Chapter 407 [Unknown Fear]

"Land!!Land!!!!!"

From the lookout position of the mast, the sailor suddenly roared wildly, and his voice was hoarse, full of infinite surprise and madness!

His roar spread throughout the overtime, and almost all of them instantly threw away the work they were busy with and rushed to the bow of the boat.

When Tacitus and Lan Lan came out of the cabin as soon as they got the news, they saw the group of sailors on the deck already hugging each other, crying and laughing, and some of them took off their shirts and waved them desperately, shouting at the sky like madmen.

Tacitus grabbed a clergyman in the church who was dancing beside him, suppressed his excitement and quickly asked, "...... Yes, are you sure?"

"It's confirmed, it's land, it's land!!It's right in front of us! It's a big piece of land!!"

Tacitus had already rushed to the rudder of the ship—the captain of the ship was there, looking at the chief knight of the Holy Order with excitement on his face, the captain's hat was long gone, and he had probably thrown himself into the sea, his chest bare, revealing a black chest hair, and his eyes had turned red with excitement and joy.

"Adult ......"

Before the captain could finish speaking, Tacitus quickly took out his monoculars, pulled them away, and looked eagerly towards the bow of the boat.

Within the field of vision of the telescope, sure enough, in the distance of this vast sea, the place where the endless sea and sky are connected. There is such a black line, which appears at the place where the sea and the sky meet, and the long black line seems to be between heaven and earth, with long and boundless sides on both sides......

Tacitus felt his feet go limp!

He put away his binoculars, and suddenly stumbled under his feet, and the captain next to him quickly reached out and supported the knight captain.

Tacitus turned his head to look at the captain, "We'...... Did you really find land, didn't you? Not a dream?"

"It's not a dream, Knight, we really found land!!It's land!!We've succeeded! We've been saved!! we don't have to die!!!," the captain danced.

Tacitus used all his strength to grasp the rudder with both hands. Stand on your feet. The Holy Knight's face was no longer grim. It's full of excitement.

His lips quivered slightly, and he whispered, "Thank you...... Thank you, Goddess!"

Lan Lan stood at the foot of the steps in front of the rudder, watching Tacitus pray with excitement and devotion.

The saint of the church suddenly felt a strange feeling in her heart.

Thank you to the goddess...... Or should it be ...... Thank. What about that guy?

"At least the goddess didn't send us here...... That guy brought us here. ”

......

In fact. The situation with this fleet of sea adventures is already very, very bad!

Since that terrible and huge storm. Since Tacitus had made the decision to continue eastward. They have been at sea for another month and a half.

As before, this month and a half, I did not encounter any islands that could be used as a rest or replenishment of fresh water...... There is not even a grain of sand on this ocean. Not to mention finding an island.

Although there are still a lot of materials in the blue storage ring. But as the days to the east passed day by day, the atmosphere in the fleet became more and more solemn!

A violent mood seems to infect everyone.

Especially among the sailors at the bottom, strange rumors began to circulate that these church adults were going to take us to hell!

The devil knows where this rumor came from.

But sailing east is a gamble, and everyone knows this—even if Tacitus wants to hide it, he can't hide it, and the sailors on board are all old oilmen who have been begging for a living at sea all year round.

And this irritable atmosphere finally broke out after the destruction of Yan zhòng, the flagship of the fleet!

When this fleet went to sea, there were a total of three large ships, and the largest flagship was a large ship of the Imperial Sea Soul.

In the midst of that storm, the second ship sank to the bottom of the sea. The flagship was also damaged by Yan zhòng.

After persisting in sailing eastward for about ten days, the Sea Soul-class flagship finally couldn't hold it anymore.

The crew and sailors reported that the right side of the hull was too badly damaged, and after barely sailing for ten days, the hull finally began to crack and leak.

The cabin on the right side was flooded, although the crew had tried their best to repair it.

But......

