Tides: Years of Dawn

Crewe found Tristan on the third night, and as they approached the hut, Tristan drove off Scovid.Even though the latter was very dissatisfied, Tristan still forced some brutes to take him away, and let him wander around at will, not to return for an hour or two.

And when Crewe put the metal gadget and a few metal pieces on the table, Tristan and Gareth were as surprised as Gawain.

They looked at each other, and Tristan held the thing carefully in his hand.I didn't know what button was pressed, and something like a scroll wheel popped out, and he quickly and skillfully stuffed the metal pellets into it.

He held it up to the door, the same gesture Gareth had made with Crewe.

Rare excitement flashed in Tristan's eyes, and then gloomy in the next second, he asked very seriously—"Where did you get it?"

Crewe did not answer his question immediately, but instead asked—"Tell me first, what is crossing the line?"

Tristan froze, as did Gareth.They looked at each other again, and after a stalemate for a while, Tristan beckoned Gareth to close the door and put the metal triangle back on the table.

He took out his own crushed pack of cigarettes, threw one to Gareth, another to Crewe, took one in his mouth, struck a match and lit it.

"It's the way to go to the other side of the world." He took a deep breath of smoke, squinted his eyes and looked at Crewe, pointed to the metal triangle on the table, and said—"This thing was invented on the other side."

Ruger P08□□, Tristan once had one.

In fact, Tristan never mentioned it to anyone, not even with Gareth.It was also an accident that he discovered the method of crossing the line.

At that time, he was working as a killer in the spider's house, and there was an archive built underground.There are top-secret information on the nine big families of Lu Wu and files on the six big families of different races.

The spider family has been engaged in assassination missions from generation to generation, and the secrets it holds inside surpass any family of Lu Wu.It is also these undisclosed wealth that allow them to wander among several big families and make thousands of enemies, but they always prosper like a net.

Tristan accidentally dropped a book when he finished writing the materials and putting them into the database after a mission.

That's right, it's a book about crossing boundaries.

Looking back now, he always felt that fate was suggesting to him to do so.Otherwise, why was he the one who picked it up and opened it up without any hassle?

It was that day that he realized that the world he knew was only half of the real world.And the other half don't have magic, and deny its existence - all they admit is technology.

"Technology?" Crewe interrupted.

Tristan nodded and repeated, "Technology."

Technology and magic dominate the two worlds respectively.

In another world, magic is a distant and empty word.

They have no wizards, elves and dwarves, vampires and wolves.They don't know how to light a fire in the palm of their hand, or which woods can be made into a staff, or which ore contains the power of nature, not to mention the changes of the tides and the arrangement of the stars to convey the code words and mystery.

But they had other things, they had guns, they had cannons, they had steam engines, they had radios.

They use a very strange way to obtain knowledge and abilities from nature, and use this powerful power to prove that witchcraft is nonsense.

All this is difficult to understand before crossing the line, but after crossing the line it becomes a matter of course.

After defecting with Gareth, Tristan hides in a spider's web.But the spider webs are overwhelming, and you can hide from the first day of the junior high school but not the fifteenth day.

Before he was exhausted, Tristan decided to fight with his back—using the incantations and formations he extracted from the books at the time, to open the gate of Yin and Yang, and escape to the other side of the world.

"It was a mantra with a hundred lines of characters, and a special formation map. I once copied it on a piece of cloth, but it was lost later."

Tristan said regretfully, "There are three places in the world that can cross the border. I chose the Devil's Triangle closest to Lu Wu's land."

"The Devil's Triangle?" Gareth couldn't help asking.

He didn't forget Tristan's excuse that he was holding hands with him in a dream, and now that he finally caught Tristan and was willing to open up the conversation, he would naturally not miss any opportunity to ask questions.

Tristan nodded and explained—"In the records of another world, it doesn't have that name. It's called—"

Tristan scratched his stubble, thought for a while, and replied—"Bermuda, the Bermuda Triangle."

