Chapter 71: Gezhi (11)
September was supposed to be a fugitive, but he had no plans to drift overseas. Pen ~ fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info waited until he became acquainted with the captain of the ship and continued to trade with other countries along the way, but he got a message from the sea ships engaged in direct trade to Sealand that China would no longer be allowed to trade overseas in the future. And this Sealand ship is also the last to go. I heard that the imperial court ordered that merchant ships that could return to China within a time limit should not go to sea in the future, and those who could not return within the time limit were no longer allowed to return. The boss of the boat calculated carefully, even if it was smooth sailing, it would be difficult to go back, not to mention running at sea, which depended on the weather. The captain of the ship originally informed everyone about this, but who knew that it had already spread throughout the ship. Some people sighed and some cried, but finally accepted this fact, since it is difficult to return to China, then find a suitable place to live and settle overseas. I saw this in September, and I was adrift everywhere anyway. Since the last time he defeated the pirates, September is no longer a chore, teaching his sailors some punches and kicks when he has nothing to do. But why did the imperial court no longer allow them to go to sea?
Regarding the sea ban, although the ship boss said that he was very open, after all, dozens of people under his command will be like the network name Jianghu in the future, and he still has some ideas of his own. When he and September were talking about wine, there were not a lot of lamentations in the words. What September doesn't understand is why the boss always says that he is different from others. This is not something to be lamented by not having a family, not to mention that they have been adrift at sea for so many years, why can't they see it. There is no home, there is no place for the heart to live, but there is no concern. It's like September, but it's not without any benefits. Without the Chinese homeland that they always have to worry about going back to, they simply went farther, and the boss decided to go to Ma Da Island. Why did the ship boss have to be banned by the sea, for example, the people on the side of Martha, especially the Brethians from the country of Orabo, have occupied a large territory overseas, but they have never heard of what the court wants to impose on the sea. Since the ban on the sea, how many people who rely on the sea to exchange food and clothing will cut off their livelihood, the boss held a wine bowl and said in a daze, but unfortunately, the court can't help it. The boss didn't drink as much as he did in September, and it seemed that he was eight or nine minutes drunk this time. September no longer continued to drink with him, and was about to say goodbye, when the boss said to him again, saying that he was really different from people.
September came out of the cabin, closed the door and let in the moonlight in the middle of the night, and the ship continued to sail westward. In this world, who knows where you are going, in September, in September, you can think of yourself floating around in the rivers and lakes of China for a long time, and in the end you will go to the island of Mada thousands of miles away. A wine burp came up, and the sea breeze poured slightly into the mouth, causing a churn in the abdomen, looking up at the crescent moon, September found that the tip of the crescent moon crossed the shadow, covering a piece of the crescent moon. September knew that this was called Tengu Swallowing the Moon, but a Taoist priest who had met Pingshui in September said that this was actually a star that happened to pass by the side of the moon towards people, so there would be such a scene. However, most of the stars mentioned by the Taoist priest are round, and there are strips. September rubbed his eyes, not to see his own eyes, this star that blocked the moon was still shining with a little light, the light point was very small but it was very regular. September pulled a man who got up in the middle of the night and secretly peed on the side of the ship, and said, "Look at the moon is covered by something." The sailor, who was sleeping lale, looked at the moon and said that you had drunk too much. September pushed this guy, not believing what the sailor said, but when he looked back at the moon, there was no black shadow just now, if this was a star, it moved quickly, but it was a rare celestial phenomenon, but unfortunately no second person saw it.
After waking up for a few minutes in September, there was no sleepiness, so he simply prepared to dance a set of boxing techniques on the deck, which was so enjoyable that he could only die with people. The decision was made, and the dancing was carried out, with the fist wind and the slight sea breeze, which was probably a good scenery on the vast sea. September wants to dance everything hidden in his chest, and between the dancing of his hands and feet, it seems that he has returned to the past. September, who was dancing in a hurry, was interrupted by the call of the helmsman who was on duty from the stern helm position. The helmsman called him over to see how nervous the helmsman was, it had to be a major event. When he arrived at the helm, the helmsman pointed to the sea compass that was placed horizontally on the helmsman's side and called September to look. The helmsman said that the ship had been gone for three or four hours since dusk, and that the hands of the compass had not swayed in the slightest. September knows that because of the change in the direction of the monsoon winds, these days the voyage is moving in a zigzag pattern. In other words, if the helmsman is operating the boat in a curve, the pointer on the compass will rotate regularly. He asked the helmsman if he didn't look at the compass when he operated, and the helmsman said that with his experience, if he walked such a curve, as long as he remembered the scale on the steering wheel, and the left and right timing were switched, where did he still need to look at the compass. Indeed, such an experienced helmsman does have such a skill. The compass does not move, and the ship is changing direction according to the timing, the compass may have been damaged. If you want to damage the compass, unless there is a large magnet nearby, but where did this big magnet come from in the vast sea? And if the compass is not broken, in September they will be a blind man riding a blind elephant on the sea. September asked the helmsman to take duty at the helm, and he turned back to the cabin to find the ship's boss.
