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Lumian watched Noalya's back disappear into the corridor, and wondered if he should add a mantra - "You Feneport people."
However, Noalya's kindness also reminded him that investigating the sea prayer ritual is definitely not an easy and simple matter, and the risks contained in it make the "Earth Mother Goddess" Church must pay attention to it.
But for Lumian, many dangers can be avoided and will not be actively contacted.
Because his real purpose is not to investigate the truth of the sea prayer ceremony, to end the influence of this folk custom on Santa Harbor, and to no longer let many humans here hover on the verge of becoming monsters, all he wants to do is to figure out the details of the "April Fool's Day" prank, so as to trace back to "Salted Egg Superman" and "Bard" and execute them one by one.
Hiding one's true purpose is one of Lumian's rules for playing a "conspirator"!
This can cause others to misjudge their choices and make wrong responses at critical moments.
After closing the door, Lumian took a golden straw hat, sat on the easy chair, smiled and looked in the direction of the corridor, and said to himself silently with great interest:
"Who will be the next to provide information?
"Obviously dislike the 'Handmaid of the Sea', Ruvio. Paco, or those families that have lost their positions as members of the Fisheries Association for many years?"
Under the bright sunlight outside the window, Lumian took advantage of his proficiency in the plateau language to quickly flip through the textbooks he bought, hoping to memorize and master a little more relevant knowledge, and not wait until the effect of the talisman was over, but his mind left no trace.
About an hour later, he heard unfamiliar footsteps coming from the corridor.
Dong dong dong, his door was knocked again.
"Who?" Lumian asked in very simple plateau words.
"The book you bought has been delivered." The answer was the hotel owner Ota. Guillaume, he spoke Intis.
The book I bought? When did I buy a book? Lumian stood up thoughtfully, opened the door, and took a book from the old man with a cheaper packaging but quite brightly colored book.
The title of the book is "Travel around Fenerport".
Lumian pretended not to understand the title of the book written in the plateau language, and laughed at himself:
"I have to wait for my translator to come back and tell me, purely by looking up the dictionary, and I may not be able to finish reading it by the time I leave Fenneport."
Old Ota expressed his understanding:
"When I first came to Port Santa, seven or eight guys shared a dictionary that translated between Intes and Altitudes, and no one dared to go out alone, but after staying for a while, I kept forcing myself to communicate with the locals, and I was slowly able to communicate simply.
Lumian chatted with Old Ota for a while, took the book "Tour of Feneport", turned back to the room, and sat back in the easy chair.
He immediately turned the book so that the side that could be turned was facing down, while he pinched his spine and kept shaking.
A piece of white paper folded in half fell out of it.
Lumian stretched out his hand to catch it, flicked his wrist, and unfolded the white paper.
It is written in Intis:
"The 'Handmaid of the Sea' is also not allowed to leave Puerto Santa and marry a foreigner, but over the years, there have always been exceptions.
"The women of Fenneport like romance and chase love before marriage, and the one in Port Santa is no exception, in the past thousand years, there have been many 'Handmaidens of the Sea' who chose to flee in order to stick to their love or freedom, and among them, thirty or forty have succeeded, the most recent one happened more than 20 years ago, the 'Maiden of the Sea' married the Intes and gave birth to a child, and it is not known whether she is still alive, because the Fisheries Guild has always hunted her.
"Her child's name is Norfie, you should know her, she has returned to Puerto Santa."
Norfi? Butna. Kong Tai's lover? She turned out to be the child of the "Maid of the Sea", and she also took her "companions" back to Santa Harbor to see the sea prayer ceremony...... When Lumian was on the "Asuka", he occasionally felt that Norfi had something on his mind, but he never thought that she would have such a close connection with the sea prayer ceremony.
This made him doubt Norfie's true purpose of returning to Port Santa, and Butner. That guy Kong Tai might fall into an indescribable nightmare for the sake of a romantic encounter.
Lumian looked down and read the last paragraph:
"Outside of this sea area and Santa Harbor, the magic brought by the Sea Prayer Ritual will be significantly weakened, and the Fisheries Guild can often only solve the target in other areas by hiring adventurers, bounty hunters, and professional assassins."
Does this sentence tell me that despite the trouble, despite the investigation of the sea prayer ceremony, as long as you can escape from Santa Harbor and stay away from this sea area, the members of the fisheries association will have nothing to do about you? Lumian didn't know who passed on the paper and the corresponding information in his hand, after all, he hadn't seen the handwriting of a few people in Santa Harbor, but he clearly felt the other party's desire and expectation.
