Chapter 587: The Legend of the Golden Island

He didn't seem to see it, but he still looked at the young Persian man in front of him with a smile. Seeing that the two Persians with daggers had rushed in front of him, a thunderbolt suddenly flashed in the sky again, "Boom! After that, the two Persians were blown away. Fortunately, their ship was big enough that the two of them were not hit into the sea by this blow.

When the two Persians started their hands, the others also touched their short knives and daggers. However, after seeing the fate of these two companions, the rest of the people who were ready to make a move also gave up their plans to do it. The old guy glanced back at the two Persians who were groaning on the back deck, smiled at Wu Mian, and said, "I know that you are reluctant to ...... old man."

Wu Mian sneered and said, "I can't bear the time they wasted, I'm still waiting to listen to the story, how can I be interrupted by others." ”

After laughing, he said to the pale-faced young Persian again, "Did you hear that? If you don't tell the truth, you'll be the next one to be struck by lightning. ”

Seeing that three of his companions had been struck by lightning one after another, the defense line in the Persian young man's heart had collapsed, and after a few words of intimidation by the non-return, he finally told the truth in a trembling voice.

As the old man had guessed, these Persians were not merchants at all. They were all soldiers sent by the Persian king to search for Devil's Island, and almost eighty or ninety years ago, a Persian ship bound for the Han Dynasty was shipwrecked in the fog. Only one seafaring Persian merchant survived, clutching a large log and being washed up on an island by the current.

At that time, the Persian merchants no longer had the strength to get up and walk, and when they saw that the island was about to die of hunger and thirst, several Han Chinese appeared on the island. The men carried the Persian merchant to a palatial palace on the island, where a few mouthfuls of rice soup and the magical sorcery of the islanders rescued the Persian merchant who was about to die.

On land, this Persian merchant could not get out of bed without lying down for ten days and a half. However, after being casually manipulated by the people on the island a few times, he got up vigorously and ate with the people on the island.

After eating and drinking, the people of the island began to arrange for him to leave the place. Originally, the Persian merchants thought that these people would let him live on the island for a while, but they did not expect that as soon as he recovered, these people would drive him back. And no matter how much the Persian merchants pleaded, the people on the island were determined to get him out of here.

Fortunately, the people on the island still prepared a small boat for him that could be piloted by one person. The ship was filled with enough water for half a month, and at last he was given two charts to the Han Dynasty and Persia. Tell the Persian merchants that as long as they follow the direction of the chart, they will definitely return to Persia or reach the Han Dynasty.

Seeing that the people on the island were determined to drive themselves away, the Persian merchants took advantage of the time to say goodbye to these people. Secretly took the two night pearls in the palace, and then he was sent to the boat. Strange to say, just as the Persian merchants came out of the island, the fog that had been thick suddenly dispersed. Thus the Persian merchants sailed out of the sea.

A day after coming out of the island, a Han merchant ship passed by and rescued the Persian merchants. After the Han Dynasty, the Persian merchant returned to his home country when he reboarded a merchant ship bound for Persia.

After returning, the Persian merchants began to tell their stories all over the country. When he met someone who did not believe, he would take out the charts and the gems he had stolen to prove the existence of the Han man's island.

This event caused a sensation in Persia at that time, and even the king of Persia was alarmed. He summoned the Persian merchant to the palace and told him in front of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs about his encounter with the island. The Persian merchant thought that there was a strange thing to live in, so he added fuel to the experience that he had already told hundreds of times. The small island is said to be full of gold, and the pebbles in the river are all pearls and agate.

Unfortunately, he had already sold the two pearls of the night for a high price, and could only present those two charts to the king of Persia as proof that there was indeed that island. At that time, the Persian Empire was at war with Rome, and military spending had almost emptied the country's strength. At this time, if you can get the golden island, it will solve the urgent need of the Persian king.

At that moment, after the Persian king found out that there were less than 100 Han Chinese on the island, he organized a navy of 3,000 men and went to the golden island according to the chart of the Persian merchants. Unexpectedly, this navy slipped back and forth more than a dozen times according to the charts of the Persian merchants and did not find the overseas island, and finally the king directly asked the Persian merchants to send them to lead the way.

What was not expected was that soon after the convergence of the Persian merchants and the navy. The fleet of 3,000 men was caught in a great storm at sea, and all but thirteen sailors came back with their lives. At this time, it began to be rumored in Persia that there were no overseas golden islands at all. This is all the Persian merchant who did not know where to be wronged, paid for two fake charts, and then made up the myth of such a golden island.

Just when this incident was in an uproar, a Persian fisherman salvaged a corpse while he was fishing. This corpse was obviously deliberately processed, and although it had been soaked in seawater for a long time, it did not look like it was rotting and swollen at all.

The limbs of the corpse were cut off with sharp weapons, and the eyes were pierced and the tongue in the mouth was cut off. A bronze plaque hangs around the neck, and on the back of the plaque is densely written Chinese characters that no one in the locals can understand.

After the fishermen reported to the official, the Persian officials invited someone who knew Chinese characters to translate the characters on the bronze plaque. It tells how this Persian merchant was killed and drifted to the island. He was revived by the people of the island, who gave him food and water and a boat to let him go. Unexpectedly, this man came with an army after returning to China, but fortunately, a storm fell from heaven and buried this army at the bottom of the sea.

The ungrateful Persian merchant was again sent by the sea to the island, and this time the people of the island did not pity him. According to the rules of the island for traitors, this man was put to death, and his crime was engraved on a bronze medal and thrown into the sea again. It is also warning those who spy on the island that this person is their fate.

After seeing the translated text, the official hurriedly sent the private person to the palace, along with the bronze medal and the translation. When the king saw the dead body and the bronze medal, he called the relatives and friends of the Persian merchant to come and identify the body. Everyone was convinced that this was the Persian merchant who had returned from the Golden Isle.

The astonishment confirmed that the Golden Island was real, but fortunately, the original charts were not thrown away as garbage. At that moment, the king decided to say that he would also take the golden island, and it seemed that the two charts were discreprising, and at that moment, the king decided to send someone to pretend to be a Persian merchant who went to the Han Dynasty to do business. First find a way to find out the exact location of the Golden Island, and then send a large naval team to take the island.

From then on, the Persian king sent several waves of soldiers disguised as merchants to the sea every year. It's just that these soldiers either came back after a few months at sea, or they were completely lost after more than half a year.

Since the first Persian merchant discovered the island, there have been four Persian kings, each of whom has been sending soldiers pretending to be merchants. So far, there are thirty-two boats that have not received news from the Golden Island but can come back safely. Eighty-one boats were completely missing, and this ship was one of them.

Their ship had sailed from Persia seven days earlier in order to make it look like it had lost course. The boat deliberately did not bring enough fresh water, and when it sailed to this area a day ago, it suddenly became foggy on the sea.

The fog had become a sign of going to the Golden Isle, and just when these people thought that this time they would not finally return in vain, the fog suddenly dispersed, and a lonely island appeared on the sea......