"Eels are fish and are eaten by people; sea worms are monsters and eat people! The longest eel is less than 1.8 meters long, but sea worms are 18 meters long! How can this be the same thing?"
Ella got excited for some reason and retorted to Dust, "Besides - the eel is delicious!"
On the other hand, under Dast's frantic scratching, his symptoms became more and more serious. Red bumps covered his whole body, making him gain weight.
"I can't stand it anymore! If I don't kill a few eels today, it's hard to explain the hatred in my heart!"
Dust jumped out of bed, grabbed his sword and ran towards the fish cabin, shouting.
Ella didn't stop her.
"...Eels can be eaten even after being killed, so it's not a big problem."
"However, I have thought that dolphins and spinyback rays are quite similar before." Amy said aside, "They are similar in size to sharks, and they will also carry people in distress back to the coast. And the sailor from Lübeck
He said that if he had eaten dolphin meat before, the dolphins would have eaten the sailors in turn!"
"That's just a rumor that's hard to confirm. I remember it came from a book called "Physics."" Ella said. "Originally, it was a small probability event that a sailor would come back alive after being in trouble. And then this sailor also ate dolphin meat.
It is basically impossible to be eaten by dolphins and witnessed by others. It is most likely just a lie made up by the old sailors who were rescued by the dolphins to tell the sailors not to eat dolphin meat."
"Wait a moment……"
Ella suddenly realized something and spun around in the cabin.
"As big as a shark, it will protect people who fall into the water...if you eat the flesh of its kind, will you be eaten by it in turn?"
She had a vague premonition of something, so she quickly closed her eyes and let her consciousness enter the Wang Family Library. In the deepest part of the stack, she found the book she just mentioned and read out its contents:
"The Great Albert's "Physics": '...There is a species of dolphin that will bring swimmers back to the beach, but if it suspects that the humans it is carrying have eaten dolphin meat, it will eat the humans in turn.'"
She hurriedly ran to her cabin again and brought the famous nautical chart full of monsters. Behind the pattern of the spiny ray, there was this line of text:
""Northlander Chronicle": 'This fish is covered with hard bones and is as big as a shark. Its fins can capsize boats, but it will carry people who have fallen into the water safely back to the shore. However, if it suspects that the carrier has eaten a ray
The fish will in turn eat the carrier'.
"Look, Your Majesty, except for the type and appearance of the fish, the habits of this spinyback ray are exactly the same as those of dolphins!"
"Yes...the size, sea area, habits, and even the description are almost the same. But there is a problem. The author of "Chronicles of the Northlanders" is three hundred years later than the author of "Physics"
."
Amy said "Huh" from the side.
"Your Majesty, what you mean is that "Chronicle of the Northlanders" plagiarized "Physics" and even made mistakes?"
"Considering that there was a three-hundred-year gap between the two authors and that they were copied repeatedly during this period, it is entirely possible that the book changed from a dolphin to a ray. Not everyone can take out the original copy of "Physics" from their study."
But Ella then shook her head:
"No, the author of "Chronicles of the Northlanders" and the author of this chart are the same. He is a very famous scholar. He should not make such a mistake..."
But Amy's interest has been completely aroused. She took the chart from Ella's hand and read the words next to the sea worm:
"The large sea worm is more than forty cubits long - eels are also very long, forty cubits may be an exaggeration; the skin of the whole body is smooth - um, just like eels; once touched accidentally, the contact area will be
It will become swollen, inflamed, and suppurative, which is very dangerous - Dust only showed symptoms after eating it, and there is no suppuration, but it looks the same, right? So the sea worm is actually the eel that has been exaggerated in the rumors?
"
"That's enough, Amy. This is no ordinary nautical chart. Its accurate depiction of the Mediterranean Sea far exceeds all the nautical charts of the same period, and it has been widely circulated! I don't believe that the author will make two mistakes in a row.
.What we just did was just speculation without any evidence."
"Okay, I don't know anything about books, academics, etc. If your Majesty thinks so..."
Daxter came back with the sword in hand and thrust the sword into the wooden floor with some annoyance.
"I went a step too late, and all the remaining little eels were eaten—damn it, the itching won't stop at all!"
"Been eaten?" Amy was a little curious. All the big fish had been eaten, and she couldn't remember what ferocious fish were left that would eat other small fish.
"It's a lobster! There was a lobster mixed in the fishing net! It should have been eaten just now!"
"Lobster? Is it the legendary lobster?" Amy became interested again. There are no lobsters in the Mediterranean where the Seven Hills Empire is located, and there are no lobsters in the North Sea where Sweden is located. This creature is distributed on the west coast of Britain and the Alemannic Federation.
She never had the chance to see him.
"Come on, Your Majesty, let's go take a look!"
She picked up Ella and ran towards the fish cabin.
There, they saw a big, ferocious-looking insect. Amy was a little surprised when she took out the chart and compared the appearance of the lobster according to the description of the "many-legged monster" above: "It has the beard and tail of a shrimp.
Hmm... centipede-like legs, um... at the front are claws like crabs, um... very huge, enough to hold an adult, eh? This one doesn't... the food is sea worms? "
She looked up into the water, where the entrails of hunted eels were floating, and a strand of meat hung from the lobster's claws.
"Your Majesty! Look! Is this just Duozu..."
Before Amy could finish speaking, Ella suddenly snatched the chart and tore it up. Then, she walked out of the cabin with a dark face.
Amy was startled and ran after Ella. But she saw Ella walking all the way back to her cabin, throwing herself on the bed, burying her head in the quilt, and stopped talking.
"Your Majesty, I'm sorry." Amy apologized in a low voice, "I will never make random guesses again..."
Ella sighed from within the quilt.
"No need to apologize, Amy, your guess is very reasonable. What's wrong is this chart, which depicts the Mediterranean Sea so accurately that it makes people believe that the North Sea and the west coast are also correct. But in fact,
I’m afraid the author of the chart has never been to the North Sea.”
"That's also a good thing." Amy comforted, "Although there is no map, at least we don't have to guard against the monsters on the map day and night."
"It's just a chart, whether it's right or wrong, it doesn't make any difference at all. It's just that I thought of something similar."
Ella turned over on the bed and weakly covered her forehead with her arms.
"For example, Aristotle, Ptolemy, and..."
She didn't say any more.
Amy didn't know that under Ella's pillow, there was always an extremely complex star chart filled with epicycles and epicycles that she had added.
People are rational, but groups are blind.
What guides the group is often the wheel of history based on economics.
Don’t be tempted by a chariot, and remember to keep a low profile and bide your time.
Fortunately, history always turns in cycles.
Unfortunately, things written by living people are always worthless.
