"The people of Artikats have always thought that they are the darlings of the heavens, that the gods will only favor them, that they are the center of the world, and that they will rule the whole world. However www.biquge.info when they set out to reach Hitarus, they realized that they were very wrong, and when they learned about the history of Efni, they realized that they were nothing more than frogs at the bottom of a well. Now, when we once again think we know the whole human world, the accidental appearance of the Orientals has ruthlessly shattered our arrogance. However, I think future generations will be glad that we know that the Eastern Continent is in this era, not 500 years later. - "Quotations of the God of War: Pride and Prejudice"

On the morning of February 4, 363 in the continental Gregorian calendar, Mastar, on the sea of Swana.

An ordinary merchant ship was sailing on the route back to the port of Rolbuna, and the weather should be very good, and the southeast wind began to blow on the sea after the beginning of spring, which greatly helped the voyage. According to the captain's estimates, they should be able to reach the port before dinner, if nothing happens.

As the captain pondered where to go for the night, the lookout sounded the alarm.

"What's going on?!" The first mate shouted at the lookout.

"A man was spotted in the port direction!"

Everyone on the deck put down their work and ran to the port side to see the excitement coming.

"Go back to work, you slackers!" The first mate blasted the sailors away, and looked in that direction, and sure enough, there was a figure holding a plank and lying with the waves.

At this time, even the captain was alarmed, and he came over to ask the first mate what had happened.

"Don't you know you're still alive?" The captain muttered, hesitating to save the man, but he was afraid of delaying the trip.

"Anyway, let's get the man back first, my dear captain." At the critical moment, a pleasant female voice sounded.

"Ah, Miss Hayes, I didn't expect to alarm you."

"I'm nothing, hurry up and save people, if there's any problem, I'll be responsible." It was a young girl with short shoulder-length brown hair and round ocean-blue eyes.

"Yes, yes, as you tell you to do." The captain humbly agreed.

The first mate immediately beckoned the sailors to put down the dinghy and go to the rescue, and the sailors were very enthusiastic about the rescue operation, after all, such episodes are not encountered every day, and can be regarded as the condiment of the boring sea voyage.

After about half an hour, the unconscious victim was carried to the deck.

"What is this?" The young woman asked, pointing to a long wooden stick that the victim was holding.

"We don't know, we wanted to throw it away because of the trouble, but who knew that this person grabbed it tightly, and there was no way, so we had to get it together." One of the sailors replied.

"It may be something very important to him, get it down and keep it." The young woman said.

The sailors then tried to wrench the unconscious man's fingers, giving Miss Hayes some time to crouch down and take a closer look at the rescued man. The man had long black hair, ivory skin, very soft facial features, and was dressed in clothes he had never seen before. For his appearance, everyone present was deeply impressed. Because he's so different, people can't tell what makes him special. Miss Hayes reached out and touched his neck to make sure it was a man, and told the captain to take care of him and keep all his clothes.

Just when everyone thought that the next voyage would be peaceful as usual, the alarm bell of the lookout rang again.

"Damn, what's going on?!" The first mate roared at the lookout.

"Probably a pirate, at five o'clock."

"Oh, damn it!" The first mate couldn't say anything else.

"All crew to the deck, repeat, all crew to the deck!"

In about ten seconds, more than twenty sailors were concentrated on the deck.

"How's it going?" The captain asked.

"Just confirmed, it's a pirate." The first mate replied.

"It looks like this is the worst news of the day." The captain was a little self-defeating.

"No, there's worse." The first mate said.

"What's that?"

"The other party is the Tiger Shark." Hearing this, the sailors lamented, and the captain fell to the side with his forehead covered.

"What's going on, what's going on?"

"Ah, Miss Hayes, how did you get up?"

"I heard a commotion, so I came up and took a look."

"Hurry up and find a place to hide, and hide with your maids, we have encountered pirates, and it is the famous 'Tiger Shark'." The captain said that he was going to push Miss Hayes back into the cabin.

"Yes, Miss Countess, those pirates are murderous villains, and if you fall into their hands......" the first mate also said helpfully, after all, this young lady is a noble person.

