Sword of Dawn

When the first ray of sunshine in the morning sprinkled on the earth, the peas had already got up early.

The first thing she had to do was to fetch water from the small square at the corner of the Street of Knights.

"Knight Street" is one of the earliest blocks built in the territory. It is said that it is also the former site of the soldiers' barracks when this pioneering territory first camped. After that, there were two neat rows of brick and tile houses and a square at the end of the street.

Most of the Cecil soldiers with families live in this area. On one side of the block is the new barracks area, and on the other side is the lord's mansion and the offices of several major departments, so "Knight Street" can also be It is regarded as the innermost line of defense of the Cecil Territory.

Living in this place seems to be the dream of many young people in the territory.

This means that they have the most respectable status, and they can also wear mighty enchanted armor, use the legendary powerful heat ray gun, and are already eligible to let their families enter the ranks of "citizens".

Pea came to this territory when the reconstruction project of the brick and tile house on Knight Street was halfway through. She witnessed how the workers on this land removed tents and wooden sheds with amazing efficiency, and then built a neat and solid There are brick and tile houses, and magic spar lamps driven by magic power are installed in front of each house, making this a beautiful place that is brighter and brighter than the wealthiest neighborhood in Tanzania Town.She followed her adoptive father, Byron, the chief knight in the territory, and lived in one of the first few brick houses completed on Knight Street. Now she is the daughter of the chief knight and the "dumb lady" in Knight Street .

But for Pea, these changes in life don't seem to affect her too much—in other words, others can't figure out what is going on in the dumb girl's mind.She can't speak, and this kind of "silence" can easily become the ground for others to speculate for no reason, so she is used to working silently, silently completing the things that others entrusted to her, without being curious, without trying to communicate, and without There will be troubles on the upper body. This is the wisdom of life that Pea has accumulated in the past days, even if she moves to a strange place and lives in a big sturdy house.

It's just that as she lived here longer and longer, she also realized that this place was indeed very different from the environment she was familiar with.

After closing the door, Pea carried a bucket and walked on the way to the small square. On both sides of the road, you can see neat double-storey brick houses. Houses are not seen in other places, at least the houses in other places cannot be so luxurious that every gate is inlaid with magic spar lamps; and on the streets between the houses, basically no men can be seen , only the women were working in front of the door while doing household chores.

Most of the men on Knights Street are soldiers from Cecil, even if they are not soldiers, they are workers from various factories. The former spend most of the month in the barracks or sentry posts, while the latter go out to work during the day. workers, so what can be seen on the street during this time period is basically female relatives.

Mrs. Merlene, who was drying dried fish at the door, saw the peas. This fat lady was one of the few people who survived from Old Cecil. Her husband was a veteran, and she herself was on this road. Prestige in the street.Seeing Pea coming out with a bucket, this prestigious lady immediately greeted her with a loud voice: "Pea, fetch water? Do you want to help?"

What makes Cecil Territory different from other towns: there will be someone to help you.

Pea made an "ahhh" sound and shook her head at Mrs. Mai Lin, expressing that she could do it.

"What a nice girl," said Mrs. Marilyn, who liked to chat with people--her taste in this area was so strong that she could even chat with a mute for a long time, "Knight Byron hasn't come back yet? Or went out again?"

Holding the bucket, Pea thought for a long time and didn't know how to answer this complicated question, so she could only shake her head apologetically.

However, Mrs. Marilyn didn't care whether Pea answered, she just said by herself: "Hey, I heard that he was exploring the ruins in the mountains. My guy went there with him before, but he didn't tell me anything when he came back, tsk tsk, Men always have secrets... Pea, are you going to the castle to find Miss Betty later?"

Although Duke Cecil did not build a "castle" in the traditional sense, it is obvious that everyone is still accustomed to using "castle" to refer to the place where the lord lives: in their simple concept, the lord must live in a castle. .

At the mention of Betty, Pea finally laughed and nodded happily.

What makes Cecil Territory different from other towns: Even the chief maid who lives in the lord's castle is very talkative, and even takes a newcomer to visit the territory, and distributes the candies that the lord gave her to herself eat.

