() Basuo looked at the glass of water and hesitated for a long time, then suddenly took it and started drinking it before anyone could react.
Both Mo Nu and Zhang Zhiliang had frightened expressions on their faces, peeking at Du Fei from time to time, but Du Fei smiled and watched Basuo drink the whole glass of water indifferently!
Basuo drank the water from the Resurrection Fountain in one breath, and shouted to everyone triumphantly: "I knew it! You guys lied to me! Who said there was a curse? Who said there was a curse? It doesn't matter if I drink a little.
No! Nothing at all!"
While he was shouting, he suddenly noticed that the sailors around him opened their eyes in fear. Basso turned to look at Du Fei and others, and saw that they all pointed their firearms at him without hesitation.
"What do you mean?" Basuo yelled, "Are you angry because you saw me exposing your lies? Shame on you!"
He stretched out his hand and pointed at Du Fei angrily: "You villain!" But at this time he found that his hand had turned into a toad-like pustule, and the end of the pustule was filled with white blood.
Pus, the slightest touch will cause excruciating pain!
"I, what's wrong?" These were Basso's last words in this world.
As a burst of musket smoke rose, Basuo's grotesque body was riddled with holes.
Some sailors were too frightened and continued to shoot desperately after Basso died. They stopped only after Du Fei gave repeated orders.
At this time, Basuo was lying on the ground dying, looking at Du Fei with dull eyes: "So, you didn't lie to me... I regret it so much... It's just that my brother was poisoned, I hope you keep your promise...
"
"No," Du Fei said honestly, "I lied to you. Your brother was not poisoned at all. I never poison anyone unless I have to."
"Really?" Basuo's face returned to a human look before he died: "I was still deceived by you, you beast." Although it was a curse, his tone had quietly changed at this time, becoming one of dissatisfaction.
tone.
At this time, Du Fei suddenly discovered that Basuo's body was recovering rapidly! He understood the truth why King Lanling was in so much pain and could not be relieved: it turned out that people who drank the cursed resurrection spring water would be like monsters, possessing amazing powers.
Resilience!
"Quick! Throw him into the sea!" At the critical moment, Du Fei didn't care so much. Seeing that everyone still didn't react for a while, he stepped forward and together with Mo Nu, lifted Basuo's body and threw it into the sea.
into the sea.
Du Fei, Mo Nu and others stared blankly at Basuo's body sinking into the sea with expressions on his face. Then he took a deep breath and Mo Nu wailed! His foot injury was already very serious.
The dense bones were exposed, and the flesh around the wound was already a little white from the sea water.
"Hurry up, lie down quickly!" Seeing this, Tomson pushed aside the crowd of onlookers and squeezed out from behind: "You must not move anymore! If you move any more vigorously, this foot will be useless!"
After saying that, he quickly lowered his head and sprinkled a white medicinal powder on Mo Nu's wound. Strangely enough, after buying that white medicinal powder and spreading it, the bleeding wound immediately stopped bleeding, but
Because the injury was so severe, Tomson tied a thick bandage on Mo Nu's foot and handed him a spear as a crutch.
"You kid, stop jumping around like a monkey! From now on, you have to carry something on your back when walking around. We'll check the situation again in a month!" Tomson seemed to have a lot of experience in dealing with these wounds, and Du Fei looked aside.
He nodded repeatedly: "It turns out that in addition to being proficient in the art of carriages and ships, sir, he is also good at using medicine. I really admire him!"
"Sir, you are joking. It's just a little trick." Tomson still had the same unfazed expression: "I served as a military doctor in the army in the early years, but later that army changed generals and the deduction of military pay was very serious. I
In the end I had to take risks."
At this moment, Zhang Zhi seemed very troubled: he finally collected the resurrection spring water, but in the end it was like this! He didn't know what to do and looked at Du Fei with a blank look.
Du Fei was also very troubled. To be honest, not to mention that Basuo didn't believe it just now, even he himself didn't believe there was any curse, but facts speak louder than words. Now Basuo has taught everyone a lesson with his own life.
, sometimes it’s really hard not to believe in evil!
After pondering for a long time, his eyes suddenly flashed, and he whispered a few words to Zhang Zhi. Zhang Zhi looked shocked after hearing this, but then nodded, as if he had made some determination.
"Bring Zhang Xiong's body out!" Du Fei shouted with a stern face: "Bring out the cage I planned to use to hold the prisoners at the back too!"
Everyone looked at each other, wondering what kind of medicine the two men were selling in their gourds.
After everyone carried out these two things, Du Fei poured another cup of resurrection spring water from the silver kettle and nodded meaningfully to Zhang Zhi.
Zhang Zhi looked helpless, opened his brother's mouth, and watched as Du Fei poured the cursed resurrection spring water into Zhang Xiong's mouth.
Everyone was stunned by their bold move, and the old turtle turned pale with fright: "Sir! What are you doing?"
