Chapter 611 The Story of the Drift Bottle
"Master, Hurlington, come and see what this is?" Alice shouted loudly, running towards the Harmony with the bottle in hand.
Hughington took the bottle and looked at it: "It's a drift bottle."
"Drift bottle?" Alice asked as if she had discovered something interesting: " What is a drift bottle? Is it any different from an ordinary bottle? "
Bing Zhixie said: " The drifting bottle can be said to be a kind of wishing bottle. The person who throws the bottle puts his wish or story into the bottle and lets it drift with the waves, hoping to be picked up by others and receive that person's blessing. Generally, sailors are in distress. I will also write the reason and experience of the accident in the drift bottle to let others know.”
Hurlington found a roll of paper and wiped off all the algae mud on the bottle. Seeing that there was no wishing sand in the bottle, he said: "This should not be a wishing bottle. There are usually five colors of wishing sand in the wishing bottle, or at least there should be Put some sea sand in it."
"Is this a distress bottle?" Alice asked.
"Maybe." Hullington smashed the cork on the wine bottle. The cork was already soaked like mud, and it broke with a light poke. He tipped the bottle, only the seawater soaked in it was poured out, but the paper roll could not be poured out, so he had to smash the bottle to get the small paper roll inside.
The paper roll was an old yellow color with a small rope tied on it. Hullington discovered that the paper roll had not been soaked in seawater for so long. It turned out to be because of the seal on the paper. A layer of waterproof fish film. This kind of fish membrane is a layer of transparent soft skin taken from the inside of a kind of marine fish. It is very waterproof. Sailors often use it to seal some important documents. It is a common thing on sea ships.
Hughington unfolded the scroll and looked at it. Sure enough, it was a letter in distress.
‘We are a fleet departing from the port of Malindoa, ready to sell our goods everywhere. When we sailed to the Bunani Sand Sea, we encountered a major disaster. The tsunami sank all five ships in our fleet, leaving only the "Jingtang" and "Haiya". Later, the cargo ship "Jingtao" also sank, and all the crew members were trying to survive on the "Haiya". The food was quickly eaten up, and they could only rely on catching sea fish for food. Later we found out that we had lost our way. We had been sailing along Haishitu's route for several months but never reached our destination. A terrifying disease of scurvy appeared on the ship. Not long after, the captain also died of illness, and the Haiya was taken over by the first mate...'
Alice interrupted Hullington who was reading the letter and asked: "What is the first mate?"
"The first mate is simply the first mate." The answer was Bing Zhixie.
"Oh." Alice nodded.
‘We conducted sea burials for the dead captains and sailors. The crew members all believed that the ‘Haiya’ had fallen into the ghost sea and could only be lost in this sea forever, which made the morale on the ship even lower. After a few days, the first mate decided not to sail according to the chart. He decided to keep heading east, but he was still not out of the woods. As I write this letter, I still see no hope of survival. I don't know what our fate will be. Maybe we will die one after another on the lost ocean. Maybe the first mate will decide to let us go with the Haiya. 'We were buried in the sea together, so I wrote this drifting bottle, which can be regarded as the last words of all the sailors of our 'Haiya'... In July 6647 of the Holy Garden Calendar, the lookout hand - Sid Rosen. ’
When Alice heard the last part, she was surprised and said: "July 6647, isn't it hundreds of years ago?"
Bing Zhixie said: "Today is February 2nd, 7404 in the Holy Garden Calendar. This drifting bottle is more than seven hundred years old."
Hughington said: "And the cloth mentioned in the letter. The Nanisha Sea is the sea on the west side of the main continent, and we are now in the sea on the east side of the main continent. If they were still in the west sea after getting lost, this drifting bottle would have drifted at least hundreds of thousands of miles!"
Alice was surprised when she heard that the bottle had actually drifted here from the other side of the continent.
Bing Zhixie said: "This drift bottle has nothing to do with us, as long as we don't get lost like them."
"Hey, can you say something nice?" Hughington said unhappily, thinking that if his group were lost on the sea like the 'Haiya', it would be a life worse than death, and they could only watch helplessly. Seeing myself sick, weak, and then slowly rotting away...
Bingzhixie Xiulin and the others started work, repaired what could be repaired, and then took off and set sail again.
At night, there are no stars, and it is impossible to tell the direction, so we have to let the "Harmony" drift slowly. The three of them sat on the deck and had nothing to say, each doing their own thing.
Little Yeck stretched himself out in Alice's arms and shook his body. At this time, it had just woken up and was full of energy. It jumped down from Alice and found General Shock sitting on a small bench drinking delicious wheat beer. It immediately became angry. Apparently it was still holding grudges for what happened last time, so it ran over to bully it.
When General Xiao Ke saw Ye Ke running, he screamed in fright and ran away holding the beer glass. He was bullied by Ye Ke these days.
Alice watched the two chasing each other, and was also amused: "Little Yeke still holds a grudge. It has been so long, and he still remembers it in his heart."
General Xiao Ke can't run away. Ke, his head was repeatedly hit by the iron plate in Yeke's hand, which made him cry out in pain.
