Tides: Years of Dawn

The more Gareth and Tristan walked in the direction indicated, the more they felt something was wrong.

I can't say what's wrong, I just have a faint feeling that I've been cheated.I was still deceived by a cute little octopus that looks harmless to humans and animals and will cry when poked.

This is such a strong sense of humiliation, so Tristan decided to dump the blame-"Damn, if you didn't talk about those useless things, we wouldn't know where we are now."

"...Blame me?" Gareth was also innocent, but he still silently accepted the result of "blaming him".

At the moment they are walking in a quagmire.The island is broken, full of bridges and small rivers.

They landed from the bottom of Broken Island, and the boats that carried them were very few people, only a few men who looked like whales were sitting on the boat, smoking sea cigarettes without saying a word, and carrying a few packages in their hands, Something in the package was moving and dripping.

After arriving on the island, the two followed them down.

But soon the several huge men disappeared at a speed that was completely inconsistent with their stature, and only the two of them were left alone to cross one bridge after another.

When they saw that there were people and houses, Gareth's words made Tristan's heart tremble with alarm-"Look at that house...is it a bit like a prison?"

Tristan realized something was wrong right away, but it was too late.

In fact, it's not that they didn't meet the guards along the way, but that the guards spent the whole journey to judge whether they were ordinary sea people or human beings.

They have been watched by the guards since they came to the island, but the guards are not only watching the two of them, but everyone.

The Garrison Island is not included in the four main islands, it is a prison in its entirety.Therefore, no idle seamen would come here. Except for the prisoners, only relatives and friends who came to the island came to the island to send clothes or coins.

Things in the prison are very expensive, one gold coin outside can get four or five small fish, and two gold coins inside can buy one.Some large prisoners—such as whales and sharks—do not eat a dozen or even dozens of small fish for a meal, which is not enough to survive.

As it turned out, Gareth and Tristan were not relatives of either of the prisoners.

Whether it's the direction of their actions, the way they dress, and the fact that they don't have any characteristics of sea beasts, it seems that they are indeed human beings.

The reason why it took so long to judge and conclude was because most of the guards had never seen real humans.It just so happened that Tristan and Gareth didn't have magic wands on them, which also reduced their danger value a lot, and there was also a lot less basis for judging.

However, when no one knew "how did the non-wizard humans come here" and "what did they come here for", the guards finally made a unanimous decision-to catch them back first.

So densely packed guards suddenly rushed up from all directions, Gareth and Tristan didn't even have a chance to run, and were suppressed by the swarming guards.

The soldiers first threw two punches to let them release their defenses, and then tied their hands behind their backs, pushing their spines forward.

On the way to be escorted, Gareth kept trying to talk to Tristan. Although every time he talked to Tristan, he was scolded nine times out of ten, but it always made him feel at ease.

But this opportunity is really rare, because as soon as he opens his mouth, he will be punched hard.

I don't know what species those guards are. The skin on their hands is as thick as the soles of their feet, and there are strange protrusions and sharp claws on them.

"...Sea Turtle." Tristan said in a low voice and shortly, and glanced cautiously at the guards who were escorting him.

Fortunately, the guards didn't hear him, and he still came to the prison office with a normal face size.

But they didn't see the warden immediately, the reason is very simple, Pei Di just sent his younger brother and Gao Wen to the bottom of the sea.

Leel tried to let Gawain go to the training ground under the sea for spell training. Firstly, it was to prevent people from other families from seeing Gawain’s strength before the assessment. Second, the training ground was surrounded by thick seawater as a buffer and protection. Even if it gets out of control, it won't cause too much chaos and destruction.

Pei Di was originally unwilling to do this. After all, in his heart, he believed that the harsher the environment, the better he could train his true skills.

If Gawain was really afraid of causing damage, he would have to control his mana more strictly.And being seen by other families is not a matter at all. If Gao Wen is strong enough, it doesn't matter even if he is the first to show it on the bloodstone beach where the memorial ceremony is held.

No one should make excuses for their lack of strength, let alone a young man who set his goal as the lord of the Split Rock Islands.

But he couldn't be more stubborn than his younger brother, and he also knew that Leier and Gawain were very good.He once thought that his younger brother would become Gawain's assistant, so if Gawain became the lord and had to marry a female from the Turtle family, the sea monster and the Turtle family would be more deeply bound.

Gao Wen and his father, Hua De, have different temperaments. Gao Wen is sharper and more daring to think and act. Pei Di believes that Gao Wen can achieve more impressive achievements than Hua De-this point, no matter whether Gao Wen has offended himself or not, Pei Di must admit.

So when he wetly opened the door, wiped off the salt on his neck, and listened to the attendant's report, he never expected that there would be two humans waiting in the room.

Pei Di has met people, met many people, and his origins can be traced back to his youth.The earliest contact with humans is because he has participated in many hunting activities of human ships.

He was a child then, about eleven or twelve years old.The pirate temperament of the sea people has not faded, and there is no formal regulation to define this behavior, so the hunting of the sea people is indiscriminate-whether it is a human wizard or an ordinary person, as long as the ship sails into their territory, they will all die. Destroy it immediately, kill all the people on board, and take away all the wealth in the warehouse.

He met a lot of ordinary people at that time.

