In front of Gawain is the latest batch of investigation data about the ruins in the mountain sent by the messenger soldiers. This data details what Knight Byron saw and heard in the ruins in the mountain, and is accompanied by more detailed information. Detailed maps and hand-drawn manuscripts of some strange things.
After winter, Knight Byron’s mission to explore the ruins in the mountains is still not over. He still spends half of every month wandering around the extra large facility in the mountains, looking for more corridors. , secret passages and rooms, and draw maps along the way. Every three days or so, he will send a soldier to deliver the newly collected information to the territory.
Currently, this is all conventional information, and no new research facilities involving the secrets of the gods have been discovered, but the ever-expanding map itself is enough to bring Gawain considerable surprise—— The true scale of this ruins challenged his expectations time and time again. The scale of those corridors and halls has probably reached the level of a small city. Even after exploring for so long, Knight Byron has not been able to complete its current "floor". Not long ago, Byron and the exploration team also discovered two large stairs leading to the upper and lower levels in the ruins. More and more clues prove that there are brand new large areas in the ruins waiting to be discovered.
Gawain in the upper area is easy to understand - it may lead to some observatory or observation structure on the top of the dark mountain, but where will the lower area lead? The middle layer of the ruins has hollowed out almost the entire mountain. Could it be that the lower area actually spread to the ground?
Even as an ancient facility for studying the mysteries of gods, this scale is too big.
However, no matter how big its overall scale is, a large area of its middle area has been completely explored and mapped. Byron Knight confirmed the safety and solidity of those areas. Gawain's next step The plan is to transfer some of the things on the territory to the ruins in the mountains.
Those vast ancient halls cannot be wasted. Their sturdiness and stealth are their greatest utilization value. Gawain plans to transfer the newly assembled thermal ray gun production line, stamping armor production line and rune substrate production line There, other things that need to be kept secret, or that are harmful to the environment or make loud noises can also be moved to the mountain. It is itself a research facility of the ancient Gondor Empire, with advanced protective structures and sound insulation effects. It is definitely much better than the brick and tile factory buildings that can currently be built in the territory.
Gawain picked up the dip pen next to him and was about to leave some notes on one of the documents, but at this moment, a burst of rapid footsteps suddenly came from outside the door.
There was a knock on the door, and after receiving Gawain's response, Betty opened the door and walked in.
"Master!" The little maid walked quickly to the desk, bowed in a signature posture that looked like she was about to push herself over, and said crisply. Said, "Someone caught a big fish in the square of Knight Street!"
"Big fish?" Gao Wen was stunned immediately, he didn'tThinking of this girl rushing over to report such an inexplicable thing, "Do you need to report if you catch a fish - just send it to the kitchen."
Betty straightened up and thought for a moment. He shook his head vigorously: "It's too big to be stewed in one pot!"
"You guys caught a shark," Gawain laughed dumbly, "it was a fish from the White Water River that ran along the culvert to the well on Knight Street Come on..."
"It doesn't look like it grows in the Baishui River, because half of it looks like a person..."
"...What?"
Gawain ran to the square of Knight Street in a hurry, and the place had already been put under martial law by patrol soldiers who responded in time. A young trainee knight wearing a commander's armor was maintaining order at the scene, and those who were blocked The citizens outside the martial law line were curiously watching the happenings in the corners of the streets and alleys.
Gawain recognized the young commander because he had personally awarded the soldier a medal. In the first battle to defend Cecil, this young soldier named Crim fought particularly well. His bravery was appreciated, and not only was his military rank promoted, but he was also taught by Byron to become an apprentice knight.
"Sir!" Krim saw Gawain and immediately stepped forward to salute, "The situation is under control, that... creature is still staying by the well."
" What's going on?" Gawain frowned, "I heard that you caught a half-human, half-fish... woman?" Krim shook his head: "It's not that you caught it. Miss Pea discovered it when she was fetching water - the half-fish, half-human creature seemed to be hiding at the bottom of the well, and was later pulled up by a passing carpenter and apprentice."
Gawain suddenly thought in his mind. The notebook I saw a few days ago came to mind...ahem, the Knight's Biography, and I thought of the "Sirens" mentioned in the notebook...the biography.
Is it such a coincidence?
He looked forward to but could not believe that he would be so lucky, but he had already taken steps. He led Betty through the soldiers' blockade and saw that they were surrounded by temporary wooden fences. In the small square, several people were gathered around the well.