Pushing open the cabin of the ship's boss, when has the light been extinguished. The heavy wheezing indicated that the captain was drunk and asleep, and September groped to light the lamp first, but tripped over something. After practicing martial arts for many years, once the body is upside down and crooked, it naturally begins to stabilize its lower plate, and the body jumps to another position as soon as it flips. September touched the lamp on the table with his memory, and the weight in his hand was very light, and it must have burned out. All he had to do was get to the deck with a spare torch to light it up, and when he returned to the cabin, there was a monster lying on the floor. Six or seven feet long, lying on the floor, his body undulating up and down, as if he was sleeping. September slowly turned to the other side of the monster, and instantly recognized that this was the monster that had fought him by the river that day. But where is the captain of the ship, September slowly looks in the house, and there is no captain. September didn't carry a long knife, so he had to hold the dagger in his hand and approach the monster. Yes, the triangular head, the pimpling onion dough, the long tail hanging around the body on the floor, a wine bowl rolling on the ground, the clothes scattered on the ground, and of course, the long beast teeth in the monster's neck, made September understand, just the monster that attacked him that day, and the monster in front of him was the ship boss he couldn't find. September exited the boss's cabin without saying a word, and he began to remember what the boss said was different. As it turned out, September consulted with the helmsman, and in order to avoid causing panic in the middle of the night, he temporarily anchored and stopped the ship, and waited until the sun rose to discern the direction. September felt that it was time for the boss to wake up, and everything was as if nothing had happened. The boss is a monster, but unlike someone who can be dangerous, September doesn't think he's doing it in a dangerous way.
It took a lot of effort for the helmsman and September to get the thousands of pounds of cast iron anchor down to the bottom of the sea. From the time of anchoring in September, the weather began to change, and the moon, which had been clearly visible, gradually blurred. By the time the anchor was settled, it was as dark as ink. The helmsman looked at it and said it was sea fog. Fog is not uncommon in the sea as it is a place of high humidity and moisture, but it always feels like something is going to happen in September. He asked the helmsman what the hour was, and the helmsman saw that it was still more than two hours before he saw the east white. After hearing this, September's heart was a little calmer, after all, even if the sky was foggy after sunrise, it would not be as if it was at a loss in the dark. He didn't go back to his cabin, but stayed outside the boss's cabin, waiting for dawn.
Ecovacs didn't know why the slender thing didn't continue to exert force, but let him go, and then made a strange noise. These sounds make everyone feel a splitting headache, and Ecovacs is no exception. But in addition to the headache, he found that there were many scenes in front of him that he had never seen before. It wasn't any memory he had ever remembered, not even from the illustrations in any of the books in the library in Blister. After a flash of speed, the sound died out, and Ecovacs and the others were so delirious that they passed out. The monster didn't linger, stabbing Ecovacs' arm, extracting some liquid before disappearing off the ground. There were also some sane hunters who could not open their mouths as if to bark, and a flash of light flashed, and the hunting kings lay limply on the ground, like the people, unconscious. A triangular face behind a big tree in the forest hesitated when he saw this, and then left. It wasn't in his plan, he was going to go back to the tribe first.
The weather in the forest is unpredictable, and these people are still in a coma. When the leaves of the big tree could not withstand more rain, the rain fell on the faces of Ecovacs and others, and people woke up one after another. Ecovacs moved and found that there was no discomfort other than some soreness, and he got up and helped the others up. Karim rubbed his neck and asked Corvus how they slept in the forest during the day. Ecovacs was about to answer, but suddenly changed his mind, and he replied that he didn't know. The little kid had woken up too. After communicating with him in dialect, Karim said that there were no strange legends about the forest. When people wake up, they just remember meeting Habibie and don't know why they slept in the woods. Warman glanced at Ecovacs a few times, and then stopped. The people who encountered heavy rain did not have more time to discuss this issue, so they looked for a large dead tree, opened the hole in the tree and went in turn to avoid the heavy rain.
