Volume 2 Sea Country Cloud Sky Chapter 140 Exile on the Island
The slave ship drifted in the wind in the sea for three whole days before it reached the destination of this voyage, a barren island suspended in the vast ocean. ┏┛
During the three-day inhuman journey, we felt like we had walked in the eighteen layers of hell.
Eddard led a group of overseer villains, slamming their scabbards frantically against the side of the ship, and some of them stepped out of the cabin and opened the shackles we had fastened to the logs one by one, and chained all the slaves together with a long chain.
I can finally stand up straight again! It's hard to put into words how happy it is.
People in the world who have not experienced such suffering cannot appreciate the wonders of the aftermath of this catastrophe.
The sea ship is sailing on the back of the isolated island, the black and brown high cliff wall stands thousands of miles, and the sea below the cliff is a circle of shallow reefs that are hidden or visible.
If you want to escape by jumping into the sea from here after going to the island in the future, it is tantamount to killing yourself.
After turning the bay of high cliffs, a semi-arc ?? The lake unfolds in front of us, and the trees on the island grow between the crevices of the stones, sparse and green.
A white-sailed ship that arrived on the island before us was quietly docked at ?? The shore of the lake pier.
Who would have thought that the sin and bullying in such a paradise would be far better than the hell described in the Western Heavens.
Half a year later, after I had learned a little bit of Roman, I learned from the other slaves that the island was called "Flying Fish Reef" and was one of the domains of General Antonio of the Knight's Castle.
It was also a necessary place for merchant ships from Alexandria, Canaan, Jerusalem and other places in Egypt to Rome and Constantinople.
The island has a natural ?? The port of the lake, after a little expansion and transformation, can bring rolling financial resources to the general.
Therefore, the purpose of our slaves on the island was to do hard labor, to dig rocks, to build dock steps, berths for seagoing ships, freshwater reservoirs, warehouses on the island, and castles for the shogun to go to sea.
All the overseers on the ship, including Eddard, were sergeants under Master Antonio.
After the ship docked, all the overseers went ashore first, holding long swords and shields on both sides of the plank road to prevent us dying prisoners from resisting.
The warehouse is close to the cargo hold of the sea ship, and the god Ed stands on the shore with a long whip in his hand, and if he is not pleasing to the eye, he can beat us to the point of smoke and look for teeth all over the ground.
All the slave laborers bound by chains came out and received at the hatch a bag of wheat, a long chisel with a wooden handle, and a thick rope.
Even though I couldn't make sense of the words, I could still guess what these things were for.
This less than a stone of wheat is what each of us will provide for an unknown amount of time, and the long chisel and thick rope are the tools for us to open the mountain and transport the stone.
On the island, there is a longhouse of stone and wood connected to the bottom of the mountain by a drawbridge, where Ed and a dozen of his minions live and have fun.
On a grass-stripped reef platform beneath the longhouse, more than a hundred of our poor slaves stood naked and awaited Lord Eddard's instructions.
On the terrace next to the longhouse, five or six young ladies in white cloth robes, with fluttering blond hair, welcomed the return of Ed and his gang of villains.
In their eyes, we, the slaves of the nations, are a herd of talking cows and horses.
It is said that in this Roman kingdom there was a bloodthirsty game in which slaves fought with beasts of prey, or cannibalism between slaves, to make the Boga laugh.
I'm really worried that this group of Roman women will come up with such a crooked trick.
Later I realized that a slave like ours, who did not pay a penny, would not let us die so easily until the last drop of our blood had been drained.
Sometimes death is easy, but living with dreams is a very difficult thing.
In the Eastern Han Kingdom, there was a punishment for serious crimes that was second only to the death penalty, and that was exile.
The tortured person is taken to a remote place where the smoke and miasma are exhausted, and the bitter cold has not yet opened, and he is left to fend for himself and cannot return to his hometown for the rest of his life.
Qu Zi, the doctor of Chu and the singer of "Lisao", was exiled to the bank of the Miluo River in Yuanshui, and the Qin King Xiangong and Huigong were exiled to the mountains and wilderness in the early years, accompanied by tigers and wolves.
For the Oriental scholars and doctors who have resettled in the land, the lifelong loneliness and death in a foreign land is a kind of sorrow that is deeper than death, and from now on they are the living dead who live in the world!
But even so, these prisoners were still free in their penal colonies, and could make a living by slash-and-burn, fishing and hunting.
If you meet a suitable wilderness girl, you can also marry a wife and have children, reproduce incognito in a remote place that is inaccessible, and be a free person.
Now we are in a situation close to exile, but the suffering is a thousand times greater than that of exile.
The Demon King Ed stood on the platform, embraced the Roman beauty in his arms, and preached to us for a long time, but Qin Chong and Liu Zhen'er and I couldn't understand the meaning.
