Chapter Eighty-Six: Tour

The next day, after the two of them rested, they went straight to the beach.

Ciri grew up on the edge of the Noras Forest, and later came to study and work at the Flower Academy in Flower City, and has never seen the real sea except in words or images. Kayla has been working and living in the City of Flowers, and has never seen the ocean in its true form.

Humans are always amazed by the majesty of the ocean when they first see it, and Ciri and Kayla are no exception. From the front of the eye to the end of the line of sight, the blue water is surging. And the entire sea composed of these seawaters, at a glance, is close to the land and far to the sky, as if it is a giant beast sleeping in this plane, a life beyond human imagination.

The waves are the rhythm of the beast's breathing, the surging waves are the whispers of the beast when it sleeps, and the whole ocean condenses an indescribable mysterious vitality, giving people a profound sense beyond nature!

After the initial shock, Ciri and Kayla hold hands and walk out onto the beach together. Stepping on the soft and comfortable sand, the waves wash on your body from time to time, bringing a burst of coolness. The two found a secluded place with few people, and soaked their lower bodies in the seawater, and the upper body was still exposed on the beach outside, rippling with the sea for a long time.

After soaking enough, Ciri led Kayla along the coastline to pick up the seafood that had been brought to the beach by the sea, such as soft sea worms, hard-shelled fish, bouncing shrimp, multi-clawed monsters, etc., and they picked up a lot of them, and finally they couldn't take them, so the two gave up this kind of catching activity.

When the night gradually darkens, piles of bonfires built by Luo oil trees (tall and fire-resistant trees are common on the seaside) begin to be lit on the seaside, and the crowd of people who are tired of playing during the day gather around the bonfire, string the seafood they have picked up, and grill on the bonfire, and a strong fragrance spreads from the campfire to the surroundings.

Ciri and Kayla also join in the barbecue, skewering the seafood they picked up today and baking it around the campfire. However, Ciri's craftsmanship was so poor that he was scorched several times. Kayla had no choice but to throw him a bunch of skewers and let Ciri take care of the skewers and herself take care of the barbecue. The two of them ate while roasting, talking and laughing, playing and playing until late before returning to the hotel to rest.

In the next few days, the two soaked in the sea by the sea, picked up seafood, played barbecue, and visited the former site of the Fish-Man Palace in the middle.

Since the total area of the ocean in the Praia plane is much larger than that on land, the fish-people living in the ocean are the largest race of intelligent creatures in this plane. The Fish-People look similar to normal humans on the surface, but their skin is blue, light blue, light blue, dark blue, and all degrees of blue. They can survive on land normally, but when the Fish-People are immersed in the water, their gills will change to the shape of gills, and their legs and feet will become tails that are conducive to the movement of life in the water.

Originally, terrestrial humans were attacked by sea creatures and fish-people every once in a while, but this has only changed since the alliance between terrestrial humans and the Colin plane. Although the Colin Plane did not directly give weapons and equipment to its allies, it did teach them a lot of magical knowledge. The wealth gained by the terrestrial humans through this magical knowledge and the tourism industry gradually pushed the fish-people back into the ocean.

Fish-people are no longer seen in cities like Molden, but the buildings left over from the Fish-People's departure have been preserved and recently opened to the public as a tourist attraction.

When Ciri and Kayla hear the news at the inn, they immediately rent an underwater boat (which can be used as a submarine, but the appearance and principle are different, and the function is similar) to go for a tour.

I have to say that the price of goods in the Praia plane is indeed cheap. The inn where Ciri and the others temporarily live is considered to be at the top of the entire Moldon City, but the monthly rent is only 300 Praia Magic Copper, which is converted into only 30 Colin Magic Copper, which can be spent on the Colin plane and even a meal. The two of them rented the underwater boat, and it only cost a total of 10 Praia Magic Copper, including hiring the pilot and guide named Orn.

Ou En is an elderly mid-level water magician, and because of his poor talent, his strength has always been at this level. When he was older, he had no idea of breaking through, and found this stable and idle job in the Coastal Chamber of Commerce to make money to leave some family business for his children and grandchildren.

Old Orn has a more cheerful personality, and no matter whether there is anyone to pick up the stubble, he can briefly tell the history of the Fish-Man Clan, which is very suitable for this job. When he heard the lingua franca of Nair in Ciri and Kayla, Old Orn concluded that they were from the Colin plane. Orn had received a number of guests from the Colin plane, and although each of them had a slightly different voice, he remembered the "Colin flavor" in the words of the traveler from Colin very well.

Orn is more than warm to the guests from the Colin plane, although he has not experienced the war between terrestrial humans and fish-people, but he has heard those cruel histories from his ancestors, so he has a good impression of the Colin people who helped them achieve the happy life they have now. The people who are capable of traveling on the Colin plane are also very polite, and have always made a very good impression on old Orn.

Orn steered the underwater boat and took Ciri and the two to give a brief explanation while viewing the ruins of the Fish-People.

The Fish-People are a very hierarchical race. Ordinary fish-people live in ugly buildings like black caves. The Fish-Man Mage and the other nobles lived in the central Crystal Palace. The Crystal Palace is made of a special translucent and sturdy material, and the whole sparkles like a crystal, hence the name Crystal Palace

The Crystal Palace is beautiful from the outside, sparkling like a work of art made of ice crystals. The two of them swam out of the boat with underwater protective magic props and went on a "treasure hunt" that every visitor would participate in.

When the Fish-People evacuated in a hurry, many things were not packed. After the officials of Molden City collected some important items, they did not care about the remaining items. It has recently been opened as a tourist attraction, and the search for Fish-Man relics has become a regular pastime.

The entire Crystal Palace is very large, and its scale is no less than that of some small and medium-sized cities on land (where the upper level of the fishmen live, and the bottom of the ordinary fishmen live in the black caves outside the city). Inside the Crystal Palace, like other human cities, there are individual houses, which look crystal clear from the outside, but they are not really transparent, and you can't see the outside from the inside.

There is a mess in the house, and most of the furniture items are made of carapace or the same material as the house. The two searched, and the little valuable things had long since been taken by the locals, and Kayla found a bracelet made of multicolored carapaces. Ciri used his keen insight to discover a trap chamber in a large house, but most of the contents had been removed, and he found only an irregular blue stone the size of a fingernail in the corner. Ciri studied it for a while, but didn't find anything special about it, so she threw it into the storage space.

After wandering around for a while, and finding nothing else, the two went straight back to the underwater boat and asked Orn to take them back to shore.