The rain continued unabated, and it was very dark in the hollow of the tree. Warman knocked on the kettle on Ecovacs' body and whispered in his ear that he had a strange dream. Ecovacs motioned for Warman not to say anything for the time being, and after the group replenished some water and dry food, he continued to talk about the strange encounter. Karim told the people about the legends that had been passed down in their tribe. When his ancestors fled from their original tribe, it was strange that they were not hunted down along the way, but they returned to a coma at certain times of the day, and it took a long time after waking up to remember what they had done before they fell unconscious, but only a small part. After crossing the River of Enda, there is no longer a coma. It is also because of this that the ancestors left very few memories of the tribes of the past. Karim asked the elders, and the elders simply said that if they left their own gods, of course, they would have to keep them secret. As for who God is, the elders say that God is no one and that God can be anyone. When the elder said this, he folded his thumb back, and the remaining four fingers pointed to the sky, saying that God was in the distance.
Four fingers pointed to the sky so that Habibi suddenly remembered something, he said that the teacher Milor, who chased him, also told the wizard in the tribe about the four fingers, and was also touched by Ecovacs, which is definitely not a coincidence, and the transformed Ecovacs is also four fingers. Ecovacs thought that he seemed to be walking around the vast and dark capital of Catcher with a candle, and the area that the candle could illuminate was not small, but the darkness that surrounded the light was actually even more. I see a lot, I know a lot, but I can't see and I don't know more. Corvus hoped that the rain would stop sooner, and that he would go to Habibie's tribe, and that he would touch that Milore, and climb the fall of Corolls, perhaps that was the main intention of his brother to call him to see. He thought again, if his brother would also be deformed. The rest of the time was spent on trivia about Milor after Habibie had eaten his fill. Miloel's origins are somewhat similar to that of Ecovacs, who doesn't know where he came from and has no parents, and Miloel is also a mysterious person with no origin.
The sky was turning white, and the dark color of the mist began to lighten. The whole ship was surrounded by white fog, and September slowly got up, looking at the fog that wrapped around the big ship like a hard shell, and did not notice the sound in the cabin behind him. The ship's boss opened the hatch and came out. He rubbed his body all over the place, and September noticed that the boss had changed his clothes. As if nothing had happened, September told the captain of the ship about the strange things he had encountered. The captain leaned against the side of the boat and instructed the helmsman to bring some of the sea water up with a pail. The boss put the water under his nose and sniffed it, and tasted it again. The boss said I had never encountered it, and I had never encountered the sea water here. The boss told September that he had walked through these waterways several times, and that when he was young, he had learned from his experienced predecessors, and that he would know if he had reached another sea area, especially the waters near Sealand that he often walked. The salinity of the sea varies from sea to sea, and the Boss is strange that they are approaching the southwest of Zealand according to the time calculation. Seawater shouldn't be the taste. The boss's face became solemn, and the ship had gone astray. The helmsman spread out his hand and explained the strange things that had happened to him while he was doing his job. The boss waved his hand and said it was not the helmsman's fault. At the moment, there is no other way, and the boss can't hide it if he knows it, so he asked everyone to gather on the deck on September 8, and greet everyone on the deck when there is anything.
The thick fog never lifted, and the boss thought it would be better to stay here and wait. Because he didn't know how long he would be trapped, the boss ordered to be thrifty with water and food. But even so, there is a fear that people will be trapped here. Some guys tried to catch some from the side of the boat and supplement their diet, but found that there were no fish or shrimp swimming near the boat. It seems that this time he is going to be completely trapped to the end of the mountain. The boss has never encountered it, and the people on the entire ship have not encountered it. Some people were so frightened that they jumped over the side of the ship into the sea to escape from the white mist, but while the people were still screaming about the fish, they were thrown to the deck again. After this strange happening, no one tried again, but as the siege grew, the people on board fell into a dullness, and the whole ship was lifeless. On the fifteenth day, the iron anchor chains, which had been at the bottom of the sea for many days, were still shaking, and even the hull of the ship was shaking.