[Today's fourth shift, thank you for your support, and tomorrow I will be ready to take a break]

In the mountains and mountains of northern Borneo, there are always green trees, the four seasons are like summer, because there are no big winds and waves all year round, and even the scenery seems to lack some charm. At the end of the coast, near the inland, the Waliu River makes a few bends here, enclosing a fertile plain surrounded by a few small villages that have farmed and hunted here for generations, and is known as the Gultamori Valley. If you can go upriver along the Waliu River and go less than 70 miles southeast of Guta Maolu, you can see the sacred mountain called Shinabaru, which is also the highest place within a radius of hundreds of miles. There is a stone tablet under the mountain, it has been nearly two hundred years, several Chinese characters on the stone tablet are still clearly legible, it is called 'Changning Zhenguo', this is still a gift sent by the envoys of the Ming Kingdom when the ancestor was born.

There is also a long text on the stele, the text is not very clear, but 'it is the muddy king, sincere and respectful, known and respected, Mu Shang Shengjiao, prudent and pious, leading his dependents and courtiers, not far away tens of thousands of miles, floating in the sea to come...... In the year of Vance, look up to me Daming. But these words are clear.

Because of the help of the first generation of Bo Ni Sutan to retreat from the army of the Sulu State, he was named Mana Jakana (note: Maharaja Lela, the king of the Italian word side by side), and the later Huang Zuo II Sutan Hassan, the regent of the prison country, and the power was unmatched for a while. In the sixth year of Yongle (note: 1408 AD), Huang Senping led a delegation to return to the country to pay tribute, died of illness in Nanjing, and asked for three things with a testament before his death. The second is "the mountain is a town after begging the country", please add it as the town mountain of the Boni country, and give it a good name, Yongzhen Nanyang; The third is to "support the body in China", please be buried in China. Zhu Di agreed to these three articles, and sent the eunuch Zhang Qian and the pedestrian Zhou Hang to escort Huang Zi all the way back to the country, and the words "Changning Zhenguo" were written by Emperor Taizong of the Ming Dynasty. The burial under the mountain is Huang Senping's wife, because Huang Senping is buried alone in Nanjing, so many people call this mountain a Chinese widow's mountain, and China Baru is to take its sound.

But in the hearts of the Bajau tribe who live in ancient times, the scenery here has a different meaning. For hundreds of years, the ancestors moved here from Johor and Sulu, and lived a life of farming, fishing and hunting, and they have always been very leisurely and indifferent, and there are no natural disasters. It's just that in recent years, the sea has not been very peaceful, and even the happy days with this ancient law of beating Mao have changed.

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It was past noon, but the afternoon was a little hotter than in the morning, and Tawang was nestled in the grass, looking a little lacking in spirit, and this state had been in a state for two days, if at this time in the past, the children of the clan should still be waiting for the men to return to the village with their prey, but now it was a different matter to be solved.

On the shore not far from the bottom of the mountain, on the beach washed by the blue sea without a trace of variegation, there is a strange boat with a beautiful streamline, the hull is not big, and it is not longer than the canoes used by the Bajau people for fishing on weekdays, but it is different from the Guangzhou boats and fortune boats of Chinese merchants seen on weekdays, and the shape and curve are more beautiful. Accustomed to seeing all kinds of merchant ships coming and going on the sea, the men of the Bajau tribe thought it strange that this ship was actually sitting here, and there were no ships on this coast for many months.

And on the flat land not far from the coast, a small stockade has been erected. It is said that it is a stockade, but it is just a soil fence made of local materials, which can only accommodate more than ten people, which is not as large as the house of the elders in the clan, but for those five people, it is already spacious.

However, it is indeed a rare sight for the Bajau people who live in Guda Maolu, and early this morning, I saw a group of strangely dressed aliens tidying up their equipment, as if they were leaving.

As expected, at noon, I saw a few people cooking on the fire, and after eating once, they rested for a while, and then the aliens under the mountain left the village.

Because there was no port town here, and there were no special products, there were very few merchant ships docking on weekdays, and some mostly docked in small boats, and exchanged some daily miscellaneous water for the natives. However, if it is said that there are pirates, it is common, Tawang is only fifteen or sixteen years old, but since he can remember, he has always encountered bandits who come ashore several times a year on these days. The local area is the place where the trade winds come from the south, so the origin of the hometown under the wind in later generations. Tawang and the people have always been the usual farming, supplemented by fishing and hunting, the days are also abundant, if there are merchants from the east to buy bird's nest on the mountain, then there can be a lot of more inputs, but at this time of the year, it has always been a green and yellow day, but it is a good season for fishing, but how the bandits on the sea have the temperament to fish and hunt, are accustomed to leisurely and disgusting, always waiting for this time to land, come to the village of the Tu people everywhere to loot, the food in the village can not be spared, if there are women most likely will not be spared, The native female slaves were hard commodity in the South Seas. As for the timber for building the stockade, as well as clean water, they are all needed for the bandits to land and replenish their supplies. It was because of such a suspicious docked ship that Tawang and his people were very nervous.

