Chapter 3354 The Trial Of The Fool (One Hundred and Fifty Seven)
Chapter 3354 The Trial of the Great Fool (One Hundred and Fifty Seven)
The Mayans, also known as the Bird People, are a mysterious race that is said to live in seclusion in the Dragon Continent (America).
People in Europe and Africa have never seen the bird people, although they have been dealing with other orcs for tens of thousands of years.
No one has ever seen this mysterious orc race, because they only live in seclusion in the [Dragon Continent] where giant dragons and terrifying beasts roam - a barbaric place where humans rarely set foot.
And even the expedition team that risked their lives to enter the Dragon Continent has never seen this hidden bird people. They are too mysterious.
But now, a birdman actually appeared in front of Elaine. The gray-blue birdman should be an eagle or a falcon from the appearance - Elaine has color weakness and cannot identify its true color when looking at things.
, so he doubted that the gray-blue color in his eyes was the true color of Hayato's hair.
"Is his hair blue, blue, or gray-blue?" He asked Bailey next to him in a low voice.
"Blue, very bright blue." the little fox replied.
Sure enough, the gray-blue color in Elaine's eyes is actually normal blue. In short, everything he sees has to be desaturated by one level. If the Hayato's fur color was originally gray-blue, then he might be in Elaine's eyes.
gray.
In any case, the falcon was already approaching. And Elaine was right, this blue falcon was very young. About ten years old? He was only a few years older than Bailey. He was just a child. He and other divers
Like a hunter, he wore almost no clothes, only a long cloth wrapped around his crotch to cover his shame. He completely integrated into this barbarian society. Elaine glanced at the cloth and immediately turned his eyes shyly
Moved away.
Although he has tried hard to integrate into this society, this birdman is obviously an alien in this underwater city. But Elaine is not sure whether this blue falcon man is the collaborator mentioned by the miko's clone.
The clone of the miko said that the person who would help Elaine was left in this underwater city a thousand years ago. So the collaborator should be an old man, right? It shouldn't be this Hayato boy, right?
Unless, that cooperator is the ancestor of this boy Hayato - great-great-grandfather or something. And the old man who is over a thousand years old is still alive.
...I always think it’s a fantasy.
Because the matter was so bizarre, Elaine was a little at a loss. But he still tried to contact the Blue Falcon boy first. Maybe he could get some clues from him?
A group of people sat on the ground with animal skins as cushions. So the young Hayato put a plate full of food in front of Elaine and others. The stone plate was quite thick, and there were separate small plates on the stone plate.
It's all kinds of food. There are grilled crabs and fish, as well as the meat of some creatures that Elaine can't even name, or even indescribable. It's probably also mixed with the meat of insects such as cloud spiders. Fortunately, they are all thoroughly grilled.
When cooked, it exudes the smell of completely cooked protein.
Elaine doesn't know if she should eat these things. It's definitely mixed with insect meat, which is too disgusting. He can eat crab meat and fish meat, probably. In addition, there are almost no seasonings in these foods.
Very simply seasoned with sea salt. It's not hard to imagine how bland or even unpalatable they can be.
Elaine can't even taste it.
In addition, the food and the stone plate should be quite heavy, but the boy was able to move it. His arm strength was stronger than expected. In order to fly, most of the wings of birds are thick and powerful. Do the arms of bird people follow the same principle?
?
"Hello, guest." The child started to speak, his tone was somewhat similar to that of the stalkers, but he spoke more fluently: "I can speak better than them. They asked me to be your guide. Is that okay?"
"Of course." Elaine was eager to have more contact with this young man and ask for more information, "You, do you want to stay here and have dinner with us?"
"With your permission, sir." Hayato boy behaved politely.
"Then, just sit down." Elaine moved slightly to make more room for the young Hayato.
The child sat respectfully next to Elaine, waiting for Elaine and the others to start eating.
"Yes, are there any etiquette to abide by?" Elaine asked again.
"No. The people here are very casual. Please eat in the way you feel comfortable." Hayato boy added.
"And... what's your name?" Elaine asked again: "No, it's hard to call you if you don't know your name."
"Zoled." Blue Falcon replied.
"Okay, okay, Mr. Xury. I'll start first." Elaine said, reaching for the crab claws on one of the plates.
Those should be the claws of a steam crab. The claws alone are as big as Elaine's head, and they should be the smallest among the steam crabs. Now that the crab claws have been smashed, you only need to carefully peel off part of the shell.
, you can see the snow-white crab meat steaming hot inside.
This stuff seems to smell quite fragrant? Elaine is even a little curious about its original taste, although he can't taste it yet. It is said that crab meat has all five flavors, and it can taste extremely delicious without adding seasonings. Maybe next time
He should have asked Bailey to make a crab meal this time so Elaine could taste crab.
"It's delicious. It's really delicious, this crab meat." Bailey also started, and just as Elaine expected, he was praising the taste of the crab meat: "I didn't expect such a fierce steam crab to be so delicious.
Meat. Because it is a body that can withstand high temperatures, the texture of the meat is also particularly special?"
"The meat of Gruzer crabs hardly needs to be cooked. They rely on their own magic power to remain unharmed by high heat. But if they are killed, the high heat of their bodies will quickly cook their meat."
