Master of Thermodynamics

That night, Renault, who was staying on Three Claw Island, was awakened by the scream of magical air guns. In addition, he also faintly heard some panicked shouts.

"...Tentacles...be careful..."

"...They... rarely go ashore..."

Renault pushed open the wooden door of the temporary wooden house, walked to the open space in the camp, and looked up in the direction of the sound, but he only saw the dark night.

Many thoughts turned quickly in his mind.

Could it be that the indigenous people are robbing the sailboat?

Impossible, just because of the old, weak, sick and disabled, it is impossible for them to step on the deck of the sailboat.

Besides, the dinner of salted fish in the evening has proved one thing, that is, following the master, I can eat big fish and meat. By relying on the turtles alone, 20% of the people can starve to death in one winter. The turtles are stupid. Do that.

Or was it a sea monster attack?

Probably.

However, Grum is in the fleet and Moose is in the dock. There shouldn't be any major problems.

The team members who were resting in the camp walked out of the wooden house one after another, and the wide camp suddenly became lively. Renault hurried past a team member passing by and confessed a task:

"Go and ask the natives of Three Claw Island, what the **** is going on?"

The team members bowed down and hurriedly left the camp.

Ten minutes later, the team took the surrendered third pirate leader, Samson, back to the camp.

"Master Lord, I think this is probably the ghost claw climbed onto the dock..."

Facing the question, Samson gave out his guess.

When Renault heard the words "Ghost Claw", his heart moved, and he immediately thought of the name of this unnamed island-the Ghost Claw Islands.

At first, he thought that the pirates were out of intimidation or delusion, so he named the islands Ghost Claw Islands. Now it seems that these pirates do not have so much tactics. The "Ghost Claw" clearly refers to the sea here and there. strange.

Renault glanced at Samson, who was a little dignified, and asked curiously:

"Can you tell me more about the ghost claws?"

Samson put on a pleasing smile on his face, and said respectfully:

"Lord Lord, that's it. Ghost Claw is one of the most scared sea monsters fishermen in the Ghost Claw Islands..."

After listening to Samson's explanation, Renault roughly figured out what the ghost claw was.

In short, they are starfish in another world!

Ghost claws are a kind of sea monster that makes fishermen fearful. They generally have tentacles up to 10 meters in length. They can easily entangle the fishing boat and drag the fishermen on the boat into the water. In this sea area, fishermen are missing every year. , Ranging from 6 or 7 to more than 10.

When the storm season comes, they will retreat to the deep sea like most marine fish, and they will follow the fish to return to the shallow water after the sea is calm.

At this time, it was the Moon of the Mid-Flower. According to experience, the ghost claw group had returned to the ghost claw islands, so Samson would guess that such sea monsters might have appeared on the dock.

Ghost claw refers not only to a kind of sea monster, but a collective term for several different sea creatures.

Most ghost claws have 3-4 tentacles. They are called three claws or four claws. The island where the pirates live, also known as the "three claw island", is named after the three claws.

Many years ago, when the first pirate ship to reach this island was sailing around the island looking for fresh water, it happened to witness a three-claw monster hunting marine fish, so the island was named Three-claw Island.

There are many five-clawed monsters with 5 tentacles. They are larger than three-clawed monsters and four-clawed monsters. The length of their tentacles is no less than 15 meters, so they are naturally more dangerous.

Ghost claws with more than 5 tentacles are very rare. Over the years, fishermen on the island have only witnessed them a few times, and they have all peeped from a distance, only seeing the huge underwater shadows and the protruding sea surface. Huge tentacles, even the specific number of tentacles cannot be determined.

According to the widely circulated rumors on Three Claw Island, these super big guys are more than 100 meters in size. When swimming in the sea, their huge bodies will stir up huge waves. They are definitely a very terrifying monster.

This kind of ignorant and foolish rhetoric was completely different in Renault's ears.

What a "body ignited wave", it is clearly a huge wave created by the extraordinary power of the water system. After encountering a few extraordinary sea monsters of the water system, he is really familiar with this trick.

In other words, a ghost claw with 6 or more tentacles has a 90% chance of being an extraordinary sea monster.

Because of their size, they will inevitably live in the deep sea, and they will hardly appear in the ghost claw islands with insufficient water depth, so fishermen rarely see them. The only few glimpses must be these big guys chasing The prey came to the surface in the process, otherwise, what are they doing to make a huge wave?

It is precisely because of the existence of ghost claws that the civilians on Three Claw Island are so miserable. Far sea areas are afraid to go fishing, and offshore areas face competition from ghost claws. It is difficult to make a living by fishing, and there are often lives. Danger.

This has also resulted in a funny and sad fact that the turtles live on the island, but they don't have too many opportunities to eat fish. If you want to open your belly to eat fish, let alone the door, there is no window.

In the salted fish feast last night, almost every civilian tried desperately to eat Haisai, queuing up again and again to add food, and everything looked like a starving ghost reborn.

Later, even the sailors who were serving vegetables were a little scared, for fear that they would die alive, and even Renault was alarmed. After being funny, he set a more ridiculous rule: any civilians must let the sailors before adding vegetables. Take a look at the belly. If the belly is bulging, it is strictly forbidden to add vegetables.

However, the ghost claws that made the fishermen tremble made Renault's heart intolerable.

The sea monsters are all good comrades. Not to mention the experience and the magic spar, all parts of the body can be used for cooking. That is, relying on the selfless dedication of the sea monsters, Renault can barely survive this. Look like.

Therefore, he really likes sea monsters.

At this time, new varieties of seafood appeared again. How could he bear his heart of food?

So Renault yelled:

"Lanster, set up the team immediately. Except for the people staying at the camp, everyone else went to the dock. We caught a few ghost claws and came back for supper..."

As soon as this remark came out, all the members of the island guard should be stunned, and their morale burst instantly.

Samson next to him looked shocked.

Then, amid Lanster's roar, a long line of dozens of torches drove out of the camp and headed to the location of the dock.

Ten minutes later, the team arrived at the dock.

At this time, the vicinity of the pier had become blazing, and Moose turned into a arsonist, lighting up many surrounding bushes, and the entire pier was illuminated as bright as day.

In the center of the clearing on the side of the pier, beside a few large wooden boxes filled with dried salted fish, a half-scorched corpse was lying motionless on the clearing.

Renault saw three 10-meter-long tentacles at a glance.

Sure enough, it was a three-claw monster.

Its body is flat, the upper side of the body surface is dark gray, covered with scales the size of half a palm, and there are many short and dense spines on the scales. The lower side of the body is pure white, which is completely different from the upper side, with a large number of suckers distributed. , There is still a ring of small tentacles around each sucker, which looks a bit disgusting.

This three-pronged monster obviously died of Moose's extraordinary fire. The burn marks on its body and the faint smell of meat in the air have fully proved this point.

Another thing that makes Renault feel a little bit dumbfounded is that one of the three-claw monster's tentacles happened to sit on those large wooden boxes.

Obviously, this guy was still thinking about the dried salted fish in the box until he died.

The reason why the sailors put these boxes of dried salted fish here was to leave them tomorrow to make breakfast for the turtles on the island, but they did not expect to attract this uninvited guest.