Melodious dance music sounded, it seemed that the player on the port side had changed a new three-stringed dudra violin, while eating dinner, Jonah was studying Hannah's summer white cherry blossoms of unknown origin, and the contemporary head of the Stuart family put the magic pistol flat on the table, holding the handle of the gun firmly in his right hand and refusing to let go, and eating with a fork in his left hand very awkwardly,

"That's not right, between the seventh and eighth red crystals should be a simple energy array, why do you make two more bends here, this will cause the overall load of the circle to increase. The astrologer apprentice stroked back and forth on the gun, and Danny stared at him helplessly, "Cargo friend, don't you take a sip of sparkling wine, the wine here is brewed by Lao Bei himself, and it is said to be the second best in the entire endless sand sea." ”

Jonah didn't look up, picked up the wooden wine glass, took two sips, the cold wine poured into his throat, the refreshing foam overflowed his mouth, the tip of the tongue left a fragrant malt taste, a slight bitter taste remained at the base of the tongue, becoming a footnote with a long aftertaste, he looked up and looked at Danny in surprise: "It's really refreshing, where is the first best drink." ”

"Next door. Danny stretched out his arms and watched the singing and dancing starboard on the top deck of the starboard side was a beautiful courtyard, with lush plants showing a bright color rarely seen in the desert, a fountain flowing in the middle of the deck, every couple at the ball was graceful and light-footed, a dozen wind lanterns adorned under the colorful canopy illuminated the courtyard brilliantly, and there were actually nightingales singing on the ceiling.

Jonah looked at the starboard side in the distance, then looked back at the dark port deck, the tattered tavern, the ghostly flickering yellow lights, the dusty half-drunks, and countless pairs of dirty, smelly leather boots, and nodded, "I believe." ”

Seeing that he had drawn the attention of his interlocutor back from the pistol, Danny seemed very happy, he put down his wine glass, lowered his body, and said mysteriously: "Now, do you want to listen to the explanation of the coolest noun in the endless sea of sand, cruising 8 characters, after the worm node, the big sand waterfall." ”

"What. The astrologer's apprentice was confused, and the question he had asked himself before had been completely forgotten at the moment,

Danny pouted, "You're such a forgetful cargo friend, so let's pass on the most important knowledge of the endless sea of sand to you now, and you, tell us your own stories, like the blonde unicorn knight, and the mysterious Oriental woman,,, so that we all won't be too bored at night, deal." ”

Jonah thought for a moment, "Deal." ”

The two clinked glasses and drank a large sip of sparkling wine each,

"Parade figure eight. Danny Stewart held up a finger, "No matter how vast the endless sea of sand is, the life trajectory of each female sandeater is predestined from the day she is born, they will be centered on the postworm, cruising in the desert along a figure-8 route, if you advance at the speed of the body, complete a cruising figure-8, After two post-worm nodes, it is exactly a year, and the speed of the big worms that have been transformed into sailboats will increase significantly, but they must also abide by their natural characteristics, like the chirp of the Stewart family, which just completed a parade 8 this spring, and in the next few days we will pass through the post-worm node again to complete the second parade 8. ”

"Understood. Jonah nodded, "The middle intersection of the number 8 is the postworm node. ”

Danny looked at him appreciatively, "Correct, the postworm is constantly moving slowly, so the position of the postworm node is not fixed, but no matter how far away, the female sandeater can sense where the postworm is, and what the captain has to do is to use the big arc of the figure 8 to reach his goal." ”

"What if you don't go through the postworm node, and why is it a figure 8, can't they go straight to the postworm,...... By the way, what exactly is a postworm. Jonah took a sip of his wine and threw out a string of questions,

Danny drank the wine in the glass, and signaled the bartender to come again, "One by one, the postworm is the queen of all sandeaters in the endless sand sea, their patriarch, faith and totem pole, all the big insects have the blood of the postworm, and worshipping the postworm is the driving force deeply engraved in the soul of the sandeater, according to the local natives, passing through the hole under the postworm will allow the big worm to obtain some kind of mysterious blessing energy, if this energy is lacking, the sandeater will slowly lose power, Exhausted to death, twice a year worship is the minimum, as for the figure 8, it is because the sandeaters have a deep reverence for the queen, they dare not aim their heads directly at the position of the rear worms, and can only go around in a large circle to approach the beginning and end of their lives. ”

Jonah dipped a little wine and drew a few shapes on the table, "Oh, the heads of the bugs are constantly moving in the tangential direction of the postworm during the figure-8 parade, and it is not until they reach the postworm node that they really point to the postworm itself, which is really natural awe." ”

"Get rid of the wine in your glass, second round. Danny shouted dissatisfiedly to hide the embarrassment of not being able to read geometric figures, and the astrologer's apprentice raised his glass and poured sparkling wine into his throat, he had never drunk so much before, he didn't expect to feel very drunk, and his body was filled with a light sense of relaxation, and even his fatigue was much lessened.

