Chapter 27: Arrive in Yingzhou * Ask for a monthly ticket]
"How long has it been?" Wu Chenzi asked at the Six Sword Nu.
"Seventeen hours!" Xinghong, the master of Zhengang Sword, said, looking at the timer.
"So short?" Wu Chenzi was a little surprised. In 17 hours, it was only 34 hours, and it was more than a day.
"This is because we don't have an accurate chart and need to be careful of the reefs everywhere to slow down." Baiyue Ship Master said proudly.
People in the Central Plains, not to mention running so far, there are few boats that can go out to sea, let alone crossing a strait like them.
Of course, the premise is that the Qi State hosts who had the precise positioning of the fifth day of Humane Order, they walked in this direction so that they could find this island so quickly, otherwise they would have been lost on the sea long ago.
"You have never been so far before?" Wu Chenzi looked at Baiyue's ship masters and asked curiously. Why didn't Baiyue go out to sea with such boating skills?
"The sea is dangerous and requires awe. As long as you get lost at sea, it doesn't take too long. Two or three hours is enough to bury the entire ship in the sea, so we rarely leave the inherent chart address." The captain replied.
Wu Chenzi nodded. The sea ships were not built casually for Baiyue. The entire Baiyue was only three such sea ships, and it was impossible for Baiyue to bear the loss of one.
Moreover, this is different from the satellite positioning that will not be trekked in later generations. In this era, once you lose your direction at sea, it will be the ending of the entire ship being buried in the sea and becoming a ghost ship.
"See a way to find a place to dock!" Wu Chenzi ordered as he looked at the coastline near in front of him.
It is not easy to dock when sailing. If the waterline is insufficient, it is difficult for such a sea boat to dock. Forcibly docking will only cause damage to the bottom of the ship.
"Suddenly I miss Master Lei Zhenzi a little!" Wu Chenzi thought as he watched Baiyue sailors jump into the sea to check the depth of the water and the reefs.
If the Korean team led by Bai Yunzi was there, no one would need to go into the water to investigate. The javelins were thrown down one by one, which was comparable to sonar detection. How could it be so troublesome?
"It's OK!" Finally, the sailor returned to the ship, guiding the ship forward, and finally landed on the dock and broke down.
It's just that unlike artificially built ferries, their way to get off the boat is not to pedals to the shore, but to find a place to break down, and then a group of people go into the water and swim ashore.
In other words, Wu Chenzi and others are all masters above the heavens, so they all walk on the water. Of course, it is because the docking place is less than ten feet away from the beach, otherwise they would have to go into the water and swim ashore with the Baiyue boat masters.
"So desolate!" Wu Chenzi looked at the surroundings with no one, and there were dense jungles everywhere. It was not easy for them to find the one in Qi State.
"Leave a team of people to guard the ship here, and the others will go ashore together, and temporarily station them first!" Wu Chenzi continued to order.
"No!" Their trip was a team of three small boats on the seaside tower ship, so there were 400 people. Except for leaving a team of 100 people waiting on the four boats, the other 300 people got off the boat and went ashore.
"This is Yingzhou!" said the captain of the tower, looking at the ground beneath his feet.
"Yes, this is Yingzhou!" Wu Chenzi nodded. Taiwan was called the Island Yi in the Spring and Autumn Period, Yingzhou in the Qin Dynasty, and Yizhou in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
However, even if the Baiyue people knew about the existence of Yingzhou, they were not very interested. After all, they had not been able to develop such a large territory as Baiyue. If they came here again, they would be full and full.
The most important reason why they came here with great enthusiasm was that Yingzhou is one of the three immortal mountains overseas, and there are places where gods live.
But after they went to the island, they were numb. There were no immortal caves, jade halls, and spiritual grass and fairy birds in their imagination. All they had was the same bushes as their Baiyue.
The huge psychological gap made everyone feel indifferent and they lost interest in anything they did. They just came back bored with dry firewood to build a fire.
"Let's set off fireworks and fire signals!" Wu Chenzi looked at the Six Sword Nu and said. The chart only gave them a starry sky positioning, so the specific location still has an error of dozens or even hundreds of miles.
"No!" The master of Zhengang took out a firework and lit a loud sound in an instant. The fireworks rose into the sky and exploded into the Qin character with a large seal script.
However, after waiting for a long time, there was no fireworks response. It was obvious that the two teams were still far apart.
