The reason why Zhang Lu asked Ijima to come to see him in person was because he felt that Himiko was completely unreliable. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info that the queen still thought that she could compete with Yizhima, but her own power was like a sieve, and she had already been dug up with a thousand holes, and she didn't know it, so she could really help herself find Mount Fuji all the way?

If it is reasonable to say that the Assassin infiltrated under heavy protection and no one noticed--even himself, he had to wait for the Assassin to intrude into the room before he could notice it, how could you expect those Queen's samurai to stop him from outside? But how loud was the noise when he grabbed the Assassin's ankle and threw him three times on the ground, and ordinary people could have flattened it directly? The samurai outside the house did not pay attention to it and did not react at all, which is very problematic -- it is estimated that these samurai have already been bought by Ijima.

The people sent by the queen to protect themselves turned out to be all two or five boys, do you think this queen may still have a chance to turn over?

According to the history books, Himiko ruled the Yamatai Kingdom for several decades, until the time of Emperor Wei Ming, and sent envoys to Luoyang via Liaodong to pay tribute - of course, Zhang Lu did not read the history, this is purely a background introduction to a certain game. Because of this, he once thought that Himiko was promising. Now it seems that this queen may be a puppet for life, and during her reign, Yamatai was still stable, not because she has much ability, but because it is the result of the self-balance of forces in all aspects. Even if it were possible for her to return to power in the future, it would have to be on the premise that Ichima died and there was no successor.

Of course, Zhang Lu can go directly to slaughter Yizhima, or he can assist the queen in eradicating Yizhima's forces. However, for the former, he does not have the intention of killing, and for the latter, it is really annoying to engage in political struggle, and he does not want to waste too much time in the Japanese land. Originally, he came to Yamadai and then entered the capital to find a guide to explore Mt. Fuji and smelt treasures, and the queen could help him, and Ijima could also help him. However, as far as the current situation is concerned, if the party is with the queen, Ijima will definitely get in the way, and if the party is with Ijima, the queen may not really be able to stumble. I, as an outsider, don't even want to get involved in the affairs of my own country, let alone the affairs of foreign countries?

That's why he asked Ichima to come to see him as soon as possible, believing that with the power of the other party, it must be like playing to come to him through the obstacles arranged by the queen. If Ichima refuses to come, and dares to despise him, Earl Zhang, then he doesn't care to change his original intention, and really interferes in the affairs of the Yamatai State;

As a result, Yizhima really came--according to Zhang Lu's estimates, someone had already secretly reported to Yizhima about the fact that he had left the eight-foot Qiongqu jade and still not been hurt by the curse; second, Yizhima also learned about Zhang Lu's law-breaking power and fighting ability from the assassin's mouth; third, Zhang Lu did not directly rush out to take his head, but asked him to come to meet, so that Yizhima had a glimpse of a chance to break the game. The more powerful the ruler, when he finds that his power and force, whether it is overt or dark, are ineffective against a strong enemy, he is simply naked in front of people, this psychological gap is very terrifying, and the only way he can deal with it is to kneel down and ask for mercy.

It is not shameful to obey the strong, and it is not shameful to think that the matter of enforcing Wu Gong as a slave and herding horses and tasting dung has become a beautiful talk for the ages - the key is whether you can find an opportunity to become strong again and turn the tables around. Yizhima probably doesn't know the story of Gou Jian, but the ambition of the owl is always the same, he will think that as long as he can save his life, then sooner or later there will be a turnaround, if he loses his life, even if he preserves his dignity, what is the point?

So he reacted quickly, and just two or three hours later, he ran directly to kowtow to Zhang Lu and ask for mercy. Zhang Lu couldn't help but exclaim: "You're not stupid." "I thought I wouldn't be able to see your ugly face until after dawn, or even on the night of the third day.