"So, tell me about mating season. Jonah dropped the empty glass, nodded to the bartender, and took the second glass, Hannah took a sip of the wine next to her, watching the two of them chat with great interest, and the shadow of the white cherry blossom was still on the table.

Danny unbuttoned the golden buttons on the neckline of his robe, revealing a strong chest with chocolate-colored skin:" This is a very spectacular festival, every spring, at the end of April or early May, is the day when the sandeater parade 8 characters return to the postworm node for the first time, and it is also the day when the eggs hatch, that is, the mating season, in short, the pregnant big worm will hang the eggs on the carapace to continue the cruise, the eggs need a year to hatch, when the postworm node hatches, the male sandeater flies to the sky, the female sandeater falls to the ground, the male worm will find a distant blood relationship, Mature female large worms mate, and then die immediately, female large worms leave the node after pregnancy, spend a year to complete a complete figure 8 parade and then return to the queen worm to lay eggs, this is a complete cycle, understand? ”

"Well, it's clear, I just think that the fate of the male insect is so miserable, and his life is only a few days, and he has no status at all. "Jonah was a little down,

"What do you mean by glancing at me when you say that? Danny sensitively slapped the table and said angrily, "You know, the position of the head of the Stewart family was originally mine, and if it weren't for the fact that I fell anchor for too long on my first day as a trainee captain and got a minor illness due to Chirp, Dad would not have let Hannah inherit this position that only men can sit in." ”

Hannah was not angry, and looked at him with a smirk, "Seven hours after anchoring, Daddy should have shot you on the spot." ”

"What do you mean, anchor. The astrologer's apprentice burped and asked, and before he knew it, he was halfway through the second glass of sparkling wine, and he began to feel his face blush and his heart beat, and his temples pounded, and everything looked like a light veil through it,

Danny was furious and didn't speak, and Hannah Stewart explained: " The big worm has a high demand for nutrients, and needs to move constantly to filter out the food in the sand, if it must be anchored to stop moving due to storms and other reasons, the time cannot exceed two hours, otherwise the sandworm will enter a long period of weakness, the sand throughput has dropped significantly, and it can only move slowly to supplement nutrition, even if it is downwind, it cannot reach a speed of more than 5 knots, Danny's anchor time is as long as 7 hours, and my father and I didn't say a word next to him, and later, he was deprived of mastery' Bactria's Tempest's right. ”

"No one told me again......" Danny muttered aggrievedly,

Since then, Chirp has suffered from indigestion. "My sister gave him the fatal blow,

Seeing that the boy of the Stewart family was depressed all of a sudden, and just buried his head in drinking, Jonah decided to tell the story of himself and his friends, he touched the tip of his reddened and hot nose, and brewed a language, "I am the fourth-level astrologer apprentice of the Saint-Borun Red Plain Astrology Tower, and my teacher is the seventh-level astrologer Koshawar, because the war began, I had to ......"

"Catherina? Hannah let out a loud cry, got to her feet, and flipped the wooden chair to the ground.

"Little cutie, you're here. Danny's eyes lit up,

Hannah didn't hesitate to give her brother a violent shudder: "Why are you so affectionate to the enemy?" ”

Jonah turned to the door in a daze, and saw the broken wooden door being pushed open, and into him was an eye-catching woman, a girl named Catherine Maximilian with long, shiny chestnut curls, dressed in a long white dress that did not match the dilapidated tavern, delicate deerskin boots on the creaking wooden floor, and several golden keys hanging from the Mithril belt, which were constantly colliding with each other and making a chaotic sound like wind chimes.

She was a little lower than Jonah, with a snow-white complexion that was extremely rare even in the Western Continent, a pair of big gray-green eyes glanced left and right smartly, and a smile appeared on the corner of Catherina's brightly colored lips: "Miss Stewart, little Danny, how are you, I saw your ship below, the Tempest is really pitiful, I heard that you challenged the dry tornado." ”

Hannah didn't say anything with a gloomy face, and Danny replied with a grin, "I've seen your ship too, it's really fate, let's have a drink together." ”

Catherina hesitated, fiddling with one of her curls with her fingers, "Looks like some people don't welcome me......

"You guessed it. Hannah replied mercilessly,

Jonah felt his stomach rumble, and couldn't help but burp again, feeling much more comfortable, and the sound made the girl at the door glance at him, but she couldn't take her eyes off it, "Is your name D?" She covered her mouth wide open in shock with her spring-like fingers,