"Don't ask! Put him in a cage quickly!" Du Fei shouted sternly; "Put this cage in the back cabin where no one is! No one is allowed to approach him without my permission!"
At this time, Zhang Xiong had already woken up. He slowly opened his eyelids and saw everyone looking at him seriously. He was confused as a monk: "What's wrong? What mistake did I make again?"
"Brother, you're right. You just have a very dangerous disease. It's easy to lose your mind and accidentally hurt others." Zhang Zhi couldn't bear to tell his brother the truth and casually coaxed him: "Don't worry, we are looking for this disease."
Once the elixir cures your disease, we will release you!"
"What? Am I sick?" Zhang Xiong looked at his hands and shouted loudly in fright: "Oh my God! What kind of strange disease is this? Why did my hands look like this? What disease is this? Will I know it?"
Will he die?"
"Don't worry, you will have a hard time dying if you get this disease." While Du Fei comforted Zhang Xiong, he suddenly remembered Basuo's rapid recovery and King Lanling's strange manipulation skills, and quickly interrupted the two of them.
Said: "Oh! You are so sick that you can't see the sun! Someone! Quickly carry him to the back to escape the heat!"
Seeing Zhang Xiong's frightened and hesitant look, Zhang Zhi's heart was as painful as a knife, but he still held back and did not show it, because he knew that his brother was more frightened than him at this moment! Once the curse penetrated into his body and mind,
It is estimated that it is even difficult for him to maintain his sanity, and it is very likely that he does not even recognize his brother!
After carrying Zhang Xiong down, the old turtle looked at Du Fei in confusion and asked, "Sir! Where should we go next?"
"According to Lao He, there will be a small exit in front of this sea area, which directly connects to the widest sea area! It is said that the three springs are in that sea area!" Du Fei held a navigation chart in one hand and a spring in the other.
He gestured with the small dagger: "Our next stop should be here!",
The navigation chart shows an extremely narrow sea area, but after that sea area, the navigation chart ends. In other words, the sea area outside the channel is a complete mystery to them.
After several days of wandering, they finally arrived at their destination. They saw that the narrow sea passage shown on the navigation map turned out to be a wide canal between two continents. It was not known whether it was dug manually, but from this
Judging from the buildings on both sides of the river, the architectural styles are obviously different from those in China and surrounding countries.
Du Fei was watching the canal when he heard a sailor shouting from the side: "Sir! There is a ship approaching from the side! It's an armed warship!"
Du Fei quickly turned around and looked towards Xiuxuan, only to see a Western-style ship quietly approaching their ship. It didn't look like he had any good intentions.
But Du Fei knew that he could not easily make enemies in this unfamiliar sea area, so he sent out a flag and said to the other party: For the safety of both parties, don't get closer.
This is tantamount to using a kind method to stop the other party's less-than-kind raid. There seemed to be people in the boat who knew the semaphore, and they immediately came back: You have violated our territorial waters, please stop the aggression!
Invasion? This sentence confused Monk Du Feizhang: I was just passing by, does it count as an invasion? But his understanding is that the territory of this country may be nearby, and he saw foreign armed ships directly surrounding his territory.
That's why Wandering came up to threaten, so he calmly sent another signal: We are just passing by, there is no other meaning. Please don't misunderstand, we are going to the sea ahead.
The Western boat on the opposite side didn't understand what the two words meant, and angrily sent another message: Don't move! We will go over and negotiate with you now!
After a while, I saw a small boat being lowered from the big ship. The small boat carried a man with hair like parchment rolls and several soldiers with strong guns.
Du Fei watched with interest as these people proudly boarded his ship from the boat. The man wearing a sheepskin wig was about fifty years old, tall, with a cold and arrogant face, but he
His appearance is really unflattering, with a mouth that protrudes and has thick lips that take up almost half of the entire face. If you don't look carefully, you might think he is a newly shaved orangutan.
Just as Du Fei was observing the middle-aged man with a smile, Zhang Zhi suddenly stopped the armed soldiers. Those soldiers were all wearing red uniforms, looking capable and handsome. There were diagonal cross-shaped straps on the uniforms.
A medicine bag is hung on one end of the strap, and some personal belongings are hung on the other end.
Du Fei turned his attention to the soldiers, and their weapons caught his eye. Du Fei recognized at a glance that the firearms used by these soldiers were obviously very sophisticated new products, and they were probably similar in performance to those he had obtained from Erica.
The short-handled Portuguese musket I got there is almost the same. The barrel is long and slender, and the gun body looks lean and strong. The most eye-catching thing is the machine part of the gun. It is not only simple and practical, but also has golden metal lace.
Simply a perfect piece of art.
"Dear Sir, I don't know what your motives and purposes are for breaking into the territorial waters of the British Empire, but there is only one thing you have to do now, and that is to turn around, because we did not give you an invitation letter." That.
The middle-aged man bowed slightly, looking very artificial, and his words were plain but full of arrogance behind them.
