Ark Traveler, I want to take a day off today too

At this moment, there were several dead fish around Anita and Skadi. The girl guessed that these were probably the fish that slipped through the net when Dawn was released. Elini, who was holding a rapier and stalemate with Skadi, was obviously stunned when she saw Tallulah.

After all, no matter who saw the power that almost ignited the night, they would be shocked, but the girl managed her expression as quickly as possible and put away her weapon in front of the three people:

"Ahem, even though you just saved me and the people on this street... I still can't consider you as my friends."

The girl from Tripoli had a puzzled look in her eyes: "But how did those fish get into the city?"

"They can go to many places, change their appearance, spread, and infiltrate." Skadi whispered to the young Inquisitor, "As long as I can go, they can go too."

"How can this be?"

"But you've just seen that they can come to the city..." Anita then leaned behind Skadi and whispered back. At this moment, the residents who were not affected immediately gathered around and bit the corpses of the terrifying fish that had not yet been burned to charcoal.

In an instant, blood and raw flesh directly filled the mouths of these "sculptures" and overflowed from their mouths.

Skadi glanced at those people and continued to explain expressionlessly: "The earth is surrounded by the ocean. Wherever you can't see the sea, it may be touched by the sea water. It is alive and flowing. So are the disasters it brings."

"What are you doing! These things can't be eaten!" Elini wanted to pull out her hand cannon and fire a warning shot, but these residents who were lying on the ground feasting on the corpses didn't even bother to look at her.

Tallulah looked at Skadi and sighed, "Maybe I should have burned it more cleanly, so that they wouldn't have anything to eat... But is it really okay for them to eat these things like this?"

The killer whale girl shook her head and said, "I don't know, but they don't look safe." Then she asked Anita in Iberian, "Come back with us first. Even if we clean up those terrifying fish once, we can't say they are completely gone... It will be dangerous if you go back alone."

"Eh? Is that so?" Anita was stunned for a moment. It was obvious that she had not thought that the matter was not over yet. "Then can we go and see Grandma Petra first? I'm afraid something happened to her."

The girl requested quietly, to which Skadi nodded disapprovingly: "Okay."

At this time, the judge gritted his teeth and stamped his feet: "Count me in, I will also make sure that the residents of this city do not suffer any other harm."

"It's up to you, but where we live, the three of us plus Anita is the limit, you have to find a place to live by yourself." The killer whale girl said as she turned her head and looked at Anita: "You lead the way, I don't know the way."

.......On the coast......

Linley held a cigarette in his mouth as he looked at the Grand Inquisitor, who stood like a stone statue on the beach. “It looks like you saw that man jump into the sea?”

"That's right, and the sea has indeed changed... Something is coming from deeper into the ocean along a current that shouldn't exist." Dario whispered, "We must get rid of that priest and that damn sea nest!"

019. Do you want to pick up shells on the road?

“Killing a priest isn’t a difficult task. The problem is that there must be an entire organization behind him advising him.” Linley blew out a smoke ring. “Also, if these fish have their own consciousness… would you feel guilty?”

Dario didn't speak directly but turned his head to look at the hunter who was smoking: "You seem to know quite a lot, much more than I thought."

“Maybe, but what I just said is basically based on my guesses.” Linley narrowed his eyes. At this moment, the entire silent ocean had changed. The sea creatures living in the deep sea were sharing their food with the people in this city in a strange way.

Those shellfish, the lowest level creatures in the marine food chain, were left on the beach after wave after wave. At this moment, the sky was turning pale, and it would probably not be long before this place would see a real sunrise.

“You are probably facing another civilization in the deep sea. They are completely different from the Agor people you have seen. They have completely different living habits and technology trees.” Linley stamped the cigarette butt under his feet and smacked his lips.

"Even if you tell me there is a Blade Queen with an elder's blade on her back living in this ocean, I will believe it."

"There is indeed another civilization deep in this ocean, and they...those ichthyosaurs have their own thoughts." Dario lowered his eyes and whispered, "This matter is a secret of the Inquisition. Please don't spread it around."

