The night was vast, the waves were singing, everything around was dark, except for the little stars in the deep sky, which seemed to have completely fallen into a world of nothingness.

Alexander, who was lying on the wood and his eyelids were fighting, barely opened his eyes and looked to the side, and Ulliu, like him, had already taken off the clothes that were clinging to his body and used them as ropes to help himself on the plank, so that he would not fall into the water because he was not careful when he was tired.

Alexander didn't know how long they had been adrift, but he felt that the wind and waves were not so strong anymore, and the sea was much calmer than before.

It was still dark in the distance, and there was no shadow of the land in sight, and a wave hit, feeling like it was being thrown up and down, and Alexander clung to the plank.

How's Sophia?

Thinking of the girl, Alexander felt a pang in his heart!

He didn't dare to imagine what happened to such a beautiful girl in the hands of those greedy and savage robbers, and when he thought that he had brought her out, but because of his own negligence, she had suffered misfortune, and Alexander couldn't help but smash the top of his head with his fist.

Seeing Alexander like this, Ulliu wanted to stop him. But because he had been dangling on the water for a long time, his eyes were a little glazed, and he raised his hand and put it down again.

Don't let me meet you again, or I'll make you regret saving me in Calipo!

Alexander couldn't stop saying the name, this man had saved his life, but he had almost killed him, and Sophia might have now fallen into his hands.

Sophia, you must live well, as long as you live, I will find you. Alexander whispered to himself until exhaustion hit him and he could no longer hold back his stupor.

In his sleep, countless figures flickered past him, some of them from past life experiences like dreams, some of which were more familiar with the experiences of this life, all of which were entangled and hovered in Alexander's mind.

Faintly, there was a familiar tune gradually sounding.

The tune was so familiar, so clear, that despite the dream, Alexander couldn't help but try to hum along with it.

"Look at how bright the evening stars are, shining with golden light, the breeze blowing on the sea, and the rippling blue waves......"

However, how could this voice be so clear, it was completely different from the things that ran around in my head but couldn't catch a shadow at all.

Alexander woke up with a wit, and then he heard a more distinct tone coming from the distant sea.

"Uliu." Alexander pushed the still dazed Moorish youth hard, and after the Moors barely opened their eyes, he stretched out his hand and pointed slightly, although it was still pitch black, but he could faintly see an undulating cliff shadow rising in the air, "Look at that, it's the coast." ”

"It's really the coast," Uliuu cried out excitedly after a moment of frustration, "the master is the coast, we are saved!" ”

"We are saved."

Alexander also responded with a little excitement, but then he turned his head to look at the sea behind him because he remembered Sophia, and only then did he realize that there was a faint hint of whiteness seeping from the horizon on the distant sea, as if something was about to rise from the deep bottom of the sea.

Alexander turned his head to look at the shore again, and could already see the shadows of several small boats on the sea that were rippling up and down with the waves, which were fishing boats that had gone out to sea in the early morning.

Farther away, as the horizon behind him grew brighter and brighter, and finally a tortuous and undulating bay was looming under the light of a cloth of light woven by strips of light, the sea was blue, the shore was beautiful, and the green of the shore was becoming clearer and clearer.

The songs are melodious, the tunes are melodious, the beautiful harbor, the bright sandy beach.

He looked at the fishing boat that had spotted them rowing over, and Giannini's figure flashed past him again, along with Sophia.

"Do you know where this is?" Alexander gasped and asked Ulliu, who was too tired to move.

Seeing the Moorish man who had pressed his face to the plank and let the sea wash it down, he blinked his eyes vigorously to show that he didn't know, and Alexander leaned on the plank and looked at the fishing boats that were getting closer and closer, and said weakly: "This is Santa Lucia, this is Naples." ”

Santa Lucia, a harbor that is already charming and made famous by a famous ship song.

In later generations, Alexander was fascinated by the boat song and became interested in this charming harbor, and when he had the opportunity to walk on the bright sand and look at the harbor, he even thought it was more beautiful than the song sang.

But now, Alexander and Ulliu were brought ashore like two fishermen who had rescued them, and after a harsh interrogation, the two of them were temporarily placed in an empty house in the harbor.

When they were at sea, they didn't feel it, but when they got ashore, the cold made Alexander shiver, and he was secretly glad that it was summer, otherwise they would have frozen to death in the middle of the night before they could float to the shore.

Even so, it was still cold to take off his clothes and wrap himself in a blanket, and he looked at the Moorish man next to him who was drinking hot fish soup with his head bowed in a jar, and reached out to rub it against Ulliu's damp hair.

The Moors looked up at Alexander and grinned a mouthful of snow-white teeth: "Sir, we are saved." “

"Saved." Alexander nodded understandingly about the appearance of the Moors who didn't seem to be fully awake at this time, after all, two lives and deaths made him look at death much less than others, not that he didn't cherish life, on the contrary, because it was rare to have two lives Alexander cherished this hard-won opportunity even more, but this experience also gave him a different understanding of the word life from others.

