Tides: Years of Dawn

But Crewe didn't see Andre.He hasn't seen Andre since the exam.The original plan to attend the graduation banquet with Andre was also canceled due to his absence, and it was only later that he learned that Andre did not attend the banquet after a long discussion among the attendants.

No one in the jellyfish family has been out recently, and no one knows what happened.

It was already night when Crewe arrived at Cliff Island in a small boat, and the sun sank below the sea level, only the orange glow still covered the sky and sea.Crewe likes watching the sunset very much, and the warm colors of the sunset can give him a little warmth.

In the days when Geraint was with him, he often said to him, look, when I grow up, I will go to the other side of the Rainbow Sea.If you want, you can also swim to find me, the rainbow sea is not cold, you can swim all the way to the other side.

Crewe laughed as he thought of Geraint's expression that was hotter than the waves.After being ridiculous, I wanted to cry a little bit.He is floating on the rainbow sea now, but now he is alone.

For the next three years, he will be alone.

Cliff Island is the largest of the four main islands, and three of the nine families live on it.

Go ashore from the cliff port in the south, the sea monster's house is in the west, the sea snake's house is in the east, and the jellyfish's house is in the north.

Neither the jellyfish family, who is in charge of the priest, nor the sea turtle family, who is in charge of the law, participate in the lord competition, so that their old houses are far away from the hustle and bustle of the market.

Since the Sea Snake family had many lords, they planned the island where they lived very well.The construction of the entire Cliff Island is much better than the chaotic Haicheng Island.Crewe recalled his dead sister Debbie, and it was no wonder that Debbie basically never came back after going to Cliff Island.

Those majestic stone churches, wide and smooth streets and alleys, as well as houses of uniform specifications and stamped with different family emblems, all reflect the order that sea people should have.

Obviously, the most developed sea route should be Haicheng Island, but it seems that only on Cliff Island can we see the sea witch society that has broken away from the original state and is becoming more and more mature.

In addition, it is dangerous for a child like him to walk alone on Haicheng Island at night.

There are mixed fish and dragons on Haicheng Island. Residents of Gubei Island, Bloodstone Island, Guard Island and the surrounding broken islands often go to the island without permission, which also makes the crime rate of Haicheng Island remain high.

But Crewe felt at ease walking on the cliff island.No matter which area you go to, even if you can't see the guards in front of you, if something happens, the guards always seem to be able to turn around and get out.

Crewe could even tell from the attire of the guards which of the three major families he had stepped into the jurisdiction of.

There are no dead ends on Cliff Island, which is well known to all sea people.Therefore, there will be no villains with malicious intentions who choose to commit crimes on Cliff Island, unless the identity of the criminal itself is extraordinary.

However, Cliff Island does not accept sea dwellers who migrated from other islands, unless they can obtain the permission or acceptance of the three families on the island.

And Crewe will live here one day, enjoying the blessing and glory here - he thought silently as he passed the old house of the sea monster.

The family crest of the sea monster family was planted on the stretching wall. As the sky was getting late, the trident pattern on the flag exuded a faint golden light, which complemented the moonlight leaking from the clouds.

Little Crewe walked through the bustling market and across the well-planned residential area.After walking for a long time, the tentacles were a little tired, and the prosperous scene around slowly receded. The houses became more and more sparse, but the trees became more and more lush.

Until the end, there is only one Kangzhuang road going straight forward.

Crewe walked alone on this avenue.

Crewe's visit didn't go well.As Ward said, as long as the jellyfish family doesn't open the door themselves, no one can knock on their door.

Crewe tried to tell the two jellyfish guards that he was the young master of the O///T///P///S family, and he was at the same time as Andre, and now he has very important things to tell Andre, Even if you can't tell Andre, you can tell the rest of the jellyfish family.

But the guard just shook his head lightly, showing a embarrassed smile - "It's really not possible, the head of the family has explained, let alone visits during these days, even letters can't be sent in."

Crewe was sad and a little anxious.

The visit of humans to the Cracked Rock Islands was a very dire omen. He had clearly witnessed this omen, but he did not know who to report it to.

The door couldn't be opened, and he didn't know where to go.It was already dark, and the whole mansion seemed to be a huge and abrupt pile of rocks built on the wilderness.There is no redundant building near it, only the light from the lighthouse in the distance sweeps over from time to time, proving that there are other creatures besides the jellyfish family.

Crewe recalled that the nearest hotel had to go back for nearly an hour.

He was so tired, he had no choice but to walk a little farther, and sat on a small stone with his tentacles spread out.

The two female guards watched him take his seat and couldn't say anything.Although I couldn't bear the little guy like this in my heart, no one dared to disobey the order of the head.

