18 Merfolk's Breath
In a trance, the cracked white bones in front of him faded away, and finally turned into darkness.
The large amount of noise below the hill also quietly subsided in this process, like a movie that has ended, and the curtain closes after the song is over.
Dark, silent and deep, in a half-dreaming and half-awake state, Lan Li didn't know how long it had been. Vaguely, he only felt two pieces of information emerge from his mind-
[You have acquired a new skill: Dagger mastery LV5]
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[You have completed all the events, you have obtained the item: Sacred Statue of King Rhodes]
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When Lan Li woke up again, he found himself slumped against the side of the feather bed in the quiet little room, the stone floor was hard, and all he could feel was the coldness and roughness of his hands on it.
The atmosphere was serene and peaceful, with pale yellow silk curtains floating in with the cool sea breeze blowing in from the open windows, and the cumbersome tapestries hanging from the fireplace rubbing against the walls and rustling with the wind.
The sun was shining outside the window, and the shouts and shouts of children were faintly heard, and the familiar sound made Lan Li blink, and then took a deep breath.
As a result, an unpleasant smell instantly poured into his nostrils, which was the smell of salted fish on a plate of salted fish on the bedside table behind him, which made Lan Li's sense of relaxation and comfort that had just emerged dissipate immediately.
"Salted fish, sea breeze, two little idiots...... It didn't take long, or Jomi would have noticed me on the ground. ”
Muttered, a memory of the use of the dagger churning in his mind, stabbing enemies, freeing up and hiding, how to deal with other weapons......
Everything was finally imprinted in his mind, just as it had been when he had acquired archery.
Lan Li then looked down at his hands.
It is a pair of slender hands peculiar to a child, but the things in the hands are completely different from when he first entered "history".
In his right hand, the pair of dentures that he had held in the palm of his hand had turned into a handful of rotten gray-white dust, which continued to leak on the stone floor as the boy's fingers moved, no different from normal dust, and he looked down and sniffed, but there was no smell left.
"It's not there after clearing customs?" Lan Li frowned, and after shaking off the dirty things left on his hand, he looked at the items in his left hand.
A rusty bronze ring, visibly several sizes larger, was now hanging from the middle finger of his left hand, and a slender broken bone with cracked teeth was also clutched tightly in his hand.
Lan Li breathed a sigh of relief.
The time he had used his dentures to get in had drowned, he had accidentally brought out a seaweed, so he guessed that he could get something out of it, and for now, it seemed that it was.
"It's just that the one I cut down is obviously not so short...... And why aren't clothes and the like brought out? ”
After a long groan, he didn't come up with a reason, so he decided to ignore the problem for the time being.
At this moment, in addition to the ring and broken bones, beside him was an old, dull yellow figure wooden carving that collapsed to the ground, pressed against a pale green rush grass spread on the stone floor.
This seemed to be the final reward, and after picking it up, Lan Li looked down and looked at it carefully.
The villain is carved from oak and is covered in brown and yellow, without the slightest hint of artisanship. The statue itself is angular, the figure is straight, touching his chin in a thoughtful posture, and his face and robe are lifelike, obviously the appearance of the drowning king.
No information appeared when Lan Li looked at it, but he saw a line of Westeros lingua franca carved at the base below the wood carving—
"Maybe I'm a merfolk?"
He read these words softly, but as soon as he finished speaking, the ordinary-looking statue suddenly creaked and shattered, and then collapsed in an instant, turning into a cloud of sawdust, which piled up in Lan Li's palm.
A tingling and cold sensation grew from the palm of the hand, and the brown dust quickly melted into the palm of the hand like melting ice and snow in the face of high temperatures, and then there was no trace of its presence at all.
However, the feeling of numbness and coldness did not disappear because of this, but spread quickly throughout the body like cold air. At the same time, a stream of information emerged.
[You have been blessed by the ocean, and you have awakened the trait - mermaid breath]
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I feel like I've become a little different, but he can't say how it's different.
After being stunned, Lan Li looked at the silver-plated round mirror from Mill on the small table in front of the window, wanting to check the harvest again.
But the angle at which he sat on the bedside table was a little wrong, and only his head could be seen in the lower half of the round mirror, so he got up and walked over, and closed the green glass window by the way, so that the noise of the children below became inaudible.
The round mirror clearly illuminated his cheeks, and when he looked at it, a pair of beautiful blue eyes also looked at each other.
