Chapter 71 Treasure Hunt
That’s how things turned out.
Although Lonis found it a bit confusing, Elus stared at Siria, trying to discern something.
“Oh, what’s wrong, Grand Princess Elus? Do you have something to say to me?”
“Siria, this treasure map is real, right? You didn’t modify anything in the middle?”
“Of course it’s real, I wouldn’t stoop to doing such modification.”
“Hmph, I wouldn’t be so sure.”
…
Although Elus frowned, Lonis, who was very familiar with her wife, already knew that Elus seemed to have discovered something.
“Woo woo woo! (Elus, what does this mean? Why does it look like a fairy tale?)”
“Mm, it is indeed a fairy tale… But little idiot, although the hints are difficult for others, you should have discovered something, right?”
“Woo? (Discovered what?)”
“So stupid, isn’t the little fox referring to you? This information says that you need to float on top of the stone tablet and wag your tail to solve the puzzle.”
“Woo! (How could this be!)”
…
Lonis protested by wagging her tail. If she was the little fox, then what about the little rabbit and the puppet? What did those last few sentences mean?
However, Mi Xue Zhou said as if she had discovered something:
“This little rabbit… could it be referring to Su Ling?”
“Eh, is it me?”
“Mm, with a pair of big pink ears next to it, does this mean that it’s referring to me and Su Ling being together?”
Su Ling and Mi Xue Zhou both leaned forward, and Elus pointed to the next sentence and continued:
“Then, by deduction, the puppet should be referring to Bai Ye. Because Bai Ye used to be a puppet, and the peach should refer to the Eight-tailed Fox, because this guy has big boobs.”
“Wow, how can anyone be compared to a peach? That’s too insulting, I’m clearly a melon! Then, what about the little girl eating an apple, or the returning soldier?”
The Eight-tailed Fox’s points of concern were always strange.
“If you are proficient in ancient studies, you should know that in the previous epoch, there was a very famous fairy tale – Snow White. That princess fell into a coma because she ate an apple! So, the little girl eating an apple is probably Princess Cécile, right? And the soldier could be Senior Zhisheng Luo, or it could be Miss Lian Lan, but no matter what, going there together is not wrong.”
“Is that so…”
Elus’s analysis suddenly made sense to everyone.
However, if these characters really referred to the girls of the present day, then…
“So, does this mean… Isumi-senpai already predicted our existence in the past?”
“Mm, it’s very likely, isn’t it? After all, we will also go back to the past and see the Pirate King named Luo Bei, right?”
Elus swept her gaze over Alice, and the other party also nodded with a smile:
“That’s right, exactly. So you can consider this letter as coming from the past and also from the future.”
“!”
…
The possibility of this also stunned the girls.
Because everyone suddenly realized that if the current world was built on the premise of the girls successfully saving the world in the past, then the current world might still have traces of their battles.
And these treasures…
“Alice, if we unlock the treasure, won’t we violate the law of causality?”
Isumi-senpai also sighed and hesitantly looked at the little blonde loli.
“Mm, it should be alright. This level of puzzle-solving should be within the scope allowed by paradox and causality… But it’s curious that Luo Bei left such a puzzle. I also wonder what she wanted to do.”
“If that’s the case then…”
“Mm, shall we search all over Nile Port now and see if we can find the locations mentioned in the letter?”
The treasure hunt began just like that.
Almost all the girls mobilized to seek the clues hidden in time… After all, “the top of the stone tablet,” “the golden field,” “the black park,” “the crimson sea,” and “the twilight lone tower” should be quite eye-catching locations, shouldn’t they?
However, the result was…
Nothing!
These places were either too strange to possibly exist in reality, or the descriptions were too vague, leaving too many possible locations.
“Elus, I didn’t find anything here?”
“In the Dulan Islands, where is the crimson sea? Do I have to go back to the Sea of Lava?”
“Su Ling didn’t find it either, woo woo woo…”
“Woo woo! (Elus, don’t hold me, I want to go look too!)”
…
Even though they found nothing, Elus did not seem discouraged.
She just shook her head and said, “As expected, it’s not that easy to solve. But everyone, have you noticed something?”
“Something?”
“Mm, that this letter actually doesn’t mention Isumi-senpai. Although Isumi-senpai is also the successor of Rainbow Abyss, logically she should have her information.”
“R-right! Why is there no Isumi-senpai? That’s too unfair!”
Su Ling looked up, seemingly indignant for Isumi-senpai, but the orange-haired girl just sighed and said:
“I think… this doesn’t mean there’s no news about me, but rather that there’s still a part of the content that requires me to activate my superhuman observation skills to find those hidden hints.”
“!”
“Elus, do I need to take off my eye patch?”
“Mm, please, senpai.”
“Okay.”
…
…
Because she had been recovering from injuries recently, Isumi-senpai hadn’t used her abilities.
And now, after a period of recuperation, Isumi’s eyes had finally regained their clarity, but what none of the girls expected…
After gazing at the treasure map, Isumi-senpai’s expression became extremely strange.
This was an expression that seemed to blend surprise, confusion, helplessness, relief, and amusement… Such an expression was rarely seen among the girls on weekdays, let alone Isumi-senpai, who had always been expressionless.
“Isumi-senpai, what’s wrong?”
“Mm… at the end of the last sentence, an image was drawn in another way.”
“An image?”
“Mm, it’s a micron-level image, which might be visible with a microscope. But I think I can guess what these locations mean… The locations of these places are not isolated, but combined. The golden field actually refers to the beach near the coast.”
“The beach? Then what about the lone tower, the stone tablet, and the park…”
“Ah, speaking of the beach, I remembered something!”
Zhisheng Luo clapped her hands and said to the girls, “Next to the beach, there is a dilapidated lighthouse, a relic left from ancient times! Perhaps the lone tower refers to that.”
“Huh?”
“I remembered it too.”
Lian Lan also nodded and said, “There is a type of seaweed that absorbs sunlight during the day and turns crimson in the twilight… And this should refer to the crimson sea?”
“Then only the park and the stone tablet are left?”
“Mm, let’s set off again and search for them.”
“Woo woo woo!”
As if encouraged, the spirited girls set off again with full of energy~
