The welcome dinner hosted by the natives was very lavish, and Kii couldn't tell what the natives used to make so many delicious dishes, but it was very much to her taste. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Yumi-chan, there are so many animals living on this island?"

From the plate in front of him, Kii saw two kinds of birds the size of domestic chickens, as well as unconventional animals such as turtles and apes.

"We don't usually catch birds and animals on the island, they are too tasty compared to the food in the sea. As for the animals here, I've seen no less than 40 species of animals, isn't that strange to the outside world? ”

Kii estimates that the largest island will not be more than half the size of Okinawa, but the ecological environment here is beyond imagination. She could barely see the obvious crops at the welcome feast, and the indigenous people ate fruit and unknown underground tubers as their staple food,

After questioning, Kii learned that the fields around the clan were only planted with various herbs, and Yumi could not understand the act of planting edible plants in the fields.

"Growing crops in a field? Wasting all kinds of resources just to get more edible plants? People from the outside are so rich that they have a lot of spare time to do such meaningless things?"

If these differences can be explained by the unique geographical location of the island, Kii was surprised by what she later discovered.

There are many gray-haired old people among the natives, some of whom are over 70 years old, and through Yumi's introduction, most of them in this tribe can live past 60 star years, but some people who feel that they have lived enough will choose to sacrifice themselves to the sea gods after 50 star years, so as to obtain the sublimation of the soul.

Therefore, the old people that Ki Yi saw had basically violated the laws of the clan and were not qualified to sacrifice their own second-class people, but this clan already had advanced knowledge of herbology, and many diseases could be cured here.

After obtaining information on the living environment, food, culture, and beliefs, Kii was able to vaguely piece together the outlines of this peculiar ethnic group. One of the most important words for the indigenous people here is "gift and devotion", they have received many blessings from the sea gods, and they will believe in the sea gods from an early age, and after the age of 50 are ready to sacrifice their lives, in their culture, it represents the return of grace and the sublimation of the soul, is a noble way to die, on the contrary, the body is still relying on herbs to survive after aging, it is a kind of torture of the soul, belonging to the punishment of the clan.

Kii felt that the values were similar to those of the deep sea, and the deep-sea ships also regarded death as a noble end of life, and it was very honorable to die for the superior Suhime, or even the daughter of the deep sea. The only difference is probably that the deep-sea fleet has a strong atmosphere of resentment and endless pathos from beginning to end, and they are born and die only for the sake of war, unlike the natives here.

"Sister Ki is curious about our clan? Actually, I'm also very curious about the outside world, and listening to your description, there are a lot of man-made tools in the outside world that we have never seen before. "Yumi is a very common female soldier in the clan, managing the daily patrols of a stretch of coastline. The concept of a soldier here is also different from the outside world, the word "war" does not exist here at all, but there are a large number of related words in the prophecies of the ancient deep-sea fleet. The soldiers of the indigenous people are the equivalent of police officers from the outside, only ensuring law and order within the tribe, and sometimes dealing with ferocious beasts that run into the tribe's territory.

"And what is war? A kind of ritual? ”

Kii tells Yumi a lot about the outside world, and inevitably mentions war, but she doesn't explain it when she realizes that the word "war" is not here. She had experienced the brutality of war and did not want to bring this diabolical word back into the language of the natives.

"I forgot the word 'war' I mentioned, it's not a word worth understanding."

Before the end of the dinner, Kii approached the patriarch and applied to visit the Poseidon temple here. When Yumi found out, she didn't think that the patriarch would agree, and according to the rules of the clan, only those who planned to sacrifice their lives, newly grown children, married couples, priests, and the like could go to the Poseidon Temple.

But the patriarch thought for a while and agreed to Kii's request, because he felt that Kii could speak the language of the clan, and maybe he was a special guest who was guided by the sea gods, and it was in line with the rules for the priests of the clan to accompany him.

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"The three admirals have woken up, you go and call the military doctor."

Sanjo Teru was struggling to open his eyes, his whole body was like falling apart, he couldn't move, and he could only vaguely see Mogami standing in front of him, and there were many members of the team.

"I ...... Still alive? Terumasa Sanjo recalled that in the decisive battle in the Marshall Sea, he used the gem pendant that Nagato left in Kure Harbor in order to save Yubari, and if Nagato's notes were not wrong, he must have died by now without even the residue left.

What happened? 】

"Of course, Sanjo-kun, don't say stupid things. A man can still survive even if he lacks an arm or a broken leg, not to mention that you are only severely weak. ”

The encouragement of the top made the people around her can't help but support her forehead, and her occasional off-line mistake has been committed......

"Speaking of which, when you were first rescued from the May Rain, you kept shouting Yubari's original name in your mouth. Maybe it's the great love that saved you~" Kumano brought a pillow to help Sanjo Teruma sit up from the hospital bed, no matter what the reason, the bizarre encounter between Sanjo Teruma and Yubari has become a beautiful talk in the ship's circle.

