Tides: Years of Dawn

The story is divided into two parts, the island may have just calmed down a storm, but for Geraint, the ordeal has just begun.

The day he jumped into the sea, he swam for a long time.His wounds kept getting worse, but he couldn't find a boat to take.

He was tired, so he dived slowly.

He found a piece of scorched rock, and fell into a drowsy sleep behind it.He was stabbed when he woke up, and two sea urchins reminded him that he was still alive.

He didn't know how long he slept, and the sky was still gray when he surfaced again.He continued to float forward near the sea, and finally saw a dilapidated human ship when he was about to take a nap for the second time.

He had crossed the line of the Rift Rocks, and he thought he was saved.

The boat is not big, like a cargo ship.There were not many crew members, two of them were talking and laughing loudly while smoking a cigarette at the bow, and a few stood on the deck for a while, then went down to the cabin.

Geraint turned into a snake and climbed up the hull, and then drilled down from the deck.As soon as he entered the cabin, he felt a strong stench.

The cabin is divided into two ends, one end is like a bedroom for the crew to rest, and the other end is a warehouse for loading goods.There are chains on the warehouse door, and the iron chains are full of rust.

Geraint crawled around the corner, hiding behind a rag, feeling excited, wondering how many treasures he would see again this time.

He didn't bring anything with him when he left the Cracked Rock Islands, so he must take something good this time, so he won't be hungry after landing.

He thought of the beautiful vase he had seen before, and the half bottle of rainbow water, and then remembered—no, he shook his head, shaking the image that flooded his mind.

He has already started a new life, so the past must be cleaned up, otherwise how can there be room for new things.

After the crew members all walked towards the dormitory one after another, Geraint pulled himself together and groped for a while at the chained door, finally found a gap, so he twisted a bit The snake body quickly got in.

The moment he came in, he almost suffocated.

That's right, the stench became stronger, overwhelmingly patting him.He immediately turned into a human form and covered his mouth and nose with his rags.

There are at least twenty boxes stacked in the cabin, each box is big enough to hold a full-grown person.They were all covered by thick curtains, and the stench leaked out from under the curtains that swayed with the hull.

Geraint was unbearably stimulated by the strong stench, and he also wanted to cough, but as soon as he took a breath, he quickly covered his mouth more tightly to prevent the sound from leaking out.

Because he heard other people coughing—there were other people here.

The hull roared violently, almost covering the weak coughing sound.But listening carefully, there is not only one person coughing, but large and small, one after another, many people are coughing, and some shen/yin and crying are mixed in it.

A layer of cold sweat burst out of Geraint's back.

But he quickly calmed down, because he found that those voices came from the box.The box was covered with a thick cloth, and the people inside might not be able to get out.

Relying on this little bit of luck, Geraint stood up from the corner tremblingly.

Walking as lightly as possible, he walked over to one of the boxes.Then he took a deep breath again, boldly pinched a corner of the curtain, and slowly and gently lifted the curtain.

The light was very dim, and Geraint had to squint his eyes into vertical pupils to see what was in the box.

But immediately he saw that it was not a box, but an iron cage.

The moment he saw clearly what was inside the cage, he loosened his fingers, his legs went limp, and he sat on the ground with a plop—there was indeed a person in the cage, and it contained a bloody, almost unconscious girl.

The girl didn't see her, she was pale and collapsed in the cage.

Her body swayed left and right along with the hull, and countless huge cockroaches were crawling on the skirt of which the color could no longer be distinguished.Her eyes were closed tightly, and yellow vomit was still flowing from her mouth.It appeared that she was not only unconscious, but possibly out of breath.

Geraint sat there for a while, staring at the cage that had been covered again with the curtain.After a while, he worked hard and lifted the curtains one by one.

Every time a piece of cloth was lifted, what he saw was like a whip on his back.

He couldn't describe his mood at the moment, until he finished reading all the twenty-odd cages, he was soaked and trembling all over.

Those cages contained all kinds of people, including young people and children.There are men and there are women.Some are still alive, and some have been dead for a long time.

There are scars all over their bodies, and their eyes are as terrifying as if they have walked through hell.

The moment they saw Geraint, they rushed towards him as if they were prey.A bony hand stretched out from the gap in the cage, trying to grab Geraint's clothes.

But they couldn't call for help. The moment they opened their mouths, Geraint saw that they had no tongues.Their tongues were cut off, and they could only utter inarticulate groans.

And those dead corpses were covered with all kinds of maggots, some eyes were not even closed, they were wide open, but their eyeballs were grayish brown, and they had long lost their spirit.

Geraint boarded a sacrificial ship.

