In front of Gawain was the latest batch of survey materials on the mountain ruins sent by the messenger soldiers, which detailed what the Byron knights had seen and heard in the mountain ruins, accompanied by more detailed maps and hand-drawn manuscripts of some strange things.

After the onset of winter, the Byron's quest to explore the ruins of the mountains was still not over, and he spent half of the month wandering around the megastructure in the mountains, looking for more corridors, secret passages, and rooms, and mapping along the way, and every three days or so, he would send a soldier to deliver the newly collected materials to the territory.

At the moment, this is all routine information, and no new research facilities involving the secrets of the gods have been discovered, but the ever-expanding map itself is enough to surprise Gawain considerably—the true scale of the ruin has challenged his expectations time and again, and the corridors and halls are probably the size of a small city, and even after exploring for so long, the Byronic knight has not been able to complete its current "level", and not long ago, Byron and the exploration team also discovered two large staircases leading to the upper and lower levels of the ruins, and more and more clues prove that there are new large areas of the ruins waiting to be discovered.

Gawain in the upper sector is easy to understand—maybe some observatory or lookout structure leads to the top of the Dark Mountains, but where does the lower sector lead? The middle layer of the ruins has almost hollowed out the entire mountain, could it be that the lower layer has spread to the ground?

Even as an ancient facility to study the mysteries of the gods, this scale is a bit too large.

However, regardless of its overall size, a considerable part of its middle area has been fully explored and mapped, and the Byron knight has confirmed that those areas are safe and strong, and Gawain's next plan is to transfer some of the things in the territory to the mountain ruins.

Those vast ancient halls can't be wasted, their solidity and secrecy themselves are the greatest use value, Gawain plans to transfer the newly assembled thermal ray gun production line, stamping armor production line and rune substrate production line to there, and some other things that need to be kept secret, or harmful to the environment, and have loud noise, can also be transferred to the mountain, which itself is the research facility of the ancient Gondor Empire, which has advanced protective structures and sound insulation, It's definitely much stronger than the brick and tile factories that can be built on the territory at present.

Gawain picked up the dipping pen next to him, preparing to leave some notes on one of the documents, but at this moment, a rush of footsteps suddenly came in from outside the door.

There was a knock on the door, and after Gawain responded, Betty pushed the door open and walked in.

"Sir!" The little maid walked briskly to the desk, bowed in a sign posture that looked like she was about to lift herself, and said crisply, "Someone has caught a big fish in the square of Knight Street!" ”

"Big fish?" Gao Wenden was stunned, he didn't expect this girl to rush over and report such an inexplicable thing, "Do you still need to report if you catch a fish - send it directly to the kitchen." ”

Betty straightened up, thought for a moment, and shook her head vigorously: "It's too big to stew in one pot!" ”

"You can't catch a shark," Gawain laughed dumbly, "it's the fish from the Whitewater River that ran down the diversion ditch to the well in Knight Street......

"It doesn't look like it's grown in the Whitewater River, because half of it looks like a human ......"

“…… What?! ”

Gawain ran to the square of Knights' Street, where martial law had already been imposed by the patrol soldiers who had reacted in time, and a young midshipman in the commander's armor was maintaining order on the spot, while the people who had been blocked out of the martial law line were curiously watching the movement from the corners of the streets.

Gawain recognized the young commander for having personally honored the soldier - he was appreciated for his bravery in the First Battle of Cecil, who was promoted in rank and taught by Byron to become a cadet knight.

"Your Excellency!" When Kerim saw Gawain, he immediately stepped forward and saluted, "The situation is under control, that ...... The creature was still sitting next to the well. ”

"What the hell is going on?" Gawain frowned, "I heard you caught a half-man, half-fish...... Female? ”

Rim shook his head: "It wasn't caught, it was found by Miss Pea when she was fetching water - the half-fish, half-human creature seemed to be hiding at the bottom of the well, and was later pulled up by a passing carpenter and apprentice." ”

Gawain's mind suddenly appeared in his mind the book he saw a few days ago...... Ahem, a knight's biography, and associated with the book...... Those "krakens" mentioned in the biography.

Could it have been so coincidental?

He expected but couldn't believe that he would be so lucky, but he had already taken a step on his feet, and he led Betty through the soldiers' blockade, and saw several people gathered around the well in the small square fenced off by a makeshift wooden fence.

Pittman, Rebecca, Amber, Hetty...... Almost all the well-informed people came, and next to them stood three craftsmen who were being questioned by the soldiers and a little girl carrying an empty bucket, which was a pea.

