Joan was instantly delighted.
This is still other than Maisie, there are other people who can understand her mermaid language.
Of course, Joan wasn't quite sure whether Maisie really understood. After all, the cooing voice of the other party was more difficult to understand. She could only guess a few words at most.
But... what is a watchman
She then asked "Acridine", are you guarding this big pit? Where is this place
"It's not a big pit, but a bridge," the other side smiled.
I have seen bridges, and bridges are not like this. Joan walked cautiously to the edge of the cave, and looked towards the edge. The wall of the cave was covered with thick soil and vines, and there was no way to go down.
"Not everyone can go through this bridge, you have to have the key to get there," the woman explained. "You don't have the key, so you can't see it."
It turned out to be the case, Joan suddenly realized, but why did the bridge repairers do such a thing? Isn't it bad to let people pass through the big pit directly? And even if you don't have a key, you can go around it from the side.
The watchman couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Indeed... that's true, but this is what I have to do to wait for the person of the key to arrive, and then open the bridge for him."
Joan looked back at her for a moment before speaking.
There are no chains on you.
"what?"
Since there are no chains, why not leave the island? Joan pointed to the other side of the water mist. I saw a continent not far from there, and it shouldn't take long to swim there. Since it's not locked, I can take you out with me.
The other party was slightly startled, then shook his head with a smile, "Don't talk about that. You are injured, were you attacked by something?"
Although Joan didn't understand why she suddenly changed the subject, she still subconsciously replied that she was scratched by a monster in the sea.
"Lie down beside me, I have some medicine here, just to wrap it up for you." The woman beckoned to her.
I don't know why, although it was the first time I saw him, Joan felt that the other party was not a bad person.
After she did as she was told, the watchman took out a jar of ointment from nowhere, first rubbed it on his hand, and then carefully smeared her wound. A sense of coolness immediately dissipated the pain and fatigue of the body, like a cool breeze in the heat of the heat.
"Acridine..."
"Are you comfortable?" After applying the medicine, the watchman tore the corners of his skirt into strips of cloth and tied it to the place where the medicine had been applied. "By the way, where are you going next?"
Going home, Joan murmurs, I want to go back to my friends.
"Then you can't walk in the direction of the shadow. Although there is a continent there, it's not the place you should go."
Do you know where Neverwinter is? She was overjoyed.
"Hmm... Probably on the opposite side of the shadow, but it's also dangerous to go overland, you'd better swim along the coast."
real
"Don't lie to you. But you'd better rest a little longer. I can feel that your body is about to be overdrawn."
Hearing this sentence, Joan, who originally thought it was okay, suddenly felt a burst of tiredness in her heart, as if all the tiredness accumulated in the past six months had erupted at this moment.
By her side, she did experience a sense of relaxation that she had not seen for a long time.
Anyway, just rest.
She closed her eyes slowly.
The woman stroked Joan's hair again and again and said softly, "It's true that I'm not locked by chains, but it's not just chains that can trap people. Sometimes words are stronger than chains."
I do not understand.
"It doesn't matter if you don't understand, because even I don't understand it myself."
The woman's voice seemed to come from far away, soft and peaceful, causing Qiong's consciousness to begin to blur.
Maybe I can ask you a question... Although I am a bit stupid, some people are very smart, such as Miss Anna, and His Majesty Roland...
"Really? I'll trouble you then."
We'll see you again... right
"Well, if there's a chance..."
Joan fell into a deep sleep.
When she woke up, she realized that it was getting dark.
Oops, how long have I slept? She sat up abruptly, but failed to get an answer from Miss Watcher. Joan looked around in a panic, but there was no one around.
Not only that, but even those stone monuments were gone. Apart from the bottomless hole, there was only an empty grassland and Pingdingshan in front of me, as if everything I had seen before was an illusion.
Is that all a dream
No, no, Joan soon discovered that she still had the bandages on her body, but the cool feeling soaked into her skin had disappeared without a trace.
She hesitated to undo a piece of cloth, and found no traces of the ointment on the scales, but the wound healed as before.
Just when Qiong was at a loss, a strange roar suddenly came from a distance.
It was only then that she noticed that the water mist surrounding the island had all dissipated at some point, and the dark shadow in the distance had completely revealed its full picture.
It is indeed a high mountain, but it is a bit too high to be described as standing upright.
Not only that, but its size is really surprising. Looking at it from a distance, the mountain is probably wider than the fjord islands combined from south to north. Not a single tree can be seen on the mountain, and as far as the eye can see, it is pitch black, as if dyed with ink. In addition, the mountain is covered with a hazy red mist, and from time to time scarlet liquid erupts!
Then Joan saw where the roar was coming from.
At the foot of the mountain, countless monster ships rushed towards the land like ants, and a thick layer was stacked on the beach. The boulder collapsed and rolled into the sea, and the entire coast seemed to be boiling! Although these monsters seem to be a trivial part compared to Montenegro, it is this trivial part that is actually eating away at the mountain!
But they were not without resistance.
In the unreachable area by sea boats, tens of thousands of sea ghosts slammed into another monster. Joan recognized it for a while, only to find that it was the devil that everyone often talked about!
The sea ghost tide, which usually causes headaches for sailors, is as fragile as the waves crashing on the reef. They are washed and splashed in all directions, but they have not shaken the devil's defense line. Even so, the followers are constantly crossing the monster sea ship and rushing to the shore.
This crazy scene made Joan cover her mouth tightly.
"Although there is a continent over there, it's not the place you should go."
"Your home is on the opposite side of the shadow."
The words that the woman had said suddenly echoed in her mind.
Qiong looked over, and there seemed to be no trace of the continent on the opposite side of the Black Rock Mountain, only a vast sea, but she only hesitated for a while, and then flew in this direction.
The sight of the two forces fighting and engulfing each other made her sense an extremely dangerous atmosphere. Her wild instinct told her that she should leave as soon as possible. Another point was that she vaguely felt that Miss Watcher would not lie to her.
With a plop, Qiong jumped into the water, leaving the roar of that day's cracking behind her.