【Chapter 048】 The Spirit of the Dream Walker
Grotesque, distorted, incongruous, irregular, and seriously deviating from normal aesthetics, this is the characteristic image of the ancient gods. From a cute octopus with a pink tud, to a grotesque tentacle monster with a big basin, Qin Song realized that he was gradually 'restrained', and one day, he would become a complete body of horror and grotesqueness.
Slowly swimming out of the cave, the strange feeling of having a 'rearview mirror' made him a little uncomfortable, but he had to admit that his vision was much wider.
The shallow seas are rich in biodiversity, but none of them can adapt to the water pressure and dim light of the deep sea, and are not the target of the Dream Walker Spirits. Swimming all the way to the hydrothermal deposits shrouded in darkness, the creatures here are basically of the type of 'no one can see anyone anyway, everyone will grow as they please', which is in great contrast to the beautiful and colorful ecosystem of the shallow sea.
Red clams, sea crabs, blood-red tube worms, oysters, mussels, crabs, shrimps, and polyps resembling dandelions, most of them have lost their vision and are slow to move, and the efficiency of searching for shipwrecks in the vast deep sea is too low.
But soon, Qin Song discovered a wonderful creature - a deep-sea anglerfish with a lantern on its head and an ugly face.
The anglerfish, probably the most well-known creature in the deep sea, is ugly for the first reason, and often appears in various posts as the chief spokesperson of the deep sea monsters.
The anglerfish is a bony fish, flat in front and flat in the back, with a columnar tail, long eyes on the top of the head, a large mouth full of fangs almost the same width as the body, large and scary, the lower jaw and barbed fangs, the whole body surface is smooth and scaleless, and the fins are even more peculiar, which are composed of dark brown fins.
Thousands of words are gathered into one sentence, ugly out of the limit, ugly out of style, ugly with small lanterns, there is a kind of contrast and cuteness......
The second reason is that it comes with its own lanterns. The anglerfish has a fleshy protrusion above its head, like a lantern. The glandular cells inside the lantern are able to secrete luminin, which is oxidized with oxygen under the action of enzymes to emit light. It is its first weapon for hunting in the deep sea.
Often a lot of cute little fish, when they see a light bulb in front of them, they all lean over to enjoy the underwater street lamps like ghosts, and then there is no more......
The anglerfish in front of me who was 'fishing' with a lantern was pitch black and very large. For Qin Song, the anglerfish comes with a flashlight, has good eyesight, and its swimming speed is not too slow, which is basically in line with psychological expectations.
As for ugliness, it's not its fault, it's all the fault of survival.
【Eyes of Favorance】
Consumes 3 mental points.
Fatigue increases by 10%.
In the depths of that dark blue eye, there was a faint fluorescence, reflecting a fragmented scene, blood-red vines, black mountains, and seemed to connect with the wonderful world outside the dimension.
Then, like a 3D projection, the dark blue eye slowly outlines a blue umbrella-like outline, with a transparent pale blue shell and several glowing tentacles, much like a glowing jellyfish.
The Spirit of the Dream Walker, the lowest creature in the Void Dream Realm. Unlike Qin Song's descendants who split from the ontology, it has an independent mind, and although it is very low, it does not need to be controlled personally.
Qin Song tentatively issued a simple command—forward,The Dream Walker Spirit reacted immediately,The tentacles contracted and ejected,Traveling diagonally forward。
The anglerfish, which was still obsessed with 'fishing', didn't seem to notice that there was a wonderful creature around it. When the Spirit of the Dream Walker came to the top of its head, Qin Song issued a 'parasitic' command.
Several soft tentacles clasped the anglerfish's head, and the umbrella-like body continued to shrink and glow with blue light, gradually merging into the anglerfish's body and disappearing.
But Qin Song knew that it had already controlled the mind of this anglerfish. As the command was issued, the anglerfish stopped 'fishing' and slowly swam in front of Qin Song.
