Light Spirit Epic Chapter 2718: 0 years of loneliness (15)

Chapter 2718 A hundred years of loneliness (fifteen)

The sky is clear and the wind is sunny.

The merchant ship [Enterprise] sailed from the port of Marseille and soon hit the ocean currents. Riding the currents and winds, the ship was at full speed and the first destination was Corsica. At this speed, it is scheduled to reach Ajaccio in Corsica at noon tomorrow. After preparing from that port, it will take about two or three days to reach Naples. The voyage is not as dangerous as imagined, and it can even be described as peaceful. Nothing major happened except that Verne ate too many snacks last night and had a stomach ache and kept screaming all the way.

"Corsica!" With a shout from the lookout hand on top of the mast, everyone looked east and could already see the big island.

"What is that?" Verne probably had the best eyesight on the ship. Seeing the abnormality on Corsica from a distance, he asked: "It seems that there is smoke rising?"

"Is that... wolf smoke?" Arthur narrowed his eyes and could barely see the smoke rising.

"How could there be wolf smoke---" Captain De Villani picked up the binoculars and watched with his unblinded eye. As soon as I glanced at it, I immediately froze: "That's not wolf smoke, it's smoke from burning things."

"Burning...what?"

"I don't know. It's not clear from this angle. But it's not like the whole village is on fire, it's more like something is being piled up and burned."

"Burning, burning the corpse." Elaine walked by, bewildered.

"Burn the body?"

"Is it the Black Death." The captain added: "Oops. Originally planned to dock at the small fishing village of Ajaccio and resupply. It seems to be going around."

"Will there be enough food and water on board without resupply?" Arthur asked.

"There are still two days left for the voyage, which was barely enough. But well," Captain Devilani scratched his head, even though he had no hair on his head: "At the original count, the food And water is enough. The problem is that there are a little more people on the boat than we thought------"

Alluding to the fact that Arthur and Elaine brought a lot of people aboard, causing him trouble.

"That's just two more days of boiling. People can boil for a month without food, and three days without water." Arthur said lightly, as if it was none of his business.

"Driving a boat is physical work, Mr. Aslan." The captain shook his head sharply: "The last part of the voyage was not upwind, even against the current, and the crew needed to paddle to get to the shore. If the crew is weak, our The boat will be swept away directly by the currents, carried away from Naples, and perhaps all the way to Reggio Calabria. That's another couple of days' voyage, and we'll be dead on board."

Arthur thought about it with his cheeks: "It's not realistic to let you abandon your boat and use a dinghy to dock when you get to Naples... It's not realistic, right."

"I'd rather die than give up my ship." Captain Devilani: "And if I lose the caravan's cargo, I'll die worse when I go back."

Indeed. If so, there is no way.

"Then we can only go ashore to find supplies." Arthur said.

"But that's an epidemic area!" the captain exclaimed.

"Mr. Joffrey is immune to the Black Death. In fact, I am also immune to the Black Death." Arthur said, "The two of us will go ashore to pick up supplies, and we will be thoroughly disinfected when we come back, no, yes. Throw away your clothes, wash them thoroughly, and get on the boat, right? I remember there was distilled alcohol on the boat, you can use that to wash your whole body and get rid of the plague pathogen."

"Maybe the supplies in the port are also infected with the disease?"

"Then we'll get clean water from the island's springs and pick fresh fruit from the trees. Hey, we can even hunt wild animals, they'll be completely roasted and disease-free, and everyone can eat game again."

"It is a feasible method." The captain spread out the map and looked at it again and again: "I originally suggested to find a port in Sardinia to get supplies. But that is neither the route relay station of the caravan, nor may it still be Infected area. Taking detours takes a lot of time and may be empty. So, well, if you have less than a morning to find supplies, we can still wait. But there are really no bad people on the shore? This kid Joffrey. ......Very weak, please protect him."

Soft? Arthur almost laughed.

"I will protect his life and safety, and I will do what I say." Arthur held back his laughter, earnestly.

Elaine played with her fingers nervously, neither agreeing nor denying.

"I want to go ashore too," Verne complained as Arthur and Elaine jumped into the boat.

"There's a disease on the island, little idiot." Arthur said, "Be here and wait for us to bring food and water back."

The weak Elaine said nothing and began to paddle. The boat quickly approached the shore.

"Wow, that's tragic." Arthur saw the disease-infected fishing village from a distance. A large number of corpses were piled up and burned, and two houses were left on fire. It is very likely that most of the people in the village were burned, and the remaining people who were not dead but were infected by the epidemic set their houses on fire and burned themselves to death in order to cut off the source of the Black Death.

If you don't do this, the disease will continue to spread and more people will die. And the church will send people to deal with it. At that time, it is not just as simple as burning the body, it is the massacre of 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 for the matter to pass. We will destroy the Pope's Knights later. Come back to pick you up."

"No, don't..." Fatty Bai whispered.

"The people of the sect may attack you? What can you do with this [weak] and [cute] you?" Arthur said seriously, although he didn't sound serious at all: "If the red If the bishop or the pope wants to invade you, is it better for you to resist, or to submit to it?"

"Yes, but..."

"You've been submissive all your life. You've been submissive since you crossed into this world, and now you don't even have the courage to run away." Arthur said, "Elaine, I know you're here for your own personal reasons. , but you've helped us enough, it's all right. Let's rest now."

"Leo..." Elaine whispered.

