Chapter 18: The Common Path of Knowledge
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Before Kaye could finish speaking, he listened to Aston gasp for air, so hard, as if he was about to burst his lungs.
He turned his head and met a giant eye, and the difference between the two was three or five Sami. It was a long, vertical oval eye, about the size of Kaye, with a compound eye grid on a pitch-black background like black jade, and a few meters of chitinous eye stalks underneath that extended underwater. The unfocused gaze swept over the three of Kaye, indifferently and emotionlessly, and then turned 18o degrees. The three of them did not dare to move.
The eyes are against the current of the water, and a large area of the water surface is clearly protruding, and the cyan reflection is faintly visible.
"How is that possible...... The river's aquatic resources can't afford such a large creature, just like a chicken nest can't support a hound. Aston shook his head mechanically, trying to deny what was in front of him.
"Maybe it's from the sea. Mina couldn't stand his chatter and said casually. But Aston, who urgently needed a reasonable explanation, took it seriously, nodded solemnly, but forgot that the golden pickaxe was 108,000 miles away from the mouth of the sea.
Kaye has a headache choosing which item to redeem, his points are stretched, the teleportation system can't afford it, the strange things are not cheap, and he doesn't know much about the above introduction. The scroll is relatively cheap, but I haven't learned the dragon language yet, and I run into a character that I can't pronounce, and I'm completely blind.
Suddenly, there was a jolt, and the broken ship began to sink, and as soon as Kaye let go of his hand, the Genkai scroll slid down the sloping corridor.
"No!" he tried to jump down, but was stopped by Aston.
"Are you crazy? Knowledge is valuable, but it doesn't make you die. ”
"Unless you can swim past 3 surreys and climb the riverbank, that book is our only chance of life!"
"We can lie on the broken wood and wait for rescue......"
"It's early spring, and I need to remind you what this river is called, Jin Xue, it's not a hot spring!" I say it for the last time, trust me...... Or according to your logic, if I don't have a way to save myself, how do I know that the ship is sinking? I can do it, you can't, that's it!"
With that, he let go of the guardrail and slid down, Mina following closely behind.
"What the hell is going on today!" Aston gritted his teeth, still carefully letting go.
At the bottom of the ship's fracture, there are a lot of broken driftwood. Thankfully, Kaye's most important treasure fell on the wood. He tried to grab it, but his hands were too short and he was about to stretch the jelly over, when Aston nervously slipped down and jumped into the river to take the book and hand it to Kaye. In the boy's surprised eyes, he shuddered and said, "Just out of respect for knowledge, I still don't believe that you have a way...... Hmm! The water is so cold!"
A large number of bubbles churned out of the water, and the ship sank faster.
"Whatever you want to do, quick!"
Kaye didn't care about anything else in the shock. The second-tier Creature Summoning Scroll is selected, with the first ring of the scroll costing 2o points, the second ring 4o, and the third ring 8o. And so on. Kaye unfolded the scroll and oversaw it, but now had no linguistics of his own. After a short period of chanting, Kaye was drained of a small amount of spiritual power and merged into the magic net. Then the structure of the magic scroll was revealed, and he caught a glimpse of the shadow of the magic web for a moment.
A 3-and-a-half-Sami shark with a white belly and a blue and black back jumped out of the summoning circle. Revealing its triangular dorsal fin, it swam around Aston Swift, waiting for the summoner's commands.
"Mr. Scholar, climb up!"
"No, no. Aston shook his head vigorously, looking away from the triangular dorsal fin in fear, but he looked more afraid of Kaye. "It doesn't make sense, it's impossible......"
Kaye gave the order, and the shark dived, then circled under Aston and put him on his back, and the two children jumped on it to get the shark to shore. They turned around, and more than a hundred passengers, men, women, and children, struggled in the icy water, trying to climb up the hopelessly broken wood. The ship sank with a thud, bringing up a small whirlpool that dragged many of the survivors down.
A lady was lying on the board and wailing, and then a man swam over and climbed onto the board, but the buoyancy of the board was not enough to support two people, and it was about to sink, and the man punched the lady in the nose, so that the beautiful hooked nose was tilted to one side, and then the second punch, and then the third punch, until the lady fainted and died. There are several similar situations, all of whom abandon a qiē in the face of survival.
"It's ugly. Kaye muttered, turning his head to look into the distance, the monster holding the ship in two sections was still in view, it was a special wave, and Kaye could clearly see its degree. At this time, his lower body was cold, and suddenly water appeared from his feet and neck to his waist.
"Kaye, our mount is sinking!" Mina screamed.
"How? There are still a few minutes left in the summoning time. "The shark is getting slower and slower, gradually sinking.
Aston was stunned just now, and said sleepwalking: "Judging by the color and fins, this is a saltwater shark, and when he is active in freshwater, it will quickly break down and die, a phenomenon that has been ...... by the scholars of the Institute of Oceanography."
Kaye didn't hear the conclusions of the Oceanographic Institute's scholars, and when the water was overhead, he saw the shark writhing in pain, belly up. The boy kicked his legs, floated to the surface and took a big breath, but at the same time choked on the water to his trachea, and then sank with his hands and feet. Razor City doesn't even have a pool, fresh water needs to be transported from other city-states, and it certainly won't give the two kids a chance to learn to swim.
