In the third year of Wenguo, one day in August. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

As soon as a sail-powered expedition ship sailed into the capital port, a dozen crew members on board, without even tying the anchor rope to fix the ship, quickly disembarked, trotted all the way, and went straight to the White House.

The White House is the place where the members of the royal family live, in the White House, in addition to the royal living quarters are closed, other buildings such as the parliament building, the parliament building, the Grand Court, the Museum of Culture and History, etc., are open to the public, any citizen of the country can apply to enter the visit, visit the public, there is a great chance to meet the cordial and kind His Majesty the Emperor Wen, and talk with him......

After the crew entered the White House, they sent a message to the butler, saying that they had an urgent matter to ask to see His Majesty Emperor Wen! After confirming that the urgency of the matter was indeed high, the housekeeper immediately sent someone to inform His Majesty Emperor Wen, who was taking his family to enjoy the flowers and take a walk in the back garden.

After a while, Zhou Ming, who had an unhappy expression on his face, came to the living room and met these crew members.

Since the establishment of the State of Civilianism and the election of the first prime minister, in addition to military affairs, most of the civil and internal affairs in Civilianism are handled by the prime minister.

Even so, as the queen above, Zhou Ming still has very little time to enjoy leisure, and every day there are various affairs to report to him, and others dare not assert themselves, even if there are some rights, Zhou Ming is very thorough, and the officials are afraid of messing things up, afraid that they can't afford to carry the pot.

In addition, after the death of his father Tian Feng, all the industries of the Tian family have to be managed by Zhou Ming, the patriarch, and there are not many people that Zhou Ming absolutely trusts, except for his younger brother Tian Jing, who can be in charge alone, among his 42 sons, the eldest son Tian Sheng, who has just turned 24 years old, is still outstanding, but including Tian Sheng, all the sons will have to be cultivated for a few more years, so he can rest assured and arrange them to a higher position.

Therefore, Zhou Ming often laughs at himself: "No matter what life I have, I have worked hard, and I have always dreamed if I want to lie down comfortably and harvest achievement points." ”

But today, in the living room, after listening to the reports of these expedition crews, the not very serious expression on Zhou Ming's face disappeared, and was replaced by unprecedented surprise and disbelief.

"What you say, but everything is true, how can there be such a thing?" Zhou Ming asked repeatedly.

"Your Majesty Emperor Wen, what we have said is absolutely not a lie! Your Majesty, you can go with us and witness it with your own eyes!" Tian Yue, the leader of the expedition, a rough-faced man in his thirties, swore to the sky.

"Okay, you board the 'Megatron' with me, and set off with 5,000 elite musketeers, if you dare to deceive me, the consequences, hum!"

"If there is any deception, please take off my head, Your Majesty!"

Tian Yue and others were overjoyed, the Megatron is the latest main flagship of the Imperial Navy in recent years, and it is also the first giant ship of the empire with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons...... With just one giant ship, you can destroy a city.

There are also 5,000 elite musketeers, which makes Tian Yue and the others even more overjoyed, because there are more than 30,000 people living on that island, and there is no need for 5,000 musketeers, only 1,000 can be called extinct!

After two days of preparation, on the third day, a fleet with eight warships left the port and sailed in the northwest direction, and the fleet sailed at full speed for eight days, until it sailed out of the periphery of Penglai Immortal Domain, and entered a sea area with a limited field of vision and perennial shrouded in light sea fog, Tian Yue and others shouted excitedly: "It is in this sea fog, that island, right here, you can't make a mistake!"

However, in this sea fog area with a radius of only three or four hundred miles, the fleet searched for many days, but did not find the island, and searched separately, but found nothing.

In addition, it may also be that there is a large amount of iron ore in the lower veins of the seabed, the magnetic field is chaotic, the compass pointer is not very useful, and the sun looms overhead in the mist, and it is often impossible to determine the direction in which the fleet is sailing.

Therefore, Zhou Ming did not let the eight warships be too far apart, at most more than 20 miles, and regularly communicated with the sound of cannons, so that no ships got lost.

On the eighth day, the fleet swept back and forth in the sea fog area several times, but did not find the island, everyone was discouraged, Rear Admiral Tian Gui, asked Emperor Wen for instructions: When he wanted to shoot Tian Yue, a cyan dot suddenly flashed in a blue area on the [world map] in Zhou Ming's mind.

"The island is there. ”

Zhou Ming pointed in a direction, asked the captain to stand aside, personally operated the rudder, and adjusted the course, in less than half an hour, in the slightly thicker sea fog in front of him, a looming silhouette appeared, like a mirage island.

"That's it, that's it!"

Tian Yue and the others shouted excitedly, cheering at the island: "Immortal Island, we have found you!"

Half an hour later, the fleet, which had completed its deceleration, approached this small island, which was about 100 square kilometers in size, found a flat beach, and eight warships docked in turn.

However, as soon as the landing ship was put down, only a few dozen crew members stood on the beach, and this small island was like a frying pan, and countless "buzzing" conch horns sounded, and after a while, in the midst of the noise, a group of men, women and children with sticks and farm tools, all wearing fish skin short clothes, rushed towards this beach.

