Scarlet walked to the carriage with a wooden bucket to process the ingredients with Yuan Shanghan, and said that she would rest, she only had mackerel in her heart now.

Long Yu looked for Han Jian along the seaside, and his intuition told him that the reason why Han Jian would leave was definitely to go to a farther sea area to find clues, and he couldn't think of where Han Jian would go.

Walking along the coast, I passed the area where the wreckage of the ship was floating, and then the area where fishing nets floated, and finally I saw Han Jian on a pile of rocks that were lying out of the water. Han Jian seemed to be holding something in his hand, and he was carefully examining it.

At this time, Long Jian had already walked a distance of an hour, and after he found Han Jian, he did not come forward to disturb, but stood aside and waited, thinking that Han Jian would detect the breath close to him, but he didn't expect Han Jian to still look at the things in his hand and squat motionless on the stone pile, Long Yu took a breath and shouted loudly: "Brother Blade!

Han Jian turned his head when he heard the voice, and the corners of his mouth rose and said indifferently: "I have good news, do you want to hear it?"

"Huh, what's the good news?"

Han Jian stood up, jumped over the stones, walked over to Long Yu, and handed him the whitish flaky object in his hand, which was half the size of a palm. Takashi took the thing and held it up in front of him, the edges glowing with a rainbow of light under the faint morning light, as if it were the scales of some fish.

"Let's go back first, and I'll tell you the good news when I get back. After speaking, Han Jian walked away.

The three people who stayed by the carriage had already processed the ingredients, set up a bonfire, and only waited for Han Jian and Long Yu to return before starting to grill the fish, and they didn't know how long it would take for them to come back, if they were roasted in advance, it wouldn't taste good if it was cold.

Gui Qingchen sat in front of the bonfire in a daze in every bored way, Yuan Shanghan, who couldn't sit still, practiced his sword on the side, and the scarlet man was so hungry that he couldn't do it, wondering whether to grill a small fish to eat first.

“... Eat first, you don't have anything to eat on the boat. Yuan Shanghan said.

Scarlet shook her head, "Let's wait for them to come back, Brother Long Yu didn't eat anything like me." ”

"Takashi... Brother?"

"Well, he said he didn't like the title Uncle Long. ”

Ah, Yuan Shang Han held his forehead, no wonder he had that attitude in the morning, it turned out that he knew that I instigated my son-in-law.

"What's wrong?, are you dizzy?" Seeing that Enshanghan's face didn't seem to be very good, Scarlet asked worriedly.

"It's okay, it's just that the sea breeze blows a lot. ”

"Why don't you shake your head? Maybe you can hear the sound of the waves. The owner of the voice was coming from a distance, looking at Enshang Han with a sneer.

"Ah, you're finally back. Yuan Shanghan ignored Long Yu's ridicule and asked Han Blade: "How about Brother Blade, have you found anything?"

"Yes, and it's a major discovery. ”

"Huh?" Gui Qingchen shook his head when he heard Long Yu's words, "It seems that there is really the sound of waves? ”

"......" Yuan Shanghan didn't know whether to pity him or say that he was simple.

"Hahahahaha, you may have blown the sea breeze for a long time and your brain has entered the water. The laughing Long Rakan didn't expect such an old-fashioned routine to be hooked.

Only then did Gui Qingchen realize that he had been tricked, and his cheeks puffed out and turned his head away.

“... Well, let's get some food first, shall we?"

"Ah, then eat it first. ”

Han Jian responded to Scarlet's suggestion, after all, the most important thing now is to fill his stomach first.

After a while, Scarlet finally ate the long-awaited mackerel, and while flipping the grilled fish on the fire, Long Yu asked Han Jian: "You can say it now, your good news." ”

Han Jian smashed his mouth and said: "There is an area full of rocks on the coast about 4 or 5 kilometers away from here, I thought of stepping on the rocks to look into the water, but I didn't expect to find blood at the end of the rubble. ”

"Blood... Human blood?"

"Probably not, the blood was dark and black, and dried unevenly on many stones. And..."

"And what?"

Han Jian hooked his chin at Long Yu and motioned for him to show them the large scale he had just given him. Long Yu took out the scales and handed them to everyone.

Yuan Shanghan looked at the abnormal scales and said, "Do you think this is the scale of the evil shark?"

"I'm not sure if it's it, after all, I've never seen it or if it has scales on it. But what is certain is that this is definitely not an ordinary fish, and combined with the huge amount of blood, I think it is very likely that some large sea monster was accidentally injured and left behind when it was resting on the rocky beach. ”

Yuan Shanghan was silent after hearing this, and the long tree holding the scales said, "I think it's the evil shark." He had looked through the scales, and none of the sea monsters he knew of had such scales.

"Actually, you think the same way, but I'm afraid that I will give them hope and disappoint my expectations. Long Yu said indifferently.

“...... Indeed, "Han Jian no longer shirks and conceals, and is actually punctured, then there is no scruples," that is, our target prey is injured, and either it can't go too far if it doesn't move slowly, or it finds a place to rest and recuperate. ”

"This is indeed good news, after all, these guys have lost their energy after blindly waiting. Takashi pondered.

