Tides: Years of Dawn

Crewe and Juventus returned to the hotel after drinking and eating, took a little sleep, and set off early the next day at dawn.

Juventus didn't want to wait until there were more people on the street before leaving, but also learned from the experience of the previous night.

Last night, Crewe didn't put on his hood when he went out to look for food with her. Although he reminded him many times, Crewe, who couldn't move in front of the food stall, forgot to remind him from time to time, dancing and dancing happily.

Due to the mixed bloodlines of marine species, the appearance of men and women is not much different.Therefore, the appearances of Crewe and Youwen are very abrupt among Lu Wu. Leaving aside Juwen's almost shaved hair, Crewe's indistinguishable face alone attracted the attention of others.

Juwen put his hand on the scimitar beside his waist vigilantly several times, fearing that when Crewe became agitated, his tentacles would also appear and sweep away a few skewers on the stall.

"You are good-looking, so be more careful, and you must not show off." Juwen, who checked out from the hotel in the twilight of the morning light, reminded him again kindly.

Crewe rubbed his eyes while walking hurriedly with Juventus.He nodded, but never took the words to heart.

Many people praised him for his good looks, even in the Rift Rocks.But it is absolutely impossible for him to compare with Saru, Debbie and Elena.Put together with his brothers and sisters, he can only be regarded as mediocre.

"I'm not as good-looking as Saru." Crewe said in a daze, half of his soul was still lying on the bed, and now he followed Juventus forward only by instinct.

"Yes, so Saru will not leave the island." Juventus lowered his voice, signaling that Crewe should pay attention to this point.

When she was training at Moonspear Fort, she had heard that Haimin was invaded by Lu Wu many years ago, and many compatriots were taken away during that time.According to Haimin's thinking, the kidnapped companion must have been killed by Lu Wu or taken as a slave.

But it's not that simple.

Later, some sea dwellers from outlying islands met the captives in Lu Wu's land, and regardless of whether they were male or female, what they contributed was not only their own ability to control the power of nature, but also some Juventus did not want to imagine. Something completely unimaginable.

The reason why Juventus is very concerned about this is also because she will protect Shirna in the future.

She can see Hilna's adventurous spirit, and the jellyfish family has often fought with Lu Wu, so it is not uncommon for the two to capture soldiers from each other over the years, and she will never allow such a fate to fall to Hilna one day. Na's head.

Crewe was stunned by Juventus and obediently fell silent.

It is true that Saru does not leave the island. Unlike Debbie, he is not interested in the outside world at all.His greatest ambition was in the Cracked Rock Islands, and he was nothing more than an octopus family.

Whatever level we set our goals on, the reality will downgrade to give us feedback.Therefore, it is not accidental that Crewe beat Saru. In the final analysis, he was guided by Debbie.

I don't know if it's because of the information vaguely revealed in Debbie's book, which always makes Crewe feel that it is impossible for them to have smooth sailing.It's just that the feeling is very faint, and he also feels that there is no need to say it to make Juventus worry.

However, when they walked for several hours, then took a carriage and galloped all the way through the path among the forests, and finally arrived at the location indicated on the map, he still had no choice but to confirm his conjecture.

They reached the next town, which was obviously larger than the previous one, around four o'clock in the afternoon.It has three very wide wizarding streets, and the carriages only stop at the junctions.

After using the mantra, read the words on the plaque. The three main roads are Heishui Street, Heisha Street and Heishan Street.

They asked the groom what the place is here, but the groom just smiled, pointed at a castle at the end of the street on a high hillside, and said-"Chilang, what do you mean by this?" Where is it?"

Crewe shook his head boldly.

This reaction made the groom laugh even more, he said hoarsely - "Isn't this the Twilight City, where did you come from?"

Crewe quickly changed the topic, distracted the groom's suspicion, and asked—"Where is further north?"

"North? Why are you going to the north? You—" the groom frowned, looked Crewe and Juventus up and down, and said slowly for a while—"Wind Howling Valley in the north, what do you have to do with werewolves?"

