Lin Jue, who woke up the next morning, sat quietly on the bed and couldn't get up for a long time.

In his mind, he still kept thinking about what he had experienced in his dream last night.

What kind of creature is a mermaid, he has never seen it, and his only impression of this creature is obtained from novels and film and television materials.

In these works, the depiction of the fish-man is surprisingly uniform in appearance, with the lower body resembling a fish, while the upper body looks exactly like a human. And for this mysterious creature, for their character, these descriptions are completely different.

Some people say that they are distant relatives of human beings, because they are far away from human society, and their personalities are far simpler than human beings, and they are all good angels.

Others say that they are like demons, hiding in the deep bay and the strait, waiting for passing ships, attracting the attention of the crew and sailors with their beautiful songs, dragging them to the bottom of the sea and feasting on them.

Either way, the only thing that is certain is that the cause of the mythological description of these two creatures must have been that they had seen this human-looking fish on the seashore, and later generations speculated that the origin of the creature's appearance was probably dugong, or that the existence of rohu could not be fully proven.

Since the appearance is all associated with other creatures, it is likely that the personality is also made up.

After all, he has always lived in an era when feudal superstition is not credible, and everything he has faced in the past six months is all things that can only appear in mythological stories.

Even though he had been living in this strange world for half a year, he still had a lot of doubts about all the existences that violated his previous common sense, and it was difficult for him to fully accept them.

For example, mermaids, at least until last night, Lin Jue had always thought so.

The reason why he went to ask Agnes was only to learn from her mouth that the fish-man or anything didn't exist. But what is the result? In the scene she experienced in the dream, Agnes showed a very real scene, as if she wanted Lin Jue to believe that there really was a creature like a fish man in the world, at least this world existed.

Even if it was only seen in such an ethereal scene as a dream, that extremely real feeling had already convinced Lin Jue.

The extremely beautiful singing voice is not something that can be clearly explained between the words, and there seems to be a kind of magic in the singing that can make people fall into it and can't extricate themselves.

Maybe that song has a hypnotic effect, right? This is Lin Jue's thoughts at the moment.

Even now, that beautiful melody still echoes in Lin Jue's mind, just like listening to a favorite song too much, and occasionally I will feel that I forgot to turn off the player?

But what he couldn't understand was what was going on with the piercing sound he heard behind him? The sound that pierced his eardrums made Lin Jue's head split, and he swore that even the sound of scratching the glass with his fingernails was as heavenly as the real sound he heard last night.

Even if Agnes had explained, it was nothing more than the merfolk's own magic, disguised as a beautiful singing voice.

Lin Jue really couldn't understand the two voices at the two extremes, how could he hear it wrong? Let's not talk about whether the sound was good or not, such a harsh sound, even his own body senses couldn't bear it, but his body just didn't have any resistance.

Since he couldn't think of it, he meditated for a while, and Lin Jue didn't bother about this matter anymore, but it was just that the scene he saw yesterday gave him a big tremor, speaking of which, what the church fleet went through has not yet been figured out, after all, the notes have not been read.

When he finished washing up and came to the governor's mansion, Lu Haoyue had already sat on the opposite side of his desk, using his desk to sort the documents, and when he saw Lin Jue coming, he turned his head and smiled, and then continued to turn his head and concentrate on sorting out the documents.

This scene made Lin Jue stunned, I didn't expect this Dali Siqing to work so seriously for herself, of course Lin Jue would not believe that she was here for a vacation, let alone believe that she was really doing the work assigned by Lin Jue, in Lin Jue's opinion, whether it was the conversation on the deck or the conversation here last night, it was just a joke.

After thinking about it for a while, Lin Jue decided not to disturb her, after all, it was much better for her to sit quietly like this than for her to pester herself all day long, this quiet appearance made people look more like a lady than usual.

Lin Jue came to the desk and sat down, opened the two notebooks in his hand in turn, and continued to read them according to what he saw yesterday.

"That's right. Lu Haoyue said: "Someone came to report this morning, saying that those patients who were rescued from the sea are still unconscious, and I will help tell you." ”

Lin Jue nodded, indicating that he heard it, and did not speak, but continued to browse the notes in his hand.

Seeing Lin Jue's performance, Lu Haoyue pursed her lips, snorted coldly, and didn't care about him anymore, and continued to sort the documents in her hand.

While sorting these documents, Lu Haoyue will inevitably pick them up and take a look, originally she thought that these documents were just some trivial things in Phoenix, so she sorted them out in order to pass the time.

However, when she was sorting it out, she found that the information revealed by the documents in her hand was too interesting. Although she didn't mean to snoop on these documents, there seemed to be an inexplicable magic on these documents, between the lines, that was attracting her, just like the mermaid singing that Lin Jue had seen last night, which was fascinating.

First of all, the news of the navy, the construction of the navy is on the right track, although the ships with a hull length of more than 50 meters are under construction, and there are no ships that have been launched, but there is a dock report in hand, Lu Haoyue found that Phoenix is actually building a battleship with a four-story artillery deck and a number of 140 guns.

Although Lu Haoyue doesn't understand warships, there are still a lot of hearsay news, you know, most warships in the world currently have no more than 60 guns, and the warships in the world that can exceed 60 guns can be counted on one hand, and most of them are still from the Yan Empire.

The document in her hand has reported the hull parameters of this battleship, to be honest, this ship is not very big, compared to the shipbuilding technology of the Yan Empire, if this ship excludes the number of frenzied guns, only by the hull, it is definitely not comparable to the Yan Empire, but how can such a ship of average size be equipped with so many guns?

Looking at the news of the army, it can be learned from the report that Phoenix City has an arsenal that produces muskets and bullets, a three-hundred-man musket unit that has completed training, and three thousand soldiers waiting to be trained, to be honest, this is not a strange thing, musket troops can be seen everywhere in the army of the Yan Empire, and there is even a unit called the Shenji Battalion, which is full of soldiers equipped with all kinds of firearms. Just talking about muskets, it is not enough to put it in the Yan Empire.

But after reading this document, she had a question: The total number of troops in Phoenix City is only more than 3,000 people, could it be that these 3,000 people are all musket troops? There are no other arms? This is also too strange, after all, no country will use musket troops as the main branch of troops.

In fact, it was not the news of the army that really fascinated her, but because she saw a very novel name, the steam engine.