The sky is clear and the wind is gentle and the sun is beautiful.
The merchant ship [Enterprise] departed from the Port of Marseille and quickly caught up with the ocean current. Taking advantage of the ocean current and sea breeze, the ship was moving at full speed, and its first destination was Corsica. According to this speed, it is scheduled to arrive in Corsica at noon tomorrow
Ajaccio in Sica. After getting ready from that port, it will take about two or three days to reach Naples. The voyage is not as dangerous as imagined, and can even be described as peaceful. Except for Verne who ate too many snacks last night
Apart from having a stomachache and crying all the way, nothing major happened.
"Corsica!" As the observer on the top of the mast shouted, everyone looked east and could already see the big island.
"What is that?" Verne was probably the one with the best eyesight on the ship. He saw something strange on Corsica from a distance and asked, "It seems like smoke is rising?"
"Is that...wolf smoke?" Arthur squinted his eyes and could barely see the smoke rising.
"How could there be smoke--" Captain Devlanani picked up the telescope and looked at it with his non-blind eye. As soon as he took a look, he froze: "That's not smoke, it's burning."
The smoke of stuff."
"Burn... what to burn?"
"I don't know. I can't see clearly from this angle. But it doesn't look like the whole village is on fire. It looks more like something has been piled up and burned."
"Burning, burning corpses." Elaine walked by and said unexpectedly.
"Burn the body?"
"It must be the Black Death." The captain added: "Oops. I originally planned to dock at the small fishing village of Ajaccio and replenish supplies. It looks like we have to go around."
"If we don't supply supplies, will the food and water on the ship be enough?" Arthur asked.
"There are two days left on the voyage, which was barely enough. But," Captain Devlani scratched his head, even though he had no hair on his head: "Based on the originally calculated number of people, food and water are enough.
The problem is that there were more people on board than we thought------"
Alluding to Arthur and Elaine bringing an extra group of people on board, causing him trouble.
"That's just two extra days. A person can survive a month without eating, and a person can survive three days without drinking water." Arthur said lightly, as if it had nothing to do with him.
"Driving a boat is physical work, Mr. Aslan." The captain shook his head violently: "The wind was not smooth during the last part of the voyage, and it even went against the current. The crew needed to paddle to reach the shore. If the crew did not have the strength, our ship would be destroyed.
The ocean currents will directly carry them away from Naples, and maybe they will be carried all the way to Reggio Calabria. That is a voyage of several days, and we will be dead on the ship."
Arthur held up his chin and thought: "It's not practical to ask you to abandon the ship and use a small boat to dock when we are about to reach Naples... isn't it?"
"I would rather die than abandon my ship." Captain Devlani: "And if I lose the caravan's goods, I will die even worse when I go back."
Indeed. In this case, there is nothing we can do.
"Then we can only go ashore to find supplies." Arthur said.
"But that's an epidemic area!" the captain exclaimed.
"Mr. Geoffrey is immune to the Black Death. In fact, I am also immune to the Black Death." Arthur said, "Just the two of us will go ashore to get supplies, and when we come back, we will disinfect them thoroughly. Oh, no, we will throw away our clothes."
Is it okay to clean yourself thoroughly before boarding the ship? I remember that there is distilled alcohol on the ship. You can use that to cleanse your whole body and get rid of the plague pathogens."
"Maybe the supplies at the port are also infected with the disease?"
"Then we will get clean water from the spring on the island and pick fresh fruits from the trees. Hey, we can even hunt wild animals. Once they are cooked, there will be no disease, and everyone can eat wild game."
"It is a feasible method." The captain spread out the map and looked at it again and again: "I originally suggested finding a port on Sardinia to get supplies. But that is not a relay station for caravans, and it may still be an epidemic area.
Taking a detour will take more time and may be in vain. So, okay, if it takes you less than a morning to find supplies, we can still wait. But are there really no bad guys on the shore? This kid Joffrey...
