The next morning, there were still six days left before the duel between Arthur and Palinloar.
The leopard man Paramedes came to a lake with his two sons.
Isn't this a lake? Is it really here? He looked at the address and couldn't help but wonder.
But, indeed, this lake is very strange. It has no smell of lake water.
"Let's go, let's go." Palamedes took a step forward and motioned for Saifer and Seglade to follow.
"But, but..." Saifei looked at the lake and said fearfully, "I can't swim, meow..."
"I don't know how to meow either..." Seglade also said fearfully, while snuggling up to his twin brother.
"You two landlubbers------" Palamedes covered his head in disgust, "Come on, Dad has a way to help you learn to swim right away."
"Yes, it's meow?" Sefer asked doubtfully.
"Yes, come here." Leopard Man put on a serious expression and said to his sons, "First of all, you have to look at the lake carefully and feel its flow--"
The two little fools walked up and looked at the water. The lake was really as calm as a mirror.
"Then what?" Seglade asked curiously.
"Then, like this." Palamedes pushed with both hands and pushed the twins into the lake together!
Bang! There was a splash of water.
"Humph, how about it? Just struggle! You will swim if you struggle! This is how I learned to swim when I was a child!" Leopard Man said with a big smile.
When he was young, he was chased by humans for stealing and jumped from a cliff into the sea. It was better to be drowned than to be beaten to death by humans, or so he thought at the time.
But he did not give up hope of survival. Facing the desperate situation of drowning, he rowed randomly and gradually learned to swim.
People must push themselves into desperate situations before they can burst out the potential necessary for survival for the first time. When people are lingering on the edge of death, it is also when people are strongest. Palamedes has always believed this.
However......
The two little guys who fell into the water never came up. They didn't even struggle. The water surface remained as calm as a mirror!
...Isn’t it possible!? When the two little guys fell into the water, no matter how panicked they were, they at least struggled!?
Sink directly to the bottom of the lake?!
Or is there some terrible creature in this weird lake that bit, entangled, or ------ ate the two children?!
Sensing that something was wrong, Palamedes took off his shirt and prepared to jump into the lake immediately to save others.
However, a woman glowing with white light appeared out of thin air on the lake.
This woman, who was like a god, held two cats in her hands and said in a calm tone: "Is it this golden cat or this silver cat that you threw into the lake?"
"------None of them!!!" Palamedes shouted in a fit of laughter and tears, "Give my sons back quickly!"
"You are really an honest person," the goddess said with a smile, "Then, these two gold and silver cats will be given to you. Goodbye."
The goddess left the two cats behind, sank into the lake and disappeared.
Although he kept his voice very low, it could not escape the leopard man's sensitive hearing.
"Sefer, Segrad?!" the leopard warrior said angrily, "You are kidding me, right!?"
no respond.
"You will be punished by eating the lunch I cooked!" Palamedes said fiercely.
"This---I'm sorry, meow." The two kittens turned back into human form and squatted in front of the leopard man warrior.
"How on earth did you------" Paramedis said in surprise. However, a woman walking out of the lake interrupted the Leopard Man's words, making the already surprised Leopard Warrior even more...
Surprised.
Vivian is indeed a great beauty. The boring white lab coat she is wearing cannot cover up the beauty of this lady at all.
"...This lake is not a place for you orcs to come and play." Vivian said disdainfully, "Don't come here again, go back quickly."
Palamedes blushed for a while. He thought for a moment that Vivian was really the incarnation of some kind of goddess, but he immediately remembered the purpose of his trip. He hurriedly put on his shirt, cleared his throat, and said:
"Ahem. Is this Ms. Vivian? I have come to you to discuss some important matters on the orders of Lord Arthur."
A haze passed over Vivian's fair and beautiful face: "It's that guy Arthur again. Why does he like to introduce all kinds of idle people here to harass me?"
"But, there is something very important------"
"I know, come with me." Vivian said, she turned around and walked into the lake.
When the Leopard Man saw his sons walking in with confidence, he also stretched out one foot into the water with doubts.
There was no feeling of touching the lake water, and no feeling of being soaked by the water. The Leopard Man instantly understood: This is a very advanced optical projection magic, and even the effect of splashing water can be simulated. But the virtual image is just a virtual image after all.
He dove into the [water] and saw a mysterious research institute under the lake.
ten minutes later.
"Really?" Vivian replied coldly, while looking at the two leopard boys running around in the research room, fearing that they would cause trouble and damage something, "Kay came to see me, but it was three weeks ago.
It happened in the past, I can’t guarantee that he is still in the place where I originally sent him.”
"It doesn't matter." Palamedes looked at his sons absentmindedly. The Leopard boys have been living in a closed environment for these years, and everything in the outside world is full of novelties for them. Therefore, they are inevitably excited.
.
"Send me there." Palamedes said, "I will figure out how to find Sir Kay in the future."
"...Okay," Vivian threw the map of Africa to Palamedes a little impatiently, and at the same time raised her hand and opened a portal out of thin air.
"I will always use magic to maintain the door. You can use this teleportation stone to open and close it. Good luck." Vivian said.
"Well, thank you, madam." The leopard warrior picked up the map and teleportation stone and shouted, "Hurry up and follow, Sefir, Seglade."
"Yes meow------"
"Wait a minute." Vivian narrowed her eyes and looked at the two leopard men, "Have they been infected by An Zi?"
"Uh, it seems so -------" Although Palamedes heard Arthur and Merlin explain it, as a soldier, he was not interested in these complicated things and basically didn't understand it.
"...Leave them here." Vivian said, "Maybe there are still hidden particles in their bodies that have not been removed. I want to do a comprehensive physical examination on them."
"What? I don't want to do a physical examination, meow!" Seifer thought of being abused in various ways in the foxman's research institute, and the fear in his heart suddenly emerged.
"..." Palamedes looked at Vivian and his sons.
"You are indeed Arthur's sister, right?"
He shouldn't have trusted humans. He shouldn't have left his children in the care of strangers so easily.
"Yes." Vivian replied nonchalantly.
"...Okay. This trip to Africa is also full of dangers, and it is not appropriate to take these two kittens with you. Saifer, Seglade, you will stay at Ms. Vivian's research institute."
Come inside."
"What?! But ------" the leopard boy boys shouted in horror.
"It's no big deal." Their father said, "I'll be back as soon as I go."
After speaking, Palamedes had jumped into the portal, and the portal immediately closed behind him.
"Dad!" the teenagers shouted.
"Next--" Vivian looked at the two teenagers, her eyes showing a cold light, "What should I do with you?"
The two leopard boy boys cuddled up against each other, huddled together in fear, looking at Vivian who was gradually approaching.
"Meowhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"
The shrill screams echoed in Vivian's research institute.