Chapter 420: 'The Show Begins'
Seeing the shocked expression of the tribal conqueror, Tugla replied respectfully: "Great conqueror, the chart is full of vague and indecipherable characters soaked in the sea, and the general outline is very similar to the corner of the chart you hung in the treehouse, I think it should be part of the nautical chart of the Inferna. ”
"Show it to me right away, Tugla, show me the nautical chart!" Zhang Lisheng said urgently.
If a nautical chart is equivalent to a rough map of the ocean's topography, a nautical chart is an encyclopedia that includes information about ocean currents, reefs, and even island properties of the entire sea.
Although Zhang Lisheng intercepted part of the Hell Sea area on the satellite map of the 'Sea Shrimp No. 2 World Realm', which contains the entire Hell Islands and most of the continent, and made a nautical chart, he wanted to be in danger;
The seabed is full of reefs;
The ocean currents are turbulent and strange;
Sea monsters emerge one after another;
It is still a huge undertaking to explore the passage between islands in the oceans of the 'otherworldly' that appear from time to time in bad and extreme weather, and it is impossible not to be excited and anxious to have ready-made nautical charts to use, even if it is only a small part.
"Yes. Sensing the eagerness of the tribal conqueror, the Wuli head man stood up and hurriedly retreated, and after a while, he walked back to the bark house with eight native servants carefully carrying a wooden plank one foot square.
Coming to Zhang Lisheng, Tugla hinted at the servants to erect the plank, and at the same time bent down and explained to the young man: "Great conqueror. When I found this chart, it was already fragile from the storm, and it had to be preserved by sticking it to a wooden plank. ”
The moment he saw the huge chart firmly glued to the wooden board with gum, Zhang Lisheng's eyes were firmly attracted by it.
"It's a pity that it's so badly damaged, and I don't know the words, so it seems that they are not the countrymen of the old man Amandnik. He said a word of regret in his mouth, and then praised Wu Li Touren without hesitation, "But in any case, you are very thoughtful, Tugla, very thoughtful..."
Saying that, the young man started from the bottom corner and carefully observed this sea area map that was not much different from the lower corner of the 'Sea Shrimp No. 2 World Realm' satellite map of the Hell Sea area, after a long time. Shaking his head, he muttered, "The ocean should be depicted in different colors to make it easier to identify the depth;
The text written next to the arrows between the islands is either a warning or a description of the distribution of ocean currents;
And small portraits of these monsters. You don't have to guess to know that the road represents the distribution of dangerous sea creatures in the Hellfire Sea, and it must indeed be a nautical chart.
I was wrong, I was wrong, and when I saw the broken wooden boats of the landers, I took it for granted that they were still in the early stages of the great geographical discovery of the 'Shrimp II World Realm'. But I forgot that this is the 'World Realm' with the power of magic..."
I sighed for a moment that my mind was not bright. Zhang Lisheng reluctantly shifted his gaze from the nautical chart to Wu Litouren. "Tugla, it seems that you have also taken the chart of the Hell Islands to heart, otherwise it would be impossible to see the relationship between this chart and the charts of the Hell Islands at a glance. Very well, you have lived up to my trust.
By the way, you said that those landholders were locked in a stone circle, but now it seems that they are very precious 'resources', and no one is sick and dead, right?"
"The great conquerors, who are now very strong, though imprisoned in stone circles, but because they feel that they will be useful anyway, all these days the food given them is abundant and delicious, and they are fat. ”
"Tugla, you really should listen to the tone of your voice when you say the words 'white and fat'," Zhang Lisheng pouted and said, "I said that 'cannibalism' is a bad habit, even if it is the enemy who eats it, it is not right, and the Wuli people should become civilized."
We sail in large iron boats that no one can build on land, and in the future we will travel between islands in airships, and unlike the other tribes of Hellfire, we are truly civilized because..."
"For we are your people and believers, Your Majesty the Great Wu Li. Tugla rarely interrupted Zhang Lisheng's words and prostrate at the young man's feet.
"Wait until the day I become the 'Island Deity' and then call me 'Tsuga', Tugla," Zhang Lisheng paused for a moment and said with a smile: "Now don't be busy with flattery, go and build a bark house in the jungle near the stone circle where the landholders are imprisoned, if you want to be secret, I will live there for a few days." ”
"Conqueror. "Although I don't know that Zhang Lisheng lives next to the prison of the landrestrial people and intends to learn their written language with the 'Eternal Mastery', Tugla still said without hesitation.
Soon, under the personal supervision of Wu Litou, a unique treehouse was quietly built in the jungle next to the stone circle where the landholders were imprisoned.
Living in this bark house, Zhang Lisheng could clearly hear the noisy cries of the imprisoned landers, even if he didn't have amazing ears.
