Sir Chen, your wife is missing!

The tail was still charging, and the early swaying consumed a lot of energy, and Feng Qingyu felt a little tired from time to time. The kidney-tonifying medicine given by Weicao would cause drug resistance if taken too much, and the side effect was that it made the user more eager to mate.

After eating it a few more times, Feng Qingyu realized that it was actually a computer accessory.

The mysterious formula from Sargon was deeply loved by the kings and chiefs. It was impossible for the kings and chiefs to have only one woman. The most famous queen chief, Sargon, was said to have sex with 20 women in one night. The maids outside could hear indescribable lewd sounds and the constant sounds of young women all night long.

In less civilized places, people like to do more primitive things, more inclined to human instinct, and mating is one of them. No one can resist the temptation of this thing, it can make people feel happy from the bottom of their hearts and forget all their troubles.

Kidney tonic can make the user get rid of fatigue and be full of energy all night, but also make the user extremely eager to mate with others. It's no wonder that after taking it, looking at Wei Cao's back, he always felt itchy.

No, she absolutely couldn't let her imagination run wild anymore.

The purpose of coming to Iberia is not to mate with deep-sea hunters day and night. If the relics in the story cannot be tracked down, the recent efforts will be in vain.

Before meeting Gloria, Feng Qingyu suspected that the story was made up by Cyril. After learning from Gloria that the deep ocean was indeed the birthplace of the black magic sword, she became more determined to find it.

After the four people finished ordering, the owner of Liberi was counting the ingredients in the kitchen.

They did not intentionally order dishes that were difficult to make. There were only two ingredients missing, so they just had to borrow some from the nearby townspeople and start cooking.

"Please wait for a moment, I will be away for a while."

The owner made a pot of black tea.

Some people in Iberia like Victoria's black tea. This can be traced back to the Golden Age, when the fleets of that time expeditioned to various parts of Terra and also colonized Victoria. During this process, the fleet brought Victoria's black tea back to Iberia, and the tea culture was able to take root in this land.

The steaming hot tea made Feng Qingyu feel very familiar.

22. Thought Penetration

It was then that Feng Qingyu noticed that the owner of Liberi had difficulty moving his right leg and walked with a limp. He must have had an unforgettable experience when he was young, which made him give up his life at that time and choose to open a restaurant in Granfaloli.

The wait was not too long, and the owner went to the nearest house to ask for some ingredients and seasonings. After getting everything together, he could start cooking immediately. Feng Qingyu wanted to ask the owner for information, but was worried that it would affect his cooking state.

Just like chatting with the driver is a taboo, which will distract the other party when operating the vehicle and cause an accident.

Because chatting and causing a kitchen accident is a heinous crime, every normal ingredient deserves to be treated gently. She didn't want the owner to waste the ingredients he had worked so hard to get, so she had to suppress the urge to rush in and ask.

After arriving in Iberia, asking everyone I met has become a habit, and I keep repeating the same actions driven by muscle memory.

An older town resident must know more than a younger person, and asking the elderly can always yield a lot of useful clues. Feng Qingyu had a hunch that he could get something out of the shop owner.

Although no useful information could be obtained from other Iberians, it was not so that there was no one in the whole country who could inquire. Victoria's great-grandfather must have learned about the place through communication with the locals and decided to use it as his resting place and treasure hiding place.

Try harder and persist a little longer, and you will eventually achieve results.

She took a sip of the cooled black tea. The temperature of the tea was just right, neither too hot nor too cold.

"You look anxious, what's wrong?"

The careful Skadi had been quietly observing Feng Qingyu's expression and found that she was absent-minded for longer and longer periods of time, often suddenly becoming dazed and distracted. Nothing particularly bad had happened in the past few days that would have caused a person's mental state to become so bad, except for the gloomy castle.

The Originium potion mist that escaped from the castle was likely to have caused her some mental damage. Even though she was not hallucinating and could move, sleep and eat normally, the effects of the mist remained in her body and could not be healed for the time being.

The Rhodes Island Medical Department should have a way to cure her. Our ship is located in the wilderness of Victoria, too far from Iberia, and it is not easy to ask for help from Rhodes Island. In addition, the number of operators stationed on the Rhodes Island ship is limited, and they are all distributed throughout Terra to perform missions. The idea of ​​parachuting in an assistant is not ideal.

