After the Black Hawk tribe defeated the Bison tribe, the Bison tribe suffered heavy casualties and was forced by the Black Eagle tribe to flee to the eastern or northern grasslands of North America. Tang Dynasty. The vast area around the camp is now largely under the control of the Black Hawk Tribe. Some smaller tribes have also taken refuge in the Black Hawk Tribe, and the Black Hawk Tribe has become the largest and most powerful tribe in North America in one fell swoop.

All the clansmen of the Black Eagle tribe know that all this glory is due to the fairy queen from the Tang Dynasty, so they worship Xia Xue like a god, and they are also very friendly to the Tang people.

More than half a month later, with the help of the Black Eagle tribe, the coal mine was finally found, and it was an open-pit coal mine with abundant reserves and easy to exploit. Xia Xue and Tang. The sailors were overjoyed, and through the exchange of salt and other items, Xia Xue obtained a large amount of coal that was in urgent need, so that the "Expedition" finally had the motivation to go to South America for an expedition.

In the blink of an eye, more than a month has passed, and the wheat seedlings in the field have already been headed! The climate here is humid, the weather is hot, the growth of grains is very fast, and all the food carried by the warship has basically been eaten, only some wheat seeds are left, although there is no shortage of meat, but the green vegetables are all picked in their own fields, and after dozens of days, the sown wheat can be harvested, so that the problem of eating can be temporarily solved, but this is not a good way, Xia Xue hopes to be able to return to China in the summer of next year.

Because the person in charge of observing the ocean currents had already reported to him the movement of the ocean currents, and sure enough, as Xia Xue had predicted, after May, the entire Pacific Ocean Current was flowing in the opposite direction, which means that as long as there is enough coal, they can return to the Fuso Sea according to a certain route after passing through the Aleutian Islands, and if this sail-powered warship alone wants to get rid of the fetters of the ocean current and not be wrapped in the polar North Sea, it needs to take a great risk! Fortunately, now that she has found a coal mine, Xia Xue basically doesn't have to worry about the power of the Explorer.

There was not much salt left on the ship, and she had to complete one more job, which was to build a drying ground for sea salt in the shortest possible time. The drying ground of sea salt is very important to the people in the camp, dealing with the local Indians, it is not good to have gifts that can be obtained, and some samples of the seven-piece iron set on the ship have basically been used by the people in the camp, and then there are those porcelain, which are all necessities of life, so Xia Xue has no extra things as gifts, so the cheapest and fastest source of obtaining a large number of gifts is table salt, so she needs to build a sea salt drying field here.

Although Xia Xue's people are not professionals, they have followed Xia Xue to the South Seas and built them in several places, so it can be said that they are familiar with it, so it didn't take long to complete the construction, when the first batch of sea salt was dried, the people in the camp were very happy, to be able to have such a large amount of sea salt in the early days, Hua Xia In some remote areas in ancient times, salt used to be expensive to use as currency, Xia Xue believes that at this stage, the Indians in North America have not learned to make salt, so it's a very cost-effective and successful program.

With the help of the Black Eagle tribe, the coal mine was finally found. So through the exchange of salt and other things, in exchange for a large amount of coal and gold, the expedition was finally free to move! Everyone was excited that they could finally continue sailing and that they could hopefully go home.

Xia Xue continued to sail south on the Expedition, crossed the place where the two Americas were connected, and continued south along the coastline to South America.

It was a morning when the sun was shining and the waves were rippling, the sky was blue as far as the eye could see, and there was a peaceful atmosphere on the sea, which was so peaceful that it was almost exaggerated.

The "Expedition" moved slowly, and the three masts swayed leisurely like three palm trees.

A short crew member looks out from the top of the mast.

He saw something strange floating in the sea in the distance.

It was white, big, big, and slow.

It slowly emerged from the sea, higher and higher, until it was above the surface.

Its color is snow-white, even harsh, like an avalanche.

It flickered above the surface of the sea for a moment, then slowly sank again.

And so it goes.

The short crew stared at the thing, muttering to themselves:

"This is a sea monster, right?"

When the big white creature came out again, the short crew shouted, "Look, sea monster, sea monster, sea monster is coming!" ”

The sharp sound of his voice was like a sharp sword, stabbing the snoozing sailors awake.

"Where?"

Sailors huddled on deck.

"Right ahead, right ahead, look!"

Xia Xue stepped onto the deck, standing under the sunlight, looking forward in the direction the short crew was pointing.

A large white mass caught her eye.

The white sea monster is approaching the "Expedition", and everyone's hearts are raised.

As it approached, the thing sank again.

When the thing floated up again, the sailors were immediately attracted by a strange sight.

The sea monster was a large mass of soft, cotton-like stuff that shimmered milky white in the sun's rays.

Incredibly, that guy was about two or three hundred meters square, and countless slender arms radiated from the center of his body, which were curved and entangled, like a large group of pythons.

Watching this big monster float among the waves, no one knew what it was.

