Liu Ji was a little annoyed and asked Lu Wan: "Where did you take us to?"
Lu Wan said with a grimace, "I don't know either. Aren't we going all the way north along the coast?"
Liu Ji said: "Now go south."
Lu Wan said with a grimace: "If we go south, won't we return to Da Qin again? Brother, you should think twice."
Liu Ji frowned and said, "How did you know you would return to Da Qin?"
Lu Wan said: "We all know the territory of Great Qin, stretching from the east to the sea. And now, we are right next to the coast."
Lu Wan drew a sketch, pointed to a location and said: "This is the Chu land, further north is Qilu, and further north is Yanliao. We should be north of Yanliao now."
"If you leave Xiangnan, won't you return to Daqin again?"
Liu Ji nodded: "That makes sense."
Everyone looked at each other and asked, "What should we do now?"
Liu Ji thought for a while and said: "Continue walking north. Don't be afraid, I suspect this is not hell. In a few months, daylight will come."
"I'm afraid you haven't forgotten it, right? When we first arrived here, the nights were long and the days were short. But a few months later, the situation changed."
"It seems that the principles in this world are the same, one yin and one yang, one positive and one negative. Where there is a long night, there is day."
Lu Wan also helped: "Yes, maybe the long nights these days are just because of the bad weather and dark clouds covering the sun, so we can't see."
"Anyway, if we go back to Daqin, we will die if we are caught. How about we continue walking north and see what happens?"
Liu Ji hummed and said: "As we all know, without the sun, there is no way for vegetation to grow. But look at it. There are clearly vegetation here. Although it is a little lower, there is indeed some."
The vegetation Liu Ji refers to is the yellow weeds on the ground and some low shrubs.
Big trees can no longer grow in this kind of place.
However, his theory has been recognized by everyone.
Everyone looked at each other, and then agreed to continue walking north to see the situation.
At this point, what else can you do if you don’t agree?
Liu Ji made another wave of official appointments and made wishes, which finally stabilized people's hearts, and then led everyone to head north.
All the dried meat they carried was eaten. Fortunately, there are many animals here, and they are hibernating animals. As long as you master the rules, it is not difficult to catch them.
The group lit torches and walked forward with difficulty relying on the compass.
Along the way, they continue to lose brothers.
Some died of illness, and some died of hunger.
Sometimes a strong wind will blow away several people. Anyone who gets lost can never be found again.
Others were killed by prey while hunting.
In short, Liu Ji's people have been reduced by half.
The remaining people were even more dissatisfied, and they regretted following Liu Ji out.
How good would it be to be a rich man when you were in Peixian County? Why should you follow him to Xianyang City to plot to banish an immortal?
If you are sent to the wilderness in the north, just be sent to him. What's the big deal? At least you can survive.
Why should you follow Liu Ji to escape?
Now I'm fine, I can barely live anymore.
But these people have complaints in their hearts, but they dare not show it on their faces.
Because...most of the people who survived were Liu Ji's people.
Liu Jibi was even more powerful when he first set out.
These people were even a little worried whether Liu Ji would kill them for meat if there was further food shortage.
This kind of thing is not impossible, but extremely possible.
Everyone comes from a difficult background. Who has not experienced several years of famine? Who hasn’t seen cannibalism during the famine years? Even if I have never eaten it, I have always seen others eating it, and I have long been accustomed to it.
So, in order to avoid becoming food, these people began to try their best to flatter Liu Ji.
For a time, the atmosphere of this small team became more and more corrupt.
Liu Ji hadn't found the so-called small country yet, but he actually felt like a king.
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Suddenly one day, Lu Wan crawled over excitedly and said to Liu Ji: "Brother, brother, Xiangrui, we have found Xiangrui. It seems that we are saved."
Liu Ji was a little puzzled: "What auspiciousness?"
Lu Wan said: "A bear, all white, what is this if not auspicious?"
Liu Ji said: "Let's go, take me to see it."
Everyone went away holding torches.
The bear had woken up and was roaring at the people around it.
The people around them were lighting torches and holding rocks and other simple weapons in their hands, which was not much different from using bare hands.