The process of crossing the border consumed almost all of Tristan's vitality, and even destroyed the memory of the crossing.

He only remembered that he took Gareth to drive the boat near that sea area, and a thick fog suddenly rose around.He didn't dare to stop, and hurriedly carved the formation on the boat.He tied himself and Gareth with an iron chain, fearing that the energy that crossed the boundary would be too strong and they would be separated.

And when he knelt in the formation, recited the mantra and activated the formation, he only remembered a brilliant white light flashing in front of his eyes.The white light made him feel like he was in heaven, as if drowning his body and soul.

The items on the boat deformed rapidly, whether it was knives and forks or wooden sticks and oars, they were twisted in an indescribable way.

The blue light and white light of the formation complement each other, and soon merge into one.At the moment of successful fusion, the white light immediately became concrete, and quickly scattered like white snow, and then condensed in front of the eyes like fragments.

Tristan struggled to keep his attention on the incantation until he had read it all.

When he looked up again, he saw a hole in the world in front of him.

The hole is not too big, but it is very abrupt in the vast mist.It was about three meters high and two meters wide, and the water beside the boat flowed through the door opening, connecting from one world to the other.

Where they were, the fog was so thick that the sky could not be seen, but on the other side of the hole, dark clouds, lightning and thunder could be clearly seen.

Tristan immediately grabbed the deformed oar and paddled desperately into the hole.But he seemed to have entered a quagmire, and he couldn't move the wooden oar despite all his efforts.

He was exhausted and sweaty, but he still paddled hard, hoping that the spell would work in the next moment, allowing them to swim smoothly for a distance of less than ten meters.

But who knew that he used too much strength, and he broke the oar with just a snap.

But at the moment they were stuck in the middle of the door, the ship was broken into two halves, one half was in the original world, and the other half was in the reverse world.

He was desperate, thinking that his end point was here.So he made a decisive decision and cut off the chain with a spell.He pushed Gareth as far as possible to the opposite world, even if he couldn't get through, he had to let Gareth pass.

But Gareth seemed to understand something, grabbed the broken piece of iron chain and crawled over, and tightened the chain tightly until he hugged Tristan.

He whimpered and howled, no matter how much Tristan kicked and kicked, he would not let go.

What happened next, Tristan doesn't remember.

All he remembers is a powerful bolt of lightning that split the sky, almost illuminating both worlds.Then he passed out, and when he woke up they had been washed to the beach.

"It was only after I found the town that I realized that the border crossing was successful."

Tristan said, "Afterwards, I was taken across the border by other Lu Wus again, using Lu Wu's unique movable meeting place. But I don't know exactly how they did it, and I never dared to do it again. Try a second time."

Because after the two of them were washed up on the beach, Tristan discovered that there were countless wounds on his body.It seemed that he had just walked through mountains of knives and sea of ​​fire, and the hole was pierced by the blade and burned by sulfur.

It was then that he discovered that his spells were not working.

"I can't use any spells, even if it's a simple fetch from space, it won't work at all."

Tristan spent 20 years, but he still hasn't figured out the rules of magic operation in that world.

Spells are not recognized on the other side, so there is absolutely no systematic book telling him how to release his power in that environment.

Of course, his experience of being kidnapped by Lu Wu later told him-"Although according to common sense, the opening and closing of the door is not controlled by humans, there are still wizards who can cross the boundary, and... they seem to have found A method to safely cross the boundary and control the opening and closing of the door."

As technology advances, so does witchcraft.

The group of hired wizards who robbed him were able to cast spells, even in other worlds.At the same time, they can also move the entire meeting place to another world, which shows that the progress of Lu Wu's witchcraft has exceeded the imagination of Tristan, who has crossed the border for 20 years.

He believed that if he stayed in the wizarding world, he would also be a core member of that door. At least he would have the opportunity to steal the information and put it back in the basement of the spider's house.

