With Amber's reminder, Gwen's curiosity was piqued. He looked at Betty and asked, "Didn't you ask Tyre to come over for dinner?"
Betty blinked and said, "I did, but Miss Tyre said she wanted to sleep a little longer …"
"With her hibernation-like lifestyle, she might not even wake up until tomorrow's meal time." Gawain's mouth twitched. He wanted to take advantage of this rare leisure time to find the siren from the outside world to find out more about the 'outside world', but he did not expect that the siren was still sleeping the whole day. "Go and wake her up. If she doesn't come, I'll wake her up myself — in case she falls asleep," Gawain said.
"Oh." Betty stood up and was about to call the siren over for dinner, but just as she stood up, she heard the siren's lazy voice coming from the door of the restaurant. "I'm coming, I'm coming … Yawn … I just slept a little longer, did I really have to fall asleep …"
"Sleeping for almost 20 hours a day, anyone would be worried that you would fall asleep. Is this how you sirens sleep?" Gwen said casually as he turned to look at the door of the restaurant. He saw the siren pushing the door open and 'walking' in. At a glance, he saw that Tyre's lower body was not in human form, but a long snake tail. Obviously, for this deep-water creature, this sea snake-like body was much more useful than human legs.
But in the next moment, Gwen's expression became stunned and stiff. He saw Tyre driving her body into the restaurant with her snake tail, but she did not slither like a snake and enter gracefully. Instead, she arched her way in — the middle of her tail was raised high, and then arched forward with all her might …
Although Tyre had been staying here for a few days, she rarely left the room, and the previous few times she walked with her legs or jumped with her tail. This was the first time Gwen saw her moving in her sea snake form. How should he put it … it felt a little stupid …
"What's wrong?" Tyre noticed Gwen's expression and immediately put her hands on her waist. "Is my tail not pretty?"
"So this is how you Sea Demons move on land?" Rebecca also let out a surprised sound. It seemed that Gwen was not the only one who was surprised. She even used her hands to mimic the movement of a snake. "Isn't it supposed to walk like this?"
Tyre turned his head and looked at his tail. He shook the tip of his tail and said, "Ah, other sirens walk like you said, but when I first made my tail appear, there was a sea caterpillar next to me, and I learned the wrong way. I never corrected it in my life..."
Gwen: "… Try to get used to walking with your legs in the future. After all, everyone in the human world uses their legs. You can't go out like this."
He did not say what he wanted to say. The main thing was that the image of such a beautiful snake walking forward was too stupid. It was so embarrassing that it could be carried into the temple to be worshipped forever. The shame of the various races and professions in the territory was enough. If there was another shame, he was worried about the shame level of the people in Cecil's territory in the future.
Tyre did not think of so many underlying factors. She thought that Gwen's words were very reasonable, but she thought of a better solution. "How about this, next time you break my leg in public, and then I'll just let people carry me when I go out, or I won't go out at all..."
"Do you have to do this just because you don't have to walk upright?!" Gwen was stunned by the siren. "Are all sirens like this?"
"Not all of them." Tyre struggled to climb to the table, pushed the chair away, and then firmly coiled her tail into a ball. She rolled a fork with the tip of her tail and played with the plate in front of her. "It's just that I'm a little lazy... Oh, you have a lot of food on the land. Have you changed the style again?"
"I hope the food on the land is to your liking." Heti said with a smile, although when she saw how Tyre used her tail, her smile was slightly twisted. "In fact, our food here is already considered simple. This territory is still developing, a lot of things..."
"It doesn't matter." Tyre waved her tail. "I can't taste it. Sirens basically have no sense of taste."
"You have no sense of taste?" Gwen asked in surprise. "So you usually eat... by swallowing it?"
For humans, not having a sense of taste was obviously a great shortcoming, which meant that one of the greatest pleasures of life — delicious food would be far away from life. But Tyre the siren apparently did not care. She poked the stewed potato in front of her with a fork, and then stuffed it into her mouth, chewing and swallowing. "Although we have no sense of taste, we can feel the subtle texture. And we sirens are essentially a kind of elemental creatures. We are the aggregation of water elements. 'Eating' is not necessary for us to maintain our survival, but more like a kind of... entertainment. In fact, many sirens don't usually eat. At most, when they catch unknown fish or shrimp in the sea, they will take a few bites to test the hardness... "
"That's interesting." Gwen appeared to be very interested in the daily life of the sirens. In fact, he was very interested. "How do you usually live in the sea? You also build a city. Do you need jobs or something like that? "
"City? Our city can give you mainlanders a big fright! " Tyre glanced at Gwen as if this was a ridiculous question. "Our city is bigger, more advanced, and stronger than your largest city. Our city can fly in the past!"
