"It's coming! Here it comes! "With a cheer from the crowd on the docks, several long masts suddenly appeared on the distant sea, followed by several long sails, which grew taller and taller as the distance approached. However, if you have good eyesight, you can quickly notice that the sails in the distance are colorful, and many places are patched, looking like beggars' clothes.

After a while, the fleet in the distance finally jumped out from below sea level, completely presented in front of Li Su and others, but when everyone saw the appearance of this fleet, they were all related, because the appearance of this fleet was too miserable, there were only a dozen big ships left in the entire fleet, not only the sails were patched, but even the hull was in tatters, and cracks in the shipboard and patched planks could be seen everywhere, and it could be said that these ships were almost on the verge of scrapping.

Many of the family members of the crew from Luzon cried when they saw the miserable appearance of the fleet, because they also knew that two years was not enough time for the fleet to become like this, unless it was a major storm, and in the midst of the storm, the fleet must have suffered considerable casualties, that is, their relatives probably did not return with the fleet.

Li Su and the others were also heartbroken, and most of them were also speculating about the casualties of the fleet in their hearts, and the atmosphere on the dock was silent for a while.

Lu Wan's fleet quickly entered the harbor, and the pilot ship guided them into the berth, at which point everyone, including Li Su, stepped forward to meet them.

At this time, the people on the boat also leaned out from the side of the ship to look down, and as a result, several family members recognized their relatives and began to call out loudly. The crew of the ship also responded loudly with tears in their eyes, which made the family members below even more anxious. Running back and forth between a dozen large ships, looking for his family.

Li Su came to the main ship of the fleet. This ship named Universal is known to him, and it is an ocean-going ship ordered by the official shipyard in Taiwan after Lu Wan explored the second route of Perfect Continent, and it is very well built, and it has always been Lu Wan's ship. It's just that the globe in front of me is dilapidated, the hull is full of scratches, and there are traces of repair, and even a small piece is missing at the stern, although it does not affect the navigation. But it's very unsightly.

When Li Su and the others were looking at the Globe, they saw a flash of people on the boat, and finally someone began to walk towards the ship. According to the rules, often the first person to get off the ship should be the person with the highest status on the ship, that is, the captain Lu Wan. Today's situation was no exception, and while Li Su and the others waited, Captain Lu Wan was the first to step off the ship.

It's just that when Li Su and the others saw Lu Wan, they were all stunned, because although Lu Wan in front of them was smiling. But with a cane in his right hand, a sea breeze blew through the hem of his garment, so that all could see it. The place that should have been Lu Wan's right leg is now empty.

"Grass people, see Your Majesty!" Lu Wan stepped off the boat with a cane and saluted Li Su.

"Lu Wan. Your legs? Li Su hurriedly held Lu Wan and asked with great concern. It's close now. Only then did Li Yu find out that Lu Wan was not only missing a right leg, but also very thin. His face was also a little pale, and it seemed that the loss of a leg had hurt his body a lot.

"Your Majesty, it's just one leg, it's nothing compared to those brothers who died at the bottom of the sea!" Lu Wan said with a somewhat silent expression, his words also confirmed the previous guess of Li Yu and the others, Lu Wan and the others must have suffered a huge disaster this time.

"Husband~" At this moment, Lu Wan's old wife couldn't hold back anymore, and she couldn't care that Li Su was talking to Lu Wan, and she threw herself on Lu Wan's chest and cried bitterly, and Lu Wan's children were also very sad. In addition, the names of some of the dead crew members were also published by other crew members, which caused the families of these crew members to cry.

Originally, Li Su had already prepared a banquet to catch the wind for Lu Wan and them, but he didn't expect this kind of change to happen, and he didn't care about taking the wind at the moment, so he hurriedly arranged for the crew and their families to meet and talk at the place of residence, and first stabilize the emotions of the family members. In this way, in the afternoon, Lu Wan and some high-ranking members of the crew came to meet Li Su, and then told their experience in the past two years.

It turned out that two years ago, after Lu Wan and Li Ke separated, they followed a southward current to the equator near the Atlantic Ocean, where they found a current to the Americas, which made the whole fleet very excited, and immediately sailed to the Americas.

Originally, at the beginning, they were moving very smoothly, but what they didn't expect was that because they were not familiar with the climate of the Atlantic, this time happened to be the peak typhoon season in the Atlantic, but the typhoons here were called hurricanes in later generations.

