Stay Idle, Simply Can't Stay Idle

In the following period of time, the construction of the encampment proceeded in an orderly manner.

And in the sky tens of thousands of kilometers away, Lan Qingyou and Elisa were also moving along the coordinates indicated by the Emerald Tablet.

Perhaps it was because they had indeed traveled quite a distance compared to before.

Moving from remote areas to the core zone.

So in these past few days, they handled several more places.

Just like before, they were all nailed down with wooden spikes made from the World Tree.

It was just that like before, they were all places with a thousand miles of barren land.

Or places of ice-sealed snowfields where not a single blade of grass grew.

In short, any place nailed by a spike didn't have a single piece of good land.

"Phew... let's not travel today, let's take a rest first."

"Mm."

On this day, another spike was pulled out, and the two could finally take a rest.

Wait, no...

It should be said that Lan Qingyou proposed taking a rest.

After all, these past few days they were either traveling or fighting the abyssal monsters at the coordinates, and then removing the spikes.

So after another half a month like this, Lan Qingyou truly couldn't stand this kind of life.

Thus she called a halt to the journey.

Stop joking.

The Witch Race indeed had a strong sense of curiosity; this was the same for both Lan Qingyou and Elisa.

But the problem was that although she came to this new continent to satisfy her curiosity.

She didn't come to masochistically torture herself.

So while her curiosity was satisfied, she didn't plan to continue being as tired as a dog all day long like this.

After all, she was doing research, not working like a 996 beast of burden.

"What are you recording?"

When the two, who finally managed to get a day off, sat down to rest properly, Elisa saw Lan Qingyou writing something in a notebook.

"Nothing much, just recording the locations of the wooden spikes we've pulled out so far."

Saying this, Lan Qingyou picked up the notebook and waved it in front of Elisa's eyes.

"What's the use of recording this thing..."

Elisa looked somewhat speechlessly at everything in the notebook.

Although it wasn't professional, and even very amateurish.

But Lan Qingyou's notebook still had all the locations of the spikes they pulled out and such marked out.

Even the approximate distance between each spike was roughly written down.

Lan Qingyou wasn't a professional surveyor like Hels.

Nor had she ever learned surveying.

So being able to draw it like this was already very good.

However...

"This thing looks very familiar."

Elisa frowned slightly after looking at the locations of the five wooden spikes recorded on it.

This pattern gave her the feeling of a hazy sense of having seen it, but also like she hadn't seen it.

So she was a bit unsure if she had seen it or not.

"Right, I also feel it's familiar."

Lan Qingyou nodded, then turned the notebook over, frowning as she scrutinized it carefully.

Just now.

After drawing the locations of the wooden spikes this time, her feeling was exactly the same as Elisa's.

But she couldn't say exactly what it was.

That was why she so generously showed it to Elisa, hoping to get some inspiration from the other party.

As a result, the other party's manifestation could actually overlap with hers a hundred percent.

Then there was no helping it.

"I see, is this the reason you recorded it?"

Although she couldn't remember where she had seen it.

She wasn't even sure if she had seen it, but Elisa seemed to somewhat understand Lan Qingyou's meaning.

"Not entirely..."

Lan Qingyou shook her head.

"Initially I just wanted to record it, and after the people from the Cartography Association landed on the new continent, give it to them to let them run the map themselves."

"But after seeing these five recorded on it, I always felt it was somewhat familiar, so I'm trying to recall."

Recalling huh...

Elisa pondered Lan Qingyou's words.

In her view, for the other party to be able to say these words, it proved that the other party also had the same feeling as her.

To be honest.

This kind of feeling wasn't pleasant.

She didn't even want to recall a second time.

But after seeing Lan Qingyou frowning in deep thought, an inexplicable competitive spirit suddenly surged into her heart, replacing the unpleasant feeling.

It wasn't to say she just wanted to compete with Lan Qingyou.

She just purely didn't want to lose to the other party in this kind of 'research'-like aspect.

After all, she had already lost twice before, she was numb from losing.

Thus Elisa sat there with Lan Qingyou pondering where exactly they had seen it.

"For example, connecting them together like this?"

"I don't think so, no impression at all."

"Then what about removing this line, and then drawing it like this?"

"Still no. I was thinking of drawing it like this."

"Then do you have any thoughts after drawing it out?"

"It looks a bit like a stick figure of something, but I can't tell what."

"Stick figure my ass, it's just two simple lines."

"As expected, drawing them separately is wrong, right."

"Not necessarily, I actually feel that compared to connecting them all with lines, drawing them separately like this might perhaps draw out more different things."

The two each held a Crystal Pen, using mana to draw lines back and forth on this magic paper.

And then denying it, and erasing these magic lines to redraw.

"Do you think there's a possibility we're still missing something?"

Elisa, who really couldn't find anything worthwhile, asked this after their discussion.

"...Saying this is the same as not saying anything."

Lan Qingyou curled her lips and rolled her eyes at the other party.

This journey was originally to check what the world's will wanted to tell them on the Emerald Tablet.

And up until now, over a month had passed, yet they had only gone to five places.

Think about how big this world is.

Who knows how much time it would take to finish walking through all of it.

"Isn't it just that under a sudden break I had nothing to do, so I found something to pass the time."

So Lan Qingyou simply found some amusement for herself.

At least this way it wouldn't be dull.

Alright.

Elisa had to admit this was indeed a good idea.

It was just that she couldn't quite keep up with Lan Qingyou's thought process.

But actually, she didn't have much desire to keep up with this guy's thought process either.

"Then you play first, I'll go out to relax, and incidentally survey the surrounding situation."

Even if they suddenly stopped and said they wanted to rest, they couldn't stop at all.

Just looking at these two guys and you'd know.

One had nothing to do and researched inexplicable patterns on her own.

The other, having nothing to do, planned to go survey the surroundings.

Neither of them truly stopped.

The place where the two pulled out the wooden spike this time was near the ruins of what seemed to be a village.

Because they were all houses built with wood and stone, after these years of abandonment, they had long lost their original appearance.

This was also one of the reasons why Elisa wanted to survey after stopping.

After all, even if it had become ruins, one should still be able to find some traces of the past activities of the Karimians.

It was just that not long after she walked out of the tent.

Lan Qingyou over here heard an extremely piercing whistle that shook one's soul...