It's just that it's useless to say anything now, he chose another path, so he has no chance to see the true appearance of the results.

He picked up the gun on the table again to play with, the cold touch was both familiar and unfamiliar.That was his livelihood in another world, and half of his life had passed in a blink of an eye just by being with things that had nothing to do with magic or even oppose it.

After listening in a daze, Crewe fell silent.

He doesn't understand Lu Wu's world, let alone another world.If the other world is called a nightmare by Debbie, then it is even more impossible for him to go to the other world alone and get something that belongs to Debbie.

"You said... you said that the people over there can't use spells, right?" Crewe hesitated for a while and asked cautiously.

"Well, the operating rules of the whole world are different from ours. Even the most advanced wizards cannot activate any spells without mastering the rules there." Tristan replied affirmatively.

He was considered a very capable person in the spider family back then, but when he arrived in another world, there was nothing he could do.Otherwise, he would never start from scratch and learn how to kill people step by step.

Crew paused, and then asked again—"What if it's a potion? I mean...if they have our potion formula, will the potion they make have the same effect as our world?"

Tristan laughed, he took out the bullets in the gun, threw the gun to Gareth, and said——"They can't grow many medicinal materials at all, just like their things, we don't have everything. They all grow the same. What you don't understand is the most useless, as this gun is to you, our staff is to them."

Crewe understood, and he suddenly understood why Debbie kept the formula hidden on the other side of the world.

Her purpose is not for future generations to get it now, because they can't get it, they can't get it.They have not mastered the rules of the other world, so all the adventures are in vain.

Haimin is conservative and family-loving, which ensures the safety of the medicine to the greatest extent, but also eliminates the possibility of them obtaining the formula to the greatest extent.

Hybrid monsters are unique to the wizarding world, and the potion for saving monsters is naturally only useful for wizards.

She doesn't want her life's research to go to waste, but the current wizarding world has not yet obtained the qualifications for her research results.

Crewe left the gun to Tristan, and said to Tristan-"July this year is the time when the Yin-Yang Gate opens, and you don't need spells and formations to see the existence of that gate. If you Hope to leave... this may be an opportunity. But whatever you decide, don't tell me."

Tristan and Gareth were very surprised, but they gratefully agreed.

Little Octopus hides many secrets, just as Tristan also hides many pasts.None of them can be completely honest, but at least they can reciprocate.

After Crewe left, Gareth asked Tristan, "I've heard of spells in our world. Does that prove that there are still many wizards or aliens stationed in other worlds?"

"Yes, there are more people than we imagined. People who fled like me, in order to change their destiny, they are willing to bet their lives."

Tristan smiled, looked at Gareth meaningfully, and added—"But as many people who shouldn't live live, as many people who shouldn't die die 'accidentally'."

This is balance.

This is what those three regions of instability do.

It is always ensuring the total amount of these two worlds, it cannot gain a body, and it will never lose a soul.

Everything we call coincidence, in fact, can never escape the push and pull of fate.It is like an existence that stays out of the way, using invisible hands to manipulate the chess of the two worlds.

There are still many things that Tristan did not tell the little octopus, and he will not be able to explain clearly about all kinds of other worlds in a short time.

But he believed that Crewe would not let it go, and the curiosity he saw in Crewe's eyes would lead him deeper into the secret.

"You...do you want to go back?" Gareth asked, perhaps this is what they should be most concerned about right now.But having said that, in fact, as long as he is with Tristan, it is the same for him everywhere.

Of course, Tristan thought the same way.

He pushed his body back and lay lazily on the bed.

"I don't care, I don't care about where I go," said Tristan, looking at the dark ceiling with a long sigh of relief--"but there are so many animals here, we go, can you bear it?" ?”

Gareth fell silent.He couldn't bear it, he still wanted to see the two newly built houses next year, and the happy and excited expressions of the beasts after they entered the new house.

Yes, they have nothing to worry about in another world.

But it seems that there is concern here.

TBC