Chapter 426: 'Despair'
The elder brother's accusation made the girl feel speechless, but her keen intuition given by God made her feel the slightest guilt and affection for the life-saving benefactor who stood aside, with a strange smile on her face, looking at her and her brother's dispute, and couldn't help but continue to talk nonsense: "I didn't say that the lives of so many people are not worth thousands of gold coins.
It's that he wants to be paid and loves to say 'pretty things', which makes people feel hypocritical..."
"You misunderstood Miss Helena, it was your brother who took the initiative to repay me when he returned to Venis, so I hope to ask your father to help him buy a sea boat.
It's to buy it, not to give it away," Zhang Lisheng suddenly interrupted Helena's words, reached into his canvas T-shirt, and groped around his waist to take out a few pieces of baby fist-sized 'dog head gold', "This is the gold nugget I picked up in a river by hunting with those brutal dwarfs."
Gold is a very valuable thing in my homeland, and the old man who taught me your language also said that gold is also a 'good thing' in his homeland, and I think that so much red gold should be enough to exchange for a sea ship, right?"
Washed away by the river for thousands of years, the gold nuggets that have been worn away from the ugly rocks on the surface give off an attractive luster in the sun, and the color makes people know that it is full of gold.
"Mr. Li Sheng, your gold should be full of red gold, and it can be exchanged for at least 10,000 gold coins, and it is definitely not a problem to buy a medium-sized merchant ship when converted," Anita looked at the glittering gold nuggets in the young man's hand, glared at his sister fiercely and said, "But as I said, you don't need to buy merchant ships at all." As long as we get home safely, my father will be more than willing to give you one. ”
"You're welcome, Young Master Anita, I will only squander these unearned gold in my hands," Zhang Lisheng pinched the gold in his palm with his bare hands, pulled it into a belt like kneading dough and tied it around his waist, and then pulled out the blouse tied in his pants to cover the gold belt, "It's better to use it to buy a sea boat." ”
"No, Mr. Li Sheng, you saved me, and my sister was gone. Saved the lives of the whole boat. Whenever you wish for a sea boat, my father will give it to you. Seeing the young man's hands shape the gold like a powerful machine, Anita's eyes lit up, and her face turned red and she said loudly.
Seeing that the boy insisted again and again. Zhang Lisheng was stunned for a moment. Shaking his head with a smile, he said, "Master Anita." We've only escaped from the island of the 'dwarf' for less than a day, and we don't know what the future holds, so I'll just talk about it casually if I buy a sea boat. You don't have to be so serious.
Well, I'm going to sleep in the cabin, and as is customary in our hometown, I'm going to say 'good afternoon' to you and Miss Helena. He saluted the boy and girl with his hands folded, turned and walked casually to an empty cabin on the deck.
"Good afternoon, Mr. Li Sheng. Looking at Zhang Lisheng's staggering and disappearing back, Anita replied loudly, then turned her head and looked at her sister angrily and lowered her voice and said: "Helena, I know that you are very annoying, but I didn't expect you to be so unkind."
Aside from the others, don't you know that the lives of the two young 'White Philippes' in Venis, the city-state of Catamain, are they worth a sea ship, do you know that if it is rumored, it will make me, no, the whole family, embarrassed the whole family.
A stranger saved the lives of the two heirs of the White Philippe Firm from the hands of the Hell Man, and wanted to ask for a random ship as a reward, but was refused, O gods, such a joke could be passed down for hundreds of years in the aristocratic circles of Venis!
You, though your normal personality is not good, are not so unreasonable, is it because you were frightened mad by being locked up in the 'cattle pen' by the Hell Man..."
The girl knew that she was wrong, so she first chose to be silent, but the more she heard the young man speak, the more energetic she became, and after hesitating for a while, she couldn't help but defend softly: "I'm not crazy Anita, it's just that I just feel that the stranger named Li Sheng seems to be full of malice towards us in his heart." ”
"Full of malice," the young man was stunned for a moment, and said even more angrily, "If he has any ill will towards us, as long as he does nothing, he can watch us turn into roast meat and be eaten by the Hellmen one by one."
Mr. Li Sheng saved our lives, Helena, although as Mr. Hanino said, he saved us for himself, but after all, he saved us, when we had nothing and had to steal the ship to escape, if he had malicious intentions, what did he try to do with us?
I know that you have predicted some people and things in the past and have come true, but you are not always right, are you, don't play that 'witch' trick anymore, everyone knows that you have the talent to become a 'spellcaster', and you will become a wizard in the future, and you don't need to remind others that you are different all the time..."
"I never wanted to show that I was different, it was you who always thought too much about Anita, you who always thought too much!" the twin brother's repeated accusations finally ignited Helena's anger, and the girl burst out, screaming and yelling.
"Now do I think more or do you think more, Helena!" the boy roared in return, turning and panting and striding away.
When the sailor heard the quarrel between the brother and sister, he showed a familiar look, and the man on duty pretended to be blind and deaf and went on with his work;
Those who were not on duty gradually dispersed as if nothing had happened, and went to the cabin to rest, and after a while the deck became empty, except for the fish in the sea to sail slowly with the wooden boat in the wind and waves.
