New Eternal Day

The long-term turbulence on the sea made everyone sleepy. An he leaned on the mast and fell asleep for a while, then had a dream about the sea monster.

In the dream, a voluptuous mermaid was singing a piercing song, as if it was haunting, like a language from the depths of the soul calling, and when I woke up, I had a terrible headache.

"Ruosi, do you still have sour plums?"

"Yes, luckily I bought some at the port when I got on the boat."

"Give me one, I'm so nauseous."

Ruosi took out a small silver box from his backpack, which contained salted plums.

"Here, Nock, do you want it?"

"No, I can't eat anything."

Nock's face looked pale, Ruosi looked at Hilde again, Hilde puffed up his cheeks and waved his hands, feeling like he was about to vomit in a second.

"How long will it take to reach the maze?"

Ruosi asked Santi and Garner who were sitting beside them playing cards.

"It's almost lost, Miss Ruosi."

Santi said with a smile, and then played all the cards in his hand, winning five bronzes from Garner.

"Fuck, stop playing."

Gener simply threw the cards away, closed his eyes and rested his mind.

Suddenly there was a loud noise, and the ship shook tremendously. Ruosi had to hold on to the mast tightly, but even so, he couldn't restrain his feet from flying into the air.

"The boat seems to have hit a rock!"

A sailor shouted hastily.

Hilde finally couldn't help it, turned his head and vomited into the sea with a whimper.

"What's that in front?"

Colin pointed to the approaching darkness in the distance and said.

"It's the waves!"

Ross yelled loudly.

"Captain! Full port! Full port!"

The sailor screamed desperately while running to the cabin.

The waves came faster than expected, and they were moving towards the direction of the ship. In order to avoid the waves, the ship turned sideways, but it still couldn't escape.

If this goes on, the boat will surely capsize.

"Don't stay on deck! Get in the cabin! The waves are going to..."

Before Santi could say the word "coming", another heavy wave hit from the bottom of the boat, and Santi was thrown into the sea in an instant like a person in the middle of a trampoline.

"Santi!"

Ruosi saw him fall into the dark blue sea, and everyone was more than half awake immediately.

"There's something in the Anta water!"

Colin leaned over to look at the bottom of the sea, and said loudly.

"A mere little demon, who are you playing prestige in front of?"

An Ta turned over and jumped into the sea.

"What is he doing? Don't die?"

Garner said in surprise.

"It's okay, we will die if he doesn't go down."

Colin said.

Gunner leaned close to the side of the ship and looked down, seeing a sight he will never forget in his life.

An he stood alone on the waves, his clothes were dry and there was no trace of moisture around his body. With his left hand, he held Santi, who had fainted from fright, from his belt, and his right hand was a sharp knife formed by the chaotic sea water, which looked extremely sharp.

"You don't even know how excited this humid air is to me."

An he threw the unconscious Santi onto the boat and said with a grin.

Hilde read something next to Santi, and Santi immediately spat out a mouthful of salty sea water and woke up.

"It's okay!"

"I'm fine. There's a murloc in the water. It should be the guard of the maze. After passing it, there is the maze. The murloc is poisonous. Everyone, be careful."

"Well, don't worry. Take him to the cabin to rest."

Ruo Si helped him up and said to the sailors beside him.

"The face is blue and you plan to let it go? If I cut you with this enchanted knife, it may be difficult to heal in the sea water, right?"

An Ta pointed to a pair of eyes floating in the sea water with the tip of his knife and said.

"One nail for the tail, two beans for the autumn water, it has wings but no hair, and it has feet and can't walk."

The murloc screeched in the water.

"Are you playing a riddle with me now? What if I force my way?"

As he said that, his water blade moved closer to the murloc's eyebrows.

"Tail...a nail in the tail...two beans in autumn water, with wings but no hair, with feet and can't walk...ah, can't walk..."

The murloc closed his eyes in fear, but he still repeated what he said just now with a trembling voice.

An Tuo clicked his tongue and looked at Ruosi.

"Autumn water is the eyes, and the eyes are like beans...Insects with wings but no hair, insects with legs and flying...Dragonflies! The answer to the riddle is dragonflies!"

Ruo Si put her hands around her mouth, and shouted at An He at the top of her voice.

"She said it was a dragonfly... right?"

An he answered the murloc suspiciously.

"Ah yes yes yes!"

After hearing the answer, the murloc wanted to run away, but was clamped by An Ta.

"Are you all under the spell? Who are you working for?"

"No spell casting! No life-saving! Simple murlocs! Here is a pass!"

After speaking, the murloc shrank a lot and slipped away from Anta.

"What is this..."

An he rode the waves back to the boat.

"Is the boat all right?"

"There are a few holes in the bottom of the boat and they are being repaired. It's not a big problem..."

"Why do you want to guess the riddle? It's really inexplicable."

Nock said.

"The wave took some tools off the deck."

"It can't be helped, there are spares in the warehouse."

Everyone sorted out the things that were not left behind, and Hilde took some dry clothes for the people on the boat to change.

"How's Santi?"

"I was frightened and drank some hot soup and fell asleep."

"It's still a child after all."

"Brother Genna, do you know anything about this murloc?"

"...It's all legends, I didn't expect it to be true."

This time, Gener also saw that these people did have some skills, so it was not impossible to see the beast, and he didn't want to hide it.

"It is said that the ancient Haijia family is a symbol of wisdom. They are shrewd, eccentric, and tricky. They often ask puzzles to trouble passing fishing boats. If they can't answer, they will kill them and dig out their hearts to eat."

"Anything like that?"

"That murloc just now also said the words "Let's go every other time."

"This at least shows that we have not taken the wrong path, and we are indeed gradually approaching."

While they were talking, something suddenly surrounded them like smoke.

"It's coming again? This fog."

"It should have entered the maze."

"Don't you think this taste is familiar?"

Nock sniffed the faint sweetness in the air and recalled.

"Oh! I remember."

Hilde said in surprise:
"Enter Krull territory, before we get separated, isn't this what it is? Something like haze or fog."

"Yes, it should be the same sea, only now we are closer to the center."

Ruosi replied.

"Everyone, be careful that there may be illusions. This place is very suitable for creating environments."

Colin looked at the surrounding air quality and reminded, and then said to Hilde:

"Recite a little guardian spell on the boat, you read it first, and I will replace you later."

Hilde nodded.

Hilde began to read something silently, looking down from the sky, the ship was already covered with a green protective halo, and it was driving steadily on the sea level.

After walking about six nautical miles, Ruo Si suddenly grabbed Colin and An Ta's clothes at the same time.

"Be careful, the boat is slowing down."

Then Hilde snapped his fingers and signaled Colin to go over, Colin quickly comprehended and continued to chant the mantra, Hilde let go of his mouth and spit out a big mouthful of thick blood.

"Hilde!"

"I'm fine, a little backlash, something wants to board the ship."

"what?"

Nok asked timidly.

"I don't know, but there are a lot of them."

As Hilde said, he looked at Colin who continued to chant the spell not far away. In an instant, his forehead was covered with beads of sweat, and the blouse on his chest was wet, and he was still chanting the spell.

"If you can stop it, stop it, if you can't stop it, go up."

Seeing this situation, Gener also gritted his teeth as if excited.

"agree."

An looked at the seemingly calm sea and said affirmatively.