"Another one is back..."
Ella counted the number of pirates in this group at about a thousand.
When Ella made the plan to disguise herself as a merchant ship and sneak across the Black Sea Strait, a full 10,000 people were involved. But only more than 2,000 people managed to reach Sicily, and nearly 8,000 people ran away to rob other places halfway. After leaving the island republic, Ella reunited with a fleet of more than 2,000 people, bringing the total strength to 5,000, but nearly half of the soldiers were still missing. Even if we add this group of 1,000 people, there are still 4,000 soldiers who have gone somewhere.
"They actually brought back a war elephant. Could it be that they went to Africa? Are these pirates planning to travel around the Mediterranean...?"
This is the second one. The biggest problem is that this group of pirates are actually riding the kind of short long ship that is common in pirate kingdoms. When Ella made the plan to smuggle across the border, she used fifty-one large merchant ships docked in Azov City!
This strange group of pirates attracted the onlookers of the citizens of Delphi. One pirate bowed with both hands to the surrounding citizens, and then said in a strange accent: "My friends, do you know Which way is the island republic going?”
"You still know that you are going to the Island Republic!"
Ella rushed forward menacingly. The pirates were very happy to see Ella, and bowed with both hands: "Our respectable King of Sweden..."
"Speak to me normally! How did your ship become like this? Where is the merchant ship I arranged for you?"
"Merchant ship? It's so uncomfortable to be crowded!" said a pirate, "We left Azov City after you, King of Sweden, set off. The ships in the past few days were fine, so we thought we might as well just use our own ship. Anyway, being able to get out after being intercepted is better than being squeezed into a box! As expected, the Qiqiu Empire did not intercept us and just let us go!"
"How could it be true?"
If Ella hadn't reached an agreement with Aulus, the Pirate Kingdom would probably be at war with the Seven Hills Empire by now.
"And what? What happened to this elephant? Where did you get it?"
The pirates raised their heads confidently: "Yin Sifahan!"
"You are liars!
! "
If it wasn't for the crowbar in her hand, Ella almost hit each of the pirates with a crowbar. Yinsfahan is the capital of the Tianfang Empire. It is heavily guarded and the journey is long. There are also steep mountains along the way. No matter how capable the pirates are, they cannot carry a long ship all the way across the Zagros Mountains.
The group of pirates looked at each other and said, "We are thinking we have arrived at Yinsfahan...actually, it is almost near Yinsfahan, right?"
Ella said angrily: "Okay, then tell me, how did you get to Yinsfahan?"
"Because the King of Sweden told you not to rob the Seven Hills Empire, we didn't know where the borders of the Seven Hills Empire were, so we kept drifting on the sea. Later, when we ran out of food, we just found a place to land. There are many uses there. There are triangular towers piled with big rocks, and strange statues with human heads, lying like lions... That city is so big, we think it must be the city of Bethlehem under the control of the Tianfang Empire. .”
"It's weird that it's Bethlehem City! Even Amy knows it's Cairo! You've gone to the territory of the Holy Kingdom of Efilika!"
Amy asked in a daze: "Your Majesty... where is Cairo? Why do you know that is Cairo? And where is Bethlehem? I've never heard of it?"
"Okay... pretend I didn't say it. You guys arrive in Cairo, what happens next?"
"So it's Cairo?" The group of pirates scratched their heads, "We were still thinking that we have arrived at the Tianfang Empire anyway. If we want to do something, we can do it with a big ticket. We will go directly to Yinsfahan to have a look!"
"This is the first time I've heard that someone could run from Cairo to Yinsfahan without stopping! Even if you say you ran away to Baghdad, I will believe you!"
"We didn't know the road, so we could only ask local residents Yinsfahan how to get there. They said that we should go all the way east, take a boat and cross a long and narrow red sea. After watching the sea widen, turn to the northeast, and then find an opportunity to turn back. To the southwest, after landing, we walked a mountain road to get there. We thought that with so many waterways, it should be quite convenient, so we took our own boat and set off towards Insfahan."
"What red sea? That's the Red Sea! No...how did you sail the ship from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea? There is no waterway connecting the two seas???"
"The sea is blocked, but there is a river! Let's go all the way east from the Nile River..."
"Nonsense! The Nile River does not connect the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea at all!" Ella just finished cursing, and suddenly remembered something, "No...you...you couldn't drag the boat directly from Cairo all the way into the Red Sea, right?"
"King Mingjian of Sweden! He towed a part of the way, but not much! The Nile River is blocked, but there is another river there, called the Pharaoh Canal! There is a lot of sand in it, which blocked many places, but after a while, the boat went around it. , we are still on the boat most of the time!”
Pharaoh's Canal... This is a word that is completely unfamiliar to Ella. As for the place behind the Red Sea, Ella knew nothing about it and could only let the pirates talk wildly:
"We went east along the not-so-red Red Sea and arrived at a place called the Ethiopian Empire. The gods believed there seemed to be the same as those in the Tianfang Empire, but also seemed a little different. The people who ruled Ethiopia were priests. John Wang, it is said that he is immortal, but we have never seen it with our own eyes. But we saw a cabinet there that seemed to be very valuable, so we brought it with us."
With that said, the pirates showed the "cabinet" to Ella. It was a wooden cabinet wrapped in gold, with two angels made of gold standing on the cabinet. Two angels face each other and form a space with their wings. From a design perspective, there should have been something important in this space, but it was probably lost and now it's empty.
"There were two stone slabs in the cabinet, which we couldn't understand and were heavy, so we threw them away; there was also a branch, which turned into a snake after being thrown to the ground, and crawled away, which scared us; and There was a golden jar filled with white stuff. It was sour and sweet, but we finished eating it. Well, the golden jar is still inside."
Ella looked around the cabinet for a long time but didn't see anything, so she asked the pirates to carry it down.
"Then we left Ethiopia and continued walking eastward on the sea. We finally came to a big city! Although there was no turning or climbing, the red sea they were talking about was not red anyway. It shouldn’t be a big problem. Moreover, there are really many people in that city and there are stone walls, so we thought it must be Yinsfahan!”
