Witch Punk 2840

Chapter 302 Jellyfish
"Come, drink some soup first." Xia Ye said.

She held Tang Li's shoulders and asked him to sit up against the head of the bed. Then she picked up a bowl of thick soup from the breakfast tray and put it to Tang Li's mouth.

"Ah—open your mouth."

The bloodless little mouth opened slightly, and Xia Ye stuffed a spoonful of thick white soup into Tang Li's mouth.

"Gu..."

"tasty?"

"Yeah." Tang Li nodded.

"This is Lillian's 'Whale Meat Stewed with Thirteen Assorted Vegetables Soup'. It was snatched away by the crew as soon as it came out of the kitchen this morning. Fortunately, I asked Lillian to save two bowls for me in advance." Xia Ye said as he fed another spoonful of soup into Tang Li's mouth.

Before long, Tang Li finished the bowl of thick soup.

Maybe it was because of the miraculous effect of Lillian's soup, but Tang Li's cheeks were no longer as pale as when he just woke up.

Xia Ye then asked the question in his mind: "You just said you saw a jellyfish?"

"Hmm." Tang Li pressed the eye mask with her fingertips and frowned slightly. "There was a person sitting in the skull of that whale. When I looked at that person, my sight was involuntarily drawn to a very far place. It was probably because this eye had never seen such a long distance before, and the load exceeded its limit. It still hurts until now...ah, I'm not imagining, it's real!"

"I know what you said is true..." Xia Ye said softly, "Although I quite liked your previous delusion."

"I no longer imagine myself as a sword immortal every day. Maybe it's because... the real situation is even more bizarre than I imagined?"

... is even more cruel, Xia Ye thought to himself. Whether it was the fact that his mother and Xing Xie died together, or the responsibilities he would have to bear in the future, these were things that Tang Li had not yet figured out how to face.

So she changed the subject: "Let's continue discussing the issue at hand. You said you saw jellyfish?"

"Yes, jellyfish!" Tang Li answered immediately, "When my sight was stretched to the limit and about to break, I saw a jellyfish. It was...very big."

Xia Ye didn't know whether the jellyfish Tang Li was talking about was the same thing as the one she knew, but this was an easy problem to solve. She quickly found paper and pen and drew the appearance of the jellyfish.

Although her painting skills were a bit unbearable, fortunately the jellyfish itself was not a particularly complicated thing. Tang Li took a look and nodded, "Yes, this is it."

It seems that the jellyfish in this world are the same as those in the previous world. Unlike whales, they actually have several pairs of wings... Xia Ye thought to himself.

"You said that one was very big. How big was it? Several dozen meters long?" she continued to ask.

Tang Li shook his head.

"How many hundred meters?"

Tang Li continued to shake his head: "Not only that, I don't know how big it is, because I didn't see its entire appearance. The top of its body almost touched the sky, and its tentacles penetrated deep into the sea of ​​clouds. There was no end in sight."

"Are you sure what you saw was not an illusion?" Xia Ye frowned.

"But the 'Eye of Truth' can only see or not see. It will not be deceived by illusions. Why do you think it is an illusion?"

"Because if it's not an illusion and it's really as high as the sky, theoretically we should be able to see it from here, but now there's nothing on the skyline except clouds," Xia Ye explained.

"Hmm..." Tang Li knew that what Xia Ye said made sense, but she still felt that what she saw was not an illusion.

"Maybe we can't see it because it's too far away?"

"Maybe." Xia Ye smiled and did not argue with Tang Li anymore. "We are now sailing towards the fiefdom where the Medusu Zeya family is located. Maybe when we enter the deep sea area, we will be able to see the jellyfish you mentioned."

"Mei Du...what's Ya?" Tang Li looked confused.

"Medu Suzeya." Xia Ye said with a smile, "When you were unconscious, we found some clues on the body. She is very likely a knight of the Medusu Suzeya family..."

After a while, she ended the chat, asked Tang Li to stay in the room to continue resting, and returned to the cab.

Unexpectedly, Caron was there too.

"I found some new things." As soon as they met, Carun told her.

"what?"

Kelun took out a piece of the cup fragment and pointed at the silk threads connected to the fragment: "If these silk threads are also produced by some kind of contract, then this contract must have some similarities with my "Flower Witch" contract - this is the conclusion Susa came to."

"Susha? She hasn't paid attention to me for a long time." Xia Ye looked at his cup with his consciousness, and the flower was lying there motionless.

"She didn't pay much attention to me. She only suddenly came up and said something when I was studying the cup fragments. Then she didn't respond again. She said she was dealing with something very important recently and didn't have time to talk to us."