Hughington sighed: "Finally someone spoke, I was almost bored to death." He also knew what happened between General Xiao Ke and Ye Ke, and said with a smile: "Now Ye Ke is a If you see it drinking, you will get angry. From now on, Xiao General Ke needs to stop drinking. "
As the saying goes, a rabbit can get angry when he is anxious. General Xiao Ke was knocked dizzy by the iron plate, his ears were buzzing, and he suddenly became angry, and he turned into a water. The magic struck Yerke. Yeke was chasing after him so fast that he didn't avoid it, and his warm fur was immediately drenched by the cold water magic. This time it became even more angry, dropped the iron plate, jumped on General Xiao Ke and bit him.
Yeke's teeth were not big, but it hurt when he bit them. General Xiaoke surrounded Alice's chair and cried loudly, and from time to time he pulled on Alice's skirt to ask for help.
Alice did not help, but snorted: "Who told you to make trouble every time you are drunk, and you have soiled several barrels of beer? You should be taught a lesson by Yeck. "
Bing Zhixie looked at these two naughty goblins and couldn't help but think of the Goblin, Pike and Robin Gu he saw when he was injured and lived in Sufina's school dormitory. Dephilo. As I thought about it, a sweet smile appeared on my face.
Hughington and Alice chatted for a while. Seeing that Bing Zhixie's expression was uncharacteristic, he asked: "Hey, what are you thinking about, smiling so ambiguously?"
Bing Zhixie came back to his senses and immediately calmed down: "No." Then he said: "I suddenly remembered a story."
"What story." Alice sat upright immediately. She was excited when she heard stories, especially the stories told by her master.
“It’s a story about a monster in a drift bottle.” Bing Zhixie recalled it and began to say: “Legend has it that there was a drift bottle containing a monster floating in the sea, floating alone. Once he could leave the bottle. He lived a happy life, but he didn't, because he fell in love with a girl. He was destined to fall in love with her the moment he met her. He decided to give the girl happiness until she died. Tianzai accidentally discovered a secret. In fact, the girl appeared to get his power. He rushed to the beach to find the girl and asked her: Do you love me? Have you ever loved me? The girl said; What is love? Is being together a love? After saying that, the girl drew her sword and stabbed his heart. He was heartbroken when he saw the girl turning her back to him and pointing her right fingers straight to the sky and said: Only in this way can you remember me forever. The sea. He didn't He thought that the girl had deceived him and was going to take revenge on mankind. In the girl's hometown, he understood the meaning of the girl's last point to the sky, which was "I swear to God, I will never love except you in this life." Finally he realized that he had already fallen in love. The girl didn't repay her kindness, but it was too late, so he sealed himself in a bottle and stayed with the girl forever in the sea. "
Although Bing Zhixie's speech was brief, Alice was so moved that she even moved. Tears fell, and she sobbed and said: "What a touching story. I wish I could be like that girl and have a bottle monster who loves me so much."
Hughington said : "Isn't it just a story, but it's like this?"
Alice hit him and cried: "You are a big pervert, you only know what love is, how can you know what love is? .”
"I...I'm a pervert? I..." Hullington pointed at himself and couldn't argue for a moment.
“It’s your head.” Alice said: “Such a romantic and touching love story was listened to by someone with dirty thoughts like you, which simply tarnished the purity of this story.”
"You...you..." Hurlington was so angry that he didn't even know what to say.
Alice said with yearning on her face: "I hope I can encounter such undying love. Master, do you think there will be such a love story between you and me?"< br>
Bing Zhixie was startled and quickly waved his hand and said, "No, absolutely not."
Hullington finally relieved the tension in his chest and did not dare to provoke her again, fearing that she would say something that would make him vomit blood. In fact, Hughington was quite eloquent, but when he faced Alice, he had the shadow of the past. Otherwise, he would not have deceived so many harried women and innocent girls with his smooth words and smooth tongue, nor would he have defrauded so many rich children out of their unjust money.
Hughington looked at Bing Zhixie up and down, as if he were looking at a monster.
“What for?” Bing Zhixie said lukewarmly.
Hughington said: "This is not like you normally. Usually you only preach. Today you can tell a love story. It's a miracle."
"Yes, Master, Ellie Si also feels strange, do you want... a woman?" Alice looked at Bing Zhixie with her big eyes unblinking.
Bing Zhixie tilted her head and looked elsewhere: "No way, I read this story when I was reading a book before. I only remembered this story when I picked up the drift bottle today, so I told it by the way." Suddenly he said angrily: " If you feel bad, I won’t talk about this again in the future. That’s all the mess.”
Alice waved her hand and said, “No, I like hearing this kind of story.”
Bingzhi. Xie said with a straight face: "No more, I have only seen this one Story. "
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(Attachment: The most famous drifting bottle in history is said to have been dropped by Columbus. After exploring an American island in 1492, Columbus was worried that he would not be able to return. In Europe, give it to Spanish women The emperor wrote a letter, sealed it in a bottle together with a map of the Americas he drew, and threw it into the Atlantic Ocean, hoping that it would float to Europe. As a result, the bottle was not discovered until the 1850s, 300 years later. )
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