Chapter 244: 20. Unknown Subhuman Species
“What?! You guys… Boss, boss! You can’t do this!”
By the next morning, seeing the strange expressions on everyone’s faces, Felis could no longer hold back and asked what they were hiding from her. She soon learned from Heidi Lin that Valentina was planning to send her to the Nali humans for research.
Remembering how Fisher had punched her hard earlier, she felt a chill—she assumed Fisher was a very violent human man, and it was impossible to think that going there would be as simple as doing research.
Originally wanting to pretend to be lazy and not get up, Felis was called up early by Valentina, frightened and curling her lion tail around herself, tucking her head into her arms, hiding under the blankets and shaking her head frantically, refusing to come out of the sleeping tent.
“Please, boss, you must not take me to those humans! He’ll definitely hit me!”
Outside the tent, Valentina sighed helplessly from her wheelchair and said to Felis, who was lying inside and refusing to get up, “I will go with you; I will supervise everything he does. He has promised not to do anything strange, it’s probably just research; after all, that’s the character he has disguised himself as.”
“Character?”
“Yeah, a scholar interested in subhuman species.”
“Isn’t that even more terrifying?”
Felis’s fluffy golden hair trembled like a muffin with fear; isn’t the probability of a human being interested in subhuman species lower than money falling from the sky?
Even if there were any, they would definitely be perverts obsessed with buying and selling slaves!
“If you go, I can give you a raise this month.”
Seeing that Felis was really scared to go, Valentina had no choice but to use money to persuade her; she rubbed the ring on her hand and said,
That curled up in the tent, with her back to Valentina, Felis slowly sat up after hearing this, turned her head to look at Valentina, and after two or three seconds of silence, she asked pitifully, “How much?”
“…”
Last night, after finishing reading the Ice Scroll, Valentina buried the scroll along with the outer golden box underground to avoid the curse reactivating and causing losses.
Reluctantly, Felis pushed her boss’s wheelchair towards the direction of the beach where Fisher and the others had come, along the way she could still see the sandpit she had dug out yesterday, where she had found treasures, and she had delivered those treasures back to Valentina’s flagship.
“That ship…”
Felis walked slowly, but she was a lion race, and even at a leisurely pace, she was still faster than Haldor pushing Valentina’s wheelchair, so they quickly arrived at the spot where Fisher had landed.
In the distance, the huge Sardinia warship came into view, not far from the shore, its conspicuous mast bearing no flags, but sitting at the top was the Cangniao girl they had encountered earlier.
“It’s the Iceberg Queen.”
“The Iceberg Queen? Boss, do you know that ship?”
“Yeah, it’s the notorious pirate ship that Sardinia has spent a fortune to hunt down; the captain is Alagina, who has a bounty of 4.3 million Northern Silver Coins (about 7.5 million Nali). After she killed her own mother, she defected from Sardinia with her subordinates. I never expected to run into it here.”
“Hah, that’s terrifying? Wait, does that mean that guy is Alagina’s lover?”
Valentina, sitting in her wheelchair, recalled the scene when she encountered Fisher, then shook her head and said, “No, he doesn’t seem to act according to Alagina’s orders; it seems more like a cooperation.”
Felis nodded in understanding, but didn’t see anyone else from the Iceberg Queen, just a small boat they used to land on the island. She scanned around and said, “Where are they? Are they on that armored ship? If so, does that mean I don’t have to do any… research?”
Valentina shook her head and pointed at the sea.
Following her gesture, Felis looked out at the sea and saw a book floating on the surface, its pages flipping continuously, seemingly the relic that the Nali man often had perched on his shoulder, and it could talk, very strange.
At that moment, the book was speaking something towards the depths of the sea, drifting further away as if following a figure in the water.
“…The Holy Spawn is indeed a race; I mentioned before that Baemon has a very good relationship with the Holy Spawn, and there are even humans who mistakenly believe she is one. The Holy Spawn is very great, but like demons, they reside in a faraway place in the sky. I have a faint impression, but it is not very clear.”