"A city that can fly?" Heti's eyes widened. She could not hide her curiosity and asked, "Is it a magic floating city like the elves' Stellaris Sanctum? Ah wait, do you know the elves' Stellaris Sanctum? "
"I haven't seen it, but some of my sisters have. It floats over the strait in the south of your continent. The Stellaris Sanctum has a floating core passed down from God knows which era, and a broadcasting system that can't be turned off at all. Those long-eared creatures called the Silver Elves seem to be very proud of their floating city. Some of my sisters once went up to take a look out of curiosity, wanting to learn from the elves how to break free from gravity. In the end, they found that those long-eared creatures actually only know how to use it. They don't know how to build or repair it. The so-called floating core is most likely stolen from somewhere... Tsk, tsk. "
Tyre used a rather dismissive tone to evaluate the Silver Empire's most proud floating city, but her casual words set off waves in Gwen's heart.
Tyre's tone did not seem to be fake, and her personality in the past few days did not seem like the type who was good at lying. (Of course, Gwen was not sure if he could see through a person in a few days, let alone the character of an alien. He could only make a judgment based on what he had observed so far.) So from her words, Gwen could tell that the sea sirens had extremely advanced technology. Otherwise, they would not have made such an evaluation of the Silver Empire, which was currently the most advanced magical technology on the continent.
Now it was also certain that a few sirens had visited the land and the elven kingdom. They had carried out observation and evaluation, and had an in-depth understanding of the essence of the Stellaris Sanctum's technology. And they had done so... originally to learn the elves' anti-gravity technology?
Was there something wrong with the sirens' anti-gravity technology?
Tyre seemed to have mentioned that the sirens' city could fly "back in the day". That meant that it was broken now? It could not fly?
Did they also have a technological gap?
And the sirens' observation and evaluation of the elves had obviously disappointed them. They found that the elves' anti-gravity technology was even worse than theirs. The current generation of Silver Elves did not have the ability to build a Stellaris Sanctum at all.
Gwen still had some understanding of the Silver Elves. After all, Gwen Cecil was one of the greatest pioneering heroes of the human race, and had interacted with various races on the continent. In the inherited memory, Gwen did know that the Silver Elves did call their Stellaris Sanctum the "Lost Ancestral Legacy". Their sacred ground in the sky had a lot of technology that even they did not know about.
The Silver Elves should also have a technological gap.
Perhaps, all races in the world had a technological gap.
Perhaps it was because of the Demonic Wave.
Thinking of this, he decided to ask the sirens about their understanding of the Demonic Wave and technological gap. "By the way, do you know about a catastrophe that happened on the land 700 years ago?"
"A catastrophe that happened 700 years ago?" Tyre thought for a moment. "Ah, I probably know a little. I heard from my sisters who like to run around that something blew up 700 years ago, and then human society was turned upside down."
"We call it the 'Demonic Wave'." Heti nodded and said solemnly. "It was a disaster on the continent, many people —"
Tyre suddenly interrupted Heti. "Wait a minute, what do you call it?"
"Demonic Wave, or Magic Tide." Heti did not understand, but still explained. "It is when the magic in nature suddenly loses its order, and the chaotic magic energy erodes the world on a large scale, forming a variety of deadly environments and destroying the stable structure of the material world, causing monsters and deadly environments to spread everywhere."
“Na'Salu'Fala。” Tyre suddenly said a word. This word was obviously not in human language. It was uttered by some special vocal mechanism of the sirens, with a strange, resonant tone and a pleasant rhythm. It even caused a slight magic resonance, and a wave of illusory sound rang in the dining hall.
Amber blinked in confusion. "Huh? What do you mean? "
"Demonic Wave, the 'Demonic Wave' in our language." Tyre shrugged. "Your explanation of the 'Demonic Wave' sounds quite plausible. It seems that you have experienced a similar phenomenon, but to be honest … according to our observation, what kind of Demonic Wave is that? It's not even a breeze, okay?"
Heti, Rebecca and the rest were a little stunned. They did not seem to understand what Tyre meant, but Gwen felt a loud click in his head. He knew and thought much more than anyone else present.
Tyre's voice continued to ring faintly. "The real Demonic Wave … will reshape the whole world."
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