Chapter 392: Test of Determination
After a lot of dangers and lessons, Zhang Fan, who was originally not bad, was more cautious on the way back. Whenever the sun was about to end, Zhang Fan ordered the fleet of many people to avoid the sea to at least twenty miles away from the coast, and the whole fleet was concentrated as much as possible to sail at night with unique twine as a guide, and the sun rose completely during the day, especially when the wind blew from the sea to the land, and then close to the shore to rest. But it was only close to the shore rather than going ashore, at least a mile or so away from the shore, and Zhang Fan checked that there seemed to be no danger before the entire fleet began to sail.
According to Zhang Fan's common sense and experience, the speed of traveling on water is always much faster than that of traveling on land. For example, ordinary ships sailing along the coast of the Eastern Plains Country, as long as the wind direction is not too bad, they can travel 400 miles in a day and night, although they are slower than many Jianghu warriors but faster than ordinary cavalry and horses. It's just that although the far-barbarian is very good at water, the ship's skills seem to be too poor, and he has to spend more time away from the shore at night for safety, which leads to the fleet eventually encountering the looting and blocking of the remnants of the near-barbarians.
One day, when Zhang Fan was preparing to go ashore for the small boat of the hand pilot, he first launched the formation, he found that hundreds of canine eagles at the height of the clouds began to throw hundreds of Gu objects very accurately in the direction where they were and even in many nearby places, and the tons of Gu objects covered a large area, and even Zhang Fan did not have the ability to intercept them effectively. Zhang Fan used his unique ability to launch a large-scale interception at a distance of about two miles, and only wanted those Gu objects to lose their effect within a certain period of time, while letting all the people and even the ship gather as much as possible, and not hide in a place that was difficult for him to take care of.
But even so, Zhang Fan still found that those Gu insects that had gradually awakened and resurrected in the sea were attacking from all directions, and it was obvious that these things also took into account a certain degree of adaptability to water targets.
Although Zhang Fan tried his best to delay the siege of those Gu worms, and also concentrated all his strength to completely kill some of them, it still seemed that he could not save all the people, at least one-third of the seven or eight thousand members of the people either fell, or knew that they had no way to avoid jumping into the sea. With this lesson, Zhang Fan did not dare to let the fleet continue to sail in the near sea, but took the risk of directly sailing from the open sea.
The probability of bad weather in the sea near the Eastern Plains is not very large, but once it encounters that unique sea hurricane, except for some masters who are quite strong in water nature, they can survive by diving deep and unique air tolerances, even those ships in the Eastern Plains Country in the past can only be the result of being killed. If that is unlucky, then it can only be said that God does not intend to make his ideas and routes a reality.
Zhang Fan is confident that he will lead the fleet to carry out ocean and sea voyages, and the basis is that it seems difficult for ordinary people to locate themselves on the sea, but Zhang Fan found a relatively reliable position in these days, but it is not too difficult for him to do this. Even if the current is easy to cause illusions, it can still rely on its unique sense of inertia to accurately determine the direction.
Although he did not encounter a storm, the process of the voyage was not completely smooth sailing, and when he was not too far away from the coast, he was once discovered by those canine eagles in the sky, and once again encountered the attack and blow of poisonous Gu falling from the sky.
This time, because of the experience of the last time, Zhang Fan dealt with it more or less calmly, first of all, when he found out that the other party was scouting the dog eagle, he asked the people of the Yuanban Division, who were good at water, to hide in the water, and dive to a certain depth underwater.
In the face of attacks approaching from the sky and even from all directions, Zhang Fan just rightly deployed layers of interceptions, accurately controlled the time for a large area of Gu insects to lose their combat effectiveness, and seized every moment to launch a clean-up, intercepting most of the Gu insects approaching from all directions. Of course, even this was just a little less of a loss, and the entire team was still sharply reduced to less than 5,000 people.
However, after this attack, it seems that no remnants of the near barbarian department can find the exact direction of the fleet, and after abandoning a lot of unnecessary ends, the fleet sailed with all its might, and under Zhang Fan's arrangement, the reasonable use of physical strength, finally escaped the encirclement and suppression of the near barbarian department on the shore.
The fleet sailed north for a month, so that many people in the Yuanban Department who did not have too many maps and distance concepts also felt the feeling of being lost, Zhang Fan was not absolutely sure, but there was still a little spectrum in his heart: "We seem to have not docked for a long time to the north, that is because the speed of the ship is not fast, and it is largely contrary to the current, but I think it should not be too far from the land." I have a natural ability to be alert to my own doom. If you are sailing on a doomed road, you should feel something more or less strange... ”
Just when Zhang Fan led the fleet to sail northward, and Zhang Fan seemed to be able to find the distant mountains on the south coast of the former Dongyuan Kingdom in the north, which were only about a hundred miles away from the destination, the sky suddenly became gloomy. There were also strange orange-red clouds in the sky, and some of the far-reaching tribes who had heard about the sea quickly felt panic.
"The tsunami may be coming soon, and it is impossible for so many of us to take refuge in the mountains on the shore before the tsunami comes, and this time it is considered that we are far away from bad luck, and the seniors will leave us alone... ”
Hearing this, Zhang Fan was a little silent, and after thinking carefully for a while, Zhang Fan asked: "Is there a more accurate rumor about the celestial phenomenon of burning clouds and clouds?" How long will it take for the tsunami to spread?"
Many people feel that it is difficult to answer such a question when they hear it, and in the end, a more experienced old man said to Zhang Fan: "Maybe half a day or so, it will come, or maybe less than half a day, two-fifths of the day may come... ”
Zhang Fan estimated the distance to the shore with his unique ability at this time, and roughly estimated his ability, and couldn't help but shake his head. There was no way he could get the ship to the shore in less than half a day, when the currents were not too favorable.
