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Chapter 14 There is a dragon here (15)

"Eels are fish, they are eaten by people; sea worms are monsters, they eat humans! The longest eels are less than 1.8 meters long, and sea worms are eighteen meters long! How can this be the same?" Ella was excited for some reason and refuted Dust, "And - the eels are delicious!"

On the other side, as Dust scratched wildly, his symptoms became more and more serious. A red lump covered his whole body, making him fatter.

"I can't stand it anymore! If I don't kill a few eels today, it will be difficult to relieve my hatred!"

Dust jumped out of bed, grabbed his sword and ran towards the fish cabin.

Ella didn't stop it.

“…Eels can be eaten even if they are killed, and there is no big problem.”

"However, I used to think dolphins and pine rays look quite similar." Amy said, "They are about the same size as sharks, and they will carry the victims back to the shore. And the Lubeck sailor said that if they had eaten dolphin meat before, the dolphins would eat the sailors in turn!"

"That's just an unproven rumor. I remember it comes from a book called Physics." Ella said, "Originally, the sailor came back alive after being in trouble. Then the sailor had eaten dolphin meat, was eaten by dolphins, and was witnessed by others. That was basically impossible. Most likely, it was just a lie made up by the old sailors rescued by dolphins, just telling sailors not to eat dolphin meat."

"Wait a moment……"

Ella suddenly realized something and turned around in the cabin.

"As big as a shark, it will protect people who fall into the water... If you have eaten meat of the same kind, it will be eaten by it in turn?"

She had a vague premonition and quickly closed her eyes to let her consciousness enter the Wang Family Library. In the deepest part of the pile of books, she found the book she just mentioned and read out its contents:

"Big Albert Physics: '... There are dolphins that will bring swimmers back to the beach, but if you suspect that the humans you carry have eaten dolphin meat, you will eat them in turn.'"

She hurried to her cabin again and brought the famous sea chart full of monsters. After the pattern of the stinging ray, she noted this line of text:

"The Northern Chronicle: 'This fish is covered with bones and looks like a shark. Its fins will capsize the boat, but it will carry the fallen person back to the shore safely. But if it suspects that the carrier has eaten rays, it will in turn eat the carrier'.

"Look, your majesty, except for the species and appearance of fish, the habits of this stinger ray are exactly the same as those of dolphins!"

"It's... the size, the sea, the habits, and even the descriptions are almost the same. But there is a problem. The author of "The Chronicles of the North" is three hundred years later than the author of the book "Physics."

Amy let out a "Huh" sound from the side.

"What your Majesty means is that "The Chronicles of the North" copied "Physics" and it was copied incorrectly?"

"Considering that the two authors have been separated by three hundred years and have repeatedly copied them during this period, it is entirely possible to turn from a dolphin into a ray. Not everyone can take out the original copy of "Physics" from the study."

But Ella shook her head again:

"No, the author of "The Chronicle of the North" is the same as the author of this chart. He is a very famous scholar and should not make such a mistake..."

But Amy's interest was completely mobilized. She grabbed the chart in Ella's hand and read the words next to the big sea worm:

"The seaworm is more than forty wrist purs - the eel is also very long. The forty wrist purs may be exaggerated; the skin of the whole body is smooth - yes, just like the eel; once it is accidentally touched, the contact area will swell, become inflamed, and become suppurated, which is very dangerous - Dust has symptoms after taking it, and it has not suppurated, but no matter how you look at it, it is almost the same? So the seaworm is actually the eel that has been exaggerated in rumors?"

"Enough, Amy. This is not an ordinary chart. Its accurate description of the Mediterranean is far beyond all charts of the same period and is very widely circulated! I don't really believe that this author will make two mistakes in a row. What we just did is just speculation without any evidence."

"Okay, I don't know anything about books, academics, and so on. If His Majesty thinks so..."

Dust walked back with his sword, and inserted the sword into the wooden floor with some annoyance.

"I went one step late, and the remaining few small eels were eaten - damn, I can't stop the itch!"

"Has it been eaten?" Amy was a little curious. The big fish had been eaten. She couldn't remember any remaining ferocious fish that would eat other small fish.

"It's a lobster! A lobster was mixed into the fishing net! I should have eaten it just now!"

"Lobster? Is it the legendary lobster?" Amy was interested again. There was no lobster in the Mediterranean Sea where the Seven Hills Empire was located, and there was no North Sea where Sweden was located. This creature was distributed on the west coast of Britain and the Almany Federation, and she had never had the chance to see it.

"Let's go, your majesty, let's go and have a look!"

She pulled Ella up and ran towards the fish-raising cabin.

There, they saw a big beast with a ferocious appearance. Amy took out the chart in surprise and compared the appearance of the lobster according to the description of "Multi-footed monster" above: "The beard and tail of the shrimp, um... centipede-like feet, um... at the front are pincers like crabs, um... very huge, enough to clamp an adult, um? There is no food...the food is a big worm?"

She looked up at the water, where the internal organs of hunted eels were floating, and a piece of shredded meat hung on the lobster's tongs.

"Your Majesty! Look! Is this just a lot of things..."

Before Amy could finish her words, Ella suddenly snatched the chart and tore it off. Then, she walked out of the cabin with a dark face.

Amy was startled and ran over to chase Ella. But she saw Ella walking back to her cabin, jumping into the bed, burying her head in the quilt, and stop talking.

"Your Majesty, I'm sorry." Amy apologized in a low voice, "I will never guess at random again..."

Ella's sigh came from the quilt.

"No need to apologize, Amy, your guess makes sense. The wrong thing is this chart, which depicts the Mediterranean so accurately that it makes people believe that the parts of the North Sea and the West Coast are also correct. But in fact, the author of the chart probably has never been to the North Sea at all."

"That's a good thing," Amy comforted, "Although there is no map, at least we don't have to be so guarded against the monsters on the chart day and night."

"Whether a mere chart is right or wrong, it has no effect at all. But I thought of something similar."

Ella turned over on the bed and covered her forehead with her arms weakly.

“For example, Aristotle, Ptolemy, and…”

She didn't continue talking.
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