Chapter 440: Edge of the World
As Higg and the two of them were talking, they suddenly felt the raft speed up and feel the water beneath their feet cold.
"Ahem, ahemβ" Sindorf was directly awakened by the icy seawater, and now returned to his body, Higg and Lufasi hurriedly pulled him onto the raft, but Sindorf was in a semi-comatose state, lying on the cold raft, dying.
"Cold Currentβ" exclaimed Lufasi, "it's an ocean current, how can it be here?" β
"What's so strange about ocean currents?" Higg was almost startled by Lufasi's surprise and asked, "There is an undercurrent surging above the sea, where is there no ocean current?" β
"It's different!" Lu Faxi said, "This water is extremely cold, it should be a current from the ocean in a place farther north than the Alchemy Country, how can it appear in the sea area north of Shenlong Island?" β
"Where should that be?" Higg was curious, he wondered why Lufasi was so interested in the current.
"There is an ocean current flowing south from the extreme north to the east and west of Middle-earth, and the western one is at least four or five thousand kilometers west of Shenlong Island!" "These two currents are extremely strange, and they are a natural barrier to prevent the people of Middle-earth from exploring the unknown world to the east or west, and they are not at all the same thing as the undercurrents you are talking about. It is said that this is because this is the trench that extends from Middle-earth, and it is along the trench that the ocean current flows from north to south, and it can be said that this current is the edge of the entire Middle-earth! No one knows if there is any other world beyond this ocean current, the sea is too vast, even the dragons and angels can fly thousands of kilometers in a row, but if there is no land outside, no one dares to guarantee that they can return to Middle-earth, therefore, no one has explored outward! β
"The edge of the world?" Higg was taken aback, and after feeling it carefully, he found that this ocean current was extremely vast, even at night, but through the moonlight, he could feel the water vapor on the surface of the sea and make people feel cold, you must know that it is summer, and there is a feeling of being in the ice and snow of the alchemy country. Higg stood up, looked at the sky in the distance, the moon was shining, the stars were dotted, and sighed, "One day, I must explore the world outside of Middle-earth, there will be unexpected surprises, hahaha, I want to do it, I will be the first person in Middle-earth!" β
"The first man in Middle-earth? Hahaha! "For tens of thousands of years, how many people like you have ventured across this current and explored outward, but there is no news, and no one knows what they have discovered, because no one has ever returned?" It's your turn to explore again, I don't know if it's a few hundred, thousand, or tens of thousands, and you dare to claim to be the first person in Middle-earth! β
"All the people who went out to explore have not been heard from?" Higg was surprised, "I can't imagine that my spirit of exploration in Middle-earth has never stopped, I think they must have discovered a more wonderful extraterrestrial dimension, but they just can't return." If you build a teleportation array in Middle-earth before exploring, and then build a teleportation array in another dimension, echoing this, how can you not come back? β
Lu Faxi listened to Higg's words, first startled, and then sneered: "Your thoughts may not have been thought of by others, but in the vast sea, it is difficult to say whether there are other continents, maybe they have all been buried in the belly of the fish, even if there is another dimension, in that dimension, there may not be the same power as this dimension for you to build the same teleportation array, even if you can build a teleportation array, where do you put the safety of Middle-earth?" We don't know anything about the dangers of the outer dimension, maybe the civilization there, the power there is a few levels higher than us, then, your teleportation array, what it brings may be the destruction of Middle-earth! β
Higg ignored Lu Fasi's ridicule and warning, and said with a smile: "The sky is big, no matter what, one day, I will definitely follow in the footsteps of countless ancestors and explore the unknown world outside......" Higg said, driving the magic power, on the raft, summoning a fireball, the firelight suddenly enveloped the entire raft, making people feel a burst of warmth.
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"If there is a day, whether I regain the dignity of an angel or not, I promise to accompany you for a while!" Lu Faxi also yearned for the world of ignorance infinitely, and said after a long time: "I have stayed enough of the endless years of Sky City!" I'll talk about that later, but let's talk about what we do now! β
The moon has sunk in the west, the southeast sky is white, the blue sky is gradually brightening, no one knows where this current is going to take them, they only know that this current is drifting south, only a raft, they can't break free from the shackles of the current, even if they break free, the nearest mainland here should be Shenlong Island, at least thousands of kilometers away, and they have already lost their course, how can they return to the mainland? Lufasi has no problem not eating or drinking, Higg can last up to a month without eating or drinking, what about Noah and Sindorf? Even if food and freshwater higgs can be solved, how long can this raft hold out in such currents without falling apart?
Survival has become the biggest problem at present, which worries Higg and Lufasi. Although it was cold at night, Higg could use a magic fireball to ward off the cold, but during the day, the scorching sun shone on the unsheltered raft, making people soak in the sea water, and the body covered in sea salt was extremely hot.