Feng Qingyu would not accept it with her personality. It was not the style of this Drake to trouble others with her personal affairs. She liked to rely on her own strength to overcome difficulties, and when she asked others for help, it must be an emergency.

"Have it?"

Feng Qingyu didn't feel anxious at all. His heart was very calm, as calm as the Iberian Sea when there was no wind.

"I don't think my judgment is wrong. Something has been wrong with you since last night. It's hard for you to concentrate, and you always fall into deep thought during the conversation... Tell us honestly, are you still hallucinating? Liars will be beaten, I promise."

The killer whale's tone was unyielding and as firm as a doctor who strictly requires patients to take medication on cue.

For disobedient female colleagues, it is best to use some reasonable "violence" to make them obey. This trick was learned from Miss Jiaweier in the medical department. Jiaweier can always use her fists to make operators who don't obey the examination and treatment obey and swallow those bitter medicines.

"No, I swear on that church on the hill."

The sudden sense of oppression made Feng Qingyu stunned. How could a gentle person like Skadi suddenly get angry? No matter how he thought about it, it didn't seem right. She didn't do anything that would make the deep-sea hunters unhappy, and she remained very calm.

What was going on? She didn't understand.

"Skadi is right. Your condition is very abnormal. It is definitely not something that can be described by a simple word like tiredness. I hope you can tell us the truth about your current physical condition. Do you feel any discomfort anywhere?"

Gloria's sharp eyes, together with Skadi's, looked at Feng Qingyu, and even the ghost shark cast a concerned look at her.

Three against one, there is no room for resistance at all.

She tried very hard to hide it, but found that she could not hide it from the deep-sea hunters, so she just told them her secret.

After arriving in Iberia, my physical condition has indeed undergone significant changes.

"Actually... I do feel a little uncomfortable. It's just a slight discomfort. My body feels cold and I feel like the temperature is constantly draining away, as if I were soaked in water. I can hear some low whispers in my ears, sometimes crazy and sharp, sometimes low, and sometimes soft and ethereal... I thought it was an illusion and that I would be fine as long as I had a good rest. I didn't want you to worry about me, so I didn't say anything. I didn't expect that I couldn't hide it from Skadi. I made a mistake."

Feng Qingyu tried to pass it off in a light-hearted tone, but the expressions of the three deep-sea hunters became serious.

Then, Goletia put forward a new idea.

"This is not an illusion. Those things in the sea, those beasts that don't look like humans, are trying to corrupt your will and make you believe their lies. No one in your family is spared. This may be a contract that is passed on through blood."

"contract?"

This is another word worth exploring in depth.

"You mean my ancestors made some kind of pact with those things in the sea? Tell me what's going on, please."

The topics they were talking about gradually strayed from the real life of the Terrans, becoming more and more bizarre and magical.

But this is Terra, no matter how bizarre things are, they are not worth making a fuss about. The legends of the Ursus tundra and the Sargon Desert are even more bizarre than the stories of the deep sea. Feng Qingyu wanted Gloria to tell him everything she knew in one breath.

It was too painful to listen to the story like squeezing toothpaste, more painful than listening to the king in "One Thousand and One Nights". She didn't have such strong endurance, so of course the sooner she knew, the better.

"Sure enough, your character has also been subtly changed by the sounds of those things. When I first met you, your tone was calm and your manners were polite, worthy of the title of Victorian aristocracy. Now look at you, no matter what you do, you always look impatient."

After repeated observations, Gloria came to the same conclusion as Skadi.

"Land man, your will is not strong enough. Hai Si's will is affecting you. You must firmly believe that you are still a person, a living person, and always let your will as a human being dominate, otherwise we can't help you."

23. Weird Whispers

"This is ridiculous... My body doesn't show any signs of being transformed by the sea, and I haven't let the sea touch my body, so why am I affected by their will? Could it be that I have also been affected by those genes..."

An indescribable terror swept through my body, the chill rose from the soles of my feet, and as the blood circulated throughout my body, my body temperature seemed to drop by dozens of degrees in an instant.

Feng Qingyu suddenly understood the artistic conception expressed by the statue in the castle.

Faced with the threat from the deep ocean, pathetic and weak humans can only watch it devour their bodies and wills, erode their skin inch by inch, and even deprive them of their qualifications as human beings.