Pitman, Rebecca, Amber, Hetty... almost all the well-informed people came. Next to them stood three craftsmen who were being questioned by the soldiers and a little girl carrying an empty bucket. That's peas.
A strange woman was sitting lazily on the edge of the well. She had beautiful long sea-blue hair and wore a unique blue "coat" on her upper body made of leather-like material. , you can also see scale-like structures on her cheeks and exposed arms, and her lower body... just as Betty and Krim described it, is a beautiful fish tail with light gold and blue patterns.
Gawain's heart moved and he walked forward quickly.
Rebecca and others were curiously surrounding this strange woman. Hetty was analyzing the demon-like things on her tail with a serious face.Beautiful lines like tattoos, while Amber inquired about the origin of the other party and the purpose of visiting this place, but the half-human, half-fish woman always looked lazy and did not respond to most of the questions.
"What's going on?" Gawain asked aloud, and it wasn't until he spoke next to him that several people who were immersed in studying seafood finally noticed his presence. One of them jumped up: "My lord! This person looks like the kind of 'kraken' you were asking about before!"
Listen to her quantifier - this "person"! At this moment, the fusion of the two species was superb...
Pitman also turned his face, and the old Druid's face showed a rare seriousness: "My lord, I'm afraid this is really a sea monster - —But I don’t know how she got here. She showed great vigilance and hostility when she saw us just now, but after we said that she had no ill intentions, she became less active. ”
Is it really a siren? !
Gawain controlled his excitement and looked curiously at the "Mermaid Lady" sitting on the edge of the well. The latter also raised her eyelids and looked at him curiously. The two of them After staring at each other for a while, "Ms. Mermaid"'s tail suddenly slapped on the edge of the well, and she made a pleasant but lazy voice: "I seem to have seen you somewhere?"
Gawain was stunned for a moment, then became ecstatic, and even wanted to dance wildly.
Was this Siren dropped from the sky by Lady Luck specifically to solve the mystery? !
"Are you a siren?" Gawain took two deep breaths to calm down, and then immediately asked impatiently, "If so, maybe we have actually met - my name is Gawain Sai. Ciel, have we met seven hundred years ago?"
"Gawain Cecil? Yawn..." Miss Mermaid yawned widely, then rubbed her eyes, "Seven. A hundred years ago... I seem to have some impression that there was such a human being at that time, but I didn't have much contact with that human being. Do you think that was you? Can you humans live for seven hundred years?"
Gawain didn't know how to explain it for a moment: "Well... I was resurrected recently."
Miss Mermaid blinked: "Have you developed new functions?"
Gawain: "...you can't say that."
"It doesn't matter, I'm not familiar with you anyway," Miss Mermaid shook her head, her long sea-blue hair shining in the sun There was a strange luster, "I'm so sleepy. I was woken up by someone hitting me with a bucket just halfway through my sleep. Who threw the bucket?"
Gawain suddenly glanced away in embarrassment. The peas in the distance glanced at each other, but then they reacted: "Of course you will be smashed if you sleep in our well... By the way, what is your name?"
"Tir," Miss Mermaid She mumbled and replied, "So was the place I was staying just now a well?"
It could be seen that she really didn't want to talk to anyone, but she was very interested.Gawain was a little interested, so the two of them reluctantly reached an exchange, and this exchange was enough to amaze the people next to them. Rebecca looked at her ancestor with a fish almost with admiration. After reaching a consensus, she couldn't help but say: "My ancestors, did you go fishing back then?"
I have no idea how she made the connection.
Gawain glanced at Rebecca with a dumbfounded look, then looked at the siren who called himself "Tyr", and couldn't help but be curious: "By the way, where did you come from? Why did you come here? Do you need our help?"
"Me? I came from the deep sea," Tyr shook his body slightly on the edge of the well, "I don't know why I came to your human land. Go up... I was fighting with another group of humans in the sea a few days ago - and then I wandered away from the large group. I swam home by myself, but I ended up swimming and somehow ended up at this place. When I opened my eyes, I saw There were humans everywhere, and I thought I had fallen into the enemy's lair. I was shocked."
"Fighting with a bunch of humans in the sea?" Gawain captured this sentence keenly. The key point in his words was immediately followed by another key point he realized, "You said you wandered here when you were traveling back to your Kraken's territory?"
Tear nodded: " "Yes."
If the legends and elves' records are correct, the Kraken is an intelligent creature living in the far sea in the east of the continent...
Gawain looked strange: "Ti Miss Er, if I guess correctly, you...probably went backwards..."
"Huh?"