The grassland was also a dark red color, just like the forest beneath their feet, but those originally vibrant green grasses had nearly all disappeared.
Only the withered remnants, like shards of ice, reminded Colin that this was a plain.
However, if one were to say there was something special... at this moment, as Colin gazed into the distance, he truly couldn't make it out!
"Could it be a treasure that the Elf Clan carelessly dropped on the way?"
After pondering for a moment, Colin withdrew his gaze and didn't rashly go to check it out, but instead turned around to head back to the Tree Hole Forest from before.
Counting one's chickens before they hatch.
That peculiar mountain would take at least two days of continuous flying to reach, by his estimate.
And as for the grassland near the mountain, naturally, there was no need to say more, it would take at least a day's time.
Therefore, after weighing his options, Colin decided to continue with his original plan.
First to recover some of his own strength, then go explore other places, looking for a possible way out!
"Good giant, do you want to go to that mountain?" Nasi suddenly asked, looking up; she wasn't flying but was sitting in Colin's hand hitching a "ride."
"Not now," Colin responded.
"Oh." Nasi nodded her head and went silent.
"Nasi, can't you leave this forest either? Just like you can't leave the Red Soil Forest outside?"
Noticing something off about Nasi, Colin suddenly asked.
He still remembered, when he first asked in the Red Soil Forest if Nasi would like to leave with him, Nasi had said she couldn't leave the Red Soil Forest... perhaps it was the same in this realm of the elves?
But the next second, Nasi's reply overturned his guess.
"Not at all, here, Nasi can go anywhere, there are no restrictions!"
Her tone was somewhat proud and arrogant.
But for some reason, in the next second, she seemed a bit downcast.
Nasi looked up at Colin and suddenly asked again,
"Good giant, is the outside world much, much bigger than here? I know there are many, many other islands above the great sea, and continents too, right?"
"Good giant, did you come from the continent?"
"Mhm," Colin nodded, "I came over from the Siya Continent."
He glanced down at Nasi and suddenly thought of something, asking in confusion,
"Nasi, didn't you tell me before that you never left this forest... how do you know you can go anywhere here?"
Hearing this, Nasi suddenly froze, and after a long hesitation, she tentatively replied, "Maybe little Nasi left the forest before... just forgot."
A piercing wind howled and blew over.
'Forgot, huh...' Colin stroked the ends of his hair, falling silent.
"Good giant... is little Nasi sick? Why can't I remember anything?"
After a while, the little elf looked up and asked again.
After a moment of silence, Colin spoke up to comfort her,
"Everyone has times when their memories are fuzzy, little elves too... maybe you're just a bit more forgetful."
"Really?" Nasi asked.
"Mhm," Colin nodded, feeling somewhat heavy-hearted.
Deep down, he felt that Nasi's confusion with her memory probably had to do with the tainted light streams that hadn't been completely filtered and had quietly seeped into her body.
"Memory needs to be exercised, little Nasi, as long as you often try to remember, your memory will naturally get stronger."
Colin encouraged her once again.
The tainted light streams seemed never to have been noticed by the little elf, and he didn't dare to rashly tell Nasi what he had perceived.
In this world filled with pollution, mental stability is very important.
Letting Nasi know these things wouldn't help her at all and might make things worse.
It's better to conceal it for now, maintaining the current stable state.
"Little Nasi, do you still want candy gems? If you want them, just tell me, don't go hungry," Colin continued speaking to Nasi.
As long as the little elf ate the heart of the Ancient Tree and didn't absorb those tainted light streams, the dark red matter wouldn't enter... perhaps, this would be better for her.
"Mhm!" With Colin's reassurance, Nasi had already returned to normal, and her mood became lively again.
At this moment, she was frowning with concentration, as if, like Colin said, she was trying hard to remember and exercising her memory.
Colin, feeling uneasy, opened his Supersensitive Vision to take another look.
Only after observing that there were no tainted light streams gathering around Nasi did he finally relax.
Nasi, as his only companion in this Different Space, might also be the key to escaping this place; he had to be concerned about her!
"Good giant, I remembered something!" Nasi suddenly cried out.
"What did you remember?"
Nasi glanced at him, and her excitement suddenly stalled as her tone shifted to a suggestion,
"Good giant, let's not go to that high mountain, okay? I remembered that it's very dangerous outside the forest!"
Upon hearing this, Colin's heart tightened, and he quickly pressed for details,
"Dangerous? What kind of danger is there outside the forest, like the dark red wind?"
"The wind isn't dangerous," the little elf corrected him with a glance and then, as if she remembered something, added, "But it seems like you, good giant, looked quite uncomfortable..."
"So, what exactly is the danger outside the forest?" Colin interrupted Nasi's words, continuing to press her.
Nasi paused, then frowned and thought hard, but in the end, she still answered resignedly,
"I don't know... little Nasi only remembers there's danger, like there are big monsters, and some other strange things!"