..He is very weak, please protect him."
Weak? Arthur almost laughed.
"I will guarantee his life safety, and I will do what I say." Arthur suppressed his laughter and said seriously.
Elaine twiddled her fingers nervously, neither approving nor rejecting.
"I also want to go ashore and play." Verne complained when Arthur and Elaine jumped on the boat.
"There is a disease on the island, little fool." Arthur said, "Wait here for us to come back with food and water."
The weak Elaine said nothing and began to paddle. The boat quickly approached the shore.
"Wow, it's really tragic." Arthur saw the disease-infected fishing village from a distance. A large number of corpses were piled up and burned, and the remaining two houses were also burned. It is very likely that most of the people in the village were burned.
The remaining people who were not dead but were infected by the disease set their houses on fire and burned themselves to death to cut off the source of the Black Death.
If we don't do this, the disease will continue to spread and more people will die. Moreover, the church will send people to deal with it. At that time, it will not just be as simple as burning corpses, but also massacring the village.
"Elaine, you can take this opportunity to hide in the mountains and forests." Arthur said, "Just hide in the mountains of Corsica and wait until the matter is over. We will come back to pick you up after we destroy the Papal Knights."
."
"No, don't..." Fatty Bai whispered.
"People from the cult might do something to you? What can this [weak] and [cute] you do?" Arthur said seriously, although he didn't sound serious at all: "If the cardinal or the pope
If I want to invade you, would it be better for you to resist, or to just accept it?"
"Yes, but..."
"You have been resigned to the situation all your life. Even after traveling to this world, you are still accepting the situation. Now you don't even have the courage to escape." Arthur said: "Elaine, I know you came here for your own personal reasons, but you
You've helped us enough, that's all right. It's better to rest now."
"Leo..." Elaine whispered.
"?"
"I, I have been here for ten years, and I think about Leo every day...I want to rush back." His eyes were moist: "God, God knows that during the time I am here, Lei
Will Ou suddenly become ill and critically ill, and there will be no time to save her... So, even if I have to put in a little more effort, I will help you save Queen Greenville as soon as possible.
Save him."
As he spoke, he really started crying, leaving Arthur at a loss for a moment. Merlin should have explained to Elaine that in this other world nine hundred years later, no matter how long it takes, he will not be able to do it after he returns.
It's just a few minutes, right? Even if Elaine has been here for ten years, it will only be a few minutes after setting off when he goes back. But Elaine doesn't seem to understand this, maybe he is too stupid,
Or maybe he's just too impatient.
"I just want to help. It doesn't matter how small or how small it is. I don't want to regret it when I go back if I don't work hard enough here."
"No matter how much grievance or pain you suffer, you can endure it, right?" Arthur sighed.
"I have endured it for so many years..." Elaine wiped her eyes that were starting to become red and swollen.
"Okay. I won't say anything more. Just go with your original plan, Elaine." The knight said: "I'm really sorry, I accidentally trampled on your determination."
"Well, well..." Fatty Bai followed Arthur without saying anything else. It was not difficult to find a water source. After all, there was a village nearby. Arthur took a look at the source of the clear spring halfway up the mountain.
It was clear and clean and should not be contaminated, so he safely filled the wine barrel he carried with him with water.
"First put these sports games on the shore. Can you carry them?"
"Yeah." Elaine is fat and strong. Although he looks like a human now, his strength should be similar to that of the original white bear. He picked up four large wooden barrels and walked down the mountain. It seems that the progress of fetching water will be faster than
Faster than imagined.
Arthur filled the remaining two wooden barrels with water, just waiting for Elaine to come and get them. He then turned around and looked around the mountains, trying to find fruits and wild vegetables that were edible and uncontaminated. Normally, these
Vegetables and fruits that are not very filling are not of much value to bring on board, and can only be used as emergency food in extraordinary times. But Arthur can make a fire on the shore to dry and dehydrate wild vegetables and other things, so he can bring more on board.
