Dominate the Treacherous Realm

　　 "A mouse can actually spit out soul fire? This is really strange."

　　 He straightened up and muttered to himself, and then sighed that the mouse's skin was actually harder than the fish just now.

　　 "Is this also a manifestation of disaster? But the mutation of animals does not seem to be unusual."

　　 of course did not forget to tap the little chocolate head, and rewarded it for the prompt reminder:

　　 "Speaking of which, this seems to be the first time you have taken the initiative to find a mouse, right?"

　　 Jenkins once threw a white mouse in front of the chocolate. At that time, the chocolate was ignored. He was really annoyed by Jenkins and kicked the white mouse off the table. This is the first time Jenkins wants to test the attitude of chocolate to mice after changing into a mouse.

　　 "Meow~"

　　Because I really can't figure out what Jenkins is thinking, the cat can only make a weak cry.

　　 In addition to a mouse as big as a cat and a flying cockroach as big as a mouse, which likes to fly, there are actually many good things on the deck. Of course, there are no ready-made numbered items waiting for Jenkins to pick up, but there are some ready-made alchemy and potion materials, put together with the sundries.

　　 According to the rules of this deception, these things on this ship should belong to the huddled asylum seekers around. But no matter what Jenkins took, no one opposed it.

　　 It just so happens that Jenkins' materials were used a lot in the first 7 Deceptions, and it can be considered to be slightly supplemented here. Because of this, he has a new idea. He doesn’t know how long it will take to search with his hands, and the surrounding fog is about to gather. Since the compass doesn’t work, he should use it in conjunction with the special search ritual. , Maybe it will work.

Chapter 2176: Sun Flower and Cockroach

　　 "Searching for objects and finding people" rituals are not uncommon. There are many similar rituals, whether they are divination methods or non-divination methods.

　　 The means of divination Jenkins does not count, his talent for divination is really bad, and divination in treacherous realms usually only get absurd conclusions. Instead of divination methods, my father taught a lot. Although these methods are not very effective for items with spirits, they are sufficient for the current situation.

　　The ritual search for objects itself requires a compass or a guide as the core material of the ritual. After all, the result of the ritual must be displayed in some way.

　　 However, the compass with numbered items cannot simply be directly substituted into the original ceremony, and the ceremony needs to be modified. Although Jenkins is not a professional ritualist like Miss Magic, he does not know anything about it.

　　 So while rummaging through his backpack to find materials, he thought in his heart how to modify the content of the ceremony.

　　 First use chalk on the flat deck and draw a standard perfect circle freehand. In the large circle, draw four small circles that circumscribe each other but all inscribe the large circle. The small circles are not the same size.

　　 Then, some dandelion specimens were stuffed into a jar, and some vinegar was added as a solution, and finally the wing dust of the maze butterfly and the nail powder of the alien treasure hunter were added. Close the cork tightly and shake it a few times. Open the cork, stir clockwise with a glass rod, and whisper the mantra that blesses the traveler. Wait until the color of the medicine in the bottle turns brown, then carefully dip some of the quill pen, and write runes in the gaps between the small circles.

　　 Actually, I use the wolf pen, especially the white wolf pen, but there is no such thing in the Jenkins backpack. Drawing a pen is a bit too troublesome, and a quill pen is also a good alternative.

After the runes are drawn, the compasses are placed inside the four circles of different sizes to point to the target; the flower specimens are used to illustrate the items that need to be found; the small pendant with the sage emblem of the sage, hanging The pendant is not important, the important thing is the holy emblem to ensure that the ceremony will not be inexplicably shifted; there must be nothing in the last circle, which symbolizes the items that have not yet been obtained.

　　 After making these preparations, I poured clear water in my palm, and then carefully bounced the water to the outside of the ritual base.

　　 Jenkins held the Star Demon Sword with both hands. The sword stood upright above the compass, counting down five in his heart, and then slammed the tip of the sword towards the compass, but stopped immediately before touching the pointer.