"If I fall into their hands, I'm afraid I won't have to worry about my life." Miss Hayes said so easily.

"Huh?"

"Ah, don't ordinary robbers, pirates, and the like say, 'Kill all the men and take the women back'?" Miss Countess said with a wink and a smile.

The captain and first mate couldn't laugh or cry at the moment.

"Do we have any hope of escape?" Miss Hayes continued.

"If it's another pirate ship, there is about a thirty percent chance, but as for the one in front of you, frankly there is no chance at all."

"That's the Iswana Sea, oh, probably the fastest ship in the world."

"In that case, let's just put away the sails and wait for them to come." Miss Hayes said.

The captain looked at the first mate, and the first mate looked at the second mate, and the second mate looked at the boatswain, and the others thought that the young lady was right. So, after taking the sails, everyone went to find empty wine bottles and pen and paper to do their own business.

About five minutes later, when the pirates jumped aboard the merchant ship, they saw a very strange sight. Although they have seen some merchant ships that surrendered directly, they will never see a noble lady lying on a barrel to ghostwrite suicide notes to the sailors.

"Boss, will there be an ambush?" One of the pirates whispered to Captain Hook.

"Possibly." Captain Hook dropped the word and walked straight to the noble lady.

"Good afternoon, this young lady." Hook owed himself to Miss like a gentleman.

"Good afternoon," Miss Hayes looked up with a smile, "can you wait a moment before throwing them into the sea, I still have seventeen people left to write their suicide notes." If you can't wait, you can throw a few down there first, I've already written theirs. The sailors she pointed out immediately shrank into a ball.

Hook glanced back at the sailors, then smiled and said, "We are not as impatient as the loan sharks. ”

"Draco!"

"Boss, I've searched below, and there is no valuable cargo, it seems that they are just ships that deliver goods to the islands. Chop off the masts and let them float back slowly. ”

"Who's to say there's nothing of value," Hook smiled, "and this young lady hasn't asked for your name yet." ”

"Fiona Hayes." The other party answered him cheerfully.

"Which Fiona Hayes?" Hook frowned when he heard the name.

"The father is Count Bavar Hayes, and the mother is the one of Her Majesty's chamberlain Atalanta."

"Wow, that's a lot of ransom!" Draco shouted.

"It's also a lot of trouble." Hook immediately responded to the cheers of his men.

"If you think it's troublesome to kidnap me, I can give you the best of both worlds." The first time I heard that the meat ticket took the initiative to give the kidnappers an idea.

"Oh, that's new, you might as well hear it." Hook jumped and sat down on the wooden box that his men had brought with him.

"It's very simple, you take the whole ship and everyone with you, and then pretend that you don't know what it looks like someone like me is on board, and demand a ransom from the owner of the ship in the name of all the people on board. No one knows where your base is, so my parents secretly paid for us to be ransomed on behalf of the shipowner. ”

"Hehe, that's a great idea, I hope we have a good time working together." Hook laughed, then ordered his men to tie up the crew and throw them into the cabin, putting Fiona under house arrest.

"We have another victim who has just been rescued." Fiona then made this point.

"Rest assured, there is no one who can't be saved by pirates." Drake replied that he had been assigned to take charge of a captured ship.

The pirates were apparently very uneasy about Fiona, and they sent men to watch her cabin day and night, and boarded the portholes of the cabin to prevent a ray of light from penetrating. What's even more excessive is that even the delivery of food is not fixed, it may be delivered twice in a row, or it may only be delivered once for a long time. The rest of the crew was kept in the bilge.

This treatment continued until they reached the pirates' base, and since no one named the island, and the pirates only called it "home", some chroniclers wrote it as "Homran" under false pretenses. Until now, no one has been able to determine which island was Khomland, but several islands have fought over it for the sake of developing tourism resources.

At this point, Fiona's treatment has changed for the better. The pirates placed her in a valley with her two maids, as well as the still weak victim. A special cook was arranged to cook for them, and the guards treated them very politely. Every day, a man too old could bring them food, and Fiona could tell that the other pirates had great respect for the old man.

The victim was fully awake the day after arriving on the island, and although he was still somewhat weak and had some mild symptoms of sepsis, he was no longer in serious trouble after a few days of eating stewed carrots. When he was feeling better, Fiona tried to figure out where he came from.

