Tides: Years of Dawn

When Crewe woke up, it was already the next morning. He floated to the surface and slept again in his dormitory.Then I changed into clean clothes and participated in the school's afternoon lecture.

After the preaching, he went to Gareth and Tristan's cabin.He didn't take the risk to go to the reef beach again, and he didn't try to contact Gao Wen.He had to separate the relationship between the two, just in case.

As he went to the cottage, he thought it over.Geros might wonder why his brother didn't come back, and he might not look for him for a day or two, but the longer Dale disappears, everything will become uncontrollable.

So Crewe needs to kill Geros as well, and as soon as possible.

But without his brother leading him, he wasn't sure if Geros would do evil to him alone.Maybe Crewe's previous move could deal with Dale, but it might not be able to deal with Geros.

So he thought that only by letting other people do it, can we better deal with Geros and completely eliminate hidden dangers.

But when he saw Gareth busily busy, rubbing his hands and happily pulling Crewe to a seat, and then laughing and arguing with the animals around him, Crewe couldn't speak.

He had already thought up his words, but he couldn't make a sound when he opened his mouth.

He was the one who tried hard to keep Gareth alive, and Gareth was one of the few people who showed kindness to him at first.But now he wanted to single-handedly destroy their comfort—no, at that time, Crewe couldn't bear this kind of heart.

So he came and went.Come again, go again.

In the end he decided that since everything was his own business, he had to bear it alone to the end.He didn't want the good people around him to be hurt, whether it was Gawain or Gareth.

But Krewe could think this way, but Gawain was different.

Gawain has never been too concerned about the fate of the hunters. Although he voted for survival at the beginning, in the final analysis, hunters and beasts are not sea people in his heart.He can let others die, but he will never let Crewe die.

Two days after killing Dale, Gao Wen couldn't sleep.He kept thinking about the tragedy of Dale before his death, which made him feel guilty for killing his compatriots for a while, and then feared that the matter would be revealed, so it would be better to kill the roots.

He always thought that he would punish rape and eradicate evil, and use the law to punish criminals appropriately from the standpoint of justice. This would be his initial and lifelong dream.But as soon as he stepped towards his dream, he became a criminal.

He did punish rape and eliminate evil, but he used the most difficult method to be recognized by his original intention.

He wanted to confess to Hua De several times, but Hua De seemed to keep avoiding it.These days, Hua De always went back to his room early after eating, and met Gao Wen the next day before going to the church.

The two had two short conversations, one about the deal that Fort Firestone needed more than a dozen ships to transport supplies, and one time Ward stated that if the second trial next year passed smoothly, he would enter the Institute of History together with Clement .He built a small house near the institute, and he didn't want to be separated from his wife.

What's more, if the second trial also passes, then Gao Wen will become the master.Although he was very young, only in his early twenties, Barrow succeeded to the throne at a young age.He believed that Gawain would not be inferior to Barrow, and Gawain himself had to have confidence.

Gao Wen wanted to ask something more, so he waved his hand to end the conversation.At the end, he said something to Gao Wen inexplicably - "Don't take the dirty things by yourself, just let the servants take them. You don't want to wash your hands all day long, do you?"

When Gao Wen said this, he was about to clean up the waste paper scraps in the room and throw them out, while Hua De was carrying a plate of fruit on the table.He pointed to the scraps of paper and asked Gao Wen to put it down, and then pushed the fruit plate towards his son.

It was precisely because of this sentence that Gao Wen thought of another way to deal with the follow-up situation - that is to hand over the dirty work to the hunters.

Tristan drives out all the animals except Gareth.But he told Gareth not to talk, just to speak for himself.

Gareth nodded, and the two of them stared at the somewhat embarrassed Gawain.

Gao Wen also found a chair and sat down, and asked Tristan for a cigarette.He took a deep breath, and suddenly remembered that Rael had given him his first puff, and flinched a little.

A few years ago, he would never have imagined that one day he would buy a xiong to kill someone, but somehow he came to this point.

Perhaps what Rael said really came true, Crewe is a scourge.So even though Gao Wen violated his conscience now, he still didn't stand up and go out.

He took a deep breath, pushing the image of Rael out of his mind.He knew that this matter was related to the future of him and Crewe, but there were very few choices before him.

He opened his mouth, he said——“I was behind the rocky beach at Haicheng School two days ago—”

"Don't talk nonsense," Gawain hadn't finished his first sentence when Tristan interrupted him. He dusted off the cigarette ash and said in a hoarse voice, "Who is he, what does he look like, where he often hangs out, what does he use? Technique—you just tell me these, and then I’ll quote you.”

Gareth smiled foolishly. Although Gao Wen looked serious, it was obviously his first contact with these things, and he didn't quite understand many of the established rules.

Gao Wen was also a little embarrassed, he continued to take two more puffs of the cigarette stuck between his fingertips, and after a while, he raised his head again and said——

"Haicheng School, a sea crocodile named Geros. I'm in the same grade as Crewe, in the same class. It doesn't matter what method I use. I just need to do it without anyone noticing——Can you guys do this?"

After saying this in one breath, Gao Wen's body trembled a little.But he forced himself to look directly at Tristan's scrutinizing eyes, and as the smoke got thicker and thicker, Gawain couldn't even see Tristan's expression clearly.

"He reacts very quickly." Gareth laughed again, and continued to scratch his head.

But Tristan ignored him, as if he was digesting Gawain's message.

After a moment, Tristan said, "Okay, what time?"