However, it wasn't just the guards guarding the outside who couldn't bear it, there was also a pair of eyes looking at the sky, and the owner of those eyes also felt compassionate, so he pushed his hand and helped Crewe from the perspective of fate .

It was an accident that the short-haired girl came out tonight. She had already fallen asleep, but she couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning.So he put on his robe and sat quietly in the living room for a while, feeling the tightness in his chest was really uncomfortable, so he pushed open the door, wanting to get some air outside the house.

A pair of invisible hands have been pinching her neck, and this feeling has continued since she saw her brother hanged.

In the past few nights, she has been thinking that maybe she will die tonight.The strong sense of suffocation was non-stop, like a shadow, giving her the illusion that she would suddenly die in the next second.

But she didn't die. It's been a long time since the day she witnessed the hanging. It's incredible that she's still alive.

It was her brother who was hanged, and her brother had been missing for five full years.

When someone told her that her brother had come back, she really thought it was her brother who found out his conscience and surrendered himself.

But in fact he was captured, and when she saw him, he was knocked down for resisting.

She barely recognized him, half of his face was completely festered.

She didn't know what he had been through in the past five years, and what kind of poison he had been poisoned. She just felt that her brother looked hideous and terrifying. Except for a little familiar color in his eyes at the moment when he saw her, there was nothing on his body that was similar to what he remembered. Brother coincides.

Before she could scream and leap to hug her brother, she was grabbed by the wrist and dragged backwards as another man dragged her into the back of the crowd.

"...God, you are here! Be careful, Juventus, don't lose control at this moment. Those elders are all brainless, if you pounce on them now, maybe they will throw you into the dungeon together!"

It was Hilna who spoke, the eldest lady of the jellyfish family.

Juventus opened his mouth, tears welling in his eyes.She is not good at expressing her feelings, so the tears just don't know how to flow.

Hilna covered her mouth and continued to bring her back. She chose a tricky angle and covered the bodies of the two with a curtain so that she could better see the entire process of torture.

The male jellyfish was bruised all over his body, his clothes were torn, and the linen was stained with blood and muddy.

Closest to him are a seated woman and three standing elders.

The seated woman is the head of the house, while the three standing elders are Do Not Speak, Do Not Listen and Do Not See.

"Where is Baroseben's secret?" asked one of the middle-aged women. She had no ears and her whole face was thin and long. She held a stave of the same height and slammed the ground hard.

The sound was different from the blunt sound made by ordinary wands hitting the ground. It was as if countless people suddenly screamed sharply, and the whole room was shocked by a wave of strong sound.

After the knock, Hilna and Juventus felt their ears buzzing at the same time, their stomachs were overwhelmed, and a throat-piercing stomach acid came out of their esophagus.

The elder brother who fell on the ground did not speak. One of his eyes was so swollen that he couldn't open it, and the other was looking down at the robes of the elders that dragged the floor.

He didn't even move his head, silently resisting this harsh torture.

"Speak!" The staff hit the ground again, and the overwhelming shrieking sound circled the huge hall again.

Several people present covered their mouths to hide the urge to retch.

The jellyfish that were close to the ground were more strongly stimulated than the standing person. He couldn't control himself and vomited a little yellow water from the corner of his mouth.

But he still didn't speak.He was as stubborn as a log, even though it was a soaked and rotten log.

"Remove one of his arms. In case he takes the opportunity to resist, he has been trained by the Turtle family." The woman who was sitting suddenly spoke. She is Shirna's mother and the current head of the Jellyfish family.She snapped her fingers expressionlessly and motioned to another woman beside her.

Another older woman stepped forward, her eyes wide open, but she had no mouth.She is tall and strong, no different from an adult warrior.

She stepped forward and stepped on the male jellyfish's neck, while she stretched out her hand from under the robe and held the male jellyfish's left arm.

With a savage force, he tore his left arm from the body of the male jellyfish.

"Ah, damn—" Hilna immediately blocked Juventus's eyes, and quickly hugged Juventus into her arms, "Don't look...don't look, hold me."

Juventus trembled all over, and the tears she held back almost burst her throat and nasal cavity.Even though she was blocked from seeing now, her brother's shouts still broke into her ears aggressively.

The mouthless woman tossed her severed arm aside, then returned to stand beside her.

And when the scepter was struck again, the shocking "speak" command sounded in the hall for the third time.

The male jellyfish had no strength, and he couldn't tell whether it was stomach acid or saliva in his mouth, and it flowed against his cheek, mixed with the dripping plasma.

The master waited for a while, seeing that the jellyfish still had no sense of opening his mouth, he snapped his fingers again, and said calmly - "Finger."

Perhaps it was too wasteful to remove the whole arm, and there was a risk of causing the other party to lose consciousness suddenly, so the master changed his strategy and decided to make the torture time longer.

The stout woman knelt down and pulled the other good hand across.