"This is the sea! We don't have any materials! We can't be allowed to mend wood with our bare hands! If we can find a piece of land, even if it's a small island, if we can get wood, we can repair the cracks! But now, we can't do it!"

It's not that there is no spare wood on board, but unfortunately it has run out.

In fact, ten days before the flagship, which had been almost unseaworthy, was the sailors who dismantled a lifeboat and barely repaired the flagship's broken hull with the wood.

But after all, there are not enough supplies at sea, screws, tung oil, etc., there are none.

After holding on for ten days, this Sea Soul-class ship finally stopped.

That is to say...... Will this ship sink?"

"Yes. ”

After receiving an affirmative reply from the captain, Tacitus finally made the decision to evacuate all the people on the flagship. Evacuate to ship three.

The people on the flagship were busy for a long time, and finally all of them moved to the third ship, although they had taken away all the materials they could take away, especially the loss of a large Sea Soul-class ship, which made the captain very distressed.

The displacement of the third ship was only half that of the flagship.

This is a small to medium-sized sea vessel.

Fortunately, after the renovation, the ship's cargo hold can be freed up for the crew relocated from the flagship.

And the half-empty storage ring in Lan Lan's hand can hold those extra materials.

But. When everyone moved to the third ship, everyone was on the deck, silently, watching the third ship finally sink into the sea because of the excessive draft......

The irritability and panic among the sailors and crew finally broke out!

That night, there was a riot on board!

A deputy boatswain led the way, with thirty-three sailors, broke out in an armed revolt that night to seize the ship. They took advantage of the night to try to sneak up on the clergy of the churches on the ship. They shouted slogans such as "Survive, not die" and "Kill the gods." Armed with rudimentary weapons. rushed to the cabin of the clergy of the church.

In front of dozens of powerful holy knights, the result of this kind of rebellion can certainly be imagined.

Sixteen of the rioting sailors were killed on the spot, and the rest were captured alive. As for the deputy boatswain who led the riot. was cut in two by Tacitus with a sword!

Tacitus angrily interrogated the sailors who had been captured alive. The answer he got sent chills through the hearts of the knight elder of the Holy Order.

"You religious lunatics, why do you want to take us with you!"

"We just want to go home! We just want to go back alive!"

"Could it be the teachings of the goddess. Is it so that you can deprive us ordinary people of our lives at will? Such a goddess, Lao Tzu will never believe in her again!"

"Die, you gods!!"

"If you want to die for the temple, why should we die together? We are just ordinary people!! What power do you have over our lives!!"

In the end, all sixteen sailors were put to death - tied up and thrown into the sea, according to the rules of the ship.

Although this small riot was easily extinguished, Tacitus's heart was not easy.

The next day, he clearly felt that the other sailors and crew members on the ship around him were staring at him and his fellow ecclesiastical personnel...... It has become more apathetic.

And what this loyal Church Knight Master did not know was ......

On this big ship, far from the mainland of the Roland Empire, this riot that has just been extinguished has invisibly set a record.

This can be said to be the first armed rebellion in the Roland Empire in recorded history, without the intervention of official forces, and the people spontaneously organized against the Temple of Light.

Although only thirty-three sailors who wanted to return home took part in the riot, they had only sixteen daggers and four axes, as well as a few sticks.

"We drove them to a dead end. ”

Afterwards, Lan Lan said this sentence to Tacitus, which made the Holy Knight very annoyed, and Tacitus almost grabbed Lan Lan by the collar, pinched the Holy Maiden's neck fiercely, and roared angrily: "Nonsense!!Those bastards are just cowardly cowards! We dedicate our lives to the sacred duty of the Church!

"No matter how noble the purpose, it is not qualified to kidnap the lives of others. Lan Lan shook her head: "We are members of the church, of course we have the right to send to death...... But they weren't members of the church, they were just ordinary sailors, with families, friends, and lives. ”

Tacitus' fingers trembled: "But...... These sailors have been begging for a living in the Church's estate! They are taking the jobs that the Church has given them!"

