Chapter 84: Sprouting (3)
The Prime Minister took the sketch that the envoy had brought back in his hand and approached the window, but it did not help him to identify the person in the painting. The envoy of Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info thought that the adults would be a little familiar, but he was wrong. The Prime Minister asked who this person was, and the envoy shrugged his shoulders and spoke eloquently. This man's name was Curris, and he was a merchant in the Empire's territory of Amerik. Hearing this, the Prime Minister thought it was a waste of his time. Out of cultivation, he did not reprimand the envoy, who was also a good friend, but simply showed his attitude by casually placing the sketch on the table. The envoy picked up the sketch again, saying that it was an enigmatic merchant. Curris quietly landed from a port in the north with an entourage of gold coins that could not be underestimated, and was very low-key as a boss. Like other bosses, they are all chasing profits day and night, but they are not stingy to invest in all kinds of bizarre so-called new technologies. Even sometimes being deceived did not hesitate to do so, which became the news of several northern territories. Is this the reason for his sketch, the Prime Minister is still a little unreasonable. Your Excellency, the envoy walked slowly from behind the table to the fireplace, looked up at the portraits hanging, and began to be silent. Hawkins sat down, piped his pipe, and waited for the envoy's other debriefings. After a while, there was silence in the room. Impatient to put it down, Hawkins looked at the wall clock on the wall and planned the rest of the arrangement. To remind the envoy, he deliberately coughed a few times. The envoy looked back, as if he had changed his face.
Hawkins didn't notice this, he pretended to have official business to deal with, reached out and grabbed a quill pen, dipped it in ink, and reluctantly reminded the envoy. The envoy walked over and put his hands on the table, and in a very impolite gesture, whispered, "Your Excellency, your position does not allow such unresponsiveness, it feels very insensitive!" It's a tone that Hawkins hasn't heard in years. Even the queen will not reprimand the prime minister unceremoniously. Hawkins' face changed from unnatural to respectful, and the person with this tone can only be someone from the shadow group, and the position should be above him. It's just that this is an envoy he is extremely familiar with, how can he also be a member of the group? The envoy's subsequent debriefing was no longer the same as it had been, reminding Hawkins that the messenger sent to Ephyrek had not found Corvus, and that the messenger was missing. Hawkins nodded in acknowledgement, wondering if it had anything to do with sketching. The envoy picked up the sketch and pointed to Curris, who was holding his cane, and said to look closely at his fingers. Hawkins didn't see anything special on his left hand, except for his right hand, which had only four fingers. In fact, the left hand was covered, and several fingers were not seen at all.
The envoy said that he had carefully observed Curris's hands and had always felt that he was covering his hands, intentionally or unintentionally. Hawkins looked at the sketch and asked tentatively, if this was the missing Corvus in Ephyreic, who was a member of the group, how could it not be like this? Before the envoy could finish hearing this, he turned around sharply and asked, the problem is that there are no shapeshifters outside the control of the group who appear in our field of vision. Hawkins was not convinced, there has always been a well-known secret in the group, there are two kinds of shapeshifters in this world. Although it is difficult to tell the difference between the two types of people, the difference is certain and incompatible. The young Hawkins also wanted to ask the elders of the group to find out the mystery, but was told that it was a delicate matter. Later, Hawkins, who became more and more accustomed to the rigid hierarchy within the group, no longer easily spent energy and time on a problem that did not seem to be a problem, not to mention that it was still said to be a taboo. The envoy told Hawkins that he had asked the Governor of the Emeric Realm to keep a record of Curris's actions, organize them by month, and send them to Breez at regular intervals. Hawkins knew that if the group used the word teleportation, it would not be a car traveling thousands of miles, but a much faster delivery. He was not surprised by the group's methods, but sighed that there were too many secrets in the group, and every member in it could not know how large the shadow of the group covered and how many people it covered. For example, the envoy is also a member of the group, and there are also people from the group in overseas territories. The prime minister of an empire, within the vast empire, is above 10,000 people under one person, but Hawkins does not know how many people are above him in the group.
After the envoy reminded Hawkins of the state of Emmeric's economic development, he seriously refused the Prime Minister's farewell, put on his top hat, and left with a respectful appearance. What a joke, in Hawkins Bres, in front of this ordinary-looking middle-aged gentleman, the atmosphere is uneven. Hawkins threw the sketches on the table with some indignation, and turned his head to look at the portraits on the walls. To outsiders, the people in these portraits are all excellent ancestors of the Hawkins family for generations, but none of them really are. Almost all of these similar-looking people, like Hawkins, don't know where they've spent a long time since the beginning of their lives. The people in the portrait without exception have a smug look. One leg is slightly bent and leans forward sideways, yes, this is the posture, like a standing posture after being transformed.