Although the lord seems to have only one maid...

Then Mrs. Marilyn talked about a lot of things, from the weather after winter to the rumbling construction site on the territory, and from the amazing machines to this year's exceptionally good harvest, but fortunately she still remembered that the peas should be Going to get water, so she stopped decisively after extending the topic to how big Viscount Rebecca's big fireball could become: "Hey, I couldn't stop when I started talking - hurry up and fetch water! Come back to my house for dinner!"

So Pea bent over to Mrs. Marilyn, and quickly walked towards the small square with the bucket in hand.

People greeted her frequently along the way. Most of them called her by her name "Pea", while a few people called her "Byron's girl" or "Miss Kirk". Kirk last name.Pea will seriously respond to every greeting, and a slightly brisk smile gradually emerges on her face.

Cecilland is different from other towns: People here will call her by her first name, instead of calling her "dumb" or "waste".

At first, Pea thinks it's because of her "status" that people have to respect a little mute because she has an adoptive father who is the chief knight, but she soon finds that this attitude pervades the entire territory, people and people It was like this all the time——and after a while, she heard a sentence from Duke Cecil from her adoptive father:

The vast majority of vices and bad practices stem from a lack of food, and when people have enough to eat, they start to think about morality. Although this is not absolute, it is the case in most cases.

Pea still doesn't quite understand the wisdom of the lord, but she vaguely feels that this sentence makes sense - she has also committed petty theft when she was hungry, and was whipped by the magistrate for stealing a piece of bread. And was publicly announced by the sheriff that she had a "natural habit of stealing from blood", but now, when she picked up something that didn't belong to her, her first reaction was to hand it over to the patrolling soldiers.

She also believed that those gentlemen soldiers would not take all the things they handed over to the public—because her adoptive father told her more than once how strict the lord's management of the army was, and she trusted her adoptive father very much.

Pea came to the square with a bucket in hand. The small square was very quiet at the moment. You could see that there was a construction site on the opposite side of the square making preparations before the start of construction. There was a new residential area. The homeless people are moving materials and distributing tools under the supervision of soldiers and supervisors. They still have some dazed and numb expressions on their faces. They don't seem to understand that they still have to work in winter, but Pea knows that these people will soon It would be hot—when they understood the Cecil Housing System read out by the soldiers, and understood that they were building the houses they wanted to live in.

Pea came to the well in the center of the square. The water in this well was actually drained directly from the Baishui River. Although the lord had mentioned the concept of "supplying water to households", everyone didn't understand what it meant , everyone in the block draws water from this well, which is already very convenient for Pea.

She put her bucket aside, then opened the teeth on the well pulley, and threw the wooden bucket tied with a rope into the well——

There was a strange "clang" sound from the well, and Pea couldn't help being stunned for a moment, but then she heard the sound of a normal wooden barrel entering the water, so she felt relieved.

Maybe he hit the wall of the well just now?

She grasped the handle of the pulley with both hands and pushed hard to try to roll the bucket up.

But nothing happened.

Pea tilted her head and tried to push it again, but it still didn't move.

The little girl became confused. She had never encountered this situation before. Although she was only a child, she had always been very strong because of her work since she was a child. In addition, she had been able to keep up with nutrition recently and was in good health. Her strength was even stronger than before, and it shouldn't be so strenuous to fetch a bucket of water from the well.

Pea was close to the mouth of the well, carefully held the bracket of the nearby potter's wheel, and looked inside, but it was dark inside, and nothing could be seen at all.

At this moment, a voice came from the side: "Isn't this a girl from the Byron family... What's wrong?"

Pea turned her head and took a look, and saw that it was a carpenter she knew, probably passing by, and saw herself squatting by the well, so she came to ask, and the carpenter was followed by his two apprentices.

"Ah—ah!" Pea made a vague sound, while reaching out and gesturing at the mouth of the well, indicating that something stuck in the bucket inside, the carpenter and the two apprentices looked at each other, and soon understood she means.

"Watch while we help you get the bucket up."

Pea stepped aside obediently, watching the three big men try to turn the handle together, and the pulley made of strong iron pillars and hard wood made a creaking sound, as if a big man was falling under the rope. Like a living person, but anyway, the rope finally started to go up.

