So... the situation is quite clear now - they need to go out to sea, but it is almost sunset and most of the boats have been withdrawn. In addition, the corpse recovery team's boat has not returned yet, so they can only ask Jindu for help.
As for Jindu (Hitzfeld let it slip, and Xia Yibing thought it was fun so she learned to use it), although he is not serious all the time, he is surprisingly good at keeping his promises.
In his own words, if you take the money, you have to work hard, otherwise you shouldn't have taken it in the first place. He still has this professional ethics.
"Hey Jindu." After thinking for a while, Xia Yibing stopped the man working and asked him, "From what I see, you don't want to take our money."
"Isn't that nonsense?" Jin Du shouted without even turning his head, while fixing the ropes, "Who doesn't know that there are strange things in the sea? Do you think those people who go out to sea are happy about it? It's all for a bite to eat!"
"What about you?" Xia Yibing asked again, "You don't look like someone who is short of money."
Those who are really short of money would not set up a stall at the dock. That location is right at the entrance of the street, which is considered a prime stall. If it were in Wayne, the stall fee for one day would be enough for a poor person to feed himself for a week.
"I'm not short of money." Jindu tied the cable tightly, picked up the hem of his shirt and wiped his face, then looked back at her: "But I have a 14-year-old daughter... I don't want this problem to remain unresolved after four years, then I have to save money - save money to move!"
"Mr. Jindu." Hitzfeld's voice came from the front.
Her face would become numb if the wind blew for too long, so she planned to go into the house to relax for a while. When she turned around, she saw the two of them interacting behind her.
I didn't hear any sound at all - this is an oil tanker, not a sailboat, and how can I hear the people talking behind me against the wind?
"Don't call me sir—we agreed on that." Jindu raised his hand. "I've read a lot of stories. Those who are called sir by you guys usually don't end well."
This is a novel idea.
Hitzfeld grinned and glanced at Xia. The woman was also smiling very happily.
Jindu is very rude, but he is really interesting.
"Where are the others?" Hitzfeld asked Jindu again.
"Inside." This time it was Xia Yibing who answered her. She then leaned close to the girl's ear and whispered, "I told them not to come..."
Hitzfeld smiled and said nothing.
She knew why Xia said that, because the few people who followed were more or less seasick.
It was understandable that Ms. Feti got seasick, after all, she was old and her physical fitness had declined. But Sixus, Luxil, and especially Knight Blue also got seasick, which was really eye-opening.
The first two also have to travel far away from time to time, and even if the intervals are long, there should be at least one trip every few years.
Blue Knight is even more outrageous. You live by the sea? You live by the sea, but you get seasick?
Why don't you just say you can't swim?
As soon as he walked into the cabin and blocked out the sea breeze, Hitzfeld heard a terrible retching sound.
Looking again, I saw the red-haired female knight kneeling on the ground with half of her head buried in the bucket.
"You're useless!" Sixus kicked her on the butt awkwardly, "People on the beach get seasick! I'm curious if you eat like this, too!"
Xia Yibing thought of Jin Du’s remarks.
Well, these words are indeed quite vicious...
How can I compare with her? No, no, I am far behind.
"Have you taken your medicine?"
Ms. Feti sat quietly and patiently beside them. Hitzfeld sighed that people are just different and asked Lu Xier casually.
The young nurse looked listless, lying on the table in a white T-shirt, looking pale. After hearing this, she nodded her chin for a long time and said, "I ate before boarding the ship... and then drank some lemon wine..."
"Where's Connie?"
"Ah... the doctor ate three times the amount."
"Don't talk nonsense!" Sixus's face turned red. "Who said three times! What do you mean by three... times! I'm in good health! It's just seasickness... Do I need to take medicine?"
"Don't hold on." The next second, Xia Yibing grabbed his armpits and dragged him to sit down. "Don't forget what your physical condition is... It's so obvious. I don't think you're any better than the Knight Commander."
Hitzfeld wanted to laugh when he saw this.
But she didn't plan to stay here for long.
It's nothing, the smell is just too bad.
I walked through the cabin to the stern, and as soon as I opened the door, I heard a low whimper.
It's Lily.
This stupid dog got lost as soon as it reached the chapel door. What’s even more amazing is that they actually forgot about it for a moment.
Maybe it cannot be said that they forgot, it was probably because "they thought Sixus would take good care of her and Sixus thought they released the dog themselves."
Fortunately, she was smart and didn't run far. She followed them when she saw them go out.
"Woooooo~"
The pure white fur Sheldon dog was now huddled in a makeshift kennel made of wooden boards. It was no longer as lively as usual and was just lying there shivering.
"You get seasick, too?"
Crouching down, Hitzfeld reached in and stroked the big dog. "You jumped up even though you were seasick. Should I say you're brave or something else?"
一行加起来才7人1狗，结果4人1狗都晕船，晕船率超过50%……这也真是够离谱了。
Fortunately, the waves gradually died down, and Jindu slowed down the boat. The conditions of the four patients all improved significantly.
At least we can eat something and talk together.
"Our target is the southeast cape."
In the cabin, a group of people sat around a wooden table, and Xia Yibing pointed at the nautical chart with her hand.
"From here to here...go around and we should be there soon."
"Maybe we can run into Bill," said Sixus.
Although it has improved, the voice still sounds listless.
"Bill is?"
