Tides: Years of Dawn

But when Gawain saw Crewe, he couldn't speak.

Crewe is a very simple octopus, as pure as the translucent slime he secretes.

He obediently followed Geraint to the tutoring room, silently watched Geraint close the door and go out, then obediently separated the eight tentacles and sat on the chair, looking at Gawain with big eyes with a little fear.

This made Gao Wen feel that he was a bad person.

Crewe has been in school for many years, but he seems to be in the same state as he was on the first day when he came to school.

Gao Wen still remembered that when he was leading the new students, he saw the seven-year-old Crewe carrying a small satchel, walking slowly beside his sister obediently, with the same expression on his face as now, full of bewilderment and anxiety.

Gao Wen had heard of the customs of the octopus family. The octopus family was different from the general sea people. They were greatly influenced by the blood of the half of the beast, so that even if they became a half-human, half-beast group, they still continued to live together. Less pure octopus living habits.

The children of the octopus family will leave their parents as soon as they are born, and will be thrown into a fixed body of water by their parents.There they have to learn the ability to survive alone, learn to prey and camouflage.

After three years, when the little octopus sea beast grows up to about three years old, the members of the octopus family will go to that water to salvage their blood relatives.

Those who can survive will naturally be taken home and truly become a member of the octopus family.Those who cannot survive will be allowed to be merged with the sea.

Therefore, the survival rate of octopus sea dwellers is very low, but those who can survive must have excellent learning ability and environmental adaptability.

This also led to the fact that the Octopus family is the most knowledgeable family in the Cracked Rock Islands, serving as a bachelor's assistant to the lord for hundreds of years.

But Crewe is a little special.He is a very stupid, but very fateful member.So those three years of fending for himself did not kill him, but when he was salvaged, his body was covered in bruises and he was dying.

The elders of the Octopus family discussed for a long time whether to abandon Crewe or take him back.Although in the end it was considered that this belonged to the category of "surviving", but after being brought back, Crewe could not be treated fairly like other children in the family.

Because he is really stupid.Learn everything slower than others, and do everything slowly.When I asked him some questions, the tone became too serious, and he shrank into a ball in fear, unable to answer anything.

Even though he wasn't abandoned on the shore, he was abandoned at home.Whether it is his parents or brothers and sisters, almost no one is willing to regard him as a blood relative.

This also resulted in that even though he was bullied at school, he didn't know who to talk to or what to do.

His only friend was the orphan Geraint who was fostered in their home, but Geraint was always away, and at that time, he couldn't do anything except cry.

Gawain sighed silently. Compared with Geraint's sharpness, Crewe is really a puddle of ooze.Gao Wen was so soft that he didn't know how to open his mouth, and he didn't know how to unceremoniously throw out one sentence after another of pressing questions like he did when he dealt with Geraint.

At this moment, Gao Wen's newborn brother climbed up from his shoulders.

The little sea monster is only the size of a palm, and that part of the human gene has not yet expressed.He has the head of a snake, the tail of a fish, covered with blue and green scales, and the nascent ear thorns are translucent umbrellas attached to the sides of his head.

He spat out the letter beside Gawain's neck, and looked at the octopus in front of him curiously with his two little paws.

Crewe also noticed it, his eyes lit up, and most of the previous panic dissipated.

Gao Wen took his younger brother off his shoulders and put him on the table.He was still thinking about what to say, but Crewe spoke first—"It's so small!"

Crewe marveled.Crewe had seen the original form of an adult sea monster, and it was hard for him to imagine that the little one in front of him would grow into a sea monster with a body length of more than ten meters.

He stared at the little sea monster intently. The little sea monster staggered and crawled crookedly to the edge of the table, facing Crewe.

Gawain stretched out a finger to stop his brother, in case he accidentally fell off the table, "Well, my brother, Lemarlock."

"You can... bring your brother to school?" Crewe continued to sigh.When he was so young, he didn't have any relatives around him. The only impression he had was that he found a broken jar at the bottom of the sea and curled himself up to hide in it.

"For five years after the sea monster was born, it had to take turns staying between its parents and siblings, so that he could form an imprint, and he would only listen to his elders when he grew up." Gawain said, and was bitten by his younger brother.

Gao Wen felt the pain and pushed his brother back a little.

Sea monsters have a long lifespan, so they grow very slowly.The little sea monster in front of him was about five years old, and only grew a circle of small sharp teeth.This bite left a row of small tooth marks on Gao Wen's fingers.

Crewe was very excited. He stretched out his tentacles towards the little sea monster to touch its snake-like head.But before the tentacle touched the head of the little sea monster, the sea monster raised its neck and reached out to hug the tentacle.

Gao Wen was a little surprised.Lemarlock was very naughty, not only bit him, but also tore his textbooks to pieces.He didn't expect it to get close to Crewe, maybe the octopus's tentacles are very soft, which makes him feel very comfortable.

Gawain swore that he did not let Crewe go on purpose.Gawain really didn't want to break the atmosphere just watching Lemarlock crawling along Crewe's tentacles, crawling to Crewe's neck, then to his head, and then to the tentacles on the other side.

So when Crewe put the little sea monster back on the table and looked up and asked Gawain what he wanted from him, Gawain just smiled helplessly and shook his head—"It's nothing, I've already asked Geraint what I should ask." , you go back."

Crewe really didn't know, because when he heard this, he stared blankly at Gawain for a while.

But Gawain did not continue. The sea monster is different from the octopus. The octopus has strong adaptability, but the sea monster does not.So he couldn't say harsh words to Crewe, who was naturally able to get close to sea monsters, and he didn't want Crewe to cry again in front of him.

For this, Gawain had to admire Geraint.It seems that Geraint still has advantages that he can't discover, such as never being bored by Crewe's love of crying.

"Then...you...if you need our help, call us again..." Before going out, Crewe rolled his tentacles anxiously and looked at Gawain timidly.

"Yes." Gawain opened the door for Crewe.

And Gao Wen felt that he probably didn't need it, because he decided to forget about the scene of meeting Geraint in the cafeteria today.

TBC