"Come up, come up! Don't relax!"

The carpenter spoke loudly, and the moment his words fell, Pea suddenly heard a loud sound of water coming from the well.

Whoa!

A figure surrounded by water splashes suddenly rushed out of the well, and the upper body of a human being and the tail of a fish could be vaguely seen...

Pea looked at this figure in a daze.

The difference between Cecilland and other towns: fish will pop out of the well here, and it is a big fish...

Chapter 0193 Deep sea fan... voyage?

In front of Gao Wen was the latest batch of investigation materials on the ruins in the mountains sent by the messenger soldiers. This information detailed what Knight Byron had seen and heard in the ruins in the mountains, and a more detailed map was attached. and some hand-drawn manuscripts of Stranger Things.

After the winter, Knight Byron's exploration mission to the ruins in the mountain is still not over. Half of his time every month is still wandering around in the super-large facility in the mountain, looking for more corridors, secret passages and rooms, and drawing Maps along the way, every three days or so, he will send a soldier to send the newly collected information to the territory.

At present, these are 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 Gao Wen quite a surprise—the true scale of this ruin once This challenged his expectations for the first time. The scale of those corridors and halls may have reached the level of a small city. Even after exploring for so long, Byron Knight failed to complete its current "floor". Not long ago, Byron And the exploration team also discovered two large stairs leading to the upper and lower floors in the ruins. More and more clues prove that there are brand new large areas waiting to be discovered in the ruins.

Gao Wen in the upper level area is easy to understand-it may lead to some observation platforms or lookout structures on the top of the dark mountain range, but where will the lower level area lead?The middle layer of the ruins has almost hollowed out the entire mountain. Could it be that the lower layer has spread to the ground?

Even as an ancient facility for studying the mysteries of the gods, this scale is too big.

However, no matter how big its overall size is, a large part of its middle area has been completely explored and mapped. Knight Byron has confirmed the safety and security of those areas. Gawain's next plan is to generalize the area on the territory. Some things were transferred to the ruins in the mountains.

Those vast ancient halls cannot be wasted in vain. Their firmness and secrecy are the greatest use value. Gawain plans to transfer the newly assembled production lines of thermal energy ray guns, stamped armor and rune substrates there. Things that are confidential, or that are harmful to the environment or that make a lot of noise can also be transferred to the mountain. That itself is the research facility of the ancient Gondor Empire. The brick and tile factories that come out are much stronger.

Gao Wen picked up the dipping pen next to him, and was about to leave some records on one of the documents, but at this moment, a sound of hurried footsteps came from outside the door.

There was a knock on the door, and after getting Gawain's response, Betty pushed the door open and walked in.

"Master!" The little maid walked quickly to the desk, bowed in a signature gesture that looked like she was going to push herself over, and said crisply, "The square on Knights Street Come on, someone caught a big fish!"

"Big fish?" Gao Wen was stunned immediately, he didn't expect the girl to come rushing over to report such an inexplicable incident, "Is it necessary to report if you catch a fish—send it directly to the kitchen."

Betty straightened up, thought for a while, and shook her head vigorously: "It's too big, it can't be stewed in one pot!"

"It's impossible for you to catch a shark," Gawain laughed dumbly. "The fish from the White Water River ran into the well on Knight Street along the diversion channel..."

"It doesn't look like it grows in the Baishui River, because half of it looks like a person..."

"……What?!"

Gao Wen rushed to the square of Knight Street in a hurry, and the patrol soldiers who responded in time had already imposed martial law here. A young apprentice knight wearing the commander's armor was maintaining order on the spot, and those who were blocked by the martial law line The citizens outside were curiously watching the movement here in the corners of the streets and alleys.

Gawain recognized the young commander because he had personally awarded honors to this soldier—in the first Cecil Defense Battle, this young soldier named Kerim was exceptionally brave, so he was appreciated, not only The military rank has been promoted, and he has also been taught by Byron to become an apprentice knight.

"My lord!" Seeing Gawain, Kerim immediately stepped forward to salute, "The situation is under control, that...creature is still staying by the well."

