The Throne Under the Starry Sky Chapter 1: The Ship of the Storm (Part 1)

Gradually waking up from the dark coma, Jonah’s first feeling was heat, weakness, and extreme thirst. His eyelids were extremely heavy. After several attempts, he couldn’t open his eyes. Gradually returning to the body, except for the unexplained pain on the whole body, all the exposed skin was blown by a sharp wind like a knife. The astrologer apprentice took a deep breath and was sucked into the nostril along with the hot air. With salty gravel and dust, he arched his body and coughed violently,

"Where am I..." Jonah uttered a few words with difficulty, and heard his voice like two rough rocks rubbing against each other, making an unpleasant sound that lacked lubrication,

A turbulence threw his body off the ground and fell heavily. Jonah’s consciousness began to dive into the comatose deep sea. In the dimness, he heard two people talking not far from him,

"The goods are awake."

"Yes, he is a tough guy. He needs water and food."

"Waste precious water on the goods. You are a kind and almost stupid person. Brother, if your father is still there, he will definitely not allow you to do this. He will say:'The sand thief's man is cruel. Coyotes, they...'"

"Father has passed away for three years, dear sister, you must face this reality, and we are no longer sand thieves. We can only act according to the contract. If he dies before he arrives, he will take all of them. Not anymore."

"Seeing your big-headed ghost's contract, I have said that I shouldn't take this thankless job ten thousand times... pay attention to the reef,... where is the delivery location."

"The northwest border of Tochara, the city of Moza, is about three to four days away, depending on the location of the worm. Besides, I have seen the reef, dear sister, since you let me take the helm. , You must trust my technology, okay......"

"Namoza, I don't want to go to that ghost place for the second time...Reef,...very good, I'm going to have indigestion now, thank you for your excellent technique, brother."

"At least you have to believe that I am constantly improving..."

In an incomprehensible conversation between a man and a woman in Nishidalu's lingua franca, the astrologer apprentice fell into a coma again. After an unknown period of time, a sweet trickle suddenly wets his lips, and Jonah immediately opened his mouth, greedy Sucking the precious liquid that represents life, every sip of water swallows the throat, and the thirsty body can feel contented sighs, as if every dry cell is groaning and stretching, sucking up every drop of water like a sponge,

The water flow stopped, and Jonah stretched out his hand eagerly: "I still want to drink, a little more, a little more..."

"Extremely thirsty people will die from excessive hydration. As an important cargo, that’s not the best result; besides, we don’t have much water. You just drank two days’ reserves. ."

The male voice said, Jonah slowly opened his eyes, dry sand rustling from his eyelids, he blinked hard to lubricate the dry eyelids,

There is a strange man squatting in front of him. He has the square face and gray-green eyes that are accustomed to the Western Mainlanders, but he has dark and shiny skin. He is wearing a white knee-length robe embroidered with gold flowers, and his head is thickly wrapped. White cloth turban, holding a long leather water bag in his hand,

Jonah immediately sat up and reached out to grab the water bag. His survival instinct made him forget his politeness and guard. At this moment, he couldn't see everything else, only the mopping cowhide bag in his eyes, more than everything inside. The sweeter juice of the wine,

"Click."

The sound of the tension of the machine spring came, and a piece of cold metal pressed against Jonah’s forehead, making the movements of the astrologer apprentice stiff. He didn’t know what weapon that piece of metal was, but the end of the rectangular metal was buzzing. The steam puppet power core humming and emitting white smoke told him that it was a weapon, an unknown and powerful weapon,

"Brother, don't you think the goods should be **** to prevent damage."

"Bound for a long time, his limbs will be necrotic, and the commission will be greatly reduced." The man spread his hands helplessly, "Let him move, and then I will tie him to the mast, okay."

"Anyway, don't make any more mistakes."

The cold metal was taken back by the owner. Jonah looked at the woman not far away in horror. The long fiery red cloak covered her body. She had pretty short blond hair and healthy light brown skin. Her right hand held more than A one-yard long rectangular weapon with a deep hole in the front. At the end is a complex machine that emits steam and undulates pistons. The gray metal surface is engraved with dazzling embossed patterns, and Jona recognizes a double concentric circle symbol in it. , That is the logo representing Luta, one of the seven main gods, the **** of fertility, the highest belief in the entire southern continent,

The woman has a tall nose and a pair of slender, cold gray-green eyes. She pointed at Jonah with a pointed chin: "Don’t do stupid things, cargo, your smartest thing is to keep silent and don’t move. Don’t struggle, don’t talk until you reach your destination."

