"The old man is already drunk, already drunk!" Clement laughed after hearing this, took a glass of wine and drank it down, "I'm starting to talk nonsense!" ”

Ulf just smiled and took a sip of the water from his glass. By this time, everyone present had seen the pink scars on Ulf's arm that had raised his arm and suddenly revealed his cuffs. Clement was a little surprised.

Then these are all true, Wu Yingke thought to himself.

The boatswain stood up and staggered toward his boat, but fell on the deck from the strength of his wine.

"I ...... Had a long, long dream...... A long dream......" he lay on the deck and muttered, and the rest of the people listening to the story at the wine table looked at each other.

Wu Yingke carefully looked at his thighs with rolled up trouser legs, which were covered with one, two, three painlessly...... Count the pink scars that are still messy like threads if they are not cleaned up. Wu Yingke didn't know how many such thin scars he still had on his body.

In the evening of the next day, people saw the floating islands that towered between the sea and the sky like round towers in the distance, and one of them reflected the afterglow of the setting sun and glowed with golden colors, and Wu Yingke guessed that it was the highest "pillar of heaven".

The people who were going to go on the expedition all went to the small boat, Wu Yingke had already arrived on the small boat at that time, he was the only Qianguo among the passengers who dared to go on the expedition (the fellow students studying in Britain who were traveling with him not only did not dare to go, but also opposed him to go), Ulf looked at them and did not speak, looked up and shouted to the people on the big boat, "Open the boat!" Then he began to row again.

There was originally a cable tied between the small boat and the big boat. This time, I don't know who cut it off by someone on the big ship. The boat was just Ulf and a few sailors rowing, though. But it quickly passed by the big ship.

Ulf told them before that the sea here would suddenly fog up, and the fog would not disperse for several days, and I heard that sometimes it would not disperse for several years, but Wu Yingke didn't believe it at that time. There was a thin layer of lingering green smoke in the air, and the sun still felt cold when it shone in, but the fog was by no means different from the green smoke, and the fog was as white as the clouds that had suddenly been obscured by a large expanse of the blue sky. It's so thick. On the sea, from the direction of the Pillar of Heaven, which shone with a dazzling golden light, a thick fog suddenly spread, and we watched as the great ship shrank to a point on the round sea in the embers of the setting sun, but after all, it was not yet swallowed up by the white mist.

But in a short time, the fog spread all over the islands, and the fog was low on the sea, and if the sea was clear, the fog would be white clouds, and the islands seemed to be as if they were floating in the air. I am afraid that anyone who sees such a spectacle will open their mouths wide and stare at it without stopping.

Wait until they sail into the waters of the island. I found that those dense fogs were really strange, like marshmallows scattered around the sea one by one, really like clouds, if the birds fly into the clouds, others will not be able to see them, but if the birds hide in a cloud, people can't see them, the birds will keep flying into a cloud and then fly out, and fly in and out from another cloud, those clouds are not continuous, just like the current fog, suddenly Wu Yingke has an illusion, he doesn't know whether he is in the sky or on the sea, Their ship was like a bird that flew through the clouds in the sky. This thick fog can really make people's hearts chill, for example, the bow of the ship sailed into the fog, and they stood at the stern as if the ship had been cut off alive, and if they were standing near the bow at this time, then they could not see anything, but a white expanse, and they could not see the five fingers when they stretched out their hands in front of them.

Later, it seemed that the fog had only encircled all the islands. They passed through the layers of fog, and finally their vision became wider again, and although we could see the sea of fog in the distance in an arc surrounding all the islands, although there were countless islands to count. Maybe it was because the fog was created to keep people from approaching the island, or maybe it was the light from the Pillar of Heaven that dispelled the fog near the island.

After a while, Wu Yingke saw the terrible "ship grave", and those broken ships did look like they were all shipwrecks that were hundreds of years old. He didn't think these wrecks were terrible, but he felt poetic when he looked at the high masts of one or two of them carrying the afterglow of the setting sun.

The moment people sailed out of the sea of fog, they were stunned by the strange scene in front of them, and they were even more excited than when they saw the fog covering the foundation of the island, and they were almost moved with goosebumps. Ulf stopped the boat, but the stern was still drowning in a thick fog, and it was like getting on a small boat with a broken stern that would be swallowed up by the sea at any moment.

People just stopped there, looking at this island and looking at that island, and then at the forest at the foot of the island and at the old shipwrecks.

Looking at it like this, I don't know how long it has been, the afterglow of the sunset has dimmed, the bright moon has risen, and people have come back to their senses.

By the light of the moon, not only the Pillar of Heaven was glowing, but also the flocks of seabirds flying high in the deep blue night sky around the Pillar of Heaven seemed to glow. The thin lines of light that crossed the horizon were more brilliant than the starry fields seen on a moonless night, and the deep blue night sky was dyed a pale color.

Wu Yingke looked at the islands around. Probably because of the moonlight, and the light of the birds and the pillars of heaven, came in all directions, and the high islands did not cast a shadow on the sea. The bright green canopy of the forests surrounding the islands becomes greener where the light shines, and the dark green where it doesn't.

At this time, the people on the ship were completely immersed in the beautiful scenery.

"It's heaven!" Clement exclaimed loudly.

"Yes." Wu Yingke's heart also gave birth to such a feeling, somehow, he actually felt that even if he stayed here for 10,000 years, he would not get tired of it.

"Why don't we dock?" Clement noticed that the boat was always hovering on the shore and had no intention of sending them ashore. I can't help but feel a little weird.

Under the moonlight. Wu Yingke suddenly noticed that Boatswain Ulf's face was a little pale. I couldn't help but feel a tightening in my heart.