“Believe me, that must be the most spectacular sight you can see in this world; everywhere is beautiful, like artworks. The Holy Spawn apply their highest standards of forging and aesthetics to every aspect of their lives, creating the most perfect city, the Holy Realm.”
Just as Emhart was saying this, a humanoid shadow quickly enlarged beneath the sea; he wisely avoided it a bit, and then Fisher suddenly burst out of the water, bare-chested.
Underwater, he was pulling a huge fishing net filled with many fish of various sizes.
Fisher wiped the water droplets dripping from his hair, then looked at Emhart and said, “So that means the [Angel Race] doesn’t live on the ground but in a city that stands in the sky?”
“The Holy Spawn are the most special species; of course, they are different from all other species. They disdain lowly aesthetics and knowledge, which is why they rarely descend from the sky; there may be other reasons for this, but I’m not too sure.”
Yes, in fact, the Holy Spawn mentioned by Emhart is the legendary Angel race, the one that can forge relics. He respects those beings who created him so much that he only refers to them as “the great Holy Spawn.”
“But they should have disappeared into history like the Phoenix race by now; I have never heard of the name of a genuine Angel race. The only time I heard it was from Eil.”
“No, no, the Holy Spawn must still be in some corner of the world. They are different from the Phoenix race; they are beings of mythical rank! Since demons are still hiding in the abyss, the Holy Spawn must still be living somewhere in the sky.”
“Is that so…”
Fisher dragged a large net of fish onto the shore; he had let Alagina go back to the ship to recuperate, and Aoxi, as her guard, had also returned to the ship. However, what Fisher didn’t expect was that Paz could actually repair steam engines, and she could go back and chat with Old Jack, leaving Fisher and a few crew members on the island to catch fish.
“Hey, you guys are here? Quite early; this way I can research a bit more. Please wait a moment.”
Valentina, sitting in her wheelchair, glanced at his strong upper body, her hands subconsciously crossed, but she just nodded.
Originally supporting her wheelchair, Felis had now turned Valentina’s wheelchair into a shield; she squatted quietly behind it, revealing only her lion tail.
“Boss, is that true? Do you really want to see me taken to be researched by that man?”
“…I’m right here.”
Fisher tossed the net of fish into the small boat, which was already filled with several nets of fish, all alive and kicking. He then washed the fishy smell off his hands at the seaside and took out the paper and pen borrowed from the Iceberg Queen, along with that, he opened the binding page of the Supplement Handbook for Sub-Humans.
As a golden light flickered, a new category appeared in the Handbook,
[Lion Race]
With that energy suddenly glowing, a line of illusory text reappeared before Fisher,
[Please select research individual, available individual count 0/1]
[Felis, adult female lion race]
Just as Fisher was about to confirm the binding, the golden light didn’t pause at all but instead showed a new interface on the next page.
There is another subhuman species?
He directed his gaze toward the golden light, but oddly, the gold light seemed to have failed to recognize any valid information, turning into a garbled title
[%￥1*&？]
“Hmm? What’s going on?”
Looking at the strange letters, Fisher felt a bit puzzled.
Since the Handbook showed something, it should mean it had detected a subhuman species, but what specific subhuman species it was did not get identified for the first time?
Moreover, there was no pop-up option for binding research individuals.
Fisher had a strange expression; he turned and glanced at the two behind him, namely Felis and Valentina.
He scanned Valentina, who sat in the wheelchair, dressed in a black skirt, but the exposed parts looked exactly like a human’s, with no obvious non-human characteristics.
So, could it be that the new subhuman individual detected by the Supplement Handbook was Valentina?
Perhaps Fisher’s gaze was too direct, making it seem as if the individual he intended to study was not Felis, but her, which made her somewhat uncomfortable; she lightly touched the Turan ring on her hand and casually asked,
“…What’s wrong?”
Fisher glanced at her one last time, then shook his head and said, “It’s nothing.”
At the same time, his consciousness quickly touched the binding word on the illusory page, and with the familiar intense pain coming, Fisher silently closed his eyes, his body stiffening in place due to the pain.
[Research individual binding successful!]
[Lion Race]
[Southern Continent Species], [Beast Type], [Inverted Yin and Yang], [Dragon Court Affiliate]
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