This world is very vast, and in this incomparably vast world, there is a life that people can't imagine. No one knows how the first humans came into contact with elves and dwarves, or whether demons and demons were malicious when they first entered the world. But in short, people who travel a lot will soon get used to one thing, nothing in this world is incredible, because the real incredible, only people can survive with such a narrow view. Other than that, anything is possible within the universe.

Fortunately, both Fioni and Fettis are frequent travelers, and they are well aware of the vastness of the world and their own limitations. Therefore, when Barnacles, oh no, have to call them Shell People, when the Shell People take the initiative to communicate with them, neither of them takes much time to sigh, but quickly accepts the fact that the other is also a race that can think independently. Of course, acceptance is acceptance, and it is impossible to say that the Kraken and the Witch are not curious about these shell people. Because as we all know, the intelligent creatures in this world probably have a certain body size.

Among them, humans can be used as a model, small ones such as dwarves, dwarves, large ones such as giants, dragons, although their appearance is very different, but the shortest race is at least nearly a meter tall. The casters who study this aspect call this phenomenon the bottom line of enlightenment. They believe that a natural creature that is not created by magic must be at least above this threshold in size to have humanoid intelligence, and that a life like a goblin, born from the forces of nature or the flow of magical energy, does not need to abide by this limit.

That's why Fettis didn't believe that the Shell People were a communicative race at first. No matter how you look at it, these shells without magic are too far from the bottom line of enlightenment. However, the clever witch immediately thought that this so-called bottom line is often applicable to humanoids, they are either viviparous or oviparous, and since the structure of shellfish is different from the previous two, it is normal for them that the restrictions of this bottom line cannot be applied. If the gray-robed mage was here, then he would have been able to focus all his energy on the study of the new intelligent creature of the shell people. The witch was much more pragmatic, and the warden thought about what these incredible little things could help them on their trip after accepting the existence of the shell people.

The witch's idea soon came to fruition, as the next move of the Shell made her realize how valuable they really were in this space. The mouthparts of the shells began to foam, looking like crabs that had just been caught out of the water, but instead of sediment and food crumbs, they spit out white powder mixed in the foam, which was the sea salt that formed the salt line! Fioni didn't realize at first what the shells were doing when they spit out sea salt from their mouths. Soon, however, as the shell people spread the salt from their mouths evenly on the rocks, the salt lines that had just been interrupted by the rockfall were reconnected and formed a complete barrier.

"This," the Kraken stared at what was happening in front of him with wide eyes, and he saw that the husks had consciously retreated to the inside of the salt line after finishing their work, and some of them were still along the rubble to check if there were any other places that had been damaged and not noticed. Fioni turned to look at the witch, "Didn't you say that these things had to go through the shaman's hand to work?"

Fettis's brow furrowed, and her magically blessed eyes could clearly see that the salt threads made by the husked people were emitting the same light as the previous ones. Awakening the power of the dead is undoubtedly unnatural, but the truth is, the Shell people seem to have a way to do it easily, although for now all they can awaken is the bone powder of giants.

"Where did you find these grains of salt?" asked the warden to the Shells, who she didn't know exactly who she was talking to, so she had to ask all the Shells. Just a few seconds later, the flood of responses caused the witch to almost scream. It took some effort for her to silence the voices that were going on in her head, and it seemed that each of the shell people had the ability to communicate, which was a new discovery. "Someone please answer me, there are too many of your voices for me to discern. ”

After a few minutes, the witch guessed that the shells were choosing who to represent them. You know, although the language of both sides is not a problem from the process of communication just now, the language habits of the shell people are still different from those of humans and krakens, and the evidence is that they can only use nouns. There are two possibilities for such a phenomenon, the first is that the way shell people think is like this, and the things in their eyes are a stack of nouns. This is a rather primitive mode of thinking, because it is too restrictive and not good for verbal communication. The second is the more likely reason that Fettis thinks is that the shell people are not talking to them. People are always accustomed to using words to express their opinions, but words are not the only way, images, emotions and other factors can be used as a means of communication, shell people's way of communication relies on the particles of information scattered into the air, so than using grammar to communicate, witches have every reason to believe that it is a faster way to wrap the images and emotions they see in the particles for their companions to feel.

Sure enough, the information she received after waiting was no longer simple words, and some images flowed into Fetis's mind with her consciousness, allowing her to understand the meaning of the shell people in just a moment. In this way, it may be difficult to tell who is better in this communication style and language. "I see. The witch nodded, judging from the information given to her by the shell people, they really did not understand the so-called shamanic witchcraft, and what activated the salt grains was a natural secretion in the shell people's bodies. It makes sense that things in nature are not all directed in a single direction, and many times similar raw materials can produce the same result under different actions. If there is a substance in the shell that can activate giant bone powder, it is not completely impossible.

This made Fettis realize another question, "How long have you been living here?" This time the shell people replied with a hint of doubt, they didn't quite understand the concept of "long" in the mouth of witches or humans. After all, there is neither the sun nor the tides in this dark space, and there is no way to calculate time, so it seems that the shell people did not give birth to the proper concept of time in the evolution of nature. However, according to them, their ancestors lived here long ago when they still had flesh and blood, like the material things that grew on the bodies of Fioni and Fettis. It's interesting, when there's still an age of flesh and blood... Wasn't that when the Thunder Giant had just died!

"I think, in a sense, these little guys in front of us are probably the purest blood descendants of giants. They and their ancestors, each of them, grew up on the bodies of giants. The witch's expression was strange, on the one hand she instinctively hated the scavengers, like hyenas and vultures, but on the other hand, the husks communicated with undisguised kindness and gratitude, and she could not associate these little ones with ugly and despicable ghouls. This subtle sense of contradiction makes it difficult to understand what to think of the shell people.

However, the Kraken apparently did not have this problem, and in the middle of the sea, Fioni had seen too many ways of life that were more contrary to human morality than scavenging, and he did not think that those creatures were wrong in any way. It's just that human beings, or races close to humans, should not put their own morality on other creatures. "And they do. But I don't think that's a problem. Since his marrow would turn into monsters, it was only right that the barnacles in his body would turn into shells? and I liked these little ones better, at least they knew how to create and sustain them. ”

The witch remained silent this time, she looked at Fioni, "Well, you have a point. Then you might as well ask these shell people what they think of us. I mean, our meat may not be as good as the giants, but it must be fresher than these bones. ”

"Well, I don't think you have to worry about that. I've asked these friends, and their current recipe is mostly sand. And as long as they don't exercise, they can go without eating for a long time. Fioni raised an eyebrow, indicating that the witch didn't need to worry about the threat of the Shell, "Besides, they're willing to show us around here, I don't think we need to refuse, right?"

Fettis nodded a little reluctantly, she wasn't afraid of the shell man, she just hated the feeling of being led around his garden by his master, "Let them go back first." When our people are rested, we will visit again. ”