48 Hours a Day

“We went down to the warehouse again, but we didn't see you until everyone was assembled on the deck. What were you doing in the middle of the day?” Annie asked.

“I went to the boat, and a woman named Betty told me she had something to show me. ”

“What's that?” Zhang Hengdao.

“A gift. ”

“A gift? ”

“She says she is an ancient Celtic god who controls storms in the ocean, and if I choose to worship her, I can get some divine power from her.” Seth hesitated for a moment, some reluctantly pulled a shell out of his pocket.

Zhang Heng took over the thumb-sized shell and couldn't see anything special about it in appearance, just like the other white shells found everywhere on the beach.

But the system prompt that sounded in his ear made him confirm in the first place that it was indeed a game prop with supernatural powers.

- Betty's shell (not identified)

It is temporarily impossible to judge its use by name, and Zhang Heng also notes the Celtic Gods mentioned by Seth.

Celtic mythology is one of the three major European mythological systems alongside Greek mythology and Nordic mythology, originally circulated among Celts.

The Celts are not, strictly speaking, a race; they are an ethnic group that was mixed together in ancient times and united by a common culture and language. They were among the first people in Europe to use iron, and at the same time possess considerable building standards.

The upper Seine, Royal River, the Rhine and Danube rivers in south-western Germany in eastern France are the birthplaces of the Celts, who penetrated the entire European continent in tribal terms, crossed the Alps and were ubiquitous. They were both warriors and businessmen, blacksmiths, bards, artists, and today France, Spain, Portugal and elsewhere are their areas of activity.

Until the rise of the Roman Empire, Caesar occupied Gaulle, the cultural centre of the Celts, killing more than a million Celts and causing the gradual loss of Celtic civilization on the European continent, and many Celtic legends were lost, which is why future Celtic myths are not famous for Greek and Nordic myths.

By now, the Celtic myth, which is still well known, is probably the only story left of King Arthur and the Sword in Stone.

Zhang Heng was also unfamiliar with Celtic mythology. His father attacked Greek and Nordic mythology in college, while his mother was a Christian myth. He listened to more of these three mythology stories as a child.

That's why he saw the name Betty in that love poem and still didn't have a lot of ideas.

“You said she wanted you to worship her. How?” Zhang Heng continued.

Seth's eyes flashed when she heard the question, "I... I don't know, I need to finish the quiz and find those three notes before she can tell me what to do next. ”

“Oh, do you still want to lie when this happens?” Annie's got a bad color. That knife is closer to Seth's throat. “Wasn't that about you before that storm? ”

Zhang Heng also said, “In the name of the captain, I can promise not to hold you accountable for what you did, but you have to tell me what you did. You saw the scene on that Clark ship, and you don't want to cause everyone to disappear for no reason. ”

Feeling the chill between her neck, Seth dared not play any more tricks, "I engraved her name in Celtic at the top of the mast of the Raven, as she had requested, which meant that the ship would henceforth be sheltered by her, and I asked her, and she said that what happened on that Clark ship was an accident. ”

“Accident? ”

“The people on that boat were so greedy that for so many years they had been using her power to summon the storm to sail in that area twice as fast as the rest of the merchant boat to make rich profits, but it was costly to do so, manipulating the storm required deep anger, they lost themselves in anger, eventually they could never escape the storm, the crew crucified the doors and windows, but they could still hear the thunder and wind outside, and finally jumped into the sea in despair. ”

Zhang Heng couldn't resist, “Last question, how did you contact her? Did you see her? ”

“I couldn't reach her, I could only pray to her, but it was up to her to decide whether to respond. She only responded to me once when she got off that Clark boat, just like before, with only a voice, and I never saw her. ”

Seth said Sean and Tracy also rushed in, they didn't know what was happening. Seth had left the second floor suddenly. Zhang Heng and Annie were chasing after him. They were both foggy, but when they saw Seth forced into the corner, their faces showed concern.

Zhang Heng glanced at Annie. The latter retracted the military knife in his hand and Zhang Heng turned to Seth Tao. "Don't sneak gambling on the boat anymore, because you are the first offender, you will not pursue it this time, the next time you go out to sea spoils will be halved. ”

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In order to avoid unnecessary panic among the crew, Zhang Heng did not intend to tell anyone else about the matter.

Nor was he concerned that Seth would talk nonsense, the latter hiding Betty's shell, engraving Celtic on the mast, posed a danger to the crew on the Cold Raven, and he should remain silent if he was smart enough.

Sure enough, Seth didn't say anything, so he acquiesced to gambling.

When the three of them left, the red-haired girl said again, "You don't seem to fully believe him, do you think he's lying? ”

Zhang Heng shook his head, "In this case he's unlikely to lie, but not necessarily another person. ”

“The Betty? ”

“She obviously deceived Seth about the Clark boat, and those who disappeared did not throw themselves, at least not all, because it did not explain the locked captain's chamber and the scratches on the bottom cargo hold. ”

“Does God lie too? ”

“It depends on which mythical system God is in.” Zhang Hengdao, he is not familiar with the Celtic mythology system, but he is not familiar with the Nordic and Greek gods. The guys in there are more powerful mortals than gods, and are represented by Zeus, who thinks in the lower half, living more than one wants.

But this Celtic ancient god named Betty should not be among them. She seemed very cautious in her style. There were seven people aboard the Clark boat at the time, but she chose only Seth's ear language, and Zhang Heng did not know if it was because of her original personality or what she was hiding from.