Tides: Years of Dawn

Gareth would never admit that when he finally managed to find a boat to board after a lot of effort, and then waited for the fog at night without sleeping for a few days, and then found a small boat to sneak down, then The wind came and went, the fog and the wind and the sea rode the wind and the waves, and finally saw a faint island before the waves smashed the last plank of the boat. Tristan was already squatting by the pier, smoking a cigarette, waiting for him.

In the end, he was picked up by Tristan.

He would never admit this in his life, even if Tristan said that he loved him all his life, it was useless.

Gareth choked several times when he went ashore, and refused Tristan to wipe his mouth and artificial respiration.Then he coughed for a long time, and finally emptied the seawater in his lungs, then he pushed Tristan violently, and cursed unhappily—"Why are you always like this?!"

Tristan was pushed by him and sat down on the shore, "...how old am I?"

"You're always like this! How can I protect you! How can I show my talents! My mother just came out deliberately without telling you, and now your mother is here faster than me, how do you let me live well?!"

Gareth was so upset that he smeared his face and tried to stand up, only to slip and sit down.

Tristan tried to help him, but he slapped him away again.

"...Don't make trouble, when is this time you make trouble with me, and they will watch us and make us into grilled ribs—"

"What are you looking at? What are you looking at?" Gareth muttered, forcing himself to stand up.

He held on to a wooden stake on the pier, made sure that he would not slip again and that there was no one around, and then continued cursing—"Just watch me fucking, I'm always a joke when I'm with you, You can't just let me do it, you say you're so old you can't fucking-"

Gareth wanted to continue cursing, but Tristan suddenly came up and hugged him.

At that moment, Gareth couldn't curse anymore.Probably Tristan cast some sort of gibberish spell to force Gareth's vocal cords into a knot.

"Don't make a fuss, you bastard... If you continue to make trouble, we'll be a bone." Tristan said in Gareth's ear, and stroked his back as he spoke.

Gareth really hates himself, every time Tristan does this, he's like a deflated ball.In fact, sometimes Tristan is really so hateful, obviously this matter has nothing to do with him, he has to follow him, Gareth even finds him a little annoying.

"...Can you go away?" Gareth said sadly, but he couldn't push him away.Guessing the relationship between the beast and its master, as soon as Tristan approached, he let it be manipulated as if it was automatically shut down, and all defenses were only his mouth.

Tristan didn't refute, just stroked Gareth's back.Tristan didn't arrive much earlier than Gareth. Although he was a little clever after getting instructions from Leopard's family and Qingtian, he only arrived half a day earlier than Gareth.

But half a day was enough for Tristan.

From the moment he reached the other side, he was afraid that he would not see that stupid Gareth at the pier.He was worried that Gareth was already on the island, and worried that he was still floating at sea.For a while, I wanted to walk around the island, and for a while, I felt that I should stay at the pier.

Every minute and every second, he changed countless decisions, but those decisions changed back and forth, but he still couldn't move.

He was really scared, the feeling of fear was worse than the first time he killed someone with a knife.He couldn't imagine what would happen if he really couldn't see Gareth, even if the orphan of the Leopard family promised him a large bounty, maybe he would lose interest and fall into the sea together.

The hug was not so much reassuring Gareth as Tristan was reassuring himself.

When he hugged Gareth, the bucket in his heart was also set.

But soon, another wave of worry immediately filled Tristan's heart—he searched for a long time on the map he took from Sunny Sky, but found that he was not sure which of the four main islands he was on.

Sunny has never been to the Cracked Rock Islands, but only knows that it is divided into four main islands, the most populated is Haicheng Island, which is located in the south, and the least populated is Gubei Island, which is located in the northeast.

There are very fierce sharks and whales on Gubei Island, while Haicheng Island is the safest-because there are only octopuses that look the most approachable.

However, during the half-day that Tristan stayed, he did not see any ferocious sea creatures such as sharks, nor did he see the disgusting number of tentacles such as octopuses.

There is always an endless layer of fog that shrouds the pier. Apart from the fog, there seems to be a huge stone pressing on the hill not far away.

"We seem to be in the southwest..." Tristan said hesitantly, the fog was so thick that he couldn't even tell the direction of the sun, so he shook his head and changed the angle of exploration—"We need to find some camouflage , take two of their clothes."

According to Tristan's experience—although he has no experience, and he has a lot of hearsay—the sea people wear very large robes, which are different from land wizards. Generally, the robes are not shorter than the ankle, but long. dragged on the ground.

There are two theories about the origin of this robe, one of which is that the seamen broke the robe to prevent them from becoming huge, so the width of the robe is generally twice its own.

The other is that when the land wizards and sea witches fought, the sea witches wore as wide and big clothes as possible in order to blend into the camp of land wizards and cover up the characteristics of their own sea creatures.Although the war ended later, the habit continued.

Tristan knew that sea folk could sense magic wands, and Gareth, who was mixed with sea folk blood, would pierce his heart when he got close to the magic wand is the best proof, so he left the wand behind before he left, and now he only has one Use a dagger to defend yourself.

And once he got two of these robes, he believed that at least in appearance, they would be no different from ordinary sea folk.

Unless seafolk have other ways of identifying their fellow men.

Tristan narrowed his eyes, trying to see the little slope through the mist.Since there is no one around the pier, there should be people on the conspicuous hillside.

He let go of Gareth, pointed to the hilltop hidden in the mist, and said—"Let's approach slowly, if we see one or two sea people who are alone, kill them and take their clothing."

