"What is this?" Murphy looked at the pale golden scales with a trace of blood in his hand and wondered.
The scales are very big, a little bit bigger than Murphy''s fingernail. They should not be from ordinary fish. Besides, there are no large fish in the nidoria river. All the fish here are freshwater fish, which are generally smaller than marine fish. And there are very few fish with golden scales. Murphy has never seen such a large fish in the world.
If it''s not fish, it''s other creatures?
Scales of this size, I''m afraid, at least come from a creature of human size.
Do you?
"Are those dark scale fishmen here for the master of this scale?" This conjecture came out of Murphy''s mind, and he felt it more and more.
From the town of Athens to the south is the direction of the sea.
After winding down 300 kilometers, the nidoria river will turn to another plain area and finally reach the South China Sea after more than half a circle.
Where is the area that humans haven''t explored, so there''s no name.
People in this world are still very strange to the sea. They are used to naming the sea from the four directions of southeast, northwest and northwest.
Strictly speaking, the distance from Athens to the sea is more than 500 kilometers. This figure is more close to a straight line. The nidoria river originates from the snowy mountains in the northwest of the continent, forms a delta in the middle of the continent, and then divides into two rivers. The large rivers lead to the South China Sea, and the small rivers lead to the East China Sea. The total length of the river is more than 6000 kilometers, almost across half a continent. The mainstream branches of the river flow through Murphy territory.
More than 500 kilometers away, which is far beyond the range of a species
I''m afraid it won''t take less than a week to get here from the South China Sea, and these dark scale fish people have to be able to swim more than 100 kilometers a day. They can''t come here for no reason, so the only plausible explanation is.
In order to find or catch some kind of creature, they appeared in Athens, which is more than 500 kilometers away from the sea.
Since it can make the dark scale fish man chase all the way, it must not be an ordinary creature.
"What would it be?" Murphy put the pale golden scales under the sun and reflected a brilliant light.
If it''s some kind of large marine life.
It must be very beautiful, right?
Murphy looked at the pale golden scales in her hand and thought of it.
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The dead were buried.
Because of the appearance of the dark scale Fishman, Murphy had to distribute weapons to the fishermen, and then told them not to spend the night outside during this period of time. After dark, Murphy went back to the harbor to have a rest.
The river is rich in grass, smooth water and abundant in fish.
It can be said that most of the meat supply in Athens is provided by these fishermen. For now, fisheries are the mainstay of Athens city far beyond agriculture. Relying on the rich aquatic fishery, Athens is now almost self-sufficient in meat food.
After distributing the weapons, the fishermen went down the river one after another.
Some fishermen who have already harvested will hand in the fish they have caught, and the port administration will purchase them at a unified price.
After buying the harvested fish, the officials told the entourage to pick out the fish that were about the size of a palm, and then throw them into the river about 300 meters away from the port. There is a small branch of the river, about five meters wide and more than 800 meters long. When the river does not rise, it is a small river. If it rises, it is a part of the river.
Here''s a proposal from Admiral Barbosa.
He ordered the soldiers to block most of the entrance of the river, leaving a gap less than two meters wide, and then sealed both sides with fishing nets to make a large natural fish pond. The small fish captured by the fishermen in the territory are all thrown here for stocking.
"Go and get the high priest." Murphy said to the herald next to him.
But as soon as the herald went out for two steps, Murphy seemed to remember something again, stopped him and said, "forget it. There is no need to trouble the high priest in this matter
He thought for a moment, and then said, "go and ask general Barbosa to come, and then mobilize the Spartan heavy infantry and two teams of Crete bowmen from the city barracks."
"Yes." The herald answered.
With that, he took the reins from a knight of the general''s guard, got on his horse and headed for the inner city.
General Barbosa is in charge of everything in the Navy and territorial ports. At present, the main enemies of Athens are on land, so although many warships have been built in the port, they are mainly used as merchant ships or escorts for merchant ships. Only 160 of the soldiers belonging to the port belong to the Navy. They are under the command of general Barbosa, who helps to maintain the safety of the port and the river channel behind the southern plain.
On the whole, the river is relatively safe.
