Chapter 20: The Ocean Goddess (Part 1)
New World, Port Gabi, for the first time in two hundred years, Als and Messer came to the same place at the same time.
"My Lord!"
The two most noble church leaders respectfully saluted Annien, and Annien's incarnation face was unfathomable, and no one could see its thoughts. He just smiled faintly: "This time I came to give you a message. I have seen all your hardships to the church over the past two hundred years, and I am determined to deify you two."
"My Lord, I just want to serve you forever," said Messer.
"As soon as you become God, you can serve me. Well, there is no need to refuse. This is my will. Come on, I will take you to see something first."
Annien said calmly, and then a light shield formed by divine power appeared on the body of the two of them. In the light shield, they could fly freely with their thoughts.
The appearance of this light shield is actually a kind of six-petal flower. The divine power forms a crystal-clear appearance. Even in the light shield, you can still feel the golden stamens exuding a quiet fragrance in the wind - this is the flower that God likes. The divine power is between reality and illusion, so the illusion light shield can have a real fragrance.
Humans who enjoy peace on the shore would not understand that now, in the sea, wars are occurring again and again... Under the cover of God's power, all three of them could clearly hear the sound of their fighting, the bitterness in the sea, and more of a desperate battle between the injured and dead fishman and the ocean monsters.
It has been going on for a long time now, and there are still hundreds of demonized sharks and 4,000 fishmen fighting and killing each other.
Just before my eyes, a fishman's rear fin was torn and it made a painful sound. Although there were other sound waves in the water, no fishman around would take care of it because they were also fighting to the death.
Floating in the blood, there were killed sharks, and many fishmen struggled to death in the water. However, in such a battle, they floated farther in the water where food was not enough, and were being eaten by some small fish that smelled blood.
As soon as God pointed at a fishman, everyone in the light shield felt all the feelings and thoughts of a fishman named "Kahug". This is God's direct knowledge.
The battle has lasted for several days, and Kahuge is very hungry, and the blood and flesh around it fills its appetite. Although the divine metaphor does not allow fishmen to eat corpses from the same race and the same church, it still seizes some spare time and tore off a piece of meat from a floating shark and swallows it alive... However, the shark, which had been dead for two days, has turned into rotten meat.
Not far away, more fishmen floated in the water in shattered shape, their bodies were torn apart, their proud fins had broken, and even their scales had become dark.
It looked around and found that there were only four fishmen left in its inspection team, and they were all covered with scars. You know, three days ago, these were twenty fishmen in full!
According to God's command, the fishman kept coming to this strange ocean on a specially made ship. The priest promised that we would conquer this ocean and build it into our eternal home. However, in the sea, ferocious sea beasts emerged one after another, and this group of sharks were just the most powerful one.
Anger with complex meaning surged in its heart, but the tradition formed over two hundred years made it impossible to resist the orders of its superiors - the fishman who disobeyed the orders had long been killed. The fishman's life is said to be able to live for eighty years, but in fact there is no fishman who has more than fifty years.
In the past two hundred years, in the nearly ten generations of fishman society, orders have become iron rules. Although instinctively reminds it to escape to a relatively safe wave farther, under the orders, it still rushed up with the only four fishmans...
It was at this time that the resting fishman sacrifice finally launched the newly acquired magic technique, and a blue light filled the entire area. Under the blue light, the wounds of the scarred fishman were healing rapidly and gaining new power at the same time - Kahuge felt a force filling its body, and it immediately regained its faith in victory and God, rushed forward, and used the fish bones to desperately go towards a shark bone.
On the contrary, the other party's shark seemed to be hit and was so paralyzed that it could not move. It was not until the fishbone pierced from its tail deep into its body that the shark was awakened by an incomparable pain and fear. It struggled desperately and bitten it in turn. Kahuge did not follow the pain on his body. It tried its best to stab it deeper.
…………The war finally ended two hours later, and the remaining twenty sharks were running away. However, the demonized sharks, who already had some wisdom, understood that if they failed this time, it was difficult for them to continue to survive in this ocean, so under the leadership of a leader, they fled towards the distant ocean...…
The priest of the fishman sang the name of God in his heart and then began to rescue the fishman. The fishman's life is still powerful. Many dying fishman have the opportunity to survive, including the Kahug, which God is concerned about. It was almost torn in half by a shark. However, because it is close to victory, the priest still rescued it, and the corpses of the fishman who cannot be saved show the heavy price of this victory.
"There are 2,421 fishmen who died in battle this time." Annien said calmly: "However, almost all of them have been cleared out the most powerful demonized sharks in this ocean. The journey in the future will be much easier. Although this ocean still has powerful marine life, most of them are individuals and have not formed a large group."
"My Lord, how many fishmen are there?" As long as there are outsiders (even Messer, who is also a voter), Alce always calls it in the name of my Lord.
"The fishmen I control were about 15,000. After two hundred years of cultivation, there are now 60,000 fishmen. In addition to 10,000, there are 50,000 fishmen who continue to stay in place, and 50,000 have moved across the ocean. Even with the help of the fleet, there are only 38,000 fishmen who can reach here, divided into three parts, each with more than 10,000."
"The total number is only 38,000, so today's casualties will be very heavy." Alice, who has led the church for 200 years, certainly knows what it means to sacrifice 2,400 years of prime time for a group with a total of less than 40,000 - this means that the group's combat effectiveness and survival ability have been reduced by 30%!
