Tides: Years of Dawn

"Are you planning to take him to prison?" Gawain called Leier into the bedroom, and dared to ask this question after closing the door.

He didn't want to speculate on Rael's thoughts, but he knew that he had used a good attitude to force Crewe to tell everything.And he finally concluded to the little octopus with red eyes - "Okay, I see, you stay here first, and I will tell you where to go later."

Gawain felt that Leier was impulsive, even though Leier had never had anything to do with impulsiveness.

Gawain knew that all of this was caused by Geraint, and getting Crewe involved was the result he tried his best to avoid, so he let Crewe stay well, and he tried to find a way to handle this matter more properly , instead of putting the two into prison together.

"But he protected Geraint, didn't he?" Rael was a little surprised by Gawain's reaction, "Don't tell me you think he's innocent. Of course I know that the kid from the Seben family brought that thing back, but The little octopus didn't report it, did he?"

"He didn't even know it was a magic wand!" Gawain lowered his voice and emphasized.

Crewe really didn't know it was a wand. "He called it the 'magic stick' from beginning to end. None of us had ever seen a wand, and he and Geraint had every reason not to have read about it."

Crewe is innocent, and he doesn't even know what he's covering up.Perhaps in his mind, he admitted that the result of Geraint's skipping class and sneaking was a little more serious, and he didn't pay much attention to what Geraint brought back.

"It's up to the court." Rael shrugged and patted Gawain's shoulder reassuringly, "Gaowen, I know that your family and the Sea Serpent's family used to have close contacts, but you have to understand—— If you helped Geraint, you also committed the crime of covering up, you shouldn't—”

"I didn't intend to protect anyone," Gao Wen immediately declared, "but they are all too young, they are only 14 years old, if you put a 14-year-old person in a prison awaiting trial, they will only speak nonsense in fright. We could have avoided that outcome, avoided . . . avoided wronging innocent people."

Rael laughed, and he shook his head with a smile, "Gao Wen, you are giving up your chance to make meritorious deeds, and risk breaking the law instead. You are a good friend, but many times you shouldn't be arrogant—"

"I'm not trying to get mad—"

"Okay, let's stop arguing. I have already notified the guards of Haicheng Island. They should be on their way." Rael gave up trying to persuade Gawain, and he directly stated the result of the matter.

In terms of stubbornness, Rael is definitely more stubborn than Gao Wen.His stubbornness was extremely mild and calm, making it impossible for Gao Wen to utter half a word of rebuttal.

"You never thought of discussing it with me." Gao Wen said indignantly, and sighed helplessly.

Rael was also a little dissatisfied. He frowned, squeezed Gawain's shoulder, and asked—"But...why do you want to discuss a matter that is clear about right and wrong?"

Gao Wen didn't answer, he couldn't answer.He wanted to say that because the waiting room of the prison was terrible, but Rael would definitely say that the sea people who made mistakes should be in a terrible situation, otherwise they would not be able to warn others.

What Rael said was right and reasonable, Gao Wen just couldn't bear it, he felt it was unfair.But "can't bear it" can't be used as a reason to persuade Leier, and it's not up to the two of them to decide whether it's fair or not, so he didn't answer, turned out the door, and walked in front of Crewe.

The laws of the Cracked Rock Islands are harsh, and Gawain also visited the waiting room once.The environment there was unbearable even for an adult seaman, not to mention the limp Crewe who was always being bullied.

Suspects who have evidence of their crimes will be tortured both mentally and physically in the waiting room until the day when the trial actually starts.During this period, prisoners can choose to confess or remain silent, which will determine both the length of their stay in the waiting room and the severity of their final sentence.

Gao Wen felt that he wanted Crewe to make some mental preparations, at least let him not be afraid, not collapse, and give him some time to think of a way, and he would definitely come up with a more comprehensive way to give them a more fair sentence.

Gawain leaned down, held one of Crewe's hands, and said, "You're going to a place later, we will accompany you there, but you have to stay alone after that."

Crewe's eyes immediately flickered with fear, he immediately wrapped one of his tentacles around Gawain's arm, and asked timidly—"Where am I going?"

"Go to the prison." Seeing that Crewe was about to cry again, Gawain quickly grabbed his fingers and added—"but it's not a real prison, it's just a waiting room. You have to stay there for a few days, and wait for us to When the matter is clear, I will pick you up."

"...not good." Crewe said tremblingly, he was very scared, he was very scared of unknown places, and the feeling of fear was even more than that of Gawain yelling at him.

His tentacles tightened a little more, as if rejecting Geraint's arrangement, he simply responded—"I don't want to go, you...you don't want to send me there."

"It's up to me to decide, it's because you're hiding a wand," Gawain tried to grip his fingers a little tighter, hoping that Crewe would believe him, and answered him—"You have to tell me where Geraint is." Otherwise, the crime he committed was not only bringing back the wand, but also absconding in fear of crime."

Crewe looked at Gawain nervously, and he knew from Gawain's firm and serious eyes that he could no longer hide it.Gawain's attitude was tantamount to telling him that hiding a wand was a more terrible mistake than slipping away.

