Entomologist in Sichuan Tang Clan Chapter 384

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Swirl 8

There was no mudslide, but visibility was still poor due to the dark sky and water.

No, it was more because of the water than the sky.

Human vision occurs when light enters the eye through the cornea, enters the pupil, passes through the vitreous body, and is focused on the retina.

This is why there should be no distortion of light so that an accurate image is formed on the retina. However, when you go into water, the light is refracted and the image is not formed properly on the retina, so your vision becomes blurred.

Why didn’t we learn in elementary school that light changes direction when it encounters substances with different optical properties?

That was why.

Because light refracts when it encounters things like glass, salt, diamonds, and water.

And that meant my vision was blurry and I couldn’t see what the hell it was.

‘But that doesn’t mean it’s completely invisible.’

But would I have tried to check on the guy underwater if I had no way of doing so?

Even though it was cloudy, there was a way to roughly identify the guy.

It was just a matter of getting closer, the farther away you were the blurrier the image became, so conversely, the closer you got to the guy, the clearer he became.

Of course, I couldn’t see the perfect shape, but I was able to roughly check the outline and color.

So, since he was saying that I should just approach him, I asked Cho to quickly approach him and face him.

“‘Hey, move forward! Move towards that guy!’

-Tsurut! (Okay, Dad.)

Anyway, since the guy was approaching this way quickly, I’ll soon see him.

However, since it might change direction at a moment’s notice when it sees us, we asked the boy to face the guy’s direction.

If they were fish, they would be used to turning in the water, but even when they turned, they would move in the opposite direction and follow each other to close the distance.

Then suddenly I felt a current.

At my request, the body of the first person shot out quickly towards the guy who was pushing towards me.

‘What the heck? Let me see your face!’

I forced my eyes open in the strong current that hit my face.

Water was seeping into my eyes and between my eyelids, and it was hurting, but I had to see the guy, so I gritted my teeth and focused my eyes.

A sharp sound is heard at that moment.

-Tsk!

Perhaps because it lives in the water, its slightly sharp sound quickly spread through the water of the lake.

Just like the ultrasonic sounds of dolphins or whales.

Could it be because I interact a lot with children?

Although it was the first time I heard it, I could vaguely feel the emotion contained in the sound. The emotion I felt from the sound was a feeling of slight surprise.

It was clear that the guy had discovered us too.

‘Could it be a dolphin spirit?’

At the sharp sound that sounded like an ultrasound, I suddenly thought that the thing swimming towards us might be a dolphin.

In my previous life, it was extinct, but as you know, there are many dolphins called Baijidon (白鱀豚) living in the Yangtze River, so I had the thought that it might be a spirit based on that dolphin.

After all, ultrasound is something of a specialty of aquatic mammals like whales.

Because whales, dolphins, and some mammals like seals all use ultrasound.

There is a reason why animals living in water use ultrasound: sound is transmitted through the air as a medium.

However, the speed of sound propagation in water is fast, but water molecules do not move as smoothly as gas and the spacing is also close together, so the amplitude that determines the loudness of the sound is weakened, making it difficult to hear the sound.

Because water has a high density, sound travels five times faster than air, but the size of the sound itself is reduced.

That’s why mammals that live in water communicate using short-wavelength ultrasound.

Because the wavelength is short, it travels quickly and farther.

But by the way, if the guy really is a dolphin, I’m starting to get a little worried.

‘A dolphin spirit? I wonder if my sister Seol will ask for this?’

The dolphin was cute and hairless, but I already had the pangolin-based Pure White and White White, so I felt like I had to give them to my sister Seol if she asked for them.

As I was thinking that I should hand it over to my sister Seol, even though it was a pity, I felt the water rushing in from the front and turning it over.

‘This is not the time.’

The urgent thing now is to confirm the guy’s identity.

At the moment when I decided to think about ownership later, the figure of the guy that had been vaguely in my sight disappeared in an instant.

