Chapter 141: Defense

Early the next morning.

Except for Tang Lian and Lei Wuji, who were still resting at vigil, the others had already woken up.

Listening to the sound of the wind outside the window, several people lost their interest in hurrying.

"When will this rain end?" Sikong Qianluo looked out the window and muttered quietly.

Xiao Se shook his head helplessly, he walked to Sikong Qianluo's side and comforted him, "Qianluo girl, since the rain is so heavy, let's just rest for a few days, now that the horses are gone, we still have to plan the route behind, at least the next city must be larger, otherwise there will be no horses to sell, which will have some impact on us."

"Okay." Sikong Qianluo muttered a small mouth.

Suddenly, Yang Ming's voice reached their ears, "The next big city is PY City, if you don't count the halfway break, according to our footsteps, it will take at least 10 hours to arrive."

"Ten hours?" Sikong was shocked, "Isn't that why we've spent the night outside."

She thought for a moment, and then said, "Yang Ming, on the way to PY City, is there a village or something?"

Yang Ming shook his head and said clearly: "No, the map in my hand is already the most detailed, and the slightly larger villages are marked on it, as for those small villages, even if there are, we may not be able to find them."

This map was given to Yang Ming by Ye Xiaoying before leaving, and only part of the information on it was altered, but it did not affect the big ***, and the places where it was altered were also some remote mountainous areas. Yang Ming roughly guessed that those places should be the deployment of the Beili army, and it can be said that this map is definitely the best.

Sikong Qian didn't believe it, took the map and looked at it. It didn't take long for her to point to the map and say, "Yang Ming, isn't there a small city?"

Yang Ming naturally saw it, and he smiled bitterly: "Grandma, can you see what is on the east side of that small city, the rivers are so wide on the map, do you think we can cross it?"

"This~" Sikong Qianqian was speechless for a while, she looked at the map, just as Yang Ming said, the width of that river was comparable to that small city on the map.

Xiao Se hurriedly made a round, "Yang Ming, can you really only spend the night outside?"

"Who said that?" Yang Ming shook his head, "Let's wait for the rain to stop, it's better to rest during the day, and wait for the afternoon to hurry, it's just that the night is cooler, and the physical exertion is not so great, when we finish this journey, counting the time to rest halfway, we just happened to get to PY City after dark."

"Traveling at night?" Xiao Sehu asked, "Are you sure you won't get lost at night?"

"Lost?" Yang Ming smiled slightly, "Polaris, also known as Purple Microstar, you know."

Xiao Se shook his head, "I don't know anything about astronomy."

"The North Star is the brightest star at night, and if you look in his direction, you know where the north is. Oh, by the way, the North Star is also called the North Star."

Xiao Se asked rhetorically, "What if the weather is bad?"

"Twilight has needles on him." Yang Ming said with a smile.

Regarding Yang Ming's answer, Xiao Se was speechless and said, "I can't tell the direction, what does it have to do with the needle?"

"It has a lot to do with it." Yang Ming said: "The needle can make a simple sinan, you only need to rub the needle on your body a few times, put it on a leaf, and place the leaf on a water surface, and the two ends of the needle point to the north and south directions."

"And this way?" Xiao Se expressed disbelief.

Yang Ming naturally knew that they would not believe it, after all, this method was only invented in Huaxia in the Ming Dynasty Navigation Era, and in this martial arts world, who would know.

"Yumo give me a needle, Xiao Se, you go outside to get a bucket of water." Yang Ming pointed to the bucket on the side.

Then, Yang Ming opened the door of the temple, and with a slight hook of his right hand, he hooked it when it landed; At the same time, Yang Ming kept rubbing the needle on his hair.

After Xiao Se finished receiving a bucket of water, Yang Ming put the needles and fallen leaves in the water.

As the leaves stopped spinning, Yang Ming pointed at it and said, "The tip of the needle is pointing north."

Xiao Se hurriedly opened the door and looked at the position of the sun, because it was early morning, and the sun happened to be in the east. There was also some admiration in the words.

Yang Ming was naturally aware of Sinan's shortcomings, and he added, "This method is the best way for us to discern our position at sea." As he spoke, he pulled out a stone from his pocket.

When the stone touches the needle slightly, the needle starts to spin around, "On land, it is very easy to happen, and once it touches the magnet, it does not work."

"So—" Yang Ming continued, "If you really can't tell the direction at night, it's still more practical to cut down a tree, and through the tree's annual rings, it's easy to tell the north and the south."

"That's a good idea." Xiao Se said with admiration.

"Yang Ming, you said that cutting down trees would be over, why did you say other methods?" Sikong Qianluo crossed his hands on his hips.

Yang Ming smiled helplessly: "Grandma, how can there be a tree for you to cut down on the sea, once you get lost on the sea at night, you know where we will drift to, the other side of the sea is the American continent."

Although he didn't know the specific situation of this world, Yang Ming thought that it should be similar to Blue Star.

"The American continent?" Xiao Se and the three of them were taken aback.

Twilight Yumo stepped forward and grabbed Yang Ming's sleeve, "Yang Ming, is what you said true?"

Yang Ming nodded, "I said before in Leijiabao that the land under our feet is round, if you start from the port of Beili, go all the way to the east, walk tens of thousands of miles, you can see that continent, and then follow the coastline all the way to the south, through a strait, all the way to the east, you will also encounter a continent, this continent is called the African continent. If you go north on that continent, you will reach the west of the Western Regions, which is the Eurasian continent where we are leaving north; If you pass through the Cape of Good Hope on the African continent and follow the coastline all the way, you can return to the north. If you continue to go east from the Cape of Good Hope, there is another continent, called the Australian continent. There are many animals on that continent that you have never seen before."

"This—" The crowd was speechless in shock.

After a long time, Xiao Se asked, "Yang Ming, have you been to those continents?"

Yang Ming shook his head, "I haven't been!" Whether it is in Lanxing or in this world, Yang Ming has never left the land under his feet. It's just that Yang Ming has the second half of this sentence, although I haven't been there, but I've seen it. It's just that he didn't say it.

"Then how do you know?" Xiao Se said suspiciously.

Yang Ming thought for a moment and said, "When the turmoil in the rivers and lakes calms down, we can take you to take a look." The world is so big, and there are poems and distant places."

"It's not that easy to get into the sea." Xiao Se sighed. Although this idea had already germinated in his heart, he was still defeated by reality.

"An ocean-going ship is not like a river or creek, it has to be big, it has to be strong, and it has to be high. The waves in the sea can easily move several meters and tens of meters, and once there is a storm, the ship can easily sink. And the time to go to sea must be near winter."

"Why?" Sikong Qianluo asked.

Yang Ming smiled and didn't reply, but pointed to the back of the stone statue and said, "Now that I don't go to the ocean, why do I know so much; Besides, she's awake, and we're going to have to go see it."