Chapter 1: Embark on the Journey
Ethan pinched his throat, then gently took a sip of the water from the wooden spoon.
"There's only one last bit of water left, and if I can't see any more land or rain, I'll probably be the first traverser to die of thirst. Looking at the bucket that had bottomed out, Ethan felt that this way of dying was too frustrating, and it was a shame to cross the face.
Putting down the wooden spoon and covering the bucket, Ethan stood at the front of the boat again, telling himself in his heart, 'There is no end to the road!', 'All will be fine!', and stood up straight, looking at the endless sea, hoping that something would appear at the end of the line of sight—anything, as long as it wasn't the endless water.
Raising his left hand and concentrating his mind, a pale blue light suddenly appeared in the palm facing upwards, and then a blue translucent ball of light appeared on Ethan's hand.
There was nothing unusual about the ball of light, except that there was an arrow-like thing in the center pointing in the direction the boat was sailing.
"I firmly believe that you are my golden finger, but don't fool me......"
Thinking back to the events of the past few years that he had been in this strange world, Ethan suddenly felt that it was really unreliable to pin his hopes on something that he didn't even know what it was.
"Later...... You can't do this kind of headless thing anymore...... If there's a future......"
Ethan, also called Ethan in his previous life, the difference is only that his surname in his previous life is Yi, and in this world, he doesn't even have a surname, only a simple name: Ethan.
Ethan in his previous life was a very ordinary person, he was not good at studying, he was not bad at being a bad person, he found a job that did not make money or lose money, and his life was okay.
thought that he would live his life so plainly, but he didn't expect a sudden illness to kill him, and when he woke up, he was already in this world.
Fortunately, he was directly attached to the body of a seriously ill teenager, and fully received the memories of the teenager, knowing the language of this world and some basic knowledge, so that he quickly integrated into the new world, and was not discovered by the teenager's father.
He grew up under his new father, and in the past few years he has learned what the world is like.
A world full of seawater, land is too scarce to support a large population, and even if the sea climate near the islands is pleasant and the seafood is abundant, there is a limit.
Over the course of a few years, Ethan had seen countless people leave their belongings to their children, and then sail alone into the uncharted seas in search of the fabled endless land—no one returned, Ethan himself had not seen, and had not heard of any examples of them coming back from a handful of old men.
So, Ethan came to the conclusion that this is a backward and ignorant island, which continues to live according to the simplest rules, and those who go to sea are simply giving up the chance to live to their offspring. The so-called endless land may just be an ordinary continent, but it is difficult for ships from this island to reach.
"They all died at sea. ”
Otherwise, there is no reason why there is no example of coming back, and there can't be a single one who wants to pick up his wife and children, right?
Whether this was the case or not, Ethan didn't know, but when he was sixteen years old, his father fell seriously ill after returning from a sea trip and died after half a month.
In the days that followed, Ethan did not take over his father's work and 'reinforced' into the island's most 'popular' fishing fleet, but found the boat that his father had quietly prepared, filled it with supplies, and embarked on a journey to find the 'endless land'.
He made this choice, in addition to not being willing to live an ordinary life on a 'backward and ignorant' island again, because of the strange ball of light pointer in his hand.
It took Ethan seven years to start out as vague and unshaped, to gradually take shape but flicker as if disturbed, to the current stable maintenance of the shape of the light sphere without any problems.
In the past seven years, Ethan can see that it is a pointer, and the direction of pointing has never changed, and it is very firmly pointing in a fixed direction.
In his previous life, he was poisoned by many novels, and Ethan felt that this was telling himself, 'Get out of that island with no future, there is a brighter future waiting for you.'" ’
Going to sea, from rusty to gradually proficient, the theoretical knowledge learned from his father gradually turned into practical skills, although occasionally there will be some mistakes in a hurry, but fortunately this sea is very gentle, and there is no stormy waves, giving this rookie enough time to improve his driving proficiency.
Especially as the three arrows of the light pointer in his hand became two, and now it has become one, and some of the troubles he encountered after going to sea seem to be gone, he is more and more looking forward to the treasure he is about to get.