"I'm from China, so you don't need to speak Japanese with me!" Du Fei corrected. Because the Kansai ship Du Fei was traveling on was an armed merchant ship that temporarily sailed out of Hirado Port, the Westerner had a preconceived notion that this ship
The people on the boat were Japanese.
After learning that it was a ship from the Ming Dynasty, the middle-aged man's attitude changed greatly: "Oh! It turns out that it is a Chinese friend from the Ming Dynasty. Welcome! Please forgive me for being rude, but those Japanese often engage in piracy.
We have some natural aversion to them!”
"Haha, it turns out it was a misunderstanding. Which country are you ships from?" Du Fei looked at the flag and saw that it was a Union Jack. Having been engaged in maritime trade in Japan for a long time, he immediately understood: "Are you from England?"
"That's right!" The middle-aged man had misunderstood others before and seemed a little uneasy at this time: "My name is Charleston, and I am the negotiator on the British Empire Dawn. I was sent by Colonel Square to negotiate with you, but he
Apparently he has misunderstood your nationality, I think he will probably be happy to entertain you."
"You don't have to be so polite," Du Fei smiled generously and thought to himself: After all, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse. Although the Ming Dynasty has been declining year by year in recent years, it is still in the minds of other countries.
It still has some prestige.
It is true that the Ming Dynasty's military power was relatively strong at the time. Although it was unable to follow up on the research and development of firearms, the foundation laid in the past many years and the solid economic foundation left by the hard work of generations of virtuous ministers day and night
It can still operate normally, and with its large population and surprisingly powerful military resources, it still has some status in the world.
The diplomat wearing a parchment wig immediately returned to his ship in a small boat. Through the single-tube gilt telescope given by the Koreans, Du Fei could clearly see the man facing another person with his hands behind his back, leaving
The man with the mustache said something...
It seemed that that guy was the Colonel Square he was talking about. Du Fei saw that guy trembled slightly after hearing the middle-aged man's words, and seemed a little surprised, but then he returned to his original appearance and said a few words lightly,
The ship immediately hoisted a flag: Distinguished guests please come with us and accept the host's hospitality.
"Sir! Can these red-haired ghosts cheat?" Old Turtle rarely interacted with these guys, and he felt a little unsure.
Du Fei waved his hand and said: "Follow him and follow what they said! Since we are on other people's territory and treated with courtesy by others, there is no reason to neglect other people's good intentions!!"
The Guan Ship followed the British warship and slowly sailed into the port in the middle of the canal. It is actually very reluctant to call it a port. It obviously has another function, that is, to block the entire canal with a large lock.
The English came to control the opening and closing of the canal.
"Sir! Those people look so strange!" Zhang Zhi was very curious when he saw these Westerners for the first time. Suddenly he found that many people on the shore were wearing rags, and their facial features and skin color were similar to those of those holding firearms.
The English are different. So he asked quietly: "Why do people from the same country look like two people?"
Du Fei saw clearly that those people in rags were obviously not the same race as the English people who controlled the canal. They looked like Indians, but their eyebrows were not as thick. They looked like Middle-landers, but their noses were much higher.
, the skin is darker than that of the Middle-earth people, and the eyes are different from those of the Middle-earth people.
"Who are these people?" Du Fei asked this question with great interest as soon as he got off the boat and met Colonel Square.
"Oh, you mean them!" Colonel Square's face immediately showed a very disdainful expression: "They are just uncivilized savages. Her Majesty the Queen of the British Empire takes pity on their food and clothing, so let them
We tried to give them some jobs, they are the indigenous people here, and when we came here it was disgusting! It was full of feces, tribal conflicts and pirates. After several years of renovation by our British Navy, this place was finally established.
Order has arisen! It has become a qualified and valuable colony!"
"Colony?" Du Fei felt a little unfamiliar with this word, but he thought it was a more interesting word. Colony, when you discover a backward place like this, and then invade it by force and take away and exploit everything here, this is
Called a colony?
Du Fei was observing the poor aborigines when suddenly Colonel Square said: "Sir, in order to express my apology for the unpleasant incident just now, please allow me to have dinner with you. I will receive you with the highest standards!"
What a snobbery! Hearing that I was a Ming Dynasty warship, he came up to flatter me! Du Fei was slightly disgusted, but it was really inconvenient to show it at this moment, so he had to agree with a smile.
"Keep an eye on Mo Qilin and Zhang Xiong! Don't let them come out!" Du Fei carefully warned the remaining sailors before leaving.
When we arrived at the banquet hall, we saw a surprisingly long table in the middle of the hall, enough for dozens of people to dine together. At this time, there were already some dried and fresh fruits on the table. Some maids were busy preparing a serving.
Arrange dishes according to the number of guests.
Du Fei had just sat down on the comfortable bench when he heard the sound of a beautiful musical instrument. He couldn't help but stand up again. The sound of this instrument was elegant and delicate, which he had never heard before.
"This is the best violinist we have here, Mr. Best!" Colonel Square waved his hand gracefully, as if to greet the violinist with sideburns and a small hat.