But they also worked hard for the church—and there was no question of who owes whom. They traded their strength for our wages, which was supposed to be a fair deal. But if we use this as a threat to force them to die for us...... Do you think that's fair, my lord?"

Tacitus was speechless and silent for a while before he burst out of his teeth: "For the sake of justice, some people's ...... must be sacrificed."

"Then who decides who will be sacrificed? Are you? Or me? Why do we have this power? And in whose hands should this power be held? My lord, we are all human beings, not gods, and we are not qualified to judge the lives of others. ”

Tacitus was finally speechless.

Lan Lan whispered, "We are not wolves, and they are not lambs that we can hunt and eat......!" Even if they are lambs, why do we think that we are wolves who can kill them at will? Why have we become accustomed to the idea that the people in our church should be on high and that the ordinary people should obey our orders and sacrifice themselves for us at any time, and that we can judge and deprive them of their one at will...... When did this terrible thinking begin to form?"

Tacitus looked at the saint and finally slowly let go of his hand.

Although Lan Lan was standing beside Tacitus, the knight had already had a strange thought in his heart: although the saint was by her side, she seemed to have drifted away from herself......

......

Whether it was Tacitus or Lan Lan, they didn't know that about this frequent conversation between the two of them, thousands of miles away, under the snowy mountains in the northwest grassland of the Roland Empire, a certain guy also said something similar later, but he said it more bluntly and more simply!

"I've been worshiped for so long, and I really fucking think of myself as a god?fuck!"

......

Well, let go of those memories for a moment. Lan Lan looked up and looked at Tacitus, whose face was flushed.

The chief knight seemed to have swept away all the depression and anxiety, and his face was full of confidence and excitement.

"Assemble!Sail!Stop!Anchor!!"

Tacitus quickly gave various orders.

He ordered all the clergy of the church to prepare for the landing.

This so-called preparation is: all dress-ups!

At Tacitus' orders, all the members of the church, clergy, priests, and holy knights, all ran back to the cabin and put on the most formal gowns and uniforms that had been carefully kept along the way.

Those holy knights even put on their armor!

Even the sailors on the ship, Tacitus ordered them all to change into the cleanest and newest clothes - if there weren't so many clean clothes, just make it!

At last twenty-eight clean clothes were made, and Tacitus had to order twenty sailors to change their clothes.

Plus the captain himself, who also changed into a clean captain's uniform.

"Gentlemen!" Tacitus stood behind the helm of the ship, and said with high spirits: "On this continent, there may well be a huge country! Yes, this is a civilized country that we Rolands have never come into contact with! And we, all of us, will go down in history! This is the first time in history that this is the first time in history that we Rolands have come into contact with another truly civilized country of mankind! Therefore, I ask you, all of you, to polish your shoes and clean your clothes! Cheer up all your spirits! Don't disgrace our Roland people!!"

Originally, the captain of the third ship remained on board, and the captain of the flagship followed Tacitus ashore.

As for vigilance...... Tacitus simply asked all the Holy Knights to check their weapons and equipment and show their best spirit.

Because Tacitus knew it well...... If there really is a large and powerful kingdom on this continent, as Darling Chan said...... Then, if a person like himself comes into contact with the other party after going ashore and reaches into the other party's country, if the other party has bad intentions, no matter how vigilant he is, he will not be able to enemy a country.

(This is a contact that will go down in history, and we will never lose face with Roland and the Temple of Light!)

Tacitus stood in high spirits and stood on the boat looking at the black horizon in the distance......

Suddenly, he saw Lan Lan standing beside him, his face pale, his fingers trembling slightly.

"Lanlan, what are you thinking?"

"I ...... I am afraid. ”

"Scared? We've finally found land! What else is there to be afraid of...... What are you afraid of?"

"I don't know what I'm afraid of...... It is precisely because I don't know that I am afraid. (To be continued......)