To be honest, Gawain was really taken aback when Tyr suddenly emerged from the water - the kraken is a creature that seems to be essentially an elemental body, and this sea caterpillar monster has no breath at all when it is in the water......

After composing himself, Gawain looked at Tyre, who was swimming in the water: "What are you doing in the river so late?" ”

"Am I not in the river, am I on the shore?" Tyr responded with a straight face, "I'm a kraken, a water elemental. ”

“…… That makes sense......" Gawain touched his chin, and then suddenly felt that something was wrong, "Wait, if I'm not mistaken, you should be instructing the workers at the shipyard at this time, right?" ”

Tyr is now the ship's technical advisor to the territory, and while she'll still try to catch up on sleep whenever she can, reports from her men suggest that the caterpillar was doing her job hard while she was in the shipyard.

Like most of the factories in the realm, the shipyard operates a three-shift system, with craftsmen working overtime to repair ships captured from the nobles of the South to cope with the increasing pressure of river transportation during the massive post-war construction of the South, while working under the guidance of Tyre to learn the Kraken's craft and how to build new ships—at a time when Gawain should have been in the shipyard if Gawain remembers correctly......

"Aha...... Today's scheduled work is over, and now they're testing the strength of several materials, so I don't have to keep an eye on them, and I'm not familiar with the materials you land people use," Tyr said as she swam to the shore, starlight shining on her long wet hair, a wondrous glow, "and I'll be out early......"

Gao Wen was a little speechless for a while: "Isn't this still sneaking out......"

"And no one noticed," Tyr shook his head indifferently, "I secretly leaked down the drain......"

Gawain: "......"

Does this sea caterpillar really not realize that he is the biggest boss in front of him? This guy told him in front of him that he had no psychological pressure at all......

Gawain couldn't help but have a strong curiosity about the social form and customs of the Siren, he squatted down and looked at Tyr who was soaking in the water: "Are you Sirens as heartless as you?" You usually ...... Are there any worries? ”

"Heartless? I don't think so...... But that's probably what you think it is," Tyr slapped his tail vigorously in the water, leaped out of the water with a bang, and slapped it on the ground beside Gawain like a salted fish, and then snapped his tail as he said, "Our race...... I have lived for a long time and experienced a lot of things, so I have seen too much, so it seems a little different from you. Compared to the Kraken, even your so-called Immortal Elves are a fairly young race...... Oh Mom, it's finally turned over. ”

Gawain glanced at this salted fish that had been snapping on the shore for a long time before turning over, and he really couldn't see the heritage and temperament of the so-called "ancient race of the deep sea" from such a joke, but he knew that what Tyr said was the truth: as an ancient race that had witnessed the rise and fall of civilization on land season after season, this group of deep-sea salted fish was fully qualified to regard any species on land as a "child".

At this point, I am afraid that only the satellite essence of his body can compete with the deep-sea salted fish.

But he didn't intend to discuss any old topics with Tyr, but instead turned his gaze to the banks of the White Water River, illuminated by the glow of the magic crystal lamp, and after a moment of silence, he asked, "What do you think of this place after living here for more than a year?" ”

"The development is very fast, the order is good, there are a lot of strange things, although they are not advanced, but your technical route can still give me some inspiration," Tyre supported his body with a fishtail, and commented very pertinently, "It's just that there are many hidden dangers, basically brought about by too fast development." ”

Gawain looked at Tyre with interest: "What about the specifics?" ”

"If you don't want to be harsh, I'll tell you," said Tyre, patting his tail indifferently, "you're so far ahead that only a handful of people have really caught up with you, and most of the people in the ruling apparatus you've assembled know only what to do, but not why; Your population and territory swell too quickly, and order in the outlying areas is bound to be chaotic, and this chaos is insoluble until you have trained enough administrators; Your army is strong but lacks real grinding, they have not seen enough blood, and they need more tests of war; Your territory is growing fast, but there will always be a day when it slows down, and when it slows down, the industries that survive on the dividends of rapid growth will go wrong – and there are so many of them, as I can see. ”

Gawain looked at Tyre with a little surprise: "I didn't expect you to observe so many ...... in ordinary times"

"I'm just lazy, I'm not blind, and I usually read the newspaper - though it's a bit of a hassle to get it wet all the time," said Tyre, glancing at Gawain, "but then again...... In fact, you know these hidden dangers yourself. ”

"How could I not know," Gawain smiled helplessly, and frankly admitted Tyr's statement, "but there are hidden dangers to develop, and stagnation is not a matter of facing hidden dangers—that will ruin the country and the family." ”

"Anyway, you have already laid a rock fortress, and you have the foundation to make up for these hidden dangers, as long as you develop and digest them steadily, these shortcomings will be slowly made up."

