Chapter 1018 Arrival, New World!

"Guidance from the Lord God! Zuvalo, Grandma Island is to the northwest of here. The Unanga people's small boat will take seven days at the fastest, which is about 700 miles away!..."

"Bless the Lord God! Seven hundred miles... If the longboat is paddled at full speed, it may only take four days!..."

"But... the distance is not the biggest problem! The biggest problem is that on the route to Grandma Island, there are no inter-islands, and there are no reference navigation marks... It's easy for long ships to get lost and lose their bearings!..."

"Mickey, anyway, I want to give it a try! We have heard clear rumors of the New World, and we also have His Majesty's divinely revealed sea charts! Before the freeze comes, in this last half-month window, I must Give it a go and sail west!  …”

"Okay! Zuvaro, I will give you as much food and flint as possible on the two ships... The Lord God blesses you! May you reach the Western New World, and may you return safely!..."

"Lord God bless! I will definitely be able to arrive! But if what happens, what if I can't come back...Mickey, I will leave the rest of the sailing exploration to you!...This Snow Mother Island is located at latitude 53 north degrees, and Shengaoshan Island at 52 degrees north latitude, almost on the same level. The distance between the two big islands is more than a thousand miles, which is very suitable for building another port. In fact, in this chain of islands, each has All the big islands of the tribe should establish a supply point, which will be more secure!"

October has come to the end, and the cold wind blowing from the northeast already has the breath of ice, snow and storm. The knowledgeable Mickey stood on the snow-covered White Mountain, staring at the resolute explorer Captain Zuvaro, and did not speak for a long time.

"Mickey! After I'm gone, don't worry, run this island chain slowly, wait for the follow-up third batch of support ships, and then go to Grandmother Island to establish a stronghold. And the logbook you recorded, you must Ask the priests to copy a few more copies and send a special longboat back to report back!... You have to be flexible and decisive, relying on the kingdom's superior force and material advantages, continue to marry and intermarry with these northern tribes, annex them and convert them!  … Shenxishan Port is a very good port for shipbuilding, and it is best to build a bronze workshop. The Northland is so vast, so send people to search for it, and inquire about the rumors of the tribe, there will definitely be copper mines, tin mines, and iron mines... As for God The big gold mine on Jinxi Island should be able to gain attention from the kingdom and attract a group of migratory Dingkou to go there!…”

The sunset shines at night, and the snow-capped mountains are shining red. The captain of the exploration, Zuwaro, babbled, and carefully told many details that are beneficial to navigation, and many suggestions for building sea routes, as if he wanted to explain everything he thought of. It wasn't until the red clouds fell over the sea and the night rose from the east that he looked at Mickey, the knowledgeable man with a sad and heavy face, patted him on the shoulder, and grinned boldly.

"Haha! Mickey, please be happy, don't look at the dead like this! I am going to explore the western continent, to complete His Majesty's revelation, not to die!... Haha! I want to be, the first The god-inspired priests who arrived in the New World will forever be recorded in the kingdom's epic!..."

"Well! Zuvaro, you can go at ease! I will remember your...kingdom and His Majesty, and I will remember you..."

Hearing Zuwaro's words, the knowledgeable Mickey lowered his eyes and gave him a hug. Full of reluctance in his heart, he gritted his teeth, looked up at the shining stars in the sky, and promised in a low voice.

"The lord god bears witness! No matter whether you come back or not... among the twinkling stars in the sky, in the epic of this kingdom... there must be a bright one corresponding to you!"

"Haha! Good! As long as I complete His Majesty's divine revelation, I will also be recorded in the scriptures of the Lord God, gain lofty divinity, and become a shining star!..."

Expedition Captain Zuvaro laughed and nodded, also looking at the stars. The star river in the extreme north is so bright, like a belt covering the night sky, and like islands and seas reflected in the sky!

"Blessed by the Lord God! Mickey, with your logbook and hymn scriptures... you will also gain divinity and become a star in the sky!"

The night of the island is full of silence, like the quietest end of the world. The two exploring priests looked up at the endless starry sky, like an endless sea. Zuvaro looked into the distance for a long time, smiled, and left a last word of advice.

"Lord God, the galaxy tonight is so beautiful!...Mickey, you must write my image in the logbook to be taller, more pious, and more perfect! Do you understand?..."

"Yeah! I will... definitely!..."

The two longships of the exploration fleet stayed on Shenxue Nu Island for only two days. The exploration team leader Zuwaros thought about it and left ten people on the Snow Maiden Island to intermarry with the local tribes and make preparations for the subsequent establishment of the port. He kept another half of the five hundred catties of gold and buried it next to the cave of Old White Crow's tribe, to spare some load and make extra preparations.