It's time to get on the boat. Of course, it would be best if you can hunt game. That kind of thing can be used as today's dinner once you light a fire and roast it. Once roasted and dehydrated, it is dried meat that can be prevented from spoiling for several days. It is best to take it on board.
eat.
Judging from the height of the sun, there are at least four hours left before noon, which is quite enough time (for roasted game, only the outer surface can be grilled and sterilized, and the dried meat can be dried on the boat), so we should be able to hunt leisurely.
.But Arthur still picked some grapes and pears from the trees to ensure basic rations first.
He hadn't gone far when there was a sudden noise in the nearby woods. Arthur looked along and found a wild deer. It seemed that no one had hunted for a long time. This wild deer was not afraid of people. It just looked at it curiously from a distance of twenty yards.
Look at Arthur.
That was it. The King of Knights took out the light crossbow borrowed from Verne and aimed an arrow at the deer's head! But the moment the arrow flew out, the deer also began to flee, so the arrow did not hit the head smoothly, but landed on the deer's head.
on the carotid artery.
That was still a fatal blow. The wild deer fell to the ground and struggled, causing the bleeding on its neck to become more intense. By the time Arthur walked towards it, it was already too weak to run away.
"You can't kill with one blow like Verne." Arthur sighed. The King of Knights had actually had quite sufficient training in archery, but his shooting level was still the peak that ordinary people could reach, but it was far from the peak.
Fa and the guys with eagle eye and eye of death.
"I'm sorry for making you suffer." Arthur took off his long sword. This sword was Bedivere's silver sword. It was very sharp: "RIP my dear."
He slashed down with his sword and chopped off the head of the wild deer. This deer was enough for at least one or two meals for a boatload of people. The next step was just to roast and dehydrate it. The task of carrying the wild deer carcass was left to Yi
It would be better for Ryan to do it.
Arthur, who was thinking this way, took a breath and planned to take a rest. But he didn't expect that the shadow of another hunter suddenly appeared behind him and flew toward it at an alarming speed! That thing didn't even have the slightest hint of murderous intent when it attacked people.
Arthur's scheming skills didn't even notice it!
"Wow!" The King of Knights still heard something moving behind him before turning around to deal with it, but the creature had already passed by him, leaving a deep bloody gash on his arm! Arthur's right hand holding the sword couldn't bear it.
He was slightly injured and the silver sword in his hand fell to the ground!
Tiger! And it’s a very ferocious and extremely fast tiger! Why is there such a ferocious beast in a place like this? Were they attracted here by the smell of blood?!
Oops! There is no weapon in his hand! Arthur thought for a moment. Apart from a dagger, the only thing left on his waist was the Holy Sword of Seraph. The "blade" outside the holy sword was a silver sword without an edge.
The blade can't kill anyone and is almost useless in biological warfare!
Leaning over to pick up the silver sword now is tantamount to committing suicide. The attack power of a small dagger is not enough. To kill the tiger, you must at least use the Seraph Holy Sword, and that's the form after it unlocks the seal! Use the Seraph Holy Sword
It is naturally not difficult to kill a tiger with a light blade! But using a light blade in a place like this? Aren't you afraid of being seen by others?
Ouch! The big tiger roared again and pounced quickly. There was no time for Arthur to hesitate!
no way.
The King of Knights waved his left hand and the holy sword was unsheathed. The light blade flashed past and had already chopped off the big tiger's head. The incision was sharp and neat!
I still used the light blade. There was a risk of being seen, but it was better than dying under the claws of a tiger.
"you------"
If there is a possibility that things will go bad, no matter how small the possibility is, it will always happen. Just as Arthur was worried, before he had time to put the Seraph Holy Sword back into its sheath, someone would take this scene.
All in sight.
A man with a bow and arrow came out of the jungle and looked at Arthur in surprise: "What you just held was a magic sword?"