Chapter 1371 Horrible! The Most Evil Dark Place! (Added by Book Friend 201705102)
"Ancestors! I said good things for you... They will keep you as a hard-working sailor. They kill and eat people. You must be obedient and don't provoke them..."
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"Wait until we get to the shore later, and we will find an opportunity to run together!... You are familiar with the jungle, so I will follow you if you run in the forest! I am familiar with the island, so you will follow me if you run on the island!..."
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"The black oil island you told them about... I am not familiar with it, but you are. I will follow you if you run on this island!... Hey, say something!..."
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In the shaking cabin, there was no candlelight, only a little morning light. Shushu held a small piece of roasted tapir meat that had cooled thoroughly, licked his lips with reluctance, and then handed it to the Lokono captive, Akachi.
"Is this?... for me?..."
"Yes! Ayue, you eat it!..."
In the Arawakan language, "Kaachi" means "moon", so the name Akachi is "Ayue". For Ashu, this is a very easy to understand and nice name! Just like the "sun" in the Arawakan language, the nice "Hadali". And in the tribes of the Arawakan language family, there is indeed such a habit, using "sun" to call women and "moon" to symbolize men.
At this moment, Shushu, who was born in the Taino tribe, looked at Ayue, who was born in the Lokono tribe, and Ayue also looked at him closely. They look similar, and the tattoos on their faces and bodies also have many similar features, but the specific patterns are different. And the language they communicate in also has too many common ancient words, such as "sun and moon", "cassava and turtle", "man and woman", "tobacco and totem", "jungle and big island"! And all of this reveals their common ancestral origin!
In fact, their ancestors did have the same origin. They were all Arawakans who brought cassava from the hinterland of South America to the north more than a thousand years ago or earlier!
Then, as the two most important branches of the Arawakan language family, the Taino people arrived in the Caribbean Islands and multiplied and grew in Cuba and Haiti! The Lokono people stayed on the coast of South America and continued in the jungle between the Orinoco River and the Amazon River. The division of the two tribes was hundreds of years ago, when they were cut off by the rising Caribbean tribes on the island chain on the eastern border!
At this moment, after hundreds of years of isolation, the two Arawakan tribes met again at sea. However, this time, the people who brought them together were white-skinned people who were more fierce and cruel than the Caribbean people!
"Huh, Ayonbanan! Flying spirit! Meat, delicious!..."
The captive A Yue carefully took the meat and quickly stuffed it into his mouth to chew, like a hungry mole. After he finished eating, he licked his lips, looked at the "smart" Shushu who looked hopeful, and shook his head and replied.
"Can't run! Can't run to Black Oil Island! There are Caribbeans on the island!... They will catch us 'kaka', we can't escape!..."
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The hope in Shushu's eyes gradually dimmed. The sun in the morning became brighter and brighter. When the Portuguese shout came from the deck, the "smart" Shushu shuddered all over and responded hurriedly in Portuguese with a strange accent.
"Chegando! Coming soon!..."
The news that there were Caribbeans on Black Oil Island was kept in Shushu's stomach and he didn't report it to the white-skinned captain. Even though this quiet and taciturn captain looked much kinder than the fierce and nagging captain before... But the contempt hidden in his eyes, and the look of looking at prey, couldn't be hidden from him, the "smart" Shushu!
"Ayongbanan, flying spirit!... They will eat people in the end, and they will eat me, just like they eat other people!... And that white skin is the color of dead bodies!..."
Shushu thought silently, doing odd jobs silently. As the last survivor among more than a dozen Taino people who were captured on the ship, he had seen the nest of the "white-skinned people", oh no, it was the "city (Cidade)". He was very smart. Under the threat of whipping and death, he quickly learned one of their languages. He also fell from one captain to another, and then went out to sea again...
Countless unforgettable nightmares were deeply engraved in Shushu's mind, making him more silent and more docile. He just silently held the hope of escaping, experienced terrible sailing and storms along the way, experienced the nightmare of being almost eaten again, and returned to the southern coast that looked very much like his hometown, and even met fellow tribesmen who spoke the same language...
And at this moment, he also watched silently as the sailboat left the southern coast of the jungle and left the turbulent Orinoco River. Then, the two large ships adjusted their directions and sailed quickly to the northeast. After only two days and nights, the fast sailing ship arrived at the "Black Oil Island" that A Yue had mentioned!
"Lord! On this green island, there is such a black blank! When the native captives first said it, I thought it was just a small black mud... I didn't expect it to be a black lake, a lake of black oil! It's really a large, evil place with deep darkness!..."
When the "Black Oil Lake" on Trinidad Island, the largest asphalt lake on earth with an area of 46 hectares, suddenly appeared in front of the Portuguese sailors, everyone opened their eyes in disbelief, looking at this "dark place" that was unimaginable even in bedtime horror stories!
The sky and the jungle were reflected on the dark lake, but they were painted with deep black, and even the human figures were dark. The extremely sticky asphalt, like melted black wax, outlined various dark and strange shapes, as if it was a night demon struggling in the daytime. And in the center of the black lake, the bubbling black oil slurry was like the womb of the abyss, nurturing the evil of some underground devil!
And such a terrible devil scene, in the eyes of the Portuguese exploration fleet, was like the darkness of the underground abyss descending on the world! This was like the darkest and most terrible hell scene depicted by the priests, which shocked everyone, whether nobles or sailors, and trembled!
"Holy Mother! Evil! Really evil! Really evil Devil Island!... God bless! Your glory will always protect me on the silver cross!..."
Bruno murmured to himself, and couldn't help but hold the silver cross amulet tightly. This was the last gift Captain Diogo gave him. It was said to be a treasure passed down from Captain Dias' family, and a "holy instrument" blessed by the bishop of the church! With such a powerful instrument, no matter how dark the night demon or how evil the devil is, it will not be able to invade his body or eat his shadow!
However, not everyone has the exorcism cross in Captain Bruno's hand. Not everyone believes in the Lord as firmly as he does. On the contrary, in such a foreign land far away from God, the sailors' fear of the devil often far exceeds their fear of the Lord!
Therefore, when a group of "evil demons" smeared with black oil suddenly waved their weird "claws" and rushed from the corner of the asphalt lake, and made terrible shouts... more than 30 crew members who landed, whether knights or sailors, were scared to death! They screamed hysterically in fear, turned their heads and exposed their backs, and fled to the sailboat that was docked!
"Lord! It's the devil! It's the devil! They came out of the evil black lake!"
"Bless the Virgin Mary! Bless the Virgin Mary! Bless me and resist the evil of the devil!..."
"Ah! Don't eat me!...Ah!!..."
The shrill screams kept coming from behind. The screams were like the bites of the devil, making the sailors fleeing in front flee in even more terror. And dozens of "black oil devils" chased behind, stabbing out their "spear-like claws", and successively stabbed to death the four sailors who were weak in their hands and feet and fell to the end!
This terrible pursuit lasted for a moment, and the fleet had almost no resistance, just running for their lives. Until the "devil" chased close to the sea ship, accompanied by the shout of scholar Martin on the ship, the roaring artillery exploded into the air!
"Fogo! Fire!"
"Boom! Boom!..."
".! Thunder, monsters, sea monsters!!..."
The chasing black oil "devil" suddenly stopped. They stared at the strange ship, shouted incomprehensible sounds, looked terrified at the thunderous roar, and then suddenly turned their heads and scattered!
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