"Just... these two days." Gawain lowered his head when he got the response.His hands were clenched into fists and pressed against his knees, his heart pounding in his chest.

"Let's take two days. We're just getting ready." Tristan stood up and snapped his fingers to make Gareth take out a scroll.

What Gao Wen asked was to kill a student, no matter what the student's background was, his combat effectiveness was probably mediocre.Tristan had been to Moonhalberd Castle before, and if he needed to improve the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Cracked Rock Islands, then he knew exactly how good the students were.

Of course, this is not the key point. Even if he doesn't know the spells of the sea people, after all, he has been a bounty hunter for many years. When he killed the wizard, he didn't use magic. It probably made sense to kill the sea people.

After Gao Wen finished his request, it was his turn to raise the reward.

Gareth brought the scroll, spread it out on the table, and pressed the corners with an ashtray.

Tristan beckoned for Gawain to come over, pointed to his hut on the map and said, "Here is my current hut. As you can see, I want to raise a lot of animals, and the humanization of those animals is getting better and better. Too crowded in one room."

Gawain nodded, his eyes fixed on the small dot by the sea, he answered—"I'll send someone to build you a new hut as soon as it's done, I—"

"No, build it next year, otherwise who the hell wouldn't know that you came to see me."

Tristan puffed out a puff of smoke, picked up a charcoal pencil with the cigarette in his mouth, and struck two crosses next to the hut, "I want two huts, just like the one I have now."

It doesn't cost any money to build two huts, and Gawain can help Tristan finish it within a month.But since Tristan asked, he will also follow his promise and fulfill it one year later.

"No problem." Gawain agreed straightforwardly.

But Tristan hadn't finished speaking, he sipped his mouth, spit out a mouthful of phlegm, then narrowed his eyes and looked at Gawain, "I have another request."

"You said."

Tristan glanced at Gareth, paused, and said - "I heard that you will be able to be the head of the family next year, right?"

Gao Wen swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and prevaricated, "It's not up to me to decide alone, I still need to pass the second trial, if I perform well in the second trial—"

"Don't talk nonsense with me, I'm old, I can't remember if you talk too much nonsense." Tristan interrupted Gawain roughly for the second time.

Gawain gritted his teeth, "...Yes."

Satisfied, Tristan stubbed out the cigarette butt in the ashtray, pressed his hands on the map, and raised his chin at Gao Wen—"I want Gareth and those bastards outside to have a decent job and be accepted by the sea people. "

"But this—"

"Your family has a shipyard. Our group has nothing but strength. I know you have helped me a lot, but we will spend the rest of our lives on the Cracked Rock Islands. I have nothing to do with myself, But I don't want this group of beasts to be treated as aliens by you until they die." Tristan finished speaking, straightened up, and waited for Gawain's answer.

Yes, even though they survived, they were still aliens from the Cracked Rock Islands.This is equivalent to being under house arrest for a lifetime, unable to leave the island, and being discriminated against.

Tristan was getting older and older, and if he continued to do his old job, he might fail one of the missions unexpectedly, and he wouldn't be alive for a few years.

But the brutes are alive, and Gareth is alive.They must have their own pure land, rather than being prisoners for a lifetime.

His current request is for Gawain to allow these beasts to work on the pier.When they have further contact with the sea people, no matter how effective they are, it is the first step for the sea people to accept them.

Of course, this is only one of the reasons, and there is another reason that Tristan did not explain—that is, becoming a servant of the sea monster family will inevitably be protected by the sea monster family as a result.

Their identities are too sensitive, anyone may blame them, and they are powerless to resist.Sword Whale was like this before, and now Gao Wen also has this tendency.

But Tristan has also heard that the Sea Monster family and the Sword Whale family are different. If Tristan were to choose, he would know which one would be the safer camp.

If Tristan is not mistaken, he thinks that Gao Wen is a man of affection.Once they are brought under the command of the sea monster family, the possibility of being framed and framed by others will be much smaller, and it can be regarded as using the second method to protect this group of beasts.

Gao Wen hesitated for a long time, and even smoked an extra cigarette, but in the end he still nodded.

Although he does not have the right to employ these people as boatmen, once he takes the position of head of the family, he will have the final say on the shipyard and the dock.And if they are their own workers, it is more natural to build two more houses for them.

Even though he had nodded, Gao Wen was still a little worried, and asked again—"I'll come to you in two days? Or...or should I—"

"Don't come in two days, don't come in two fucking months." Tristan said gruffly, "Unless you want to kill me and yourself."

"Then how do I—"

"Don't you have a newspaper?" Tristan asked back, "Just read the newspaper, and then you will know whether we have made it."

Gao Wen had no choice but to continue to agree.

Tristan looked at Gawain for a while, then walked around the table, grinned, showing his smoke-blackened teeth, and smiled.

He held Gao Wen's hand with calloused hands, and comforted him—"Don't look bitter and bitter, your conscience hurts a little at first, but then it gets better and better."

After finishing speaking, Gareth smirked a few more times.

And Gao Wen reluctantly twitched the corners of his mouth, but found that he couldn't laugh no matter what.

After Gawain walked out of the hut, he slowly returned on the stone road.The sky was gloomy, and soon a bitter wind blew.

He was wearing a thick robe, but he still couldn't help shaking.

After walking for a long time from the east to the west, Gawain finally saw the sea monster's flag from a distance.

The wind blew up the flag, and the golden trident shone brightly.But he felt that the light was a little strange, and he didn't know whether the flag was still the one he knew at the beginning.

TBC