Tides: Years of Dawn

Tristan's situation is getting more and more stable.

Crewe has never seen human beings, but the treatment of sea people seems to be effective for human beings as well.After all, Haimin has half-human, half-animal bloodlines, and has lived and evolved on the island for many years.

Tristan looked like someone who had undergone a lot of special training, whether it was the scars on his body, the tenacious will to survive, or the physiological functions beyond ordinary people, Crewe even doubted whether the soldiers under Pei Di were as tough as the old hunter in front of him. vitality.

He didn't find a wand or any wizarding supplies on this human, maybe it was what Gareth had said - we're not wizards, we're just looking for a jellyfish.

Crewe found scissors, gauze, and some simple anti-inflammatory agents in the old house of the Sea Serpent's family. While cutting off all the rotten flesh from Tristan's wound, Gareth went outside the room to wait.

He couldn't see Tristan dripping with blood, otherwise his heart would throb and hurt.

The other animals were also at ease, maybe they hadn't slept peacefully for too long, and now they were lying or sitting on all fours.

There were also some watchpoints that Gareth had arranged to watch out vigilantly, in case any strange seafolk approached.

Following Crewe's instructions, Gareth dragged in all the corpses of the attendants outside, then moved a few large rocks to replace the attendants, and surrounded them with sheets cut into strips.

He said that the sea people had a precedent for protecting the site. He read from the book that when there were not enough guards on the island, some empty houses that needed to be separated were arranged like this.

Gareth was skeptical, but at any rate, it was already halfway through the day, and there were really few sea dwellers who were curious about this house.

Crewe said it was certain. The owner here had been dead for more than five years, and curiosity had already been exhausted in five years.

Those who do not quench their curiosity with the passing of time, either lie in the hall and die, or are locked in the prison.

Crewe had gone as fast as he could, but he still couldn't make it back before dawn.

That being the case, he is not in a hurry.Anyway, it is estimated that the family has already had breakfast, and everyone should know that he is not in the bedroom, but no one cares about where he went-if he had not been found out from the old sea snake house, and the sword whale he met earlier would Keep your mouth shut.

After treating the wound thoroughly, Gareth stood by Tristan's side.Crewe also said he needed to do his own thing, and Gareth didn't stop him.

In fact, Gareth was already very tired, but he couldn't close his eyes.He stared at Tristan's slightly frowning brow, unable to tell what it was like.

Crewe felt a little sad at that moment.

He was sorry for what he had done and the lies he had caused to both of them.

There are not many people in this world who are kind to Crewe, but the two humans in front of them who should hurt the sea people did not do so.

But at this moment, Crewe couldn't care so much anymore. After closing the door, he quietly moved to the basement.

The old house of the Sea Snake's family is very large, and the corridors are like a labyrinth.

It's not easy for ordinary people to walk in and find something. After all, every corridor looks alike, and some of them are even concealed behind a wall.

But fortunately Crewe had been here. When he was young, he often followed Geraint around the old house.

At that time, Geraint liked to go to the roof and the basement very much. He always liked to drill to the highest and lowest places, as if he could dig out a new world that belonged to him there.

The corridor leading to the basement is in the compartment behind the kitchen on the first floor.The tableware in the kitchen was not ventilated because the house was not ventilated, and no one opened the windows, so there was no dust on the dishes.

It could be seen that some rat worm mounds had been here, but soon found that there was no food here, so they simply went outside the hall to eat the corpses.

So when Crewe walked all the way, the more he walked into the humid place, the less he felt that this place had been deserted for five years.

Geraint was brought back to Octopus's house by Debbie a year before entering school. At that time, Crewe was a little happy, because he finally had someone at home who could talk to him.He didn't know what happened to Geraint, nor did he know what kind of psychological torment his companion had experienced after the entire home was completely destroyed.

He could see the confusion and loneliness in Geraint's eyes, but Geraint was never willing to say more.

The decline of the family was like a thorn stuck in his throat, making him keep silent about all the pain. The only thing he could say was the sentence-"I will become famous in the future, and I will cover you after I become famous."

Lift off the green-backed silver-patterned carpet in the compartment, and there is a small wooden door underneath.

Crewe's tentacles groped around until they reached the edge of the wooden door's seam, and then followed the edge to find the buckle hidden in the wood pattern.