Explained, "You only need to kill them, and they will cook themselves just right. This may be the secret of the delicious meat of Gruzer crabs. However, they will explode at the moment of death, and it is not easy to completely recover their meat."
"
"Oh, that's it." Elaine took another bite of crab meat. It was a pity that he couldn't taste it. And it seemed that the crab meat was already cooked when he killed it, which meant that even if Bailey was allowed to cook the crab meat, it would still be cooked.
No improvement is possible...
The group of stalkers in the distance were dancing around the bonfire, and the dancing was getting more and more intense. Their bodies were twisting in incredible ways, and people couldn't help but marvel at how the human body could be so soft - but these stalkers were strict.
Not really a "human", just a half-human, half-fish weirdo.
"Okay, what an amazing dance." Elaine not only praised, "Why, to welcome outsiders, do you dance so hard?"
"No, it's a dance to celebrate the harvest." Zuoli replied: "Perhaps because of your interference, hunting has become easier. Before, there was the Gruzer Crab King who was hindering the hunting, and there was no way to catch too many.
There are so many crabs. Now that the King Crab has disappeared and will probably not appear again in a few hundred years, hunting at the top has become easier. They are happy about this."
"I see..." Elaine never thought that his actions would affect the entire Atlantis ecosystem. Before this, he didn't even know that Atlantis had such a unique ecosystem.
environment.
"If you want to eat fish, why not go fishing on land?" Bailey asked tentatively: "There are obviously such rich ecological resources outside this underwater city?"
"They can't go. The Yat people are afraid of the sun, which will burn their skin very painfully, so they usually can only hide in water with a depth of at least thirty feet during the day. And there are also sea areas near this city.
There are a lot of terrible sea beasts. Countless young people have left here to try to find a new life outside, but they have never come back."
Elaine remembered what Edmund said before. The Vikings would also hunt the stalkers who were active on the shore, hunting them as a type of monster. But the stalkers were very cunning and extremely difficult to catch.
They can only be caught at night when they come ashore for activities. Even the number of stalkers operating near Greenland waters is very rare. Perhaps these stalkers, who are so rare that they are almost extinct, come from this seabed.
Those young people who ran away from the city.
There is clearly a city on the ground, but no one lives in it. It is probably because the sunlight on the ground is too vicious and not suitable for these undersea creatures. They would rather hide in the city on the sixth underground level of Atlantis than take risks.
Run to the place on the surface where the sun will shine.
Elaine's camp and resting place were not disturbed by this group of stalkers, which can be said to be a blessing.
...It's almost like the sun is protecting them.
"They are happy, really. Although you can't understand their expressions." Hayato boy continued: "At least some of the Yat people think that you bring them a good harvest and drive away dangerous giant beasts."
If only these stalkers were really that friendly, Elaine thought to herself.
"Well, well, are your parents or grandparents still there?" Elaine finished eating the meat from a crab claw, and then asked Zuoli: "I, I have to talk to them."
"What are you talking about? I am the only birdman here." Xuli replied: "I was taken in here by the Aters a long time ago. That was a lifetime ago, maybe several lifetimes ago."
"Uh...huh?" Elaine was stunned, not understanding what the Blue Falcon said at all.
"Reincarnation, reincarnation." The little bird waved his hand: "Don't you know that the Mayans can be reincarnated?"
"Listen, I've never heard of it..."
"In short, when we are about to die of old age, we can use the reincarnation technique to transform ourselves back into the form of a bird egg... and then after a period of time, we will hatch again into a bird and be resurrected again." Zuoli said: "I have always kept it.
Living in this underwater city, I must have been reincarnated dozens of times."
"...It's amazing!" Bailey exclaimed: "Isn't this just immortality?"
"No, the old me is dead long ago. After reincarnation, I am a new life, without the memory of the previous life. Rather than being immortal, it is better to say that I gave birth to myself and continued my life. How does it feel?
"
Even so, this is still very magical. Elaine thought to herself. The orcs can indeed use [Crazy Transformation] to expand their bodies and turn into giant beasts; they can also use [Beast Transformation] to turn themselves into real beasts.
.
But, changing yourself back into the form of an "egg"? This is too outrageous...
Maybe only the Mayan (bird people) tribe can do this kind of thing.
Although the birdman hatched from the egg is considered a new life, it is indeed immortal in a sense. Even if you don't find a partner to reproduce, you can still live in this way. It's amazing.
.
"But think about it, when I turned into an egg, I had no ability to protect myself. Anyone with malicious intentions could destroy the egg, and then I would die." Xuli continued: "After resurrecting from the egg, I also have the ability to protect myself.
I was a toddler who needed people to take care of me for several years. If no one took care of me, I would still die. I can survive until now only because the people of Ate are taking care of me. I should be grateful to them for this."
"Yes, should?" Elaine felt that there was something in the other person's words.
"I should be grateful to them. But they won't let me leave here... and keep me under house arrest in this city." Xuli said in a low voice.
"You...what?"
"Help me!" The child continued in a low voice: "I am bored to death from being trapped in this underwater city! Please take me away from here!"