Chapter Twenty-Seven: Pan-Continental Visitors
Harry swung the rudder at will, a sea route he had walked for decades, and he wouldn't deviate from course with his eyes closed. As an experienced captain, he had always aspired to sail the pancontinental route, but his wrecked ship could not withstand the gravity of the ocean-going region of the Tranquil Sea
"I'm old, and I can't use even the strongest ship to cross the Sea of Tranquility," Harry lamented with regret and regret, his now aging body could no longer bear the weight of the body, and passing through some areas of gravity would cause him to have a brain hemorrhage.
He looked somewhat distractedly at the calm sea ahead, where Harry had been begging for life between the northeast coast of the Inheji Kingdom and the other ports of the Western Continent for decades. There is basically no chance to go too far into the Sea of Tranquility, and as his health gets worse and worse, even some of the routes on the edge of the Sea of Tranquility are already unbearable. This is the last time he will return to Hong Kong, and then he will say goodbye to this ocean that carries the memories of his life, although there is a lot of reluctance and regret. But when I think of the leisurely life after retirement, as well as the well-behaved and lovely grandchildren at home, I am a little happy and looking forward to it.
This time he went to the southern part of the Western Continent to the disputed land, but his employer arranged a lot of strong bodyguards on the ship, so that Harry successfully completed the unloading of the goods, and then he couldn't wait to go out of the port to go home, the land of conflict was full of various inhuman races, and he didn't want to stay in that place for a moment.
Nostalgia rubbed against the old mottled wooden railing, the old fellow Harry was not going to sell, and it wasn't worth a few bucks anyway, so he let him run aground on the beach in front of his house. It can be used as your own tomb later.
Therefore Harry was not going to go to the great port of Inhegi, he wanted to dismiss the crew when he returned to the small fishing port in his hometown, and let the dear old fellow live with him for the rest of his life.
"The sea of tranquility at sunset is so beautiful that I've never seen it in decades, but unfortunately I never see it again. Harry sighed and said to himself, "It's a very easy journey to get back home. The ship had now passed the western edge of the Marshall Islands, an archipelago of countless islands and reefs that stretched into the open waters of the Tranquil Sea, a dense reef that avoided all shipping routes, and no one except a few smuggling boats would go there.
Harry pulled out his binoculars and looked east, the Marshall Islands were occasionally infested with pirates, and he had to be careful if he died on the way home. After looking at it for a while, his mouth unconsciously slowly opened wide, and his glasses slipped down from his hands. Harry woke up to the crisp sound of the hollow cylinder falling on the deck, and he hurriedly picked up his glasses and wiped them, praying inwardly to the god of the sea in Anfaria.
"O Supreme King of the Vortex, this is an illusion! It must be!" He was so apprehensive that he put the telescope back in front of him, and the distant image shattered his luck completely.
A piece of ice floe was drifting towards him! It had never snowed in this area, so how could there be ice on the sea? It was too far away to see clearly, but he was sure that there was a figure standing on the ice floe.
"Pull all the sails to the highest for me!!" Harry howled hysterically at the sailors, the old fellow was already struggling to support full speed, but now the situation was urgent!
He hurriedly put the first mate at the helm, and then rushed down the gangway, giving various orders to prepare for battle as he ran, but these sailors were obviously not battle material, and neither was he himself
As the sails were full, the old ship's mast began to creak heartily, but Harry couldn't care about that. He felt a little desperate as he watched the sailors clumsily draw their rusty scimitars, the figure clearly possessed extraordinary strength, and now he could only hope that he was not one of the bloodthirsty thugs of the Land of Discord
Picking up the binoculars again and looking to the east, Harry sighed lightly, the ice floe was still there, but the figure on it was gone, and just as he was secretly guessing, a young man in a white robe suddenly landed in front of him, startling him.
When he saw the young man's appearance clearly, Harry breathed a sigh of relief, he could feel a gentle temperament from the other person, not like a bloodthirsty person. And he had never seen this type of clothing in the Western Continent, simple and with an ancient and noble charm. Before he could speak, the young man took out a few gold coins and handed them to him.
"Don't be nervous, Captain. I just want to follow your ship to the Western Continent and prepare me something to eat if I can. Heras smiled, "By the way, don't ask for fish!"
Harry was stunned and took the coin, the mysterious man did not seem to have any ill intentions, and it seemed that the King of the Vortex had listened to his pleas too much. "I must be more religious!" he decided.
"Prepare the most sumptuous dinner, quick! no fish!" he shouted to the stunned sailors. Although the other party had no malicious intent, he did not dare to slack off. Besides, people pay for it.