These bandits acted decisively and ferociously, and they were well-armed, and the swords they used were all made of iron, compared to the bone arrows and stone spears still used in the clan, the gap was too great, that is, there were not many of them this time, according to the experience of the past, as long as they held on for a while, the bandits would retreat by themselves. As for the types of pirates, whether they are Japanese bandits, Chinese merchants or Hongyi, Tawang can't tell the difference. But after seeing the few people who came ashore this time, it was different from usual.

In the past, the usual pirates ranged from twenty to thirty to sixty or seventy, and after they went ashore, they often searched around, and their actions were unregulated. And these people in front of them were not only very cautious, but also led by one person, and did not rush forward, and Tawang and the others, who originally wanted to prepare for an attack, did not have a chance for a while.

I saw the leader of the leader, as if he was holding a strange stick in his hand, but such a stick Tawang recognized, at this time last year, there was a shipof pirates landed here, and one of the warriors who fought with the clan at that time was injured by this sparkling stick, and carried back to the village less than ten days later, he lost his life, and all the wounds were rotten, and the best wizard in the clan could not save them, so he was a little nervous at this moment, but fortunately, he had seen more than one strange thing in the past few days, which made Tawang feel a little relieved.

The group stopped and walked towards the hill, so that when they got closer, they could see the attire of the visitor, with brimmed hats, short-sleeved plackets, and wide trousers that showed off their calves. These are different from the pirates who came here in the past, and the bandits who landed on the shore in previous years were either Han Chinese or Japanese pirates, and most of them were Sulu pirates from the other side of the sea.

The Sulu people usually make a living by fishing and merchantling, and when the year is bad, they will also do some shady deeds, and in the vast sea, it seems that it is more cost-effective to plunder the grain, wealth and population of the natives than to rob merchant ships, after all, it is not very difficult and inexhaustible. As he walked, he drew his sword and cleared the thorns along the way. These are all planted in the Bajau tribe on a daily basis, some of the thorns have sprouted, and some have withered. In the past 30 years, the bandits have been rampant, in order to resist the bandits, plant some thorns and thorns on the smooth road of the coast, and the small group has seen it on the sea, and it is not easy to land on the shore, which is also a strategy to defend the country.

one-step

Two steps

Three steps

The distance between the visitors was getting closer and closer, and a bush twenty paces away in front of them, except for exuding a green southern atmosphere, did not give the visitors much vigilance, and the five people facing Tawang were just accustomed to walking like this, not so much cautious as just curious.

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One person

Two people

Three

By the time the fifth alien stepped into the woods, Tawang had already fallen behind a group of people, and there were fifteen or sixteen people who were also behind him, and there were only more people standing in front of the aliens.

"Tawang, remember what I said in the morning, right?" Chai Long, who squatted with Tawang, was only three years older than Tawang, but he was the top samurai of the Bajau tribe, and it was not a problem to cook an adult wild boar by himself.

The patriarch is in front, but it's been less than half a day, how can you not remember what you said in the morning? He was a little impatient and said, "Guess Long, are you a fool for me?" The patriarch said that he wanted to live, how I don't remember, but you should be careful. ”

On weekdays, Chai Long reprimanded Tawang for being used to it, but Tawang also understood, which time did Chai Long endure and didn't kill him? Whether it is the prey or the enemy, it is a stone axe in front of the face, and a killing battle after the rainy season last year, if it were not for Chai Long to hack the young son of the patriarch on the opposite side to death, the Bajau tribe and the Mulu tribe would not have formed a mortal enmity. Therefore, Fang Cai's sentence is not so much a warning as just a complaint.

Click.

It was the sound of the alien man in the lead pulling the trigger, and the person who walked in front was indeed the first to notice the threat from behind, and hurriedly turned around and glanced at it, and it was Tawang's wide-eyed eyes that met him, and almost at the same time, Tawang also found that the musket in the other party's hand had been aimed at him.

Bang.

This is the movement of the bullet out of the chamber, and between the lightning and flint, the alien man only felt that his leg floated, and the muzzle of the gun was raised by three inches, and the bullet was deflected even more. It's just that the man has already lost the last chance, and before he has time to fire the second shot, several large nets are covered, and the last picture is a stout man rushing in front of him, knocking on the door with a stick, and the last thought of 'more than auspicious' jumped out of his mind, and finally only a blank space remained.

The man didn't know how long it took, but he felt that he had been sent to a village with his companions, and after a long time, when he finally regained his senses, there were still bursts of pain in his head, which made him unable to think well. I don't know where I am, and I don't know who is around.

A steady and deep voice sounded in my ears, and I only felt that the tone of the person who came was familiar, but it was not like the ordinary natives here.

It's just that when this voice sounded for the third time, I was finally able to understand that it was a country voice that was rarely heard outside in those days after going to the country, even if it had a thick accent, it was undoubtedly a little comfort brought by this panic.

The owner of the voice seemed to confirm something, and asked more sonorously, "Who are you?" Where did it come from? ”