It's just that in the face of this critical moment of survival, there are still people in the Yuanban tribe who have made a sense of decisive sacrifice: it is obvious that compared with the people in the secular society of the Eastern Plains, the Yuanban tribes take life and death in the catastrophe more lightly, but they have always attached importance to the continuation of the race: "Now we are not too few people, if we let about 600 children from four to eight years old, who are relatively young but barely have a certain degree of autonomy, that is, children who are only equivalent to less than two hundred adults, be concentrated on twenty ships. Let all the arrow Gu of the entire Yuanbarian Department help the seniors, are the seniors sure that they will be able to reach the shore in two-fifths of a day?" a very intelligent patriarch proposed at this time, which was quickly approved by everyone, and there were almost no objections. It seems that as long as the entire race can continue, their own life and death are not important.
Zhang Fan is not a sentimental person, but the decisive ability of the entire Yuanban Department also makes Zhang Fan somewhat admired: "If that's the case, then maybe you can give it a try... In fact, Zhang Fan was only half sure at this time, and said in advance: "If the situation is extremely critical, or there is a discrepancy with the estimate, I can only give up some children." ”
In this way, about 400 or so female children and 200 boys gathered at the fastest speed, and with the assistance of dozens of stalls totaling more than 70,000 arrow Gus, as well as Zhang Fan's full efforts, twenty boats full of children began to fly towards the shore with all their might.
According to Zhang Fan's reminder, the others still had a fluke attitude, and were ready to dive to the limit at the fastest speed when the tsunami came, and then float up to avoid the huge waves. Although the chances of this preparation surviving Zhang's speculation are slim to none, if the rumors about the tsunami are true.
Just when Zhang Fan led the children to a distance from the coast, Zhang Fan discovered the monstrous waves like white walls a certain distance away. According to Zhang Fan's subconscious inference, the giant wave should be about 100 zhang high. Even if he could force himself to bring more than 600 children to the shore in a timely manner, he probably wouldn't have time to hide to a safe distance on the nearest hill on the shore.
At this time, Zhang Fan did not shy away from telling the children what he was going to face at this moment, and transmitted the voice in Yuanman's words: "The white giant wall behind will get closer and closer, I am not sure that I will bring you to a safe place before the huge wave hits, someone needs to take the initiative to make sacrifices, maybe the entire Yuanban Department can avoid the danger of extermination." In the worst-case scenario, I can only ensure the safety of two people at best, in that case, even if the Far Barbarian tribe continues to reproduce, it may no longer be itself, if any of you want to, raise one of your hands... ”
At this time, many children raised their hands, but about a fifth of the children did not raise their hands. According to Zhang Fan's rough estimate, this is almost a burden that needs to be reduced, from the perspective of personnel selection. It is far fairer to exclude the most cowardly of the most than to exclude the most courageous children who raise their hands and do not care in the first place. But Zhang Fan didn't do that in the end after a little weighing. It's not just because you should be good at what you say and can't engage in deception and deception, but a kind of subconscious morality that makes it a cruel thing to let people who are afraid of death die, and let people who dare to sacrifice and take the initiative to ask for sacrifice to die, their own moral damage is much lower.
In this way, Zhang Fan could only give up less than one-fifth, about one-sixth of the children who were the first to raise their hands, and led the remaining three hundred and fifty girls and even about one hundred and fifty boys to continue to come to the shore at the fastest speed.
The whistling along the sea became more and more obvious, and many of the children who were not very brave and did not become strong because of the life in the tribe cried in fright, and many of them also cried under the influence of this fear.
Zhang Fan used to transmit the sound in a voice mixed with some internal forces at this time to ensure that all the children could hear clearly in this loud whistle: "I used to cry when I was a child, and I experienced many things when I was a teenager, I know that crying or sobbing is sometimes an instinctive reaction, not exactly an external reaction to your own mood, you can cry, but don't affect your actions for a while." If you plan to live, you can do what you want, I've roughly calculated, as long as there are not too many people who delay time, it's not a big problem, if someone takes off their hind legs then I can only give up... ”
The half-truth, half-calm language did not immediately stop the children's crying, but the children seemed to be trying to control the ship's movements, showing that they had at least gotten rid of the panic in their hearts, which also reassured Zhang Fan somewhat.
The whistling sound became louder and louder, and the white cliff-like wall was getting closer and closer, Zhang Fan and even the arrow Gu finally fled to the shore in time with the children, and ran towards the nearest mountainside with all their might. With his own feelings, Zhang Fan found that there should be some surplus time, so he helped up some children who fell down due to seasickness several times.
When Zhang Fan led the children to climb to the halfway point of a mountain range on the shore, the huge sea wall that approached like a mountain also collided at this moment.
At first, many of the children could feel as if there should be no danger, and the waves could not wash away them. However, when the seamount collided with the giant mountain on the shore, with a huge upward spray and even impact, many cliffs collapsed one after another, and at least three children at the end of the team unfortunately fell into the sea at this moment.
Zhang Fan looked at the receding tide in the blink of an eye, and felt that although it was also dangerous for him, in a short period of time, it was not impossible to save the three children with his unique and powerful perception. Somehow, Zhang Fan still subconsciously decided to jump into the sea water behind to save people.
Perhaps the impact of the huge wave had passed its maximum, and Zhang Fan was able to use his spiritual power to find that at a place of seven or eight meters to ten meters underwater, the three children seemed to have signs of life, so he launched the rescue as quickly as possible. After all, it was still strong, and before the tide quickly receded, he rescued the three children who had fallen into a coma.
At this time, Zhang Fan didn't know that some of his choices and decisions in this escape had barely passed part of the mental test that allowed him to step from the divine realm to the threshold of the main realm.