Realizing that the more you ask, the more mistakes you make, Ju Wen hurriedly stuffed a few pieces of gold with patterns worn out into the hands of the groom.He prevaricates by saying that they work for other families, and it is inconvenient for the groom to inquire about some things.

The groom also shook his head helplessly, murmuring that the two were overwhelmed.After all, in his eyes, neither Juventus nor Crewe looked like wizards who could deal with werewolves.

At the end of the day, the groom kindly asked one more thing—"If you want to enter the Howling Valley, hurry up, and when it gets dark, you won't be able to get out after entering."

After speaking, he whipped his whip, and the old horses kicked and drove towards one of the alleys, rumbling along with the goods in the alley, raising smoke and dust all over the place.

The entrance to the three streets is a huge sculpture, and Crewe can recognize it as the three-headed dog Corberos.Its whole body is covered with red lines, as if sulfur is burning on the cracked earth.Its three heads point to three paths, but the stone-carved eyes are piercing. It doesn't look like it was made by a mortal, but it is so lifelike that it seems that there is a spirit in it.

"Is Lu Wu also following the teachings of the Leviathan Demon King?" Crewe was very curious. He approached the statue and wanted to touch the winding red lines with his hands.

Corberus is a divine beast that guards the entrance to hell. There is no statue of it on the island. The sea people only know about it from books, and there are very few introductions in the books.After all, the relationship between Leviathan and it is not close, and it has not participated in the war between Leviathan and Behemoth in history.

But Juventus grabbed him immediately, preventing his hands from touching the stone statue.

"It will burn you," Juventus said, "I heard that they also believe in the devil, but the one we believe in is definitely not the same as us."

Crewe nodded with half understanding, but saw wisps of green smoke rising from the place where his fingers approached.It seems that it is indeed unfriendly to sea people, unlike Leviathan, which protects the sea.

It was getting late, and they didn't dare to delay any longer. After checking the map again, they walked towards one of the streets.

The location indicated by the address was in the depths of Black Rope Street, but Crewe didn't see anyone along the way.Even though there are shops with signboards on both sides of the street, none of them are open to welcome customers.

"Are they obsolete?" Crewe asked.

"I don't know..." You Wen said, pulling out the scimitar a little while speaking.The surface of the scimitar was shining brightly, she took a light breath, and replied - "This should be the place where the undead gather."

The moon halberd scimitar can sense the location of the dead, so it is also a must-have weapon for jellyfish families to go to sea.It allows the jellyfish fighters who slaughtered a large number of land witches and ordinary humans to avoid the places where the undead gather, so as to avoid being disturbed by the undead.

But at this moment, as soon as the moon halberd scimitar is out of its sheath, it emits a bright light like a morning star.It seems that there are not only undead here, but also a lot of them.

The pharmacy is No. 16 on the left hand side of the street, but that one has no signboard.

However, neither Juventus nor Crewe thought that they had found the wrong place. They both recognized the snake sword logo on the door by coincidence.On the upper left of the snake sword logo are two intertwined ouroboros of the sea snake family, and on the upper right is the maze-like octopus family crest.

Juventus and Crewe looked at each other, pushed open the wooden door and walked in.

As soon as they entered the door, they all coughed violently.

If the other shops are not abandoned, then the one I entered is an exception.It was covered with thick dust, and the moment the door was opened, there were several huge rats running around.They squeaked and complained that the visitor had destroyed their peaceful territory.

There are no windows in the whole house, and the light outside the door is getting darker and darker with the sunset.

Crewe lit the fire in the palm of his hand, while Juventus simply pulled out the scimitar to light it.

The room is about ten square meters, and there are discarded wooden boards on the left and right.A lot of manuscript paper was scattered in the corners, pitted and incomplete by bugs and rats.

Crewe bent down to see the words clearly, but without exception, all the patterns and words were blackened with charcoal, as if the recorded content was intentionally destroyed.

They walked around, and besides the manuscript paper and the board, there was some brown velvet covering the sundries.The brown cloth is very similar to Crewe's school robe in Haicheng, which proves that the place was indeed run by Haimin before.

