The Throne Under the Starry Sky Chapter 14: Star Tavern (Part 2)
The melodious dance music sounded. It seems that the performer in West Bian replaced a three-string doujoola. While eating dinner, Jonah studied Hannah’s unknown summer white cherry blossoms. The contemporary patriarch of Stewart placed the magic pistol flat on the table, firmly holding the handle of the gun in his right hand and refused to let go, awkwardly holding the fork in his left to eat,
"No, there should be a simple energy amplification circle between the seventh and eighth red crystals. Why are there two more bends here? This will increase the overall load of the circle." The warlock apprentice stroked the gun back and forth, murmuring words, Danny stared at him helplessly, "Good friend, don't you drink sparkling wine? The wine here is brewed by Lao Bei himself. It is said to be the second best drink in the endless sea of sand. Of."
Jona didn’t look up. He picked up the wooden wine glass and took two sips. The cold wine poured into his throat, and the refreshing foam filled his mouth. The fragrant malt taste remained on the tip of the tongue, and a slight bitterness remained on the root of the tongue. After a long aftertaste, he raised his head and looked at Danny in amazement: "It's really refreshing, so where is the best drink."
"Next door." Danny stretched out his arms and saw the singing and dancing west side. The top deck on the west side of the racing star is a beautiful courtyard. The lush vegetation presents a bright color that is rare in the desert. The fountain rushed in the middle of the deck. Every pair of men and women at the dance party was personable and light-walking. A dozen lanterns under the colorful ceiling illuminate the courtyard with brilliant lights. There are even nightingales singing on the ceiling.
Jonah looked at the opposite west side, then looked back at the dark east side deck, the tattered tavern, the dim light swaying like a ghost, the dusty half-drunkard, and countless pairs of dirty and smelly pairs. The big leather boots nodded: "I believe it."
Danny looked very happy when he saw the person he was talking to draw back from the pistol. He put down his wine glass, leaned down, and said mysteriously: "Now, do you want to hear the coolest in the endless sea of sand? Noun explanation, 8 characters for parade, post-worm node, big sand waterfall."
"What." The astrologer apprentice said in a daze. The question he asked himself before was completely forgotten at this moment.
Danny curled his lips, "You are really a forgetful cargo friend, so be it, I will now teach you the most important knowledge in the endless sea of sand, and you, tell us your own story, such as the blonde The unicorn rider, and the mysterious oriental woman,, so that everyone of us will not be too boring at night, will we make a deal?"
Jona thought for a while, "Deal."
The two clink glasses, each drink a sip of sparkling wine,
"Parade 8 characters." Danny Stewart held up a finger, "No matter how vast the endless sea of sand, the life trajectory of each female sand eater is destined from the day of birth, and they will be In the center, it cruises in the desert along a figure-eight route. If you advance at the speed of the body, complete a figure-eight cruise and pass the worm node twice. It takes exactly one year. The speed of the worm that is transformed into a sailboat will increase significantly. , But we also have to abide by their natural characteristics. Like the twitter of the Stewart family, we just completed a parade of figure 8 this spring. In the next few days, we will pass through the postworm node again and complete the second parade of figure 8."
"Understood." Jona nodded, "The middle intersection of the figure 8 is the posterior node."
Danny looked at him appreciatively, "Correct, the hind worm is constantly moving slowly, so the position of the hind worm node is not fixed, but no matter how far away, the female sand eater can sense the hind worm. Where is the captain, what the captain has to do is to use the figure-eight arc to achieve his goal."
"What will happen if you don't pass the posterior node, and why is it a figure eight? Can't they drive straight to the posterior worm?... By the way, what is the posterior worm?" Jona took a sip of wine. Throw a bunch of questions,
Danny drank the wine in the glass and made a ring to instruct the bartender to come again, "Come one by one, the queen worms are the queens of all sand worms in the endless sea of sand, their patriarchs, beliefs and totem poles, All the big worms have the blood of the worm. The worm is the driving force that is deeply engraved in the soul of the sand worm. According to the local indigenous people, passing through the hole under the worm will give the worm some kind of Mysterious blessing energy. Without this energy, the sand-eater will slowly lose motivation and die from exhaustion. The biannual pilgrimage is the minimum. As for the figure eight, it is because the sand-eater has a deep influence on the queen. In deep awe, they dare not directly aim their heads at the position of the worm, and can only go around in a big circle to approach the beginning and end of their lives."
Jona dipped a little wine, and drew a few graphics on the table, "Oh, when the figure-8 parade, the heads of the worms are constantly moving towards the rear worm along the tangent direction, until they reach the rear worm node. It really points to the worm itself, it really is natural awe."