"Oh my God, what kind of monster is this?" Ouyang Qian screamed.

Xia Xue watched quietly for a while, and said to everyone calmly: "Don't be nervous, this is not a sea monster, this is a big squid fish." It won't attack us. ”

"What, big squid, oh my God, it's so big, it's horrible!" The sailors exclaimed. Hearing Empress Changsun say this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, everyone's eyes really opened, because such a large sea creature, I am afraid that no one has ever seen it before.

The huge giant squid did not attack the sailors, it circled around the "Expedition" and slowly swam away.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and the "Explorer" continued to sail south at full speed, trying to get as far away as possible from the giant squid, which was indeed too big and too scary.

After sailing for about thirty minutes, everyone's hanging hearts slowly relaxed.

Just about to breathe a sigh of relief, suddenly the "Explorer" shook, as if something was pulling the big ship, the big ship with full horsepower suddenly lost power, and then from the port side of the ship suddenly appeared a huge wrist and foot, like a giant python, slammed on the deck, and also squirmed!

"Ah——! Sea monster! Sea monster! The frightened sailor shouted in panic again, the big squid had just left, and now there was a new sea monster, and this new sea monster was even more terrifying.

At the same time, the side of the boat on the other side also stretched out huge wrists and feet, Xia Xue saw that there was an obvious suction cup on it, what kind of sea monster is this, this is a huge octopus! There is a high probability of giant octopuses and large squid appearing in the sea in the tropical regions of the Pacific Ocean, but such large ones are rare.

Why did this octopus suddenly attack the Explorer? Xia Xue didn't care about the reason, the powerful suction came from this octopus, and his tentacles had reached the sail, flipping the sail to the side, which had already affected the course of the big ship.

"Cut with a knife!" Xia Xue roared, pulled out the Tang knife, flew forward, and cut off the huge tentacles of the octopus with one sword, and a stream of light blue blood and a lot of mucus spewed out from the broken tentacles! The tentacle shrank back sharply in pain, but the other tentacle quickly reached over, rolled up a stunned sailor, and threw it into the air.

Xia Xue rushed forward with an arrow step, jumped up, and slashed in the air, and the huge tentacle was cut off with the cold light, and Tang Bing fell and almost died.

Xia Xue's roar and brave actions woke up those sailors, their bloodiness and bravery were stimulated, and they roared and pulled out their Tang knives to cut those tentacles with fangs and claws, and after being cut off a few more tentacles, the octopus couldn't bear the pain and shrank down.

The whole warship suddenly loosened, and the suction force was finally gone, thinking that the octopus was too badly injured and had let go of the warship.

The sailors hurriedly adjusted their sails and continued south at full speed. It's better to say it's to move forward than to escape, this time it really frightened these sailors, where have they ever seen such a big octopus, it's terrifying.

The fight with the giant octopus made many sailors still afraid, a Tang soldier on the ship was injured, some wooden shelves were broken by tentacles, and there were several big python-like octopus tentacles lying on the ground! The Tang soldiers and sailors all looked at them with trepidation.

Cui Zhi was treating the Tang soldier, while Xia Xue walked towards the tentacles. The tentacle he cut off for the second time was the largest, more than three meters long. Xia Xue took out the Tang knife, divided it into two, each section was more than one meter long, picked up the tentacles more than one meter long with the tip of the knife and looked at it, hehe smiled, and shouted to the sailors: "What are you afraid of!" This is high protein, not only delicious, but also a great supplement! Octopus is not only rich in protein, minerals and other nutrients, but also rich in anti-fatigue, anti-aging, can prolong human life and other important health factors - natural taurine. ”

The sailors saw the beautiful Empress Changsun calmly and calmly, although they didn't understand what she said about natural taurine acid, but when they heard that it was delicious and a great supplement, they couldn't help but swallow their saliva, grinned and smirked, and the fear in their hearts slowly diluted.

So there was a new dish of grilled octopus feet in the kitchen that day, and after everyone ate it, it was really delicious and refreshing, but I didn't expect such a terrible guy to taste good. Everyone went from fear at the beginning to looking forward to meeting a big octopus again, so that everyone could have another good meal.

After arriving in South America, Xia Xue led everyone to climb the Andes, found the Peruvian silver mine and the copper mine of Zhizhi in the later generations, and drew a detailed chart of South America.

South America is not only a huge source of gold, but also the main source of various colored gemstones, to be honest, Xia Xue's interest in gold is greater than gemstones, but human beings are born with a hobby for some rare treasures, looking at those colorful gems, Xia Xue feels that the angel company has another money-making project.

She also found a strange animal in the local area, Xia Xue took a closer look: "Ah, isn't this a grass mud horse?!" ”

The grass mud horse is actually the alpaca of South America, which is a specialty of the Andes, and the South American Indians have domesticated the grass mud horse into a domestic animal since ancient times, which can carry things and cultivate farmland, which is still very practical for the North American Indians who are still using donkeys and semi-wild cattle as livestock!