The knowledgeable Mickey tried his best to prepare food for ninety people for two months and enough fuel for Zuvaro's Great Snow Wolf. As for his own supply ship, there are only 60 people and more than 20 days of food left, and he must return to Shengaoshan Port for the winter as soon as possible.

In the early morning of the third day, the two longships parted, one east and the other west. The knowledgeable Mickey is at the bow of the boat, leading the white bear Gaowa and the guide Old White Crow, watching the huge snow wolf sailing towards the sea and sky in the northwest. In the cold northeast wind, he watched silently until the long boat heading west gradually became smaller and gradually disappeared, then he let out a deep breath and gave an order melancholy.

"Blessed by the Lord God! Paddle with all your strength! Sail to Jiandao in the east!..."

"Blessed by the Lord God! Paddle with all your strength! Look for Grandma Island in the northwest!..."

Expedition Captain Zuwaro took the lead in paddling with his arms outstretched. There was both a firm composure and a secretly hidden excitement on his face. The reason why he ventured west was to complete His Majesty's revelation on the one hand, and on the other hand, he really wanted to be the first priest of revelation to arrive in the New World!

After all, he is different from the knowledgeable Mickey in that he doesn't have such a good writing style to compose the epic that will be handed down to future generations, and he doesn't have the connections in the priesthood of the king's capital. As a true civilian priest, he can only rely on his own paddling hands to create a brand new and vast future!

"Full strength! Steady! Hold on!...Suppress the wind, waves and tide, and stabilize the bow to the northwest!..."

The big waves surged several meters, one wave after another, hitting the whole long boat and shaking it constantly. But such a wave several meters high is already the most suitable season for sailing in this extreme northern sea area, and it is the most gentle expression of the storm period!

"Blessed by the Lord God! Row to the northwest! Hold on, you must hold on to the direction!..."

In this way, the Daxuelang rode the violent wind and waves, and paddled at full speed towards the northwest for four or five days. Zuvalo estimated that at least seven hundred miles had been drawn. However, the Grandmother Island that appeared as expected has never been revealed in the sea. And the season of the storm is getting closer, and the waves on the sea are getting bigger and bigger!

"The waves are getting bigger! Listen, everyone, put on rubber cloth raincoats to avoid water, and put on straw hats! If you get wet by the tide in this weather, you will get sick and die!"

The exploration captain Zuwaro was a little anxious, but his face didn't show the slightest sign. He patiently commanded the crowd, and comforted the sailors and warriors. For this voyage, the supplies prepared by the Kingdom are not insufficient. The rubber cloth raincoats that everyone put on were made of the densest thick cloth in the Kingdom, and the outer layers were all coated with waterproof rubber, which could withstand the wind and waves to the greatest extent!

Soon, the sky-high waves poured over, piercing through the entire longship and sinking under its weight! The paddling sailors swayed in the big waves, and their heads and faces were covered with sea water. And after the big waves that lasted tens of seconds passed, the sailors could spit out the salty sea water in their mouths and wipe their wet faces. They prayed sincerely and continued to paddle non-stop.

"Bless the Lord God! Look again! Look around again! It should be in this area!"

The Daxuelang searched in circles for another three days on the northwest sea. But when the sailors climbed to the bow mast which is about ten meters high, all they could see was the vast sea, the vast sea, the vast white sea!

"Lord God! Captain, the sea is turning white! It's turning white! ... North, there is ice floe in the north!..."

Hearing such news, the exploration captain Zuvaro was shocked. He rushed to the ship's side, looked at the sea to the north, and indeed saw the distant traces of white reflection.

"Lord God! The white reflection...the trace of freezing!..."

There is no doubt that the freezing season in the extreme north has already begun in the cold wind. Those flashing whites are the large ice floes formed on the colder seas in the north, and they will continue to float along with the tide and wind and waves!

Once it hits such an ice floe, even the hard hull made of Mexican spruce is in danger of being damaged or broken! What's even more frightening is that once a severe cold wave goes south and freezes the entire ocean, the entire longship may be frozen alive on the white ice sea waiting to die!

"Damn it! We can't find Grandma's Island, and we don't have time to find it anymore!  …"

Zuvaro gritted his teeth fiercely, with a bit of ruthlessness on his face. He squeezed his fingers, poked into the wind, felt the strong northeast wind, and made a decisive decision!

"Witness of the Lord God! Raise the double sails at the bow and stern! Slightly tilt the angle, and take advantage of the wind to sail to the southwest!..."