　　Obviously, nothing touched the compass, but when the sword tip was pointing down, the compass needle automatically turned slowly until it turned 90 degrees before stopping.

　　 Jenkins looked at the broken cabinet pointed by the pointer, knowing that his idea really succeeded.

　　 The cabinet is wooden, it looks like it has been exposed to water, and it has been chopped by weapons such as an axe, but it still maintains its basic appearance. The outside of the wood has basically been soaked, but the volume is still quite large, a total of four layers. Because it was upside down, Jenkins didn't expect that there were so many things inside before moving away.

　　 But I didn't see the fire-breathing mouse just now in the cabinet, otherwise Jenkins would definitely get revenge.

　　 There are no glass windows in the cabinets, but elegant carved wooden doors. The doors on each floor were not connected, and Jenkins didn't bother to use skills to open the doors that were stuck because of the deformation of the cabinet itself, thus destroying the locked doors on each floor. Immediately, the smell of rotten wood rushed out.

　　 The first layer, which is the bottom layer, are basically all porcelain plates. Although they are all broken, it can still be seen that their original value is very high.

On the second floor are the knives and forks for gold and silverware. Although they are black and black due to the contact with wood and dust due to the soaking in water, some are even deformed because of being chopped, but you only need to ask a goldsmith and silversmith to handle some of these. They are all very valuable things.

　　 Even a low-level nobleman, it is difficult to get a complete set of silver tableware. This can often be regarded as the heirloom of the nobles, and the plots often described in the knights and adventure novels include when the maids of the nobles elope with their concubines, they like to steal the silver tableware from the master’s house and sell them for later The cost of living for a "happy life".

　　 After opening the third floor, I finally saw the lying flowerpot, the fragments of the flowerpot and the cracked wet soil. It is a daisy that has been somewhat wilted but still rooted in the largest mass of soil. The flower head is yellow, and the leaf petals on it are white.

　　 can still feel the vitality, this flower is still alive.

　　 Since boarding this ship, this is the first thing that goes smoothly. Jenkins carefully clicked in the soil to prevent the daisy from being moved for a while, which would accidentally cause problems with the flower.

　　 But I was curious about what might be on the fourth floor of the cupboard from the kitchen, so instead of moving the flowers first, he reached out and broke the door of the fourth floor.

"Ok?"

　　 There is no danger in the fourth floor of the cabinet, but piles of old books full of dangdang. Because of being soaked in water and being acted on by external forces, most of the text and pictures in the books are unrecognizable, and it can only be seen that these are mostly chef's recipes and a small number of accounts.

　　 Jenkins lowered his head to find something valuable in the rotten paper. When the cat saw it, he immediately stepped on Jenkins's shoulders, stretched his head and shoved his nose, and then stretched out his paw to point out what he was smelling.

It is a diary page that is sandwiched between several beef cooking technique notes. The person who writes the diary is obviously not well-educated. In the few sentences that can be distinguished, almost every three words will be misspelled. If it is correct, Most of them are simple prepositions and auxiliary words.

　　 is the lingua franca of the Eighteenth Century, so I can barely understand what the owner of the diary wrote. The rough meaning is that when disasters arrive, humans and other creatures are transformed into monsters, and the most effective way to deal with those monsters is water.

　　 "So, these asylum seekers will appear on the ship?"

　　 Jenkins said to himself, flipping through those pages repeatedly, but unfortunately he didn't read out more effective information.

"So it is safe here for the time being, but there is no guarantee that the so-called monsters will not fly... Indescribable things descend from outside the sky, corrode civilization, alienate creatures, and finally achieve the end of the day. This is really classic. Bridge section."

　　 put away the pages of the diary, and then carefully moved the daisy growing on the moist soil to the girl.

　　 The girl did not eat the flowers like the man who asked for the fish just now. She carefully used a metal blade that she didn't know where she took out, cut the flower branch from the middle, and then pinned the little flower to her collar. Then he ignored Jenkins, but lowered his head, fiddled with the flower with his right hand, and smirked to himself.