Crewe grabbed the buckle and opened it, and a damp smell came over his face.But when he tried to go down, he found some shallow marks on it.

He bent down and lit the light to see that it was the trace of the sword whale before.It seems that the Sword Whale has already found this place, but Crewe recalled it carefully, but did not find that Carole was holding the small box. She reckoned that she had indeed only descended to the second underground floor, but did not know that there was a third floor.

In fact, Crewe didn't know it before.

He and Geraint would only play in the storage room on the basement level and the grotto on the second basement level.

Most of the storage rooms are stacked with old items, including the collections or notes of previous generations, and some manuscripts that will basically not be turned over.

They once found a round stick that was about one meter long but was broken in half in a dark corner. At that time, Crewe was not interested in that round stick, but now that he thought about it, he felt that it was also a magic wand.

At that time, after Geraint brought the wand back, he once told him that the wands used by the wizards outside were of different lengths. He thought it might have something to do with the amount of mana that the wand could withstand.

For example, to perform some magic spells, the mana needed to be guided by the wand is very weak, so the wizard only needs to use a wand that is as long as the arm to do it, not even a wand, just some magic stones.

When performing larger spells, you need to use a round stick about one meter.Through such a stick, more destructive spells with a wider range of spells can be released.

And when it comes to channeling more powerful spells, a staff of equal height is needed.

Crewe didn't know about these things, because according to the book, it is difficult for sea people to control their own mana very precisely and weakly, so except for the staff, using other magic guides to cast spells is likely to explode with natural force This guide.

But Geraint has a strong interest in this kind of "control".

Back then, he thought for a long time holding the two broken round sticks, and finally said—"They must be more advanced than us, so they know how to control their own power better than us."

Perhaps from then on, Geraint was already curious about Lu Wu.So when he was able to cast spells with his wand, he naively thought that his control power was better than others, not that his mana had been controlled and locked firmly in the rough stone of the Sea Serpent's house.

After walking through the basement level and entering the second basement level, you will arrive at the grotto of the sea snake's house.

There are all kinds of long boxes stored in the grotto, and the boxes contain the skins shed every time by members of the Sea Serpent family, as well as the corpses after death.

All members of the main family will be put into the mansion after death, so that their souls will guard the descendants from generation to generation.

As soon as Crewe stepped into the space on the second floor, the two rows of torches around him lit up one by one.

Those torches were not real flames, but spelled on top of the corpse oil.The light is not the orange-red that Crewe lit, but green and white, like a phosphorous fire.

Judging from the footprints on the ground, he was also sure that the sword whale had been here.Not only that, but some long boxes showed signs of being turned over.

The grotto is so big that you can't see the end at a glance.There are also countless partitions made of stone at the interval between the torches.Not to mention the number of boxes on the partition, even the number of torches, Crewe will not be able to count for a while.

Crewe walked to a few spaces, thinking in his heart that the corpses of the elders above might have rotted on the ground, and no one helped them clean them up.

Crewe walked in the underground grotto for a while, then sat down.

Finding an entrance to the third floor in such a place is no different from finding a needle in a haystack.

Based on his understanding of Geraint and Jade, and even his knowledge of the ancestors of the Sea Snake family in the history books, he thought that they would set the switch under a certain representative long box, but the contact with the Sea Snake family When he was assisting, Crewe dismissed the idea again.

The people of the Sea Snake family are good at seeing the big picture from afar, but they are not good at dealing with trivial matters in front of them.This is also the meaning of octopuses always being their assistants - because octopuses are good at seeing details, they can reorganize tedious and redundant, and make it orderly.

And this kind of orderliness must also be understood and accepted by the sea snake lord.It is simple and easy to remember, but it must be extremely hidden.

For example, if the Huanhai Snake family was asked to set up the switch themselves, they would set it next to the body box of a direct descendant.And if auxiliary assistance is added, then the "side" must be full of traps and blindfolds, making this entrance difficult to find.

Thinking of this, Crewe decided to search down the year and month and the inscription on the box, and find Baroseben's corpse box.

According to legend, Baroseben died suddenly, but he committed suicide by taking poison, so the body was intact and the burial process was very thorough.

