Chapter 150 Meeting an Old Friend in a Foreign Land

Pava walked down from the deck of the galley and pulled up his hood.

The southern sun was warm, the ground was soft and clean, and the sea breeze had a light salty smell.

Pava looked at the other people around him.

The explorers with backpacks on their backs walked together, carrying bows and shields, with different accents and skin colors. Most of them wore soft leather armor, with swords and knives tied around their waists, and they couldn't wait to walk towards the forest as soon as they got off the boat.

The sailors sat on the rocks on the shore in groups of three or two to rest and eat pickled grapes.

In the shadow of the galley, there was a scholar with tanned skin. He set up a wooden easel, covered it with a roll of sheepskin, and used charcoal to draw a map of this new continent on it.

Another pharmacist carried a medicine box on his back and picked various herbs on the outskirts of the forest.

In addition, there were three dwarves who were talking.

Pava had dealt with the dwarves before. They settled in a fortress outside the ghost town of Saniro. Each of them was a good blacksmith, but they were not very good at drinking, and they loved to drink.

When the three dwarves boarded the ship, they quarreled with the captain. Pava was deeply impressed.

The captain thought that each of the dwarves was wearing copper armor, which was exactly the weight of two or three people. So each of them had to pay double the ship's fee.

After the dispute between the two sides, the dwarves helped the captain repair a batch of iron tools and improved the captain's half-body armor. The captain not only waived the ship's fee, but also gave them a can of beer.

Pava saw it and envied it.

If you have a good skill, you will never go hungry wherever you go.

At this moment, Pava attracted the attention of the dwarves.

One of the dwarves came over, gestured to him, and pointed to the front: "You?"

"Me, me, me."

The dwarf first pointed to himself, and then to the two companions next to him.

"Over there."

The dwarf pointed to the forest in front again.

Pava understood what the other party meant.

So he also pointed at the three dwarves and himself, and then turned to the forest: "We go together?"

The leading dwarf laughed: "Yes, yes!"

They want to be with him.

Pava didn't understand why, was it because he was wearing black clothes?

This is a sign of having studied at the seminary. However, he was not qualified to wear the [Holy Flower] on his chest, because for five consecutive years, Pava failed the final theology test.

He read "The Gospel" and "A Brief History of the Tribe" over and over again, and the paper was worn and fuzzy, but in the end he still couldn't give the answer that the scholars wanted.

On the contrary, Pava read "The History of the Changes of Yancheng" written by the prophet Duolunnunu with great interest and recited it by heart.

Pava remembered every fragment in it: the tragic battle of the hundred years outside the castle, the solemnity of the gods conquering the blood knights, the grandeur of the establishment of Yancheng, the pride of the city lighthouse, the excitement of the two cities shining together... and even the tragic and painful last slave era.

After failing the seminary exam in the sixth year, Pava was expelled from the seminary.

He will not be able to wear the [holy flower] because it is the symbol of a formal scholar. He is still an apprentice and can only wear the black clothes that represent the apprentices who have studied in the seminary.

Pava is determined to learn from the prophet Duolun Nunu and write down the stories that belong to everyone so that more people can see and hear them.

…

He was in the ancient beer theater in Yaocheng, listening to everyone talking about the ghosts floating in the theater. People said that it was the genius inventor Mu Ke who had died in the theater.

Mu Ke lost to the previous generation of prophet Hemira here, and his ghost has never left.

It is said that if you play tribal war flags in the theater, you can sometimes hear Mu Ke's laughter.

Pava learned to play songs with horns and conch shells in the theater.

…

In the mountains between Yaocheng and Yancheng, Pava visited the Ascetic Order and heard the tortuous experience of the great elder Yan Jiu. In the ascetics who gave up their desires, Pava saw the tempering of the will by the flame of faith.

They received guidance and gifts from the gods during their ascetic practice, and a few of them even entered a realm beyond the mundane world and possessed incredible abilities.

…

After arriving in Yancheng, Pava heard people talking about the story of the two mayors. In the past, Shangli and Yulian racked their brains to sell various houses to raise funds to build roads and walls.

Because they were so tight on money, Mayor Yulian even thought about temporarily renting the iconic lighthouse to merchants and redeeming it when Yancheng had money.

At that time, Prophet Duolun Nunu was still the chief, and he bought three mayoral mansions in succession. It was not that the chief was stupid, but that he thought Shangli and Yulian were interesting, so he bought two houses to make friends with them.

…

In the ghost town of Sanilo in the south, Pava saw the most diligent sandworms, and also saw the fishmen lying lazily on the ground and being dried up by the sun.

