Chapter 407: Unknown Fear "Land Land" From the lookout position of the mast, the sailor suddenly roared wildly, and his voice was hoarse, full of infinite surprise and madness His roar spread throughout the overtime, and almost all of them instantly threw away the work they were busy with and rushed to the bow of the boat.
When Tacitus and Lan Lan came out of the cabin as soon as they got the news, they saw the group of sailors on the deck already hugging each other, crying and laughing, and some of them took off their shirts and waved them desperately, shouting at the sky like madmen.
Tacitus grabbed a clergyman from the church who was dancing beside him, suppressed his excitement and quickly asked, "Yes, can you be sure?"
"I'm sure it's land, it's land, it's a big piece of land in front of us."
Tacitus had already rushed to the rudder, and the captain of the ship was there, looking at the knight of the Holy Order with excitement on his face, the captain's hat was long gone, and he had probably been thrown into the sea by himself, his chest was exposed, revealing a black chest hair, and his eyes had turned red with excitement and joy.
"Adult" Before the captain could finish speaking, Tacitus quickly took out his monoculars, pulled them away, and looked eagerly towards the bow of the boat.
Within the field of vision of the telescope, sure enough, in the distance of the vast sea, where the endless sea and sky are connected, there is such a black line, which appears at the place where the sea and the sky meet, and the long black line seems to be between heaven and earth, with long and boundless sides on both sides Tacitus felt his feet go limp He put away his binoculars, and suddenly stumbled under his feet, and the captain next to him quickly reached out and supported the knight captain.
Tacitus turned his head to look at the captain: "We really found land, aren't we dreaming?"
"It's not the Dream Knight, we really found the land, it's the land, we succeeded, we were saved, we didn't have to die," the captain danced.
Tacitus used all his strength to grasp the rudder with both hands and keep himself on his feet.
The Holy Knight's face was no longer cold, but full of excitement.
His lips trembled slightly, and he whispered, "Thank you, thank you, goddess."
Lan Lan stood at the foot of the steps in front of the rudder, watching Tacitus pray with excitement and devotion.
The saint of the church suddenly felt a strange feeling in her heart.
Thank you to the goddess or should be thanked, that guy "At least the goddess didn't send us here, it was the guy who sent us here."
In fact, the situation with this fleet of maritime adventure ships is already very, very bad Since the terrible storm he encountered, since Tacitus had made the decision to continue eastward.
They have been at sea for another month and a half.
As before, for a month and a half, I didn't come across any islands that could be used as a rest or replenishment of fresh water, and there was not even a grain of sand on the ocean, let alone an island.
Although there are still a lot of materials in the blue storage ring.
But as the days to the east passed, the atmosphere in the fleet became more and more solemn A violent mood seems to be contagious to everyone.
Especially among the low-level sailors, strange rumors began to circulate that these church adults were going to take us to hell The devil knows where this rumor came from.
But sailing east is an act of gambling, and everyone knows that even if Tacitus wants to hide it, he can't hide it, and the sailors on board are all old oilmen who have been begging for a living at sea all year round.
And this irritable atmosphere finally broke out after the flagship of the fleet was seriously damaged When this fleet went to sea, there were a total of three large ships, and the largest flagship was a large ship of the Imperial Sea Soul.
In the midst of that storm, the second ship sank to the bottom of the sea.
The flagship was also badly damaged.
After persisting in sailing eastward for about ten days, the Sea Soul-class flagship finally couldn't hold it anymore.
The crew and sailors reported that the right side of the hull was so badly damaged that after barely ten days of sailing, the hull finally began to crack and leak.
The right side of the cabin was badly flooded, although the crew had tried their best to repair it.
But "This is the sea, we don't have any materials in our hands, so we can't repair the wood with our bare hands, if we can find a land, even if it's a small island, as long as we can get wood, we can repair the cracks, but now, we can't do it" It's not that there is no spare wood on board, but unfortunately it has run out.
In fact, ten days before the flagship, which had been almost unseaworthy, was the sailors who dismantled a lifeboat and barely repaired the flagship's broken hull with the wood.
But after all, there are not enough supplies at sea, screws, tung oil, etc., there are none.
After holding on for ten days, this Sea Soul-class ship finally stopped.
"That means the ship will sink" "Yes."
After receiving an affirmative reply from the captain, Tacitus finally made the decision to evacuate all the people on the flagship.
Evacuate to ship three.
The people on the flagship were busy for a long time, and finally all of them moved to the third ship, although they had taken away all the materials they could take away, especially the loss of a large Sea Soul-class ship, which made the captain very distressed.
The displacement of the third ship was only half that of the flagship.
This is a small to medium-sized sea vessel.
Fortunately, after the renovation, the ship's cargo hold can be freed up for the crew relocated from the flagship.
And the half-empty storage ring in Lan Lan's hand can hold those extra materials.
However, when everyone moved to the third ship, everyone was on the deck, silently, watching the third ship finally sink into the sea because of the excessive draft The irritability and panic among the sailors and crew finally exploded That night, there was a riot on board A deputy boatswain led the way, with thirty-three sailors, broke out in an armed revolt that night to seize the ship.
They took advantage of the night to try to sneak up on the clergy of the churches on the ship.
Shouting slogans such as "Survive or die" and "Kill those gods", they rushed to the cabins of the clergy of the church with rudimentary weapons.
In front of dozens of powerful holy knights, the result of such a riot can certainly be imagined.