He seemed to have a premonition that something was going to happen.

"We can't go ashore!" Ulf said in a hoarse voice.

"Why? I paid for it! Clement said with some annoyance.

"Yes! Dear Mr. Clement, you have paid! Someone coaxed.

"I only promised to send you to see the island, but I didn't say that I would take you to the island for the night!" Ulf said.

"Why can't we go up to the island for the night?" Wu Yingke seemed to sense something and immediately asked.

"This island...... There are monsters! Spend the night on the island and you're going to die! Ulf hesitated and said.

"Monsters?" Wu Yingke couldn't help but be stunned when he heard Ulf's words.

"That time, everyone who went with me died...... Ulf's face showed a look of fear, "I was the only one who survived......

"I see the scars on your body. Are they the monsters you are talking about? Clement asked.

Ulf nodded.

"What's on the island?" Clement asked again.

"I ...... I don't know ......" The color of fear in Ulf's eyes grew stronger.

"Well, this time, I'll come and see what's on the island and avenge those who died." Clement lifted the jaw, revealing a short-barreled double-barreled shotgun and a revolver at his waist.

Ulf's face turned even whiter, and his body trembled.

"Let the boat come to shore, I'm going to go ashore." Clement looked at everyone, and he noticed that the faces of the others were also more or less terrified.

"Does no one dare to go with me?" Clement couldn't help but laugh when he saw that the people who bragged on weekdays stopped talking one by one.

Seeing that no one answered, Wu Yingke suddenly said, "I'll go with you." Mr. Clement. ”

"Excellent! Wu, I know. You and your companions are different! Be a brave man! Clement seemed a little unhappy that he was an Oriental accompanying him on his expedition, and asked, "Is anyone else willing to go ashore with me?" ”

This time, no one answered.

"Mr. Sailingswain, it's okay if you don't want to go ashore, but after you send the guests back to the big ship, you're going to come back to pick up Wu and me, understand?" Clement said to Ulf.

"I understand." Ulf nodded, his face still pale.

After a short time, the boat landed on the beach, and after Clement and Wu Yingke jumped ashore, the boat quickly left without stopping for a moment.

"These cowards!" Clement glanced back at the boat in the distance, his eyes full of contempt.

"Maybe there's something weird about this island." Wu Yingke sniffed the sea breeze and frowned slightly.

"I really didn't expect that it would be a Qianguo man who would accompany me ashore." Clement turned his head and said to Wu Yingke, who was fluent in English, "Wu, you are much braver than those of your companions. ”

Listening to Clement's praise, Wu Yingke just smiled bitterly.

It has been 15 years since the establishment of the Harbour Master School, and it is the first naval academy in Qianguo, and it has formulated a complete teaching plan and rules and regulations at the time of its establishment, with five years of academic qualifications and three years of internship, and the study time span is twice that of the Etajima Naval Academy in Japan. However, at the beginning, the school only had five subjects: English, algorithms, driving, measurement, and firearms, and required reading various Confucian classics outside of class. The teaching policy was entirely the subjective work of the clerical minister, who did not consider at all how to cultivate the so-called "military spirit" in the West, and was only satisfied that the cadets could be "capable of driving." In this way, they were training naval officers, or rather, they were cultivating "talents" who could drive ships. At that time, the British naval officer who inspected the Harbour Master's School pointed out bitterly after observation, "...... They are all physically weak people, with no ambition or spirit at all, with the smell of women, either basking in the sun or doing homework after class, and never exercising. ”“…… For them, it may be more appropriate to stay in a shrine than at sea. This situation has changed greatly after Lin Yizhe presided over the shipmaster's house, but most of the students in the shipmaster's school are from Fujian, and they are too angry and weak, so they still feel weak to outsiders, and some people have been forced to drop out because they are too weak to complete their studies.

As a Cantonese person, this time he finally saved some face for the shipyard students.

"Need a weapon? Youngster? Clement noticed that Wu Yingke was empty-handed. He handed him his revolver.

Wu Yingke said that Xie took the revolver. After checking it out. Sticking the gun into his waist, he saw that Wu Yingke was very familiar with firearms, and he couldn't help but have a much better impression of this young Qianguo man.

The two of them walked together towards the woods on the shore.

The bright moonlight shines into the trees, making the whole forest glow a faint green glow, showing a dreamlike color, the forest is full of flowers, and the air is filled with an intoxicating sweet fragrance, which is really like a garden of heaven.

Clement breathed hard into the scent of flowers. It looked very pleasant, but Wu Yingke seemed to feel something strange after smelling the fragrance of flowers, he quietly stretched out his hand and took out a small piece of grass root-like thing in his sleeve, put it on his mouth and gently bit off a small piece, put it in his mouth, and put the remaining grass roots back into his sleeve.

"Wu! You see! What a beautiful flower! Clement put his double-barreled shotgun behind him, went to a large, unknown plant, and plucked a large flower from the branch.

"What a fragrant smell!" Clement said and handed the flower in his hand to Wu Yingke.

Wu Yingke took the flower, but he didn't sniff it with his nose - from the moment he took the flower. He immediately smelled the scent of flowers.

It is a flower that looks like a tulip with its petals separated. It spews out bursts of floral fragrance, and the stamens gather together.

In the moonlight, Wu Yingke noticed that there seemed to be a glimmer of metallic light in the stamens.

Curious, he peeled back the stamen, revealing a golden ring.

Wu Yingke took out the ring and looked at it carefully, this is a pure gold ring, light and plain, but there is a line of small English letters engraved on the inner wall, which should be a person's name.

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