Chapter 126: Halfway Through the Fifth Cycle

August 4th, Endless Sea game world. Google search reading

Li Feng used his talent for finding fishing spots and caught a bloodthirsty rust-colored water snake and an ordinary rust-colored water snake in Luoxia Bay.

[Flint fusion progress +1%]

[Flint fusion progress +5%]

[Overall fusion progress: 5%]

Continuing to fish for the two snakes, Li Feng got a bundle of rotten aquatic plants and a piece of kelp.

They were all useless things. When Xia wasn't paying attention, Li Feng threw them back into the sea.

"Do you really want to go to Lighthouse Island?"

On the road from Luoxia Bay to the dock area, Xia asked Li Feng.

Thinking back to the two tower guards she met yesterday, Sia always felt that something was wrong with them.

"Well, let's go take a look."

Li Feng replied.

He also felt that there was something wrong with the two tower guards. They seemed to know something, and they were probably related to the Thunder Moray Eel.

Li Feng was still worried about fishing and integrating secret treasures.

The warm sea breeze in midsummer blows over the lighthouse island.

Looking at the unobstructed view of the island, Li Feng and Xia looked at each other.

It’s strange that we didn’t see the two tower keepers from yesterday.

"Are you... going out for something?"

Shia looked around and asked.

"It shouldn't be."

Li Feng shook his head:

"The lighthouse is an important symbol of the pier. There are usually two people guarding it. If something happens, they should take turns to go out. It is impossible for two people to go out at the same time."

Li Feng felt strange in his heart. He saw that the door on the bottom floor of the lighthouse was wide open, so he cautiously walked in.

The lighthouse in the dock area of ​​Wind's Breath City is considered a relatively tall building in the world of Endless Sea.

Inside the lighthouse, the top floor is the lighting equipment, the middle is a spiral staircase, and the bottom floor is where the tower keepers live.

Li Feng walked around the bottom floor and found that it was clean.

There were several stacks of thick notebooks for recording diaries on the wooden table, and there were no quilts on the narrow wooden bed.

They actually... ran away overnight?

A chill crept up my spine. Just because I saw myself catching a thunder eel yesterday, I ran away all night, even if I had a stable job guarding the tower?

What's more, they may be charged for leaving their posts without permission.

So, what does it mean to catch a thunder eel on Lighthouse Island?

All kinds of bad thoughts came to his mind, and Li Feng felt a chill in his back.

But before he could think about it carefully, he heard Sia's voice suddenly sounded outside.

Li Feng ran out immediately and saw Xia standing on the shore, asking him to go over and take a look with a look of horror on her face.

"How could this happen? It shouldn't be."

Following the direction of Xia's finger, Li Feng saw a large number of corpses of lightning moray eels in the water on the shore of Lighthouse Island.

The blood dyed the sea water red, and the smell of blood came straight up.

"This is too weird."

Shia stroked her arms where the hairs stood on end and said:

"Thunder eels generally live in deeper seas, and they rarely appear along the coast or in waters near islands and reefs.

I saw you catching it yesterday and thought it was a little strange, but I didn’t expect that today..."

Li Feng also felt strange.

I recall that when I came here to fish yesterday, I just read the introduction in the book and used the roots of the blood vine as bait on a whim.

The roots of the blood vine were not valuable things, and he got a lot of them from Gad's wooden house.

In addition, it was written in the book that thunder eels like the taste of blood vine rhizomes, so I tried it at that time, but there was no hope at all.

But who knew he actually fell into a thunder eel?

If it weren't for the reaction of the two tower guards, Li Feng would only think it was a coincidence.

But now I see that the tower guard has run away, and there are a large number of corpses of thunder eels in the waters where thunder eels should not appear.

Now that I think about it, what happened yesterday couldn't have been a coincidence.

"What do we do now?"

Xia asked Li Feng. Now she also found that the tower guard had run away, and she felt an inexplicable fear in her heart.

"Business matters, let's get someone from the Coast Guard."

Li Feng calmed down and decided to find the tower guard through the Coast Guard, and then asked him about the whole story.

…

"Mr. Rhine, Mr. Fortune Teller, I think you are mistaken. That lighthouse island has been abandoned for a long time, and there are no tower keepers for a long time!"

In the Coast Guard Station, a police sergeant received Li Feng and Xia.

Considering that one of them was a maester from Storm's End and the other was a great diviner, the Sheriff was very polite.

But even so, after hearing their narration, the police chief looked like you were kidding me!

