In the world above the clouds, there are castles and giants, and you still have to find seeds.
This obvious factor directly reminded Carl of the folklore "Jack and the Beanstalk", so he used a compass to find the pea seed. After all, this was the way to get above the clouds in the original work.
The result was simple and clear. The compass gave him the direction as expected, which showed that the idea was correct.
It was still the same team as before. They only returned to the "Black Pearl" and set off again less than an hour later, and no one had any objection to Karl's order.
"Hey, Karl." Naiya suddenly said as they were moving forward, "Have you thought of anything? Tell me about it?"
"It's "Jack and the Beanstalk." Don't you know this story?"
Karl asked very surprised.
Logically speaking, Naia is an evil god, so he shouldn't have heard of such stories!
"Huh?" Who knew that Naiya actually showed a blank expression, seemingly not understanding what Karl said at all.
So Karl continued to explain: "This is a fairly famous folk tale, do you really not know?"
"Yeah." Looking at Karl, Naiya nodded immediately.
"I really haven't heard of this story. Tell me about it."
"All right……"
While staring at the compass, Carl began to tell the story of "Jack and the Beanstalk" to everyone in the team.
Only then did he clearly realize that a person from reality like himself was indeed indispensable in this journey to find the sword.
Apart from their own stories, these guys in the dream world are extremely lacking in knowledge. If they were not here, they might not be able to understand the true meaning of the job of finding seeds.
And without any hints in the story, the number of seeds on an island of this size will definitely not be small. At the same time, even if seeds are found, how to use them is still a problem.
Maybe after finding the pea seeds, they just ate them in one bite. After all, no one knows if this is the kind of setting that allows you to enter the sky world by eating the seeds!
The story of "Jack and the Beans" is actually not very long. The general content is that once upon a time there was a little boy named Jack who lived with his mother. One day Jack met an old man and exchanged a cow for the old man.
A handful of magic beans.
This magical bean can grow as tall as the sky.
So Jack climbed up the beanstalk until he reached the world above the clouds. Then at the top of the beanstalk, he discovered a huge castle, and there were giants living in the castle.
The giant has a goose that lays golden eggs and a little golden goddess. Accompanied by the beautiful music played by the golden goddess next to him on the harp, the goose will lay golden eggs.
After stealing the goose and the little golden goddess, Jack climbed down the beanstalk, but the giant pursued him, so Jack cut the bean sprouts in pieces and the giant fell to his death.
The story is so simple, a very ordinary children's fairy tale.
As a result, several other people in the team praised Karl's erudition after listening to it. This was a story that none of them had heard of. Even Yog-Sothoth, who was nominally omniscient, acquiesced in this matter.
Compared to before, Karl and the others walked longer this time.
It wasn't until he felt that he had walked about two-thirds of the length of the island that the woods changed somewhat in the direction pointed by the compass.
In this otherwise ordinary forest, a clearing suddenly appeared, with a wooden house on it that seemed to have been abandoned for a long time.
Looking at the building that appeared in front of him, Karl said:
"This should be it. Let's look for it together."
The seven people worked in groups of two or three and began to search for the magical pea seeds.
As a result, just as he started to take action, Karl heard Alice, who was in charge of the other side of the room, shout:
"Everyone, come here quickly, there's something going on!"
Hearing the shouts of their companions, everyone immediately came to the door of the house.
Alice who shouted was standing not far from the door, and she didn't seem to be attacked. However, directly opposite her, a very ominous scene appeared in front of people's eyes.
There is a small pool surrounded by stones under the wall of this wooden house. A woman's head hangs directly above the pool. From the broken neck below the head, blood is dripping drop by drop into the small pool.
The picture is weird and full of ominous atmosphere. It doesn't look like a good place here.
"What's going on?"
As the leader of the team, Karl immediately became defensive.
Then he thought for a moment and thought of Naia, who had turned into a puddle and was fine, so he pushed the guy gently:
"Naiya, go and see if there is anything wrong with her first."
Naia glanced at Karl with a stupid expression, not expecting that he would give such an order, so Naia walked up with a confused look on her face, and then said to the woman's head:
"Do you have any questions?"
As a result, an even more surprising scene appeared. The hanging head actually opened its eyes, and then began to speak as if it were a living person!
"My Jack, are you..."
Snap!
Before the head could finish speaking, Naia slapped her cleanly.
The crisp and loud slaps echoed in the room, and everyone could see the fingerprints gradually appearing on the head.
Looking at the head that had been beaten by him, Naia asked with an unhappy face:
"I asked you if you had any problems, no one cares about you Jack!"
Under Naiya's slap, this poor head no longer felt any weirdness at all, and then he spat out one word in confusion:
"well?"
Snap!
Still unaware of the situation, she immediately received another loud slap in the face, and her face instantly became symmetrical.
Immediately after, Naiya was not satisfied, she stretched out her other free hand and rubbed it, looking like she was about to continue her education plan.
"Wait! Wait! Wait!"
Seeing the little girl's actions, the head finally realized what would happen to her if she didn't do something, so he hurriedly said:
"If you continue to beat me, if the seed in my mouth is swallowed, I will be in trouble!"
Upon hearing this, Naiya stopped.
Looking at this head with a red face, she said curiously:
"Are the seeds you're talking about pea seeds?"
"Yes, if you want them, stop immediately!" Realizing that he had a bargaining chip, the head immediately said, "I must find seven people's hearts for me to eat, and then I will spit out the seeds."
Then she seemed to think of something and immediately added:
"This is a setting, there's nothing you can do about it if you hit me again!"
"This is a trial!"
Looking at his companions behind him, Naiya's beautiful eyes were almost curved like crescent moons. She smiled very sweetly and said to the head:
"I don't care if it's there or not, as long as you know not to swallow the seed, if you swallow it, then you will be swallowed by me!"
After saying that, her hands moved left and right like two windmills, and continuous slaps immediately sounded in the room.
For a moment, the room was filled with crisp claps, and Karl could even find the rhythm of some kind of music in it!