"A war that must be lost?" Zero said lightly, "Maybe, but I don't have the habit of giving up without trying." Hamermis's choice, the inheritor of the will of the planet, yes, I'm both. But until then, I'm a human first. I am Zero, a person who does not want his home to be destroyed. In order to protect this home where I and everyone live, even if the opponent is Prosius, I will fight until the moment of Zuihou and the end of my life. I'm great? No, it's just the instinct of life. What about you, Belafar, is it true that the instinct of the Lord of the North Seas is to submit?"

In the face of Zero's questioning, the Lord of the North Ocean suddenly exuded an awe-inspiring power. It was like a calm sea that suddenly set off angry waves, sweeping across the entire island, and awakening all life from its deep sleep. However, as soon as the power was over, Belafar's round eyes narrowed into a slit, and the slit shimmered with fine light. The eyes as sharp as a sword looked Zero up and down, and Zero could basically feel the gaze of the Lord of the North Ocean falling, and there would be a tingling pain wherever it came.

"You don't have a lot of guts, even Hamermis doesn't dare to talk to me in such a tone, not to mention that you still scold me?" Belafar suddenly laughed, his laughter was full of disdain, and then turned into rage: "What do you know? Human, you don't know what you're up against? Prosius is not as simple as you think, no matter how you define it! What's more, even if it chooses a knight, you're probably not his opponent. These tough guys, it's not something you can defeat without giving in, it's all!"

"So you don't understand humans, Belafar. We may be small, or we may not be able to measure ourselves. But we never gave up for a moment to struggle and resist, no matter what we were facing, giving up was never our first choice. Facing the gaze of the Lord of the North Seas without the slightest fear, Zero stood up and said, "However, I also respect your choice. Belafar, the brave Lord of the North Seas. Zaijian, I hope the next meeting is not on the battlefield. ”

"What if?"

Zero said calmly, "I'll kill you." ”

Belafar laughed as if she had heard some funny joke, and she thumped her hands on the ground. Zero didn't stop and turned to walk. Before his eyes was no longer the powerful life described by Hamermis, but the pathetic soul that had chosen to succumb. The encounter was indeed unexpected, but it would not shake his resolve, and since Belafar would not help, he would leave for another place tomorrow. But before he had gone far, Belafar suddenly shouted from behind: "Give me zhanzhu, arrogant boy, do you think I don't want to resist? Do you like to be slaughtered like a pig and a sheep, but I alone cannot fight against Prosius and his knights!"

Zero turned around like a whirlwind and said loudly: "So what about adding me now!"

"It's not enough, like I said before, I can't bet on you, or you now. I need to see if you have what it takes to stand with me!" Belafar said solemnly, "This time is chaotic, and you and Hamermis want to bring it back to order. Now, bypass the Abyss Gate and continue west, and you will reach the Xizhou Continent. There is a country there, and they are in the midst of civil strife. Go there and show your strength and turn chaos into order. If you can do it, I'll recognize your companionship!"

Zero nodded: "Remember what you said, Belafar." I'll show you, I'm strong, and determined!"

With that, he didn't stop and strode away.

Belafar sat back on the ground, looked at the monitor lizard behind him, and said, "Damn, it's really unpleasant to let a kid despise it. Actually, I'm not that timid, don't you say, Midori?"

The monitor lizard opened one eye and looked at the Lord of the North Seas, yawned, and shrank his head to the other side to continue sleeping. Belafar poked the campfire with his trident, making it burn even brighter.

The next morning, Kaede was still asleep when she suddenly felt the ground shake regularly. He opened his eyes that were dazed and dazed, and saw that the remaining pure water was rippling in the cup where he drank water last night. Puzzled, he got out of the tent and saw a huge beast coming out of the woods in the distance. It has dark green scales and a lizard-like head, but it has a spindle-shaped fleshy crown. The glowing whiskers behind the crown of flesh were fluttering, as if a blue fluorescence was constantly drifting from there.

When this monitor lizard appeared, not only did Kaede see it, but the soldier in charge of guarding shouted: "That sea beast appeared yesterday, ready to attack!"

"Wait. ”

Zero, who came out of the tent, stopped them and said something that surprised them: "This big guy is here to help us." ”

Today Belafar did not appear, but his "pet" did. The monitor lizard helps Zero and get the Destiny back into the sea, and at Zero's orders, the soldiers tie the Destiny and the big creature together with a cable, and the monitor lizard walks in front of them and pulls the Destiny back into the sea from the beach. It was only when the soldiers lowered their heavy anchors to secure the hull that the monitor lizard shook off the cable and let out of the sea with a long roar. In just a few moments, he was already far away.

