"Hell, look what you've all done to the 'Winds of Bactria,' this ship is as precious as my right eye, and you're literally pestle my eyes, unfilial sons of the Stewarts. The guy in the funny black and white plaid robe saw the miserable condition of the three-masted galleon through the twilight, and his face immediately showed a look of distress, "What's wrong with the mainmast, from this abnormal arc, the internal fiber bundles are starting to break, in the name of Luta, Danny Stewart, have you rushed into the dry tornado in my beloved sailboat?"

The dock sailor, named Lao Bei, was a stout old man with a big belly, wearing some kind of special clothing that should have served as a signal or sign, with two white beards and a large pipe in his mouth, and as soon as the two ships approached, Jonah smelled a strong smell of inferior tobacco from a long distance.

Danny shook the handle to lower the gangplank, and with a bang, the anchor at the top of the wooden gangplank firmly fastened to the docking platform of the second pier of the "Racing Star", "Old Bei, although I don't want to admit it, I must remind you that the current captain and master of the family is my dear sister Hannah, and as for me, I am just an obedient sailor." He spread his hand helplessly, "Besides, your right eye is a glass ball, can you feel a little uncomfortable with poking your finger in your eyeball?" ”

Lao Bei grabbed the black and white plaid windbreaker, revealing the bald head with green muscles: "Don't talk back to me, little Danny, when your father was rampaging through the endless sea of sand, you were still a bare little kid running around on the deck, peeking at the cook changing clothes all day long, and getting hot rheumatism from peeing in the desert." ”

"Uncle Bei, please take good care of the 'Winds of Bactria', we have indeed just escaped from the dry tornado. Hannah relieved herself, locked the rudder, helped her brother lower the sails one by one, and then walked lightly across the gangplank to Lao Bei's side,

"Really. Old Bei opened his mouth wide, revealing a mouthful of sparse yellow teeth, and the pipe fell down, Hannah quickly stretched out her arm to catch the big pipe and stuffed it back into his mouth, "You really broke through the desert tornado, just like your father back then, why, how many air masses did you jump in total, how fast did you limit your speed." He muttered a series of indistinct questions,

Jonah helped Danny pack up the cable and asked secretly, "Who is that old Bei?" ”

Danny sighed: "He is Betit Bernoni, everyone calls him Lao Bei, he is one of the two captains of the Racing Star, the owner of the port side, the owner of the best sailing ship repair factory in the entire endless sand sea, Lao Bei is my father's old acquaintance, once upon a time in this desert, people only knew to use the strong carrying capacity of the sandeaters to build buildings on their backs, with the survival instinct of these diligent insects to move forward slowly, since Dad took us across the river, Introducing the sailing technology of the Western Continent into the endless sand sea, the sailboat appeared on the back of the big worm, driving the racing civilization history of the sandeater and the entire desert to move forward rapidly, Lao Bei is one of the thirty-three Zavi people who crossed the river at the same time as us, and the 'Wind of Bactria' was built with the help of Lao Bei, in fact, the 'Goddess Light' of the Schmidt family was also completed by him. ”

"Thirty-three Zawi people. Jonah heard the word and could not help repeating it,

"That's another story, so long that you won't be interested in listening to it. Danny tethered the last cable, "You know a lot of these people, including our father, my father's seven sailor companions, the last head of the Schmidt family, Langdon Schmidt, one of the captains of the Racing Star, Aunt Byanka, the traveling merchant, and so on. ”

"Wait a minute, wait a minute. Jonah held out his hand, "Why is Lao Bei one of the two captains, isn't there only one captain in a ship?" ”

Danny smiled and pointed to the pedal to get off the boat, "If it is an ordinary ship, naturally there can only be one captain, but the Racing Star is not a sailboat that can be seen everywhere in the endless sand sea, it is the best hotel and the best sailing ship repair factory in the desert, before the appearance of the ghost Bahamas, it was also the largest mobile building in size, how can a hotel and a shipyard be combined into one, the answer is no, the east and west sides of the racing star belong to different functional areas, and the port side is a restaurant, a hotel, Ballroom and casino, port side is Lao Bei's shipyard and tavern, two captains, two docks, two businesses, get it. ”

Jonah listened as he walked to the docks, and as soon as he explained one question, another followed, "...... Ghost Bahamas...... And what. ”

Danny's footsteps hesitated for a moment, turned his head, and an expression appeared on his face that wanted to speak and stopped: "I'll tell you when I have time, there are too many questions you have to ask, and you can't finish it in a few words.

"Oh, okay. Jonah shut up knowingly, just adjusting to the life of Cherry Watara, he was thrown by fate to another strange place, and it was not a good feeling to know everything here from the beginning,,, especially since his current status was still an important cargo worth two shiny gold coins,

The two men walked down the three-masted sailboat side by side, and when the astrologer apprentice walked over the trembling pedal, he accidentally looked down, and under the suspended pedal was the rolling yellow sand, once he stumbled and fell, he would immediately be drowned by the sand flow spewed out by the sandworm, and he didn't even have time to make a call.

