"A war that must be defeated?" Zero said lightly: "Maybe it is, but I don't have the habit of giving up without trying. The choice of Hamomis? The inheritor of the planet's will? Yes, I am both. But in Before that, I was a human being first. I was Zero, a person who did not want my homeland to be destroyed. In order to protect this homeland where I and everyone live, even if the opponent is Proseus, I will fight to the last moment, until my life Am I great? No, this is just the instinct of life. Belafal, what about you, is the instinct of the Lord of Beiyang to surrender?"
Faced with Zero's questioning, the Lord of Beiyang suddenly exuded an awe-inspiring power. The calm sea suddenly set off a raging wave, sweeping across the entire isolated island, waking up all life in a deep sleep. However, as soon as the power was shown, it was withdrawn, Bellafar's wide-open eyes were narrowed again, and there was a gleam in the slit. The sharp eyes like a sword looked at Zero up and down, and Zero could basically feel the gaze of the Lord of Beiyang falling, and there were bursts of stinging pain wherever he fell.
"You have a lot of guts, even Hamomis dare not talk to me in such a tone, let alone you still blame me?" Belafal suddenly laughed, the laughter was full of disdain, and then turned into rage He said: "What do you know? Humans, you don't even know what you are facing? Proseus is not as simple as you think, no matter how you define it! Besides, even if it is the knight it chooses, you are afraid Not his opponent. These tyrannical guys are not something you can defeat just by saying I don't give in, it's all bullshit!"
"So you don't understand human beings, Belafal. We may be small, or we may be overwhelmed. But we never give up struggling and resisting for a moment. No matter what we are facing, giving up is never our first choice. Facing the gaze of the Beiyang Lord without any fear, Zero stood up and said, "However, I respect your choice at the same time. Belafal, the brave Beiyang Lord. Goodbye, I hope the next time we meet is not on the battlefield."
"What if?"
Zero calmly said: "I will kill you."
Belafal seemed to hear some funny joke, and laughed so hard that he kept pounding the ground with his hands. Zero didn't stop, turned around and walked away. What was in front of his eyes was no longer the powerful life that Hamemis had described, but a sad soul that chose to submit. This encounter was indeed beyond Zero's expectations, but it would not shake his determination. Since Belafal refused to help, he would leave for another place tomorrow. But before he could go far, Bellafar suddenly shouted from behind: "Stop! Arrogant boy, do you think I don't want to resist? Don't tell me I like to be slaughtered like a pig and sheep, but I'm the only one , can't stand against Proseus and its knights at all!"
Zero turned around like a whirlwind, and said loudly: "So what if I add me now!"
"It's not enough. As I said before, I can't bet on you, or the current you. I need to see if you are qualified to stand side by side with me!" Bellafar said solemnly : "This era is chaotic, and both you and Hamemis want it to return to order. Now, go around the gate of the abyss and continue west, and you will reach the continent of Xizhou. There is a country there, and they are in civil strife Middle. Go there to show your strength and turn chaos into order. If you can do it, I will recognize your qualification as a companion!"
Zero nodded: "Remember what you said, Belafal. I will let you see that I am strong and determined!"
After all, he didn't stop and strode away.
Belafal sat back on the ground, looked at the monitor lizard behind and said, "Damn it, it's really unpleasant to be underestimated by a kid. In fact, I'm not that timid. Don't you think so, little green?"
The giant lizard opened one eye and looked at the Beiyang Lord, yawned, turned its head to the other side and continued to sleep. Belafal poked the bonfire with his trident to make it burn hotter.
The next morning, Feng was still sleeping soundly, but suddenly felt the ground vibrate regularly. He opened his drowsy eyes, and saw ripples in the remaining clean water in the cup he drank from last night. Confused, he got out of the tent, and saw a huge beast coming out of the forest from a distance. It is covered in dark green thin scales, with a lizard-like head, but fusiform hair. The last glowing whiskers are fluttering, as if there is blue fluorescent light continuously drifting from it.
When the monitor lizard appeared, not only did Feng see it, but the guard soldier shouted: "The sea beast appeared yesterday, prepare to attack!"
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Zero, who got out of the tent, stopped them and said something that surprised them: "This big guy is here to help us."
Bellafar didn't show up today, but his "pet" did. The monitor lizard helped Zero and the others get the Destiny back into the sea. Under Zero's order, the soldiers tied the Destiny to the big guy with a cable, and then the monitor lizard walked ahead and lifted the Destiny from the beach Pull back into the sea. It was only pulled to the sea not far away, and when the soldiers lowered the heavy anchor to fix the hull, the giant lizard shook off the cable on its body, and then it went into the sea with a long cry. But in a moment, he has already traveled far away.