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"I, I've been here for ten years, thinking about Leo every day... I want to hurry, hurry back." His eyes were wet: "God, **** knows how long I am here. Here, will Leo suddenly become ill and critically ill, and it will be too late to save... So, even if it is a little more effort, I will, as soon as possible, help you save Queen Greenville , save, save back."

He actually started to cry as he spoke, leaving Arthur at a loss for a moment. Merlin should have explained to Elaine that, no matter how long it takes, it will only be a few minutes after returning to the other world in 900 years, right? Even though Elaine has been here for ten years, it will only be a few minutes after returning to the road after returning. But Elaine didn't seem to understand this, maybe he was too stupid, or maybe he was just too impatient.

"I just want to help. It doesn't matter how small or small it is. I don't want to, I don't want to work hard enough here, and I will regret it after I go back."

"No matter how much grievance and pain you suffer, you can endure it, right?" Arthur sighed.

"I've endured it for so many years..." Elaine wiped the eye sockets that started to swell.

"That's good. I won't say anything more. Just do as you originally planned, Elaine." The King of Knights said, "I'm so sorry, I accidentally trampled on your determination."

"Um, um..." Fatty Bai followed behind Arthur and said nothing. It is not difficult to find a water source, after all, there are villages nearby. Arthur glanced at the source of the clear spring halfway up the mountain. The water was clear and clean, and it should have not been polluted, so he filled the wine barrel he carried with him with confidence.

"Take these games to the shore first. Can you carry them?"

"Hmm." Elaine is fat and strong. Although she looks like a human now, her strength should be similar to 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 expected.

Arthur filled the remaining two barrels with water, just waiting for Elaine to fetch them. He turned his head and looked around the mountains, trying to find edible and uncontaminated fruits and wild vegetables in the mountains. Normally, these fruits and vegetables that are not very filling are not of much value to be brought on board, and can only be used as emergency food in extraordinary times. But Arthur can build a torch on the shore to dry and dehydrate things such as wild vegetables, and he can bring some more on the boat. Naturally, it is best if you can hunt game. That kind of thing can be used for today's dinner when it is baked on a fire, and then it is baked and dehydrated, which is the jerky that can prevent it from spoiling for several days.

From the perspective of the height of the sun, there are at least four hours left until noon, which is still enough time (roasted game can only be roasted and sterilized on the outside, and the jerky can be dried on the boat), it should be able to travel leisurely Hunting zealously. But Arthur still picked some grapes and pears on the tree, and guaranteed the basic ration first.

He didn't go very far when there was a sudden noise in the nearby woods. Arthur looked around and found a wild deer. It seems that no one has been hunting for a long time, and this wild deer is not afraid of people, just looking at Arthur curiously from a distance of twenty yards.

That's it. The King of Knights took out the light crossbow borrowed by Verne and aimed an arrow at the deer's head! But the moment the arrow flew out, the wild deer also began to flee, so the arrow did not shoot the head smoothly, but landed on the carotid artery of the wild deer.

It was still a fatal blow. The wild deer fell to the ground and struggled, but the bleeding from its neck became more intense. By the time Arthur walked towards it, it was too weak to escape.

"I can't kill you with one blow like Verne." Arthur sighed, the King of Knights has actually had quite enough training in archery, but his shooting level is still the peak that ordinary people can achieve. Far from being able to compare with the guys with Eagle Eyes and Eyes of Death.

"I'm sorry for making you suffer." Arthur took down his long sword, which was Bedivere's silver sword, very sharp: "Rest in peace."

He went down with a sword and chopped off the deer's head. This deer can at least feed a boatload of people for one or two meals. Next is just roasting and dehydrating it. It would be better to leave the job of carrying the deer carcasses to Elaine.

Thinking like this, Arthur took a breath and planned to take a break. He didn't expect the shadow of another hunter to suddenly appear behind him, flying towards it at an astonishing speed! When that thing attacked people, it didn't even have the slightest murderousness, and Arthur's mind and eyes didn't even notice it!

"Wow!" The King of Knights still turned around to respond when he heard the rustling behind him, but the creature had already passed by him, leaving a deep, **** hole on his arm! Arthur's right hand holding the sword was seriously injured, and the silver sword in his hand fell to the ground!

Tiger! And it is a very ferocious and swift big tiger! Why is there such a ferocious beast in such a place? Was it caused by the smell of blood? !

Oops! No weapons in hand! Arthur thought for a while, and the only thing he had on his waist was the Seraph Sacred Sword, except for a dagger. The "blade" on the outside of the holy sword is a silver blade without a front, which cannot kill anyone, and is hardly useful in biological warfare!

It would be tantamount to suicide to go and pick up the silver sword now. Small dagger attack power is not enough. To kill a tiger, at least the Seraph Sacred Sword must be used, and yes, its form after the seal is unsealed! Killing a tiger with the light blade of Seraph's holy sword~IndoMTL.com~ is naturally not difficult! But, using a light blade in such a place? Aren't you afraid of being seen by others?

Ow! ! The big tiger roared and rushed forward again, and there was no time for Arthur to hesitate!

No way.

With a wave of his left hand, the King of Knights unsheathed his holy sword. The blade of light flashed by, and the head of the big tiger has been chopped off, and the incision is sharp and neat!

A light blade is still used. There is a risk of being seen, but it's better than dying under the paws of a tiger.

"You------"

If there is a chance that things will go bad, no matter how small the chance, it will happen. Just as Arthur was worried, before he had time to retract the Seraph Sacred Sword into its sheath, no one could see this scene.

A man with a bow and arrow came out of the jungle and looked at Arthur in surprise: "What did you just hold, a magic sword?"

Damn.