How to become a sea witch

Having seen the previous three videos, Bernice basically knew what would happen next when the camera turned to the giant ship that was about to come out of the twisted fog:

The panicked crowd, the turbulent sea waves, the cloudy sky that seems to collapse at any time, and the meaningless mixed images that are constantly shaking until dizzy.

She rubbed her neck, looked away and turned to Tiago who was on the side, and saw that he was still in the same posture as when he just sat down, staring motionlessly at the not-so-clear pictures.

Due to the influence of the photographer himself, basically all video recordings will become very chaotic once they are in the middle.The camera was washed by the waves higher than the bow of the ship, and the screen was full of muddy and gray water.There were also hurried and chaotic footsteps, screams one after another, and countless chaotic figures whose outlines could not be distinguished at all.

The ghost ship stood motionless in the middle of the violent waves, like a towering black monster, ready to roll all the living things on the sea surface into the bottom of the water and crush them.

Maybe he found something worth noting, Tiago moved back the video for a few seconds, watched it two or three times before pressing the freeze frame, and stared at a certain blurred corner of the screen for a long time, as if carefully Thinking about something, he put his bent knuckles on the tip of Bai Jing's jaw and tapped it a few times.

The light sunlight penetrated the gauze curtain and fell into his eyes, lighting up the irises like a cluster of flames, reflecting the deep and light azure blue, which makes people easily think of the sea under the setting sun, which is unbelievably beautiful.

Whether on the seabed or on land, Bernice has seen many creatures with blue eyes, but none of them can compare with Thiago.The color is so pure that just looking at him, it seems that you can feel the waves and delicate light of the sea.

Speaking of which, when I saw him for the first time, the first thing I noticed were his eyes.

"This is a phantom." Thiago suddenly said, pulling Bernice's attention back, his eyes still fixed on the frozen picture, "Its body is not the ship in the video, so it will not be affected. Wave and wind influence. Look here."

As he spoke, he leaned towards her and pointed out to her the abnormalities in the video.The cold long hair slid down his shoulders with his movements, and softly brushed against Bernice's cheeks, as if being gently stroked down by the fingertips along the contours of the face, causing a slight itchiness.

Bernice flinched slightly uncomfortably, looked in the direction he pointed, and found some abnormalities in the details.

"So, the person controlling the ghost ship is actually a land-dwelling creature who can use illusion."

She tried to infer further from this result, but after thinking for a few seconds, she quickly realized that she didn't know many land creatures, and only the Cheshire Cat and the White Queen could use illusions. Who will not be.

It was the sheriff.

Bernice recalled the obviously unnatural expression on his face and the occasional staring, and asked, "Speaking of which, that Sergeant Sidorov is also from the original world, right? He looks It seems to know me."

"He was originally a hunter of the Macedonian kingdom who served the human royal family. His family has lived on it for generations. Therefore, he has a close relationship with the wood elves in the Moonfog Forest. His ancestors seem to have the blood of the dwarves, and they were the first to come to the New World. One of the creatures." Thiago explained briefly, and then added as if remembering something, "Your friend should be familiar with him."

"Friend?" Bernice repeated it a little bluntly, always feeling that this word was already too distant and unfamiliar to her.

"Miss Rebecca from the Jungle Bar." He said, raised his finger to open the door, turned his head and smiled at Gabriel who was standing at the door, ready to knock, "Come in."

Hearing what he said, Bernice finally remembered.

Maxim Sidorov, a well-known warrior in the human kingdom, rescued a little girl in a red cloak from a wolf with an axe.

It is said that the ax was made by wood elves and possesses extraordinary magical powers of destruction.

And I and he did meet, in the shop of Cheshire Cat.The other party exchanged it with a pure gold scabbard and a dagger studded with diamonds.

For a human heart that can be faked.

Bernice has always had no resistance to shiny and charming things like gems, so she agreed immediately, and she became a girl hunter with special responsibility, and went to the human palace of the Kingdom of Macedonia with Sidorov as a witness .It proved that the bright red heart that was so warm and still bleeding was indeed dug out from a human girl named some princess, using the golden gem dagger that the queen rewarded him.