Fortunately, the bear was afraid of fire and did not dare to charge.
Liu Ji immediately ordered: "Who has a knife? Take it out."
Immediately someone took out a knife.
This knife was taken with him when he was escaping. It was used to kill sheep, but now it is mainly used for hunting.
Liu Ji gave the knife to Fan Kuai, who was the strongest, and told him: "We will wait and see the opportunity."
Fan Kuai nodded nervously.
Lu Wan hesitated and asked: "Brother, this is auspicious, what are you going to do?"
Liu Ji chuckled: "God sent this auspiciousness, doesn't it mean that we can survive? Of course we followed God's will and ate it."
Lu Wan scratched her head: "Won't this offend God?"
Liu Ji said: "It's not God's gift, but it's the fault. This is God's good intention, how can we refuse it?"
Afterwards, Liu Ji ordered Fan Kuai to go around behind Bai Xiong and get ready to attack. Others threw stones at the front.
The bear was hit by stones and roared repeatedly. It was afraid of the fire and did not dare to step forward.
It kept roaring, hoping to scare these people away, but Liu Ji and his group had not eaten anything serious for a long time, so how could they leave?
While the two sides were confronting each other, Liu Ji suddenly waved his hand.
Fan Kuai was already standing behind the white bear. He roared and slashed at the butt of the white bear.
Fan Kuai was very strong, and his chop weighed hundreds of kilograms.
With a pop, the knife entered the white bear's butt.
The white bear screamed, turned around and ran away. He didn't even have the courage to confront everyone.
Fan Kuai shouted anxiously: "My knife, my knife."
He then chased after him, hoping to at least get the knife back.
The others followed Fan Kuai, chasing after him feebly.
The bear had rough skin and thick flesh, and it didn't even notice that it had been slashed. It ran away with the knife.
The people behind him kept lighting torches and following him.
The chase and escape lasted for several hours.
Finally, the white bear was exhausted and fell to the ground.
It was hard to tell whether he was bleeding profusely or was dead from exhaustion. In short, he was dead.
Liu Ji ordered people to set up a fire and roast part of the bear on the spot. The rest was made into dried meat, and each person divided a large piece.
After a hearty meal, everyone's mood improved a lot.
Then they suddenly discovered a phenomenon. They were not on land now, but on a huge ice sheet.
There is thick snow under the feet, and there is ice under the snow, and there seems to be sea water under the ice.
Liu Ji looked at Lu Wan and asked unhappily: "Where have we been?"
Lu Wan wiped the cold sweat on her head: "This... I don't know. It's my first time here too."
Na took out the compass and looked at it twice, and then he was confused: "Brother, this... this is a bit strange."
Liu Ji asked: "Why is it strange?"
Lu Wan said: "Why is it that everything is south?"
Liu Ji was a little unhappy: "Can't you even read a compass?"
He leaned over and took a look, and then he was confused: "This..."
Someone in the team suddenly started crying: "It's over, it's over, we have really walked into hell. The monks said that you can only enter, but not exit, this endless hell."
Liu Ji: "Go away, are there such delicious white bears in hell?"
He thought for a while, then suddenly laughed and said, "I understand."
Lu Wan asked hopefully: "Brother, what do you understand?"
Liu Ji said: "Now there is south on all sides, which means that no matter which direction I sit, I will always face the south and become the king? It can be seen that God wants me to be the king."
Everyone was stunned, and then said hesitantly: "This... is true. But... is now the time to consider this?"
Liu Ji pointed in a random direction and said calmly: "Let's go this way."
Lu Wan said: "Is this a way to survive?"
Liu Ji: "I speak the truth."
Now it is no longer a matter of whether Liu Ji can be the king, but that he must be the king. Otherwise, how can we give people confidence? How to survive?
Everyone felt that Liu Ji's decision seemed a bit hasty. Just when they were doubting, a bright light suddenly appeared in the direction Liu Ji pointed.
Everyone looked over in surprise, and they found that the light was like a giant dragon, flashing across the sky one after another. The scenery was extremely beautiful, almost like a fairyland.