　　 Jenkins didn't bother the girl's self-entertainment either. He had long known that there could be no normal people here. So he left quietly and continued the second ceremony.

　　 At this time, the faint light of the broken lantern was almost completely extinguished. The terrible fog surrounding the ship also has a tendency to re-emerge. Now the risk of looking for another flower is too great, he can only choose to look for sunflowers. But that sun flower didn't sound like an ordinary plant, and Jenkins wasn't sure if his modified ritual was useful.

　　 temporarily put down the magic sword, waved his right hand, and as the fire emerged, the spiral sword appeared in his hand. The sword on the compass this time is this big spiral sword, because the attributes of sunflower are closer to light and fire, so it is more appropriate to change this sword for the ceremony.

　　 The pointer turned to point to the pile on the right near the ship's edge. These are three tables buckled together. The largest one is similar to the desk in Miss Bevanna's office. Although the other two are not as big, they are not comparable to ordinary desks or coffee tables. The common feature of the three tables is that there are a lot of drawers, and because you have to be careful not to destroy the sunflowers that may be hidden in them, Jenkins used a sword to separate the tables from each other, but it took a lot of effort.

　　 There are a lot of mess in the three tables. Jenkins even found a bird's nest half scattered and an unknown bird's egg rotten inside.

　　 Besides, he was attacked again by two cockroaches the size of ordinary mice. But because he was prepared, he opened the drawer to guard against encounters. When the cockroach pounced, flames spurted from his mouth and wrapped two large insects in it.

　　 But the consequence of this is that an extremely disgusting scorching smell is diffused around, even if there is wind on the deck, the smell of burning cockroaches will not dissipate for a long time.

　　 And after the cockroaches were burned, a puddle of yellow-green liquid was dropped. The smell of that liquid was more severe, and Jenkins couldn't compare it with any similar smell in his memory.

　　 If it weren't for being unable to escape in the treacherous realm, he definitely didn't want to stay on this ship for even a second.

　　 But it is a pity that there are no sunflowers in the drawers of the three tables. Unwilling to give up, Jenkins even broke the table into small wooden pieces with a sword, but only found a love letter to confess and a pile of cockroach eggs wriggling like black tahini in the mezzanine.

　　 The feeling of loss of flowers that were not found is far less serious than the horror that those cockroach eggs brought to Jenkins. After finally confirming that there was nothing in these wooden blocks, he immediately kicked all the logs under the boat. Even his boots were dropped under the boat, and he didn't want to wear them anyway.

　　 Listening to the sound of the last boots falling into the water, the numbness of the scalp feels a little better, but I still feel itchy all over, as if something is crawling on my back.

　　 After touching the chocolate several times, this strange feeling was temporarily driven away. But the sunflower still has not been found, and the fog has surrounded it.

Chapter 2177: Weirdness in the River

　　 "The pointer just points in this direction, not necessarily the table just now..."

　　 Seeing that there are no sunflowers on the table, Jenkins muttered to himself again.

　　 It's just that, in the direction the pointer points to, apart from the garbage piled up on the three tables, there are only the refugees who are leaning against the guardrail of the boat behind the table.

　　 "No, it can't be on them, otherwise it would be equivalent to me taking the initiative to talk to the third asylum, which is unreasonable. So, can't it be said..."

　　 He carefully avoided contact with the evacuated refugees who were curled up, and found a place to stand among the refugees, then grabbed the guardrail of the boat with both hands, and leaned out of the boat.

　　 had just crossed the sky above the guardrail, before he had time to look down, an extremely dangerous instinct came to his mind. Without even thinking about it, he immediately retracted his head, only to see the slender tentacles piercing the water surface. If Jenkins continued to probe just now, the tentacles would most likely penetrate his head directly.

"what?"

　　 Immediately after shrinking his head, he shot and grabbed the elongated tentacle. There was already a thick fog outside the ship. Even if the tentacle was almost in front of his eyes, Jenkins could not see its specific appearance. But after grasping it, it immediately felt cold. Although it was squirming and I could feel that it was a living thing, the material after touching it did not look like meat, but rather like metal.

