There is a joke on the Internet in later generations, called "If you don't die, you won't die", this sentence is very appropriate for the Maya people in Karui City, after the smallpox patients were sacrificed by blood, before the Maya gathered in Karui City left, the latent smallpox virus broke out almost at the same time, and the sick people had a high fever, and some people even lost their sight, followed by complications such as sepsis, encephalitis, and pneumonia, which caused death within a few days.

At that time, the population density of the city of Karui had reached an alarming level, almost everyone could not escape the smallpox infection, large swaths of people died of illness, even people outside the city did not have time to escape, the dead bodies in the city were not cleaned up at all, and the entire street was almost full of sick and dead people, which eventually caused the situation that Luwan and the others saw.

The Maya's account was confirmed by the crew members who went into the city in search of gold, and according to them, the streets of the city were full of dead bodies, and even some roads were blocked by corpses, and they had to find other ways to reach the temple.

And in the square of the temple, they also saw those sick who were sacrificed with blood, their limbs tied to the altar one by one, and although the blood under their bodies had dried up, they could also see the tragic situation of the blood flowing at that time.

"Poor Mayans, although you have an excellent civilization in mathematics and astronomy, your ignorance in religion and medicine will sooner or later bring you ruin!" After hearing this, Lu Wan shook his head and sighed.

It has to be said that Lu Wan's vision is very unique, according to the estimation of later Han scholars, this smallpox plague from Asia lasted for nearly a hundred years. The total Maya population was also reduced by more than eighty percent, and most of the last remaining Maya were immune to smallpox from the plague. That's how strong he survived.

At the same time a large number of people died, especially those of the sacrifices. As a result, the Mayan civilization has regressed in great strides, some astronomical and mathematical knowledge has been cut off, and later generations can only find some fragments of the Mayan civilization from some words and carvings in the temple.

However, they didn't care about the life or death of the Mayans, and they even had a very excited mentality, because they found a lot of gold from the empty city, only in the temple of Karui City. The crew sent out brought back more than 3,000 catties of gold, which made all the members of the fleet glow with gold, as if they saw a golden wealth placed in front of them.

So in the following operation, Luvan and his team asked the surrounding cities through the surviving Maya, and began to send several teams to these cities, if they found that a certain city was similar to the situation of Karui City, they would immediately return to inform the fleet, and then the ships sent a large number of men to the city to find gold.

It was also in the process of searching for gold that Lu Wan and the others found that it was not uncommon for them to find situations similar to Karui City. The Maya don't seem to have much experience with the plague, and many Maya rushed to the city after the smallpox outbreak, maybe they felt safer in the city? Unfortunately, plagues like smallpox are more dangerous in densely populated places.

In this way, Luvan and they stayed on the Yucatan Peninsula for more than a year. They found more than a dozen large and small uninhabited cities, and they also encountered a few cities that had not yet experienced smallpox, but the situation in these cities was also very unoptimistic. All around were smallpox-plagued areas, and although they closed the gates. But smallpox can be transmitted through the air, so it was only a matter of time before the Mayans in these cities contracted smallpox.

For more than a year. Lu Wan and they found a total of fifteen tons of gold, including a megacity they found in the northeast of the peninsula, the original population of the city was at least more than 50,000, in this city alone, Lu Wan and they found nearly four tons of gold, which made Lu Wan and them almost crazy at that time.

However, although the gold is good, Luvan and they are also very measured, and for more than a year, they only operated in the coastal areas of the Yucatan Peninsula, and did not go too deep into the peninsula. This is mainly due to the fact that gold is also more easily transported to ships in coastal areas. In addition, the situation inside the peninsula is not very clear, and it will be bad if you encounter the more powerful Mayans.

Although those gold are ownerless in the eyes of Lu Wan, but for the Maya, those gold utensils belong to the gods, Lu Wan's behavior is not only theft, but also the personal belongings of the gods, if they are caught by the Mayans on the spot, they will definitely be pulled to the altar for blood sacrifice.

It was only after they had swept the entire coastal area of the Yucatan Peninsula that Luwan and his wife remembered the main task of their trip. However, they did not plan to return the same way, but traveled all the way south along the coast of the Americas, preparing to circumnavigate the Americas to the west coast and complete the feat of circumnavigating the globe.

In the beginning, it was very smooth, even in the event of a storm, they could anchor ashore, and on the east coast of South America, they also saw a variety of American natives, although these natives and Mayans belonged to the same American natives, but their living habits and language were quite different.

