"Guide from the Lord God! Zuwaro, Grandma Island is northwest of here. The Unanga people's small boat can row for seven days at the fastest, which is a distance of about seven hundred miles!..."
"God bless you! Seven hundred miles...if the longship rows at full speed, it may only take four days!..."
"But... distance is not the biggest problem! The biggest problem is that on the route to Grandmother Island, there are no islands or reference navigation marks... It is easy for a long ship to get lost and lose its bearings!..."
"Mickey, no matter what, 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 map! Before the freeze comes, in this last half-month window, I must Give it a try and sail west!…”
"Okay! Zuvalo, I will give you the food and flint on the two ships as evenly as possible... God bless you! May you reach the new continent in the west, and may you return safely!..."
"Blessed by the Lord God! I will definitely be able to arrive! But what if, what if I can't come back... Mickey, the rest of the sailing exploration will be left to you!... This Divine Snow Mother Island is located at 53rd North Latitude. degrees, which is almost the same as the Shengaoshan Island at 52 degrees north latitude. The distance between the two large islands is more than a thousand miles, which is very suitable for building another port. In fact, each island in this chain has a A supply point should be established on the tribe’s big island to be more secure!”
October is coming to an end, and the cold wind blowing from the northeast already smells of ice, snow and storm. Mickey the Knowledgeable stood on the white mountain covered with snow, staring at the exploration captain Zuvallo with a determined look on his face, and did not speak for a long time.
"Mickey! After I leave, don't be impatient. Slowly manage this island chain, wait for the third batch of support fleets, and then go to Grandma Island to establish a stronghold. And the logbook you recorded must be Let the priests make more copies and send special longships back to report back!... You have to be more flexible and decisive, and rely on the kingdom's military and material advantages to continuously marry and intermarry with these northern tribes and annex them and convert them!... Shenxishan Port is a good shipbuilding port, and it is best to build a bronze workshop. The Northland is so vast, send more people to search, and ask about the tribe's rumors, there will definitely be copper, tin, and iron mines... As for Shenxi, The big gold mine on Jinxi Island should be able to gain attention from the kingdom and attract a group of migrating Dingkou!..."
The setting sun shines in the evening, and the snow-capped mountains flash red. Zuvarro, the exploration captain, chattered and carefully gave many details that would be beneficial to navigation, as well as many suggestions for building shipping routes, as if he wanted to explain clearly everything he thought about. It wasn't until the red clouds fell over the sea and the dark night rose from the east that he looked at the knowledgeable Mickey with a sad and heavy face, patted him on the shoulder hard, and grinned boldly.
"Haha! Mickey, be happy and don't look at dead people like this! I want to explore the western continent, to complete His Majesty's divine revelation, not to die!...Haha! I want to be the first one The divine priests who arrived in the New World will forever be recorded in the epic of the kingdom!…”
"Well! Zuvalo, you can go in peace! I will remember your...Kingdom and Your Majesty, and I will also remember you..."
After hearing Zuvalo's words, Mickey the Knowledgeable lowered his eyes and gave him a hug. He was filled with reluctance, gritted his teeth, looked up at the shining stars in the sky, and made a promise in a low voice.
"The Lord God witnesses! Whether you come back or not... among the twinkling stars in the sky, in the epic of this kingdom... there will definitely be a bright one corresponding to you!"
"Haha! Okay! 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!..."
Exploration captain Zuvalo laughed and nodded, looking at the stars as well. The stars in the far north are so bright, like ribbons spread across the night sky, and like islands and seas reflected in the sky!
"The Lord God bless you! Mickey, with your logbook and hymns... you will also gain divinity and become a star in the sky!"
The night on the island is full of silence, like the quietest end of the world. The two exploring divine priests raised their heads and looked at the endless starry sky, just like the endless sea. Zuvalo looked away for a long time, smiled, and left his last words of advice.
"Lord God, the stars are so beautiful tonight!... Mickey, you must write my image as taller, more pious, and more perfect in your logbook! Do you understand?..."
"Yes! I will...definitely!..."
The two long ships of the exploration fleet only stayed on Shenxuenu Island for two days. After much thought, the exploration captain Zuvaros left ten people on Shenxuenu Island to intermarry with the local tribes and prepare for the subsequent establishment of a port. He kept another half of the five hundred kilograms of gold and buried it next to Old White Crow's tribal cave, freeing up a little more load and making extra preparations.