The people on the beach took the rubber raft back to the Destiny, came to the control room, and Zero sat down. Everyone looked at him, and Zero said lightly: "We are going to change the course, bypass the gate of the abyss and continue westward, we are going to the West Continent!"
Now that he had agreed to Belafal, Zero would naturally not regret it. So the Destiny started, and sailed away from the island at a constant speed of 60 knots, and headed towards the West Continent. After they left, Belafal came out from the forest on the isolated island. On the uninhabited island, the Lord of Beiyang has been watching the distant Destiny, watching that wonderful spaceship that will change the fate of many people disappear on the horizon.
On the boat, Zero briefly told everyone about the meeting with Belafal last night, saying: "In short, we should stay in the Western Continent for a while. Whether it is personal force or his underwater kingdom, the Lord of Beiyang It is the strength we must fight for, and if he is on our side, the vast seas will be at our mercy."
"Of course, we can't rush into the Xizhou Continent so rashly. In short, we need to ask for information first, at least we have to figure out what happened on that continent!"
The Xizhou continent is like a star suspended above the endless radiating sea, while the surrounding islands, large and small, surround it like satellites. Because of the existence of the islands, the flow direction of the inland sea of the mainland is also complicated, thus forming bays or straits with their own characteristics. The environment on this satellite belt, or the surrounding islands, is even more difficult. They were barren places that the Vatican despised, and not even pirates would visit the outer islands. After all, the oil and water obtained by robbing them is not enough for the cost of sailing, so no one is willing to do this. And in this way, although the residents of these outer islands have a difficult life, they are not like the inner islands who have to be wary of pirates who are elusive.
Among the many outer islands facing east, there is an island called "Island of Yellow Sand". The area of this island is not small, the shape of the island is fusiform, and the north and south ends are about 100 kilometers long. But the area of the island is not small, but the place where people can live is only at the north and south ends of the island, that is, at the two tip of the shuttle. There is no other reason, because the central part of the island is a desert. There is no grass growing there, and only the dangerous mutant sand lizards and fire ants can survive in that place.
The residents of Huangsha Island basically live on the coasts at both ends of the island, and this place cannot be called comfortable. Originally, the island was on the outskirts of the satellite belt of the island, and they lived by the sea. It was fine on weekdays, but when there was a storm, the seawater would pour into the edge of the island, which would undoubtedly be a terrible flood disaster for the residents.
In order to survive, the people on the island had to build their houses on tall and strong coconut trees, forming the unique tree house style of Huangsha Island. The residents on the island, like the people on other islands, basically rely on fishing for a living. It's just that people on the inner island can sell these mutated creatures in the sea to merchants in exchange for food, but people on the outer island use these mutated creatures as food.
However, polluted by the radiation sea, the aquatic creatures here are basically full of deadly radiation. But even so, in the absence of food, the residents of the island would rather be poisoned to death than starve to death. After many years of exploration for food, many people died, but they found that certain parts of some aquatic organisms did not contain radiation, or contained very little. This part of the meat became an extremely precious food, and they kept the people on the island barely alive.
Near the island of yellow sand, there are a lot of aquatic creatures, and the residents on the island call them electric snakes. The electric snake is actually a new species evolved from the electric eel of the old era. The electric eel is a creature that lives in fresh water, while the electric snake is 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 the electric eel have evolved again, and an electrical storage organ has evolved in the body.
On weekdays, electric snakes can store the biological energy produced in that special organ by swimming. When catching prey or encountering danger, the electricity storage organ can convert the stored biological energy into high-voltage electricity and release it at once. An adult electric snake can release an instantaneous output of thousands of volts, which is enough to electrocute a person to death. Therefore, near the island of yellow sand, the electric snake is a dangerous creature. However, electric snakes have a muscle belt under their abdomen that contains very little radiation and can be eaten. Compared with several other edible creatures, the electric snake has the largest amount of meat. Coupled with their large number, they become the main food of the islanders. Of course, catching them is also risky, and many residents die every year under the high-voltage electricity of electric snakes.
Gradually, the number of men on the island began to decrease, and women also had to go to sea to work. It can be predicted that if this condition does not improve, within ten years, there will be no human beings on the island of yellow sand*.
But now, there are still two to three hundred people living at both ends of the island, of which there are only more than seventy adult men, and the rest are basically old people, women and children. In increasingly difficult conditions, not only women have to start going to sea, but even older children.
