"Eels are fish and are eaten by people; sea worms are monsters and eat people! The longest eel is less than 1.8 meters long, but sea worms are 18 meters long! How can these be the same thing?" Ella got excited for some reason and retorted to Dust, "Besides--the eel is delicious!"
On the other hand, under Dast's frantic scratching, his symptoms became more and more serious. Red bumps covered his whole body, making him gain weight.
"I can't stand it anymore! If I don't kill a few eels today, it's hard to explain the hatred in my heart!"
Daxter jumped out of bed, grabbed his sword and ran towards the fish cabin shouting.
Ella didn't stop him.
"...Eels can be eaten even if they are killed, so it's not a big problem."
"However, I have thought that dolphins and spinyback rays are quite similar before." Amy said at the side. "They are similar in size to sharks, and they will also carry people in distress back to the coast. And the sailor from Lübeck He said that if dolphin meat had been eaten before, the dolphins would have eaten the sailors in turn!"
"That's just a rumor that's hard to confirm. I remember it came from a book called "Physics."" Ella said. "Originally, it was a small probability event that a sailor came back alive after being in trouble. And then the sailor also ate dolphin meat. It is basically impossible to be eaten by dolphins and witnessed by others. It is most likely just a lie made up by the old sailors who were rescued by the dolphins to tell the sailors not to eat dolphin meat."
"Wait a moment……"
Ella suddenly realized something and spun around in the cabin.
"As big as a shark, it will protect people who fall into the water...if you eat the flesh of its kind, will you be eaten by it in turn?"
She had a vague premonition of something, so she quickly closed her eyes and let her consciousness enter the Wang Family Library. In the deepest part of the stack, she found the book she just mentioned and read out its contents:
"The Great Albert, "Physics": '...There is a species of dolphin that will bring swimmers back to the beach, but if it suspects that the humans it is transporting have eaten dolphin meat, it will eat the humans in turn.'"
She hurriedly ran to her cabin again and brought the famous nautical chart full of monsters. Behind the image of the spiny ray, there is this line of text:
"The Chronicle of the Northlanders: 'This fish is covered with hard bones and is as big as a shark. Its fins can capsize boats, but it will carry people who have fallen overboard safely back to shore. But if it suspects that the carrier has eaten a ray The fish will in turn eat the carrier'.
"Look, Your Majesty, except for the type and appearance of the fish, the habits of this spinyback ray are exactly the same as those of dolphins!"
"Yes...the size, sea area, habits, and even the description are almost the same. But there is a problem. The author of "Chronicles of the Northlanders" is three hundred years later than the author of "Physics" .”
Amy said "Huh" from the side.
"Your Majesty, you mean that "Chronicle of the Northlanders" plagiarized "Physics" and even made mistakes?"
"Considering that there was a three-hundred-year gap between the two authors and that they were copied repeatedly during this period, it is entirely possible that the book changed from a dolphin to a ray. Not everyone can take out the original copy of "Physics" from their study."
But Ella immediately shook her head:
"No, the author of "Chronicles of the Northlanders" and the author of this chart are the same. He is a very famous scholar and should not make such a mistake..."
But Amy's interest has been completely aroused. She took the chart from Ella's hand and read the words next to the sea worm:
"Big sea worm, more than forty cubits long - eels are also very long, forty cubits may be an exaggeration; the skin of the whole body is smooth - um, just like eels; once touched accidentally, the contact area will be It will swell, become inflamed, and suppurate, which is very dangerous - Dast only had symptoms after eating it, and there is no suppuration, but no matter how you look at it, they are the same, right? So the sea worm is actually the eel that has been exaggerated in the rumors? "
"That's enough, Amy. This is no ordinary nautical chart. Its accurate depiction of the Mediterranean Sea far exceeds all the nautical charts of the same period, and it is extremely widely circulated! I don't believe that the author will make two mistakes in a row. .What we just did was just speculation without any evidence."
"Okay, I don't know anything about books, academics, etc. If your Majesty thinks so..."
Daxter came back with the sword in hand and thrust the sword into the wooden floor with some annoyance.
"I went a step too late, and all the remaining little eels were eaten—damn it, the itch won't stop!"
"Been eaten?" Amy was a little curious. The big fish had all been eaten, and she couldn't remember what was left of the ferocious fish that would eat other small fish.
"It's a lobster! There was a lobster mixed in the fishing net! It should have been eaten just now!"
"Lobster? Is it the legendary lobster?" Amy became interested again. There are no lobsters in the Mediterranean where the Empire of the Seven Hills is located, nor in the North Sea where Sweden is located. This creature is found on the west coast of Britain and the Alemannic Commonwealth, and she has never had the chance to see it.
"Come on, Your Majesty, let's go take a look!"
She picked up Ella and ran all the way towards the fish cabin.
There, they saw a large, vicious-looking insect. Amy was a little surprised and took out the chart and compared the appearance of the lobster with the description of the "many-legged monster" above: "It has shrimp beards and tails, um... centipede-like legs, um... the front is The claws are the same as those of a crab, um... very huge, enough to hold an adult, eh? This one doesn't... the food is sea worms? "
She looked up into the water, where the guts of a hunted eel were floating, and a strand of meat hung from a lobster's claws.
"Your Majesty! Look! Is this just Duozu..."
Before Amy could finish her words, Ella suddenly snatched the chart and tore it up. Immediately, she walked out of the cabin with a dark face.
Amy was startled and ran after Ella. But he saw Ella walking all the way back to her cabin, throwing herself on the bed, burying her head in the quilt, and stopped talking.
"Your Majesty, I'm sorry." Amy apologized in a low voice, "I will never make random guesses again..."
Ella sighed from within the quilt.
"No need to apologize, Amy, your guess makes sense. What's wrong is this nautical chart, which depicts the Mediterranean Sea so accurately that it makes people believe that the North Sea and the west coast are also correct. But in fact, The author of the chart has probably never been to the North Sea."
"That's also a good thing." Amy comforted, "Although there is no map, at least we don't have to guard against the monsters on the map day and night."
"It's just a chart, whether it's right or wrong, it doesn't make any difference at all. It's just that I thought of something similar."
Ella turned over on the bed and weakly covered her forehead with her arms.
"For example, Aristotle, Ptolemy, and..."
She did not continue.
Amy didn't know that under Ella's pillow, there was always an extremely complex star chart filled with epicycles and epicycles that she had added.
People are rational, but groups are blind.
What guides the group is often the wheel of history based on economics.
Don’t try to be a chariot with your hands, and remember to keep a low profile and bide your time.
Fortunately, history always moves in cycles.
Unfortunately, things written by living people are always worthless.
(End of chapter)
