Chapter 557 555. Very consistent with Murphy’s Law
The more powerful the magician, the lower the demand for circulating currency, and instead pursue materials that can satisfy the circulation among high-level magicians to complete bartering again and again.
As an outstanding navigation guide, his vision was extraordinary. The package the person in front of him took out for the first time contained only some slightly rare sea materials, and the purpose was only to sell them to potionists, which did not appeal to him.
But this bead is different. It clearly releases the power of suppressing magic. Since magic has infiltrated the world, objects that repel magic have become extremely rare. The craftsmen developed this bead to protect magicians.
Although the equipment is resisted by magicians from all continents, and they even assassinate and destroy it at all costs, there are still many magicians secretly eager to study this strange power.
This is real hard currency.
Jeffrey was lost in thought. He glanced at Lu Yu quietly, but suddenly remembered that the other person was wearing a mask, so there was no way to know his expression.
After struggling in his heart for a long time, he picked up the beads. Suddenly, he remembered something and asked: "Which continent do you plan to go to?"
"Meera."
Jeffrey was stunned, and when he came to his senses, he threw the beads to Lu Yu.
"Sorry, can't answer."
"You feel dissatisfied with the price, do you plan to give it another try?" Lu Yu said bluntly.
"This is really not a matter of money. If it is close to the mainland, I can still find a way, but Mera is a bit too far." Jeffrey explained, "I am an ethical person, and more information belongs to our industry.
It’s a secret, so I can’t reveal more. Anyway, please come back.”
Lu Yu took out another bead and held it in his hand. The two beads collided, and the wonderful power of suppressing magic reverberated in the study.
Jeffrey was silent, restrained his desire, looked away and took a deep breath.
"What on earth do you want to do in Mera?"
"You in this industry should know better than to interfere too much with your employer's affairs." Lu Yu said, "Do the work, and then collect the money. Now give me an answer, do you want to leave?"
Jeffrey touched his chin and tugged at his beard. He didn't care that Lu Yu was still in the study and paced behind the desk.
After a long time, he turned to stare at Lu Yu: "You must have the ability to protect yourself. If you don't have strong strength, I still say the same thing, please come back."
Lu Yu didn't waste any time. He waved his hand gently, and the Kingdom of Shadows unfolded. The moment Jeffrey reacted, two shadow substitutes had quietly put daggers on his waist.
Throwing the two beads back to Jeffrey, Lu Yu said, "You should be satisfied with this answer."
Jeffrey was also a cheerful person. Since he had decided to take the risk, he put the two demon-suppressing beads in his pocket.
"I promise you, but I need to make some preparations. It will take about two days."
"At the same time, I need to remind you that this trip will not be too uneventful. If something extremely dangerous happens on the way that threatens my life and safety, I will run away as soon as possible. The purpose of my work is to speak ill of it first so that everyone can share it.
Be mentally prepared, if you can't accept it, you can give up now."
Lu Yu said: "I promise you, but now that you have collected the money, you might as well tell me the reason why your navigation guides collectively gave up the cross-continental guide business. I see that you are so cautious...it is very uneasy on the sea now?"
"It's not peaceful?" Jeffrey laughed dryly, "This word cannot describe the current sea. Do you know how many transcontinental trading ships have returned to Hong Kong in the past hundred days, and how many horrific things those survivors have seen on the sea?
scene?"
"The chart coordinates and magic navigation we used in the past have lost their effect. We are like headless flies on the vast sea. Several of the guides who often rush between continents to make money have disappeared. They are not just fledgling young people.
The children are all experienced and have no record of loss in the past decades."
"I can't explain the detailed dangers too clearly. You will have a personal experience when you are on the sea. In short, you must gather at the place I pointed out in two days."
Lu Yu, who left Jeffrey's mansion, received a simple chart provided by him, which marked many islands that had never existed, as well as dense reefs and undercurrent areas that the ship returning to port observed on the way.
The emergence of the fleet made it impossible for the fleet to use magic to locate and find its direction through the original reference objects.