[Race Level: LV1]
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[Knowledge: Heraldic LV7, Archery LV5, Dagger LV5]
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[Knowledge: Fishing LV2, Language LV1, Etiquette LV1, Fishing Gear Making LV1]
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[Derivative traits: Psychic Crest, Mermaid's Breath]
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Several messages emerged one after another, but unfortunately the newly obtained Mermaid's Breath did not have any explanatory text, which made him confused for a while.
After thinking about it, Lan Li straightened the somewhat messy blue velvet tights on his body in the mirror, smoothed out the folds on his brown trousers, and then walked out of the room wearing a pair of flat slippers.
At the door, he happened to meet Jomi, a personal servant who had caught up, and the other party was very strange to see him going out.
"Little master, what are you going to do?"
"I'll go find Master Clison." Lan Li said as he walked.
"I'll go with you." Jomi, the servant who had been left behind, shouted, "I'm fine anyway." ”
"Well, I'm missing a companion to study with."
These words made the short servant pause, and then touched the door of his head, and said hesitantly: "I suddenly remembered that the little cook in the kitchen was sick and asked me to work for him...... I'm not going with you first, goodbye, Young Master Lanli. ”
He turned around and ran.
Looking at the back of the other party leaving in a hurry, Lan Li pursed his lips, only to feel that the mud couldn't support the wall.
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The old bachelor was still in his small room full of bottles and parchment books, his gaze off a red book as he pushed open the door and walked in.
"I heard you didn't have lunch?"
"I ate a pickled fish, in the room, dry and salty." Lan Li, with an empty stomach, said as she glanced at a bookshelf near the small table and pulled one out of the dazzling array of manuscripts.
Then he picked up the parchment book with a gray cowhide cover and an iron buckle and climbed onto the stool opposite the old bachelor, because of his height, he could not sit there formally, so he had to kneel on the chair and straighten his back, and bow his head and turn the book.
Most of the pages were skimmed by him, and it was not until one of the back pages that he suddenly stopped flipping through the pages.
"After the burning of Harrenhal, Aegon Targaryen and his sisters set their sights on the remaining kingdoms of the Seven Kingdoms that had not yet been submitted, and the Iron Islands, which had lost their king, fell into chaos......
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"On the sacred island of Old Wick, forty flooded priests gathered under the naga's ribs and placed the crown of driftwood on the head of one of them. The name of the king who was favored by the drowning people was Rhodes, and he was considered to be the living son of the drowning god."
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"In the first year of the conquest, Aegon Targaryen was crowned Ruler of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, Guardian of the Realm, King of the Andals and Ancestors at the Old Town Starry Sanctuary. The following year, Aegon descended on the island of Great Wick on the dragon Bellerion, with a large fleet......
"When the invasion put an end to more than a year of fighting and civil strife in the Iron Islands, the Drowned King of Old Wake Island turned to his Drowned Father for help, hoping to summon the Kraken to stop the invaders' fleet. When the sea monster did not appear, the Drowned King filled his robes with stones and went out into the sea to confer with his father. Thousands of people followed him into the sea."
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"Unable to resist the conqueror's dragons and fleets, the Iron Islands finally surrendered, and Aegon Targaryen granted the Iron People self-determination of their rulers, and the Elector was held under the naga ribs of Old Wake Island, and Viken Greyjoy, the head of the raiders of Pike Island, became the ruler of the Iron Islands—and the Greyjoys continue to reign to this day."
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"In the 37th year of the Conquest, Aegon Targaryen died of a stroke on Dragonstone and was succeeded by his son Innis, and a rebellion broke out throughout Westeros, and the priest King Rhodes, who claimed to have finally returned from the Drowned Father, led the rebellion against the rule of the Greyjoy family. The rebellion ended in failure, and the head of the priest king was sacrificed to the Iron Throne......
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In the quiet room, only the sound of flipping books sounded, and the old bachelor who closed the book in his hand looked at the name marked on the gray cowhide spine opposite, and asked kindly, "Suddenly interested in the history of the Iron Islands?" ”
Wherever they are, studious children are generally very likeable, especially when surrounded by a group of stupid people who are tired of learning.
"That's right."
Lan Li nodded absentmindedly, disappointed that he hadn't been able to rewrite history, but then he reacted and looked up and added, "Not just the history of the Iron Islands, I'm interested in all history." ”