Although this so-called sumptuous dinner is nothing more than some marinated bacon meat, it is nothing less than a delicacy for a fishy Heras. For more than a year, he had lived on unpalatable sea fish and dry bread stored in the ruby space ring, and he had almost forgotten what meat tasted like.
"Listening to your accent of lingua franca, you should be a pan-continental person. I've seen several pan-continental visitors before. Seeing that Heras still liked the dinner he had arranged, Harry asked with a grin. But as soon as the words came out, he wanted to slap himself in the mouth, where is the person who cares about him, and this unknown person should hurry up and send him to the shore to be safer.
But Heras apparently didn't mind, and he wasn't a wanted man. "You guessed right, Captain. He replied casually, "There was an accident on the journey, and I floated all the way here." ”
Harry swallowed hard, he had also come into contact with some of the official professionals, such as the powerful bodyguards of his employer, who could not even go into the sea of tranquility alone. It is self-evident that the man in front of me can float all the way along the Marshall Islands, and there is no trace of dust on his body.
Just as he was a little distracted, the young man then asked, "Is there a guide or some private guild in your hometown?"
Harry froze, "Uh, do you mean adventurers or those thieves' guilds or something?"
"That's right, you must be very familiar with the customs of the Western Continent. Heras said.
"My hometown is a very quiet fishing port town, and there is nothing special around it, so it is not attractive to those people. Harry muttered, "You can go to the slums of Rika City, where the new city lord is said to be a gangster, and the city lacks nothing but its own people." ”
"Rika, can the kingdom of Inheji tolerate gangs taking control of the city?" Heras flipped through the geographical map in his mind, but could not find where Rika was. The world was far from the information age, and the books in the family collection did not cover all aspects, and Heras could not guarantee how many of them were outdated.
"This is very common in the Western Continent, sir, except for the Elven Empire, every country in the Western Continent is composed of creatures of various races, and it is very difficult to manage a city where various races live together, in the Inheji Kingdom, only those cities that are completely inhabited by humans are managed by the state, and cities inhabited by other races are simply governed by the local forces, as long as they pay taxes on time. Harry elaborated: "In fact, the fiefs given to the nobles by the royal family are those that are only inhabited by humans. ”
"There are all kinds of races in that city, and there are many people who are familiar with the geography of the mainland, but these people are quite dangerous, especially in that kind of autonomous zone. Harry took a sip of his rum and added, "I've spent my whole life at sea, and I've never been there." Apparently he was worried that Heras had him as a guide
"Where's Rika, are there elves over there?" asked Heras bluntly.
"Rika is located on the southwestern border of the Kingdom of Inheji, a new city founded only a hundred years ago in the abandoned mining area of Jinshan, which is closely connected to the disputed land to the south. As for the elves, there are indeed a lot of elves, and many of the elves expelled by the Elven Empire are mixed in the underground world in other parts of the Western Continent. They are well-versed in the art of assassination, and they are excellent in appearance, and they can easily succeed if they sell their bodies slightly. Harry glanced at Heras a few times, he had barely seen a human in appearance that would make even elves ashamed of themselves, and there was one in front of him
Hearing this, Heras's first reaction was to think of Sally, it seems that in the face of survival, even the most conservative and old-fashioned creatures like elves will lose all their knots. The family library has information on the gold mountain vein, which is the largest gold mine in the Inheji Kingdom, and the entire mountain range can be mined for gold, so it is called the gold mountain, but I didn't expect it to have been hollowed out for more than 100 years.
"It's time to update a lot of the family library, or the outdated maps will kill you," Heras sneered.
Knowing the location of the Golden Mountain, he could probably guess what the origin of the disputed place in the southwest of Rika was, it was originally a mixed place of orc tribes, and then it was conquered by a certain kingdom of humans and all those orcs were used as slaves, this kingdom itself is less than 20% human, but it has become the largest ethnic group in the kingdom, you can imagine how complex the racial composition of the country is. As a result of the conquest, the country's various ethnic groups rebelled and years of turmoil turned the region into a place where there was no social order.
It was countless times more chaotic than the United States of Commerce, and the chaos in the United States was basically outside the city, and the security in the city-states controlled by the various chambers of commerce was actually quite good. The United States just doesn't have uniform laws, and the creatures of the Lands don't know how to spell the word law
"Further south of the Troubled Lands is the Eternal Night Forest, and if you can hire an Elven Guide in Rika, you can enter the territory of the Elven Empire by crossing the Conflicted Lands. Heras quickly made a decision, except for some teleportation networks within the Elven Empire, there were very few fixed teleportation arrays in other parts of the Western Continent, and it was still in a backward era where transportation was basically relied upon.
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