Chapter 304: Learning Through Entertainment

Alice emerged from the captain's cabin, and the pirates surrounding it had already dispersed. Her eyes rolled slightly as she began to search for Amon's three components on this ship.

Amon, you are... no, Yodeson, Danitz, Blu Wallis, where are you all?

The pirate ship, which combined magic and technology, didn't require all crew members to be at their work stations. Most of the time, just one or two people doing the work was enough—so Alice quickly found Yodeson who was slacking off.

He was truly fishing. When Alice approached, he was just lifting a super-sized children's fishing net from the water, with three big fish wriggling inside.

"Want to try?" He turned his head, just catching sight of Alice, and extended an invitation.

After Alice stared at him for two seconds, one of the three fish still floundering in the net suddenly leaped up, flicked its tail, splashing him with fishy-smelling seawater while regaining its freedom.

Alice immediately covered her stomach and burst into laughter.

Yodeson wiped the water from his face with his hand, thoughtfully looked at Alice, and curiously asked: "Did you do that?"

"Don't accuse me," Alice said righteously, "do you have evidence?"

Without evidence, Yodeson fell silent.

Alice quickly turned to escape the scene, going to find the next interesting thing, but was suddenly called back:

"Alice? You don't mind me calling you that, right.

"I've always wanted to ask... where exactly did your clothes come from?"

Alice reached out to tug at her clothes, then raised her head, with a serious face said: "This is a memento of my beautiful youth."

Yodeson gently reminded: "You don't seem to be an adult yet..."

Alice looked at Yodeson with an expression of wanting to speak but hesitating, and decided to also use a euphemism: "The first line of my honorable name is 'Forever Innocent Child'..."

"Honorable name...?" Yodeson's expression became hesitant.

Alice blinked her eyes and quickly said: "Oh, I just remembered the captain has something for me to do, I have to go!"

She quickly turned and fled the scene to find the next victim to harass.

Besides Edwina, Alice only knew three people on this ship. She observed Blu Wallis's monocle from a distance and decided to go bother Danitz instead.

...

"So, this is the reason you came to find me?" Danitz listened to Alice's thought process in disbelief, his eyes filled with outrage.

"Yes," Alice said as if it was obvious, "find something for me to do, or... I'll find something for you to do?"

"What thing?" Danitz instinctively asked.

Alice turned to Danitz, revealed a mysterious smile, and then left in the midst of Danitz's puzzled gaze.

After being stunned for two seconds, Danitz suddenly felt a foreboding sense of dread. He hurriedly spoke to stop Alice from leaving: "Wait! You... ouch!"

His left foot tripped over his right foot, his body fell forward, his knees heavily hitting the ground, and his head also bumped against the floor, while he was still instinctively using his hands to support himself on the ground.

Alice turned around at this moment, looking down at him, and said in a profound tone: "Rise, you're excused from formalities."

This sentence was said in Chinese, and Danitz didn't understand its meaning, but that didn't prevent him from once again recognizing Alice's ability to cause trouble, and he tried hard to get up from the ground.

After getting halfway up and slipping back down to his knees again, Danitz finally realized that if he didn't find something for Alice to do, he might be crawling here until Alice got bored with this game. "You can go find the captain," Danitz suggested, "the captain has a collection room, there might be things inside that interest you, and she would probably be happy to introduce her collections to you."

...

"Collection room?" After hearing Alice's words, Edwina was taken aback, "Are you interested in these things?"

"No," Alice shook her head, "but I love hearing stories, different stories."

Edwina nodded thoughtfully and said: "In that case, have you heard of the treasures of the sea?"

"I know!" Alice raised her hand slightly as if answering a teacher's question before saying, "Death's Key, the Fountain of Youth, the Legacy of the Solomon Empire, the Ghost Empire and the Lost Nus, and also..."

Alice paused for a moment, then said with a face full of yearning: "And also my favorite, 'The Sunken Laurel'!"

Edwina remembered Gehrman Sparrow who had once invited her to hunt the "Blood Admiral."

...As expected of a family.

Edwina accepted this setting with complicated feelings, nodded and said: "What do you think of these treasures?"

Alice was silent for a moment, pursed her lips and said: "If it was when I had just woken up, I would have thought about going on sea adventures, searching for these treasures...

"If it's now, I would consider why they haven't been discovered for so long.

"Just like 'The Sunken Laurel'... with extraordinaries around, finding and salvaging shouldn't be difficult, right?"

Just woken up... Catching the key phrase, Edwina remained impassive, glanced at Alice and said:

"In that case, come with me.

"Before this, you might have heard some news, for example, that I found 'Death's Key'..."

"Is this true!" Alice asked curiously.

"In fact, I believe that key belongs to giants." Edwina spoke while leading Alice into the ship's hold, heading for the second floor.

"Giants..." Alice was slightly startled, remembering the Little Sun far away in Silver City.

"Yes," Edwina nodded, "this is the conclusion I've drawn from combining historical documents with other items on the ship."

Alice looked at her with sparkling eyes.

Indeed, she is more suited to hearing stories with knowledge points, rather than normal classes. Her decisions can change very easily, but it must be after her interest is aroused and she changes her mind on her own initiative...

Edwina nodded inwardly and continued:

"Those documents show that in the Fourth Epoch, many giants were still active, some converted to the War God, others scattered across various places, becoming targets for human hunting.

"One of the tribes built ships, attempting to sail out to search for the lost Giant Royal Court, and never returned since.

"The sunken ship we discovered and some of the items inside are very similar to the ancient artifacts they left behind at their original settlement, so we have sufficient reason to believe that the key belongs to giants, and very likely points towards their tribe's royal court that was lost even before the Cataclysm."

Saying this, she stopped in front of a half-open door, gently pushed it open, then turned to Alice and said:

"We're here."