Chapter 114: The Somers Islands
"Alright, you can leave. The goddess is here, and we can't keep you for long. Lulu said with a pretended seriousness.
"That short-haired human, can I ask you for something?" Gaga asked with a wink.
"Please." Of course, the only one with short hair is Liu Zheng.
"If you go back to the East, if you have time, help us find the goddess. We miss her so much. Lulu and Gaga looked at Liu Zheng pitifully.
"No problem, but will the goddess become something else?" Liu Zheng asked.
"No, the goddess doesn't know how to transform, she's stupid." Lulu said with a grin.
"Okay, I promise you." Liu Zheng happily agreed.
Although he should not go to the east of this world, it is better to wait with hope than without hope.
Saying goodbye to the two leprechauns, they left the island and returned to the Legend.
Freedom from the curse, Raphael returned to his former gentleness, directing the ship out of the sea of the gods along the foggy passage.
The moment you sail out of the foggy channel, the fog, the rainbow, and the two islands disappear, as if you had just experienced a collective hallucination.
Raphael and Jack discussed the direction of the deep-sea city, and Liu Zhengze looked at the system prompt.
I just came to a bunch of them when I was on the island, so I just watched them together now.
"Players complete the 'Fountain of Youth', one of the eight nautical legends, and are rewarded with the blessing of 'Life Protection'. 2/8 is currently complete. ”
"Life Protection: Immunity to a Critical Damage."
Good thing, much more practical than that undead nemesis, Liu Zheng nodded with satisfaction.
"Players have been strengthened with Essence Immortal Spring Water, their physical fitness has been greatly improved, and the dragon's blood bloodline has been fully activated."
Now his strength has at least doubled, and this trip to the Fountain of Youth.
Fortunately, I helped the White Wolf King cure the little wolf cub, and sure enough, good people still have good rewards, Liu Zhengmei thought with amusement.
He finished studying the system prompts, and Raphael and Jack confirmed the direction, and the Legend set sail again.
According to Nemo's journal, the deep-sea city is near the Summers Islands, which are less than 300 nautical miles from the Dead Sea.
In the world of great navigation, Summers Island was first discovered by the Spanish explorer Hoover Bermuda, but he did not take this archipelago without aborigines and minerals to heart, and only wrote it down in the days of the voyage.
Twenty-two years later, Peter Mavic's nautical book mentions Summers and Hoover Bermuda.
In the same year, Spain added the islands to the nautical charts and, after bargaining with Portugal, signed a treaty to use the Somers Islands as a common transit point for ships from both countries for water and food.
Because the Somers Islands are so far from the mainland of the two countries, and there are frequent windstorms in the surrounding area, they are not of great strategic significance.
So even after the two countries were openly hostile, the treaty was not broken, and the Sommers Islands and the surrounding area were managed by the local Sommers Company as the default peace zone.
"You just said that the explorer's name was Hoover Bermuda?" Liu Zheng's face was a little strange.
"yes, that's what Nemo's journal says, what's the problem?" Jack wondered.
"No, you continue." Liu Zheng shook his head.
What's the problem, it's a big problem.
Isn't this so-called Summers Islands the Bermuda Islands in the real world?
The archipelago itself is not famous, but the Bermuda Triangle that bears its name is famous.
In the real world, the first person to venture through the Bermuda Triangle was Columbus, the discoverer of the New World.
He led an ocean-going fleet on its fourth voyage to the Americas, and as the fleet approached Bermuda, a sudden wind blew on the sea, and the ships seemed to sail between the canyons, barely visible of the day.
With his vast sailing experience, he decisively ordered the fleet to turn around to avoid this ferocious storm.
To Columbus's astonishment, all the ship's navigational instruments were out of order, and the helmsmen and sailors were so confused that they could not make out their directions.
As luck would have it, the fleet eventually staggered out of danger between the crests and troughs.
Subsequent inspection revealed that the direction of the pointer of the ship's magnetic compass had deviated by 36° from due north to northwest.
In a letter to the King of Spain, he wrote: "At that time the waves were rolling for eight or nine days, and I could not see the sun or the stars with my eyes...... I've seen storms in my life, but I've never seen a storm so long and so violent! ”
Columbus's experience went unnoticed until 1840, when a French ship, the Rosaari, carrying a large shipment of perfumes and wine, lost contact with Cuba.
A few weeks later, the Navy found the Rosali in the waters of the Bermuda Triangle, showing no signs of damage, the ship was empty, and the crew seemed to have vanished.
The only surviving creature on board was a half-starved canary, but the cargo in the hold was intact and the fruit was still fresh.
Since then, similar disappearances have occurred frequently in the Bermuda Triangle.
With no convincing explanation for these disappearances, the area was fearfully dubbed the "Devil's Triangle", as the Bermuda Triangle came to be.
It seems that there is some connection between the Dead Sea and the Bermuda Triangle, or the Bermuda Triangle is an extension of the Dead Sea, and nine out of ten of the deep-sea cities are under the Bermuda Triangle.
After that, there were no more incidents, no strange islands, no pirates, and the sea was calm until the voyage reached the vicinity of the Somers Islands.
The sea, which had been so calm and monotonous that the sailors began to doze off, suddenly swelled with layers of waves.
The howling wind swelled the sails to the limit, and the mast let out an overwhelmed moan, as if it would snap in the next second.
Razers dance wildly across the sky, and lightning strikes the surrounding sea, making people feel fearful.
Despite the unforeseen winds, the experienced sailors, and the command of Raphael and Flio, allowed the ships to pass through the waters and reach the Somers Islands.
But after such a dismount, they also have a real understanding of the danger of the waters near the New World.
There are two ports in the Sommers Islands, which are not too far away.
The one on the left is generally for Spanish ships by default, and the one on the right is generally for Portuguese ships by default.
As for the ships of other countries, it was arbitrary, and if you had good relations with Spain, you should use the left ones, and if you have good relations with Portugal, you should use the right ones.
Originally, there was only one port in Summers, and Spanish and Portuguese ships often clashed over the rush to enter the port, and although there was no artillery fire, group fights or duels were commonplace.
The Summers company, which manages the place, is also extremely troubled by this, and after making up its mind to build a new port, this conflict is basically gone, which greatly reduces the management pressure of the Summers company.
As for the Summers Company, it is actually run by the Antonio family, but the Spanish and Portuguese royal families have a stake in it.
The Antonio family is also an interesting aristocratic family, and after founding the Summers Company, they simply moved the entire family to the Summers Islands.
Coupled with their royal ancestry of both Spain and Portugal, they were the perfect candidates to manage the Summers Islands.
No one knows why they moved from bustling Europe to the Somers Islands, far from the center of civilization.
Some say they are disgusted with the political strife within the kingdom, while others say they are for the treasures buried in the Somers Islands.
But for whatever purpose, the Antonio family ran the Summers Islands well.
With its rational urban layout, good law and order, and Mediterranean-style architecture adapted to the local climate, Raphael almost thought that he was not in an oceanic archipelago, but in some well-governed town in Europe.
"You and your family are truly remarkable, Viscount Antonio." Raphael spoke to the patriarch Antonio who received them, and praised them sincerely.