Chapter 1108: Two Dreams (I.)
The knightly maiden Audrey Rosenthal Zion came to Roland, lifted the hem of her cloak and curtsied to him in a ladylike manner.
"It is my pleasure to meet you, Your Highness Roland Kolas, but ...... I'm not a little carrot head! Princess Audrey snorted wryly.
Roland bowed and returned the salute: "It's my fault, you are not a little radish head, you are a beautiful lily." β
There was a heavy cough behind him, and Lyudmila complained angrily: "You are also flirting with such a small girl, it's too much!" β
Audrey seemed to hear her complaining, stuck out her tongue, and retreated behind her brother with a red face.
Roland noticed that although Audrey had a slight resemblance to Colossa's appearance, the color of her hair was very different. Glova has pure black hair, while Audrey's hair is an almost imperceptible blonde that gives her hair a striking bright silver hue when exposed to sunlight. Roland didn't know much about heredity, but intuitively suspected that Colossa's and Audrey's hair colors were inherited from different mothers.
"Hey, big brother, you're so tall!" At this time, another more active "little radish head" jumped in front of Roland, looked at Roland with his neck up, the tip of his nose was almost touching his chest, and said with envy: "I really hope that I can be as tall and handsome as you when I grow up!" β
Roland couldn't help but laugh, touched the little guy's head, and asked softly: "Your name is Holden, is it Colossa's little brother?" β
The little boy is very cute, and his turquoise-like light blue eyes are especially beautiful, but under the observation of the "pupil of fate", Roland discovers that his human form is largely due to the camouflage created by "Transfiguration", and is actually a half-dragon boy with skin covered in copper scales. This made Roland secretly wonder: "The lineage of the young people of the Zion family is really complicated enough. β
"That's right, I'm Holden!" The little boy nodded vigorously, lowered his voice and said to Roland mysteriously: "Big brother, let me tell you a secret, there is a treasure buried under the Terror Lake, do you want to go treasure hunting with us?" β
"Treasure hunting?" Roland couldn't help but smile and asked him, "Is there a gold axe or a silver axe in the lake?" β
"Huh? Yes? Holden, apparently not understanding his joke, turned to look at his brother with question marks in his eyes.
Colossa touched his head helplessly, walked over to Roland and said, "You probably don't understand, how did Audrey and Holden come all the way from Burleigh Heng to the Far East?" I think it's funny to say it, these two little ghosts are really here to hunt for treasure. β
"Victor, you're a local, have you ever heard of any treasure buried in the Terror Lake?" Roland looked at the captain.
"Your Highness, there are indeed similar legends circulating in the local area, but then again, there are such stories everywhere, and I don't see any other value in these legends about treasures than to put children to sleep."
"This is not true!" Holden couldn't help but interject, "I have absolutely reliable evidence that there is indeed a treasure buried at the bottom of the Lake of Terror...... Well, at least the bottom of the lake will be able to open the gates to the treasure field once it opens. β
"Little one, I'm not interested in your so-called evidence, the fact I know is that there is no treasure at the bottom of the lake at all, only groups of fish monsters and even more terrible water Naga, and there have been fellows like you who are obsessed with money and tried to dive into the bottom of the lake to explore the ridiculous treasure, and never returned, so the question is, are they counting gold coins at the bottom of the lake, or have they already become the belly of the water monster?"
Captain Victor's pungent taunts did not shake Holden's convictions, and he pulled out a thin parchment scroll from his storage bag and exclaimed, "Look at this book, Mr. Officer, it will cure your prejudices!" β
Captain Victor turned his head away, not wanting to play this boring game with the kids anymore.
Roland took the parchment scroll from Holden's hand, the yellowed cover indicating that the book was some years old, and the title on the cover was written in Canaanite script, translated into lingua franca, presumably "Two Dreams".
"Double Dreams......" Roland's heart suddenly moved, vaguely thinking of something.
"Holden, this is your treasure map?" Lyudmila asked with a smile, mostly teasing.
The little boy shook his head solemnly: "This is an ancient story book, originally stored in the underground library of the Bethlehem Evergrande, which is a warehouse dedicated to anonymous works, except for me and Colossa, no third person in Bethlehem will be interested in those works of unknown origin." β
"Well, that proves you're a kid who loves to read, so what's the point?" Lyudmila crossed her arms over her chest and asked with interest.
"Eldest sister, if you want to know about this matter, please be a little more patient, let me start from the beginning." Holden pointed to the parchment book in Roland's hand, "Judging from the style and grammatical features used in this book, it is at least a work of the last century, and it does not contain any treasure maps, but only tells the adventure story of a young man from the Far East in search of the treasure of his dreams, but it is not difficult to guess where the treasure is buried in reality based on the names of the places involved in the story." β
"The treasure is in the Lake of Terror?"
"That's right! I translated the ancient place names mentioned in the book into the Far Eastern dialect, and then checked the local history to confirm that the treasure spot was at the bottom of the lake near Karon Falls! Holden excitedly concluded.
"Hehe, this is really interesting, even if the record in that book is true, someone really recorded their own treasure hunting experience, but have you ever thought about a question, since the author has taken the treasure, what can you get in the end by repeating his exploration process?" Anthony sneered and pointed out the loopholes in Holden's treasure hunt, "The best outcome is to look at the treasure trove that has long been emptied, and it would be more appropriate for your treasure hunt to be changed to an archaeological tour." β
"It's not as simple as you think!" Holden hurriedly argued, "The author of the story did find the treasure, but he could not take it all with him, because he ended up in an isolated ancient city, where gold, silver, jewelry, and more valuable ancient art treasures were everywhere, and the local residents only allowed him to take the treasure that he could hold with his hands, and of course, magic containers such as storage bags could also be used, but outsiders only had one chance to enter the dream city called 'Akron', and after leaving, they could never return there, That's why the treasure hunter who returned with a lot of money was willing to record this magical experience and make it publicβsince he himself couldn't re-enter Akron, he wouldn't mind readers who had read the book sharing his experience and following his original treasure hunt route to Akron to make a fortune. β