Gawain didn't expect this deep-sea salted fish to analyze a matter so seriously, and discuss it with himself so seriously, but he also knew that this was Tyr's way of showing "sincerity" - recently, this deep-sea salted fish would run to several research departments almost every day, for which she even greatly reduced her sleeping time, obviously, the arcane energy control technology behind the "Rainbow Cannon" is really important to the Krakens who are falling into a technical bottleneck, in the face of racial interests, Even Tyr, who was lazy and almost died on the spot, became reliable.

"It's good to have this digestion time," Gawain couldn't help but muttered softly, and then asked a question with some curiosity, "Actually, there is one thing I've always been curious about—in the long years when you Kraken observed the land civilization, season after season of civilization life and death, is there really no civilization that resists the demon tide?" ”

This question is really important, and Gawain really wants to confirm one thing: is the demon tide really unsolvable for mortals?

Since the Kraken observed the land, more than ten seasons of civilization have risen and fallen, and countless intelligent or brave races have been active on this land, have they all been destroyed by the demon tide?

In the face of Gawain's question, Tyr showed a rare hint of hesitation.

Gawain caught the subtle change in Tyr's expression: "Is there something hidden?" ”

"It's not a secret, but there's something we can't confirm yet," Tyre patted the rocks below him with his fishtail, "I'm sure you're a sane and calm person—so I'm going to tell you about a phenomenon we've discovered." ”

Gawain's expression became solemn, and he listened quietly to Tyr's story.

And Tyr's first sentence made him look surprised: "...... In fact, not all civilizations are destroyed by the Demon Tide - some self-extinguish for various reasons before the Demon Tide erupts, and some ...... It suddenly disappeared after carrying the demon tide. I'm talking about the real Great Demonic Tide. ”

According to Tyr, there are two kinds of demon tides, the one experienced by the Gondor Empire seven hundred years ago can only be said to be a small-scale "ripple", and when the real big demon tide comes, the whole world will be turned upside down, and that is truly irresistible.

So Gawain was immediately surprised: "Has anyone successfully carried the Great Demon Tide?" ”

"Yes, and more than one," Tyr nodded seriously, "they found a protective technology that could resist the Demon Tide, or they found the law of the Demon Tide's changes, built a safe zone in advance, and even one race completed the life form transformation of the entire race before the Demon Tide arrived, and they all survived when the Great Demon Tide arrived, and we all thought that those civilizations were probably fine...... But in the end, they suddenly perished after the tide ended. ”

"Suddenly perishing?" Gawain heard the deep meaning from Tyr's words, "In other words, you don't know why?" ”

"It seems that a huge war has suddenly broken out, but it is impossible to see who is fighting, and our observers have also gone ashore to investigate the situation, but they have found that the storage materials of the land civilization are basically destroyed, and even if some materials are found, there are only insane madmen on them. We have also observed mass suicide and burial on a very large scale...... Completely unclear explanation. ”

Gawain's brow furrowed tightly, a situation he had never thought of before, but he vaguely remembered it...... When I was hanging in the sky as a satellite, I did observe the flames of war that spread throughout the continent, and even wars that were enough to destroy all the countries on the continent......

Although his observations were too choppy to piece together the entire process from the messy images, the existence of the images was enough to support Till's words.

It's not just the Demon Tide that destroys the civilization on the continent.

"Our ability to observe on land is limited, because we will also be affected by the Demon Tide to a certain extent - the Kraken will not die when the Demon Tide comes, but our equipment will be greatly disturbed, and the sea itself will become very dangerous and difficult to control, so we don't know exactly what happened before and after the Demon Tide, only one thing can be certain: it seems that as long as the civilization on land develops to a certain extent, it will inevitably encounter an extinction disaster, and there is a bottleneck waiting there, and this bottleneck ...... It should have appeared after the end of the Demon Tide. ”

Bottleneck, an invisible bottleneck, or rather...... A trap.

"It's a trap, isn't it?" Tyr's voice came from the side, right on Gawain's thoughts, the Siren lady propped herself up with her fishtail and looked up at the starry night sky, "Civilization is like sailing in a dark ocean, we Kraken watch from afar, watching their lights flicker in the dark sea, some of them are swallowed up by the storm, some are extinguished before the storm comes, and those who are lucky enough to rush through the storm area...... Before we could go to congratulate them, they suddenly went out. It's a terrible world, and it's as if there is a big whirlpool in the dark ocean that can't be seen by the naked eye, and it will suddenly engulf careless voyagers, so we gave this mysterious and terrible phenomenon a name-

"We call it the 'Black Trap,' a trap in the dark seas."