But God knows who it was, Bernice had never heard of the name.

It may be that the heart forged with magic power is not only visually realistic enough, but even looks a little too bright and delicious.After listening to their words, the tyrannical and weird queen immediately decided to use this heart as an ingredient for dinner.

It can be seen from this that if human beings become perverted, they will not lose to demons at all.

On the contrary, Sidorov was terrified after hearing the queen's decision, and kept asking Bernice repeatedly to confirm what the heart was made of and whether there would be any problems.

At that time, Bernice was completely immersed in the joy of getting a new collection, and she didn't intend to explain it to the other party in detail, she just said casually: "Don't worry, I used a real human heart, what's wrong with it?" .”

Sure enough, after hearing this answer, Sidorov immediately glared at her with a look of horror.

Looking at it now, the lie I casually told at the beginning may have left a deep shadow in the other party's heart, no wonder when he saw him just now, it was like seeing some terrible nightmare.

Thinking of this, Bernice sighed without much regret, reached out to pick up an autopsy report that Tiago had already read, and was immediately taken aback.

The official language of Petropavlovsk was Russian, which was completely outside Bernice's scope.She glanced randomly and then put it down, deciding to wait for them to make a summary.

After going through all the reports carefully, Thiago noticed the obvious abnormalities, and frowned slightly: "Almost all human corpses have obvious scratches and trample wounds, but The cause of death was sudden death?"

"Everyone?" Bernice asked in surprise.

Gabriel nodded, and reached out his hand to land on a word that Bernice couldn't understand at all: "All of them. Besides, human forensics also found the same thing in their stomachs."

Noticing Bernice's blank face, Thiago took the initiative to translate: "Apple."

"So, not only did they all die suddenly collectively, but they all ate apples before they died?" Bernice looked at the autopsy reports full of strange symbols in disbelief. question?"

Thiago thoughtfully put those autopsy reports back in place, slowly turned the silver ring between his fingers, and said: "From the content of the report, this method of death seems to be caused by some kind of illusion. And from In the video, we also speculated just now that the person controlling this ghost ship is a creature who is good at magic such as illusion and curse.

But if it was made with potion, it would be impossible for human detection methods to detect it.And with so many people, every victim had apples in their stomachs..."

Speaking of this, he seemed to realize something, and looked up at Gabriel: "Has this happened to the victims in the previous accidents?"

"Your Majesty, since there are very few complete remains of the victims in the previous accidents, and there are almost no videos, we can only learn about what happened at that time through communication with the creatures of the sea tribe. As for the details related to Apple , it is impossible to verify.”

"That's it." Thiago nodded slightly, not too unexpectedly, and tapped his fingertips on the smooth table twice, "During this period of time, are there still humans active in the nearby waters?"

"It's much less than before. But the vast majority of Petropavlovsk's economic sources rely on fishing and tourism. Fishing rights have been lost since the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the last century The human government has been sold to foreign countries, and if all of them are forced to stop, the entire city will fall into economic collapse or even turmoil.”

As Gabriel spoke, the expression on his face was still as calm as a pool of stagnant water, and he couldn't hear any worry or other emotions in what he said, and he was simply narrating mechanically.

"Like the rebellion in the country of Selwyn back then?" Bernice roughly substituted it, trying to understand the consequences that sounded serious.

Selwyn was one of the kingdoms in the original world, not famous for any laudable reason, but that it once had a queen who had a penchant for bathing herself in maiden blood.

It is said that she kills at least two girls every time she takes a bath, and the corpses are thrown directly into the underground river and piled up at the mouth of the sea.Too much cruelty eventually sparked the rebellion.The queen was sent to the guillotine amidst scolding and flames, and two vampires with her party were publicly executed by the church.

Gabriel nodded symbolically: "You can understand it that way. In short, the impact of the ghost ship on this city has become more and more serious. Humans in other places have also begun to pay attention to this matter, and even threatened us. Consistent confidentiality measures. So this matter can only be handled in a low-key manner, and the sooner the better."