The next morning, the group began to move along the coastline, because the team must have been waiting for them on the coast, otherwise they would not be able to find them even if they entered the land.
"What is that?" The Baiyue Warrior, who was in charge of opening the way, looked at an animal that looked like a deer but not like a deer that appeared in the woods and held the bow and arrow in his hand vigilantly.
The yellow-haired animal, which looked like a deer's short tail, was frightened, and its tail exploded instantly, turning into a white area and fleeing into the jungle.
The Baiyue Warriors put down their bows and arrows and did not pursue them. The Baiyue Warriors knew the dangers of the jungle and would not easily provoke these unknown things.
But they didn't go to provoke it, but the deer-like animal ran back soon, looking at the group of people curiously, and then ran away.
"What!" Wu Chenzi also received the report, and then came, and saw the deer-like animal with four or five similar species back together, watching the group break through the obstacles and open the way.
"I can't help it!" said a Baiyue Warrior in charge of alertness.
This animal actually came over and over again, and he was sure that it was the same one, so he didn't count it himself, and he also brought the same one.
"Silly roe deer?" Wu Chenzi was stunned. Isn't this thing only available in the north of Yan State? Why can it also exist in Yingzhou!
"Shoot!" The four Baiyue warriors in charge of alert did not swear to these roe deer. The bow and arrow flew out and accurately shot three silly roe deer, but they still let two escape.
"I have meat to eat!" The four warriors went up and carried back the roe deer who was shot and fell to the jungle, and said with a silly smile.
However, before they could be happy, the others pointed behind them.
"I... Ni... Ma, aren't you afraid of death?" The four of them turned around and found that the two roe deer who had been lucky enough to die appeared in place again, looking at them with confusion.
"If you eat this thing, you will make people stupid!" Wu Chenzi was speechless. He had heard that animals like roe deer had a worrying IQ. If they were beaten, they would come back and ask, did you hit me just now? But this was the first time I saw it, and it truly reflected that sentence.
"Swoosh~" Two more arrows were shot, and one arrow cut the throat. The Baiyue archers were not boasting, and the two silly roe deer finally fell into the jungle.
"Is this thing really edible?" Everyone looked at the five silly roe deer shot to death, looked at Wu Chenzi in confusion and asked.
If you eat such a stupid thing, will you become stupid? After all, humans are used to replenishing whatever they eat, but if you eat this thing, you may make people stupid!
"This thing is a relative of the elk, but it was mutated because it was too stupid!" Wu Chenzi thought about it and explained.
Roe deer is indeed a type of deer, and elk has a high status in the pre-Qin period and cannot be eaten by saints. Therefore, it can only be explained that this thing was expelled from the elk clan because of being stupid.
"That's a bit of the blood of the elk. So we can eat it!" When we heard that it was the branch of the elk, everyone in Baiyue was interested. They dared not eat the elk, but they could eat it after waiting. Why do they also have the blood of the elk? Maybe they can get the gift of the divine beast after eating it, and later generations may also be able to produce a saint.
"Eat!" Wu Chenzi nodded. Although he was a little stupid, the taste was still very good.
Three days later, the group encountered an attack and quickly subdued the person who took action.
Wu Chenzi and others looked at the person who was pressed into darkness and wrapped in cloth.
"Big brother!" Wu Chenzi was stunned. This saying was no different from that of the African natives. The only difference was that it was not that dark.
The natives detained by the Baiyue Warriors said a lot of things they didn't understand, but they were slapped on the ground by the Baiyue Warriors. The one who took action was the Baiyue Warriors who were shot by him.
"The arrow is poisonous, but it is not fatal!" Wu Chenzi said to the Baiyue warrior, and then used his life force to help him eliminate poison.
"You dare to play with poison with us!" The Baiyue Warrior was speechless, wondering whether Baiyue was known as the land of poison?
Wu Chenzi was wrong in guessing that the indigenous bows and arrows were also fatal and poisonous. It was just because Baiyue people were the ones who played with poison, so they did not die after resisting the poison.
"If an indigenous person appears, it proves that there will be village tribes nearby!" Wu Chenzi continued.
"I'll go check now!" The Baiyue soldiers also reacted and sneaked into the jungle directly.
In less than an hour, the scouts came back.
"There is indeed an indigenous village with about seventy or eighty people, all of which are natives and there are no warriors!" said the Baiyue soldiers.
