Chapter Ninety-Six: The Discovery of the So-Called New World
Standing on this land, Hadu felt an unprecedented so-called resurrection. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
He had escaped from Italy 74 days earlier and boarded the cargo ship, which was headed for nowhere else. At that time, his physical strength was basically exhausted, and all he carried with him was the little food that his old friend had left for him.
That's right, he helped his old friend in Lorraine, and then he was soon discovered by the Papal Guard, and it was immediately a chase and escape drama. After 18 years of hiding, he had not been able to completely shake off the other party, and as a result, he was wounded in the back and left leg in this pursuit, and in addition to quickly stopping the bleeding, all he could did was to hide in Naples, where the terrain was complicated, and then run to the nearby merchant ships as best he could, waiting for them to leave the port - even the Pope did not have the authority to search the ships of the nobles one by one, and did not have enough time to find Hado before all the ships left the port, and the Papal Guard had to return in disgrace.
Seventy-one days ago, Hado gradually woke up from a deep coma, but fortunately no crew member noticed that there was one more person in the bottom warehouse. By "plundering the ship's side of its inability to look out of Hado's properties", Hado determined that the ship's current location should be near Andalusia in the Kingdom of Spain. Then he heard the crunch of the spinnaker being raised—merchant ships only needed to use the spinnaker to assist the rudders at low speeds when approaching the port.
In this small port - "small" because Hado had never heard of a port here: this is the southernmost town of Paros in Andalusia, and the nearby reefs are so thick with muddy currents that even Hado, who doesn't drive boats, knows that this is definitely not a good place to build a port - unless... Unless the person who sets out from here is to hide from outsiders.
Turning the wooden buoys in the open sea area, Hadu was greeted by three large merchant ships: the one in the middle was the three-masted flagship with a displacement of about 1,500 people, and on the flanks were two auxiliary ships with a displacement of about 750 people.
Hado's instincts told him that these three ships were ships directly under the command of the Royal Spanish Navy, and that only they had enough manpower to build a port in this unsuitable place. Make a port.
Given the current relationship between Queen Isabella II of Spain and the Holy See, the latter could not have searched for it in any way - 14 years ago, Isabella II and the then Pope, Sixtus IV, agreed to set up the Spanish Inquisition to combat anti-religious forces, which greatly embarrassed the Holy See.
In this way, these three ships were Hado's best way to escape - what made him "slightly" a little troublesome was that he didn't know if there were any people from the Holy See on it. However, it is better to have a target than nothing, and when the cargo ship was about to dock, he heard someone on the shore asking loudly about the cargo ship, and the voice of the people on the ship was not very clear, but Hadu still heard "signore", "vetro", "croce", the latter two mean glass and cross, which not only made Hadu doubt the purpose of the three ships, whether they were going to sea for an exchange of goods.
Since the purity of the sand was directly related to the light transmission of the glass, and the purest glass of this period was only made in Europe, the Europeans controlled the glass trade in all the colonies at this time. And Hado was even more sure that it must be the Spanish royal family who supported these three ships, because only they could buy high-grade glass from the arrogant French.
After the ship came to a standstill, Hado quietly dived into the water and soon swam to the flagship, where he discovered that the ships had not been built for a long time: there were not many rattans or shells on the bottom of the ship, and it was clear that they had not sailed.
And after eavesdropping on the conversation between the captain of the flagship and the "Fleet Commander", Hado determined the identity of the three ships - the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Niña, and this "Fleet Commander" was Christopher Columbus, the "independent adventurer" - Hado had heard of him, and was said to be "the ally of the allies of the Devil's Church".
So Hadu got on board, and then the ship set off without a hitch, and they were pushed by the northeast trade winds, and they followed the instructions of the compass magnetic needle, and everything seemed to be fine.
But on the 42nd day, Hado heard an argument on the ship, and judging by his ability to control the magnetic force, they were entering a magnetic anomaly that would most likely cause them to drift. And in order to ensure that he can survive, Hado needs to ensure that these ships can survive the difficulties. Even though he doesn't have much physical strength now, he still has the ability to "tamper" with the magnetic direction in the vicinity. At this time he heard Comrade Columbus explain to the crew "very smartly" that their slight deviation was due to the "North Star offset". In this regard, Hadu said: This comrade is not only smart, but also very good at lying.
Then they found the direction they needed to sail after dawn, but the good news didn't last long. By the 52nd day, complaints had begun to appear among the crew, which Columbus ignored. It wasn't until the 65th day that the explorer held a meeting of the captain's and deputy officers, at which he reaffirmed his determination to move forward.
But Hado knew that this so-called determination would not last long, but fortunately, they arrived on the small island they called "San Salvador" six days later.
Hado, on the other hand, quickly overboarded and swam to the land he saw while the entourage of the three ships "witnessed" Comrade Columbus's so-called "ritual of possession", that is, the declaration of "possession of the island in the name of the king and queen."
Soon after Hadu came ashore, he saw the secret number of the Zikon family on the nearby high mountain - of course, to ordinary people it was nothing more than a Neolithic tribal totem, but Hadu knew that the runes on these totem poles were written for Hadu.
This was also a layout that Hadu had done back then: when he sent the secret letter to Zikon's remnants, he also taught them how to use the new runes to keep the code. Although Hadu was just making a move at the time, and he didn't know if he might use it in the future, it was clear that the original layout was perfectly used at this time - he could use the teleportation smoke from the Zikon family's stronghold here to quickly return to the cathedral of the Ethiopian diocese.
However, Hado really lacked the stamina to run up the mountain now, so he found a nearby palm tree, kneaded the leaves into a long rope, and then melted a handful of sand into a ball, placed it on a long rope between the two palm trees he had bent, and launched it towards the stronghold.