Chapter 17: King Hill's Ambitions

Since the conquest of the "center of the world", the proud King of Hill, Yiwan Sukaranna, has completely regarded himself as the master of the world, and nothing can stop his infinitely expanding ambition.

He ordered all the Fiji shipwrights to build more than 200 larger ships in the same vein that the explorers had returned from the East China Sea. Strangely, however, no matter how similar the Fiji people copied, the speed of the new ship was not always comparable to that of the original one. No one knows what is missing, is it just because of the different timber used in shipbuilding, or is there some other reason? Thousands of years later, no one has been able to solve the mystery.

As soon as the ship was built, King Hill gave the order to set off. In addition to the Fidin explorers who led the voyage, King Hill accompanied him with more than 200 ships, as well as 50,000 able-bodied soldiers and the most advanced weaponry. King Hill and his noble ministers agreed that the weirdos on the mysterious island who couldn't even pick up gems everywhere were definitely uncivilized, absolutely stupid and stupid. They can't build houses, they don't have shoes, they can only walk barefoot in the mountains and forests, and they live in the mountains and forests with wild beasts, which also shows that they have no wisdom at all, so it can be seen that they must not be the opponents of these powerful generals under the King of Hill, who have conquered the entire continent. Although King Hill felt that 50,000 troops might be a bit much, in order to ensure that nothing went wrong, he still carefully selected in advance and set sail from the east coast of the Eastern Continent with confidence.

However, no one expected that five years later, the always high-spirited King Hill fled back to the Eastern Continent from the East China Sea in a panic with only a few hundred remnants of defeated soldiers and a ship full of holes, and did not mention the defeat. With the exception of a handful of nobles and soldiers who survived, the inhabitants of the Eastern Continent had no idea what had happened in the distant "end of the world".

But at the same time as King Hill returned, many terrible things followed. Suddenly, without warning, an unprecedented earthquake struck the eastern continent, volcanoes erupted, hurricanes and tsunamis struck one after another, and the plague caused by the disaster, the entire continent seemed to usher in a catastrophe, full of devastation and miserable.

What's even more shocking is that along with the violent storm of the disaster, there are many strange people with very strange shapes. At that time, all kinds of strange phenomena completely frightened the aborigines of this world.

The strange creatures that fell from the sky were very tall, about two to three times the size of the Lepelians, and not only did they have different forms, but they also spoke a language that the Lepelians did not understand at all, which terrified them. Moreover, in those eccentrics, there is also a power that all Lepelian people can hope for. This brought an unprecedented crisis to the Lepelians, who had always prided themselves on being superior in intelligence and self-proclaimed rulers of the world, and seriously threatened their sense of racial superiority, causing them to panic and involuntarily regard those strange people as evil alien invaders, and then to do everything possible to force them out.

In order to deal with the aliens, the Lepelians invented countless powerful weapons, intending to defend their land and their own racial superiority by force. However, because the aliens were too powerful to be defeated, the wars of that period brought heavy casualties to the Lepelian people in the eastern continent. In order to save their lives, many soldiers and civilians abandoned their weapons and fled, and the fierce fighting finally stopped for a short time.

But it was that brief period of peace that caused the nobility to begin to falter in their dominance. Because the people have seen the power of the aliens, they are no longer so afraid of the power of the nobility, and they are no longer even willing to obey their orders, participate in those wars with no chance of winning, and sacrifice their lives in vain.

The aristocratic rulers were worried about this, and if this malaise was allowed to continue, it was likely to dissolve their rule. However, due to the long-term defeat, people have become depressed and war-weary, and their fears and depression have nowhere to vent, and people's hearts have gradually become dissipated. In this case, it is not easy to reunite all the Lepelians.