So Crewe hesitated for a while, and finally confessed falteringly—"He...he is not on the island...he, he went...to the human world..."

Geraint was indeed not on the island, he had just boarded a human ship.He completely turned into a snake and got into a wooden barrel.

The bucket was full of hay, with some hard breakables in the middle.Geraint wanted to see clearly, but the light was too dim. He could barely make out what looked like a clay pot. As the light changed, there seemed to be silver lines on it.

Geraint fell asleep in the barrel, listening to the yelling and shouting of the sailors outside.From the noisy conversation, he knew that this time he would go to America, and he went to America last time, but America is very big, and he didn't know where he would dock this time.

In the middle of the night, he woke up in a daze, and heard two people standing beside the barrel talking.The strong smell of smoke came from the crack of the wooden barrel, Geraint opened his eyes and looked out through the crack.

"This time there are not as many as last time, only one." One of them said hoarsely.

The other person coughed a mouthful of phlegm, spit it on the ground, and then took a sharp puff of cigarette, "Did you get the money? Don't be so fucking short like last time."

"I got it, it's a lot of points, don't worry," said the man whose voice seemed to have been burnt, and took out a cloth bag from his pocket and handed it to the other party, "I couldn't help it last time, it just broke one of my arms, You say to catch this thing, it’s not tied, it’s not tied, it’s not…”

"Not tied? Not tied? His mother killed both of our buddies, not tied..." The latter took the envelope and murmured cursingly.He bit the cigarette with his mouth, opened the bag with squinted eyes, and weighed it again.

The cloth bag made the sound of metal colliding, and Geraint deduced that it contained first base gold coins.

The person holding the gold coin coughed twice, and asked again, "How much do those freaks say they charge?"

"As long as you have it, take it. If it's intact, it's a lot of gold coins." Another person rubbed his hands and extinguished the cigarette on the bottom of his feet. If they can make a few pennies, they will almost kill them all."

"You mean those wizards?" The man with a hoarse voice chuckled, "A group of Grandets... They want to pay more, and they have killed them all now."

"What you want on land is dead, so how can it be the same? It is indeed much more troublesome to catch alive."

At this point in the conversation, there was a sudden sound of walking outside the warehouse.The two stopped talking immediately and continued to smoke in muffled voices.

After a while, the footsteps left, and the man with a hoarse voice walked towards the stairs, and told his companion—"Remember, keep quiet, especially don't let Woody know—understand?"

Looking through the gap, the other nodded nervously.So the two boarded the escalator one after the other and disappeared from Geraint's sight.

When there was no one around, Geraint gently got out of the barrel, slowly climbed to the center of the warehouse, and then turned into a human form.This made it easier for him to use both hands to open the barrel completely.

He took out the treasure inside and looked at it in a light-transmitting place.He was surprised to find that it was a very strange vase. The silver lines on it really rolled like flowing water, twisting and rotating on the body of the bottle, changing various patterns.

He was overjoyed, and after carefully putting down the vase, he opened the rest of the barrels.

He was stunned, and there was a priceless treasure in each bucket.

The sea people will plunder the wealth of the ships, they will drag the human ships to the bottom of the sea, and then take these treasures as their own.Geraint had a momentary impulse to jump off the ship and go back to inform his compatriots in the Cracked Rock Islands that they would reap a good ship full of gold, silver and jewels.

At this moment, Geraint was holding a teapot-like thing to look at. The lid of the pot was in the shape of cat ears, but the body of the pot was trimmed with gold.Geraint wiped it with his dirty cuff, and as soon as he wiped it, the body of the pot shone golden, and it became heavier and heavier in Geraint's hand.

Geraint pinched the cat's ears and opened the spout, only to find that it was half filled with viscous liquid.The liquid slowly fluctuated left and right with Geraint's movements, and the light passing through the liquid reflected a strange brilliance.

Geraint immediately took out a glass jar from his small cloth bag and poured more than half of the liquid in the jar.Then seal the glass jar and carefully put it back in the cloth bag.

He didn't know what it was, or whether it was for external use or internal use, but it looked powerful, and he believed that Crewe also liked this colorful and beautiful thing.

But just as he continued to hold the golden pot and looked at it, a voice suddenly came from the depths of the darkness.

"Are you a sea-folk?" said the voice, and as it slowly emerged from the darkness, it proved that he too had been hiding here.

Geraint was startled and almost dropped the teapot in his hand.His legs gave way, and he immediately staggered back to hide.

But the man didn't want to hurt him, but walked slowly in the only place in the warehouse that could be illuminated by light, so that Geraint could see that he was a young male.But he was wearing a cloak and a hood, and Geraint still couldn't see his face clearly.

Geraint was bewildered, and immediately wanted to turn into a sea snake and escape.But before he could move, the man saw his intention and said to him - "Don't be afraid, I am too."

As he slowly took off his hood, Geraint gasped for a moment.

The other party was indeed only in his early twenties, but the left half of his face was completely unrecognizable, as if it had been severely corroded. The polyps on it were twisted and hideous, very terrifying, while the intact face on the right half was translucent.

He is from the jellyfish family.

A jellyfish family, male.

TBC