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Hearing this, Steve Trevor already understood that this old man named Zadok was actually making up stories to cheat and drink. Although he didn't know how to sail, he still knew some things.

No matter how you think about it, the small boats of poor fishermen are incomparable with the big boats on long voyages. The experience accumulated in fishing in the coastal waters is not suitable for the big boats on long voyages-but he is here to listen to the story, regardless of the details.

Exchange a glass of beer for a story to listen to.

"Because we fishermen have only been in contact with some small boats, the big boat that can sail long distances in Seignol is very strange to us, we need to learn how to control it from the beginning, and learn how to live on the sea from the old sailors. In every way, those are vital things to keep you alive when it matters.”

"Moreover, long-distance trade needs to stay for a period of time in the middle. Senor also needs time to convert his gold and silver into titles, manors, land, and purchase the goods needed for the next long-distance trade."

The old man Zadok filled in the loopholes in the words and described some details. During this process, Steve Trevor noticed that the listeners showed an impatient look. I think Zadok had already said it before. too many times.

"In addition to learning how to operate the ship and some details during the long voyage, our young people also need to learn to use swords, learn to fight, and learn to kill - according to the old sailors, during the long voyage, it is very likely to encounter Pirates, at that time we needed to rely on our own strength to protect ourselves, and the only thing we could trust was the sword in our hands."

"At the same time, that is also the screening for us by Senor. Either you are very talented in operating ships and learn quickly, or you must know how to fight, have the courage and ability to repel pirates when they invade, neither of which Those who meet the requirements will be rejected, and Senior will not take such people on a long voyage, because it will waste the precious materials on the ship, and at the same time waste their lives."

"However, the selection of personnel will not be carried out until the next voyage trade. During that time, we don't have to do anything. We only need to learn ships and exercise our martial arts. Senor provides us with Board and lodging."

At this point, the old man Zadok had a nostalgic look on his face: "That was the first time I left the house and lived in a dry room without the humidity and smell brought by the sea breeze; it was also the first time I ate white rice. Bread, gammon, large cuts of meat, fresh vegetables and soups, and fish well cooked."

"I've always been annoyed by fish because I can only eat fish every day, but that day I knew I was wrong because I had never eaten fish that had been seasoned."

"On that day, all of us, fishermen from poor fishing villages like me, sailors recruited by Seignor from the docks who spent all their money, all of us were fed up, and we hadn't had it for a long time We have eaten such a rich and beautiful meal, no, we are poor, we can’t afford it, and we have never eaten such a rich meal. We keep stuffing food into our mouths and filling our stomachs. He ate the food until he stretched his stomach to the point where he couldn't even walk."

"Even so, we still can't take our eyes off the leftovers, because we don't know when we will be able to eat such a happy meal again. Fortunately, Senor, who has just made a fortune, is right Those of us who will be working under him have been generous enough to ensure the same standard for every subsequent meal."

The old man Zadok repeated the topic of food, and Trevor understood after a little thought that this cunning old man was actually cheating. In addition to beer, he also wanted to cheat himself of some food .

"Then, apart from eating and training, what happened next to you, about Paradise Island." Seeing through the old man Zadok's little thoughts, he deliberately pretended not to understand, and urged.

The spectators around laughed vulgarly: "Zadok, you tricked me into getting a glass of beer, and you want to trick people into eating it!"

"I'm just recalling what I ate at that time." Zadok muttered, covering up his little thoughts, and then started his story again.

"I remember that nearly three months passed between the beginning of the training to be a sailor and the final sailing, and then after we passed the preliminary screening, a group of people were eliminated, but Senior gave them a A sum of money, although not much, but you can live on that money for a period of time - that despicable old dog has deceived everyone in this way, let him pretend to be a good person, and can continue to deceive others."

"Thanks to my parents for giving me a strong body, I became stronger with the supplement of sufficient food. I was a relatively good group of newly recruited sailors. I not only learned how to maneuver the ship, but also used weapons to fight. I was also very good at it, and I was also selected, boarded the big ship and sailed together, looking proudly at those who were eliminated, those fellow villagers in the fishing village where I was born."

"But if I were given a chance to choose, I would rather be one of those eliminated, because then I would go back to my home, to that poor fishing village, and live a poor and ordinary life instead of that A nightmarish experience that has haunted me for the rest of my life.”

"The goods that Senor transported were some cloth, sugar, books, strange things like cameras, pocket watches, and black slaves. Senor also invited several scholars to his ship and paid them a sum of money. money, but what exactly they did, I didn’t know as a young sailor at the time.”

"At that time, it was the first time that I was so far away from the land and lived on a boat for such a long time. I seemed to be shaking with the waves in my sleep."

"Unexpectedly, Senor's ship did not suffer from a major storm during the journey, and the small amount of rain only replenished our fresh water reserves. Even those senior sailors who had experience in voyages The sailors were amazed at the smoothness of the trip, and the stormy waves, which are very troublesome things for long-distance merchant ships, almost never happened to us, which is something that countless captains can't wait for."

"As the voyage continued, a rumor spread among the sailors that Captain Senor actually possessed an evil witchcraft. He knew how to communicate with the gods in charge of the ocean, and exchanged sacrifices for sailors during the voyage. The success, the success of our voyage, is the protection of Captain Senor's wicked sorcery."