"Quickly drink the wine in your glass, it's the second round." Danny yelled dissatisfiedly to cover up the embarrassment of not being able to understand geometric figures. The astrologer apprentice raised his glass and gurgled the sparkling wine. Pouring into his throat, he had never drunk so much alcohol before. He didn't expect that the slightly drunken feeling was very good, and there was a light and relaxed sense of relaxation all over his body, and even the fatigue was relieved a lot,
"Then, tell me about the mating season." Jonah dropped his empty wine glass, nodded to the bartender, and took the second glass of wine. Hannah sipped the wine next to him, watching the two people with interest. Chatting, the shadow of Bai Ying is still on the desktop and has not been put away,
Danny unbuttoned the golden buttons on the collar of his robe, revealing his strong chest with chocolate-colored skin: "This is a very spectacular festival. Every spring, at the end of April or early May, it is the first time to return to the 8-character sandworm parade. The day when the worm's node arrives is also the day when the eggs hatch, which is the mating season. Simply put, the pregnant big worm will hang the eggs on the carapace and continue to cruise. It takes a year for the eggs to hatch. When the node hatches, the male sand eater flies to the sky, and the female sand eater falls to the ground. The male worms will find the mature female worms with distant blood relationship to mate, and then die immediately. The female worms leave the node after being pregnant, and it takes one year. Time to complete a complete 8-character parade and return to the Hou Chong to lay eggs. This is a complete cycle, do you understand."
"Well, I'm clear, I just think the fate of male bugs is so miserable. They have only a few days of life, and they don't have any status." Jona was a little bit low,
"What do you mean by looking at me when you say this?" Danny slapped the table sensitively and said angrily, "You know, the position of the head of the Stewart family originally belonged to me, if it wasn't for me as the trainee captain The anchoring time was too long on the first day, which caused Chicha to get a minor illness. Dad will definitely not let Hannah inherit this position that only men can sit on."
Hannah didn't get angry, but looked at him with a smile, "I was anchored for seven hours. Dad should shoot you on the spot."
"What do you mean, drop the anchor." The astrologer apprentice burped wine and asked, unknowingly, half of the second glass of sparkling wine was drunk, he began to feel blushing and heartbeat, and his temples banged, look. Everything is like a layer of veil,
Danny was angry and did not speak. Hannah Stewart explained: "Big worms have a high demand for nutrients. They need to move all the time to filter out the food in the sand. If they have to anchor and stop moving due to storms, etc. , The time can not exceed two hours, otherwise the sand eater will enter a long period of weakness, the sand throughput will drop significantly, and it can only move slowly to replenish nutrients. Even with a tailwind, it cannot reach a speed of more than 5 knots. The anchor time lasted for 7 hours. My father and I did not say a word next to him. Later, we deprived him of the right to master the'Bactria's wind'."
"No one told me..." Danny murmured aggrievedly,
"From then on, Chacha got indigestion." His sister gave him a fatal blow,
Looking at the male Stewart’s mood suddenly depressed, just immersed in drinking, Jonah decided to tell the story of himself and his friends, he touched the tip of his red and hot nose, brewing words, "I am The apprentice of the fourth-level astrologer from the astrological tower of the Red Clay Plain of St. Boren. My teacher is Koshava, the seventh-level astrologer. Since the war began, I had to..."
"Catherine? Maximilian." Hannah yelled, stood up awkwardly, and overturned the wooden chair to the ground.
"Cute, you are here." Danny's eyes lit up.
Hannah gave her brother a shudder without hesitation: "Why are you so affectionate to the enemy."
Jonah turned to the door drunkly, saw the broken wooden door being pushed open, and walked into a striking woman. A girl named Catherine Maximilian had long lustrous chestnut curly hair and was dressed. A gorgeous white long dress that doesn’t match the run-down tavern, exquisite moccasin boots stepped on the squeaky wooden floor, and several golden keys hung from the belt made of mythril material, and the keys kept colliding with each other. Make a chaotic sound like a wind chime,
She is a little lower than Jonah, with a snow-white complexion that is extremely rare even in the Western Continent. She has big gray-green eyes and glances left and right smartly. Catherine's bright lips have a smile at the corners of her mouth. "Miss Stewart, little Danny, how are you? I saw your ship below. The Hayate is really pitiful. I heard you challenged the dry tornado."
Hannah did not speak with a sullen face, and Danny replied with a grin: "I have seen your boat, too. It's a fate. Let's have a drink together."
Catherine hesitated, and played with a bunch of her curly hair with her fingers, "It seems that some people don't welcome me..."
"You guessed it right." Hannah replied mercilessly,
Jonah felt gurgling in his stomach, and couldn't help but burp again, feeling much more comfortable. The sound made the girl at the door look at him, but he couldn't move it away. Gaze, "Is your name called D Jonah II, an apprentice astrologer." She covered her shocked mouth with spring onion fingers,