Gareth nodded.Now that Tristan has come to him, he doesn't need to use his brain anymore, he just listens to Tristan.

This island was not the same as the place where the sea witches gathered in their imagination. According to Tristan's knowledge of the land wizards and the legends they told, he knew that the Split Rock Islands were a closed but complete society of sea people.He thought it would be the same as the human world, with markets, roads, crowds coming and going, and guards patrolling from time to time.

But on the island where they were, they could not see anything.There are only endless broken stones under the feet, and a thick fog that cannot be seen through at all.

"Are you saying that mermaids are sea people?" After walking for a while, there was still no sign of anyone, so Gareth couldn't help but speak.

He wanted to ask solid questions, but when it came to sea people, the only creatures that popped into his mind were mermaids.

Although he has never seen one, he has many fantasies about mermaids, and he is always full of fantasies about beautiful things-Tristan is an exception.

"Forget it... half man, half fish, probably." Tristan said absently.

Although the surroundings were always silent, there was fog and silence—this in itself was a dangerous signal.What's more, the thresholds of the five senses of animals are different from those of humans. Maybe there is something watching them secretly.

"Then you said the mermaid... Is the upper body a fish and the lower body is a human, or is the upper body a human and the lower body a fish?" This question is very important to Gareth, which determines whether this encounter is a dream or a nightmare. .

He thought for a moment about the fact that his upper body was covered with fish, and shivered.

Tristan didn't give him an answer, and he also made up a little bit of Gareth's two situations. In order to show his calmness, wisdom and objectivity, he decided to keep silent.

So the two of them continued to walk forward quietly, trying to shake off this unfriendly topic.

And when they walked along the gravel all the way to the hilltop they thought they had before, they were dumbfounded.

It turns out that the island is not without guards, but almost all the guards surround the hill.The small hill is not an ordinary highland, but a huge stone cut in the middle.

The stone was so high that it only allowed one person to pass through the gap, but it was as bright red as blood.It seems that the stone itself is life, and the gap of life leads directly to the heart of the island.

After comparing the four main islands drawn on the map, Tristan probably came to a conclusion—this is Bloodstone Island.The landmark of Bloodstone Island is a boulder with a crack in the middle and a sandy beach under the boulder that looks like it has been stained red with blood.

Although the two of them are now on the other side of the bloodstone, they cannot see whether the beach behind the bloodstone is bright red.But this shocking boulder alone is enough for Tristan to be sure.

They found a rock to hide in order to look around the hill more carefully.Sure enough, behind the boulder is the entrance to the island.

After they had settled down, they could barely hear noisy conversations from afar.Watching with bated breath, I finally saw some civilians who emerged from the fog for a while, and then disappeared into the fog for a while.

The costumes of civilians and guards are easy to distinguish. The civilians are generally dressed in brown robes, while the guards are wearing jagged armor and holding hatchets.

And now, Gareth's question has finally been answered.Because he saw from the crowd who came out of the fog from time to time, some people had a long crocodile tail dragging outside their robes.

"...we seem to be in a place worse than sharks," Gareth said.

"Well," Tristan's heart also clenched, "the map says... Bloodstone Island is the island of crocodiles."

However, they were not the only ones staring at the front with bated breath. On the other side of the mist, there were also two pairs of eyes staring at each other without blinking.From the moment they got on the pier, they followed them all the way here.

They were two identical twin eels except for a slight difference in size.

"Have you seen them? Why do I feel that they are not our teachers..." said one of the thicker eels.

"Come on, the teacher asked me to meet, how many teachers have you met after studying for a few years?" Another eel scolded.

"Then are they our teachers? Damn...they don't recognize each other after taking off their clothes." The thicker eel continued.

"...You don't know me when you're wearing clothes," another eel thought for a while, then clicked his tongue, "but I really don't think I've seen them..."

So the two were silent for a while, the thicker eel couldn't bear it anymore.

"Why not, brother?" The thicker eel was eager to try.

The thinner eel hastened to rip him off, letting the big rock cover them both—"What for?! What did we come out for, you forgot? We're going to school to steal that stupid report card of yours, As far as your grades are concerned, if you let dad know, you will be able to pay back!"

"It's because you don't help me take the exam, okay?! We agreed that you will take the exam for me this semester, and you will take the exam for me last year—"

"I fucking took the exam for you last year too! I'll just finish reading for you, I—"

The thinner eel hadn't finished speaking when suddenly the back of his head hurt and he was hit by something, his eyes went dark, and he fell to the ground without saying a word.

The thicker eel followed closely behind. Before turning his head around, he also took a hard blow, and lay down on the ground with his younger brother.

That's right, while the two eels were arguing, Tristan and Gareth had already touched the eel's vicinity.

Gareth threw away a large rock he picked up at random, and Tristan quickly dragged the two eels behind the rock farther away from the hill.

"...Heh, it's still a pair of twins." Tristan quickly peeled off the robe from the bigger sea dweller.

Gareth also followed Tristan's example and took off the clothes of the smaller sea folk and put them on again, "The sea folk are not as powerful as I thought!"

Tristan kicked one of the sea folk, pondered for a while, and came to a conclusion, "I don't know, I guess this breed is weaker."

As he spoke, he simply put on his robe, and exchanged glances with Gareth.

Immediately afterwards, the two quickly folded the two eels and placed them neatly behind the reef.Tristan was worried, and found some broken stones and leaves to spread on it.

After the two settled down the sleeping eel and hid most of their bodies in the large robes, they took a deep breath, exchanged glances again, and finally walked quickly towards the street in the thick fog go.

TBC

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