　　 Under the water invisible in the fog, countless dense tentacles have come out, and they have firmly bound Jenkins's right hand, who has stretched out of the boat.

　　 A huge force came from under the water, trying to pull Jenkins into the water. His left hand grabbed the railing of the ship, but his body still inevitably tilted to the front right, and the guardrail was about to be twisted by the power of his left hand.

The two wrestled with each other for a few seconds, and then as the ship under its feet made a strange metal twisting squeak~ the original forward course was abruptly deviated from the right direction due to the battle between the people on the ship and the monster door under the ship. .

　　 "No, this ship can't deviate from its course. Once it docks without water protection, the refugees here are gone."

　　 thought in his heart, his body immediately turned into a cloud of purple light. The tentacles lost Jenkins' right hand, and his coat was retracted into the spirit, so they could only retract the long-sleeved white shirt back to the surface of the water.

　　Because Jenkins has turned into light, the cat can only fall on the deck lightly.

　　 Then, the dingy little mouse smashed in front of it. Because of the growth of the World Tree, although Polymorph is no longer an ability, it has become a talent that is as if raising one's hand and walking, so it can transform many times.

　　 The cat bends its waist, the front of the body is lying on the deck, and the hind paws support the body, and the amber eyes widened to look at the familiar mouse in front of him. But before it stretched out its tongue, the mouse leapt into the air lightly, turning into a purple-gold light group again, and returning to the appearance of Jenkins:

　　 "In this way, I have almost understood this deception."

　　 He thought as he picked up his pants on the floor.

　　 After getting dressed quickly, he didn't immediately bend down to pick up the cat that was obviously bad-minded just now, but turned around and fetched the fishing rod and fishing line.

　　 Obviously, the direction pointed by the compass needle is probably correct, but the sun flower is neither in the garbage dump nor on the asylum on the edge of the deck. The flower should be on the outside of the hull and inserted in the hull, so it is also counted on the ship.

At the moment when he stretched his head out of the ship’s range, Jenkins felt not only the extremely distorted spirit and an inexplicable great horror from the outside world, but he also felt the faint spirit of nature coming from below, which shows that the flower is just under.

　　 Now the fog outside the hull is thicker than before, and he can no longer risk his head or arms out. Therefore, you can only throw the fishing line and slowly test the position of the flower. When you are sure that the thing you are looking for really exists, find some scrap iron from the ship and bend it into a clip. Use screws and springs to make a long handle hook clip that can be manipulated. The sun flower clip that is inserted in the gap of the hull for some reason will be removed. Up here.

　　With the ability to make these simple machines, they are not even small mechanical objects. It is not difficult for Jenkins. It is the mechanical metal parts that can be seen almost everywhere on the ship, which greatly facilitated his production.

　　 Even if you are careful, the sunflower is caught up roughly, and it will inevitably hurt some branches and leaves. Sunflowers look exactly like sunflowers, but they are indeed two different plants in this world. Jenkins can feel the abundant spirit in this flower, and it is this unique spirit that can resonate with Jenkins outside the foggy ship.

　　 After doing this, I have time to bend down and pick up the cat meowing anxiously by the trousers and put it on his shoulder, and then quickly walk back to the little girl:

　　 "This is the sunflower, right?"

"Yes it is."

　　 The girl took the flower from Jenkins, and just gently stroked the orange petals, and a series of golden light was implicated with her palm. The string of light entered the deck, which suddenly brightened the ship's inexplicable light.

　　 The thick fog surrounding the ship immediately retreated, and once again returned to a level that allowed Jenkins to see the shadows of the buildings on both sides of the river.

　　He just relaxed a little now, this sunflower is much more useful than the lantern that has been extinguished, and it seems to be able to last longer.

