Chapter 41: Chapter 41

Snapped!

Hoffa firmly grasped Aglaia's white wrist, his fingers touched the bottom of the medicine tube, and was about to exert force.

But this time, he also lost his balance and fell from a height, taking Aglaia along with him.

With a high decibel scream.

In the air, the two hit an oak branch and turned upside down.

thump!

Aglea's 35kg was on Hoffa.

This fall made Hoffa feel tight in his chest and short of breath. He half stood up and didn't recover his breath for a long time.

After the two looked at each other, it was obvious that Aglaia, who was protected by the pads, was in better condition. She grabbed her wand and pointed at her leg.

"The spell stops!"

After lifting the death curse, she rushed towards the school.

The potion was still in her hand, and Hoffa didn't give up. He turned over and grabbed her calf, held her tightly, and dragged her to the ground.

They started fighting again.

Among 11-year-old girls, Aglaia is considered tall. In addition, girls generally develop earlier than boys. During the battle, Hoffa, who has not developed much, fell to the disadvantage.

But at this moment.

Well done!

The sound of horseshoes came from the dark Forbidden Forest, and Joey rode the white horse quickly out of the Forbidden Forest and stopped at the door of his house.

As a result, seeing the scene in front of him, Joey was stunned.

Hoffa half-sat on the ground, pulling a girl's leg, while the girl hugged her thigh, trying to break free from Hoffa's grasp.

If it weren't for the deep dislike for each other on the faces of the two of them, Joey would even have thought that the two of them were staging some kind of farewell drama.

Joey was surprised: "What are you doing here?"

Seeing a teacher coming, Aglaia subconsciously wanted to file a complaint.

However, she immediately thought that Hoffa was concocting medicine in Joey's house. The two must be in the same group. Maybe this person was instigating Hoffa to concoct medicine and let him come to her to cheat the prescription. It is also possible.

Various conspiracy theories flashed through Aglea's mind.

She immediately put away the potion and made a pitiful look.

"Mr. Administrator, classmate Bach, he bullied me"

There was mist in her eyes, which made people feel distressed.

Hoffa managed to get up from the ground, and said hoarsely, "Joy, stop her, she has seen everything."

Aglaia's expression changed immediately, and all the pity on his face disappeared.

"Hmph, the teachers cover up the students for violating the school rules, there's a lot of snakes and rats, Hogwarts is really a trash school!"

After speaking, she struggled to break free and was about to leave.

However, Joey didn't care what Aglaia meant. He shrugged indifferently, then turned his head and asked Hoffa: "Hoffa, do you understand the characters of the centaur?"

Hoffa jumped in a hurry, Aglaia took the potion, and was about to report it to Goshack, but this guy came to ask if he understood the centaur's writing, was he serious?

"What the hell?"

After Hoffa cursed angrily, he limped and chased Aglaia.

However, something that surprised him even more happened.

After hearing what Joey said, Aglaia actually stopped and turned to look at Joey in disbelief.

"What did you say, the words of the centaur?"

Seeing her stop, Hoffa was about to grab the potion.

Aglaia just turned sideways and moved away from his hand. "The horseman left a text?"

Joey nodded, "That's right, I'm looking for someone who understands the characters of magical creatures."

"I understand, take me there."

Aglea let go of Hoffa's palm again and said.

Hoffa: "What the hell are you talking about! It's up to you, give me back my potion!"

"Don't touch me!" Aglaia leaned against the tree trunk, with one hand behind her back, and the other to push Hoffa away.

"How can an ordinary person like you understand the true value of precious prophecies. I will first see what the centaur left behind, and then go to the school to report you!"

After finishing speaking, she held her head high and said to Joey, "Lead the way!"

Joey's eyes widened, but he wasn't angry at all, he found it interesting instead.

"Is this your friend? Hoffa."

"no!"

The two spoke in unison.

Joey couldn't help laughing: "Little girl, do you really understand the horseman's writing?"

"I know everything," said Aglaia.

Joey said with great interest, "You really are a proactive girl, come with me."

After speaking, he pulled a horse from the stable under Hoffa's shocked eyes and handed it to Aglaia.

Aglaia got on the horse, and her posture was no less skillful than that of Joey.

Joey also got on the horse, and said to Hoffa: "Why don't you go back first, and I will persuade her on the way to return the medicine to you."

Hoffa glanced at the girl on the horse with an eager expression, thinking that Joey thought things too simply, and he didn't understand Aglaia at all. If this person can communicate normally, then human beings will not be far from world harmony.

Hoffa silently pulled out the little black horse he usually rode from the stable, no matter what, he had to get the potion back by himself.

Joey shrugged and turned the horse around with a rein.

So, in the evening sun, the three of them entered the Forbidden Forest along the path, and none of them spoke a word along the way. There was no other sound on the road except the snapping of tree branches under the trampling of horseshoes.

The trees grew thicker, and the daylight overhead faded away.

It wasn't until he couldn't see the shadow of the path that Hoffa realized that he had already deviated from the normal path. This was not the same path as the last time he went to see the Thunderbird Taras.

The three of them walked deeper and deeper, and the speed of the horse gradually slowed down, because the surroundings were densely covered with low branches and thorny vines.

The pendant of Aglaia's school uniform was tattered by the barbs on the thorn vine, she didn't care at all, and she still stared excitedly.

Obviously she was extremely curious about the so-called centaur writing.

