After giving the fisherman boy a normal knife to wield, he and Quest quickly became acquainted. Not only did he tell Ques his name, Kos, but he also gave his "canoe" to the generous captain.

The reed-tied raft turned out to be a split floating raft on Kos's catamaran, and the storm destroyed his fishing boat full of catch, and the seasoned young navigator decisively chose to abandon the heavily flooded hull and escape with the raft.

Taking advantage of the moments after the storm had subsided, the nimble boy made a simple outboard stand out of the spare timber and hemp rope from the Quest boat, and set up his reed raft to provide the boat with additional buoyancy.

"Commend you for your generosity, Captain," Kos looked up and smiled at the young blue dragon as he expertly tied the knot, "Although this reed raft is not worth much, it will make your ride a little smoother." And you have an iron knife, I can tie the dead buckle, my previous fishing boat was disintegrated in the storm because it could only be tied alive......"

After all, he is still a teenager, and after getting acquainted with Queth, Kos has been talking non-stop. And the young blue dragon, who wants to get more information about the island world, also becomes a qualified listener, but occasionally asks some questions.

"This open sea is already bordering the territory of the camels, and your ring base has drifted so far this year, it should be time to trade with them, how many days are you going to moor?" asked Quest curiously.

This question seems to reveal that Ques himself is a "stowaway", but it is not abrupt.

In fact, although the trading bazaar of the empire and the federation does not prohibit other human forces from participating in the trade except for the floating raft ring base, there are few wanderers like Quiss disguised who enter the bazaar alone if they enter the bazaar.

Therefore, they usually look for passing ring bases, and temporarily join them at some cost, so that they can sell their goods at a fair price when trading with foreign races.

Listening to Quiss's questioning, Kos apparently took him for a wandering captain who "begged for a belt". He patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, Captain, the elders of our base have already found out, and there are many Bactrian hunch nobles who have come all the way from the Great Oasis in the bazaar recently. This year, the base harvested a lot of pearls in the mussel harvesting area, and it had to anchor for at least a week. If you would like to join our caravan at the Ring Base temporarily, Kos will be happy to introduce you. ”

As a thank you to the little navigator, on the way to the ring base, the well-versed young blue dragon specially caught a swordfish, cut off the flat and polished shape of its head, and then found a short piece of wood to make a grip, and made a short sword more than three feet long and gave it to Kos. The remaining swordfish meat was sprinkled with spices brought from the Ash World and made into a fish belly to share with the boys.

The western sky turned from red to light gray, and then from gray to black, and after sailing for about a night with the help of the stars in the sky, Quith's teak boat sailed to the vicinity of the floating raft man's ring base.

With Kos as their introducer, they quickly followed a line of fishing boats into the gate of the locks at the Ring Base. The blue dragon, a young man in human form, stood at the bow of the ship, surveying the "city" made of various timber and other building materials.

Rather than a city, the name village is actually more appropriate for this floating raft settlement.

Like most of the living human homes in the island world, this giant floating object that moves with ocean currents is buoyant by a buoyon made of logs and fish skin air sacs.

The perimeter of the base is encased in a wall of various timbers, which, according to Coase, was built by skilled craftsmen with little bit of mortise and tenon timber, without the use of a single nail nail. In addition, after the construction was completed, the fish gelatin made from boiling fish maw was applied to reinforce it, so that the final wall was able to withstand strong winds and sea monsters.

The "ring base" is named after the fact that the entire settlement encloses the settlement in a circular shape, along which the entire residential or other functional buildings of the settlement are built.

Once inside the Ring Base, a special pilot directs Quest to moor the boat to the pier in the heart of the city. Quest found that the other ships were about the same size as his own boat, and that there were no larger ones.

"There are shark nets under the base, and ships with a slightly deeper draft can only be berthed at the special pier outside the city wall," after listening to Queth's question, Kos did not doubt him, and introduced in detail: "Generally, those ships are used to hunt whales, or sail to communicate with other ring bases, and the opportunity to dock on the dock is actually very rare......"

The sound of chanting and prayer sounded around him, and Kos's words immediately stopped abruptly, and he whispered the eulogy on his chest with his hands clenched into fists: "Turning the ancient into a pulp, turning the veins into vines, turning the body into a tree, turning blood into the sea...... Ursula, who is too old, is gone, and she will continue to bring us blessings following the most ritual......"

The young blue dragon looked for prestige, and in what appeared to be a botanical garden, many people gathered, several women were sobbing with their faces hidden—they were having some kind of funeral ceremony—and after reading the eulogy around a shaved corpse, they poured it into a large trough of tumbling yellow-green mud.

Each person involved in the funeral grabbed a small pinch of dirt from a small bag they carried with them, followed the people in line in front of them, and one by one they sprinkled the dirt into the mud that began to bubble.

Due to the dragon's natural sense of smell, the smell coming from there made Quis frown.

The funeral attendants were no better than the young blue dragon, and soon after the ceremony, everyone dispersed. Only two men with gauze tied to their faces were left, holding long bamboo poles and stirring the sink full of mud.

"Granny Ursula is a true legend in the Ring Base," the word "legend" in the discourse made Quest look scowling, but he immediately hid his expression well—Kos continued, "From a very young age, she devoted herself to sailing and exploring the relics of ancient human civilization. In the process of exploring the 'Earth Sea', she brought back many ancient plants from the ruins of the seabed and some unknown small islands, and established the base botanical garden. Take some of the plant seeds home and grow them to make them eat to make the inhabitants of the base healthier and live longer......"

It turned out that Quiz happened to watch the funeral of a "legendary" figure in the island world from a distance. The gray-green mud, while disgusting to look and smell worse, is capable of quickly turning corpses into dirt. This kind of funeral method of "making the best use of people" is also a tradition developed by floating raft people due to the shortage of resources.

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