After asking the corals, I learned that not only were there more islands in the sea, but violent crustal movements also occurred deep in the seabed, causing submarine volcanoes in many areas to be ready to go off. At the same time, shortly after the magic tide reached its climax, their family also
On the way, I witnessed a natural disaster where an island was torn apart and swallowed up by a terrifying whirlpool.
"Today's sea is very unfamiliar," Coral said. "It will only be a little calmer if you go deep into the seabed and stick to the hard rock formations."
"Are you prepared? You are likely to encounter many unexpected situations."
"If you stay here, you may be swept away by a sudden natural disaster. Even if there is no natural disaster, when the war between the sea tribe and the land race is ignited, I may also be involved... There is no place that is truly meaningful to me and my tribe.
In comparison, the Dawn Territory you described is already one of the few safe havens."
Coral said: "I like the word 'fate' you mentioned very much, and I am willing to believe that it can guide me and the children I shelter to our new home."
Jeffrey was quite trustworthy. Two days later, he even arrived early at the agreed location on the coast.
After seeing Lu Yu appear casually, Jeffrey divided the two backpacks he was carrying.
"Help me share the weight," he said.
Lu Yu stretched out his hand to weigh his backpack and sighed: "It looks like there are a lot of props and it's quite heavy."
"We are going to risk our lives. We need to be fully prepared. I have never capsized in a boat since I started this business. I don't want this time to be an exception." Jeffrey checked the items in his backpack for the last time and finished dressing. "Let's go.
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"Let's just set off, where is the ship?"
"Without a ship, it cannot provide any sense of security. It will also become the best target on the sea. The creatures in the sea are going crazy. There is no need to slide over their heads to further stimulate them." Jeffrey said, "Wind magic, slightly higher
Flying across the sea shouldn't be difficult for you, right?"
After saying that, Jeffrey took the lead and floated out. He turned back halfway and glanced at Lu Yu with a slightly scrutinizing look.
"He seems to be questioning your battery life." Lulu said.
Sera reminded: "It's not Lu Yu, it's us. The three of us are one."
Lulu was stunned and quickly said, "What you said makes sense, we three!"
After flying for a while, the Gwell continent behind him had completely disappeared. The sea wind roared on the winter sea and slapped coldly on the two of them, making Jeffrey have to stop and impose a ball on himself that could surround the body.
Ring of fire around to maintain body surface temperature.
"Your body is very healthy." Seeing that the cold wind could hardly hit Lu Yu's body and was resolved by the invisible magic power, Jeffrey reminded, "Save some magic power and do less cool moves.
"
Although he was reminded, Lu Yu still went his own way, and Jeffrey didn't bother to mention it again. He was not the kind of elf who asked for trouble. Time would tell this mysterious employer that it was dangerous to act cool like this on the sea.
There were no boats, no sea people, only a few schools of fish breaking out of the water, adding a bit of vitality to the empty and lonely sea. More often than not, Lu Yu could hear only the whistling of the wind and the sound of the surging ocean current.
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"Are those seabirds above your head yours?"
Lu Yu had been paying attention for a long time. Not long after leaving Guwell, a group of seabirds appeared above their heads. They were much larger than the albatross Lu Yu had seen before. Their bodies were snow-white, their wings were gray and black, and they were dotted with mottled
brown.
"Of course, some of the monsters I raise can only use magic in a superficial way and have no wisdom at all. However, in today's vast sea, they are far more accurate than us." Jeffrey said, "Among them,
Some of them cross two or three continents without stopping, and no matter how misguided you are, they can still reach their target."
"Are you an animal trainer?" Lu Yu asked for Sera.
"That's right, it's strange, isn't it? I am a forest elf, but I have little resonance with tree elves, flower elves, and other auxiliary races born in the dense forest. The animals and monsters running in the forest are not close to me. On the contrary, they are
The birds prefer my company."
Although it was a cooperative relationship, they always needed something to talk about to pass the time while traveling on the sea. As the two chatted, they became somewhat familiar with each other.
After arriving at the first large island they saw after leaving Guwell, the two of them immediately landed and rested.
Jeffrey never dared to maintain the magic power in his body below 50%. He carefully assessed the sea conditions along the way. Although there was no emergency yet, he always felt that danger would strike in the next second.
