Chapter 8: The Parable
The jingling sound caught everyone's attention, and everyone saw a silver scroll-like thing fall out of the charred corpse and land on the deck.
Ryuji looked at the thing and was about to pick it up, not wanting Evelyn to react faster than him, so he picked up the scroll in the blink of an eye.
"It's a metaphor." Evelyn opened the scroll without thinking about it, looking at the text on it, "Oh my God, he turned out to be a believer in Triton, and his purpose this time turned out to be ......"
Before Evelyn could finish his words, the scroll in his hand was ripped away by Ryuji, and then Ryuji stared into Evelyn's eyes and said, "Whatever the rules, this is my trophy." β
"You don't understand." Evelyn was also on fire, and she tried to pounce on it and snatch it back.
"It's mine if you can't understand it, and who told you I can't understand it."
Ryuji opened the scroll and looked at it, and found that it was covered with some ancient Greek characters and some drawings, some of which looked like ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, but there were some differences.
What left Ryuji speechless the most was that he could feel that the words were changing slightly, which meant that the words were magical, and he didn't know how the person named Evelyn recognized the words on them.
Looking at Ryuji's frowning appearance, Evelyn seemed to have won a battle, "I don't understand, let me tell you, this is a mythical text, it needs to be studied specifically to understand, this kind of text will change differently every hour, you look at this word, this represents the male mermaid, the son of the sea god, the divine creature, this is the dead Terry Tong ......"
γDing! Received on-site guidance from experts, learned the knowledge of mythology, and is currently level 1. γ
Ryuji glanced up at Evelyn, and then silently took out the experience on his body and added his knowledge of the metaphor to level 4.
[Mythical Knowledge Level 4 (0/10000): Mythical expert can understand the thoughts of the gods in various patterns, and communicate positively with the gods through words. γ
[Mythical knowledge (extraordinary common sense): With a deeper understanding of the words of some gods, it is easy to judge whether some words are directly transmitted from the gods or have been adjusted by people. γ
[Note: The knowledge of parables is a professional course that must be learned for priest professionals, and only those who understand parables can become intimate people of the gods.] γ
Ryuji glanced at Evelyn, and then looked at the metaphor in his hand seriously, looking at Ryuji's appearance, Evelyn said with some unhappiness: "Pretend, if you can recognize it, I will ......"
"What's the matter, eat this? This is not a myth from Triton himself, but there are people who want to resurrect Triton, and they haven't even found Triton's body, this person is carrying things just to draw out Triton's arrangement in this sea, by the way, do you have anything else to say? β
Ryuji easily explained the parable and stared at Evelyn.
Evelyn said with a look of disbelief, "How do you know?" β
"I'm not stupid, such a simple thing, just learn it." Ryuji said as he began to process the scroll of myths.
He was not a believer in Triton, so naturally he didn't have the idea of keeping this myth, so he naturally wouldn't keep this myth scroll.
He directly dismantled the scroll, and removed the gems used to maintain the power of the metaphor at both ends of the scroll.
When the two gems were removed, the text that changed slightly from moment to moment was finally fixed, but the effect of communicating with the gods was also lost.
Looking at Ryuji's actions, Evelyn exclaimed loudly, "Do you know what you're doing? β
"You know, what's the matter, you want to resurrect Triton too?"
Ryuji glanced at Evelyn, and had no intention of paying attention to this kind of woman, at this time he already knew the cause and effect, and he could only say that this Carl Charles's pot was not in vain.
This Carl Charles brought the Ocean Star on board, in fact, he also had a special purpose, he planned to use the entire Zeus as a sacrifice and sacrifice it in a certain sea area, as the soul needed for Triton's resurrection.
As for the method of sacrifice, it is actually very simple, the Ocean Star is a small piece of Terry's soul fragment, as long as this thing appears on the surface of the sea, it will attract some creatures with the blood of the sea god.
As long as these sea creatures attack Zeus, tell the captain that there is a problem on the main route, and let them sail from another route that is not very common, and the Zeus can be diverted to the specially arranged area.
There will be a reef that doesn't get up very much, and usually all the boats that pass through there are small boats, and the draft is not deep enough, so it will not be affected, but Zeus is an Olympic-class cruise ship, and the draft is relatively deep, and it will definitely hit the reef from there.
By that time, Zeus would have only one way to go with the shipwreck.
And the sea monsters that follow behind will also take this opportunity to rush forward, leaving no living people behind.
Ryuji, who knew this plan from the myth, didn't want to follow the plan at all.
His only goal now was to get to Alexandria as quickly as possible, and at most he could block three waves of attacks at sea.
As for the dissatisfaction of the guy named Evelyn, it has nothing to do with him, and when he gets off the boat, he and this guy named Evelyn will generally not meet again.
So naturally, he dismantled the metaphor into materials, and at the same time said to Captain Edward, who had already climbed aboard the ship: "I just killed that one named Carl Charles, he has a myth on him, and it is estimated that in the past, there will be several waves of sea monsters to attack later." β
As the captain of an Olympic-class cruise ship, even if he is just walking in the relatively safe place of the Mediterranean, he has some skills, and it can be seen from the fact that he dares to jump alone to deal with the sea monster, he is comfortable with such an attack.
After listening to Liu Zhi's statement, Edward laughed directly: "It's okay, isn't it just some sea monsters, I'm familiar with all the sea monsters nearby, this is to bring us food." β
As he spoke, Edward pointed to the side of the ship, and Ryuji noticed that the sailors were dragging the huge crab to the deck.
"Wait for the two crabs that you killed, you can take them yourself, if you don't know how to deal with it, we can also help you deal with it, this kind of crab is the best way to make weapons and equipment, you look at the shells on their bodies, that is the best material for making legion-level shields, I have a shield master on this ship, do you want me to help you make one?"
"I can't use a shield on that."
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