　　 The sun flower that has been drawn out of light has withered in the girl's palm at a speed visible to the naked eye. The girl threw it aside and Jenkins took the opportunity to ask:

　　 "When I put my head out of the boat, I was attacked by an unknown monster. Do you know what's in the river?"

　　 "Give me the second flower, and I'll tell you."

　　 The little girl said timidly, Sunflower is a functional flower and cannot be regarded as the second flower for her.

　　 So Jenkins used that ritual for the third time. I don’t know if it was because of the extra good luck in the slyland. The third ritual used it, but there was no error.

　　 The third flower was hidden in the wreckage of a piano. The wreckage was originally small, but the problem was that the wreckage was surrounded by refugees. They huddled together in shabby and dirty clothes, and didn't even give Jenkins a foothold.

　　 These people are not clean. According to the tips given by the guy who likes fish, these are extremely dangerous people and cannot be easily provoked.

　　 Jenkins wanted to sit on a high stool and landed directly on the wreckage of the piano from above, slowly rummaging through the wreckage of the piano, but the ship was obviously forbidden for anyone to lift into the air, and the high stool could not fly here.

The 2178th chapter sailor

　　 "That's right, if this kind of refuge ship does not have some special abilities, it is impossible to carry so many people to flee. After all, it is the background of the disaster. It is right to be cautious."

　　 It is impossible to directly touch and search for the target in the remains of the piano. Finding a bamboo pole, stretched over the head of the asylum, can have the same effect.

　　Jenkins did this in the end, but this approach was extremely time-consuming. And the fire-breathing mouse that attacked Jenkins was actually in the wreckage of the piano. It suddenly appeared again and again to interfere with Jenkins, and burned the bamboo pole that he had finally found.

　　 That mouse is very agile and very annoying. Unbearable Jenkins allowed the bamboo pole in his hand to take root again, breaking through the growth restriction of his own race. The top of the bamboo pole turned into a root and entangled the mouse, and then wrapped it in it.

　　 Jenkins didn't plan to do anything to this mouse, because his cat didn't have the habit of eating mice, so Jenkins threw it into the river, which is considered a way out. After all, he remembers that mice can swim.

　　 So, after dealing with the unfriendly mice, I finally discovered the goal this time. It was a very beautiful and gorgeous blood-red rose, which was inserted in a glass water bottle. Probably the water bottle was placed on the piano that had been turned into a wreck before it came here with the piano.

　　 gave the rose to the little girl, and the girl also put forward the information she could provide. Jenkins could only choose two of them:

　　 "You can ask why I am here; you can ask my understanding of the doomsday; you can ask where the ship is going; you can ask how to get more information."

　　 The men who like fish have a choice of two from three, while the girl who likes fish has a choice of two from four. Just like before, Jenkins wanted to know every piece of information, especially where the ship was going, he was even more curious.

　　Before the girl mentioned this, he thought that this ship was just the place where the story of the treacherous world happened. He did not expect that this place was also part of the world background.

　　 But he must restrain his curiosity and choose more favorable information. Without much consideration, I chose the first and fourth, on the one hand because I believed in my intuition, and on the other because when Jenkins was thinking, the girl who was still a little afraid of him, quietly gestured one and four with her fingers.

　　 [Guardian of the Flower Girl] Although the scope of the priesthood is narrow, it is definitely not completely useless.

　　 "I don't remember the first memory of this disaster. After all, when the indescribable thing that descended from the sky appeared, I was not very old."

　　 This represents the emergence of the source of the disaster, which happened several years ago, and the destruction of civilization is not without any resistance.

"He is very powerful, not only powerful, but also capable of transforming life into its minions, and transforming non-living entities into its tools. I followed the grownups to and fro many places, and the people around me died one by one. Until recently, someone Tell us that civilization is about to end. The great things that descend from the sky will completely take over our world and become the world He wants to see. The yellow light will cover everything, and the only way to survive is to climb Get on the "Ark of the Last Survivor" to welcome the savior who also comes from the outside world."

　　 "The background of the slyland is really interesting."