Until...... The clear water on the boat was about to run out, and he finally realized that he was on the endless sea, and no one would come to save him, all his reliance was on this small boat less than ten meters long, and if there was no clear water, he was afraid that he would not live for three days.
"Sure enough...... In his previous life, he was an ordinary person, how could he become the center of the world of the Son of the Plane all of a sudden?"
Looking at the bucket that had been dried to the sun, Ethan completely calmed down.
"It's useless to be anxious, now you can either expect the rain or you can only hope for this pointer that I don't know where to point. ”
Desperate, Ethan squeezed almost all of his potential, not only driving the boat as fast as he could, but also using the few fruits left with moisture to sustain his body.
He barely lasted another five days, and just when he was about to lose any longer, Ethan noticed that the light pointer in his hand had finally changed.
Instead of continuing to point forward, he pointed firmly downward.
"Got here?"
Putting away the sails and dropping the anchor, Ethan looked around blankly, the scenery in his eyes did not change in the slightest, and the endless sea was still in sight.
"Is it at the bottom of the sea?"
His face has become worse, Ethan has lived on an island all his life, and he eats by the sea, of course the water is not bad, but he has sailed on the sea for so many days, and he has never seen land, who knows how deep the sea under his feet is?
The only color that can be judged - it's amazing that he has been driving for so long, and the color of the sea is still light blue with a little green, although it means that it is not a real deep sea, and it is not a person who can dive to the bottom without the help of any equipment.
"Got ...... trapped"
He sighed helplessly.
"And he was directly pitted to death! I just don't know if I will give another life this time?"
Ethan sat helplessly on the bow of the boat, wondering if he should simply jump in and fight, maybe drowning is better than dying of thirst?
Thinking wildly, he raised his left hand again, and Ethan suddenly noticed a strange change in his hand.
Originally, there was nothing special about his left hand except for concentrating his mental power on his left hand and summoning the ball of light pointer, but this time, he found that a complex pattern appeared on the back of his left hand.
"This ......"
As the pattern became clearer, he could see what it was.
"Looks like a magic circle?"
Just as the magic array finally took shape and began to emit a soft blue light, a spiritual power suddenly counterattacked back into his brain from the left back.
In an instant, Ethan suddenly understood what was going on with this thing.
"Hahaha, it's really endless...... cough cough cough ......"
Ethan, who was almost choked to death, no longer stood on the bow of the boat and posed, but honestly walked to the most stable place in the middle of the boat, and then knelt on one knee and covered his left hand on the 'ground'.
"I want to mobilize all my mental strength...... I'm not in a good state right now, and I don't know if it's enough. ”
Anyway, Ethan decided to try first, if he failed this time, he might be able to try again with the last bit of food left, and if he took a break, his mental head that had been boosted by surprise might be gone, and if he didn't have time to survive until then, he would die first.
"There is no choice at all, fight!"
Ethan, who is desperate, sends all his mental power to his left hand, and years of practice have made it easy for him to do it, and there is almost no difficulty in it.
And the magic array, which had received Ethan's spiritual attention, became more and more dazzling, and finally burst out with a dazzling light, and a magic array pattern that was exactly the same as the one on the back of his hand was also displayed on the 'ground'.
"It's done!"
Seeing the magic array appear, Ethan knew he had succeeded. The spiritual power that fed back into his mind from the magic array not only let him know the usage, but also the posture of the successful activation of the magic array, and even the effect of the magic array was also 'told' to Ethan.
Plane Shuttle!
That's what this magic circle does.
Ethan, who has been influenced by online articles, doesn't need to think much to know what this means, although it still contains boundless risks, but he is about to die of thirst at the moment, and he has no choice.
"No matter what, you won't send me to a place where I can't even drink saliva......
Just as the light of the magic array gradually engulfed Ethan and the teleportation was about to begin, Ethan suddenly felt dizzy, as if the feeling of weakness after continuous all-night battles when he was in school made him fall directly to the ground.
"It was at the last minute...... It's really declining......"
Before consciousness disappeared, Ethan saw in a trance that the brilliance around him slowly dissipated, and a group of people in robes were staring at him with wide eyes with vigilant faces, and one of the bald women in yellow robes slowly walked towards him, and what seemed to be saying something in her mouth?