In the summer of the year of dawn, the weather is sunny.

It had been almost ten days since Toglia had returned to Port Louis, and it was normal for the lads on the ship to be out and about every day, as if they were full of energy, after all, anyone who had been adrift on the sea for weeks would have suffocated, let alone a group of young and strong men.

But I can't, because as a captain I have to be busy with a lot of things, ship maintenance, fresh water supplies, dealing with ugly port officials, dealing with new business, etc., of course, I will never admit that I am old!

Every day after lunch, as long as the weather is good, I will take a nap in the rocking chair on the deck, listen to the chirping of seagulls, melodious horns, noisy voices, and then fall asleep with a smile.

I like this comfortable enjoyment, from a sailor whose deck is not well cleaned to the current position, I have experienced too many things, inadvertently, time always flies so fast, when I am free, I think about it carefully, as if yesterday's things are still happening in front of me, it is often said that the older you are, the more you like nostalgia, but I don't agree with this statement, people are empty, and the mind likes to think nonsense, nostalgia is just one of them, and it has little to do with age, well, yes, that's what I think!

I've saved a lot of money over the years, but unfortunately all of it was used by me to buy this ship, which, the old captain sold to me at a special price, if ordinary people want to buy it, I'm afraid it will cost a lot of money, although it looks old and old, but don't underestimate its power. The winds and waves of the past did not let it capsize and sink. It's enough to see its sturdiness and sturdiness!

I heard that the old captain had recently moved to Magniture. Maybe I can visit him in the future when I have time, but I don't know if the leg disease that has plagued him for many years has been cured.

I have been the captain of the Oak for five years, and I have already earned the money I made for this ship, and I have even bought a grange in Engri, and I plan to work for a few more years, and when I have earned enough money for the rest of my life, I do not plan to continue to drift on the seas, I want to have a home, a truly stable and happy family.

Why? Because I had a wife when I was young. Unfortunately, one day when I was returning from my voyage, she ran away with another man, and that slut not only took all my money, but even my most beloved dog! Since then, I have come to realize the reality that unless you really love your woman with all her heart, she will not wait for you to come home for months on end.

It's just a woman, I don't care, as long as there is money in the pocket, what kind of woman can't find it? So I started to stop thinking about getting a wife and devoted myself to my maritime career. Maybe it's this thing that made me who I am now!

As for the woman who abandoned me with her lover, I saw her once when I returned to my hometown two years ago. It's unbelievable that she was once beautiful and graceful, and she was thicker than a bucket, and her conversation was full of foul language, and if it wasn't for the solemn information of a friend, I really can't believe that she would have become like this.

Friends say that she ran away with her lover for a few years, and then the lover found another woman and abandoned her, as she had done to me, and then she worked as a prostitute in a tavern for several years, and finally married an honest and faithful tailor.

In this regard, I can only sigh at the impermanence of the human world.

Not long after I fell asleep, an uninvited guest disturbed my peace, you know, when your favorite and most enjoyable things are rudely interrupted, the mood will definitely be extremely irritable!

However, when my love was about to explode, I was stunned for a moment.

Because a sword was on my neck.

The uninvited guest who threatened me with his sword was a man who looked rather young and handsome, and I sensed an extremely unusual aura of danger from him, more dangerous than all the pirates I had ever encountered!

This young man called himself Xia Lan, and he came to me because he wanted to make a deal with me.

I don't know where he conjured up a pile of glittering gold coins that filled the deck in front of me like a hill, and I gave in! Yes! I succumbed before the great gold coins!

The young man's deal was simple, he wanted to sail through the Summer Wind Strait to the opposite continent, and he demanded only one thing, we must leave the port at all times, no matter what happened in the process, we must not violate it, otherwise, he will kill everyone on the ship, including me, and of course, my reward is the heart-pounding pile of gold coins at my feet.

I can understand the young man's caution, after all, I have met many pirates who use similar threatening tactics, but pirates are not as generous as this young man.

