Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 7 Night Tour
Opening his eyes again and feeling the darkness before him, Zeus sighed.

"It seems like it's back again. This seems to be the fastest time."

"It's not unexpected, but at least we have a clue that there are extraordinary creatures in the deep sea."

"Again, huh?"

Xiusi vaguely felt that something was wrong, and subconsciously turned over. Smelling the dampness brought by the evening breeze, his somewhat confused mind gradually became clear. After a few seconds, Xiusi suddenly sat up from the bed.

"No! This is that island, I'm not dead!?"

Zeus felt around his body. He found no injuries or blemishes on his body. He had been changed into a loose set of pajamas. The room was now dark, and no light could be seen coming from the balcony.

Is it evening?
Looking around the room carefully, he found that it was his bedroom. At the end of the bed, a maid was leaning on a chair with her head tilted, already fast asleep.

There was a desk calendar placed on a high table not far away. The carefully wiped metal desk calendar stopped on the third day of the month of blooming flowers.

On the third day, his memory stopped at the first day of the Flower Moon, which was the day before the advent. He encountered the swollen monster at the dock on the second day, so...
"I was unconscious all day?"

After thinking for a moment, Xius shook his head again: "The desk calendar is refurbished by the cleaning servants every morning. It's late at night now. I must have been unconscious for two days and one night."

"It didn't delay things. The pirates won't come to negotiate until tomorrow."

Xius rolled out of bed lightly, walked to the table, picked up the glass and poured himself a glass of water.

As the clear, sweet water flowed through his dry throat, Xius felt like he was coming back to life. Then, some details caught his attention:

".When did my eyesight become so good?"

The curtains in the room were drawn, and the thick velvet curtains made it almost completely light-proof - and it was still late at night, so there were no lights on in the room.

There was indeed a kerosene lamp next to the maid's chair, but the flame had obviously been turned down to the smallest to prevent fire. The flickering flame, as small as a soybean, was the only source of light.

Hughes looked down at the cup in his hand. The cup was made of silver, mixed with some copper and a very small amount of tin. The intricate pattern on it included iris decorations, which was the symbol of the Cohen family.

Copper and tin? He could tell at a glance that this silver cup also contained copper and tin?
Xius swallowed, took a few deep breaths, and suppressed the excitement in his heart.

The so-called "symbiotic ritual" did not seem to be a simple request. He could actually see in the dark and even feel the composition of the materials used to make the silver cup!
This is wonderful, being able to sense the composition of matter, what could be more suitable for industrial technology climbing than this?

He can tell whether the smelted metal ingots have impurities just by touching them, and he can directly sense the synthesis of chemical substances. If this ability were applied on Blue Star, he could directly take materials science to the next level.

Feeling a strange feeling in his heart, it was some kind of existence beyond perception. Recalling the glimpse before he fell into a coma, Zeus closed his eyes and tried to use his new senses to perceive the world.

Have you ever tried to perceive the world without using your eyes?

Humans are very adaptable creatures, especially in certain aspects.

The retinal image of the eye is actually upside down, but the brain can still adapt, which is nothing to worry about.

But someone suddenly had an idea: what would happen if one day, the image no longer fell?

He designed a special pair of glasses that had no other function except that the image seen through them was flipped.

Anyone who wears these glasses walks unsteadily, cannot tell up from down, left from right, and is unable to take care of themselves.

At this point, we seem to be able to draw a conclusion about the defects of the human body and the limitations of natural evolution.

But the experiment did not end there. He continued to let these people wear glasses, eat with glasses, live with glasses, and not take them off for a moment.

It didn't take too long, only about ten days, for all the subjects to fully adapt to the upside-down world and live normally.

The whole world is upside down in your eyes. You may feel absurd, terrified, and confused, but your body tells you: It's nothing special, just get used to it.

Human potential always exceeds our expectations.

This is how Xiu Si felt at the moment. He felt as if he was in a warm stream, and countless pieces of information were washing over him like water.

And he was shocked to find that he could actually analyze this information.

I don't know when it started, but many changes took place in him.

Is this a symbiotic ritual? It is indeed "symbiotic", not only sharing vitality, but even sharing some sensory abilities.

Zeus suddenly realized that during the days he was in a coma, he might have been adapting to these extra senses.
Casually feeling the new perception, Zeus discovered that it seemed to be related to water. He could easily perceive the nearby water area, and the larger the water area, the clearer it was.

Considering that this ability came from the strange fish, it made perfect sense. Zeus tried to sense the nearby waters.

The first thing that is easiest to perceive is probably the sea.

Zeus sensed the sea effortlessly. The sea was hundreds of meters away from the balcony. No, it was even closer!

Beneath this estate, beyond the earth and bricks, a warm ocean current flows.

"Ok?"

Xius raised his eyebrows and concentrated his attention on sensing.

As he explored carefully, the situation of the entire underground water vein unfolded in his mind like a picture scroll. Not only under the manor, but also under the entire island, he could vaguely feel the slowly flowing ocean current.

As he sensed it, a familiar presence entered his field of vision.

That is
"Bloat monster?"

Zeus was shocked. He thought that the swollen monster was either killed on the spot by the soldiers, or escaped far away, or used some means to become a guest of honor in this manor. He didn't expect it to be in the water veins under the manor.

Why is it still here? Is it waiting for me?

Speaking of this manor
Xiusi frowned and recalled carefully. He had only been here for a short time as a border earl, so who was the previous owner of this manor?

Looks like a businessman?
Of course, merchant is just a formal name. The empire does not recognize the pirate king and his black sail fleet here, so there are only illegal merchants here.

The Storm Ocean is the only pearl on the east side of the empire. The Queen's eyes are always on this place. Unfortunately, the navy was established not long ago and the territory of the empire is bounded by the sea.

Thinking of this, Zeus curled his lips. The fact that he, an illegitimate child, could be directly made an earl also showed from one side the Queen's yearning and urgency for this sea area.

Xius walked quietly to the bedroom door, opened it carefully, and while feeling the direction of the tide, he reached out and touched the wall.

On a quiet night, Hughes could hear his heart pounding.

He wanted to meet the swollen monster. This was his first contact with the extraordinary. He swallowed his saliva, walked through the door and out of the bedroom.

(End of this chapter)