The blue sea and blue sky, the wind is light and the clouds are light, the white waves roll forward wave after wave with the advance of the fleet, on the sea surface in the distance, there are sea beasts floating, jumping, frolicking from time to time, "quack" laughing at each other, in the sky, groups of gray and white seabirds circle, swoop, or a fierce man plunges into the sea, chasing their prey, or temporarily stay on the sea surface, take a break.

The long waves are beating, the birds and beasts are singing, but the picturesque scenery can not make anyone in the fleet happy, no matter how beautiful the beautiful scenery, after watching it for a month, you will also see the aesthetic fatigue, not to mention that they have to worry about the future.

It is now September 32 of the sixth year of Huaxia, and the fourth day after the route deviated to the southeast.

Ordinary crew members are nothing, joy, anger and sorrow are all expressed on their faces, and they will pass after venting, but they have worked hard for a senior executive, and they are obviously irritable to death, but they have to pretend to have a calm and confident expression on their faces, and they also 'talk and laugh' in public from time to time.

But that afternoon, a turning point came, and God was still on their side, and the coastline, which had been running wildly all the way to the southeast, finally began to turn, and a beautiful big turn brought tears to the eyes of the fleet.

"The coastline has turned to the west!" the flagship navigator Zhao Kaidi excitedly broke into the captain's room and shouted loudly.

Vice Captain Chi Jin, who just wanted to reprimand Zhao Kaidi for his recklessness, hurriedly withdrew what he wanted to say, and stepped forward with an arrow, twisted Zhao Kaidi's collar, and asked, "Is this true?"

"Naturally, take it seriously!" Zhao Kaidi nodded hurriedly, "Captain, how dare your subordinates deceive this kind of thing, as long as you go out and take a look." ”

There is a point in that!

Chi Jin let go of his right hand, his face couldn't hide the joy, and said to Zhang Qian, who was sitting in the main seat: "Captain?"

Zhang Qian was also very excited, but he was not overjoyed, because it was not time yet.

"Don't worry!" Zhang Qian stretched out his hand to stop the restless Chi Jin, got up slowly, and said: "Let's go and have a look first, and then it's not too late to laugh after we are sure, but don't rejoice in the air! Ji Yan (Pei Xiuzi), you can also take a look with me." ”

"No!" Pei Xiu replied, standing up.

When the group came out of the cabin and onto the deck, the flagship had just reached the corner and began to turn west.

The coastline suddenly made a 180-degree turn here, and although the direction of extension was still northwest-southeast, the course of the fleet turned around after this corner, and began to move northwest from the beginning to the southeast.

In the general direction to the west, this is an authentic good news, worth celebrating!

The laughter lasted for a day, and the dreary atmosphere was swept away.

It's just that the good times didn't last long, and the day after turning back to the 'right course', another accident happened.

"Look, continent! another continent!"

There was an exclamation from the deck, and a group of sailors and servants all ran to the other side of the ship, lying on the railing and pointing in front of them.

On the other side of the coastline, a thin black line came out of the sea level, and as the fleet moved forward, the thin line grew closer, thicker, and clearer, and soon its true face was discovered.

In the south-western direction of the flotilla has appeared a new piece of land!

Of course, it is debatable whether it is a new land, and it is possible that the continents on the left and right sides of the fleet are connected at the front of the route.

But if it's really connected, then it's a lot of fun!

"What's going on? what's the noise outside?" Zhang Qian, who was reading a book in the bedroom, frowned, and finally put down a matter of concern because of the return to the right path, so that he had the leisure to revisit the study of the sage, but there were people who were not interested and disturbed him Yaxing, and the quarrel outside was getting louder and louder, he tried several times, but he couldn't calm himself down again, so he simply put down the book and couldn't help shouting outside.

"My lord!" the person outside the door pushed the door in, bowing down.

"What's going on outside, why is it so noisy?" Zhang Qian asked.

"My subordinates vaguely heard something about the 'New World'..."Before the personal entourage could finish speaking, Chi Jin hurriedly broke in and said loudly: "Captain, there is land on the opposite side." ”

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At this time, almost all the people on the eleventh search sail ship ran to the deck as long as they had no task with them, looking at the new land.

Seeing Chi Jin calling Zhang Qian over, Pei Xiu greeted him with a gloomy face and said, "Captain, things may be a little wrong!"

Zhang Qian did not answer immediately, but walked straight to the side of the ship, looked at the new continent that appeared on the opposite side, and then turned to look at the 'old continent' on the other side, and was a little silent for a while.

He knew what Pei Xiu was worried about, if the two sides of the strait belonged to the same continent, it would mean that the direction of the fleet at this time was a dead end, and it would have to go back in the end, and then it would either go south along the new continent to explore the unknown way forward, or return the same way, declaring the mission a complete failure.

The best outcome is that the new land is really a new continent, and through this strait, the fleet enters a new sea, and according to the route, it is almost the destination.

"Captain, do you want to move forward?" Pei Xiu asked, but he actually knew the answer in his heart, so he must continue to move forward, they have already come here, as long as there is still a road ahead, it is impossible for the fleet to stop.

"Naturally!" Sure enough, Zhang Qian replied without hesitation.

The fleet continued to move forward, and the new land only brought a temporary freshness to the crew, and after a while, everyone was not surprised, or did what they should do, Zhang Qian only sent a few waves of people to the opposite shore, hunting animals, collecting plant seeds, flowers, fruits, as well as soil and ore, compiling materials, comparing them with the mainland to which China belongs, and analyzing the relationship between the two sides of the strait.

The results are quite satisfactory, not only are the landforms of the two sides of the strait very far apart, but so are the species, which has greatly enhanced the confidence of Zhang Qian and others, and although it has not yet been completely proved that there is no relationship between the two sides of the strait, the large differences between the two sides are always somewhat convincing.

"Bump!"

"Oh no... My lord, the 'Qi Yi' ahead has hit the rocks!"

"Why did they suddenly hit the rocks? Don't they have long eyes? What's the situation?" Chi Jin exclaimed, his heart was full of bitterness at the moment, feeling that God was afraid that their journey would be too lonely, and the surprises were one after another.

Seeing that the subordinates who reported the news couldn't speak clearly, Chi Jin interrupted him with an irritable wave of his hand, got up and walked out, and commanded as he went: "Flag war, order the fleet to stop first, and I will go to the captain to explain the situation." ”