"The agent who was in charge here before I came." Sixus buried his head in his arms. "I was in charge of the shore and he was in charge of the water... What a disgusting guy."
Many people were confused, so Lu Xier explained: "Bill made a bet with the doctor that whoever got the harvest first would have to treat the other party on the spot."
“Isn’t this a good thing?”
"On the shore, yes, but not now."
"……so."
Hitzfeld looked at Sixus, nodded, and agreed with him.
It’s true that I can’t eat anything when I’m dizzy and nauseous, but in the end, I’m just taking my anger out on others…
He is an old man, but surprisingly he acts like a child.
After continuing to chat, Hitzfeld roughly understood the specific situation of Bill.
His full name is Bill Ponco. He has a professional career of more than 20 years and is a veteran.
However, since he had been working for 20 years and had not died, Hitzfeld knew that he would not be an easy role.
"Bill is very thin..." Sixus introduced her, "If he were a little thinner, he would be as good as the greedy wooden man... He is good at swordsmanship... Yes, you all know that you must be good at shooting to do this job, but being good at swordsmanship is another concept... Yes... that kind of rapier."
"He led a body recovery team?"
"It's him."
"No results?"
"That's how it is so far."
Waving his hand, Sixus glanced at the woman with ponytail.
"If your guess is correct, and the corpses are really buried in the southeast cape... then if you see them, you can shout them out, so that they don't waste their efforts."
"Mr. Jindu is more polite than I thought." Hitzfeld said suddenly.
It was already dark, and the others followed her gaze and looked outside. Through the door and windows, they could vaguely catch a glimpse of a blurry figure standing at the bow of the ship.
"He is very sensible."
Knight Blue held a cup of hot lemon tea to warm his hands and nodded: "When you first meet him, you will think he is very mercenary, but he is actually a good person."
"Good man...did he ever tell you about the metaphysics of address?"
"What's the name?"
"Nothing, it's not important."
They chatted idly inside, but when they ran out of topics to talk about, Hitzfeld took out the notebooks again and found an empty space to start writing and drawing.
Halfway through, Lily also slipped in, crawled down to her feet, and leaned on her boots to calm down.
Hitzfeld's painting skills are close to those of a professional. With just a few strokes, a hideous and strange "shark" with sharp teeth was outlined.
"Silky shark..."
Ms. Feti, who had been silent the whole time, opened her eyes and stared at the picture with a frown: "Is this what you encountered in your dream?"
"Yes." Hitzfeld nodded, and continued to refine the details. "It's called 'Silky Shark'?"
"You should have noticed its unique fins," Fetti said. "They look like scarves or silk floss, which is why the person who discovered it named it."
"Very vivid." Xia Yibing commented.
“Yes,” Fetti nodded. “But the problem is, silky sharks became extinct 150 years ago.”
"..."
"..."
"..."
Several people were stunned for a moment, then looked at her at the same time: "Are you serious?"
"Do I look like the type of person who would make jokes when I'm not feeling well?"
"I'm sorry ma'am, but this is just—"
The one who said this was Knight Blue. She opened her hands and made an exaggerated gesture, "...150 years ago??"
"156 years ago to be exact." Feti tapped the table. "156 years ago, a fisherman caught a silky shark. He didn't know what it was and wanted to ship it back to sell. But on the way, the fish became ferocious and broke free from the fishing net. It also returned to attack the fishing boat, killing more than half of the 12 people on the boat."
"This is a large shark... According to the broken teeth and contour analysis found by oceanographers from the wreckage, its mouth can open up to 160 degrees, and its bite force can easily destroy a steel car."
"And then what? They killed it?"
"We managed to kill it, and after that, various scholars have been looking for traces of silky sharks, but no one has seen this fish again. Usually, if a species has no news for more than 20 years, it can be considered extinct, so... you all understand."
Feti was introducing this unique fish to them, but Hitzfeld didn't seem to be paying much attention.
She didn't understand - why would a species that became extinct 156 years ago appear in her dream?
"It's very strange." Fetti looked at her. "Large sharks only approach shallow waters under certain circumstances. There is not enough food there to attract them. Logically speaking, even if the souls of fish enter the dream world, they should appear in the deep sea far away."
"What are you talking about shallow sea or deep sea?" Sixus shook his head unhappily. "It's even weirder that a fish can fly on land or in the air, right?"
"There is no such thing as water and air in the dream world."
"Is this the point?!"
"No." Fiti pushed up his glasses. "The point is that we don't know what's going on, and we don't have a second soul-guiding incense to go in again."
When this was mentioned, Hitzfeld's brows and shoulders drooped.
“It’s my problem,” she said.
Such a precious material was wasted because of such a low-level mistake... Now it seems so fatal!
"You can't say that...right?" Sixus shook his head, "No one expects you to make two copies."
This is not comfort.
This is the reality.
Soul-guiding incense is the most advanced of the advanced. If an apprentice incense-making with no relevant experience is asked to mix it, the success rate will not exceed 10% even if a master pharmacist tells him the tricks in a letter.
Two sets of materials... Two sets of materials will at best increase from 10% to about 30%, which is still very low. The first one is almost certain to fail.
As for low-level mistakes or something.
What makes her talent even more amazing is her ability to achieve perfection in areas where "things are bound to go wrong."
After all, low-level mistakes are easy to correct, but talent usually cannot be forced.