In the face of the threat of a strong enemy, which leads to the lack of stability of the ruling power, the only way to quickly unite the people is to find another easily defeated opponent to deflect the contradictions, for the people to condemn and attack, so as to vent people's dissatisfaction with the state of existence. In this way, we will be able to successfully arouse public indignation and restore the people's will to fight, so as to achieve the goal of rallying people's hearts. The aristocrats knew that at any time in history, the people were the least aware of the truth, they listened to the wind and rain, they were easily irritated by their own imaginations, and if they were given a "legitimate" reason at the right time, they could have great destructive power. After all, due to the limited cognitive environment, the vast majority of civilians do not have principles and a mature view of right and wrong, and will only blindly follow the crowd. So, if used properly, popular anger can erupt like a volcano and spread like a plague, directing the situation in favor of the rulers. At that time, it would only be necessary to tie these resentful people to the same position, and a new force could be formed that could be used to consolidate the dominance of the aristocracy. In this extraordinary period of history, public anger was also a necessary means of centralizing power, so even if there was no hatred, the aristocracy would try to create hatred.

As a result, the Fijian people, who are also the aborigines of the Lepeilian world, but have a sparse and harmless population, unfortunately became the target of condemnation and attack by the Lepeilian people in the eastern continent at that historical moment.

All the wishes of King Ciel, who longed for immortality and wanted to rule the world forever, were frustrated, and instead of getting everything he dreamed of, he brought a great disaster to the world. However, this could not shake his power. No matter how much he boasted of his exploits, no matter how bloody and cruel his road to centralization of power was, as long as he was still in a high position and was still a well-known "highly respected" heroic emperor, no one would dare to resist or question him, and everything he said would become a "historical fact."

In order to deflect the contradictions and unite the people, it was necessary to direct the anger of the people to the weak Fitans, so King Hill deliberately distorted the facts. Through a great deal of verbal propaganda and written writing, he degraded Fiji and aliens to the point of being useless, but did not mention a word about his own mistakes. He then ordered the killing of all Fitans, especially the Fiji explorers. The reason is that the selfish seafaring behavior of the Fiji people led the aliens from the dead land of the East China Sea to the East Continent. In order to satisfy their selfish desires and obtain more ill-gotten gains, the sinister and cunning Fiji people did not hesitate to collude with foreign invaders in a vain attempt to seize the land belonging to the Lepeilian people, which caused a huge disaster to the Eastern Continent and put all the Lepeilian people in danger......

There is no doubt that Ivan Sukarlana is a totalitarian who is very good at dictating public opinion. He knew his subjects too well, and knew how jealous the poor of those who lived in hardship hated the rich Fidans. Therefore, as long as they are given a reason for "ill-gotten gains," they can easily move the hearts of the people and instruct those "good toiling masses" to humiliate the Fijian people to death in the most cruel way, regardless of the facts, in order to vent the anger of the people, and at the same time achieve the goal of rallying the people's hearts and consolidating the ruling power.

Over time, these conspiracy fallacies have become the historical common sense of the Lepeilian people in the Eastern Continent. Since then, the Fijian people have been charged with "traitors to the world of Lepeilian", "insidious and cunning", and "treacherous", which have been carried for more than a thousand years. The exiled descendants of the Fiji tribe, who had lost their homeland, were almost killed by almost everyone, and could not gain a foothold on land at all, and were finally expelled from the Eastern Continent by the Lepelian people.

Forced away from their cherished homeland, the Fiji first fled to the Western Continent in search of survival. Although the Western Continent was originally discovered by the Fitans, due to some historical reasons, it was occupied by the Savoy people, who had little contact with the Fitans. At that time, the powerful Savoy people were so hostile to the Lepelian that they mistook the Fiji people who had fled from the Eastern Continent for ordinary Lepelians, so they were resolutely not allowed to land.

Eventually, with nowhere else to go, the Fiji wandered the Western Sea, where they had to take up a despicable pirate livelihood and call the sea their home ever since.

"That's how it ......"