"Okay...assuming these threads have something in common with the 'Flower Witch' contract, then what?"

Ke Lun shook his head: "I haven't thought it through yet. I'll tell you when I find something new."

"Okay, I have new information here too. Tang Li woke up and said she saw a big jellyfish..." Xia Ye simply repeated Tang Li's words. "A jellyfish as tall as the sky? It sounds like she was affected by some kind of contract and saw an illusion." Kelun said.

"I also feel that way……"

Although Xia Ye said this, she still clicked on the "communication debt" and asked the Strike Witches patrolling ahead: "Have you found anything abnormal on the skyline, such as a very large jellyfish?"

"Jellyfish??"

The current captain of the No. 2 formation is Saniya. Seeing the information uploaded on the "communication debt", the girl with short silver hair was full of confusion.

"Did you know that 'jellyfish' means anything other than that floating creature?" she asked her team.

The team members all shook their heads in confusion.

After a while, Xia Ye received a reply: "Master Xia Ye, we found nothing in the sky except clouds."

……

After three consecutive days of speeding at over 260 knots, on the afternoon of February 2, the formation consisting of the Moby Dick and the Brunswick crossed the Western Islands and entered the deep sea area of ​​the Aether Sea, while the heavy artillery whaling ship Hyperion and the supply ship Cullen Creek were still about a day's sail from the islands.

The strike witches took off and landed more frequently, and the four formations took turns to scout the airspace ahead almost non-stop, reporting the location of the ether vortex to the Moby Dick. Yaha was also issued a "communication bond" by Xia Ye. Whenever she received a report from the strike witches, she would mark the newly discovered ether vortex on the sea chart and plan the route to allow the fleet to bypass these dangerous areas and advance deeper into the ether sea.

Everything was going well, except for the fact that no whales were found.

"Just one beluga whale is not enough. We have four boats this time, and the number of crew members is three times that of last time." Yaha said to Xia Ye, "And we only encountered one dead whale along the way. I always feel that it is not normal."

"Do you want to change course?" Xia Ye asked.

"The final course remains unchanged, but before looking for the fiefdom of the Medusuzeya family, I would like to search the southwest or northwest area to see if I can find any trace of the whale." Yaha said.

Xia Ye nodded: "I have no objection, which direction do you want to search?"

"Can we search in the southwest direction?" Tang Li interrupted. As the "Eye of Truth" had not fully recovered, she was not participating in the lookout, but staying in the cab.

"why?"

"Feeling... I just feel like there seems to be something important over there." Tang Li said with a frown.

"Then turn southwest."

The three reached a consensus.

……

At 2 a.m. on February 17, nearly 5 hours had passed since the fleet turned southwest, and neither the Strike Witches nor the lookouts had found any trace of whales.

After being on duty for most of the night, Yaha confirmed the handover with Tang Li, signed her name in the logbook, and left the cabin rubbing her brows. According to the schedule, Tang Li would take over her duties as the captain and arrange the fleet's route until 2 pm. Yaha planned to eat something and then have a full sleep. No one would disturb her unless something very important happened.

At 5:25 in the morning, Yaha found some "breakfast" in the kitchen and ate it in a few bites, then returned to her bedroom. After washing her face with water, she lay down on the bed. Without even taking off her clothes, she fell asleep quickly.

She dreamed that she had found a huge group of white whales. After a hard and thrilling battle, they harvested ten white whales...

Bang bang bang! !

The hurried knock on the door interrupted her dream. Yaha sat up from the bed dizzy and glanced at the clock on the wall.

6:15
She had slept for less than an hour.

The knock on the door came again, Yaha walked quickly to the door and opened it.

Perhaps because her expression was a little scary, the crew member who knocked on the door involuntarily took a half step back.

"I'm sorry, Captain, the second mate would like you to go to the wheelhouse immediately. We have made an important discovery..."

Found a whale?!
Yaha became sober instantly. She rushed out of the room quickly and in just a dozen seconds, she rushed into the cab.

"Found a whale?!" she asked loudly.

Tang Li did not look back. She stood by the window, staring in one direction. When she heard Yaha's voice, she stretched out her hand and pointed to the distance:

"Look."

Yaha looked in the direction she pointed and immediately held his breath.

She saw a giant jellyfish...

It stood on the far horizon. What Tang Li said was true. The top of the jellyfish's body almost touched the dome, and its long tentacles hung down like ribbons, sinking into the sea of ​​clouds. It was not an illusion, but a real living thing. Even from such a long distance, Yaha could clearly see that its beautiful, translucent body was rhythmically contracting, expanding, contracting, and expanding just like breathing...

(End of this chapter)