Chapter 343: The Kraken

In the middle of the antique bedroom, there is a four-poster bed with rose-colored bedding and lavender-colored bed curtains.

Rove sat cross-legged on the bed and spread out an old sheepskin sea chart with faded lines on the side.

One corner was curled up due to long-term rolling. He picked up a wooden comb that Shirley had placed on the bedside table and gently pressed the sea chart.

After a long time, there was a slight sound of the door opening. The girl in a light-colored nightgown pushed the door open lightly and walked into the bedroom.

She came to the bed, glanced at the bedside table, and asked softly, "Rove, have you seen my comb?"

Rove looked up at Shirley. She had obviously just taken a bath and was still emitting heat. Her wet wine-red long hair was scattered on her shoulders. Her white cheeks were flushed and she looked as beautiful as peach blossoms.

She was so beautiful.

Luo Fu praised sincerely in his heart, then pointed to the comb holding down the parchment and said, "Here it is."

Shirley reached out and picked up the wooden comb, and a corner of the parchment rose again. She was about to press the comb back, but Luo Fu took it and said with a smile:

"It's okay. Sit down quickly, I'll help you comb it."

Shirley hummed obediently and gently, and sat down on the bed.

Lu Fu sat behind her, his fingers passed through the wet hair, and mist rose immediately, and the long hair soaked in water dried in an instant.

The young man's slender fingers twisted up another strand of soft hair, he sniffed the fragrance between the hair intimately, then held the comb and carefully combed the wine-red long hair.

Shirley was idle, so she picked up the parchment chart on the bed and read it attentively.

This chart came from the ghost ship encountered in the Atlantic two years ago, and the location of Avalon was drawn on it.

However, Shirley's eyes were not on the legendary island, but on the animal drawings distributed around the island.

It was a group of ferocious sea monsters, which were painted vividly, as if they were about to roar out of the parchment.

Next to those drawings, there were small notes, writing their names:

Kraken, Leviathan, Charybdis, Manta, Whirlpool, Sea Kirin...

Some of these names were unfamiliar to Shirley, but some were very familiar, such as... Leviathan.

When she was very young, she saw this name in the Book of Job when she was studying the Bible with the nuns in the convent.

According to the description in the Bible, God created two monsters, one male and one female, on the sixth day of creation. The female was Leviathan, which occupied the sea, and the male was Behemoth (Behemoth) that dominated the land.

Shirley was only five or six years old at that time, and naively thought that Leviathan really existed, so she was particularly afraid of water.

Later, when she grew up a little, she knew that Leviathan was a fictional monster and did not exist in reality.

When she was eleven years old, she knew about the existence of magic and magical creatures, and thought that Leviathan was a magical creature that really existed in the world.

But when she entered Hogwarts to study, she found that Leviathan did not exist in the books about magical creatures.

Now, looking at this sea chart again, Leviathan seems to exist again... It is true that as life experience continues to enrich, the understanding of a thing is constantly reversed!

Rove seemed to know what Shirley was thinking. He held a comb in his hand and brushed it through her soft hair, whispering:

"These magical creatures are actually just legends, just like the kingfisher. No wizard has ever taken a photo of them or captured them."

"It's a legend, but there are countless eyewitness records from ancient times to the present.

The most records are about the Kraken, and all the eyewitnesses' descriptions are similar. They say it is an animal that looks like an octopus, more than a hundred meters long, larger than any existing magical creature."

Shirley tilted her head slightly and said to Rove behind her in a puzzled tone:

"The North Sea is so shallow, can a Kraken more than a hundred meters tall really survive? It can even hide without being found by wizards."

This is the key point!

The North Sea is a marginal sea in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, located between the British Isles, the Scandinavian Peninsula, the Jutland Peninsula and the Holland Lowlands.

The total sea area is not small, close to 600,000 square kilometers, but except for the area near the southwestern tip of the Scandinavian Peninsula, the water depth is between 200 and 800 meters, and the water depth in most sea areas does not exceed 100 meters.

A 100-meter-tall Kraken living in the North Sea is like a great white shark living in a swimming pool a few meters deep!

And according to the description of the sea chart, there are more than a dozen magical creatures that can rival the Kraken in size, living in this sea area.

Not to mention that the shallow water pool in the North Sea cannot support so many sea monsters, even if it can be supported, it is impossible to hide so secretly.

But in fact, the International Confederation of Wizards has searched the North Sea many times, but has never found the Kraken or other legendary magical creatures.

Newt also lived in the North Sea for two and a half years, and except for seeing a magical animal suspected to be a divine kingfisher, he also found nothing.

However, Rove also had his own guess about this. He whispered:

"Although these magical creatures live in the North Sea, they may not be in the same spatial latitude as the North Sea where we are."

Shirley pondered for a moment, her eyes lit up and she said: "You mean... Avalon and the location of these magical creatures are like a hazy illusion?"

"That's right." Luo Fu nodded with admiration, "So, even if Myrcella took this chart and searched all over the North Sea, she still couldn't find Avalon."

He put down the comb, hugged Shirley from behind, then gently rested his chin on her slender shoulder, looking at the chart in her hand.

But Luo Fu's eyes first saw the girl's delicate collarbone and exposed white skin.

Looking down, the most important peak view was blocked by the collar of the light-colored nightgown.

But it can be seen from the bulging and graceful arc shape that although it is not spectacular, it is already quite large.

Looking down again, he saw that under the hem of Shirley's light-colored skirt, two attractive legs as smooth as gelatin and as tender as thin lotus roots were exposed. They were tightly together and stretched straight forward.

Luo Fu accidentally captured this beautiful picture from top to bottom, and was fascinated by it for a while.

Although Shirley's back was to Luo Fu, her body was extremely sensitive and she could feel the young man staring blankly at her.

She was a little shy for a moment and asked softly: "Rolph... what are you looking at?"

Only then did Luo Fu come to his senses, put his eyes on the parchment with difficulty, and whispered: "I'm... looking at the map."

Shirley didn't expose the boy. She just blinked her moist eyes, turned her head and smiled at him and said, "I... am a little sleepy."

"Then go to sleep." Luof let go of Shirley and said with a smile, "We have to get up early tomorrow to watch the sunrise."

Shirley asked in a soft voice: "But there is only one bedroom in this house. Didn't you prepare a bedroom for me?"

"Ah, no?" Luo Fu said in surprise, as if he just knew it.

"I clearly wrote to Captain Carlos that there were two of us and we needed two bedrooms. Did he forget?"

Shirley bit her thin lips and smiled: "It's okay, there is a room in the box, I can just go back there and sleep."

"I'm afraid not." Luo Fu looked confused.

"Why?"

"While you're taking a shower, I'll go back to the box to get the map." Luo Fe sighed:

"A Niffler took the opportunity to escape, locked the box, and stole the key. I haven't caught that Niffler yet... You definitely won't be able to get into the box tonight."

Luofu's face became serious, and he quickly raised a smile and said softly:

"Let's do this, Shirley...you can sleep here tonight. Anyway, this bed is quite big and it's not crowded at all."

The girl turned around, curved her slender and charming eyebrows, and looked at Luo Fu with a soft smile, showing his fox tail.

Before Shirley could say anything, Luof had already gathered her in his arms and carried her onto the bed. With a slight kick of his right foot, he pulled up the rose-colored quilt and covered the two of them.

The parchment map floated in the wind, rolled up in mid-air, and finally landed lightly on the ground.

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