Listening to that almost obliterated historical story, Mono couldn't help but sigh with emotion. Of course, he knew how notorious the Fiji pirates were in the Eastern Continent, because in the past ten years, he had often led half-blood merchant fleets back and forth between the East and West continents, and he was naturally familiar with the Fiji pirates. It's just that I didn't expect that there would be such a big difference between the facts and the historical stories left in the Eastern Continent.

"But isn't the island where the Streamers live, the Streamer Star, floating over the East China Sea? It must be far away from the East Continent, right? Why did the Streamers fall to the East Continent five years later, when King Guhir returned?" asked Mano puzzled. In fact, these obviously irrational places in historical stories are also mysteries that Lepelian people have been pondering for thousands of years and still can't solve.

The priest explained: "In fact, our homeland is not just a floating island, as the Lepelian people think, and we have our own sea and vast land. The space in which the homeland is located is different from the world of Lepeilian, and the concept of time is also completely different, so the time when we fall is not directly related to when King Guhir returned to the Eastern Continent. Moreover, the Streamer Star is not in the East China Sea, and the direction discovered by the Fiji people is actually due to the fact that when the Streamer Star passes through the Lepeilian world, the celestial phenomena affect each other, and under certain specific natural conditions, it will form a temporary passage that can connect the two worlds. Therefore, the kind of channel that occurs by chance is not fixed. Because of the instability, it seems to be far and near, high and low, looming, and this is beyond our control. As for rescuing those Fiji people who were in distress, it was just because they happened to meet them at that time, so they rescued them. ”

Although the priest has tried to use some simple words to explain, because some words and concepts do not exist in the Lepeilian language, and are not even within the scope of the Lepeilian people's cognition, this explanation does not allow Moye to have a better understanding of the Streamer Star, the homeland of the Streamers. Of course, he also understands that with his current level of knowledge, it is not easy to fully understand these things.

As a result, Moye no longer dwelled too much on this difficult question, and instead asked another question: "Did King Guhir really climb the Streamer Star, and what happened later that caused the Streamer to suddenly fall from the sky to the Eastern Continent?"

The priest fell silent suddenly, and looked thoughtfully at the child who had already climbed the tree. On the thick branches hung many "bed houses" made of light vine flowers, and the child rolled around on them, as if he was having a good time. After a long time, when Mono thought that he might not get an answer, the priest slowly spoke, "Our homeland...... Because the Streamer Star suddenly disappeared, we will all fall......"

"Ah...... How so?!"

Moye was shocked, and couldn't figure out how a huge world could suddenly disappear without a trace, but the priest didn't seem to hear his question, and looked at the flaming child with no obvious emotional fluctuations in his expression, making it impossible to guess his thoughts, but he couldn't help but be in awe. Moye didn't dare to disturb the priest's contemplation, but his doubts made him scratch his heart like a hundred claws, and he unconsciously turned to Xiluo and Xiliu next to him, hoping that they could solve his doubts. Fortunately, Xiluo and Xiliu did not live up to Moye's expectations, and told him all the facts they knew.

Xiliu said: "Actually, among all the Silven people, only me and Silo were born in the world of Lepeilian, and we have not seen the real homeland, and many things have not been experienced personally. But the history of the origin of the clan is familiar......"

It turned out that King Ciel had forced the Fitans to take him to the East China Sea, the temporary passage connecting the two worlds mentioned by the priests. In order to successfully ascend to the Streamer Star, King Hill lied to the Streamer. And the Fiji people knew that it was a lie, but in order to save their own people and homeland, they never tried to warn the streamers.

At that time, the king of Hill, Yiwan Sukaranna, said to the Streamers: He learned from the mouth of the Fiji explorer that there was such a beautiful island in the sea, which made him very curious and came to see it. Most importantly, he wanted to repay the Streamers for the kindness they had given to his subjects, the Fiy. For this reason, he also brought many thank-you gifts to the streamers, and at the same time asked the streamers to give him a chance to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the island.

King Hill spoke very sincerely, and the simple streamers believed him without doubt, and let Lepelian climb to the Streamer Star.