Sixteen of the rioters were killed on the spot, the rest were captured alive, and the deputy sailor, who led the riot, was cut in two by Tacitus with his own sword Tacitus angrily interrogated the sailors who had been captured alive, and the answers he received sent chills through the hearts of the Lord Knight of the Holy Order.
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"You religious lunatics are going to die by yourself, why do you want to bring us with you" "We just want to go home, we just want to go back alive" "Could it be that the teachings of the goddess are so that you can deprive us ordinary people of our lives at will, such a goddess, Lao Tzu will never believe in her again" "Die, all of you, gods."
"You have to sacrifice your life for the temple, why do we have to die together, we are just ordinary people, what power do you have to control our lives" In the end, all sixteen sailors were put to death, tied up and thrown into the sea, according to the rules of the ship.
Although this small riot was easily extinguished, Tacitus's heart was not easy.
After the next day, it was evident to him that the eyes of the other sailors and crew members on the ship around him had become even more indifferent to him and those of his own church.
And what this loyal knight of the Church Elder did not know was On this big ship far from the mainland of the Roland Empire, the riot that had just been extinguished had invisibly set a record.
This can be said to be the first armed rebellion in the Roland Empire in recorded history, without the intervention of official forces, and the people spontaneously organized against the Temple of Light.
Although only thirty-three sailors who wanted to return home took part in the riot, they had only sixteen daggers and four axes, as well as a few sticks.
"We drove them to the brink."
Afterwards, Lan Lan said this sentence to Tacitus, which made the Holy Knight very annoyed, Tacitus almost grabbed Lan Lan by the collar, pinched the Holy Maiden's neck fiercely, and roared angrily: "Nonsense, those bastards are just cowardly cowards, we dedicate ourselves to the sacred duty of the Church is a noble act" "No matter how noble the purpose is, it is not qualified to kidnap the lives of others."
Lan Lan shook her head: "We are members of the church, of course we have the right to send to death, but they are not people in the church, they are just ordinary sailors, they have families, friends, and their own lives." ” Tacitus's fingers trembled: "But these sailors have always begged for a living in the church property, and they take the jobs that the church gives them."
But they also worked hard for the church, and there was no question of who owed whom.
They traded their strength for our wages, which was supposed to be a fair deal.
But if we use this as a threat to force them to die for us, do you think it's fair?"
Tacitus was speechless and silent for a while before he burst out these words from between his teeth: "For the sake of justice, some people must be sacrificed."
"Then who decides who will be sacrificed, you or me, why do we have this power, and whose hands should this power be in our hands, my lord, we are all human beings, not gods, and we are not qualified to judge other people's lives casually."
Tacitus was finally speechless.
Lan Lan said in a low voice: "We are not wolves, and they are not lambs that can be hunted and eaten by us, even if they are lambs, why do we think that we are wolves who can kill them at will?
Tacitus looked at the saint and finally slowly let go of his hand.
Although Lan Lan was standing by Tacitus's side, the knight had already had a strange thought in his heart: although the saint was by her side, she seemed to have drifted away from herself Whether it was Tacitus or Lan Lan, they didn't know that about this frequent conversation between the two of them, thousands of miles away, at the foot of the snowy mountains in the northwest grassland of the Roland Empire, a certain guy later said something similar, but he said it more bluntly and more simply "After being worshipped for a long time, I really think of myself as a god" Well, let go of those memories for a moment.
Lan Lan looked up and looked at Tacitus, whose face was flushed.
The chief knight seemed to have swept away all the depression and anxiety, and his face was full of confidence and excitement.
"All assemble to lower the sails, stop the ship and anchor" Tacitus quickly gave various orders.
He ordered all the clergy of the church to prepare for the landing.
This so-called preparation is all about changing clothes At Tacitus' orders, all the members of the church, clergy, priests, and holy knights, all ran back to the cabin and put on the most formal gowns and uniforms that had been carefully kept along the way.
Those holy knights even wore their armor Even the sailors on board, Tacitus, ordered them all to change into the cleanest and latest clothes, and if there were not so many clean clothes, make up At last twenty-eight clean clothes were made, and Tacitus had to order twenty sailors to change their clothes.
Plus the captain himself, who also changed into a clean captain's uniform.
"Gentlemen," Tacitus stood behind the rudder of the ship, and was in high spirits: "There is probably a huge country on this continent, yes, this is a civilized country that we Roland people have never come into contact with, and we, all of us, will go down in history, this is the first time in history that we Roland people have come into contact with another real human civilization country, so, I ask you, all of you, polish your shoes, clean your clothes, cheer up all your spirits, and don't lose the face of our Rolands."
Originally, the captain of the third ship remained on board, and the captain of the flagship followed Tacitus ashore.
As for the vigilance of Tacitus, he simply asked all the Holy Knights to check their weapons and equipment and show their best spirit.
Because Tacitus knew very well that if there really existed on this continent, there was a huge and powerful country as Darling Chen said, then a small person like himself, after coming ashore and coming into contact with the other party, and reaching into the other party's country, if the other party did not have good intentions, no matter how vigilant he was, he would not be able to enemy a country.
This is a contact that will go down in history, and we will never lose face with Roland and the Temple of Light Tacitus stood in high spirits and stood on the boat looking at the black horizon in the distance Suddenly, he saw Lan Lan standing beside him, his face pale, his fingers trembling slightly.
"Lanlan, what are you thinking?"
"I'm scared."
"I'm afraid, we've finally found land, what else is terrible, what are you afraid of" "I don't know what I'm afraid of, it's because I don't know that I'm afraid."
To be continued.
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