From the end of the raft, Higg cut off a few square pieces of wood, hollowed out the middle of the wood, made several wooden bowls, scooped two bowls full of seawater with two of the wooden bowls, and then used the ice-water homology skill to freeze the surface of the two bowls of seawater to get a thin layer of iceflakes, cut off the icechips by hand, and put them in the empty bowl held by Lufasi, and then poured out the remaining seawater, and then scooped up two more bowls, continued to ice the seawater, obtained borneol, and continued to fill the empty bowls, and so on many times, in the two bowls held by Lufasi, Gradually filled with the melted ice water, Higg boiled the two bowls of fresh water over a magic fire, and after cooling, one bowl was given to Noah and the other to Sindorf.
Although the production of fresh water is a delicate and troublesome task, it is the most critical element of their survival.
The last thing missing from the icy currents are schools of fish, and these seasonal migratory fish bring not only food for the people on the raft, but also unknown dangers. Because there are schools of fish, there are large predators. Higg and Lufasi are very glad that they have only found a few seal sea lions so far, which are only medium-sized predators, and they are not too threatening to people and rafts, but they are provided with seal sea lion skins, these creatures that move in the cold, the skin is very thick, Higg is a hunter and has a lot of experience in handling these leathers. Peel the skin cleanly, take out the fat in the skin, and then dry it with a magic fire, and make a piece of fur coat, or make a container of water, a rope.
A few days later, Higg and Lufasi made a sail out of the leather, and although they didn't know where to drift, and hanging the sail could not escape the current, it became a good parasol.
Noah and Sindorf, who Higg was most worried about, Noah never woke up, because he was in a coma and could only drink some fish soup, and every day Higg had to inject him with a lot of heat to maintain the temperature of his body, while Sindorf was in a daze every day, half-asleep. Higg and Lufasi knew that he was in great pain, but they were helpless, even Lufasi didn't know any way to heal this almost magically immune golden dragon, he didn't know much about the golden dragon, you know, in Middle-earth, the golden dragon is the same level as his own angel.
"We have to find a way to wake up Noah!" Higg, who had been doing the same job every day for many days, finally became restless, stood up and said, "If this continues, they both must die!" There must be a way, Mr. Lufa, you must find land, even if it is a small island, it is better than ups and downs in this icy sea, not to mention Noah and Cindorf, even I will be played to death! β
Before Lufasi could answer, Higg suddenly exclaimed in surprise, "What's that?" β
Lufasi looked in the direction of Higg's finger and jumped up in fright, only to see countless triangular fins swimming rapidly behind the raft on the sea, and in a panic, he shouted frantically, "Shark school! β
Lufasi's cry made Higg almost faint, although he knew almost nothing about sea creatures, but who had not heard of the legendary terrifying existence among the sharks? "How can there be a school of sharks again?"
"You've done a good job!" Lufasi said angrily, "You killed so many seals and sea lions, and it was strange that the raft was full of blood, and it didn't attract a school of sharks!" β
There were at least a few hundred visible sharks, their tail fins rapidly approaching the raft, Higg taking the Phantom Bow down, Lufasi carrying the Prophetic Sword, knowing that no matter how much they struggled, they would inevitably be torn to shreds by these true sea overlords and swallowed into the belly of the fish. Resisting is just a matter of dying with more dignity.
Higg didn't dare to send three arrows at the same time, because it would reduce the power of the Sky Feather Arrow, he had to kill with one arrow, the Phantom Divine Bow could only shoot thirty-two arrows a day, he was counting on these sharks in his heart to retreat, although this was impossible, this kind of bloodthirsty guy, when he smelled blood, he would be more excited and more bloodthirsty.
The first Tianyu arrow was accurately inserted into the head of the leading shark less than 100 meters away, the sea surface churned, the white shark struggled and rolled violently in the sea, the red blood stained a large area of sea water around it, dozens of sharks immediately surrounded the shark, and soon gnawed the injured and dying shark to only a bone frame, dyeing the entire sea area red.
However, the siege of the shark was only a small number of sharks that were closer, and more sharks were still coming to the raft, Higg didn't care about the fear in his heart, and continued to raise the Phantom Bow, and shot out one arrow after another, after three arrows, the three sharks who were hit by the arrows were besieged and eaten by other sharks, and the sharks that swam to the raft suddenly became a lot less, but as long as one or two swam under the raft, Higg and the others were not spared.
Lufasi knew that although there were only hundreds of sharks on the surface of the sea, it was not known how many sharks were headless under the surface, and those sharks were the most dangerous. These sharks should be owned by the nearby warm seas, entering these icy currents in search of fish to prey, cold-blooded sharks themselves are not very adapted to the cold environment, the low temperature will make their movement and activity greatly reduced, otherwise they would have besieged and overturned the raft.
"Ball of Light!" Lufasi exclaimed, he knew that the raft could not be overturned, and that light must be used to dispel this terrible creature with very poor eyesight, extremely sensitive to light, but with an extremely keen sense of smell, "They must not be allowed to come near the raft!" β