Ijima said: "The villain is not stupid, but the villain's eyes are not very good, and he mistakenly thinks that the tiger is a domestic dog and the giant whale is a river fish." Fortunately, the villain was incompetent and didn't really hurt the nobleman, otherwise he would have died a hundred times and would not have atoned for his sins. If the nobleman has any instructions, even if he speaks, even if the villain is bankrupt and a slave, he will definitely help the nobleman do it. ”

The corners of Zhang Lu's mouth twitched slightly, and he said in his heart that this guy is really talented, he was able to guess that I had something to ask him for help, so he summoned him to meet him. didn't mention his own request first, but asked: "Within three days, you can't kill me, and you can't drive me crazy, I'm afraid that my reputation will be greatly frustrated, and the Moon Imperial Prince can't even preserve the status of the second witch, how are you going to solve this problem?"

Yizhima smiled and said, "That's a villain's business, don't worry about the nobles." Since the villain is at fault, it is natural to be punished in this way. However, let the villain say something arrogant, as long as the nobles no longer help the queen, the villain can still withstand this little setback, and the sky of Yamatai will not be overturned. ”

Zhang Lu nodded: "I can not help the queen, but I will not help you either." I'm just asking for a sea boat, a guide, to explore the eastern land, and if you can help me fulfill my wish, I can leave immediately. ”

Yizhima frowned: "The noble man wants to go back to the Western Continent......, right? There's no land......"

Zhang Lu said that maybe I didn't express it very clearly, there is naturally no continent in the east, but there are islands, the area is several times larger than Yamatai and other countries, don't tell me that you don't know - although Yamadai is located at the western end of Kitakyushu, but the power has radiated and has reached the east of the island, and you even know about Sanhan and China, so it is impossible not to know about Honshu Island.

Yizhima said that there was a pair of Su countries in the eastern border of the Yamatai forces, just by the sea, and when they went down to the sea, they were all seas, and they could not see a single piece of land for two days at most. ”

Zhang Lu frowned slightly, and said in his heart that it was not right, I remember that there is a shallow strait between Kyushu and Honshu, and from this end of the strait during the day, you can clearly see the land on the opposite side...... Even if that's not where the country of the Soviet Union is, if you sail east from any point on the east coast of Kitakyushu, even if you can't reach Honshu, you should be able to get to Shikoku, how can you sail for two or three days without seeing any sign of land?

He stared into Ijima's eyes, sensing that the other party wasn't lying. After thinking about it for a while, he finally decided: "Okay, you only need to prepare a sea ship for me in the opposite Su and send ten sailors with experience in long-distance sailing, and I can leave Yamatai on the same day." ”

Ichima leaned down deeply: "I am willing to serve your nobles." ”

Zhang Lu did not greet the queen, and took the initiative to leave Yamatai. Now that he is profound, he will have the hope of ascending to the sky, and then he will look at all living beings, just like ants. Besides, he didn't make any very clear promises to the queen in the first place, and besides, she was still the queen of the Japanese - what will happen to the Japanese, what is my business?

Armed with the edict of Ichima—the unfinished text of the Yamatai, with only a few simple inscriptions on the warrant—he soon arrived at the country of Su. When the king of Su saw the envoy from above, he greeted him respectfully, and immediately allocated a sea ship and ten sailors, which were only so large in those days.

After Zhang Lu got on the ship, he ordered a voyage to the east, and the sailors were very confused, and asked one after another, saying that we thought that the nobles would go south or north along the coastline, and if they went north, and when they reached the country of Molu, they could go to the mainland through a country and the country of Tsushima, that is, Korea, and then go directly to the east, and there would be nothing but the vast ocean!

Zhang Lu asked them to take the chart and look at it, but the sailors looked at each other, not understanding what it was. Simply, Zhang Lu used a tree branch as a pen on the beach, and asked an experienced veteran sailor to roughly outline the shape of the nearby coastline. The old sailor sketched for a long time, and Zhang Lu looked left and right, but he couldn't grasp the essentials -- this is not at all like Kyushu Island! A rough judgment shows that the coastline first zigzags to the northwest and then to the southwest, and the boundary of the big bend is the Bumi country, and theoretically speaking, the opposite shore of the Bumi country should be the westernmost point of the island of Honshu.

-- Zhang Lu had played many Japanese video games in his previous life, and he still had an impression of the general shape of the Japanese archipelago.