"The gold and silver obtained by Senor on his last voyage were bestowed on him by the gods of the sea. The two ships that were damaged in his last shipping trade were actually not hit the rocks and damaged in the wind and waves, but were blocked. Captain Niort despicably framed them and deliberately let them sink the ship and sink into the bottom of the sea as sacrifices to the sea god."

"Our voyage this time did not actually have a destination. Captain Senor did not reveal to anyone the general location of his so-called lost ancient country, because it was a fiction of his, and it was a place that did not exist at all. Halfway, he would continue his wicked ritual, sacrificing the crew to the gods of the sea for his gold."

"In the beginning, many people thought it was the delusion that the boring voyage caused the crew to breed, and it was the jealousy of Senior's sudden wealth experience-because Captain Senior still had a ship to go back, The sailors of that ship, who were also on this voyage, laughed at the speculation and heard the gossip, and made up an even stranger story in response."

"They made up stories about mermaid's tears and the fountain of youth, two of the most poisonous poisons in the world, but you only need to mix those two things together and drink them to gain long life."

"However, in the end, I figured out that the story about the mermaid's tears and the fountain of youth is actually not a story, but a real existence, but because it is so bizarre, we mistakenly thought it was just a story, including Captain Senor does evil witchcraft."

"The first thing to be verified is that Captain Senor knows witchcraft."

The old man Zadok took a sip of beer, and before he could continue talking, the spectators around questioned: "Hey, Zadok, when you told us before, you didn't mention the mermaid tears and the fountain of youth! The story you made up is too bizarre."

"You bastards, you don't even want to buy a glass of beer. Zadok can only drink the remaining half of your glass. I want to hear the full story, dreaming!" Old man Zadok yelled at the drunkards with his neck stuck. stingy.

But the spectators around did not feel ashamed because of this. Instead, they burst out laughing at Zadok's outburst. Affected by the atmosphere, a smile appeared on Trevor's face.

"Another beer!" snarled Steve Trevor. The beer was for old man Zadok. Although his story was lacklustre, it sounded dull, but at least it was a story, and it was entering Wonderful place.

"Thank you for your generosity." When a full glass of beer was brought to him, Zadok poured the remnants of the last glass into his mouth, thanked Trevor and continued his narration: "I needed to do The most important thing is to take care of the group of dark-skinned animals. They are locked in the cabin, need to open the windows every day for ventilation, need to give them food and water every day, and check their health status. Pick them out and throw them into the sea to prevent them from infecting other animals. Healthy animals are precious cargo, but sick ones are not. Although there are doctors and medicines on board, those are not for those black animals. .”

"However, every time the sick black cattle were handled, Captain Senior would personally come to the scene, take an awl made of pine wood, carve totems of horses, dolphins and bulls on the black cattle, and take out a trident pendant, Muttering words in a strange language and then throwing the sick black cattle overboard—that cursed language I still remember.”

Speaking of this, the old man Zadok said a few words, the words with weird syllables made Trevor subconsciously want to repeat, but he found that even if he tied his tongue, he couldn't imitate those words The pronunciation of those few words is simply not what the human vocal structure can produce.

That language has words that sound like the sound of a natural phenomenon, the sound of wind blowing over objects, the sound of waves and waves.

"Many people are puzzled by the behavior of Captain Senior. Captain Senior told us that it is a ritual spread among the voyagers to appease the dead. It can make the souls of the dead thrown into the sea not be bound by the sea. , becoming sea monsters that set off huge waves, or terrifying ghosts that cause ghost ships to appear."

"However, we all know that it is false, it is an evil ritual at all, and those black animals thrown into the sea are sacrifices to the sea gods, but at that time we still had many sailors who could not read , I have lived in a fishing village all my life, and I don’t know whether Captain Senior’s actions are right or wrong, and whether there is such a custom, but Captain Senior has the experience of long-distance sailing that we have never had. What needs to be paid attention to, I know better than us—what’s more, in my opinion at that time, black animals that were dying were worthless, and it would be better to sacrifice to the god of the sea in exchange for our smooth sailing.”

"It's just that when I threw those black animals off the boat, I saw some dolphins swimming around the boat and following the direction of the boat. They were very active and jumped out of the water occasionally, but besides the dolphins, there were some Weird creatures floating in the waves, those are some fish I don't know, at least their floating heads are a combination of fish and frogs, when I see their weird and ugly faces, I feel like I did It was like a nightmare, and the brain was instantly empty."

Speaking of this, Zadok picked up the full glass of beer and took a big sip: "When I regained consciousness, I was in a dream. In the dream, I saw white horses pulling golden war The chariots galloped over the sea, the horses trampled and the wheels crushed, and the rough seas and waves were calmed so that our ships could sail."

"I told this dream to other people, to those senior sailors, to those scholars invited by Senior to the ship, I forgot who told me, that dream was when I saw Captain Senior The rituals performed to appease the dead, the things I imagined in my heart, and then manifested in my dreams."

"However, some sailors told me privately that I actually dreamed of the God of the Sea traveling—the golden chariot pulled by a white horse, which is the God of the Sea's car. When the God of the Sea was traveling in the chariot, The waves are stilled, the sea is calmed, which is a good thing for the voyager. However, the last sailor told me not to tell others what he told me, because it would attract the sea. the wrath of the god."

"Just like the ocean itself, it seems to contain everything when it is calm, and it seems to destroy everything when it is angry. When the Sea God travels, the sea will become very calm, but once His anger is aroused, there will be sea monsters from the ocean currents. Born, set off waves and storms, and destroy everything on the surface of the sea."