The crowds on these islands, when they saw the eight giant strange ships docked on the beach, seemed to have seen the end of the world, and they were all frightened and heartbroken.

There are timid people, the stick in their hands "clang" to the ground, and then kneel on the ground, kowtow like pounding garlic, and chant scriptures in their mouths, as if they were frightened.

But there were also hundreds of daring men, under the command of a middle-aged man, who rushed towards these huge ships, and ran towards the dozens of outsiders who had already stood on the beach, trying to drive them out into the sea.

"Bang bang bang!"

After a messy bang, the brave men on the island fell in a pool of blood and let out a near-death scream.

"Bang!"

The middle-aged man's head suddenly burst with a bloody flower, but he saw Zhou Ming, who was holding a primitive sniper rifle in his hand, and shot him dead with a distance of about a kilometer.

Seeing the dead and injured hundreds of people on the island, they retreated in horror, no one dared to step forward, they could only watch, from the eight huge ships, more and more outsiders came down, and finally covered the entire beach, and each outsider in his hand, holding a magic weapon that can spew out heavenly thunder, after loading the shining bayonet, lined up in a neat formation, forced towards them.

"Knock knock~"

To the sound of the snare drums, the musketeers marched forward a hundred meters like a wall, and the inhabitants of the island kept retreating, and a dozen or so who were not afraid of death were all fired into a sieve by the muskets.

"Friends from afar, don't be so irritable, how about discussing if you have something to discuss?"

Among the residents of the island who were full of despair, an old man with a childish face finally stood up, and the old man said hello.

The reason why this old man is described as "crane hair and childish face" is because this old man with white hair, long eyebrows and chest, his skin is still like a young man in his twenties and thirties, exuding luster and tenderness, tight skin, without a trace of wrinkles, and his steps are vigorous and his voice is like a bell, like an old fairy in the TV series, and he also speaks a mouthful, and most of the people present can understand the business words, which makes people feel very cordial.

Not only this old man, but also the other residents of the island, the young people may not be obvious, but all the old ones, their hair is gray, their skin is quite well maintained, their average appearance is very high, and their bodies look very tough...... These phenomena, in Zhou Ming's eyes, are no longer explained by the sentence "You can achieve this effect with too many cosmetics", because there are no cosmetics on this island!

These crane-haired and child-looking old men are all pure natural without makeup!

"It turns out that immortality is not a myth or legend, and there is really a 'elixir of life' on this island. ”

Zhou Ming muttered to himself, a wicked smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and looked at the eyes of these island dwellers, like hungry wolves, with naked greed!

Not only Zhou Ming, but also Rear Admiral Tian Gui, 5,000 elite musketeers, Tian Yue and others, all of them, and even some of them couldn't contain their excitement in their hearts and let out a creepy smile.

"Wow~Wow~"

Bathed in these fierce eyes, a few children among the island's residents were so frightened that they cried.

The old man panicked, took two steps forward and said, "Friends, heroes! If you have something to say, everything can be discussed, everything can be said clearly, and you can wait for someone who speaks seriously? How about the old man invite him to sit in the cold house and make friends?"

Zhou Ming walked over, ready to negotiate with the old man, Tian Yue reminded him in his ear, he nodded, walked in front of the old man, and asked directly: "If I guess correctly, you should be Xu Fu's descendant, Xu Tong, right?"

Hearing this question, the expression on the old man's face became even more panicked, and after thinking about it, he still arched his hand and said: "Exactly, the old man is the seventeenth great-great-grandson of Xu Fu, and Xu Tong is also ......."

"It seems that the legend that the first emperor of the Shang Dynasty sent Xu Fu to take three thousand boys and girls overseas to find the elixir ......of life should be true?"

Zhou Ming muttered in his mouth and asked the old man, "Xu Tong, let me ask you, how old are you this year?"

"This ...... Old age, memory loss, I can't remember how old I have lived. Xu Tong said sloppily.

"Give you one last chance, say the exact number, or I'll shoot you!" a revolver pointed at his head, as if it would open fire in the next second.

"The old man is already one hundred and forty years old...... Xu Tong felt cold in his heart, so he had to tell the truth.

Zhou Ming asked the musketeers to come over from the crowd, and after shooting one, the others all said: "The patriarch just passed his one hundred and fifty birthday last year, but he was one year old, and his birthday was in advance, and the patriarch is indeed one hundred and forty-eight." ”

One hundred and forty-eight, no wonder you have lived as a human spirit, and the expedition fleet has almost been planted in your hands......

Zhou Ming asked another question: "Xu Tong, you probably have a few more years to live, how old is the longest-lived person on this island now?"

Xu Tong's tone began with a sense of pathos, and he replied: "The old man is the longest on this island, I don't know how long he can live, I only remember that the old man's grandfather died when he was one hundred and sixty-seven years old, according to this calculation, the old man may live for five to ten years......

Hearing this, there was a commotion and screams in the crowd on Zhou Ming's side.

"Oh my God! one hundred and sixty-seven years old......"

"I'll live to eighty, one hundred and sixteen ......."