"Auspicious, auspicious again." Lu Wan lost no time in building momentum for Liu Ji.
So, everyone was convinced and walked in the direction Liu Ji pointed.
Not long after Liu Ji and others left the North Pole after watching the aurora, the polar night in the Arctic was quietly receding, and polar day would soon come.
And the direction they were walking in was not the way back to Da Qin. They didn't know that they had accidentally crossed a frozen strait and were walking towards an unknown road.
This strait, with climate changes, freezes over hundreds of years and melts away within hundreds of years.
Liu Ji and others were lucky. When they crossed, they encountered a freezing period.
While Liu Ji was still on the road, there were several large ships floating on the sea.
"My lord, my lord, it's not good, something big has happened." A crew member ran over in panic.
Xu Fu asked: "What's wrong?"
"The North Star is gone," said the crewman.
Xu Fu smiled slightly: "Is this worth making a fuss about, idiot?"
Since setting out to sea, they have continued to move southward along the ocean currents, and in the process, the height of Polaris has become lower and lower.
Xu Fu knew that the world was round. When it crossed the center line, the North Star would be blocked by the world and completely invisible.
Sure enough, this day has come.
Xu Fu said to the crew: "The North Star can't be seen, so what's the problem? Don't we still have a compass? Use the compass and continue sailing."
The crew member responded and walked away still a little dejected.
And Xu Fu stopped the crewman again and told him: "Wait a minute."
The crew member turned around and asked, "What?"
Xu Fu thought for a while and said, "Find a few people to draw a new star map."
The crew member responded and left.
More than a month later, Fu was sitting in the cabin, closing his eyes and meditating.
The deputy came over and said to Xu Fu: "Sir, I have always been a little confused."
Xu Fu asked: "What?"
The deputy said: "Now that our country, Daqin, is already rich all over the world, and your Excellency has made outstanding achievements and achieved fame, why do we still need to expend such effort to go to sea everywhere?"
"The sea is rough. If you don't pay attention, you will be buried under the water."
Xu Fu said: "If you don't have long-term worries, you will have immediate worries. If we don't go out by boat now, what will happen if someone comes by boat one day in the future?"
"In addition, the courtiers who are interested in going to sea have built their own fleets. They spend a lot of money and sail with us. If we don't let them get their money back, won't they lose face to the banished immortal?"
The deputy gave a wry smile: "But where are we going?"
Xu Fu pointed to a huge chart and said: "Look, this is the land we have discovered, and these are ocean currents. Have you noticed that this ocean current is a bit strange? Why did he turn a corner here? Let our ship go this way?"
"According to Shangjun Courtyard's research, the ocean currents are affected by land and monsoons. According to the monsoons, the ocean currents should not follow this direction, so I boldly speculate that there is land nearby. And it is not small."
When the two of them were talking about this, suddenly the originally sunny sky became covered with dark clouds, and then it started pouring rain.
Suddenly there was a burst of lightning and thunder, and a strong wind blew up.
The surrounding waves came one after another, and these big ships suddenly became like small leaves, swaying left and right in the waves.
The ships led by Xu Fu were okay, after all, they had seen the big world.
As for the ships organized by the powerful, there were sounds of howling ghosts and wolves.
Gradually, amid strong winds and huge waves, the fleet was separated.
Several more ships continued to drift south, and several ships headed northeast.
Among the ships heading northeast, Xu Fu was clearly there.
When the wind stopped, Xu Fu ordered people to check the equipment on the ship. In the end, it was discovered that the sail was broken and it could only float along the ocean current wherever it went.
Xu Fu looked at the endless sea water and sighed: "We are about to see a new continent, but unfortunately, we have no chance of meeting it."
Xu Fu passed by the continent in the South Pacific, but he was destined to encounter another, larger continent.
But before he gets there, he has to survive.
After all, the sail was broken and their ship almost lost power.
Fortunately, the people on the boat were all experienced sailors. They tried to repair the sail while using nets to catch fish, and finally cut off the food supply.
Moreover, they also used sunlight to distill seawater based on the knowledge taught by Shangjun Courtyard.