In the days to come, the young people stayed in the new tree house to kill the time by practicing the secret method and waiting for the 'Vientiane' stone eggs to hatch, patiently waiting for the day when the land people spoke and wrote all night.
Eight or nine days later, one morning, the crisp air with the smell of rotten grass and trees peculiar to the primeval jungle wafted through the nose of Zhang Lisheng, who was sitting cross-legged on a mat woven of tree fibers, gulping down smoked animal legs and fat meat worms.
Not far in front of him lay a huge log stump with a sunken surface, and in the groove on the surface of the stump lay a large round ball woven with animal tendons, spider silk, and tree branches, and eight native servants were pouring the blood that had just been taken out of the body of the beast in a clay pot depicting simple patterns.
When the fresh animal blood seeped down bit by bit through the thousands of fine pores on the surface of the big ball, a stone insect egg contained in the mottled big ball slowly absorbed the dripping blood, turned it into kinetic energy, and beat slowly like a heart.
"Tugla, this egg is very precious, I have combined various methods of raising ancient strange insects to collect and hatch it, and now it seems that I am on the right track.
If it still can't hatch in a short time, you will order the handymen to bathe this egg with blood every day when I am not on the island in this way. Looking at the eggs in the ball that were constantly shrinking and swelling and swelling through the mesh, Zhang Lisheng swallowed a mouthful of fatty cooked meat, and commanded Wu Litou who was kneeling beside him in a low voice with a satisfied expression.
"Yes, great conqueror. Tugla replied in a low voice.
"One more thing, isn't Aruba, the chief of the craftsmen, already building iron ships one after another, and although the iron ships are not the final product, they must also let the boatmen learn to drive as soon as possible.
Well, it was ordered that the first fifty sailors who were skilled in driving iron ships and learned to use theodolite were given the rank of 'two chiefs', called captains, and in the future, whether they were samurai or craftsmen, whether they were tribal chiefs or ordinary Wuli people, as long as they boarded the iron ship and went to sea, they must obey the captain's orders. ”
"Let the leader of the warriors on the ship have to obey the orders of the boatman, great conqueror, this, is this okay?" Even though Zhang Lisheng had already covered the sky with one hand in the Wuli tribe, Tugla still blurted out when he heard such an order.
"Be quiet, don't alarm the land-people. Zhang Lisheng smiled and made a silent gesture, and lowered his voice: "The method I said is the most effective way to cultivate the strength of the sea to be fast and powerful, and now is the best time to use this method." ”
The self-confidence of young people comes from the positive role played by the theory that the captain of the sea is king in the era of the earth's sea voyages, and the British miscellaneous army was able to defeat the invincible armada of the sea overlord Franco, in large part because their navy pursued the theory of the captain of the sea is king.
Zhang Lisheng was in a happy mood when he suddenly heard someone shouting outside the window: "Hurry up Mifade, those natives will come to deliver food soon..."
"The Eternal Proficiency Technique has taken effect..."The young man's body stiffened in surprise and dropped the beetle skewer in his hand and stood up, listening intently, more and more human voices came into his ears.
Sure that he had mastered the language of the landlings, the young man rubbed his hands together with a grin, tore off the elaborate apron sewn with beautiful leaves and colorful animal skins that covered his shyness, changed into old earth canvas shorts and shirts, and said to the Wuli header, "Tugla, the show has begun."
Find the most clever handyman and cooperate with me to act in this play according to the plan. He strode out of the treehouse.
A few minutes later, the young man, mixed with a group of dwarf handymen, carried a wooden barrel filled with a fragrant chowder, and walked through the woods to the two adjacent stone circles.
The two stone circles are different in size, the large area is about three or four hundred square meters, and the small one is only more than 100 square meters, they are all surrounded by square stones with a height of more than five meters, and they are strangled with thick and strong ropes from top to bottom, leaving a gap only the size of a sea bowl, even children of three or four years old can not escape, and there are more than 100 male prisoners and 20 or 30 female prisoners imprisoned in them.
The prisoners looked about the same as the earthlings, and their skin tones varied, but they were dominated by white and brown people with variegated hair, less than ten with black skin, and even fewer than black people were yellow, only three or four.
After quietly looking at the stone circle for a few moments, Zhang Lisheng imitated the movements of the local miscellaneous servants, and used a long-handled wooden spoon to send the thick chowder soup down the gap into the wooden bowl held by the prisoners.
It was difficult for the young man to go unnoticed in a group of short infernandes, and most of the prisoners in the stone circle showed an indescribable look of disgust when they met his eyes, and only the corners of the mouths of the few who seemed to be the most submissive had irrepressible expressions of surprise and joy, but they did not dare to speak. (To be continued......)
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