Lifting up the rag, a black wicker box with a familiar appearance emerged from the thick smoke.It has the same pattern as the one that Crewe found in the basement of the sea snake's house before, indicating that they were made by the same person.

It's just that when the two of them excitedly wanted to open the box, they found that the box had already been pried.It was empty, with nothing but dust and a few bugs crawling in through the cracks.

Ju Wen was very disappointed, but also very nervous. She gritted her teeth and cursed—"Damn it, let Lu Wu take the lead!"

As she spoke, she was about to go out of the house, and she needed to look at the environment of the street again.If the thing my brother guarded with his life is lost, no matter how dangerous it is, she will turn this alley upside down.

But Crewe didn't go out.

He rolled up the box with his tentacles and swayed it out of nowhere like before—then, the previous excitement flooded into his heart again—that’s right, this box is not empty, the thing is packed in the middle of the box In this case, it is exactly the same as what I encountered at the Sea Snake's house before.

Crewe didn't care where Juventus went. He found a few wooden planks to prop up, and then transformed into the lower body of an octopus, and shot a shot of ink at the wicker box.

Immediately afterwards, he hurriedly jumped off the wooden board and spread the ink evenly on the box in a panic.

Sure enough, the logo of the Octopus House was slowly revealed from the bottom of the box again.Crewe gently moved the octopus' tentacles, and a pleasant "click" sounded from the edge of the box.

Krugan wanted to call Juventus, but was overwhelmed by the things that fell out of the box.

In addition to a thin handwritten note, there is also a strange thing.

That thing seems to be made of metal, and it has a triangular shape as a whole.But one of the triangular sides has a wooden inlay, which seems to be the handle of this thing.

Krewe held one side of the wood with a human hand, with his index finger just fitting into one of the rings.The ring had a clasp, and he lightly hooked his index finger, but the little thing only made a click, other than that, it was the same.

Next to this gadget are eight metal gadgets about two knuckles long, which look like a set of metal and wood inlays in his hand, but he doesn't know where they can be put.

Crewe carefully recalled all the experiences he had experienced at the Sea Snake's house before, but inexplicably thought of a joke Gareth made for him.

What Gareth was saying... He put his fingers together and pointed at Crewe's head.He said he could just go like this—boom!

Crewe was taken aback, not sure what he understood.But when he heard Juwen's footsteps entering the room again, he hurriedly stuffed the gadget and a few metal heads into his big robe, holding only a thin handwritten record in his hand.

Just as Juwen wanted to ask Crewe how he made the tentacles come out again, but seeing the book he was holding and opening the box on the second floor, he quickly followed Crewe and bent down to take the thin book.

The font on the cover was recognized by Crewe at a glance—it was signed by Debbie, but this time the title was changed, and she wrote—"Out of Bounds".

Youwen eagerly opened the handwritten book, but what shocked her was that there was not a single Haiwen in it except for the words on the cover. It was full of strange symbols and numbers, as if scribbled by hand.

But Crewe didn't think so. At this moment, he breathed a long sigh of relief—he finally knew why the content of the previous book could be interpreted very limited, because he didn't read it in the correct order, and he couldn't find it. Not any annotations.

What Juwen has now is not the formula, but the instructions of the previous handwritten book.

The shop indicated by the map is not on this street either, every direction of it is correct, and the coordinates are not wrong, but it does not refer to the world they are currently in, but the opposite world.

Crewe needs to go to the opposite world to find the formula in the same place.

It's just that he didn't tell Juwen that he only needs Juwen to think that he has fulfilled his brother's last wish. Even though she will feel unwilling to understand the secret, she will not pursue it to the end.

After all, Juventus cannot be involved in Debbie's secrets, because she is just a work partner that Crewe decides to make friends with, but she is definitely not someone who can be trusted.

As for how to go about the opposite world-Crewe knows that there are other people who can help him better, such as the old hunters who live on the east side of the cliff island-Gareth and Tristan.

TBC