“I understand, I understand… Just like the Dark Angels have no secrets.” Linley waved his hand, “Don’t worry, I won’t tell anyone.”

Although he could not understand what the hunter beside him was saying, the Grand Inquisitor still roughly understood what Linley meant. “That’s fine. It doesn’t matter what’s behind them. I only know that the hotbed of evil must be purified.”

Linley could not see the Grand Inquisitor’s expression due to the mask, but he could sense his firm determination. “Can you do it with just you and that young girl?”

"That's enough. Besides, Elini will become a qualified High Inquisitor." Dario responded calmly, "What she lacks now is just experience and more challenges." The High Inquisitor then turned and walked towards the city - it would take a lot of preparation to destroy a nest that is already full of sea heirs.

"It's almost dawn, go back first, hunter. We will need your help in this hunt."

“Yeah, it’s almost dawn…” Linley shook his head. “I should go back too, but…” He sighed softly and touched his lips. He had to admit that the deep-sea hunter’s lips were still very soft and delicious.

"What on earth happened to our Skadi that made that honest man care so much?" The man hummed a tavern tune as he walked towards the already dimly lit city, thinking about various possible directions in his mind.

But no matter what the possibility was, it all seemed to disappear when Lin Lei quietly pushed open the door of the dilapidated house. He saw the deep-sea hunter named Skadi lying quietly on her bed in a red dress. Although this bed, which was almost as hard as a door panel, was not restrictive to sleep on, the girl's expression was still calm.

Unlike the ghost shark who often had seizures in bed, Skadi’s sleeping face was absolutely beautiful, and the girl’s mental fluctuations were also very stable. But when Lin Lei stared at the head of the deep-sea hunter, there seemed to be something more in her mental fluctuations.

It was very faint and barely audible, but it existed, just like two different consciousnesses existing in the same soul...only now the mental fluctuations of this meaning were extremely weak and when Lin Lei looked at the girl, there seemed to be obvious signs of panic.

"Interesting, is this the price of being enemies? It's a pity that you don't have a belt and can't wear those cool armors." Linley shrugged and stopped looking at the killer whale girl who was full of secrets. Instead, he turned his head to look at Tallulah who was already resting on the bed. The dragon girl was now staring at him with her eyes open.

It should be said that she had already woken up when Lin Lei opened the door. The girl blinked her eyes full of affection:

"Are you back?"

“I’m back.” Linley nodded and made some simple arrangements before sitting on the bed and holding the girl in his arms. “How do you feel? The power of dawn…”

"Did you see it?"

Draco's voice was soft, but loud enough for Linley to hear.

"It should be said that everyone in Saltwind City who was not asleep saw it." The man smiled and rubbed the girl's head. "Very beautiful, just like the scorching sun warlocks I saw in the past."

“That power put very little burden on me, and it felt great to fly in the sky.” Tallulah lay in Linley’s arms and closed her eyes in peace. Her voice became like a dream. “If I had such power at that time… would Alina not have fallen in front of me?”

“But there is no way to revive what happened in the past.” Linley patted the girl’s head. “If there was a time machine, maybe you could go see them again.”

"A time machine...it would be nice if there was one."

......

When Tallulah woke up again, Linley was already sitting beside her bed, looking at her with a smile on his face: “You looked like you were sleeping soundly.”

"Well, I always sleep well when you are here." Tallulah rubbed her eyes and put on the mask: "After seeing the old lady yesterday, Anita stayed in the old lady's house, saying that she wanted to take care of her..."

"Oh? Do you understand?"

"Yeah, I think I can understand a little bit after using that Dawn yesterday." The girl scratched her head embarrassedly, and then she looked at Skadi who had also woken up and said in extremely awkward Iberia:

"Good morning, Skadi."

“Good morning, you learn very quickly.” The killer whale girl rubbed her sleepy eyes like Della and approved of Tallulah’s pronunciation. “We should go find Anita. Also, Linley, did you find any clues about sharks last night?”