Before arriving here, King Hill had already asked his soldiers to take off their battle robes and change into ordinary clothes, and they did not carry any weapons in their hands. The soldiers obeyed King Hill's orders and carried huge and heavy gift boxes one after another onto the Streamer Star. The number of boxes was very large, and it took them a long time to move them.

Previously, the streamers had only seen the Fiji people, and had learned some Lepeilian language from the Fiji people, but they didn't know anything about the other Lepeilian aboriginal groups, as well as their temperament and culture, and only heard King Hill say that the boxes were filled with gifts brought to express gratitude, so even if the streamers felt strange, they simply thought that it might be the cultural customs of the Lepeilian people, and never thought badly.

When the soldiers finally carried the last of the large boxes onto the Streamerstar, King Ciel shouted and ordered the soldiers to quickly open all the chests while the Streamer was defenseless. Of course, the streamer didn't expect that the so-called gift box was full of weapons and well-equipped soldiers. It was only then that they realized that these Lepelians had malicious intentions.

In fact, this was not the original plan of King Ciel, and he may at least say a few more hypocritical things to trick the Streamers into leading the army into the hinterland of the Streamer Star, where the Tree of Life is located, before taking this treasure land by surprise. But he didn't expect that as soon as he landed on the Streamer Star, the nobles accompanying him were all attracted by the glittering gems everywhere, and soon lost control and began to snatch the gems like a demon. Everyone can't wait to take it for themselves, and all kinds of evil thoughts of greed and destruction are everywhere. In desperation, King Ciel immediately ordered his soldiers to start attacking, in order to seize the opportunity to capture the Streamer Star in one fell swoop before more streamers found out.

But unfortunately, the arrogant Lepeilian people do not understand the streamer people, let alone the streamer star. In the midst of the chaotic shouts and battles, the Streamer Star suddenly shook violently, and then the ground began to sink sharply and continue to collapse......

King Hill was undoubtedly the wisest, and although he still cared about immortality and treasures, he immediately retreated to the ship when he sensed that the momentum was not right. By the time he turned back again, the Streamer had collapsed to the point of disappearing completely. Many of the soldiers and nobles who had not had time to retreat could not escape the catastrophe and fell into the rough sea, where they were soon swallowed up by the angry rolling waves, even the weapons. Everything King Ciel had brought with him, no matter how big or small, seemed to be repelled by the vanishing Streamer.

King Hill was alert and had a head start, so he managed to escape there. After a few days of drifting at sea in a panic, I looked back with palpitations, but unfortunately most of the soldiers and ships were buried by the sea, and not a single ship was seen behind them. I don't know if anyone is still alive, but he no longer has the courage to turn back, so he fled back to the Eastern Continent in a hurry.

However, what awaited him in the Eastern Continent was a devastated land. What made him even more puzzled and frightened was that those aliens who should have disappeared with the mysterious island would actually stand on his land in a good manner! It was only then that he suddenly remembered that when the island disappeared, it seemed that it was his soldiers who fell into the sea, and it seemed that he had not seen any aliens fall into the sea at that time. It's weird, isn't it?

King Hill was immediately alarmed, and began to suspect that this was a conspiracy! a plot to lead him to a dead end and destroy his empire! Perhaps the aliens had deliberately allowed the Fiytans to trick him into the East China Sea, and after he left, they would in turn encroach on his territory. This speculation magnified his uneasiness, and made him believe his own speculation more and more, and he could not help but remorse, hating both the strangers and the Fiji people who had deceived him, and vowed to exterminate them all.

Therefore, the history rewritten by King Hill, and the nobles of later generations, in order to concentrate power, in order to arouse the people's anger to the greatest extent and unite people's hearts, deliberately exaggerated the number of casualties in the war, and used exaggerated tones to degrade the aliens and Fiji people to nothing, and so on, all these hatred ideas that they consciously spread and left behind, through words and oral legends and other means of transmission that transcend time and space, brought the flames of war that lasted for thousands of years to the Eastern Continent in the future.