A crimson flame burst out, igniting a blank sheet of paper with large words written on it, and Lumian lay down, drinking the most famous Manzan wine of the Kingdom of Fenerport—a white wine produced in a specific region without water, while idly flipping through the book of "Travel around Fenerport" written in the highland language.
The author of the book praised the various staple foods and beef, sheep and pork of the Kingdom of Fenneport, but dismissed the tobacco there, believing that it was no different from directly smoking chili peppers.
After a while, Lugano returned to the suite with Ludwig, with a bunch of street food in his hands such as grilled baby octopus, roasted lamb loin, fried small fish, fried potatoes, quiche, roast pork rolls, etc.
Lumian had already put down the book "Travel around Fenerport", got up and said to Lugano:
"Don't forget to change your appearance tomorrow to get our new ID, and also, inquire about Butner in the next two days. Where is Kong Tai, I want to drink with him."
"Okay, okay." Lugano didn't understand why the employer suddenly wanted to find the well-dressed adventurer, but he believed it was definitely not as simple as drinking.
After explaining this matter, Lumian took the sun straw hat and said casually as he walked to the door:
"I'll go out for a walk and come back before dinner."
"You, do you need a translator?" Lugano asked instinctively.
Lumian smiled:
"Just turn around and figure out the surrounding terrain, no need to communicate with people.
"Don't worry, I won't get lost."
Lugano said "hmm" and did not ask any more questions.
He believes that with the employer's body language level, there is nothing wrong with simply communicating with people.
After leaving the Solo Hotel, Lumian walked down the street like a walk.
He took the initiative to create opportunities for those who tried to contact him, and he also wanted to see if the people of the fisheries association would take the opportunity to attack him.
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Solo Hotel, in the suite on the fifth floor.
After Ludwig drank the grape juice with a slight fermented taste, he jumped off his chair and stomped to the bathroom.
Lugano continued to collapse on the sofa, not wanting to move.
After walking around with his children for nearly two hours, he felt the need to take a break and inquire about Butner in the evening when he went to bars and other places. Conte's whereabouts and the enthusiastic Fenneport girl nourished her spirits.
Ludwig entered the bathroom, lifted the lid of the flush toilet, and half-closed his eyes.
When he was urinating seriously, a thin black shadow quietly appeared from the shadow in the corner.
The main body of the black shadow is a worm with thick fingers, and there are very long bristles on the surface, like some kind of moldy food.
Its bristles fluttered and stretched out like tentacles, trying to grab everything it touched.
As it writhed, the dark shadow silently jumped behind Ludwig, and it stood up suddenly, its head drilling towards the opponent's cervical vertebrae.
At that moment, it saw the little boy's brown eyes.
It suddenly stiffened there, maintaining a snake-like posture like raising its upper body.
Ludwig had finished urinating at some point and turned his body halfway.
He stretched out his right palm and grabbed the dark shadow.
Sombra did not resist.
In the next second, Ludwig, a little boy with baby fat on his face, stuffed the black shadow into his mouth.
In the obvious chewing sound, the lower body of the black shadow shrank upwards one by one, adding the blurred flesh and blood in front of him.
With just a couple of blinks, Ludwig ate the black shadow like he was eating Fennepot noodles.
He licked his lips, showing an expression that he wanted to have one more.
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Outside Aquinas Street, in the café that likes to place a bouquet of flowers on each table.
Lumian encountered two street fights all the way here, bought a skewer of Santa Harbor's characteristic grilled octopus to eat, but no one quietly approached, stuffed him with something, or whispered a few words to him, and there was no attack from the shadows.
Looking at the bright sky and the bright sun, he chose the most secluded position in the corner of the café, ordered a cup of Toler coffee with milk, and patiently tasted the bitterness in the strong aroma.
As time passed, a woman wearing a long dress with a blue veil suddenly sat opposite Lumian as she passed by.
She glanced left and right a few times, and quickly lifted the blue tulle hanging from the edge of her hat.
She is not her, it is him.
This is a man in women's clothing, with sparse facial features, gray and blue eyes, and an uncontrollable nervousness in his expression.
Lumian's pupils dilated instantly.
He knew this cross-dressing man.
He is the current "Governor of the Sea"!
It was the "Governor of the Sea" who was kneeling down to Marta in that church-like building and being served by many maids!
He came to me? Is he who came to find me? Lumian was both surprised and inexplicably reasonable.
Meet the great adventurer Louis. Berry recognized himself, and the "Governor of the Sea" lowered the blue veil and let it cover his face again.
Immediately afterwards, he suppressed his voice and said in the plateau language full of longing and worry:
"Save me! Help me!"
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(End of this chapter)