-Kwarrrr.

And then a powerful torrent of water hit me and Cho.

It seemed like the water current was caused by the guy changing direction, and his body spun around in the water like a flash in the strong current that was rushing in.

“What? Where did you go?”

-Tsurut! Dad! Down!

“under!?””

The moment when the center of the rotating body is found.

I quickly shifted my gaze to the bottom of the grass while looking for the guy who suddenly disappeared.

Then the water rushed past me and below me.

For a moment, the sun rose and its light poured down onto the lake, brightening the water as if a searchlight had been turned on.

The light from the sky passes through the water and illuminates the bottom of the lake.

‘nice!’

This way we can definitely identify the guy.

As expected, it was the spicy Fabre who was a very lucky man.

‘So sweet!’

But even though I clearly felt the water rushing under my feet, nothing came into my sight.

There was nothing visible below.

And the barely perceptible current quickly dispersed.

I don’t know what it was, but it was as if it had just evaporated in an instant.

The only thing that comes into view in the hazy vision is the bottom of the lake.

There was only white sand and black stones rolling around here and there.

‘What? Where did you go all of a sudden?’

It was something that would make a ghost cry.

***

A spirit that disappeared after wandering around for a while.

I couldn’t breathe and had no choice but to come out.

“Phuha!”

After I came out of the water and rubbed my eyes, I saw the pirates mooring their boats on the riverbank.

The guys we had rescued earlier, the guys Yeondu had rescued, and the rest of them were all moored on the riverbank and climbing onto the reeds.

They probably pulled their boats up to the riverbank to avoid the current and any further attacks that might follow.

‘I wonder if that guy at Sagong Park got his money by playing tag?’

I noticed that Sagongwon was giving orders appropriate to the situation, and it seemed like it was his instructions.

Then the enemies don’t have to worry.

Just as I was thinking about going down into the water one more time, leaving the water behind, the sky above my head suddenly darkened.

“huh?”

As we looked up, we saw the green figure hovering above our heads.

Yeondoo, who was approaching quickly, asked in a worried voice.

-Char. “Are you okay, Little Dragon?”

“Yeah, it’s okay! Let’s go in again, Choya!”

Perhaps because he just came out of the water, Yeondoo’s voice sounded a little worried.

He quickly replied that it was okay and asked Cho to go into the water again.

I wanted to check the water one more time before it was too late.

I didn’t know what it was, but it was because I couldn’t understand why it disappeared right before my eyes.

-Tsururut! “Okay, Dad!”

A body that suddenly falls down.

I took a deep breath and was back under water.

After a brief moment for my eyes to adjust to being underwater, the day finally dawned and visibility was better than before, but as expected, all that entered my blurry vision were the white sandy bottom and rocks rolling around here and there.

『“Where on earth did you disappear to? You suddenly disappeared, didn’t you?”

-Tsurut. (Yes, Dad, he swam underneath and then suddenly disappeared.)

Since we were originally moving from the riverside, the water here wasn’t deep, so we couldn’t dive into the deep water.

But the guy disappeared.

‘Did I miss it? Should I wait for the next opportunity?’

Since it seemed pointless to continue searching for the guy who suddenly disappeared, I decided to check if he was some kind of spirit.

Since it was a dolphin, I needed to confirm its identity.

I wondered how I could check something I had missed without even seeing it, but even if I hadn’t seen it, the grass might have seen it.

If you happen to see the grass, you can guess what kind of person it is by listening to its description.

Wouldn’t that make it easier to deal with him the next time we meet?

“Hey, Choya, have you seen what it looks like?”

-Tsrrrr. (I couldn’t see it well, Dad.)

“Is that so?”

Cho asked with an expectant expression, but his voice was awkward and he was wagging his antennae from side to side.

Unfortunately, the answer was that the grass was not visible very well.

The grass’s eyes were structured differently from human eyes, and it even had antennae, so I had some expectations, but it seemed like, just like me, I couldn’t confirm its identity.