"What's going on?" Gao Wen frowned, "I heard that you caught a half-man, half-fish...woman?"

Kerim shook his head: "I didn't catch it, I found it when Miss Pea 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. "

Gao Wen's mind suddenly appeared in his own notebook that he had seen a few days ago... Ahem, the biography of the knight, and he thought of the "sea monsters" mentioned in the notebook...the biography.

Could it be such a coincidence?

He was expecting and couldn't believe that he would be so lucky, but he had already taken steps under his feet. He led Betty through the blockade of the soldiers, and saw several people in the small square surrounded by a temporary wooden fence. Surrounded by that well.

Pittman, Rebecca, Amber, Hetty... Almost all the well-informed came, and beside them stood three craftsmen who were being questioned by soldiers and a little girl with an empty bucket, which was peas.

On the other hand, a strange woman was lazily sitting on the edge of the well. She had beautiful long sea-blue hair, and her upper body was wearing a blue "coat" with a material that looked like leather. Her cheeks and arms were exposed. There is also a scale-like structure on her body, and her lower body... just like what Betty and Kerim described, is a beautiful fishtail with pale gold and blue patterns.

Gao Wen's heart moved, and he walked forward quickly.

Rebecca and the others were curiously surrounding this strange woman at the moment. Hetty was seriously analyzing the beautiful lines on her tail that looked like magic patterns, while Amber was inquiring about her origin and the purpose of visiting this place. But the half-human, half-fish woman always looked lazy and didn't respond to most of the questions.

"What's the situation?" Gao Wen asked aloud, and it wasn't until he spoke next to him that the few people who were immersed in the study of seafood finally noticed his existence, and Rebecca was the first to jump up: " Lord Ancestor! This person looks like the 'sea monster' you asked around before!"

Listen to her quantifier - this "article" person!At this moment, the fusion of the two species is perfect...

Pittman also turned his face, and the old druid's face was rare and serious: "My lord, I'm afraid this is really a siren—but I don't know how she got here. When she saw us just now, she expressed She showed great vigilance and hostility, but after we showed that she was not malicious, she was... not very active."

Is it really a Kraken? !

Gawain controlled his excitement, and looked curiously at the "Miss Mermaid" sitting on the edge of the well, and the latter also raised his eyelids to look at him curiously, and the two stared at each other for a while. Yes, "Miss Mermaid" suddenly slapped her tail on the edge of the well, and she made a pleasant but lazy voice: "I seem to have seen you somewhere?"

Gao Wen was taken aback for a moment, then he was ecstatic, and even wanted to dance wildly.

Was this sea monster thrown down from the sky by Goddess Luck to solve the mystery? !

"Are you a siren?" Gawain took two deep breaths before he calmed down, and then immediately asked impatiently, "If so, maybe we have really met——My name is Gawain Cecil, we met 700 years ago Have you seen it?!"

"Gawain Cecil? Yawn..." Miss Mermaid yawned big, then rubbed her eyes, "700 years ago... It seems to be a bit of an impression, it seems that such a human appeared at that time, but I I haven't dealt with that human being much. You said it was you? Can you humans live for 700 years?"

Gao Wen didn't know how to explain it for a moment: "Um... I was resurrected only recently."

Miss Mermaid blinked: "Have you developed new functions?"

Gao Wen: "...you can't say that."

"It doesn't matter, anyway, I don't know you well," the mermaid lady shook her head, her long sea-blue hair glowed wonderfully in the sun, "I'm so sleepy, I was woken up by a bucket of water just in the middle of my sleep By the way, who threw the bucket?"

Gao Wen glanced awkwardly at Pea not far away, but then he realized: "Of course you will be smashed if you sleep in our well... By the way, what's your name?"

"Tyl," the mermaid lady muttered and replied, "so the place where I was just now was a well?"

It can be seen that she really doesn't want to talk to people, but she is a little interested in Gao Wen, so the two barely reached an exchange, and this exchange is enough to amaze the people next to them, Ruibei Ka looked at his ancestor with adoring eyes when he reached a consensus with a fish, and couldn't help saying: "Master ancestor, did you ever fish?"