It is precisely because of this that when Lu Wan and his family were about to arrive in the Americas, they suddenly encountered a big storm, and the waves at that time were several feet high, if it weren't for the fact that their big ships were specially built and had excellent stability, they would have been completely overturned in that big storm.

Although the storm was strong, fortunately, Lu Wan and the members of the fleet were experienced, and before the storm reached its maximum, Lu Wan made a quick decision to abandon some small boats that could not resist the wind and waves, and gathered all the crew members on the big ship. It was also his decision that caused the fleet to lose almost all the medium-sized ships, but the casualties were not very serious, except for a dozen crew members who were swept away by the storm, the others were injured at most, and it is worth mentioning that Lu Wan's legs were still intact at this time.

However, after this storm, more than a dozen large ships of the fleet were also greatly damaged, and some ships were even blown into the reef, and the hull broke several large holes, but fortunately, the crew worked hard to repair them, so that the ships did not sink, and reluctantly continued to sail to the Americas.

The rest of the journey did not encounter any major storms, and the fleet reached an archipelago very close to the American mainland, among which there were two islands of considerable size. Later, Li Su looked at the nautical charts provided by Lu Wan and learned that this archipelago was located in the Caribbean Sea in later generations.

Lüvan stayed on the island for a long time, mainly to repair the damage caused by the storm, and they also came into contact with the island's natives, whose language belonged to the same language family as the Mayan language, and although the master of the language of Liukata was not in the fleet, there were other interpreters in the fleet who understood the Mayan language, so it was not difficult to communicate.

The indigenous people of the island claim to be the Arawa people, they came to the island from the Americas in small boats hundreds of years ago, these Arawa people are very backward in civilization, there is no concept of a state, and they are much more backward than the Maya, but they are very friendly to Luvan, and they take out a lot of food to exchange with the fleet for porcelain, cotton cloth and other daily necessities.

Luvin and his colleagues already had experience in contact with the Americans, and there was no problem with language communication, so they also received some very useful information from the Arawa people, such as the annual climate of the Atlantic, the distribution of some islands in the Caribbean, and so on. However, the natives of these islands rarely communicated with the natives of the American continent, so they knew very little about the situation in the Americas, and even less than they knew about Luvin.

After spending some time on the archipelago, the wounded ships in the fleet were barely repaired, and they headed west again, only to reach the east coast of the Americas, and coincidentally, to the Yucatan Peninsula, the birthplace of the Mayans.

The Yucatan Peninsula is a prominent rectangular peninsula on the east coast of Central America, with what would become the Gulf of Mexico to the north and the Caribbean Sea to the southeast. The peninsula is rich in corn, sugar cane and cocoa, and it is also the birthplace of the Mayans, and the peninsula is full of Mayan city-states.

At the beginning, Luvan didn't know that the coast they were docking on was the Yucatan Peninsula, they just found a beach to dock at random along the direction of the wind, and then sent a team ashore, hoping to find Americans who could communicate, and ask from them to see how far away it is from the west coast of the Americas? It would be best if the other party could know about the city of Chola or the port of Lüvan.

But what Lu Wan didn't expect was that after their fleet docked, they searched near the coast for several days, but they didn't find a single person, and they even found a small village not far from the coast, but the whole village was empty.

And what's even more strange is that Lu Wan found a lot of moldy and spoiled grain in many houses in the village, and even a small amount of grain is still edible because it is well preserved, and some daily necessities are also there, but they don't see a single figure, as if the people in the whole village are in some major danger, so they hurriedly moved away, and even the food was not completely taken away.

Faced with this situation, Lu Wan and the others all felt a little incredible, judging from the style of the temple in the middle of this village, as well as the text in the temple, this village should be a village inhabited by the Mayans. And in the temple, there are several corpses that died as a result of blood sacrifices, and judging from the decomposition of these corpses, the village was still inhabited at least half a year ago.

In the face of such an empty village, although Lu Wan was puzzled in his heart, he didn't dig too deep, after all, they were not detectives, and they also got some useful news from here, such as this is the territory of the Mayans, so they should be able to get some useful news.

However, what Lu Wan didn't expect was that they landed on the Yucatan Peninsula several times by boat, and even found a small city by the sea, but whether it was a village or a city, it was all empty, as if all the Mayans had disappeared, and finally it was not until they came to the south side of the peninsula and found a city that should be the largest city nearby, that they finally understood the truth about the Mayans' disappearance! (To be continued......)