Tides: Years of Dawn

The prison is built in the northwest of the Cracked Rock Islands, and it only takes about an hour to sail north from the southernmost island of Haicheng Island by the Sea Witch's boat.

The Sea Witch's boat was fast and stable. Gawain sat next to Crewe along the way, but Crewe still looked around nervously.

The guards in black-bottomed robes stood silently on the deck, and the whole ship sailed quietly and quickly on the sea.

Crewe sat a little beside Gawain. When Geraint was not around, he habitually sought comfort from someone he was a little more familiar with.

Gawain patted Crewe and stirred his fingers covered with tentacled robes, intending to comfort him.

"I..." Crewe clenched Gawain's knuckles as if saving his life, and timidly looked up at the senior, "I...will I be beaten..."

"Don't worry, it won't." Gawain said bluntly, and exchanged a glance with Leier while speaking.

In fact, Gao Wen didn't know either.He has never been to prison, only heard from his father and Rael.The prison was built and managed by the turtle family of the Cracked Rock Islands. It is extremely grand but desolate.

It is located alone on a land of nearly [-] square kilometers. Except for the four main prison buildings that look like a city, the rest of the land is uninhabited rocks and shallows.

There is only one heavily guarded pier on the entire island, and the rest of the shallows are filled with a symbiont of animals and colonies.This kind of symbiont is called ghost grass by the seamen. Ghost grass is highly poisonous. As long as you step on their adult body, the venom can paralyze and shock the body.

This is the prison's natural barrier, which makes it impossible for sea dwellers and criminals who plunge into the sea to escape even across the shallows.

Ghost weeds are difficult to detect during the day, after all, they get into the crevices of the shallows, the edges of stones, and even pierce into the beach, making their bodies and sand grains blend together.But once it was night, the translucent finger-like thing would emit light blue fluorescence, which complemented the phosphorescence on the corpse of the executed prisoner.

From a distance, the crescent-shaped garrison island looks like the moon in the sky floating on the sea.It is so beautiful that it is impossible to hear the terrible howls and howls from the island without going close.

Leier has been familiar with all kinds of prisons with his father or elder brother since he was a child, and he will follow his elder brother to visit or live on the guard island every year during holidays.After all, after graduation, he will also serve as a prison guard for a few years, which can be regarded as the most basic training, and then he will be transferred to other positions.

He was used to the wails and cries day and night, as well as the sound of prisoners shaking their shackles and banging on the door panels as they lost control due to the unbearable torture.He wouldn't even be as keen as Gawain and Krewe to notice that the temperature had dropped several degrees after stepping near the guard island.

So he didn't realize that Gao Wen was telling a white lie, but seriously corrected him - "We can't guarantee whether you will be beaten or not, it depends on whether you cooperate with their management and investigation."

Hearing this, Crewe wrapped both tentacles around Gawain's arms in an instant.

"He has been cooperating." Gawain glared at Leier, signaling him not to add any more psychological burden to Crewe.

Leyle stopped talking, and nodded silently, looking at the vast sea outside the window, which was almost mixed with the sky.

But things still became difficult, especially when they landed on the shore, Crewe wriggled his tentacles but was pushed and urged by the guards behind him from time to time, he felt that it became more and more difficult to move forward.

The island was cold and windy, and strange winds and strange howls were mixed together and hovered above their heads.Crewe pinched the strap of his satchel, trembling with every step he took.

The prison is huge, beyond Crewe's imagination.

The surroundings of the prison are bare, only a thick wall enclosing the four huge buildings together.Sharp wrought iron fences are neatly lined up on the fence, and the outside of the fences are plated with a layer of silver metal to prevent them from being corroded by the humid air.

Outside the fence and behind the building, there are mangroves and erythrina trees that can't be seen at a glance.

Under the moonlight, the red erythrina made the entire prison look even more hideous.

The huge prison looks like a man-eating monster in the dark, and the two-meter-high stone turtles standing on both sides of the gate seem to be alive, with two pairs of eyes sharply examining the few people approaching.

Crewe felt himself shrink a little more.

He hurriedly ran two steps forward to catch up with Gawain, and grabbed Gawain's arm again.He has been holding back crying, but now he can't help it.The wind here was terribly cold and made him shiver.

"I'm afraid..." He gritted his teeth and rubbed Gawain's wrist uncomfortably.

"Don't be afraid." Gao Wen comforted palely, but even he himself felt the horror of this place.

As the guard drew a path of light on the stone turtle's surface, the iron gate opened a crack.

Several people walked in one by one, and then followed the handover guards to the waiting room on the left.

The waiting room, unlike a prison, is a squat, single-story building.This small building was enclosed separately, and an additional layer of iron fence was added inside and outside.

It appears to be a little newer than the other four buildings. It seems that it has just been completed, and the moss has not yet grown on the brick surface, and there is no sign of being corroded by the sea wind for the time being.

But what is surprising is that the strange impact sound came from the small building.

As they turned the stone-paved path to the building, the crashing sound grew louder.There are also some sounds that are not howling but roaring, as if a group of wild beasts out of control are locked inside.

Gawain looked at Leier suspiciously, but Leier did not look at him.He followed the guard intently, without saying a word.

Crewe almost twisted Gawain's wrist with veins.He couldn't move anymore, and he didn't know when the tears kept pouring out.He kept wiping his tears with the back of his hand and sniffing his nose.

Gao Wen felt very sad, how could such a child be a prisoner.

After entering the small building, the impact was too loud to bear.The floor and walls of the entire building vibrated with the impact, and it seemed that this flimsy building could collapse at any time.