"Will the news spread so quickly?" Bernice was a little surprised.

"The transmission of network information in human society is almost real-time. Although various means can be used to block or transform, the more serious the matter, the more difficult it will be to operate."

"I seem to understand." She touched her chin half-understanding, and continued, "However, based on what we know so far, we still can't determine what kind of creature made it, and we can't keep stopping all the monsters. Activities at sea. Maybe someone is sneaking out to sea right now."

As a tourist city, the most indispensable thing in Petropavlovks is private sex service.As long as the money is enough, even if the whole city announces that going to sea is prohibited, there will always be someone willing to take the job.

After all, the population of this place is not large, and the police force is relatively small. It is impossible to block all the coastlines.

Gabriel thought the same as her, so after she expressed this concern, she quickly responded: "Indeed. And the number of angels in the Far East branch is too small at present. Apart from daily activities, I can't take care of other things. I will Send supplementary teams from nearby areas as soon as possible."

"Then it's hard work for you." Thiago said, smiling gently at the archangel who was getting up and saluting.

When Gabriel left the room, he turned his head slightly to look at Bernice, and found that she was staring at the afterglow of the twilight burned on the window pane without speaking, her brows were also frowning, and her light green eyes were covered with eyelashes Shadows brushed through the sieve.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

Bernice pursed her lips and leaned back on the chair back: "I was thinking, there is no way I don't know the sea creatures who can use this kind of curse and illusion. But if it is a land creature, then he Why choose to attack humans at sea, isn't it more convenient on land?"

Thiago's eyelashes were half-down, and after thinking for a few seconds, he gave his own speculation: "Maybe it's because although the land is easy to move, it is also protected by angels. It will be very difficult for him to do the same thing without leaving a trace." The situation in the ocean is different, and it is difficult for angels to control it. In addition, the pollution of the ocean water in the New World is good or bad, so it is difficult for me to assign other sea tribes to various parts of the world."

"That's true." Bernice sighed, then looked at him and asked, "Have you thought about what to do?"

"There is a way."

"what?"

"Don't ghost ships like to attack human tourists? Then give it a chance." Thiago said, raising his hand and pulling the water in the cup to rise continuously, condensing on the top of the table, turning into a transparent wave Map of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk.

Gradually, the water currents representing the sea area further shrunk and stopped at one of them.

Just to the west of the largest port in the whole process, because the ocean current is stable all year round, it is not affected by the monsoon, so it is planned as the only place for sailing.

"I've seen the activity range record of the ghost ship sent by the Far East Division before. This area is the intersection area, and it is also the place where it appears most frequently." Thiago lightly tapped his fingertips, and a cruise ship formed of water was suspended above him. In the palm of his hand, it finally flowed back into the cup, "There is no time to wait for it to appear again, we have to take the initiative to find it."

Bernice's eyes lit up when she heard this: "You mean to pretend to be a human being, and then go out to sea by boat to create encounters?"

"Encounter is not used in this way, Bernice." Thiago corrected helplessly, but then affirmed, "But you understand it right, we can't wait for him to attack humans next time It’s too risky to rush over there.”

"So have you decided who to send?" she asked.

Then, before Thiago could answer, Bernice took the initiative to speak again: "Why don't you just let me go? After all, angels are not very adapted to the ocean environment, and other sea creatures are too easily affected by the curse." .It just so happens that I'm more suitable, don't you think?"

After all, I will be counting on him to help lift the curse for me in the future, so what if I don't hurry up and share my worries with you.

Although she is not very good at being a qualified sea witch, Bernice is very handy when it comes to things like being nice and tricky.

It was through this kind of ability that she managed to survive Ursula's hands until now. It can be said that she is very experienced and very professional.

Thinking of this, she continued to say to Tiago: "Anyway, aren't we still not sure whether the deaths of those humans were due to illusions, potions, or something else? If I go, maybe I can also tell these Figure it out together."

"What's more, I'm currently on parole, and you will find me no matter where I go, and I can't use high-level magic, so don't worry about me running away..."