"We have to be careful," said Alexander, in a low voice, "it seems that the Neapolitans will not have an easy time, after all, they have just retaken the city from the French. “

By the time he was interrogated, he had already noticed that what seemed to have been restored to order in Naples was still somewhat turbulent, and many people seemed to be terrified, as if they had not yet recovered from the terrible nightmare of the recent French occupation, and although the reign of King Charles of France was almost negligible in Naples, the damage and damage he had caused to the city was palpable.

Alexandria knew better than the Neapolitans the impact of this, as the invasion of Naples by King Charles VIII of France was the birthplace of the Roman Empire, and in the decades that followed, the protracted Italian Wars began.

"What a wonderful time," Alexander whispered mockingly, for he felt that it would be difficult to find a place in the world that would combine war and art, creation and destruction at the same time, wantonly destroying the wealth of civilization accumulated by mankind for many years, and bursting out of the long-brewing human splendor in an astonishing way, "We must do something about Ulliu, or we will waste the opportunity that God has given us." ”

"What are you doing?" Ulliu asked with some confusion, his clever eyes flickering, as if waiting for Alexander to announce something big.

"I mean, we need to get out of here quickly."

Alexander smiled, the Moors are very clever, if it weren't for himself, he didn't know how he might have died, but Sophia ......, Alexander shook his head so as not to let himself be disturbed by sadness and irritability. He told himself that since he had decided to find Sophia's whereabouts whether she lived or died, he had to get himself out of the predicament in the present before he could have a chance to find Sophia in the future.

Puerto Santa Lucia is a beautiful place, with blue skies and sandy beaches, and almost every conceivable element of romance can be found here, and even because of this beauty, many years ago there was a lavish summer palace built here for the summer pastime of the Roman emperors.

Even in the long dark period, the Goths did not completely destroy the magnificent buildings left by the Romans because of the beauty of the place, so this harbor next to the city of Naples has been a sea of blue sails for many years.

Naturally, there was a lot of people, and soon found a vacancy in the crowd and swaggered along the plank road, and on the way he even helped others a little, and got a thank you that only the locals could understand, and then the Moors grabbed a short vest from the railing and put it on his shoulder, like a foot that looked like he had just finished work, and slowly left the busy port with the crowd.

"There was a big white sand beach ahead, and there was a cliff corner jutting out of the sand, and the owner was waiting for me." Ulliu kept repeating in his mind Alexander's advice before parting, but he didn't understand how Alexander could have known that there was a white sand beach and a cliff, and that the owner hadn't come to Naples for the first time like himself.

Strange as he was, he did not doubt his master's words, and when he saw that no one was thinking, he quickened his pace, and soon came to the white sand beach that his master had spoken of.

Twisting his toes in the fine sand, Ulliu walked forward curiously, and then he saw a series of footprints that went straight ahead, and instinctively Ulliu followed the footprints until he saw Alexander standing with his back to him in front of a low cliff.

"This is it," Alexander caressed the hard stone wall of the cliff, which was slightly different from what he remembered because of the erosion of the sea tide that had not been seen for hundreds of years, but he could still see a rough shadow, "I have been here before. ”

"Master!" Ulliu ran over, his dark face still full of excitement, but he slowed down as he approached, and then bowed a few steps away, "As you commanded, I have come to the master." ”

Alexander touched the tip of his nose, since Ulius had become his servant, he was generally satisfied, not only clever but also able to do things for his master, but sometimes he felt that if the Moorish did not have so many rules of etiquette, he would want to bow to this black brother.

"Let's go, but before we enter the city, we have to find someone to inquire about the current situation in the city of Naples," Alexander looked at the port of Santa Lucia in the distance, "It's better to be cautious at this time, this is not Palermo." “

After saying this, Alexander couldn't help but smile again.

Even in Palermo, the French invasion did not seem to have directly affected Sicily, but no one knew better than Alexandria that in fact a daring Duke of Orleans had infiltrated Sicily and personally directed a farce that almost plunged the whole of Sicily into chaos.

So there is no difference between Palermo and Naples, the only difference is that the current Neapolitan royal family is "poor to death" as the letter sent by Modillo said.

King Charles of France was a young and outrageous man, and Alexander had heard some strange things about him in Palermo, but the biggest rumor was that Charles VIII had a penchant for boys, which was why he had no heirs so far.

After the invasion of Naples, Charles and his men were said to have plundered so much that some say that the recent defeat at the Battle of Fornovo was due to the fact that Charles and his knights carried too much loot with them, which caused the ranks to be scattered and unable to resist the invasion of the coalition army.

No one knows whether these rumors are true or not, but it is probably true that the city of Naples was impoverished after the French plundered, and the royal family of Naples was too hasty to bring much out of the palace when they fled before, and it is estimated that the current king may not have a good life.

But none of this has anything to do with Alexander, what he wants to know now is who is in charge of Napoli and who has the final say.

Everything has to be figured out first, after all, this kind of chaotic period is often when some people start to fish in troubled waters.

Alexander thought as he walked, and then he saw a man running out of the woods in the distance.

It's not unusual to meet someone, it's strange that this person is completely naked and naked.