He should have received different treatment according to the brilliance he created during his lifetime. For example, the shelf on which he was placed would be particularly large, and the carvings would be extraordinarily complicated. After all, these carvings were more or less mixed with descriptions of his great achievements during his lifetime.

But he was accused of treason against the island, so that his stone grid was very ordinary, and Crewe almost passed by.

Not only that, but the placement of Baroseben's stone lattice is also different from that of other people's stone lattice. The corpse box is not placed in the center of the stone lattice, but is deliberately pushed to the depth of the stone lattice. If you don't look carefully, I thought there was no corpse box here.

Crewe took out Barrow's body box and put it aside, then carefully groped around the stone grid.

Each of the complicated carvings seemed to be the buttons of the mechanism, but Crewe used all five tentacles, and almost pressed all the protruding snake eyes, letters, and snake tails, but nothing happened.

He fumbled around the wall behind the stone platform again, trying to find the secret door from here.

But it's a pity that the entire wall is so radiant and thick that it doesn't even make a muffled sound when it is hammered hard.

Crewe was a little distressed, and sat down again.

Then, his eyes fell on the space next to him.

Next to it is the stone grid that supports Debbie.

Debbie said she died by accident, but her body was not at the sea snake's house, but at the octopus' house.At this moment, on the stone grid with her name engraved on it, the body box was wide open, and there was nothing inside.

Debbie is a very strong woman, even in the face of a lord like Barrow, she always said that her name has nothing to do with Barrow.

So her body was also taken away by Clough and buried in the garden in the southwest.

The Sea Snake family used to be against it, but everyone knew what Debbie was like.They knew that this must be what Debbie wanted most—her achievements belonged to her, and her home belonged to her, and she would not change the blood flowing in her body just because she became an assistant.

She didn't even want to change her surname during her lifetime, so it's even more impossible for her to be willing to stay in the sea snake's grotto after her death.

Crewe stood up silently and walked to Debbie's stone lattice.

Although Debbie is strong, she also understands that without the assistance of Barrow, who kept bringing in raw materials for her research from the land, her potion would be impossible to succeed.

Crewe took out Debbie's empty body box and placed it gently on the ground.Then stretched out the tentacles and probed into the stone lattice.

Debbie admitted that it was a joint effort between her and Barrow, but she was absolutely unwilling to give it full ownership to Barrow.Regardless of whether this research result brings infamy or glory, she is unwilling to let the world forget her name.

So she will definitely do everything possible to prevent her existence from being ignored after her and Baro's death, and later generations will find the key to unlock the secret from near Baro's body box.

She pays attention to the meaning of her own existence, which is even higher than love and life, so——

Crewe took a deep breath, and his tentacles touched a stone-carved octopus in the corner of the stone grid.

The suction cups on Crewe's tentacles carefully slid across the octopus carving little by little. He tried to push it and pull it, but it didn't respond.

He pulled out the tentacles to have a look, there was still very little dust on them.Perhaps someone has searched here too, and how could the stupid Krewe have something that other people haven't found——

A little strange emotion appeared in Crewe's heart. While he was groping for the octopus carving just now, something strange seemed to flash through his mind.

He stood in front of Shige in a daze, then took a deep breath, and stretched his tentacles in again.

This time, he simply sent the small flame he created into the dark stone lattice, then bent down, groping and looking inside.

He saw the lines he had touched earlier.

But the moment he saw the lines, his back immediately overflowed with ecstatic sweat.

At first glance, it is indeed an ordinary octopus, which means that the support placed here is the blood of the Ao///Te///Pu///S family.

Most people would not notice anything unusual about this octopus carving, but only Crewe, who is O///Spec///P///S, can see it at a glance—this octopus has an extra tentacle.

He tried hard to control his violent heartbeat, sucked the suction cups on the tentacles carved in stone one by one, and moved them left and right.

Sure enough, when he touched the fifth tentacle, that tentacle moved in the direction of his force.Krewe yanked one to the floor—and all the tentacles moved across the slab.

Crewe hastily withdrew his hand and took a few steps back.

Hearing the sound of the stone door opening, the shelf holding Debbie's body box quickly split into two halves.

Then, a small, narrow staircase hidden behind suddenly appeared in front of Crewe.

Crewe froze for a few seconds, shook his head, and after confirming that what he saw was not a hallucination, he gritted his teeth and hurriedly stepped into the stairs.

TBC