Tides: Years of Dawn

"What do you mean the monster has escaped? I don't know what you mean...you mean those monsters in the waiting room?" Gao Wen asked in surprise.

"Yes, we captured two humans who came to the island a few days ago. They were also monsters, but who knew that one of them broke free from the chain and released all the monsters." Leyle said.

He came to find Gao Wen this morning, and it was the first time in a long time that he asked Gao Wen for help.

"Your synesthesia spell is quite powerful, can you help me?" Rael asked.

There was no reason for Gao Wen not to help, he changed into a robe that was more convenient for movement, and went out with Leier.

A synesthesia spell is a spell that accesses the feelings and memories of other species.Sea witches often use this spell to obtain information that birds and beasts have seen and heard.

Gawain has the blood of sea monsters, and sea monsters are the gods of all sea beasts, which makes them naturally good at this kind of spells.

In my impression, Gao Wen has been able to read the memory of water since he was a child.That is to read all the things that happened in two or three square meters of water within one hour - including the people who have stepped on this water, and the conversations that happened when they were in this water, etc.

In fact, he does not obtain information directly from the water, but obtains information from various creatures and microorganisms in the water.

With the growth of age and the strengthening of spells, Gao Wen's ability became stronger and stronger.

It’s just that most of the time he won’t use the Synesthesia Charm, because it is also a very dangerous spell. Although the clarity and duration of the information obtained are determined by the wizard’s strength, excessive use will damage the wizard’s soul. Weakness and inability to discern long-term hidden dangers in the real world.

Rael also had no other choice, so he opened his mouth to find Gao Wen.

Pei Di has already led his guards to search the whole island. Those monsters seem to be huge, but they can leave no traces and breath of themselves wherever they walk.They have searched continuously for two full days and two nights, but they still found nothing.

Hua De heard Rael's request and agreed to let Gawain help.

He knew that the history he told Gao Wen was always just on paper. If Gao Wen wanted to directly experience the danger brought by Lu Wu and the monsters, Gao Wen had to witness or experience it with his own eyes.

Rael and Gawain's task is to conduct a carpet search in the internal waters of the Rift Rock Islands.There is no way to find signs of walking on land, so try the water.

After all, these monsters are also half of the blood of the Sea People. Who knows if they will hide themselves in some shallows or creeks, or even hide in the swamps.

And even if they didn't go anywhere, they had to drink water.As long as Leyle and Gawain can find them drinking water in a certain place in time, the scope of the search will be greatly reduced.

"Is this also the reason for the curfew?" Gawain asked as he followed Leier to the Garrison Island.

The Garrison Island is the starting point for the monsters to escape. What Leyle meant was to start with the rivers in the Garrison Island, then search for the Cliff Island, Ancient Stele Island, and Bloodstone Island in sequence, and finally search for the sea with the largest population density and the easiest to be discovered. city ​​island.

"Yes, although we have strengthened the police force, their attacks are very powerful and completely out of control. I am worried that we will not be able to catch them again, and some sea people will be injured in a short time," Rael said in a heavy tone. "There's only so much protection a curfew can do."

The Cracked Rocks seldom issue warnings of curfews, because the seafolk are bold and unrestrained.

Many sea people like to hang out at the seaside, like to taste the taste of their lover under the high moon, and love to cuddle with each other, enjoying the beauty of the rising sun after the aftertaste of the climax.

They have many, many gatherings, official and private.They love fine wine, music, and dancing. Apart from pushing and changing glasses and dancing in the magnificent palace, most of the sea people gather spontaneously to drink.

They can dance all night by lighting a bonfire, and those passionate or melodious songs float away with the waves wave after wave, beyond the moonlit and shining sea horizon.

The jellyfish family especially loves this kind of party. In the north of the cliff island, you can often see lights that shine brighter than the lighthouse.Those beautiful, translucent jellyfish are laughing at the Queen's feet, taking their favorite male companions, and splashing the seeds and flames of love under the sparkling waves.

But recently, even the lights in the jellyfish house are not on.Their doors remained closed, almost in sync with the curfew.

The Cracked Rock Islands were invaded by foreigners, and Gao Wen was already very firm in this idea.

But their investigations did not yield reassuring results.

When Gawain melted the light blue webs between his fingers again and again, and went deep into the clear or turbid puddles, he sang praises to Leviathan and prayed for the assistance of the regional demon king, so that he could open his eyes. When he opened his eyes to see the secret, the blue mantra light spread out wave by wave with his fingers, but there was nothing in Gawain's eyelids.