"Blessed by the Lord God! Let's go directly to the west! To the tomb of the ancestor giant, to the new continent revealed by His Majesty!  …"

"Yes! Raise the sails! Go to the southwest! The Lord God bless us!..."

A moment later, the Daxuelang raised its double sails, adjusted their angles, and took advantage of the raging wind. The long boat was like a slow-moving sea turtle, suddenly turned into a running giant rabbit, and the speed of the boat suddenly accelerated!

"Wow! Wow!"

The turbulent wind drove the huge sails, making a rushing sound. Compared with the strong wooden keel and tough spruce hull, the kingdom's sailmaking technology is much more primitive and simple. The Daxuelang uses original hard sails, which are made of thick cotton cloth, processed cardboard, and strong bamboo. With the kingdom's current hard sail technology, the wind angle that can be borrowed cannot be deviated by 45 degrees, and the efficiency of using wind power is also very low...

But no matter what, the wind direction is right and the wind is strong, relying on the wind alone, the speed of the longship quickly increased to fifteen miles per hour! Such a ship's speed is already 4 knots per hour, which is really amazing for the heavy longship of the kingdom!

"Lord God bless! The sailors rest in place and adjust the sails at all times! The bow of the ship should be as far west as possible, and the speed to the south should be controlled!..."

The cold long wind blows continuously from the cold high pressure belt in the north to the warm sea in the south. The ice floes in the vast sea are floating, and they also start to drift from the frozen sea area in the north to the warm ocean in the south. The Daxuelang sailed to the southwest, hoisted the sails and paddled during the day, and stopped to rest at night. It is like a pioneer who opened the way for the ice floes, traveling two or three hundred miles a day!

"Lord God! With such a fast speed, it is impossible to accurately locate the direction... Will we miss the western continent?..."

The wind is strong and the waves are strong, and the tide is surging. The exploration captain Zuwaro tightened his grip, wiped off the sea water from his face, and stared at the stormy sea. The fleet headed west and south rapidly for four days, at least a thousand miles!

"Lord God! We have reached 51 degrees north latitude in four days! Strange, the fleet is heading south, why is the temperature still getting colder and colder? The north wind is getting weaker, but the speed of the ship is still increasing... When the ship stops at night, The boat is still drifting south...is this?...there is another southward current under the sea surface, a cold current?!"

The cold wind in November became more and more biting, and the cold made people's faces ache. Zuvaro rubbed his face vigorously, and exhaled a mouthful of foggy white air. He frowned suspiciously, obviously feeling the sudden change in temperature and direction of the ship.

He didn't know that the counterclockwise Oyashio cold current was non-stop, carrying the coldness of the extreme north, driving the long boats on the sea, from the icy Bering Sea to the Pacific Ocean in the northwest. In fact, another name for this cold current is also called "Thousand Island Cold Current"! And the appearance of this cold current means...

"The Lord God bless! The Lord God bless! Ah! Captain! There are eagles! There are mountain eagles flying over the western seas!..."

"Ah? There are eagles?!"

Zuvaro ran to the bow of the ship, looking at the mountain eagle that was not afraid of the cold and soaring in the western sky. He stared blankly for a while, and suddenly burst into tears! The appearance of the mountain eagle is a clear signal, telling them that the land is very close to the west!

"The lord god bless! The lord god bless!... Completely furl the sails and paddle westward at full speed!..."

A moment later, the Daxuelang adjusted its bow and headed west at full speed, towards the place where the mountain eagle appeared! And the long boat rowed westward for half a day, and a two-thousand-meter high mountain suddenly appeared in the western sky, faintly in everyone's excited eyes. Then, everyone rowed for a few quarters of an hour, and a vast, endless white coastline stretched from north to south suddenly spread in the west!

"Lord God! Such a vast coastline!...Is this, is this?...No, this must be!...A new continent! The Western Continent that His Majesty has inspired!..."

"Praise the Lord God! Praise Your Majesty!...Ah! Ah!...We have finally arrived! We have finally arrived!...After two full years of arduous voyage, we have finally arrived at the prophesied land of divine revelation, a new continent with boundless cold! ..."

At this moment, Zuvaro burst into tears and fell on the long boat. And behind him, ninety crew members also knelt on the ground, with pious and furious expressions on their faces. Everyone turned to the sun in the sky, prayed loudly fanatically, and howled loudly like catharsis!

"Praise the supreme Lord God, He always protects us! Praise His Majesty, His prophecies are always fulfilled!...Ah!! My divine Zuvaro is the first person to discover the New World!!!..."

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