Chapter 632 Goal! Western Continent
"A losing war?" Ling said lightly, "Maybe, but I don't have the habit of giving up without trying. The choice of Hammis? The inheritor of the will of the planet? Yes, I am both. But before that, I was a human first. I'm Zero, a person who doesn't want his home to be destroyed. In order to protect the home where I and everyone live, even if my opponent is Proseus, I will fight to the end of my life. Am I great? No, this is just the instinct of life. Bellafar, what about you? Is the instinct of the Lord of the North Ocean to give in?
In the face of zero accountability, the Lord of Beiyang suddenly exuded an awe-inspiring power. The calm sea suddenly set off a wave of anger, and the power swept across the island, making all life wake up in deep sleep. However, the power came to an end, and Bellafar's round eyes narrowed into a crack, which sparkled with light. Looking up and down with a sharp eye like a sword, Zero can basically feel the eyes of the Lord of the North Ocean falling, and there are bursts of pains.
"You are so bold that even Hammis dares not talk to me in this tone, not to mention that you still blame me?" Bellafar suddenly laughed, and the laughter was full of disdain. He turned into angrily and said, "What do you know? Human beings, you have no idea what you are facing? Prosius is not as simple as you think, no matter how you define it! Besides, even if it chooses a knight, I'm afraid you are not his opponent. These strong guys can't be defeated if I don't give in. These are all bullshit!"
"So you don't know human beings, Bellafar. We may be small, or we may not be able to do it. But we have never given up struggle and resistance for a moment. No matter what we are facing, giving up is never our first choice. Zero was not afraid to face the eyes of the Lord of Beiyang. He stood up and said, "However, I also respect your choice. Bellafar, the brave lord of the Northern Ocean. Goodbye. I hope the next time we meet is not on the battlefield.
"What if it is?"
Zero calmly said, "I will kill you."
Bellafar seemed to hear some funny jokes and kept pounding his hands on the ground. Zero didn't stop and turned around and walked away. In front of him was no longer the powerful life described by Hammis, but the pathetic soul that chose to give in. This encounter is indeed unexpected, but it will not shake his determination. Since Bellafar refuses to help, he will set off there tomorrow. But when he had walked far away, Bellafar suddenly shouted behind, "Sht up! Arrogant boy, do you think I don't want to resist? Do I like to be slaughtered like a pig and sheep, but I'm the only one who can't fight against Prosius and his knights!"
He turned around like a whirlwind and shouted, "So what about adding me now!"
"It's not enough. As I said before, I can't bet on you or you now. I need to see if you are qualified to stand with me!" Bellafar said solemnly, "This era is chaotic, and you and Hammis both want it back to order. So now, bypass the gate of the abyss and continue westward, and you will reach the western continent. There is a country where they are in civil strife. Go there to show your strength and turn chaos into order. If you can do it, I will admit your companion's qualification!"
Zero nodded: "Remember what you said, Bellafar. I will let you see my strength and determination!"
After saying that, he didn't stop and strode away.
Bellafar sat back on the ground and looked at the giant lizard behind him and said, "Damn it, it's really an unhappy thing to be despised by a boy. In fact, I'm not that timid, don't you think, Xiao Lu?"
The giant lizard opened his eyes and looked at the Lord of the North Sea, yawned, shrank his head to the other side and continued to fall asleep. Bellafar stabbed the bonfire with a trident to make it burn more vigorously.
The next morning, Feng was still asleep, but suddenly felt a regular earthquake on the ground. He opened his sleepy eyes and saw ripples in the cup where he drank water last night. He got out of the tent doubt and saw a giant beast coming out of the forest from afar. It has dark green scales and a head like a lizard, but it has a shuttle-shaped*. The glowing flesh is fluttering, as if a blue fluorescence keeps drifting from there.
When the giant lizard appeared, not only did Feng see it, but the soldier in charge of vigilance also shouted: "Yesterday, the sea beast appeared and was ready to attack!"
"Wait."
Zero, who came out of the tent, stopped them and said something that surprised them: "This big guy is here to help us."
Bellafar did not appear today, but his "pet" came. The giant lizard helped them get the Destiny back to the sea. Under Zero's order, the soldiers tied the Destiny with the big guy with a cable, and then the giant lizard walked in front and pulled the Destiny back from the beach to the sea. Only pulled to the sea not far away, when the soldiers put down their heavy anchors to fix the hull, the giant lizard shook off the cable on its body, and then drilled into the sea with a long sound. But in a moment, he had already traveled away.