"How is that possible!? I'm talking about the lighthouse island on the north side of the dock area. The top of the lighthouse is the one painted with red paint."

Sia felt incredible and continued to describe the location and characteristics of Lighthouse Island to the Sheriff to prevent the Sheriff from getting confused.

"Yes, Master Fortune Teller, I am talking about the lighthouse island."

The police chief was also a little confused, but he still professionally took out a thick record book and opened it to look for information about Lighthouse Island.

Soon, he found something, pushed the notebook in front of Sia, pointed to the content on the paper and said:

“You see, the lighthouse island on the north side of the dock area was abandoned 10 years ago.

Now our ship is using the lighthouse island on the south side, which is the one with the blue paint on the top of the tower. "

Looking at the words on the old paper, Li Feng and Xia looked at each other.

This record does not seem to be false, and as the police chief, there is no need for him to falsely record it.

But if the lighthouse island they went to was really abandoned 10 years ago.

Then where did the people they saw yesterday, the clean lighthouse they saw today, the obviously well-maintained island, and the countless bodies of lightning eels beside the embankment on the island come from?

"We must have made a mistake, thank you."

After getting this result, Li Feng did not entangle, just stood up and thanked the sheriff, and then walked out of the police station.

"How could this be? We clearly saw two tower guards, one old and one young, yesterday!"

Outside the Maritime Police Station, Xia asked Li Feng.

Although she was asking, Li Feng could see the fear in her eyes.

Indeed, according to the player world, they were ghosted, and Li Feng was also scared now.

"Let's go and have a look."

In order to confirm his guess, Li Feng planned to go there again.

"What? Don't!"

Hearing this, Xia immediately grabbed Li Feng's sleeve and stopped him from walking towards the carriage.

"Are you...scared?"

Looking at Xia's expression that said I never want to get close to that place again, Li Feng didn't know what he felt in his heart.

She was obviously a giant dragon that lived for a hundred years, how could she be afraid of such a ghost-like thing?

"No, no, no, I'm not scared, how could I be scared?"

Xia pretended to smile and denied, but the hand holding Li Feng's sleeve tightened.

Then, she paused, and said to Li Feng with a pleading look on her face that was red from the sun:

"Then...then can we not go to the island, but just look at it from a distance?"

Li Feng thought about it and replied:

"Okay."

The sun was strong in the afternoon of midsummer, shining on the broken lighthouse.

Li Feng and Xia stood on the embankment on the side of the dock area, looking at the already desolate lighthouse island, and felt a chill.

"It was obviously not like this just now, and..."

Looking at the scene in front of her that was completely different from just now, Xia seemed to find something that made her shudder again.

She pulled Li Feng to show him the broken and long-corrupted chain on the embankment:

"I remember that when we came here the first two times, there was a small boat tied to this chain."

Li Feng looked at the highly rusted chain and recalled.

When they came here the first two times, the chain in front of them was obviously very new, and the boat tied to the chain was also very new.

What made people's backs colder was that they actually took the boat that never existed four times.

But now, as if the illusion had dissipated, everything here has become extremely corrupt.

In the distance, the dilapidated lighthouse had already peeled off layers of paint and wall.

And under the lighthouse, there was an island covered with half-human-high weeds, which did not look like anyone had lived there at all.

As the sheriff said, this lighthouse and the lighthouse island had been abandoned for 10 years.

"So did we really land on this island the first two times? Or..."

Xia said to Li Feng. She recalled what happened the first two times she went to the lighthouse island, and the two tower keepers who didn't exist at all. She was a little scared.

Li Feng felt bad, and all the ghost legends he had heard before came to his mind.

"Maybe it's something like an illusion."

Although he was thinking about something in a horror movie, Li Feng analyzed it rationally based on the extraordinary things in this world.

He thought it must be related to the barrier or magic like illusion.

"Maybe."

Xia nodded and said:

"But who would cast the illusion here? And...

If you divine the fishing spot in the future and divine this island, will you still come here to fish?"

The lighthouse island was really weird. Even though it had returned to its normal appearance in front of the two of them, Xia was still a little worried.

Xia's question happened to be what Li Feng was thinking about at the moment.

After a little thought, he shook his head gently.

No matter what the reason, this lighthouse island has revealed its weirdness.

For safety reasons, it is better to stay as far away as possible.

As for finding the fishing spot talent, if you find it here again, it is better to give up.

For the sake of 1% or 5% of the fusion progress, it is not worthwhile to rashly involve in weird things.