Gawain had already tried to use spells to expand that innate talent. He expanded the scope of spying to ten square meters, twenty square meters away, and also recalled the memory to three or five hours ago.

But what is disappointing is that on the garrison island, he can only see thirsty soldiers coming to drink water, while on several other islands, he can only see the faces of sea people who occasionally stepped into the water, or a few The playful children of the sea people jumped into the water to play.

Even at the end, Gawain became the prototype of a sea monster and plunged into the shallow sea, grabbing a few fish directly to inquire, or sticking his webs to the fish, and looking back through the fish's eyes to the waters it had swum before.

But still, nothing suspicious was found.

He and Rael spent the whole day with no results, and Gawain was also a little dizzy, presumably because of excessive use of spells, which made him exhausted.

Although he couldn't find anything, Leier still expressed his gratitude and apology to Gao Wen again and again, and hoped that he could go back and rest for a few days, and he and Pei Di would try another method.

When the two of them walked slowly back to the sea monster's house and passed a fork, Gawain suddenly said—"By the way, is there a big pool in the old house before the sea snake's house? Should we go there and have a look? "

"It's been deserted for five years, and it's still inside the wall. No matter how powerful the monsters are, they can't break through the stone wall. When I passed by this morning, I saw the isolation banners pulled intact. I guess those monsters are not that smart." Rael said.

Gawain nodded.Rael was right, after all, monsters were ferocious, but their IQ was no different from that of ordinary beasts.It is simply impossible to hide in without destroying the original confinement.

What's more, Leier also said that the side door of Haisnake's house is well closed.The original guards were probably transferred away and joined the search team, and the door was not seen to be destroyed—from this, it can be seen that the monster must not have set foot there.

After separating from Rael, Gawain walked for a while by himself.His mind was groggy, and the physical strength drained by the spell made him unable to concentrate on thinking about things, but he felt guilty for not being able to help Rael.

After walking for about ten minutes, he decided to turn back and take a look.Even if there were no monsters hiding in there, if some other clues were found, it would probably be able to help Leyle a little.

It was by such a coincidence that Gao Wen came to the old house of Hai Snake's family.

Since there were no attendants guarding him, he directly stepped over the isolation banner blocked by rags, and pushed open the iron gate in the middle of the wall.

The sea snake's house exuded decay and stench, making Gao Wen involuntarily cover his mouth and nose.He stood inside the iron gate and looked around, then walked towards the large pool at the back of the house.

He never expected that in the dark room of the old house, a beast stood up vigilantly.

It saw the stranger walk into the enclosure, and it decided to bite the neck of the uninvited sea dweller, silently, in one bite, before he entered the gate of the main house.

"I also think it's funny to talk to you... to an octopus, of course I'm not saying you're not human, but... I don't seem to be human either..." Gareth rubbed his head, a little embarrassed smiled.

He was really confused, but he had no direction during the days when Tristan couldn't respond to him.He didn't understand why this little octopus made him speak, but his heart was in a panic, he was too uncomfortable, from the moment he saved the fool, to the reverse world of wizards, to himself being a beast, until now Stay with an octopus on the third basement floor of an old house on the island.

He felt like he had a long dream, and he didn't know when he would wake up.

He's looking forward to that moment, and he'd rather get kicked out of bed by Tristan.

It's a pity that nothing happened, and after he finished his long narration, he still stayed where he was with a little octopus.The firelight shone quietly, casting two shadows, one large and one small.

"So... you were 'made'?" Crewe asked.

Gareth gave a muffled "Yeah", "I also heard from Tristan, he didn't tell me too much, and I don't know how to ask... Well, one thing after another, I didn't know anything at all. Can't figure it out."

Crewe swallowed, his tentacles circling helplessly around him.

"Then...then what is the reverse world?" Crewe asked again, and glanced at Debbie's book, which was held in his arms again.

"It's the world I used to live in. There are no wizards there. But we have guns, cannons... radios, and—" Seeing Crewe's blank face, Gareth paused and asked—"What do you know? Is it a gun?"

Crewe shook his head.He didn't even understand the world of wizards, let alone the world of ordinary people dominated by technology.

"It's... about this long," Gareth gestured with his hand, "a bullet will shoot out of it, and it will hit your head—your head will explode."