Kaye tried to hold Mina, but her eyes, mouth and nose were full of water, and she couldn't spit out a word, and the strength of her struggle was quickly exhausted. A pair of hands wrapped around his waist and flipped the boy over to his back. Aston grabbed the girl and hung it on his body, swimming the remaining few hundred metres in a standard swimming style.
Three men climbed ashore exhausted, and two children coughed vigorously, snot and tears flowed together. After taking a breath of relief, the wind blew and suddenly shivered. Kaye ironically thought that he was going to sell a favor to win over this scholar, but he was saved by him instead, and what would have happened if he had been cold-blooded at the time and didn't care whether he lived or died?
"Ahem!" Mina spat out the water in her throat and immediately complained to her companion, "A few years later, your students asked Kaye ** about the closest Master Kaye came to death, why, and I would sue them because you summoned a fish that would drown!"
Kaye smiled bitterly, if this was to die, it would be stupid. He said to the scholars, "Mr. Aston. I didn't expect you to swim so well......"
Before he finished speaking, he was strangled by his neck, and Aston's face at this time looked like a murderer at the end of his rope, with fear in his hideousness, and gradually collapsed. He hoarsely said, "You just know how to tame sharks, and you happen to have sharks passing by, right?"
Kaye looked at him calmly, and if he said yes, the man would revert to his cowardly and elegant form, but he didn't want to do that. He was more curious about how receptive people in the world were to new ideas.
"No, it's a spell spell with two rings. He said. The force on his neck suddenly increased, and the slime burst out of the boy's clothes to wrap Aston's head, and Mina kicked him hard under the armpit, and Kaye took advantage of the situation to get out.
Aston regained his true character as a scholar, rolling on the ground in terror and struggling, unable to breathe. Kaye watched as his face turned from red to purple, and the blood vessels in his forehead protruded. Almost on the verge of suffocation he ordered Jelly to pull away, and Aston gasped for air before wailing like a woman with a dead husband.
Mina examined it. Only unimportant things were lost. Looking at the scholar in tears, he said to Kaye, "You frightened him, look at him crying." ”
The boy shook his head sternly: "This is the cry of Salapher. Mina, to complete the teacher's task. We have a long way to go. ”
Half an hour later, they lit a bonfire on the shore and baked to keep warm. Aston will go from a widow to a little girl, crying profusely.
"Hey, almost. You're older than both of us combined, and you're a bit ashamed. "Kaye is getting impatient, a big man. How can you howl like this?
"Shame, shame...... It doesn't matter anymore. Aston sobbed and said, "It's all wrong, I don't know how to struggle for the idea, the pride of persistence, it's meaningless......"
Kaye suddenly stood up, and Aston fell backwards in fright: "Are you going to turn me into a frog?"
"I'd like to have that. Stop talking nonsense, come here. "Pull the scholar to the river. "My teacher said that ignorance is not stupidity, and that vision determines vision. You are a wise and erudite man, why don't you think differently? You validated a false idea, and you were lucky enough to meet me, and you went down a broader path. ”
Aston looked at his pale reflection, as if it was about to break with the waves. "Do I have a way to go? It's too painful, doubting myself, overthrowing myself, and everything in the past is crumbling. It's hard to reshape ideas. ”
"Just take in more. Aston looked up in surprise as his voice changed, and Kaye was holding his face against his own. Then a familiar and unfamiliar smile bloomed: "'I' am a naturalist, I know a little bit about everything. ”
Aston looked at Kaye obsessively, "How?" He reached out to touch it, but Kaye's face melted and the liquid ran down his fingers to his shoulder. The scholar exclaimed, and Kaye said, "Accept it, Aston, or you will have the courage to take in more knowledge." ”
The naturalist forced himself to calm down, then watched the liquid flood his face, then his vision blurred, and when he opened his eyes again, the reflections of two boys appeared in the water.
"How ...... Magical. Aston stroked his cheek, but he didn't feel anything blocking his face, as if it were his own skin. And an adult with the face of an 11-year-old boy on top of it, the size of the skull has also changed.
"Can it be something else?"
"Just say to it, it's my pet, called Jelly. ”
Aston whispered a few words, and the shape of his face began to elongate horizontally, his eyes bulged out, and his skin turned green. Kaye looked at the big frog with swollen eyes and laughed with Aston.
The two of them laughed breathlessly, and then the boy bent down and saluted: "Kaye, the apprentice who is on his way to the path of a mage." ”
"Aston Martin, a ...... A naturalist who is starting his studies again. ”
For a while, the eyes of the two were sympathetic.
Mina walked over with a salute: "Okay, I'll go out when I'm done, it's been a bang on the other side of the mountain for a long time, and I spent a lot of money to buy a ticket to see the giant snake, not the frog." ”
The three of them cleaned up and made their way along the riverbank, the loud rumbling noise getting closer. Turning over a mountain beam, they opened their mouths wide at the same time, half silent.
Kaye sighed, "All the seafood is so raw now?" (To be continued!)