The attack did not stop because of this. Baliu vaguely saw a dark object approaching quickly with her peripheral vision. When she raised her head, she saw that it was an extremely huge and ferocious spider.
It was as big as a small truck, its pitch-black shell reflecting the dim light, and its sharp mouthparts hissing at her, ready to bite her down.
"Don't do this! Don't--!"
A scolding sound came from the bed, causing the giant spider to pause.
"That's enough... I know you're doing this for my own good, but I don't like this - stop eating people!"
The giant spider curled up its body little by little, revealing the bed, and only then did Baliu see that Aman had woken up.
When he saw her, his pupils shrank slightly, but he concealed it very well, quickly covering it up with a hint of doubt.
Is that Baliu?
The little girl from the Treeman tribe... Damn it, why is she here...
His head hurt, but Aman was ecstatic in his heart because this was the first time in recent times that he was not awakened by a nightmare.
As if some kind of ritual process had been interrupted, his mind became clearer and clearer, and those vague and forgotten memories were reviving... He seemed to remember them all!
"Mary..."
Shaking his head, he looked at the giant spider as if possessed.
"You are...Mary?"
He knew nothing and didn't know what was happening, but he just had a feeling and shouted out out of control.
The giant spider's reaction was extremely violent. Its body twitched and it seemed to be shaking its head. The man's eyes were like sharp blades to it. It could not resist and retreated little by little to the door of the inner room and curled up its body.
"What's going on?" A'man turned to Baliu angrily, "How could she...did you do this?"
The Baliwu people were numb.
how could I know?
I can't answer you, King of Oman...
Just when the two sides were at a standstill, the water jar moved.
A stream of transparent water gushed out from the mouth of the tank and condensed into a human-shaped outline when it landed on the ground.
The first thing it did after it appeared was to throw a drop of water at Aman, which flew right into his open mouth.
"you……"
A'man's eyes widened and twitched, then he rolled his eyes and fell down again.
"I understand your feelings, but I hope you won't bother him next time." The water man turned his head and looked at the wall. "You also have my gift. It doesn't involve your spiritual realm and the consumption rate is very slow... It can speed up the recovery of Qi and blood. You should be able to stand up now."
It says "should"...
Baliu's heart skipped a beat.
This means that it cannot accurately sense the clone that has been taken...
She climbed up and pretended to be trembling: "Thank you, sir..."
The water man said nothing, and the air was as quiet as death.
Baliu kept her head down until she saw a pair of feet made of water standing in front of her.
"You are a rare 'clear-headed person'...Aren't you going to ask who I am?"
"This... If the adults want to tell me something, they will tell me..."
"You're good." This answer satisfied the water man. She was obviously not interested in knowing Baliu's background. She just told her, "The water in the pitcher is going to dry up. Go get some water before 12 o'clock tonight, and then start feeding him water every hour from 12 o'clock."
"Yes……"
After answering, he waited for a long time, but Baliu still couldn't get any response from the water man.
I looked up and it was gone.
The water jug is a little off, has it gone back?
That's about it...
Wiping the sweat off his forehead and thinking back on his experience, Baliu finally realized that he had escaped from the gates of hell.
The sleeping king... the spider monster hiding in the inner room... and the jug monster watching nearby... these things are the deadly threats!
Everything was linked to the next, and an ordinary person would die ten times if he took a wrong step. However, she managed to pass this strange intersection without being suspected of being a maid.
It has to be said that this was due to her reasonable response, but also a bit of luck.
After recovering from the shock, Bariu began to analyze the situation.
First of all, this monster didn’t care who I was. Maybe it was because it was sure that I drank its clone, so it thought I couldn’t make any waves.
But it couldn't carefully sense the clone that was drunk by someone, otherwise the water would have been digested and absorbed by me long ago, and it would have no reason not to suspect me.
then……
She looked at A'man who was falling asleep again on the bed.
Its reaction just now seemed like it was rescuing someone, so sleep is actually a means of control...Will waking up early cause the control to fail?
That must be the case, because she just heard Aman calling Mary, which means he didn't know before that Mary turned into that spider monster...
Thinking of this, and then thinking of the ugly appearance of the spider monster, Baliu got goose bumps.
……
At night, Baliu waited until nine o'clock in the evening and tiptoed to check the water tank.
The water in the jar has dried up.
The temperature in Goli is around 40° during the day, and 35° even in the evening. The jar is placed by the window, and the water vapor evaporates very quickly.
Baliu couldn't understand this, because the water monster must have known this logic, so why didn't it put the jar in a cool place?
Unless it has to look at the sky?
What's so beautiful in the sky?
If you can’t figure it out, then just stop thinking about it.
She did not go downstairs to fetch water as the water monster instructed, but ran to the window to shake A'man.
She's gambling.
She bet that this was the vacuum period when the water monster controlled the bedroom, so she had to buy some time to tell Aman the plan.
Chapter 67: Prelude to the Sea Tide 1
Waking up from the muddled dream, Aman saw the hazy face of the tree girl again.
"I..." He said in a hoarse voice, "What am I...how..."
"You have been poisoned and controlled by the monster." Bariu held his shoulders, "You may even have lost your memory - don't get excited, don't stand up, close your eyes and rest, and try to recall the information."