I have no idea how she thinks about it.

Gawain looked at Rebecca dumbfounded, and then looked at the sea monster who called himself "Tyre", unbearably curious: "By the way, where did you come from? Why did you come here? What do you need our help for?" Is it?"

"Me? I come from the deep sea," Tire swayed slightly on the edge of the well, "I don't know why I came to your human land... I was still fighting with another group of humans in the sea a few days ago. ——Then I wandered away from the main force, and I swam home by myself, but somehow I ended up in this place, and when I opened my eyes and saw humans everywhere, I thought I had fallen into the enemy’s lair , was taken aback."

"Fighting a group of humans in the sea?" Gao Wen keenly grasped the key point in this sentence, and then realized another key point, "You said you were going back to the territory of your Kraken Wandering here?"

Tyre nodded: "Yes."

If the records of the legends and elves are correct, the sea monster is a kind of intelligent creature that lives in the far sea in the east of the mainland...

Gawain's face became strange: "Miss Till, if I'm not wrong, you... probably got it wrong..."

"what?"

Chapter 0194 The Great Adventure of the Siren Tyr

It can be seen that Miss Siren Till is not very happy about her "swimming backwards"...

And Gao Wen also finally figured out how this deep-sea creature came to the human continent in a daze during the conversation with the other party.

According to the other party, the sea monster had a war with a group of humans about a month ago, and the war was fought on the endless sea in the east far away from the land. It was "a group of crazy humans, wearing black robes and short robes , and will use strange spells", the battle did not last very long, although those humans had powerful spells, but they were isolated and outnumbered on the island, the Krakens jointly summoned two lightning storms and several The next tsunami broke through their fortifications, and humans fled in panic.

Miss Till lost contact with the main force in the second half of the battle-the spells used by humans may have interfered with her judgment (she said so herself), causing her to be unable to distinguish the direction. The sea monster's territory swam, but it turned out to be on the human continent...

"At first I wondered why the scene on the seabed became less familiar the more I looked at it," Miss Till was sitting on the edge of the well, her fish's tail slapped the ground every now and then - Gao Wen was curious about the fish's tail of the other party. What kind of structure is it that can bend to such a degree, "I saw the mainland when I was swimming, and I saw the mouth of a big river... I thought it was going around to the back of our continent. "

"Your continent?" Gawain was taken aback, "Do you have a continent there?"

"Yes," Tyre nodded, "but a larger island is fine... I'm not familiar with the situation on land, we spend most of our time in the sea."

Another useful information!

This Siren lady is definitely a surprise gift from God. Gawain felt that his understanding of the world would be greatly improved with Tyre's supplement. He couldn't help but continue to ask curiously: "War with you?" Do you know the origin of human beings?"

"I didn't know, they suddenly ran to our territory, and they occupied an island reef to hold some ceremony - that is a dangerous area, there is a strong unstable energy field on the bottom of the sea, and they are messing around. There will be accidents, so we sent people to remind them not to mess around, but those humans rushed over shouting 'a storm is about to rise' without saying a word, and were beaten by us..." Till said while crooked He tilted his head, as if he didn't understand the thinking logic of creatures like humans, "We don't have much dealings with humans, but this is the first time I've seen that kind of crazy guy..."

"It's the Son of the Storm!" Pittman immediately guessed the identities of those humans from Tire's description, "That's right... Besides the Son of the Storm, who else would appear in the sea so far from the land? Those lunatics are falling After that, they stayed away from the human territory, and [-] to [-]% of them went to the sea."

While talking, the little old man couldn't help twirling his beard: "I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it... Those guys not only ran to the far sea, they even fought the sea monster in the sea..."

Hetty also looked at Tyre: "So, you want to remind those crazy humans not to take risks, and they didn't listen to you before they started fighting?"

Probably because he had already said a lot, although Tire's lazy energy was still there, he also began to answer other people's questions: "Yes, otherwise who would have nothing to do to fight with you humans—we have nothing to do every day. Are you busy?"

"Do you know what those human beings are doing for holding the ceremony?" Gawain frowned and asked another question.