The people on the beach took a rubber raft back to the Destiny and went to the control room, where Zero sat down. Everyone looked at him, and said lightly: "We're going to change our course, bypass the Abyss Gate and continue westward, we're going to the Xizhou Continent!"

Since he promised Belafar, Zero naturally will not regret it. So the Destiny was launched, and at a constant speed of sixty nautical miles, it left the island and headed for the Xizhou continent. After they had left, Belafar came out of the woods on the lonely island. On an isolated island with no people, the Lord of the North Seas has been watching the distant Destiny, watching the wonderful spaceship that will change the fate of many disappear on the horizon.

On the ship, Zero briefly told everyone about the meeting with Belafar last night, and said, "Anyway, we should stay on the West Continent for a while. The Lord of the North Seas, whether it is personal force or his underwater kingdom, is the Liliang we must fight for, and if he is on our side, then the vast sea will be at our disposal. ”

"Of course, we can't break into the Xizhou Continent so rashly. In short, let's get information first, and at least we have to find out what's going on on that continent!"

The Western Continent is suspended like a star in the endless radiant sea, and the surrounding islands, large and small, defend it like satellites. Because of the existence of islands, the flow of currents in the inland seas of the mainland is complicated, so that each bay or gorge with its own characteristics is formed. Even on this satellite belt, or on the outer islands, the environment is even more difficult. They are barren places that the Papal Chamber does not look like, and even pirates do not want to visit these outer islands. After all, robbing them and getting enough oil and water to get enough money to sail out of the voyage didn't mean anything else to do. In this way, although the inhabitants of the outer islands live a difficult life, they are not like the inner islands who always have to watch out for elusive pirates.

Among the many outer islands facing east, there is an island called "Isle of Yellow Sand". The area of this island is not small, the shape of the island is fusiform, and the north and south ends are about 100 kilometers long. However, the area of the island is not small, but the places where people can live can only barely live at the north and south ends of the island, that is, the two tips of the shuttle. For no other reason than because the central part of the island is a desert. There was no grass there, and only the dangerous mutant sand lizards and fire ants were able to survive in that place.

The inhabitants of the Isle of Yellow Sand basically live on the coast at both ends of the island, and this place is naturally not very comfortable. Originally, the island was on the periphery of the island's satellite belt, and they lived by the sea. On weekdays, when the weather is stormy, the sea water will pour into the edge of the island, which is undoubtedly a terrible flood disaster for the residents.

In order to survive, the people on the island had to build their houses on the towering and sturdy coconut trees, forming a unique treehouse style on the island of yellow sand. The island's inhabitants, like the people of other islands, rely on fishing for their livelihood. It's just that the people on the inner islands can sell these mutant creatures in the sea to merchants for food, but the people on the outer islands use these mutant creatures for food.

However, due to the contamination of the Radiant Sea, the aquatic life here is almost always full of lethal amounts of radiation. But even so, in the case of lack of food, the inhabitants of the island would rather be poisoned than starved to death. After years of searching for food, many people died, but they found that some parts of the aquatic life were radioactive, or very small. This part of the meat became an extremely valuable food, and they kept the people of the island barely alive.

In the vicinity of the Isle of Yellow Sands, there is an aquatic creature that is so abundant that the inhabitants of the island call them electric snakes. The electric snake is actually a new species that evolved from the old electric eel, which was originally a creature that lived in freshwater, and the electric snake was the product of more than ten generations of evolution based on their genes. Electric snakes are able to survive in the sea, and their bodies have evolved to be flat in order to adapt to the pressure of the water in the sea. The degraded dorsal and caudal fins of the electric eel have re-evolved and evolved into an electrical storage organ in the body.

On weekdays, the electric snake can store the bioenergy generated by swimming in that special organ, and when catching prey or encountering danger, the electric storage organ can convert the bioenergy stored on weekdays into high-voltage electricity and release it at one time. The amount of electricity that an adult electric snake can release is up to thousands of volts instantaneously, enough to electrocute a person. Therefore, near the Isle of Yellow Sands, the electric snake is a dangerous creature. However, electric snakes have a muscle band under their abdomen that contains very little radiation and can be eaten. Compared to several other edible creatures, electric snakes have the most meat. Coupled with the fact that they are abundant in large numbers, they have become the main food of the islanders. Of course, it is also risky to catch them, and many residents die every year under the high-voltage electricity of electric snakes.

Gradually, the number of men on the island began to decrease, and women had to go out to sea. It is predictable that if these conditions do not improve, within ten years, there will be no human beings on the Yellow Sand Island.

But now, there are still two or three hundred people living at both ends of the island, of which only about 70 are adult men, and the rest are basically old people, women and children. Under increasingly difficult conditions, not only women have to start going to sea, but even older children are no exception.