Soon Luvan and his wife came to the southernmost point of the Americas, that is, the area of the Strait of Magellan, and the southern side of the strait was Tierra del Fuego. The name Tierra del Fuego is very interesting, and legend has it that when Magellan passed through the strait, he saw the island's natives cooking bonfires, so he named the island south of the strait Tierra del Fuego.

It's a pity that Lu Wan and his people arrived at the strait in the daytime, and they didn't see the bonfire of the natives on the island, but Lu Wan saw through the telescope that there was a huge glacier on the island, so he named the island Glacier Island, and the strait was naturally named after it, temporarily named Glacier Strait.

The Glacier Strait was already approaching the South Pole, and it happened to be June now, which happened to be winter in the Southern Hemisphere, so the weather was quite cold when Lüvan and his team passed through here. However, if it is just cold, the glacier strait was famous for its high winds and rough waves, and it was often accompanied by heavy fog in winter, and the strait was not very wide, so the fleet faced a huge challenge when passing through it.

When they first entered the strait, relying on the skilled sailing skills of Lu Wan and the crew, they moved forward very smoothly, but they had just moved forward not far, and a dense fog began to appear in the strait, which made the fleet encounter great difficulties, especially when passing through one of the straits, the width of the strait suddenly became less than ten miles, the water depth also became very shallow, many reefs were all over the strait, coupled with huge wind and waves, which made the entire fleet of people raise their hearts to their throats.

But just as they were about to walk through this narrow strait, the wind in the strait suddenly became stronger. At first, the wind blew away the fog that stood in front of the crew, which made the crew happy for a while, but then they all began to curse the weather, because the wind was getting stronger and stronger, and they could not grasp the direction of the ship.

In the midst of the huge wind and waves, the ships were swept away by the waves, and some of them were about to hit the reefs in the sea, or even the cliffs on both sides of the strait, but these ships were able to turn their bows at the moment when they could not afford to happen, so that the ships could save the day.

But perhaps it was the test of Heaven for Lu Wan's circumnavigation of the world, just when they had just sailed out of this very narrow strait and entered a fairly wide strait in the glacial strait, before the whole fleet could breathe a sigh of relief, the glacier hanging on the cliff on one side of the strait suddenly broke, and a small mountain-like glacier with a vicious wind smashed into the sea water next to the fleet, and huge ice blocks splashed everywhere, causing several nearby ships to suffer great damage.

Among them, Lu Wan was riding on the globe just not far from the glacier, and Lu Wan was standing at the bow of the ship to direct the ship forward, but he didn't expect an arm-thick icicle to fly and penetrate his right leg at once, and even the thigh bone was pierced, and the white bone stubble protruded from the skin, and blood spurted out like a spring.

At first, Lu Wan only felt a cold in his right leg, and did not feel pain, but when he looked down and saw the miserable situation on his leg, he immediately felt a heart-rending pain, and immediately fainted with a scream. Fortunately, Xu Fang was on the Globe and immediately rescued Lu Wan.

Because most of the bones and muscles of Lu Wan's thigh were cut off, only some of the muscles were connected, and in this situation, it was impossible to save it at all, so Xu Fang decisively cut off Lu Wan's thigh, and then performed hemostatic surgery, which prevented Lu Wan from dying of excessive blood loss.

It was not only Lu Wan who was hit by the ice, but the crew of other ships were also injured or even killed by the ice, and even a ship closest to the glacier falling into the water, the stern of the ship was smashed open by a huge ice block and sank without even having time to repair it, although the crew on the ship tried desperately to save themselves, and other ships also came forward to rescue, but in the end, because the temperature of the sea water was too low, the crew on the ship only saved a part, the death toll exceeded 30 people, and the thousands of catties of gold stored on the ship also sank.

Although Lüvan suffered such a great change, even Lüvin was seriously injured and unconscious, but this fleet showed extraordinary quality, and a captain immediately took Lüvan's place, first directing the fleet to leave this dangerous sea, and then finding a relatively calm sea in the strait to anchor, and the whole fleet began to rest and overhaul the ships.

It's just that Lu Wan's injuries were too serious, and he woke up once during this period, but unfortunately he only came and officially handed over his strength to the captain who replaced him, and then passed out again.

After the fleet was rested, the fleet, under the leadership of the new captain, once again advanced along the strait, during which it encountered several great dangers, but they all survived, and finally a month later, the fleet finally passed through the stormy strait, and this strait was renamed the Storm Strait by the fleet! (To be continued......)