Later, I learned that what he was talking about was the rules that we live on on this isolated island.
For example, one stone of wheat per person per month, and no less than five stones per person per day, etc.
The ship that carried us and the white sailboat that had been docked on the pier have left the shore together, and this "flying fish reef" has become a complete island.
The Overseer has unchained our hands, and we finally have the right to walk freely throughout the island.
When the hideous overseer beckoned us to roam freely in the area, the most pious words of praise in the world were not enough to express my gratitude.
In fact, on such an isolated island, there is no need for the supervision of these evil slaves, and we are already unable to fly.
No beds, no living rooms, no stoves, nothing.
After Eddard's admonition, we slaves were automatically divided into groups of three or five of different sizes, depending on where we came from.
The largest number of them were Persians, and it can be vaguely guessed that they were prisoners of war, from the same Persian warband.
There were also a dozen or so Hebrews, one or twenty Semites from the depths of the desert, and four or five dark-skinned southern Kunlun slaves.
There are only three people in the East, Qin Chong and Liu Zhen'er, perhaps in the eyes of these Romans, we are authentic Egyptians, and we are all good craftsmen who dig mountains and stones.
"Young master, what should we do next? You can't just die on this island for the rest of your life, right? ”
Finally had a chance to speak alone, Liu Zhen'er asked in a low voice, this guy has been tortured for a few days without a human form, his eyes are red and swollen, his hair is scorched, his body is bruised, and his palms are swollen like freshly baked naan.
Needless to say, Qin Chong and I are no better.
"Fill your belly first!" I have no other consciousness, and my only thought is to be a full ghost first, and this little ration in my hand may not be my own tomorrow.
Therefore, it is imperative to eat and drink enough, and wait for the vitality to recover before seeking other ways out.
"That's right! When you eat, you must first find a place with spring water! Otherwise, we will all die of thirst on this island sooner or later! Qin Chong couldn't wait to stuff the big handful of wheat grains into his mouth and chewed it.
He was right, the whole island was less than two miles in circumference, and it was full of bare reefs and hills.
There are no mountain springs, no inner lakes, and I really don't know where to find a place to drink.
Ed didn't need to send overseers and sentries at all, standing on their sundeck, the entire island could see every grass and tree, and no action from the slaves could escape their eyes.
It's hard to get in?? In a cave in the shallows on the shore of the lake, I found a crack in the dripping water, and I came forward to taste it, it was sweet fresh water.
The three of us sat there ecstatically, eating a lot of wheat grains and drinking from the spring, feeling better than any jade dew elixir in the world.
Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and the Persian slaves soon found this place, and without saying a word, they seized our spring and pushed the three of us out of the hole.
A few of the shriveled fellows stared at our wheat bags and began to pay attention to our rations.
As slaves, they have no mercy for the same pitiful kind.
The evil of human nature, the predator of the jungle, is especially evident in those of us who are in the same situation.
Eddard and his Roman overseers ate it all, and the Persian slaves, relying on their numbers, had bullied us from the first night they entered the island.
Stealing the spring that the three of us had discovered in advance for no reason now is only one insignificant of the countless bullies to come.
"Young master, it's time for us to think of ideas! How about taking care of your body and fighting him to die in the net? ”
The island at night could not see the five fingers, and after we hid the wheat bag, we lay on the slightly heated rock and closed our eyes to recuperate, Qin Chong whispered.
"That's right! Find a chance to take that Ed down first! Encourage the other slaves to join us in building a ship out of the island's logs! Stay in this hell, and we'll all be finished in January! Liu Zhen'er also said her thoughts.
No one in the entire island understands our Oriental language, so there is no risk in communicating these rebellious topics privately.
"You have to think about it! If it fails, the three of us will never recover, and there will be no second chance! "I agree with the two brothers' ideas, but I'm not worried.
"I'm afraid of a bird, it's better to die like this! Eighteen years later, he is still a good man! Qin Chong had already made up his mind.
"I agree! Do it tomorrow morning! We capture the thief and capture the king first! Liu Zhen'er echoed.
"!" In the darkness, the hands of our three brothers were tightly clasped together.
It's a pity that the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes, and before we could start killing the thieves, an even greater disaster had befallen the three of us.
What's worse is that the only rations we have have have been stolen by the hateful Persians.
If you have the intention to kill the thief and have no power to return to the sky, everything is destined.
Perhaps from the day I decided to lead the caravan west to the city of Rome, the Son of Heaven in charge of good fortune and good fortune had hung the Tai Sui Calamity over my head.
There are beautiful wives and beautiful relatives at home, and they have to travel thousands of miles to visit old friends and beauties, which is a blessing! Naturally, the disaster will come unexpectedly.