Alas, Juventus wished he had no ears.What it felt like, she really couldn't describe.She didn't look at it, and she didn't look at it during the whole process of breaking the finger.She has no strength, and every time her brother screams, her soul seems to be sucked out a little.

After the three screams, a long sob remained.Juventus, on the other hand, was already wrapped in severe tinnitus, and his mind was like a paste.

Shirna still held her tightly, pressing her head tightly on her shoulder.

"Things are probably still hidden on the island." After the lord paused temporarily, an elderly woman stepped forward with a staff. She had no eyes but could lift the staff.

She came up to the male jellyfish, raised her staff slightly, and then slammed it into the back of the jellyfish's hand. The jellyfish wanted to continue screaming, but he couldn't.But he couldn't call out, and he just didn't want to confess.

"Serben must have drugged him. As a jellyfish, he swears to protect the sea snake family." The master said coldly, taking a shallow breath.

The eyeless woman didn't answer, she paused for a while, then twisted the direction of the staff, moved her body tremblingly, facing the master, changed the topic, and said - "I have escaped for five years but came back, Either looking for the blood of the sea snake, or the dragon returning to the cave to check the treasure."

"Then he can give up." The master raised his eyebrows and stood up from his seat.

She walked to the dying male jellyfish, leaned down, checked the male jellyfish, made sure that he was still breathing and could hear herself talking, then stood up again, saying——

"The only remaining blood of the Sea Snake family, Gerald Thurben, has been imprisoned. Now you hand over Baroseben's things, and you may be able to survive. If I remember correctly, you still have a younger sister and a younger brother." Here, they have a good relationship with Hilna, and they will continue to live because of you."

Did the brother react?Juventus doesn't know.

Because she had just heard this, Hilna took a breath, and quickly took Juventus away before Juventus could react.

Shirna knew her mother's method, if Juventus was kept in the scene, Juventus would be pulled out in the next link.And Juventus's younger brother Andre is safe, that hard-working child must still be lying in bed reading a book with relish.

But even so, Hilna would not allow this kind of thing to happen to Juventus, she hurriedly dragged Juventus, covered by the curtain, and slipped into the depths of the corridor.

That night, Shirna slept with Juventus.She kept looking for topics to chat with Juventus, trying to squeeze out the messy thoughts in Juventus's mind.

It's a pity that Hilna's abilities are limited, and Juwen can hardly hear the people next to her talking to her.

She was silent and buried her face in her hands.She curled up on the bed motionless, no matter how Shirna pushed her, she didn't respond.

This situation lasted for three days.

In these three days, Xierna didn't say anything, and Juventus didn't ask anything.She also wished she hadn't seen the previous scene at all, and didn't think about how many parts they would remove from her brother in the past few days.

She could only lie to herself forcefully, her brother might confess, and if he confessed, he would be imprisoned in a dungeon, but he can live, he probably is still alive.

But in the next second, she denied her own idea. She preferred that her brother die on the first night.In this way, he won't have to accept the next torture, and won't drag that dilapidated and horrific body to stay in the world for a minute longer.

But no matter what it is, once the image of her brother breaks into Ju Wen's mind, her internal organs will choke violently.The pain was so bad that she wondered if her internal organs had really ruptured.

She couldn't eat well, couldn't sleep well, and always felt that someone was watching her every move from behind.She has countless things to say, but when she has a traitor brother, she can only learn to be silent.

When Juventus saw his brother again, it was the third day.

Hilna woke her up in the middle of the night. The eldest lady held the candlestick, and after pushing her awake, she quickly blew out the candle.

"Hurry up, hurry up and meet him, tomorrow he will be hanged in the dungeon, if you don't see him, you won't have a chance." Xierna whispered, she didn't even have time to change her robe, so she found him in her pajamas .

Juventus also got up from the bed in a jerk, and followed Xierna towards the dungeon.

Juventus will never forget the scene of meeting his brother in the dungeon.Because that was no longer his brother, just a piece of meat with a beating heart.

Juventus couldn't even cry, and didn't even dare to reach out and touch him.She stood outside the iron fence like this, listening to her brother's lisp, which seemed to be explaining, but also seemed to be panting.

She and her brother grew up together, and they were together almost every day before her brother joined the guard group recruited by the Turtle family.

The elder brother said that if he went to the turtle's house, he would be blessed by the turtle's family, and he would not have to face the risk of being sacrificed. He could watch Juventus and Andre grow up.

But the fact is not the case.

Juventus has hardly seen his brother since he joined the bodyguards with honor.She had no idea what he was doing or where he was.Obviously other people's guards are walking on the street, but she has never seen that her brother can also patrol the streets and alleys majestically.

She once asked her brother why, but he didn't say anything.Just tell her he's defending the Shattered Rocks, defending all sea folk, defending Juventus.

