Chapter 45: The Night of the Thousand Islands (Part II)
As soon as Zhen'er's loud shout fell, a shout came from the sea below the mountain.
The crowd looked and saw two rafts on the moonlit sea heading towards the island, full of people. They held torches in their hands, and the thick shout of a man on the raft drifted in the wind: "Hey! Friends on the mountain, are you from Princess? ”
The boys on the mountain were overjoyed, and Kabayashi immediately shouted, "We are, who are you?" ”
"I'm Prince Lijun, who are you?" The thick tone is agitated.
"Uncle!" Shanglin was surprised and delighted, "I'm Shanglin, we met a wild man!" Kabayashi shouted.
"I saw it! When the savages see us, they flee, and the savages are afraid of us! Ha ha! Laughter resounded in the lonely sea and sky.
The savages fled to the mountains to the north amid the laughter of the sea.
The raft docked, and a group of people rushed up the hill quickly, they were all tall catheads, they were all wearing leather coats, long hair and shawls, full beards, and swords at their waists.
"Uncle, my father always thought that you had either arrived in Qizhou a long time ago or had an accident in the sea." Kamibayashi said.
"Yes, when we sailed to this Kuril Island three years ago, we unfortunately happened to run into a sea demon. Fish-men, to be precise, though, blew up and sank our ship and then took most of our brothers away. ”
The leader of the Han said that he was Shanglin's uncle, Prince Lijun.
"What? Fish-people? Uncle, are you saying that the Kraken is a man like a fish? Kabayashi asked.
"It's a long story, Uncle will talk to you later. Shanglin, let me see who came with you first," the prince looked up and saw Kapok and Ama who came forward, he let go of Kapok and smiled: "Kapok, Amma, you have not seen you for three years and you are almost unrecognizable." ”
Kapok said honestly: "Uncle Prince, I haven't seen you for three years, you look a bit like a savage. ”
The crowd laughed.
The prince saw Ah Hu and Wang Fan and said, "Shanglin, those two friends of yours have strange looks, I have never seen them before." ”
Shanglin smiled: "Uncle, their identities are kept secret for the time being, and they will be announced together when they come." ”
Not long after, the people on the raft had already climbed up the mountain, and there were more than 20 big men, who carried up several large wooden barrels, and everyone cheered and jumped around the forest.
Sitting around the fire at the top of the mountain, Kabayashi told his uncle and sailors all about the journey of his friends from outside the world to Princess City and landing here in a spaceship.
Everyone sighed.
Prince Lijun said, "We saw your hot air balloon at dusk today, and we knew that Princess City had sent someone to look for us, but you didn't see us and flew away. Later, we saw fireworks on this island, and we knew you landed here.
There were many wild people on these islands, and when we first arrived on the islands, a large group of wild men attacked us late one night, taking advantage of our unpreparedness, and we lost several of our brothers. Then we tried to hunt down the savages to avenge our brethren, and when the savages knew how good we were, they fled when they saw us. Now we are no longer afraid of savages, but we all want to go back to the savannah. ”
Shanglin said, "Uncle, tell me what is going on with the fishman." ”
The prince sighed: "Alas, we lost more than ninety brothers before we realized that there were fish-men living in this sea. It was late at night, there was no moon and only faint starlight, but the weather was good and the wind was calm, our fleet continued to move forward at night, and we were happy when we saw the shadows of these islands and mountains in the distance, and we planned to enter the Kuril Sea and follow the sailing route of Grandpa Hal to dock at an island to replenish fresh water and let the soldiers rest on the island for a day.
But at this moment, we heard several muffled thunderous sounds, and at the same time felt a violent vibration of the hull, and soon the sailors found that a large hole had been smashed into the bottom of the hull, and the sea water was inexorably pouring into the cabin, and the hull was slowly sinking. The brothers on the two boats in front of and behind me also called to me for the hull to sink.
I immediately ordered all the people to quickly put on life jackets, take swords and escape in the direction of the Kuril Islands. When our ship sank to the surface of the sea and our people began to swim towards the Kuril Sea in droves, a black thing rumbled in front of us, and the upper part of it resembled a big ghost ship. My first instinct was to encounter a kraken, and I immediately turned around and led my brothers to the side.
The ghost boat didn't move, but we noticed that the waves were splashing on the surface and something was chasing us in droves under the water, and soon we saw something like a man and a fish surrounding us. But the light was dim, and we scrambled to escape, and no one could see the true faces of those fish people.
At that time, we were all wearing life jackets and could float on the water without paddling, so we swung our swords and fought the fishmen. But unexpectedly, these fishmen have a very powerful weapon in their hands that can fire a kind of tranquilizer bullet, and we feel powerless when we are hit by this cold bullet in the legs underwater, and the fishmen drag our incapacitated warriors to their ghost boats.
I heard my brother who had been caught on the ghost boat shouting, 'Prince, run, it's a fish-man, we've been kidnapped by them!'
Because of our large numbers and the strong resistance of our brothers, the fishmen did not have enough time to capture so many of us alive, and these brothers and I were able to escape from the fishmen and escape to an island. It's safe on land, and those fish-people can only move in the water.
In the past three years, we have seen several ghost ships of fish-people on the islands and mountains at night, but we found that they were all active in the deep sea area, and never entered the shallow waters around these islands. ”
"Uncle, didn't you bring a letter swallow? Why don't you let Xinyan fly back to Tianwang City to report the news? Kabayashi asked.
"Alas, where did I have time to write a letter, when we were besieged by the fish-men in the sea, the Xinyan hovering above our heads was also knocked off by the fish-men with a tranquilizer bullet and fell into the sea. At that time, we looked at their ghost ship from the island and the mountains with gritted teeth, but these damn fish-man weapons were much more advanced than ours, and we had to ask our alien friends to come forward to take revenge. After speaking, the prince looked at Ah Hu.
"The fish-people you describe are exactly the undersea people," Ah Hu said with a serious expression, "They live at the bottom of the sea, and some planets are completely covered with water, and that world is full of undersea people. When our mission in Chizhou is complete, I will ask the Sheriff to drive a spaceship into this underwater world to see the underwater people, and then the Sheriff may drop a few depth charges on them to avenge you. ”
There was a burst of cheers on the hillside.
The prince ordered the sailors to open the barrels and distribute the food and wine, and he said to the boys: "Taste the food of the fish and birds that we have salted on the island, and this wine which we have made ourselves on the island." ”
Wang Fan took a sip of wine and felt that the taste was very different from the wine he had drunk before. He knew that he didn't have much research on alcohol, so he didn't make any comments.
Kapok Zi is very expert in wine, he took a few sips in succession, and praised: "Hey, Uncle Prince, the wine you make is very delicious, and you will definitely be able to win the first place in our wine fairy city wine appraisal." ”
The sailors all clapped their hands and cheered with joy.
Ama tasted the cured meat and said, "Uncle Prince, I think the cured meat you made is delicious!" ”
The sailors cheered again.
Kapok said: "Uncle Prince, I have an idea to make money, you stay here to brew wine, and when we come back from Qizhou, we will use a hot air balloon to take your wine to the prairie and sell it, and the money will be divided in half!" Do you think it's good? ”
The prince smiled: "Good idea! However, Kapok, I want to exchange with you, you stay here to make wine, I will drive a hot air balloon to the prairie to sell wine, and the money will be yours! ”
The crowd burst into laughter.