Legend has it that in the far east, the gateway to the end of the world is hidden. The gate is inhabited by evil beasts, so fierce and greedy that anyone who wants to pass through must offer sacrifices.

The eerie laughter of "giggles...... still echoes.

"You ...... Do you hear that?" In the cabin, the crew's voices trembled a little.

"I heard it, it seemed to be ...... What's laughing?" A sailor whispered.

Hurried footsteps began to sound in the silent cabin, and more and more crew members were awakened from their sleep.

In the aft cabin, the captain was half-kneeling and squatting on the ground, and his gray-blue eyes were completely occupied by fear at the moment.

The woman in front of her, no, maybe "she" can't be considered human anymore......

Her dark green eyes were cold and hollow, her mouth felt as if something had been torn open, and her dense gums were exposed, reaching close to her throat. The forked tongue is delicate and crimson, somewhat similar to a snake's letter, but the color is deep red, as if stained with blood.

She stood motionless, her clothes shining silver from the wetness, her whole body wet, as if she had just been salvaged from the sea, and a long tentacle hung down into the sea, like a huge tail.

"That's what dragged her away!" The captain exclaimed, but at the moment he could not scream.

The "woman" in front of him has surpassed his perception of the world. He couldn't imagine what kind of species would give birth to such a human-like appearance.

Ghost? Flesh and blood, it doesn't look like it.

Person? His mouth was cracked to the base of his ears, and he was obviously not of the same kind as him.

"Giggles!" An eerie laugh was heard again, and the captain stumbled back a few steps, leaning against the bulkhead.

This time he heard the voice. It does not come from the mouth of a "woman", but from ...... Sent from the bottom of the boat!

"...... in the sea," the captain's body began to tremble violently. He suddenly remembered a very terrifying creature, one that only existed in ancient Greek mythology...... Kraken.

According to ancient Greek mythology, the Sirens had a very beautiful face, they usually dragged a half-human, half-fish body, and liked to charm the voyagers with their beautiful songs. And when unconscious voyagers are drawn to the sea, they jump up and pull them into the water and drown. Therefore, where the krakens live, there are often piles of human bones.

The captain's legs and teeth began to chatter. Beautiful singing...... He was drawn to the song!

"Gollum!" He swallowed hard, his body shaking. Recalling the intoxicating singing of the "woman" just now, the captain now only felt a shade behind him.

He almost died. Kraken! O Kraken! Shouldn't this be a bedtime story used by adults to lull disobedient children to sleep? How can you suddenly travel from myth to reality to jump? It's still here to confuse a rugged-looking middle-aged uncle like him!

The captain crashed. He just secretly drank some wine tonight, stopped working for a while, deducted his salary, and took a peek at the maid taking a bath by the way, why did he put this bad thing on him?

"It's even more terrifying than the Loch Ness Monster......" said the captain, who looked at the "woman's" sharp and shiny teeth, timidly, "at least that thing doesn't look like it bites......"

"Ahh

A piercing scream suddenly came from the mouth of the "woman". Her mouth was wide open, her jaw torn all the way to the base of her ear, and the shrill sound was like the hiss of metal cutting through the tin sheet.

"Hey, hey, what's the beautiful singing voice?!" The captain's eardrums were pierced. He rolled to the ground with his head in his hands, his head full of "buzzing" screams.

There was no way, the distance between the "woman" and him was only two or three meters, and he couldn't dodge this distance at all. He had no doubt that the "woman" would rush over and bite off his head in the next second, and then bite his head to pieces in front of his body.

"Bang!" At the critical moment, the deafening gunfire suddenly startled, like a meteorite breaking through the night in the night, brutally tearing apart all the noise.

The captain turned his head, and Charles's familiar face caught his eye in the darkness.

"You can't even pull out your gun...... Bossa?" Charles's voice was low and hoarse, and it always sounded creepy, yes.

"No, I ......," Perza blushed. He wanted to say something to explain, but the gun on his body was still lying quietly in the holster.