The victim had just woken up with some excitement looking for something, and when Fiona handed him the long stick, he lay back with a sigh of relief.

Fiona then tried to talk to him verbally, but after trying several languages, the other party could only understand her through gestures and expressions. And the language of the other party is something she has never known. Since you don't understand words, let's try words. However, this idea did not work out, and the other party wrote two characters on the clay floor with stone tablets (note: Chinese characters and Sanskrit), and Fiona was ashamed to find that she had never seen them. It's just that the first script seems to have some similarities with the ancient script of Efini, but unfortunately the ancient script of Efini is an esoteric and mysterious science, and only the high priests of the local temple are allowed to learn it.

But even so, both parties are smart and studious people, and soon reached a tacit understanding to teach and learn from each other. The maids watched as their young lady and the stranger were pointing from place to place, and then sometimes repeating some of the mainland words aloud, and sometimes learning each other's pronunciation and laughing there. Although the nobles of Shurasa knew that the young lady of the Hayes family was a famous pedant, the maids still felt a little puzzled by this.

Through her communication with the young man, Fiona gradually realizes a wider world. She actually had a premonition about this, because in these days together, Fiona found a temperament in this man that she had never seen before. It can be said that this is an elegance, but this elegance is not embodied by the norms of certain behaviors, but by the elegance rendered by the culture. If you had to use an analogy, it would be fair to say that this elegance is not because you eat oysters with three fingers, but because you have read through the entire Chronicle of the Empire of Articut, by Odraus.

Now, Fiona finally knows the name of this person, Lan Feng, which is not a person's name, but some kind of symbol. According to Lan Feng himself, he got his name because he was an orphan who was brought to him by a strong wind by a temple elder in the mountains and forests.

After about a week, the two sides were already able to communicate briefly. To Fiona's dismay, her progress in learning the other party's language was far behind Lan Feng's progress in learning mainland Mandarin. When Lan Feng was already able to briefly describe her birth in mainland Mandarin, she basically couldn't explain her identity in Lan Feng's native language. Therefore, most of the time, two people can only talk in mainland Mandarin.

In addition to this, Fiona became interested in the old man who delivered the meal. She began to speak to the pirates guarding them.

"Don't you know, the first mate is a legendary figure, and he volunteered to go on an adventure at sea with Lord Luce when he was 70 years old. Especially when I went to the legendary island of Arran. ”

"Which Lord-sama Luce?"

"Which one else? The whole world knows, of course, Lord Sogrend Luce of Farency. "The pirate thinks this noble lady is really uninformed.

"Wait, what year did he go with Lord Luce?"

"Maybe it's 352, maybe it's 353."

"If he was 70 years old in 353, then he should be 80 years old this year?" Fiona was taken aback by the speculation.

"Probably, we wouldn't be surprised if he lived to be 100 years old." The pirate summed it up.

After returning to her accommodation, Fiona told Lan Feng what she had heard.

"Miss Fiona seems to be very interested, so why don't you ask the old man directly?"

"Wow, you're already going to use a compound sentence like this. However, he is so old that he can remember clearly? ”

"Since it's a very legendary thing, then that old man shouldn't forget it."

"Makes sense."

That being the case, Fiona bluntly raised the question with the other party the next day when the old man came to bring dinner. The old man looked quite happy, as could be seen in his figure and look.

"It's been a long time since I've told this story, because the people here are tired of it, and they don't have much time to stop and listen to me, an old immortal, tell it slowly. Yes, I've lived so long, and I can say that the experience of that year was colorful, and of course it was all because I followed that adult. If we want to talk about our relationship with this lord, we have to start from 344, which should be that year......"

"That day, the captain took Draco ashore on an errand, and they went for so long that we began to wonder if something was wrong. Eventually, though, they came back safely, with a man with them. That means two people who go out and three people who come back, you know? I looked at the person and found that it was a little familiar, my memory is very good, and people who have seen it once will never forget him. Then the man smiled and said to me, 'Hey, first mate, I'm not Mr. Bookkeeper.' Then I remembered who he was......