Chapter 51: The Desperate Island Master
"I still think it's weird!" Higg took a breath and said, "Nicole, what do you think?" β
"I feel the same way, but what's the blame, I can't tell!" Nicole answered.
"What weird things are you talking about?" Daniel leaned in.
"Aren't you talking to us?" Nicole is colorful.
Higg ignored the nonsense of the two and continued: "First, we passively fell into the whirlpool of Wanze Lake, and then came to this sea area; Second, before the storm came, we also passively deviated from the course and walked to the channel to the island; Thirdly, don't you think it is strange that in the midst of the storm, not only did we sail passively for fifteen kilometers unharmed by the storm, but we did not leave the passage to the island at all? β
Nicole's face suddenly turned very pale, and her eyes were full of terror, which made Daniel shiver with fear. Nicole asked Higg in horror, "What do you mean by these three points that there is a terrible conspiracy that is pushing us towards that island?" β
"Yes, because at all the turning points that determine the direction, we are almost passive!" Higg said calmly.
"What kind of conspiracy could there be on that island?" Daniel asked eagerly.
Seeing that Higg seemed to be confident, Nicole calmed down, rolled her eyes at Daniel, and said, "Daniel, you can sleep!" After saying that, I closed my eyes and went to sleep!
Daniel was anxious and hurriedly said, "What did you say, don't you have to row?" Seeing Nicole ignore him, she looked at Higg again.
Higg also closed his eyes and said to Daniel, "If you're not tired, help me watch Thomas and Butterfly Cloud!" β
Daniel was in a hurry, shook Higg and said, "I'm angry, I'll keep shaking you if you don't make it clear, and you don't want to sleep!" β
Higg smiled and said, "If I tell you, you let me sleep and watch the two of them for me, is that okay?" β
Daniel smiled and said, "One word is a deal!" β
Higg laughed: "Since there is such a conspiracy to push us to the island, why don't you save yourself some effort, anyway, we will reach that island, do you say?" After speaking, Higg lay down on the debris and closed his eyes, "I'll go to bed first, maybe when I wake up, I'll already be on the island!" β
"Is this okay? β¦β¦β
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Higg didn't really sleep, but went into deep meditation, why was he driven to that island in the dark? Is his fate really locked, as those prophets say? Why is he always arranged, Andrew, McCann, and Sayah seem to be manipulating themselves, and even the shaman, who died miserably, saw from the prophecy of the Great Druid that the Qi Spirit Bead would be subdued, and he was so destined? Including my innate military talent, did I also inherit my father? If it is arranged like this, then what is the meaning of living by yourself, anyway, it is destined by God, since it can't be changed, then it is better to follow the trend? Whatever, God arranged it, it's the biggest!
But is that still me, if I live according to other people's wishes, then it won't be me. You must control your own destiny, even if you offend the arrangement of God, you will not hesitate to do so! Hmph, my life is up to me, not to the sky, the sky wants to destroy me, I will destroy the sky, no matter what, I will not succumb to fate!
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Higg didn't know how long he had been meditating, but by the time he woke up, it was already dawn. I was still floating in the sea, but I saw the coastline from a distance, and it was a small island, about two or three square kilometers.
Higg looked at Thomas and Butterfly Caiyun, although haggard, but also intact, but Daniel yawned repeatedly, and his two eyes were black, completely different from the radiant Nicole.
"You've slept for so long, and you don't know how to rotate with me, it's too much of a friend!" Daniel said with a discounted yawn.
Higg stretched out in the water and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that I could sleep enough while soaking in the seawater, and I still woke up naturally!" β
"Hig, this island is not small, there should be fresh water!" Nicole laughed.
"Since someone is going to send us here, of course we have to pick up the guests well, what is fresh water!" Higg laughed.
"This wayβcome this wayβ"
A shout was heard from the island not far away, and Higg looked for a voice, only to see a figure cheering and jumping on the shore.
"There are really people picking up customers!" Butterfly Caiyun said in surprise.
After a few days on the sea, and a few hours of soaking in the sea, Thomas cried excitedly when he saw the land, and the others felt that the island was even more intimate.
So, Higg, Daniel, and Nicole paddled desperately in the direction of the figure.
Finally approached the island's beach, a volcanic island lush with forests, and the island was shouting on the beach of a bearded dwarf,* with a muscular upper body, but the lower body was wrapped in a shabby animal skin. Before Higg could bring Thomas and Butterfly ashore, the dwarf couldn't wait to drag the two sacks and the two men on top of them onto the beach, and kept saying, "Great, great! β
"Is there fresh water on the island?" The first thing Nicole said when she came ashore was to ask the dwarf.