Geraint had heard of this kind of boat, which was a sacrifice that Lu Wu threw into the sea in order to win Leviathan's favor.They will buy some displaced and homeless people at low prices, load them on ships, and when they reach the depths of the ocean, they will all dump them into the sea.

But obviously Lu Wu didn't understand the correct way to sacrifice Leviathan at all. Leviathan doesn't eat scavenger and doesn't eat females.To feed him, be sure to feed a healthy male.And it is enough to feed once a year, and there is no need for so many poor-quality garbage.

What's more, these people don't seem to be wizards, but some human beings without magic power.

Leviathan would never eat a powerless person and bless a wizard with mana.

Those Lu witches are always thinking about opportunism. They are unwilling to spend energy to surrender to Leviathan, understand it, worship it, and covet its power. They want to stand on the land of Behemoth, but at the same time enjoy the power of Leviathan. The blessing of two brothers.

It is also part of Lu Wu's stupid behavior that the number of undead under the ocean has not decreased since the end of the pirate era - Geraint finds it both sad and ridiculous.

Sure enough, not long after he checked all the curtains and covered them, there was the sound of the iron chain being unlocked at the door.

Immediately, Geraint changed back into the snake's form again, got out from the opening, and hid in the little rag that was discarded at will.

The crew yelled loudly and moved the iron cages to the deck one by one.This time Geraint counted them all. There were a total of six crew members. After three or four trips, the warehouse was emptied.

Geraint followed them up to the deck, and saw that the cage was hoisted high by a wheel axle, hanging by the side of the ship, suspended above the sea.

One of the crew members yelled, and the steel plate under the cage opened abruptly.The living or dead body inside fell directly from the cage into the sea, and there was a slight sound of falling into the water from afar.

Their tongues were all cut out so they couldn't beg for mercy.Perhaps Lu Wu felt that begging for mercy would affect the effect of the sacrifice, but he never thought that throwing these incomplete things to Leviathan would be the most futile thing.

The cage was half-empty, and when it was a little girl's turn, the girl clung to the edge of the cage, unwilling to fall.

One Lu Wu yelled a few times, but the other party refused to let go.As a last resort, he could only pull out a very thin and long stick from his robe, and swiped it in the girl's direction—the girl's arm was cut off abruptly.

The girl fell, but the half of her arm was still hanging by the cage.Blood gushed out from the severed part, and the blood continued to flow down, while the arm swayed slightly from side to side.

After the cage was lowered, one of the crew members tore it off, threw the stump out with a throw of his arm.

Geraint didn't watch the whole scene, and retreated to the cabin early.He was hot and cold all over, and his heart was beating violently.Perhaps this was the first time he had seen such a cruel side of Lu Wu, and his previous good impression of these foreigners showed a little crack.

He forced himself to fall asleep quickly, his mind cleared up after sleeping, and he had the energy to think about the next step.

Geraint tried his best to comfort himself that Lu Wu was generally good, but now he just happened to meet some greedy and conscienceless people, which could not represent all of Lu Wu.

He has been to Lu Wu's world several times, and he has never met anyone who is not friendly to him.He has just escaped from the fiery pit of the Rift Rock Islands, and there is no way he will jump into another purgatory.

It was impossible for fate to treat him like this, absolutely impossible.

Amidst these messy thoughts, Geraint fell asleep in a daze.

In the past few days, he was too tired, and the psychological pressure was terrible.He thought he was in a deep sleep, but actually he was having inexplicable dreams all the time.

In the dream, he traveled from one scene to another. He talked to this person, and then turned his head to talk to another person.He seemed to be sitting on top of waves that tossed him high and then dropped him hard again.He fell into the deep sea, but no one knew who picked him up, and carried him all the way to the clouds...

When I woke up, the boat had already docked.All the people on the boat were gone, only the noise from the pier in the distance.Geraint crawled out of the rags, up the stairs, onto the deck.

The sun suddenly shone on his face, and he hurriedly climbed out of the boat, changing back into a child's image, curled up behind a pile of sacks piled up on the pier.

He checked his wound, the wound was not serious, and it had slowly closed.Although the self-healing ability of the sea snake is not as strong as that of the octopus, it has been soaked in sea water all the way.Sea water has the ability to heal sea people, but the current Geraint—yes, the current Geraint has to learn to live in the way of Lu Wu.

He stood up from behind the sack, raising his arms to block the sunlight hitting his face.

There are people coming and going on the pier, bustling.He narrowed his eyes and looked into the distance, then raised his head to look into the depths of the street.

He saw a small orphanage in the distance. At the gate of the orphanage, a child was distributing milk and bread to everyone.

He can go there.he said to himself.

He can start the first day of his life as Lu Wu.

TBC