Looking at the ugly and cute appearance, Qin Song didn't know if it could accurately understand the instruction of 'looking for the wreck', so he could only tentatively issue the order.
After the anglerfish stopped for a few seconds, it seemed to understand the outline of the wreck outlined in Qin Song's mind, and began to spontaneously swing its tail and swim into the distance.
Qin Song followed it for a while, and found that this anglerfish seemed to retain some of its survival instincts, and when it consumed some of its physical strength, it began to 'fish' again. After successfully eating two small fish, the aimless cruise resumed.
Between Qin Song and the spirit of the dreamwalker, there was a wonderful telepathy. Even if Qin Song stopped, he could clearly sense its location. Regardless of its efficiency, it at least solves the problem of precise positioning in the sea.
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In the workshop, Alice holds a triangular plank in her hand, putting the finishing touches on her work. Thanks to the flat surface and sharp corners of the plank, the curved sickle head takes shape after trowel pressing.
The improvement of the juicer has brought Alice a wealth of practical experience, especially how to make a smooth surface, which is very difficult to use by hand, but with the help of tools, such as the triangular plank in her hand, which is a tool she invented herself.
The curved scythe head in front of him, more than half a meter long and crescent-shaped, was not made of bronze, but a knight's greatsword that Alice had found from the armory—a sophisticated weapon from Arabe, made of Bethka's steel with a variety of snowflake-like patterns, strong and durable, and extremely sharp.
Bethka's steel was expensive, and it was a bit extravagant to use on a scythe, but Alice couldn't help it, and there weren't many in the bronze menorah castle, and it had to be used for lighting at night. But the weapons in the armory, because of the withering of the Blackstone Knights, many have been dusty for a long time, and they are not useful at all.
The curved scythe after the condensation is fixed, flashing with a faint cold light, basically restoring what Alice saw in her dreams. What is lacking at the moment is the use of a whetstone, sharpening the blade.
Alice wasn't good at this work, so she found Carrick, whom she trusted the most.
Arranging the autumn harvest made Carrick anxious and worried all day. The actual work was much worse than what he had described to Alice, and the first problem was the physical condition of the serfs. He thought that the serfs he bought were thin enough, but he didn't expect that the serfs in the Black Stone Collar were no better than them.
Long-term malnutrition caused the serfs to have yellow faces and thin muscles, dull eyes, and seemed to be weak when they walked, unable to bear the heavy labor at all.
Carrick pushed open the door to the workshop, he had heard about the non-accessible room, but he didn't know what Alice and Linda were up to.
"Alice, I'm sorry. Our autumn harvest plan is about to change again. ”
Alice's expression was a little nervous: "Uncle Carrick, what happened?"
Karrick sighed and shook his head: "Things are much worse than I expected, our farmers are emaciated, and their labor must be lightened, once exhausted. I'm afraid there will be no one to use for the coming year. ”
Alice breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that Karrick was worried about the physical condition of the serfs, and that was exactly what she was making the long-handled curved scythe.
"What if we could save the physical strength of the serfs and increase the effectiveness of labor?"
"How is this possible?" Karrick looked puzzled, he had presided over the autumn harvest for more than ten years, and if there was such a method, it was impossible not to know.
"Tools, Uncle Karrick. The point is not serfs, but tools. Alice picked up the curved scythe head from the table and handed it to Karrick: "I received a revelation from the gods in my dream. ”
"Kami, the god who removed the curse of the sea god?" Karrick's expression instantly became solemn, he was the direct beneficiary, and his heart was full of gratitude to that god.
"It's ...... Scythe?" Karrick stroked the pattern on the scythe, "Made of Bethka steel?"
"It's a bit of a waste, isn't it?" Alice smiled and nodded, "Those knights' swords have lost their masters and have no effect on killing enemies. Putting it in the armory is the real waste. ”
"But......" Karrick's eyes were full of incredulity, "Alice, how did you do that? I mean, you are not a blacksmith, and you don't have a furnace, an anvil, or a forging hammer, how did you make it?"