Although I don't know why the young man made such a transaction, but everyone has a secret, for the sake of the gold coins, I agreed to the young man's transaction, saying that I am bold, and it doesn't matter if I want money or die, isn't it the case that everyone who goes out to sea to venture and fight? The sea is not like land, the capricious sea is full of dangers, the slightest misfortune, a storm will cause the ship to be destroyed and people to die, if it is not for the rich remuneration of the sea trade, who will run desperately to the sea?

I asked young people why I was chosen for so many ships.

The young man said that he had asked many of the crew around him who was the most reliable in sailing, and most of them chose you!

Ha ha! I couldn't be happier to hear that! I didn't expect those boys to still know the name of my GLP!

When I was younger, I followed the old captain back and forth through the Summer Wind Strait to trade about three or four times, I am not the coward of the current generation who only dares to trade in the offshore waters, although the danger of crossing the Summer Wind Strait is indeed very great, generally ten ships have passed, and only a few have successfully returned, and sometimes there is not even one, which shows the danger of navigation.

The Strait of the Summer Wind is not a nominal strait, and if you want to travel from Port Louis to the nearest port city on the other side of the sea, it will take a month at the earliest.

In fact, the Xia Feng Strait was indeed an ordinary strait in ancient times, with the distance between the two sides of the strait at that time, it probably took less than a day to sail to the other side, but with the change of the years, the distance between the straits became farther and farther away, until it became what it is today, people are just used to calling the name of the Xia Feng Strait, so it is still used today.

After making a deal with the young man, he left, and I began to gather the crew to prepare for the voyage, and as the days passed, Mr. Xia Lan never went, and the patience of the crew was almost exhausted, and I was quite distressed about this, not because of the psychological problems of the crew, but because I forgot to ask Mr. Xia Lan about the time limit for the transaction!

Yesterday, a particularly horrific thing suddenly happened in the harbor, the murder in the harbor, the explosion of the harbor warehouse, the strange scene over the harbor, because I was resting in the cabin at the time, so the first two things were told to me by the crew, and I only saw the last thing that happened, although I am not a devout member of the "Radiant Church", but the scene that appeared in the sky over the harbor really shook my heart, this is something I have never seen before, such a solemn scene, At that time, many of the ship's crew knelt on the deck and prayed silently, but they did not stand up until the vision disappeared.

What's going on? I'm sure many people have this question, and I have found out a lot of information, but none of them can convince me, some people say that there is a coup d'état in Parliament, some people say that God is punishing the criminals on earth, and some people say that it is a riot secretly instigated by the enemy country Ephia...... All in all, I just think that something bad is happening in Port Louis, and it is better to leave this place of right and wrong as much as possible.

But...... I have to wait until His Excellency Xia Lan can leave according to the deal, it's really frustrating!

Maybe the heavens heard my heart, but I didn't expect His Excellency Xia Lan to really come, and it also brought the trouble I didn't want to see......

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"Captain!! Oh no!! The boat behind us is about to dock us! ”

At this time, the door was slammed open, and a young and immature sailor shouted anxiously and panickedly.

Pross put down the pen in his hand, closed his captain's diary, he sorted out his triangular cap, and said calmly: "Anfil, how many times have I said, you need to be calm in case of trouble, don't shout casually, this can easily cause the crew's uneasiness!" ”

"But...... Captain! The ship that came over seemed to have the Templars of the Cathedral of Divine Radiance! The young sailor named Anphil shuddered.

"What do you say? Templars? ”

Proston stood up from his chair and glared in dismay.

He wasn't a young man who didn't know anything, he knew better than anyone what the Templars meant! The influence of the Radiant Templar on the mainland is no joke, and half of the stories that circulate in the bard's mouth each year include Templars who represent bravery, integrity, and kindness.

In order to protect the peace of the mainland, they did not hesitate to fight the heretics on the most dangerous and dark frontline, and basically all kinds of heroic deeds are available, which shows that the "Radiant Sanctuary" spares no effort in publicity!

Over time, the impression was formed in people's minds that all enemies of the Templars were enemies of the mainland!

Then Lord Charan on the ship, he is-

A cold sweat broke out, and Pross didn't dare to think about it anymore.

"Your Excellency Xia Lan, where is he?"

"Captain! He...... He had just carried his sword and dragged the bloodied old man onto the foredeck of the ship! (To be continued......)