“A clue… Of course there is one. And who knows, the clue might find its way to us soon.” Linley’s expression was quite amused. At this moment, a deafening noise could be heard outside the house. At this time, Anita pushed the door open and walked in.

"Do you want to come with me to get food? Oh, and the priest is here too! Singer, if you have any questions, you can go directly to him!"

020. You smell like him

Contrary to what Skadi had expected, Linley did not follow them to pick up shells and look for the priest this time. Instead, he said:

"I have to go talk to the two judges. After all, we are working on someone else's land now." The orca girl left early with the excuse, so she could only look at Tallulah and follow Anita to find the priest to find out what was going on.

The girl was seen holding a basket and skipping along the way, while she looked curiously at the previously silent Tallulah: "Miss Tyrant, can you speak our language?"

"It was only last night." Tallulah squinted at the crowd already partying on the beach. "To be honest, this is the first time I've seen these people so happy in this place..." Their expressions were as fearless and fanatical as those Reunion fighters who had just captured Chernobyl.

Surrounded by this large group of ordinary people was a priest wearing a Lateran bishop's robe with his head under a hood. If nothing unexpected happened, this person was the priest Anita mentioned - another outsider who came to this city earlier than them.

But she didn't know if it was Draco's illusion, but she always felt that the actions of the bishop who was warmly entertaining the surrounding civilians did not look like something a human could do. The hand holding the cane always gave her the illusion of a mollusk.

"Is it him?" Skadi naturally pointed at the priest and asked directly, and Anita naturally nodded.

"Let's go, and Anita, you go over there by yourself. I have something to talk to him and the woman next to him about." Skadi walked towards the bishop and the deep-sea hunter in the crowd without hesitation - she had too many questions to ask.

The dagger named Canguang was in the girl's hand. She blended into the crowd like a stream of water and approached her acquaintance at the fastest speed, just like those assassins disguised as dancers.

Goletia lowered her eyes slightly: "She's coming."

The bishop held the scepter and walked slowly towards the church: "Then go and bring your old friend here, and pass on the joy and message of the sea to her... Then you will know where to find me."

.......The other side of the beach......

Linley looked at Dario, who was preparing bundles of explosives one after another, and Little Sparrow, who was helping him. “Are you planning to sink the entire Saltwind City?”

"Outsiders are not allowed..." Elini looked at the disrespectful hunter angrily, but the chief inquisitor patted her shoulder and interrupted softly:

"This amount of explosives is not enough to return this city, which has no future, to the bottom of the sea. It's only enough to flatten the hill." Dario pointed to the church in the distance. "We have to get rid of that place completely."

"But sir, the fragile plate structure of this city may not be able to withstand the power of such an explosion... The entire southern city may collapse." The girl was silent for a while and then quietly said the result of her speculation:

"The residents here don't know this news yet...so...so..."

“Go and evacuate those residents who have taken the shells home first.” Lin Lei sighed. How could this little girl not even say a word? He is your leader and boss, not a monster. If you have any ideas, just tell him. He can’t deduct your salary.

“Yes!” Elini looked at Linley with gratitude, but the man just rolled his eyes in annoyance.

Dario stopped tying up the explosives and turned to look at the silent Little Sparrow. Although the mask obscured his features and vision, and his tone was as calm as ever, Linley could sense that the Great Inquisitor’s heart was not as calm as he was now:

"Judge! Tell me your duty!"

Dario's voice was as loud as thunder, and Elini stood with both feet together and raised her head and chest:

"I took up the sword and the lamp for the survival of Iberia, to fight against the enemies of Iberia, and to protect the purity and virtue of Iberia!"

“That’s a great slogan.” Linley clapped his hands indifferently. He then found a rock and sat on it. “But I don’t think that’s what your leader wants to hear.”

The Grand Inquisitor nodded slightly: "Then you must make a judgment on them!"

“Eh? The sentence you’re talking about… is it the death sentence for them?” Elini then looked cautiously at the instructor and the superior in front of her, while Dario continued to speak quietly. Although he didn’t say it explicitly, Linley still sensed a little bit of disdain from it:

"Your judgment can prevent disasters or bring bad omens! You may save one person and kill a hundred, or you may kill a hundred and save one." The Grand Inquisitor stopped looking at him and continued to tie up the explosives: "Elini, can you bear the responsibility of such a judgment?"