"Don't be afraid, cargo friend. Danny's self-coined title seems to be a good one, "No one in history has ever died by falling off a dock pedal and being caught in a sandflow." ”

"That's good. Jonah put his hand on his chest and let out a sigh of relief,

"Before they fall into the desert, they will be swept away by foraging four-winged moas, so they will not let go of such delicious food. The man of the Stewart family patted each other's shoulders calmly and walked quickly to the other side.

"What...... Moa. Jonah didn't hear the key words clearly, and couldn't help asking, but after a few seconds, the answer came automatically, and the low sound of wings fluttering overhead, the shadows obscured the sunset, and the astrologer's apprentice looked up, his eyes widened,

The giant sandeater carrying the three-story deck building of the "Racing Star" towered in front of him like a cliff with a slight arc, and from the angle he was in, he couldn't see the building on the back of the big insect at all, and his vision was filled with grayish and yellow rough carapaces, and he couldn't see it really when he was far away, Jonah just vaguely saw many small black dots flying around the sandeaters, like mosquitoes and the like; now when he got closer, he found that it was not a small black spot at all, and what passed through the top of his head just now was a large number of "mosquitoes" One of them, a large bird with a wingspan of nearly five yards, with four flesh-covered wings, an ancient creature with exceptional flight abilities and a well-known bad personality: the four-winged moa,

Geographical Estimation of the Western Continent It is described as follows: Very rare, extremely violent, I advise solo travelers walking in the wild areas of the Western Continent to stay away from the area where the four-winged moa may live, if you must approach, you must not attract attention, if you have attracted attention, you must not provoke, if you have been provoked, you must run away, if you can't escape, please do not try to resist, immediately lie down on the spot, hold your breath, disguise the corpse, before the four-winged moa sees through the futile trick of pretending to be dead, you have at least ten minutes, enough time to write a suicide note that has been passed down through the ages, and if you resist, the only result is to be torn to pieces by the overwhelming flock of birds and disappear into the world, make your funeral a light comedy in which the protagonist is played by a hat and a pair of boots,

Jonah didn't know who wrote this textbook published by the Bachelor of Mathematics and Science Association, but the occasional ridiculous attitude in it made it difficult for the old-fashioned astrologer apprentice to appreciate it, and he didn't expect that the social birds of the Western Continent were actually distributed in the Southern Continent, Jonah was surprised for a few seconds, and slapped his forehead in annoyance, the birds have wings, and they will not be threatened by the Colombo barbarians on the other side of the holy river, why can't they move freely across the continent,

Another four-winged bird swooped down with a sharp chirp, Jonah involuntarily quickened his pace, covered his head with his hands, and jumped onto the dock in one step, Danny and Lao Bei looked at his embarrassed appearance, and let out a narrow laugh in unison, and the astrologer's apprentice watched the four-winged moa fly away, and said aggrievedly: "They are carnivorous birds, beware of what's wrong." ”

Hannah glared at her unserious brother and the elders who were also unserious, and comforted Jonah: "Ignore them, but don't worry, the four-winged moa will not attack humans, the giant sandeater has countless parasites for them to peck, and tens of thousands of years before humans requisitioned the big worm as a means of movement, the four-winged bird began to live in harmony with the big worms." ”

"Then why don't you have these birds on your body? Despite this assurance, Jonah looked at the birds of prey flying in the sky with dissatisfaction,

"Chirp is a standard sandeater, and the parasites on the standard large worm are not enough for the four-winged bird to feed, and only this giant sandeater under the constellation of Racing can breed fat giant fleas and gadfly. Hannah patiently explained, and Jonah felt that this was the kindest attitude of Stuart's current head of house to him in a few days, and he couldn't help but be a little flattered.

"Alright, let's go up. Danny put away his smile and asked his sister with some inquisitive instructions, Hannah nodded, and walked up the gangway first, "Old Bei, do you want to meet anyone else at the docks, let's go up and have a drink together." He patted the captain's fat belly affectionately,

"Who am I waiting for, it's not your turn to point fingers...... Lao Bei glared at him angrily, two puffs of spicy white smoke came out of his nostrils, "You guys go up, meet at the bar later, and then introduce this guest to me." ”

Jonah nodded to the port captain and followed the Stewart siblings up the gangway, the carapace on the outside of the giant sandeater was hollowed out to create a long, winding gangway, the staircase was hidden in the carapace, and at the end of each staircase there was a small platform with a picture window, Jonah couldn't help but knock on the yellow carapace beside him, making a sound like steel,