At the same time, she thoughtfully reached out to massage Aman's head acupoints to help Aman recover from his confusion faster.
"I remember now..." Aman was able to sit up this time. He looked at Bariu, "So Ivanria is actually cursed? Is this a conspiracy by Niriku? What exactly do they want to do?"
"According to our investigation, they are looking for the descendants of the Silver-eyed Gull."
"Silver-eyed Seagull? Why…"
"The Rifttooth Shark and the Silver-eyed Seagull are the two major tribes of the sea god Colossae. Perhaps there is some evil ritual that requires the blood of the god's favored ones. It is also possible... they have discovered the remains of the ancient god and need your blood to open the door."
Baliu calmly analyzed the situation for him, "There may be many, but if you are a schizodon, they will never let you go."
Ethan and the others also established contact with her when they came to the city, and this information was exchanged in this way.
After all, there are black owls. If it were an ordinary city, a big bird flying around would be quite suspicious. But for Ivanria now, a Borean sea eagle would not attract anyone's attention.
“These bastards…!”
After listening to Baliu's general description, Aman followed his instinct and took out his diary to check the information and the context of the events... and pieced together the truth bit by bit.
Yes, it was all his uncle Mo Keli's fault. It was Mo Keli who invited the wolves into the house and insisted on cooperating with those evil people, which led to Ivanria falling into the current situation.
Then I shouldn't have come back at all!
They are waiting for the pure Angelo bloodline. If I come back, I will be walking into a trap!
And it hurt Mary...
A'man clenched his fists so tightly that he wanted to bite them until they bled.
That was his most loyal subordinate, bodyguard, and confidant.
Just like that, I was cursed and turned into an ugly spider monster...
"There is no time to grieve, Your Majesty." Bariu woke him up. "That monster won't give us much time. It must have ordered its servants to do this many times, so it is counting the time. I can't talk to you for too long. I have to find water for you right away."
"I don't want to drink!" A'man said angrily.
Are you kidding... That was unclear before, but now everyone knows what's going on. Who would continue to drink that disgusting stuff!
"You must drink." Baliu looked at him with pity, "I know this is very embarrassing, but the plan to rescue you is tomorrow. If I take you out of the palace now, I will die and you will be caught. By then, I am afraid you will have no chance to wake up again."
"...What are you going to do?" A'man asked the tree girl with a dark face.
"Tomorrow is your wedding with Miss Mary." Barriu described the general plan to him, "Our people will create chaos in the city to attract most of their troops, and then the main force will land at the dock and rush over. This requires your cooperation. You must realize that these people are here to save you."
That's why she took the risk of waking up Aman and telling him these things.
Whether the person is conscious or not will greatly affect the success rate of the rescue. It is not ruled out that Aman is out of his mind and refuses to leave with them.
"How can you ensure that I can wake up?" Aman was suspicious. "According to what you said... I have to continue drinking that thing's... water to keep me under control. By then, I'm afraid I won't be myself anymore. What's the point of you telling me all this?"
"We have no solution, but the mysterious master does." Bariwu said, "The mysterious master will make you wake up."
"Who is the mysterious master?"
"It's a secret."
Baliu said no more and ran downstairs with the water pitcher.
A'man sat on the bed alone, looking at the inner room and then at the door, his expression changing from time to time.
The next day, dawn.
Since last night, Iverria has been filled with a festive atmosphere. People hang lanterns and flags on the streets, and all the food and wine shops have prepared food and drinks for the carnival, waiting for people to gather and consume.
Everyone knows that today is the day when the King of Oman gets married. This is a sign of the initial stability of the kingdom, which means that the Plantagenet dynasty has been truly restored, and Iverria is its capital.
Early in the morning, before nine o'clock, a group of craftsmen started their business.
They acted separately, each finding a good spot on a street corner, playing musical instruments and performing circuses, which soon attracted a large number of idle people to watch.
"it is good!"
People cheered and applauded the wonderful performances, while also caressing their family members in their arms.
If you pick up a random passerby from Wayne Port and throw him here out of thin air, he will find all this full of absurdity and weirdness.
Because most people, they cuddle a wide variety of animals.
There were large animals such as horses, oxen, and giant elephants, medium-sized ones such as white apes, baboons, and giant lizards... smaller ones included cats, dogs, monkeys, falcons, and even quite a few giant insects as big as human heads. It was truly a wild dance of beasts.
There has never been such an atmosphere in any city. It all seems so abrupt, but everyone is used to it and still treats animals with the same courtesy as they would treat their relatives and friends.
Abrupt yet harmonious, it seems absurd and weird.
A normal person would go crazy if he lived here for a few days. You never know when you will wake up and find yourself becoming one of the animals.
"Even when I faced the evil god, I didn't feel so terrified."
Walking down the street with his hat lowered, Darent whispered to his companions.
"Maybe Torres is right. We should bomb this place flat."
"He's an extreme religious fanatic. Do you want to learn from him?" Ethan glared at him fiercely. "On what basis did they make the judgment that you and her should be partners?"
"I can tell that Heidegger is jealous of me."
"I told you not to call me by that name again!"
"I'm yelling, come and hit me."
Ethan was so angry that his ears were smoking. He couldn't help but glance back at the carriage and saw the curtain move.