The guard asked them to wait for a while, and one of them walked to the wooden door not far from the door, knocked on the door, and entered the room to give a brief report.

After a while, a man in his early forties came out of the room, and Leier stepped forward respectfully and called "Brother".

The man nodded to Rael, then extended his hand to Gawain.

Gawain worked very hard to free his hand from Crewe's tentacles and hold each other.

The knuckles of the man's fingers were very large and rough, as if the claws had not faded away, and the rough skin even made Gao Wensheng painful.

After a brief greeting, the man raised his chin to Kruyan, who had almost shrunk to the ground and limp into a puddle, and asked—"Ott//The youngest son of the Pusi family?"

"Yes, Ott//Puss." Gawain answered quickly, he finally found a chance to make them realize that Crewe was at least a member of the nine major families, and he hoped that this status would allow him to get a little better treatment.

But in fact it didn't. Seeing the man tilt his head to signal, the two guards suddenly picked up Crewe and tore him away from Gawain's side abruptly.

Crewe screamed, and then they were stuffed into an iron cage by the two.

The iron cage was no taller than a human being, and Crewe could only curl up in it.His tentacles hung out, trying to reach Gawain's arm.

Now he was completely crying, and he called Gao Wen's name while crying.But the guards didn't seem to hear it. After receiving the order from the warden, they carried the iron cage one by one and went to the end of the corridor.

"Wait!" Gao Wen grabbed the arm of one of the guards, turned his head and said to the warden—"Now the matter hasn't been clarified, you can't let him be tortured! You...you didn't even start to question him. -"

"The first round of interrogation will be held at [-] o'clock tomorrow morning, but the new prisoners must be locked up overnight."

The voice of the warden was very indifferent, and his calm attitude was almost exactly the same as that of Rael, "We won't hurt him for the time being, but locking him up for one night will help put pressure on him, and tomorrow he will answer more efficiently and seriously. question."

Rael stepped forward and held Gawain's arm, motioning him to let go of the guard, "This is the procedure, Gawain, the iron cage is protecting him from harm."

Gawain didn't want to let go, but Leier just pulled him away.

The guards were able to move on, heading towards the stone door at the end of the corridor that had heard a violent banging sound.

Crewe cried out, his long tentacles stretched out from the gap in the railing, trying to grab the ground or the wall.But he couldn't reach it at all, so he could only wave helplessly, and the suction cup shrank violently, which proved that he was very scared, and he was extremely scared.

But Gao Wen couldn't do anything.

At that moment, Gawain even regretted that he had captured Crewe to ask about the wand. He could pretend that he didn't know. Except for sea monsters, no one else was that keen on ore.No one could find out that he was covering them both up, just like no one would know that Geraint had poisoned the Sea Crocodile Brothers if he didn't tell.

The stone door opened, and the moment it opened, roars and impacts swarmed out unscrupulously.

The sound was so loud that it even overshadowed Crewe's crying, but he hadn't turned around yet, because his tentacles were pulling the door frame tightly, making the last resistance.

But Gawain knew that as long as Crewe took a look—yes, as long as the soft little thing took a look at where he was going to spend this night or even the next few nights, he would be silent for an instant, unable to utter a word Words for help.

Because even Gao Wen couldn't help being stunned when he saw the closed things in the house.His chest choked suddenly, and he opened his mouth slightly in surprise.

Inside the stone gate, there are more than a dozen burly guys, big and small, and everyone's neck is tied to the wall with an iron chain.Gao Wen could tell that they were not sea people, but they were definitely not ordinary humans either.Because their eyes are red, and their feet and hands seem to have beast-like claws.

They were biting each other when the door opened, some wrestling and clawing at each other.Some curled up in the corner, trembling and howling.Others were unable to join other people's gladiatorial fights due to the restriction of their movements by the iron chains. They frantically pulled the iron chains with their claws one by one, and even hit their heads against the blood-stained wall.

When they saw the guards and Crewe in the cage, they all stopped what they were doing.Then he turned around abruptly, staring at the comer fiercely.

Their eyes are full of hostility, and the fangs on their lips are even hanging on the flesh of their companions.Saliva and blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, exuding a horrible stench.

In less than half a second, one of the monsters rushed towards the door.But the guards managed the distance cleverly, just outside the limits of the chains.

At this moment, Crewe also turned around, and at that moment, all his tentacles were loosened.

He slammed down on the cage, dumbfounded.

Two guards lowered the cage and fastened the end of an empty chain near the door to the top of the cage.Then the two of them exerted their strength, and the cage was pushed into the middle of the monsters.

In an instant, all the monsters rushed towards the iron cage.

The iron cage was indeed protecting Krewe, because the monsters couldn't break through the cage, and their hands couldn't get through the gaps in the iron bars.

But Gawain knew that it was impossible for Crewe to be safe and sound.

Gawain stared blankly at the end of the corridor, and when the two guards came out and closed the stone door again, Gawain was patted on the back by Leier, and he suddenly came back to his senses.

"What is that...?" Gao Wen asked in shock.

"A group of monsters," Rael shrugged his shoulders and said lightly—"monsters caught from outside."

Gao Wen wanted to continue asking questions, but was interrupted by the warden, who changed the subject and explained—"I will receive the notice in a few days, come over with Leyle, and you two will have to go to court, after all, it's you Wand found first."

Yes, it was Gawain who discovered the wand first.Leier did not take this credit away, he still confessed the most truthful situation to his brother.

And in the eyes of the warden—“You’ve done a great job this time, young man,” the warden smiled gently, pinched Gawain’s shoulders, and couldn’t stop praising—“The children of the sea monster family always It makes people look differently.”

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