"Elixir, there must be an elixir of life on this island!"

"Hand over the elixir!"

Someone was already shouting impatiently.

Zhou Ming pressed his hand backwards to stop the noise, and then went straight to the point and said to Xu Tong:

"Xu Tong, we are here today for the three explanations. ”

"First, the First Emperor ordered you to come overseas to look for the elixir of immortality, it doesn't matter if you don't find it, you can't blame you for being hit by a storm and sinking on the rocks, the question is: Since you have found the elixir of immortality, why don't you bring it back to the Central Plains and present it to the emperor? Instead, take the elixir yourself and live forever? Should you give an explanation to the First Emperor? ”

"Second, you people, living in seclusion in the world, living a blissful life on this island, everyone over 100 years old, everyone dies in the end, and the children and grandchildren are full, completely ignoring the sufferings of the outside world, and on this isolated island, you have enjoyed all the blessings that should not belong to you, the so-called reincarnation of the Heavenly Dao, the cycle of cause and effect, should you give an explanation to the Heavenly Dao? ”

"Third, my expedition team, after finding this island, after going ashore, you pretended to be hospitable and warm, but in the middle of the night you were attacked, and out of fifty-eight crew members, forty-four of whom were killed by you, and only twelve of the guards were spared. ”

"These three explanations, if you can't explain them today, I will order: slaughter this island, and leave no grass behind!"

It turned out that more than a month ago, Tian Yue and other expedition members, after accidentally finding this island, suddenly heard familiar words on the island, and saw the ancients who fled here more than 2,000 years ago, and were excited for a while, so they let go of their vigilance, and some of the team members stayed on the island as guests.

Until that day, Tian Yue, the leader of the detachment, happened to be on the beach, saw an old woman who was catching fish, and asked her how old she was, a "one hundred and twenty-three" number, almost stunned him, and then Tian Yue found several other old people, asked their ages, some told the truth, some told lies, but what he was sure of was that the old people on this island had a very long lifespan and looked very young.

That night, the expedition team was surrounded and attacked, and that afternoon, if Tian Yue hadn't seen that several people were smashing the bottom of the expedition ship with stones, trying to sink their ship, so he took people on board and took precautions, otherwise, no one would have escaped back......

"Confess, what is there to explain? Isn't what you covet the elixir on this island? Kill if you want to, I will die, and I will not hand over the elixir!"

Looking at Zhou Ming's poor dagger, Xu Tong's bones hardened, and he turned his eyes red and glared at Zhou Ming.

"Hehe, it's very tough! General Tian, first arrest all the men, women, and children on the island! Draw five and kill one! Look if this old thing is still tough!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

"Bang bang bang!"

On this small island, gunshots rang out incessantly.

……

Three days later.

After killing about one-third of the island's population, Zhou Ming finally got his wish, and got more than 50,000 soybean-sized, greenish in color, crystal clear, I don't know how to refine the "Immortal Pill", put it in front of his nose and smelled it, with a fragrance.

The reason why these elixirs have the miraculous effect of prolonging life and maintaining youthful appearance is also related to the growth of a grass plant called "Evergreen Grass" in the north of this island, which contains a substance that can maintain cell activity and prolong cell life.

However, even if you know that "Changsheng Grass" has great medical value, if you eat this grass directly, you will not be able to live long, and you have to go through a series of process refinement, in the alchemy furnace, fuse with other substances, and after a chemical reaction, you can refine the "Immortal Pill" that has the effect of making people live longer.

It's just that the Dan Fang of the Immortal Pill, some of the craftsmanship in the alchemy process, Xu Tong and others on the island claimed that Zhou Ming would not hand it over even if he killed the clansmen on the island, because the Dan Fang and the alchemy process were the fundamental guarantee for their lives, and the fools all understood: If these things are also revealed, the people on Changsheng Island, after losing their use value, may only rely on the words of others.

Zhou Ming finally softened his position and reached an "agreement" with the owner of the island, Xu Tong, which stipulated: Overseas Wenguo will provide security protection for Changsheng Island, as well as some material assistance, and Changsheng Island will pay a tribute of 50,000 "Immortal Pills" every year, and no more will be required.

After all, 50,000 pills is already 70% of the pill production of Changsheng Island, enough for 5,000 people to maintain the needs of immortality.

At the end of this matter, some Virgins may raise objections, saying that Zhou Ming killed so many innocent people at once by unscrupulous means in order to achieve his goal, which is really unreasonable, too cruel, and extremely shameless!

Zhou Ming sneered:

"I'm shameless? If the emperor of the Central Plains Dynasty knows that there is a kind of elixir of immortality on Changsheng Island, and he can live for fifty more years, I am afraid that the next day, he will exhaust his people's strength, build a large number of sea ships, and send a million troops to cross the sea to find it, right? How much financial and material resources will be spent in the middle? How many people will die? The so-called guilt of Huaibi, as long as there is an immortal pill on Changsheng Island, once it spreads and is known to others, this island, forever and ever, will not be able to avoid a catastrophe!"

Because immortality is a desire that cannot be extinguished and is extremely desired in the hearts of all people.