"If you think you've lived too long, you can ask the council to step down as captain." Charles's eyes radiated a dazzling light. He stared coldly at the captain, the expression on his face extremely cold.

"But you remember, I will be the one who deals with you." Charles's tone was cold.

"Click!" The revolver in his hand slowly loaded, and a wisp of smoke came out of the chamber and finally dissipated into the air.

This burly Englishman now looks like a pioneer cowboy in the American West.

"I'm ......," Bertha opened his mouth. He tried to say, "I just forgot," but before the words could reach his lips, the deafening sound of gunfire exploded in his ears again.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! The brass-colored chamber of the revolver spun rapidly, and the bullet let out bursts of light pleasure from the chamber. The captain felt that he was now in a shootout in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century, as if he might lose his life at any time to get a boxed lunch with the director.

"Puff puff!"

The Ten Rings of Perfection! With a precise hit, three copper warheads sank deep into the forehead of the "woman".

From a distance, the captain saw the "woman's" face begin to distort, and large quantities of blood poured from her wounds. Pale golden blood flowed through her eyes, and the dark green light in her pupils was slowly stained into gold.

"Really...... Strange blood. The captain said involuntarily. There was a strange smell in the woman's golden blood, and as soon as his gaze touched it, he was almost startled to stand up, and the weird and disgusting sharpness made him can't help but look away.

"Woo~"

The "woman" tilted her head and grabbed the back of her neck. She wanted to scream, but Charles's first bullet had pierced her throat. She couldn't make a sound, so she could only stand there and scream.

"It's tenacious." Charles spat and walked slowly to her side.

Theoretically, all the four bullets he fired had hit the vital point of the "woman", and ordinary people would definitely be too dead to die. But now the "woman" did not show the slightest sign of life-threatening except for the pain she looked.

"Charles, are you sure this thing will work for it?" The captain covered his ears and said timidly.

"Shut up!" Charles responded coldly. Frightened, he could only retract his head stupidly.

"I once heard my father say that there are many species in this world that we don't know about. They hide the dark side of this world, contrary to ours. All history about them will be cut or obscured. They don't exist in the human world, but they do exist. ”

Charles looked at the "woman" coldly and said, "The mermaid and the Siren recorded in ancient Greek mythology? If I'm not mistaken, your real name is 'Beast Slave', right?"

"A kind of captive ...... Inferior microorganisms. ”

Charles's eyes were sharp, and his gaze was straight at the "woman". His gray-black eyes were full of pity, like sympathy and mockery.

"A creature of encirclement. No matter how strong the power of the white body is, it can't break through the shackles of imprisonment, then it will always be just a lowly microorganism that is slaughtered by others and obeys the master's orders. Charles said coldly

"It's really sad that I can't even control my own life and death, and I can only live in the joys and anger of others for the rest of my life." The captain sighed in a sighing tone, and his face was full of Qi Ran. It's as if he's living under someone's oppression, like a priest in a church who shows empathy and dehumanizes believers.

This guy actually forgot to be afraid at this time, and put one hand on the shoulder of the "woman", pulling his face, as if to say "It's okay, I'm with you". But he had forgotten how Charles had been scared into the belly of the ship just before he came.

Charles couldn't stand it and kicked him away.

"Oops!" The captain rolled aside in pain, and just wanted to scream, but was frightened back by Charles's face as black as cod liver oil, and hurriedly held his head and hummed there.

"I'll settle your business with you later!" Charles's eyes widened with rage, and he looked like a mad lion.

With a "click", the bullet was loaded, and Charles held the pistol against the "woman's" forehead.

There were still two bullets in the chamber of the gun, and as long as he pulled the trigger, at this distance, the "woman" would definitely be blasted out of a large hole in her head.

"Since you live such a humble life, let me help you get rid of it." A sharp chill flashed in Charles's eyes.

He doesn't like cowardice, and he doesn't like to see others cowardly. Because it reminds him of some unpleasant things, some memories that he can't even dream of.

"Bang! Bang! ”

Two shots fell cleanly......