Although humans fought hard, they could not defeat the will of the masses.

Will she also become a half-human, half-sea monster? Or will she completely become a real sea creature covered in scales, with her face unrecognizable?

Terrible thoughts came one after another, and for the first time she felt afraid to think about something.

"Calm down first. The impact I'm talking about doesn't mean that your body is becoming aquatic. Your genes are still Draco's genes, no doubt about that."

Goletia's cup of black tea had completely cooled down. She took two sips and found it too bitter, even worse than the beer she had complained about.

At least the bubbles in beer bring some stimulation and layering to the tongue, which this pot of tea can't do.

At the same time, the Agor governor from the depths of the ocean was thinking about one thing - whether he was selling sea anxiety to this landman. Causing panic in others is a bad thing, very bad.

Seeing Feng Qingyu fall into unspeakable fear, Gloria regretted having made her words too clear.

Perhaps it would be more appropriate to be more euphemistic, just like the situation of some patients with terminal illnesses, whose family members dare not tell them their true condition and deceive them that they can be cured soon, and try to make them slowly accept the result in the days to come.

Does this really make sense?

She didn't think it was better to keep it a secret. Such behavior was deception. Even if it was a white lie, it was equivalent to depriving the person concerned of the right to know the truth.

"Don't worry too much. People living in Iberia will hear some 'noise' more or less. This is your first time in Iberia, so the impact is more serious. People here either listen to those nonsense and become exactly like Hai Si, or ignore it and pretend nothing happened. Your mind is not firm enough, and you feel fear, so those voices take advantage of the opportunity to sneak in.

So, poor Drake, you just need to not listen. Just think of it as some annoying people talking in your ears, we can choose to pay attention or ignore. The voices of the crowd are more likely to ring in the ears of those who are willing to join them, or those who are highly sea-saturated. You have too little experience, so it is understandable that you will be nervous. "

"It's really not that serious?"

After listening to Gloria's explanation, Feng Qingyu's expression looked better than before.

For a moment, she really thought that she would turn into a sea heir right where she was, and walk towards the deep sea like the old servant. That scene lingered in her mind, causing a great shock.

Every time I wake up or fall asleep, as soon as I close my eyes, those images will repeat in my mind over and over again, like a movie film, playing over and over again, and I can't get rid of them.

Even trying to dispel the effects of that noise on the brain and body in other ways seems to have little effect. Tobacco, alcohol, and coffee don't help.

"You should have told us sooner."

The expression on Skadi's face changed from serious to angry.

"I have seen people who concealed their feelings like you, allowing depression and other negative emotions to ferment in their hearts, which became more and more intense, and eventually caused those voices to take root in their brains and become guides, leading them to the crowd. Haisi like to win over lonely individuals and like to guide those who are far away from the crowd in a layered way, so that the infiltrated people cannot resist those voices. For example, when you first hear the voice, it is equivalent to the early stage of the disease, which is not so serious. You can consult a doctor and still treat it. Over time, the benign disease will develop into a malignant one, and it will be too late to find a solution at that time."

"I'm sorry, I didn't think it was serious at that time, so... I was worried that it would cause trouble for you. You have to take care of the ghost shark and find a way to deal with Hai Si along the way. It always feels very hard."

"It doesn't matter. I just... don't want to watch people around me get into trouble. An old friend of mine had his son killed by someone from the sea, and I didn't have time to stop him. That young man was a good person, very motivated, kind-hearted, and his father had high hopes for him. I've always blamed myself for not noticing earlier that something was wrong with him. Juan also heard the sounds from the sea, and he was misled by those things into thinking that fighting with the guys from the sea was equivalent to fratricide. He could have fought back in time and left that place immediately, but he didn't expect to be killed by the other side at the most critical moment..."

This calm and steady deep-sea hunter was so excited for the first time that he almost flipped the table. Feng Qingyu didn't want to cause more trouble for the owner, so he quickly grabbed Skadi's cold hand.

"Calm down first. I swear to God that if there is anything wrong in the future, I will tell you immediately without missing a word. I will not die like that boy named Juan. I know swordsmanship and magic."

"..."

Skadi was so angry that her blood boiled, and Feng Qingyu felt his palms getting hot.