Hoffa stared at the medicine tube reagent in her hand, wondering if there was some evil spell that could make the white-haired crow shut up forever.

But Joey didn't know Hoffa's worries, and he explained to the two while riding on the horse.

"There used to be a centaur tribe here, with seventeen centaurs. Their leader is Nannu. You have seen it, Hoffa. But just yesterday, they sent me a letter of arrows."

As he spoke, he drew a short-feathered arrow from the quiver and handed it to Hoffa.

In the afterglow of the setting sun, Hoffa saw a row of words engraved on the body of the arrow.

[Leave the Forbidden Forest, leave this land quickly. 】

Leave the Forbidden Forest?

Hoffa didn't understand.

After reading it, Joey handed the arrow to Aglea again.

Unexpectedly, she just glanced at it and threw the arrow aside.

"Come on, horses won't write to you in English. This kind of creature will only leave one language."

"ah?"

Joey looked puzzled.

Finally, when Joey led the two of them barely through the protective net made up of bramble vines.

They came to a clearing full of fallen leaves. This used to be a settlement of the centaurs, and Hoffa could still see some simple tools, pots and pans, wooden bows and arrows scattered on the ground.

At the top of the clearing, the mottled setting sun fell through the gaps in the trees, illuminating clusters of Tyndall spots.

In the center of the clearing, is a gray rock.

That rock was no different in appearance from ordinary Scottish Highland stones, round and round with some cracks and moss.

The only difference was that it was engraved with many yellow characters, and those characters were different from any human language Hoffa had ever seen.

Joey: "After I received the news, I went here to have a look in the afternoon, and found that there was nothing, only this row of words that I couldn't understand was left."

Aglaia didn't care what Joey saw, her blue eyes sparkled when she saw the rock. Hastily put the medicine tube in his pocket, then got off the horse and walked over quickly.

Then she got down on one knee and began to stroke the rock face.

Hoffa had never seen her look that way, it was a mixture of fascination and curiosity.

After touching the stone for a while, Aglaia turned to Joey and said:

"There's a lot of information on the stone, but if you summarize it briefly, it means panic, murder, and war! The intensity of emotion, I have never seen before."

Hoffa turned his head to look at the characters on the stone. He couldn't understand those characters, let alone how a line of words could carry strong emotions.

"It's too general," Joey said with a frown. "Can you be more specific about what happened?"

"No way," Aglea shook his head. "The horse people's writing is different from human writing. It is not a carrier of clear information, but more like a hazy feeling that exists like musical notes. If you want to know the specific What happened, I have to find a horseman to ask."

Looking for a centaur?

Joey frowned and looked at the sky, it was getting late at the moment. Half of the setting sun had set, and the sky was burning red with burning clouds.

"Forget it, you can read it again. If you can translate it, translate it. If you can't translate it, I will take you back later. Don't stay in the Forbidden Forest for too long."

Aglea continued to work on the stone.

Hoffa was not interested in what was on the stone, and most of his thoughts were on Aglaia, who was going to say it was the potion under her robe.

Let her take the potion back, and according to Gosak's ruthless style of acknowledging reason and denying people, I'm afraid I will suffer a little more.

Seeing Joey dangling in the clearing in the forest, he frowned from time to time to pick up the bows and arrows scattered on the ground to have a look. Aglaia, on the other hand, was delving into the stone with a fascinated look, as if there were jade worth millions in the stone.

Hoffa saw this as a good opportunity.

A good chance to get back the potion.

He tiptoed around behind Aglaia and entered the phantom state.

At this moment, Aglaia knelt down on her knees, sometimes slid her fingers across the rough surface of the stone, and sometimes put her ears on the stone, closed her eyes, and seemed to be feeling something.

Hoffa didn't want to care about what mysterious things she was playing. He stood behind Aglaia and bent down.

Stretching his hand towards her waist, he held his breath, lifted her robe, and took out his medicine bit by bit.

Aglaia didn't respond at all.

After taking back the potion, Hoffa breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to destroy the potion immediately.

But he found a few shallow footprints among the fallen leaves on the ground. The footprints are very inconspicuous, if he hadn't squatted down, he would never have seen them.

The footprints are large, left by adults, and somewhat messy.

This surprised Hoffa.

This is the settlement of the centaurs, so it is not surprising that there are horseshoes. But why there are human footprints, it is not right to say that Joey left them.

Because Joey is just a person, and Aglaia and himself are children.

But these footprints were obviously left by several adults.

Is there anyone else in this place?

Hoffa straightened up slowly, and took two steps along the footprints.

When he came to a fir tree, he stopped because the footprints diverged and went in different directions.

Hoffa felt a little bad, the centaur would not disappear for no reason. It's not a good idea to rush after it. Get the potion by yourself, it's time to go back.

As soon as the thought arises, Hoffa will back away.

However, a slight hiss in the air interrupted Hoffa's footsteps.

He looked up, and his attention was attracted by a few green fruits on the branches.

The fruit is dark green, and it looks very hidden in the dense tree crown, but it looks familiar.

There are some pointed protrusions on their bodies, which look like green spiny balls hanging upside down on the branches, trembling slightly.

There was an inexplicable hiss in the air.

Hoffa released the phantom state, moved lightly to Joey, and asked in a low voice: "Joy, what is that fruit on the tree, do you know it?"

Joey looked along Hoffa's fingers.

However, with just one glance, Joey trembled all over and said in shock:

"Damn it, it's the Winged Demon, why is there such a creature in the Forbidden Forest!"