Jorah has just turned thirteen this year, which in the new era already means adulthood. So since the beginning of this year, he has followed his father Kedar to the sea. Kedar is known as the island's electric snake killer, and his mastery of hunting always brings back enough food for the inhabitants. But during a sea operation last year, when catching an electric snake, he was suddenly attacked by a mutant shark, and later luckily picked up his life, but lost an arm.

So now it is Kedar's wish to pass on his skills to his son Jorah, so that he can go to sea instead of himself. Even before Jorah reached adulthood, Kordar had already begun training his son. And it turns out that Jorah is also very talented in this area, and after following his father to sea this year, after several practices, he has basically mastered the trick of catching electric snakes.

Now, father and son are out to sea. Kordar was basically helping Jorah, while the capture was done by his son alone. The hardships of life at sea have made this thirteen-year-old child already have the courage and responsibility of a man. In the past six months, Jorah has grown tall and strong, and her body is strong, and even those mutant tissues look a little thicker than others.

It was a calm day, and the Kerdar father and son pushed their boat out into the sea, using a dhow with a fish compartment that could hold hundreds of electric snakes. Every time they return home, the fish hold is always full of electric snakes, and Jorah believes that today will be no exception.

The sailboat carried the father and son to the weekday work area, and Jorah began to put on special work clothes and prepare for fishing. Electric snakes have a habit of sleeping during the day and being active at night, and they are more active and dangerous at night compared to the day. And like now, these guys are lazily sleeping in the sea. They are social creatures that are densely entangled in both sleep and activity. For the hunters, it saves a lot of trouble.

Jorah brought some coconut fruit out of the boat, but these were just coconut husks. When the coconut fruit is ripe, the Jorah family will use a sharp tool to make a hole at one end of the fruit, and the coconut inside can be poured out for consumption, and the pulp can be scooped out with a tool. Coconut fruit is also one of the important foods on the island, but the fruit should not be eaten too much, otherwise it will cause dysentery and other diseases. There is a lack of medical equipment and doctors on the island, and even the most inconspicuous ailments can sometimes kill people.

As for the shells, Kedar and Jorah will use the soil method to convert them into bombs. Of course, these bombs are not used to blow people, but to blow up electric snakes. And the amount of explosives is not lethal enough, just to frighten the sleeping electric snake so that it can be fished. At this moment, Jorah tied several coconut bombs into a string and threw them into the sea. Not long after, several water columns exploded in the sea. The water column was not large, but it was enough to wake up the sleeping electric snake. Now the sea is in chaos, and the electric snakes that have frightened the coconut explosion are scurrying around. These creatures will subconsciously release electricity when they are frightened, and each time the electric snake discharges, it usually takes 24 hours before it can be released again, so this period is a safe period to catch them.

At the same time, due to the social nature of electric snakes, they will always affect innocent compatriots when they discharge. It didn't take long for electric snakes that had been electrocuted by corona released to their compatriots to the surface, and Jorah immediately cast a net to catch them, but in a few moments, the electric snakes in the cabin were already piled up. Seeing this, Kedar smiled and said, "It seems that today is also a good harvest day." ”

Jorah looked at Kedar and said, "Dad, weishenme, don't you tell everyone how to catch the electric snake." Wouldn't that make life easier for everyone?"

Chora had asked the question more than once, but each time Kordar avoided answering. Hearing his son ask this question again today, Kedar sighed lightly and said, "Son, I admit that I am selfish, and I don't want this method to be known to everyone, so every time we go to sea, we have to stay away from the island and avoid their sight." However, have you ever thought that if everyone knew about this method and went on a hunt for electric snakes, we would soon run out of food? And even if the number of electric snakes is so large, it is inexhaustible for a while. But don't forget, these guys aren't stupid. If that happens, do you think they're going to stay here and stupidly let us kill them?"

"No, they migrate, like the few creatures we've hunted in the past. Then to Zuihou, we will soon starve to death without food. I'm keeping this a secret so that everyone can live longer. What's more, every time we go back, except for our own share, the surplus is distributed to the people in the village. That's enough. Kedar said.

Jorah looked like a big boy, but he was still young after all, and he only knew a little about the philosophy of survival like his father. But listening to Kedar say this, he can also understand his father's approach. So he nodded and said, "Then let's go home." ”

Kerdar stood up and was about to turn the rudder and sail back, when he heard Jorah suddenly exclaim, "Daddy, what do you think that?" Jorah was pointing to the east side of the sea, where at some point a wave erupted, and after swimming in a circle of the sea, it came in their direction.

Kedar changed color and said hurriedly, "Damn, it's a mutant shark! That guy is going to capsize our boat!"

Jorah took out the harpoon from the cabin and said, "That guy bit off your arm! It came just in time, this time we brought back not only a boatload of electric snakes, but also an extra mutant shark, so I don't know which part of this guy can eat!"