However, the sailors swore that they would never go east or north, and there would be no land, only an ocean. Zhang Lu was puzzled, but he still asked them to sail to Bumi first, and then drive in the northeast direction for two days to try.

Sure enough, after a two-day voyage, looking at the water and the sky, Zhang Lu's eyes widened, and he completely released his senses, but he couldn't find land at all—even if it was just a small island. But he refused to give up, and ordered the sailors to continue sailing, and the sailors knelt on the ground and pleaded, saying that there was nothing but the ocean, and that there were mountain whales in the deep sea, and there were legendary sea monsters, and beyond that it was said to be the end of the earth...... Even if you can't touch those, the ocean is unpredictable, and there is only a dead end when you go, noble people, we can't continue to drive forward!

Zhang Luxin said, What's so terrible about that? Lao Tzu can sail 1,200 miles east of the sea from Xuzhou on a scrap boat, and then rely on a canoe to go straight to Kyushu Island...... Well, it's really weird, and I don't want to mention it—let alone a boat, and even if the boat is overturned by the waves, and I soak in the water without food or drink for five or six days, it won't bother me. Of course, if you change these sailors, it will be a dead end......

Orders were given many times, but those Japanese sailors just kowtowed to forgiveness, to say that they were really honest, they didn't even have the heart to mutiny. Zhang Lu had no choice but to temporarily turn around, return to the country, change to a small boat, and go to sea alone. In fact, he was able to kick all those disobedient sailors into the sea, if it was really an ant, he would have trampled to death if he said that he would be trampled to death, but after all, it was human life, he had not really been able to transcend the red mortal world, and he could not go down to such a poisonous hand.

Zhang Lu's identification of the position and the cognition of the tide were of course far from those sailors, but he had a keen sense, so he quickly pulled the boat and sailed to the place where he turned back that day. He stood up, put his hand on the canopy and looked into the distance, and there was still no sign of land—what a strange thing! He decided to sail like this for another two or three days, and if he found nothing, he would have to return in disgrace.

It took about five days to sail back and forth, and even if the ship capsized, he Count Zhang would be able to return to Kyushu by swimming, but he would not be buried in the ocean.

After two more days of walking like this, still finding nothing, Zhang Lu was depressed, and was about to turn around, when suddenly his eyebrows furrowed, stretched out his tongue, and tasted the air. He knew that on the eve of a storm, the air at sea would become humid and viscous, but the taste was different, not damp, but viscous to the extreme.

Even his senses seemed to be hindered by the viscous air, and the distance he could radiate was more than doubled. In confusion, I felt the ship under me slowly stop. Zhang Lu held the oar in both hands and paddled hard in the seawater, the resistance in his hand more than doubled, and the boat did not move forward at all. What's going on here?

Zhang Lu jumped out of the boat, turned over and fell into the water, and swam forward with all his might. But all his efforts were in vain, as if the sea was just illusory, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't swim an inch. Re-boarded, this time he leaped off the bow of the boat, only to bounce back into the ship as if it had hit an invisible and soft wall.

Damn, is this the so-called end of the earth? There really is an end to this world?!

Zhang Lu couldn't help but be at a loss, and all kinds of strange ideas came to his mind. I think that when I was born in An and went to Tianzhu Mountain to cultivate, it was 12 years in a blink of an eye, and every detail was vivid, and I thought that I had already jumped out of the mirage illusion, but was I still tossing and turning in falsehood? Twelve years of experience, including the exploration of Nuwa's ruins, including Zhang Jian's re-entry into Cao Ying...... There's nothing illogical about it, it's not like a dream. All the untruths happened after he went to sea, and in just a few days, he was blown by a storm to the so-called abyss 1,200 miles east of the sea......

I have been doing it for 12 years...... No, it's been thirteen years, don't you even know that you've had a desolate dream for thirteen years? Or does the illusion actually start from the ruins of Nuwa? Or go further, in fact, traveling through the clouds is also a big dream?

If you are in the illusion, then where is your true heart? Why don't you come out and let yourself go deep into your heart and study this experience together? He couldn't help but exclaim: "Lingtai-kun, where are you?!"

A familiar voice suddenly came from behind him: "Donor, who are you looking for?"