Chapter III Refugees
"The explorer was a devout believer who promised the king of the world that the route on this chart would lead to a rich new continent, and that it was chosen by science to be taxed. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Magellan frowned: "Holy Trinity believers?"
"Not necessarily," the old man smiled, "he was an explorer after all, but since in the end the sailor chose the king of the world......"
The two knew the implicit meaning of this sentence, and the choice of the king of the world meant that it was impossible for this explorer to fall to Brittany, and he may have struggled and weighed between the two, but in the end it was the decree of the king of the world that prevailed over Brittania's maritime superiority.
This meant that the explorer had to be funded by the once Lord of the Armada, a devout and fanatical king, to live until the king's decree could protect him.
There is no doubt that after thinking all this clearly, the explorer first found the king, and then the king of ecstasy introduced him to the pope, after which the pope took him to meet the king of the world.
Whether the explorer is a devout believer in science or not, his choice will not change.
"What did the King of the World say to him?"
"He's going to get some...... Subsidize. The old man was silent for a moment and glanced at Magellan, "But in reality, in the end, he only got an expedition permit from the king of the world." ”
"This ...... Rare. ”
The King of the World was very proud, but she showed it by making herself incredibly generous and enthusiastic, and it was rare for a person to ask her for help and get such a small reward as happened this time.
"The explorer, tell the king of the world that he has half a nautical chart leading to the land of dragons...... "The old man glanced at Magellan quietly, "and in reality, he was empty-handed." ”
Magellan was relieved, and then he realized that it was completely impossible for his emotions to escape the eyes of the old man.
"What do you want to know?"
"That explorer, has really taken the nautical chart leading to the land of dragons? ”
"Nope. ”
The old man did not believe him, and Magellan could see this in those black eyes.
"I have no ill intentions...... But it's an old promise, and that's important to us. ”
"To whom?"
The old man suddenly found that the conversation was sliding in a direction he did not want to see at a speed that he did not expect, and Magellan was suspicious of him.
"The Land of Dragons, as the people here call that distant country, but there, the inhabitants of this country call it, the Central Country. Nine hundred years ago, the land of dragons ......"
"Central Country. ”
Magellan suddenly corrected the old man's statement, and the latter glanced at Magellan and then began to continue his story.
"The Emperor of the Central Kingdom, a great queen, has died. That led to a series of chaos that eventually turned into war, and the forces that had previously held power in the country were plunged into endless strife. But in fact the result was predestined from the beginning, because this struggle was a force, a union of all other forces. ”
"The one who is outnumbered and outnumbered, calls himself the Mo family. ”
"This is the word for the Central Country, which means ......"
"A group of people united under Mozi's theory. ”
The old man gave Magellan a deep look, and Magellan said nothing.
"The Mo family has failed, and even split internally, and one of them is ready to leave the war-torn country and go to the far west to find a glimmer of life. ”
"At the beginning, Juzi brought the old and weak, and wanted to go west, Ziyi was reluctant to give up, until the sky was far away, the snow was heavy, and he couldn't do it, so he was sleepy.
Ziyi said, now Juzi left Middle-earth and entered Xirong, wanting to do evil for the middle?
Juzi looked up to the sky and said, I will not be able to make birds and beasts gain the Tao and enter the market to eat people.
Ziyi was reluctant, the attack was very urgent, the snow did not stop, and there were many dead and wounded.
After the snow was a little cloudy, he went to the West Sea, but Ziyi was still not reluctant.
Juzi is carrying a sword in front of the water, saying, after me, you will go west, Guo Ziyi should be a juzi.
So he killed himself, and Ziyi retreated. ”
"It's a long story. ”
Magellan understood the passage, and he did not want the old man to take any more time to explain.
The old man didn't say much, not even show surprise.
What followed was a miserable and boring story. In fact, after the loss of Juzi, this group of people is essentially nothing more than a group of refugees who may die at any moment, enduring hunger and cold, walking in a foreign land, and finding no reason to stop. ”
"They ended up at the beach, a process that took thirty years, with the old people in the group already dead, and the orphans growing up and even having children of their own. This is the end of the world, and the locals tell them that there is nothing on the other side of the ocean. So they went to sea, hoping to find a land that was truly isolated from the rest of the world and fulfill the promise of Juzi. ”
But they saw the most absurd irony in the world, and thirty years later, in the midst of the stormy waves, they landed on an island whose indigenous chiefs claimed to be vassals of the Central State. ”
At that time, the refugees were no longer the same people who had fled, and the youngest children had become gray-haired old men, who hurriedly boarded and left, not even caring about the storm that had not stopped. Eventually, only a dozen or so returned to Brittany, where they chose to stay in civilization while staying as far away from their homeland as possible. ”
"But there is one thing that cannot be brought back here, and they have in their hands a chart that records the route from Brittania westward to the land of the Central State, which is very dangerous, but cannot be destroyed. ”
Magellan nodded: "I see, so the chart will be on an island west of Brittany, and all the icons and markings on it are in a style I have never seen before...... It was the group of refugees who hid it there. ”
The old man nodded: "They thought it was safe enough, but at that time, no ship in the whole continent and Brittany, including Britannia, could cross the strange stormy sea and land on that small island. ”
"That chart is safe now. ”
Magellan faced the old man with a determined gaze, his tone as firm as his gaze.
"Now, it's like that. ”
"I hid it in a place where I would never find it, and, apart. ”
"That's why the explorer said he got half a ......," the old man sighed, "You're different from everyone else, Magellan, when you found the charts, we noticed it, but we still didn't catch ......"
"But that's no surprise. ”