"Will your judgment bring pain and shake your soul and morality? Will your faith collapse after you make a wrong judgment? Will you never recover from it?"

"I can...I won't waver."

The sea breeze blew the girl's long silver hair, but her sonorous words were heard by the Grand Inquisitor: "Then do what you should do. Besides, there is enough explosives here... If necessary, I will revoke your sentence."

"Understood!"

The girl then disappeared like the wind. If nothing unexpected happened, on this happy day, their teacher would do something not so happy - such as blowing up the house of the priest who brought them together.

“She still lacks experience.” Linley, who was standing nearby, commented as he lit a cigarette. Dario nodded in agreement without commenting:

"So she needs to go through more hardships and tempering. She must give up the vision of having the best of both worlds and a lot of other things in order to become truly resilient... and become a truly tough piece of steel."

"But Hunter, what are you doing here at this time?"

“Of course, I’m waiting for my prey to appear.” Linley shrugged. “After all, I’m not the kind of person who doesn’t understand romance. I can’t just stand aside and make sarcastic remarks when they are getting together, right?”

"The Agor man?"

"Yes."

...on the beach...

Skadi had already finished a dance with Gloriatia while holding the residual light. Gloriatia had an inscrutable smile on her face:

"Do you know who your target is, Hunter?"

“Of course I know.” The killer whale girl stared at the bishop standing not far away with her ruby-like eyes: “Lin Lei...also told me, but I want to ask you a question more than that.”

“You seem to have a bit of Linley’s scent on you.”

021. You will remember everything

Skadi's question made Goletia pause for a moment. The captain of the Second Squadron of the Deep Sea Hunters never expected her colleague to ask such a question, but she nodded anyway.

"I talked to the hunter last night about some things that were relevant to you and some that were not."

Also, I don’t know if it was Gloria’s illusion, but after she said what she just said, she felt like she was being stared at by an extremely burning gaze. It felt like she was walking on land under the scorching sun, but the feeling soon disappeared.

“What the hell, who’s looking at me like that… It actually made me feel so uncomfortable.” Goletia shook her head and stared at Skadi who was dancing with her again. Both her pace and sense of rhythm were not as good as Linley who danced with her for the first time last night.

'Ah, what did Ulpian teach her....'

And Skadi naturally didn't know what this colleague was thinking. She just nodded slightly: "He didn't actually break you in two or do anything else. So... you should still be on our side, right?"

"That depends on your attitude, Skadi." Goletia put her head close to the killer whale girl's ear: "Are you here to find her or for some other reason, hunter... Don't forget who you are after being on land for a long time..."

"I am...Skadi." Skadi responded in a low voice, and at the same time, her red eyes locked onto the bishop not far away like a ferocious beast. The dagger, which was almost the same color as her eyes, had already turned to the front, but then the girl's hand holding the knife was pressed down by Gloria:

"Don't be anxious, the prey is there... but you must also remember that there is never only one prey... there is no point in killing him here now." The second captain whispered, and at this time the bishop had walked to the halfway point of the mountain and waved at the two of them, and the turbid and hoarse voice slowly echoed in the ears of the two hunters.

It was an invitation from the Deep Sea Church, and judging from the expressions of the civilians around them, they were probably the only two who received the invitation.

The two looked at each other, and Skadi asked softly, "Then let me ask one last question before we leave. Is she safe now?"

"It's safe for now. Are you satisfied with this answer?"

"It's okay, let's go." Skadi said as he picked up his instrument box - as for whether there were musical instruments in the box, only Skadi himself knew.

...Meanwhile on the other side...

Linley and Dario had already reached the halfway point of the mountain and were installing explosives. When the two were halfway through installing the explosives, the hunter stopped and looked towards the church at the top of the mountain:

"It looks like our target has returned home... Then it's time for me to leave too."