Originally, three deep-sea hunters were comforting a land man who heard an indescribable sound, but now the land man is comforting the deep-sea hunters, and the tense atmosphere disappears in an instant.

In a sense, it is also a good thing for Feng Qingyu.

She could not hear the pervasive whispers for the time being. Her will as a human being was stronger than ever. As long as she finished her work as soon as possible and left Iberia, those voices would no longer bother her.

There is still a long time in the future, so she won't give up on herself and be pessimistic about life. She asks the vast ocean to accept her.

The brief argument ended here, and the owner of Liberi brought out two freshly prepared dishes from the kitchen.

The steaming hot food can dispel the haze in my heart, and the topic of "the voice of the crowd" comes to an abrupt end. Talking about these unpleasant topics during meal time is very unpleasant. The owner is an orthodox Iberian. Iberians are very secretive about the topic of Haisi, and it is not appropriate to talk about it in someone else's store.

The owner put down his plate and added another sentence.

"You don't have to avoid me. I can hear those voices too. I used to be... a sailor on the Golden Fleet. I became lame after falling from the watchtower by accident. The people in the fleet said they didn't need a lame sailor and fired me directly. Otherwise, I wouldn't be alive today."

The elderly Liberi was filled with emotion and began to talk about his experiences in the Golden Age of Iberia.

Feng Qingyu was very interested in the history of that glorious period. The descriptions in history books were far less detailed than the accounts of eyewitnesses. If the shop owner was willing to tell the story, that would be great.

It's not enough to just listen, we also have to find a way to preserve these stories in a reasonable way.

"Old sir, can I record your story? I am a graduate student majoring in history. The purpose of my visit to Iberia is to collect materials for my thesis titled "Research on the Iberian Golden Age". I really need information about the situation at that time. No matter what form it is, your story will inject powerful new blood into my thesis."

She first deceived and praised the shop owner, and temporarily concealed the real purpose of coming to Iberia.

Some information cannot be disclosed to others in detail unless it is necessary. If the black sword involves local people or organizations, the troubles they have to deal with will only increase.

The store manager was happy to be her interview subject and acquiesced to her use of the recording device.

“It doesn’t matter. No one wants to talk to a boring old man like me. People in the town also reject me and think I’m a disaster star… Forget it, let’s not talk about this.

At that time, young people in Iberia were proud to be sailors. The requirements for sailors on ordinary ships were not high. As long as you were healthy and strong enough, the captain would agree to let you board the ship. But the Golden Fleet was different. The captain had very high requirements for the crew, almost harsh. When I was recruiting sailors two years ago, my physical fitness did not meet the standards and I was not selected by Duke Alfonso. After that, I waited for a long time before he called for sailors again. At that time, I was already the strongest young man in the area, a head taller than others. The Duke selected me from a group of people. I felt honored and excited that I couldn't sleep for several days.

My family packed my bags for me, and I officially boarded the Stuti Fera the evening before the ship was to sail. It was the largest warship I had ever seen in my life, even the large passenger ships Victoria and Columbia were dwarfed by it. "

There was a gleam in Liberi's eyes, and his golden pupils were as radiant as those of a young man.

This was the only thing that a lonely old sailor could share with others, but the townspeople didn't seem to be very interested, which resulted in him having no one to talk to normally, and only becoming so talkative when he saw guests from outside.

"You continue, we will listen while we eat."

The hot Iberian seafood fried rice had light pink shrimp meat sandwiched between the golden rice grains. At this time, the whisper from the deep sea tried to influence Feng Qingyu's judgment again.

——Those are all meat from marine creatures, no different from our meat. The herd needs food. You hunt us, we feed you, and you can feed us. Why don't you return to the herd? Only the herd is your destiny.

However, seafood and sea bass have no essential connection except that they both live in the sea.

In the words of Goletia, they like to use lies to cover up their despicable intentions in order to increase the number of believers.

Those whispers weren't anything to be afraid of.

24. Watchtower

(Shut up and get out of here.)

She fought back resolutely against the whispers and tried to communicate with them through silent recitation, which she had tried before.

The will of the Hai Si can penetrate the minds of ordinary people, and correspondingly, people can also perceive their thoughts. This "communication" is not one-sided. Human consciousness is equivalent to a vast conference room, and the voices of the Hai Si are the individuals participating in the meeting.