Crewe was taken aback, and retracted the tentacles a little.

Gareth was amused by Crewe's reaction, "Of course, it's not as convenient as your wand, which doesn't need to be loaded, but our gun—"

"No wand!" Crewe suddenly became excited and interrupted him loudly, "We...we don't have a magic wand! That's Lu Wu's thing... yes, it's an evil thing!"

Now Crewe was very sensitive when he heard this word, Geraint's expression flooded into his mind instantly, his heart hurt as if being twisted, and his big eyes immediately filled with tears.

Gareth froze for a moment, and immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing.

Tristan did say that the sea folk don't use wands, but he didn't expect the little octopus to react so much to the wand.

He scratched his head embarrassingly, and said, "Oh...then...if you don't use it, then don't use it."

The small cellar fell into a brief silence.

"Then...then if you can't get the medicine, what are you going to do?" After a while, Crewe asked again.

"I don't know... I want to go home." Gareth smiled wryly.

"Your home—"

"Well, we can't go back. Our home is in the reverse world, and we don't know how to go back to the reverse side." Gareth snapped.

Gareth suddenly recalled that when they picked up the idiot, they also kept trying to send the idiot home.Then the fool burst into tears and said to them - "But I can't go back, my home is on the opposite side!"

At this moment, Gareth's situation is similar to that of the fool.

Lost his master, sent to the opposite side, everything is unknown, and he is under attack.

He suddenly understood the helplessness of the fool at that moment, but his eyeballs were a little dry and he couldn't cry.

Crewe became more and more confused.He felt that the humans in front of him were not lying to him, and for some reason, he liked Gareth more than Tristan.

If Tristan was still awake now, Crewe was sure that he would try his best to get out, and then find a chance to betray them to Peidi again or try to tell Gawain.

In this way, he would not have the opportunity to deeply understand the purpose of these two humans, and like all sea people, he firmly believed that they came up to kill their compatriots.

But it was Gareth who was speaking to him now.

Gareth's bewilderment, embarrassment, apprehension, and pain, unlike Tristan's habit of hiding all his emotions under the stern expression, on the contrary, he wrote these expressions on his face, and wrote them to Sensitive Crewe look.

Crewe didn't want to hurt anyone who was nice to him.Not much is good for him in this world, he has already hurt one Geraint, and he doesn't want another one.

At that time, Crewe still knew how to cherish kindness, because in his more than ten years of life, he could see so little kindness.

And he didn't expect that it was precisely because he cherished the kindness of others that he inadvertently planted the seeds of repayment.

He hopped off the box he was sitting on, wrapping his tentacles lightly around Gareth's wrists.

"You... don't hurt me, and don't hurt other sea people, can you?" he asked.

Gareth sneered, "If you don't hurt me."

"Then you have to make sure... your companions don't hurt us either." Crewe said again, shaking Gareth's wrist as he spoke.

Gareth looked at the tentacle, then at Crewe.He didn't know what Crewe meant, but he replied anyway—"I don't know...but...you killed us before, and now you saved him, I think we're probably... even?"

Crewe pursed his lips, looked up at Gareth, and continued to ask stubbornly—"Did you forgive me for lying to you before?"

"This……"

What can I do if I don't forgive, at least Gareth himself doesn't want to cut up the little octopus.Especially after he stabilized Tristan's condition, he just wanted to end everything as soon as possible, "...if Tristan gets better, I forgive."

Crewe smiled.

There was no impurity in his eyes, they were as clear as stream water.Gareth was deceived by such innocence before. If Tristan wanted to wake up, he must have kicked Crewe hard, and then yelled at Gareth in a vicious voice—"You have a fucking IQ problem !"

But even that doesn't change Gareth.This is Gareth's temperament, without medicine, he can't break through the genetic lock.His IQ is just like this, and it is estimated that he will not be able to improve after decades of scolding.

But as luck would have it, this time his simplicity and straightforwardness rewarded him.

Crewe didn't let go of Gareth's wrist, but rolled his tentacles, took out a small glass bottle from his pocket and stuffed it into Gareth's palm.

Gareth gapes from ear to ear in surprise.

"Don't lie to me..." Crewe was a little worried, but he reminded him again—"Otherwise, otherwise, I'll call someone to arrest you!"

Gareth was stunned for a long time, and suddenly his chest felt hot, with mixed feelings, he showed a smile that was uglier than crying.

TBC