"Don't worry about them, keep going to ours!" Wu Chenzi thought for a while and said.
However, because of the traces of human activities, they don’t have to overcome all obstacles on their own, and the speed is much faster.
"Let's put another signal fireworks!" Wu Chenzi said to Liu Jiannu.
The Master of Zhengang Sword nodded and set off a signal firework again.
On the coast not far from their station, a small team of fifty people was instantly happy to see the fireworks that took off. Finally, people came!
"Hurry up, set off the signal fireworks!" Qin Ruishi, commander of Qi Ji, hurriedly said. He had no surname, but because he came out to implement the fifth day of human decree and was responsible for a branch of Qi, he was given the surname Qi by Ying Zheng, so he called Qi Ji, which also means a miracle. I hope they can bring miracles.
Two fireworks bloomed one after another in the air. Whether it was Qi Ji or Wu Chenzi, they all breathed a sigh of relief, and a smile appeared on their faces.
"Let's go! I've found the target!" Wu Chenzi and Qi Ji both ordered, and both sides were rushing towards each other without stopping.
"I have met the National Master!" Qi Ji looked at Wu Chenzi's eyes and burst into tears, and finally turned into a salute.
Wu Chenzi looked at the Qin soldiers beside Qi Ji and hugged Qi Ji hard.
"Why are you all the great Qin soldiers? Why don't you see Qin Mo in the Mo family commanding Baili? Don't you see Taoist disciples?" Wu Chenzi asked.
"Because this time I went to sea to die without life, no one knew what would happen, so the last general suggested that only Qin Ruishi be involved, and Commander Baili and Taoist disciples stayed in Qi State." Qi Ji said.
Wu Chenzi looked at Qi Ji and the Sergeants and nodded seriously. Only soldiers could obey orders such a lifeless thing even though they knew they would die.
"I finally named the name well. There were fifty people when I came out, but there were still fifty people now!" Qi Ji said with a smile.
"A good name, it's a miracle that you can find Yingzhou even when you trek on the sea," Wu Chenzi also said with a smile.
"We found that it has been here for two years, so we have roughly investigated the terrain here and then returned to Commander Baili, but I didn't expect that the National Master would come in person!" Qi Ji said to Wu Chenzi.
They often heard Taoist disciples say that when they came out of the mountain, the leader said that they would take them home, but Qi Ji and others did not believe it. As a result, they didn't expect that Wu Chenzi would come to pick them up home in person.
"The longest length of Yingzhou Island is about 120,000 feet from north to south, and the longest length from east to west is about 44,000 feet. The rain is very abundant, and there is almost rain all year round. There are about 30,000 natives living on the island." Qi Ji looked at Wuchen Zihui's report.
"So few people?" Wu Chenzi was a little surprised. Yingzhou Island was very large, but the natives had only more than 30,000. Wouldn't it be that any army could occupy the vast land if it came.
"Yes, of course this is just a rough calculation. After all, we have limited personnel, but rough calculations are just these people, and they are extremely backward, and they are not covered in their bodies. They are still ancient habits of living." Qi Ji continued.
Wu Chenzi nodded. They had seen local indigenous people, and they were also living habits of ancient ancestors. They were very backward in writing and other words, and they were still in the cuneiform era, which was completely incomparable to the Central Plains.
"What else can I find?" Wu Chenzi continued to ask.
"The fish are very rich, with more fish than the coastal areas of Qi State. Moreover, the island is rich in rare herbs and various animals. If people can be migrated, it will be no worse than those in Shu!" Qi Ji continued.
Wu Chenzi nodded, and a plan arose in his mind, which was extremely feasible.
"Okay, bring the books you have collected and let's go home!" Wu Chenzi said with a smile.
"Cai!" The group of soldiers shouted happily, they were finally able to return to Qin after so many years!
Wu Chenzi's words are equivalent to telling them that their mission has been completed and they can go home to receive the reward.
"You have been out for so long, how did you know that I have become the Qin State's National Master?" Wu Chenzi looked at Qi Ji curiously. When Qi Ji and the others came out, he was not the Qin State's National Master.
"We only set out from Qi and came to Yingzhou two years ago, so we still know the major events that happened in the middle of the country, especially when the Qin Dynasty destroyed Han, Zhao and Wei and invaded the Huns, we all wanted to run back to the middle of the country to participate in the war!" Qi Ji said with a smile.
Chapter completed!