Watching them run away screaming and weeping bitterly, listening to their screams and begging for mercy, and then grabbing their arms or legs and dragging them back, crushing their backs or wringing their necks.

When she was a child, Pei Di never doubted the legitimacy of doing so. After all, all the sea people were educated—if you don’t drive them out today, it will be their turn to eat you up tomorrow.

Hatred is really a feeling that is particularly easy to cultivate. It is superimposed and exaggerated layer by layer. Even if they have never witnessed the evil things that ordinary people do to sea people, there is still a surge of hatred when they hunt and kill humans. Cleansing in the chest cavity.

Perhaps one or two of the Sea Folk had felt compassion, and had been tormented by a dull sense of guilt when humans knelt and wept before them.But when all the sea people around him did this, and all the companions took it for granted, and came over to take the life of the person kneeling in front of them for them—the sense of guilt seemed to dissipate quickly.

What a terrible thing is habit, and the indifference to ordinary people's lives brought about by habit also made Pei Di deeply moved later.

If Barrow hadn't strictly prohibited everyone from hunting and killing non-wizard ships and enacted the law of "only expelling, not annihilating", perhaps they would not reflect on their own lives when they were young.

Barrow treats ordinary humans very well, and this kindness is a sign of progress at the beginning.

Pei Di once objected, but later gradually accepted and endorsed it as the years passed.

But there is a limit to everything, and the well water does not interfere with the river water, which is the best way for Haimin and ordinary people to get along with each other.But Barrow seemed to think that this was not enough, and expanded the scope of "ordinary people" to some land wizards, and even to those hybrids who mixed the blood of land wizards and sea witches, so that they also had the opportunity to enter the cracked rock together. The world of the archipelago—that is unforgivable.

This is not just compassion, but an act of leading hundreds of thousands of sea dwellers in the Split Rock Islands to self-exile and self-destruction.

It was at that time that Pei Di came to his senses and began to openly confront Baro.

It's a pity that he was still one step too late. Years of connivance and trust made him completely unaware that Barrow had done so many things to betray the archipelago under the eyes of the sea turtle family, and even developed a medicine that allowed the hybrids to stabilize the genes of the sea dwellers , turning all those monsters into sea people.

When Pei Di discovered the existence of that kind of hybrid monster, he hunted down and killed the monster. For this reason, he even personally handled the case of extermination that he thought could be done once and for all.

He didn't know how many years of financial and material resources and energy were spent in eradicating these monsters, and how many comrades and brothers died, but Baro said he wanted to redeem them.

The moment Pei Di heard such remarks, he not only felt that his trust in Barrow was ridiculous, but also felt that everything Barrow did was also a joke.

Baro is so naive, why doesn't he understand that the body can be transformed, but the mind cannot be transformed.

Those monsters raised by land wizards can never really understand the position of sea people, and turning them into fellow sea people is tantamount to leading wolves into the house, letting sea people be rendered and eroded by land wizards from the inside.

This was exactly what the land wizard wanted, but Barrow had exactly what he wanted.

So when Pei Di saw a human being again, he was filled with emotion.

How many years had he not seen this species?He doesn't remember.He only remembered that they had perfect hands and legs that would never deform, that there would be no gills on their necks and that they would not die of thirst no matter how long they walked on land.

"Who are you?" Pei Di didn't even let the attendants go out, but asked them to close the door, take off their robes, and said calmly, "Human?"

"...That's right, probably only half of you were beaten up by your guys." Tristan said.

He moved his arms, and the ropes that bound him were now chains.He and Gareth were locked in a cage next to the office, the kind that police stations often house inmates.

"You should thank my subordinates for not directly throwing you into the sea to feed the fish." Pei Di smiled, pulled up a chair and sat in front of the cage, "tell me, how did you come here, what did you do here, what did you do, the more you talk In detail, the more likely you are to survive."

Gareth and Tristan looked at each other, hesitated for a moment, and Tristan spoke first—"We are bounty hunters, and we were entrusted to find a jellyfish. We have no malicious intentions, and we... are not wizards."

"I can find the Split Rock Islands for money..." Pei Di took out a cigarette and lit it, shaking his head, "Either the money is enough for you to spend for several lifetimes, or the person who hired you is actually sending you to die."

"That jellyfish has what my boss wants." Tristan added, he thought that kind of potion was only useful for fools and their masters, after all, animals were created by land wizards, and the impact should be limited to on land.

But he never imagined that the same thing that was chased by the land wizard also caused waves in the sea.

"What?" Pei Di asked, narrowing his eyes slightly.

Tristan gritted his teeth—"I heard it's a...a kind of medicine."

After speaking, Tristan looked at each other nervously.

He thought that he had finished his order, but no matter how much the other party asked him, he would say that he didn't know.All the troubles are his boss's troubles, and he just collects money to do things.

But Pei Di didn't think so.

This sentence was like a sharp thorn, and it stirred Pei Di's heart the moment he uttered it.

He stared at Tristan for two seconds, then moved his eyes down to his chest, but at the moment Tristan and Gareth were both fully clothed and couldn't see anything.

Pei Di had no choice but to beckon the attendant to come up, and ordered—"Untie their clothes and see if there are any signs of monsters."

TBC

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