The priest of the fishman finally simply treated all the seriously injured, and many female fishman, even small fishman, flocked to help. The fishman did not have the rules for burial, but he had to bring the corpse of the fishman into a burial cave. This is the rule formed by each fishman group over the past two hundred years.
All the shark corpses were dragged back. Even though they had already started to rot, this was still a precious food...
"Don't think that the ocean is infinite, and the food seems to be very rich, but in fact it is very limited. Moreover, the fishman's living circle is only within 300 meters below the sea surface. No matter how deep they are, they will die. Therefore, most of their living circles are still near the sea, but they must be dense areas of seaweed and seaweed in the sea. This is also the basis of the marine life chain. However, there are not many suitable areas for offshore with rich seaweed and seaweed. In winter, seaweed and seaweed will also stop or slow down their growth, so food is always an important issue." Annien explained: "The most important thing is that without the help of magic, food cannot be stored in the ocean. In the water, no food can be kept from rotting for several months. Especially for meat, population problems are the biggest problem that restricts the development of marine life."
"My Lord, is there any way to solve it?"
"At present, we can only strengthen the trade in sea and land, and in the season when food is short, we can trade from the ground to exchange for food," Annin said.
Els bowed his head deeply, and the clergy had to learn how to figure out God's will in order to gain favor, especially for the Pope. With Annien's character, "at the moment", this means that there are other ways, but the time for these ways to be implemented has not yet come.
Although Alse is Anne's sister, after all, it is already a relationship between God and man. The relationship between the Lord and the servant is simply relying on God's grace and not knowing how to restrain it. This is how Ibani, who has been a pope for 200 years, has been dead for a hundred years. God mercilessly deprived him of his throne and immortality and turned into a prayer.
There is no need to watch the miserable fishmen again. The light shield rises straight until it reaches the water surface. Of course, under Anne's control, although the people in the light shield feel that the light is infinite, mortals cannot see such a glory. The place where they appear is an island.
Als was not very clear about this island. She had been in the old continent, but Messel knew very well. This was the largest island nearby except Duzisbon Island, with an area of ​​8,000 square kilometers.
There was not much development on the island, but a port has been built. It has been about six days of normal navigation between the mainland. At this time, two "Haicheng"-class sea ships have been stopped at the port. Over the past two hundred years, the guided sea ship industry has been very developed. This ship can carry 1,000 tons and is one of the largest ocean-going ship types now.
On earth, there was once a calculation that if a wooden ship was made of, it would generally not exceed 7,000 tons. This is the limit of wood. Now a 1,000-ton ship is the pinnacle of this era. In fact, there are not many Shenzhen-Hong Kong ports in this era, most coastal ports are relatively shallow, and the ocean-going sailing is also very risky. It is not better to have big ships. Therefore, 1,000 tons to 2,000 tons are the most suitable ships.
This thousand-ton wooden boat has already reflected the world's most advanced shipbuilding technology. The movement of wooden sailboats at sea mainly relies on sails to use wind power and sailor paddling. It uses a hard sail structure, and the sail tent has a support strip. Although this sail is heavier and hard to lift, it has extremely high wind-receiving efficiency, which increases the speed of the ship. In addition, there are no fixed cross-trusses on the mast, which adapts to sudden changes in the sea, and is more flexible in rotation, and can effectively utilize the wind from multiple sides. According to some information, long oars are provided on both sides and the stern. This long oars are deep into the water, and the oars are swaying in half, and the oars are rotated under the water are similar to spirals, and the propulsion efficiency is high.
The hull structure was also unique at that time, which was to have multiple transverse bulkheads. The ship was divided into different cabins with wooden boards and sealed from each other. This not only strengthened the structure of the ship, but also had a watertight anti-sinking effect in the sub-cabins. It can be said that with such ships, the conditions for dominating trade between the mainland were ripe.
The most important thing is that this kind of ship can carry 1,000 soldiers, but now there are only 200 soldiers on many ships in the old continent. Before the cannon was invented, such a huge difference in military strength caused the existence of local military strength advantage in naval battles.
Thinking of this, Annien's thoughts were surging, and in addition to the divine power, the conditions for the great sailing have been fully ripe!
"Let's go up!" Annin said, and the two voters and a god fell to the port. They could even hear the footsteps of the port patrol soldiers, the snoring of sailors, and the sound of the sea slapping the port and the hull, one after another, as if this could last forever.
There is nothing on the island, but there is already a magnificent temple that is almost completed. The temple is built on a hill. The main road has not been built yet, but you can walk up the oblique path. The temple has a rectangular building with a porch. The temple is surrounded by colonnades.
When they walked into the temple, there was no statue of the god in the temple. The two elected people were a little surprised. You should know that the statue of the god is the center of the temple. It is unlikely that the other buildings of the temple will be basically completed, and the statue of the god has not been used yet...
Annin slowly let out a breath: "The area of ​​the ocean is three times that of the land. It also has mountains, rivers, forests, and canyons, and has a wider living space and species than the land. However, the civilizations in the ocean are still quite backward, and the dangers in the ocean are also very large, but this must be conquered."
Only people in the 26th century understand the true status of the ocean. At that time, the ocean was developed in layers, and the marine agriculture, called Haimai, could feed 20 billion people without destroying the terrestrial ecology!
Not to mention, the huge benefits obtained by extending to the deep sea and far sea, and rational development, in a word, in the 26th century, minerals came from aliens, but food came from the ocean!
Both voters were a little strange, and they were waiting for their God to explain further.
Chapter completed!