Even if they are spirits, is the structure of seeing things with the eyes similar?

‘This is difficult.’

The moment when Cho and Du looked at each other in the water with expressions of incomprehension.

I remembered that guy made a noise earlier.

It’s like an ultrasound sound.

Even though I couldn’t see it, there was information in the voice, so I asked Cho right away.

『“Oh, right! Sound! Choya, did you understand what that sound was just now?”』

There is a difference between the normal cries that babies make and the ultrasonic sounds, but when grouped into the category of spirits, spirits are able to understand each other’s cries.

Until now, didn’t our children understand each other’s speech when they were grouped into the category of spirits, even if they were different species?

When I quickly asked if he understood the meaning of the crying sound he had heard earlier, this time Cho nodded quickly.

『-Tsurut! (Yes, that was something like ‘What, what!?’)

“Then, can you guess what kind of spirit’s voice it is?”

From what the guy said, it was clear that he was surprised to see me, no, Cho.

It seemed that the two spirits were very embarrassed to suddenly come face to face, but Cho was unable to answer the questions that followed.

『-Tsururrur. (I don’t know, Dad. It’s a sound I’ve never heard before.)

“Huh, what the heck?”

An unsolved mystery.

I was holding my chin and thinking.

We heard Hwa-eun ask again whether she had continued to listen to our story.

“Little Dragon, did it run away?”

He probably waited quietly, listening to the story, and when it seemed like the tense situation was over, he seemed to be asking what had happened.

“Yes, Hwa-eun. She suddenly disappeared before my eyes.”

“It disappeared?”

“Yes, it definitely swam right up to my nose, but it felt like it suddenly disappeared.”

“is it so?””

I feel very frustrated while answering Hwa-eun.

That was the moment.

-Krrrrrp.

I realized that it wasn’t frustrating because I couldn’t figure out what kind of guy it was, but because I was underwater.

I’m such a bastard. I was so busy thinking about the spirit world that I forgot that I was underwater.

I quickly asked Cho to go outside.

‘Out of the wilderness!’

-Tsururur

-Whoa.

He jumped out of the water and gasped for breath.

“Keuhhh. Huh. Huh.”

I’m not even a fish, and I forgot how to breathe.

As I lay on the bed catching my breath, Hwa-eun’s voice continued.

『“Ah, Little Dragon, has the gold map arrived? I sent the gold map just in case.”

“A golden sword?”

I tilted my head at the words that he had sent the gold sword.

It was as if he was saying that he had sent Geumdo alone.

Because to us, Geumdo meant pear.

“Yes, we separated the ship and floated it, and only sent Geumdo. We didn’t want people to get in and cause trouble.”

It seemed my thoughts were not mistaken.

It seemed right to send only the gold sword, but since the neck was probably cut off, it was clear that the gold sword was sent separately.

-Bugururur.

At that moment, the nobleman heard Geumdo’s voice, which seemed to be of a bad appearance.

When I turned my head, I couldn’t see Geumdo, but I saw something coming towards me, leaving a trace on the surface of the water.

A golden dolphin, with its nose slightly sticking out to avoid being seen by people, was coming towards us, cutting through the water.

A golden body faintly reflected on the water.

The goldfish, which had been approaching us quickly, stopped in front of us and let out a crying sound.

-Bughur.

“Oh, right, Geumdo. Welcome.”

It was the moment when I finally answered the manly and loud voice of that guy.

Geumdo turned his head and looked at his hind legs, then tilted his head.

-A bowl?

-Tsurut? “There’s something under the hind legs? What’s moving?”

“What’s moving?”

It was when he heard Geumdo’s voice that something was moving under his hind legs that he checked the water again.

Something was fluttering beneath Geumdo’s feet.

‘No, what is this, a step backwards, a situation like catching a rat?’

Perhaps the thing fluttering under Geumdo’s feet was the one we were looking for.