When Ruixi and the others arrived at the sea, there was nothing left except for the few pieces of wood floating on the sea. The people who said the head, and his Mei Yi, are gone. was in a bad mood, but after this change, his body was unstable and almost fell into the sea. The butler, despite his old age, came with the bump of the boat, and gently stroked Ruixi's back with his hand, telling him to mourn. This place is not close to the island, and if you hurry back to the island, I am afraid that it will already be sunset. The ship had no choice but to return, and it didn't take long for the sharp-eyed sailors to discover that there were survivors on the surface of the water just now. The boat had to turn around again to rescue the man, and found that it was one of those guys who drove the boat out of the island without permission. After a little treatment, the guy was brought to Ruixi. Because he had been in the water for a long time, most of his lungs had died, and the person spoke intermittently. This person said that the dysentery shrimp boy planned to sail and harmed Mei Yi, and also said that Mei Yi had a sharp blade in his body and was prone to class A. Ruixi's heart was like a knife and there was nothing he could do, but when the guy was dying, he told the things that appeared on the top of the boat, and the strange appearance afterward. When everyone heard this, they looked at each other, and the guy was already vomiting blood and couldn't speak.
After returning to the island, Ruixi endured his grief and set up a mound for his only son, which can be regarded as a place where he misses. Although the housekeeper said that Mei Yi disappeared after the strange appearance, maybe he was just taken captive, not necessarily to the Western Heavenly Bliss. Ruixi still couldn't help himself, and his mood was very low. After this accident on the island, people's hearts have been rectified, and no one dares to go to sea casually. Those who had heard of the strange appearance with their own ears were beckoned by the butler to keep their mouths tight, and it didn't take long for the matter to be forgotten. No one could have imagined that Mei Yi would appear again, including the elderly housekeeper who had been trying to comfort his master for a long time. The sound of the tide on the beach has long been accustomed to being heard by the people of the whole island, so that any sound that is different from the sound of the tide can be easily distinguished. Dozens of days later, in the early hours of the morning, with the sound of the tide, the early risers were alarmed by the roar of things from the southwest. After falling on the beach at a very fast speed, the object stopped for a moment and then flew up again, leaving quickly. Soon someone rushed to report to the Ke family's housekeeper, and when the housekeeper had not yet arrived with the support of everyone, Mei Yi, the young master who had disappeared earlier, was striding towards everyone. The people around the butler dispersed, and the horror on everyone's faces spoke for itself.
After Mei Yi returned to meet his father and mother, he returned to his room and closed the door. Ruixi's lost and regained happiness didn't last long, and it was dispelled by Mei Yi's strangeness. He noticed that when Mei Yi came back this time, he walked without any abnormality, could it be that his thin tail was no longer there? The strange thing is not only that, Mei Yi did not leave the room for several days, and no one was allowed to enter. Ruixi superficially ignored the strangeness of the subordinate's report, but took advantage of the night to sneak outside Mei Yi's window, and observed for a long time that he didn't find anything more than feeling that the snoring sound was a little rough. In this way, when Mei Yi returned, Ruixi still felt that he had nothing to do. Time passed very quickly under such circumstances.
The Huangdao of September and the boat boss is much worse than the Huangdao of Ruixi, and the climate change is obviously not enough, and the guys sailed away in panic at the beginning, leaving them with little left. Thanks to the fact that the two of them have their own pampered people, they can endure the hardships of their livelihoods, and after a long time, the two of them can gradually gain a foothold on the island. In the early summer of the following year, a new situation arose. In September, when he took the raft that the boss and he had made out of the dwarf thatch on the island, when he was fishing offshore, he suddenly encountered a strong wind and had no choice but to return to the island to take shelter from the wind. Fortunately, the food for hunting and gathering was still slightly stored, and when the wind calmed down and he was about to go out to sea, he found several monsters lying prone on the beach. Its limbs are indistinguishable from those of a human, except that its skin is dark and its teeth are white. After careful examination, it was found that he was breathing like a person, and he was treated immediately. In September, because of his martial arts practice, he knew how to heal people and actively treated him. And the ship boss brought back more such weirdos. It turned out that in addition to a few people on the beach, there were dozens of people floating up and down the sea.