Basically on the main river, there is no obvious enemy.
Many large organisms seem to have a tacit understanding to avoid the main channel, and choose to live in a tributary of the nidoria river or a lake. This phenomenon may be related to the large-scale clean-up of Warcraft cannibals in the second era. Because at that time, there were many aquatic Warcraft that were very aggressive. At that time, in order to clear the river channel and facilitate the contact and trade between different races, it took a lot of effort.
Before the arrival of general Barbossa, Murphy opened the strategic map of the auxiliary system of total war and looked at the area that had been explored.
On the nautical map of Athens, the areas where the darkness was dispersed were mainly concentrated near the channel of the nidoria river.
The farthest extension is to the south near the coastline, where there lives a semi elf group. They are a race apart from the human world and the elf group. Although they have two biological lineages, they do not want to integrate into either of them. Maybe they are not so easily accepted by other creatures.
The nidoria river passes through the main channel beside the city of Athens, which is about 300 to 500 meters wide.
About 30 kilometers below the port, another branch of the main stream extends. This tributary flows to the southwest, through the Centaur''s territory, and finally to a large lake, reaching the junction of the West Sea and the South China Sea.
This tributary territory has never been explored.
The reason is simple.
There are water monsters!
yes.
It''s the water monster.
Murphy didn''t know exactly what it was.
However, in the mouth of the aborigines, the large creatures living in such a branch area are called water monsters.
According to Murphy''s estimation, the water monsters in the mouth of these aborigines are likely to be some kind of large-scale aquatic "Warcraft" left behind, or other large-scale aquatic organisms.
These water monsters are very honest and not aggressive creatures.
At least they rarely leave their territory, but the creatures who dare to enter their territory and are caught by them are unlucky.
There are few living people who can come out.
At present, the territory''s understanding of these water monsters is largely limited to the fact that they are very large, more than 10 meters in size, more than one in number, and they are a small group. Their range of activities is mainly near the delta scoured by rivers. They are amphibious, but they mainly stay in the water. They only know that they have four limbs and a long neck.
Ever since I saw Saber Toothed tigers.
Murphy had been wondering whether the water monsters in the Aboriginal population were plesiosaurs or creatures similar to plesiosaurs.
It''s quite possible.
There are more than one or two of them. Murphy estimates that the lowest number is more than 20 or 30, or even more than 100.
The size of the dark scale fish man is about 1.45 meters, which is quite obvious in the nidoria river. If there is a large number of them, they can not be found along the road. Because almost every day there are ships passing through the port of Athens.
In fact, Murphy suspected that these dark scale fishmen did not come from the mainstream coastline of the nidoria river.
Because the distance is too far.
If not from the mainstream, then the only answer is.
These dark scale fishmen probably came here from the tributary through the water monster''s line.
Moreover, the tributary is an unexplored area, which is said to be a concave corner of the continent, not far from the sea.
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About 15 minutes later.
General Barbosa and a team of Spartan heavy infantry fanatics and two teams of Crete bowmen also came.
To Murphy''s surprise, for some reason, the priesthood of war also came.
"Why are you here?" Murphy asked curiously, looking at the chief priests of war who came with the seven Spartan conquerors.
The man with dark skin looked around like an iron tower and said in a deep voice, "the high priest asked me to come here."
High priest?
Did she foresee anything?
As the spokesperson of the goddess, the high priest seems to have some kind of hazy predictive ability. It''s like the last time she went to the canyon, she insisted that Murphy take her with her. Since the gradual upgrading of the temple, the power of Athena, the goddess of wisdom, is out of danger, the high priest has become more and more unfathomable.
Sometimes she can even guess exactly where Murphy is going.
What do you want to do.
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"Since the high priest sent the chief priests of war to come. Does that mean that this trip is dangerous? " Murphy frowned slightly, but still ordered the soldiers to go to the port and board the ship.
He had long wanted to explore the other side of the river bank.
In the past, I was tied up by the jackals, but now it''s winter, and it''s the most free time in the territory.
What''s more, he has a bold guess in this trip.
And for something that is quite important and even related to the future development of the territory!