This Text Adventure Game is definitely poisonous-Chapter 1567 - 674: The Imprisoned Divine Archer

["The scales you mentioned earlier, I’ll count as a favor for you. All you need now is to give me nine more scales, and I’ll give you all ten of my favors in return. How about that?"]

[Big Beard looked hopeful, hoping you would continue to produce scales. You choose...]

Mu You naturally refused.

This Big Beard was quite shrewd, obviously realizing that he still had scales on him, but Mu You didn’t intend to take out too many. These scales were precious to him too, let alone the fact that one could only exchange for a little favor, with only a few on him, giving them all wouldn’t get much. Using something so valuable to gather a thousand points would be foolish.

[You ask Big Beard if he knows a herbalist named ’Scythia’?]

Scythia, the mother of Wildman Muro.

Luckily, before coming here, Muro anticipated the situation in the tribe, leaving him a way out. Muro’s mother was the best herbalist in the tribe, with such status, just taking him to meet the clan leader shouldn’t be too difficult.

["Herbalist? Scythia?" Big Beard asked with a furrowed brow, recalling for a long time before shaking his head: "No such person."]

["There’s no one named Scythia in the tribe?" You’re a bit surprised, wondering if Muro might have remembered his mother’s name wrong.]

["It’s not that there’s no ’Scythia,’ but the ancestors’ linguistic skills weren’t strong, so names were often picked from familiar ones, resulting in the tribe only having those few tens of names repeated. Scythia is a very common ancestral name, if not a thousand people in the tribe are called Scythia, there are eight hundred. Relying on a name alone to find someone is difficult."]

["As for herbalists, not everyone can be one. Currently, there are only twelve herbalists in the entire tribe, and I know each one, none of them is named Scythia, I can assure you of that." Big Beard said affirmatively.]

How could it be?

Mu You frowned, thinking possibly Muro’s mother had already passed away?

[You inform Big Beard about Muro’s situation.]

["More than a thousand years ago..." Big Beard scratched his head, slightly embarrassed: "It’s been too long, who can remember things from back then, already forgotten..."]

Mu You sighed, sure enough, he couldn’t hold high expectations for the memory of wild folk. Even if it happened over a thousand years ago with humans, events unrelated to themselves would mostly be forgotten, let alone with wildmen.

["But about missing sons, you could search at the ’Stone Tablet Forest’ on the western side of the tribe, past missing persons incidents among tribesmen are recorded on the steles." Big Beard pointed out a potentially viable path for you. Do you want to go to the ’Stone Tablet Forest’?]

"Yes." freēwēbηovel.c૦m

This Stone Tablet Forest is likely similar to a kind of permanent record. Wildmen have the characteristic of forgetfulness, important matters might be entirely forgotten within a few days. Engraving critical matters on stone provides them with a convenient way to store long-term information.

["Seeing you turn to leave, Big Beard hurriedly tried to keep you: "Are you sure you don’t want to exchange for my favors? How about I count one scale as two favors? Or even three..."]

["It’s not necessary." You waved a hand to politely refuse, leaving the blacksmith’s shop resolutely under Big Beard’s resentful gaze.]

[You arrived at the ’Stone Tablet Forest,’ with a clearing ahead where thousands of giant rectangular black crystal stones stood neatly, resembling a field of giant tombstones, forming a forest composed of steles.]

[You walked to the front of the forest and found every stele covered with carved text.]

["In the year 1742 of Asen, Eugene’s son Vega disappeared while performing patrol duties and has yet to return."]

["In the year 1742 of Asen, Dasha, the daughter of Bacchus, disappeared outside the Jie Lin and has yet to return."]

["In the year 1741 of Asen, Lite, the son of Karel, disappeared outside Jie Lin...has yet to return (strikethrough), and returned in March 1742."]

...

Mu You read through several steles, finding they almost exclusively recorded missing cases involving someone’s children. Some were found, some remained missing.

These missing wildmen were mostly similar to Muro’s situation, having ventured into the mist outside Jie Lin, then forgetting their way back due to forgetfulness, running further away in anxiety until completely losing direction.

The wildmen who were ultimately found were lucky, after wandering aimlessly outside for a while, managed to stumble back into the forest or were found by search teams going out, allowing them to return home.

These cases are overwhelmingly numerous, with thousands of steles, each with hundreds of records. It’s impossible to read them all, but the steles are meticulously arranged in chronological order for easier searching.

Mu You directly found steles dating from thirteen hundred to fifteen hundred years ago.

This section evidently had a much sparse density of cases compared to the earlier ones, occupying only a dozen steles to document two hundred years of events.

Mu You read through all of these dozen steles.

Unfortunately, he didn’t find any record of Muro or Scythia.

"Wasn’t registered back then..."

Not every disappearance case gets carved into a stele; only those reported by family and confirmed not to be a false alarm get recorded by specialized personnel onto the steles.

Not finding Muro’s disappearance record here only suggests his mother didn’t file a report for him back then.