In this way, the fugitives ate the fish caught by the sailors, drank the pure water made by the captain, and relied on the route analyzed by the navigator to analyze the celestial phenomena, ocean currents, and fish distribution, and drifted in the vast sea with increasing difficulty for more than a month.
For the first time, the sailors on deck during the day would laugh and laugh with each other, but at night the cabins would always be filled with the cries of their sleep.
The fear of falling into the cannibal Hell began to ferment after the ecstasy of the successful escape dissipated, and the nightmares that continued throughout the night made the land-dwellers slowly become depressed all day long, completely losing the mood to smile, and the long voyage seemed to have no end. This malaise is even more overshadowed by despair.
Humans are such fickle and fragile creatures that the sailors, who had high hopes for the navigator not long ago, began to be angry at Hano's 'incompetence' after more than twenty days.
Even if their years at sea should make them fully rational to realize that sailing in the dangerous waters of Hell for so long without encountering sea monsters or reefs without nautical charts and without knowing their exact directions, it has already shown that Hano is a good and experienced navigator.
People only believe in the 'truth' they want to believe!
Seeing the commotion of the crew, Anduch used the captain's authority in time to decisively order the sailors on the third shift to be changed to two shifts, and all the sailors on duty had to constantly scrub the deck with seawater in addition to fishing and mobilizing the sails, and if there was no brush, they would kneel on the ground to wash it with discarded cables, in short, the deck should be polished like a mirror.
The high-sounding reason for this request is that it is easy to develop epidemics after a long voyage at sea. The mention must begin to make every effort to keep it clean. But in fact, the real reason is that the sailors are tired from their work, and they fall asleep after finishing their work, and they have no energy to think about it anymore.
Using the most common trick of navigators to vent their men's energy, Anduci allowed the peaceful days on the wooden ship to continue for another twenty days or so. Until all of a sudden, something extremely terrible quietly happened. The ship sailed into a sea barren sea. The daily catch of the fugitives began to dwindle until it finally reached zero!
"Still no fish have been baited, it's been three whole days. We can't catch even the smallest sea lice fish, and when we run out of bait, we'll have to die.
I knew that I would starve to death like this, and it would be better to eat and drink and be eaten by the people of hell..."The sun had already risen overhead, and a short sailor who had been fishing on the side of the boat since early in the morning suddenly saw the wooden block that served as a float trembling slightly with the waves, and pulled up the silk thread with longing, but only harvested a few bitter droplets, and suddenly kicked the boat gang with his feet and shouted loudly.
Such complaints have been ringing on the deck for the last few days, and after initially stopping them a few times, Anduchi has long since ignored them in order to prevent the sailors' accumulated resentment from erupting at one time and making it easier to create an irreparable situation.
But in the wheelhouse, the roar of the sailors was faintly heard, and the captain, who had aged many times in just two months, couldn't help but show a worried expression on his face, sighed, leaned over, turned to look at the navigator who had just finished observing the sea currents outside, and asked: "Hano, the sailors have become more and more irritable and desperate.
Hunger can make people crazy, and if we don't catch any more fish, I'm afraid that a riot will happen soon, have you found the reason why the fish are away from us?"
"Captain, how many times have I said that I can't find the reason why the fish are away from us, but there are so many reasons I can find, but we are sailing in the waters of Hell and anything strange can happen. Hano, who had a lot of gray hair on top of his head, replied in a hoarse voice.
"Yes, we have sailed in the waters of Hell for sixty-five days," Anduch was silent for a moment, then suddenly smiled bitterly, counted the shallow notches on the rudder, and whispered, "This is already a miracle, since the gods are unwilling to give us more grace, perhaps it should all be over..."
His words were full of despair, which also represented the suffering of the vast majority of people on the wooden ship at this time, only Zhang Lisheng, who occupied a cabin on the deck alone, and was lying in a hammock swaying, was disappointed at this time. (To be continued......)
PS: A more dedication, what, pigs read a few messages, first of all, Xie Lu Xie Da's dual science popularization, please allow pigs to say a few words, then first of all, pigs are not mistaken' steam engine should use the kinetic energy of expansion when liquid vaporization, not heat energy'
The original text reads: 'The heat energy released when the wood on the Hell Islands burns is far above the coke on the earth, and the liquid in the turbine is not ordinary pure water, but a special liquid made from the distillation of animal fat and plasma mixed with underground river water, and the temperature required to turn it into steam is about 1,000 degrees Celsius, and the kinetic energy produced by this steam is much greater than that of simple water vapor. Notice that the last sentence of the sentence should be, hehe
There is also the question of energy conversion, in the field of geophysics, it is impossible to give birth to a steam civilization with infinite power, and the kinetic energy of the steam civilization conceived by all pigs is mainly reflected in three aspects:
1. The steam engine body is solid;
Second, the calorific value of the fuel is upward;
Third, the vapor liquid as a capability medium has a special temperature when vaporized, and the kinetic energy produced is extremely powerful, which is reflected in the fact that the vapor liquid used by the earliest steam civilization 'Karado' can not only push missiles around, but also act as explosives in explosions.
This is just an explanation of Pig Pig, oh.,It's not that I'm right.,Just explain that your thinking is not to pat your head and write nonsense.,After the most Lu Xie Xie left a message to the reader.,Mo Da.