He will be a hero, stronger than the patrolling guards outside, and one day, Juventus will also know how powerful he is.

But why did he still want to say - "Don't let Andre know of my existence... This is what I mean, and it's also what our parents mean."

Juventus didn't know why at the time, but looking back now, it was probably the parents and elder brother who had guessed the ending at that time.

This protection made him end up with a more terrible end than the sacrifice. He ended up leaving for five years. He ended up looking like a walking dead, and even his own brother didn't know his existence.

The sacrificer is a hero, but the elder brother will die on the gallows as a traitor.

Juwen didn't know anything about his grown-up brother, only that others said he had betrayed Haimin.Although Juwen knew in her heart that her brother was not what they said, she couldn't find any proof.

Even, she was accused of being the traitor's younger sister.

Fortunately, Hilna treated her very well, so that others did not dare to talk nonsense in front of her, and kept blocking the news from Andre.

But this is not what she wants, this is not.

She didn't want a hero brother, nor did she want him to protect the entire island.She just wanted her brother to stay by her side, like a pair of normal brothers and sisters, like the past that couldn't go back.

"Yuwen... Youwen..." My brother stretched out his hand from the iron fence.

The hand was badly infected from the wound.The translucent palms kept shaking, this is not a hero, this is just a poor prisoner.

Juventus tried to hold it.

My brother has not much strength, and he didn't even have a chance to ask her and Andre how they are doing these years.

His eyes were cloudy, and his eyeballs were bloodshot.He seemed to talk a lot, like rambling, but his voice was too small for Juventus to hear clearly.

The only thing I can remember is only three sentences.Because when I said those three sentences, my brother's hands seemed to have some strength.He tugged on his sister vigorously, and tears burst out of his eyes.

"...The Sea Snake's house has three dungeons, not two, but three. I hid back...I hid back last year..."

"...the medicine is not elsewhere, but the ingredients of O///T///P///S are on the other side...Tell Geraint, be sure to tell him..."

"...I didn't betray you, I didn't betray the sea people... Nor did Barrow, the Sea Snake family didn't betray us..."

Juventus didn't have a chance to figure out what the words meant, and Shirna, who was watching the wind outside, came to urge her.So the two of them fled in the dark in a panic until they fled back to their bedroom.

These are the last few words that Juventus and his brother have spoken in the past five years.

And the third time they met, Juventus saw him chained to the gallows.

The bottom plate was empty, after a few struggles, the human figure faded away, and turned into a limp giant jellyfish, dangling, hanging on the rope.

It was also at this time that Juventus' tears suddenly slid down.She looked at the gallows in the dungeon, and wept quietly among the onlookers.

Shirna kept stroking her back, but she felt that she had lost her body.

There was only one hand pinching her neck, like a twine tied to her brother's neck.

Outside the old house, the air was still so stuffy that Juventus could hardly breathe.She retched for a while and walked away.

Her whole family are soldiers of the jellyfish family, and she once thought that she would become an honorable member when she grows up.Wearing impenetrable armor and wielding two crescent-shaped scimitars.

They keenly hunted down human ships, and accurately hunted down all land wizards who intended to approach the Cracked Rock Islands.Then she will return to the island with a rich treasure, be crowned by the head of the family, and then be supported and admired by her fellow clansmen.

Of course, she would live her wonderful life like this, and finally, like her ancestors, she would put the nameplate in the memorial hall of the jellyfish's house, and write the numerous achievements she had made in her life in bronzing sea text next to it.

But at this moment she was shaken.

The identity of a soldier took away her mother and grandmother, and eventually her brother.

She is willing to believe what her brother said, but what's the point of believing.All she can see is that her brother has abandoned the protection of the entire jellyfish family for some unspeakable belief.

She hates, but she is also very painful.

Her brother's whispers and screams, as well as the faint but thrilling sound of the gallows "Kara" lingered in her mind.

The night sky is vast and the sea is boundless.She sat on the shore, watching the distant lighthouse light up her face one after another.For a moment, she also wanted to plunge into the sea, swimming wherever she wanted, even if she just became the gravel on the seabed, it didn't matter.

Then maybe in many years she can also become a living rock on the seabed, providing a shelter for those creatures who don't know where to put their children to avoid hunting.

She sat down on the floor, and the feeling of suffocation dissipated a little with the waves.

Just then, the edge of her robe moved.

She thought it was a little crab playing beside her, but ignored it.

But after a while, the corner of the robe moved more vigorously, and then a timid voice came from the side - "Sister, sister... I, can I ask you for a favor?"

The hand of fate pushed again, Ju Wen turned his head to look, after a moment of stagnation, he smiled wryly.

What a twist of fate, fate actually brought a child of the O///Te///P///S family directly in front of her.

TBC

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