Jorah has just turned thirteen years old this year, and in the new era, such an age already means adulthood. So starting this year, he followed his father Kedar into the sea. Kedar is a well-known electric snake killer on the island. His superb hunting skills can always bring back enough food for the residents. However, during a sea operation last year, when he was catching an electric snake, he was suddenly attacked by a mutant shark. Later, he managed to save his life, but lost an arm.
So now Kedar's wish is to pass on his skills to his son Jorah, so that he can go to sea instead of himself. Before Jorah was even an adult, Kedar had already started training his son. Facts have proved that Jorah is also very talented in this area. After going to sea with his father this year, he has basically mastered the tricks of catching electric snakes after several times of practice.
Now, father and son go to sea. Kedar is basically helping Jorah, while his son does the catching work alone. The tempering at sea and the hardships of life made this thirteen-year-old boy already have the courage and responsibility of a man. Over the past six months, Jorah has grown tall and strong, with a strong body, and even those mutated tissues look thicker than others.
The weather was calm that day, and the Kedar father and son pushed the boat into the sea again. They used a sloop with a fish cabin that could hold hundreds of electric snakes. Every time they return to the voyage, there will always be a full cabin of electric snakes in the fish cabin, and Jorah believes that today is no exception.
The sailboat carried the father and son to the usual work area, and Chora began to put on special work clothes to prepare for fishing. Electric snakes have the habit of sleeping during the day and being active at night. Compared with the daytime, they are more active and dangerous at night. And like now, these guys lazily sleep in the ocean. They are social creatures, densely entangled whether they sleep or move. For hunters, it saves a lot of trouble.
Jorah took some coconuts out of the boat, but they were only the shells of the coconuts. When the coconut fruit is ripe, the Qiaola family will use a sharp tool to cut a hole at one end of the fruit, pour out the coconut and eat it, and use tools to dig out the pulp. Coconut fruit is also one of the important foods on the island, but the fruit should not be eaten too much, otherwise it will cause various diseases such as dysentery. There is a lack of medical equipment and doctors on the island, and even minor illnesses can sometimes kill people.
As for the shells, Kedar and Jorah will modify them into bombs in their own way. 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 be fatal, just to scare the sleeping electric snakes for easy fishing. Now Jorah tied several coconut bombs in a string and threw them into the sea. Not long after, several jets of water exploded on the sea. The water column is not big, but it is enough to wake up the sleeping electric snake. Haixia is now in chaos, and the electric snakes, startled by the coconut explosion, are scurrying around. These guys will subconsciously release electric current when they are frightened, and the electric snake usually takes 24 hours to release again after each discharge, so this period of time has become a safe period to catch them.
At the same time, due to the gregarious nature of electric snakes, when they discharge, they will always affect innocent compatriots. It didn't take long before the electric snakes that were stunned and killed by the electric current released to his compatriots surfaced continuously. Jorah immediately cast a net to catch them, but within a short while, the electric snakes in the cabin were already full. Seeing this, Kedar laughed and said, "It seems that today is also a good harvest day."
Jora looked at Kedar and said, "Father, why don't you tell everyone how to catch electric snakes. In this way, wouldn't everyone's life be easier?"
Jorah has raised this question more than once, but every time Kedar avoids answering it. When I heard my son ask this question again today, Kedar sighed softly and said: "Son, I admit that I have selfish intentions, and I don't want everyone to know about this method, so every time we go to sea, we have to stay away from the island and avoid Their sight. But, have you ever thought that if everyone knows this method and catches electric snakes like crazy, we will eat up all the food soon. And even if there are so many electric snakes, taking Inexhaustible. Don't forget, these guys are not stupid. If this happens, do you think they will stay here and let us kill them?"
"No, they will migrate, just like several creatures that we have hunted aggressively before. Then in the end, we will soon have no food and starve to death. I keep this secret, and I also want everyone to live a better life." What's more, every time we go back, except for our own share, the rest will be distributed to the people in the village. This is enough." Kedar said.
Jorah looked like a big boy, but he was still young after all, and he only had a half-knowledge of the survival philosophy of his father. But hearing what Kedar said, he can somewhat understand his father's approach. So he nodded and said, "Then let's go home."
Kedar stood up happily, and when he was about to turn the rudder to return, he heard Jorah suddenly shout: "Father, what do you think is that?" , and swam around in the sea and attacked in their direction.
Kedar changed color, and said anxiously: "Damn it, it's the mutant shark! Go, we can't stay here anymore. That guy will capsize our boat!"
But Jorah took out the harpoon from the cabin and said, "That guy bit off your arm! He came at the right time. This time we brought back not only a boatload of electric snakes, but also an extra mutant shark." , I don’t know which part of this guy can be eaten!”