After the treatment, most of the weirdos who were normal in their voices gathered into a ball of whimper, and September and the boss didn't know what to do. One of them suddenly pointed to a spot on the beach, jumping and screaming. When the others saw what he was pointing at, they fled into the woods, their bodies shaking like chaff. September thought it was strange again, and ran to the beach with a sword in his hand, and it turned out that there was another person. The man was dressed fairly well, but still not breathing. After careful inspection, the boss who came after him said that it must be the so-called fair-skinned people from Marda Island or Ephyrenic, and they came from the land of Europa. The boss had never seen such a person, but he had only heard about it. However, this person had no breath, so he simply dragged him onto the raft in September and pushed the raft into the sea for burial. The boss blamed him for wasting a raft in vain, but he persuaded the boss on the grounds that the etiquette of living on a desert island should be like a land of China. Turning around, I don't know when those swarthy weirdos knelt on the ground in a neat line, muttering to themselves. This scene really surprised the few months and the boss, and they took a few steps over to help these weirdos in a hurry.
A few months later, September and the Boss had a general understanding of the world between the swarthy and weird people. First, they know a lot about each other by comparing with each other, and secondly, the boss of the ship is also a person who has been running overseas for many years, and he has heard a lot of things, and he gradually became acquainted with each other. These blacks were grateful for the rescue of the two and voluntarily bowed down to their subordinates and obeyed the arrangement. Everyone pushed the boss to be the leader, and in September, he led the able-bodied men to run fishing and hunting to make ends meet. When I met a few of these young black women, the dedication under admiration began to be unaccustomed to it in September, and after a long time, I became calm. For some reason, those women were dedicated, and there was fear in their admiration and gratitude for the two of September. September noticed it and interrogated it carefully, and learned that he got up in a dream several times and changed into an alien. This alien form is actually like the true god of the land of the black man, so it is regarded as the appearance of God. September gasped, only then did he realize that there were no rules for his current transformation. I'm afraid that the boss also encountered this matter, and only after asking did he know that it was true.
These heresies did not cause more trouble for September and the others, and the island did not encounter any more swarthy people. The population of the island increased unhurriedly, and the days grew richer by the hard work of the people day and night. As for the white-skinned men who spoke of the blacks, the whites who were good at hunting the blacks, never came again. Out of admiration for the black people, a place of worship was established on the spot for September and the boss in the place where the two of them were originally taken captive on the island. In the land of China, where do people establish ancestral halls, fortunately, the two of them are vulgar people, and they accept everyone's kindness with a slight excuse. After a long time, when they sighed, they were all relieved to each other, thinking that it was not a good thing to live on the island since then.
Warman and Curris have been through the Chronos Submarine Base together, and have also been interfered with together, and are now more handy as Curris's assistant. This tour of each territory not only completed the task of contacting business partners, but also found out the basic attitude of the emerging businessmen and conveyed the meaning of Curis. While waiting for Curris to return, Warman looked at his fingers and felt a little troubled in his heart, since returning from the bottom of the sea, his body had returned to human form, but only four fingers were left. He told Curris about this trouble, and Curris was also helpless. But Curris is right, some people may be interested in it, but they won't be endlessly curious. On the contrary, it is deliberately disguised and explained, which will cause extraneous branches.
Curris was very happy with Warman, according to his estimates. Because of the conflict in economic development, the handicraft owners of the Emeric territory, especially the northern territory, were very dissatisfied with the barbaric economic policies of Bres, and for religious reasons, the sense of resistance was very strong, and it was easy to be agitated, and the only thing to worry about was whether the strength was still weak. The news that Warman brought back also contained the concerns of some of the less powerful merchants, and it seemed that it was still too early for a clear confrontation, and Curris thought of a connection with Korors. As agreed, Korors would pay attention to the K that Curris had placed on the grass in the middle of the courtyard. So, in the middle of the night, Curris and Warman visited the green grass with the white fence that had not yet been installed, and waited for Colors to arrive.
Rolls' absence made Curris wonder if his mark was valid. While the normal business routine was not stopping, Curris found himself with some strange thoughts in his head. These ideas did not exist a few days ago, and according to Curris's habit, there would not be such crazy ideas. Such as irregular, extreme sabotage and attacks. When Warman expressed surprise at the idea that Curris said, Curris seemed to be encouraged, waved his hands and said, this is just the beginning, maybe there will be a fight between water and fire in the future, death. After some hysteria, the thoughts gradually dissipated, and Curris was a little dizzy. He seemed to realize the anomaly of what he had just done, what was wrong with him. Warman couldn't help but make a connection between this and what the servant had told him. In the middle of the night in the last few days, servants who need to wake up early can still find their master sitting on the sofa by the fireplace, silent and staring blankly.