Chapter 218: Uninhabited Island (3)
In the early morning of the second day, Tian Bo was left to take care of the dock camp with a sick man, and the rest of the people followed Brother Lin on a journey around the island.
Although this isolated island is uninhabited, it is not like the country of Yavati, where the entire border is covered by towering rainforests.
Mountains, meadows, and sparse palm forests are scattered, surrounded by turquoise seas, and the scenery is as charming as the realm of the gods.
We made our way along the turquoise ridges towards the heart of the island.
There is the highest solitary peak on the island, and if you climb to the top, you will definitely be able to look down on the whole island and see the islands, reefs and land scattered in the depths of the sea hundreds of miles away.
Human beings are really strange creatures, and the intrigues and quarrels between the people of these nations and worlds in which we live are really enemies who are very angry when they see each other, and they can't wait to put their opponents to death as soon as possible.
But when I really arrived in this isolated and narrow place, I felt very lonely.
Even if it is an enemy of the world, or a wild and ignorant savage, he will feel more cordial whenever he meets him.
Now that we are the only ones in the world, a tragic feeling suddenly came to my heart.
It seems that most of the hermits in the next world have the heart of red dust.
The so-called small faint tomb and big faint dynasty market are just a kind of self-redemption for the frustrated.
Hongchen can't tolerate me, and since then I have been hidden in the mountains and fields, and I am a carefree person, that is, a hermit master in the eyes of the world.
All the things used are red dust, you can see the castles and fireworks in the world from afar, and there will be three or two close friends and red faces who often walk around.
If these hermits are exiled to this isolated island in front of them, they will be completely cut off from the red dust.
In less than a year, he will become a demon, or he will ascend to heaven with feathers, and there is no one else who can do it.
In order to prevent accidents on the way, each of us made all the preparations.
Long knives and iron swords, mulberry bows and quivers, water bladders, food bags, and chest armor do not fall, just like the Kunlun swordsmen who march for a long time.
Carrying such a heavy load, and there is no Dawan Divine Horse as a mount, it is very difficult to walk.
From the seaside camp to the summit of Lone Peak, the distance was just over 20 miles, and we walked for almost three hours.
It wasn't until late afternoon that we reached the summit, took off our suits and sat on the ground, when a cool sea breeze hit us, and the hard work of the way disappeared.
As far as the eye can see, there is a boundless sea connected to the blue sky and white clouds, and there is no shadow of the land.
"Brother Xian, the vast sea is terrifying!"
Brother Lin has been looking at the open sea, his expression solemn and he didn't say a word.
When he saw me come forward, he pointed into the distance with his scabbard and sighed wryly at me.
"Big brother, the island is isolated, it must be made of the Xuanshi that fell when Pangu opened the sky, hehe!"
I've been in the lonely Flying Fish Reef and Orient Island for more than half a year, and I probably didn't realize that I was in a desperate situation, so I was a little obsessed with the scenery in front of me.
"Hurricanes are impermanent, and providence makes people! On the way, so many archipelago continents have not been encountered, but drifting here, providence also! Hahaha! ”
Brother Lin laughed and patted me on the shoulder, took out the skin bag around his waist and drank a few sips of water, as if swallowing all his worries into his own stomach.
"Providence no
Always play tricks on me! In the opinion of the eldest brother, is there any close neighbor on this island? ”
"Within a thousand miles, there will be no more island people. Brother Xian, we have really come to the end of heaven and earth this time! ”
Brother Lin stood tall and looked around the sea, and then looked up at the red sun in the sky, and said thoughtfully.
Thousands of miles away, but the distance from Yangguan in the Western Regions to Chang'an in the East!
With no islands to rely on on such a long sea route, will we be trapped on this isolated island in this life?
My heart tightened, and I suddenly felt cold sweat break out all over my body.
"How can the big brother return to the west have a plan?"
"Fix the ship first, and then wait for the currents to the west, and the rest will have to be left to God! Now the most uncomfortable thing is that there is no old wine to drink every day, and it is really like a year to be a brother! ”
Brother Lin is a good man who is not afraid of heaven and earth, but he is addicted to alcohol, like Uncle Su and his grandfather.
The old wine on the ship has been out of food for more than a month, and it is indeed a great torture for such a good drinker.
Now this benevolent brother can only use water instead of wine, and when he is addicted to alcohol, he will pour a few sips to relieve the sorrow of this thousand years.
"This is easy to do, we people in the Western Regions are good at brewing milk wine and fruit wine, and my family also has a Longxi wine shop outside Jiankang City, and all the brewing brothers also know a little bit about it. After going down the mountain, we will pick some berries and green coconuts from the local area, and it should not be difficult to make turbid wine! ”
I continued to look out at the deep sea, hoping to catch the figure of passing ships, and at the same time recommended the method of sake brewing to Brother Lin.