The dwarf did not look back, untied the sack, took out a bottle inside, and without looking at it, he drank it with a bang, and said as he drank, "There are a few mountain springs, and I have dug a well...... Good wine, good wine...... Ah......h
Several people looked at this self-cooked guy in amazement, and watched him drink without any scruples, which was very funny.
"Original? Immigrant? Higg asked the dwarf.
The dwarf swallowed a large sip of wine and wiped his mouth again, and his mouth kept smacking: "I was an immigrant at the beginning, but now I am an aborigine, I am the owner of this island, Pantony, welcome to the Isle of Despair!" β
"Despair Island? The owner? Higg laughed, "How many islanders are there?" β
"I used to be the only one, but now there are six, hehe," Pantony said awkwardly.
"Mr. Islander, when did you immigrate here?" Nicole asked with a smile.
"I can't remember exactly, maybe twenty years, thirty years!" Pantony continued to open the second bottle of wine, wanting to continue drinking, but eventually held back, closed the bottle, tucked the bottle into the "pants", and then looked at his loot in two sacks.
Thomas had never seen a dwarf before, so he walked up to Pantony and couldn't stop looking at this sturdy but much shorter Pantony, and said with a smile, "Mr. Dwarf, these two bags seem to be ours." β
"Don't call me a dwarf, I'm a battle dwarf." Pantony shouted, "Everything on this island is mine, including you, haha! β
Higg didn't seem interested in arguing with Pantony about the question of white horses and non-horses, he was most concerned about what conspiracy there was on this island and what it had to do with this dwarf, so he hurriedly stepped forward and said to Pantony with a smile: "Mr. Islander, these two sacks of wine ......"
"Mine!" Pantony interrupted Higg with a yell.
"That's right, yours!" Higg smiled helplessly, "I just want to learn about the situation of this island with Mr. Owner, such as how the owner immigrated here, when he came, what is on the island, and Mr. Owner should have the obligation to explain these situations to your islanders!" As for these two sacks......"
"Mine!" Pantony interrupted Higg by shouting again.
"I mean it's a gift to Mr. Island!" Higg couldn't laugh or cry.
"Really?" Pantony exclaimed happily, took out the wine bottle inserted in the "waistband of his trousers", opened the lid and began to pour wine again, and continued, "I am like you, twenty or thirty years ago, it was difficult, I was the only survivor, and I floated to this island, there are no mysterious beasts on the whole island, there are the most birds, but at this time those birds are about to migrate out of the island!"
"There is also a crater on this island, but it is dead, there are sulfur mines on the island, but the scale is not large, there are four freshwater springs, and there are many mountain fruits, but there is no wine...... Well, the wine is mine, right? β
"Mr. Island Owner, you haven't left this island for twenty or thirty years?" Nicole asked, surprised.
"No ship has passed by in twenty or thirty years, how can I leave?" Pantony said angrily.
"There are so many trees on the island, you won't build a boat and leave?" Daniel asked, puzzled.
"I'm a great dwarven warrior, it's okay to call me to fight, so you can call a dwarven warrior to build a ship?" Pantony exclaimed angrily, "The main thing is that dwarven warriors can't swim!" β
Higg smiled and said to Pantony, "The wine is yours, but can I add another question?" Is there anything dangerous on the island that there is not? β
"This ......," said Pantony, hesitating for a moment, "except for the storms that occur a few times a year, this island is safe!" β
"Really?" Thomas exclaimed happily.
Higg and Nicoco were not so happy, since the dwarf had been on the island for decades and had not encountered a ship, it meant that the island was not near the shipping route, and they did not know how far it was from Rainbow Island.
"Butterfly Caiyun, can you feel the direction and distance of Rainbow Island?" Nicole asked Butterfly Cloud.
"I can determine the direction, the distance is not exact, it should not be too far." Die Caiyun said.
"Higg!" Nicole said, "I don't think it's impossible for us to build a ship and leave!" β
"No, you can't leave!" Pantony shouted.
"It's okay if you don't leave by yourself, we don't have time to be an islander for you!" Daniel stepped forward in a fit of rage, his eyes fixed on Pantony.
"I mean, you can't leave now, this season is the season of the most frequent storms, do you still want to drink seawater and feed the fish?"
"Storm?" Higg was speechless, his facial expressions were complicated, but in fact, he thought differently, Daniel, Thomas and Butterfly Caiyun were absolutely unwilling to meet again because they had just seen the severity of the storm, but they were worried that they could not leave the island. Higg and Nicole were thinking about the conspiracy of the island, everything showed that they had to reach the island, and then they couldn't even build a ship and leave, so they could only stay, and they naturally fell into the trap of the other party, but they were helpless.