…

The moon sets, the sun rises, and the days pass by.

Strangely enough, since that day, there has been no strange news from the lighthouse island.

Li Feng was uneasy and went to the archives of the police station to check the information of the tower keepers 10 years ago.

The archives showed that the last two tower keepers had the same surname.

But the archives of this world are not detailed, only the names of the tower keepers, without information such as their age and date of birth.

But because of the surname, Li Feng extremely suspected that they were the old and young tower keepers.

So based on the name, he searched in many places in Fengxi City.

But perhaps because it has been too long and they are not locals, no one remembers the two tower keepers.

At this point, all the clues were interrupted, and Li Feng had to give up.

A few days passed, and today is August 10th.

Li Feng's life these days is very monotonous. Every day he uses his talent of finding fishing spots, and then goes fishing with Xia to kill fish.

After a few days of repetitive work, Li Feng's current fusion progress has reached 12%.

And he himself has successfully promoted to a second-level first-class hunter.

Open the system panel:

[Task requirements: Among the surviving players, at least one player must be successfully promoted to a third-level extraordinary. ]

[Task time limit: eight game cycles (until one hour before the end of the twelfth cycle)]

[Task reward: Stop the fusion of the two worlds; postpone the generation of the next batch of players until three months later. 】

[Current mission progress: second level, first level]

The mission time limit is eight cycles in total, and now halfway through the first game cycle, he has completed exactly one-tenth of the mission.

The progress is not slow yet.

However, in these days of life, something troubled Li Feng very much.

Probably because he was young, unmarried, good-looking, and had a personal title from the king, Li Feng became the target of invitations to many banquets and salons.

Li Fengben felt that he was not a noble, had no property or fiefdom, and was definitely not a good choice for marriage.

However, through these few days of experience, he discovered that in the endless sea of ​​extraordinary existences, becoming an extraordinary person is also a very important point in the matchmaking market.

Also, on Storm Island, which is like a fief, having a title personally granted by the king and having a place in the hall of dignitaries is also a highly desirable status.

All gifts have a price.

In the past few days, Li Feng has finally realized the true meaning of this sentence.

He once benefited from his status as a free man before the Sea Throne, but now he is being dragged down by this status.

Moreover, the nobles are really too idle.

There are endless salons, afternoon teas, dances, night banquets every day, as well as many aristocratic ladies introducing their daughters to themselves, as well as various young ladies.

Li Feng felt exhausted physically and mentally.

In fact, at the beginning, he would attend various occasions and meet various people in order to find out clues about the gargoyles.

But soon, he realized that it was a waste of time.

Moreover, young ladies always have various thoughts. Facing a group of warblers, Li Feng felt exhausted both physically and mentally.

So after three days of living in Storm's End, Li Feng woke up every morning and went out with Shia.

Even after fishing today's fishing spot, I still have to hang out on the street until dark before going back.

But he didn't waste this time. He could listen to Xia's talk about the history of the Endless Sea, as well as various secret rumors in history.

Shia is a giant dragon and has lived a long time, so she knows many things that are not recorded in books or are not allowed to be recorded.

Moreover, during this period of time, Li Feng discovered that Xia was not only braver than her age, but also a little afraid of ghosts.

She has a wide range of knowledge in languages, and she understands some of the languages ​​​​of the races that already exist in the Endless Sea.

"I don't have any kin anymore. In order to survive, I have to be good at everything."

It was ten o'clock in the evening again one day, and Li Feng and Shia returned to Storm's End Castle while chatting.

"Oh, right!"

Sia suddenly remembered something and said:

"I saw a book written by a troll last night."

It was getting dark at this time, and not far ahead, bright lights shone from the windows of Storm's End.

Sia thought back to the troll book she saw last night:

"There is a story written in that book. The text of the story is written in Troll language, but I happen to know a little Troll language."

"What kind of story is it?"

Li Feng asked.

Trolls are a very mysterious and witchcraft race. Li Feng is also a little curious about the stories they write.

"The story is about the thunder eel."

"Thunder Moray?"

A few days later, I heard this creature again, and the strange events on Lighthouse Island came to mind again.

"Yeah, that's right."

Sia frowned and thought of the memory that made her hair stand on end. She took a deep breath before continuing:

"The troll described the Thunder Moray as an evil elf in the sea who specializes in helping gargoyles and guarding the treasures they hide on the seabed."

"Gargoyle?"

Li Feng was shocked when he heard this word.