Bureau of Anomalous Biological Countermeasures Chapter 587: The Legend of the Golden Island
I didn't seem to see a single glance, but still looked at the Persian young man in front of him with a smile. Seeing that the two Persians with daggers had already rushed in front of him, a thunderstorm suddenly flashed in the sky again, and after a "Boom!", the two Persians were blown away. Fortunately, their ship was big enough that the two of them were not hit into the sea.
When the two Persians started, the others also touched the knives and daggers on their bodies. However, after seeing the fate of these two companions, the rest of the people who were eager to move also gave up their plans. However, the explosion of thunder just now was not the result of no return. The old guy looked back at the two Persians who were groaning on the back deck, smiled at Wu Mian, and said, "I know you can't bear the old man, me... "
Wu Mian sneered and said, "I'm even more reluctant to waste their time, I'm still waiting to hear the story, how can I be interrupted by others."
After Kuibugui laughed, he said to the pale Persian young man again: "Did you hear it? If you don't tell the truth, you will be the next one to be struck by lightning."
Seeing that three of his companions were struck by lightning in a row, the defense line in the Persian young man's heart had collapsed, and after being frightened by the return of no return, he finally shivered and told the truth.
As the old guy guessed, these Persians weren't businessmen at all. They were all soldiers sent by the Persian king to find Devil's Island. Almost eight or ninety years ago, a Persian ship bound for the Han Dynasty was shipwrecked in the fog. In the whole ship, only one Persian merchant who was proficient in navigation survived. He hugged a large log tightly and was washed to an island with the current.
At that time, the Persian merchants had no strength to get up and walk. Seeing that the island was about to die of hunger and thirst, a few Han people appeared on the island. These people carried the Persian merchant to a splendid palace on the island. A few mouthfuls of rice soup and the magical witchcraft of the islanders rescued the Persian merchant who was about to die.
On land, this Persian businessman couldn't get out of bed without lying down for ten days and a half. However, after being casually fiddled with by the people on the island, he got up vigorously and ate with the people on the island.
After eating and drinking, the people on the island began to arrange for him to leave. Originally, the Persian merchants thought that these people would let him live on the island for a while, but they did not expect that these people would drive him back just after he recovered. And no matter how the Persian merchants begged, these people on the island were determined to let him leave.
Fortunately, the people on the island have prepared a boat for him that can be driven by a single person. The boat put enough water for him for half a month, and finally gave him two charts for the Han Dynasty and Persia. He told Persian merchants that as long as they follow the direction of the chart, they will definitely return to Persia or reach the Han Dynasty.
Seeing that the people on the island are determined to drive themselves away, the Persian merchants took advantage of the time to say goodbye to these people. He secretly took away the two night pearls in the palace, and then he was sent to the boat. Strange to say, just when the Persian merchants came out of the island, the fog that had filled the sky suddenly dissipated. The Persian merchants left the sea in this way.
A full day after leaving the island, a merchant ship from the Han Dynasty passed by and rescued the Persian merchants. After the Han Dynasty, the Persian merchant got on the merchant ship to Persia again, and then returned to his own country.
After returning, Persian merchants began to tell their experiences throughout Persia. When encountering unbelievers, he would take out the chart and the gems he stole, to prove that the Han Chinese Island Ten really existed.
This matter caused a sensation in Persia at that time, even the king of Persia was alarmed. The Persian businessman was summoned to the palace, and in the presence of the minister of civil and military affairs, he told him his experience of encountering the island at that time. The Persian businessman thought that the rare goods could be inhabited, so he reiterated the experience that had been said hundreds of times. The small island is said to be full of gold, and the pebbles in the river are all pearl and agate texture.
Unfortunately, he had already sold the two night pearls for a high price, and he could only dedicate the two sea maps to the king of Persia as proof that the island was indeed there. At that time, the Persian Empire was fighting against Rome, and the military expenditure had almost emptied its national strength. At this time, if you can get the golden island, it will relieve the urgent needs of the Persian king.
At the moment, the Persian king found out that there were only less than 100 Han Chinese on the island, so he organized a navy of 3,000 people to go to the golden island according to the chart of the Persian merchant. Unexpectedly, the navy slipped back and forth for more than ten laps according to the chart of the Persian merchants, but did not find it as an overseas island. In the end, the king directly asked the Persian merchants to send over to lead the way.
Unexpectedly, it was not long after the Persian merchants and the navy converged. The fleet of 3,000 people encountered a big storm at sea. Except for the thirteen sailors who came back with their lives, the rest were buried in the belly of the fish. At this time, it began to spread in Persia that there was no overseas golden island at all. This is because the Persian businessman did not know where he took advantage of, bought two fake sea charts with money, and then made up such a myth of such a golden island.
Just as the incident was getting up and down, a Persian fisherman salvaged a body while fishing. This corpse was obviously treated deliberately. Although it has been soaked in seawater for a long time, it does not look rotten and swollen.
The limbs of the corpse were chopped off with sharp weapons, and the tongue in the mouth was also cut off. There is a copper sign hanging on the neck, and the back of the sign is densely written with Chinese characters that no one can understand.
After the fishermen reported to the officials, the Persian officials invited people who knew Chinese characters to translate the characters on the bronze plaque. The above describes how the Persian businessman was killed and drifted to the island. He was rescued by the people on the island and gave him water and boats to leave. Unexpectedly, this person came with an army after returning to China. Fortunately, a storm descended from heaven and buried the army at the bottom of the sea.
The ungrateful Persian merchant was once again sent to the island by the sea, this time with no mercy to him. According to the island's rules for traitors, the man was put to death, his crime was engraved on a bronze medal, and he was thrown into the sea again. At the same time, it is also warning those who spy on the island that this person is their fate.
After seeing the translated text, the official hurriedly sent the person along with the bronze medal and the translation to the palace. After the king saw the dead body and the bronze medal, he called the relatives and friends of the Persian merchant to come and recognize the body. Everyone insisted that this was the Persian businessman who had returned from the Golden Island.
While shocked, it was confirmed that the Golden Island really existed. Fortunately, the original chart was not thrown away as garbage. At that moment, the king decided to take down the Golden Island. It seemed that there was a deviation between the two charts. At the moment, the king decided to send someone to pretend to be a Persian businessman who went to the Han Dynasty to do business. First find a way to find out the exact location of Golden Island, and then send a brigade of navy to take this island.
Since then, the Persian king has sent out several waves of soldiers posing as merchants every year. It's just that these soldiers either came back after a few months at sea, or they completely lost track of them after more than half a year.
Since the first Persian merchant discovered the overseas island, four Persian kings have been replaced, and each king will continue to send soldiers who are fake merchants to the local area. So far, there are thirty-two boats that have returned safely without getting the news of Golden Island. This ship was one of the eighty-one ships that were completely missing.
Their ship sailed from Persia seven days ago to create the appearance of being lost. The boat also deliberately did not bring enough drinking water. Unexpectedly, when it sailed to this sea area a day ago, a heavy fog suddenly fell on the sea.
The fog has become a sign of going to the Golden Island. Just when these people thought that this time they would finally return without success, the fog suddenly dispersed, and a lonely island appeared on the sea...