A strange woman sat lazily on the edge of the well, with beautiful long sea-blue hair, a peculiar blue "tunic" made of leather-like material on her upper body, and scale-like structures on her cheeks and exposed arms, while her lower body was ...... As Betty and Krim described, it was a beautiful fishtail with pale gold and blue patterns.

Gao Wen's heart moved, and he walked forward quickly.

Rebecca and the others were curiously surrounding the strange woman at the moment, Hetty was seriously analyzing the beautiful lines on the other's tail that seemed to be like magic patterns, while Amber inquired about the origin of the other party and the purpose of visiting this place, but the half-human, half-fish woman always looked lazy and did not respond to most of the questions.

"What's going on?" Gawain asked out loud, and it wasn't until he spoke next to him, immersed in the study of seafood, that a few people finally noticed his presence, and Rebecca was the first to jump: "Ancestor! This guy looks like the kind of 'Kraken' you've been asking around before! ”

Listen to her quantifier - this "strip" person! In this instant, the two species merged into a magical one......

Pitman also turned his face, and the old druid's face was rare serious: "My lord, I'm afraid this is really a Kraken - but I don't know how she got here." She was very wary and hostile when she saw us, but after we said she had no ill intentions, she ...... Not very active anymore. ”

Is it really a Kraken?!

Gawain controlled his excitement and looked curiously at the "Miss Mermaid" sitting on the edge of the well, and the latter also raised his eyelids and looked at him curiously at this time, the two stared at each other for a while, and the tail of "Miss Mermaid" suddenly slapped on the edge of the well, and she made a pleasant but lazy voice: "Where do I seem to have seen you?" ”

Gawain was stunned for a moment, then ecstatic, and even a little wanted to dance in ecstasy.

Was this Kraken thrown down from the sky by Lady Luck to solve the mystery?!

"You're a Kraken?" Gawain took two deep breaths to calm down, and then immediately asked impatiently, "If so, maybe we've really met—my name is Gawain Cecil, did we meet seven hundred years ago?!" ”

"Gawain Cecil? Yawn......" Miss Mermaid yawned widely, then rubbed her eyes, "Seven hundred years ago...... I seem to have an impression that there was such a human at that time, but I didn't have much contact with that human being. You say that's you? Can you humans live for 700 years? ”

Gao Wen was a little confused about how to explain for a moment: "Eh...... I was resurrected recently. ”

Miss Mermaid blinked, "Have you developed a new feature?" ”

Gawain: "...... The same cannot be said either. ”

"It doesn't matter, I'm not familiar with you anyway," Miss Mermaid shook her head, her long sea-blue hair shining wonderfully in the sun, "I'm so sleepy, I was just halfway through my sleep when someone hit me with a bucket, who threw the bucket?" ”

Gawain suddenly glanced at the pea not far away in embarrassment, but then reacted: "Of course you will be smashed if you sleep in our well...... What's your name? ”

"Tyr," replied Miss Mermaid muttering, "is the place where I was just staying a well?" ”

It can be seen that she really doesn't want to talk to people, but she is a little interested in Gawain, so the two barely reached an exchange, and this exchange is enough to surprise the people next to her, Rebecca almost looked at her ancestor with admiration and reached a consensus with a fish, and couldn't help but say: "Ancestor, you still fished back then?" ”

I don't know how she thinks about it.

Gawain glanced at Rebecca with a smile, and then looked at the Kraken who called himself "Tyr", and couldn't help but wonder: "Anyway, where are you from?" Why did you come here? Is there anything you can help us with? ”

"Me? I'm from the depths," Tyr swayed slightly on the edge of the well, "I don't know why I'm on your human land...... I was fighting another group of humans in the sea the other day - and then I was separated from the army, and I swam home by myself, but I somehow came to this place, and when I opened my eyes, I saw that there were humans all around, and I thought I had fallen into the enemy's lair, and I was shocked. ”

"Fighting a bunch of humans in the sea?" Gawain keenly grasped the key point in this sentence, and then realized another key point, "You said you wandered here when you swam back to your Kraken's territory?" ”

Tyr nodded, "yes." ”

If the legends and elves are correct, the Kraken is an intelligent creature that lives in the far seas in the eastern part of the continent......

Gawain's face turned strange: "Miss Tyr, if I'm not mistaken, you...... Probably the other way around......"

"Huh?"