The people on the beach returned to the fate on the rubber raft, came to the control room, and sat down. Everyone looked at him and said lightly, "We are going to change the route, bypass the gate of the abyss and continue westward. We are going to the mainland of Xizhou!"
Since he promised Bellafar, Zero will naturally not repent. So Destiny was launched, drove away from the island at a constant speed of 60 nautical miles, and headed for the Xizhou mainland. After they left, Bellafar came out of the forest on the isolated island. On the uninhabited island, the Lord of the Northern Ocean has been watching the distant Destiny disappear on the horizon of the wonderful spacecraft that will change the fate of many people.
On the ship, Zero briefly told everyone about the meeting with Bellafar last night and said, "In a word, we should stay on the West Continent for a period of time. The Lord of the North Ocean, whether it is personal force or his underwater kingdom, is the force we must fight for. If he stands on our side, the vast sea will be allowed to cross.
"Of course, we can't break into the western continent so rashly. In a word, ask for information first, at least we need to figure out what's going on on that continent!"
The West Continent is suspended like a star in the endless radiation sea, while the surrounding islands, large and small, defend it like satellites. Because of the existence of islands, the flow of the inland sea also complicates the flow of the sea, thus forming unique bays or canyons. On this satellite belt, or the surrounding island environment is also more difficult. They are barren places that the Pope's Hall doesn't want to see, and even pirates don't want to visit these outer islands. After all, the oil and water retrieved by robging them is not enough for the cost of sailing, so no one is willing to do this. As a result, although the residents of these outer islands live a difficult life, they are not as likely to beware of the haunted pirates.
In many outer islands facing the east, there is an island called "Yellow Sand Island". The area of this island is not small, the shape of the island is shuttle-shaped, and the north and south ends are nearly 100 kilometers long. But the area of the island is not small, but the place where people can live can only barely live at the north and south ends of the island, that is, the two shuttle points. There is no reason, because the central part of the island is a desert. There is no grass there, and only dangerous mutant sand lizards and fire ants can survive there.
The residents of Huangsha Island basically live on the coast at both ends of the island, and this place is naturally not comfortable. Originally, the island was on the periphery of the island satellite belt, and they lived by the sea. Fortunately, in case of stormy weather, the sea will pour into the edge of the island, which is undoubtedly a terrible torrent disaster for residents.
In order to survive, the people on the island have to build their houses on towering and strong coconut trees, forming the unique tree house style of Huangsha Island. The residents of the island, like the people of other islands, basically make a living by fishing. It's just that the people of the inner island can sell these mutan creatures in the sea to merchants in exchange for food, but the people of the outer island use these mutan creatures as food.
However, contaminated by the sea of radiation, the aquatic organisms here are basically full of deadly radiation. But even so, in the case of food shortage, the residents of the island would rather be poisoned than starve to death. After years of exploration of food, many people have died, but they found that some parts of aquatic organisms do not contain radiation or have very little content. This part of the meat became extremely precious food, and they barely survived the people on the island.
Near Huangsha Island, there is a large number of aquatic organisms, and the residents of the island call them electric snakes. Electric snakes are actually a new species evolved from the old electric eel. Electric eel is a creature living in fresh water, while electric snakes are the product of more than ten generations of evolution based on their genes. Electric snakes can survive in the sea, and their bodies have evolved into a flat shape to adapt to the water pressure in the sea. The degenerated dorsal and tail fins of electric eel have re-evolved and evolved an electric storage organ in the body.
In weekdays, electric snakes can store the generated biological energy in that special organ by swimming. When catching prey or encountering danger, the electric storage organ can convert the daily stored biological energy into high-voltage electricity and release it at one time. The power that an adult electric snake can release is up to thousands of volts in an instant, which is enough to electrocut people. Therefore, near the Yellow Sand Island, the electric snake is a dangerous creature. However, electric snakes have a muscle with very little radiation content under their abdomen, which is edible. Compared with several other edible creatures, electric snakes have the largest amount of meat. Coupled with their large number, it has become the main food for the islanders. Of course, it is also risky to catch them, and many residents die under the high-voltage electricity every year.
Gradually, the number of men on the island began to decrease, and women had to go to sea to work. It can be predicted that if this condition does not improve, there will be no human on Huangsha Island within ten years.
But now, there are still two or three hundred people living on both ends of the island, of which only more than 70 are adult men, and the rest are basically old people, women and children. Under increasingly difficult conditions, not only women have to start going to sea, but even older children are no exception.
Jola has just turned thirteen years old this year, and in the new era, such an age has already meant adulthood. So at the beginning of this year, he followed his father Kedal to the sea. Kedal is a famous electric snake killer on the island, and his superb hunting skills can always bring back enough food for the residents. However, in a sea operation last year, when catching an electric snake, it was suddenly attacked by a mutatic shark. Later, he narrowly picked up his life and lost an arm.
