Chapter Eighty-Four: The Great Ship
The little prince was very kind-hearted, and when he saw that Ying Aji was so nervous, he just thought that Ying Aji was still worried about himself, so he kept comforting him.
"Yingagi, don't worry, didn't I come back well, let's hurry up and get out of this dangerous area."
Ying Aji nodded hurriedly and said incoherently: "Yes, yes, little prince, we have to hurry up - go farther!" ”
In the blink of an eye, they had been out for three months, and they had not met a single person on the road; All day long, it was these people who went back and forth on the boat, and everyone felt a little lonely.
That morning, Kurgan, who was on the watchtower, suddenly shouted loudly: "Your Royal Highness, little prince, there is a big ship ahead." ”
Hearing the news, the atmosphere on the ship immediately became lively, and the crew began to prepare gifts, ready to visit each other when the two ships met.
After a while, a large ship came to the vicinity, and it looked like it was a merchant ship.
The two boats were placed side by side, with a gangplank in the middle, and the crew members boarded the big ship with gifts.
The little prince and the others also followed on the big ship, and sure enough, it was a merchant ship, and the cabin was full of large and small boxes.
Inagi seemed to know the captain well, and they were bowing their heads and whispering something, while the crew was busy greeting each other and exchanging gifts.
The captain walked over and took the little prince's hand, "Your Royal Highness, you may not have an impression of me, I am very familiar with the old king Torriha, I often go to you to sell goods, you were still very young at that time. ”
After saying this, the captain laughed out loud, but the little prince heard a hint of smugness and cunning in the laughter.
The captain brought a lot of food for the little prince and others, as well as some small gifts that were not too valuable.
The little prince asked, "Mr. Captain, have you heard of Heartless Island?" ”
The captain smiled slyly, "Your Royal Highness, I won't tell you, we just passed by Heartless Island, and you are already very close, keep walking, and you can get there in two or three days." ”
"Then don't bother much," said the little prince happily, "and we must continue on our journey." ”
The captain nodded, and prepared to send them back to the boat.
Inagi asked the little prince to walk in front, and the little prince had just returned to the clipper with Kurgan and Kranqi when the gangplank was removed.
The little prince hurriedly shouted, "Don't remove the springboard, Ying Aji hasn't come here yet." ”
At this moment, Ingagi and his sailors appeared at the side of the big ship, and he shouted, "Little Prince, our mission has been accomplished, and I must go back to report to the Lord Prisoner." ”
With that, the big ship left the boat and drifted away.
The little prince wanted to say something more, but was stopped by Kurgan, "Prince, don't say it, don't you understand, Yingaji abandoned us." ”
Before Kurgan's words fell, a loud bang came from under the cabin, a bomb exploded, the clipper was blown in two, and the sea water rushed up in an instant.
Hearing the sound, the big ship circled around again, circled around the shattered clipper a few times, and took some pictures, before finally leaving quickly.
The fateful little prince did not die at the bottom of the sea, and after falling into the water, the three of them kept searching while swimming, and just when they were exhausted, Kranch was lucky to find a rubber raft and two wooden sticks.
The two pushed the little prince onto the raft and climbed up themselves; Just right, with one more person, the small raft will be difficult to support.
The three of them continued on their way, and thanks to some food from the captain in their arms, they persevered for a week, chewing snacks when they were hungry and drinking some rain when they were thirsty.
A week later, when they finally saw the shadow of the land, the three of them couldn't help but shout excitedly, "I see the land, I see the land, we have a way to live!" ”
When I came to the shore, on an extremely simple wharf, there was a huge boulder, and three big characters were written on the stone: "Heartless Island." ”
The little prince was very happy, it seemed that the captain was not lying, and the island of Heartless had finally arrived.
This island is not small, it should be dozens of kilometers long and wide, the reason why it is called Wuxin Island is because around the perimeter of the island, there is a circle of highlands, the shape of the highlands is a heart, but the inner side of the heart shape is a beautiful blue lake.
Lush variety of trees cover the entire highland, and the lake in the center resembles a complete heart-shaped sapphire, and the view here is very stunning.
The three hungry men went ashore, and the first thing they did was to look for food, and Kurgan climbed up a big tree, and the red fruit hung on the high branches, and in a short time Kurgan threw the fruit down.
The fruit was very sweet, and after eating the pulp, the little prince found that this fruit had no pit and was hollow.
They found several other kinds of fruits, but they didn't have pits, and it turned out that the tree fruits on Heartless Island were all hollow.
After eating their fill, everyone gathered to discuss their next steps.
The little prince Mu Lina said, "It is said that the treasures on Wuxin Island are hidden in the cave, and we must find the entrance to the cave first. ”
Kurgan said: "Then let's go separately, this is more efficient and has a better chance of finding it." ”
Kranqi shook his head and said, "No, no, we don't know each other here, it's easy to have accidents, it's more reassuring to be together." ”
The little prince agreed, "Then let's act together and take care of each other." ”
So each of the three men had a stick in their hands and groped their way through the dense bushes and weeds.
When it was dark, they found nothing, and when they returned to the small dock, a few people dragged the raft ashore, let it go, and found some dry firewood branches to make supports, and then used the raft as a roof to make a simple tent, and a few people rested in it for the night.
In the dream, the little prince dreamed of his brother Murge, when they were young, and his brother led him to a big mountain, and halfway up the mountain grew a very old tree, and on the tree was born heartless fruit.
The elder brother shot an arrow at the branch, and a strange rock next to it moved upward, and a purple light shot out from behind, which was a cave.
The purple light pierced the little prince's eyes, and he suddenly woke up, and it was already dawn.
Kurgan found a lot of food, and while eating breakfast, the little prince Muli recalled the situation in the dream, "By the way, isn't the big tree in the dream the heartless fruit tree when they first came to the island." ”
Unable to eat any more, Mu Lina picked up the other two and ran towards the big tree.
When I came to the bottom of the big tree, there was a strange rock next to the tree, like a fierce beast lying on the ground, with its head held high and its mouth open.
But where to find bows and arrows, the three of them were worried.
"Yes, I know how to get a bow and arrow." The little prince remembered that when he was a child, his brother taught him how to make bows and arrows when he was a child.
The three men found a few branches of suitable thickness, chose the most simple one to make a bow frame, and removed a strip of leather from the rubber raft to make a simple longbow; Kurgan sharpened the thin branches and made a few arrows.
There were no targets on the tree, only heartless fruits, and the little prince shot down several in succession, but to no avail.
"There must be something wrong," said the little prince Mu Li to himself, as he patiently searched around the tree.
He finally discovered that in the middle of the dense canopy, there was a huge heartless fruit hidden in the depths, faintly emitting a lilac light.
The little prince aimed at the heartless fruit, drew his longbow, and hit it with an arrow.
The Heartless Fruit tumbled down and landed right in the mouth of the strange stone, and the strange stone emitted a dazzling purple light, which enveloped the three people and swirled around them.
A slight ripple of time and space flashed, and the little prince vaguely seemed to see a cave door, and before he could react, the three of them had already arrived in the cave.