"Very good, very good! can be accompanied by turbid wine, even if you are old on this island for the rest of your brother's life, you can have no regrets! ”
Brother Lin straightened his hair and beard, waved to everyone, and prepared to go down the mountain.
We plan to descend from the southern slope of Lone Peak, to the southern tip of the island, and finally return to the camp on the north side along the beach.
Such a round trip takes about two days.
On the way down the mountain, Brother Lin and the others saw the giant stone carving for the first time, and only then did they realize that what we said was true.
The stone carvings are of different heights, facing the sea side by side, with a solemn expression in the eagle nose and deep eyes, which makes people feel that they are separated from the world.
These stone carvings are old and covered with gray-brown moss.
The original speculation about the witchcraft of the natives was really conjectural, and our hanging hearts relaxed.
"Young master, these stone statues are shaped like a person! The craftsman who carved the stone carvings back then must have been the same master! ”
The pot helmet saw the clue and guessed happily.
The stone statue was about two zhang high, and Qin Chong stood up and raised the scabbard in his hand, just reaching the head of the statue.
We stand at the bottom of the statue, like the indigenous dwarves of the Luzon Islands, and we need to look up to get a closer look at the statue.
Since it was built by the world, where did the gods carve these behemoths?
I looked closely at the stone sculpture and turned around and asked Brother Lin, "Big brother!" You walk the rivers and seas and see a lot of knowledge, guess who made these statues! ”
In the ancient strange book "The Great Wilderness Southern Classic", it is recorded that there is a giant clan in the southern Canghai, which is after the water gods work together.
Could it be that this isolated overseas island is the food of this ancient god?
Huainanzi? Tianwen Xun contains: The former worked together and fought for the emperor, angry and could not touch the mountain, the pillar of heaven folded, and the earth
The sky is tilted to the northwest, so the sun, moon and stars are not satisfied with the southeast, so the water and dust return.
Gonggong's actions violated the heavens, and his people were sent to the Eight Wildernesses of Kyushu, and it is possible that one of them will come to this land of projectiles in the southeast sea.
However, this island is poor in material resources, there is no agricultural business with the outside world, and the giant clan is all a large number of people who have a solar eclipse.
So over time, all the beasts on this isolated island were eaten, and the natives withered day by day.
In order to leave some thoughts in this world, I don't know from what year and month, the giants carved stone statues from local materials for fun, and recorded their last days of breeding on this island.
The above are all based on the ancient wild history, some reverie generated by touching the scene, not enough to rely on!
"Surely the Persians! The first merchants to sail to the East through the Tianzhu Sea, the Yeboti Strait, and the Puluozhong Islands were these Persians! This sea route is plagued by hurricanes every year, and there are countless people like us scattered throughout the ages, and perhaps some unlucky people have come to this remote island. Look, these statues have high noses and sunken eyes, and they really look a little like the Sassanids today! Especially this old man wrapped in a turban, it is clearly the Sassanid old man who is leading a donkey in the market of Lanshi City! These pioneers of the sea died of old age, and they could only spend their lives by carving stone carvings, sad! Alas! ”
Speaking of this, Brother Lin's face had a bit of sympathy and sadness.
If we don't succeed in shipbuilding, or if we don't sail well, we'll be like this for the rest of our lives.
I didn't expect that what Brother Lin wanted was completely different from mine, so I was embarrassed to tell my own strange story again.
"That's not what the Sassanid Hu look like! The short forehead and flat top, the unopened spoon of the mountain and wild people is like this! ”
The pot helmet knows very little about the past and the present, and his dismantling caused a burst of laughter from everyone.
"How many of the merchants who travel the sea are good at carving? It is not easy to be able to draw a scoop according to the gourd! Pot helmet! Give you two months to carve a stone statue of yourself for everyone to see! Surely a spoon too! ”
Brother Lin said with a smile, before we knew it, the red sun had already turned west, and we no longer stopped, chatting and laughing all the way to the bottom of the mountain.
Whether the originators of these stone statues are the indigenous giants, or the Persian, Roman, and Resting merchants who have wandered on the island, or the visitors from the heavens before the beginning of chaos have little to do with us.
The top priority was to find a place to sleep in the open, and everyone unanimously said that they had eaten enough bird meat and would change their tastes in the evening.
At present, the tide is receding violently, and there may be fat fish falling on the edge of the rocky cliff at the beachhead.
As a result, the fat fish was not found, but it encountered countless monsters that only inhabited here.
Full of fluff and no limbs, like a beast, not a beast, like a fish and not a fish, with spots all over the body like a cheetah, Brother Lin called it a sea beast.
So he hunted a few of them cooked at night, the meat was fat and bitter, and the spices of Tianzhu could barely be swallowed.
Those of us in the Western Regions who eat minced meat all year round are still like this, and Brother Lin, who has lived on rice since childhood, is also bitter.
Many of the men vomited that night, vowing that they would rather starve to death than touch the island's game again.
(End of chapter)
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