Although he could not see the ghost residents of this city, Pava still recorded many stories there. He picked cotton and repaired dams with the fishmen, and dug soil and mined with the sandworms. When the dwarves pushed carts into the city to sell various ironware and copperware, Pava helped them to count and collect seashells.

…

Pava had experience with dwarves in Sanilo, and he quickly became familiar with the three dwarves.

The three dwarves were named Gao Youzhuang, Wei Ermeng, and Huoshaoyun.

They could pronounce their names accurately and understand simple Yao language.

These three formed an adventure group [Blast Furnace Strange People]. After finding nothing in the Land of the Falling Sun at sea, they went to the new continent in the south to search for treasure.

The reason why Pava was invited to join was because the dwarves found that Pava was also alone on the ship.

This Yao youth likes to write and can play beautiful melodies with conch shells - this is very important, just like the dwarves' ironwork, it represents skilled skills.

The dwarf adventure group asked Pava.

If they died here, Pava was asked to record their adventures and tell other dwarves in the dwarf fortress, so that the name of "Blast Furnace Wonder" would be passed down in the fortress.

Pava agreed.

This makeshift team had just entered the forest when they encountered a strong enemy.

A group of forest wolves paced in the forest, patrolling the territory.

Each of these extraordinary beasts exuded a trembling breath, and there were more than fifty of them in total.

Pava was so scared that his whole body stiffened and his calves cramped.

The dwarves pulled him behind them.

They formed a defensive formation, protected Pava, and slowly retreated in the confrontation with the wolf pack.

The forest wolves did not attack, but just glanced at them and continued to move forward. It seemed that they had some important mission.

The dwarves were a little confused for a while and looked at Pava.

Pava was a little nervous.

This situation... he had never encountered it before.

Pava gritted his teeth and gestured: "There must be something in the forest that attracted these extraordinary creatures. It could be a treasure, or it could be..."

"Treasure!"

The three dwarves were very sensitive to this word, and they became excited.

"Go, go, go!"

The three dwarves waved their axes and hammers.

Pava wanted to say, why not come again next time?

But seeing the dwarves' expectant eyes and trusting expressions, Pava really couldn't say it.

He could only say: "Wait until they leave, and then we'll go and see."

...

Two days later, Pava and the dwarves fled the forest in a panic.

The forest wolves behind them bared their teeth at them, and their green eyes flashed with murderous light. Being stared at by these pairs of eyes made Pava's scalp numb.

He knew very well that this was the last warning from the wolves.

When the wolves saw that they had calmed down, they turned around and returned to the forest one after another.

The three dwarves and Pava started a fire on the beach. Relying on his islander life experience, Pava caught fish in the sea and found clean water in the puddles, which filled his stomach for a while.

On the same day, they saw many adventurers crawling out of the forest. Some fled directly back to the paddle boat, while others cursed but did not dare to go into the forest.

Seeing this scene, Pava and others felt a little better.

In the middle of the night, a man walked towards their fire.

This man looked tired, with many scars on his face and hands. He was wearing worn copper armor and carrying a hammer, which was very similar to the style of the dwarves.

"Can we roast a fire?"

Pure Yancheng accent.

Pava looked at the three dwarves, and the dwarves did not object.

So the outsider sat down cross-legged.

Pava felt that the appearance of the person in front of him was a little familiar.

The long-lost memory was suddenly touched.

Pava was stunned for a moment, then said excitedly: "Are you Mr. Tonghai, the slave liberator? You saved me, you may not remember it, I always remember your help..."

Tonghai was stunned, and the smile on his face was a little lonely.

"This forest has been occupied by wolves, giant lizards and tree people, there should be no slave traders in it. They are bullies and fear the strong, and they are not so brave." Pava handed Tonghai a grilled fish.

The two sides chatted with each other for a while, and Pava accidentally talked a lot.

Talking about Tonghai's experience, he knows more about it than the person opposite him. He fought a roundabout battle at sea, attacked the port three times, burned the lighthouse, defeated the slave phalanx...

"It's all in the past."

Tonghai slowly ate the grilled fish and changed the subject: "I found an interesting monster on this continent. Do you want to go and see it together?"

"That guy calls herself the 'Fairy of the Lake'."

"But she can't hide it from me. She is actually a tree demon. I don't know why she likes to appear at the seaside."

Pava saw that the three dwarfs were eager to try, so he asked carefully: "Is the tree demon dangerous?"

"It's hard to say."

"If someone is willing to be her husband and tell her stories every day, she will be willing to give him a lot of treasures. I think..."

Tonghai looked at Pava.

The three dwarves also looked at Pava.

"What are you looking at me doing..." Pava frowned.

Telling stories every day?

There is a limit to human stories!

How can that be done!