Mikey the Knowledgeable did his best to prepare food for ninety people for two months and sufficient fuel for Zuvalo's Snow Wolf. As for his own supply ship, he only had sixty people and more than twenty days of food left, and he had to return to Kamigayama Port as soon as possible to spend the winter.
Early on the third day, the two longships, one east and one west, separated. The knowledgeable Mickey stood on the bow of the ship, with the white bear Gaowa and the guide Old White Crow, watching the huge Snow Wolf sailing towards the northwest sea and sky. In the cold wind from the northeast, he watched silently until the longship heading west gradually became smaller and disappeared, then he took a deep breath and gave the order melancholy.
"Blessed by the Lord God! Paddling with all your strength! Sail towards the Jiandao in the east!..."
"God bless you! Paddling with all your strength! Look for Grandmother Island in the northwest!..."
Exploration captain Zuvallo, arms bulging, took the lead in paddling. There was both firm composure and secretly hidden excitement on his face. The reason why he ventured westward was, on the one hand, to complete His Majesty's divine revelation, and on the other hand, he really wanted to be the first divinely inspired priest to arrive in the New World!
After all, unlike Mikey the Knowledgeable, he does not have such good writing skills to compose an epic that will be passed down to future generations, nor does he have the connections in the royal capital's priesthood. As a true civilian priest, he can only rely on his own rowing hands to create a new and broad future!
"With all your strength! Stabilize! Hold down!... Hold down the wind, waves and tide, and stabilize the bow of the ship to the northwest!..."
The waves surged several meters high, one wave after another, shaking the entire long boat. But such large waves, several meters high, are already the most suitable season for sailing in this extreme northern sea, and they are the most gentle manifestation of the storm period!
"Blessed by the Lord God! Row to the northwest! Steady, be sure to steady the direction!..."
The Snow Wolf rode the violent wind and waves, heading northwest, paddling at full speed for four or five days. Zuvalo estimated that at least seven hundred miles had been drawn. However, the expected appearance of Grandmother Island has never been revealed in the sea. And the storm season is getting closer, and the waves on the sea are getting bigger and bigger!
"The waves are getting bigger! Listen, everyone, put on rubber raincoats to avoid water, and put on your hat! In this weather, if you get wet by the tide, you will get sick and die!..."
Exploration captain Zuvalo was a little anxious, but his face didn't show it at all. He patiently ordered everyone and comforted the sailors and warriors. For this voyage, the supplies prepared by the kingdom are not insufficient. The rubber raincoats everyone put on were made of the densest thick cloth in the kingdom. The outer layers were all coated with waterproof rubber, which could withstand wind and waves to the greatest extent!
Soon, huge waves came crashing down, breaking through the entire longship and causing it to sink! The sailors who paddled were swaying in the big waves, and their heads and faces were covered with water. And when the big waves that lasted for tens of seconds passed, the sailors could spit out the salty seawater in their mouths and wipe their wet faces. They prayed devoutly and continued paddling.
"God bless you! Look again! Look around again! It should be in this area!"
The Snow Wolf searched in circles on the northwest sea for three more days. But when the sailors climbed up to the ten-meter-high bow mast, all they could see was the vast sea, the vast sea, the vast white sea!
"O God! Captain, the sea is turning white! It's turning white!... In the north, there are ice floes in the north!..."
Hearing such news, exploration captain Zuvalo was shocked. He ran to the side of the ship and looked at the sea to the north. He did vaguely see the distant traces of white reflection.
"O Lord God! White reflections... traces of freezing!..."
There is no doubt that the freezing season in the far north has begun with cold winds. Those flashing whites are large ice floes formed in the cold sea further north, which will continue to float along the tide and wind waves!
Once it hits such an ice floe, even a hard hull made of Mexican spruce is in danger of being damaged or breached! 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 sea of ice waiting to die!
"Damn it! We can't find Grandma Island, and we don't have time to look for it anymore!..."
Zuvalo gritted his teeth fiercely, with a ruthless look on his face. He put his fingers in his mouth, reached into the wind, felt the strong northeast wind, and made a decisive decision!
"Witness the Lord God! Raise the double sails at the bow and stern of the ship! Angle it slightly and sail to the southwest with the help of the wind!..."
"Blessed by the Lord God! Let's go directly to the west! To the tomb of the ancestor giants, to the new continent revealed by His Majesty!..."
