[You arrived at the Elven Forest.] [Sixty-seven skeletal elves stepped out of your backpack.] [You led the weakened elves into the forest, like refugees returning home after fleeing abroad.] [Elves kept emerging from the surrounding treehouses, looking at you in surprise and confusion. They all seemed somewhat at a loss...]
After finishing his conversation with Nine Nether, Mu You returned to the game and brought the elves he had just rescued back to the forest, ready to collect his rewards.
Perhaps these elves had been cut off from society for so long that they had lost the ability to communicate. Even when they saw their own people now, they did not dare approach and greet them, instead huddling behind him without making a sound.
Fortunately, news traveled fairly well among the elves. Not long after the group entered the forest, someone in charge appeared of her own accord.
[Laili the Piper appeared before you.] [Seeing so many skeletal compatriots behind you, Laili hurriedly assembled a medical team and had the dozens of elves taken away for treatment one by one...] [Once everyone was properly settled, Laili returned to you and asked what had happened. You chose...]
It was time to settle the rewards. He certainly had to describe the rescue clearly, but he needed to hold something back about that elven elder. Otherwise, if the elves learned that he had taken away a Sprite transformed from an elder, even if they did not demand him back, their assessment would certainly drop.
``` [You chose to tell the truth, but concealed the final fate of the elven elder Harrington, saying only that he felt too ashamed to face his people and, unwilling to return, had chosen to perish in the Undersea Prison.]
[You showed Elder Harrington's token