While talking down, Bernice was still trying to dig out other reasons in her mind to make her image closer to an upright and credible companion, and she didn't pay much attention to the subtle expression changes on the young man's face in front of her.

There was no need to try to figure it out, Thiago could immediately realize the reason for Bernice's proposal, he really knew the other party too well.

Ever since he released her from the Death Sin Garden and met again, he found that every time he talked to Bernice, the other party didn't dare to look at him.And as long as the distance between the two of them gets closer, she will subconsciously tighten her body, being so cautious that he finds it a little funny.

She always thought that she was covering up very well, but there were so many small flaws that she hadn't improved at all compared to before.

Therefore, Thiago is also very clear that only when Bernice has other plans, will she appear to care about herself or things related to herself, otherwise she will always look like she can't wait for the sea level to hide. How far away it looks.

It's always been like this.

It was before, and it is now.

Thiago was silent, his fingernails silently scratched the body of the transparent water glass, and clear ice patterns immediately condensed wantonly and arrogantly along the place where he passed.

Bernice's explanation was still going on, he listened motionlessly, his eyes fell on her flickering snow-white teeth and bright red lips, but his hearing blocked all her words into noise, like a plate of crystal beads bumping against each other erratically on the eardrums.

At the end, Bernice stopped and waited expectantly for his answer, but found that Tiago was only watching her silently.

After his eyes lost all their bright colors, they became like a pair of bottomless blue holes, thick and almost black, with pupils and irises forming a thick opaque layer of water, pressing down on her extremely heavily. .

Angry?

Bernice's scalp was numb from his stare, she thought she was talking too much, so she quickly changed the topic and made amends: "Of course, I just made a few random suggestions, it's up to you to decide who to go."

After finishing speaking, she reluctantly pulled away a docile expression, and at the same time, she was thinking about what she said wrong just now that made him behave like this suddenly.

Obviously there is nothing wrong.

Thiago bent his lips, hung a thin and warm smile, his eyes were restrained, and thick fog filled his eyes: "Of course you are willing, but if you don't know the details of the other party, let you use your current state It's too risky to go alone."

"Why don't we go together, do you think it's okay?" He tilted his head and asked, with an inexplicably eerie softness in his tone.

Bernice opened her mouth in astonishment, and the first words that gushed out from the depths of her soul were:

Of course not, not at all!

Didn't it mean that I used to be so ruthless that I almost stabbed you into a fish?Why do you have no psychological shadow? Why do you ask to be with me? Why can you still laugh?

Are you a pervert? !

Or does it mean that this fish has already planned to take advantage of this operation to avenge its personal revenge, and to eat her whole like a krill before she has no strength to resist?

Bernice couldn't help trembling from the brutal brain-filling picture, and began to subconsciously frantically find excuses to shirk.

For her, if she had to choose one to face alone, the unknown creature on the ghost ship and Tiago, she would definitely choose the former without hesitation.

Even if the other party is the resurrection of Cthulhu in human mythology, she will only sincerely find it pleasing to the eye, and maybe even give it a hairstyle on a whim.

However, after a long silence, Bernice found in despair that she couldn't find a suitable reason at all.

What's worse, if the refusal is not righteous enough to make the other party mistakenly think that she is looking for an opportunity to escape.Then the great cause of freedom revival that she finally conceived, I am afraid that she can only live in fantasy and die at the beginning, and enter the soil immediately.

Ah... this is a disaster scene where Ninja gets more and more angry when he thinks about it for a while, and when he takes a step back, he thinks about it and gets worse.Bernice froze on the chair, hesitated for nearly 3 minutes, finally gritted her teeth, nodded cruelly, and swallowed the rejection that had already been brought to her mouth, and then agreed with great difficulty: "Of course, It would be great if His Majesty could go together."

Tiago stared at her, taking all the subtle expressions of the other party into his eyes, but still smiled slightly: "Then it's decided, no one else needs it, just let's go together."

"..."

Or let's just collude with the ghost ship to kill him, Bernice thought so.