"Yes! Raise the sails! Go to the southwest! The Lord God bless us!..."
After a while, the Snow Wolf raised its sails and adjusted its angle to take advantage of the turbulent wind. The long boat was like a slow turtle that suddenly turned into a running giant rabbit, and the speed of the boat suddenly accelerated!
"Whoa! Whoa!"
The turbulent wind drove the huge sail, making a roaring sound. Compared with the strong wooden keel and the tough spruce hull, the kingdom's sail-making technology is much more primitive and crude. The Snow Wolf uses primitive hard sails, made from a combination of thick cotton, treated hard paper, and strong bamboo. With the Kingdom's current hard sail technology, the wind angle that can be borrowed cannot deviate from 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. Just relying on the wind force, the speed of the long ship will quickly increase to fifteen miles per hour! This ship speed is already 4 knots per hour, which is really astonishing for the kingdom's heavy longship!
"God bless you! The sailors rest where they are and adjust the sails at all times! Keep the bow of the ship as far west as possible and control the speed to the south! ..."
The long, icy wind blows continuously from the cold high-pressure belt in the north to the warm sea in the south. Ice floes are floating in the vast sea, and the frozen seas are starting to freeze from the north and drifting towards the warm ocean in the south. The Snow Wolf sailed toward the southwest, raising sails and rowing during the day, and stopping to rest at night. It is like a pioneer paving the way for ice floes, traveling two to three hundred miles in one day!
"Lord God! At such a fast speed and unable to accurately locate the direction...will we miss the western continent?..."
The wind was strong, the waves were strong, and the tide was rolling. Zuvalo, the exploration captain, tightened his grip, wiped the sea water off his face, and stared at the rough sea surface. The fleet quickly headed west and south, traveling for four days and at least a thousand miles!
"O God! We arrived at 51 degrees north latitude in four days! It's strange that as the fleet moves south, why is the temperature still getting lower and getting colder? The north wind has become smaller, but the ship's speed is still increasing... When the ship stops at night, The ship is still drifting southward...Is this?...Another southward current appears under the sea, an icy cold current?!"
The cold wind in November became more and more biting, making people's faces hurt from the cold. Zuvalo rubbed his face vigorously and exhaled a breath of white mist. He frowned in confusion, clearly feeling the sudden change in temperature and ship direction.
He didn't know that the counterclockwise Oyashio cold current was constantly flowing, carrying the coldness of the far north, driving the longships on the sea from the icy Bering Sea to the northwest Pacific Ocean. In fact, another name for this cold current is the "Thousand Island Cold Current"! The emergence of this cold wave means...
"The Lord God bless you! The Lord God bless you! Ah! Captain! There is an eagle! There is an eagle flying over the western sea!..."
"Huh? There's an eagle?!"
Zuvarro ran towards the bow of the ship and looked at the mountain eagle that was soaring in the western sky despite the cold. He stared blankly for a while and suddenly burst into tears! The appearance of the mountain eagle is a clear signal, telling them that land is very close to the west!
"Lord God bless! Lord God bless!... Completely furl the sails and paddle towards the west at full speed!..."
After a while, the Snow Wolf adjusted its bow and headed west at full speed, toward the place where the mountain eagle appeared! The long boat rowed westward for half a day, and a mountain with a height of two thousand meters suddenly appeared in the western sky, looming in everyone's excited eyes. After that, everyone rowed for a few more minutes, and a vast, endless white coastline stretching from north to south suddenly spread out in the west!
"O Lord God! Such a vast coastline!...This is, is this it?...No, this must be!...A new continent! Your Majesty's divinely inspired Western Continent!..."
"Praise the Lord God! Praise Your Majesty!...Ah! Ah!...We are finally here! We are finally here!...After two years of hard sailing, we finally arrived at the prophesied land of divine revelation, the cold and boundless new continent! …”
At this moment, Zuvalo burst into tears and fell on the long boat. Behind him, ninety crew members were also kneeling on the ground, with pious and passionate expressions on their faces. Everyone looked towards the sun in the sky, prayed loudly and fervently, and howled loudly like a catharsis!
"Praise the supreme Lord God, He always protects us! Praise His Majesty the Divine Enlightenment, His prophecies always come true!...Ah!! My divine Zuvalo is the first person to discover the New World!!!..."
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