In the cold room, the dim light is pouring down. Surrounded by a patterned marble main hall, the quaint old chandelier statues have survived for centuries.

"We're late...... Under the pale yellow light, Lin Sheng lowered his eyes, and there was no expression on his cold, cold face. In front of him, a large semi-circular vessel was embedded in the ground, and the large, deep vessel was filled with a lot of silvery-white liquid, and in the middle of the liquid was a raised rectangular palace platform, under which was a mechanical notch that could be raised and lowered. It was originally used as a place to place the "eggs", but now it has risen!

Lin Sheng walked to the pool and squatted down, stretched out his finger and gently touched the spilled liquid.

"It's mercury." He said.

With such a large pool of mercury, it is easy to poison dozens of elephants. What to put here for?

Anti-thief? No, they were the only ones who sneaked in. Although the harm of this thing to people is very great, it is also based on the premise that the human body has wounds. If properly protected, this thing is simply like a decoration, and it doesn't work at all.

And the elephant proof? Not to mention, there is no shop in front of the village here, and I am afraid that there is not even a small fragrant whale in the sea. Elephant? Dream on.

"Mercury is highly toxic." Ymir said, "Orcs are afraid of mercury, and ordinary weapons don't do much for them. Since Edward knew the origin of the 'egg', and knew how to keep the 'egg' at low temperatures to prolong its dormancy. Then he would surely know that mercury has a tremendous corrosive effect on dragons. ”

"Imagine what would happen if you put a freshly hatched baby dragon in a pool of mercury?" Ymir finally said.

"It will be corroded by the mercury of the whole pool into blood. He's... Created a 'cage' for the eggs?" Lin Sheng glanced at the planes on both sides that were lower than the palace platform, and said in surprise.

"Yes." Ymir replied, "Edward left the eggs here because he was afraid that they would be discovered and stolen, and because he was not sure when the eggs would hatch after they were obtained. He was worried that the eggs would hatch early on the way to the ship. So he hid the eggs in the deepest part of the cold room and made a 'cage' for them with mercury. ”

"But it's still not enough." Ymir's tone changed, and he continued, "He underestimated the orcs, and he underestimated the orc's bloodline. If he wanted to trap the beasts, he had to imprison them in a metal box made of bronze, which he threw into a pool of lead filled with mercury, covered the surface with holy water, and left it to freeze in the extreme cold. ”

"Only then will it be possible for humanity to truly captivate them." Ymir finally said.

Lin Sheng was silent, he had heard all of these in Xilan'er's orc habit analysis class.

In a few moments, he stood up from the edge of the pool of mercury, the rectangular box on his shoulders slung cross-body on his back. He strolled over to the wall and fixed his gaze on it.

Like the pitch-black gate outside, the wall is also covered with glazed tiles to form a mural of colored ink. It's just that unlike the outside, this mural is obviously much more elaborate, larger, and more clear.

Lin Sheng stood and looked at it for a long time. He saw many tiny islands on this mural, densely packed, like a huge treasure map.

"This is a chart of the Miracle's early plans, and it shows all the routes that Elder has laid out." Ymir explained softly, as if the painting had been inlaid with his own hands.

"Adriatic ...... Gibraltar...... Sri Lanka ......" Lin Sheng chanted softly. He wasn't interested in the charts that Ymir said, he just wanted to know where the "eggs" had gone.

He swiped his fingertips lightly over the red markers, stringing them together in a long line. Thin lines dance on the wall, and finally freeze at the most striking red dot.

"Bering Strait!" Lin Sheng was stunned.

Ymir said that the mural was created by Edward's own hand, and that it was only an early voyage of the Miracle. But it was this dazzling nautical chart that was enough to vertigo, and the final point was the Bering Strait!

All this seems to be some inexplicable coincidence. As Albert Einstein said, "Coincidence is God's way of keeping anonymity" always feels unreal.

"Warships hovering at the North and South Poles...... Glazed tile inlaid mural ...... Criss-crossing routes...... The vanishing dragon 'egg', and ...... The foggy Bering Strait! ”

(End of chapter)