"I...I'm in the Southern Continent." Jonah spit out the question pressed in his heart in a dry voice,

"Yes, you are in the Southern Continent." The man squatting in front said, "And you didn't hear her, don't ask any more questions."

"Who are you, where is this place, have you seen my partner, a knight riding a unicorn, Elliott, a black-haired oriental woman, she is called Long Ji, yet There is Sibi, she is..." The astrologer apprentice murmured, he moved his neck with difficulty, and he didn't see a trace of a partner around,

"I said, don't ask any more questions, it's true." The man scratched his nose in anguish and glanced at the woman carefully. "There is some food here. After eating, I have to tie you back. I'm sorry."

The fragrant smell passed through the nostrils of the astrologer apprentice. Jonah took the browned cake and couldn't help swallowing, but he put down the food, "It seems to hear you say that I am your goods."

"In my eyes, you are two shining gold coins." The man grinned, "This is an anonymous person who paid a large price to receive the goods from the Port of Sherington and deliver them to the city of Namoza. Two gold coins, such a good job, is really a blessing bestowed by the main **** Luta..."

"Who is going to send me where." Jona was confused,

The sound of footsteps sounded, and the two men immediately shut their mouths together, observing the movement of the woman from the corner of their eyes. The woman in the red cloak climbed up a few stairs and went to the high platform. The two of them relaxed together. Tone,

"My name is Jona, an astrologer apprentice, and a St. Boren." Seeing that the man’s attitude is more friendly, he seems to have a desire to chat, Jona sits on the floor, took a bite of wheat cake, self Introduced,

"Danny Stewart, the Zavi people, the dying lady just now was my sister Hannah Stewart. Listening to your accent, you know that you are from the Red Earth Plain, although you haven’t returned to the Western Continent for more than ten years. , But you know that you are a fellow of a neighboring country.” The man stretched out his hand to shook Jonah in a friendly manner, and then showed an embarrassed look: “By the way, I heard that St. Boren has been conquered by the Zawi Empire, if If I need to apologize..."

The astrologer apprentice waved his hand: "It doesn’t matter. You said that you picked me up in Sherington. That means the cherry crossing ferry arrived safely at the port. Where are the other passengers, a knight, a black hair Lady..."

Stewart sighed: "To be honest, I don't know anything.'Chuck' stopped outside of Sherington. A broker took you to find us, paid a deposit of 50 silver coins, pointed out the delivery location, and that's it. Now, before I actually saw you, I didn’t even guess that the goods were actually a person or an astrologer,,, I saw your staff and badge."

Jonah frowned: "I don’t know if they boarded the ferry. The ship survived the Colombo attack. Sibi doesn’t know where it is. If she wakes up, she finds that Mr. Shi is not by her side. Words..."

Stewart squatted aside and looked at him with interest: "You are such a weird person... No, cargo, if it were me, I should first pay attention to the situation around me when I wake up. Worrying about my partner will be the next thing. Isn't it."

Jonah took a bite of the oatmeal: "That said..."

His eyes glanced around, and he was immediately stunned. The fragrant wheat cake fell on his feet without noticing it,

From the moment he woke up, he felt that the air was very hot, his ears were full of rumbling and unknown noises, and sand particles hit his face with the oncoming wind. At this moment, he saw clearly what he was in. The location explains everything,

He was on a ship with a tall mast and full sails. Hannah Stewart stood in the bow of the ship and controlled the rudder. Jonah and Danny Stewart sat on the mid-hull deck, backed by the sturdy main mast. This is a well-equipped three-masted sailing vessel with auxiliary spinnakers on the bow and stern, and a large red lightning sign painted on the main sail, "Bactrian wind, this is the name of our Stewart family sailboat." Danny explained proudly, "Since my father brought us here from the Western Continent, he built this big ship and established a name. It’s been 14 years. If you don’t know the Southern Continent, Bactria It is the capital of the Tocharian Empire, a big city known as the Golden City..."

Jonah stammered: "I know this is a ship... But the question is, why does the ship sail in the desert."

Looking around, front, back, left and right are endless yellow sand, endless sand dunes, and the blue sky of the horizon, the dark blue Quiavello shining in the sky, sprinkling the same color as the desert In the hot sun, the Clipper "Bactria's Blast" they are in is riding the wind and waves in the middle of the desert, moving forward at high speed, leaving behind thousands of yards of billowing dust and smoke,