Scarlet took the scales, took them in his hand and looked at them again and again, and then put them on the fire and roasted them.

"Ahh Long Yu looked at the white smoke rising from the scales, and shouted helplessly.

"Hmmm? No, I just think there's something on the surface. ”

"Then why do you want to roast it over the fire?"

“... Gut feeling. ”

"Huh?" Long Yu was completely speechless, forget it, it's not an important thing anyway, just bake her.

Yuan Shanghan and Gui Qingchen were also used to her occasional sudden behavior, and looked curiously at what tricks this scale could conjure up after baking.

A sizzling sound came from the fire, and as the white smoke decreased, the scales became much thinner, the surface changed from rough to smooth and flat, and the milky white surface became transparent.

"Oh~" Gui Qingchen sighed, "The body is like this, what is the original surface paste?"

Long Yu was also slightly taken aback when he looked at the changed scales, but he didn't expect Scarlet's intuition to be really accurate, but knowing the appearance of the scales themselves didn't help much.

"It's actually candle grease!" Han Blade, who had always been calm, had a hint of surprise in his tone at this time.

"What fat?"

"Candle Grease," Han Jian sighed for some reason, and continued, "This was also discovered by hunters after the North Coast was flooded. ”

Everyone waited curiously for Han Jian to continue. "Unlike other native caves in the sea, a kind of gas will form in a house that has been lived in for a long time, and it will oxidize into a solid in the seawater. This phenomenon was first discovered by a hunter who had been entrusted by the owner of the house who had escaped the flooding of the sea to retrieve his valuables from the underwater house, and when he had completed the commission and went ashore, he found that his sleeves were covered with a layer of white grease, which could not be washed off or scraped, and as a result, it turned into white smoke and volatilized when he unintentionally dried his clothes. ”

"Uh... You mean this monster has lived in an underwater house?"

Han Jian shook his head, "It's not 'lived', you can see the thickness and hardness of the candle grease accumulated on this scale, as if it existed in the first place. I mean, this monster is afraid to live in this submerged house for a long time. ”

"Nagai... Feeding on carrion corpses, oh, saves a lot of effort to find food. The scarlet man imagined that the monster was wandering around the houses looking for the carrion of humans, and finally finished eating the white food, and went ashore to devour the ugly appearance of the evil ghost shark of the living, and his heart couldn't help but feel disgusted.

"In other words, it's very likely that it's back in hiding in the house now? Speaking of the extent of the dwelling under the sea... Uh, a fifth of the country... Within 500 km?!"

"If it senses that there is someone on the shore, we will probably see the monster tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. Han Jian said solemnly.

Gui Qingchen's half-eaten grilled fish fell to the ground with a clatter, and said with a painful look: "Oh no, it's real." ”

Long Yu quickly picked up half of the grilled fish on the ground, blew violently, then stuffed it into his mouth, gave him a blank look and said, "Don't waste food." ”

The scarlet who had not closed her eyes was tired in an instant after eating, Yuan Shanghan asked her to hurry to sleep with sleepiness, and the rest of the things were cleaned up by a few of them, Long Yu also nodded frequently, saying that it was the two useless boys who were on the boat tonight, and she would be more awake when she was on the shore.

After receiving everyone's kindness, the scarlet went back to the carriage and fell asleep first, and the others also went back to the tent to make up for sleep after eating and cleaning up. When she opened her eyes again, the sun was gone, and only the sunset stained the sky red.

"You've slept so thoroughly," he said, as Han Jian handed her the dinner they had made—a bowl of fish soup and steamed buns.

Scarlet sat down cross-legged next to Han Jian, took the fish soup and steamed bun, and asked, "Where are they?"

"Shanghan and Qingchen went to prepare the reserve grain on their ship, but Long Yang didn't know. ”

The fish soup also adds some plants from the sea, which softens the fishy smell a little bit, and the steamed bun is an ordinary white flour bun that has no taste, just dry food used to fill the stomach.

"Son. ”

"Huh?"

"Remember what I said about the monster two days ago?"

"Hmm. ”

"The monster is ...... after death I don't know if it's death, it's like there's no entity and it dissipates into smoke. It disappeared with a sentence that haunts the empty palace and reminds me from time to time. ”

"What?"

Han Jian propped his arms back on the ground, looking at the cloud-chasing glow in the sky, Scarlet had never seen his expression, it was a look that was almost empty and almost relieved.

"It said: 'The way of reincarnation, the fruit of a thousand years, how dare you and other mortals try to break it, but it is all in vain. ’”

"What do you mean? Scarlet couldn't understand what the monster was saying, and he couldn't understand why Han Jian was confused about it.

Han Jian was stunned for a moment, then pulled back his thoughts that had gone away with Xiayun, and said with a smile: "It's nothing, I just want to complain, forget about it." "Also, I told a child who hadn't been in contact with those commissions for what I was doing.

“......”

"Huh~ What are you talking about in this silent atmosphere?" Long Yan jumped up and down to the two of them out of nowhere.

Han Jian turned his head to look at the hippie-faced Long Yu and asked, "Where have you been?"

"This... People have three urgencies. As if in response to the call of the sunset, the faint flush on Long Yu's face flashed.