So now Kedal's wish is to teach his skills to his son Jora so that he can go to sea instead of himself. Before Jorah became an adult, Kedal had begun to train his son. And it turns out that Jora is also very talented in this regard. After going to sea with his father this year, after several practices, he has basically mastered the trick of catching electric snakes.
Now, the father and son go to sea. Kedal is basically helping Jola, and the capture homework is done by his son alone. The grinding of the sea and the hardships of life have made this 13-year-old child have the courage and responsibility of a man. For more than half a year, Jora has grown tall, strong and strong, and even those mutatic tissues seem to be thicker than others.
The day was calm, and Kedal and his son pushed the boat into the sea again. They used a sloop. There was a fish tank on the boat, which could hold hundreds of electric snakes. Every time I return, the fish cabin will always be full of electric snakes, and Jora believes that today will be no exception.
The sailboat carried the father and son to the daily work area, and Jorah began to wear special work clothes to prepare for fishing. Electric snakes are a habit of sleeping during the day and moving at night. Compared with the day, they are more active and dangerous at night. And like now, these guys are sleeping lazily in the sea. They are a gregarious creature, which is tightly intertwined in both sleep and activity. For hunters, it saves a lot of trouble.
Jora took out some coconuts from the boat. In fact, these are just the shells of coconuts. After the coconut is ripe, the Jora family will use a sharp tool to make a mouth at one end of the fruit. The coconut inside can be poured out and eaten, and the pulp can be dug out with tools. Coconut is also one of the important foods on the island, but you can't eat too much fruit, otherwise it will cause diarrhea and other diseases. There is a lack of medical equipment and doctors on the island, and no matter how inconspicuous the disease is, it can sometimes kill people.
As for the shell, Kedal and Jorah will convert them into bombs by earth. Of course, these bombs are not used to blow up people, but to blow up electric snakes. And the amount of explosives is not enough to kill, just to scare the sleeping electric snake for easy fishing. At this moment, Jora tied several coconut bombs into a string and threw them into the sea. Before long, several columns of water immediately exploded on the sea. The water column is small enough to wake up the sleeping electric snake. Now the sea has been in a mess, and the electric snake that was frightened by the coconut explosion is rushing around. These guys subconsciously release an electric current as soon as they are frightened, and the electric snake usually takes 24 hours to release them again every time they discharge, so this period becomes a safe period to catch them.
At the same time, due to the gregarious nature of electric snakes, they will always affect innocent compatriots when they discharge. Before long, the electric snakes that had been electrocuted by the current released by her compatriots kept rising out of the sea. Jola immediately cast a net to catch them, but for a moment, the electric snakes in the cabin were already piled up. Seeing this, Kedal laughed and said, "It seems that today is also a harvest day."
Jora looked at Kedal and said, "Dad, why don't you tell everyone how to catch electric snakes. In this way, can't everyone's life be easier?
Jorah has mentioned this question more than once, but every time Kedal avoids answering it. Today, when I heard my son ask this question again, Kedal sighed and said, "Son, I admit that I am selfish and don't want this method to be known to everyone, so every time we go to sea, we have to stay away from the island and avoid their sight. However, have you ever thought that if everyone knew this method and caught the electric snake, we would soon eat up all the food? And even if the number of electric snakes is so large, it is inexhaustible. Don't forget that these guys are not stupid. In case this happens, do you think they will continue to stay here and let us kill?
"No, they will migrate, just like several creatures we have caught before. Then in the end, we will soon starve to death without food. I keep this secret in order to make everyone live longer. What's more, every time we go back, except for our own share, the extra is given to the villagers. That's enough." Kedal said so.
Jorah looks like a big boy, but after all, he is still young. He only knows little about survival philosophy like his father. However, listening to Kedal's words, he can also understand his father's behavior more or less. So he nodded and said, "Then let's go home."
When Kedal stood up happily and was about to turn the rudder back, he heard Jora suddenly shout, "Dad, what do you think that is?" Jorah was pointing to the east side of the sea, where a wave spewed out at some point and swam around the sea and hit them in this direction.
Kedal changed his color and said urgently, "Daw, it's a mutatic shark! Come on, we can't stay here anymore. That guy will overturn our boat!"
Jora took out the harpoon from the cabin and said, "That guy bit off your arm!" It came just right. This time we not only brought back a boat of electric snakes, but also brought an extra mutable shark. I don't know which part of this guy can eat!"