"Where's Yubari?"

Suzuya took her coat and put it on for Sanjo Terumasa, and she pointed to the empty hospital bed on Sanjo's right hand, "Your princess just woke up this morning and is now undergoing a medical examination. ”

"Did she survive? What is your physical condition? Has the hull been effectively repaired? Sanjo Teruma wanted to ask more questions about Yubari, and even got up from the hospital bed and saw Yubari standing in front of him intact to stop his anxious heart.

"Look at you're in a hurry, she'...... Very good. In short, both of you miraculously survived. Please cherish this unimaginable miracle, no matter how difficult it may be. And we're here, rest assured. Although Suzuya remembered what everyone had agreed upon, he couldn't bear to tell him everything when he saw that his admiral hadn't noticed his physical condition until now.

Sanjo Teruma felt that there was something in Suzuya's words, and after a dozen seconds of sober time just now, he slowly returned to his usual state.

Miracles come at a cost, and even if it becomes a miracle of love that is praised by everyone, it does not mean that it will be a perfect outcome.

Sanjo Terumasa's hands had regained some sense, and he was eager to see Yubari and see the other party in good condition, and he didn't care about anything else.

"No! Sanjo-kun you should continue to rest, Yubari will be back in a while. You don't have to drag your weak body out of the hospital bed right now. Mogami stepped forward and pressed Terumasa's hands of Sanjo, as the eldest sister who couldn't lie among the four Mogami sisters, her actions completely aroused Terumasa Sanjo's suspicions.

"What the hell are you hiding from me?"

In the face of Sanjo Terumasa's questioning, none of the dozen or so people in the ward could muster up the courage to tell their admiral, they were afraid that the genius of the seventh team in the past would fall, which belonged to the seventh team and belonged to the pride of everyone in their seventh team.

"Mogami, you say! That's an order! ”

"......" Mogami was silent for a long time, until Sanjo Teruma asked again and again, she looked at her colleagues around her, and spoke. Sanjo-kun believes that I am the most unreliable person with the most mouth, so that's why he came to ask me, right? But I've already said it, please don't be me anymore. I'm sorry. ”

Sanjo Teru was trying to get out of the hospital bed, and he realized that his legs were uncontrollable, and it was difficult to even move them, let alone walk.

The girls of the Yue-class destroyers in the ward all silently left tears, previously happy, but now sad......

"The medic said that your legs were eroded by an unknown fluid, and that there was an abnormality in the internal nerves, and that with current medical technology, there was no way to treat your leg injuries. Maybe from now on, you will have to use a wheelchair to move around. Kumano couldn't help but choke as she spoke, Sanjo Teru was her admiral and her idol in her military career, and she couldn't imagine that the always strong Sanjo Teru was in a wheelchair.

Sanjo Terumasa remembered that after absorbing a lot of his life force, the gem fragment suddenly fell from him, and at that time, his blood continued to flow from his chest, mixed with the power of the gem fragment, turning into a thick black and red liquid, dripping beside him. It may have been the fluid that had damaged the nerves in his legs, but it was a lot of money compared to the end of death.

Thinking of this, Sanjo Terumasa laughed instead. "It's just that you can't walk, what is the price? I was ready to give my life. ”

"Huizheng!" The woman who walked in at the door of the ward walked quickly to the bed, and she stepped forward and hugged Terumasa Sanjo tightly, just like that day, reluctant to let go.

"Great, you're awake too." Yubari looked a little haggard, and she had lost some of her important stuff - her hull sank to the bottom of the sea, and the core shattered completely. But Yubari survived, no longer a ship girl, but turned back into an ordinary person and survived. This was probably the reward of the resentment of the remnants of the gem shards, and she extracted some life force from the two of them, and in return, she instantly healed Yubari and guaranteed that Sanjo Terumasa would not die.

This is the whole of the miracle, Sanjo Terumasa lost the ability to walk, Yubari lost the ability to be a ship girl, and the two got a chance to live.

But fate doesn't necessarily take away this little thing, and Teruma Sanjo doesn't know about Kii's mysterious disappearance in battle at the moment.

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"Visitors from outside, in front of them is the temple of the sea gods. You can visit as much as you want, but be careful not to damage anything inside the temple. Before the sun goes down, we're going back. That's all we have to say. ”

After speaking, the two indigenous priests who brought Kii to the so-called "Poseidon Temple" began to bow down in the direction of the sea reverently, ignoring Kii.

Kii looked up the stone steps, and there was indeed a temple built on the barren hill, with various broken stone statues outside, Kii couldn't tell the difference, but when she walked into the temple, she was immediately attracted by the blurred murals on the wall. There are indeed many monsters similar to "deep-sea ships" depicted on it.