The seabirds in the sky immediately transformed into dive bombers, forming a square formation in a Stuka way of dropping bombs and taking turns flying over the sea. Their skills were so excellent that after almost every seabird raised its "nose",
There was a fat fish in his mouth, and his tail was still flicking.
The few unlucky ones who failed to succeed climbed up again and carried out the second dive bombing. The scene was really spectacular.
A fish fell from the sky and landed between Lu Yu and Jeffrey. It bounced like a deflated ball and then became motionless.
Lu Yu waited for a while, but did not see the seabirds coming back to pick up their prey. He only heard Jeffrey saying slowly: "Do you mind making a fire? We can grill some fish."
As soon as he finished speaking, another fish fell in front of his eyes. After reporting to the commander, the Stuka bombers left and began to enjoy their own results.
Jeffrey added: "After all, it seems that your magic power consumption is not large and there is no need to restore it."
Lulu quickly gathered dry firewood and made a fire. The muscle memory she had accumulated during her trip with Lu Yu was perfectly inherited into her briquette body. She even remembered to disembowel the fish, take out the internal organs, and then control the water flow to clean the mucus and break the scales.
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"Didn't you bring any condiments?"
Lu Yu's question made Jeffrey, who was already tearing the fish meat, stunned for a moment. It was obvious that this question caused his brain to shut down briefly.
"Well, it seems that there really isn't any, so we'll just have to make do with it."
"It seems that you are very particular about food." Jeffrey said.
"No, I just have a superficial understanding of it."
Lu Yu turned his back, tore the fish into strips, and stuffed the pieces into the black mist.
Jeffrey saw it, but he didn't say anything.
In fact, he also noticed that along the way, in addition to consciously controlling his flying speed to match the flight rhythm of the seabirds, Lu Yu was also adjusting his speed intentionally or unintentionally, and his perception was extending into the sea, as if he was looking for something.
What.
"Goo!"
"Goo!"
"Gua!!"
The seabirds that had just finished eating were preening their feathers, but they all made piercing calls one after another.
They all flew into the air, hovering above their heads, and then all faced the same direction.
"There is a situation."
Lu Yu felt it, but...
"So fast, what is this!" Sera exclaimed. The magic power they extended seemed to hit a sharp flying blade, and was cut off in an instant. The thing escaped from perception at an incredible speed.
He rushed straight to the beach in the distance.
It was far away, and Lu Yu couldn't see clearly what it was, but he could already feel the approaching magic aura.
"There are quite a few, and each one is very fast." Lulu reminded.
"It slowed down after landing, and the rhythm was like... a bipedal race, a sea monster... no, they have tails, and they can't be so fast." Sierra was still guessing.
Lu Yu warned: "Jeffrey, take back your seabirds. Their magic is not only spying on us, but also on your precious pets."
Jeffrey whistled quickly, and the flock of birds, which were still faithfully sounding the alarm for their master, quickly fled and hid.
"The reaction of the seabirds is very strange. This is an unrecognizable race. They cannot give us more information from their calls." Jeffrey's expression became serious. "Not long after setting off, we started to run into trouble.
Is something wrong?"
"It's in line with Murphy's law." Lu Yu complained, "What's supposed to come will always come."
There was no obstruction on the beach. Although they were far apart, Lu Yu could still easily see the faces of the people who landed on the island.
"They look... so strange." Sierra and Lulu had exactly the same reaction.
Even the well-informed Jeffrey has never seen a "fish man" with this appearance.
Their fish have thin and long limbs on their bodies, and their mouths are long and sharp, extending forward like a sharp awl, almost as long as their heads. The fins on their backs sway as their bodies move, like flags fluttering in the wind.
Different from Mera's semi-anthropomorphic fish-men, the strange group of fish-men in front of me are really uncoordinated, as if their limbs have been Photoshopped, and there is a sense of dissonance from beginning to end.
"They also discovered us." Lu Yu said.
As soon as he finished speaking, this group of things that looked like swordfish transformed into spirits took off their two slender thighs that could break if they fell, and ran towards them.
That weird gesture made Lu Yu feel like he was in a dream.