Chapter 92 3.15 Litchi
Loki had mixed feelings.
The four of them had gone through countless hardships and were on the verge of despair several times. But in the end, whether it was luck or fate, they finally found Xiao Lu's fleet!
For 50 years, the frozen sea surface has been spreading, and even the living sacrifice closest to the fleet was frozen to the bottom of the sea! Looking around, at least seven or eight huge ships were frozen on the entire coastline. Some of them had even tilted at a 60-degree angle and were almost frozen on the sea surface.
The largest ship was nearly 100 meters long.
"Run! Hahaha! Hold on for a while, we'll win half the battle if we find the ship!" The emaciated old man Gore burst out with his remaining strength. He and Loki squeezed out their remaining strength to pull the sled, and a large group of black crows circled around them.
There should have been no living people near this land for a long time.
The last section of the journey was nearly a thousand meters long. When they approached the coast, they found that due to the rising sea level caused by freezing, more than half of the Tang Dynasty ship with a side height of nearly 10 meters had been frozen under the sea.
Using his hands and feet to climb up the side of the ship and walk into the cabin, Loki found that the interior of this huge ship was still the same as when they came. Next to the rudder in the captain's room, there was a half-cup of frozen tea. The navigation log, telescope, compass, hand-drawn map and other items that should appear in the captain's room were all available, all neatly placed in their proper places.
Only people were missing.
Not to mention living people, even frozen corpses were not seen in the cabin.
Stepping on the frost-covered stairs, Loki walked into the bottom of the ship. He found that the size of this ship was much larger than the ordinary ship given to him by the "doorman" of the Illuminati. In order for Xiao Lu to find the "Leviathan", the Izumo Trading Company also offered the highest standards. There are two floors under the deck of this ship. The first floor is the crew's lounge, as well as the kitchen, bathroom, weapons and armor storage room and other places.
The next floor is full of food, charcoal, fresh water, gunpowder and other survival and exploration supplies.
After a brief inspection, Loki found that only a small part of the supplies on the ship had been used.
Under extreme hunger and fatigue, he temporarily did not care about wandering around to explore. The thick ice sheet and the solid outer wall of the ship surrounded the cabin inside like a sealed cave. This is the first safe haven he encountered on this flat ice field.
The weak four people urgently need supplies.
Taking out charcoal and kerosene from the bottom of the cabin, Loki and Old Gore lit the stove placed in the middle of the ship. Lawrence, the ship's doctor, can still move tremblingly, and Emma Waldorf, who is weaker, has not yet fully awakened.
The stove was lit, and bursts of hot air came out of it. The remaining 4 people and 5 dogs gathered around the stove and almost pressed their bodies against it to receive the maximum amount of heat from the warm flames.
They were really too cold.
"Haha! I am indeed a natural explorer! I found supplies and a new world! This is the story I want to brag to the gods after I die!"
The flames restored Mr. Gore's vitality. He laughed, and Lawrence, the ship's doctor beside him, couldn't help but show joy. If nothing unexpected happens, the next second after he inserts the Holy Cross into the new world, the Holy Lord Christ will immediately promote his "Holy Light Path" to divine power!
After a short warm-up, Loki went into the warehouse again.
The food reserves in the ship's warehouse were quite rich. The low temperature ensured that the food was only frozen and not rotten. Loki took out the dried potatoes and dried mushrooms that the Tang people used to eat on the ocean from the kitchen and boiled them in water.
While waiting for the dried vegetables to soak, on the other side, the crystal clear rice had been put into the pot with ice water and was being boiled into a pot of porridge.
Hungry people cannot eat dry rice, otherwise it is easy to burst their stomachs. When the porridge was cooked, Loki lifted Emma's head, opened her mouth and took a few mouthfuls of hot porridge.
She was the only one among the four people present who was not chosen by God. Although her physique was much better than that of ordinary human women, she was still exhausted after running around for days and using holy light spells to awaken her physical skills.
Lawrence, who had recovered some of his spiritual powers, recited the gospel prayer and used holy light spells to try to awaken her physical skills. Everyone worked for half a night, and the girl finally coughed a few times and recovered.
A big stone fell from their hearts, and everyone drank a big pot of porridge. When the others fell asleep in the warm cabin, Loki did not forget to find a few frozen hens in the bottom cabin, chopped them up with a big axe, cooked them and shared them with the five hungry sled dogs.
The temperature in the Arctic Circle is minus 50 degrees all year round. 50 years have passed, and these animals that died naturally are like frozen specimens. The hair on their bodies preserves the moisture in their bodies, and the meat cooked after thawing is fresh and tender. Throw it to the five sled dogs, and they gobble it up, even swallowing the hair.
The only one who didn't eat anything was the living sacrifice that Loki brought along. Lawrence brought the food to his mouth, but he closed his eyes and didn't move at all. Even if he pried open his mouth and forced the hot porridge into his mouth, he wouldn't swallow it.
The stove was lit, and the heat rose in the cabin. Everyone fell asleep due to extreme fatigue, only Emma forced herself to find papyrus, wrote a note about finding the new world, and asked the raven to fly back to the ship to report safety to the brothers who stayed behind. After doing this last thing, she couldn't hold on any longer and fell into a deep sleep.
I don't know how long I slept. When I woke up again, Loki had already prepared the next meal.
After 20 years since he came to the other world, this was the first time he made a Chinese meal.
Loki took out a large piece of air-dried ribs from the bottom of the cabin and cut it into sections with a kitchen knife. Paired with dried beans and dried potato slices, seasoned with spices in the cabin and frozen soy sauce
Except for the lack of scallions, ginger and garlic, everything else was perfect.
A large pot of dried beans stewed with ribs, and a bowl of rice. When the four people woke up, each of them finished a large bowl and finally felt that life had returned to their bodies.
Loki's cold brain finally regained its normal thinking ability.
He first took the "logbook" in the captain's room, but when he opened the logbook
"Fulin", "Black-clothed Arabs", and there is also a "White-clothed Arabs"? What countries are these? ?
The names given to these Western Continent countries by the Tang people do not match the names of Arabia, Egypt, Tunisia, etc. named by later Western historians. The lack of effective understanding of Tang culture made this book like a heavenly book for Loki.
The last page of the logbook records that the "Lizhi" arrived at the extremely yin land. According to the records of the pre-Qin Qigong practitioners, the extremely yin land was an icy ocean. However, this time they discovered a new continent. After three days of rest on the coast, Xiao Lu led an expedition team of 100 people into the black mountains of the island.
Reading this, Loki had a huge question in his mind.
According to the records in the logbook, Xiao Lu's fleet had a total of 11 ships. Among these 11 ships, the "Lizhi" alone had 78 crew members.
In other words, the total number of living people in the entire fleet should be no less than 800.
He only brought 100 people to explore the continent.
So where did the remaining 700 people who stayed on the coast go?